Chapter 187 The Sky Falls (22) (1st + 2nd) [VIP]
"Brother Ye, what you mean is..." On the screen, Ning Xiao looked at Ye Dian's thoughtful face and continued according to his inference, "Ren Zhiling's mother knows the future?"
As members of the exploration team had long noticed something was wrong with Ren Zhiling's father's behavior, they naturally would not simply think that this "best path" was simply the desire for control that bred from the fact that both of her parents were related practitioners.
But if they could know the future, then...
Fu Yandong frowned, "Does that mean Liu Yi went back to several decades ago and communicated with Ren Zhiling's parents? Did we ever get new messages from Liu Yi every day while changing jobs like this several decades ago?"
"But maybe the person who showed up at that time wasn't Liu Yi, but Zhang Yi, Li Yi, Wang Yi?" He randomly picked out a few names.
"No, no," Ning Xiao shook his head quickly, "If that's the case, then when Ren Zhiling's parents saw that she chose another career, they should be angry not because she didn't follow the 'best path' they had chosen, but because her willful choice led to a disaster for the future world."
Obviously, Ren Zhiling's parents' anger has not reached this level now. Not to mention Ren Zhiling's father, her mother's attitude is very subtle.
"If something similar had happened before, they would know that Ren Zhiling was a key figure, and that every career choice she made could change the future..." Bai Jinshu stroked the metal ring at the base of his finger, "Then how could she be so sure that Ren Zhiling could only be a scientist, and that any other career choice would be nonsense and would lead to failure?"
Compared with the information they have [Liu Yi is guiding Ren Zhiling to make other career choices in order to change the future world, so Ren Zhiling's choice will change the future to a small extent], the result they lead to [There are multiple futures for Ren Zhiling].
If Ren Zhiling's mother really knew the future, then the information she possessed was obviously contrary to the inferences they had drawn in the past few days. She believed that [no matter how Ren Zhiling changed his industry, he could only and would only become a scientist].
"If I use some easier-to-understand words to describe it," Bai Jinshu thought for a moment, "the future we see is scattered, and different choices will lead to different results, while the future that Ren Zhiling's mother sees is convergent, and different choices will lead to the same result."
These two trends are completely opposite.
"So... one of us and Ren Zhiling's parents must have obtained wrong information?" Fu Yandong sighed with some worry, "Then whose information is correct?"
As a member of the exploration team who has experienced many projects, he has also experienced the situation where everyone pushed in the wrong direction, resulting in the final rules being completely different from the original rules.
Blindly believing in your own inferences may lead you into a trap set by the rules of this space.
"Well... if Liu Yi lied to us, then Ren Zhiling's mother is right, and the future will end up the same. If the information Liu Yi described is true, then we are right, and the future will branch out?" Ning Xiao thought for a while. "The Liu Yi we have seen in the past few days, apart from the previous few times when we didn't have close contact, Liu Yi D who appeared on the day of the assassination in the concert hall had a very obvious feature, and he was cold all over. This trait did not appear in Liu Yi E and Liu Yi F later. So at present, we can preliminarily confirm that each time we see Liu Yi, it is definitely not the same person who has traveled back repeatedly. In other words, there are indeed multiple possibilities for the future."
"So Ren Zhiling's parents are wrong?" Fu Yandong touched his chin.
But if they have the wrong future, how did they get it?
The rules involving time are extremely complicated. In order to stabilize Liu Yi in this copy, Ye Dian and his team deliberately did not look for clues in other directions in the past few days. This led them to the current point. The only way to get the correct answer is to pry open the mouths of Ren Zhiling's parents.
but……
Fu Yandong's gaze involuntarily fell on the screen that was still dutifully broadcasting a live conversation. On the sofa in the living room of Ren Zhiling's home, Ren Zhiling's mother's attitude was not as tough as her father's, but the information she conveyed at all times implied that no matter what career Ren Zhiling chose, she could not and would not be able to make any other choice.
People who have a strong desire for control are often very conceited. Ordinary methods are completely useless if you want to pry information out of such people, but unordinary methods... They can't just put Ren Zhiling's parents in a sack when the moon is dark and the wind is strong.
This space is a society ruled by law after all. Fu Yandong twitched his lips and threw out from his mind this copyable method that he would not use unless it was absolutely necessary.
In the distance, the square dance team in the Civic Park Square had already started playing square dance music. Ning Xiao bent down and picked up the screen from the lawn, and amplified the sound a little: "Ye Dian? What do you think?"
"Hmm..." Under the gaze of the two, Bai Jinshu frowned slightly and said, "If the clues we have are correct..."
Before the two could continue asking, his voice continued: "The clue about Ren Zhiling's mother should also be correct."
