Chapter 189 The Sky Falls (24) (1st + 2nd) [VIP]

The entire hotel room fell into an eerie silence.

Yin Liantao silently pulled his coat closer and turned up the air conditioner temperature a few degrees: "...This description makes me feel creepy."

No matter whether they are from different parallel worlds five hundred years later, Liu Yi and others return to the world five hundred years ago with hope, but find that they cannot stop the destruction of the world no matter what.

Still in the conference venue, a top academic research meeting was being held upstairs. Ren Zhiling and Xi Enze were sitting in the audience, completely unaware that a similar meeting was being held downstairs. Liu Yi and others from different parallel worlds came here to kill them.

Ning Xiaomomo also picked up his coat from the back of the chair next to him and put it on, taking a deep breath: "It's quite scary."

According to this speculation, they had actually narrowly avoided mission failure on the second day they entered here.

If any of Liu Yi's attacks on Ren Zhiling and Xi Enze at that time resulted in the death of one of them, then all clues related to the rules of this project would be completely lost.

While the academic conference was being held and they could not understand a single word and could only stand near Xi Enze in a daze, Liu Yi and others from different parallel worlds had already begun planning this plan in secret that could deceive everyone.

At this moment, everyone's watch vibrated.

Xu Zichen: [What's wrong? Did something happen? Why have you been silent for so long? ]

The other three exploration team members in the room suddenly came to their senses.

Yin Liantao: [Nothing serious, we just found a new clue...]

After a few words, a few people quickly told the other three exploration team members on the other side of the city about the possible presence of Liu Yi at the meeting site.

The other side also fell into a brief silence.

[According to this line of thought,] Song Jirou said after a while, [That is to say, when there is only a small deviation in school and work selection, the basic information of all Liu Yis is similar. Only Liu Yis who all choose to go back to the first day can understand that there is no solution to the future disaster without changing the past.]

Yin Liantao: [Yes.]

Xu Zichen: [Then all the Liu Yis that appeared now are classified again. Liu Yi CDEF, who knew that he was Ren Zhiling's android and did not show any surprise when facing her, Liu Yi B, who did not know that he was Ren Zhiling's android, and Liu Yi A, who was not sure whether he knew or not.]

Xu Zichen: [That is to say, Liu Yi CDEF, who knew this information, had attended the meeting where Liu Yi A appeared on the first day.]

Fu Yandong: [That’s right.]

Otherwise, when they saw Ren Zhiling for the first time, they should have expressed similar surprise or panic as Liu Yi B.

Although it is not known what becoming Ren Zhiling's artificial human means to Liu Yi and others, the same inference can be made that if this matter is not important, then Liu Yi B would not have given up the mission of assassinating Ren Zhiling and left in a hurry.

Therefore, he did not show any surprise at this information, and according to Fu Yandong's inference, Liu Yi EF could not have come from the subsequent world, so he must be the Liu Yi who had attended this meeting.

So at the beginning, Ye Dian said that "they set up this trap on the day of the meeting". Liu Yi E and Liu Yi F pretended to be Liu Yi from the subsequent world, intentionally guiding Ren Zhiling to split into more parallel worlds.

Since the fourth day since entering here, their actions have been moving in the direction they want under the guidance of Liu Yi and others.

The barrage of comments silently floated across the screen:

[Since Liu Yi EF is the Liu Yi who existed before, where did the Liu Yi in the new parallel world created by them five hundred years later go? ]

[He was stopped by another Liu Yi.]

[Since many Liu Yis appeared on the day of the meeting, it makes no sense that other Liu Yis wouldn't appear in the following days. Anyway, only one Liu Yi would appear in front of Ren Zhiling, so the other Liu Yis could stay to deal with the new Liu Yi who came back from the future.]

[Liu Yi EF sponsored the real return of Liu Yi's account, but at that time the exploration team members and Ren Zhiling didn't know they were sponsored accounts. They could only passively receive information from Liu Yi from beginning to end. They could only believe whatever Liu Yi said. The information channel was very single and it was impossible to tell the truth from the false. So this game was based on this point.]

