24 hours to save the world

Can anyone really predict the future?

The man's mood fluctuated violently.

He was a rational person and a firm materialist. From the perspective of existing scientific theories, it was impossible for anyone to predict the future.

But Zhu Shijiu did not behave like an ordinary college student from the beginning to now. Instead, he was cautious and acted as if everything was under control, not to mention that Zhu Shijiu just said exactly what he thought.

All rational thinking lost its effect at this moment.

"How is it, did I get it right?" Zhu Shijiu laughed.

Although he could not see it now, he could feel that the man was frustrated. This was undoubtedly a pleasant news for him who had always been crushed by the man.

After a moment of silence, the man said: "Although I don't know what tricks you are playing, if you think I will believe that you can predict the future so easily, you are wrong."

Zhu Shijiu did not answer, and looked completely noncommittal.

"Believe me, I am also working for the future of mankind." Zhu Shijiu said sincerely, "You will push the fate of mankind into the abyss with your own hands, I am just trying to stop you."

"Abyss?"

The man sneered, and then a hint of sarcasm finally appeared in his indifferent tone.

"Humanity has been in the abyss for a long time, and now humans are just lingering on."

Lingering on?

Zhu Shijiu was stunned.

This is what the man didn't say in the previous round.

He frowned and said, "Only pessimistic people would think so. It's really hard to imagine that you are facing tomorrow's actions with such a mentality. I thought you would be more convinced of the victory of mankind."

The man listened to Zhu Shijiu's appearance of knowing him very well, and a strange feeling rose in his heart again.

But he said: "What I said is true. If you knew what the enemy of the world is, you would think so too."

"I won't."

"Are you confident?"

"I have no reason not to be confident. After all, I am a superpower."

"..."

The man turned Zhu Shijiu's mobile phone in his hand, closed his eyes and pondered for a while, then gently placed the phone on the table.

Gada.

Zhu Shijiu heard a familiar voice.

"Guess what this is."

"You can't see anything now. If you guess right, then I will take off your blindfold, so that you can see what is on the table - if you can really predict the future, you should be able to see this kind of future."

"So, tell me the answer. If you guess right, then I believe in your "superpower."

No change.

Zhu Shijiu breathed a sigh of relief.

Originally, I was worried that the changes in my round this week would lead to changes in the test game, but now it seems that nothing has changed. He learned another thing - it turns out that a person's thinking is really inertial. The more firm a person's belief is, the more stubborn his thinking habits are. Even if it happens a hundred times, it is estimated that this man's decision will not change.

"One chance?"

"One chance."

"The deadline is nine o'clock tomorrow morning?"

"..."

The man immediately realized that something was wrong.

Before the man changed his mind, Zhu Shijiu immediately said: "I guess it's the mobile phone."

Stunned.

- This kind of emotion rarely appears in men, but it did appear like this. When Zhu Shijiu asked if there was only one chance, he was still thinking that Zhu Shijiu was good at adding restrictive conditions to himself, and he happened to think so. But later when Zhu Shijiu asked about the deadline, he admitted that his mind was blank for a moment.

"In the limited future that I can foresee, what I see is a mobile phone. Am I right?"

Zhu Shijiu wanted to act indifferent, but it was so cool to crush this calculating man with foresight. From just now, the corners of his mouth could not help but curl up. Because he was forcing himself to endure, his smile now looked more like a mockery.

The interrogation room was silent for a long time.

Such silence has occurred many times in the whole conversation, which shows how much the man lost his composure this time.

"Why don't you speak?" Zhu Shijiu asked with a smile, "Announce the answer. You said that if I guessed it right, you would take off my blindfold."

The man said after a long while: "What if... I say no?"

What?

Zhu Shijiu was stunned.

"In the future you foresaw, is there an ending where I refuse to take off your blindfold?"

The man said coldly and hard.

"Have you ever thought that from the beginning, I didn't want to take off your blindfold? To me, you are my enemy. Do you think I will give the enemy any chance? This test seems fair, but if I always refuse to take off your blindfold, you will not be able to see the phone on the table. Predicting the future itself is a logical paradox."

"Now tell me, how did you see the future?"

Fuck! Old silver coin! You are a dog who doesn't keep his word!

Zhu Shijiu was almost furious in an instant! His reason was swallowed by anger in an instant.

Damn, he has done this to this extent, but the result is still like this? !

So what is the point of all the tricks he made in the last round? !

Zhu Shijiu laughed out of anger, and halfway through his laugh, the identity of this man suddenly flashed through his mind—the representative of human resistance under the official, although he was a radical.

He thought of what the man said in the previous round. If he could really predict the future, he would become the hope of mankind.

