Chapter 174 The Sky Falls (9) (1st + 2nd) [VIP]
As confused as the comments were the people on the screen who also heard these words.
"...Huh?" The exploration team members had different expressions. Ren Zhiling frowned and took a long time to react. "What is the causal relationship between these words you mentioned?"
Why would she become a world-renowned pet blogger, her orange cat died, her fanatical fans collected cat hair, and she donated the cat's hair before its death be connected with such a horrible phrase as the destruction of the world???
"Excuse me for being blunt," she couldn't help but look at the "person picked up downstairs" who was still alive and well, "The formation of this inference lacks key factors. I doubt the professional qualities of you future scientists."
"Our scientists are all professionally trained," Liu Yi said politely without showing any displeasure at being questioned. "In the future, we will face disasters that cannot be stopped by human power. Our scientists will not make mistakes in this regard."
"What is the basis for you to confirm that I was the cause?" Ren Zhiling leaned back and subconsciously used an aggressive tone, "Will I be able to work in the future in a job related to my current profession?"
"No." Liu Yi shook his head sincerely, "You have been working in the field of self-media in the future."
"So what exactly is the disaster that will happen in the future?" She raised an eyebrow.
"The sky began to fall." Liu Yi gave the same answer as he did yesterday.
"In our world... buildings this tall no longer exist," he turned and looked at the transparent floor-to-ceiling glass of the TV tower. "Since I can remember, the sky has been getting closer to the ground every day. Everyone in the world lives in panic, worried that one day the sky will fall down completely."
"From the government to individuals, everyone began to build large underground shelters. Underground bunkers and shelters emerged one after another, gradually developing into cities and settlements that were no different from those on the ground. People no longer pursued the high-rise buildings of your era, but instead began to pursue deeper and deeper shelters."
His tone was very calm, and there was no trace of yearning for the past life, nor any disgust for his own era. It was as if he was recounting some established facts: out of fear of the sky and disasters, people no longer pursued high-rise buildings or used flying vehicles. In our time, such buildings rarely appeared on the ground.
"So," Xu Zichen interrupted, "the disasters in the future world haven't changed, right?"
"I'm sorry," Liu Yi bowed slightly, "I don't know what the previous disaster looked like. Although I know that many of my past selves have gone back in time and returned here to try to change the future, those were not me. I only have the memory of this time."
"Yesterday, Liu Yi, who came to stop me from dying, said that their future disaster is that the ground is only 100 kilometers away from space," Ren Zhiling crossed her arms, "Which means that in the future when I die, the disaster that will occur is the same as the future when I change my career and become a pet blogger. We can't change anything? Then why am I the important person and not someone else?"
"...From a general point of view, it seems to be like this," Liu nodded, "but there are still some changes. In the era when I came, the distance between the sky and the ground was 120 kilometers. It seems that your changes delayed the time of the disaster."
"You still haven't answered my question," Ren Zhiling thought for a moment, "You don't have enough evidence to prove that the disaster is related to me. If you locked me in by the time when the sky started to fall, then countless events happened on the entire earth during the same period. Why are you sure that it was caused by me and not someone else?"
"I don't know," Liu Yi answered very frankly, "I don't have enough authority to know so much. I only know that scientists who study disasters have discovered that in our history, there have been several assassinations against you, and the means of assassination far exceed the current world level. They even found my images in some of them. So we can be sure that in the past, there must have been other versions of me who intervened several times. Even our future this time is the result of our intervention in the past."
"No, this evidence cannot explain how the donation of cat hair is related to the destruction of the world." Yin Liantao frowned and listened for a long time, then suddenly asked, "What made you target Ren Zhiling?"
"I don't know, but unfortunately, from our future we can see that our previous attempts have failed again." Liu Yi lowered his head, his tone regretful but without much emotion. Only when he said the last sentence was he a little flustered, "If you have any more questions... my time is almost up!"
Before he finished speaking, his figure became illusory, and when the last word fell into the air, the whole person had disappeared.
The place where a living person was standing just now is now empty.
Liu Yi's arrival did not answer everyone's questions, but instead made everyone's questions deeper.
【There is something fishy about Liu Yi.】
[He deliberately didn't answer, right? He avoided the question.]
[Yesterday's Liu Yi seemed very anxious and sincere, but today he is too calm. Is he really facing the culprit who caused the destruction of the world five hundred years later with this attitude towards Ren Zhiling?]
[Also, the timing of his sudden disappearance was very clever. Xu Zichen and the others were about to force out the key questions, but he just left.]
[Speaking of which, how long did Liu Yi stay here this time? Why did it feel like it was so short this time? ]
[Oh, that’s right…]
…
Investors off-screen weren't the only ones to notice this problem.
