First Player

Chapter 7 "Grandmother's Paradox, Klein Bottle, Cosmic Program Theory (Part 1)"

Under the sun, the wheelchair landed on a high tower.

Su Mingan knew this tower. It was located in the central area of ​​Doomsday City. It was a landscape building with few people on weekdays.

But when Akto read a code, the scene in the tower changed drastically.

A flowing snow-white brilliance emerged in the air, like a transparent gauze curtain slowly being unveiled, and countless white data streams of 0s and 1s suddenly jumped out around the tower. Akto walked into the tower, with Su Mingan following closely behind. It was like walking into a pure white universe, with pure white ripples even on every step under his feet.

This feeling is very similar to returning to the world of the Lord God, both are wrapped in endless white light.

"This is...?" Su Mingan said.

"You can think of the entrance to the Dawn system as the center console of the two-dimensional world," Akto said.

A white table and two chairs rise from the ground.

"Please sit down." Akto was polite, and he was surrounded by snow-white data streams, like blooming flowers.

Even though it was just an AI, Su Mingan could feel Akto's temperament from him, which was a gentle and extremely stable temperament towards everything in the world. Sensibility and rationality are perfectly matched and equally charming.

Su Mingan sat down on the chair, and a cup of tea automatically appeared on the white round table in front of her.

"What kind of tea do you like to drink?" Akto put his fingers on the edge of the teapot.

"Can anything be changed?" Su Mingan said.

"Of course, only here." Akto said.

"Coffee." Su Mingan said.

He no longer wanted to drink tea.

Akto smiled, moved his fingers slightly, and a cup of steaming coffee appeared in front of Su Mingan.

"Su Ming'an, now you have signed a 'civilization bet' with the gods. If you cannot restart the Dawn System within twenty days, he will obtain the source of your civilization." Akto said.

"Yes. At that time, he used to guide me to victory in the war as a bargaining chip, so I had to agree to him." Su Mingan took a sip of coffee.

He and Akto sat face to face in this pure white space, surrounded by flowing data streams. For a moment, it seemed like two representatives of civilization were having a meeting.

The snow-white brilliance was reflected in his dark eyes, and he was also reflected in Akto's dark gray eyes.

"But this bargaining chip is one of the gods' purposes. From this bet, the gods are guaranteed to make a profit without losing any money." Akto said: "It's useless to say this now. This bet is harmful rather than beneficial to you. I'm here to help. You lift it.”

"The civilized bet...should not be terminated," Su Mingan said.

Su Mingan has long discovered that this world, including the entire universe, is like a game that cannot violate the "rules". As long as you sign a bet, you must act in accordance with the bet. Otherwise, like the player Blair who revealed that 'people who have passed all levels perfectly can make wishes', they will be directly obliterated by the organizer with a white light.

Akto took a sip of Biluochun and said with a smile: "We can't go back on the bet, but we can take advantage of the [rules]."

"For example?" Su Mingan said.

"The condition of your bet is - 'The Dawn system must be restarted within twenty days.'" Akto's finger traced in the air, like a piece of chalk sketching in the air, and wrote three words:

‘Twenty days’.

‘Performer: Su Mingan’.

‘Restart Dawn System’.

Su Mingan stared at these three words and said softly, "Huh?"

"Which one of these three conditions do you think we can take advantage of?" Akto's tone was quite persuasive.

Su Mingan's eyes were fixed on these three conditions.

"Twenty days." Su Mingan answered.

"Why?" Akto asked.

"Judging from the current clues, 'time' is the content in the ruined world that is most different from the definition of reality. If we want to break the situation, we can only start from this level." Su Mingan said.

Akto smiled and said: "It seems that your way of thinking has matured. I believe that you can keep going even in future world copies."

Akto stood up and drew a large circle in the air with his fingers, starting with 'twenty days' and ending with 'Restarting the Dawn System'.

"——So, now that we have chosen a breakthrough point——Su Mingan, how do you think we can break through the 'twenty days' shackles?" Akto's voice became serious.

Su Mingan had put down the coffee cup in his hand, and he realized that Akto was teaching him 'how to play the world game'.

Split the problem bit by bit, break it into pieces, guide it, link the clues bit by bit, sort out your own thinking mode, and decide what to do next - Akto is teaching him this 'universal method of perfect clearance' Thinking template'. This is a skill that can never be found in the World Forum, and is countless times more precious than purple-level equipment.

Su Mingan thought for a while: "Tomorrow is the 'Twentieth Day'. If I want to save the ruined world, I will definitely reach the twentieth day. Time cannot be turned back. The only way I can think of to break the situation is by me. There is still no Central City laboratory that has solved the mystery.”

The Central City laboratory where time stayed in the 72nd year of the disaster was where he stayed for three days at the beginning. There, there is the amiable Mrs. Meira, the life assistant Treya, and the twin living treasures Dongxu and Xudong. Everyone loves him.

That might be the breaking point. But there were too few clues and he couldn't figure it out.

Seeing that Su Mingan could not figure out the next step, Akto knocked on the teapot and said the answer:

"Su Mingan."

