I, holding a long sword in my hand, only know one move

"I don't always live on the bookshelf. I always have a private place to rest."

Before Cheng Rang asked, Leticia answered directly as if she knew what question he wanted to ask.

"Sit." She raised her finger and pointed to the chair opposite the coffee table.

Questions popped up in his mind one after another. After Cheng Rang pulled up his chair and sat down, he couldn't wait to ask: "What happened after that?"

He knew that Leticia must know what he was asking.

But who would have thought that Leticia suddenly asked another question: "In your eyes, what is freedom?"

Cheng Rang was stunned: "You seem to have asked me this question once, and you also seemed to have said, don't answer questions with questions."

"It seems you remember it quite clearly." Leticia sat on the sofa and gently smoothed the skirt of her pale gold dress with her hands.

Cheng Rang looked at Leticia's movements and found that while they seemed normal, they were also full of contradictions.

Something is wrong...

With a scrutinizing gaze, Cheng Rang carefully looked at Leticia in front of him from head to toe, and then compared it with the somewhat confusing memories in his mind before, and suddenly noticed the difference.

The clothes she wears.

It wasn't the black and white sailor suit and white stockings that I customized for him, but like the first time they met, he was wearing a light golden robe that covered his entire body's exposed skin.

"this..."

Leticia noticed that Cheng Rang noticed the difference in her. She waited politely for a while, and then found that he really had no intention of continuing, and then slowly said: "I don't know whether it's the difference in strength or whether it's you. Experienced something special. In short, the normal situation should be that no one is aware of what happened before, except me. "

"So what exactly did you do?"

Leticia felt helpless at Cheng Rang's impatient questioning. She shook her head slightly and said, "You still have to go on a date with Isabella before eight o'clock. I don't need to talk about those things that will give you a headache." I’ll explain it to you.”

"All in all, those troublesome events are behind us, probably as if they never happened."

Cheng Rang said oh at first, then suddenly came back to his senses and said, "Huh? How did you know I was going on a date?"

From the beginning, he only said that he was in a hurry. On the roof not far from the wall of the quarantine zone, only he and Isabella made an agreement. How could Leticia, who was more than ten kilometers away, make it possible? Know so clearly!

Leticia said: "Because this is an event that has already been determined. I won't even interfere. You will definitely rush back to meet her before eight o'clock."

"Interference, interference for what?" Cheng Rang waved his hand and said simply: "I only know that you are floating in the sky naked, saying the lines of the second grade, then rubbing a ball with one hand and facing the monster, and then the screen flashes into Now it’s like this!”

"The future is determined by the past, and what has happened is an established fact." Leticia waved her hand and pulled out a book from the bookshelf, wrapped it with a white spell ribbon and handed it to Cheng Rang. .

She raised her chin slightly to signal Cheng Rang: "Read it as you like."

Is it possible that the answer can still be found in this?

The heavy weight of the book in his hand indicated that this heavy book must have many pages, at least more than a thousand pages. Cheng Rang opened the book with doubts.

"Page 562."

Even before Cheng Rang could see the number of the page he was turning, Leticia had already announced a number.

Focus on the open book

Looking at the lower right corner of the page, the cursive number "562" proves what Letitia said is correct.

"What do you mean, you are a great prophet? But if you spend all day with books like you, you can probably guess which page I am turning. Does this mean anything?"

Leticia sighed softly and said: "This is destined to happen, there is no need to get familiar with it at all. To tell you the truth, I haven't even touched the books in this room."

She continued: "For humans, the choices you think you have free will only lead you to events in the future that have been determined. This is what has already happened, that is, what has been determined by the established facts of the past. So I would say that freedom is not about being able to do whatever you want, but being able not to do what you want not to do.”

Chapter 24 Cause and effect

"I've heard what you said." Cheng Rang closed the book in his hand with a snap. "I asked you what the difference was, but you said you didn't expect me to understand at that time."

"So now you still have questions about it."

"certainly."

Leticia paused and said: "You are aware that the cause and effect of the world line has changed, and the previous memories have also been retained. Based on this, I can responsibly infer that the world you have traveled through should not be just another one. As simple as a parallel world or parallel universe, it should also include changes to major causal differences in the past world..."

"what are you saying?"

"You have changed the history of one world...not even many. But this doesn't make sense...I don't know how to explain it to you."

Leticia seemed to be unable to find a reasonable explanation for what Cheng Rang had experienced, and her brows furrowed slightly helplessly.

"But all in all, you can't be a normal person." She came to this conclusion after thinking for a while.

