When the law of conservation of isolation is broken

Qiao De stared at Zhang Luotuo, he found that Zhang Luotuo was almost at a loss.

"You're confused." He whispered, probing Zhang Luotuo carefully, but without a trace of sarcasm.

"Maybe we should start with history." He suggested, with a slight movement of his hand, to let them back out of the video that had stopped playing.The computer returned to the clean white desktop, and the files shone like scars in the empty space.

"But didn't you say that history is fake?" Zhang Luotuo said in confusion, raising his head.Those histories, Q, the glorious history of science and technology, Joad overthrew them all.

Joad shook his head. He looked extremely tired, but he was also extremely serious: "History may be falsified and fabricated, and it may be covered up by some false history, but history must exist, but it has arrived at another place." He His hand jumped on the desktop, selected a file in a format that Camel had never seen before, and gently opened it.Zhang Luotuo turned his head and saw that the file glowed slightly after a prompt of "being opened", and then jumped out like a stage play.

Those lights, those grids, and those blues form a three-dimensional rotating sphere, which rotates on the computer screen.Something is embedded in the sphere, like blocks.

Zhang Luotuo looked at it carefully for a while, and then he couldn't help but speak, blankly: "Isn't this the earth?" A virtual digital earth appeared on the computer.Zhang Luotuo turned his head back, not understanding why Joad asked him to watch this.

Joad pressed a button, and the earth began to rotate slowly, and then some black pixels began to cover the bottom part of the earth.He looked at it with great peace.

"This is Earth," he said. "Earth before the end, when humans lived on Earth and were very happy, but also unscrupulous."

Those black pixels are covering up faster and faster, like a night that is swallowing the day.

"I've heard of this." Zhang Luotuo said unconsciously.He had read it in "History of Chongqing" and the "History of the Old World" that Joad lent him.Environmental pollution, high-speed development of science and technology, human beings are slowly destroying the earth and them in a wonderful way, but they don't know it until one day the earthquake and tsunami spread like a virus, and overnight the entire earth - except Chongqing , completely destroyed.In the end, the earth survived with difficulty, but in a humiliating way—from now on there is no night and day, only the gray sky, and the range of human activities can only be in Chongqing—other areas, including a part above the gray sky, All polluted by its toxins and disasters caused by earthquakes.

"Up to here, there is no divergence in history." Joad said, "The earth is destroyed, and only Chongqing is left as a livable place."

"You mean the history has been different since then?" Zhang Luotuo said sharply.

"It's completely different." Joad nodded towards Zhang Luotuo, thinking for a while, his gray eyes flickering slightly.

His fingers hovered and turned on the computer, Zhang Luotuo looked down, he saw that the earth was spinning faster and faster, and at the same time, it began to get smaller and smaller, and the blue dots that made it slowly became smaller and smaller. Simple and crude.Zhang Luotuo was a little puzzled, and then he found that beside the blue dot, other dots began to appear, white, yellow, or small fragmented dots.Zhang Luotuo frowned. He looked at it for a while, and suddenly realized that he and Joad had seen similar things many times in the old man's record store.

These dots are large or small planets. This file seems to be an astronomical map of the universe. Joad is shrinking the earth so that other planets in the universe are displayed.

Joad looked at it for a long time, and finally said hesitantly: "The divergence of history is that although Chongqing is the only thing left on earth, human beings are not willing to live in Chongqing alone. After all, the universe is huge, and human technology can allow us to live in Chongqing. Settle down on any other planet and develop a new civilization elsewhere. There is no need to stay in a small city."

"That is to say, human beings did not establish their capital in Chongqing, but left the earth behind." Joad said, his left hand supported his chin, he moved a little, and the chair heard the rustling sound of clothes fabric rubbing.

Zhang Luotuo couldn't believe his ears, he murmured and repeated: "Leaving the earth"

Holding on to the handle of the chair, he said almost incoherently: "How is that possible—how can this be done? Where can we go? Technology?—…" Leaving the earth sounds like a fantasy, until now Nowadays, even Chongqing can’t do it now, because Zhang Luotuo remembers that the toxins left over from the doomsday are all over the sky, which is the first horizontal line that hinders them from rushing to the universe, not to mention that they have not yet achieved the kind of flying out of the earth. , Technology that breaks through the universe - it is very difficult for people to focus on life in Chongqing.

Joad still slid his hand on the screen in an orderly manner, and those planets were still shrinking, shrinking, and more and more planets were flashed on the screen, like sandstones on black velvet, but Joad didn't care.

