No.12 night

At first I thought it was something wrong with my own consciousness, but soon the surrounding walls also began to flicker irregularly, and the information beam connected to my body broke, and Aiagos and other members of the hacker group had to Jump to the ground early.The pump stopped working, and there was something strange about Mount Eraklion behind us, the blue light dimmed, and with it the loss of the island's barrier, which hung loosely above us, flickered on and off, as if The sky is being torn apart.

"The input and output of the pump body have been strictly calculated, and it shouldn't be like this." Aiagos frowned, rather surprised by his own mistakes, "Even if it needs to be powered by the core to overload the power supply, it only takes a moment After a while, no matter what, the energy of the Magic Mountain will not be exhausted."

"Can't I make another one?" At this moment, I couldn't care less about the consequences of losing the protective shield. The sudden disappearance of the afterimage of Sisyphus was like a stone pressing on my heart; To build a macro building, I will first persuade Dieter or Manigot to let them project Sage and Bai Li.

Biolet took off the rings one by one: "This is not a child's game of building blocks. Making it requires a lot of information flow and precise calculations. Without a stable energy source, not only can't do basic calculations, even laying The foundation is also nonsense."

She was still about to put the spinning top and the ring into her pocket, and I quickly grabbed her hand: "I think we can wait for a while, maybe it's just a fault with the transmission belt, and it won't be long before it returns to normal."

"Who can tell for sure? This time it was the core of the Magic Mountain that was damaged. Maybe it can be repaired tomorrow, but it may also be scrapped. Judge Minos is still lying on the bed, and he is the sole manager of the core." Ai Argos was a little annoyed.He was a young man in his early 20s after all, and failing in front of so many people made him look bad.

This is the first time I feel that I need Minos so badly.Even if what I saw just now is not Sisyphus himself, it also reflects part of his own thoughts. I trust this man very much in terms of character and character; if the operating principle behind the court is as he revealed, It is conceivable, then, that Minos, who has been bearing most of my hostility, is not behind the scenes, but plays a pathetic supporting role at best.

Realizing that I was sympathizing with Minos, I shook my head to clear myself up, and put away the excessive emotions for a while. "Is this what Minos gave you?" I asked Aiagos.

Aiagos was still immersed in a deep sense of frustration, he only glanced at me, and then buried his head in his hands: "This is impossible, what I do will not go wrong, there has never been such a precedent ...Yes, it must not be because of me-he deceived me, that bastard, Minos, I actually believed him because of the words 'Royal Rose Garden'..."

"Minos is a guy who is good at calculating, and he gave more than this in exchange." Biolet couldn't bear to make the leader troublesome, she put away all the instruments, and pulled me away from Aiagos as much as possible .

"The purpose of building the macro building is to let the citizens who come to visit the island see how unreliable the system they rely on, so that Aia can gradually clear up the public's misunderstanding of him, and more and more people will question life. The rationality of entrusting it to a set of algorithms. Of course, the most important thing is that we can formally cooperate with the judges, after all, Minos alone holds the jurisdiction of the two regions. But you—" She was a little excited, " You delayed our original plan. I shouldn’t just promise you that, if we hadn’t made a consciousness projection for you first, we should be able to complete all this before the core produces abnormalities.”

"Think about the good, Baioret." I patted her on the shoulder, "Sisyphus also provided extremely important information. It can be said that it was a mistake, but I don't feel sorry. It is a common sense The spinner who destroys the knowledge bank is even more hateful, and the Kairos knowledge that is hidden but plays with everyone is more worthy of people's fear, I think any ordinary person can make a judgment."

Biolet looked back, and the people around him seemed to have not yet recovered from the shock of seeing Sisyphus again.As for the damage to the protective wall, it was just a trivial matter. As long as Minos woke up and repaired it, it could always be activated again.

***

After the meeting, Dieter and his team found me.

"If you're here to thank me for bringing news of the former judge, then I don't think it's necessary. I happened to go to see Judge Sisyphus before his accident, but I backed down after seeing Dever. If I could have Rescue him immediately, and don’t think about other hidden worries, maybe he can be saved.” In all fairness, I have a good impression of Sisyphus, so I always feel sorry for his death.