Finally, he thought of the deep disappointment in the man's tone when he heard that he gave the wrong answer in the previous round.

Reason overwhelmed anger at this time.

"You will take off my blindfold." Zhu Shijiu calmed down. "In the future I saw, you made full preparations to be able to go to war with the enemies of tomorrow's world, and you were unwilling to give up any tiny possibility. Even if you thought that predicting the future was impossible, you took off my blindfold and let me be your helper."

Silence.

In the interrogation room, you could hear a pin drop.

Zhu Shijiu could almost hear the heartbeat coming from his chest. Saliva was secreted in his mouth, but he didn't dare to swallow it, for fear that the tiny action of swallowing saliva would expose his nervousness and lack of confidence. In such a quiet space, time flows by second by second.

Finally, when Zhu Shijiu was about to give up, the man spoke.

"...You are right."

Damn.

Zhu Shijiu clenched his fists tied to the back of the chair, and felt a cold sweat on his back.

Scheming dog, I almost fell into your trap when I was full of pride.

Zhu Shijiu was grateful for surviving the disaster. If he hadn't been used to calming down in crises after dying and rewinding, he might have really fallen into the trap designed by the man.

The man's thinking logic is very simple-if he is really as confident as he seems to be and has seen the future, then after hearing this, he will definitely be confident and believe in the ending of the man taking off his blindfold. But if all this is just a bluffing lie, then the reaction will definitely be different.

It's a close call.

After understanding the man's logic, Zhu Shijiu couldn't help but want to say something awesome.

Even at this point, he still resorted to such tactics. He was indeed the man who had crushed him several times.

"Then the next question -"

Zhu Shijiu wanted to curse again. There was another question? !

"I will indeed take off your blindfold. Whether you can answer the next question or not, I will not break my promise." The man said lightly, "But the next question determines how much I trust you after this, so you'd better think carefully about the future you saw before answering."

"What question?"

The man suddenly frowned: "You didn't predict what question I asked you?"

Zhu Shijiu almost couldn't hold it.

"No." Zhu Shijiu patched up his ability to predict the future, "I don't know if you have heard from Du Fei that I can predict a limited future."

Du Fei did say that during the interrogation. The man's brows loosened.

Zhu Shijiu explained with a cold sweat: "In the future I saw, you must have played the 'little game' with me just now to test my ability to predict the future, but you didn't ask me this question."

The man had an unspeakable doubt in his heart. He wanted to say that this was impossible, because he was a consistent man. If nothing unexpected happened, he would make the same decision a million times.

According to his idea, he would definitely ask the next question after the test just now.

But...

"Is this the question you want to ask?" Zhu Shijiu interrupted the man's thinking.

He was really scared. This man was so cautious that he even suspected that if he gave the man a little more time, the man might find a flaw that he couldn't think of.

The man was interrupted and put aside his doubts for the time being, and then said: "Of course not. The question I want to ask is very simple. If you can predict the future, you will definitely be able to answer it."

Zhu Shijiu listened with some uneasiness.

Then he heard the man ask: "What's my name?"

Fuck.

At this moment, Zhu Shijiu's scalp tingled and his heart beat wildly again!

His mind began to spin wildly again.

What does it mean?

What's the man's name? The name he heard when communicating with the man in the fifth round - Xu Feng?

—— No, that's a pseudonym.

But he couldn't know his real name, so he had to make up a name?

—— No, why couldn't he answer the man's pseudonym?

No, it would take longer to think.

In a flash, Zhu Shijiu realized that he couldn't act like he was thinking.

Because if he could really predict the future, the man's name should be easy to recall, just like he quickly answered "mobile phone", he should also blurt out the man's name.

"Xu Feng."

Before the thinking in his head was completely finished, Zhu Shijiu answered first.

Then, he began to think about the feasibility of this answer.

Why not a pseudonym? With the man's cautious character, will he really tell him his real name? Even if he can predict the future, the man's way of thinking is always fixed. So according to the previous idea, since the man chose to play the test game like the previous round, he will definitely report the pseudonym "Xu Feng" in the subsequent contacts, because the pseudonym "Xu Feng" itself is the name that the man in the fifth round came up with, which is completely in line with the man's thinking inertia.

——Thinking is over.

The conclusion is "feasible".

Zhu Shijiu found that he was really too calm at this time.

"... It seems that the future me does not believe you too much."

The man sighed.

Zhu Shijiu replied calmly: "You are just like this."

He secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Then, Zhu Shijiu heard a heavenly sound.

——"Take off his blindfold."

[Author's side note]: Thank you "Huang Gou Gou" and "Yan Shen Morax" for feeding gold tickets! At the same time, thank you very much for feeding silver tickets, comments, and urging for updates!

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