He narrowed his eyes, as if he had found something, and began to enlarge the pattern with countless rotating polka dots.He said softly: "You don't understand, the earth's technology was already very advanced at that time, and humans had already invented spaceships capable of space travel."

His hand kept moving on the screen: "That was a very long journey——they passed such a route——" Zhang Luotuo turned his head, and he saw that on the screen, Joad's hand kept sliding across those waves. point, between those planets.Then the planets kept brushing past the screen—and passing—and at the far end of the screen, an almost stationary, smooth orange planet waited for them.

Joad methodically kept zooming in on the planet.

Zhang Luotuo opened his eyes wide.He had seen that planet in Joad's home—on those astronomical books, it was mixed with other planets and passed by, only the vague orange color left memory for Zhang Luotuo.

"Isn't this the spark you told me about?" Zhang Luotuo whispered.

The orange planet, with its fiery red appearance, was like a strange artificial stone. He accidentally noticed it when he was flipping through Joad's astronomical books, but was soon attracted by another planet.

Joad enlarged it, enlarged it again, and the fiery red spread and became thinner.

"It's Mars," Joad said.

"People migrated here, this planet, Mars, and settled down." Joad whispered, he let go of the finger that rotated the planet, but due to the excessive movement just now, after he let go of the finger, the planet continued to enlarge The movement still didn't stop, but continued to accelerate, so Zhang Luotuo was almost dizzy watching the planet continue to enlarge in front of his eyes, the thin air, endless friction, and then, huge, black pressure to the endless building That zooms in.

Zhang Luotuo opened his eyes wide. At that moment, he saw a city, which was composed of countless skyscrapers intersecting and intersecting each other. Similar to spaceships, but much lighter than spaceships, aircraft shuttled through those buildings, like extinct birds in the old world; on the top of the skyscrapers, a fully transparent light blue tunnel formed a ring. A car that looks like a subway passed through it, and next to it, a huge holographic image in Tang suit smiled gently at it, looking clean and tidy, full of a bright and hopeful radiance.

"Here?" He murmured, asking in disbelief.

"This is a city settled by humans on Mars. We call it the City of Hope." Joad replied, "What you are seeing now is a real-time surveillance image on Mars."

His arm touched the screen unconsciously, and the picture was zoomed in again, focusing on the sky subway running wildly.A man in a neat suit was facing the screen and yawned. The suit he was wearing was made of a material that Zhang Luotuo had never seen before. It made people feel very fit and shiny, as if it was born for his skin .

"And that's what we're exposed to, the real history," Joad said.

real history.Zhang Luotuo understood this term, and he stared at the screen again in stunned amazement. The office worker had already turned his back to them and began to sleep against the glass of the subway. Buildings for lines and networks.

Zhang Luotuo was speechless.He has never seen such a city, even if all the fantasy TV dramas in Chongqing are added up, they will not be more imaginative than the structure of this city.

"Can I touch this screen?" Zhang Luotuo said.Joad nodded, agreeing.

Zhang Luotuo stretched out his hand and tapped the screen twice casually, so the subway became smaller in front of him, and the huge modern buildings and cities appeared in front of him again, and he tapped a place on the screen lightly.

"Enter Shijing Road for real-time monitoring immediately." The screen displayed.In the next second, a bright and tidy avenue appeared in Zhang Luotuo's eyes. Many happy people ran past the street. Behind them - a huge billboard was showing an inconspicuous advertisement. The font was like Expand like bubblegum.

"For Mars, For All Mankind," it says.

Zhang Luotuo's hand that touched the screen stopped, and he stared blankly at these strange scenes: holographic images, buildings, railways flying in the sky, and billboards actively displaying the virtual sky.He couldn't even convince himself that it was a hoax, or that the city was fake, because it was so imaginative and real, so rich in detail, it was completely different from Chongqing—even surpassed it.

Zhang Luotuo can see that the technologies that are running around in the city, the blue high-speed network, these things Chongqing has dreamed of but never realized, always stuck at a certain step due to various restrictions.The city that Zhang Camel is already very familiar with is as vulnerable as a paper city in front of this picture-and no one would bother to build an advanced city scene in order to deceive another person or play a prank, What's more, it was impossible for them to create such a picture. Zhang Luotuo could tell that even the top designers in the design department of Eleven Company could not create such a picture.

But suppose this is the real history.

