Chapter 7 Chapter 5 can get the first half

Bai Su was originally very decisive, and handled the matter extremely calmly, but at this moment, she was flustered, naturally because the matter was related to her father's life. Boss Bai gave me a push: "Why, Xiao Wei, you should also come up with some ideas, don't look like a gourd with its mouth sawn." I stood aside, not saying a word, because my thoughts were very disordered.Seeing the infrared scan of my old brain, which is the same as the pattern on the stone, the confusion of my thoughts is really indescribable.It wasn't until Boss Bai asked me that I managed to gather myself together: "This... I don't think I need to be busy making decisions—"

A doctor interrupted me: "The sooner the better." I closed my eyes for a while: "Three days, it's okay." The three doctors frowned together, reluctantly, but finally agreed.Boss Bai glared at me: "What tricks do you have up your sleeve?" I quickly concealed it and said, "Nothing, I just... hope I have time to think about it." Boss Bai shook his head: "There is no result, not now, and it won't happen in three days." I didn't say anything more, the doctor pointed to the picture again, and explained for a while. When the doctor left, Boss Bai took out a drop of wine from under the pillow in a very quick way, and took a big sip: "I'm so bored to death. Better go back to the farm."

Bai Su resolutely said: "No." We kept picking up some gossips, although I was extremely anxious and wanted to tell Bai Su everything, but Boss Bai obviously had no intention of letting us go.Bai Su also saw that I was in a trance, looked at me frequently, and finally even Boss Bai saw it, he waved us away: "Go, go, I want to take a rest, come back tomorrow." Only then did Bai Su and I back out, and as soon as we left the ward, I mentioned to Bai Su that Song Tianran had come to see me. In order to take care of Boss Bai, Bai Su rented a small apartment near the hospital. Although the room is small, it is well-equipped and comfortable. It only takes three minutes to walk to the hospital.

As I walked, I narrated everything that happened. Like everyone's reaction after hearing the narration, Bai Su's expression was inexplicably surprised.When I got to the apartment on that floor, I continued to talk, Bai Su listened and made coffee at the same time. I have given quite a detailed account, not only of the facts, but of our assumptions as well. Bai Su didn't express too many opinions, she just said: "This is totally unimaginable, so don't worry too much." I smiled wryly, and then I talked about what I, Song Tianran, and Wen Baoyu thought of, whether the patterns on the stone can show the development of the future situation in a chain.After I finished speaking, Bai Su took a deep breath, stared at me, and asked in a very cautious tone: "You...are you trying to tell me, the scan picture of Dad's brain—" She stopped here down.She was very clever and had already figured out what had happened.

I held my breath, and nodded slowly: "Yes, it's exactly the same, it's unimaginable! What the stone shows is a 1,500-fold magnification of a patient's brain infrared scan!" Bai Su has always been able to accept weird things, but at this moment, she couldn't help muttering: "Impossible, it's really impossible!" I sighed: "Things are really there, that picture, even that stone, is piled up in a corner of our living room." Bai Su suddenly said: "If the idea of ​​the three of you... is established..." I continued: "That's what I thought of. The surface of the stone shows the current situation. If it is polished with great care, it will show the next change? It can be seen that a tumor has formed, or the diseased factor has stopped moving? If it is available, it will greatly help the decision of whether to undergo laser treatment now."

Bai Su was walking back and forth, and suddenly stood still, showing a bitter smile: "There is a logical problem——" I nodded immediately: "Yes, I have thought about it a long time ago. If the next step turns out to be a tumor, it must be a fact in the future and cannot be changed." Bai Su said "hmm", and I said again: "But it is also possible, the next step shows that there is no tumor." Bai Su's expression was full of doubts: "If there is no tumor, what does it mean?" I said: "It means that the laser treatment is effective, at least we can make such an assumption."

Bai Su agreed: "Do you want to tell Dad?" I hesitated: "I'm afraid I don't understand." Bai Su said: "If we don't tell, how can we leave for a few days?" I thought for a while: "You can entrust someone to do this. Even if you get the stone, there are no grinding tools here. I think... you can entrust..." I first thought of asking Song Tianran to do this, and then I thought of Wen Baoyu, but in the end, I decided to ask Chen Changqing.Bai Su also agrees, because Chen Changqing is very interested in such weird things, he does them with great interest, and will never be afraid of trouble.

