Su Mingan was slightly stunned.
"But how could I never reach the twentieth day? Unless I died on the nineteenth day," said Su Mingan.
Actor said: "You are the one who fulfills the contract, and this cannot be changed. But who said that there is only one you in the world of ruins?"
Su Mingan's pupils shrank slightly.
Akto's words suddenly opened a new window for him.
"But players' time is not sliced. As a player, there should only be one me," said Su Mingan.
Akto smiled and said:
"wrong."
"Su Mingan, you can't confuse your definition of 'time' with the definition of 'time' in the ruins world."
"Generally speaking, the concepts of 'time' and 'space' are unified to you. As a human, you think that time is time and space is space. But the dimension theory of the Dawn system breaks through this unified boundary and confuses time and space."
"'Time' is quantifiable in front of us administrator accounts. It is no longer a linear line, but a large grid. Based on this theory, we can capture you in different time grids - of course, these 'you' at different times are not actually considered as 'you', because only the present 'you' is 'you'. The 'you' at other different times are just phantoms that remain in the grid time, but they essentially belong to the definition of 'you'."
"Just like Cheng Luohe. As an old antique dealer in the Surveying City, he is himself. As for him in the two-dimensional world, as a middle-aged sniper, he is more like a phantom on the timeline."
"As long as it's 'you', it doesn't count as breaking the rules of the civilized bet."
"As long as we lead the contract fulfilment person to your past self, we can prevent him from ever reaching the twentieth day."
Su Mingan's eyes lit up after hearing what Akto said.
Su Mingan had wondered since he was very young whether the person he was a day ago, or even a few hours ago, was really himself. Was there a possibility that his life had only begun at this very second, and all his previous memories had been instilled into him at this very second?
He still hasn't figured out this question, but Akto's words gave him a new way to think.
He lowered his eyes and fell into thought.
Seeing Su Mingan's expression, Actor said, "Su Mingan, try your best to understand. Otherwise, what will you do with more complicated copies in the future? This is only the ninth world."
"...Okay." Su Mingan said.
He thought that if Noel were here, he would understand it immediately.
"Give."
A bar of chocolate was handed to him.
"Eat a piece of chocolate and think about it." Akto held up a board of chocolate.
Su Mingan took it and took a bite. His mouth was filled with sweetness. It was a piece of white chocolate.
"Have you finished thinking about it?" said Akto.
"Go on."
Akto stood up and used his hand as a pen to draw a snow-white snake in the air. The head of the snake held the tail, and it looked like a circle without any gaps.
——This is an Ouroboros, it has no head or tail, like a Möbius strip.
"Su Ming'an, have you ever heard of 'Ouroboros'?" asked Akto.
"It's a snake without a head or a tail," said Su Mingan.
"Correct." Actor nodded:
"Then, have you ever thought that the ruined world is, in a sense, like an Ouroboros?"
"Hmm?" Su Mingan responded in confusion.
Data streams surrounded them, beneath the white Ouroboros, and Aktor said:
"The Ouroboros I'm talking about now is not a type of snake, but a definition of cause and effect - that is, if there is a cause, there must be an effect, and if there is an effect, the cause can be traced back."
"Su Mingan, have you ever thought about a possibility - if the two-dimensional world is a box, then the Measurement City, as a one-dimensional world, can also be a box? Or is there a bigger box above us? Boxes within boxes, and the boxes are endless?"
"Have you ever thought that we who are trapped in the box are all a kind of program? Is the human universe itself a self-running program that will return to the beginning when it meets certain specific requirements? Is the revolution and rotation time of the universe a pre-set data? Can the 'black hole' in the universe be regarded as a 'command program' that instantly moves coordinates? Can the impact of asteroids on planets be regarded as a variable introduced for 'measurement', equivalent to rose blood? And is the Big Bang equivalent to a program restart, or a new simulation of the world? The universe is an extremely large observation box, and outside the universe - is there an 'Asa Aktor' that controls the 'Dawn System' of the universe?"
The white light condensed in the air and formed words, each of which represented an extremely large definition.
time.
space.
universe.
Reboot.
It seemed as if an invisible hand was squeezing Su Mingan's heart. Facing these theories, he felt a little breathless, and only these white fonts were left in his eyes.
His vision froze and a thick layer of cold sweat appeared on his back.
"Su Mingan."
Akto walked up to him.
Countless fleeting moments seemed to be locked in those dark grey eyes.
"This is the first time I've heard of this, but... it fits the situation in the ruins world." Su Ming'an pressed his chest and finally found his voice in extreme shock: "What should I do?"
"What I need you to do is to link an Ouroboros." said Akto.
"How do I connect?" Su Mingan said.
Aktor stopped in front of him.
"You have to turn your 'twenty days' into an Ouroboros without a head or a tail, so that the 'you in the past' can never reach the twentieth day." Actor said: "To put it in more common terms -"
Su Mingan blinked, and some indescribable premonition rose in his heart. Boom, boom, boom, his heart was beating like a drum, as if it was about to jump out of his throat.
He had a subtle premonition, as if a long-buried doubt was about to be answered -
Actor stared at him and whispered:
"you need to--"
"Go and 'induce yourself'."
…
If time is a 20cm line, every 1cm counts as one day.
When someone cuts the line at 19cm, pulls it back to 1cm, and ties a knot, then 1cm and 19cm become a loop without a beginning or an end.
No matter who walks on the line between 1cm and 19cm, he will never reach 20cm. He will only return to 1cm after reaching 19cm.
——Tying 1cm and 19cm into a knot is what Su Mingan is going to do.
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