"Then what about us—" Zhang Luotuo turned his head and said, "You said we are imitation people—and what about Chongqing—"

The history here obviously has nothing to do with Chongqing, and it has nothing to do with them.This still cannot explain the "meaning", or the existence of Chongqing, Zhang Luotuo's doubts.

Joad glanced at the screen with a look of nostalgia, but he quickly restrained it, turned his head, and said to Zhang Luotuo: "Before humans escaped from the earth and went to Mars, technology has developed to the point where there are imitation humans. , although the production is still very rough, just like your cleaning robots, service imitation humans, etc. At that time, almost every human being had one. However, when escaping, considering factors such as the short time of escaping and the long travel time of the spaceship, lightly pack Simplicity is necessary. Everyone can only bring a fixed number of things, so many people, after contemplation, decided to throw their imitators on the earth-of course, the first choice was the place where they temporarily stationed and escaped. Chongqing."

Zhang Luotuo was speechless.He stared blankly at Joad as the messages entered his ears and his brain digested them with difficulty.

"So you mean, that's how we got here?" He looked at him.

Joad shook his head: "At that time, the climate was cold and the disaster had not stopped. Many imitators were scrapped after a few days of enduring, but this gave people on Mars a little room for thinking, and this thinking space is related to Chongqing."

He recalled something and organized those words into language: "After humans stabilized on Mars, they began to rebuild their capital."

He raised his head and looked at the screen: "Technology has developed again on that side. Imitation humans have been manufactured again because of people's living needs, and they are more advanced than before. To a certain extent, they have advanced to almost the same level as human beings. They are exactly the same, have the same appearance, and are simulated nerve cells, blood, arms, simulated diseases, thinking abilities, and even have a variety of different temperaments. But they still have some differences from humans, for example, they will only be scrapped instead of dying, This makes many people troubled. Many people's imitators cannot be used after they are scrapped, but they don't know where to throw them. Putting them at home is like facing an incorruptible dead person. As for throwing them outside, the geographical resources of Mars are limited after all. "

"So..." Zhang Luotuo's voice softened, Joad's words guided him, and he gradually understood.

Joad nodded. He knew what Zhang Luotuo wanted to say, and his tone slowed down: "So they thought of Chongqing, the earth, the place they had abandoned, where they once left the scrapped imitation humans."

"As a result, tons of discarded replicas were transported from Mars to Chongqing on Earth by unmanned spacecraft." Joad said, "But those discarded replicas—not all the replicas were scrapped, some of them They still have consciousness, have not been scrapped, and can be said to be still alive. But they were thrown away, and the reason why they were mixed among the scrapped imitators may be that they had conflicts with their owners, or simply because the imitators released new models, and the owner disliked them them."

"These conscious imitators survived in Chongqing and created Chongqing?" Zhang Luotuo couldn't help but bit his lip.

Joad shook his head, and his tone was as cold and calm as usual: "To a certain extent, you are right, but overall you are still wrong."

"They didn't build Chongqing. It was our base," he stressed.

Zhang Luotuo was confused by this description.base?This sounds like a third-rate novel.

"The base, that is, the institution, you can call it whatever you want, but it is a word of the same nature. It is the highest institution on Mars." Joad said.

Zhang Luotuo understood, but he immediately fell into deeper confusion: "Is it necessary for your base to build Chongqing?"

"When I was on Mars, there were several incidents of counterfeit rebellion. Although they were very slight, they still attracted the attention of the base. They quickly eliminated the signs in the mattresses, but because of this, their worries were suppressed. Inspired." Joad's hand slowly brushed across the screen, the screen flickered for a moment, and jumped out of another street, Zhang Luotuo noticed that that street was very shiny, ten times more gorgeous and tidy than Jiulongpo.

Joad said: "Our base realized that it would be troublesome before transporting the fakes to Chongqing. Some of the fakes are still alive, and even very sober. At this point in the development of the fakes, they are no different from humans. , they will inevitably complain about the operation—who knows? Because to have consciousness is to have thought, and to have thought is to have rebellion. No one thought that something might happen. So they came up with an idea."

The only sound in the room was the faint sound of electric current flowing as the lamp illuminated the room.Zhang Luotuo held his breath, he waited for Qiao De's words in the light of each other's ups and downs "Zi Zi".

"They emptied the memory of the imitators before they were transported, implanted them with the idea of ​​'I am human', and the false memory of suffering the end of the world as a human being, and could only live in Chongqing. Throw it in Chongqing." Joad said, his voice steady and precise.

