Chapter 105 Nietzsche said that there is no truth in this world, only perspective
Episode 105 Nietzsche said, there is no truth in this world, only perspective
"how are you feeling?"
"I just remember that I was dreaming."
"I'm sorry. I used a rather strong method to make you accept us entering your subconscious. Are you feeling okay?"
"I feel a little dizzy."
This is the truth. I subconsciously rubbed my forehead to make myself feel a little more comfortable.
The name badge with "Shang Hexing" on it was glowing in front of me. I subconsciously raised my gaze and met Shang Hexing's eyes. He was in good spirits, so I felt like I was looking directly into the sun and subconsciously wanted to avert my gaze.
Shang Hexing said: "Invading your subconscious mind through Fluid Interfaces will affect your own way of thinking and memory content. You will need at least three months of treatment to stabilize."
I didn’t pay much attention to the first part because it was all common sense, but when I heard that it would take three months of treatment to stabilize, my first reaction was to sit up straight, “…”
Can't you just go home and lie down for a while for this kind of thing?
"According to memory intervention experiments, it takes at least several weeks or months for false memories to be completely corrected. I think you need three months."
I thought it was a waste of time and said, "But I don't think there's anything wrong with me."
"False memories don't make people feel wrong. This is normal." Shang Hexing said to me calmly and rationally, "Don't you remember what we did in your subconscious space?"
I was speechless: "…In my understanding, this should be normal?"
"I am a professional hypnotist. I know what kind of damage to the body caused by causing memory disorder when someone enters the subconscious space."
The person on the other side said in a professional tone that he was professional, which forced me to take a step back.
I asked, "What does it mean that I am cured?"
Shang Hexing turned to his computer and said calmly: "When you can start to balance reality and virtuality, that is, recognize which part is fake and which part is real, it should be enough."
I continued to humbly ask, "Am I unable to recognize what is real or false?"
Shang Hexing said: "Do you have someone you like?"
"What?" I subconsciously felt that this was a change of topic and I couldn't react for a moment.
Shang Hexing explained calmly: "This is a test."
I suddenly realized, “I didn’t.”
Shang Hexing continued typing on the keyboard: "..."
Because of the silence, I felt unsure, "Did I say something wrong? My memory tells me... "No." ”
Shang Hexing said: "There is no right or wrong. I didn't know you before. The doctor in charge will gradually determine your life information for comparison, and will intervene if necessary. Once it is confirmed that your memory will not affect your life, it will be considered completed."
"I see."
"Then do you have any impression of Officer Fu Lin?"
I replied, "He was the police officer in charge of Li Zhi's suicide case. He felt that the case was suspicious and hoped that I would cooperate to investigate the cause of Li Zhi's death. Li Zhi and I were the closest person to each other. Although I cannot say that I know his growth experience completely, I can provide relevant clues."
"Do you know that he proposed the 'subconscious investigation' because he suspected you were the murderer?"
Shang Hexing's words pointed out the aspect that should not be mentioned.
Normally, if it is really just a background check, there is no need to use a subconscious investigation. Not to mention that after the survey, there is a three-month stabilization period, which is a huge burden for the respondents.
I definitely doubt it.
I was hesitating whether I should continue to play dumb, or appropriately demonstrate that I have reason and judgment, and that I am a normal person. However, I don’t need to be too explicit. “I believe that a police officer who can devote himself to “Li Zhi” is a good police officer. ”
"It seems that you have a good impression of Officer Fu." Shang Hexing looked at his nose and his heart, and said slowly: "No wonder you subconsciously help Officer Fu solve the case."
"Yeah?"
I had told him that I knew nothing about the subconscious, so I was unable to expand on that. So I changed the subject and asked, "Doctor Shang don't need treatment?"
Because I knew Fu Lin had completely collapsed.
It is said that they were trapped in the subconscious space for more than three days, and Fu Lin was sent to the hospital after he woke up. It also took me a long time to wake up. When I woke up, Shang Hexing was sitting next to me.
"I'm a professional," he said with certainty.
"..." I thought about it, but didn't know what to say, "Okay."
Should this be the end of the conversation?
I asked again: "Who will be the doctor during the treatment period? How can I pay the fees?"
Shang Hexing's finger paused in mid-air for a moment, and he turned back to look at me: "I'll take over, no need to pay."
