Genius Playground

Chapter 24 Sentence Errors
"Hahaha?"

All three of them exhaled at the same time.

You look at me, I look at you.

ha?
What is this?
"Don't believe it, I understand the first four words."

Qin Feng frowned slightly:

"But what does this last part... huh... mean? It's completely grammatically incorrect, isn't it?"

Jiang Ran shook his head:
"Is it possible that there are other ways to spell this phrase?"

But no matter how he adjusted them, none of the other combinations formed a sentence.

"Let's go back to the club activity room first."

He put his phone away.
"In any case, this trip to see Teacher Zhang Yang was worthwhile; I gained a lot!"

……

Film club, activity room.

The blackboard had been completely wiped clean, and five large characters had been rewritten on it—

Do not believe it.

"What exactly is 'Ha'?"

Qin Feng asked the question for the Nth time.

"do not know."

Jiang Ran, for the nth time, didn't know, and looked up at Cheng Mengxue:

"That sounds a bit like Xiaoxue's catchphrase."

When Cheng Mengxue speaks, she sometimes likes to end her sentences with a "ha".

The "ha" in this context often has no real meaning; it's just an interjection that serves to remind, emphasize, confirm, or express a question.

For example, the most frequent:
"I'm going to eat!"

"I'm starting the countdown!"

"Don't forget to bring it!"

"Then I'll buy it, okay?"

Ok?
Cheng Mengxue didn't realize it at first.

But I tried talking to myself and it worked:

"Really!"

She blinked:
"But it's nothing, isn't that how a lot of people talk? Wait a minute..."

She suddenly realized:
"You're not suggesting that... this text message was actually sent by me sometime in the future?"

……

Jiang Ran thought for a moment, then shook his head:
"Probably not. The sender of this text message is my phone number. Although it's possible that you typed it, I don't think it's that simple."

"Moreover, regardless of who posted it, these five words are completely grammatically incorrect."

"Don't believe it, ha... This seems to be a reminder not to believe something, but what exactly does it refer to? Why is it just replaced by a 'ha'?"

Seeing that Qin Feng remained silent and deep in thought, Jiang Ran turned her head away:

"Qin Feng, what do you think?"

Qin Feng did not answer immediately.

He paced back and forth in the activity room, chin in hand.

Finally, we went to the small blackboard and used pinyin to annotate the five characters.

bu, yao, xiang, xin, ha
Then pointing to the last "ha":

"I believe that the last two pinyin letters are not complete; there must be other information following them."

"For example, this 'ha' could actually be hai, hang, han... or even ga, gan, or gang."

On the 3x3 grid, the key 4 contains three English letters: G, H, and I. Considering the logic of pinyin, it could indeed be either H or G.

Jiang Ran nodded; he had the same thought just now.

is it possible……

This string of mysterious numbers is just the first part of the code; is there a second part?

If there is another string of mysterious numbers, they can continue pressing on the 9-key keypad to get more Chinese characters and more information.

As Qin Feng said, the ambiguous "ha" may be incomplete in itself, with other pinyin letters following it.

"Wow, Jiang Ran, you're amazing!"

Cheng Mengxue gave Jiang Ran a thumbs up:
“When we first received this mysterious text message, you guessed it was a warning message, and we were right.”

"It's not exactly a correct guess."

Jiang Ran waved his hand:
"At present, although we have deciphered the mysterious number into five Chinese characters, we still cannot obtain any useful information or determine whether it is a warning message."

"It's just reminding us not to believe in something, but specifically... what is it telling us not to believe?" "Is it to not believe in positron cannons? Not to believe in time-space text messages? Not to believe in the theory of world line jumps? Or is it..."

He looked around, his gaze settling on Cheng Mengxue and Qin Feng:
"Or perhaps, let's not trust each other, let's not trust... someone in this activity room?"

"Hey!"

The Rhinecat rice cooker came crashing down with overwhelming force!