I was talking on the phone with Chen Changqing, and as soon as the phone connected, I heard Wen Baoyu's voice. For a moment, I thought I had dialed the wrong number, and I asked, "Xiaobao, are you at Chen Changqing's house?" Wen Baoyu said: "Yes, we have become good friends, Uncle Chen is really interesting." I can imagine the "interesting" situation of these two people together, Chen Changqing has already answered the phone, I said: "Changqing, I ask you to do something, you heard clearly." This guy Chen Changqing sometimes really doesn't know how to describe him, and he even puts on airs. I just said a word, but he refused: "I'm sorry, I'm very busy recently, and I can't do anything for others."

I was so angry with him that I almost passed out. He added: "I've been busy grinding stones recently." I know what he means by "grinding a stone". If I need someone to ask for it, I have no choice but to hold back my breath: "I just want to ask you to grind a stone. I have made a new discovery. That stone is in the corner of my living room." , the pattern on the surface, in the center, is a dark shade of irregular egg size, flanked by a broad streak of a lighter colour." When Chen Changqing heard it, he immediately became excited: "What is that? God, what is that?"

I can imagine how he kept blinking, before he waited for my answer, he said again: "You must tell me, otherwise, not only will I not do it for you, but I will also destroy the stone." I knew that if he made a splash, he would really be able to say it and do it, so I exchanged a wink with Bai Su and told him the truth.Chen Changqing kept shouting: "God! God!" and shouted: "Xiaobao, did you hear that, God! God!" I sighed: "Don't call God anymore, if you call God, it will cost at least three francs for the phone call." Chen Changqing asked: "Do you want to know the changes of the lesion?"