Manigot laughed first. "It's a good idea," he said. "We won't allow you to think wildly. Seriously, you know a lot of useful information, and we would like to take this opportunity to invite you to cooperate."

"I'm still a prisoner of Minos." I tried to look calm.

Manigot waved his hand: "Fuck Minos, you still don't understand what Sisyphus said?"

"you mean--"

"It's the Kairos knowledge." Dejere answered, "No judge has ever mentioned it before, and no one has popularized this concept to the public. So I guess, maybe due to the characteristics of our spiritual knowledge bank, They all chose to conceal it by coincidence."

There is a collection of citizens' consciousness in the spiritual consciousness library, which represents the general trend of people's spiritual activities for a period of time, and will be dynamically adjusted based on this. "We have never understood that there is legal consciousness in addition to spiritual consciousness. Today's spiritual consciousness database is based on a large group of people who have no concept of legal consciousness. To rashly introduce the concept of legal consciousness into the crowd means a complete subversion of the status quo It doesn't matter if one person knows it, but what if everyone knows it? There will be catastrophic changes in the repository of knowledge, and no one can predict what will happen. I think this is why the judges, including Sage, choose to keep silent reason."

"But Sisyphus revealed all of this to us. Even though it wasn't the real him, Biolet said that telling the truth depends on his own wishes."

"Because Sisyphus is too soft-hearted. He can't sit idly by, which makes him vacillate. As a qualified judge, he should hide, but his heart tells him that he has the responsibility to disclose Kay. Ross's existence." Dieter said.

Kaludia sighed: "He died alone with a secret, but before he died, he still left the idea of ​​wanting to reveal the truth - that guy is really awkward as always."

I couldn't respond for a while, because there are too many emotions mixed together at the moment, which makes people feel uncomfortable. "Forget it, I think it's better to forget it." Kaludia laughed, "I just hope that he will live happily after being reborn, maybe he can meet us in another meaning there."

Manigot interrupted him: "I'm afraid you will be disappointed, Kalu—he is the only one who can participate in the eternal reincarnation, and what are we who have been kept in the dark by this world? Ross, in their eyes we are just a bunch of data, symbols without life, I am afraid that we are not even comparable to worthless." He made a movement, still with a brisk smile on his face, but he couldn't help laughing at himself. desolate.

"Actually, we don't have to be so pessimistic." Dejere said, "The Divine Consciousness Bank has been in operation for many years, and it has been intertwined and grown closely with us. The judges did not immediately unite with the public, probably out of prudence. Trying to sift out the downside, or find a replacement for it, without causing a major upheaval."

"Sisyphus and the others intend to single-handedly challenge the existing order?" I asked him.

Dieter shook his head. "Not exactly, I'm afraid, don't forget that they still have the most important thing, which is data, the data of each of us."

"There are many things that can be done with data. They know how to guide the public's emotions, make the best plan, and one day help them get rid of the curse of Kairos." Manigot put on the previous free and easy, "You must I have seen the dust floating in the light beam, it is thin and small, but it is there, flashing by the reflection. The people living in the Korolus net may be insignificant, but we can still work hard to live according to our own wishes." He rubbed Regulus' hair, and it was golden under the light, which made me suddenly think of a person.

Cairos is described as a constantly recurring space-time system, which naturally coincides with Ashmita's interpretation at the Yu Lan Assembly.

We rushed to the gate of the Knossos Palace to inquire about Ashmita's whereabouts.

"He never left the Magic Mountain." Brightfire jumped down from a rock on one side, "I was looking for him too."

I didn't expect to meet Huihuo here, and I didn't expect him to take the initiative to talk to me.He had just washed his hair and changed into more formal attire.

"Don't get me wrong, I saw Sisyphus, and I saw the whole process," he said.

I thought of Papillon's words, so I said to him: "Is the world of infinite loops moving you? You want to be a judge, so that there may be a glimmer of hope to see your loved ones again?"

Huihuo gritted his teeth and lowered his head, water droplets dripping from the ends of his hair on the ground.After a while, he pointed in a certain direction: "Come with me."

As the host of the Yu Lan Conference, Huihuo was responsible for arranging the itineraries of the foreign guests, so he could quickly find Ashmita's residence.

