Compared to Team Leader Jeffries, Tom is even more unlucky——
——Due to the emergency, when the hostess of the farm took the second photo of Jeffries, she did not have time to replace the compression medicine pack, and the first photo belonging to Tom could not be fully developed.
The moment [Mobius] sends the two of them to the strange spiritual world, Tom Creed will experience even more cruel mental torture.
For Team Leader Jeffries, this endless time loop is only a short twenty minutes spent performing tasks.
But for Tom Creed, this Finnish young man has lived in Aizong Mausoleum for more than ten years.
The defensive grenade on his body did not take away his life, nor could it trigger the time closed loop of [A Way Out] - whenever Jeffries died, [A Way Out] would automatically close the loop, and with this
A walking zombie that has lost part of its memory returns to the moment when the mission began, and to the second before Jeffries fell from the tree trunk.
The situation that Tom encountered was the same as the first time the Bighorn Deer squad leader suffered [A Way Out·Life]. He was only seriously injured and not completely dead. According to the closed-loop logic of [Mobius], he must follow the timeline.
Guide, spend a long life in this endless spiral geometry, until [Mobius] naturally closes the loop.
The so-called "closed loop" concept is described in detail in The Magic House and "The Great Split".
There are tens of millions of soul powers, and no matter how experienced the Lapis Gold Guard is, he can't say that he can judge the enemy's soul power attribute immediately.
Superpowers related to time all have closed-loop behavior, whether it is a single-line time disturbance or a multi-line parallel chaotic space-time. As long as they are various events that can be observed and recognized in the material plane, they are related to each other.
There are countless causal relationships, and the loop needs to be closed.
What is a closed loop?
Take the regret medicine of FE204863 as an example.
It is impossible for this time traveler to return to the time when he has not obtained the regret medicine. No matter how powerful his spiritual power is, he cannot change his own soul power attributes through this power.
The regret medicine has a very strong sustaining power and can go back four hours at a time. However, Sixty-three himself only needs to rest for fifteen minutes to continue to activate this super power.
Maybe he can crawl back little by little, sleep for fifteen minutes, crawl for four hours, and repeat this cycle until he is in his twenties.
But Sixty-Three cannot change what has happened before, because "Jiang Bailu's death" will always be before "getting the [regret medicine]" - this law of cause and effect is like a pair of shackles, which prevents FE204863 from changing his life. He can only
Through one parallel universe after another, through windows from other timelines, I watched Bai Lu grow up from a distance.
This is also the closed loop of FE204863. It is precisely because the events come first and the continuity of time and space is basically guaranteed that FE204863 will exist. If the fact of "Jiang Bailu's death" is to be erased, then the regret medicine and the subsequent series of events will also be lost.
Exists - this is the "paradox" that Team Leader Jeffries has been worried about.
Because what had happened could not be changed, Jeffries resolutely chose to shoot his former self, and continued to be a puppet on a string according to the evolution of the events of [Mobius], and followed [A Way Out·Shenglu]
]'s photo content outlines his cyclical life step by step.
It wasn't until the team leader bumped into "Tom No. 2" from another time and space in the back door pigsty that Jeffries realized that the male owner of the farm was actually Tom himself. Tom was also affected by this strange spirit.
But Tom Boy ran further than him and returned to an earlier era, already over thirty years old.
They completed the second closed loop, and the structure of Mobius became more complete, making the cycle program in the spiritual world more stable.
What kind of life has Tom Creed experienced in the past ten years?
It's so complicated and confusing that it's hard to explain in just one sentence.
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In the third year of Lingzong's reign, Tom Creed returned to the then Tomb of Aizong with the help of a strange woman.
He didn't know what happened at first. He only knew that the big-horned deer acted like a madman and opened fire on civilians, completely losing his mind.
The defensive grenade left a lot of shrapnel in his body. Before he could perform surgery, Panacea simply and roughly closed the wound on his torso. He could feel that there was also a piece of shrapnel slowly moving towards his thoracic spine following the texture of his torso.
extend.
