74 Judgment 04
◎My calculation data tells me that he is the only variable that can save humanity.◎
Zhu Heng, who was watching the live broadcast of the trial from far away in prison, frowned and slowly sat down by the window.
He could sense that all the living people within a five-mile radius were looking towards him.
The trial continues on the live broadcast.
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Inquisitor: But he is the one who destroyed civilization.
Dr. Xu: My calculation data tells me that he is the only variable that can save humanity.
Inquisitor: What do you mean? Is the prophecy wrong?
Dr. Xu: I don’t know whether the prediction will come true, but my calculations are definitely correct.
Judge: I assume that what you said is true. Then, is it possible to turn this variable into a constant?
Dr. Xu: That depends on whether he can realize that he is the variable.
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In the gallery.
A figure arrived late and quietly sat down while no one was paying attention.
Augustus looked at the visitor and asked, "Why are you here just now?"
Helan Dao looked at him and said nothing.
Augustus asked again, "Didn't you miss the live broadcast on the way here?"
Helan Dao finally hummed and nodded.
Augustus breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing this. He leaned closer to Helan Dao and whispered, "Why do you say that, Dr. Xu? Isn't your brother watching the live broadcast right now?"
Helando glanced at him and said, "The entire galaxy is watching this trial, and the prison is no exception."
Augustus: "Even though you look at me like I'm a fool, I still want to thank you for paying attention to me. Also, I have another question for you. Why did you insist that Zhu Heng wasn't the owner of the Zhuang Zhou Butterfly? Were you afraid that the Inquisition would find him, or are you just being stubborn?"
"Both, but neither is the main reason," said Helandao.
Augustus frowned. "What is it?"
A trace of confusion appeared in Helan Dao's eyes. "I'm not really sure, but I always have this inexplicable feeling that makes me feel that I am the master of Zhuang Zhou Butterfly."
"Are you crazy? Do you know what you are talking about?" Augustus widened his eyes.
The audience around him cast disapproving glances at him. Augustus shut his mouth in frustration, but still whispered a warning: "Don't ever say anything like that again. Don't even mention it!"
Helan Dao didn't respond. He unconsciously put his hand on his chest and pressed it, and suddenly his movements stopped.
Where did the copy of Zhu Heng's diary that he always kept in his coat pocket go?
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At this moment, Zhu Heng in prison was staring at Dr. Xu on the live broadcast screen in a daze.
When Dr. Xu said the word "variable", he raised his eyes and looked directly at the live camera, as if he could penetrate the air and look directly at the audience outside the camera.
So who did she want to see? Him?
He was obviously watching the live broadcast, so why did Dr. Xu specifically say this, as if to remind him... Could it be that he hasn't realized yet that he is a variable?
If you had something to say, why didn't you tell him face to face, but instead told him indirectly in this way?
Zhu Heng closed his eyes, his brain working rapidly.
He recalled all the conversations he had with Dr. Xu not long ago.
Since Dr. Xu can predict all possible futures through calculations, it means that she also anticipated when she would be taken away for trial.
So she should have known from the beginning that the time she could communicate with him face to face was limited.
In other words, time is limited, and within this limited time, she will definitely pick out the most important information to tell him - information that is more important than "variables".
Zhu Heng suddenly opened his eyes.
It’s the method of how to enter higher-dimensional space and time!
Zhu Heng broke out in a cold sweat on his back. He remembered what Dr. Xu had said, that unless he himself was a higher-dimensional life form, no one could enter the higher-dimensional space on his own.
This means that Dr. Xu has already guessed his secret.
Zhu Heng looked up again at Dr. Xu on the live broadcast screen.
I see.
Zhu Heng thought to himself that he had always been puzzled as to why he thought he was a four-dimensional life but was trapped in a three-dimensional world; and he was clearly a three-dimensional body, but he could always accidentally and easily enter the fourth dimension.
It turns out that all this is because he is the unfolded form of a four-dimensional life form.
so……
Dr. Xu wanted to remind him to go to a higher dimension on his own. Perhaps only in a higher dimension could he realize what that variable was.
Zhu Heng gently closed his eyes, relying entirely on instinct, and tried to fold himself up.
Since it can be expanded and reduced in dimension, it can definitely be put back together again.
Slowly, he felt his body floating in a certain direction.
Unlike the last time when his consciousness floated upwards after the City on City dungeon ended, this time, his body and consciousness did not separate from each other.
After floating for an unknown amount of time, Zhu Heng opened his eyes and saw a world of brilliant colors. All objects had no shape, and they overlapped layer by layer, extending infinitely, like countless kaleidoscopes with no end.
Everything seemed so strange.
So, this is four-dimensional space-time?
Zhu Heng looked at this world he had never seen before with curiosity, and soon he found that he could see the entire three-dimensional world. At this moment, he had a God's perspective.
A kaleidoscope tunnel on the left suddenly flashed. Zhu Heng looked over and saw an amazing sight.
Inside the tunnel, countless small squares flickered, each one playing a picture, showing him the life of the same person.
