Chapter 35 second quarter

Sura Novi looked very nervous, her eyes were wide open, her lower lip trembled slightly, her chest rose and fell slightly, her hands were slowly clenched and then loosened, loosened and clenched again.Her hair was all combed back into a bun, and her sunburned face twitched from time to time.Clumsily stroking the hem of her gown with both hands, she quickly surveyed the members of the round table—speaker after speaker—with wide, awed eyes. Everyone also looked back at her, with varying degrees of contempt and anxiety in their eyes.Drami's eyes shot directly above Novi's head, deliberately ignoring her existence.

Gendib carefully stroked the surface of her mind, relaxing her mood.To achieve this goal, he could actually pat her hand lightly, or stroke her cheek, but at this moment, under such circumstances, of course he couldn't do that. Then Chandib began: "Chief speaker, I have to desensitize this woman so that her testimony is not disturbed by fear. Would you like to observe - would anyone else? If you Come with me, if you wish, to make sure I have not altered her mind." Novi was taken aback by his voice, which was not surprising to Candib.Chandib knew that she had never heard a conversation among the high-ranking people of Second Foundation, had never experienced that rapid and odd combination of voices, intonations, expressions, thoughts.But her fear came and went quickly, and when he subdued her heart, the fear disappeared without a trace.

There was peace on her face. "There's a chair behind you, Novi," said Candib. "Sit down, please." With clumsy movements, Nuo Wei slightly bowed her knees to greet everyone, then turned around and sat down, her body still maintaining a straight posture. Her voice was clear, but whenever her Eminem accent got too strong, Chandib would make her repeat it.In order to show respect for the round table meeting, Jiandibo must maintain a formal language, so sometimes the question has to be repeated, so that Novi can feel better. She described the conflict between Jiandibo and Rufinan in detail.

Candib said, "Have you seen all this with your own eyes, Novi?" "No, master, otherwise I would have come out to stop it long ago. Lu Feinan is a good guy, but his brain is not very bright." "However, you told the story from beginning to end. How could you do this without seeing the whole process?" "Rufinan told me about it, and I forced him to question him, and he felt ashamed." "Ashamed? Do you know, has he ever done such a thing in the past?" "Rufinan? No, master. He is gentle, though he is big. He is not a fighter, and he is afraid of obliques. He often says they are great and powerful."

"Why didn't he feel that way when he met me?" "It's a strange thing, I don't know why." She shook her head. "He wasn't himself at the time, and I said to him: 'How can you attack a slanted man, you stupid man?' And he said: 'I don't know what's going on, I don't seem to be there, standing by and looking at that Not myself.'” Speaker Zheng interrupted suddenly: "Chief speaker, why did you ask this woman to relay what the man said? Can't we bring that man over and ask him face to face?" "Of course, once this woman is done testifying, if the round table wants to hear more, I can always call Carol Rufinan -- the guy who got me in trouble recently -- Come to testify. If you don’t think it is necessary, after I finish questioning this witness, the round table meeting can directly make a judgment.”

"Very well," said the Chief Speaker, "continue to question your witnesses." So Jiandibo asked again: "And you, Novi? Does it look like you usually do to prevent a conflict like this?" Nuo Wei didn't answer for a while, her two thick eyebrows were slightly squeezed together, and she finally replied after she relaxed her brows again: "I don't know, I don't want the oblique person to be hurt, I have to do it, in my heart Without even thinking about it, I'm standing among you." After a pause, she said again: "Next time there is a need, I will do it again."

"Novi, you're going to sleep now. You won't think about anything. You'll be resting. You won't even dream." Nuo Wei mumbled a few words, then closed her eyes and leaned her head back on the chair back. Candiba waited a little longer before saying, "Principal speaker, I invite you to step into the heart of this woman with me, and you will find it extremely simple and well-proportioned. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, because the phenomenon you , may never be seen elsewhere. Here—and here! Have you observed it? If others are interested in seeing it, it will be easier to come one by one."

Soon there was a murmur in the venue. "Do you have any questions?" Candib asked. "I suspect," said Drammy, "because..." At this point she stopped abruptly, for she had seen phenomena that even she could hardly describe. Candibe carried on the sentence for her: "You think I've reshaped this psyche beforehand for perjury? So you think I'm capable of such fine-tuning as to deform a psychic fiber dramatically, while The surrounding structure is completely unaffected? If I have this ability, why should I use this way to deal with you? Why should I allow myself to be humiliated by trial? Why do I try to persuade you? If this name The woman's mind is really my masterpiece, so unless you are fully prepared, you are no match for me. No one of you can do the adjustment of this woman's mind, and I can't do it myself. This is true. True fact. And yet, this kind of thing did happen."

