All Worlds Madhouse

Sometime a year ago.

In the morning, Ziliang got up early, brushed his teeth, washed his face, combed his hair into a less messy shape, and finally trimmed his beard.

As early as last month, Ziliang still looked unkempt, smoking constantly and with dark circles under his eyes. But now, he looks a little more human-like. This change in living habits seems to be very difficult. But in fact, it only took Ziliang half an hour to get rid of all his previous bad habits.

The reason is also easy to explain. One day, a beautiful lady named Salina came to her office, pinched her nose, and calmly discussed with him, "Should you clean up yourself?" question.

At first, Ziliang struggled with the idea of ​​bargaining. After all, it was a bit difficult for a man who never shaved his head to get up and shave every day.

But Salina kindly said that if he didn't want to shave, she would be happy to help him complete the process.

The next second, Ziliang promised that he would definitely change his past.

Because he was very sure that if Ms. Salina did it, it might not just be as simple as his beard, but maybe his entire chin would be gone.

After washing up, Ziliang threw a piece of chewing gum into his mouth. Chewing gum played an irreplaceable role in quitting smoking.

Then, he put on his freshly laundered white coat and walked out of his office. Then he turned right and walked to a door.

At this time, a wooden door with a high frame seemed out of place in the hospital corridor, but no one cared. Ziliang pushed it open and walked in.

Inside the door is a library.

Well, it is indeed a bit inconsistent to insert a library into a hospital, but as I just said, no one will care.

Ziliang squeezed into the narrow aisle, then walked around several rows of bookshelves, and finally came to a small open space that was not so crowded. There was a tea table, two chairs, a chessboard, and a seat. Middle-aged man on the chair.

Although this man is over 35 years old, his elegant clothes and round head make him look much younger than his actual age, and even a little cute.

At this moment, this man was holding a book and reading it with gusto. Zi Liang's arrival did not have any impact on him.

"You just read here all night?" Ziliang asked.

The man didn't reply, just nodded with the page-turning air strike.

"Don't you want to sleep? Confusion of black and white is not a good thing. I used to have insomnia all the time, which makes me feel extremely uncomfortable now that the time has passed."

Moriarty smiled: "You can't sleep because you have been smoking for a long time. For people like me who don't have any bad habits, in fact, as long as they are not too boring, only 30 hours of sleep a week can satisfy the needs of the brain. It’s functioning normally.”

"Well, hearing someone like you who thinks about 'killing people, setting fires, robbing banks, stealing national treasures, eating black things, destroying corpses, destroying traces and stealing information' all day long, saying, 'I don't have any bad habits' really makes me a little unsteady. ah."

"Excellent." Moriarty responded without much emotion.

"Okay, I don't care whether your crazy hobby is normal or not. Let's continue yesterday's chess game." Ziliang said, then he sat down opposite Moriarty and picked up the chessboard. 'Soldier'.: "Where did you talk about yesterday?"

Perhaps, compared with the book, playing chess with Ziliang attracted Moriarty's interest more, so he put the book down and looked at him.

"Ask me, if you are careful enough and no one can kill you, then if I want to kill you, what method will I use?"

"Oh, I remembered it. So I wonder if our Professor Moriarty has any insights?"

Moriarty calmly watched his [horse] being eaten by the opponent's soldiers: "I have thought about this issue for a long time. At first, I formulated some seemingly clever methods and traps. I also checked many planes or Legendary weapons, of course, also include poisons, curses and the like, but in the end, I gave up on these."

"Why?" Ziliang asked while eating the opponent's [car] again.

"It's nothing, I just felt that it was too dramatic. Although God could die with a fruit knife and the queen could be killed by soldiers, it would be boring, so I threw away all these methods."

"Ah?" Ziliang frowned: "I've been with you for so long, and I haven't thought of anything."

"That's not the case. In fact, after giving up those things, I thought of a method. If I were your enemy, I would definitely use this method to deal with you."

"What?"

"Use yourself!"

"." Ziliang seemed to have fallen into a brief period of contemplation, but he still took the opponent's few remaining chess pieces without hesitation: "Use myself? Let's not talk about whether this method can be realized, but the idea itself. Why do you Did you use the word 'definitely'?"

Moriarty smiled: "There is no reason, but I am sure. Because in almost all mathematical theories, the lower-level questions are accompanied by more answers, but the higher-level formulas have more answers. The simpler, as for the highest level questions, there is often only one way to prove them.

This kind of law is not only limited to mathematics, but all phenomena, even philosophy, will tend to this form. For example, someone may ask, how to define philosophy, then the answer will only be - what can define philosophy? , only philosophy itself. In religion, there is even a sophistry saying that "the only person who can stump God is God Himself."

In short, although it sounds ridiculous, an ultimate question seems to be answered only by the question itself. "

The word 'unhappy' was written all over Ziliang's face. He was almost angry. The wind and the remaining clouds swallowed up Moriarty's chess pieces: "So, you are going to use this kind of method now, which is not convincing at all." This thing makes me believe that you have fully understood the enemy's intentions?? You have to know that what we are dealing with is a 'conceptual level' enemy."

"I know, but in the final analysis, his purpose is to kill someone, and I am very good at this. Besides, since you are sitting here, it means you want to listen to my opinion, so..."

"So I don't trust you now." Ziliang interrupted Moriarty: "Oh my God, I'm so stupid. The other party is a 'cosmic element'. I actually want a human to understand his thoughts, a Humans. How could humans defeat the universe?”

Moriarty still kept smiling: "Is it an element of the universe? Oh, now that I think about it, you can be considered an element of the universe."

"Of course, I am guilty. At least back then."

"Okay then——" Moriarty nodded: "General."