clown game

Chapter 146 Number Seven

Dr. Zhang withdrew his arm again, returned to the wooden door, looked at the numbers, "Eh, can this really be a sentence?"

Liu Yi nodded with certainty, "It must be, the "question marks" are all there, it's obviously asking us a question."

"But, this doesn't even have a Chinese character, or even an alphabet."

Liu Yi said again: "If there is no one, there will be none. Isn't language such a thing as putting together a bunch of meaningless strokes and creating it for the purpose of recording and communicating?"

Dr. Zhang was stunned for a while. He also thought about this kind of question when he was young, such as the origin of the world, the end of the universe, etc., but as he grew older, these vague thoughts have long been wiped out. up

But thinking about it, it is indeed like this. Words are composed of strokes or letters to form phrases, and then more phrases are used to form sentences. They are basically meaningless. What is really meaningful is what is contained in them. "Information" is like a circle on the ground. In the eyes of people who love mathematics, it may represent the number "0", in the eyes of writers, it is the letter "O", in the eyes of painters, it may represent a "The beginning of artistic painting", in the eyes of people who study Taoism, it may represent "the return of all things in the world", but in fact, it may be just a pit that monkeys fart out of.

If you think about it more along this line, maybe sounds, colors, numbers, these things are meaningless, they are just "symbols" created by human beings for convenience, and those so-called mathematics, physics, science , It is estimated that they are just all kinds of "conjectures" defined by human beings for their own ignorance.

"Um~"

Suddenly, Dr. Zhang froze for a moment. For some reason, the other party's words made him think of so many weird things. He quickly shook his head to get these unrealistic thoughts out of his mind.

The most urgent task now is to quickly figure out the string of numbers in front of me.
So let’s get down to business again. As I said just now, if the number in front of you is not a number, what does it represent?There are so many possibilities, such as strokes, letters, pinyin, and even "sorting the keys on the piano", that is, using notes such as "duo, rui, mi" to play a tune with the piano Come on, and then according to the stepping point of the syllables, the lyrics will be corresponding. Uh. But this method of solving puzzles is really too crazy. It is probably possible to put it in a conservatory of music. If it is put in a mental hospital, who the hell can think It can be concluded that there is also the "Morse code", which kind of thing is probably not one person in a thousand people knows it.

So Dr. Zhang thought for a while, and found that with so many possibilities, he could hardly find any clues.So he turned his attention to Liu Yi who was at the side again, and asked, "Hey, did you come up with anything?"

At this time Liu Yi was sticking his fingers into his nostrils, digging and digging. At the same time, he also replied: "Well, I first thought of the order of the letters. The "12" at the beginning is okay, it stands for "L" but the later "" 324” can’t be translated. Then I thought about the syllables~ but the number here has been ranked up to 9~ so there’s no play. Finally, I thought about the number of strokes of the man. Um, how is it possible to have 324 strokes? It’s a Chinese character, I guess drawing an evil talisman is enough to draw dozens of them, so the only thing I can understand now is the question mark at the end.”

Dr. Zhang nodded. In fact, he thought of this when the other party just mentioned that "number" represented "one sentence". Of course, those inferences were not valid. In addition, he also tried the 3 times 3 Arrangement method, but nothing can be obtained except some crooked line segments. There is also the idiomatic method in spy war movies, that is, there is a book, and each number corresponds to "which page", "which line" and "which one The word "is a complete sentence, but at the moment the two of them don't even have a book beside them, where can they compare it.
suddenly
"No way"

Dr. Zhang muttered something as if he had thought of something, and raised his head to look at Liu Yi who was facing him. At this moment, the other party finally dug out a lump of booger from his nose, and there was still a long stream of snot behind it. He kneaded it into small balls with his fingertips in circles. After that, don't panic, he didn't eat, and then he flicked his two fingers, and he didn't know where he flicked. "Isn't this guy able to memorize a whole book in his head?" Dr. Zhang pondered.

After that, I quickly asked the other party to verify my thoughts.

The resulting response is
"You've watched too many movies. The kind you're talking about is "hypermemory", okay? It's a "nervous vision", and I'm a "psychopath"! Do you understand "psychopathy"?"

The other party waved his arms unhappily and yelled, as if he had received some kind of inexplicable insult.

Well, it seems that this idea is also not valid.There was no other way, Dr. Zhang could only rub his eyes, helplessly cleared all the speculation in his mind just now, and started all over again.

He looked at the board again, the number still stayed there quietly.

“12▍324▍5667▍72▍4868▍6▍5298？”

First of all, he threw the symbol "?" out of the question, because "?" should represent a question under normal circumstances, and this question mark should have been left on purpose by the writer of this number. Otherwise, Liu Dr. Yi and Zhang really have no entry point.

Next, there is the interval between each number, which is easy to understand. These intervals are used to divide the information represented between the numbers.

For example, the combination of 1 and 2 at the beginning of a number represents a "information". This information is independent, and the combination of the following three numbers 2, 3, and 4 is another information.It's like the number "2" represents a "丨", the number "3" represents a shorter "-", the number "4" represents a longer "—", then 23 is a "ten", 234 just represents a " earth " word.Almost all languages ​​in the world are built in this way.

Of course, this is just an example. Numbers do not necessarily represent strokes, but may also represent letters and the like.

"letter?"

At this time, Dr. Zhang must have thought of something again, and he stared at a position in the middle of the row of numbers very seriously.

Between the two partitioned vertical lines, there is a very special number

(End of this chapter)