I replied: "Yes." Chen Changqing said: "Okay, I will go get this stone right away. I have set up extremely advanced equipment, and I must use the most careful methods to do it. I will send the picture by radio fax." I let out a sigh of relief: "Thank you." Chen Changqing said loudly: "Thank you, God! God!" He kept calling "Tian" again, and I couldn't help but listen to him. He called dozens of times before hanging up. I said: "Don't worry too much, I think there will be a result tomorrow." I don't know how Chen Changqing's "grindstone" equipment is. In fact, the stone has been ground to a very thin layer, which may represent thousands of years. , In fact, I didn't put too much hope on it. I have also made a decision. If there is no result, I will persuade Boss Bai to receive laser treatment, which is better than letting the tumor form. I didn't know what method Chen Changqing was using to "grind the stone" at the time. I learned afterwards that Chen Changqing had the spirit of perseverance. The "equipment" he told me during the long-distance call was comparable to a small precision industrial factory. The precise grinding machine was snapped up by him from a very large-scale optical instrument factory. The precision of the operation can reach one ten-thousandth of a hundred meters. For the next two days, we stayed with Boss Bai, and the three attending physicians had been waiting for our decision. Chen Changqing's fax arrived in the evening of the third day. Before the fax arrived, Chen Changqing called: "After extremely careful processing, we got a total of ten photos. It is really unimaginable. The part that has been worn off is only one-eight thousandth of a centimeter, and the pattern has already become obvious. Ten photos have been sent by radio fax, Wesley, our idea is valid. The pattern on the stone, the chain shows the development of the situation, you will understand what I mean after looking at the ten photos." Chen Changqing's voice was extremely excited.I hadn't seen the photos before, so I didn't understand how sure he was. When I got the ten photos, Bai Su and I couldn't help being stunned after seeing them. From the perspective of those who don't know the details, the ten photos can be said to be the same.But we know the ins and outs of the photos, so we can understand them at a glance. The shadow in the photo is a blood vessel in the brain, and that blood vessel exists in all ten photos.Next to the blood vessels is a group of diseased shadows. Following the order of the photos, the shadows change from large to small. In the last picture, there are only blood vessels without the shadows at all. After Bai Su saw it, he was very excited: "Look, the pathological factors have disappeared." Anyone who has seen this group of photos can’t deny that it is a series of indications of a situation, and I can’t help being excited: “It’s really amazing, I don’t know how much time is represented by one eight-thousandth of a centimeter? " Bai Su said: "No matter how long it takes, the pathological factors have disappeared, which proves that he will not develop tumors, and laser surgery is effective." I took a deep breath and said, "Should I seek the opinions of the three attending doctors first?" Bai Su was stunned for a moment: "How do we explain the source of these photos to them? They won't believe it even if they are tied to the mountain of knives." I waved my hand, this is true, even if I told the story from the beginning, they would not accept it, I thought for a while: "Show them the group of photos first, and listen to their opinions." Bai Su agreed, we went to the hospital together, without informing Boss Bai, we only invited the three doctors to their office, and then took out the ten photos and showed them. The three doctors were very surprised when they looked at those photos, which is what we expected. It would be strange if they did not express surprise. I also know that they will definitely ask a series of questions, so I said first: "I know, the three of you must have some questions to ask, but I want to explain that there will be no answers to some questions." The three doctors looked at each other with even more puzzled expressions, and one doctor pointed to the photo: "It turns out that Mr. Bai has undergone an infrared scan a long time ago, we don't understand, he should have received treatment long ago, why has the disease been allowed to develop and ignored? " What the doctor said was very easy to understand, but Bai Su and I were stunned when we heard it, and we couldn't change our minds for a moment. I asked back, "What do you mean? Doc, you mean—" Another doctor pointed to the ten photos spread out in sequence, and said: "We estimated that Mr. Bai's brain lesions began to form about three years ago. Look at this photo, which shows that this part of Mr. Bai's brain is It's completely normal, but in the next picture, there is already a small black spot, which is the beginning of the lesion, is this the scan taken three years ago?" After hearing what the doctor said, Bai Su and I were both stunned! Neither Bai Su nor I expected such a situation. The picture of "this part of the brain is completely normal" was numbered tenth among the ten photos sent by Chen Changqing, and it was the last one. We thought it was the situation in the future. However, the three doctors looked at it and agreed that it was the previous situation. Bai Su and I looked at each other, and we thought of a possibility at the same time: the three doctors never thought that there could be photos of "the future situation", so they regarded the photos as things in the past. I hurriedly said, "Could it be that the lesion disappeared in the future? Could these photos show the process of the lesion gradually disappearing?" The three doctors immediately showed strange and inexplicable expressions, and said one by one: "The lesion has disappeared? How can it be displayed?" I said: "Don't ask why, please answer me, is this possible?" The doctor shook his head, and the oldest one said: "Impossible, there are many cases where the lesions disappear, and the process of disappearance shown in the scan photos is all splitting and disappearing, that is to say, the shadow of the lesion will first split into many small clumps, and then fade away. What this series of photos shows is the formation of a cohesion with progressively larger shadows." Bai Su and I looked at each other, unable to say a word. The pattern on the stone can indeed show the whole process of the development of a thing in a row, which can be proved from this group of photos.But when we want to know the future situation, we end up with the previous situation. The whole situation, if it occupies one ten-thousandth of a centimeter in the thickness of the stone, if you explore one side, you will get