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◎But compared to Dr. Xu's betrayal, these are nothing.◎
Zhu Heng listened to the noisy sounds around him that rumbled into his ears like a flood. His arms, which had been supporting the child, felt a little sore, but he was numb to it.
"You should know the secret of Liu Qiaoer's predictive ability?" Zhu Heng asked.
"I know." Helan Dao calmed himself down, answered Zhu Heng's question, and then said nothing more.
"They can predict the future up to ten minutes in advance because they briefly stay in the four-dimensional world. During this time, their bodies are mirror-reversed, which is why, in your eyes, they become left-handed for a period of time. Of course, you don't know that their internal structures are also reversed. For example, their hearts are on the right side."
Helandao continued to remain silent, and when he heard the last sentence, his eyelashes trembled slightly.
Zhu Heng then added, "I'm the same as them, but I can't predict the short term future. I've never stayed in four-dimensional spacetime for a short time."
"I don't need to do this, because..." he said, gently looking up at the familiar sky above his head, "I already belong to the fourth dimension."
Helan Dao laughed softly, so soft that only he could hear it.
"Dr. Xu has always believed that Liu Qiao'er's words were a curse for their entire clan. You communicate with Dr. Xu frequently, so I'm sure she must have told you this."
"How do you know this?" Helan Dao slowly turned his eyes and stared at the air in front of him. Zhu Heng's figure appeared again in the arbitrary door in front of him. That was the visual window that Zhu Heng opened for him.
Zhu Heng didn't answer He Landao's question. He simply said, "Dr. Xu is wrong. That's not a curse. It's normal for her to think so. Even Liu Qiaoer's clansmen, those wronged souls, mistakenly believe it's retribution for all of humanity."
He Landao said calmly, "So you were there at that time."
"That's right," Zhu Heng said. "Unfortunately, that's a prophecy. It's the future of all mankind that I saw while inhabiting Liu Qiao'er's body. Liu Qiao'er's people, hampered by their three-dimensional structure, can only see what will happen in the short term. But I don't have that limitation. As long as I enter the fourth dimension of spacetime, I can see the outcome of everything."
"Can you see it all the time?" Helan Dao asked.
"You need to stay in four-dimensional space-time. Although my current carrier has a special structure, it is still just a three-dimensional space-time body."
Helan Dao pinched his brows and said, "Well, anyway, you saw the end of all mankind, saw the owner of Zhuang Zhou Butterfly destroy the entire world, so do you know who he is? It shouldn't be..."
Zhu Heng knew what he wanted to ask and shook his head: "It's most likely me. But no matter who the owner of Zhuang Zhou Butterfly is, one thing is certain, this person lives in the fourth dimension."
"What are you going to do, go to a higher dimension?"
Zhu Heng hummed, "But before that, I have to complete this dungeon mission first."
"That child..."
Before Helan Dao could finish, Zhu Heng interrupted him: "I need to complete this logical loop."
Zhu Heng stood up from the bench and left Helan Dao's sight.
Helan Dao wanted to chase after him, but was stopped by the system.
【Daddy, we are in trouble.】
He Landao was stunned: "What do you mean?"
[The system detected external energy fluctuations around the dungeon world. It's from the Inquisition.]
He Landao's first reaction was to ask the system: "Will this affect Zhu Heng's ability to complete the dungeon mission?"
[They are currently trying to forcibly remove my permissions and enter the dungeon world. The system's security settings cannot block the high-level permissions of the Inquisition. I can only hold out for another ten minutes at most.]
He Landao clenched his fists and turned to look in the direction Zhu Heng left: "Ten minutes...if he doesn't come out after ten minutes."
The system called out softly: [Daddy?]
He Landao unclenched his fist and continued, "Just activate the copy's self-destruct program."
[But if this happens, Zhu Heng will be trapped in this world forever.]
"There's no other choice. No matter what, I can't let him go to trial before I find the true owner of Zhuang Zhou Butterfly."
-
Zhu Heng took his children and boarded the bus of the second-level civilization era.
The sound of the broadcast in the car announcing the artificial weather conditions for the day floated clearly into his ears. Zhu Heng looked out the window. It was midsummer and the weather was clear.
He looked at the time and saw that he had just caught the first wave of the morning rush hour.
The place where they boarded the bus was not far from Zhu Heng's destination. After about two stops, Zhu Heng got off the bus from the back door with the child.
Looking up, Zhu Heng's sight passed over a dense forest and focused on the familiar building hidden behind the dense forest.
That's where he grew up.
Zhu Heng looked at the child in his arms, his hand on his right chest, where he could hear the beating of his heart.
If you look closely, you can vaguely see a small black mole on the tip of the child's nose.
Yes.
This child is himself.
Zhu Heng walked all the way to the welfare home. The door was still closed and it was not time to open it yet.
He wrapped himself in swaddling clothes to prevent him from catching a cold from the wind, and then placed himself at the door of the welfare home.
