Chapter 188 The Sky Falls (23) (1st + 2nd) [VIP]
In the Central Park in the evening, amid the noisy square dance music, the three members of the exploration team, either standing or sitting, slowly looked at each other, and subconsciously raised their heads to look at the sky above their heads.
In the distance, the sunset glow has not yet completely faded away, leaving a blood-red boundary line on the distant horizon, smudged with the yellowish thin clouds illuminated by the last rays of the sun.
Five hundred years later, in order to delay the disaster, Liu Yi and others created more parallel worlds.
In this rare silence, the barrage of comments refreshed much faster:
[Come on, someone who understands, they understand but I don’t. ]
【What don’t you understand? 】
【Come on, I understand, I'll explain it to you. 】
[Why can creating a parallel world prolong the destruction of one's own world, rather than divert the disaster? How did you deduce this? ]
[This is just Master Ye's personal inference. Because of their saying, it may not be correct. But it is certain that creating a parallel world will definitely be beneficial to your future. In addition to solving the problem completely, the only other option is to delay the disaster. There are only these two possibilities.]
[No, you didn't understand the logic chain before. This is not Ye Dian's personal inference. His inference that it can only be continued but not transferred is based on the current clues. He said that the disaster cannot be transferred because the focus of the disaster is not Ren Zhiling at all. Have you forgotten that Xi Enze is the key figure who caused the fall of the sky? As long as Xi Enze and his so-and-so element are not resolved, the future disaster is bound to happen. Changing Ren Zhiling cannot change the disaster, it can only create a parallel world.]
[Oh... oh yeah, I forgot that it was Xienze's element that caused the disaster. ]
[This clue is deduced from Song Jirou's fixed attributes. It is certain that Skyfall is tied to Xi Enze's status. Song Jirou has been by Xi Enze's side these days, and she didn't say anything. This means that Liu Yi and others have not tried to change Xi Enze's status these days, which means that Liu Yi and others want to create a "parallel world with Skyfall" instead of a "parallel world where Skyfall is resolved." ]
[Oh, then we can infer from this that what they need is a future where they are in the same situation as us, facing a disaster, right? ]
[Yes, if they want to shift the focus, then the focus should be on Xi Enze, but judging from the fact that their actions have always focused on Ren Zhiling, it means that their target is the parallel world.]
On the screen, the three exploration team members watched the sunset fade away from the horizon. Fu Yandong touched the back of his head and said sincerely: "I still can't imagine how to create a high world to support the sky."
Could it be that the "fall" of the sky is a literal fall, and each new world that appears will be placed between the previous world and the sky, holding up the sky for them?
But what Liu Yi described as the sky falling was too scientific. He even mentioned that the first to discover that the sky was lowering were the aerospace departments of various countries. They found that the distance to the universe was shorter. Doesn't that mean that the external structures of these worlds are still normal planets and space? In this case, how could a new world appear to support the sky?
"Do you know the short board theory?" Bai Jinshu thought for a moment and said, "For a barrel made up of countless wooden boards, the horizontal surface inside the barrel depends on the shortest board."
"I know that." Ning Xiao nodded.
"So this is the principle of delaying the fall of the sky. Extreme numbers determine the possibility of the group," Bai Jinshu drew many parallel lines of varying lengths on the paper. "Now, assuming that the sky falls differently in each parallel world, the lines with longer survivable time will be longer, and the lines with shorter survivable time will be shorter."
All the exploration team members present and the investors outside the screen looked over there.
"Now, all these worlds are heading towards the same future, that is, they will all be destroyed by the sky falling. However, since this direction is heading towards one result, the time of destruction of these worlds varies, but they will all be destroyed. Then, in the inevitable ending of destruction, there are two possibilities," he tapped the paper, "One is that since it is heading towards one result, all the worlds will be destroyed at the same time. The other is that all the worlds will not be destroyed at the same time, but will be destroyed in batches according to the length of time."