When I heard the second half of the sentence, I said without thinking, "That's good."
Shang Hexing raised the corners of his lips inexplicably, as if he had thought of something happy, but he had no intention of sharing it with me. He just looked away and gave me an excuse to cover up his sudden smile, "It seems that you trust me more than I thought."
ah……
Don’t complain, if you complain you lose.
I resisted the urge to complain.
Just as I was about to wait and see what he would do to me, whether to send me home or start a cycle of treatment right away, there was a knock on the door. At the same time, the phone call was answered.
Shang Hexing turned on the speakerphone, so I knew it was Fu Lin coming over.
He asked me to keep quiet and didn't seem to intend for me to meet him. I don't know the reason behind this, but since he is a professional, I don't have to think too much about his plans.
He won't hurt me anyway.
So I just listened quietly until Fu Lin called out a name, "Xin Qiao?"
I couldn't help but move and glanced at Fu Lin in his direction.
His pupils were a little dazed at first, but soon, it was as if a fire was burning deep in them. He said that the suspect he had been looking for was here.
A voice emerged in my heart - no wonder Shang Hexing insisted on treatment, this person began to lose consciousness.
"Officer Fu, do you want to talk to me?"
I took the opportunity to speak.
I looked at him. "Maybe we can figure out what happened together. Because I also want to know what you see in your subconscious mind?"
Fu Lin looked at me steadily, without making any comment.
*
Fu Lin said that I subconsciously used the name "Li Zhi".
Xin Qiao (the murderer) attacked Li Zhi from behind, causing his death. The psychological motivation is jealousy of Li Zhi's success. Therefore, Xin Qiao wanted to completely destroy the existence of this game in his subconscious space.
Shang Hexing explained: "The subconscious mind will expose a person's own obsession. Mr. Xin Qiao may never really admit it, or realize it, but deep down in his heart, he has always longed to be someone like Li Zhi, and wanted to further destroy "Xin Qiao", so in his subconscious mind, he wanted to completely erase the existence of a symbol of failure. ”
I have thoughts on this matter and would love to raise my hand and ask questions.
However, Fu Lin did not interrupt Shang Hexing, so I had to restrain my thoughts and just looked at Shang Hexing to continue interpreting my subconscious.
After his eyes fell on my face, he continued, "The subconscious mind itself is extremely exclusive, so when it senses that we are outsiders, its aggressiveness will be more obvious. For Xin Qiao, we are not only invaders, but also variables that threaten the world order of his world, so he will instinctively want to exclude us."
Shang Hexing's statements are all beneficial to my position.
But I can't be so self-conscious as to think that he is speaking for me.
The main reason for this conclusion is that there is a huge difference between the subconscious and reality.
Subconsciously, the game "City of Innocence" is not a particularly famous game at all. If it weren't for the death of the game designer, I'm afraid no one would even know the existence of this game.
So, my motive for killing does not exist.
Well, let’s start with the case.
The evidence for Li Zhi's suicide is that no one else entered or left the scene, the door lock was intact, there was nothing wrong with the doors and windows, and his personal finances had not been searched. There were no defensive wounds on the body of the deceased, which, combined with the traces of blood, indicated that he had not been moved at the time of death. The weapon that caused the injury was within the reach of the deceased, which was consistent with the characteristics of suicide.
However, the reason why Fu Lin suspected the possibility of homicide was that there was no way to determine the cause of the deceased's suicide, and the lower body was covered with a quilt at the time of death, which was not a common suicide condition.
In addition, the deceased was killed with a single knife. The location and direction of the knife wound could be caused by oneself or by others. However, there was bloodstain only on one side of the deceased's sleeve, while the other side was clean and had no wrinkles. This ruled out the possibility that the victim held the knife with both hands, and the wound must have been caused by one hand. However, it is difficult to inflict a fatal wound with just one hand.
Unless there is someone assisting (in Japanese suicide, there is someone assisting), or the person has enough strength in one hand.
Another suspicious point is that the swab test of the knife handle at the scene showed the presence of other male components, which was later confirmed to be the DNA of "Xin Qiao".
However, "Xin Qiao" has an alibi.
