The Name of the Rose [Interstellar]

One sentence, but seeing the unpretentious joy in Qi Lian's eyes, he finally didn't say it, and sighed in his heart.

One day in the future, you will walk out of this glass greenhouse, see the real world, and see what kind of person I am.

At that time, will you still like me so much?

The author has something to say: There are many things to do today, even later... QωQ

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snow.

The vast snowfields of the northern Siberian lowlands.Vast, desolate, cold all year round, with loneliness and desolation away from the world.Standing there is like being alone on the surface of a comet.

When he was young, he sometimes took his sled dogs to patrol this snow field, and occasionally saw a white arctic fox from a distance.They sat on the ice, squinting their eyes softly, staring at an unknown place.

——In such a lonely place, what is the arctic fox looking at?

He often thinks so.

……

A pair of green eyes suddenly appeared in the field of vision.

Xue Yuan suddenly came back to his senses, only to realize that the keyboard had been quiet under his hands for a long, long time.

Why do you remember Russia again?

By the way, it was because I accidentally saw the "invisible wall" from the porthole again.

In order to prevent the patrol ship from straying into the forbidden area, the technical officers used a magnetic field to create a light curtain, which was suspended in front of the "wall" like a veil.He only took one look, and the northern lights in his memory came to mind again.

Because of father's work, the whole family lived in Siberia for a while.He didn't have many memories of that period of life, only one feeling deeply rooted in his heart: People who have not been to Siberia or space will not understand what true loneliness is.

"You're stuck again." Qi Lian smiled crookedly.Because the two of them slept together (←_← not the hot one), his awe of Xue Yuan was much less.

"No way! I'm just taking a break. Will a master who writes algorithms like me get stuck?" Xue Yuan stood up to defend his reputation.

"What exactly is an algorithm?" Qi Lian always felt very mysterious when hearing this word from Xue Yuan's mouth.

Xue Yuan was in a good mood today, and patiently explained to him: "Algorithms are actually solutions to problems. To give a popular example, you want to go somewhere, and you come up with a route. This is an algorithm."

"that's it?"

"Otherwise? Don't you think it's a spell or something, 'all fighters are in the front'?"

"..."

"But having said that, algorithms can also be cool." Xue Yuan shook his finger, "I still remember when I first took the introductory algorithm class, the teacher's first sentence was so cool."

He switched to a paralyzed iceberg face, imitating the teacher's tone: "The world is not benevolent, and everything is used as data. The sage is not benevolent, and everything is used as an algorithm."

"What do you mean?" Qi Lian looked at him adoringly.

"I don't understand! That's why it's so cool!"

"..."

Qi Lian's eyes turned around on the screen, "I want to learn too."

"You don't need to learn. The algorithms I wrote are all for you to use, and the programs in your brain will run according to my algorithms in the future."

As Xue Yuan said, he touched the back of Qi Lian's head.Hidden there is an interface as thin as the eye of a needle.

"To some extent, an algorithm is the way a person understands the world. So, I pass on my way of understanding the world to you. God created human beings using himself as a template, and humans also use themselves as a template to create artificial intelligence .—er, can you see what I mean?"

"Well. You want to say, you are my god."

"...Although I didn't mean that, but I'm very pleased that you can get this."

In the early morning of the next day, Xue Yuan was disturbed by the visitors again.

This time it wasn't Joey, it was Anna.She stood outside the room, knocking on the glass.

What are you doing!Xue Yuan got up full of complaints.Come see one and see the other two, isn't there supposed to be a tourist group coming in a few days?

Just like yesterday, Qi Lian was awake again.

Finding that Xue Yuan was looking at him, he immediately took the initiative to report: "She just came."

"Why do you wake up so early every day? Insomnia?" Xue Yuan wondered.

Qi Lian shook his head and didn't speak.

"Did you not sleep all night?!"

"Hmm. I don't know if I will kick people and talk in my sleep when I sleep, so I think there is no problem if I don't sleep. ——Is this also called an algorithm?"

After speaking, he secretly glanced at Xue Yuan, waiting to be praised.

"..." Xue Yuan complained about his incompetence, and suddenly understood a sentence: the tofu fell into the ashes, so it can't be blown or beaten.

"Although this is also a way... I'd better discuss this matter with you later."

Coming outside, Anna cut to the chase: "Ivan, I need to talk to you about Killian's problem."

"Tell me." For some reason, Xue Yuan had a feeling similar to a teacher coming to the house and saying "your son is not doing well in school".

"Obviously, he has an imprint on you and has been trying to imitate you. I need to remind you to pay attention to your words and deeds, so as not to have a bad influence on him."

Xue Yuan's heart skipped a beat.