Ashmita has been meditating in his room for the past few days, rarely going downstairs.When we arrived, he was about to get up, and there was A Tha Po Kuo sitting opposite him.

"You've come to ask questions," he said.

"Tell us the truth about Kailos." I was also unambiguous and made my position clear to him.

"Before that, let me tell you a story." Ashmita didn't change his expression, "A story about how the world is separated from each other."

We looked at him together.Ashmita's eyes were still closed, but he had an unusual aura, as if there was an undeniable depth inside.

"I know it's hard to understand at this moment, but all the roots lie in the large-scale God's Consciousness library. Think about the history before the Age of God's Consciousness, how the world handed over leadership. When the 'King' finally lost In addition to being a human body, what remains is a symbolic community, which we call Korolos."

"I know that." My nails scratched the back of my hand a little bit, "Why do you say that the world is separating from each other? What does this metaphor represent?"

"It is not a metaphor, but something that has been happening all the time. Indeed, the development of information has greatly promoted the independence of individual will, and any group can establish neural connections, which makes society no center in the previous sense; but On the other hand, people need a certain social order to protect themselves, and this is why there is such a contradictory thing as the spiritual consciousness system, a giant circuit that replaces people to perform governance functions, and can connect the world in an instant. People are ups and downs between this huge community and countless divided sub-sections. In the end, each sub-system is determined by the most powerful will set in its own jurisdiction. The network we are connected to quietly fixes us in different sub-sections, and most People think that there is still only one common Korollos consciousness in the world. Now I want to tell you that the world of consciousness is a new world in the sense of emergence. Layers were born."

"I don't quite understand," I said, "the 'new world' in the sense of emergence, does that refer to the birth of Kairos? Could it be that because of this, Kerolos has a consciousness similar to that of a human, and everything has been changed by it?"

Others have similar doubts.Ashmita said: "Of course the knowledge bank will not have self-awareness, but this does not mean that it cannot 'grow'. A drop of water in a river will not realize that it is flowing to the sea, and neither will the pebbles it brings. Until they are shaped into a round shape, they are only formed over time, naturally. Just as atoms gather together to form chemical properties, and molecules stick to each other to form community properties, the consciousness that emerges after the combination of huge groups of consciousness has completely changed The former world, it becomes a new form of society that overrides all human existence."

Deteser has a natural understanding of this topic: "Let me give you an example - the aroma of roses is the result of many molecules working together; not only does it stubbornly emit aroma, There must be a nervous system composed of many molecules to perceive it. So the new worlds of the two molecular worlds collide, and the fragrance is overflowing at that moment."

I think Minos would have liked this example, but Ashmita's answer seems to be leading the problem to the edge of danger.

"It's not just that. Once Korollos expands enough to manipulate our world, its first object of action will be time." He said, "A Zha said that our understanding of the world largely depends on As for the concept of time, he is right. The sum of the views of time connected to each sub-area will be slightly different, so in different areas, the way time evolves is connected with people's overall concept of it. In this way, regionalized time isolation is formed - if the time concept in the collective consciousness is linear, then people under that jurisdiction will not experience reincarnation; if the sum of consciousness points to a cycle, then people will re-emerge after a long span In the world, but he himself will not feel it. And the values ​​that have lasted for several centuries are endlessly deconstructing reality, and the separatism hidden behind it is rampant, and finally these worlds with different time systems begin to be isolated from each other .”

A Zhapo showed a wry smile: "It's incredible, right? The different time and space views under the collective consciousness have created a gap, and individualism has further exacerbated the gap. Soon we can only live in our own part of the world."

"It's impossible. The human social system depends on the material basis." I argued.

"How much do you know about 'substance' itself?" Ashmita asked back.

"Korolos, which gathers the consciousness of all people, is just a database-like existence. It is too crazy to shape the laws of space and time by relying on it alone..." My rebuttal became weaker and weaker.

