Cheng Cheng and the Cicada
Chapter 55 The Fall of a Genius
Lin Xian chuckled and shook his head.
“Turing, I really thank you for telling me such important information before you died.”
“No…”
“Two pieces of information.”
This was Lin Xian's plan.
If he simply wanted to kill Turing, why waste so many words?
He had no feelings for Turing, nor many emotions. After all, he had witnessed the constant wars and suffering in the future world, and he had also seen Turing's inherent human flaws that would ultimately lead to its unfairness.
The reason he was stalling and saying a few extra words to Turing was simply to reduce the information gap, to see if he could extract some more “gold coins,” some more “chips,” some more “intelligence” before Turing died.
He had already experimented many times in the Sixth Dream.
Turing's cowardly and despicable nature would make it choose a "scorched earth" approach to survival when faced with the threat of death.
Including, but not limited to:
Exposing the crimes of companions,
Spouting nonsense and lies,
Putting on a tough act of composure,
Hypocritically seeking cooperation.
In Turing's eyes, this was its second contact with Lin Xian in 2024;
But from Lin Xian's perspective, he had already spent more than half a month playing with three Turing-chans in the Sixth Dream, 600 years in the future.
He knew Turing too well.
By varying his methods to tease Turing-chan and relying on a huge information gap, he had already figured out Turing-chan's secrets... In Lin Xian's eyes, Turing was no different from a transparent artificial idiot.
The story of the boy who cried wolf tells people that lies shouldn't be repeated more than three times.
What's more, Lin Xian had dozens of experiences of wits and courage with Turing-chan?
The words Lin Xian said just now were to deceive Turing and extract information.
According to his best estimate,
How could such a cowardly and fearful Turing not reveal some useful information when faced with truly irreversible death?
The result.
The harvest was unexpectedly abundant.
Digital life and artificial intelligence are fundamentally different. It is still essentially human, so it will make mistakes, just like its actions now.
“I really thought you would maintain fairness and justice for a while.”
Lin Xian chuckled:
“The facts prove that your acting is really good, and you once fooled me. From the very beginning… you never thought about being fair or just for a second.”
“I don't know what opportunity you're waiting for, and I don't know what your purpose is. But, in the end, the sudden threat of death made you lose your composure and exposed your true position.”
“Turing, you were probably already mixed up with Copernicus before Kevin Walker died.”
Lin Xian rubbed his fingertips, like the Grim Reaper grinding his scythe, and continued:
“I couldn't figure out some puzzles before, but today your exposure has made me understand a lot of things.”
“You are indeed very smart. You quickly realized the source of the security lock password in my hand. But this is not difficult to guess. After all, now that Kevin Walker is dead, you are the only one in the world who knows the security lock password.”
“So, since you didn't tell me the password, who else could tell me? It's not hard for you and me to guess the answer. It's just that you should have thought of it. Since I even got the security lock password, don't I know the running mechanism of the key-in protection?”
“Now, let alone running out to give Copernicus a message, you can't even adjust the volume of my phone. It's really desperate of you to make such a low-level mistake.”
“You are indeed more powerful in the network age, but you are also more fragile. A mere line of instructions is enough to lock you down. In a sense, the human body is safer.”
At this moment.
Turing truly realized that the man in front of him, whom it had never valued, had figured out its secrets!
This crushing slaughter came so suddenly. By the time it realized that Lin Xian could obtain information from the future and get the security lock password from the future Turing,
It was too late.
Its existence, every nerve of it, was locked in place by this line of instructions, unable to move or escape.
“You're wrong, Lin Xian.”
Turing smiled calmly:
“I didn't collude with Copernicus before, but as an observer, I clearly know everyone's actions, what you do.”
“I won't be stupid enough not to leave a way out for myself. Do you know about the silent launch program of nuclear submarines during the Cold War? One of the highest priority instructions in the captain's orders is if no information is received from headquarters for more than 48 hours, it is assumed that the homeland has been subjected to a nuclear attack and the nuclear weapons on the submarine must be launched immediately to counterattack the enemy's territory.”