"If it's the latter... the emergence of a parallel world is meaningless?" Fu Yandong pondered, "Because the emergence of a new parallel world has no benefit to its own disaster, it will be destroyed when it is time."
"But if it's the former, there will be two possibilities," Yin Liantao held up his chin, "because all worlds will be destroyed at the same time, so the time of the world's destruction will be determined by the extreme value among all the world lines."
Her eyes fell on the shortest line and then moved to the longest line.
“Then the world will only end at a minimum value, or a maximum value.”
Liu Yi and his friends are trying to save their own future, not destroy the world. If the world is destroyed at the lowest value, it would be tantamount to suicide for them to create a parallel world, so they must be trying to create a maximum value.
Just like the long board effect which is the opposite of the short board effect, in the timeline of the destruction of this world, the time of the arrival of the disaster only takes the highest value, so no matter how short the other lines are, they will become the same long as it because of the existence of this long line.
Therefore, as long as there are enough parallel worlds, a new maximum value will definitely be generated, and the maximum value will become longer and longer under the operation of Liu Yi and others.
Ning Xiao frowned: "But this is undoubtedly a tactic of 'delay'."
Because the ending of the world's destruction has not changed, even if time can be infinitely delayed, what about after Ren Zhiling dies?
How can they extend the time?
Doesn't this mean that the problem has not been completely solved, but only a temporary reprieve has been bought for one's own world, while also dragging others into the water and creating a more desperate world?
"Wait a minute," Yin Liantao gestured and pointed to his phone, "It's Ren Zhiling's call."
"Ren Zhiling's?" Fu Yandong glanced at his watch curiously and was stunned for a moment. "Oh my god, it's almost an hour already."
It usually gets dark late in the summer, and they were sitting outside discussing the matter, so no one noticed that time passed so quickly.
Yin Liantao answered Ren Zhiling's call and walked aside to talk. Ning Xiao squatted down and picked up the surveillance screen that they had put aside. On the screen, the picture broadcast through the pinhole camera on Ren Zhiling's chest had turned into the alley outside the community. It seemed that she had already left home.
Bai Jinshu sat on the lawn, put away the two pieces of paper he had used to draw examples, and looked up at Yin Liantao who had just answered the phone: "What did she say?"
"Ren Zhiling said she would leave her parents' home soon and would give us the pinhole camera and microphone pinned on her clothes at some point," Yin Liantao replied, "and asked us where we were."
"Did you tell her about the Citizen Park?" Ning Xiao turned off the surveillance screen and looked over.
"Yeah," Yin Liantao nodded, "but she doesn't sound very happy. Maybe the previous conversation..."
She pointed her chin at the surveillance screen in Ning Xiao's hand: "The conversation was not very pleasant, but we haven't had time to watch it yet, so we don't know what happened."
Fortunately, the screen is recorded, so it doesn’t matter when you watch it, and it doesn’t interfere with your work.
Ren Zhiling came very quickly, and her expression was indeed not very good. After removing the pinhole camera and the radio equipment, she rejected the invitation from the exploration team members to have dinner together, saying that she would go home first.
Her attitude made the exploration team members even more curious about what happened in today's conversation.
Everyone discussed it in a temporary group chat, exchanged information, and gave the three team members who were still with Xienze a brief description of the newly derived information they had obtained, while also showing concern for the situation on Xienze's side.
Song Jirou: [There is no problem with Xi Enze. Since I came here, I haven't seen anyone who looks like Liu Yi, nor has anyone who looks like Ren Zhiling.]
Lu Changfeng: [But this confidentiality agreement is quite strict. Brother Xu and I can’t leave these days, so we can only stay with Xi Enze. ]
That is to say, today Liu Yi did not appear at Ren Zhiling's place, nor did he appear at Xi Enze's place.
Xu Zichen finished reading the world line structure that Ning Xiao, Fu Yandong, and Yin Liantao had discussed one after another, and opened the input panel thoughtfully: [That is to say, according to the current situation, Xi Enze is the culprit who caused the sky of the future world to fall, and Ren Zhiling is the key to the continuous generation of career choices and the division of different parallel worlds. ]
[Yes.] Ning Xiao replied.