"It's crazy, but that's the truth. Chronolos is subject to material conditions to a certain extent, but it doesn't affect us all. In other words, if you were born in an era where the church controlled everything, the doctrine Fill your brain, no matter what you do, you can't break free from the shackles of 'this society', because you have no concept other than the world created by God; or - you live in England in the nineteenth century, unfortunately, life As a laborer working in a factory all day long, with the tentacles of the social system firmly grasping you, the only thing you can hope for is to have enough power to initiate a revolution-this is what the Hysyphus want to do. When you live in In a world that believes in the static theory of the earth, the world in which the earth can move is not the first factor that affects you. Your cosmology creates your every move. Think about it, the spiritual repository is much more efficient than the previous political entities Every second, there is a huge amount of information flow being calculated on countless nodes, and the effect it produces is enough to overturn the time and space we are in."

"Go on, Ashmita." Dejere didn't show any emotion on his face, but his tone was firm enough for everyone present to understand his intention: instead of questioning endlessly, it's better to let Ashmita express what he said. Tell everyone what you know.

Ashmita first raised a question: "When you have the ability to choose between saving one person's life and intervening in the lives of many people, will you stick to your own judgment, or will you give up the judgment and just sit on the sidelines without doing anything?" ?”

"I'm going to save people," Manigot interjected. "I can't just let more people die, even if it makes me a sinner."

Ashmita smiled at him gently: "When you choose to change, you also make value judgments, so that things that should have happened naturally will be covered by your personal wishes. The same is true for Kairos, which represents Dharma consciousness. It is a kind of value judgment, from the natural state of Kerolos to the value state of Cairos, they divide the world into the ordinary world and the transcendent world. The ordinary world under the Kerolos is the living space of ordinary people, according to the time model I have summarized them as linear time system, chaotic time system and weak cyclic time system. In the linear world, events cannot be repeated, every second is a new second, and each individual is unique; chaotic The world is accompanied by uncertain fluctuations. You and I may reappear, and they may never return. The cycle or linearity is random. People are born again, even retaining previous karmic ties, but are not aware of it, repeating only individuals, not events. In contrast, Kairos represents the world beyond, which gives rise to strong circular time System and judge system - there are very few people who belong to the previous world. A Zha once classified it as some kind of mysticism, and the reborn will retain the previous memory. Standby for the newly created division. As you may have guessed, this is the world I come from."

I am a little moved.If the meaning of a quasi-judge is to join the hopeless cycle of reincarnation before being appointed, then Radamandis no doubt felt it, he was aware that he was reincarnated, and he knew all the ordeals that Minos went through, and he was powerless about it To stop, I can only vent my despair and anger again and again.

"But the judge's world is different from all the above." Ashmita went on to say, "They can come from any world, and there are corresponding laws of space and time. Kairos covers them, but it doesn't mean that judges can escape from it. They jump out of this world. The limitation of being independent of all time, they are the maintainers of the knowledge library; but at the same time, not only can they not change the time pattern of the world they belong to, but also for better management, they are forced to participate in the cycle from birth to death, unable to leave their duties .A person is elected as a judge, which means that he can never change his job until the spiritual system collapses. The judge sacrifices himself and takes refuge in the hostile consciousness of the great spiritual system, which is infinitely squeezed in the dynamic balance. This is the result of this price."

"But," Kaludia finally couldn't help asking, "If the time systems of several worlds are different, what connects us together? A group of people who can appear repeatedly, and another group of people who only live for a lifetime One-time guys, they're going through time differently—”

"You are right. Something connects us. I regard it as a superimposed form of time. People can recognize the passage of time, but that is just the coordinates set by our perception. Time is an intertwined reality that transcends our everyday experience, and you can think of it as creating some sort of virtual space, in which we are, unfortunately, inhabited.”

This is probably helpless. You live in a daze in the world, unaware of your own situation, and you don’t know when you are separated from the closest person in a different time and space.The fable of the King of Corinth comes true, and endless zeroing can turn all sincere emotion into a joke.

Finally Ashmita turned to the crowd who had already listened dully. "So, which world are you in?"

The people present have lost their place, and Manigot suddenly laughed: "I said, can't you do the math for everyone, Mr. Judge-to-be with great powers?"

"I'm sorry, I don't know, even the people of the Kairos system can't spy on the overlapping points of the world. Relying on countless experiments, I have confirmed the existence of several other worlds. In this way, in my The time has quietly reincarnated for hundreds of years."

