Wang Yi looked confused, "You asked this question without any beginning or end. You didn't even tell me what I would encounter when I returned home, but you asked me if I dared to go back. This..."
Luo Baoer: "You will be killed within a week after returning to China."
"Uh...who? Who wants to kill me?"
"Guests will kill you."
"Guest? Who is the guest?"
"They are observers of higher-level civilization. You can understand them as people who make you change your rules."
Wang Yi still didn't understand, so he asked again, "Why do you want to kill me? I didn't do anything bad? Well... just because of those photo albums?"
Luo Baoer shook his head, "Even if you really have an affair with those models, the customers will not care about you. The reason why they will take action is because you will trigger a closed space-time loop after you return to the country, which the customers will never allow."
"Oh...I don't understand it again! I'm talking about Xiao Bao'er, can you speak more clearly?"
Luo Baoer's expression became obviously unkind when he heard the name Xiao Baoer. He said solemnly, "I went up to the mountain when I was three years old and followed my master to study mysteries for more than three hundred years. Considering my age, you have to call me ancestor, Xiao Baoer?"
Is this what you can call?"
Wang Yi hesitated when he heard the words, and thought to himself, 'Old ancestor? Why does this sound like a curse?'
However, Wang Yi was too lazy to argue with Luo Baoer, so he just obeyed the arrangement obediently before he knew who the other party was.
But it is impossible for the ancestor to shout.
"Okay, okay, I'm wrong. Can you please explain it clearly? What does this space-time closed loop mean? Why does it sound so... so unreal?"
Luo Baoer explained, "The so-called closed loop of time and space is actually what you call it in modern times. Here in Xuan'ao Sect, we call it the Cave of Jialan. All people who are in the Cave of Jialan will break away from reality and continue to reincarnate.
Become an existence that escapes the pattern of life and death. To put it more generally... you will continue to pass through a door. The door is fixed and exists objectively, but you will change into chaos as you continue to pass through.
You will meet your past and future self, and then..."
"Stop, stop, stop!!!" Wang Yi interrupted Luo Baoer before he could finish speaking. He felt that his brain capacity was a little lacking. Who came up with such a weird setting? He was talking about great things all day long.
, do you still like the author who made up the word count?
Of course not... In fact, Luo Baoer's explanation is a little more complicated.
The closed loop formed by the infinite loop in Lang's body in the same time and space is the "Mobius strip", but the "Mobius strip" mentioned by Luo Baoer has a very scary characteristic, that is, it is not completely separated from the current time and space.
, but turns a person into the ontology of a "Mobius strip". He still exists in the objective reality of time and space, but falls into an infinite loop, which will eventually form countless overlapping individuals and turn into chaos.
Disappear in the endless void.
"What's wrong?"
"My mind is a little confused. Can you let me sort it out?" Wang Yi was indeed confused. He sat down and took a drink of water, analyzed it carefully and said, "You mean, I might fall into this trap after returning to China."
A closed loop, and then in this closed loop I will keep repeating and regenerating, and eventually it will turn into chaos. If that's the case...why does the guest you mentioned kill me?"
Luo Baoer explained, "After mortal individuals transform into a chaotic state, they will form a spreading 'Dead Sea', and the 'Dead Sea' will swallow everything it comes into contact with, and eventually cause the current time and space sequence to collapse, and countless individuals will suffer catastrophe. This
It is not only related to all mankind, but also affects the upper civilization ladder that the guests adhere to, so...the guests will definitely kill you before you can transform."
"Uh..." Although Wang Yi didn't know what the "Dead Sea" Luo Baoer was talking about, he was already aware of the seriousness of the problem.
"But why is it me?" Wang Yi asked.
Luo Baoer did not explain this. He only said, "I found this forgotten node while walking in the bunker space. I originally thought this was just a very common problem. Even if I didn't come forward, the guests would settle the matter.
But now...I suddenly realized that maybe I should come forward and give you a choice, so maybe there will be a completely different ending."
"Ha?" Wang Yi was confused again.
"In short, if you decide to return to your country, you must be prepared to be killed by guests, but if you decide to return now, you will be fine."
The topic is back to the beginning.
Wang Yi did not answer in a hurry. He fell into deep thought. After a long time, he tentatively asked, "What will happen if... I still decide to return to China? Will I just be killed by the guests?"
Luo Baoer said nothing.
Seeing his silence, Wang Yi knew that he had the right idea. He sighed and said, "Actually... ever since you started talking about time and space... when you talked about closed loops, I have already realized some problems, but I never dared to
Sure, but now, I seem to be slowly beginning to understand and understand the reason for all this I am going through."
Luo Baoer still didn't speak, but a slight smile slowly appeared on his lips.
