Amid the flowing waves, Bai Ling raised his eyes and looked through the layers of dark curtains to the center of the stage.
Even the layers of undercurrents could not obscure his gaze, or rather, the only stage was already so glittering that even the deep ocean could not obscure it.
Of course, it was more of a narrow room than a "stage".
Bai Ling was very familiar with the people in the room, even too familiar with them.
On his pale but still human-colored face, his messy hair looked like it hadn't been washed for days, scattered in front of his forehead, soaked in sweat and stuck to his scalp. There was some dust on the tip of his nose, and his eyes were filled with unresolved depression and sorrow, looking like a bankrupt who had failed in his business, was heavily in debt, and would jump off a skyscraper in the next second.
In that room, everything was still. The light fell on the ground in a dull manner, the wind stagnated in the air, and the dust particles stopped falling one by one, stopping at a place within reach, like bright crystals under the light.
Subconsciously reaching out his hand, Bai Ling failed to touch the light in the room.
When he stretched out his hand, he could only feel the vast ocean current sliding through his fingers, like clouds pushed aside by the wings of a giant bird, neatly divided into two layers in the middle.
Only then did Bering realize that this was not "reality".
But this is not the "future" either, at least not Bering's "future".
Because if he guessed correctly, the scene before him was clearly a reappearance of himself in his original world, before he came to this world, and when he was about to point the gun at himself!
Two months have passed since he woke up, and Bai Ling doesn't think his ability is enough to see things that didn't happen two months ago.
So the answer is very simple.
The first possibility is that the scene before us is actually the future that the oath-breaker sees.
This is not difficult to understand. After all, the Oath Breaker must have lived hundreds of years earlier than Bering himself. Based on the calculation of time, this possibility is still feasible and reliable.
The other possibility is more horrifying.
That is, everything that happened in the past two months is essentially a "future" that happened to oneself in the original world.
And now he just woke up.
In other words, this means that the current Bering is just the original world's self-perceived entity, and in fact he himself is just a dream. Just like in Indian mythology, the whole world is a dream of the gods, and all the causes and conditions of birth and death are the gods' dream talk.
This possibility is not impossible. The evidence is that every time Bering made a prediction, he could feel that the process of prediction was almost the same as what he had experienced personally.
Although his body is under the ocean and watching the scene after the tide, from a subjective perspective, Bai Ling, who is in the future, can also feel emotions and has five senses. His foresight of the future is, to some extent, similar to the "S/L" mentioned by Xun Mo himself.
Experience it yourself, then save and then load the file.
Perhaps the only difference is that Bering's body has been standing firmly in the ocean from the very beginning.
This means that if he encounters death in the future, his life will not really end. Instead, he will return to the ocean of consciousness and return to his original consciousness.
If others accidentally die before saving and loading the game, they are really dead. But Bailing is like a health lock, even if he dies countless times in the future, it will not be reflected in the main body in the end.
So although he and SL are similar, they are essentially two different things.
After thinking about it, Bai Ling felt that both possibilities were very interesting.
The first interesting thing is that when the two prophets met, they were able to share each other's vision of the future, which was really unimaginable for Bering.
The second interesting thing is...
This is something that is difficult to explain in detail.
Just like the "brain in a vat" hypothesis which is irrefutable in most cases, whether Bering is his true self or not, it is not wrong at all until he wakes up from his "dream".
After all, it is difficult for the protagonist to prove whether he is predicting the future. Even the oath-breaker only suspected that he might be in Bering's prophecy, but he had no solid evidence to prove it.
Therefore, it is difficult to draw a conclusion on this issue.
However, Bai Ling did not intend to draw any conclusions on this occasion.
Many philosophers have spent their entire lives trying to figure out a problem, so it doesn't make sense that he, whose body is almost half cold, could figure it out in such a short time. He is not much smarter than those people, and the only thing worth praising is perhaps his ability to "trial and error" many times.
But philosophical problems cannot be solved by trial and error.
So there is no point in letting this problem bother you now.
What's more, it seems that the stage is finally about to start the "performance".
At this moment, the air in the narrow room finally began to flow.
In the middle of the room, the disheveled-haired Bai Ling looked at the table in front of him.
At this moment, there was a black pistol lying on the table.
He stared at the pistol with a dazed look, as if he was thinking about something.
Just as Bering was thinking.
Across from him, a deep voice came from an invisible place: "Have you thought it through?"
Facing this voice, the Bai Ling of the past raised his head and gave an awkward smile.
"Of course," he nodded slightly, "I had thought about it a long time ago."