He didn't dare to get out of bed casually. This situation was very dangerous. The naturally healing myotomes and crazy bone growth would slowly push him to a state of hemiplegia. If the spinal center was cut off - he would most likely suffer from cardiopulmonary failure.
And die.
Tom Boy has entered the control of [Mobius] and began to evolve the next closed-loop life.
He had no idea of his situation, nor what time and space he was in. The sudden disappearance of the main station signal, as well as the singing and dancing and flourishing engineering projects in Aizong's Mausoleum, all made him feel strange and lonely.
He was taken to a gap in time and space by [A Way Out·生路], and all the stories that happened in it were illusory.
A week later, when Tom found out Chabon's reign, he almost went crazy on the spot——
——As a scout of Kuai Dao, he originally had a strong will to survive and spiritual attributes. But he suddenly traveled forward for more than ten years, which was beyond his common sense.
He was unable to perform surgery on his thoracic spine and was almost a waste. Taking another sip of the panacea would only hasten his death.
Like Captain Jeffries, the frontline attack teams all have an amazing will to survive. Even if they see the door of hell flying towards them, these soldiers will never give up their lives easily.
He recognized the reality and began to prepare the next plan.
According to the calendar of the mortal world, he is in the year 2019, which is fourteen years ago.
There was no Operation Shambhala Autumn Harvest, no Judah, no Gunsmiths and Sharp Swordsmen.
All combat operations against Shambhala have not yet begun - the Crazy Butterfly Cult on the other side of the Pompeii Sea is still rampant, and this land is full of natural and man-made disasters.
Including the girl who saved his life, Aizong Mausoleum is managed by a group of fish-human hybrids. The religious cause of Tiangongyuan is deeply rooted here, and the believers believe every word of the ancestor.
A month later, Tom was barely able to walk. He had a crush on the girl on the farm——
——The person who saved his life was also two years older than him. She was the daughter of a rich farmer from a family in Lingnan Village who was married to Aizongling. Her name was Zhang Cuiyun.
Only a few years ago, Cuiyun's husband was buried in the loess along with the cause of Aizong's imperial mausoleum.
Xia Aizong died suddenly, and before he could be buried in this remote geomantic treasure land, the craftsmen who failed to complete the project ahead of schedule naturally had to die for the country, and Cuiyun became a widow.
According to the method of dealing with the Daliang Kingdom, Cuiyun was originally going to be buried with her husband, but the patriarch of the Tiangongyuan asked her to recite sutras and said a few words specifically for the vulnerable group of craftsmen's widows - so these orphans and widows escaped.
Become funerary objects in the mausoleum.
"I was just waiting a while ago to see if the weather would get better."
This Chabon peasant woman was twenty-three years old. She was not very good at speaking and was not thinking very well.
"It's cloudy and sunny. The sun is rising on the mountains in the east, and it's going to rain on the river in the west."
"My heart was burning, so I hurried to the east bank to pick vegetables for the festival. I didn't expect to meet you on the road."
Speaking of this, while ladling water into the earthenware jar, she swung the iron pot, quickly placed it on the wood stove, kicked the pine needles under her feet, and kicked them into a complete and dense pile of grass blades.
The fire caused flames to rush into the furnace.
"I saw that fairy water (all-purpose elixir) on you, maybe you are the disciple of Tiangongyuan Bodhisattva? I will bring you back."
Tom asked: "How long have you lived here?"
Cuiyun responded confusedly: "It's been a long time."
Tom then asked: "I mean, when did you start living here?"
Cuiyun continued confused: "I married from Nanzhuang and live here. Together with my old man, I am only fifteen or sixteen."
Tom was patient and wanted to collect some information, so he asked: "How long has it been since your old man died?"
Cuiyun is not sad, her husband has been dead for a while——
——As a child bride, she didn’t have anything to think about, so she said casually.
"My father had to pay back the rent. I remember that disaster year. I have a good memory, otherwise I wouldn't be able to marry here."
Tom decided to change the question: "How many people do you know now?"