[I understand, so Liu Yi and his team had already started planning this at the meeting the next day.]

On the screen, Xu Zichen also posted in the group chat: [So creating a parallel world to delay the destruction of one's own world, this method should be the policy set when Liu Yi and the others met on the first day? ]

Fu Yandong: [Now it seems that this should be the case. ]

Xu Zichen pondered for a few minutes: [I feel there may be a problem in this logic chain. Let me think about it.]

The bullet screen above:

[Wait a minute, I don’t understand what happened at the meeting on the second day. Can anyone summarize what happened? ]

[Let me think about it. According to the clues they have mentioned, the information Liu Yi and his friends got after the first day of the meeting should contain three pieces of information.]

[1. All Liu Yis are Ren Zhiling's artificial humans. 2. Changing the past will not change the future, but will split into parallel worlds. 3. Creating new parallel worlds can delay the destruction of the world. These three? ]

[Yes, that’s what I mean. The first two are understandable, but how did you come up with the third one? ]

…

In the temporary group chat, Xu Zichen said that he needed to think about it, but there was no follow-up reply. Fu Yandong, who affirmed him, scratched his head and looked at Ye Dian who was sitting next to him: "Where is the problem? Brother Ye?"

Before Ye Dian could answer, Xu Zichen sent a message to the group: [I know, it’s Liu Yi’s source of information that is unknown.]

Xu Zichen: [Creating a new parallel world can delay one's own future destruction. This information is the answer you deduced from Liu Yi and others creating parallel worlds, but how did Liu Yi and others know this? ]

How did Liu Yi and others find this method when no one created a parallel world?

[…Hiss, yes, you stumped me. ]

[Yes... How did Liu Yi know this information at that time? ]

[I can't make sense! I can't make sense at all! What on earth did Liu Yi and his gang do! (distorted) (going crazy) (roaring) (mutating in front of the screen)]

[Ignore your family, and join me in giving up thinking and listening to what Master Ye has to say.]

[Since I gave up thinking while watching live broadcasts, I feel much better.jpg]

…

Seeing Xu Zichen's question, Yin Liantao asked tentatively: "Could it be because Liu Yi and the others... well, have other methods that we don't know about to get this information?"

Otherwise, how could he have discovered the key information that creating more parallel worlds could delay the destruction of his own world from the first time they met?

"No," Bai Jinshu tapped the table with his fingers, "You forgot one thing."

"There were attacks on the first day."

[During the first day of the meeting, I saw a Liu Yi A. It may be that the group of Liu Yis who found out that changing the past cannot change the future are in the meeting. There is also a Liu Yi who attacked Xi Enze and Ren Zhiling at the meeting... Let's call him Liu Yi X.] Bai Jinshu lowered his head and tapped the panel with his fingers. [That is to say, among the Liu Yis who attended the meeting on the first day, some people knew that they could not change the past, but still attacked Ren Zhiling and Xi Enze.]

[This Liu YiX who launched the attack is very wrong, let's change our thinking.] He said lightly, [If we are Liu Yi from different future worlds, after we met each other, we learned that changing the past can only generate a new parallel world, and our future cannot be saved by this method.]

[At this moment, having suddenly received this explosive information, would you still go and kill Ren Zhiling or Xi Enze? ]

No more.

There is no need to think at all, this answer will pop up in everyone's mind.

Liu Yi and others returned to the past with hope, but once they discovered that their future could not be changed, their world was doomed to end. Then why and on what basis would they create a world that could be spared?

The evil nature of human beings will be revealed at this time.

In front of a world where the sky can be prevented from falling and where a future full of hope can be achieved, these doomsday humans whose future has been sentenced to death and whose only hope of changing the past and saving the future has been shattered are as pitiful as dogs that have lost their homes.

Compared to creating a perfect future that has nothing to do with them, a group of doomsday losers who share the same suffering gathered together. When they mastered the ability to create the world, they would only be more inclined to...

