Hospital 444
Chapter 613 - 34 Schrödinger’s Cat

Chapter 613: Chapter 34 Schrödinger’s Cat

"Do you know about Schrödinger’s cat?"

Virgil remembered that when Lelia first asked him this question, his initial response was, "Who is Schrödinger? Chinese?"

Lelia didn’t show any contempt for Virgil’s reaction, but instead patiently explained, "Schrödinger’s cat refers to putting a cat in a sealed container with a small amount of radium and cyanide... The probability of radium decaying is 50%, if the radium decays, it will trigger the mechanism to shatter the bottle containing the cyanide, and the cat will die inside this sealed container; if the radium does not decay, the cat will live. Since the radium is in a state of superposition of decaying and not decaying, the cat should also be in a superposition of being dead and alive. But as a three-dimensional being, the cat cannot possibly be in a superposition of being dead and alive, can it?"

"This experiment... what’s the point? Whether the cat is dead or alive, just open the box and see, where is there any superposition of dead and alive?"

Virgil couldn’t understand this at all.

At that time, Lelia shook her head.

"It’s not that simple. Like you said... the life and death of the cat can only be known after human observation. But why does the reality of the three-dimensional world require our subjective observation to exist? If there is no observer, isn’t the life and death of the cat a state that can be simultaneously superimposed?"

Virgil couldn’t understand Lelia’s words at all.

"I am currently conducting research in the Demons Department. The Demons Department in our hospital has the most funding for research. There are already about two or three thousand related papers. But so far, the one I am most satisfied with is Damon Dailun’s paper. And I am preparing to write a paper, using Schrödinger’s cat as an entry point, to interpret the Abyss Invasion."

"I’ve heard that the Abyss Invasion is very difficult to learn, with a difficulty comparable to the quantum mechanics of physics, even harder than the theory of relativity..."

"Much, much harder. Even from a high-dimensional perspective, relativity may not necessarily be correct." Lelia pointed to the computer in front of her and opened the paper she was writing: "This paper I am now writing references Damon Dailun’s paper at least seven or eight times."

Virgil leaned in and carefully examined the content of Lelia’s paper.

"In the three-dimensional world, microscopic matter has two states, wave and particle. Microscopic matter exists in the chaotic state of a wave, but after being observed by a three-dimensional life, the wave becomes a particle state. Before the box is opened, Schrödinger’s cat is in the chaotic state of a wave, the cat may live or die, and under such a state... the life and death of the cat could give rise to two coexisting but isolated parallel temporal planes. Only by looking from the high-dimensional perspective can the chaotic state of this life-and-death superposition truly be seen."

"Life-and-death superposition..." Virgil continued patiently, "The observation of three-dimensional life determines the particle state of the cat’s life and death in the macroscopic world. Despite having a complex structure similar to that of a high-dimensional layer, human souls can only ever perceive a single temporal plane, the particle state of matter."

"I conducted an experiment in the Demons Department, selecting ten patients affected by the Abyss Invasion, all suffering from a third-degree Abyss Invasion or higher. I balanced their ages, nationalities, and genders, and then chose ten healthy people as a control group to conduct the Schrödinger’s cat experiment. Of course, there was no need for the complexity of Schrödinger’s experiment; I gave both groups boxes and had beforehand placed either living or dead animals inside. I would inform them in advance about the life-and-death status of different animals, and the conditions inside the boxes were entirely the opposite. The result of the experiment was that, after opening the boxes, the patients affected by the Abyss Invasion all saw the same life-and-death status of the animals as I had informed them, whereas the control group did not experience this, even though the experiments were all conducted inside 666 Hospital."

"But this was just the beginning of the experiment. As time went on, I gave the animals, which had been identified in different life-and-death states by the Abyss Invasion patients, to the healthy control group to observe. Soon, their identification of the animals’ life-and-death status also began to contradict reality. They would see lifeless objects as alive, and vice versa. In the end, they, too, began to show symptoms of the Abyss Invasion, even though they had not had any physical contact with the patients before. Eventually, I destroyed all the animals."

"This is..." Virgil asked in astonishment, "I’ve heard that the Abyss Invasion might be contagious, but without any direct physical contact?"

"That’s the horror of the Abyss Invasion. Their perception of matter has already surpassed the single temporal plane of the three-dimensional level. What we observe as the state of the wave is, from a high-dimensional perspective, paradoxically erroneous. If life and death can be easily reversed, then you understand what that means, right?"

...

Under the detection of Dai Lin’s Devil’s Eye, he noticed that the dark shadow in front of him, which looked just like Virgil, began to move again.

And all around, there were still eerie laughs echoing faintly.

"The advice from Han Ming was... to gradually take control of the Devil’s Eye and possess a true high-dimensional perspective, then I must find a way to truly understand the Abyss."

The so-called Abyss is not a specific space; it has no existence in time.

People affected by the Abyss pollution will ultimately develop towards curse and darkness and eventually transform into demons...

It could be a human or a demon...

So, Virgil could turn into a true Demon in a parallel temporal layer, deeply polluted.

The laughter continued to emerge, and Dai Lin kept repeating, "I will kill all humanoid creatures that can laugh, all... humanoid creatures that can laugh!"

Do not laugh in the hotel!

Do not count shadows again!

He is a human!

Convinced of all this, he believed he could return to the world above!

At that moment, his spirit, his will, would be able to shake off the shackles of the Abyss!

At that moment, the dark shadow finally began to approach Dai Lin!

But just as it was about to touch Dai Lin, Dai Lin’s Devil’s Eye transformed into a huge concave black hole and kept expanding!

Originally, Dai Lin survived the premonition dream curse incident by turning into such a state!

The massive shadowy figure, in front of Dai Lin, finally faded back into the darkness!

At this moment, Virgil’s blue eyes suddenly dimmed!

"He actually escaped from the completely Abyss-transformed parallel layer!" Virgil couldn’t believe it, "Impossible, how could he possibly do this?"

Dai Lin, this Schrödinger’s cat...

Had successfully escaped the iron cage Virgil built for him!