Chapter 320 You Will Be a Stowaway
Zhong Jianbai hugged his head and inserted his fingers into his head. After a long time, he raised his head again.?? He looked at the screen and frowned: "Zhao Mai, when did you know that you could travel through other worlds? Can you just say it was within two years or two years ago without telling me the specific date?"
Since we have to remove the time difference and just calculate the time of the earth, Zhao Mai replied: "What's wrong within two years?"
"This is troublesome." Zhong Jianbai said: "The old man will look back on the events and eliminate the impact. If time goes back two years ago, the things that will come back from that time point will not necessarily be the same as it is now. In other words, you may not be able to obtain the magical skills at present. Although this possibility is not great, it does exist."
"If I go to other worlds, can I avoid it?"
"I don't know this either." Zhong Jianbai replied: "Except for the escapers and a few time travelers, everyone else will be traced back. Ordinary people will basically not be greatly affected because of their low energy level. For example, your parents and family will definitely not be affected by memory erasure. The basic trajectory is still not much different from the current one, but you may not be sure. I will contact you now and must ask clearly."
Zhao Mai thought more. The old man told him more than once that he would "rest well and have important things to do after he comes back." Is it related to this? If the loser really gets more time, then isn't everything he's born now expected? Why let it be born? Is it true that the earth and other worlds, like Atas or Westeros, have some kind of script?
Could it be that he was just another Jon Snow or the Witch King Carac, whose fate had already been determined? A feeling of fear surged in his heart. I still remember the joy in his heart when he took the "first step". Now I think about it, maybe it is not that simple. Zhao Mai was waiting with a complicated mood, as if waiting for a verdict, and every minute and every second seemed to have become torture.
All the text on the screen disappeared, leaving only a decreasing number. "This is the population that is still alive on Earth," Zhong Jianbai explained: "This number can reflect the severity of each event. I have only seen this in the record, and this is the first time I have experienced it myself."
"How do you know if you can't remember all this when you go back?"
"The old man will always leave a detailed record to let us know what was born and what went wrong." Zhong Jianbai sighed and said: "The last time the global retrospective history was the Cuban missile crisis. The global nuclear war and destruction have been born and were only reset. The number of that time was 633, and this time it was 634."
“So many times?”
"Yes. I understand that you have questions in your heart, and it's the same for the first time. But you must remember one thing: don't rush to draw conclusions, you must look at and think about it more. Many things can only be answered in time, and a small number of things cannot even be answered in time."
"I understand that this time it was the wizarding world that has become like this. I can understand the time going back. But why not stop it in advance? And isn't this also affecting people's memory? Aren't the loser very opposed to this?"
"I'll explain it to you." The old man appeared out of thin air in the room. He nodded to Zhong Jianbai, indicating that he could stay and listen. "We have reached a consensus that even if we foresee disasters, we cannot stop his life by relying on our personal will. Each of us will see too many possibilities, and it exists in countless worlds at the same time. This is diversity, and the basis of true vitality and the existence of the universe. We losers also observe and learn from this diversity. If all the formulas in the world are changed to 1=1 according to our own ideas, then where does 1+1 come from?"
"So you let it live?"
"We keep summing up experience from mistakes, staying, and then teaching. Listen or not, learn or not, do or not, do not interfere. And I can let the event go back and give people the opportunity to start over." The old man said: "It's tiring to do this, but it's necessary. Progress is a good thing, but mistakes are also precious. You can't think that mistakes must be bad."
"But those memories?"
"It's not only me who can reverse time, but I can only guarantee that there will be no mistakes. And this is not a memory, but involves human potential." The old man stroked his beard and said, "What we value is human wisdom, creativity and potential development, especially the earliest state of a few losers is human beings, and naturally they have feelings. We unanimously agree that it cannot affect the future development of human beings, which is the highest principle."
"If the knowledge of the universe is a piece of white paper, we are the dots of ink on it, spreading and expanding, but it is getting slower and slower. Without new additions, we will stop developing. For us, there is no change, which means death." The old man said: "We allow mistakes to occur because that is also change. But we must correct those things that seriously affect the next change. This is the forgetfulness incident in the wizarding world."
"Now I understand what you do." Zhao Mai nodded, "Thank you for telling me these things specifically. I think if I was within the time retracement, there was no need to know these things at all, right? After all, as long as I traced back, I would have no idea what I had, unless I went to Zhong Jianbai to review this information. So the ultimate question is, what do I need to do next?"
"I need you to go back to the past to save something for me as an insurance to prevent accidental births." The old man said: "This time the vote was weird, and I gave birth to something that I didn't expect. On the one hand, I was very interested, and on the other hand, I must be careful."
"Based on the results of the vote, I will go back to two years ago. But in fact, eight people will go back to earlier, 1995. The earth will be protected, and the wizarding world will not. These eight people will compete separately to change the wizarding world's development trajectory, thereby determining the future belonging of the wizarding world."
The old man said it lightly, but a huge wave appeared in Zhao Mai's heart: "This means, am I here? Time travel?"
"No, you are the ninth, and your role is not to compete, you have other tasks. On the one hand, you have to go back and live until now. On the other hand, see if you can do something to avoid the regeneration of things like the global forgetting curse of the wizarding world." The old man said: "At this stage, you must never return to China, nor contact relevant ministries and commissions, nor can you disclose your relationship with relevant ministries and commissions. You need to change your name and surname and spend this time in a foreign country as an insurance measure to protect the present and even protect me. You and the people around you will have enough youth and lifespan, so you can rest assured."
"I don't understand, why is it me?"
"First, you can grab someone else's time travel plan, so that you don't have to be one of the eight people, and you have the necessary conditions to go back. And you have taken the first step, and it is the only one in your multiverse. When time goes back, people like you must avoid yourself. For example, when time goes back half a day ago, two of you appear on the return train at the same time, isn't it a contradiction to "you are the only one"? So, without your consent, you will not be backtracked, you are the best candidate to preserve the current state of this world. But you cannot take the initiative to find yourself and deliberately create conflicts, at least not before mastering the power of time. You will hurt yourself and seriously affect your potential."
“Do I have another choice?”
"Yes." said the old man: "You can go now, go to any other world, and avoid backtracking. But then, from the perspective of your family, the past two years will be different. Everything they have gained must be changed now. You may even have to face a history that you have been missing for two years, which may be a new timeline. The safest way is to go back to the earlier, strengthen but not affect this history, just as we losers will always return to the earliest to strengthen our own existence. My advice is that you must travel at least once to know what the hell is time."
Zhao Mai snorted heavily from his nose: "Actually, I have no choice, right?"
Chapter completed!