"Rice rolls, what time is it now?" Bai Jinshu asked.
Lu Changfeng: "Five ten."
"Yesterday's Liu Yi appeared and disappeared, which should be a total of 25 minutes." Bai Jinshu glanced at his watch. "Compared to yesterday's Liu Yi, the Liu Yi who appeared here today only stayed for a total of ten minutes."
I don’t know if it was the butterfly effect that caused the change in time travel technology in the future, or if Liu Yi left in a hurry to avoid the problem, but today he stayed in the past for a shorter time.
"What's going on with the disaster in this future world? And what's going on with Liu Yi who traveled back through time?" Ren Zhiling frowned. "He doesn't know why the disaster happened, and why I'm the key figure, so what on earth is he doing traveling back through time to the future?"
According to normal development, people in the future would have to discover or know something before they would choose to go back to the future as a last resort, right?
Even if we don't mention how they locked themselves in as the key element of the important figures, in order to make themselves more efficient in making changes to save the future, they should also explain to themselves the reasons for the destruction of the future world, right?
"There must be something wrong with Liu Yi." Lu Changfeng said
"I met Liu Yi twice, but he never explained the cause of the disaster in the future, nor did he explain why he assassinated Ren Zhiling. There must be something wrong with him," Xu Zichen shook his head. "The problem now is that we don't know whether it's Liu Yi who has a problem, or the future that Liu Yi represents."
It is true that the reason that "they found traces in history of people from the future who traveled to the past to assassinate Ren Zhiling" can be used to prove that Ren Zhiling is the key figure, because countless people from the future who traveled to the past chose to attack her on the world line before it was changed.
But for such a crucial matter as saving the world, after attributing all the disasters to one person, didn't their scientists try to find more evidence?
It was okay in the future when Ren Zhiling was still a scientist. As a scientist who is very likely to be related to certain future technologies, it is normal that people in the future will find something wrong and begin to turn their attention to her as more assassinations are launched against her.
But in this future world, Ren Zhiling has gone to work as a self-media person, which has nothing to do with scientific research. Why do they still target Ren Zhiling?
"If it's the latter, then Liu Yi didn't lie, there's something wrong with the future he came from," Yin Liantao sat on the stool, "Those who let Liu Yi travel through time deliberately concealed the answer from him and didn't tell Liu Yi, who can travel through time and space, why Ren Zhiling became a key figure."
"If it's the former, then Liu Yi is lying. He clearly knows it, but for some reason, he won't tell us." Ning Xiao pondered as he looked at the place where Liu Yi disappeared. "The time of his disappearance this time is too coincidental. Just when we found the key and were asking questions, he suddenly disappeared."
"I'm more inclined to this," Ren Zhiling said, "He didn't act like he didn't know today. He was intentionally using 'I don't know' and 'time' to stall for time. He may not know everything, but he must know part of it."
The exploration team members nodded.
"But no matter which one it is, concealing this information must be based on their own interests." Xu Zichen picked up the flight box and paused, "Let's change positions. If I want to travel back in time and find a key person who caused the disaster, but I am unwilling to tell him why we targeted him, it must be because this reason will affect my goal in essence if he knows it."
It would be fine if this key person was someone else, but at the moment this key person is Ren Zhiling himself.
"Then...what can't you know?" Fu Yandong looked at Ren Zhiling.
What is there that, once she knows it, would make her unwilling to keep working for the survival of the world five hundred years from now?
"I don't know," Ren Zhiling thought seriously for a while, and could only spread his hands, "If I knew, I wouldn't be guessing here now."
"But comparing your two guesses, I still tend to think that there is something wrong with Liu Yi," she thought for a moment, "If the future world is so critical that we have to go back to the past to change it, then we shouldn't hide it from the only person who can go back to the future..."
"Speaking of which..." Bai Jinshu suddenly said, "Have you ever thought about why Liu Yi is the one who always comes back?"
"Huh?" Everyone looked over.
"Why was it Liu Yi twice in a row and not someone else?" Bai Jinshu asked, "Since the future can be changed, why can Liu Yi be born in every world and become the one who travels to the future? Could it be that Liu Yi himself is special?"
Ren Zhiling's eyes lit up: "Yes, and why does he keep his face covered? You said before that he was full of cold air, so this mask might be a protective measure for extreme weather in the future, but why is he still wearing the same mask now that his problems are normal?"
"And..." Xu Zichen raised the last doubt, "Why do people from the future only travel through time during this period of time?"
"Take what happened yesterday and the day before yesterday for example. If you want to kill Ren Zhiling, wouldn't the best way be to go back to when she was born 530 years ago, or before she was born, and kill this person in the embryo?"
Choosing the time period when Ren Zhiling was 29 years old was really too strange.