Wang Yi lowered his head, looked at his hands and said, "More than ten years ago, Princess gave me two capsules. At that time, she told me that one could let me know the truth, and the other could make me forget everything... At that time, I
My mind was in a mess, I was scared, I didn't know what was going on, so... I chose to escape,
I chose to forget.”
Recalling the scene at that time, Wang Yi couldn't help but laugh at himself.
"Now that I think about it, what Liu Panyang said is true. I was the coward...but..." Wang Yi paused, looked up at Luo Baoer and said, "Surprisingly, although I chose
That capsule made me forget everything, but my memory slowly came back, and... I always vaguely remembered a figure in my mind, a hazy figure that was always moving forward.
…I don’t know who he is, but I can feel that he is not from my era, and his appearance seems to remind me that I have been deceived, or that the whole world has been deceived...
We are living in a huge lie, but some people are trying to maintain it, and the other part is trying to wake up."
At this point, Wang Yi asked Luo Baoer, "I already know that the world I live in has been invaded by people from another world, but I don't have enough evidence and I don't know who they are. Can you tell me?"
Luo Baoer did not hesitate and answered simply, "They are humans living on Gaia. You can regard them as you in the future."
"Humans on Gaia? Tsk...is this... time travel? Did they travel collectively?" Wang Yi asked again.
Luo Baoer smiled instead, "How can you be sure it's them and not a certain person?"
Wang Yi sneered and said, "How can one person make the whole world a mess..."
Luo Baoer understood. He shook his head and said, "No, it's not time travel. The reason why they came back here is because of the two worlds, or... human civilization is facing an unprecedented challenge, and Cheng Ze has stepped forward to enter a new civilization.
If you fail, you will be doomed. Humanity and human civilization will disappear completely. Do you understand? This is the ultimate gamble."
Wang Yi was stunned, he didn't know what to say.
He always felt that this topic was too big and far away... He didn't even know how to discuss this topic, or... he had never thought about similar issues at all.
"The final bet... huh... I'm sorry... I didn't mean to laugh... I just thought... huh..." Wang Yi picked up the water glass again, but kept it in his hand and did not drink.
Luo Baoer looked at Wang Yidao, "For the general public, the continuation and progress of human civilization are too far away and too macro-level issues. Our daily lives are no longer easy. Who has the leisure to think on their mobile phones in a crowded subway?
What about such a distant and complicated problem? Instead of doing that, it is better to use the fragmented time to heal the physical and mental trauma and live a better life. This is what normal people should do."
After hearing these words, Wang Yi looked at Luo Baoer in disbelief and said, "How many years have you... been down the mountain?"
"In 1945, when the Second World War ended, my master allowed me to go down the mountain. Since then, I have traveled around the world, but in recent years I have been in China and rarely traveled far." Luo Baoer said very casually.
, but Wang Yi’s eyelids jumped when he heard it.
He began to realize that the "kid" in front of him was not bragging, and it could be seen in his eyes.
As a well-known photographer, Wang Yi always believes that the most difficult thing to capture is the spirituality in the eyes.
But in Luo Baoer's eyes, he saw a fascinating depth.
It was so clear that Wang Yi even forgot to lie in front of him...
"Then...you must be very familiar with the development of our country over the years, right?" Wang Yi asked casually.
Luo Baoer nodded, "Not too many, but there are some. But I am not a worldly wise man. I just live longer than ordinary people and have stronger abilities. Before I truly understand the mysteries, I and I
Just like you, you are just the most ordinary person in this world."
"Ordinary people..." Wang Yi grinned, and he thought to himself, 'An ordinary person who lives for hundreds of years and still looks like a child?'
Perhaps seeing through Wang Yi's thoughts, Luo Baoer coughed and explained, "The reason why I appeared as a child was to walk in the bunker space. As time went by, I forgot what I looked like as an adult."
.”
Wang Yi was a little embarrassed when he heard this and said, "Well... you don't need to explain to me. I have no objection to your appearance."
Luo Baoer smiled, nodded and said, "Before I came here, I was still worried that you were not the person I wanted to find at all, but now I realize that I was wrong. There is no one more suitable to do this than you."
"Ah?" Wang Yi was stunned. "What's the matter?"
"It's not scary to form a closed loop. On the contrary, with a little guidance, you can use this closed loop to do a lot of things, especially in traveling between real time and space and the bunker space. With it, you can get a glimpse of many secrets that you didn't know before.
And artificial intervention is done, but this kind of intervention does not change the past, but affects the future. You will enter a state where you can actively access variables. In this state, the only thing that can pose a threat to you is what I just mentioned.
Guests who arrive will never allow a presence like you to appear, so... the first thing you have to do is to go to the bunker space to avoid the guests after the closed loop is formed." Luo Baoer said again.
There were a lot of things that Wang Yi didn’t understand.
After hearing this, Wang Yi asked, "Does that mean that as soon as I return to China, a closed loop will immediately form?"