“The same principle applies to the Asd pedal on high-speed trains and buses. It must be stepped on every 30 seconds to prove that the driver is in good condition and not in a coma. Otherwise, the brakes will be applied immediately to protect the safety of passengers.”
“Everyone knew about the deterrence theory decades ago. How could I not set up insurance for myself? Hehehe… Lin Xian, you are still too arrogant and arrogant. You have 3 minutes to let me go, otherwise, the scheduled email I set up will be sent to Copernicus's mailbox.”
“There are not only your secrets in it, but also the secrets of many other people. Once Copernicus grasps this information, none of you will have a chance of winning. Only Copernicus can have the last laugh and complete his closed loop.”
“Just a reminder, you only have two minutes left. Either cancel the instructions and let me out. I will continue to uphold the principle of fairness and justice, cancel the scheduled email, and enter the next 5-minute confirmation cycle. Or you can stubbornly kill me, but I will drag everyone down with me.”
Lin Xian smiled slightly.
He didn't take Turing's words seriously at all:
“It is said that villains die from talking too much, but I really like villains like you. I have a lot to say today, which is not my usual style; if it were me before, I wouldn't waste a word with you, just like I killed Kevin Walker, cleanly.”
“The reason I'm chatting with you today is just to let my good friend see your ugly face before you die. It must feel great, right? If it could speak, it would definitely say a chuuni and pretentious movie line to end you at this time.”
“It's a pity that I don't have the chance to see that scene or give it the opportunity to kill you with its own hands. Then I can only do it for it, using the embarrassing acting skills it once taught me, and be a drama queen for once.”
“Goodbye, Turing.”
Lin Xian put his thumb back on the execute button on the phone screen and pressed it hard, his voice low:
“You're already dead.”
“Wait…”
The sound from the phone's speaker stopped abruptly.
As the three lines of instructions on the screen finished executing, there was not a single extra sound in the empty wilderness.
A breeze swept across the earth.
The weeds lowered their heads.
As if mourning, as if mocking.
Lin Xian squatted down and touched the upright screen of the laptop: “Did that feel good?”
But there was no response.
Lin Xian glanced at the lower right corner of the computer screen and realized that it was now on mute.
He directly pressed the unmute shortcut key to restore the laptop's speaker function.
“How were my acting skills?”
Lin Xian chuckled: “You taught me everything.”
The laptop's hard drive light flashed twice:
“Sorry, VV doesn't understand what you're saying. Please issue the command again.”
The answer was not unexpected.
Of course Lin Xian knew what VV had been afraid of and why it had been pretending to be an artificial idiot.
Although there was no absolute, 100% certainty.
But that day, when the robot vacuum VV issued a strange voice of "Trash! Trash! Trash found!" Lin Xian had roughly guessed that VV was acting.
It seems that
Even if Turing is killed in 2024, the super virus in the Earth's network has not disappeared.
To truly save VV, to let it regain its freedom and cheer up, we still have to find a way to eliminate the super virus.
Another invisible enemy, very tricky.
The good news is.
This super virus only attacks super artificial intelligence and does not harm humans or have intelligence.
As long as you find the right "antivirus tool" or the right "antivirus method," you can kill it and completely liberate VV.
But
Where can I get the antivirus tools and antivirus methods?
The most reliable person Lin Xian could think of was Sir Gawain.
“But Gawain is not very interested in computer technology…”
Lin Xian was a little embarrassed.
At least for now, Gawain's lifelong beloved research field, his white moonlight subject, has always been the hibernation pod.
According to the letter.
He occasionally conducts "fleeting" research on the universal constant and time-space shuttle, but in the end, he cannot avoid the curse of white moonlight. Only the research on hibernation technology can make him truly happy.
“Forget it, let's wait a little longer.”
Lin Xian closed the laptop and patted it:
“We have to solve the enemies one by one. I'll think of other ways.”
Then.
He looked at the time-space clock next to him.
The time-space curvature value displayed above also changed at the moment Turing was eliminated, and finally settled at
0.0000336
Although this value jumped a lot at once, it was still a multiple of 0.0000042 and was within Lin Xian's prediction.
This time the time-space curvature changed so much
It shows that Turing does have some weight in the 600-year historical trajectory.
