The Death Knell

"You are not familiar with my situation, and you don't know that I have an old enemy in another multiverse."

Deathstroke held a cigarette in his mouth and narrowed his eyes, as if he was recalling what happened back then.

"Old enemy? I thought you would kill all your enemies." Luo Rui pulled the hem of her robe and braided the broken tassels into a knot: "At least according to the mercenary style, you should try to avoid Will there be trouble in the future?"

"Well, you understand very well, but the prerequisite is that you can really kill him."

Yes, Su Ming was talking about Conqueror Kang. That guy was like a toad lying on his feet. Although he couldn't hurt anyone, it was disgusting.

After killing two Kang's timeline splits in a row, he later fought against Karma Taj many times in the 40K timeline. He really would find something to do every once in a while.

However, Su Ming only participated in the first two battles, and the rest were handled by Modu and his men. I don't know what the specific experience was, but the results were pretty good.

"Is this the same situation?" The girl let go of her hand and put the finished soda bottle aside: "As you said before, Mo Cun and Di Jun will exist on different timelines. Even if we kill If one of them is lost, the others will come back sooner or later, ad infinitum.”

"Oh, I thought that as the Supreme Mage, my old enemy would be a mysterious being like Dormammu or a Beholder, but I didn't expect that I would also be a scientist."

Deathstroke handed her another snack and continued to look at the computer and the movement on another timeline:

"In short, it's almost the same. Kang's situation is very similar to theirs. When I kill a Kang, there will be another Kang's replacement. And if I want to go back to the past and erase Kang's origin, then Kang will go back to the previous one. Time, recreate an origin, and it becomes an infinite matryoshka doll.”

"What does that have to do with the pi that Bobo sent us?" Luo Rui tore open the packaging bag of spicy strips with some understanding, lowered her head and smelled the taste, and her eyes lit up.

"Didn't you notice the time on the display just now?" Deathstroke pointed at the lower right corner of the screen again: "Look, the time we are at now is the day when the Blackest Night falls. Bibobo and the others The time we are in is nineteen days ahead of time."

Luo Rui, who was still holding the spicy strip in her mouth, was stunned for a moment, and she made a suspicious nasal sound:

"Um?"

If the current time is earlier than that time, how could the things Bobo asked Barry to write appear in this computer?

As if he understood what her doubts were, Su Ming calmly continued to read the news on the Internet. Fortunately, even the power-on password of Brother Eye was 'Martha', otherwise it would have been really difficult.

He nodded and replied while sliding his finger on the touch pad:

"This is the 'circle theory' I want to talk about. Most of the time, time will be like a river or a big tree, but if someone wants to intercept a period of time and use it as his own collection, then this A time stream that has neither past nor future will become like a ouroboros or a bug that spontaneously connects end to end, forming a closed loop."

This is the role of story logic on timelines. Any independent timeline will form an independent story that can be ‘watched’ repeatedly and cycled again and again in front of different audiences.

And this is the basis of the concept of "hypertime flow". When all different independent stories and concepts come together, this forms a concept similar to Marvel's "Omniverse".

Although Lori doesn't understand Kang the Conqueror's gameplay, she should be able to understand it when it comes to Ouroboros.

The Ouroboros symbol represents balance and circulation, and is also a representative of material exchange in Western alchemy. It can even be used as a spell to summon certain demons. Black Alice, who often deals with the mysterious side, should know something about it.

This is also one of the most intuitive connections between magic and technology.

"That is to say, we are now in a closed time system?" Luo Rui seemed to understand, but seemed not to understand: "It's like after we entered this timeline, the enemy intercepted this time. Let it loop on itself and we’re locked in?”

"That's not entirely true. Our rescue of Gotham would have changed the original time flow, let's call it Timeline 1, allowing the story to go in a different direction."

Seeing that Su Ming couldn't understand, he simply used the lamp ring to project a three-dimensional projection, which showed a large clump of tree branches, and cut out a short luminous stick from it:

"But in order to prevent his plan from being ruined, there was a little clever guy who intercepted the future after our 'change' from Timeline 1 and formed a new model based on Timeline 1, but it has its own beginning and end. The cyclic timeline 2 is used as a prison, but this is how Bobo can send information from the future to the present."

As he spoke, he manipulated the short stick to change, turning it into a Y shape.

One of them is the possibility of Deathstroke not saving Gotham; the other is the story of Deathstroke saving Gotham.

He split the Y in half and saw that the half that was still connected to the luminous tree was still glowing, although it was weakened and dimmed.

The cut off half of the short stick gradually shrank into a ring shape as if it was short of water.

"Understood, the beginning of this story is the Blackest Night, and the end is the moment when we return to the Little Batcave. During this period, our story of saving Gotham was cut off from the main branch. When the process is completed, we Will start over from the beginning.”

It was easy to understand after reading the illustrations. Luo Rui felt that Deathstroke was indeed a very good teacher. Even a poor student like herself could understand the concept of hyper-temporal flow.

Probably thanks to the fact that I often grow flowers in my small yard at home, I have quite a lot of experience when it comes to pruning branches.

In fact, where does this go? Su Ming only talked about the setting of time. Regarding the super-time effects of space, story, and origin, it cannot be explained in a short time.

If you look at this circle from a distance, it will become a dot, and when a series of dots are connected, it will become a new timeline, thus creating a story and even a parallel world.

This is a very complicated phenomenon, but under the current circumstances, Luo Rui knows this much and it is enough.

"That's right, so when Bobo discovered that Gotham in Time Stream 1 had not been saved, and thought that I never failed in my missions, combined with the super-time stream setting I once told him, he knew What kind of gameplay is this, and then we will remind each other that we are in the ring, and then verify each other.”

"How to verify?" Lori blinked.

"This is the new document. Look, I right-click it and delete it."

Su Ming was operating while talking, but the document on the desktop seemed to be infected by a computer virus and could not be modified:

"You see, if one side cannot do anything that affects another parallel time, then it means that the weaker side is the curled cycle. This is the 'continuity' of the story or the inertia of history, just like if you want When you peel off the bark, you always tear off an extra section in the direction of the force."