Global Examination

"Boss—" 922 called out.

He woke up in a hurry this time because he had something to tell Qin Chen.

"Still called boss?" Qin Chen raised his eyebrows.

922 scratched his head and smiled, "I'm used to it, so let's call it that."

After finishing speaking, he restrained his smile again, and his face became serious: "Boss, I just dreamed about the previous things again, so I was in a hurry to remind you, be careful of the old man in the punishment passage of the Twin Towers."

You Huo and the three of them were stunned, looked at each other and said, "We were talking about him just now."

922 asked in surprise: "Have you also discovered his problem?"

"Yes, but before you woke up, we just crossed him off the list of suspects." After 154 finished speaking, he quickly explained what happened just now, including all the doubts they listed and Wu Li's denial.

922 shook his head and said, "He should not be the person that Dr. Wu met, if Dr. Wu met in recent years."

You Huo was recalling when Wu Li met the leader of the research team, when he heard 922 throw out a shocking sentence: "Because that old man died many years ago."

These words are like thunder on the ground.

The corridor fell into a dead silence, and the three people who were listening all showed disbelief in their eyes.

922 said: "This may sound a little scary, but the fact is that he is a dead man."

You Huo frowned tightly: "Who?"

"The system designer." 922 paused and said emphatically, "One of them."

The crowd became more confused.

"One?" Qin Chen repeated these words.

"Yes, one." 922 asked him: "Boss, don't you remember? Didn't we each have a document before entering the system? About the system. Didn't it mention the design team?"

"It's mentioned. But everyone's information content is different, and each has its own emphasis." Qin Chen said: "My mission is mainly on examiners A and Z, as well as the destruction of the core area. So regarding the design team, I There is only a brief mention in the document, purely as a background introduction."

As he spoke, he suddenly realized that his information focused on the present, and the list of researchers was not comprehensive.You Huo's mother is not included, it should only include the living ones.

922 reacted immediately, and said: "My task is to collect information. The background of the team in the data only takes up three pages, not including the photo of the researcher. The old man is Duden Liu, a Chinese-German mixed race. According to the information in the data It is said that he only provided the initial design inspiration and prototype, and some basic parts, and then passed away in the early stage of system design, about 20 years ago. So generally speaking, the main designer does not refer to him, after all he He only participated in a small part of the beginning. Even in the materials I got, he was not regarded as the most important person.”

"But?" Qin Jiu explained the turning point for him.

922 said solemnly: "Yes, but. As I collected more and more information in the system, I discovered a problem. This system is not designed solely from the outside, but also from the inside."

"internal?"

"Yes. I was originally in charge of equipment design, and I may be more sensitive than ordinary people in this regard. You know that this kind of design generally has a logic in it, and different people will project different results. Uh...may be a bit abstract Let’s make an analogy. Suppose we want to design a refuge base. There are two designers. One has been hungry for three days and the other has been frozen for three days. The one who has been hungry for three days is the first to consider when designing It’s about food supply, and for the one that’s been frozen for three days, the priority must be on temperature regulation and keeping warm. That’s pretty much what it means.”

922 gave a rough explanation, and then continued: "I found out that this system has two design logics, and I think you must have felt it during the exam. One set of logic is an all-round test, targeting all aspects of candidates, and passing the exam smoothly You can get out from here, what if it doesn’t go well? There are re-examinations, re-examinations, postponements, etc. to increase chances. The problem lies in another set of logic. In that set of logic, the result of being eliminated is to disappear. The result of a mistake in the middle of the exam is either death or becoming an NPC. Particularly outstanding candidates will be selected and promoted to invigilators... "

He counted items one by one with his fingers, and what he said was simply the test room experience report of You Yao and his group.

"...Did you find out? In this logic, there is no concept of leaving the system at all." 922 said in a deep voice, "When I was an examinee, I always wondered if this system was schizophrenic? I realized it later, isn't it? Pure schizophrenia, but two groups of people designing together. These two groups of people are fundamentally different logics. One group is external, and the other group is internal to the system. The internal design logic is the latter, in their logic food, clothing, housing and transportation, the whole life is embedded in the system, and there is no need to return to reality.”

