78 Zhuang Zhou Mengdie 04
◎Both Dr. Xu's wisdom and He Landao's courage have paved the way for you◎
Zhuangzi was still waiting for Zhu Heng's answer, but Zhu Heng just stared at him without moving.
"Do you have anything else to ask?" Zhuangzi asked.
Zhu Heng's eyes were slightly cautious, and he slowly spoke, "I was thinking, back when I was going through the various schools of thought in the 'General History of the Universe', I also met you. Are you the same person then as you are now?"
"What do you think?" Zhuangzi kicked the question back to Zhu Heng.
Zhu Heng pondered for a moment. "That Zhuangzi is a set of data that was systematically reconstructed. But even so, his thoughts are still Zhuangzi's thoughts, and his theories are still Zhuangzi's theories. According to the standards of the third-level civilization era, as long as a person's spirit and will remain, even if they are arbitrarily transformed or transformed, they remain themselves. So, whether Zhuangzi is still Zhuangzi, I don't know."
Zhuangzi smiled approvingly and said, "You're right. I am indeed me, but I'm also not me. It's like the story of me dreaming of becoming a butterfly that you're all familiar with. Perhaps I dreamed I became a butterfly, or perhaps the butterfly dreamed it became me. As for everything in the world, if you look at it from a human perspective, you'll only ever see one truth about the universe."
Zhu Heng frowned quickly.
Zhuangzi's words sounded like they had a hidden meaning...
But this was a bit off topic and not his current focus. Zhu Heng slowly rolled his eyes and spoke carefully, "Whether you are him or not, you are just a string of data. What I want to ask is, in the real world outside of this system, why are you here? Unless this place is still within the system."
After hearing what Zhu Heng said, a sly glint of wisdom flashed in Zhuangzi's eyes.
"I must admit, you are indeed very clever." He laughed and praised repeatedly, "but unfortunately, you didn't guess right."
Zhuangzi stretched out his hand, clasping his thumb and index finger together. He winked at Zhu Heng and smiled, "Just a little bit off. The Zhuangzi you met in 'Universal History' was a set of data restored by the system. The me standing before you now is also a string of data, but I wasn't created by the 'Universal History' system, so it has no control over me."
"You mean, this entire galaxy has another system besides Helan Dao's?"
“No,” Zhuangzi denied. “The universe we live in now is the real world.”
"I do not understand."
"You can think of all this as a game." Zhuangzi stared at Zhu Heng motionlessly. "The real world is a game. We are all players, and 'Universe History' is just a small instance in this larger game. Every choice made by each player will change history."
Hearing the warning in Zhuangzi's words, Zhu Heng raised his eyes and said, "I know what to do."
"Do you really know?" Zhuangzi asked in a questioning tone. "All you are doing is repeating history over and over again. You can't change it at all."
Zhu Heng said, "My goal is not to change the past. History cannot be changed. I can only change the future, and I only want to change the future."
Zhuangzi laughed lightly: "Look at what you said. Don't you know that the future you are talking about has already become history? The past is the future."
Zhu Heng hesitated for a moment, then said to Zhuangzi, "But the future hasn't happened yet."
"Seriously? Think about it carefully. For example, the death of the universe..." Zhuangzi suddenly became relaxed and stroked his beard.
Zhu Heng's gaze gradually narrowed: "What do you mean?"
Zhuangzi glanced at Zhu Heng but did not answer his question. He took out a palm-sized wooden cart and a section of figure-eight mini track from somewhere. He placed the cart on the track, let go, and let it slide along the predetermined path.
Zhuangzi pointed at the cart and said, "Although it has just started sliding, there is only one track. Sooner or later, it will reach the destination that we can all see."
At this point, he turned to look at Zhu Heng and said meaningfully, "So do you understand? From the very beginning, from the very beginning of the universe's birth, the ending was already determined. The future you want to change is history that has already been determined; of course, from this point of view, the history you have changed is also the future that has not yet happened. Remember, when the world of the City on City instance collapsed, you accidentally came to a space in the universe?"
Zhu Heng's heart trembled, and he nodded and said, "Please teach me."
"Can't you foresee the future? Guess what it is first." Zhuangzi narrowed his eyes and glanced at him with a smile.
Zhu Heng still vividly remembered the tragic scene of the vast universe's final collapse. He hesitated for a moment and asked, "Could this be... the death of the universe?"
"You guessed right."
"Is there a way to crack it?"
Zhuangzi waved his hand, his eyes wide, and said hurriedly, "That's the way of heaven. How can I tell you about the way of heaven? But I can tell you something from my heart."
Zhu Heng listened attentively to his fart.
Zhuangzi said, "You are indeed lucky. You have met two excellent teammates who are hard to find. One is a master strategist and has calculated everything, while the other is a desperate person who will not give up until he achieves his goal."
Zhu Heng was slightly stunned, then realized that he was probably referring to Dr. Xu and He Landao.