Fu Yandong: “Ah?”
The comments didn’t understand:
[How do world line convergence and world line branching coexist? 】
[Wait a minute, wait a minute, slow down, I don't understand how this equation works, why is world line branching equal to world line convergence? ]
[I don’t understand either…]
[Wait a minute, isn’t this a tutorial on starting a business? Why is it so confusing all of a sudden? ]
…
"If our clues are correct, because the appearance of different Liu Yis proves that Ren Zhiling has derived different futures," Ye Dian explained to the other two exploration team members on the screen, as if he saw the confusion on the barrage, "then Ren Zhiling's mother's judgment is also correct, because no matter which future it is, the result is that the sky will fall and the world will be on the verge of destruction."
There is no problem if you explain it this way.
"But what's strange now is that Ren Zhiling's mother has grasped the correct information, that is, no matter what choice Ren Zhiling makes, the future will be the same. However, the future she grasps is not the destruction of the world in five hundred years, but Ren Zhiling becoming a scientist." Ning Xiao said puzzledly.
"Well... this can be explained. Give me a pen." Bai Jinshu stretched his hand to the side. Ning Xiao quickly exchanged a set of paper and pen from the fund account mall and stuffed it into Bai Jinshu's hand.
Bai Jinshu lowered his head and tapped two points on the paper. Then he drew an arc with the distance between the two points as the diameter, and drew countless arcs with the same starting point and end point inside the arc: "If both of our sides are correct, then it means that the world line is actually like this picture. No matter what kind of branches occur in the middle, all world lines will have the same beginning and end, leading to similar results."
Ning Xiao and Fu Yandong nodded.
"So based on this, if the future that Ren Zhiling's mother grasped was that Ren Zhiling would become a scientist..." Bai Jinshu said, emphasizing an arc, "that can only mean one thing, that the future she saw was not actually as far as 500 years away, but that she could only be in the world of this arc and see the short-term future in which Ren Zhiling chose to become a scientist."
This statement perfectly explained Ren Zhiling's mother's attitude, and the remaining two people understood what Bai Jinshu wanted to express.
The investors on the barrage also became serious:
[It means that no matter how the world line branches, it will converge. 】
[I understand. World line dispersion and world line convergence can indeed exist at the same time, but the observation time points are different. One time point is the short-term change of Ren Zhiling time, and the other time point is the development of the world five hundred years later.]
[So how did Ren Zhiling's mother get the information about the future world line? Through Liu Yi?]
[No, so many Liu Yis appeared this time because Ren Zhiling made different choices. Then when Ren Zhiling did not make other choices, how did the returning Liu Yi know the other world lines that Ren Zhiling chose?]
[Oh my god, it’s so confusing…]
【Speaking human language (weak)...】
[In human terms, it is impossible for Ren Zhiling's mother to learn about Ren Zhiling's different career choices through communication with people from different futures, because only Ren Zhiling's choice can trigger Ren Zhiling to choose a different future.]
【I feel dizzy.】
[I fainted, too.]
[Oh, what I mean is that Ren Zhiling's mother saw the future through other channels.]
[Why didn’t you just say this earlier? Why did you analyze so much…]
[Isn't this to provide evidence for my speculation? If you don't refute it from this angle, it can't be explained...]
[Brother, stop talking, stop talking. I'd better listen to Master Ye.]
On the screen, Ye Dian still lowered his head, using the picture to indicate——
"So based on the structure of this world line," Bai Jinshu pointed at the paper, "Ren Zhiling's mother said that she chose the best path for Ren Zhiling, so there are only two possibilities."
"First," he pointed at all the arcs in the circle, "all world lines are interchangeable. The choices Ren Zhiling has made in the past few days are actually our transitions between different world lines."
"Isn't that possible?" Fu Yandong frowned. "According to the theory of parallel worlds, world lines are like other small branches branching out from a main branch. I've never heard of branches branching out being able to be interchanged repeatedly."
"And if the only difference between these worlds is Ren Zhiling's occupation..." Ning Xiao added, "then Ren Zhiling should be the only one who jumped. Why do we also jump to other world lines? In the Foundation's rules for judging space, parallel worlds are also considered space. If we jump out of the original mission space and come to other parallel spaces, doesn't that mean we automatically leave the exploration mission?"
"So this possibility is wrong. The time line we are in is definitely in the same space." Bai Jinshu remained expressionless, lowered his head and drew a straight line in front of the left end point of the circle.
"Then this is the second possibility," he tapped the straight line outside the circle with his pen tip, "All timelines are not interchangeable. Before the world line forked, Ren Zhiling's mother saw all the worlds that would appear after the fork and the possibilities in these worlds, and she chose the one she thought was the best path for Ren Zhiling."