Jiang Ran quickly grabbed it, but Rhine Cat's skull popped open with a "pop," and spacetime particles flew out, delivering a powerful uppercut to Jiang Ran's chin.

Wow, that's powerful! It even has a second attack!
How could you talk like that!

The fact that Cheng Mengxue threw her most cherished rice cooker, the Rhine Cat model, as a weapon shows that she was very angry.

At this moment, she stood with her hands on her hips, glaring at Jiang Ran:

How can you doubt your own comrade?

"Regarding time-space text messages, the three of us have always made decisions and carried out actions together. No one has kept anything from anyone else. How could you say such a thing!"

"I was just saying."

Jiang Ran grabbed the spacetime particle Rhine Cat and stuffed it back into the rice cooker's Rhine Cat head:

"I'm just making a saturation assumption, how could I not believe you?"

"If I had to say, I was the one who ultimately made the final decision on the several experiments of the time-space text message. If I had to say who was the least trustworthy, it would be me."

Qin Feng stepped forward again, standing between the two and waving his hand:

"Stop, stop, stop... Let's discuss, don't get so worked up."

“We certainly won’t start speculating based on a random text message.”

"This text message is clearly incomplete. If we can receive a second mysterious text message and a second string of mysterious numbers... then the truth will be revealed, right?"

"No matter how you look at it, this doesn't seem like it's making us suspicious of each other... but rather reminding us to be wary of something or someone together."

"The 'ha' at the end could very well be Han, Hang, Hang, Han, Hai, etc... It's too early to draw conclusions now."

Jiang Ran flirted with the Rhine Cat rice cooker again:

"Qin Feng is right, we need more intelligence."

He walked to the blackboard and erased the writing on it:

"While Mr. Zhang Yang's words may not be entirely accurate, they at least reassured us."

"The most urgent task at present is to obtain more information about the mysterious text message as soon as possible and figure out what the sentence following 'Don't believe' means."

He began to write on the small blackboard with a soft, scratching sound.

Qin Feng glanced at it:
"Do you want to continue sending time-space text messages?"

"Yes."

Jiang Ran nodded as she wrote:
"Whatever the time-travel message was trying to remind us of, at least it didn't warn us about 'sending a time-travel message' in the first place."

"In other words, sending time-space text messages is inherently safe and reliable."

"Moreover, the first mysterious text message was received at the same time as the time-space text message; if you want to continue receiving mysterious text messages, you will most likely have to repeat this process."

Hey.

After finishing the last stroke, Jiang Ran asked the two of them to look at the small blackboard—

[Space-Time SMS Experiment, Second Phase Goal]

1. If it is safe to do so, continue sending time-space text messages to see if you can receive more mysterious text messages and mysterious numbers.

2. Find a way to decipher the true intention of the mysterious text message and figure out its origin and motive.

……

"The matter of my special physical condition can be put aside for a while."

He clapped his hands and put down the chalk:
"This question probably won't have an answer anytime soon, so let's focus our energy on the two questions mentioned above."

Qin Feng and Cheng Mengxue sat down and both agreed with Jiang Ran's plan.

"That……"

Cheng Mengxue holding the Rhine cat:
"What kind of time-space text messages should we send next?"

She tilted her head:

"Since we've conducted several experiments and made a lot of money from the lottery."

"So, next, can we send some time-space text messages to make up for regrets and correct past mistakes, as we wish?"

Jiang Ran smiled slightly:
"The experimental phase has ended, and we have mastered how to use the time-space SMS. The content of subsequent SMS messages can indeed be more flexible."

"Of course, it's not like we can send just anything; we still need to make a joint judgment and decision."

He sat back in his chair, leaned against the back, and looked at the two people in the room:
"I'm sure everyone has been thinking about what they want to do with time-space text messaging during this period of time."

"Then let's take turns making one wish each, one of the three of us."

"Who comes first?"

(End of this chapter)