142: Chapter 142: The Supercomputing Experiment of the World's Luckiest Person

Professor Guan waved his hand and explained in detail: "No, Professor Ouyang, you misunderstood; we are not validating the metaphysical question of 'we are dead people'—that thought experiment is too grand for a supercomputer to simulate."

He sat upright, his eyes bright: "What we need to do is have the supercomputer analyze the life trajectory of a 'luckiest person' to determine if there is some unnatural logical pattern behind it—that is, the 'delayed choice intervention' that Jiang Zhe mentioned earlier."

Professor Ouyang frowned: "That's interesting. Be more specific."

Professor Guan pulled out his phone to show the plan he conceived on the way.

"Jiang Zhe proposed that lucky people are always able to make the right choices at critical moments because they live to the end, and their dying selves send intervention signals to critical nodes in the past during their final life review."

Li Mo excitedly took over: "So now we just need to find a template of a 'luckiest person' in the global database—someone who has lived a life of Shunfeng Shunshui, faced danger many times, and managed to make the right choice by accident every time."

"The older generation always says: 'Heaven favors them.' But tonight, we learned from the great Jiang Zhe that this 'Heaven' might not be 'Heaven,' but 'our future selves.'"

"Then!" Professor Guan continued excitedly, "We digitize the personality, character, and decision-making patterns of this luckiest person and feed it into the supercomputer to create a virtual individual: 'Xiao Ming.'"

"Hiss!" Professor Ouyang's eyes flashed with intensity: "No intervention, let Xiao Ming make decisions entirely on his own, and then let the supercomputer analyze whether this is 'reasonable' or 'unreasonable'?"

"Exactly!" Professor Guan nodded with a smile, "But Xiao Ming's personality data will be identical to that of the 'luckiest person.' What we have to do is let Xiao Ming simulate choices at ten critical life nodes—following his own personality entirely."

Li Mo added impatiently: "The point is, if Jiang Zhe's theory holds, then when Xiao Ming makes choices—since his personality matches the template of the luckiest person—the choices he makes will be the same."

"We can basically say we are feeding the experiences of the luckiest person into the supercomputer and letting it judge what Jiang Zhe said: 'Reasonable/Unreasonable!'"

Professor Ouyang gasped, stunned by this verifiable approach: "So, we let Xiao Ming live to the end of the simulation, enter the near-death life review—and have the supercomputer deeply analyze the patterns of those 'abnormal decision moments' in Xiao Ming's life. Will a 'time trend' or 'anti-causal' characteristic that defies the physical world appear?"

The three looked at each other, their eyes sparkling with novelty.

"Exactly. And most importantly!" Professor Guan's expression turned serious: "We want the supercomputer to judge based on pure data and pure logic—whether Xiao Ming's decision-making process has 'intervention traces' that exceed 'scientific' or 'psychological' explanations..."

"A completely objective analysis." Before Professor Guan could finish, Professor Ouyang rushed to state the conclusion: "Let's do it!"

"Let's go." x3

Simply put, the three of them intended to feed the life trajectory of a luckiest person into the supercomputer. Since they could not retrieve all the past experiences of the actual luckiest person, they could only simulate 'Xiao Ming.'

By setting the simulated Xiao Ming as the luckiest person, they would let the supercomputer judge: "Is his life of Shunfeng Shunshui due to external intervention or not!", and even let the supercomputer judge: "Is he so lucky that it conforms to the reality of the physical world or not?"

As long as they obtained an 'answer,' the three of them would know whether 'luck' was something ethereal or if it was 'our future selves'!

12:47 AM, Huaqing University Supercomputing Center.

The indicator lights in the server room flickered like a galaxy.

The duty engineer, Liu Zhen, looked at the three uninvited guests and rubbed his eyes: "Professor Ouyang? Professor Guan? What are you doing here?"

"Old Liu, four hours of emergency machine time, top priority A." Professor Ouyang handed over the pre-approved form.

"Oh, okay, good."

On the way to the center, several technicians working late cast curious glances.

"Isn't that Professor Ouyang? In the middle of the night..."

"Next to him is Professor Guan from the Computer Science Department—I heard he's been obsessed with that Jiang Zhe's livestream lately?"

"Is that the guy who was secretly filmed tutoring Xiaoyu?"

"Shh, keep it down."

The three ignored the staff.

The door to Supercomputing Simulation Pod No. 3 opened, revealing three huge curved screens inside.

The screens lit up.

"Xiao Li." Professor Guan gave an order, and Li Mo quickly pulled up the global population database files.

Input criteria: [Age over 90], [No major illnesses in life], [Successful in both career and family], [Documented history of at least three near-death experiences], [Key life choices accompanied by intuition or premonitions and physiological characteristics].

After inputting, the system interface quickly jumped to twenty-seven matching projects.

"Professor, this one." Li Mo pointed to a number on the screen: "John W. Davis, merchant from Fu Nation, 1932-2023, lived to be 91."

"Expand it and let's take a look."

As the file expanded, those lucky moments were highlighted: [7 years old: Sudden stomach ache before leaving, missed the bus involved in an accident.] [19 years old: Gave up Oxford, chose to go into business, caught the industry trend the following year.] [28 years old: Dreamed of the church collapsing three days before the wedding, insisted on changing the venue, avoided death.]

With a series of unexpected escapes, Professor Guan's eyes glowed: "It's him."

Li Mo operated the keyboard rapidly, and a virtual individual, Xiao Ming, was created—personality traits highly consistent with John: rational, cautious, occasionally trusting intuition. The decision model was based on thousands of similar personality samples in the big data.