"I recognize them all. I'm a fellow villager..." Cuiyun said immediately: "I don't even call out my name. Everyone except Teacher Baimei doesn't like me. Where are the dead people who were supposed to be buried with the soil..."
Tom was a little crazy: "I mean..."
"Hey!" Cuiyun finished blanching the chicken. It wasn't too hot at all, so she grabbed the chopping board and changed the knife.
She disliked this little brother who kept asking questions all the time.
"I thought last time that this thing is hereditary -"
"——My mother and I don't know many people. My aunt doesn't like her, and my aunt doesn't like her either."
"It's just that she didn't kill my father, but I killed the old man."
Tom: "Uh..."
The elite soldier who had stopped at Guangling was out of strength at that time——
——He has never worked in logistics and has been running on the front line.
If it were Flavia and Duran, they would know that this kind of cross-channel communication is actually very common in nameless villages and towns in mountainous areas.
Scouts require information to be complete, concise and clean.
There is no way that Miss Cuiyun can chatter here and there, but Tom won't be able to stop her.
The pace of life is once again slowed down by this useless communication. Tom talks a lot every day, but gets very little effective information.
His watch didn't work, the summons bell went unanswered, and the defensive grenades destroyed most of his portable equipment.
In order to repay his kindness, he could only manage the farm with Cuiyun, and work with the locals at sunrise and rest at sunset. At the same time, he also realized that this was an opportunity, an opportunity to get close to Judas and kill Judas.
It was not until half a year later that he tried to remove the shrapnel in his sternum, and almost met the King of Hell. This was still a failed operation and a failed attempt.
It wasn't until a year later that Cuiyun finally couldn't stand the gossip of her fellow villagers. She had to have a status with such a wild man in her family, and Tom Creed had to pledge her body to him, so she gradually forgot about the task of attacking the enemy.
It wasn't until one year and eight months later that Cuiyun became pregnant. Tom Creed also judged Judah's movements through the driving routes of the local engineering team, but he did not dare to take action rashly - without the dispatching order of the team leader
, without the support of the main station and the coordinated operations of the attack team, he was just a deserter who broke away from the organization.
More importantly, Jeffries lost to his paranoia, and Tom Creed lost to love. He and Sister Cuiyun already had a child.
However, the child soon miscarried, almost a month into her pregnancy, and died immediately in her mother's womb.
Tom thought it was an accident at first. After all, the medical level and sanitary conditions in this damn place of Shambhala were extremely backward, and even a small problem with the food could cause pregnant women to miscarry.
Whenever he found an opportunity and prepared to bring his equipment and trade with Judas, Cuiyun would always get pregnant and always miscarry.
Tom will also suspect that perhaps this is his only chance to see through the mystery of [Mobius] and escape from this endless cycle.
He really couldn't figure it out, so he opened the old notes, found part of the explanation of the great rupture of all things, opened the military multimedia in super power-saving mode, and found the soul power information related to time——
——A terrible thought came to his mind, couldn't Judas die here?
Once the assassination process begins, will various special circumstances occur?
This is what Tom thinks, regardless of whether he has the ability to fight with Judas or not, whether he can exchange it for one.
Even if it could be done and Judas died here, would the subsequent events related to Judas and what had already happened still happen?
Tom didn't understand. He couldn't tell whether this was fate or just his wife's special constitution.
Finally, the doctor from the Aizong Mausoleum construction team gave Tom a reassuring answer——
——Cuiyun has part of the blood of fish people. It is difficult for hybrids and homo sapiens to give birth to healthy children. Frequent miscarriages are normal.
This sense of security erased Tom's last bit of doubt, and he was completely immersed in the time and space rift created by [Mobius].
He gave up the assassination plan not only to close the loop, but also to consider his own future.
He couldn't do strenuous exercise, and the last disembowelment operation almost killed him. If Cuiyun hadn't been by his side, he would have gone to see the King of Hell long ago.
Things in the future should be left to people in the future to complete. Even if Judas is killed here, he really has the ability to complete such a great cause - there will still be another "Judas" who will pick up the golden mask and put on it.