I stood up. "Why keep silent, I mean, since you have already discovered the mystery, why don't you make your discovery public? You are not a judge, and you shouldn't need to carry the judge's rules. I think you are more like a fearless seeker... "

"What I seek is the supreme knowledge, and it is inherent in all the changes between heaven and earth. No matter how things develop, it seems to me that it is a natural state. I will know it, but I don't have to change it. Today The world of the world is also a known object, and it is a matter of course for me."

Ashmita's answer made me feel at a loss. After thinking about it, I decided to respect his choice.At this time, I thought of the differences between Destiers and Ballendine, which probably arose because they lived in two different worlds.

"We need evidence, you know, otherwise we won't be able to convince the public."

"I said that people living in the ordinary world can't feel the conflict in time. It transcends the general logic and cannot be experienced only by the connection of Korolus. What you need to understand is that the separation between worlds is increasing. Making them compatible through perception correction does not mean that it will be the same in the future. Once entering the era of divine consciousness, it cannot be reversed. The repository of divine consciousness is a monument to the era of kings, and the year as an epitaph is engraved on it."

Ashmita's conclusion may not be convincing to others, but I can help them perceive the paradox among the kinks in the world.

"No, I can feel it. Aya tore off the protective wall, and I'll take you to Mount Eraklion, to..."

I suddenly froze.Although the core of the Magic Mountain failed due to the support pump body, it is unlikely to endanger the connection at the Cairos level.They still can't get into the core, I can only pin my hope on one person.

***

Minos was still lying on the bed, and he could hardly do anything else.There was no one else around, so I walked over and told him directly that I had found out about him from Ashmita.

"Judges themselves cannot observe what kind of world they are in. Even if you later use your authority to deduce their operating rules, it will be difficult for you to disclose this discovery to everyone-it is almost impossible to prove it, Korollos Living with the incompleteness of cognition, letting ordinary people understand Kairos is like pulling yourself off the ground by your hair. You and Ashmita, and maybe Sisyphus, I don't understand what you use This way of confirming various time systems, but I will not learn the truth in vain. I hope I can help you."

Minos opened his eyes, and I felt he wasn't looking at me.

"You deliberately let me get in touch with the Cairos connection. I think this seriously violated your authority as a judge. You will bear the consequences for this, and this is why Rada is angry at you." My tone was trembling, "In the end What prompted you to do this, I don't think it's just your willingness to spread the concept of legal knowledge to the public, or that you didn't try to change the status quo - there are many innocent people arrested by you before me, But the world still works the way it always has."

He motioned for me to help him up, and I thought he was finally going to confess to me. "Don't force yourself, you are still sick, I can spend more time listening to you slowly."

"What the hell are you misunderstanding?" he said. "Making claims, violating the law-I never took it seriously. It should be said that I have never paid attention to you from the beginning to the end, including Bringing you to the Magic Mountain is nothing worth caring about in my opinion. Sir, you think of me as an evangelist for the world, and imagine that I get into trouble for you. You think too much of yourself. It's important."

My expression froze.

"I never regret what I've done. If you want to use this to bring me down, I'm afraid your plan will come to nothing." Minos put his hands on the pillow and smiled sarcastically.

"It's just me being passionate, Minos." I was filled with deep disappointment, and the little good feelings I had accumulated for him earlier disappeared.

"What kind of experience is it to be self-sufficient, and does it make you feel very uncomfortable?" He tasted my frustration with interest, "I said, don't you have that kind of...inhuman feeling towards me?" emotion?"

My face turned pale.I was greatly offended by this sentence, I stared at him and gritted my teeth: "Shut up, you bastard."

Perhaps out of excessive anger and shame, I didn't care that he was still a patient, so I grabbed his arm; he didn't struggle, just coughed a few times, and was dragged to the floor by me.Then I didn't hesitate, purple-blue light spots appeared on my hands, they hooked around the position behind Minos' ears and moved out gently, a small piece of consciousness was held in my hand.

Biolet rebuilt my connection with a macro-structure, information hackers like her have a natural aptitude for mind theft, so I took a handful of information grains from the assembly, enough for me to read Minos mental activity over a period of time.

Without looking back, I walked up to a hidden corner upstairs, and then I pulled out my conscious body, trying to transform it into a form like Biolet did.But there was no picture in front of my eyes, someone was talking in my ear, it was a monologue.

—— "Yesterday, I met Jabofika."