The content of the civilized bet is: [The person who performs the contract, Su Mingan, must restart the Dawn system within 20 days. ]
Then, as long as the "contract fulfiller Su Mingan" can never reach the twentieth day, this civilized bet will become a piece of empty talk.
When Su Ming'an arrives on the nineteenth day, he will meet Akto, who will ask him to go back in time and give his identity as the "contract fulfiler" to his first-day self.
Just analyzing from the causal level, when "Su Ming'an of the past" has experienced nineteen days, he will meet Akto again. Akto will let "Su Ming'an of the past" go back to the past and give the identity of "the fulfiler" to his next first day self, that is, "Su Ming'an of the past", achieving infinite recursion.
The time in the ruins world is a grid-like time. As long as Su Mingan has existed in this world, he will leave traces in the system, no matter in the past, present or future. Although only the current Su Mingan is the real "Player Su Mingan", his past self also counts as "Su Mingan".
This is an exploitation of the textual loophole of "Performer: Su Ming'an". The text can only refer to an "object" and cannot refer to "Su Ming'an" on a specific timeline.
The present Su Ming'an can boldly move towards the future, and the "Su Ming'an" in the past has his own "Su Ming'an who returns to the past" to help him reach the nineteenth day.
——In this way, it becomes an Ouroboros with no beginning or end in cause and effect.
The identity of "Su Mingan, the fulfiler of the contract" will cycle back and forth between the past and the present, from the nineteenth day back to the first day, from the first day to the nineteenth day, and from the nineteenth day back to the first day. It will never reach the twentieth day.
“…”
In the white light, Su Mingan clenched the chocolate in his hand, his heart beat fast, and the ladder of thinking was built in his mind, gradually building a complete palace.
He felt a little dazed and a thick layer of cold sweat had already seeped out of his back.
"Su Ming'an, the cause and effect of the Ouroboros are directly connected. It is impossible for there to be 'effect without cause' or 'cause without effect'. Once you lose one of them, you will not be able to stand here. The basis for our conversation here is that you have already connected this cause and effect at a certain point in time, maybe in the past, maybe in the future." Akto said, "That is, if there is a cause, there must be an effect, and if there is an effect, the cause can be traced back."
"I understand." Su Ming'an's voice was hoarse. The shock of this information was too great. Without Akto's explanation, he would not have been able to figure it out.
It's like the grandmother paradox - if you go back in time and kill your grandmother, then you can't be born without your grandmother. But the question is, if you weren't born, who killed your grandmother?
The current situation is similar to that Su Mingan is in a Schrödinger state of "killing his grandmother" and "not killing his grandmother". Only if "his grandmother was not killed" can he successfully reach the nineteenth day. If "his grandmother has been killed", he will not be able to reach the nineteenth day and will not be able to hear these theories.
When he stood here, this cause and effect already existed, and his "grandmother" must be alive now. All he had to do was go back to the past and stop himself from "killing his grandmother."
He cannot measure this three-dimensional battle with linear time. Time here is just a net. He can jump the chess piece to one grid or jump to another grid across a parallel line. He can even fold the net into four parts, one for 1 year, one for 32 years, one for 72 years, and one for 102 years.
In other words, we must abandon all normal definitions of "time". Normal definitions do not work in the world of ruins.
Time must be understood in terms of space.
It's like a Klein bottle - a bottle with a hole at the bottom. Now extend the bottle neck and pull it into the bottle to connect with the hole at the bottom. Unlike the cups we usually use to drink water, this Klein bottle has no "edge" and its surface does not end. A butterfly can fly directly from the inside of the bottle to the outside without passing through the surface, that is, the Klein bottle has no inside and outside.
Now, Su Ming'an is like the butterfly. As long as he passes through the three-dimensional Klein bottle, he can return to the original program and type the letter that Acto had left empty in advance, making the causal link become an Ouroboros.
In mathematics, a Klein bottle is a non-directional plane with an indistinguishable inside and outside. If the universe is compared to a higher-dimensional Klein bottle, the universe is also boundless.
Although humans believe that they are in the universe, they may also exist outside the universe. The boundary between "inside" and "outside" itself is not clear. No matter how humans explore, they may eventually return to the starting point, just like the Klein bottle that can never be filled.
The Möbius strip looks very twisted in two-dimensional space, but is very reasonable in three-dimensional space. Similarly, although the Klein bottle looks very strange in three-dimensional space, it becomes non-directional in four-dimensional space.
Since reality is three-dimensional space, using real-world theories to explain the Klein bottle, which belongs to four-dimensional space, will inevitably appear abrupt.
But it makes sense.
The cause and effect, and the distinction between inside and outside of the world of ruins are like a Klein bottle.
“…Have you figured it out?”
Under the white light, Akto drank tea again. His posture was particularly leisurely, like a mentor waiting for his students to understand.
The aroma of tea filled the air. Su Mingan stared blankly at the Ouroboros pattern floating in the air. After a moment, he said, "I still don't quite understand. Sorry. But after this world instance is over, I will continue to discuss this with Noel and the others."
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