Fu Lin looked at me solemnly, his eyes like a blade that was trying to peel away bit by bit the outer shell that protected my secrets. After a moment, he slowly opened his mouth and said, "Are you sure... you really have nothing to tell us?"
I'm actually waiting for an opportunity.
Now might be a good time.
The game "City of Innocence" has become the focus of discussion because of this suspected homicide case.
But now it is adding fuel to the fire.
"I shouldn't have said those words."
I lowered my eyes, "I hope you can keep this secret for me..."
However, I also know that the police have their own duties and obligations, and matters involving cases must be reported. So, there is only one thing I can say.
My emotions and words have just begun to form.
Shang Hexing and Fu Lin said, "Okay."
"……?"
Is this some new strategy to coax people into telling the truth?
Now shouldn't I put on an indifferent face and say "sorry", then follow their tone, showing that I can't hold on to the secret for that long, and finally tell them the details.
In fact, logically speaking, some things should never be said.
The time when I will say “One day, I will speak the truth” will never come.
However, when I looked up at them, I found that the two of them were staring at each other. Perhaps they each had their own plans, but I still said, "I have been to the scene, and I was the one who covered myself with the quilt. My alibi is false, but I did not kill anyone. That's all I can say. For the rest, you can go and collect evidence to prove it."
"You should know that if your alibi is false, you will never be able to escape the suspicion of crime," said Fu Lin.
"If you believe my previous confession is true, then you should also believe the second half of my sentence, 'I didn't kill anyone.' "I said," Similarly, if you believe that what I said before was false, then what I said later may also be false. That's the judgment. ”
Fu Lin was silent for a moment, sighed lightly, and said slowly: "I have already investigated. Although "Li Zhi" has never announced it to the public, he is actually seriously ill. And he has been concentrating on developing his own games. I think he actually wanted to take this opportunity to give the game he designed a second life. ”
He looked at me steadily: "You are helping him, right?"
My voice seemed to be choked, but I subconsciously looked into Fu Lin's eyes. But before he could look at it for more than two seconds, Shang Hexing's voice rang out, saying, "After spending some time together in the subconscious space, I know you are a good person."
I subconsciously looked at Shang Hexing, "Thank you. You have helped me the most. I originally thought you were difficult to get along with, but after getting to know you, I found that you are just cold on the outside but warm on the inside."
Fu Lin tilted his head slightly and was about to speak, but Shang Hexing spoke first. His tone was calm, but his eyes were full of speculation. "Then it's obvious that the case is over. What you said to Xin Qiao just now... was it directed at him?"
Fu Lin immediately looked at me and explained: "I'm not targeting..."
I don't know what he needs to explain.
This attitude of the police is very good, not to mention that he is the kind of person who will get to the bottom of the truth.
"It's okay. I have always trusted Officer Fu."
Hearing this, Fu Lin obviously relaxed.
Afterwards, although it was not clear what they talked about, in the end, Fu Lin also wanted to join the treatment of correcting wrong cognition.
Meet every Tuesday and Thursday.
When we left, he stood at the door, paused slightly, and whispered to himself: "It's good to be alive."
His voice was very soft, as if he was speaking to himself. I looked at his back, the sunlight halo shining on his body, it was as if a heavy burden had been lifted off his shoulders, and they felt a lot more relaxed.
I thought, "If the game "City of Innocence" is launched, would you like to play it? If we raise funds this time, the map will be larger, and it may be different from what you know."
Fu Lin: "Is it okay?"
I replied: "I'll wait for you to come online."
*
After returning to my own room, I opened my phone again, and the mobile phone app marked with A popped up.
The comic stops on the page "Right".
Right means both correctness and rights.
Or in other words, the right.
It all comes back to what my mom called the “trial.”
The "judgment" in the comics actually has the underlying setting of Anubis at the beginning - "The City of Sin will be judged by God, and no one will survive."
For the players, it is equivalent to discovering the truth of the game and then playing the game in order to escape from the world. The NPCs behind the scenes have no positive meaning to them.
So, assuming that the game exists in this way, we NPCs are just tools.
However, the fact is that the NPCs in the game really have awakened consciousness.
They have discovered that they are just tools, so they want to survive and know that "players" are the key to their success. Thus, Vita (Life) came into being.
According to the original organization's idea, they wanted to help themselves or the right people leave the world by "converting players' consciousness."