Xu Zichen: [Now we can probably determine that this element is the reason why Xi Enze caused the sky to fall. Have you determined why Ren Zhiling was able to split the world? ]
[Uh...] Fu Yandong was stuck for a moment, [Not yet.]
However, it has been confirmed that the reason for this is related to Ren Zhiling's mother who can see Ren Zhiling's future.
After Fu Yandong finished replying, the three members of the exploration team who were with Xi Enze did not reply. It seemed that something happened suddenly, so the three of them were temporarily called away.
Everyone held up their watches and waited for a few minutes. Finally, Bai Jinshu spoke first: "Forget it, let's finish dinner first, and then watch the recording."
The remaining three expressed their support.
The residential area where Ren Zhiling's parents live is surrounded by various housing estates. The narrow road is lined with old-looking restaurants. The signs are not new, and the light boxes of many shops are even damaged to varying degrees.
The exploration team members randomly selected one, had lunch there, and returned to the hotel. They gathered in a room and watched the one-hour recording.
By the time the three people on the other side of the city came back online, Bai Jinshu and the others had already watched the screen recording and sent the video to the temporary group chat.
Xu Zichen opened the book and checked the time: [More than an hour, this is too long, have you finished reading it? Let's just summarize it, the three of us won't waste time. ]
Bai Jinshu raised his chin towards Fu Yandong, who immediately understood and typed: [We looked through the conversation record and found that Ren Zhiling's parents made accurate predictions about Ren Zhiling's future many times.]
[What is accurate prediction? ] Lu Changfeng didn’t understand.
Ning Xiao: [It appeared many times in their conversations. Something like: "If you had gone to school a, you would have studied for Professor b's doctorate and become a core figure in xx research lab", or "If you had listened to us and gone to xx research lab, you would have achieved xx now". It was very accurate, as if you had seen it with your own eyes.]
It is true that ordinary parents would also say such things, similar to "If you had studied hard, you would have been admitted to Peking University or Tsinghua University and earn over ten thousand yuan a month in first-tier cities." However, in general, the accuracy of this prediction of a certain possibility in the future is limited to this, because it is only the most accurate reasoning and fantasy that others can achieve about the future that may be derived from another choice.
But Ren Zhiling's parents are different. Their predictions are too accurate. Substituted into this context, what they said is approximately equivalent to "If you had studied hard, you would have scored 740 points in the college entrance examination, been admitted to the first class of the xx department of xx University, and successfully signed a contract with xx state-owned enterprise after graduation, working as xx in the x department. Your first month's salary, excluding five insurances and one fund, would be 11,340.50 after tax."
This accuracy is too precise for a future that is only a possibility.
[It was as if she had really seen the future.]
[Fuck, so it's not "like", she just saw it.]
[Honestly speaking, it has come to this point, and there is no other explanation except seeing it. 】
The exploration team members on the other end of the temporary group chat quickly understood what Fu Yandong meant by "accurate prediction".
Xu Zichen: [Keep talking, what next? ]
Fu Yandong: [Then her mother’s choice of words was too precise. She even mentioned many times the various projects she would be involved in in the future. Even if you asked us to repeat it, we couldn’t. It sounded like some front-end research in this type of major.]
Ning Xiao: [Listening to this conversation, it seems that rather than saying that Ren Zhiling's parents have a strong desire to control her, it's better to say that they are simply completing a mission... choosing the best path for Ren Zhiling among all the possible forks in the road in the future, and then controlling her to a good result.]
Song Jirou: [So now through this video, we can confirm that her parents are absolutely aware of a certain limit of future bifurcation points, and are familiar with the specific situations that will occur if these bifurcation points go forward, right? ]
Ning Xiao: [Yes.]
