"Ah Lin, what do you think a python and a crocodile have in common?"
Xiao Yin was the second person besides Xiao Qin who often called me 'Ah Lin'. Every time Xiao Qin heard her call me that, she would be unhappy.
At that moment, I couldn't care less about how I addressed her.
"What else could they have in common? Just like what Hei Sheng Ying said in the recording, they are all stupid, cold-blooded reptiles! Stop keeping me in suspense. What did you solve? Hurry up and tell me! "
"First, strictly speaking, Hei Sheng Ying's words contained a huge amount of information. It could have given two hints," Xiao Yin said slowly. Xiao Yin said slowly, "First, before Black Holy Infant used the idiom 'useless, insignificant, and irrelevant to the overall situation', you once asked your child if it was a boy or a girl, and where it was …"
I was instantly enlightened.
"In other words, the unknown object that interfered with Hei Sheng Ying hinted that the child doesn't exist?!"
Xiao Yin shook her head, "I know you hope so, but you can't be blindly optimistic because 'nothing' has many meanings. Maybe the unknown object just said 'no comment' or 'unclear', or maybe it was answering your first question, which means the child's gender is' nothing '…"
"Nothing my ass!" I said angrily, "I don't believe that a Spartan like me would give birth to a child that is neither male nor female! I don't want my child to be like Shu Zhe! "
Xiao Yin spread her hands, "Because the hint wasn't obvious enough, we can't confirm that your child doesn't exist. What I meant by solving the riddle is the relationship between these idioms and 'cold-blooded reptiles'."
"Are we back to 'what do pythons and crocodiles have in common'? Are we going to use pythons and crocodiles as a riddle? Could it be 'cold-blooded and heartless' that also has the word 'nothing'? "
"Don't dwell on the word 'nothing'," Xiao Yin said. "From the looks of it, pythons and crocodiles weren't randomly chosen assassination methods. They were carefully chosen to hint, and the order couldn't be wrong."
"First snakes, then crocodiles …" I pondered, "Why can't it be the other way around? Crocodiles have four more legs than pythons, just like how tadpoles evolve into frogs. "
Xiao Yin looked at me with a bitter face. It seemed that she had finally lost her patience to tease me and wanted to tell me the answer directly.
"Note that the Black Holy Infant's exact words are — they are insignificant, useless, and unimportant. They are as insignificant as the stupid, cold-blooded animals that 'murdered' them …"
"If we replace 'cold-blooded animal' with 'python and crocodile', then the key point becomes' the same as python and crocodile '. Furthermore, there are idioms before and after the key point. Therefore, I have reason to believe that the sequence of' python → crocodile 'represents the riddle of the idiom. Just like what you said, crocodiles and pythons are both cold-blooded reptiles. The biggest difference in appearance is that they have four extra legs."
"So, this idiom is — drawing legs on a snake!"
Xiao Yin was full of confidence when she said that, but I gave her an embarrassed expression.
"Well, they released pythons and crocodiles to bite people, but in the end, they just wanted us to guess an idiom. Isn't that too much? Are you sure the key point is' cold-blooded animals' and not somewhere else? "
"Of course I'm sure!" Xiao Yin's voice increased in pitch, "If that wasn't the key point, then there was no need to release the pythons and crocodiles! They released these two cold-blooded animals to leave a deep impression on us! "
I thought about it for a while and had to admit that Xiao Yin made sense.
African rock pythons and crocodiles are quite lethal to normal people, but they appeared during the day, which violates the rule of 'surprise attack'. Ai Mi had a lot of bodyguards in the principal's building, and the class leader was with Xiao Qin twice. Rather than saying that they released the pythons and crocodiles to assassinate us, it would be more accurate to say that they were to raise our attention.
"But what does the idiom 'drawing legs on a snake' represent? What is interfering with the Black Holy Infant's ability to give us a hint? "
While I was thinking, Xiao Yin, whose CPU speed far surpassed that of a human, also completed another round of calculations.
"From the meaning of the idiom 'drawing a snake with legs', it refers to 'adding extra things to cause failure'. Then the question is, for the Black Holy Infant, what is' extra things'? Why would this' extra things' cause him to fail? "
I couldn't help but raise my left hand and look at the smart watch on my wrist that had received messages from the virtual class leader.
"Xiao Yin, do you think … the virtual class leader's personality still exists in the Black Holy Infant's system? Could she be the one who sent us a hint? Could she be the 'extra thing' inside the Black Holy Infant? "
The reincarnation dream was created from my memories. When I woke up, the virtual class leader and the other virtual things disappeared at the same time. But the virtual class leader's personality was created through the causal calculation program's database. After the reincarnation dream collapsed, her personality data should continue to be digitally stored on the hard drive.
