C57 Calculate Future Formulas
"What's the matter with you?" I was startled by her. The old men and women on the boat turned their heads as well.
The grey-green eyes were suddenly a little strange. She looked up at the dark ceiling and said to herself,
"The storm is approaching..."
"Lady, please do not worry." The guide was shocked by M just now, and was relieved to hear her say this.
"Even if it was raining outside, we wouldn't be able to feel it here …"
Before he could finish his sentence, the entire cave suddenly echoed with a gurgling sound.
"Look, it's bubbling over there!" DickPound was the first to notice that something wasn't quite right with the Sea of Lost. Following the direction of his finger, I saw a huge bubble floating in the middle of the lake.
One bubble, two bubbles.
The Lost Sea began to boil.
"Turn around!" DickPound shouted, and the guide finally reacted.
"Everyone, don't be impatient. This kind of phenomenon is very common. Besides the walls, there are many caves under the lake that connect to each other. They will allow air to flow in from the bottom of the lake …" The guide soothed us as he started the motor.
The grandfathers and grandmothers still seemed to have some scruples about M's insanity, and one of the two immediately leaned forward to get away from M.
After all, in a pitch-black cave, anything strange would cause one's fear to multiply.
The boat was equipped with environmentally friendly electric motors, and even at full speed it was only five miles and an hour, similar to the footstool boats in the park.
More bubbles rose from the dark and bright bottom of the lake.
"Rainstorm is approaching... "The storm is approaching!" M leaned on my side, trembling.
No one on the boat spoke. The only sounds that could be heard were the sound of electric motors and air bubbles.
An old lady tremblingly took out a tissue from her purse and wiped off her sweat. In a confined space, people were prone to claustrophobia.
"Child, it's dry season in Tennessee. It won't rain." A white man said impatiently, not sure if it was to comfort M or himself.
"Wang, Yu Di did not follow us." Sayaka whispered to me.
I looked around at the water and saw that the fish that had been following the boat were gone. They were swimming, hypnotized, toward the surrounding cave walls, scrambling out of the water against the rocks, breathing in and out with their mouths wide open.
Just like they want to get out of the water.
After an unknown period of time, the boat finally reached the shore.
The moment they walked out of the cave, the rain began to pour down.
"This damned weather... This is really weird. " The white man gave M a puzzled look, shook his head, and finally stepped out into the rain.
"M, how did you know it was going to rain?" After everyone had left, Darwin asked.
However, M shook his head and kept repeating the same words, "The storm is approaching..."
"It's not a storm, it's a storm already." DickPound ridiculed, "Everyone, think about how we should camp out in the rain!"
M said no more and lowered his head.
By now, five people were sitting in the only tent that hadn't been blown down by the wind, talking about divination.
"Since you said that the ability to predict can be learned from the future, can you train for a while now and tell us when the rain can stop?" I laid paralyzed on the ground choking on DickPound.
"Let me help you predict your future," Darwin said. "One hundred percent accurate."
"Don't tell me you have a power, I won't believe you!" I snorted.
"Do you want to bet?" Darwin asked me.
"Betting …" "My last bag of duck necks!"
"I bet you'll walk out of the tent when the rain stops tomorrow."
"..." Do I look like an idiot to you? If I don't come out tomorrow, will you give me a million dollars? "
"Hehe, actually, when I said this prophecy, you had already lost." Darwin laughed.
"Predicting the future is divided into the relative future and the absolute future. The relative future is that you can change the future through my language. Let me tell you, you will be out of the tent tomorrow, and to prevent this from happening, you will be out of the tent. Then you have changed your future according to my language, and my prophecy goes into the parallel universe, and in another universe it will still come true. "
"The absolute future is the rule of the world. It cannot be changed just because of a prophecy — for example, the changing of the four seasons, the birth of an old person, or the death of an old person. Even if you don't get out of the tent, tomorrow we'll pack the tent up and throw you out of it.
After saying that, Darwin took away the last bag of duck neck from my dumbstruck hands.
"You, you're just changing the concept!" I realized that I was fooled and said angrily, "You used common sense to change the concept of prophecy! Then why don't you foretell that I'll shit tomorrow? Isn't this common sense! I'm not talking about common sense! It's a precise prediction! "
"I think Wang is referring to a prophecy similar to how old she was when she met Prince Charming!" Sayaka covered her mouth and laughed.
"Divination of the future is in itself a refutation. If two prophets were able to see what would happen to each other, then who would win?" Darwin asked.
Darwin choked, making Sayaka and I speechless.
"That's not it …" M, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said softly, "One side will lose, because 'losing' is his destiny. God tells him to lose, and he must lose."
"M, do you believe in prophecy?" Sayaka asked.
M nodded and shook his head.
"The formula for calculating the future is the name of the god." M suddenly said something inexplicable.
The name of the god?
Hearing those words, my whole body shuddered.
"M, do you know the name of God?"
M shook her head.
DickPound was already asleep, while Sayaka and I were completely confused.
"I don't quite agree, it's impossible to calculate it in the future. The variables are too big, not even for computers as big as the universe." Darwin retorted.
DickPound was already snoring. I threw the socks on his face and he turned over in a daze.
Darwin and Sayaka also lied down. There was only us in the camp and one or two caravans.
I stuck my head out of my sleeping bag and saw that M was still sitting in a corner of the tent, lost in thought.
She was wearing a pair of ill-fitting gray underpants, which had been washed very old and had several small holes in her knees.
M looked up through the glass tarpaulin at the top of the tent, as if searching for something.
"M, do you want to sleep with me?" I asked softly.
"I... "I'm very scared …" M didn't know if she was responding to me or talking to herself.
"Don't be afraid." I thought she was just afraid it wouldn't be safe to sleep in the camp.
Actually, I've always been a little scared. I don't know why these foreigners can go to sleep in such a peaceful manner. What if a bear comes at night? We don't even have a bonfire.
"We won't be afraid if we sleep together." I made room in my sleeping bag for her to squeeze in.
"The rain is coming, cycle after cycle …"
As I slept, I thought I heard M whisper in my ear.
I don't know how long I slept when I heard Sayaka's voice.
"Wang, Wang, wake up …"
I rubbed my sleepy eyes.
"The M seems to have disappeared …" Sayaka said anxiously.
It was only then that I realized the other side of my sleeping bag was empty.
I realized that the DickPound and Darwin had disappeared as well.
"The two of them were worried that M was going to the toilet, so they went out to find her." Sayaka said.
Our tent was set up in the camp of the Lost Sea tourist area. Although we were surrounded by trees, the area of the camp was very empty. In addition to the barbecue set up in the barracks, there were public showers and toilets.
Just as Sayaka finished speaking, the La Sus opened the tent. Fatty was wearing a plastic raincoat and his face was covered with rain: "I have already found the toilet and the garbage dump, the two RVs next door have also knocked on the door."
M is missing.
I immediately put on my clothes as Sayaka was checking her M's bag.
"I don't think she went to the toilet." Sayaka said worriedly.
Inside M's bag was the Japanese flashlight Sayaka had given us.
It was now half past twelve. Sayaka and I put on our raincoats and came out of the tent.
"She didn't have a flashlight, so she can't go far." She took the compass from her schoolbag.
"The problem is that she's not wearing a raincoat and she doesn't have a flashlight. Where would she go?" Darwin said as he took out a searchlight from the carriage.
"Call the police!"
I took out my cell phone, but there was no signal.