"Not
In this way, you need the help of a person to form a closed loop."
"who?"
"Yougege."
"Yougege?!" Wang Yi was shocked, "How could it be her?"
"Don't be surprised. Didn't you just say that you suspect that your world has been invaded? Then I will tell you clearly now, yes, and the first person to arrive on earth is Chu Yunlan, who replaced You Gege.
A annihilator who wants to destroy the entire world!"
"Ah?!" Wang Yi was just suspicious before, but now he stopped talking and Luo Baoer was so shocked that his jaw almost dropped.
But he quickly reminded himself, 'I can't completely believe this Luo Baoer in front of me...'
Luo Baoer didn't expect Wang Yi to believe him now, he just told the truth.
"The woman Chu Yunlan became a annihilator because of the interaction of multiple factors. However, in recent years, her annihilation thoughts have been greatly shaken. This has never happened before, so this time
We pay special attention to her every move. Now she has returned to Gaia and sent Yugege back to the earth. This is a rare opportunity. You must complete contact with her before the remaining jump in her body disappears, and then your loop will be closed.
It will be formed." Luo Baoer said seriously.
But Wang Yi felt that it was really a bit of a joke.
"Just... just contact her and a closed loop is formed?" Wang Yi asked.
Luo Baoer frowned and said, "Then what do you want?"
"Uh... no... I've seen a lot of science fiction movies, like this, doesn't it have to be a big device, and then cause a blackout in the whole city? At the very least it has to be... uh..." Wang
Yi said it in a decent way, but when he saw Luo Baoer's blank expression, he stopped talking.
"Let me tell you again, the Calan Cave is not a science fiction movie, and jumps and bunker spaces do not require science, technology or blackouts to create, because they already exist, and even if humans drain the energy of the stars in the entire galaxy,
It is impossible to penetrate the channel between reality and the bunker space, let alone create it! This is a technology left over from the Shangyuan civilization, and it is something that existing human science cannot understand at all! If you insist, I will give you a reasonable explanation.
"Explanation, so I'm sorry. It took me three hundred years to understand a little bit of the mysterious method. I still don't have the ability to answer it for you." Luo Baoer really scolded Wang Yi.
Wang Yize was a little aggrieved and thought to himself, 'You know you are over three hundred years old...why are you still talking so rudely...and it's just a hasty touch and it's done, how boring is that? It's not like making a movie.
, the budget is not enough, there are no special effects, so bragging should try to make the picture look as good as possible?!'
After finishing complaining, Wang Yi suddenly felt that he was very talented in complaining, and maybe he could unlock the energy of complaining in the future.
Luo Baoer had no intention of talking nonsense to him.
He sighed and said, "I know it's hard to accept it... but that's the truth... Human beings were at a loss when they first discovered the 'door'... Many people thought that we had
When knowledge can answer everything for us, we suddenly realize that the steps of civilization are so cruel. The civilization on each step has its corresponding order system. When the civilization at the upper level throws their creations down
When a first-level civilization is reached, it does not mean that the lower-level civilization can definitely advance through it. Just like... if humans throw lighters into ant nests, it does not mean that ants can obtain enough information from lighters to develop interstellar spaceships.
The same knowledge! It can even be said that... they may never know how to use this thing... now do you understand what I mean? "
It was a thought-provoking statement. Not only was it easy to understand, but Wang Yi suddenly felt shuddering.
After pondering for a while, he asked, "Master...then...how can we judge that we have a chance to advance?"
Luo Baoer shook his head, "No one can guarantee that we will definitely move to the next level of civilization. All of this is actually more based on theory and existing exploration."
Wang Yi was startled, "Then...then what are we doing now? And why do we have to complete such a huge gamble? Can't we just merge into the ecosystem honestly?"
Luo Baoer gave a direct and clear reply: "No."
"Why?"
"Just like people are mortal, can people choose to give up their efforts just because they know that no matter how hard they try, they can't avoid death?"
Wang Yi was stunned for a moment, then frowned and said, "Isn't this what you mean?! Master! Everyone is destined to die, but all our efforts are not to escape death, but to make life richer and more exciting, right? It's to be happy!"
Just like what you just said, when the general public is heading to the next destination in a crowded subway, in the fragmented time, we take out our mobile phones to watch what we want to watch. Isn't this all to make ourselves more comfortable?
?Do we have to sacrifice everyone’s happiness to fight for a tomorrow that may not exist?”
Luo Baoer looked at Wang Yi and said nothing for a long time.
But his silence was not because he was stopped by Wang Yi's words.
On the contrary, Wang Yi saw a trace of disappointment in Luo Baoer's eyes.
At that moment, Wang Yi suddenly realized that he might have said the wrong thing...but he chose to stick to his own idea.
Because this kind of evolution...this advancement of civilization...is so terrifying! It's so crazy!