角色故事•三(解锁条件:角色等级60)
外界普遍猜测,拉帝奥渴望加入天才俱乐部,尽管他本人对此毫无回应。然而无论拉帝奥做出何种在普世看来可堪惊人的成就,博识尊从未有所反应,久而久之,此事便成为一桩学术圈津津乐道的悬案。笔者与拉帝奥曾经的学术助理玛格丽特取得了联系,得到了一些宝贵的证言。
「拉帝奥先生从未和我提起过天才俱乐部,但有一件事,我到现在还记得…那是我为拉帝奥先生担任学术助理的时候。我的主要工作就是收发来自银河各地的信件,并处理他与外界接触的相关事宜。」
「那一天,我收到了星际和平公司的信件。时间大概是…拉帝奥先生研究多年的对星武器试射成功的时候。我能看出来,公司的邀请很郑重,我激动地把它交给拉帝奥先生,可先生他…他却什么都没说。即便隔着头雕,我都能感到深深的沉默。他很有礼貌地请我离开,在关上房门的瞬间,我听到了沉重的叹息和自嘲的笑声…我猜,也许是他判断自己再也进不了天才俱乐部了吧……」
「那之后的故事,你都知道了。但在我看来,先生就是真正的天才,他的创造让许多世界得以进步向前。难道当一名医治宇宙的学者,就注定没有孤芳自赏的天才价值高吗…抱歉,我有些激动了,这句话就请删掉吧。」
笔者观察到,在真理医生的支持者当中,像玛格丽特这样抱有惋惜之情的人不在少数。在他们看来,俱乐部没有吸纳拉帝奥这样的人,亦是一种「天才」怪异与偏执的表现。
——摘自《智慧之为特权:解密真理医生》第一百五十页
Character Story: Part III
• Unlocked at Character Level 60
It is widely speculated that Ratio aspires to join the Genius Society, though he has never spoken about the subject. No matter how amazing Ratio's accomplishments are in the eyes of the ordinary folks, Nous has never batted an eye at him. This issue has become a much-discussed mystery in the academic community over time. I reached out to Margaret, a former assistant of Ratio, and gathered some valuable testimony from her.
"Mr. Ratio has never talked about the Genius Society with me, but there's something I remember well, even till today... It happened when I was still Mr. Ratio's academic assistant. I'm mainly responsible for managing his correspondences to and from all over the cosmos and handling his interactions with the outside world."
"One day, I received a letter from Interastral Peace Corporation. I think... it was during the successful test-firing of the anti-planetary weapon Mr. Ratio had worked on for years. I could tell the solemnity of the invitation, so I excitedly passed it on to Mr. Ratio. Yet, he said nothing. I could sense his heavy silence even through the headgear. He then politely asked me to leave. The moment I closed the door, I heard a grim sigh followed by a self-deprecating laughter... Perhaps, he realized he would never be accepted into the Genius Society..."
"The rest is history. In my view, Mr. Ratio is a genius in the truest sense of the word, as his inventions have propelled many worlds forward. Is a scholar who heals the universe destined to be worthless than a genius who is confined to their own ivory tower? Sorry, I'm getting a little worked up. Please remove that statement."
From my observation, many of Dr. Ratio's supporters feel sorry for him like Margaret. In their opinion, the Society's failure to admit someone like Ratio is a manifestation of the eccentricity and narrow-mindedness of "geniuses."
Extracted from page 150, Wisdom as a Privilege: Decoding Dr. Ratio