Here is the translation of the chapter:
Can this young man’s words be trusted?
Although, as a person who has grown up under the education of materialistic science, his rationality tells him that it’s impossible for someone to predict the future, but… what if his words are true?
Ten years ago, he didn’t believe that a massive entity could be suspended in the sky without humans noticing, but the fact proved that it was true.
When the invisible technology beyond human technology is revealed to humans, it’s only then that he realizes humans are not prepared.
This refers not only to technological preparation but also to humans’ ability to accept.
Do we really understand science? Can the prediction of the future be accommodated into the scientific system?
After a sleepless night of thinking, he finally returned to the interrogation room.
Across from him was Zhushi Jiu, who was half-asleep and droopy.
The sound of the middle-aged man entering the interrogation room shocked Zhushi Jiu awake.
“Who?!”
Zhushi Jiu was confused and forgot where he was. When he came back to his senses, he realized he had actually fallen asleep… or had he? Would these people use some kind of hypnotic technique on him?
Zhushi Jiu was suspicious, and the man’s voice responded.
“You look more relaxed than I thought.”
Zhushi Jiu heard the voice and became more alert.
He didn’t give up the sorrowful atmosphere he had worked hard to create: “Ha, what’s the point of not being relaxed? My lifelong love has already died, and I’m still alive, what’s the meaning of my life… oh, right, the world is ending tomorrow, so everyone will die anyway. Haha…”
Zhushi Jiu cried and laughed, pretending to be crazy.
The middle-aged man interrupted Zhushi Jiu’s performance: “Wrong, it’s today. The current time is November 7th, 2:30 am.”
Zhushi Jiu was silent for a moment before asking, “Are you still unwilling to give up your plan?”
The middle-aged man’s words were firm, like a block of ice that couldn’t be melted: “We will still take action today, at 10 am sharp.”
” Impossible to give up?”
“Impossible.”
Zhushi Jiu was completely hopeless and said despairingly, “Then what’s the point of finding me?”
The middle-aged man didn’t respond directly and instead said, “There’s a hole in the lie about your prediction of the future.”
Zhushi Jiu was puzzled.
“You can’t see my face,” the middle-aged man said. “I’m absolutely certain that you can’t see my face, no matter how many possibilities you predict, because you’re wearing an eye mask, and I won’t allow you to take it off, I have faith in myself, and I’m absolutely certain I won’t make such a mistake.”
His words were almost overflowing with certainty.
Zhushi Jiu wanted to roll his eyes, but knew the other person wouldn’t see it.
“You’re confident in yourself, but you don’t know yourself well enough.”
“I do know myself well.”
The middle-aged man was adamant.
“I won’t let go of any possibility. I will represent humanity and struggle with all my might. Even now, I won’t give up on the possibility that you can predict the future, and under the circumstances that you’re an ability user who can predict the future, I’ll keep using the eye mask to test whether you’re telling the truth or not. Therefore, you can’t know my face.”
Zhushi Jiu was stunned.
“Don’t you understand?”
The middle-aged man sat down across from Zhushi Jiu.
“Have you heard of Hawking’s dinner party experiment for time travelers?”
Zhushi Jiu’s expression was strange. Strictly speaking, he was a “time traveler”.
“I’ve heard of it.”
Zhushi Jiu said, “That was in 2009, when Hawking held a dinner party to verify whether time travelers existed. He only sent out a public invitation after the party ended. If time travelers existed, they should have seen the invitation before it was sent out and attended the party…”
“That’s correct,” the middle-aged man said. “But the focus of the experiment wasn’t whether time travelers exist, but whether they would attend the party if they existed.”
“That was a failed experiment, but I’m certain I won’t make the same mistake. The events ‘you can predict the future’ and ‘you can see my face in the future’ cannot coexist.”
The middle-aged man asked, “If I knew you were an ability user who could predict the future, I wouldn’t let you take off the eye mask. Then how did you see my face?”
Zhushi Jiu tried to retort, “What if, in a certain timeline, I didn’t reveal my ability to predict the future?”
However, the middle-aged man coldly responded, “Then how did you see me? Would I care about a ordinary college student?”
Zhushi Jiu was left speechless.
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(Note: The rest of the chapter will be translated in the next response due to character limitations)
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