She didn't hide her gaze, and with Zheng Qing's abilities—including her alertness—she immediately spotted them.
Zheng Qing walked over with a smile on her face.
When Li Changzhou and Li Qianxia looked over, they saw her nimbly and skillfully climb over the guardrail between the motor vehicle lane and the non-motor vehicle lane.
After exchanging greetings, Zheng Qing said, "Congratulations!"
"You already know?" As soon as Li Changzhou said this, Yang Qinglan nudged him with her elbow.
"I watched the live stream." Zheng Qing didn't notice Yang Qinglan's subtle movements. "This event was already very dangerous, but I didn't expect a god to appear. I was really worried for you guys."
"Yeah, time travel too! If these people can't beat us, they can just go back in time and kill us when we were kids!" Li Qianxia was furious, as if she had encountered someone cheating in a game and had nowhere to report it to the authorities.
Most importantly, I can't cheat!
Zheng Qing glanced back at the scene of the car accident, then pressed her hand against her chest, her expression cautious.
Li Changzhou and Li Qianxia's expressions became more serious, knowing what she was going to say.
Yang Qinglan's expression remained unchanged, always calm, making it hard to believe that she was the passionate girl who would take the initiative to kiss Li Changzhou.
“According to the intelligence and analysis from the Special Operations Bureau,” Zheng Qing’s voice lowered, “neither the future nor the past can be changed.”
"Impossible, right?" Li Qianxia was stunned for a moment.
"When the gods return to the past and go to the future, they simply gain a deeper understanding of history and the future, understand what actually happened back then, and discover things they didn't know at the time."
"For example, the King of Wind and Light, according to common sense, since he can travel through time, he could have come to this moment and learned from us whether he was successful, but he didn't."
"Why?" Li Qianxia asked.
“There are two viewpoints within the Special Operations Bureau,” Zheng Qing said in an even softer voice.
Li Qianxia couldn't help but glance at the car accident scene for her, worried that the special operations players over there might notice this place.
"The first view is that it was simply a mistake by the King of Wind and Light himself, and that the gods were just very powerful players, not truly omniscient and omnipotent gods."
"Just like how a player's intelligence can't be increased?" Yang Qinglan said.
"Mm." Zheng Qing nodded.
"What about the second one?" Li Qianxia pressed.
“The second one…” Zheng Qing hesitated, “It might be discouraging to tell you, are you sure you want to hear it?”
“Listen! Some people are just too happy today, let’s help them balance things out, right, Qinglan?” Li Qianxia turned her head, seemingly speaking to Yang Qinglan, but actually flicked her ponytail at Li Changzhou’s face.
Li Changzhou touched his face, which was still aching from the slap, and wondered if she should get a haircut. If she let her ponytail down, the ends of her hair would reach her waist.
Zheng Qing glanced at Yang Qinglan, who nodded slightly.
“I’ve already said that the past and the future cannot be changed,” Zheng Qing said, “just like this incident.”
She glanced at the car accident.
"If a person tries to go back to today and change it, he may be hindered by various things, or find himself in the process of becoming part of the events that caused them."
"The second view holds that this is a decision made by some kind of will. Whether it is the past or the future, it has already been determined by this will. Even if the gods want to change it, the will will make things continue to develop according to the original history—that is, the history that the will wants."
“This will is the true God,” Li Changzhou exclaimed.
"Why is it God? Isn't the Heavenly Way of our Xia Kingdom enough?" Li Qianxia retorted.
"Shangdi was originally a term from the Xia Dynasty, first appearing in the Shang Dynasty's 'Shun Dian' section. During the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, translators struggled to determine the Chinese equivalent of 'God,' so they used the concept of '上帝' (Shangdi)," Yang Qinglan explained.
"Oh, I see." Li Qianxia said in realization.
Li Changzhou really wanted to say that he also admired Yang Qinglan's erudition, but now was not the time to talk about that. The key was that Zheng Qing was still there. If it were just the three of them, the conversation could go on and on.
"Analysts at the Special Operations Bureau believe that this will is either a value game or... the player."
"Who?" Li Qianxia asked subconsciously.
"The ultimate winner of the value game," Yang Qinglan and Li Changzhou said simultaneously.
Zheng Qing nodded.
"That's right!" Li Qianxia exclaimed, "Even gods can travel through time. That person, who might not even be human, why can't that player? If she can travel through time, who can be her opponent? Who can change the past she doesn't want to change?! And she won't allow it to be changed!"
The more I think about it, the scarier it gets.
She couldn't help but say, "Sister Qing, you said the second viewpoint is disheartening, is it because—no matter what we do, the future is already predetermined?"
"This is just a guess." Zheng Qing neither confirmed nor denied it.
"If a person knows that he will die today, fifty years from now, what can he do during those fifty years to avoid dying?" Li Changzhou asked as he pondered.
"A person with this idea would probably find that he is already dead when he travels to the future for the first time."
"These are all just guesses, let's talk about them later." Yang Qinglan is still the same as before; she won't waste time on things she can't figure out.
Just like when Li Changzhou first entered the value game, she believed that the known information could not improve his survival rate, so she did not tell him.
Li Changzhou stopped dwelling on the issue. Regardless of whether the past or future was manipulated, he still had to work hard. Besides, he had just gotten a girlfriend and was full of expectations for the future.
I was still thinking about kissing him again tonight...
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