When the law of conservation of isolation is broken

The computer screen flickered, and the display burst into life again, becoming extremely white.Numerous files popped up on the white screen, resisting peeping by outsiders with dazzling colors and complicated content.

Joad opened a file easily.Zhang Luotuo noticed that there was a general outline of a person drawn on it, with the person's name, date of birth, personality and other trivial things marked beside it, like a sketch of a design.

Joad turned his head and signaled Zhang Luotuo to take a closer look.Zhang Luotuo frowned, he didn't understand what Qiao De meant, he squinted his eyes with doubts, and moved closer to the computer.He looks at the man.

Generous cheeks, resolute eyes, and rough and carelessly drawn windbreaker.Although the man was scribbled, he recognized it right away.

"Q?" he said incredulously.

Joad nodded calmly.

"What's going on here?..." Before Zhang Luotuo finished speaking, Joad had already opened the next file, which was another sketch similar to the design, similar to the first one, but this sketch was better than before. One is more detailed, and the character traits marked next to it have also increased a lot: self-confidence, greed, wisdom, and seriousness.Joad scrolled down again, and another one appeared, and it was better than the previous one.Slowly, as the sketches changed, the person was drawn more and more three-dimensionally and vividly, getting closer to the statue of Q flashing in the crowd network in the central district of Chongqing.In the end he is fully formed, with the exact same pose as Q.

Zhang Luotuo was dumbfounded, before he had time to think or sigh, the sketch suddenly disappeared.

Joad opened a video.The picture looked blurry, like a group of people and a high platform. Q stood on the red high platform. When he spoke, huge and bulky buildings flickered behind him, and tens of thousands of people cheered everywhere.

As soon as Q opened his mouth, the camel knew what he was talking about. It was the famous speech in which Q announced to the people that the construction of Eleven Company was officially completed.It is impossible for no one in Chongqing to know this.

At that time, the world was after the end, there was no hope, it was desolate, and people fell into panic.It was Q who managed to turn the tide, established the Eleven Company, and provided jobs for countless people, making the already disordered world start turning again.When this video was shot, he had just bought a building in the center of Chongqing, expanded Eleven Company, and delivered an inspiring opening speech to the citizens, hoping that everyone would cheer up and rebuild Chongqing.

This speech will be over soon.Zhang Luotuo blinked. He didn't understand why Qiao De showed him this. He was more familiar with this than him. As an employee of Eleven Company, he was almost forced to watch this video hundreds of times for the sake of company spirit and recognition.

"Do you know this?" Joad stood on the left and asked him.

"Of course." Zhang Luotuo said doubtfully, "Who doesn't know?"

"Then can you tell me about it?" Joad said.

"This is Q's most famous speech in September. It represented the rebirth of Chongqing's science and technology and inspired many people." Zhang Luotuo recalled, "This one was especially sensational. At that time, because the doomsday had just left, the technology was severely damaged, but even So people managed to find a video recorder, used it to record this video, and then this video was widely disseminated.”

That speech ignited the hope of countless people and encouraged people to move forward.Many people who didn't go to the scene watched the video over and over again with whatever media they found, wrote down the content of the speech in their notebooks, or recited it in their hearts over and over again. It was a huge symbol of Chongqing's pioneering period, and then Chongqing gradually developed. The video is still circulating among the crowd, refurbished over and over again, everyone remembers Q and his speech, Q is their spiritual symbol - even the VCR that was used to shoot it has been put in the museum because it It is also a symbol of difficult human beings at that time.

Joad nodded: "Is there only one camera at the scene?"

Zhang Luotuo couldn't remember it more clearly: "Yes, because the supplies were too scarce at that time."

Joad didn't say anything, he turned his head and pressed a button.

Zhang Luotuo turned his head, he saw the image of Q flowing out on the screen, and then the words were displayed word by word, he frowned strangely, this was no different from the content just now.He turned his head and looked at Joad suspiciously, but he only got Joad's gaze signaling him to look carefully.So he had no choice but to watch the video again without thinking.Then, after looking at it for a while, he suddenly understood: the video in front of him looks the same as the previous video, but there is a slight difference: in the previous video, there were tens of thousands of people in the camera, but here they disappeared, replaced by oppressive skyline.Q was originally [-] meters away from the camera, and he could only vaguely see his facial features, but in this video, Q no longer looks far away, but so close to the camera that his wrinkles were even recorded by the camera , many hands stretched out in front of the camera, trying to touch him, but unsuccessfully lowering them down, huge cheers erupted in the skyline.