Zhu Heng was very familiar with the person in the picture.
He looked at the square closest to him. The picture showed a certain year in the era of Level Three Civilization, when a baby boy of East Asian descent was born in Dr. Xu's experimental base.
As soon as he landed, a white butterfly flew in from the window and danced around the baby boy.
The boy grew up slowly, and when he was about eight or nine, Dr. Xu brought Liu Qiao'er back from the Secondary Civilization Era. When Liu Qiao'er made her first public appearance, she uttered the prophecy once spoken by Zhu Heng to the entire galaxy.
Zhu Heng frowned, feeling that something was wrong.
Having no clue, he had no choice but to continue reading.
Gradually, Helan Dao grew into a young man, successfully developed the "History of the Universe" system, and recruited the first batch of participants.
After entering the system, he continued to break through levels, collected countless fragments of civilization, sorted them out, and handed them over to Dr. Xu outside the system.
Helan Dao's work of collecting civilization fragments went very smoothly, but Zhu Heng became more and more frightened the more he watched.
He knew something was wrong—
There is no him in this world!
In this parallel world that didn't exist, Zhu Heng watched He Landao collect the last fragment of civilization, watched him leave the system, and saw him walk into Dr. Xu's laboratory without a word...
Suddenly a white butterfly flew into the laboratory, and everyone in the room looked up at it.
Zhu Heng had a bad feeling in his heart.
The people in the room were silent for a while, until Dr. Xu spoke, breaking the long silence: "So, the one Zhuang Zhoudie is loyal to is you."
Helandao did not say anything, and it seemed that he agreed with Dr. Xu's guess.
Zhu Heng slapped the scene in front of him: "You are a piece of shit!"
Dr. Xu closed his eyes and slowly exhaled. He then returned to the operating table, put on his gloves, and prepared all his equipment. He lowered his head and stopped looking at Helan. "Have you thought it through? After today, your brain will serve as a storage device for human civilization and become the public property of mankind."
Helando lay down on the lab table, his movements as smooth as if he were resting in bed at night, without the slightest hesitation, seemingly unconcerned about his fate: "This tampered civilization started with me, and it is only right that I end it."
"No sacrifice is ever necessary, child," Dr. Xu said, sighing imperceptibly. "But I will respect your opinion."
The thing Zhu Heng least wanted to see happened, and everything went incredibly smoothly.
He didn't remember what he was thinking in those few minutes. He just felt his mind was blank, his limbs were weak, and his back was cold.
When he finally came to his senses, Helando on the experimental table had turned into a brain soaked in a sticky transparent liquid.
In this line, Helan Dao is the person who ultimately destroys civilization as predicted, but it is also him who contributes his brain to store all human civilization in it.
But...is this the end?
What is the variable that Dr. Xu mentioned?
Zhu Heng racked his brains but couldn't figure it out.
Suddenly, several blinding white lights flashed before Zhu Heng's eyes, and then the images before his eyes went out one by one. After a brief period of blindness, Zhu Heng opened his eyes again, only to see the universe accelerating into darkness.
The universe is destroying itself!
His pupils shrank, and without time to think, he quickly ran back and forth in the tunnel, almost locking onto the location of Helando's brain at a glance - all the surviving humans gathered in front of the brain, without crying or panic.
Faced with this inevitable death, everyone sat on the ground in silence with solemn expressions, lowering their heads to record the last minute before the last spark of humanity disappeared.
Even their records will be destroyed along with the demise of the universe.
But at this last minute, the only thing humans can do is record.
Some people couldn't help but look back at the brain they were protecting behind their backs, and couldn't help but smile bitterly.
This is humanity's last hope, but in a minute, it will be gone.
In order to prevent civilization from being destroyed by Helando, the Galaxy sacrificed his brain and stored all the data in it, but no one expected that in the end, by mistake, it would be destroyed by the same person.
This is really... fate.
Zhu Heng watched helplessly as all this happened in front of him, but he could do nothing.
He clenched his fists, pressing them against the invisible barrier before him, and muttered, "Variables...what are these variables you're talking about? What exactly do you want me to do?"
Zhu Heng stared at the endless darkness before him in a daze.
He suddenly froze.
etc.
Zhu Heng went back to the time when Dr. Xu was being tried by the human court.
In this world line, Dr. Xu was also brought to trial, but in this time and space, she was only tried once, and she did not destroy the fragments of civilization collected by Helando.
Zhu Heng replayed the judgment in this world line.
Inquisitor: By doing this, can you save humanity? I mean, by establishing a new human base.
Dr. Xu: No. I simply calculated countless possible futures for humanity and selected the optimal solution. But even if it's the optimal solution, its probability of success is still zero.
Zhu Heng's heart skipped a beat.
Inquisitor: Why do you do this if there is no chance of success?
Dr. Xu: I'm waiting for a variable to appear. If it does, the probability of saving humanity will be 0.01%. The probability of this variable appearing is either 1 or 0. Unfortunately, on the path we've chosen, that variable hasn't appeared.
【Author’s words】
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