The subtext he didn't say in front of Ren Zhiling was: Why did the time travel happen after we entered the unknown space.
Since they are allowed to enter the space during this time period, it means that the rules can definitely find traces within this time period.
Is there anything special about time itself besides Liu Yi and Ren Zhiling?
*
It was getting close to evening. After coming down from the TV tower, no one was in the mood to eat, so they bought some takeaway food at a nearby snack street and walked in the direction of Ren Zhiling's home.
The cat "tied downstairs" in the airline box began to move restlessly as soon as it got home. Ren Zhiling simply let it out of the box and watched it rush towards the cat's favorite nest like an arrow, and then collapsed into a ball of cat food without moving.
"Liu Yi appears at five o'clock every afternoon," she poured a glass of water for everyone from the kitchen and placed it on the table. "The Liu Yi who appears every day is the Liu Yi from the previous time travel who has changed in the future. This time, Liu Yi is obviously deliberately avoiding some questions. I suspect he knows the answers to these questions, but he just doesn't want to say it."
She sat in front of the coffee table, clasping her hands together. “Based on this speculation, can it be said that in every future that is changed, the information Liu Yi holds and the personality that will appear are different?”
"You want..." Xu Zichen understood.
"I want to try and see if tomorrow's Liu Yi knows more. Will they know things that Liu Yi of yesterday and today doesn't know, and show a different attitude towards me than Liu Yi of today and yesterday?" Ren Zhiling said firmly. "We also saw this afternoon that people in the future are hiding something from me. Since the sky will fall in five hundred years regardless of whether I am dead or alive, it means that this has already happened before."
"I want to know..." She paused, "What exactly are they hiding from me? If I can't stop the world from being destroyed, at least I want to know the truth."
What was it that had happened to her without her knowing?
"But now, it seems that the biggest problem is not what they are hiding from you," Lu Changfeng's sincere voice broke the tense environment, "If you want to see a different Liu Yi at five o'clock tomorrow, you must make a decision before five o'clock that will change the future."
Now that she can no longer be a pet blogger, Ren Zhiling needs to change her career quickly and prepare for it.
"I..." The determination on Ren Zhiling's face shattered into eight pieces in an instant, "Then what should I do?"
"Let's first analyze why pet bloggers can also cause the destruction of the world. Excluding the possibility that you can't change it no matter what you do, just looking at the career change," Xu Zichen sat forward, "it may be because you become the world's most popular pet blogger in the future, and the future of becoming a well-known scientist in the original world line is converging in the same direction, that is, the influence is too great."
"If a person's influence grows, the butterfly effect and chain reaction he or she causes will grow stronger," Ren Zhiling analyzed. "In other words, the more famous I am, the more people and things I can influence, and the greater the possibility that the future will go in that direction, the less significant my personal changes will be."
"Yes, that's what I mean." Xu Zichen nodded.
"So now I need to think in reverse..." Ren Zhiling held his chin up in thought, "My career should be as unknown as possible, and it would be best if I could not leave any trace in the future. The impact I have must also be as small as possible, and it would be best if the people I come into contact with at work don't even notice who I am."
"Then I'll go..." She looked around the room and suddenly stopped at the dinner that everyone had packed. An idea suddenly occurred to her, "Should I go to the entrance of the elementary school and sell pancakes?"
Exploration team member:?
Barrage: [? ]
"This profession meets the requirements. Look, how can a nameless person like me who sells pancakes become famous?" Ren Zhiling began to give an example. "It cannot leave any trace in history. No one would deliberately record a pancake stand in front of a primary school, right?"
"I only set up a stall in front of the school, so the impact is small. The people I meet at work are all primary school students. They don't pay attention to me at all, but only to the food," she said with increasing excitement, her tone suddenly became excited, "Isn't this job born for me?"
[…I was speechless.]
[From the perspective of her career choice, buying pancakes seems to be a good choice...]
[Ren Zhiling is really a genius at choosing a career...]
[No way, no way... Although everyone said they wanted to sell pancakes, you were the first one who really planned to go. ]
[Although it is unlikely to leave a mark in history, it is likely to become a negative example for others to educate their children at home.]
[How is this negative? Ren Zhiling's identity can only make it difficult for parents to speak when educating their children. Parents say that if you don't study hard, you will have to sweep the streets and set up stalls. At this time, the children can refute that Ren Zhiling from xx family has become a scientist, but he still quit his job to sell pancakes. ]
【Grass. 】
【Now that you put it that way, it seems to be true. 】
[What is meant by "a great hermit hiding in the city"? This is what it means. Who would have thought that the key figure in destroying the world would be selling pancakes at the entrance of an elementary school? It's so classy. ]
[From a scientist to a pancake seller: my life of saving the world]
On the screen, Ren Zhiling felt more and more that her choice was very suitable. "There is a primary school near my home, and school ends on time at 4:30 every afternoon. I will find a second-hand pancake seller in the same city on the second-hand website. I will go to the vegetable market to buy the goods tomorrow morning, and then I can set up a stall in the evening!"
