"So... everything was within your expectations?" Sun Hang looked with interest at the "brain in a vat" before him, "You can foresee the future, so you're not at all worried about the final outco of Tianfu City?"
"No, it's not foresight like you imagine." Pei Zongjun's holographic projection shook his head, "The predictive ability of the Sphinx is as abstract and vague as its riddles. I have to tease and unravel the information, calling upon nurous calculations for analysis, just to obtain a small amount of useful... 'hints'."
"Hints?"
"I only know you are crucial, but I do not know by what ans you will solve Chira 17, nor do I know if you will ultimately succeed... All I can do is unconditionally provide you with as many resources as possible according to the hints given by the Sphinx... You can consider it a gamble on my part, but it appears I've bet correctly."
"Then... has the Sphinx's predictive ability ever been wrong?" Sun Hang asked.
"So far, no." The mainfra said, "It allows to find the 'optimal solution' among countless choices... Even though so options may not seem best from the present viewpoint, over ti, the Sphinx's prophecies have repeatedly proven correct."
"You seem to heavily rely on its ability... Aren't you afraid it might still retain so self-awareness, or could be remotely controlled by the other half of its brain, and at a critical mont stab you in the back?" Sun Hang asked in return.
"If the Sphinx wanted to destroy humanity, it has had many opportunities to do so already." The mainfra said, "But it hasn't done that."
"So sending to the Naless Island for the advancent trial was also part of the Sphinx's prophecy?" Sun Hang squinted his eyes, "What's the purpose of doing that?"
"The Sphinx's prophecy is very vague; I only know I have to do it, but I don't know why." The mainfra sighed in a very human-like manner, "Moreover, the Sphinx once warned in its prophecy not to delve into your origins, or else there would be completely irreversible severe consequences."
Completely irreversible severe consequences?
Could it an using predictive ability to explore the secrets about oneself, and then being detected and erased by the three apes in return?
In that sense, it seems this Sphinx isn't a match for the three apes either.
Sun Hang suddenly felt that when facing the primal entities, the three apes might sohow have the power to contend.
"I know you're very curious about the things that happened on Naless Island, but it's not that I don't want to show you those materials; they have been erased from this world in a very bizarre way… Even the mories of those who knew have been altered." The mainfra said, "To be honest with you... I, or rather, Pei Zongjun, was once one of the main participants of that plan. The Naless Island Research Institute was built under my guidance, and I attended fifteen out of seventeen negotiations with the Siberian Federation… But if you ask now about the detailed content of that plan, my related mory is completely blank."
Sun Hang nodded, "I believe you."
"You were just trying to read my mind, weren't you?" Pei Zongjun's holographic projection said with a gentle smile, "Did you find anything?"
"As you said, it's a blank."
"Yes... Moreover, it was only after I fully rged with the mainfra that I realized there was such a blank in my mory. As for the other participants in that plan, they have completely forgotten the existence of Naless Island and this plan, as if the plan had never been proposed at all." The mainfra said, "I once tried to communicate with them, attempting to trigger their mories with a few keywords... But whenever I ntioned information related to this matter, they would fall into a stupor, seemingly completely losing their ability to comprehend the information. This state is restored as soon as the topic is changed... It's clear that the existence of Naless Island has been 'shielded', and as for the reason for shielding it, no one knows."
"Isn't it strange?" Sun Hang wondered, "If ntioning Naless Island turns others into idiots, how was this advancent trial conducted? What about the design plans for the Naless Island Research Institute and the previous landings on the island? If the 'shielding effect' is so strong, Naless Island should be a 'forbidden term' that can't even be ntioned, right?"
"The shielding effect was limited to the generation that directly participated in the plan back then. After their passing, this shielding effect greatly weakened... Those materials are not original manuscripts left from that ti but replicas I produced using the ability of the Sphinx. As for those previous landings on the island, they were conducted as probes to verify so content in the prophecy." The mainfra said.
"What did you probe?" Sun Hang asked.
The mainfra did not directly answer his question but continued talking on its own: "After your appearance, your na began to appear frequently in the new prophecies... And in one of the prophecies, the Sphinx instructed to send you to Naless Island, and also to accompany you with a sufficient number of 'sacrifices' on the island."
"So those Hunters... were they ant to be sacrificed from the start of the plan?"
"Yes, they are sacrifices." The mainfra said, "It's inhumane, but I have no choice. Ensuring the continuation of human civilization is the highest priority goal for , and for this goal, any individual can be sacrificed, including myself."
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