"——If we can introduce the person who performs the contract as a 'person who can never reach the twentieth day,' this bet will have no end and can never be lost. This is the best solution."

Su Mingan was slightly startled.

"But how come I can never reach the twentieth day? Unless I die on the nineteenth day." Su Mingan said.

Akto said: "You are the one who performs the contract, and this cannot be changed. But who said - there is only one you in the ruined world?"

Su Mingan's pupils narrowed.

Akto's words suddenly opened a new window for him.

"But the player's time has not been sliced. As a player, there should be only one me." Su Mingan said.

Akto smiled and said:

"wrong."

"Su Mingan, you can't confuse your definition of 'time' with the definition of 'time' in the ruined world."

"Generally speaking, the concepts of 'time' and 'space' are simplistic to you. As a human being, you feel that time is time and space is space. But the dimensional theory of Dawn System breaks through this simplification The boundaries confuse time and space.”

"'Time' is quantifiable in front of our administrator accounts. It is no longer a linear line, but a large grid. On this theoretical basis, we can capture you in different time grids - —Of course, these 'you's' at different times are not actually considered 'you' as a person, because only the 'you' now is 'you'. The 'you' at other different times are just phantoms that remain in the grid time. But they essentially fall within the definition of 'you'."

"Just like Cheng Luohe. As an old antique dealer in the City of Surveying, he is himself. As for him as a middle-aged sniper in the two-dimensional world, he is more like a phantom on the timeline."

"As long as it's 'you', it doesn't break the rules of the civilized bet."

"As long as we lead the person performing the contract to the 'past you', we can prevent the person performing the contract from ever reaching the twentieth day."

Su Mingan's eyes lit up when he heard Akto's words.

Su Mingan has wondered since he was very young whether the person he was a day ago or even a few hours ago was still him. Is it possible that his life only started at this second? As for all the previous memories, they were instilled in this second.

He still hasn't been able to figure this out. But Akto's words gave him a new space for thinking.

He lowered his eyes and fell into thought.

Akto saw Su Ming'an like this and said, "Su Ming'an, try your best to understand. Otherwise, what will happen to 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 instantly.

"Give."

A plate of chocolates was handed to him.

"Eat a piece of chocolate and think about it." Akto held up a plate 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?" Akto said.

"You go on."

Akto stood up and drew a big snow-white snake in the air with his hand. The head of the big snake is connected with the tail, and it looks like a ring without gaps.

——This is an ouroboros, it has no head and tail, just like a Möbius strip.

"Su Mingan, have you heard of 'Ouroboros'?" Akto asked.

"It's a snake without a head and tail." Su Mingan said.

"Correct." Akto nodded:

"So, have you ever thought that the world of ruins is, in a sense, equivalent to an ouroboros?"

"Huh?" Su Mingan responded doubtfully.

Data streams surrounded them, and under the snow-white ouroboros, Akto 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 must be inferred."

"Su Mingan, have you ever thought about a possibility - if the two-dimensional world is a box, then the City of Measurement, as a one-dimensional world, can also be a box? In other words, there is a bigger box above us. ?Boxes within boxes, endless boxes?”

"Have you ever thought that we, being trapped in a box, are all a kind of program? Is the human universe itself a program that runs autonomously? When it meets certain requirements, it will return to the beginning? Is the revolution and rotation time of the universe a data set in advance? Can the 'black hole' in the universe be regarded as a 'command program' that moves coordinates instantaneously? Can an asteroid impacting a planet be regarded as a 'measurement'? 'And the introduced variable is 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 huge observation box, and outside the universe - is it Is there an 'Asa Akto' who controls the 'Dawn System' of the universe?"

The white brilliance condensed in the air and turned into words. Each word represented a huge definition.

time.

space.

universe.

Restart.

There seemed to be an invisible hand squeezing Su Mingan's heart. Facing these theories, he was 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.

Those dark gray eyes seemed to be locked with countless fleeting moments.

"This is the first time I have heard this statement, but... it fits the situation of the ruined world." Su Mingan pressed his chest, and finally found his voice in the extreme shock: "What should I do?"

"What I need you to do - is to link an ouroboros." Akto said.

"How should I connect?" Su Mingan said.

Akto stopped in front of him.

"You want to turn your 'twenty days' into a ouroboros without a head or tail, so that the 'past you' will never reach the twentieth day." Akto said: "In more popular terms As far as——"

Su Mingan blinked, and some indescribable premonitions arose in his heart. Boom, boom, boom, my heart was beating like a drum, as if it was about to jump into my throat.

He had a subtle premonition, as if a long-buried doubt was about to be answered——

Akto stared at him and whispered:

"you need to--"

"To 'induce yourself'."

…

If time is a 20cm line, every 1cm counts as a day.

When someone breaks it, pull it back to the 1cm mark and tie a knot. Then 1cm and 1 have beginning and ending rings.

No matter who is walking from 1cm to 1, he will never reach the 20cm, he will only reach 11cm.

——What will be done by combining 1cm and 1min.