Starting as a Wallfacer, his defection to the Three-Body Problem shocked the world.

Chapter 115 Supporting God

(Note: It doesn't matter if you haven't read Liu Cixin's other works, because he didn't write any plots at all, so reading them wouldn't be of any use.)

Lin Xuan met with Bai Bing the next day.

This guy... well, how should I put it?

In fact, when Lin Xuan heard the name Bai Bing, she already had a vague idea of ​​why the other party had come to see her.

This guy is also a character from the original storyline, or to be more precise... he can be considered a character from the original storyline.

Like Ding Yi, Bai Bing also appears in many of Liu Cixin's works. In "The Three-Body Problem," he is Ding Yi's student, named Bai Aisi.

Later, after the English language was largely assimilated, the Deterrence Era was renamed Ice to conform to the times.

But clearly, the Bai Bing in front of us is not Bai Ice from "The Three-Body Problem", but the protagonist of another novel by Liu Cixin, "The Mirror".

The first thing Lin Xuan did after meeting him was to confirm his identity.

"Your name is Bai Bing?"

"Yes!"

"Meteorologist?"

"Yes."

"What is the purpose of your visit?"

“Mr. Lin Xuan, I just hope you don’t go too far down the wrong path. Ever since you released the game Star Wars: Civilization, I have been full of admiration for your idea of ​​using supercomputers to simulate the real world. But when I learned that your computer can even download other people’s memories to acquire knowledge, I knew what kind of disaster this would bring to mankind.”

"As you can see, this method seems to allow people to get the answers they want directly, but it saves people from the thinking process, or to be more precise, it lacks subjective initiative."

"This is very dangerous. Humanity will become too dependent on this technology and completely lose the ability to think."

"Humans are lazy, and most of the service technologies in modern society were invented because of human laziness."

"They are too lazy to even think. Even if they know that the answer is someone else's and may be wrong, they are still more willing to believe the latter. After all, thinking is a mentally taxing thing. Since there is a ready-made answer, why bother to think?"

"Just like students who copy homework, they don't even care whether the answers they copy are correct, as long as they can copy them to complete the task."

"Over time, everyone's homework will be the same, the differences between people will gradually be reduced, and subjective initiative will be completely abandoned."

This viewpoint was actually mentioned repeatedly by Luo Congmin and Lin Xuan before.

The most fundamental definition in pedagogy is that education must be a practice that promotes the socialization of individuals and the individualization of society.

Let's break down the words in this passage.

Firstly, "facilitation" means that teachers should not directly tell students the answers. Instead, they should act as guides, and in practice, students need to discover the answers in their own minds through their own initiative.

Secondly, there is individual socialization, which means that the students we cultivate should meet the current needs of society. For example, if society needs you to have high scores on the college entrance examination, then we will cultivate students for the exam-oriented education.

Similarly, social individualization is a compatible characteristic, meaning that even candidates produced in the same batch by the college entrance examination factory should have certain differences.

This is clearly telling you that the path of acquiring knowledge by copying memories is not the way to go.

Because memories are all from the same source, it's like skipping the experiment and getting the result directly. So once it's copied into the human brain, it's fine at first, but because of different people's personal experiences, social status, and living standards, they may also have their own interpretations of the result.

However, they soon find that thinking about these problems is too tiring. Instead of thinking, they might as well download a second set of memories to get the answers. Over time, they completely lose their basic thinking ability.

For example, different people may have different interpretations of the same passage, but once subjective initiative is lost, it is as if a standard answer has been given to the interpretation of the sentence.

It's just like those reading comprehension exercises in Chinese class, not only over-interpreting the text, but also forcing students to write a uniform answer.

Even the original author of the article might not be able to answer a few questions correctly.

"Mr. Lin Xuan, in my personal opinion, your invention is more like a kind of 'knowledge drug'."

Bai Bing's tone was calm, clearly indicating that he had prepared this explanation for a long time, just waiting for the day he would meet Lin Xuan.

After asking about the research and development ideas behind the "mirror" and his life story, Lin Xuan asked Zhang Xiang to take the meteorologist out for a good meal.