If I didn’t have comic software, I might just read other people’s comments like “a road to heaven paved with flesh and blood” and then not comment.
But, I have comics software.
I think there are different approaches here.
For me, comics are sometimes a window to foresee the future, and sometimes a vehicle to read other people’s thoughts. Is that all?
When I feel that things have gone beyond my expectations, I think this comic may be useful - for example, I can change reality through comics.
The way this works is that we don't actually have a fixed future.
If the future is already fixed, then no matter what you do, nothing will actually change, and Vita will not exist. So if Vita exists, that is, the future is not fixed.
But because of the existence of comics, it also means that the character thinking patterns in the world are traceable - for example, the protagonist must win. Although there are a few comics where the villain is the winner in the end, the vast majority of the plots revolve around the protagonist.
Therefore, there is no doubt that if they want to achieve their goals by murdering the protagonist, they will definitely not succeed.
Then, we can only strive for a situation that is beneficial to the protagonist.
This situation is not that difficult to achieve.
After all, I still have a card that I haven't used yet.
Every time a small case is concluded, the conditions for identity change can be triggered.
And it just so happened that the case they were investigating was Cui Shi's case.
I also happen to know who the murderer is.
So, He Qisi and I decided to postpone the investigation of the entire Cui Shi case, preferably to one day after the disaster occurs, so that after the incident, I would have room to maneuver.
It is obvious that Cui Shi’s murderer is Xiaozhuang.
After the case was solved, I sent a text message to He Qisi as planned to keep in touch.
During this period, Miao Lunan continued to work as Infernal Affairs and would look after "me" if necessary.
I originally thought about whether I would exchange identities with Xin Qiao's clone again this time, but in fact, I exchanged identities with Vita's boss.
The other person has an unstable personality and I'm afraid I can't handle him.
However, after I exchanged identities with him, I found that it was not as difficult as I had imagined - "because I am him."
For a long time, I didn't really discover or realize this, even though the comics have reminded me many times that Tang Li and Cui Shi are my clones, but I never cared.
Thinking about it later, I found that the reason why I didn't understand or pay attention to it was because I was lazy and didn't want to think too much about things that had nothing to do with me, or because I felt troublesome things in advance.
That's why I kept ignoring the signals.
The first is "tattoo". The tattoos on my body are my own ideas. I also didn’t tell anyone why Tang Li and Cui Shi had the same tattoos as me.
The second one is "Choi Si's earrings". For a long time, comics have repeatedly emphasized the existence of the citizen system, or a kind of key, but apart from monitoring and controlling the movements of others, it has not shown its core role. Because it doesn't have much presence, except for highlighting Shang Hexing's personality. Later, when we were on the Peace, Fu Lin asked me to test the DNA on Tang Li's earrings, but I never got an answer.
But according to the principle of Chekov's gun, this is bound to happen.
Sure enough, when I read the comics over and over again to see if there was anything I missed, I found that I had never gotten the DNA from the Karakuri earrings. When I tested myself, I found that the DNA of "Li Zhi" was exactly the same as that of "Xin Qiao".
In other words, if I had not noticed this before, one day Fu Lin or Shang Hexing would find out that Tang Li and I are the same person. Or from a comics perspective, I get the chance to find out that the replicants and I have the same DNA sequence.
Whether or not I let others know this depends on how I want to manipulate the direction of the story.
The third is "My parents also said that I was picked up from the laboratory." This explains a lot about my identity, and so far "Xin Qiao's clone" is the most. There are actually many ways to achieve different appearances of the same set of DNA, such as gene editing or gene expression regulation, or random mutations. Then, it implies that I am a clone of Xin Qiao.
The fourth is "Cui Shi and I have the same preferences." No matter how much you imitate or learn, you can never achieve complete consistency. Not to mention being able to guess what I'm thinking.
However, these are not the main points.
My identity is not the point, but how to use Xin Qiao to realize my plan.
If the players feel that the story is not over yet, then it is not over for the comic readers either.
We have to influence the audience's perspective through the player's perspective.
What does it mean to end?
For the audience, the protagonist achieves accomplishment and a happy ending.
Then their plot should be to save the city from disaster. The scene must have a climax, there must be a big scene, if you can't see tears, then blood must be shed, try to stir up emotions as much as possible.
