The Death Knell

"Well, that's half right. I'll reward you with a chocolate frog."

Su Ming smiled and handed the mysterious guest a box, and stood quietly watching the girl eat the brown frog:

"This is the content of today's lesson. When you see a loop, you must first analyze what story it tells, and then consider how to interrupt the loop, especially if there may be a hidden secret behind it. The origin of the story is the most important piece of information.”

Liana immediately looked like she was listening carefully, but at this moment another subway came and put another ear at the teacher's feet.

This made her couldn't help but smile, because she suddenly thought that if the cycle continued like this, it wouldn't be long before the master and apprentice were buried by Ear Mountain, right?

"I understand, teacher."

"No, you still don't understand. This young boy's name is Jack Mott. He was the most famous serial killer 'Pusher' in New York in 1955. Parentheses, New York in this world."

Su Ming raised two fingers and gave a special explanation. Then he talked about the details of the matter, which involved time flow, the concept of parallel universes, the manifestation of split personality, and a series of complex things.

Because this incident was not a murder, but a suicide.

In 1930, when Odetta was five years old, Jack threw a rock from a building and hit her on the head, causing the woman to split into an antisocial personality, Gerdetta.

In 1958, Gerdetta pushed Odetta off the railroad tracks, causing the latter to be run over by a train and breaking both of her legs, but it also caused her to split out of the evil boy personality of Jack Mort, and this personality was absorbed middle world.

In 1977, Jack, who had developed a good killing skill in the twisted wilderness of the middle world, came back through the portal. In order to retaliate, he pushed Gedetta off the railroad tracks, causing her to be hit and killed by a train.

But Gerdetta did not die, but entered the inner world, and after some experiences, she returned to 1958 through the door.

Because Odetta is the main personality, Gerdetta is the second personality, and Jack is the third personality, the second sister knew about his birth experience, and in order to take revenge, she tried to kill him from the root, that is, "No longer will he be killed in 1958" Odetta pushed off the platform' so that Jack would not be born.

But Jack's character did not sit still and wait for death. On the one hand, he returned to the platform in 1958 and pushed Odetta down himself to ensure that his origin appeared.

The entanglement of these two personalities created countless parallel universes. From 1958 to 1977, in this train station in all worlds, there was a show in which these two people pushed each other off the platform every night.

It's like stacking hula hoops together to form a more complex loop structure, the same loop in different parallel worlds. This concept is a bit like the fairy palaces in different Marvel universes, where they will encounter similar gods. Like dusk.

On the other hand, in addition to ensuring his own origin story, Jack also used the many doors leading to parallel worlds in the Dark Tower to return to 'some' Earth in 1930, trying to eliminate the second Gerdetta in advance.

But he didn't know how his second sister was born, and because the two female personalities of Odetta and Gerdetta looked exactly the same, he threw a stone at the "young enemy" who was only five years old, and it hit him just in time. her head

He thought she was dead and left happily.

Little did they know that this was the beginning of the story, and everything came full circle. valley

"I don't know if you understand?" Su Ming taught in the same way as telling tongue twisters, and then looked at the mysterious guest with a star-like look in his eyes and asked: "This is indeed a bit like "Terror Cruise", because it is really suicide."

What Liana hates the most is multiple personalities, especially when such multiple personalities can form an adult worldview. Is she living in the mind of some madman now?

"Psycho?"

It took her a long time to squeeze out such a comment, but at this time, an ear splashed on the side of her shoe, and she kicked the ear away angrily.

"Multiple personality split is indeed a type of mental illness." Su Ming nodded, and pointed to the two people on the platform ready to push people: "Now that you have seen the whole cycle, you have thought about how to stop it. Yet?"

"Go back to 1930 and kill them all?" Mysterio wrinkled his face and tentatively gave an answer.

"It's wrong to do this. It means you are getting yourself into a small cycle like a pot of porridge." Su Ming sighed, put his arm around the student's shoulders and prepared to leave: "The correct approach is to ignore the various small cycles that occur. Go directly to Merlin, kill him, and then use high-level power to modify the unsatisfactory things in the lower parallel world."

Liana nodded repeatedly, and she hugged the teacher's arm: "I see, it seems that the method you used to solve the Ragnarok problem is not the same."

"Of course it's different. The people in the shadow are not the creation gods. Just bring in some demon gods and you can overwhelm them. Although some people think that they may be followers of the transcendent gods, but they got involved in the story of Ragnarok first, so I just Being able to enter Ragnarok and defeat them is equivalence at the narrative level.”

"Now Merlin is involved in the multi-dimensional cycle of the Dark Tower at a higher level, so we cannot intervene in these single universe-level cycles we see, otherwise it will be equivalent to being one level lower than him. I understand."

Mysterio seemed to really understand, and she even learned to answer quickly.

"Then let's go. The door to leave this world is in New York City. There is a nightclub. From there, we can reach the Land of Thunder." Deathstroke held a cigarette in his mouth and lit it with the lighter stretched out from the strangle. Get angry, take a deep breath, and fly into the sky at the end of the platform

I don’t know if Mysterio has learned anything new from the show, but at least teaching her more things will only be beneficial. After all, you can’t always pause time in 40K. Sometimes you still have to have a way to let time flow. The Supreme Mage just watched.

If you have money, it is easy to enter a nightclub. With a little more money, you can go backstage and take photos with celebrities.

In this era, many famous singers will still sing in the nightclubs where they made their fortune after becoming famous, and this era also has the earliest concept of star chasing.

Of course, saying that he wanted Elvis Presley's autograph was just an excuse. Seeing that the man who would die in a few months was still dazzling, Su Ming pulled the mysterious guest into the darkness of the corridor.

Opening a trap door leading underground, a new vortex appeared again, and the two stepped into

The next second, he was almost struck by lightning.

There was a charred wasteland under their feet, but there was only a charred dead tree standing where they were. It was strange that thunder could not strike here.