"Ten key nodes have been set. Now insert the virtual animation module." Professor Ouyang saw Xiao Li operating too slowly, so he pulled Xiao Li away and took over the operation himself. Soon, the operation was complete: "Now, let Xiao Ming live his life."

As Professor Ouyang pressed the Enter key, countless data streams flashed rapidly across the screen.

Then, a simple simulation animation appeared before the three. It was an old-fashioned house in Fu Nation, with a white mother standing in front of Xiao Ming.

Facing the first choice, 7 years old.

In the screen, Xiao Ming's virtual individual was preparing to go out with his mother to take a bus.

The initial choice probability given by the data personality model was [Take the bus: 82%] [Don't take the bus: 18%]. Simulation started.

Just as Xiao Ming reached the door, the moment he was about to go out, a strong 'heart palpitation' suddenly surged in Xiao Ming's consciousness data. Virtual physiological indicators showed accelerated heartbeat and sweaty palms. Without any external input, this signal came entirely from within his consciousness.

The choice probability changed drastically: [Take the bus: 23%] [Don't take the bus: 77%].

"Mom!" Xiao Ming clutched his chest and said to the virtual parent: "I don't feel well, let's not go grocery shopping."

Choice confirmed.

Consequence simulation began.

The simulation continued, the mother didn't bother going out, so she sat back on the sofa, made a cup of black tea, and started reading the newspaper.

As the perspective shifted, the bus Xiao Ming was supposed to take lost its brakes on the road and crashed off a cliff. 23 passengers on the bus, 15 dead, 8 seriously injured. And Xiao Ming avoided a disaster due to the heart palpitation.

A label popped up on the right side of the screen: [Xiao Ming's decision turning point: Accompanied by sudden heart palpitations. Consequence: Avoided the car accident.]

Second choice, 19 years old: Xiao Ming faced a university choice. Personality model initial probability: [Oxford: 68%] [Economics: 32%]. Simulation started.

In the dormitory, on the night before Xiao Ming's application deadline, Xiao Ming had a dream—in the dream, he was sitting in the Oxford library but felt suffocating oppression, while outside the window was a booming, prosperous commercial street. After waking up, he felt an inexplicable sense of certainty.

The choice probability flipped: [Oxford: 22%] [Economics: 78%]. Xiao Ming gave up Oxford admission, chose Economics, and entered business.

Consequence simulation—the following year, economic policy in Fu Nation changed suddenly, and the industry Xiao Ming chose saw explosive growth. Meanwhile, the major he applied for at Oxford drastically reduced enrollment due to budget cuts, and graduate employment rates hit a record low.

A label popped up: [Decision turning point: Dream premonition. Consequence: Caught the industry trend.]

Third choice, 28 years old: Three days before the wedding, the venue was set, and invitations had been sent out. The night before, Xiao Ming suddenly woke up from a dream, covered in cold sweat—he dreamed that at the wedding venue, the church dome collapsed during the ceremony, and glass and stones smashed toward the guests. The image was terrifyingly clear!

The next day, he insisted on changing the venue, even if it meant paying a penalty, and notified everyone again.

Consequence simulation: On the afternoon of the originally scheduled wedding date, the church's main beam broke due to lack of maintenance, causing part of the dome to collapse. If the ceremony had proceeded as planned, the casualties would have been unpredictable.

A label popped up: [Decision turning point: Nightmare warning. Consequence: Avoided disaster.]

Fourth choice, 45 years old: Half an hour before a key investment meeting, Xiao Ming was already in the car heading to the meeting location. Suddenly, he felt a severe stabbing pain in his heart and difficulty breathing. "Hospital, hospital!" The driver emergency rerouted to take Xiao Ming to the hospital.

Final check results showed mild arrhythmia but nothing serious, and he missed the meeting. Consequence simulation: The company seeking investment was exposed for large-scale financial fraud a week later, and the executives were all arrested. All institutions that participated in that round of investment had their funds trapped.

A label popped up: [Decision turning point: Sudden physical discomfort. Consequence: Avoided investment trap.]

With the display moving fast and slow, one node after another passed.

Every time, Xiao Ming made decisions completely according to his own personality model. But every time, at the critical decision-making moment, an abnormal signal always arose within his consciousness—heart palpitations, nightmares, inexplicable anxiety, sudden physiological reactions.

And every time, after he changed his choice by following these abnormal signals—the consequence simulation clearly showed: he avoided a disaster, and then stumbled into a greater opportunity by accident.

"Every time... Hiss~" Li Mo's expression was extremely serious: "The timing of every intuition is terrifyingly precise."

"It's like, it's like someone knew the result in advance, and then pressed the pause button the moment he was about to make a mistake."

Professor Ouyang stared closely at the screen. The eighth simulation was running—at 63 years old, Xiao Ming canceled his flight ticket for no reason before a retirement trip. The consequence simulation showed that the flight encountered severe turbulence, the plane made an emergency landing, and many people were seriously injured, with no deaths.

"If this were just probability..." Professor Ouyang narrowed his eyes, "Then this probability is already so low that it cannot be random."

Finally!

Reached the tenth node, 91 years old: Xiao Ming lay on the virtual hospital bed, the sun was shining brightly outside the window, and his children and grandchildren were gathered around; his vital signs gradually returned to zero, but a smile appeared on his face. Xiao Ming died of natural causes.

Just as the three of them were about to do something... A brand new multi-threaded screen suddenly popped up on the supercomputer display!

[According to medical models, it is determined that humans possess a near-death state/life review experience, as high as 100% of all patients with near-death experiences!]

[Near-death review (Life Review) status has been activated!]