Chapter 171 Tai 1 Observer
Chapter 171 Taiyi Observer
On the fluorescent screen, a huge Buddha statue sat in the center. The nearly still picture had a low resolution of only 720P, and the bit rate was very low. Ning Zhe's phone was a cheap one that he couldn't even remember the brand of, and he even forgot when he bought it.
Ning Zhe doesn't have high material desires, and his attitude towards daily necessities is that it's enough to have enough. He can wear a custom-made suit costing $2000 million or a T-shirt costing $5.
"I have to buy some professional equipment when I get out." Ning Zhe stared at the flickering screen and said to himself.
He had seen in the materials that the death squads trained by local state governments to deal with strange incidents that no upgraded people were willing to deal with would sometimes use equipment such as drones and robot dogs to explore unknown areas. Ning Zhe felt that he also needed to get one.
It was not used before, but not anymore.
For example, now in Zanju Town, if you have a drone equipped with professional-grade camera equipment, your previous arrangements will be much easier.
why?
This involves a concept - observer.
1. It is known that the stone statues in Zanju Town exist in two states: "alive" and "dead". When they are not observed, they are "alive", and when they are observed, they are "dead". This is one of the rules covering Zanju Town.
2. It is known that the life and death judgment of stone statues will not regard each other as "observers".
Combining the above two points, the entire logic chain leads to an interesting question:
——Who, or what, would be considered the observer?
Being looked at by people is considered being observed, being covered by special sensory vision is also considered being observed, but being seen by stone statues is not considered being observed. What is the difference between stone statues, people and ghosts?
A mobile phone with the recording function turned on is leaning against the wall. This electronic device, which is completely disconnected from the Internet and unmanned, and runs programs automatically, will it also be considered an observer?
3. It is also known that Xia Yubing, who is a living person, received a text message from Jiang Han and heard Jiang Han's voice while "thinking that Jiang Han was still alive". She observed Jiang Han alive.
4. But after being reminded by herself and realizing that Jiang Han might be dead, Xia Yubing could no longer observe the living Jiang Han. All she could see was a corpse with the abdomen pierced by the stone sculpture's arm, the same as what Ning Zhe and Xiao Ke saw.
Through Xia Yubing's abnormal behavior, Ning Zhe could easily come to a guess:
——The world where Zanju Town is located is changing, fluctuating, and uncertain. What people see here depends on what they know in their minds. Xia Yubing didn't realize that Jiang Han was dead, so she observed Jiang Han alive.
In a sense, the strange events that permeate this long-abandoned, uninhabited town are more like an amorphous probability quantum cloud. Everything under the cloud is uncertain, and the world will collapse into what the observer believes it to be.
So, what kind of world would a dead mechanical object with no self-awareness observe?
There are many more questions like this.
For example, when they were in the previous building, Xia Yubing clearly didn't know in advance that Xiao Ke was dead, and what she observed using her special ability was the shadow of a living person. Why was it that after Xia Yubing and she went upstairs without knowing that Xiao Ke was dead, she saw a cold corpse of Xiao Ke?
Who caused the probability cloud on Xiao Ke to collapse towards her death?
For example, why are the three corpses of Ah Zhen, who had been dead for three years, still wandering around this town? And why can they be observed by Jiang Han and others?
As he got more and more clues, Ning Zhe made many guesses about the core rules of this strange incident, but all this did not reduce the unsolved mysteries lingering here. Instead, the haze hanging over the town became thicker, heavier and suffocating.
If there is an answer to all this, then the answer may be in Ning Zhe's hands.
The video on the phone screen was played at double speed, and soon, a figure running in a panic broke into the center of the screen from the bottom of the picture. It was Shen Qing, who had fled to the town center in a panic. He sat down on the bridge exhausted, and the phone in his hand fell to the ground and almost fell into the bottom of the dry pool.
Shen Qing didn't know that Jiang Han was dead, which meant that in his mind, Jiang Han was still alive. Would he be able to observe Jiang Han alive?
Ning Zhe canceled the speed and restored the image to normal. He watched without blinking as Shen Qing, who was sitting on the ground, turned sideways and reached out to pick up his phone.
Then Shen Qing started dancing with joy.
The clarity of the cell phone camera at this distance was not satisfactory. Ning Zhe was unable to see the hand that stretched out from the bottom of the pool. In the silent picture, he only saw the mad Shen Qing, who seemed to have been extremely frightened and had a mental breakdown, and fell directly into the dry pool.
What frightened him like this?
It’s Jiang Han.
I saw an arm stretching out from the bottom of the pool, grabbing the ground, and pulling the whole body up together.
He was a young man wearing a black windbreaker, tall and thin, with a slim figure. According to the information Ning Zhe got from Xia Yubing and Xiao Ke, Jiang Han was wearing the same outfit today.
There is no doubt that the one who crawled out of the pool was Jiang Han, the living Jiang Han.
Ning Zhe's heartstrings were quietly tense, and he watched without blinking as the young man in the black windbreaker struggled to climb out from the bottom of the deep pool, and bent down to pick up the phone that Shen Qing had dropped on the ground.
As his hand touched the cracked screen of the phone, a drop of bright red blood flowed down his arm to Jiang Han's fingertips.
When he stood up again, Jiang Han's clothes had disappeared, and his naked body was covered with dried blood. His pink and white intestines hung around his waist, and there was a bloody hole in his abdomen. As he walked, sticky secretions flowed out.
With one step deep and one step shallow, Jiang Han left the empty center of the town and disappeared at the end of the picture.
Ning Zhe's breathing quickened slightly. He caught, he captured, the fleeting moment of light.
"When Jiang Han first climbed out from the bottom of the pool, he was dressed neatly. That was what Shen Qing saw of him—a healthy, alive, and able-bodied Jiang Han.
But after climbing out of the pool and being exposed to the daylight, Jiang Han's clothes disappeared at an extremely fast speed, and the wounds I saw before appeared on his body. He turned from a living being into a corpse again. "
Ning Zhe pressed his finger on the screen and swiped it to the left, replaying the scene of just a few seconds. The chaotic thoughts in his mind churned rapidly, gradually weaving into a complete and smooth line:
"Why did Jiang Han change from being alive to being a corpse? Was it because Shen Qing fell into the pool and died?"
"Or was it because another observer saw him after he climbed out of the pool?"
The video rewinds again, and Jiang Han stands up again with his naked and broken body. The cold evening breeze blows up the dust under his feet, and the giant Buddha above his head quietly watches everything that happens under the moonlight, neither happy nor sad.
"I found you." Ning Zhe said softly, "Taiyi Observer."
(End of this chapter)