【13】

Gintoki stepped out of the research center building pretending nothing was wrong, greeted Gui, and took a ride back to the investigation hall with Miao Shimura.He listened to Shimura Miaotao talking about his housework, a little absent-minded.Every time those four words are mentioned, a black fire of hatred will rise in Yinshi's heart, and fortunately, every time he thinks of Hijikata and those deep and steady blue eyes, he can restore his original rationality, That's why it wasn't swallowed by the flames.

As soon as he returned to the office, he inserted the flash drive that Gui had given him into the computer, and opened one of the folders.Should Gui be careless or careful?Not only the thesis materials, but also some of Yin Ba's teaching materials in that year were completely stored in it.There are a total of [-] articles under the list of thesis materials, and there are about five years of lecture materials, but the latter materials are unexpectedly much more than the former, so Yinshi decided to start from the thesis part.

Soon Yinshi discovered that something was wrong—there were more than [-] articles listed on the computer file, but the actual content was only a dozen or so, and the others were either only the cover or the preface, or the most important parts were all destroyed. replacement.Although Yinshi was not surprised when this happened, especially after accidentally bumping into unknown persons entering and leaving the research center, Yinshi was more convinced that these materials were taken away or destroyed maliciously, and the possibility of the former was even higher.Yinshi opened the lecture materials again, and flipped through a few files. It seemed that they were well preserved here, and nothing special was replaced or disappeared.However, it may also be because most of the information here can also be obtained through channels such as the Internet and books, and there is no confidential or sensitive information.

Just when Yinshi wanted to give up searching the data in the flash drive, a common keyword caught Yinshi's eyes.It was a memo for homework. First, students were asked to watch the movie "Butterfly Effect"11 and the short story "Garden of Forked Roads" by Argentinian writer Borges12, and ask a few simple questions--for Yinshi, Fairly simple question, but not necessarily so simple for college students.

However, the reason why this string of keywords caught Yinshi's attention was because it brought back a short memory of Yinshi.

When Yinshi and Yinba were both teenagers, his younger brother Yinshi liked to sit in the living room and watch TV while listening to his father muttering to himself while reading his book. Drawing quietly with a pen and paper.It wasn't deliberate, but under the influence of their ears and eyes, the brothers started to learn some subjects that children of the same age were not familiar with, such as junior high school or even high school liberal arts subjects.

Sometimes my father would ask a few questions and ask the two brothers to rush to answer them.However, although talking about rushing to answer questions, I don’t know why Xiao Yinshi likes to see his brother in high spirits when he answers questions, and always enjoys the endless knowledge that his father and brother have when they talk to each other, and unconsciously forgets that he and his brother The elder brother also has a competitive relationship of "rushing to answer".

"Xiaoyin can't do it like this," recalled his father saying, "Will you come back crying with a duck egg in your arms, and it turns out that it was because you accidentally fell asleep during the exam?"

The whole family burst out laughing, Xiao Yinshi, who was obviously being teased, giggled happily as if infected by the joyful atmosphere.When Xiao Yinba walked over, he hit Yinshi's head with a knife.

"Dad, look at this stupid boy, he is still smiling at you when you scold him."

After speaking, he rubbed Xiao Yinshi's curly silver hair that was exactly the same as his own, causing Yinshi to scream.The two staged you chasing me and running around the house, only when the father yelled to stop, the two stinky little devils were willing to stop obediently.

"Don't be in a hurry to fight, just listen to Dad and I have a challenge to test you." Dad said, "You two come and prove '1+1=2' to me, and I will let you eat what Mom did. strawberry cake."

When Xiao Yinba heard that there was a strawberry cake, he ran to do the topic with great interest; Xiao Yinshi pouted, reluctantly picked up a pen and paper, and drew two circles on the paper in a fit of anger, The paper is handed in.

"Little Silver?" Dad asked, "What do you mean by drawing this?"

"Just, one circle plus another circle, isn't it just two circles?" Xiao Yinshi said.

"Are you answering the wrong question like this, Yinshi?" Xiao Yinpachi said, "Shouldn't the question of this answer be 'How did you learn 1+1=2'? And Dad asked you 'How to prove it'."

"I can't control so much!" Xiao Yin pouted, "There is nothing more important than mom's strawberry cake! No one can stop me from eating it, no one else!"

Mom was very happy to hear that, and played Xiao Yinshi's cheek.

"Really, Xiaoyin knows how to curry favor with mom." Mom said, "Yinba, come over and eat with Xiaoyin first."

"I want to solve problems while eating!" Ginpachi scratched his head and said.

"Look, Dad is also a bit charming." Dad winked at Mom.

Xiao Yinshi quickly ate the strawberry cake all over his mouth, and the appearance of gobbling it up couldn't help making people laugh. It seemed that he really liked all kinds of strawberry-related sweets.Just after "The Peanut Dragon Next Door" was broadcast on TV, Xiao Yinshi dozed off on the sofa, and when he woke up, he was alone in the living room.Dad and elder brother went to the study room, while mother was chatting with neighbors outside, Xiao Yinshi's eyes wandered in the living room, and just happened to find a copy of "The Complete Works of Borghese" on the table in the living room, bored I fell asleep while reading it.

When he was shaken awake again, it was Shinpachi who reminded Gintoki in a low voice that Hijikata and Kondo had returned to their seats after the meeting. It might not be a good thing if the deputy chief accidentally found him asleep.Yinshi scratched his head and apologized, then smiled wryly.Really, it's just that I accidentally recalled the past while reading the materials, and in the end I didn't even know how I fell asleep.Yinshi really didn't want to wake up. Unless it was in a dream, it seemed that such an innocent age would never be found again.

