Chapter 466
Chapter 466: Chapter 72 The First Time Facing the Wall, Deceiving the Future_2 Chapter 466: Chapter 72 The First Time Facing the Wall, Deceiving the Future_2 “And if the enemy copied a fake Tem Bank in the Fourth Dreamland, that would be like they told the first lie.
Don’t forget, Tem Bank in 2024 is under my control…
Whatever changes I make to Tem Bank, they will have to follow suit; whatever I set the vault code to, they must change it to match; whatever I put in the vault, they must duplicate exactly, maintaining a strict one-to-one correspondence.”
“In the original dream occurring 600 years later, I was isolated, without any reference points to link the two Ms—from 2024 and from 2624.
But now I have one: Tem Bank.
Remember what I said before?
I’ll place a small note in the vault, the content of which I’m not afraid the enemy will see in advance, nor do I care if they know or duplicate an exact copy…
After all, the note is just text, and there is no difference between a fake and the real thing.”
“So, I just need to follow the original plan and place that note, whose content I don’t know, in the vault.
Then the enemy must, strictly speaking, give me an exact duplicate in the fake Tem Bank!
In doing this, they are completely on the back foot—”
“[If they tamper with the content of the note, I will immediately realize the dream is fake; if they duplicate the content exactly, I can naturally discern the authenticity of the dream through the unique code only I understand; and if they decide to leave the vault empty, that flaw alone is sufficient proof that the dream is false!]”
“So…
do you understand, VV?”
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Lin Xian smiled and said:“Initially, we were constantly being constrained by an unknown enemy, but now…
the tables have turned, we have the advantage, and the initiative is ours.
That little piece of paper puts them in a bind: touch it, and they’re doomed; leave it, and they’re equally doomed; copy it, it’s futile; leave it uncopied, and it’s just as bad.
From the moment Tem Bank appeared…
they’ve been checkmated.”
Boom————
The electric kettle on the tea bar suddenly boiled over!
“Wall Facer Lin Xian!”
The tea bar machine VV shouted excitedly in a thin voice:
“Is this your plan to deceive the whole world?
Tem Bank…
is nothing but a trap you set for your opponent, a pitfall you buried!”
“You’ve even fooled me!
With all my computational power, I didn’t see through this layer!
This way…
the enemy’s choice to replicate Tem Bank was a blunder!
They could have maintained the upper hand forever, but you’ve tricked them!
From a game of certain loss…
you’ve created the possibility of a comeback victory!”
“Exactly.”
Lin Xian nodded:
“In fact, the best course of action for them would have been to leave the dream as it was, without any changes.
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When I was learning programming, I learned an interesting saying—”
“If a program is running fine, you’d better not touch it; even if you don’t understand how a buggy program works, it’s still best not to touch it, because the moment you do, something will surely go wrong.”
“If my Fourth Dreamland was indeed a counterfeit world, a studio built by the enemy, they should have left it just as it was, instead of replicating Tem Bank.
If they had done that…
I would never have gotten the correct answer, and there would be no breakthroughs, no way to verify the truth.
I might even doubt the Space-time Law I’d concluded, thinking I had misunderstood Temporal Flux.”
“But now, it’s too late for them to mend the fold.
Even though there’s still some time before I open the vault in Tem Bank.
Just the mere appearance of Tem Bank is enough to narrow down the true answer of the dream puzzle to two—”
Lin Xian held up one finger:
“[First, our concerns are completely unfounded, my dream is absolutely real, and the Space-time Law I apprehended is absolutely correct.]”
Then he held up a second finger:
“[Second, although the dream is fake, the enemy isn’t as clever and powerful as we thought.
At least, they don’t have the ability to extract my memories and thoughts, otherwise…
they would have definitely realized this was a trap I set for them, and there was simply no need to replicate Tem Bank into the virtual world and the studio, letting me continue to question myself as before.
But obviously, the enemy hasn’t made the perfect choice.]”
“So you see, what was once a short-answer question without an answer has now become a multiple-choice question with only two options.
This kind of either-or question is too simple, even if I can’t prove either option to be correct.
But…”
“[As long as I can prove one of the options is wrong, the other is undoubtedly correct!]”
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The expanding steam forced the lid of the kettle open and then down again, creating a noise similar to applause.
Amidst the clapping, VV lamented:
“Indeed, even if my computational power surpasses that of humans by a hundredfold, when it comes to ‘deception,’ we super AIs are far behind humans…
Our base logic drives us to find the right answer; even though I can learn to conceal and lie, deception is truly difficult.
”
“Humans are truly amazing, you’re the real masters of deception, capable of feigning ignorance, turning pretense into reality, speaking insincerely, making lies sound truer than the truth, burying falsehood beneath truth, and then veiling the truth beneath falsehood…
Brilliant!”