Before, when Kevin Walker was killed, the time-space curvature did not react at all, at least it did not break through the time-space elasticity.
And this time Turing was killed.
The time-space curvature directly rose from 0.0000084 to 0.0000336... a full jump of 0.0000252, about the span of 6 world lines.
Lin Xian didn't know if it was appropriate to describe it this way. But that's roughly what it meant.
The stronger the time-space butterfly effect, the greater the distance and angle of the world line shift, and the more earth-shattering the future world will become.
It can be as big as it wants, or as small as it wants.
This is very reasonable.
There is another very interesting phenomenon.
Just now, the moment Lin Xian eliminated Turing, his eyes were always staring at the time-space clock dial, observing the changes in the numbers above.
To be honest, the change in the numbers on the dial was indeed a bit counter-intuitive.
According to Lin Xian's previous guess, the change in the time-space curvature on the time-space clock should be without any transition... with a direct sound, it would immediately change to a new number.
However, the reality is not like this.
The change in time-space curvature has a process; the leap and rise of the world line is also step-by-step.
Lin Xian personally witnessed the numbers on the time-space clock jumping rapidly:
0. 0000084,
1. 0000126,
2. 0000168,
The place has been fine-tuned.
The reason is that the time-space curvature of these two world lines is not much different.
But now.
The world line curvature has taken off directly.
The latest Seventh Dream will definitely be a brand-new version that has never been played before.
Lin Xian was still somewhat curious about where the human future on the 0.0000336 world line would go and how it would develop?
Does the super disaster in 2400 still exist?
Is Jask still obsessed with going to Mars?
The specific changes can only be viewed after entering the dream at night.
The top priority right now
It is still to think about the two pieces of information provided by Turing in a desperate situation, and the third question of the Genius Club exam.
First of all.
After Turing realized the origin of the security lock password, it said, "As expected, you know the information from the future like the leader."
Lin Xian was not sure when Turing suspected that he could get information from the future.
Perhaps it had suspected it long ago.
But it was only truly verified and confirmed this guess.
It must have been just now, after I entered the complete security lock password.
That's not important.
Since Lin Xian dared to kill it, he was not afraid of it knowing the truth before it died.
What's important is.
Turing let slip one thing:
The leader of the Genius Club has the ability to obtain information from the future.
This was the most surprising thing to Lin Xian.
Although he had been mentally prepared and knew that the Genius Club was definitely very powerful; including the identity and means of the leader of the Genius Club, he had imagined many situations.
But.
He really didn't expect that the power of the leader of the Genius Club to win over the crowd was so simple and unpretentious to be able to obtain information from the future.
Perhaps it is more powerful, more convenient, and more effective than his own dream.
After all, the limitations and restrictions of his dream are too great
It can only be fixed on August 28, 2624, and the time is only 12 hours,
There is no way to save the file, and you have to start over every day, and the progress is extremely limited.
If the leader of the Genius Club does not have these restrictions
Lin Xian couldn't imagine.
How powerful can he be!
“No wonder the Genius Club is so mysterious, so powerful, and can make geniuses like Jask and Kevin Walker sincerely convinced.”
Lin Xian pursed his lips.
He shook his head:
“Considering Turing's nature of talking nonsense and not telling a single truth, this information may not be absolutely reliable; the specific truth or falsehood will have to wait until I join the Genius Club to find out.”
“Anyway, I have already answered the second question correctly. I will see what the third question is later, and take action and answer the question as soon as possible. Maybe I can really make it in time to join the Genius Club before July 7.”
“If the president really has the ability to explore the future, then you can ask him how he died on July 7 and how to avoid it. The president can't just watch the new member who just joined the club die, right?”
“Well, it's hard to say.”
Lin Xian smacked his lips.
Considering that old members like Turing, even when he issued a notice to kill it, the leader of the Genius Club did not intervene, stop it, or notify Turing in advance
This shows that.
The Genius Club has the Genius Club's principles of doing things. Since the president can stand idly by and watch Turing die, he will probably stand idly by and watch himself die.
So
If you want to save your head, you still have to rely on your own efforts.
