After listening to my words, the third fat man put down his toothpick, touched his chin, and then said: "The situation you mentioned started when you went to investigate the priest's case?"
I nodded and said, "That seems to be the case, but I don't know why. My last memory is only when I and Dr. Mo Xi set off, and I can't remember what happened after that."
"It looks like this..." The third fat man thought for a while and said: "It seems that this priest is very suspicious... By the way, why did you say you were going to investigate him?"
"On the surface, we were going to confirm a series of unexplained death cases, but at that time, after reading the file you gave me, I felt that the priest involved in this case might be a person with the ability to make wishes come true.
So I want to confirm the true identity of this priest."
"What happened after that, could it be that you met the priest and made a wish to him, which resulted in the world becoming what it is now?"
The third fat man is indeed the third fat man. After I said this, his brain started to move uncontrollably.
I thought about it carefully and found that what he said was indeed possible, but there were some other issues that I couldn't figure out.
"What you said is indeed possible, but is there really anyone in this world who has such a heaven-defying ability? And if I really encountered this situation because I made a wish, then why did I make a wish?
The memory is completely gone?"
The third fat man did not answer me directly. Instead, he suddenly asked me a question: "By the way, did you have a headache when you woke up this morning?"
"Yes!" I nodded, "And it hurts really bad!"
"Is that so... Hehe, it's unbelievable that such a thing really happens?"
I saw that the third fat man seemed to have thought of something, so I quickly asked what he meant by what he just said. The third fat man said to me: "Four-nine... Well, can I call you that? In fact, what you just said is right. This
It is indeed unlikely that there is such a heaven-defying ability to make wishes come true in the world, but another kind of ability is possible."
I asked him: "What ability?"
"The ability to change the world line!"
"World line?" I frowned, not understanding what he meant.
Seeing this, San Pang explained: "The world line in a broad sense is actually a concept in the theory of relativity. It is probably the "path" of a particle in four-dimensional space and time. It seems to have been proposed by Einstein in "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies"
But the world line I want to tell you here is actually a concept in a game I am playing."
"A game to play?"
"You still remember the game I was playing when you came to see me before, right? In fact, the world line I just mentioned is the concept in it."
I seemed to understand: "The concept in the game? What does this have to do with my current situation?"
The third fat man said: "Don't rush me, be patient. It's really a bit complicated to explain this. In short, you can think of the historical process of this world as a line, and then in this world, there are countless different lines.
World lines exist.”
When I heard this, I suddenly remembered the ability of the four living creatures, and then said: "Oh, you mean the parallel world?"
"No!" The third fat man shook his head and said, "World lines and parallel worlds are two concepts. Different world lines can be understood as various possible worlds, but these are just possibilities, and there is only one selection switch, that is
There is only one world. And the parallel world is a variety of these possible worlds running at the same time, which is equivalent to countless selection switches."
Although the three fat men said so much, the more I listened, the more confused I became. What about world lines and parallel worlds? In my opinion, aren't they the same thing?
So I could only say: "Please, can you explain it more simply? I really don't understand it."
The third fat man curled his lips and said: "You don't understand this? I really don't know how you became the ace investigator? Forget it, let me explain it simply."
"Look at Sijiu, the so-called world line, you can actually think of it as a thin line, like this..."
As the third fat man spoke, he took out a chopstick from the table, put it in front of me, and said, "Look, this chopstick is the world line I'm talking about."
I nodded subconsciously and said, "Then what?"
The third fat man said: "Suppose this chopstick is the world line in your original memory. In this world line, Lin Qianyi and her sister are both capable people, right?"
Seeing me nodding, the third fat man took out two more chopsticks and formed a Y shape with the original chopsticks.
"Then there are these two new chopsticks that I put on top. They represent two world lines in different directions. One of them is the Alpha world line where Lin Qianyi and her sister were born as ability users.
That is the original world in your memory; the other is the Beta world line where the two of them were born as ordinary people, which is the world line we are in now."
"Then there is the ability of the priest you are looking for on Sijiu. As I said just now, if his ability is really the ability to change the world line, then it can explain the situation you are encountering now..."
As the third fat man spoke, he took away the chopsticks representing the Alpha world line, leaving only the chopsticks representing the Beta world line: "It's like this... Sijiu, because of his ability, our world line was
Changed. The Beta world line in which Lin Qianyi was always just an ordinary person replaced the Alpha world line and became a reality."
"So, I just came to a parallel world?" I tried to understand.
However, San Pang shook his head: "No, it's not a parallel world. Didn't I say that the world line is different from the parallel world? If it were a parallel world, then you should see yourself in a parallel world now, because parallel world
There can be countless Lin Sijiu in the world, and the Lin Sijiu in each world is real. You come from one world to another, and the Lin Sijiu in this other world will not disappear because of your arrival.
, but will continue to exist. But the world line is different. At the same time, there is only one world line. When a world line is replaced, the old world line will disappear, and only the new world line will remain. But it is different.
There is only one Lin Sijiu in the world line. When the world line changes, the old Lin Sijiu will not disappear, but will become Lin Sijiu in the new world line."
After listening to this, I asked: "What about the memory? Aren't the memories in different world lines completely different?"
The third fat man smiled and said: "That's a good question. It seems that you understand somewhat. Under normal circumstances, if the world line changes, of course the memories in the old world line will not be retained, but will be replaced.
The memory of the new world line is replaced. But there is an exception to this situation, that is, the memory of the observer will be retained during the change of the world line."
"Observer?" I asked, somewhat puzzled.
"This is also a concept in the game I played. The so-called observer is actually a name for a person who can retain the memory of different world lines. According to the theory in it, everyone in this world may have the ability of an observer.
But only a small number of people will behave when the world line changes. And you, Lin Sijiu, are probably one of these few people." San Pang said.
"So... it's just an accident that I remember the original memories?" I asked in surprise.
"Yes, I'm afraid the person with the ability who changed the world line didn't expect that you would be able to retain this memory." The third fat man explained.
After listening to Sanpang's many complicated explanations, although I still feel that I don't fully understand some of them, I have come to several conclusions.
Article 1: In the case I was investigating in my memory, the priest who I suspected might have the ability to fulfill wishes, his real ability was probably the ability to change the world line, because as long as the world line is changed, a person's desire
The wish can easily become a reality.
Article 2: My world will change, probably because I found that ability person and prayed to him for Lin Qianyi and the others to become ordinary people. This is actually the best to understand. According to the three fat people
After meeting that person with abilities, I, as an investigator, would naturally want him to find a way to prove his abilities. What I did at that time, perhaps, was to ask this person to do it for me and let Lin Qianyi and the others do it.
The two sisters became ordinary people's wishes.
Then there is the last one, which is the third conclusion. I would like to sum up this conclusion with what San Fatty finally said to me: "Sijiu, since you yourself originally wanted to make Lin Qianyi and others ordinary people,
Then isn't this world your ideal world? Although you still have memories of the original world, none of this matters anymore. Accept this world calmly and enjoy the ideal life in your own dreams.