This is not the video he is familiar with, but a video taken from another perspective.

For a moment he thinks it's a parody, but he blinks, it's Q, it's that famous occasion, there's nothing wrong with it.

Before he could react, he had already started playing the next video, and then the next video, and the next video.Every video is the same occasion and the same speech, Q's declaration is repeated again and again, with no difference in tone and posture, just like a tape playing backwards.But Zhang Luotuo found that, similar to the second video, they are slightly different, that is, the angle of shooting changes again and again, some videos Q is facing the camera, some are facing the camera sideways, and some can't even see the face.The cheering crowd disappears and reappears in the camera, sometimes the camera captures them like sea water at high tide, sometimes the camera focuses on the skyline and buildings, and the crowd disappears in the awkward land - only Q is eternal center.

"You've seen the video recorded by that camera, haven't you? So how do you explain these videos from different perspectives? Isn't there only one camera at the scene?" Joad said softly.

Zhang Luotuo looked at all this dumbfounded: "What's going on..." he said.

He felt something was wrong, but he didn't know what was wrong: "Is it fake?" Compare the video.But he accidentally rewinded too much, and the video retreated directly from his visual operation, replaced by those design sketches.

He stared at these fast-rewinding sketches, watching Q's features and appearance wear away and become rough again.

He felt that this scene was very familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere.He frowned, remembering.He once saw a similar picture in the imitation human department of Eleven Company. They were designing a virtual idol at the initial stage, and they were setting up a sketch to create a character. They worked hard to draw the general appearance of the character, and laboriously marked the character traits beside it. .Zheng Zheng nodded to him wearily, pressed the button on the console, and showed him the process of the virtual character becoming more and more perfect.

We need to submit a piece of work.Zheng Zheng said.

The sketch of Q here is like the birth process of a virtual character.

"It's fake," Joad said behind his back.

Zhang Luotuo turned his head and answered, "Are you video?"

"I'm talking about Q." Joad shook his head, watched his reaction, and replied calmly.

He looked at Zhang Luotuo's expression as if he had lost himself, and said softly, "I thought you guessed it."

Zhang Luotuo shook his head, almost frightened and said: "What do you mean?"

Joad glanced at the screen again, those sketches were still regressing, like some kind of space-time machine, and those pictures of Q kept passing by: "You have seen the design sketches of Q, haven't you? This is not related to the virtual idols in the company Are the design sketches the same?"

Zhang Luotuo turned his head blankly, facing the flickering computer screen.

Q's eyes faced him resolutely, but in the continuous retreat of holding the sketch, those eyes gradually lost their color and original meaning.greedy.The word was marked on the top of his head.

God.he thinks.He felt his nerves twitch.

Looking at his reaction, Joad guessed what he wanted to say, and replied calmly: "Q does not exist. He is just a concept and virtual image that existed in the minds of the first generation of imitators, but in fact he does not exist, they just thought He exists. Living here requires admiration, people need a hero, hence the Q—his story, everything about him, is made up."

"Wait, if Q doesn't exist, then what are these...?" Zhang Luotuo interrupted him unconsciously, pointing to the video in front of him, the Q in front of him was vivid.

Joad lowered his head, lightly pressed the button on the console, and brought up the video. Q immediately moved, facing the crowd, and tirelessly began to transmit thoughts, as if there was no rest: "It's fake, these are fake videos, This speech was faked, in reality he didn't exist, nothing happened."

"Fake?" Zhang Luotuo said in disbelief, his stomach began to hurt, he lowered his head, took a deep breath, and looked confusedly at the video that started to move again.

He raised his head blankly again, Joad met his eyes and nodded with certainty.

Zhang Luotuo was extremely confused. He said, "But the "Chongqing History" said—?" He stopped, not knowing what he was going to say.

