Su Man looked at the man and saw that he was about to say something. She smiled and said in a neither loud nor soft voice, "Brother, stop it. Do you want to be sent to a mental hospital?"
The man instantly became docile, lowered his head and stood dejectedly behind Suman, turning into a little lamb.
After the onlookers dispersed, Suman took the man into a nearby cafe.
Through a brief conversation, Suman learned that the man's name was Rupert. According to him, he was a scientist who was not recognized by the world and had been studying to save the world.
"...My research can benefit all of humanity and allow humans to break free from their original evolution."
Rupert said this after eating two sandwiches.
"Your name is Rupert? From Rupert's Tear?"
Rupert's Tear is a type of vitreous substance. By dropping molten glass into ice water, it forms a bizarre shape with a giant head and a long tail. The head is indestructible, even bullets cannot break it.
However, even such a hard Rupert's Tears has a fatal weakness. Just gently pinch its tail and twist it, and the Rupert's Tears that cannot be easily destroyed by a hydraulic press will shatter in an instant.
Rupert was very happy to see that Suman knew the meaning of his name. Finally, someone understood his intention instead of asking him why a Chinese person had a foreign name.
His originally pale face flushed with excitement, and even his black-framed glasses couldn't hide his bright eyes. "It's Rupert's Tear. Don't you think we humans are very similar to it? We possess super-dimensional brains that no artificial intelligence can imitate, but our bodies are extremely fragile and can't withstand damage."
Although Su Man couldn't understand his strange idea, she nodded in agreement. "You said it very well. By the way, you just said that the world is about to end. What did you mean?"
When talking about this, Rupert's face changed again, but after the crisis just now, Rupert didn't dare to bring up this topic again, for fear that if he was not careful, he would be locked up back in the mental hospital.
He fiddled with the buttons on his clothes and said sullenly, "No one would believe me if I told them anyway, so I won't say anything more."
Looking at his childish behavior, Su Man guessed that although he had a high IQ, his mental age should not be very old.
Treating the 1.8-meter-tall boy who was still aggrieved, Su Man showed extreme patience and said, "You can tell me, I believe you."
"real?"
Rupert's eyes lit up instantly, "Do you believe me?"
"Yeah, but you have to tell me how you know the end of the world is coming."
"I calculated it."
"Calculate?"
The first thing Su Man thought of was fortune-telling, until Rupert used French fries to make some shapes on the table that she couldn't understand, then she realized that what Rupert was talking about was fortune-telling.
After listening to a lot of math, physics, and dimensional space, Su Man couldn't help but interrupt him, "Um, could you explain it more simply?"
"Okay."
Rupert pointed at something on the table and said, "Look what this is."
Su Man said honestly, "It's ketchup."
Rupert looked up at her. Although he didn't say anything, Su Man still saw two words in his eyes: idiot.
"If we look at it from a dimensional perspective, this point is zero-dimensional space. If we extend a line from this point, it's one-dimensional space. If we draw a plane like this, it's two-dimensional space. Then, if we do this."
He used French fries to build a cube, "and that gave us the three-dimensional space we live in."
Su Man held up her head, feeling like she was back in class in a dream. She could only try hard to listen. "Hmm, what does this have to do with the end of the world?"
"Right now we're all in three-dimensional space, but now we're suddenly connected to the fourth dimension."
Su Man was bewildered. "Connected? Does that mean the four-dimensional space has always existed?"
"Of course, there are countless dimensions in the universe. The reason we think the world is three-dimensional is because we live in three dimensions and cannot see the changes in other dimensions."
Seeing that Suman still didn't understand, he looked around and saw an ant crawling on the wall next to his seat. He pointed at the ant and said, "For example, this ant's world only has a point-to-point plane, but what if I take it down?"
Rupert picked up the ant and placed it on the napkin on the table. "It doesn't know how it crossed from one plane to another, because it crossed three-dimensional space in between."
Su Man frowned, trying to understand. "So you're saying that the end of the world is being manipulated by someone we can't see?"
"Not a person, but a force deep within the universe."
"Is there any way to solve this?"
"I haven't figured it out yet, they took my computer."
Rupert said this with a look of annoyance. "I kindly told them the world was ending, but they said I was crazy. They even sent me to a mental hospital, and I finally managed to escape."
Su Man looked at his white coat and guessed that he had escaped by stealing the doctor's clothes.
In order to test his bottom line, Su Man asked knowingly, "So, how long will it take for the end of the world to come?"
"Five days at the earliest, seven days at the latest."
Su Man's heart tightened. He was right. In seven days, the end of the world would come.
Rupert didn't realize Suman was testing him, and continued to talk to himself, "I've calculated that a large-scale cold wave is coming soon. Some unknown substance will invade with the disaster, causing human mutations. If humans can adapt, they will evolve on a large scale. If they can't withstand it, they will probably degenerate."
Hearing how accurately he calculated the end of the world, Su Man was filled with respect for Rupert. She humbly asked, "Do you have any way to help humans control this genetic change?"
"Of course." Rupert said without hesitation.
Suman looked happy.
The entire Yu family suffered a great loss in the apocalypse because they had no special powers. If Rupert had a way to control this genetic change, they would no longer be controlled by others.
"What method?" Su Man asked hurriedly.
"I haven't figured it out yet."
Suman???
"Then could you please calculate it quickly?"
"My computer is still in the hospital. How can I calculate it?"
Su Man slapped her thigh and said, "It's just a computer. I'll go get it back for you."
"And my notes."
Seeing that someone was asking for help, Rupert was not polite at all.
Su Man kept smiling, "Okay."
"And my pillow."
"What?"
Rupert said as a matter of course, "The pillow is very important. A comfortable pillow can help my brain get a good rest."
Su Man gritted her teeth: "Okay, I'll get it for you!"
...
It is easier said than done.
Rupert said that his belongings were confiscated after he was put in the hospital. Now Rupert cannot show up, and Suman has no family relationship with Rupert, so it is not easy to get his belongings back from the mental hospital.
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