The Record of Unusual Creatures

Chapter 274: Betsy's problem

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Hearing Becky's sudden words, Hao Ren couldn't stop his cold sweat on the spot. Luckily, Becky, a carefree guy, didn't feel that there was anything wrong with the surrounding atmosphere, but continued to say He said: "It's been almost a month since I played outside now. There are still two tasks in my hometown that have not been handed in. If it continues, they may be counted as missing persons-the mercenary business will not last for a while. If you go to report, you will be directly counted as the dead, which is very troublesome."

Hao Ren looked at Becky cautiously: "What are you dissatisfied with living here?"

"I'm quite satisfied," Becky said casually, "I just feel that I can't play outside all the time. It's time to go back and live my own life. After all, this is not my home."

As Becky spoke, she suddenly became vigilant: "Wait... Could it be that something went wrong and I was not allowed to go back? You can't do this. This is a mistake in your organization. I was forced to go back. Bring it out!"

"Don't worry too much, don't worry too much," Hao Ren waved his hands against his will, "I said that I will send you home... But it may take a while, because of that..." He didn't move as he spoke. He sensually poked at the data terminal on the armrest of the sofa next to him, and hurriedly urged in his mind: "Hurry up and make up a dotted lie!"

The data terminal immediately jumped up from the armrest and projected a large piece of data chart: "Because of the information asymmetry of the alien plane, the conversion mechanism of the opposite transmission is different from that of the one-way transmission, which prolongs the waiting time for each entity crossing and you The traversal process involves the third, sixth, and seventh laws of information destruction, so additional calculations are required, and now the equipment needed to send you back is cooling down, so you can’t go back for the time being—Meng... erm, do you understand?"

Betsy: "... what?"

Seeing Becky's blank expression, Hao Ren felt relieved, and he let out a sigh of relief: "In short, the formalities for sending you back have not been completed. Just wait a while longer."

Becky didn't think much about it. She understood the words "wait a while" with a very optimistic attitude, and nodded: "Oh, it's okay to wait a while. As long as it doesn't make it impossible to go back. Then I'll stay here again Excuse me for a few days, I will pay the rent: now I have money too!"

Hao Ren wiped his cold sweat calmly, thinking that this test is over, but obviously he can't keep procrastinating like this. So he gave Nangong Wuyue a wink while Becky was watching TV. He called the siren girl to the kitchen, and brought the data terminal along with her. He didn't dare to disturb Lily, who was also watching TV: That husky's mouth is so unbelievable, I guess she would dare to yell all over the street if you told her the nuclear bomb code, now before Lily remembers Becky If you can't go home, it's best not to remind her again, it's good to let her be attracted by the shrimp cracker advertisement.

"What are you two doing? Be mysterious." Vivienne was heating up the meal when she saw Hao Ren and Nangong Wuyue come in and took a curious look, "Don't make trouble."

"Becky's situation is not easy to solve." Hao Ren sighed after closing the kitchen door, "How should we explain to her that her body in the dream plane has been annihilated by the will of the universe?"

Vivienne immediately raised her ears to listen, and she also remembered this troublesome matter.

Due to the inequalities between the dream plane and the real world and the fragility of the dream plane itself, Becky's travel from her hometown to the earth is "semi-one-way". Come to the earth, but if you want to go back, you must go through a device conversion such as a dormant cabin to get in. In other words, she is now the same as Hao Ren and the other earth creatures. You can't fully enter the dream plane, but you must leave your body in the surface world, and you can't stay in the dream plane for a long time: you must leave there after the dormancy process is over. Of course, this kind of restriction doesn't affect Hao Ren and the others who only go in occasionally on business trips, but it's a bit unbearable for a person who was born and raised in the Dream Plane: Why can't he just go back to his hometown? Do you have to dream when you go back? And even dreams are temporary

This is equivalent to paying monthly rent when you live in your own home, and someone checks your temporary residence permit every now and then, and you have to live in a hotel outside for a month every half a month, who would be happy.

"Didn't you say you want to solve this problem from a technical level?" Hao Ren poked at the data terminal, "What about your technical level?"

