Author: Carp and Carp Immortal

"No wonder you are so anxious to find a doctor. It turns out that you have opened such a big hole."

On the familiar workbench, Shangluo was checking the internal problems of the music box. He turned on all the lights in the house to illuminate, which was a bit of a waste of electricity. But it doesn't matter, there is no electricity meter yet, so there is no electricity bill.

With the bright lights, he opened the bottom of the music box. The first thing that came into his sight was the "big hole".

As if it was shot in by a bullet, the densely arranged parts inside the music box were neatly vacated with a ballistic space. The gears collapsed and the lever twisted like a spring.

A neat round hole was empty in the receiver, and nearby parts were messed up. But compared with that trajectory, the machine itself seemed to be less normal.

The receiver seems to be too "precision". In addition to conventional gears and levers, there are also cycloid wheels, oscillators, hairsprings, pawls, and large and small steel wheels. This small music box contains almost all the mechanical parts he knows. It is like a mechanical museum, but it is so small that it can be put into a pocket.

And no two of these parts look exactly the same, just like there are no two leaves that are exactly the same in the world.

Shangluo knew that his conjecture was proven. The more complex the machine was, the more he could perceive the power of his "consciousness". Simple machines can often only show the flow of some kind of qi, and complex machines can show complex emotions and fragmented memories. And in this extremely complex machine, the wonderful Apollonia was born.

【How is it, can it be repaired?】

"I need to check it carefully. The structure of these parts is just a pleasure to me. Well... I'll evaluate whether it can be repaired first."

Under the desk lamp, he put on a glasses.

As the name suggests, a loupe is used to look at small objects about an inch away. The general clock structure is only so big, and no matter how big it is, it is not suitable for daily use. From the outside, this brass heart clock structure does not seem to exceed this size.

But he vaguely noticed that there seemed to be some unexplored mechanical structures outside the distance that the loupe could see, which had exceeded the volume of the clock structure itself.

"Did I use my eyes too much and get blurred?"

He took off the ink glass and looked directly with his naked eyes. Now he became much clearer, and the structure of the deep part of the clock structure became clear.

He saw a red bullet stuck there, stuck in the depths of the clock structure, and stuck a small link of a series of exquisite mechanisms.

"Okay, there's no big problem."

He put on anti-cut leather gloves. This is very necessary, because the accumulated power in the clockwork can even explode the entire clock, and rash operation may make the entire clockwork pop out. Cutting the finger is still a trivial matter, and the problem of cutting the blood vessel will be big.

After taking safety protection, he used a thin-mouthed tweezers to penetrate the bell structure. The red bullet was within his visual range, just clip, twist, and pull it up like now:

The clock structure started and the gears began to rotate. At first, the pinion gears distributed at the edge of the clock structure, and then the large gears also began to rotate visible to the naked eye. The gears and gears meshed each other, driving the lever, and the cycloid wheel and the oscillator gathered into a low roar.

It was not until this time that Shangluo discovered that the inside of this mechanical heart seemed to be "larger" than he thought, even beyond the volume of the shell. The spiral of the clock structure continued to extend deep into the heart, extending to almost infinite distance, and more and more components were added to the chorus of gears and levers.

The roaring tone gradually rose, and the roar turned into a beep, and the volume became louder and louder:

Buzz —

The invisible fluctuations shocked his brain.

The world is rotating, and Shangluo's eyes are blank.

When he woke up again, he was still in place, everything was as usual. The suitcase in front of him was still open, and he was still holding tweezers in his hand, and the crimson bullet was still clamped at the tip of the tweezers.

[5 seconds, you just dizzy for 5 seconds. Your problem is not big, but my problem has not been solved yet.] Apollonia's voice appeared in his ears again.

The hole is still there. Although the inside of the clock structure has begun to rotate, the hole that runs through the entire mechanism still exists. The surrounding parts are idling around the hole, and the infinitely deep mechanism makes the hole seem infinite, just like a black hole tearing apart the three-dimensional universe.

[The wound has not recovered yet, my shell has been completely shattered. I am still trapped in this small music box.]

"So this is infinite..." Shang Luo knew that he underestimated her. He thought it was just complicated, but he didn't expect that there was almost infinite space inside. If we inferred according to the logic of "the more complex the more powerful it is", Apollonia might have been so powerful that it is beyond the reach.

"Even so, can you still exert your strength?"

[That's just temporary. Just like your vein is cracked, you won't die immediately, but you will definitely not live long. For me, this cycle will be much longer, but this will cause bigger problems. Just like a wolf will chase you along the blood, my wound will also make my bloody smell spread farther and farther. So please, please help me.]

Shangluo put down the tools in his hand and left the music box in its original place: "I need to know one thing, what exactly are you?"

Apollonia was silent for a long time.