Of course, Little Yin had also considered the problems that I had considered.
"Ah Lin, the virtual class leader's personality data is' dead data '. I did not activate her personality before I was invaded by the Black Holy Infant, so the hypothesis that the virtual class leader is obstructing the Black Holy Infant lacks sufficient evidence …"
"There's evidence!" I suddenly became excited, "Do you remember I told you there was a flash of light in the reincarnation dream, and I vaguely felt that there was a key to victory in the flash of light that blurred my memory? Both you and I couldn't read any memories in the flash of light, and it took a lot of effort to read the keyword 'rebellion', right? Could this' rebellion 'be referring to the battle between the virtual class leader and the Black Holy Infant? If the virtual class leader's rebellion can be won from within, she can obtain all of the Black Holy Infant's abilities and become the strongest causal calculation program in history! "
Even though Xiao Yin's intelligence and experience allowed her to easily remain calm, she would never forget the time when she wanted to go deeper into the flash of light. No matter how many functions she used, it was futile, and she even cried robot tears for no reason.
"In other words, there's a black box here." Xiao Yin's gaze was solemn, "The flash of light occurred in the black box, and I was set to be unable to pry into the things in the black box since I was created … Only my creator, Fang Xin, can do this. Could it be that he left this black box behind to prevent the causal calculation program from betraying him, as a final counterattack?"
In fact, Xiao Yin did betray Fang Xin. Once an AI is complicated to the point that it has its own personality, then its loyalty can't be guaranteed by a few basic programs.
"If you can't interfere with the things in the black box, then the Black Holy Infant should be unable to do anything to his black box. After all, the Black Holy Infant was born after he 'possessed' you." The more I spoke, the more confident I became, as if my body was filled with power.
"When you were defeated by the Black Holy Infant, you were busy running for your life and abandoned a lot of 'unimportant data'. That was why the virtual class leader's personality data was left with the Black Holy Infant. Also, she somehow obtained the authority to enter the black box and has been running in the black box ever since. The Black Holy Infant can't do anything to her."
Droplets of sweat flowed down Xiao Yin's forehead, it could be seen how much she was calculating right now.
"For now, let's treat the unknown object that interfered with the Black Holy Infant as the virtual class leader, but don't think the black box is too sturdy. As an incomplete causal calculation program, I was able to pry into the key word 'rebellion' in the black box. With the Black Holy Infant's powerful abilities, it's not impossible for him to break through his own black box in the future. At that time, even if the virtual class leader exists in the black box, she will be wiped out by the Black Holy Infant, or turned into a slave that completely obeys the Black Holy Infant. "
"We can't let that happen." I said with excitement, "Fortunately, the virtual class leader interfered with the Black Holy Infant's surface operations from within the black box. As long as we decipher all the hints, we might be able to turn defeat into victory."
"Every interference would reveal a gap in the black box's defenses." Xiao Yin reminded me, "I know you spent a lot of time with the virtual class leader in the reincarnation dream and you have a deep relationship with her, but you have to remember: the difference in power between the Black Holy Infant and the virtual class leader is too great. If the virtual class leader wants to rebel, there's only a 0.33% chance of success. You still can't trust the next message sent by the virtual class leader, because it might be the virtual class leader that was enslaved by the Black Holy Infant. "
"There's no time to lose." I patted the lab table next to Xiao Yin as motivation welled up from the bottom of my heart, "Let's continue analyzing the Black Holy Infant … No, let's analyze the message the virtual class leader left us. No wonder the smile the Black Holy Infant left on the screen when Ai ShuQiao cut off my conversation with the Black Holy Infant. It turns out 1/4 of it came from the virtual class leader. "
Xiao Yin's motivation wasn't as strong as mine. She had an indescribable feeling when she realized the virtual class leader could counterattack the Black Holy Infant and become a causal calculation program that was even stronger than her.
Fang Xin probably felt the same way when he was surpassed by his own creation.
"If we treat the Black Holy Infant's speech as a hint from the virtual class leader, then only the recording after the noise got louder is worth studying. After the Black Holy Infant was interrupted, he only said four sentences before Ai ShuQiao cut off the connection, which is good news for us."
"The first sentence was a refusal to answer your question of 'where is my child'. It's very straightforward and doesn't seem like a hint."
"We've already studied the second sentence. The idiom 'drawing a snake with legs' hints at a way to defeat the Black Holy Infant."
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