CHAPTER 323: CHAPTER 240: RACING AGAINST TIME_2

So, once one of the delivery workers’ duplicates discovers Tang Sanzang’s location from a moment ago, the entire group of delivery workers, both originals and duplicates, will know, and Tang Sanzang cannot move too far between one moment and the next, making him easy to track.

Once a large group of delivery workers appear around Tang Sanzang, shaking them off is impossible.

Rosen also looked at the phone screen, expressing some shock: "Are you sure the delivery workers are using the flock algorithm to find Tang Sanzang, and it’s not due to a system malfunction causing a lot of false locations?"

Barefoot Immortal was suddenly confused.

Meng Die affirmed: "The delivery workers are very capable; they are all-round talents who undoubtedly will use methods to find Tang Sanzang’s dynamic location, so it’s unlikely to be a system fault. Moreover, as far as I know, this delivery platform does not have malfunction issues."

Rosen said: "Then we should find Tang Sanzang as quickly as possible, or we might not catch him."

Rosen quickly found the area on the map with a high concentration of delivery workers, knowing within this region lies the flock algorithm’s shared global location.

He then instructed Barefoot Immortal to drive the spirit energy to transform into a horse, traveling with a setting of thirty thousand miles per day, even if they do not move, the world will propel them forward, and thus they set out.

"Time and space are essentially two projections of the same thing. Based on current observations, time and space have a roughly inverse relationship; we can accelerate time by distorting space." Meng Die suddenly spoke.

"How?"

"By artificially creating a black hole, and then traversing space!"

"What?"

While Rosen and Barefoot Immortal were still puzzled, Meng Die already pointed ahead and opened a black hole in the void.

The frightening gravity came, and all three displayed fearful expressions.

Rosen again inexplicably felt the fear of being dominated by the black hole previously.

They couldn’t help being pulled toward the black hole’s center, eventually entering the black hole.

When they emerged again, they were already within the region shown on the phone’s global shared location.

"We’re here; Tang Sanzang is within this range. We can determine Tang Sanzang’s specific current location based on the movement direction of these concentrated delivery workers." Meng Die said.

Rosen observed the real-time movement direction of these concentrated delivery workers and noticed something peculiar, saying: "Their directions don’t seem to point to the same location, they’re somewhat scattered."

"Correct, according to the flock algorithm, the global optimum merely provides a certain component to improve the current optimum; therefore, it isn’t entirely adopting a global perspective. This is to prevent falling into local states." Meng Die explained.

"So, Tang Sanzang’s current real-time location isn’t necessarily accurate; it’s likely just an afterimage of Tang Sanzang?" Rosen came to understand.

"Yes, this algorithm cannot guarantee 100% accuracy; it merely approaches real data with high probability. But if there are chaotic regions in space, with an uneven solution space, then it’s difficult to achieve the global optimum, meaning it’s difficult to find Tang Sanzang’s true real-time location!"

Meng Die inevitably also became worried.

"Look! It’s Tang Sanzang’s afterimage!" Barefoot Immortal pointed with his toe towards a direction.

Everyone looked and saw Tang Sanzang’s afterimage actually riding a go-kart, waving towards them as if taunting.

"Didn’t expect Tang Sanzang found a go-kart; this makes it even harder for us to locate his real-time position. You know, the go-kart’s running route is winding and many locations are very close to each other."

Meng Die’s words once again frightened Rosen; this situation is exactly what Meng Die described as an uneven solution space, causing potential solutions to keep jumping back and forth, putting the entire flock in a loop.

"Wait, is there a possibility?" Rosen suddenly thought of a problem from a quantum perspective, saying: "Could it be that Tang Sanzang’s location is more like an electron cloud, a probability cloud, namely a quantum entangled state?"

These words instantly awakened Meng Die and Barefoot Immortal.

"Indeed, there’s such a possibility." Meng Die looked again at the vanished afterimage location of Tang Sanzang, unexpectedly finding the afterimage reappeared.

Obviously, the afterimage was jumping back and forth between several positions.

Barefoot Immortal explained: "When the go-kart’s speed is so fast that the monitoring instruments can’t detect it, meaning the eyes can only see the afterimage, then Tang Sanzang’s position can’t be described as a single point but as a range."

Barefoot Immortal’s words made sense; this is the wave-particle duality problem. Why is what’s detected a definite particle, but in reality a quantum entanglement?

The reason is that human cognition is in a definite state, whereas particle speed exceeds human detection accuracy, making particles able to be in any state no matter when detected, forming the issue of particles potentially passing through multiple slits. Since the speed exceeds the detection speed, it should be treated as a region, meaning it went bizarre.

Having figured out this issue, Rosen also worried: "Now Tang Sanzang is riding on a go-kart, in a superposition state. How can we take him away?"

Meng Die said: "Easy, just confirm using human consciousness, making Tang Sanzang in a quantum state, meaning I ask to grab one Tang Sanzang, then all quantum states will collapse into one fixed state."

The difficulty lies in forcibly collapsing the strange entity.

Note that the speed of the fast-moving go-kart makes it hard to stop, after all, here is the macroscopic world, interfering with an entangled state using consciousness alone is not simple.

Rosen was practical and said: "Stand on the shoulders of giants, let more macroscopic giants intervene, stop the unstoppable go-kart."

"Are you saying you want... to bring out Pangu?!" Barefoot Immortal and Meng Die exclaimed in shock.

"Yes." Rosen said, "My Pangu origin world has undergone a cycle, and now it has just condensed into Pangu, I only need to summon him, and he can stop the go-kart."

Suddenly, a massive Pangu shadow appeared behind Rosen.

"Stop!" Pangu’s thoughts gazed upon the small go-kart, thought waves surging forth, instantly restraining the go-kart in the void.

"Strange, why is there no fuel?" This is what it seemed like to the go-kart.

In reality, it’s Pangu’s thought interfering with the go-kart.

Because the state of this microscopic scene, like Schrödinger’s cat, in Pangu’s macroscopic view, it’s able to confirm state using thoughts.

Tang Sanzang’s afterimage also disappeared at this moment, revealing his original appearance.

It’s seen, Tang Sanzang wasn’t waving to them, but asking for help: "Save me, I can’t get down!"

Due to the high-speed movement earlier, air vibrations masked the sound, and because of the Doppler effect on sound waves, the frequency change caused the meaning of the sound to not be detected, thus Rosen, despite having good hearing, couldn’t figure out what he was saying, which is why they mistakenly thought Tang Sanzang was waving to them.

Actually, he wasn’t inviting them to ride together, but calling for help.

"I get car sick!" Tang Sanzang started vomiting as soon as he was rescued.

Rosen hurriedly said: "Quick, cancel the order!"

Meng Die also reacted, quickly going to press the cancel order button.

But unexpectedly, the delivery workers had already found this location using the flock algorithm; once the quantum entangled state disappeared, the delivery workers had already identified the actual global optimum.

Meng Die was ultimately a step late.

And just at this moment, a deep, grand heavenly voice sounded: "Your delivery is overdue!"

"Ah!!!"

The delivery worker suddenly grabbed his hair and let out a roar to the sky.

Feeling angry about the overdue delivery, this was a stain on his career, an accusation of his business ability!

"No!"

"No!～"

"Take advantage now, Rosen, quickly trigger Dongfeng Express!" Meng Die said nervously.

While the delivery worker was mired in self-blame, Dongfeng Express happened to be thrown aside.