"Boss—" 922 called.
He woke up in a hurry this time, because he had something to tell Qin Qiu.
"Also called the boss?" Qin Qiu raised his eyebrows.
922 scratched his head and smiled and said, "I'm used to it, just call it that."
After speaking, he restrained his smile again, and his face became serious: "Boss, I just dreamed about the past again, so I am in a hurry to remind you, be careful of the old man in the punishment passage of the Twin Towers."
You Huo, 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 found his problem too?"
"Yes, but before you woke up, we just crossed him off the suspect list." After 154 finished speaking, he quickly explained what had just happened, including the various doubts they listed and Wu Li's denial.
922 shook his head and said, "He should not be the person Dr. Wu has met, if Dr. Wu has met in recent years."
Youhuo was recalling when Wu Li saw the leader of the research team when he heard 922 throw out an astonishing sentence: "Because that old man died many years ago."
These words were tantamount to the sound of thunder on the ground.
The corridor fell into a dead silence, and the three people who listened showed disbelief in their eyes.
922 said: "This may sound a little scary, but the truth is, he is a long dead man."
Youhuo frowned tightly: "Who?"
"System designer." 922 paused, then emphasized: "One."
The crowd became more confused.
"One?" Qin Jiu repeated this sentence.
"Yes, one." 922 asked him: "Boss, don't you remember? Didn't we each have a document before entering the system? It's about the system. Didn't it mention the design team?"
"Yes, it was mentioned. But each person's material content is different, and each has its own emphasis." Qin Qiu said: "My mission points are mainly on examiners A and Z, as well as the destruction of the core area. So about the design team, I There is only a brief mention in the document, just as a background introduction."
He said and suddenly realized that his information was focused on the present, and the researchers listed were not comprehensive. The wandering mother is not among them, it should only include the living ones.
922 immediately reacted and said, "My task is to collect information. The team background in the documentation only takes up three pages, not including the photo of the researcher. That old man is called Duden Liu, half Chinese and German. According to the information in the documentation It is said that he only provided the initial design inspiration and prototype, as well as some basic parts, and then died in the early stage of the design of the system, about twenty years ago. So generally speaking of the main designer, it does not refer to him, after all He only participated in a small part of the beginning. Including the information 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 collect more and more information in the system, I found a problem. This system is not simply designed 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... It may be a bit abstract. For example, suppose that we are designing a refuge base now. There are two designers, one is hungry for three days and the other is frozen for three days. When the one who was hungry for three days is designing, the first thing to consider is The food supply problem, and the one that has been frozen for three days, the priority must be temperature regulation and warmth. That's pretty much what it means."
922 gave a general explanation, and then continued: "I found out that this system has two design logics, and I think you must have felt it during the test. A set of logic is an all-round test, aiming at all aspects of candidates, and successfully passing the test. You can go out from here. What’s not so smooth? There are various supplementary supplements such as re-examination, make-up examination, postponement, etc. to increase opportunities. The problem lies in another set of logic. In that set of logic, the result of the candidate being eliminated is disappearance. The result of a mistake in the middle of the exam is either death or becoming an NPC. Especially excellent candidates will be selected and promoted to invigilators…”
He counted item by item with his fingers crossed, and what he said was simply the report of the examination room experience that confused the group.
"… Did you find it? In this logic, there is no concept of leaving the system at all." 922 said solemnly, "When I was a candidate, I kept thinking about whether the system was schizophrenic? I realized later that this is not pure schizophrenia, but there are two groups of people designing together. These two groups are fundamentally different logics. One is external, and the other 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 listened thoughtfully.
"No wonder." You Huo said.
They have always tacitly assumed that the system behaves divided because it is sometimes human and sometimes not. But he always felt that this explanation was not enough to cover everything, and there was still something that didn't make sense.
Now he's reacting - the so-called human part aka 154 has been stripped away, but the system still behaves divisive at some point.
It turns out not only because of the so-called "human nature", but also because its design is divided from the source.
922 said: "After I realized this problem, my mind was still in a knot for a long time. Because I couldn't figure out why the group of designers inside the system would have this logic. This logic is too passive and demoralized, and either die or die. Being imprisoned here forever, this is a group of neurotics who want to take revenge on society, right? Normal people will want to get out of the system, why don’t they?”
"I was full of complaints at the time, and I scolded the streets in my head every day. Until I accidentally stepped on a point and violated the rules, I was taken to the Twin Towers in the proctoring area to be punished. When I saw the old man Duden Liu, I suddenly understood - the system The designer inside is really not a normal person, he is a dead person."
He is dead and exists in the system only by means of programming and design. If the system exists, he exists, and if the system dies, he dies. His entire "life" in the future is tightly bound to the system. For him, the system is the world, the world, and life. Of course he wouldn't consider going out from here.
Hearing this, You Huo has been able to sort out everything—
This Duden Liu reserved a place for himself when designing the system. He wrote his ideas, spirits, and thoughts into the system through programs. In this way, when he dies in reality, the "backup" in the system can take over and survive for him, which is probably a continuation of life for him.
The rest of the design team may or may not be aware at first.
Even if you know about it, you may not think this is a bad thing at first. To outsiders, Duden Liu in the system may be equivalent to an antivirus software, which can find problems and solve problems from the inside.
What they didn't expect was that designing together inside and out would bring bitter fruit. Two different logics cause the system to be fundamentally conflicting and contradictory, and as long as there is a contradiction, there will be one party who will prevail 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 runaway comes from.
In a way, Duden Liu is both a "person" and part of a system.
Then everything makes sense.
He "reported information" to the system and interfered with You Huo and Qin Jiu's actions because he didn't want the system to be destroyed, and he didn't want him to disappear from now on.
In his concept, he is saving himself and trying to survive.
154 suddenly realized: "I'll just say, why are you both still alive after the failure of the rebellion, why doesn't the system simply let the two of you die, it's over."
Qin Qiu also laughed at himself: "Just a few minutes ago, I thought it was because you helped."
"No." 154 shook his head and said, "I couldn't do these things at that time, and I couldn't help you like this. It should be him, that Duden Liu. On the one hand, he wants to interfere with you and doesn't want you to succeed because he wants to Alive. On the other hand, he doesn't want to kill. If he was the original master design, he might have observed you, or even watched you grow up-"
He looked at You Huo and said, "He shouldn't want you to die directly, so he asked the system to remove you directly. As for the boss, you—"
154 looked at Qin Qiu again: "Both you and A are a headache that threatens you. You were thrown out once, but it didn't work. So you changed the method the second time, and you were left behind."
He was silent for a moment after speaking, and then muttered: "You people... It's really troublesome, one is more complicated than the other."
Qin Jiu lost his laugh, but slowly regained his smile: "It's really like this."
There are very few people in this world who are born evil. No matter who did what, if you go back a few years, you can find a few reasons...
But that doesn't mean those things don't exist.
There may be many, many reasons for Duden Liu, but the most fundamental one seems to be easy to understand - he doesn't want to "die", he doesn't want to disappear.
All the things he didn't want fall on others.
He may not want to hurt people, but he does.
"Okay, once or twice is almost enough. It would be really stupid to let him interfere for the third time." Qin Jiao said to 154, "Your harassment should be over, he should almost return to the punishment channel now. Is he in control?"
Youhuo said: "If it doesn't work, we'll go straight to tie it."