He had already noticed Qi Lian's extraordinary trust and reliance on him, but he deliberately didn't think about it.

Yes.In fact, Qi Lian is just like a small animal, imitating and attaching to the first living person he sees, and regards this person as "mother".Not out of emotion, but out of instinct.

——Maybe so.

Thinking this way in his heart, he still spoke lazily as usual: "Please don't worry about the organization, I will definitely lead by example, be virtuous, strive for self-improvement, and try to train him into a good youth of the Federation as soon as possible."

Anna rolled his eyes at him, "Speaking of which, I'm really surprised how much you care about him. Why, your 'intimacy phobia' healed itself?" she joked.

Speaking of which, Xue Yuan was once her patient.For a period of time, he was under a lot of pressure and came to Anna for psychological counseling. As a result, the legendary "doctor fell in love with the patient" drama was staged.

They dated for a year and never even held hands.Rather than being lovers, it is better to say that they are companions who eat and watch movies together.

"Sorry, not your problem," he said, "I'm afraid of intimacy."

At first Anna suspected that he had no feelings for women, but later found that he had no feelings for anyone.He likes to socialize and has many friends. However, once the intimacy between the two parties is about to reach the point where they can talk to each other, he immediately retreats and stays outside the safety line.

She accused him of being indifferent and suspicious, and he accused her of being capricious and sensitive.Both were disappointed in each other and ended up amicably breaking up.

"Can I ask you something," she said when we parted, "Why did Chi Caifan get close to you? I thought you liked her, but later I found out that you weren't."

"Because she has no expectations for me." Xue Yuan answered her, "She has no feelings for me, and I have no thoughts about her. So we are not afraid to get close. There will always be a safe distance between us, and she and I are both Know."

Later, Anna often thought that there was at least one sentence in what Xue Yuan said to her was true: People can treat each other tenderly only when they are separated from each other.

These days, panic began to gradually spread in the fleet.

When the invisible wall was first discovered, the general public was more curious than worried.People subconsciously believe that although the strange cosmic environment is scary and there are many unsolved mysteries, there is no obstacle that technology cannot overcome.In any case, human beings are the primates of all things, and technology is the magic wand of all things.

However, the development of the situation finally made people realize slowly: Fuck it.

More than half a month later, the huge fleet still stops at the "wall".No matter what method of detection is used, the results point to a depressing fact: the wall seems to have no boundaries, at least no boundaries that humans can detect.

It seems to span the entire universe, and it doesn't seem to exist at all. It is invisible, colorless, matterless, and has no horizon. It does not release any matter except gravitational waves.

Science officers and technical officers say a sentence in the news every day: "The research work is proceeding in an orderly manner." But without exception, another sentence is written on their faces: "What the hell is this?!"

The sun doesn't stop expanding just because humans are trapped.It has crossed the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, 500 billion kilometers from the tail of the fleet.This distance is only a few millimeters on the scale of the universe.

According to this situation, it won't be long before human beings will literally fall into the situation of burning their buttocks.

In the conference room, the scientific officer solemnly scanned the audience.

"We now have a hypothesis." His tone was deep. "This wall may be another cosmic membrane, or something similar."

"Cosmic membrane?" A participant was puzzled.

"Yes. M-theory has a view that our entire universe is on a 'brane'. Light only travels along the brane, so we can't see anything beyond our brane."

"Can you put it more simply? I'm a technical officer, not a physicist. I know a little about applied physics, but I don't know anything about theoretical physics," Xue Yuan said.

The science officer nodded at him, "That's too abstract, let me use an analogy." He walked to the glass curtain wall of the meeting room, pointed at the floor, "Suppose that the plane where the floor is located is what we are now. The cosmic membrane of life. And this glass curtain wall is another cosmic membrane. Because light only travels along the floor, we who live on the floor cannot see this glass curtain wall, but can only feel its gravitation. "

"So, those things that disappeared are actually on the wall?"

"Yes. If this assumption is correct, then those things are not annihilated from matter, but went to another universe." The science officer took an ashtray from the table, moved it on the ground, "It's going to be like this: This is a probe ship. It's going along the floor and it hits this wall."

At the junction of the floor and the curtain wall, the ashtray turns a 90-degree angle and begins to climb up along the glass curtain wall.

The science officer patted the curtain wall, "For us, light only travels along the floor. Everything on this wall is invisible to us. So what we see is that the ashtray is walking around suddenly disappeared."

Joey stared at the ashtray for a while, and concluded on behalf of everyone: "I seem to understand, but I don't seem to understand. We have fired lasers and high-energy particle streams at this wall. Why did they all pass?"