Lu Changfeng: [Human nature is evil. If it is possible to create a new parallel world, then rather than creating a hopeful future, Liu Yi and others would tend to create more parallel worlds that are also doomsday.]

Facing a global disaster, returning to the past was once their only solution, but now that solution has been shattered, creating a hopeful future that has nothing to do with anyone is like poking everyone's lungs. Anyone who is Liu Yi from the future world will think in his heart: "Why?"

Why did he come from a future that was about to be destroyed, why was his world hopelessly heading towards an end, why were their efforts in vain, and these dying struggles they made to save their own world were now helping other worlds?

This perfect, hopeful, and undestructed future should not have existed in the first place. As long as they did not create it, this world would not have existed.

As the only time travelers who returned to the past five hundred years later, they do have the power to save the world.

At the same time, they also have the power to destroy other worlds.

What’s even more wonderful is that it’s not their own world that they are saving, nor is it their own world that they are destroying.

When the decision has nothing to do with you, all decisions become infinitely simpler.

Instead of becoming an unknown hero who saves irrelevant worlds, why doesn't Liu Yi, an artificial human with no family ties, no social friends, no growth experiences, and no obsession with saving anyone, choose to drag more worlds into the water?

Anyway, saving a world does them no good, but destroying a world does them no harm either.

[As long as one more parallel world is created, one more world will enter this unsolvable disaster.] Xu Zichen took a deep breath. [It is always easier to pull someone into the water than to rescue them.]

Regardless of whether Liu Yi and others have obtained other information, as long as they discover the existence of a parallel world, it would be natural to drag people into it.

At this time, the interests of Liu Yi and others who share the same suffering are highly unified. Whoever kills Ren Zhiling or Xi Enze will become a traitor in the group and an enemy of everyone.

[I know what you mean...] Song Jirou typed slowly, [Liu YiX who attacked at the meeting and Liu YiC who tried to kill Ren Zhiling at the concert hall, these two people are unreasonable.]

Both of them are motivated by pure altruism.

[There is something even more wrong with Liu Yi C.] Xu Zichen reacted quickly. [Liu Yi C is currently a mysterious person that no one has ever seen. It is not certain what his initial position was, but Liu Yi C did attend Liu Yi's meeting.]

Liu YiC chose to kill Ren Zhiling even though he knew that killing Ren Zhiling would not change his future.

He was like a tall target, in stark contrast to the rest of Liu Yi, EFG and others.

As Liu Yis who have become bloodthirsty, or as Liu Yis who have despaired of their own future and are unwilling to see any world escape this disaster, there must be huge conflicts between them.

Bai Jinshu's speech appeared on the screen at this time: [Do you remember what Liu YiF said? ]

Liu Yi F……

Everyone's thoughts immediately returned to their previous reasoning.

Liu Yi F said that in the future world there will be a religion derived from Ren Zhiling. When facing a world disaster, this religion will be divided into two factions. He comes from the faction that believes that changing the past can save the future.

[What if,] he raised his eyebrows, [this religion is not referring to a certain group that will exist five hundred years later, but to Liu Yi and others?]

Then everything...will become smooth.

[After the first day of the meeting, Liu Yi and his team split into two groups on how to deal with other parallel worlds...] Song Jirou bit her tongue, [One group of Liu Yis believed that since I couldn't survive, why should you survive? They wanted to drag more people down with them, while the other group of Liu Yis believed that since they couldn't survive, they should create a world where everyone could survive, and they wanted to kill Ren Zhiling and Xi Enze to save the world.]

At this time, the identities of these two people have become equally important invisibly.

If Ren Zhiling is killed, other Liu Yis will no longer be able to create more parallel worlds through her. If Xi Enze is killed, there will be a future where disasters no longer occur.

[If I were Liu Yi of the savior faction...] Yin Liantao murmured, [Then in order to ensure that no more desperate worlds appear, my first step would be to kill Ren Zhiling.]

If Ren Zhiling is killed, all Liu Yis will lack the conditions to create more parallel worlds. They will no longer be able to drag others into the water and create more desperate worlds.