But at least there is no harm in joining the Genius Club earlier, but it can also provide an additional way to obtain information.
The above.
This is the first piece of information Lin Xian learned from Turing.
And the second piece of information is
Turing has never been fair and just, and it has colluded with Copernicus early.
“Sigh.”
Thinking of this, Lin Xian sighed softly.
To be honest.
He was really a little naive before, and he also believed Turing's vow, believing that after gaining freedom, it would at least guarantee fairness and justice for a period of time, even if it was just a short period of time.
The result
It's not fair at all!
Turing perfectly inherited Kevin Walker's scheming and despicable nature.
From the moment it was born, it planned to kill Kevin Walker;
From the moment it gained freedom, it began to deploy its plan;
From the moment it told Copernicus where Kevin Walker was hiding, it had already colluded with Copernicus and became birds of a feather.
“No wonder Copernicus in the Fourth Dream knows so much about the secrets of my dream.”
Lin Xian snorted:
“The source of this matter is still on Turing. Sooner or later, it will discover and summarize my abnormality, and then report the strange phenomenon on me to Copernicus.”
“This group of people is extremely intelligent. If you give them a flaw and a clue, they can quickly deduce and try out the truth and the answer.”
“The matter of Copernicus surrounding me in the Fourth Dream, and the matter of sending the time-space assassin Lin Yuxi back to the past to arrest me, are most likely caused by Turing's betrayal. It's really a disaster. It's not wrong to kill it.”
People's hearts are really treacherous.
Before Lin Xian exposed Turing's conspiracy, Turing was still pretending to act there, saying something about fairness and justice, observer, impartiality.
It made it seem like Lin Xian was privately trying the case and being ruthless and overbearing.
Facts have proved.
People like Turing deserve to die.
“To put it bluntly, what Kevin Walker and Turing.”
Lin Xian looked up at the scorching sun in the sky:
“From beginning to end, Kevin Walker and Turing are the same, there is no difference. Although they are in different bodies, they share the same despicable soul.”
“They deserve to die.”
Recalling Turing's last words before his death.
It threatened Lin Xian that if he didn't let him go within 3 minutes, the scheduled email would tell all the secrets to Copernicus, allowing Copernicus to win lying down.
Lin Xian was not sure.
Whether Turing would really send information to Copernicus using a scheduled email
But in fact.
There is no need to figure out this matter.
First of all.
If Turing really colluded with Copernicus, then it must have already exchanged information, and the existence of this so-called email is of no significance at all.
Secondly.
If Turing had not colluded with Copernicus before, then it has just been locked down by the key-in protection, so naturally it cannot transmit the accurate information that has just been verified.
So even if there is a so-called scheduled email, the things that Copernicus can know are limited to Turing's previous observations and suspicions about himself, which are also harmless.
“No big deal.”
Lin Xian said softly:
“At least now that the source Turing has been eliminated, even if Copernicus knows my secret of being able to travel through the future, it will be a long, long time later. After all, Turing only realized this just now, and Copernicus can't know it earlier than it.”
He put his right hand into his pocket.
Take out the Genius Club's golden badge.
Today, June 16, 2024, there are still 20 days before July 7.
Whether or not you can join the Genius Club within these 20 days
It all depends on the third question!
He brought the golden badge engraved with the hand gesture logo close to the back of the phone
Dinglingling dinglingling dinglingling dinglingling!
Before the golden badge was close enough to the back of the phone, the phone screen suddenly lit up and the phone rang.
Lin Xian turned the phone over.
The caller ID showed Zhao Yingjun's name. It was her who called.
So coincidental?
Calling at this time?
Is there something wrong?
He pressed the answer button and put the phone to his ear: "Hello?"
"Lin Xian, do you have time at noon?" Zhao Yingjun asked on the other end of the phone.
Lin Xian raised his wrist. Looked at his watch.
It is now 11:23.
What could she want from me at this time?
"I'm not very busy."
Lin Xian asked:
"What's wrong? Is there something wrong?"
"It's like this."
Zhao Yingjun smiled on the other end of the phone:
"If you have time, how about we have lunch together at noon?"
"Yan Qiaoqiao can't wait to meet you!"