But for ordinary people like us, the big fight is too brutal, there must be room for redemption, so there must not be a scene where everyone dies and no one survives.
We still have to fight for our right to survive.
So, I directed and acted in a play myself.
In this plot, I first have to brainwash Fu Lin. They are not just players, they have identities. The game has no ending, but a case has an ending, which is to find the murderer. Well, let's set up the case for the ending.
Secondly, I made a deal with "Xin Qiao". I will find a way to let one of them leave this world as well, so that the high-dimensional world can assist the operation and development of the low-dimensional world. However, Vita must obey my command, including himself - to do his best to help the two players escape from this world.
As long as the protagonist sees what I want them to see, then the readers will also accept the rationality and existence of the story.
Then, our plan was successful.
It not only allows players to successfully escape from the world, but also gives the citizens of Anubis the right to be reborn.
The only thing that escaped me was that I was the one who got away from Anubis.
Because I was unconscious for too long, I didn't have time to read the ending of the comic, but when I opened the comic, there was a lot of blank space at the end that was very meaningful.
In the second half of the comics——
The first person to wake up from the white sofa chair was the hypnotist Shang Hexing.
The second is Fu Lin, who is still in a state of confusion.
This implies that people have completely escaped from the subconscious space.
But they both opened their eyes slightly and looked at the black-haired young man lying on another sofa chair. The other person fell into a deep sleep with a calm look on his face, but it was obvious that he was the one with the face of "Li Zhi".
For a moment, the air froze.
However, someone's hands loosened slightly, as if relieved of a heavy burden.
——End
【! ! ! ! No way! ! ! ! ! ! 】
【What's the meaning? What’s going on? Didn’t they say this person was dead? 】
[That is to say, this person is the murderer, and the other person is the deceased.] The game designer was killed and the doctor was the murderer. I feel that now there are two people who are starting to confuse me. That is, A is the deceased and B is the murderer. This will not make people more confused. Let's think about this. B killed A and seized A's rights and authority in the game, but deliberately switched identities with A in the tsunami incident and let everyone attack A whose identity had been switched. However, after being suppressed by Fu Lin, B and A successfully exchanged their identities. But now, it is the face of the dead A that wakes up. What does this mean? (Scratching head!!!)】
[Is it the effect of the comics?] That is to say, it was actually supposed to be B's, that is, B's face. However, before returning from the subconscious world, one of Fu Lin and Shang Hexing thought that there would be three people returning here. So is it possible that when A returns to reality, A and B will exchange consciousness again and bring B back? In other words, in reality, what everyone sees is A's face, but for the sake of expression in the comics, the face shown to everyone is B's face? 】
How does this work? It is impossible to enter A's body and bring out B's consciousness. There will only be A's consciousness, or the consciousness of his clone or body, in A's body. It is impossible to create something out of nothing. 】
[That is to say, the so-called subconscious space is not actually a completely subconscious space, but it at least provides a stage for personality destruction. And they bring out the personality they want most. So the faces of A and B are just to confuse the readers. Because the dead man and the murderer couldn't be the same person, could they? How can the chief designer be a doctor? 】
[The deceased and the murderer can be the same person, for example, in the case of suicide. Isn't it obvious that A has a destructive personality? 】
Although personality B also wants to survive, he is more proactive and not so extreme. 】
…
Shang Hexing’s words flashed through my mind: “False memories don’t make people feel wrong. This is normal.”
I remembered what Fu Lin said, "It is difficult to cause a fatal knife wound with the strength of just one hand." What if the knife wound was not fatal?
I stood at the station, staring blankly into the distance. The night was stretched out under the street lights, like a silent shadow.
In the distance, a bus was approaching slowly, and the slogan on the bus body was vaguely visible under the dim light——
"There is no truth in this world, only perspective."
Nietzsche's words come into view like a whisper on the wind, or like some kind of fateful response.
The car door opened, and the air was mixed with the coolness of the night.
I was stunned for a moment, and finally stepped forward.
Why take this step?
I think it was probably because my instinct to live that was driving me, or maybe it was because the road ahead was home, or I had other things to do, but no matter what, I had to keep going.
Don't be too confused about reality.
Follow your heart.
Let’s go first and talk later.
——End of text
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