Yinshi typed "Bohes" in the keyword search, and the search engine quickly spit out more than 13 million pieces of information.He didn't go through them one by one, but only picked the titles he was interested in to read.There are some discussions on postmodernism14 and Borges' "Garden of Forked Roads" above. In Gintoki's eyes, this seems to be more or less indirectly related to the dilemma of classical physics since the end of the nineteenth century and the rise of quantum mechanics[-].Quantum mechanics provides a vague and ambiguous physical world in the physics world, so postmodernism probably provides people with a vague and ambiguous thinking space.

Yinshi remembered that his father and elder brother had mentioned the "Atlantis Equation", but it was actually proving that "1+1=2", not an equation at all.Yinshi once thought that an equation refers to an equation that contains unknown quantities; while every word in the "Atlantis Equation" is a real natural number and operand, why is the "definition and proof question" so clear and clear? How about using an equation to describe it?He still doesn't understand what Dad means.

But when Yinshi thought about it, he also realized that Yinba might not understand why this was the case, so he followed his father into research work.Although Dad studied the field of philosophy, while Ginpachi devoted himself to neuroscience, perhaps the essence of their investment is exactly the same.

Gintoki typed "Atlantis Equation vs. Borges' "Forked Garden"" on the computer, and typed "Modernism vs. Postmodernism" in the corresponding position on the next line.He passed these two lines of words to the earthwork through the communication software inside the Shinsengumi, and then walked near the earthwork's position.

"Are you here to explain the meaning of these two lines?" Hijikata asked.

"Almost, but I'll let you guess." Yinshi replied, "It's a little compensation for me sneaking around today and not reporting to you."

"Oh, what about that?" Hijikata said, "I heard from sister Miao, since you feel the need to visit again, I don't want to blame you."

Unexpectedly, Hijikata's attitude is a bit similar to Shimura Tae, Gintoki thought that Hijikata would question why he didn't take him to see, but now Hijikata's reaction is surprisingly calm──Well, Gintoki has to admit, Hijikata The man always gave him countless "accidents", which made him unable to figure out what the man was thinking.

"I've heard of the 'Atlantis Equation' before," Hijikata said thoughtfully, "Gintoki, this is Ginhachi's previous research, you don't just want to tell me about it, do you?"

"Of course not only, the one you mentioned is called "known facts" at all?" Yin Shi said, "You didn't explain at all why I typed Borges' novel with the words below."

"Then I surrender, please be straightforward," said Hijikata.

"I speculate that this is the reason why Sakata Ginpachi disappeared," Gintoki said, "The Hashida Group needs to know the content of Ginpachi's research because of the needs of dream science, so he was involved in the internal operation of the Hashida Group. "

Gintoki changed some of the facts he discovered without the knowledge of the earthwork, but it did not affect the overall report he wanted to report.What he didn't tell Hijikata was that he guessed that Ginpachi was the mastermind behind the Hashida Group's research department, but he still couldn't explain why Sakata Ginpachi later clashed with the Hashita Group.If there is a fault between Ginpachi and Hashida, Gintoki will be the first to guess that it was caused by the car accident, but this is an important part of Gintoki's desire to hide Hijikata, so Gintoki simply lied. It may be that Ginpachi was implicated.

"Thank you, Gintoki." Hijikata said quietly, his voice full of gratitude, "You really did a great favor to Shinsengumi."

Yinshi's heart was hit hard, and there was a bit of guilt and guilt in the painful place. For a moment, he wondered if it was a wrong decision for him to lie?Not sure whether he was sad, jealous, or otherwise, Gintoki failed to accept Hijikata's gratitude, and naturally avoided Hijikata's eyes.

"You don't have to thank me, I'm not that great." Gintoki said, "I'm not Ginpachi."

Feeling guilty for a moment, he said something that he regretted.Gintoki quickly walked back to his seat, took his wallet and left the Shinsengumi office.Hijikata looked at Yinshi, thinking about Yinshi's last words before he left.

The author has something to say: (11) The "butterfly effect" originally refers to the long-term chain reaction of the entire system driven by small initial changes in the power system. In 2004, the movie "The Butterfly Effect" starring Ashton Kutcher and Amy Smart used this term to express the concept of "choices that seemed insignificant at first, but eventually led to unpredictable and huge changes".

(12) "El Jardíndes de senderos que se bifurcan" (El Jardíndes de sender os que se bifurcan) is a short reasoning novel written by Borges in 1941, but the writing method starts with contradictory statements, making readers highly vigilant about each statement .Some people think that the point of this novel is not to convey any meaning through the "garden", but to build a maze.

(13) Postmodernism is a concept that is difficult to define precisely in theory, but it can be regarded as a reaction to the modernist values ​​of "single as rational center" and "dual opposition".My personal understanding is more like that postmodernism rejects "the "correct answer" that is unique and untested", but because this term is too vague and may point to feminism, deconstruction or postcolonialism, many rigorous Scholars actually don't like the term.

(14) Quantum Mechanics is a branch of physics that describes the phenomena of onlookers.Appearing at the end of the nineteenth century, when "classical physics" with Newton as its traditional value could no longer explain some microscopic physical phenomena, quantum mechanics was gradually accepted by physicists.Despite many studies, quantum physics has always maintained its veil of mystery.

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