Exploration team members: ...
"Well..." Xu Zichen said tactfully, "How about you think about it again?"
Do you really want to sell pancakes?
"What are you thinking about?" Ren Zhiling waved his hand. "I think this profession is pretty good."
"But...but you don't know how to make Jianbing?" Yin Liantao received Xu Zichen's gaze and hurriedly helped to persuade him, "Most ordinary people are unknown all their lives. There are many other jobs. You don't have to sell Jianbing..."
It seems that Ren Zhiling's idea was just a spur of the moment idea, and it is not certain whether she can continue to do it. Unless she plans to set up a stall in front of the school for decades, she will definitely need to find other ways out in the future.
At that time, Ren Zhiling, who had no life experience, would have fallen even harder.
"I can learn it!" Ren Zhiling answered very straightforwardly. "Yesterday, when I was watching domestic pet bloggers on the short video platform, I saw a lot of people teaching you how to make pancakes. I think it's easy to learn. I have a strong learning ability and hands-on ability since I was a child. I just need to practice."
"Well..." Ning Xiao also quickly said, "This profession has no guarantee of future income..."
Ren Zhiling nodded: "It's okay, I have savings."
Lu Changfeng: "Getting up early and working late is very tiring..."
Ren Zhiling said sincerely: "It's easier than studying for a doctorate."
After a group of people tried to persuade her, no one was able to make Ren Zhiling give up this idea.
Everyone was silent for a moment, and turned their eyes to Ye Dian, the only one who didn't speak.
Under everyone's scorching gazes, Ye Dian half leaned back on the sofa and rolled his eyes in displeasure.
"I happened to have set up a stall in front of an elementary school, so I know a little bit about it," he said.
"Do you think selling pancakes is that easy?" Bai Jinshu casually took a piece of paper and a pen from the side, "Do you plan to set up a stall or a fixed store?"
Ren Zhiling: "Set up a stall?"
"If you set up a stall, it's a mobile store. Apart from the cost issue, from the perspective of the stall, if you don't allow stalls in front of the primary school, you will definitely be driven away by the urban management. Your problem is that the pancake stall takes too long to make, and the ingredients and dough that need to be prepared must all be opened during the production process, which is not convenient to move. In addition, the flat pan for making the pancake skin requires a gas stove as an energy supply. These three points together determine that your stall is not mobile enough. If the urban management comes, it will be inconvenient to leave immediately and you will be fined."
After speaking so eloquently, Ren Zhiling fell silent for a moment.
"That store?" she asked tentatively.
"Stores are more troublesome. First, we need to find a suitable second-hand store for rent. The rent of stores near schools is expensive, and there may not be anyone willing to sell them. This is the first problem. There are also issues with the decoration of the store, labor costs, water and electricity costs, and management fees. Stores that officially sell food need to apply for fire protection certificates, video food business licenses, food circulation licenses, and health conditions review certificates," Bai Jinshu said incessantly. "Finally, the health conditions require the Market Supervision Bureau to come to the store to inspect the hygiene conditions and give a rating, and the chef's health certificate is also required. After this set of certificates is obtained..."
He lowered his head and spoke nonchalantly, writing quickly on the paper with a pen in his hand: "Opening a store in front of a school requires facing the off-season problem of students having winter and summer vacations but still having to pay rent. Primary school students don't have enough pocket money and may not be able to afford large-priced foods such as pancakes that cost more than ten yuan. The customer positioning problem is that the surrounding cheap snack stalls are more attractive to primary school students..."
"Now," he raised his eyes, "do you still want to sell pancakes?"
Ren Zhiling: "No...I won't sell it anymore."
【Everyone stand up! 】
[What is effective persuasion? This is effective persuasion! ]
[What else have you done, Ye Dian! ! ! ]
[Is it so miserable for mages to graduate in your world? What else have you been through?]
[It is known that he has worked as a self-media operator, a photographer's assistant, and even set up a pancake stand in front of an elementary school. Judging from his social software ID, he is a rapper. He also carries a staff as tall as a person and has said that he is a wizard.]
【Oh my god.】
【What an all-round worker. 】
[Yedian, the God of Work! ]
[A photographer who can’t make pancakes is not a good rapper and cannot take on the responsibility of a pet blogger to become an excellent magician! ]
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Ye Mo Wang has done everything
The day before yesterday, I saw someone say that he passed the interview using Ye Mowang’s analysis, so no one will set up a stall in front of the elementary school after reading this today, right?
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