"Because the 'slits' in this wall allow light and particles to pass through. Let me use another analogy, a river, and we pull up a filter in the water. The water will not be affected, and continue to flow through the filter, But the impurities in the water will be intercepted on this net. Light and particles are the water flow, and we are the intercepted impurities. The impurities hanging on the filter have not disappeared, but have been separated from the water, and we can no longer Saw them in the river."

"We understand the truth, so what do you want us to do?"

The science officer returned to his seat, but did not sit down. He put his arms on the table and looked around at everyone present: "People, we need people."

"..." No one answered, only the steady voice of the scientific officer continued.

"It is now clear that a computer-controlled spacecraft cannot complete this interstellar mission. We must send humans."

He paused and emphasized his tone: "Moreover, it cannot be an ordinary human being. This person must meet four conditions: the processing power of the human brain; the computing speed of the computer; the physical strength far exceeding that of a natural human being; the knowledge reserve as vast as a database .Only in this way will it be possible for him to cope with the unimaginable complexity of our situation, go to the 'wall' and pass the information back to us."

That is simply a super soldier-like existence.

Speaking of this, it is self-evident who the candidate is.The entire fleet currently has only one human who can be combined with artificial intelligence.

As far as this result alone is concerned, the faction supporting super artificial intelligence has achieved a phased victory.

If it was something else, Xue Yuan would have laughed in his heart. "Oh, are you stupid? You stupid natural humans!"

But he wasn't in that mood at all right now.

Also, this is just a hypothesis.What if this assumption is wrong?What if the things that disappeared didn't go to another universe, but were actually annihilated from matter?

Qi Lian, what will happen to him?

When everyone else in the conference room had dispersed, unexpectedly, Joey came to him and said lightly, "Congratulations."

Seeing that Xue Yuan ignored him, Joey smiled self-deprecatingly: "Why, don't you bother to talk to a loser like me, the future hero?"

"Just say what you want to say, don't go around in circles, I have a lot of business to do." Xue Yuan said coldly.

Joey nodded: "Then I'll just say it, I hate you. But in order for you to understand why I hate you so much, I have to go around a circle now and talk to you about a movie I watched.

"The story tells that a group of prisoners were sent to a deserted island one day for rigorous training.

"Two instructors were in charge of leading them. Instructor A was cruel to the point of being unkind. Instructor B was the opposite, treating the prisoners with tenderness, like their friends.

"Later, the prisoners knew their mission: they would be trained as assassins to assassinate the head of the opposing country. Obviously, this was almost certain death. Although it was very difficult, the prisoners finally accepted this fate and put That mortal task is regarded as the meaning of his own existence.

"The world is always full of changes. On the eve of the mission, the situation suddenly changed, and the assassination plan was cancelled. Everything the instructors and prisoners did was meaningless.

"However, the matter is far from over. The two instructors received an order: In order not to let the world know that there was such an assassination plan, all prisoners on the island must be executed secretly immediately.

At this point—what do you think will happen next? "

Joey stopped and turned to look at Xue Yuan.

Xue Yuan didn't speak, just staring at the bunch of flowers on the window sill.The cool breeze from the central air conditioner made them wobble.

Joey continued: "Looking at your expression, you should have seen this movie. The following plot is that instructor A left the deserted island to plead for the prisoners. Instructor B who stayed on the island wanted to save his future. , started the killing ahead of schedule.

"That instructor B is the kind of person I hate the most. He can be punished for doing small good and big evil." He finished the last sentence word by word.

"I understand, you think I'm instructor B." Xue Yuan nodded, "Under the current situation, do you have a better way?"

"That's not what I mean. Qi Lian has to do this, only he can, we have no other choice. But, you won't even try to change his fate even a little bit. What you care about is how to let him He gets the job done and makes you a hero."

"you……"

Xue Yuan was just about to refute, but Joey interrupted him: "You want to say, how do I know you think so? Oh, I have reliable sources, which give me every reason to believe that you are indeed such a person A ruthless, selfish person. As long as it is not good for you, you can even abandon your own family."

Hearing the last sentence, Xue Yuan was stunned suddenly.

Noticing his reaction, the corners of Joey's mouth raised slightly, but his eyes became colder: "You are right, I did the research and know your family background. Although your parents died a few years before the fleet set sail, died, but your brother was still living in Moscow. You should have tried to save him. Why didn't you go? Are you going to tell me the reason, or should I tell you?"

"..."

Joey took a step back, straightened the tall brim of his military cap, and turned his head to look at the universe outside the porthole.

"If we are all in a play, maybe now it seems that you are like the protagonist of justice, and I am like the villain who is making trouble. However, it is possible to reverse the drama."

He raised his right arm and pointed straight at the invisible curtain wall in the distance, "I really want to know, when this story ends, who is more like a hero or a villain between you and me."

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