Chapter 138 Grey Knight
Subtitle of this chapter: Codename 666!
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"The sun reveals a corner from behind the mountain, throwing a touch of golden light into the still sleeping mountain village; on the grass in the valley, which is still in the shadow, the dew is shining with crystal light, and one or two timid bird songs can be heard.
The children walked along the path towards the village, and the small figures quickly disappeared into the light blue morning mist in the valley.
They will survive to gain meager hope in this ancient ridge-poor land.”
"Ah Yeh!"
It was not Cyris but the American sun cast a touch of golden light into the still deserted rosewood lobby, shining on Mr. Einstein's face.
The strong light made him sneeze. Well, there is another term for this stress response, called optically active sneeze reflex.
He blinked hard, then realized that he had been reading in the hotel lobby all night...
The great magician picked up the cover and looked at it. The title above was "Grey Knight's Science Fiction Collection 1".
And there is another weird motto below this weird title:
I am the last gift the Emperor gave to mankind.
I am the last weapon against the evil god in the void.
I am the last line of defense to guard human civilization.
I am the Grey Knight, from Titan, codenamed 666.
Well, he actually used 666, which represents Antichrist as the code name. This "Grey Knight"... well, it should be the mysterious Oriental who he had been waiting all night, which was really shocking.
However, in Einstein's view, Mr. Yuan's talent and imagination...well, his imagination is really shocking.
There are three and a half novels in this collection of stories, each of which makes the great magician unable to control himself, and he is sleepless and hungry, and has a layer of goose bumps on his body.
"Bouquets for Algeron" deeply explores the relationship between human nature and wisdom.
This novel proves that the author has thought about it, not just general thinking, but profound thinking about the organic combination of philosophy and science of human beings themselves.
The BS (super scientific) brains described in half of the human body hibernation, space travel, artificial intelligence, and colonization of aliens in the article "Golden Wool" made him open his brains and immediately discovered a new world.
Like Nikola Tesla, if the Grey Knight appears in front of the great magician at this time, the wizard will definitely say this to the wizard. You kid quickly finish this book, otherwise you will taste the taste of the big fireball!
The vacuum tube punk background and black humorous style of "Fallout" are both a bit ahead of the curve. Most readers of this era should not have any fun or funny points.
But who is Einstein? He is considered by later generations to be the most likely one among the suspected time travelers.
After he proposed the theory of relativity, humans' understanding of the world was suddenly raised a lot, so that humans had to face a universe that was so bizarre that they could not be described with common sense and language, and humans' technology has made rapid progress like science fiction novels.
The great discoveries, breakthroughs and jumps of science and technology in the next hundred years exceeded all the achievements of human civilization in tens of thousands of years. All of this can be said to have started with Einstein.
So he just read the beginning and understood what "Fallout" is about: In the middle of the 21st century, a world war broke out on the earth again, and some super-technical weapon with great power bombed humans back to the wasteland world where civilization and ignorance coexisted.
He also quickly understood what the author wanted to express: he was worried about the leapfrog development of human technology. Human beings may not be able to master new technology, but instead let new technology destroy human itself.
However, this author disagrees with the general anti-scientific person. He has a very profound and forward-looking understanding of science, and is combined with a somewhat weird sense of humor.
Therefore, the novel "Fallout" juxtaposes pain and laughter, cruelty and tenderness, science and unscientific, and absurd facts and disproportionate reactions. It is not only not a heavy tragedy, but a comedy that is heard by the blows.
The "black humorous novel" did not appear in the United States until the 1960s on the original timeline. The representative works are Heller's "Catch-22", Pingchen's "The Rainbow of Gravity", Vonniger's "First-Class Breakfast", etc.
So our Master Yuan also became the world's number one person in "Black Humor Novels" with "Fallout". Of course, he also created the niche genre of "Vacuum Bulk Punk".
You should know that Einstein is also a character with a very sense of humor. In fact, humor is a reflection of high IQ. It can even be said that people with a sense of humor may not necessarily have high IQ, but people with high IQ will definitely have a sense of humor, unless they are like Colonel Chu Xuan, a "mortal wisdom". Because humor itself is a high-level reaction of human beings.
So he immediately fell in love with Shi Yin Chuisi listening to "Fallout"... However, the great magician liked the most "Rural Teacher". He really couldn't do it, so he read it three times in one breath.
Einstein had not been to China at this time and did not pass by Shanghai until he went to Japan to give lectures in November 1922. The great magician was warmly welcomed by the Seris. It is said that when Einstein walked into Nanjing Road in Shanghai, young students in Shanghai were so happy that they lifted him up with their hands.
Therefore, after completing his lecture in Japan, he gave a speech on relativity at 3 pm on January 1, 1923.
There was something unpleasant at that time. Xu Zhimo's brother-in-law...the former brother-in-law Zhang Junmai also attended the speech.
He was a devout spiritual scholar. After Einstein's report, he asked a question about spiritual science. Einstein replied, "This is insignificant."
Later, someone wrote an article in the newspaper that this question reflected the sorrow of Chinese philosophical thought at that time. What I heard was that the person who wrote this article was Zhang Junmai's ex-brother Xu Zhimo.
However, Einstein had a negative impression of China and the Chinese. He wrote in his travel diary, "On the outside, what the Chinese people are noted about is their hard work, their low demands on lifestyle and child welfare. They are more optimistic and naive than Indians. But most of them are heavy-burdened men and women who knock stones every day for their five cents of daily wages. They seem to be too dull to understand the horror of their fate."
He had a good impression of the Japanese, "It is amazing to have such beautiful, kind and kind people on this land of Japan."
What a little Japanese is probably the nation with the greatest contrast between the surface and the inner world.
Of course, now that the great magician has met the Gray Knight, his impression of "psychology" and Cyris must be very different.
Moreover, he had no prejudice about Cyris at this time, and after reading "The Country Teacher", he felt empathy.
Because at this time, China and Europe were also engaged in "teaching support" activities. In Europe these days, there were rural primary schools that lacked teachers in remote areas. So a group of young intellectuals went there to become teachers, including the Ludwig Wigenstein mentioned earlier.
Chapter completed!