clown game

He imitated Dr. Zhang's tone of voice just now, and imitated him by jumping up and down, making a "beating the little heart" movement.

Dr. Zhang was stunned for a moment, he was completely forgotten by these two idiots, and quickly said: "Oh, yes, I just wanted to say that after this string of numbers, there is a question mark!"

"question mark?"

"Well, a question mark!" Doctor Zhang replied affirmatively, and took the glass shard from Liu Yi's hand, and engraved a "?" at the end of the string of numbers.

Liu Yi frowned, and immediately said: "There are question marks! This...the ones with question marks are "interrogative sentences"!"

When Dr. Zhang heard it, his face was full of bitterness. He was about to scold a few words, but suddenly, his eyes lit up... "Yes, yes, it's not just numbers! Maybe it's a sentence!"

He put on an expression of "a sudden flash of inspiration", yelling to himself, and then suddenly stretched out his hand out of the fence, and took the fragment of the mirror in his hand just now, and looked at the mirror again. Paper.

"There is a gap!" he shouted, as if he had found the key to the solution: "There is a gap between the numbers!"

Immediately afterwards, he yelled those numbers again... This time, he also brought the intervals between the numbers...

And Liu Yi was also very "smart", and began to draw several vertical lines on the wooden board with glass fragments to separate the numbers.

At this moment, the numbers on the wooden board become like this

“12▍324▍5667▍72▍4868▍6▍5298？”

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Chapter 153 Number Seven

Doctor Zhang withdrew his arm again, went back to the wooden door, looked at the numbers... "Um... can this really be a sentence?"

Liu Yi nodded with certainty, "It must be, the "question marks" are all there, it's obviously asking us a question."

"But, there's not even a Chinese character, or even an alphabet..."

Liu Yi continued: "If there is no one, there will be none... Isn't language such a thing as putting together a bunch of meaningless strokes and creating it for the purpose of recording and communicating?"

Dr. Zhang was stunned for a while. He also thought about this kind of question when he was young, such as the origin of the world, the end of the universe, etc., but as he grew older, these vague thoughts have long been wiped out. up

But thinking about it, it is indeed like this. Words are composed of strokes or letters to form phrases, and then more phrases are used to form sentences. They are basically meaningless. What is really meaningful is what is contained in them. "Information" is like a circle on the ground. In the eyes of people who love mathematics, it may represent the number "0", in the eyes of writers, it is the letter "O", in the eyes of painters, it may represent a "The beginning of artistic painting", in the eyes of people who study Taoism, it may represent "the return of all things in the world", but in fact, it may be just a pit that monkeys fart out of.

If you think about it more along this line, maybe sounds, colors, numbers, these things are meaningless, they are just "symbols" created by human beings for convenience, and those so-called mathematics, physics, science , It is estimated that they are just all kinds of "conjectures" defined by human beings for their own ignorance.

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"Um~"

Suddenly, Dr. Zhang froze for a moment. For some reason, the other party's words made him think of so many weird things. He quickly shook his head to get these unrealistic thoughts out of his mind.

The most urgent task now is to quickly figure out the string of numbers in front of me...

So let’s get down to business again. As I said just now, if the number in front of you is not a number, what does it represent?There are so many possibilities, such as strokes, letters, pinyin, and even "sorting the keys on the piano", that is, using notes such as "duo, rui, mi" to play a tune with the piano Come, and then according to the stepping point of the syllables, the lyrics will be corresponding... er... But this method of solving puzzles is really too ghostly, and it is probably possible to put it in the Conservatory of Music. For a mental hospital, who the hell can think of it, and what is "Morse code", probably not one person in a thousand knows that kind of thing.

So Dr. Zhang thought for a while, and found that with so many possibilities, he could hardly find any clues.So he turned his attention to Liu Yi who was at the side again, and asked, "Hey, did you come up with something...?"

At this time Liu Yi was sticking his fingers into his nostrils, digging and digging. At the same time, he also replied: "Well... At first, I thought of the order of the letters. The "12" at the beginning is okay, it stands for "L "But the following "324" can't be translated. Then I thought about the syllables~ but the number here has been ranked up to 9~ so it's useless... Finally, I thought about Hanzi's strokes Count... er... With 324 strokes, how could it be Chinese characters? It is estimated that drawing evil spirits is enough to draw dozens of them... so... ...The only thing I can understand now is the question mark at the end..."

Dr. Zhang nodded. In fact, he thought of this when the other party just mentioned that "number" represented "one sentence". Of course, those inferences were not valid... In addition, he also tried Jiugongge The 3 by 3 arrangement method, but nothing but some crooked line segments, and the idiomatic method in spy war movies, that is, there is a book, and each number corresponds to "which page" "which line "Which word" can be connected together to form a complete sentence, but at the moment the two of them don't even have a book beside them, where can they compare...

suddenly

"No way..."

Dr. Zhang muttered something as if he had thought of something, and raised his head to look at Liu Yi on the opposite side... At this moment, the other party finally dug out a lump of booger from his nose, and there was still a A long stream of snot was rolled into small balls on the fingertips, and then...don't panic, he didn't eat, and then he flicked his two fingers, and he didn't know where it went. "Isn't this guy able to memorize a whole book in his head...?" Dr. Zhang pondered.

After that, I quickly asked the other party to verify my thoughts.

As a result... the response I got was

"You've watched too many movies. The kind you're talking about is "hypermemory", okay? It's a "nervous vision", and I'm a "psychopath"! Do you understand "psychopathy"?"

The other party waved his arms unhappily and yelled, as if he had received some kind of inexplicable insult.

...Well, it seems that this idea is also not valid.There was no other way, Dr. Zhang could only rub his eyes, helplessly cleared all the speculation in his mind just now, and started all over again.

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He looked at the board again, the number still stayed there quietly.

“12▍324▍5667▍72▍4868▍6▍5298？”

First of all...he first throws the symbol "?" out of the question, because "?" should represent a question under normal circumstances, and this question mark should be left on purpose by the writer of this number. Otherwise, Liu Yi and Dr. Zhang would really have no entry point at all.

Next, there is the interval between each number, which is easy to understand. These intervals are used to divide the information represented between the numbers.

For example, the combination of 1 and 2 at the beginning of a number represents a "information". This information is independent, and the combination of the following three numbers 2, 3, and 4 is another information.It's like the number "2" represents a "丨", the number "3" represents a shorter "-", the number "4" represents a longer "—", then 23 is a "ten", 234 just represents a " earth " word.Almost all languages ​​in the world are built in this way.

Of course, this is just an example. Numbers do not necessarily represent strokes, but may also represent letters and the like.

"letter?"

At this time... Dr. Zhang must have thought of something again, and he stared at a position in the middle of the row of numbers very seriously.

Between the two partitioned vertical lines, there is a very special number

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Chapter 154 Number Eight

木板上的数字是“12▍324▍5667▍72▍4868▍6▍5298？”

Doctor Zhang's eyes are fixed on the "6", which is the "6" between the fifth vertical line and the sixth vertical line!

He knew that he must have caught a clue, but he didn't know what the clue was.

So, he quickly greeted Liu Yi: "Hey, that who... look at this!"

Liu Yi leaned over..."What's wrong?"

Dr. Zhang looked at the number "6" without blinking, pointed at it, as if he was afraid that it would run away with long legs, and said: "...this number...is a separate !"

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"Alone?" Liu Yi repeated with a frown, and almost in the next second, his eyes lit up: "It's the letter...!" He suddenly shouted.