Holding the pistol in his hand, Bering opened the safety of the pistol. With a slight sound of the mechanism, the originally black gun body exuded a more dangerous aura than before.
Grasping the handle of the gun, the past Bai Ling sighed: "I can't do it, I really can't do it."
"I have tried too many times, but the more I try, the more I can't get myself out of this spiral, let alone break it all," he said in a decadent voice. "No matter how hard I try, it's all in vain in the end. Even the things I did before may become obstacles for me now."
"Everything proves that I was wrong. Predicting the future does not bring security, but deeper dangers..."
In the past, Bai Ling's hand holding the gun was shaking a little: "I thought I could solve this danger, but I didn't expect that the final result would be that I would be imprisoned and unable to escape..."
As he spoke, he sighed, "I'm tired. I'm really too tired. I've given everything for this illusory future, but what's the point? I've been preparing for it since a long time ago, but the end result of my preparations is that I will die in despair and pain... Rather than that, I might as well end it all now and leave these troubles to the next person."
Hearing his voice, the person on the other side fell silent.
After a long while, the voice continued to say to Bai Ling: "You are running away."
"Escape, yes, I am escaping." The past Bai Ling accepted it calmly, "But whether it is escape or not, it doesn't matter. Prophecy is not a tool for salvation, but a shackle that urges you to go to hell."
"I'm not a strong person, never have been. I don't have the resolve to save everyone even if it means sacrificing myself. Rather, why? Why should I, a person without any characteristics before this, accept all this? Why should I bear the so-called 'responsibility' without any resources? Is it fate? Or something else? No matter what it is, the final result is that it chose the wrong person - in the final analysis, I am simply not a match for this power."
The past Bai Ling held the pistol and said calmly: "I am just an ordinary person, and 99.99% of people can't save the world. It doesn't make sense that I, the 99.99%, can leap forward to become the 0.01% after experiencing all this. So, I give up and don't want to care anymore."
"The only thing I can do now is to let the next person take over from me," he smiled, "Otherwise, I really want to bring my abilities to the other side instead of clinging to my current human identity. This is not difficult. As long as I want to, I can easily do it with the power of foreseeing the future. I may even be able to do better among the monsters - as long as I throw away my useless conscience and sympathy."
Putting the muzzle of the gun against his own temple, the past Bai Ling chuckled and said, "So, this is probably the last mercy I leave for mankind."
After saying this.
He pulled the trigger without hesitation.
The next second, a bullet suddenly burst out from the muzzle of the gun, carrying violent kinetic energy, and instantly penetrated Bai Ling's brain, accurately hitting the opposite wall, leaving a deep bullet hole!
With a "bang", the Bai Ling of the past fell dejectedly on the dining table with his eyes open.
Blood spurted out from his wound, flowing all over the ground, painting the entire floor a tragic scarlet.
Looking at the scene in front of me.
A moment later, someone in an inconspicuous corner sighed softly.
After about three seconds, Bai Ling, who was originally lying on the table, moved his fingers slightly.
A strange foam came out of his brain, repairing his wounds bit by bit, wiping away all exposed traces and leaving his head as smooth as new.
The face that had turned pale due to blood loss gradually regained its color, and now Bai Ling's face was even so rosy that he didn't look like someone who had just died.
Soon, his finger movements became more and more vigorous, and soon his eyelids began to tremble.
Noticing this scene, the man hiding in the shadows seemed to feel that there was no need to stay here any longer.
He stood up, and his entire body seemed to be hidden in the shadows. Not only his appearance could not be seen, but even his height and gender were like a gray mist.
After standing up, the man shrouded in mist looked back at Bai Ling who was trembling slightly.
This glance did not last too long, at least before Bering at the table woke up, the gray shadow man opened the door of the room and left Bering's narrow room.
At the end of the "stage", there are only so many things.
As the gray shadow man closed the door of the room, the lights in the room, which was originally brightly lit, went out and disappeared into darkness again.
It was as if everything before was just a dream.
Looking at the scene in front of him, Bai Ling, who was standing outside the tide and was pulled into this world, gently touched the mask on his face.
He seemed to have thought of something, and his eyes flickered through the blue gems.
Soon, a voice came from behind him: "This is everything that happened to you."
Bering turned around.
He noticed that the Oath Breaker had been standing behind him at some point, and his long hair, which had been loose, was tied together with an unknown hair rope.
Picking up a lock of his hair, the Oathbreaker said calmly, "I have said it before, you are nothing but a pitiful scapegoat, forced to become a so-called 'prophet' for the selfish desires of the original person."