[I have to say that this is the ultimate question. What am I? I may have to think about it for a long time before I understand it. But you can understand it like this: I am Sun Wukong.]

"Sun Wukong? What does it mean?"

[Sun Wukong is a natural saint born from heaven and earth. He was born to know, but he did not know how to use his power. He went through many detours and made many mistakes. He received many help, and he also helped many people. He was born as a "natural saint", but birth does not determine everything about him. Sun Wukong's future is determined by the path he has traveled. This is me, the endless divine machine "Apollonia".]

"Then where are you in?"

[Well, I have never walked in the world at all. Compared with Sun Wukong, I am afraid that I have not yet entered the Water Curtain Cave.]

"So you're a monster now?"

[Apt metaphor. Because I am obviously not enough to be called a human being, at least not in terms of legal theory.]

"." Shang Luo fell into thinking.

As a human, Shangluo felt that the monster should be thrown into the trash can unconditionally, or it would be better to put it in a rocket and hit it into space.

However, Apollonia's answer made her hesitate. Apollonia did not deny the fact that she was a "demon". But she raised the "possibility" of monsters, just like Sun Wukong. Sun Wukong was a monkey demon from beginning to end, but he could also be a natural saint, a demon king, a equine saint, Sun Xingzhe, and a fighting and defeating Buddha.

"So what you want to say is that you are not a vaguely indescribable monster. Can you communicate?"

【Yes, please treat me as a business for repairs. I will definitely pay you the right reward.】

"Well, this may be the difference between you and Sun Wukong. Sun Wukong will not talk to others about business. Sun Wukong always 'borrowed' with old neighbors." Shangluo looked at the music box, "Authentic, I am not Fahai, and I didn't use a move of 'Dawei Tianlong' to collect your thoughts. But what can you provide for me as a transaction? Let's not play dumb puzzles. Tell me what you can do. Since you have not shown hostility, we can communicate in a faster way."

[Okay, let's end the dumb mystery. The metaphor is indeed not what I am good at. Then I will tell you the truth about everything: I cannot predict the future, or I am not me who predicted the future before, but the Akashic record - the cloud of omniscient, the ultimate of all things is in it. As an infinite divine machine, I can open a channel to the Akashic record for you and help you ask questions to the Akashic record. Although I will definitely give you the answers, I can choose the way to collaborate with you, or the way to feedback to you.]

"Like a tarot card?"

[Yes, for example, the tarot card. I made some small tricks on this deck, so that it can directly feed the Akash record to you in a "symbolical" way. Because this set of playing cards is closed, it does not require my energy to be consumed, it is energy-saving and environmentally friendly.]

"So you can do your best to help me?"

[Yes, this is the reward I decided to give you. I will help you ask Akashi's records, and I will do my best to collaborate and iterate this issue with you to get the most useful results for you - because the most important thing is the problem itself. Have you seen a movie, right? The famous "The Wandering Guide to the Galaxy".]

"A Walking Guide to the Galaxy" is a science fiction novel written by British writer Douglas Adams in the 1970s. A movie of the same name was also released in 2005.

Shangluo recalled the movie, and there were indeed similar plots in it. This was still the movie he watched in "Another World", a work that was not available in this era.

The super-intelligent life in the Milky Way, the mouse, built a supercomputer called "Deep Thought", hoping to get the answers to the ultimate question from "Deep Thought".

This is what the mouse asked: What is the answer to the "ultimate question of life, the universe and everything"?

I have thought about this question for 7 million years, and the final answer is "42".

"I won't talk about why you know about "The Wandering Guide to the Galaxy". This is not important for the time being. The '42' section you want to talk about, right? The mice have been waiting for 7 million years, just waiting for an inexplicable 42."

[That's right. What did the mice do wrong in this process? Their mistake is that they did not iterate their own questions, and there was a problem in the way they asked. "What is the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything?" This question is too general and too chaotic. The mice should first build another "Apollonia" to help them iterate on this question, iterate over and over again, iterate over 3.5 million years, iterate out the questions they really need, and then give "thinking" some time to think about it, and the real answer may appear. Anyway, it cannot be 42.]

"Wait, you mean, iteration also takes time?"

[So this is what I said, 'The most important thing is the question itself'. Because the collaborative iteration between us must be carried out through the 'question and answer' method, you first give a topic, and then I will ask you. Yes, it is me asking you. Through the way I ask you, we can find your needs, and finally we organize a practical solution and send a request to the Akashi record. The result obtained in this way will be the result you want. The ultimate question must be iterated for at least several million years, so that it can be worthy of the ultimate. It may also have to be counted for another million years, but at least it can produce a useful result.]

"So I can ask anything at the beginning?"

[Of course. But you can't be too greedy, because if the question you raise is too big, then it will take a long time to iterate just.]

"Then my requirement is - I want to cultivate my true nature. I want to be a free and illusory immortal."
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