【Step 2,】Bai Jinshu,【Kill Xi Enze.】

If Xienze is killed, the world in the future will no longer fall into disaster due to the appearance of this element, and one world will definitely be saved.

And if he wanted to force all the Liu Yis of the Die Together faction into a desperate situation and force them to kill Xi Enze, Ren Zhiling would have to die first.

So Liu YiC took the lead in attacking Ren Zhiling, but this attack was blocked by Liu YiD.

"Liu YiD..." Ning Xiao whispered, "He chose a very deceptive excuse."

He lied that he was Liu YiC from the future, and that the future had become worse after killing Ren Zhiling. He also acted extremely anxious, weakening the suspicion of all the exploration team members, and led them hurriedly to the concert hall where Liu YiC was preparing to launch the attack.

His excuse would have been almost impossible to be exposed at that time, not only because the time he presented was so urgent that people had no time to verify it, but also because all the Liu Yis were indeed the same person.

Even if verification is needed, they will look exactly the same since they are all created from Ren Zhiling's genes.

It was the perfect excuse to go undetected.

And why Liu YiD chose to use their hands to stop Liu YiC, instead of acting together with Liu Yi and others in the same camp, can only explain a horrifying fact.

[Why did Liu YiD show up alone?] Bai Jinshu laughed softly, [Because we don’t have enough manpower.]

On the first day of the meeting, Liu Yi and his companions split into two factions based on their attitudes towards other parallel worlds. As the faction that wanted to perish together, they had too few people, so when they tried to stop the attempts made by the savior faction, they had to adopt a one-on-one or one-on-many approach.

[The other people that roommate saw!] Yin Liantao suddenly exclaimed.

He had seen people other than Liu YiD!

They always believed that what Ren Zhiling's roommate saw at that time was Liu Yi C who was walking with foreign extremist organizations, but Liu Yi C was indeed the one who suddenly appeared in the last row of the concert hall in front of Ye Dian and the others.

Rather than the possibility that Liu Yi C had met someone before arriving at the concert hall, the more likely guess is actually...

Song Jirou: [What he saw was Liu Yi together with Liu Yi.]

He said that the man looked a little familiar and he would definitely recognize him if he saw him again. The exploration team members actually said something similar.

Liu Yi F, Liu Yi F who looks very similar to Ren Zhiling at first glance.

Liu Yi and the others look the same, and Ren Zhiling, as the gene provider, looks 70% similar to them.

"Think of it another way. If we assume that the Liu Yis all showed up at the meeting on the second day, that means that the Liu Yis can meet each other. In other words, they don't necessarily gather only on the first day," Bai Jinshu snapped his fingers. "On the day of the concert hall attack, there were also several Liu Yis."

On this day, some of them planned to kill Xi Enze, some planned to kill Ren Zhiling, and some tried to stop the first two parties.

"I suspected that Liu Yi was trying to lure us away so that others could assassinate Xi Enze, so Yin Liantao and Song Jirou were left behind," he said. "In fact, someone was indeed preparing to assassinate Xi Enze at that time."

However, these Liu Yis who were preparing to assassinate Xi Enze were stopped by more Liu Yis.

Bai Jinshu typed: [On the day the concert hall was attacked, Liu Yi was divided into two factions and a fierce conflict occurred. ]

They unknowingly played the role of the die-together faction, preventing Liu Yi C, who had the best chance of success, from killing Ren Zhiling. So after that day, all the Liu Yis of the salvation faction were cleared out by the Liu Yis of the die-together faction, or in other words, they were slaughtered, and the remaining Liu Yis were all of the die-together faction with a unified stance.

After this day, all the Liu Yis who appeared, whether E, F or G, their purpose became the direction speculated by Bai Jinshu at the beginning: to guide Ren Zhiling to make a choice, so that more parallel worlds will appear.

The barrage suddenly exploded:

[Damn, this is such a complicated situation.]

[I regret that I once thought Liu Yi E and Liu Yi F were idiots. I am the idiot.]

【I also. 】

[Oh my god... Liu Yi and the others, I misunderstood you. You guys are really cunning.]