"Aren't the videos you watched just now enough to make you suspicious?" Joad said sarcastically, "Didn't the "History of Chongqing" claim that technology was backward at that time, and only a camera recorded everything, but you just now Watched countless versions of Q's speech video?"

Zhang Luotuo fell silent for a moment. He looked at Qiao De and was stunned.

"I don't understand," he said, almost giving up.

Joad sighed, and his tone changed from sarcasm to gentleness for some reason: "It's okay, everyone will understand in this state."

Zhang Luotuo thought for a long time, then raised his head again, he thought of something.

He murmured: "But if this is the case—I remember that many people remember Q's speech, and they have been interviewed, and some old people once told me that they have experienced that scene in person. What would it be like? If Q doesn’t exist, so how do they remember—”

Joad took a deep look at him: "That's why I let you watch the videos taken from different angles."

He turned around, pressed a button on the console, sped it up, let it tumble downwards, and the video jumped out.Joad pressed one of the keys, and the beginning of one video flashed past the other.The angle of view of those videos is constantly changing, some are from the last row, some are from the first row, and some are shot among many people. Q is huge in one video, and shrinks to a small dot in the next video. Sometimes It is very clear in the shot, but sometimes it seems out of focus and very blurry.Those videos kept skipping, one after another, as if there was no end.

They watched those videos again.

Joad clicked the stop button, and the pictures stopped suddenly: "Have you noticed the difference between these videos and the most familiar video of speeches circulated among the public?"

In the screen, Q remains in a still roaring state.

Zhang Luotuo stared blankly at the video, but he actually noticed it.

"They don't look like shooting..." He frowned in embarrassment, out of focus, shaking constantly, the side hand stretched out in the camera, the seamless switching of the lens, the wide angle of view like a fisheye, "... more like a human what the eye sees."

Joad nodded slightly, and he quickly let the video flow again, and in the screen, Q started to growl again.

Joad continued as if nothing had happened: "The people in this city are all fake people, aren't they?"

Zhang Luotuo looked at Qiao De, waiting for his words, he felt that the next sentence would reveal the secret.

"Then it's never been difficult to make a realistic video of Q's speech that feels like they're there in person and watch it happen, and put it into their memory so that they think they're there and witness Q's speech in person. ’ said Joad.

Zhang Luotuo's blood became cold, and he couldn't speak.

Joad clicked on the console, and the video started to play again. He stared at it for a moment without emotion, thinking for a long time: "After all, history always needs witnesses, even if it is forged."

The melodious music sounded from the console, which was a sign that Q's speech was about to end. His rough and bold voice reminded people of the Internet sky full of blue lines.However, the voices could not enter Zhang Luotuo's mind, they wandered outside his body, like raindrops separated by a layer of glass.

Zhang Luotuo wanted to speak, but he couldn't speak. Everything in front of him made him feel a long aftertaste and strangeness, like a sleeping pill that gradually took effect after swallowing.

"So—according to your statement, Q doesn't exist?" After a long time, he said.

Joad confirmed again: "Q does not exist."

"Are we all imitators?" Zhang Luotuo said.

"Yes," said Joad.

"Is all this fake?" Zhang Luotuo whispered.

Joad paused, and then he replied, "It's a forgery."

Zhang Luotuo paused.He looked up, but Joad was not in his eyes.The construction history of Chongqing.Doomsday history.Or even Q.It's all like a giant fooling game.

Zhang Luotuo turned his face sideways, and said almost emptyly, "What's the meaning of that?..."

The words escaped through the slits of his trembling lips: "But… the meaning?"

He wants to say meanings, but he doesn't know what these meanings are, what is the meaning he wants to say?

Perhaps what he wanted to ask was the meaning of the city.human meaning.The meaning of what Joad said.

If Q is fake and a fictitious character, then Eleven Company cannot be founded by him, then what is Eleven Company actually—?If all the people in Chongqing are counterfeit people, then what happened to Qiao De who exposed all of this?What happened to Chongqing?What happened to the management department in his mouth?

The meaning of the whole city is thus lost.

If the whole puzzle is broken and placed in front of him, can the puzzle still be called a puzzle?Or, can they still see a puzzle when it's completely absent?

"I don't understand." Zhang Luotuo said.

If everything is true.