Zhang Luotuo couldn't speak, he held those nails. C-…the figures were magnified before his eyes.

Joad continued, his voice blended into the noise of the city image, but it was exceptionally prominent, like the voice of God descending from the sky: "They want to make this generation of counterfeit people think that they are human beings, and to live in Chongqing, only Satisfied to stay in this place and forget about the existence of Mars forever, so as to avoid the risk-you know, the possible counterfeit people's rebellion against human dissatisfaction. Among them, Q, is part of this plan. Create a The virtual hero makes the counterfeit people think that they already have their own hero, their own beliefs, and live for it, but in fact Mars holds their hero in their hands, and Q is completely virtual."

"Then the eleven company established by Q?" Zhang Luotuo moved his feet and asked involuntarily.

"It was established by the base." Joad replied calmly. "It is not difficult for the base to establish such a low-tech company-it only took them less than a week. After that, they put in the first batch The artificial man conducted a life experiment, and the base was pleased to find that the artificial man lived successfully in Chongqing. After that, it became a practice. Mars successfully found a recycling plant that could reuse resources. Or the fakes made mistakes when leaving the factory, they cleared the data of the fakes, implanted false ideas, transported the fakes to Chongqing by spaceship, and let the fakes start their new lives.”

"I understand..." Zhang Luotuo said, his voice was very soft, and he had already understood it from Qiao De's story.The real human beings are on another planet, they invented the imitation human, and then left the imitation human in Chongqing, he thought dully.

Joad nodded: "But it's all a secret, no one except the people at the base knows this, most people only know that their imitation humans have been disposed of, and they think it's thrown in some secret dump or something— — also to avoid commotion."

Zhang Luotuo lowered his head, stared at the image still bound on the screen, understood Joad's words bit by bit, and fell into deep thinking.

"But Mars is not afraid of any risks in doing this?" After a long time, he raised his head hesitantly, looked at Joad, paused, he didn't know how to describe it, so he jumped over with difficulty, "As long as Chongqing thousands Anyone in Wanwan becomes suspicious...then everything comes to light?" He murmured to end the whole paragraph.

Joad understood what he meant: "Are you saying that the counterfeit man may see through Mars' plan?"

Zhang Luotuo nodded: "If they know about this, they go to Mars and tell everyone about it..." And the citizens on Mars, if they know that Mars has built a city dedicated to imitation people, what will they do? think?They thought the earth was empty and they had no connection with it.

But Joad didn't even think about it, he shook his head: "Imitation people can't leave the earth." He said very arbitrarily, "The technology here is far inferior to that on Mars. The limited technology concept here earlier was all about Mars. The implants for the imitators are far from leaving the earth, not to mention the double threshold set by Mars."

Zhang Luotuo frowned: "Double threshold?"

Joad glanced at him: "Do you remember? You once told me about the dangerous atmosphere?"

Zhang Luotuo thought about it.Dangerous atmosphere.Joad had talked to him once.

"Are you talking about the toxins in the sky?" he said cautiously, trying to think through the possibilities.

It is written in "History of Chongqing": In the sky, nearly [-] kilometers away, the air there still has toxins produced when the end of the world comes, and they have not subsided until now. The flight is in the prescribed airspace, and it is warned not to fly out of the prescribed airspace out of curiosity, otherwise you may encounter the danger of poisoning.Someone once tried it, but the spaceship fell down together, and the body was torn apart when he died.Since then, no one has dared to try it.

"You mean—" Zhang Luotuo said word by word, hesitantly, trying to understand, "the base has set up toxins in the atmosphere so that people can't leave the earth?"

But to his surprise, Joad shook his head lightly, denying the most likely possibility of this camel: "It's not poison."

But Joad thought for a while, and explained: "But you can understand it this way, because it is to some extent, but not a physical toxin, after all, they can't put toxins in the atmosphere without letting the toxins diffuse into the low air. In fact, even if you were driving steadily at low altitude, trying to drive the spaceship, and find the exit from Chongqing from the ground ... when you try to leave the city, your neurons will collapse and you will die directly."

Zhang Luotuo frowned, he didn't understand.

Joad saw his doubts, and explained in more detailed words: "The toxin set in the base is actually a program. Every imitator will have a chip in his brain when he first leaves the factory, and this chip is connected to that program. ...if you get to the exit of the city - although I don't know where that exit is. As soon as you try to fly out, the program will send a signal to your chip, telling it not to fly out. But if you insist on flying out, try to pass through Go through the exit of the city and leave here, whether it is the sky or the ground, the program will sense it, it will warn you first, and automatically start the virus program that is harmless to your body first, making you feel painful, but if you keep doing this, it will be harmful The virus will be activated, spread throughout your body, and kill your brain and body."