Cheng Rang suppressed his surprise and said with a smile, "What you said sounded like a curse."

According to Leticia's statement, Cheng Rang was indeed able to incorporate all the events that had occurred in Helsalemz Lott four years ago. I have changed history and created history.

But after continuing to communicate with Leticia, Cheng Rang discovered something was wrong here.

"paradox"

The system issued a task to use the identity of Graysfield to investigate the origin of Lebra in the box garden and the cause of Helsalem Zlot, but the subsequent process was that Cheng Rang used the identity of Graysfield to directly return. Four years ago, Helsalemz Lot saved the world and contributed to the establishment of Lebra. He later appeared in the Box Garden, wrote legends, and made history.

But if...if Cheng Rang did not choose to complete that mission at that time, but chose to return directly, Lebra, who was previously recognized by Xiaoting, still appeared nearly a hundred years ago, and Gracefield was there again at that time. Who could it be? How will the second barrier disaster of Helsalem Zlot end? How can a being who has never appeared write a legend, gain merit, and be recognized by the Little Garden?

This is where the paradox cannot be explained.

Let’s take the most classic and simplest example: “I’m lying.”

If the person who says this is lying, then "I'm lying" is a lie, and therefore he is telling the truth; but if it is the truth, he is lying. Contradictions are inevitable.

But it is obvious that the paradoxes in space and time are much more complicated than these and cannot be explained clearly in such simple words.

In Leticia's words, all causal events are destined from the moment of their birth and cannot be changed.

"But all this is limited to the race bound by cause and effect, that is, human beings."

Races bound by cause and effect will produce effects from causes, and the causes must follow the effects, which is equivalent to such common things as autumn has arrived, so the leaves turn yellow; it rains, so it’s time to put away the quilt.

However, some observers can affect the sequence of cause and effect to a certain extent and change it.

For example, the famous Wheeler delayed choice experiment is a thought experiment proposed by a human physicist, John Wheeler. It is a variation of the double-slit experiment. This experiment well embodies quantum mechanics and the traditional view of reality. huge differences between them.

This experiment proves that the behavior of the observer can determine what happened in the past, that is, the effect occurs before the cause. This conclusion is contrary to the traditional view of reality.

This level of behavior is of course impossible to exist in human cognition, but it does not mean that it is not feasible in the cognition of other races.

The Time Spell - World is exactly the forbidden level spell that allows Letitia to use the behavior of interfering with the level of cause and effect to absolutely crush and obliterate the existence bound by cause and effect.

Because my defense ability is very strong, all your attacks are ineffective against me. Because I can absorb your attack and return it in doubled form, your moves cannot defeat me. This degree of causal effect is basically equivalent to nothing in front of the Time Curse-World.

"Then you are so awesome, why didn't you kill me with this move?" Cheng Rang asked.

But Leticia raised the corner of her mouth and smiled evilly: "Then how can you conclude that I have not used this trick on you? After all, if I hadn't explained it to you, you wouldn't even have happened. Don’t know anything.”

Such a dispute is meaningless...and Cheng Rang is also concerned about Leticia's chaos.

Come to the practice and feel speechless.

"Interfering with cause and effect requires paying a huge price, most of which is death at the cost of existence, and it is precisely because of the loss of death that I can afford this price."

"But this is also cause and effect."

"Who says this isn't it?" Leticia leaned on the soft backrest of the sofa with a relaxed expression and closed her eyes gently.

Perhaps it is precisely because this ability can bring her everything she wants that makes Leticia so eager to pursue a death that she cannot achieve.

Because there is no way to die, there is no way to die.

This tight closed loop is both a sail and a shackle on its path of seeking truth.

In short, since the matter has been resolved, there is no point in asking further questions. Choosing to live well in the present is what Cheng Rang cares about.

"It's 7:45, it's time for me to leave." Cheng Rang stood up from his chair, "I heard some vague explanations from you, but in the end it was said that our fate has been decided from the beginning. Okay, you can’t change it, right?”

"For you, not necessarily." Leticia opened her eyes and looked at the black-haired man in front of her.

"oh?"

"Because I'm talking about normal people."

"...So it does sound like you are scolding me."

Cheng Rang burst into laughter, waved his hand towards Leticia and said, "I understand, now I will change my destiny with my own hands, and become a free man. If I don't want to do anything, I won't do anything."

If you don't want to accept the fate that has been determined, then don't accept it, but give it a try and break it.

A shiny silver 1 zer coin was held in Cheng Rang's hand.

"Guess pros and cons?"