Xu Zichen: [What about genes? ]
Yin Liantao: [Ren Zhiling tried to probe the topic of genes many times, but was avoided every time. If it wasn't true that she didn't do it, then it can only mean that her parents are very tight-lipped and didn't reveal any clues at this time.]
After this was said, the group chat was silent for a few minutes, and everyone couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
Judging from this clue, if we want to continue the investigation, we can only start from Ren Zhiling's mother?
Xu Zichen pondered for a while: [Liu Yi didn't show up today. I'm afraid we have already alerted the enemy without knowing when. In addition to the clue of Ren Zhiling's mother, are there any other suspicious points that have not been deduced before? ]
Yin Liantao: [Um...Ren Zhiling's junior roommate saw the extremist organization member with Liu Yi.]
Ning Xiao: [Why is Liu Yi evenly distributed every day. ]
Song Jirou thought for a moment: [Why are Liu Yi E and Liu Yi F, who have the same information as Liu Yi C, not action personnel but communication personnel? ]
Speaking of this, Xu Zichen also remembered: [By the way, Liu Yi B is a very special Liu Yi. He doesn't know the equation "Liu Yi = Ren Zhiling's artificial human". ]
As soon as these four pieces of information came out, everyone immediately discovered the clues.
[That's not right,] Xu Zichen stroked his chin, [If we look at it this way, then the doubts we haven't discovered yet are all on Liu Yi.]
Liu Yi B, C, E, and F all have problems.
Fu Yandong: [Could it be because all Liu Yi after A appeared in the modified timeline? ]
He tried to describe it in words: [For example, after the assassination attempt failed on the first day of the meeting, the parallel world that emerged was Liu Yi B. Then, after Liu Yi B attacked the airport and left, the parallel worlds of Liu Yi C and D emerged. Then, this time, Liu Yi CD launched an attack at the concert hall and guided Ren Zhiling to choose self-media, which led to Liu Yi E. Liu Yi E came back and told Ren Zhiling to choose to sell sausages, which led to Liu Yi F... and so on.]
[No,] Bai Jinshu looked up at Fu Yandong and rejected it, [Your inference cannot explain why Liu YiEF, who has the same information as Liu YiC, is a messenger instead of an operative.]
If we follow Fu Yandong's logic, Ren Zhiling's special features were discovered on the third day, which was after the attack on the concert hall. Before that, Liu Yi and others had not discovered that Ren Zhiling could split parallel worlds. Only after that did Liu Yi and others prepare to create more parallel worlds.
[And in fact, Liu Yi didn't need to wait until the third day to find out,] Bai Jinshu said while typing, [As long as they come back once and find that the past they changed has left no trace in the future, then they will know the news: changing the past cannot change the future, it can only create a parallel world with this as the turning point.]
In other words, if a problem is found, Liu Yi will find it on the first day.
Yin Liantao took a deep breath: […Why are there more and more problems the more we push this matter?]
If we continue like this, wouldn't a new problem arise? Why did Liu Yi, who knew about the problem on the first day, wait until the third day to become a communicator?
[Liu Yi B's question is why he is the only one who doesn't know he is a man-made man, Liu Yi C's question is who did he meet, Liu Yi D's question is why he changed from action to communication, Liu Yi EF G's question is why the information they got should be the same as Liu Yi C's, but they chose communication instead of action.] Lu Changfeng summarized the current problems.
Lu Changfeng: [Doesn't that mean that the only person who appears before us without any problems is Liu Yi A?]
With such a plate, almost all Liu Yis have problems.
[No,] Bai Jinshu shook his head slowly, [Liu Yi A also has problems, you forgot.]
[On the day Liu Yi A appeared, he was in the corridor below the conference room, but the attack was launched from top to bottom, which means there were at least two Liu Yis on that day.]
[This also means...] His finger paused on the screen, and suddenly it seemed as if he had suddenly realized something, [which means that in fact, before the first day appeared, there was more than one parallel world.]
Only if there is more than one parallel world on the first day can more than one Liu Yi appear on the first day.