After doing all this, Zhu Heng looked up at the welfare home. There was already some movement inside. As the sun gradually rose higher, the entire welfare home was slowly waking up.
Before the gate of the welfare home was opened, Zhu Heng quickly evacuated the scene. He hid outside, using the bushes to block himself, and watched the director come out and find the baby he had placed at the gate.
Zhu Heng opened his mouth and said silently: "Goodbye."
This is the last look.
Zhu Heng turned and left, and the world behind him began to collapse rapidly with his movements.
-
Helan Dao took out his vintage pocket watch and checked the time.
Ten minutes passed, and a sound like tearing silk rang out in the void beside his ears. Countless black shadows tore a crack in the air and jumped in from another world.
This group of judges were all wearing black robes with a white edge at the collar, their hair was combed meticulously, their lips were pressed into a straight line, and their expressions were serious and solemn.
They walked very quickly, leaving a trail of afterimages in the air. In just a blink of an eye, they arrived in front of Helan Dao.
He Landao put away his pocket watch and stood up to greet him. However, at this moment, the world behind him suddenly began to collapse, and all the buildings were reduced to a pile of powder and dissipated by the wind.
He Landao glanced back, the corners of his mouth raised slightly, and he turned and pointed behind him, saying to the group in front of him: "You came at an unfortunate time. The person you are looking for has just been trapped in the dungeon."
However, the judges remained indifferent.
The leader pulled out his mission ID from under his black robe, waved it in front of Helan Dao, and then said, "It should be said that we arrived just in time."
Helan Dao frowned.
The two judges stood directly on both sides of Helan Dao and surrounded him.
"We are looking for you. Please come with us, Mr. Helandao." said the leading judge.
-
Zhu Heng completed the task of logical closure and was about to wait for the system to send him out of the copy, but at this moment, he discovered something strange about the surrounding environment.
"System!" he shouted. "What's going on?"
[Be patient, the dungeon world is self-destructing.]
Can the copy self-destruct even though he has completed the mission?
"What will happen to me after I self-destruct?"
【have no idea. 】
Zhu Heng: “…” What use is there for you?
The system felt a little aggrieved: [This is the first time I've experienced this.]
As it finished speaking, the world around it quickly changed. Zhu Heng felt as if he was flying into the sky, and soon a piece of hard land floated to his feet for him to stand on.
Zhu Heng looked around and found himself in a multicolored space, a space he had never seen before. The air held a strange smell. He suddenly realized that he seemed to be able to see colors he could not normally see and smell scents he had never been able to identify before.
He walked forward and came to a big door in the corner of the edge of the space.
After hesitating for a while, Zhu Heng pushed open the door, but the scene before him made him stand there in a daze.
Outside the door is nothing but the vast and boundless universe.
-
Helandao was taken away from the "Universe History" system by the judges and returned to the third-level civilization era he was familiar with.
Only when he got on the flight cabin did he realize that he was not the only one brought out by the Judge. Augustus and Xu Wenjun were also there. They sat face to face with Helando, and the Judge also followed them closely.
"I say," Helan Dao said slowly, "I did it, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with them."
The judges kept their mouths pursed and motionless, only Augustus winked at him and gave him a look.
However, Helan Dao didn't understand what he meant. He continued to question the judge: "If you take us all away, who will go to find the fragments of civilization?"
Hearing this, the judge finally made some movement. If it was called movement, he just turned his eyes to Helan Dao, and then quickly retracted them.
Augustus coughed lightly at Helan Dao and waved his hand.
Helandao turned his gaze to Augustus and stared at his face for a while. He suddenly asked the judge, "What happened to those fragments?"
The judge finally spoke: "You don't know yet?"
Helan Dao said nothing.
The judge replied, "The civilization fragment data you collected from the 'Universal History' was destroyed during the transmission to the third-level civilization era."
He Landao immediately denied it: "Impossible, I compiled the data and sent it directly to Dr. Xu to ensure it was safe. Those fragments are absolutely safe..."
The judge sneered.
Helandao turned to look at Augustus and Xu Wenjun opposite him. Augustus had a complicated look in his eyes, while Xu Wenjun kept his head down with a numb look on his face.
The judge said, "Have you ever considered that it was your Dr. Xu who destroyed those fragments of civilization?"
Helan Dao's heart sank: "The person you want to judge is Dr. Xu?"
"Who else do you think you are?" the Judge said. "I know you are looking for the human suspected to be the owner of the prophesied Zhuang Zhou Butterfly, but compared to Dr. Xu's betrayal, all this is nothing."
The trial of Dr. Xu soon began in a human court.
The judges in white robes sat in the center of the hall, and the seats were filled with a large crowd of spectators. The circular structure of the hall made everyone's attention focus on the subject of the trial, Dr. Xu, and a tense and oppressive atmosphere quietly spread across the scene.
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