He paused, stared at each speaker in turn, and finally settled his eyes on Drami's face, and said slowly: "Now, if there is any need, I will summon the Am farmer immediately —Carol Rufinan. I have examined him and found that his mind has been adjusted in the same way." The chief speaker had a look of horror on his face. "There is no need for that," he said. "What we have just seen is truly a shocking sight." "In that case," Chandib said, "may I wake up the woman and ask her to leave? I've made arrangements for her to be taken care of outside."

Jian Dibo gently supported Nuowei, sent her out of the conference hall, and then hurried back to continue her presentation.He said: "Let me conclude very quickly - so that we have seen an example of how the human mind can be transformed in a way that we have never seen before. In this way, it is possible to The librarians stole Earth's materials—unbeknownst to them, and we too. We've just learned how the other—whoever they are—has orchestrated to keep me from being on time. Attending a round table. My life was threatened, and then someone rescued me, and I was impeached for it. This seemingly logical chain of events could end up with the loss of my decision-making power, and the course of action I advocated—those Enough to threaten the opponent's claim - it will be stillborn."

Drammy leaned forward, visibly shocked too. "If that secret organization is really so clever, how did you discover all this?" Chandib was in the mood to laugh now, so he smiled and said, "I don't have any credit for it. I'm not boasting that I'm better than the other speakers, at least definitely not as good as the chief speaker. But then again, those 'anti-muses' '—a rather apt title, coined by the chief speaker—nor is it infinitely high in IQ and equal to zero in flaws. They chose this Eminem woman as their tool, perhaps because she required only minimal fine-tuning; She doesn't feel repulsive to her so-called 'slanted people', and she also worships them extremely. "However, when this matter was over, her brief contact with me stimulated her fantasy of becoming a scholar. So the next day, she came to me with this wish. Her special Ambition intrigued me, so I examined her mind, which I would never have done if it hadn't been for it. Then, almost by accident, I spotted that fine-tuning trace and realized its importance Sex. If another woman had been chosen—someone with less affection for academics—the Anti-Mule might have had to work a little harder on her mind, but then there wouldn't have been a follow-up I would have been kept in the dark about what was going on. Those 'anti-mules' were miscalculating, or failing to fully account for the unknown. It's heartening that they can make mistakes too. .” Drami said: "The Chief Speaker and you refer to this - the organization - as the 'anti-Mule', I guess, because they seem to be doing their best to preserve the Seldon Project, the exact opposite of what the Mules are doing. If those Anti-Mules are really like this, so what danger are they?" “Why would they work so hard if there is no purpose? We don’t know what their purpose is right now. A cynic might say they are prepared to step in at some point in the future and turn the tide of history in another direction, of course A better direction for them. This is my own opinion - although I have no special study of cynicism. We all know that Drami speaker has noble sentiments of fraternity and integrity, whether she wants to extend herself to others, asserting these Human beings are universal altruists, volunteering to share our work without expecting anything in return?” As soon as this remark came out, there was a burst of chuckling in the hall. Candiba knew that she had won, and Drami also knew that she had lost everything.At this moment, a wave of anger escaped from her strict mental control, like a red sunbeam suddenly shooting into the dense shade of trees. "When that Amu farmer came to trouble me, I immediately thought that a certain speaker was behind the scenes. Later, I found that the Amu woman's mind was fine-tuned, and I knew that although I expected I got the content of the conspiracy, but guessed the main messenger of the conspiracy wrong. Here, I want to apologize for my wrong interpretation, and ask you to reconsider this case." "I believe this apology should be accepted -" the chief speaker said. Drammy interrupted again abruptly: "I beg your pardon, Chief Speaker, but I would like to interrupt. I advocate the immediate dismissal of this impeachment, and as things stand, I am no longer in favor of convicting Candidate Speaker. I don't think anyone else will either. I would go a step further and recommend that all references to impeachment be expunged immediately from the impeccable record of the speaker of Candib. He has proved his innocence in a masterful way, and I hereby Congratulations to him. In addition, I would like to congratulate him for discovering that crisis. If it weren't for him, we might have been kept in the dark forever, leading to unforeseen and serious consequences. I also want to thank him for my past hostility My sincere apologies." She was quite calm again, with a friendly look on her face and an extremely sweet voice. Drami even smiled at Candib, who had to admire her ability to immediately turn the tide to minimize failure.At the same time, he also felt that this was just the beginning of another wave of offensive, and she would launch another attack from another direction at any time. He can be sure that the situation that is about to happen will not be easy to deal with.