Sure enough, Zhuangzi continued, "Both Dr. Xu's wisdom and Helan Dao's courage have paved the way for you. But whether you will succeed in the end depends on whether you can realize it at the last moment."
"Enlightenment?"
Zhuangzi pointed to the sky and said, "Understand the way of heaven and the true meaning of the universe."
"So what do you think is the right thing to do now?"
"It's the same question as before," Zhuangzi said, pointing to the thin line outside the window. "There's still some time before sunset, and you still have a chance. Do you choose to enter the 'Universal History' system from here, retrace your steps, and continue the cycle of history? Or do you choose to leave here and never have anything to do with the 'Universal System' again, thus breaking this cycle?"
"No matter what choices I make, the universe will eventually die."
"Of course the outcome won't change, so I say, there's no need for you to get involved in this mess."
Zhu Heng chuckled and said, "Why do I feel that you have bad intentions?"
"I'm doing this for your own good," Zhuangzi said immediately. "Think about it, if you don't enter the system, you can live more comfortably and don't have to worry about what will happen hundreds of thousands of years from now."
"Really? These are the only two choices I have?" Zhu Heng put his hands in his pockets and didn't care.
Zhuangzi said, "Oh," and asked, "What are your plans?"
Zhu Heng suddenly took out a glowing white bead from his pocket. He was obviously a little surprised by this. He looked at Zhuangzi, but the other party was silent at this moment and did not say a word.
"What if I say that I still choose to enter the "General History of the Universe"? " Zhu Heng slowly stroked the bead and said to Zhuangzi.
Zhuangzi smiled at him, then opened the window, stretched out his hand, and placed it on the thin thread closest to him. The thread cut his fingertips, and blood gushed out, dripping into the air.
"The system of the game "Universe History" has been opened to you, and you can set off now," said Zhuangzi.
Zhu Heng stood still and looked at Zhuangzi: "Aren't you curious about the reason for my choice?"
Zhuangzi's eyes fell on the bead in Zhu Heng's hand: "Because it is, if it is a normal cycle, you shouldn't have it on you now. When did it appear in your pocket?"
"I'm not sure, maybe it was just a moment ago." Zhu Heng shook his head.
Zhuangzi was right. According to the normal development of the plot, this bead should be in the form of a clay doll and stuffed into the actress's stomach by him in the four-dimensional space. Therefore, it is impossible for Zhu Heng, who is still in the hotel at this time, to have it with him.
The appearance of this variable bead gave Zhu Heng peace of mind, which meant that any choice he made would not put him in a closed-loop logic.
The only possible explanation is that there is a higher-dimensional life that saw the whole picture of the incident and used this bead to remind him.
Thinking of this, Zhu Heng suddenly wanted to ask Zhuangzi whether it was a life system of a higher dimension that created this set of data for him, but when he looked up, he found that Zhuangzi had disappeared.
Looking at the empty room, Zhu Heng was lost in thought, so in the end... he still had to rely on himself.
Fortunately, he already had some clues.
Zhu Heng thought that Zhuangzi's visit here must not be a coincidence or accident. He seemed to be guiding Zhu Heng and trying to tell him something.
Zhu Heng frowned and got caught up in a new mess.
As soon as I close my eyes, all I can think of are Zhuangzi’s mysterious words like “the Way of Heaven” and “the truth of the universe”.
Zhu Heng was suddenly stunned.
The way of heaven?
If the Zhuangzi standing in front of him just now was a piece of data created and restored by a more powerful system, then could the additional Heavenly Dao now be the other "system" that Zhuangzi mentioned?
He himself has been in four-dimensional space and time, so he knows that some behaviors that seem very abrupt at the moment may be guided by higher-dimensional life.
Higher-dimensional beings can easily achieve skills that three-dimensional beings could never achieve. To lower-dimensional beings, this might seem like a god-like existence. But in reality, it's just one dimension higher...
Zhu Heng suddenly opened his eyes, with a moving light still flickering in his eyes.
He knows!
What is the way of heaven, what is the truth of the universe, no matter who you are, as long as you can come to high-dimensional space and time, all problems will have answers and all troubles will be solved.
It was obvious that four-dimensional spacetime wasn't enough for him to see the full picture; in other words, he needed at least one more dimension. Coming to the fifth-dimensional world would surely be another spectacular sight, one that no one had ever set foot on before.
The bead in the palm of his hand began to beat violently, and Zhu Heng's heart was excited. He didn't know if it was an illusion, but he always felt that the bead was confirming his thoughts.
Zhu Heng had come from three-dimensional space to four-dimensional space because he was originally an unfolded being, so he could easily return to four-dimensional space. But what about the fifth dimension? This time it wouldn't be so easy.
The only thing he could do was to use a certain amount of his four-dimensional space-time self to piece together and go to the fifth-dimensional world based on the principle of how to convert between dimensions.
No one had ever succeeded before, and Zhu Heng felt a lot of pressure.
You can only take a gamble.
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