The Death Knell

The lights in the room were dim, and the only luminous object was a huge glass jar standing in the center. The upper and lower ends of this tube were connected to the ceiling and floor. It was filled with yellow-green liquid, and fine bubbles were constantly sprayed from the bottom. These small bubbles were The water rises rapidly, providing oxygen to the contents of the jar.

The thick jar was originally big enough to soak a horse, but in fact it only contained a skull. Densely packed pipelines and mechanical arms were connected to the skull, making it look like a wetware computer.

Outside the jar, the Tuxedo Skeleton threw aside the powder bag and Milkman Superman, walked back and forth a few steps with his hands behind his back, looking at the skull in the jar with empty eyes, and the other person seemed to be looking at him too.

There were three women lying at the door outside the room. They were peeping and seemed to have not been discovered.

I saw the tuxedo skeleton holding a small book and writing some words on it. He turned it around to show it to the skull in the jar. I don’t know if the latter saw it. He could only see more and denser bubbles coming out of the jar. There was also a flash of electricity.

"So that's it?"

After a moment, the skull seemed to calm down, and electronically synthesized words filled the room.

The Tuxedo Skull nodded, indicating that this was the case, and at the same time, he wrote quickly again, writing quickly in the bat's small book, and showed it to the skull again.

After reading the new text, the skull let out an electronic laugh like a telegraph:

"I'm starting to understand, this is your plan, how to say... crazy, but it should work, logically speaking."

Whispering, the tip of the pen came into contact with the notebook and scratched across it at high speed, but what the skeleton in the tuxedo wrote in the windowless room could not be seen by the three women outside the door. They all stood on tiptoe, as if this could Same as improving vision.

Diana winked at Kara with her big eyes, but Supergirl just frowned and shook her head. She had already activated her clairvoyance ability, but the notebook in the tuxedo skeleton's hand was unusual. The small notebook with the bat pattern on it was specially made. , can’t see through it at all.

This is reasonable, after all, it is Batman's prop, and it is normal to have means to guard against Superman.

The peeping super power was ineffective, and Diana turned her attention to Harley again, but the little lunatic just rolled his eyes and said that there was nothing he could do.

If nothing else, no one could identify the skull inside the huge transparent water pipe.

Based on what the front desk lady said, this skull may be one of our acquaintances, but in this case, we are not forensic experts and can identify people by the shape of the skull.

It is difficult to distinguish between friend and foe of the tuxedo skeleton now, and the position of this skull is also unknown. It seems that they are having a good conversation, but they don't know what topic they are talking about.

It feels like a fog has been thrown in front of the women, and they can't find any clues now.

But no matter what the three of them thought, the tuxedo skeleton in the room still didn't stop. He would make a few strokes on the notebook from time to time to communicate with the skull.

And the skull is also a smart person, or a clever ghost. Every time its answer is either um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um or ah, or it is praise and good words, but it doesn't say anything serious. It is more like two people exchanging business blows.

Until about five minutes later, the skull in the jar opened and closed its jaws several times, and he laughed like an electronic ghost:

"Haha, it's such an award. In fact, it makes you feel a little ashamed to see me like this. Originally, I thought I could win, but to the extent that I have achieved it now, it is already my limit. I feel blank When she existed, it was sixty years ago, but by then it was already too late, she was everywhere..."

At this point, the electronic synthesized sound also simulates a sigh. If you listen to the laughter before, you will find that it is actually a bitter smile.

In response, the Tuxedo Skeleton shook his head, as if he didn't agree with the Skull's point of view. He quickly wrote something on the notebook and held it up for the Skull to see.

After reading what he wrote, the skull seemed a little moved, and another string of big bubbles rose from the jar, and he said:

"Indeed, the power of crisis is very powerful, but it is also extremely dangerous. I thought I could use it to rewrite the future for mankind, but I was wrong. In the end, I only had one head left, and all I could do was save people. Get off Jason, and then use my technology to upload people's consciousness to the 'imaginary number space' that I studied based on quantum theory. You can think that I used technology to upload and back up their souls."

The electronic sound still hasn't changed, but I don't know if it's an illusion. People can hear some pride in these words.

"Shua..." The tuxedo skeleton wrote in the notebook.

The skull was in a lively conversation, and it nodded weakly in the jar, with green light shining in its eye sockets:

"Yes, people's souls are now in my custody. They are the imaginary numbers you know, numbers that do not exist in reality, but can be used as auxiliary numbers to solve problems in quantum mechanics, which is the solution to quantum secrets."

If you want to talk about imaginary number space, you have to explain imaginary numbers, which means you have to use some imagination.

To put it simply, an imaginary number is a number that does not exist at all. It is imagined and assumed to exist, such as the square root of -1.

However, all its operations comply with mathematical laws. When the real number operation encounters a bottleneck, it can be used as an auxiliary number in another way. The calculation formula still holds. At least in the calculation of quantum mechanics, imaginary numbers are often used.

As for the imaginary number space, it is not complicated. It is a space composed of imaginary number calculation assumptions. For example, at a certain point in time, what actually happens in the space is a, what may happen but has not happened yet is b, and this b does not When it is zero, the possible set of all spaces is a+b.

a can be any number, b can be any number except zero, then the result of their addition can be any number, which is the set of all possibilities.

Of course, this is just an example, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division or other operations can be used, because imaginary numbers themselves are fictitious.

Furthermore, everything in the imaginary number space can be obtained by calculating imaginary numbers. Therefore, theoretically speaking, based on quantum theory and equipped with a quantum computer that can handle all operations, the imaginary number space can be regarded as It's another world, but not as real.

The world where people are uploaded in "The Matrix" is most likely an imaginary number space, and people's bodies are soaked in the nutrient tank of the material world and act as batteries.

And it was also said in that movie that in that world, imagination is the key. As long as you have enough authority and think you can do it, you can really do a lot of things.

The skull in front of us now has created such a space and used it to preserve the human soul, realizing an alternative kind of technological immortality.