Letting down his hair, the Oath Breaker spoke calmly to Bai Ling: "After all, the original you didn't have to bear all this. It was only because the original you was afraid and escaped that you were forced to take the position. If you hadn't come to this place, I'm afraid you would be living a boring but peaceful life now, right?"
"You don't have to go through so much trouble and pain, nor do you have to watch those painful experiences over and over again in the future, nor lose yourself in the foresight..." said the oath-breaker, "After all, this is not what you should do."
She smiled at Bai Ling and said, "Give up, give up everything you are going to do next. As people in the play, your vision is limited to a plane. From the perspective of an observer, your behavior is not meaningless, but it can also be said to have little effect."
"I think you probably know that in order to completely eliminate the alien species, you have to go to Tianyuan," she said, "but do you know what this means? In Tianyuan, no 'law' has been eliminated so far. You can ask the shadow on your pretty boy to find out. As a part of the gate god, it probably knows this very well."
"So, what you are doing is simply an impossible task. Not to mention that the extinction of laws is something that has never happened before, what can a human like you do to such illusory laws?"
Raising his hand, the Oath Forsaken smiled and said, "Are you expecting to cut off the origin of the alien species just like killing a person? If it were really that simple, then in the Abyss, the alien species that occupied the laws would not attack each other, but live in peace."
"Both spirit and matter can cause harm, but laws... Do you think you can completely destroy a physical formula or a mathematical symbol? Not in the human sense of deleting it, but really removing this variable from the universe. Can you imagine drawing a sword against pure 'temperature' and 'flame' and solving all of this?"
The Oath Breaker sighed, "So this is simply impossible. The origin of the alien species cannot be eliminated, and after the future origin appears, the number of alien species will increase, until humans are finally completely destroyed. In fact, if the future situation was not so grim, how could you give up on yourself and throw all this on yourself?"
"So give up. If you choose to give up now, then I can make you a promise," the Oathbreaker stretched out his hand, "I can save your life and the life of the person you choose. This is not difficult for me - even for a period of time in the future, 'Origin is not too much', not to mention that I have touched this box a long time ago. As long as I make a promise, no one will do anything to you."
"This is the perfect choice for you, and the only thing you need to pay is... just the insignificant conscience you once mentioned."
"I don't need you to join me," she said softly, "I just need to reduce one opponent - I have been waiting for a long time and don't want to waste any more twists and turns."
This sentence sounds logical.
According to the oath-breaker, the reason she came to persuade Bai Ling to surrender was that she wanted Bai Ling not to stop her and just let her perform on her own.
After all, if Bai Ling intervened, it would take the Oath Breaker a lot longer to achieve the "Origin". And if Bai Ling didn't take action...
Then the "Pale Lady" of the second origin in the diary will probably appear step by step.
That's why the Oathbreaker chose to negotiate with Bering after fighting with him.
Look at the oathbreaker's outstretched hand.
Listen to the sincere words of the oathbreaker.
Bai Ling turned back silently, his eyes seemed to be looking at the small room that had lost its light from behind the rolling waves.
It took a long time.
He turned back and focused his gaze on the oath-breaker's face again.
When seeing the oath-breaker's calm but sincere face.
Bai Ling suddenly laughed.
He did not respond immediately, but talked about something else: "You know? When I first came to this world, I was really shocked."
"Of course, this is understandable," he said. "After all, no matter who it is, if they suddenly see a pool of blood and a gun next to them, they will be stunned. So, the 'future' you showed me is quite familiar to me. After all, I haven't been back to my home for a long time. I have been living in the base recently."
Gently touching his mask, Bai Ling raised the corner of his mouth slightly: "But you probably don't know one thing."
Pointing to his chest, he smiled at the oathbreaker: "In my memory, the original 'me' shot me in the chest, not in the head."
"So it's a pity that even though you said such fantastic things, if you didn't pay attention to such a small detail, then I would think that you made it all up. No matter what means you used, its authenticity needs to be verified."
Shrugging his shoulders, Bai Ling said, "Therefore, everything you said has naturally lost its effectiveness. After all, even the most basic things are fabricated, so how much truth can be built on top of all this?"
"So why don't we have a frank talk," he said calmly, "Just talk about when I will completely pull you in and make you my new pet?"
Listen to Bai Ling's words.
The oath-breaker, who had a smile on his face, stopped smiling.
She sighed softly: "What a pity."
"I really find people like that disgusting, who refuse to accept the truth and cling to what they see," she said. "If that's the case, then I don't want to get along with them anymore."
Hearing this, Bai Ling smiled under the mask and said, "From the beginning, there was no soil for us to live in harmony."
As soon as these words fell.
Soon, two figures suddenly rushed up!