Chapter 161 The Boundaries of Science: The Farmer's Hypothesis!

— Wang Miao. The person calling him turned out to be none other than Dr. Wang Miao.

In an instant, all sleepiness in Divine River's mind was banished.

He gathered all his focus and answered this special call.

"Hello!"

"Dr. Divine River, I have a very important discovery to tell you!" Wang Miao's tone on the other end of the line was urgent.

"Today I went out with my camera, and in the process of taking pictures, I discovered something. A line of numbers has bizarrely appeared in all the photos I took!"

"These numbers have been flickering, starting from [1200:00:00]!"

"It feels to me just like a countdown!"

These words from Wang Miao deeply captured Divine River's attention.

After all, he had been guessing from the very beginning that the high-level civilization hiding in the shadows might not be using just particle collision experiments to make physicists commit suicide one after another!

After all, humans are very tenacious creatures! It is very, very difficult to make a person completely lose the desire to live. A single experiment might not be enough!

Sure enough, the situation happening to Wang Miao now matched his hypothesis perfectly.

After the particle collision experiments ended, Wang Miao, a scholar capable of advancing Human Civilization, saw a brand-new death countdown!

"Dr. Wang Miao, is it possible that there is something wrong with the film?" However, Divine River did not jump to that conclusion immediately; instead, he posed a new question to Wang Miao.

This was because he could not appear too fanatical, lest Wang Miao feel something was wrong, as if he had known all along that the death countdown would appear.

Furthermore, the correctness of a matter requires absolute evidence to support it.

"No! The film is fine! The camera is fine too!"

"The problem is me!"

"I changed many rolls of film, switched cameras, and even had others take a few photos!"

"The result is... the numbers still exist, only I can see them, and the countdown time is getting shorter and shorter!"

Speaking of this, Wang Miao's tone became even more urgent. He was a rigorous scholar.

When he first saw the numbers, he didn't think much of it, simply assuming there was a problem with the camera or the film.

But, after he continuously changed film, switched cameras, and even had his wife and children take photos, only to conclude that only he could see the death countdown! He had to believe it!

It was also from the moment he believed in the existence of the death countdown that he began to get anxious and panicked.

Therefore... Wang Miao specifically called Divine River.

This was not just to vent, but to confirm whether the scholar who had accompanied him to visit Ding Yi could also see this special countdown!

"Dr. Divine River."

"The reason I suddenly called you is that I actually wanted to confirm if you can see it too!"

After saying this, Wang Miao fell silent. He could clearly hear some movement from the receiver. Wang Miao guessed that this must be Dr. Divine River on the other end of the line using his own methods to test if he could see the death countdown!

Just as Wang Miao thought. After hearing the question, Divine River decisively turned on his phone's camera and began snapping photos around the room at random.

[1198:21:22]

[1198:21:21]

And the moment he finished shooting and opened his phone's photo album, the striking death countdown appeared.

Not only Dr. Wang Miao, but he, as a Strategist, could also clearly see the death countdown! It was just unclear if other Strategists could see the countdown as well.

"Dr. Divine River? Dr. Divine River?" Just then, Wang Miao's voice calling out kept coming from the phone, interrupting Divine River's thoughts.

He pulled back his focus and said to Wang Miao: "I can see it."

Divine River had no intention of hiding it from Wang Miao, because this doctor was a key character in the plot he had seen using a special item! Getting closer to him might allow him to obtain more intelligence regarding the Three-Body World.

"You can see it too?" At this moment, it was Wang Miao who was somewhat surprised. It seemed he was not the only one chosen by heaven.

However, regardless of anything else, upon knowing there was a second person who could see the death countdown, that fear in the bottom of Wang Miao's heart lessened by a few points.

His tone slowly became calm, no longer as panicked as it was initially: "Dr. Divine River, do you know the reason why I shared the death countdown with you in the first place?"

Divine River smiled: "It's because of what I said to you yesterday, right?" Divine River was not surprised by Wang Miao's sudden question. After all, it was he who had planted the psychological suggestion in Wang Miao last night.

"That's right."

"Dr. Divine River, I think you must know something."

"Can you tell me everything you know? Even if it's just a tiny bit."

Divine River hesitated for a moment, but still decided to say something he knew. Things he knew in his capacity as a high-level civilization hunter:

"I once heard of such a hypothesis:"

"A sharpshooter shoots a hole in a target every 10 centimeters; the two-dimensional creatures living on the plane of the target thus discover a law of their world—the universe must have a hole every 10 centimeters."

"Dr. Wang Miao, I think you can understand what the [Shooter Hypothesis] is trying to express."

"Huh?!" But this was the only response Divine River received. Divine River frowned slightly; he was somewhat surprised that the doctor in charge of the Nanofiber project didn't even understand this.

"Do you need me to explain it?" He prepared to properly 'popularize' the content that the Shooter Hypothesis was trying to express for Wang Miao.

"No, no, I was just a bit surprised."

"Surprised?"

"Yes. I didn't expect Dr. Divine River to have also come into contact with the [Science Frontier]."

"Science Frontier?"

"Huh? Isn't what you proposed one of the two major hypotheses of those people from [Science Frontier]?"

This time it was Divine River's turn to be bewildered. He had just brought up a hypothesis he had seen in his daily life. He didn't expect that the [Science Frontier] organization in the Three-Body World had actually already proposed this hypothesis. It really was fate.

"Dr. Wang Miao, I haven't come into contact with the [Science Frontier] you mentioned."

"I just heard about the [Shooter Hypothesis] from some special places."

"Can you tell me about [Science Frontier], and the [Farmer Hypothesis] they proposed?" Divine River said.

He had a very strong premonition. The truth would be linked to the organization named [Science Frontier]!

"Well, let's talk about the Farmer Hypothesis first."

"The farmer feeds the turkeys at 11:00 AM every day, so the scientists among the turkeys conclude..."

"Every day at 11:00 AM, food will descend!"

"But on Thanksgiving Day, no food descended; instead, the farmer caught them all and killed them."

"This is similar to what the Shooter Hypothesis is trying to express; it is nothing more than the theorem believed by low-dimensional life, which is just the casual behavior of high-dimensional creatures in their daily lives."