After Bai Bing left, Lin Xuan stood alone in her office, gazing at the sky in silence for a long time.

Damn it, the world I seem to have traveled to is dozens of times more terrifying than the original "The Three-Body Problem"!

This isn't the world of "The Three-Body Problem," this is Liu Cixin's universe!

Bai Bing is the protagonist of "The Mirror". Does that mean that there are other civilizations in Liu Cixin's works in my universe?

The silicon-based empire and carbon-based federation in *The Village Teacher*, the risk-relief civilization in *The Road to Dawn*, the six Earths in *The Human Beings*...

No wonder the system's exchange page has so many random things, some of which Lin Xuan has never even seen in the original "Three-Body Problem". So it's like it's merging all the universes together?

What exactly are the components of this system?

However, upon closer inspection, it seems that the Trisolaran civilization is the weakest among them.

Well, after fighting the Trisolaran civilization for so long, it turns out I'm still stuck in the beginner's village.

I wonder what the Trisolarans would think if they found out.

"Wait... perhaps they already know."

Lin Xuan suddenly remembered something very important: Zhi Zi didn't call her Lin Xuan or Wallfacer, but rather "Observer".

He had never heard of the term "observer" before.

What is the deeper meaning behind this title?

Lin Xuan couldn't figure it out, so he decided to stop thinking about it and just go and try to fool the Trisolarans to see if he could get any unexpected gains.

"Tomoko."

Lin Xuan called out softly to the air.

This time, it took about three or four seconds before Zhizi projected the text onto his retina.

“Observer, your actions this time have crossed the line.”

Before Lin Xuan could even ask anything, Zhi Zi had already revealed a flaw in her plan.

"Crossing the boundary? How did I cross the boundary?"

"Your actions have seriously interfered with the progress of the experiment, which is inconsistent with your position as an observer. You should know what the consequences will be if you continue to do so."

Upon seeing this sentence, Lin Xuan's brain began to work at lightning speed, searching for useful information within it.

First, just as I had guessed before, "observer" is not a special title for me, but a function, or more accurately, an identity, and the observer cannot interfere with the process of this experiment.

Secondly, in the original storyline, the Trisolarans never came into contact with any observers, which means that this is a more advanced civilization. The Trisolarans regarded themselves, or rather their system, as a more advanced civilization. Therefore, there are information gaps between civilizations. Even if the Trisolarans knew that such an advanced civilization existed, they would definitely not know what the observers could or could not do, unless they had previously come into contact with a similar observer, which is why they mistakenly regarded themselves as part of the observers.

Third, the "experiment" mentioned by the Trisolarans should refer to an experiment being conducted by a certain civilization. As for the identity of the "observer," there are two possibilities: first, the "observer" is itself an advanced civilization; second, the "observer" is someone left behind by an advanced civilization for the experiment.

Considering the final threat in the Trisolaran's statement, Lin Xuan ruled out the first possibility and finally arrived at a complete conclusion.

The Trisolarans mistakenly identified themselves as representatives of a certain advanced civilization.

This advanced civilization is conducting an experiment.

This experiment was not being conducted in one place alone, because the Trisolarans had previously encountered similar observers.

From small things, one can see the big picture.

Lin Xuan quickly gleaned a wealth of usable information from just one sentence from the Trisolaran, no wonder the Trisolarans were completely fooled by him.

Therefore, I should now agree with what the other person is saying and continue talking to extract more useful information.

"This is my business, it's none of your concern."

Zhizi remained silent for a long time. Just when Lin Xuan was starting to wonder if she had said something wrong and given herself away, Zhizi finally replied.

"We understand your bias towards humanity. Therefore, after we occupy Earth, we are willing to reserve a place large enough for humanity to live on, so as to ensure the continuation of the experiment. All we need is this planet."

There wasn't much useful information this time, but we can roughly guess that the "experiment" the Trisolarans were talking about was related to humans, or rather, the human race.

In fact, Lin Xuan already had the answer in his heart, but he needed more information to confirm it.