"Are you a child?" Leticia looked at Cheng Rang with a little contempt in her eyes.

"A man remains a boy until he dies."

With a clanking sound, the coin bounced off Cheng Rang, spinning rapidly in mid-air.

"The other side."

Based on the mass of the coin and the speed at which it flipped and stayed in the air, Leticia easily calculated the result when it finally fell to the ground.

But as soon as the sword flashed, the coin flipping in mid-air was inserted into the tip of the sword by Cheng Rang and stopped falling.

This precise mastery of skills and power seemed to be showing off, making Leticia twitch the corner of her mouth.

"You are cheating."

"The weak follow the rules, and the strong make the rules." Cheng Rang flipped the coin on the tip of the knife back to his palm with a flick of his wrist, and put the long knife into the sheath with a click, "Which one are you?"

The door to the room was closed and Cheng Rang had left, leaving Leticia alone sitting silently on the sofa.

Her lips moved slightly: "Boring."

The weird city still obscured by thick fog in winter welcomed the night early and was lit up by shining neon lights.

The news broadcast on the big screen is making noise as the loudspeaker vibrates, broadcasting to passers-by what interesting new things happened in HL today.

"This afternoon, a large armed drone swarm carried out an unprovoked air strike on Clinton Street. The number of casualties was about two hundred. The severely affected areas were concentrated in shops No. 238 to 253. The paranoid king Alekira announced that he was responsible for the attack. .”

"Due to the timely evacuation of the crowd, there were no more casualties in the adjacent affected blocks... What a pity! An officious coffee shop assistant who was responsible for evacuating the crowd during the accident passed away forever due to excessive injuries. We, this is also the price we pay for being too naive in this city. Please take this as a warning and don’t imitate others easily.”

The picture flashed on the screen. In the photo, a bunch of mosaic mechanical parts were scattered on the ground. You could also vaguely see what looked like a human figure. The black and white maid uniform was torn apart by bullets and gunfire, and the black and white maid uniform was torn apart by blood and machine oil. The short pink hair dyed red seemed to tell passers-by about the tragedy that had happened before.

"Another piece of news will be broadcast next..."

Chapter 25: An agreement that cannot be reached, and an agreement that must be reached.

In the Campbell sisters' home, the clock hanging on the wall was ticking, and the time was slowly pointing to eight o'clock in the evening. Isabella, who had been staring at the clock for a long time, held her chin, gently swayed her legs on her seat, and smiled. He sighed inexplicably.

Why aren't you here... Is my clock running five minutes too fast?

Isabella stood up, paused for a moment as if struggling, and then sat back down, giving up the thought of turning the minute hand of the wall clock back thirty minutes.

"This time... we must not give him another chance!" Isabella puffed her mouth and raised her chin again, and her legs swayed even more under the table.

Although he had adjusted the time before, Cheng Rang failed to show up as scheduled. Such behavior would only add trouble to his soft-hearted self.

Ellerbella was unable to go home on time because of her busy work schedule. Since the implementation of the new random door system, although her time on the road has been shortened by more than half, her frequency of overtime work seems to have increased as a result.

Lebra Intelligence Exchange Unit Office.

More than a dozen computer hosts are running day and night in the tightly divided work area grid. Ellerbella is typing on the keyboard in front of her at her workstation, planning the reports recently submitted by field staff. Organize and archive in database.

Look at Ailebella who works hard

He looked particularly attractive. The clothes he wore were no longer the washed white beige sweater and jeans before, but a slightly more formal black and white suit vest and black skirt. The whole person looked mature and full of heroism.

The bottom of the glass made a noise when it was placed on the table, so Ellerbella, who was attracted to her attention, turned to look. A steaming cup of hand-ground coffee exuding a rich aroma was placed next to her, another capable woman wearing glasses. He was looking at himself with a smile.

"Ah, Anila...thank you."

"You should take proper rest. We are all a little embarrassed that you work so seriously." Anila put her hands on her hips and joked to her in a slightly relaxed tone.

"No, no, no... It's just that there are more reports today, and I haven't had time to finish them yet." Ellerbella took the coffee and took a sip.

"There are messy events happening in this city all the time. You have to treat it as a daily routine. These things have not been dealt with yet. There is still sister Isa at home waiting for you to go back. After you finish the job at hand, Just go back."

"It doesn't matter, you should complete your mission properly, not to mention..." Ellerbella's eyes moved to the nameplate placed next to the work station——

Intelligence Compilation Team 4, Team Leader: Alebella Campbell.

Such words are being carved on it.