Bai Jinshu's pen traced back along this straight line and turned into an arc: "She chose the branch where Ren Zhiling became a scientist, and because she saw other world lines in advance, she knew that in this path, Ren Zhiling's future had no other possibilities and only led to one result: becoming a scientist."
"Ren Zhiling's father's desire to control her in a specific direction is because in this branch line of becoming a scientist, Ren Zhiling's growth trajectory is very clear," he randomly put a few points on the arc, "For example, this point represents the university she will attend, this point is the direction of her doctoral studies, and this point is her future work unit. Because Ren Zhiling's father was informed of the future in advance, he deliberately wanted to control her in this established 'scientist growth line'."
"As Ren Zhiling's mother who truly saw the future," Ning Xiao continued with sudden enlightenment, "the future she saw has been fixed. Now this arc is equivalent to the straight line she was standing on when she observed Ren Zhiling's future career. She stood on the straight line before the future forked, and found that no matter what school or work unit Ren Zhiling chose, the outcome she could get was to become a scientist, so she was certain that Ren Zhiling would not be successful in other industries."
"That's it..." Bai Jinshu put down the paper and pen and pinched the bridge of his nose. "So if the information we get from both sides is correct, it can only mean that Ren Zhiling's future is fixed as a scientist in this timeline, but this conclusion actually conflicts with the clues that we have deduced that our information is correct."
If Ren Zhiling would become a scientist no matter what, then how did Liu Yi, who came from a different career future of Ren Zhiling, appear?
"So now there are two directions..." He picked up the pen again, "The first direction is that our speculation is correct, and this direction will lead to two possibilities: The first possibility is that Liu Yi deceived all of us, including Ren Zhiling. They all came from the same future where Ren Zhiling was a professional scientist, but there is more than one Liu Yi in the future. Although the Liu Yi who comes back every day is different, they all come from the same future."
"But this will continue to conflict with this theory," Ning Xiao's eyes stayed on Bai Jinshu's diagram, "If Liu Yi and the others came from the same future, then they would have known after the first time they traveled that no matter how they guided Ren Zhiling to change his career, his future would only be to become a scientist, so this guidance was ineffective and would not make any difference to the long-term future five hundred years later."
If that's the case, why do they keep fabricating stories about how Ren Zhiling's career will change the future?
This act of fabricating the future is actually encouraging Ren Zhiling to change his career. If this behavior is useless, or if this behavior will not benefit the future Liu Yi and the future world, why would they do this?
There is no such thing as a quick rise without profit. Liu Yi and others will definitely gain some benefits from doing this.
"So this possibility must be wrong," Fu Yandong understood what Bai Jinshu meant, "Then what about the other possibility? Is Liu Yi from a different parallel world line in the future?"
"That's not right," Ning Xiao rejected. "If these Liu Yis really came from other futures that Ren Zhiling's mother had observed, then if they want to solve their own world disasters, they should go to their own Ren Zhiling? Why are they looking for us?
Isn't this the wrong person?
It's like a main road splits into three branch roads, and the three branch roads each extend for a while before returning to the same main road. At this time, a pedestrian coming out of branch road 1 finds that he has lost something while walking on branch road 1. He will definitely choose to go back to branch road 1 to look for it, rather than going to branch roads 2 and 3.
"Oh, that's right." Fu Yandong reacted immediately.
The Liu Yi who was able to find Ren Zhiling in their world line must be the Liu Yi who had walked on Branch Road 1, and these Liu Yis were excluded from the possibility of coming from the same future in the first possibility.
That only means that these Liu Yis actually come from different futures.
"So the second possibility is..." Bai Jinshu intercepted a section of the arc with the rightmost end point as the end point, and re-drew a proportionally smaller circle at both ends of it. "Ren Zhiling formed more career branches along this line, and these branches formed more parallel worlds after her choice appeared."
This means that the original branch road 1 becomes the main road, and is divided into branch roads 1-1, 1-2, 1-3, etc., all leading to the same destination.
"After we choose a new profession for her, a parallel world of the new profession will be formed after a period of time," Bai Jinshu pointed at the paper, "but Ren Zhiling's mother did not observe these parallel worlds, but only saw this original route that did not change."
These Liu Yis who repeatedly return to the past come from the secondary branch roads 1-1, 1-2, 1-3...
"That's right!" Ning Xiao shouted suddenly.
His voice was so loud that it immediately attracted the attention of the people around him. Ning Xiao quickly retracted his neck and waved apologetically to the citizens around him.
"Brother Ye!" In the distance, Yin Liantao, who came from Ren Zhiling's house, happened to discover their direction because of this sentence, and trotted over from the distant path.