"This is impossible. Earth is the container for the experiment, and humans are the subjects of the experiment. You've reduced the size of my experimental container. What kind of logic is this?"

This time, the Trisolarans responded very quickly, almost the instant Lin Xuan asked the question, they provided the answer using the Sophon.

"We can also be part of the experiment; we just need to survive."

Lin Xuan almost laughed when she heard this.

"You mean you want to unite with humanity? Do you think that's possible?"

"That's possible, Mr. Observer. As far as we know, when faced with external pressure, humans prefer to huddle together; they call it 'sticking together for warmth.'"

"Similarly, when faced with an unknown enemy, they may be more willing to unite with us, their known enemies."

"Moreover, compared to the other experimental containers, if humans could unite with us, it might be the best outcome for the experiment, thus allowing us to survive."

"Are you trying to fool me?"

“My suggestion is worth a try, Mr. Observer.”

The Trisolarans have provided a great deal of information this time, almost revealing the main points of the story.

In their previous conversation, under Lin Xuan's deliberate guidance, the two had reached a consensus on some of the terms used to refer to each other.

In an attempt to elicit information, Lin Xuan deliberately compared the Earth to a container and humanity to experimental subjects.

Although he didn't know exactly what the experiment was, he could reverse engineer it by reading the Trisolarans' words.

The Trisolarans said there were several experimental containers, which means that there are likely several Earths in this universe.

The Trisolarans also said that the best outcome of the experiment would be survival, which means that this experiment may have a screening mechanism.

By putting all the information together, Lin Xuan learned the whole story.

There was a god-like civilization that conducted an experiment on several Earth civilizations. The subjects of the experiment were humans. The purpose of the experiment is unknown, but the result should be that only one Earth could survive.

As for myself, I am the one observing this experiment, so I am not the only observer.

The Trisolarans had already met one or more observers besides themselves, but they still chose to colonize Earth instead of directly colonizing another observer's Earth, even at the risk of becoming part of the "experiment".

This means that in this experiment, some containers have already been eliminated.

But the fact that the Trisolarans are confident that Earth civilization will be the last survivor means that Earth and humanity still have a long time ahead of them, long enough for the Trisolarans to be confident in leading humanity to victory.

Of course... it's also possible that, like humans, they are simply arrogant.

Then it's actually quite easy to guess: Liu Cixin's other universe—"The Prosperous God".

This once again confirms Lin Xuan's previous conjecture that there is indeed more than just the original "Three-Body Problem" in this universe.

He also incorporated many abnormal versions of DLC for himself.

But none of this was what bothered Lin Xuan the most.

What frustrates him most is that, in dealing with the Three-Body Problem, he can find some countermeasures in the plot of "The Three-Body Problem" and use his omniscience and omnipotence to make everyone run around in circles.

But the remaining books, damn it, Liu Cixin himself didn't write any of them. They're all short stories, and even when they're mentioned, they're just mentioned in passing and have no plot at all.

How am I supposed to play this game?

Forget it, if you don't know the plot, you don't know it anyway. The plot of "The Three-Body Problem" has already fallen apart beyond recognition and is completely different from the original work.

But Lin Xuan didn't care at all and continued to live a carefree life.

In the early stages, he needed to utilize the system and the plot, but later he no longer needed the system.

Even if she didn't know how the plot would unfold, Lin Xuan felt she could handle it all.

As for Bai Bing, Lin Xuan discovered that this kid had an unusually high talent for computers, so he arranged for him to study computer-related technologies. His salary was one-third of Professor Wang Miao's, and later, if he made outstanding contributions, he would give him a raise.

If you do the math, Lin Xuan now has almost enough people under his command to form the entire Chinese Academy of Sciences, as he has gathered research talents in almost every field.

Wang Miao – Materials Science.

Ding Yi – Quantum Physics.

Wei Cheng – Mathematics.

Liu Chang – Biology.

Bai Bing – Computer Science.

Reidiaz – Military Theory and War Science.

If we also include Luo Congmin, a researcher in the humanities and social sciences, there is also education and sociology.

This is the true meaning of revitalizing the nation through science and education!