"I understand." Bai Jinshu suddenly looked up.
The other three exploration team members in the hotel room all looked over.
"On the first day we met Liu Yi, on the day of the conference attack..." Bai Jinshu's eyes slowly swept over everyone present, "In fact, there is more than one Liu Yi."
"That day was the beginning of their plan."
"Uh... um? What do you mean?" Ning Xiao was at a loss.
"It's still your previous theory," Bai Jinshu stood up from the stool and pointed at Fu Yandong, "According to your conception, the first day produced Liu Yi B's future, and then Liu Yi C was produced in the future when Liu Yi B returned. Liu Yi D appeared in the future when Liu Yi C returned to the same day, causing Liu Yi CD to appear on this day, which in turn caused Ren Zhiling to change his career and Liu Yi E to appear... and so on."
He hastily drew a diagram on paper: "According to this logic, it can be closed when Liu Yi is ABCD, but after Liu Yi E appears, the information they obtain is not what can be produced by the future caused by Liu Yi CD, so this logic has a problem here."
Everyone nodded.
"But who said that Liu Yi E, F, and G are all from the future after CD? What if they are actually from the future before CD?" Bai Jinshu pursed his lips and took out the diagram he had drawn on the lawn. "According to the information from Ren Zhiling's mother, in fact, before we entered this project, this project had already split into two parallel worlds. The first batch was Ren Zhiling's initial different choices, and the second batch was Ren Zhiling's school and work choices. Then according to this logic, in the main road 1 where Ren Zhiling is a scientist, a number of branch roads had already been split before Liu Yi and others came back. The only difference between these branches is Ren Zhiling's student days and work units. The future they return to will also be Ren Zhiling becoming a scientist in the short term, and the destruction of the world in the long term."
"So according to the idea that in every parallel world there will be a Liu Yi who goes back to the past in the future, what will happen if the Liu Yi created in these parallel worlds wants to travel back to the past to change the future without knowing the key information that [changing the past can only generate a parallel world]?" He looked up.
The barrage of comments suddenly exploded with his movements:
【What the hell! 】
[Fuck, I get it.]
【This! This, this, this! 】
[Damn, let's put Liu Yi in this situation, it's getting scary.]
「Oh shit……」
On the screen, Bai Jin said slowly: "These Liu Yis, because they have information that only differs on Ren Zhiling's choice of school, the time they choose to go back to the past will be the same day."
"That is to say, on the day of the meeting, I only saw one Liu Yi A, but in fact, there were countless Liu Yis in the entire meeting place."
Liu Yi and his friends, who believed that they could change the future by going back to the past, met at the conference.
While seeing another self, they have obtained a desperate message without having to change the past and return to the future - there is a parallel world to the one they live in, and any changes will not cause a chain reaction, but will directly generate a new parallel world.
Their attempt to change the past and save the future had failed before it even began, and their future had completely lost hope of avoiding disaster.
At the same time, these Liu Yis who gathered together would learn the same piece of information at the same time after seeing Ren Zhiling's appearance - that is, they were Ren Zhiling's artificial humans.
By reversing the process, we can conclude that Liu Yi B was the only one among all the Liu Yis who showed surprise at this information, and he did not know that he was Ren Zhiling's artificial human.
Liu Yi B is indeed a special Liu Yi. His special thing is that he did not participate in this meeting.
He is Liu Yi of a new parallel world, formed by branches from the past that Liu Yi and others met.
He is also the only Liu Yi among all the Liu Yis who are unaware of everything and did not participate in the planning.
The author has something to say:
The second hidden line is: What happened between Liu Yi and others in the past?
The reason why the attack on the first day was to choose the conference as an event rather than other events was to metaphorically represent the two meetings that took place at the same time that day: the scientists' meeting and Liu Yi's meeting.
Fu Yandong's schematic diagram of the wrong backward inference and his theory of long and short boards are still available on wb@月渡寒塘不糖 for pictures to help you understand.
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