The conversation between Ren Zhiling and her parents was still being broadcast live on the screen next to her, but Fu Yandong had already pressed the record button before the reasoning began, so no one cared about the conversation going on at this time.
The confusing world line was summarized in a clear image. Fu Yandong was also infected by Ning Xiao's emotions and couldn't help but smile.
Investors on the barrage also became excited:
【Everyone stand up! 】
[Fuck, I'm so excited. It's just a new world line, how come I'm more excited than when the project was completed. ]
[You are not the only one in front of me. I am one too. 】
[? No, you all understand? Am I the only fool in this live room? ]
[No, I haven’t either.]
[You are not alone in front of me...]
[I also...]
[Then what are you so excited about? ! ]
[Because even though I didn’t understand it, I knew the reasoning was out (cough)]
…
At this moment, Ye Dian's calm voice sounded: "No."
He said, “That’s not right.”
"Ah?" Fu Yandong and Ning Xiao were suddenly stunned.
"What...what's wrong?" Ning Xiao propped himself up, "Is there any paradox in this timeline? No more?"
"What paradox?" Yin Liantao heard this when he ran over.
Fu Yandong told Yin Liantao their conclusions, and Yin Liantao also showed a blank expression: "Is there something wrong with the structure of this world line?"
"It's not that the world line structure is wrong," Bai Jinshu shook his head gently, "Based on these two clues, there is only one reasonable structure that can be deduced. The wrong one is Liu Yi."
"Liu Yi?" The remaining three looked at each other.
[Oh my god! I got it!]
[Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, I know it too! It’s wrong! This is so wrong! ]
【ah? 】
【What do you know! 】
[One day I will kill all the Riddlers through the screen. 】
【Take me with you! You guys tell me! 】
[I don't know if my guess is correct, so let's wait for Master Ye.]
[Waiting for Master Ye, waiting for Master Ye...]
…
On the screen, Bai Jinshu frowned slightly.
"If the person who comes back every day is Liu Yi from the future where Ren Zhiling chose a different career, then what will happen if they guide Ren Zhiling to change her career?"
All Yin Liantao thought was: "A new parallel world will appear."
"Yes," Bai Jinshu raised his eyes, "Do you find the problem now?"
Yin Liantao was stunned for a few seconds, then slowly widened his eyes.
Bai Jin said: "Liu Yi changed the past, but this change cannot change his own future, but will generate another parallel world."
Assuming that Liu Yi No. 1 travels through time, then after he successfully changes Ren Zhiling's career from a scientist to a self-media person, the future of Ren Zhiling as a scientist will not change, but will be used as a bifurcation point to derive a future in which Ren Zhiling becomes a self-media person. In this future, the Liu Yi that exists is no longer Liu Yi No. 1, but Liu Yi No. 2.
In other words, no matter which Liu Yi goes back to the past, the changes he makes to the past will never be reflected in his future. Instead, a new world will be derived from this change.
Liu Yi and his team's motives were flawed from the very beginning.
Because the act of changing the past is ineffective for the future on this world line, every world that reaches the end of Skyfall Doomsday is actually doomed.
Changing the past to save the future is doomed to failure.
"Under such circumstances, Liu Yi and his friends are still encouraging Ren Zhiling to change his career in order to create more parallel worlds," Bai Jin said calmly. "That can only mean that their original goal was not to change the future through Ren Zhiling's career change, but to create more parallel worlds through Ren Zhiling's career change."
This is Liu Yi and others’ motive.
"So... Liu Yi and the others are not trying to save the future?" Ning Xiao took a breath.
"No, Liu Yi and his friends are trying to save the future," Bai Jinshu shook his head slowly. "It's the same old saying. Liu Yi and his friends will not do anything without profit. They created the parallel world for profit. So, there is nothing more urgent for them than resolving the world disaster."
Only in this way can so many Liu Yis be prompted to exhibit the same behavior.
"In other words, creating parallel worlds can solve world disasters?" Fu Yandong couldn't understand. "Every time a new parallel world is created, the disaster of the previous world can be transferred to it? How can this be transferred?"
"Why must it be solved? Have you forgotten the name of this project?" Bai Jinshu's fingers unconsciously stroked the edge of the paper. "There is an old saying in our world, that if the sky falls, there will be tall people to hold it up."
"Guess..." He dragged out his voice, as if hinting at something, "When the world collapses in the future, how can we find someone tall to hold it up?"
Yin Liantao said slowly: "Go and create parallel worlds... more parallel worlds..."
The final point of this chain of reasoning is that creating more parallel worlds will delay the destruction of one's own world.
The author has something to say:
If you can't understand the world line structure of this first complex dark line, wb@月渡寒塘含糖 has the same diagram as Master Ye's
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