"This machine has searched all the information. Strictly speaking, this is not a question of whether it can be solved, but whether it should be solved," the data terminal sighed. "Let me tell you the truth: I have to send Becky back. No problem, let Chief Raven intervene directly, or you can apply for a special transmission permission with the above, and force people into it regardless of the transmission restrictions of the dream plane." This is easy to do for the empire, but the trouble is the consequences: the dream plane is inherently unstable. And recently it has been constantly malfunctioning and leaking everywhere. It can be said that it is a troubled time. You have to take risks. Maybe the real world will be broken. At that time, the teleportation point will be the center. If you say less about a planet, if you say more, it may harm half of the galaxy. ?”

Hao Ren felt his face twitch. Let alone him, Lily would definitely not dare to accept this burden.

He understood the meaning of the data terminal: it was not impossible to send Betsy back, but it was a destructive activity anyway, and the risks and costs were unavoidable. Maybe it was better before, but now the "wall of reality" of the dream plane has shown signs of disintegration. Even a goddess as powerful as Raven 12345 is trying to plug the loopholes. Cutting a hole in the wall to send someone back... welding a detonator and sawing a light bulb is nothing more than that.

"It's like trapping wolves," Vivienne left a sentence before leaving the kitchen with the rice cooker in hand. "Trapping wolves is not a problem—as long as you can bear the child."

Hao Ren chuckled dryly: He also understands the reason why children can't be tied to wolves, but what's even more troublesome now is that he doesn't even have children at hand—this universe belongs to the five-figure goddess. He will not favor one or two people on the issue of righteousness.

Nangong Wuyue frowned and thought for a long time: "...in fact, there may not be an accident, right? The wall of reality is only fragile, and it is not certain that it will collapse. Sending Becky there may not affect the overall situation?"

The data terminal fluttered up and down: "That's right, it's a matter of probability, but even at the most optimistic point of view, sending Becky back has only a 1/10 chance of poking a hole in the wall. Do you take this risk?"

Hao Ren scratched his head: There is a 9 out of 10 chance that he will be safe, and a 1 out of 10 chance that the human race will be extinct. This multiple-choice question is really difficult.

"I suddenly remembered something: we can bring in the 'things' that represent the world and keep them, but why can't we bring people in?" Hao Ren remembered that Yzaks made him when he went to the dream plane. He sold the "Magic Sword" to the locals, and he was a little puzzled by the fact that the magic sword remained in the Dream Plane in a physical state and was not forced out as everyone "woke up".

"Because intelligent individuals have too much influence on information," the data terminal explained, "people can think, observe, constantly contact and process information, and at the same time generate information themselves, and even make information available through memory. Proliferation, a person is not just dozens of kilograms of carbohydrates, but also an entanglement point of a large group of intricate information. Everything he has touched, recorded, curious about, and observed will be connected with it at the information level A person's amount of information is limited, but the amount of information he's involved in is frighteningly large, and as long as the person is still alive and observing the outside world, the scope of his involvement in the surrounding information will become larger and larger. You remember, information is everything—information affects everything, and the interference of an 'observer' on the real world is huge and endless, especially the 'wall of reality' of the dream plane and the table world. , it itself is in an ambiguous state, and is easily affected by observers. Of course, dead objects have no influence: anyway, its amount of information is so large, no matter how strong the pollution source is, as long as its harmful intensity If it is dead, it doesn’t matter at all, the will of the universe will easily digest it.”

Among the crowd, the threat of a bullet is less than that of a drop of virus solution, because the power of the former is fixed from the beginning to the end, while the threat of the latter will continue to grow and spread. This is the reason.

Hao Ren understood this principle thoroughly, and spread his hands dejectedly: "Would it be useful to send Becky back as a vegetable..."

The data terminal hit him in the stomach: "It's a good thing to have a broad mind, but it's a disease if you can't see your brain if you have a big brain."

"Is there really no other way?" Nangong Wuyue held on to the last ray of hope, "I always feel that there should be no way out for this matter."

The data terminal thought for a while: "If I have to say... there is a way."

Hao Ren and Nangong Wuyue immediately stared at it.

"Find a ready-made 'loophole' that has been around for some years," said the data terminal, "The loophole that has been opened is naturally safe."

(Birthday, what about the promised red envelope!) (to be continued~^~)