the previous situation, and if you explore the other side, you can get the future situation. The problem is, the other side Where is the stone?Where can I find it?It was impossible to get the stone back on the other side. The stone was exploded, just showing the pattern in the middle of the matter. Even at that time, it was difficult to find the connected stones after the explosion, let alone now!The stone that falls in our hands shows the previous situation, which is really a twist of fate. Just think how little the chance is that the stone will fall into our hands, but we actually have the stone, and the other half chance, we don't get what we need. Bai Su and I were in a daze, the elderly doctor said: "Since the lesion was discovered three years ago, it should have been treated a long time ago, it's already too late." He was blaming us, we are like dumb people eating coptis, unable to tell what we are suffering, I hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, we will persuade Mr. Bai to receive treatment as soon as possible." Another doctor pointed to the photo, still complaining: "Which doctor did this? It is an unforgivable mistake for this doctor not to insist on treatment." Bai Su also had no choice but to respond in embarrassment, and said tactfully: "Please, please mention these photos in front of my father, otherwise, he has a very strange temper, and it will only be like this after three years, so he won't accept it." Received treatment." The three doctors thought it was reasonable and agreed. We came to the ward together, and after a lot of talking, we finally persuaded Boss Bai to accept the treatment.That night, when we returned to the small apartment, the two of us sat, unable to speak a word. After a while, I smiled wryly and said, "It's really a trick of luck." Bai Su murmured: "Perhaps the future events will not be continuously displayed at all?" I clenched my fists: "How come? We got the other side of the stone, so we can know." Bai Su said: "We can't know the future, including the fact that we won't get the other side of the stone at all." I was a little unconvinced: "Half and half chance." Bai Su stood up: "However, people can only get the first half forever." Bai Su's words are not easy to understand, but if you think about it on a deeper level, it has a very profound meaning: Although it is a half and half chance, what people pursue is the half, but what they get: they will always be the other half they don't want! I thought for a while, then sighed, and said nothing more. Boss Bai received laser treatment, and his condition is very good. The disease factors gradually disappeared. The doctor recorded the process of the disease factors disappearing step by step.Judging from the pictures, it is indeed as the doctor said, it will disappear after splitting up, which is quite different from the ten pictures sent by Chen Changqing's fax. Those ten pictures show the previous situation, not the future. , has also been confirmed. Chen Changqing called the next day to inquire about the results, and I told him the situation, and he was amazed: "It's really hard to understand: only people like Boss Bai will be recorded on stones, or every day Everyone has it? If every person's physical changes, growth process, and everything that happened in the world were recorded on stones, then this small stone mountain would contain so much information that it is really unimaginable. " I couldn't answer his question, but I just said: "All the computers in the world add up to less than one billionth of the data stored in this rocky mountain." Chen Changqing became excited: "In another thousand years, all human computers will not be able to store such data as one billionth. Now that I am talking with you, the sound wave graphics of our speech may also be displayed on the stone!" I smiled wryly, "Who knows, maybe." Chen Changqing said: "Come back soon, I really want to discuss it with you in detail, but I can't understand it on the phone." My answer was: "As soon as Boss Bai's condition improves, I will come back." When Boss Bai was discharged from the hospital and returned to his farm, Bai Su would stay in France to accompany him for a few more days, so I came back alone. After getting off the plane, I went directly to Chen Changqing's residence. Chen Changqing was very excited when he saw me, and quickly asked me to see his new "studio". They were all piled with stones. Seeing my disapproving expression, he said a little embarrassedly: "Every stone is a treasure, an endless treasure, I really want to get as many as possible." I smiled wryly: "Any piece, even a small piece, you can't study it thoroughly if you spend your whole life. It's meaningless to get so many. It's really greedy." Chen Changqing defended himself: "People are always greedy." When I arrived at the "studio", I saw many stones, the surface of which was polished very smooth. In one corner of the studio were various instruments, in the other corner was perfect photographic equipment, and in another corner, naturally, it was piled up again. stone. These days, he has taken thousands of photos. He installed a screen-shaped shelf, enlarged all these photos to 20 by 35 centimeters, and pasted them one by one. The shelf is in the studio. another corner of theI turned around one by one, looking at each photo, there was a figure formed by different shadows, but none of them could make people understand what it meant. Some of the photos were taken by Chen Changqing after each layer was thinned. Judging from the patterns, it does show the gradual physical and chemical changes of a thing.I pointed to those photos and told him Bai Su's thoughts. Chen Changqing frowned: "It's all from the past? We don't even know what happened. How can we judge whether the continuous changes are from the past or the future?" I finally found a chair in the studio, sat down, and said sincerely: "I think, although the research work done by those people who took the stone back was carried out with the power of the state, I'm afraid there will be no such thing as you." achievements." Hearing what I said, Chen Changqing was extremely proud: "It's not just my work achievements alone. Song Tianran and Xiaobao come to help me whenever they are free. Xiaobao comes almost every day." I laughed: "Be careful that Xiaobao's mother will sue you for abducting the boy." Chen Changqing stuck out her tongue: "She came here twice, and she was very unfriendly at the beginning. Later, I gave her a good recipe for losing weight, and her attitude became much better." I opened my eyes wide: "Wouldn't you think you still have the secret recipe passed down from your ancestors?" Chen Changqing said "bah": "What is the secret recipe passed down from the ancestors, my recipe for weight loss is omnipotent, just the word 'eat