The three of them were thoughtful after hearing this.

"No wonder." You Huo said.

All along they have tacitly assumed that the system behaves dividedly because it is sometimes human and sometimes not.But he always felt that this explanation was not enough to cover everything, and there was something that didn't make sense.

Now he has come to his senses—the so-called human part, that is, 154, has been stripped away, but the system still behaves very split at certain moments.

It turned out not only because of the so-called "human nature", but also because its design was split from the source.

922 said: "After I realized this problem, my brain was still in knots for a long time. Because I couldn't figure out why the group of designers inside the system had this kind of logic. Imprisoned here forever, is this a group of psychos who take revenge on society? Normal people would want to get out of the system, why wouldn't they?"

"At that time, I was full of complaints, cursing in my head every day. Until I accidentally stepped on a violation, I was taken to the Twin Towers in the proctoring area to be punished. When I saw the old man Du Deng Liu, I suddenly understood—— The designer inside the system is really not a normal person, he is a dead person."

He is dead, existing in the system only by programming and design.When the system is there, he is there, and when the system is dead, he is dead.His entire "life" from now on will be tightly tied to the system, and the system is the world, the human world, and life to him.Of course he wouldn't consider going out from here.

Hearing this, You Huo has been able to sort out everything——

When Duden Liu designed the system, he reserved a space for himself.He wrote his ideas, spirit, and thoughts into the system through programs.In this way, when he dies in reality, the "backup" in the system can succeed him and survive, which is probably a kind of continuation of life for him.

The rest of the design team may or may not be aware initially.

Even if you know it, you may not think it is a bad thing at first.Du Deng Liu in the system may be equivalent to an anti-virus software for outsiders, which can find problems and solve them from the inside.

What they didn't expect was that designing together inside and outside would bury the bitter fruit.The two different logics cause the system to be fundamentally conflicting and contradictory, and as long as there is a contradiction, one side must have the upper hand at a certain moment.

So one day, the internal logic prevailed, and the system began to deviate from its original intention.

This is where the loss of control comes from.

To some extent, Duden Liu is both a "person" and part of the system.

Then everything makes sense.

He "tipped off the news" to the system and interfered with Youhuo and Qin Chen's actions because he didn't want the system to be destroyed, and he didn't want himself to disappear from now on.

In his concept, he is saving himself, seeking to survive.

154 suddenly realized: "Let me just say, why are you two still alive after failing the rebellion? Why doesn't the system just let you two die, and it's over once and for all."

Qin Chen also laughed at himself: "Just a few minutes ago, I thought it was because of your help."

"No." 154 shook his head and said, "At that time, I couldn't do this at all, and I couldn't help you like this. It should be him, that Duden Liu. On the one hand, he wanted to interfere with you and didn't want you to succeed, because he wanted to Alive. On the other hand, he doesn’t want to kill people. If he was the original main design, he might have observed you, or even watched you grow up—”

He looked at You Huo and said, "He probably didn't want you to die directly, so he asked the system to remove you directly. As for the boss, you—"

154 looked at Qin Chen again: "You and A are both a headache threat. You were thrown out once, but it didn't work. So I changed the method the second time, and you were left behind."

After he finished speaking, he was quiet for a moment, and then muttered: "You guys...it's really troublesome, each one is more complicated than the other."

Qin Chen laughed, and then slowly suppressed his smile: "It's really like this."

There are very few people in this world who are born evil.No matter who did what, counting back a few years, you can find out so many reasons...

But that doesn't mean those things don't exist.

There may be many, many reasons for Du Deng Liu, but the most fundamental one seems to be easy to understand—he doesn't want to "die", doesn't want to disappear.

What he didn't want to do, all fell on others.

He may not want to hurt people, but he does.

"Okay, once or twice is enough. It would be really stupid to let him interfere for the third time." Qin Chen said to 154, "Your transfer should be over, and he should return to the punishment channel now. Is he under control?"

You Huo said: "If it doesn't work, let's go directly to tie him up."