Judas's clothes continue the endless cycle of disaster.
This is what has happened, and Tom is powerless to change it. All he has left in his heart is the small family of Shambhala and comforting his wife.
Sister Cuiyun has been crying since she learned the diagnosis result——
——It is not a good sign for this widow to remarry. At first she was a husband, and now she is still a child.
In order to take care of his wife's emotions, Tom put almost all the focus of his life on this small farm.
Day after day passes, year after year turns around.
The couple made many attempts and finally gave birth to a daughter, a mixed-race child with heterochromatic eyes.
Tom hid all the weapons and equipment, buried them deep in the farmland, and never thought about the attacking team again.
Until thirteen years later——
——According to Jeffries' [Mobius] process, Tom received the news of Judas' visit early, and based on his vague memory, he re-weaved the specific action route of Group A of Class Three.
He stood in front of the fateful checkpoint and deliberately let go of his beloved kitten - the cat he found specially from Nanzhuang, which looked very similar to BOSS, and he had raised it for seven years.
He held the camera, waited, and gradually restored everything in his memory according to Mobius's guidance.
He heard the gunshots on the cement floor of the farm and felt nervous, but he could not go out and face it.
Until Jeffries, who was covered in blood, took his young self and hurried out of the back door——
——Tom took the two photos from his wife's hands, followed the guidance of fate, raised the lens, pointed it at the two people and pressed the shutter.
The flames of defensive grenades engulfed everything!
He was overturned by the strong air wave and suddenly hit the stone fence of the pig pen. The fragments of his chest spine traveled through more than 3,000 days and nights, and finally pierced the fragile spine before he could speak.
Before he died, Tom only felt regret. If he had to do it again, maybe he would make the same choice.
However, when executing the photo-taking procedure, before completing the closed loop, you have to run to a safe location to take photos.
But the last Tom did the same thing, and maybe the last Tom died in the same way.
But how can we change what has already happened?
Tom Creed from the "past" died in the year 2033.
Experiencing the same explosion as "Future" Tom Creed.
The damage was caused by the same defensive grenade.
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The book continues from the previous chapter.
Su Ling sent Ling Ao away, and after taking the photo, the body turned into another butterfly.
"Let's take a look at this photo!"
The "prophetic picture" shown in the photo is also a tense battle situation at Laibei Ferry. In addition to the original incarnation of the butterfly, there is now a spherical winged monster.
In addition to [Mobius], the ability of [A Way Out·Shenglu] has been fully demonstrated in the eyes of [Phoenix]. The space-time disturbance it caused is very interesting. This was taken when Su Ling captured Luo Che and sent him away.
photo.
The prophecy that Mistress Luo would lose her head must have come true, and the last portrait also has a profound meaning——
——That’s the scene where Judas is eating with his back to the camera.
"It seems that the wife of the Luo family has become Judas's meal." Su Ling said in a low voice: "It is consistent with the information about the Gate of Wonders."
Billy Boy asked: "Sir VIP, are you ready to have sex with him?"
"certainly..."
Su Ling nodded and started ringing the bell.
"Call the professionals."
Billy suddenly became energetic: "You want to call the teacher to deal with him?"
"Call your brother and move quickly." Su Ling pulled Billy out of the bathhouse and explained seriously: "I don't know what happened to Kuai Dao's scouts - let's arrest your teacher and bring him to calm the situation. He once worked with FE204863
In a head-to-head confrontation with the regret medicine, he has more experience in dealing with this kind of time-distorting soul power."
After crossing more than 70 kilometers of mountain roads, we looked towards the second peak of Huji Mountain——
——The bald monk carrying the luggage suddenly walked out of the group and turned around.
The fellow passengers also wanted to continue talking about Buddhism and the cultivation of health with the master. As the crisp ringing became more urgent, the gunsmith turned around and made several leaps and bounds along the steep mountain road to the northwest.
Go, find the official team, grab a horse, throw a dozen silver coins to the foreman, and ride away.