less'!" I laughed amused by him, and said something again, Song Tianran and Wen Baoyu walked in together, it turned out that Chen Changqing gave them a set of house keys so that they could come in at any time. The two of them were naturally very happy to see me. Song Tianran said loudly, "It just so happens that today there is a very important discovery." As he spoke, he opened his briefcase, took out a large stack of documents, and turned to one page: "Look at this report." I looked at it, and I could see that it was the laboratory report of the stone, which listed the composition of the stone.This is a kind of professional knowledge, and I don't understand it at a glance.Chen Changqing hurriedly said, "What's new?" Song Tianran said: "The rocks on this stone are all granite, but sampling tests - a total of 100 samples were taken, but it was found that the composition is different from ordinary granite, close to granodiorite, in which silica The content of black mica is only 50%, and the content of biotite is as much as three times higher—I believe it is the reason why the contrast between light and dark patterns on the stone is particularly complicated. The content of orthoclase and hornblende is also high, and the content of oblique The proportion of feldspar and quartz is low, and there is no record for the composition of this rock." Song Tianran explained, I didn't think much of it, because the composition of rocks is extremely complex. There are not many types of granite alone, and each composition is different. In a rocky mountain, many different types can be found. rocks. Chen Changqing obviously felt the same way as me, and he didn't look very interested.Song Tianran turned another page: "Here, there is a rather strange phenomenon. The blasting project of Shishan will level the whole mountain, but in some places, due to the needs of construction, it has to go down. Digging down, the deepest part is about ten meters deep." Chen Changqing is also quite good at bullying, he became impatient: "You'd better make a long story short." Song Tianran has a good temper: "Okay, in several places where the excavation is deep, there is the same phenomenon, that is, about five meters down the excavation, the stone quality of the lower layer is completely different from the upper layer, and they are all typical corners. Amphibolite granite." Chen Changqing waved his hand vigorously: "What does this situation mean?" I knew what he wanted to say, so I said immediately: "Don't tell me that this is a sacred mountain outside the sky, it flew from nowhere." Chen Changqing blinked: "Why can't it be like this?" I said: "Naturally, you can make various assumptions about this miracle. If you insist on thinking this way, I have no objection." Song Tianran frowned, not prestige, he is a scientist after all, it is indeed more difficult for him to imagine a rocky mountain flying over from nowhere. Wen Baoyu said: "It is very possible that there is a Feilai Peak in Hangzhou, China, and it is said that it flew from India." Chen Changqing was pacing quickly, as if he wanted to further explain his idea, but he didn't know what to say. I laughed and said, "Anyway, it's just an idea. Think about it however you want. For example, a few years ago, in the universe, there was a mysterious planet that suddenly fell on the earth, and it landed on that small island. That is what it is today." of this mountain." Chen Changqing blinked faster, not to be outdone: "It can also be said that a few years ago, on a planet somewhere in the universe, some advanced creatures used some method to condense all the things that were going to happen on the earth, Form a database, and put this database on the earth." Wen Shiyu also used his imagination: "I said, this was originally left over from the formation of the universe or the formation of the solar system. Everything that will happen on the earth in the future has been arranged and displayed in the form of graphics." The three of us looked at Song Tianran together. Song Tianran was a little helpless and coughed a few times: "Do you have to imagine it too? I would say that in the depths of the universe, there is a certain force that is manipulating all living things and non-human beings." The destiny of living beings, this kind of power, first makes a blueprint, not that it knows what will happen, but it has already made what will happen, and then manipulates everything to do as it has set, so that , it looks like it can predict the future." Although Song Tianran's ideas are not very fluent, his ideas are different from ours.Chen Changqing, Wen Baoyu, I, and I all believe that some kind of power has the ability to "predict", but Song Tianran's idea is that he thinks that a certain kind of power does not have the ability to predict, but only has the ability to plan everything according to it. the ability to occur. To give a more practical example, a person who makes porcelain cups can know that there will be such a cup after a certain period of time before a certain strange-looking porcelain cup appears.It's not that he has the ability to predict, but that he had a plan early on to make such a cup, and it went according to plan. As a result, naturally, there was a cup with a certain strange shape. Song Tianran saw that we were silent, and thought his own idea was too absurd, so his face turned red.He didn't know the three of us, and was considering his idea very seriously. After a long while, Chen Changqing let out a long breath: "In this way, then...all the materials contained in this rocky mountain are simply an extremely huge plan?" Wen Baoyu said with a mournful face: "Everything is going according to plan, God, what is the plan about me? Is there any way to know?" Chen Changqing glared at Wen Baoyu: "I heard that there is a blind man on the street who can tell fortunes accurately. If you want to know, you can find that blind man and do the math for you." Song Tianran stopped talking, and I said: "We all agree with your idea, if you have any other opinions, just say it." Song Tianran breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Since everything is planned by a kind of power and is being carried out according to the plan, then what exactly is this kind of power?" Me, Chen Changqing and Wen Baoyu said in unison: "Fate!" Bai Su came back a few days later, and I talked to her about our discussion, and she also agreed with Song Tianran's idea very much, thinking that although the phenomenon looks the same, predicting and implementing according to the plan are two different things. Although everything is under the control of a force called "fate" and it goes according to plan, it is terrifying to think about it, but the force of fate is so powerful and irresistible, and I don't know where it comes from. to think about it.