Zhang Luotuo was stunned. He couldn't say a word for a long time. He just digested Joad's words alone. He didn't raise his head again until he swallowed them all like dismantling a toy bug.

"I see." He said, hesitantly.

Then he was silent for a while, and asked again: "Then what is the other threshold you mentioned?"

Joad didn't answer him right away. On the contrary, he turned around and let his hands quickly operate on the computer screen, click on a certain silvery street, and jump to another one. After a burst of dazzling operations, He somehow picked out a TV channel marked with a novel TV logo, one person was talking to another person, behind them was a large uncultivated Martian landscape, what seemed to be a thousand rocks they had trampled on the ground, countless people Wave behind their backs and smile.

"What is this?" Zhang Luotuo lowered his head in novelty. People on Mars——Zhang Luotuo noticed that each of them was wearing a robe, like a mysterious organization.

"This is a travel show." Joad said in a somewhat tired tone, obviously this kind of show is very common in his eyes.

"Travel?——" Zhang Luotuo said exaggeratedly, "Wow——" This is an unfamiliar word. It is a new word in Chongqing. He has not seen it for many years, because in Chongqing, most people think about work. , Tomorrow's work, life, maybe a little wider, is the street they are going to, but no one will officially mention tourism, let alone make it into a program, even Zhang Luotuo himself, he thought about exploring Chongqing, but that It is also a very distant idea. After decades, a long time later, he subconsciously regards travel as a distant thing.

Joad looked at Zhang Luotuo, Zhang Luotuo's words seemed to touch something he wanted to say, his gray eyes were rarely aggressive: "Yes, this should be very novel to you-Chongqing has never done anything Isn't it a travel or discovery show?"

Zhang Luotuo thought about it, and agreed with him: "Never."

Joad paused the show, and the picture stopped on a dark red land, which looked like the shell of the left wing of an ancient spaceship: "But have you ever thought about why in this era, there are almost any entertainment shows, but never Have you never traveled or explored? And it seems that the people around you have never thought about traveling, visiting every corner of Chongqing, or saying that you are leaving the city? It seems that everyone has no such awareness ? Never even thought about it”

Zhang Luotuo was stopped by his question, and he looked at him blankly: "Because this idea is too out of the ordinary, it is difficult for everyone to think about it—"

After a while, Zhang Luotuo felt that something was wrong, and shook his head hesitantly: "And... it's not that no one has this idea, I have, I want to go to every corner of Chongqing, and I told you." He tried hard to defend Dao, looking at Joad, tried not to flinch, and added, "Although I want to go after retirement."

Joad froze for a moment.Then he smiled, Zhang Luotuo couldn't tell what was going on with that smile, it didn't look like a mockery, but it had nothing to do with kindness, it was more like a placebo smile.

He nodded, and interrupted him gently: "Yes, I almost forgot about you. You are amazing, breaking through Martian's deception, but apart from you, many people will never think about this issue in their lifetime."

"But you only think about wandering around Chongqing in a few decades, and you don't even think about leaving Chongqing to see other places in this world—or go to the universe." Joad said sharply.

"That's because I haven't considered the universe before." Zhang Luotuo muttered.

"But after I got in touch with you, what about discussing those astronomy and the universe? You just listened every time, showing a longing expression, but never thought of exploring." Joad interrupted him.

Zhang Luotuo was stunned, he opened his mouth and closed it again.

He felt a little darkly depressed.

Joad looked at Zhang Luotuo and sighed: "Don't do this, it has nothing to do with you, because Mars has tampered with your neurons, shielding and eliminating your idea of ​​wanting to explore the world, making this idea a blind spot .It means wanting to leave this city, or to delve into this city. It will make you never think about it, or think about it, so as to avoid possible risks.” His left hand stretched out and touched Zhang Camel’s forehead , his hand was cold, but it was just right to touch Zhang Luotuo's head.Zhang Luotuo closed his eyes lightly and saw the gray-blue color, and Joad's words flashed past his ears, "The neuron that was eliminated is in this position. Everything is actually just the neuron that Mars gave you. shackles."

"And that's what I call the second threshold," Joad said, finalizing that definition. "Double threshold, physical and conscious."