[Compared to the cunning Liu Yi, isn't it more terrifying that Master Ye can reconstruct this story? 】

[Did you work for Master Ye for so many years for nothing? How can you survive in society if you are not so smart? ]

[But then again, if these clues could be revealed, it would be inevitable that Liu Yi and his friends would expose themselves, right? ]

【What self-destruction? 】

[The story told by E and F, the story of what happened in the future world! If they hadn't discovered the metaphor of resource competition and factional division in it, how could they have deduced that Xi Enze's elements caused the sky to fall, and that the conflict between the two factions of Liu Yi occurred on the day of Ren Zhiling's speech when he was attacked. ]

[Now that I put it that way...it seems to be true. 】

【Tell me, thank you Liu Yi. 】

【Thank you Liu Yi. 】

[Thank you Liu Yi, you are such a nice person. ]

…

As the barrage of comments was in full swing, the exploration team members on the screen also yawned a few times.

"Is it already past two?" Yin Liantao was shocked when he looked at his watch. "How about we stop here today? We can continue tomorrow?"

I didn't realize it was already early morning.

It’s okay for the exploration team members to stay up late, but it’s impossible for Ren Zhiling to stay up with them. It seems that Liu Yi’s focus is on Ren Zhiling at the moment.

After all, Xi Enze has already researched that element, so he can just leave it alone, but the creation of a parallel world still depends on Ren Zhiling's choice.

Everyone said good night to each other and went back to bed to rest.

The live broadcast room, which had been broadcasting live until after two o'clock, gradually became dark, and the fixed camera began to patrol in the dark room after the lights were turned off.

Suddenly, the dark screen suddenly lit up.

Investors who haven't left yet:

【Um? 】

[Why is it suddenly bright? Didn’t we disperse today? ]

[Probe, what's going on? ]

[I don't know, the camera is with Master Ye.]

On the screen, Bai Jinshu was sitting at the desk in the hotel, and the interface of the combat watch on his hand was the foundation's miracle user interface.

Just now, he took back the camera from Ren Zhiling's parents' home, and several small lenses now appeared in his palm.

Bai Jinshu's fingers were nimble. He removed the memory card from the middle of the camera, connected the card reader, and opened the video on his phone.

【rwkkrwkk, what are you doing? 】

[It seems to be a camera placed at Ren Zhiling's parents' home today.]

[Why are you watching the video at this hour? Didn’t you just say you were going to sleep? ]

[She was afraid that if she took the camera away tomorrow, it would be discovered... Her parents must be asleep at this time, so it's not surprising that something on the table and the floor suddenly disappeared.]

[Yes, it's not surprising that I took it back and took a look at it. ]

【Too. 】

Investors were quickly convinced.

Anyway, it's already past two o'clock, and those who go to bed early have already gone to bed. Those who can stay here now have waited until this point, so another ten or twenty minutes won't make a difference.

Everyone curiously followed Bai Jinshu and looked at the phone screen.

On the screen, he quickly skipped the scene where Ren Zhiling was arguing with her parents, which he had already seen once.

Images flashed across the four screens quickly.

Until Ren Zhiling's mother slowly walked to the middle of the living room holding a small bowl filled with unknown liquid.

Although the distance was far, the camera equipment had good sound reception and recorded her barely audible voice.

In front of the modern decorative painting, in the green and blue perspective of the night vision goggles, Ren Zhiling's mother's face was completely pale, and her expression was distorted into a very rare gnashing of teeth.

This expression was too different from her shrewd and controlled temperament, making it impossible to connect her with her control-freak mother who was at ease during the day.

"Why can't I see it? Why can't I see it?" Her fingers trembled slightly, and a few drops of liquid in the small bowl rolled down, leaving a circular mark on the ground.

"Why can't I see it? Why can't I see it?!"

The author has something to say:

Now it's the first day. What happened on the third day?

I have made an expensive appointment for Jiamu Ge, and I will change it when Jiamu Ge makes his shining debut (sense of ceremony.jpg)