This endless world

——In the story.

"What... does this mean?"

Listening to Zheng Zha's sudden words and the final conclusion he came to, contrary to his usual lazy way of thinking, the remaining members of the Zhongzhou team suddenly looked at each other. In the end, Qi Tengyi was the first to ask: "What does it mean that everything is doomed? And the 'story' is..."

"That's the literal meaning... In Doraemon, isn't there a secret prop, a pair of shoes that can enter the storybook?"

Zheng Zha sighed softly and rubbed his temples, which were slightly swollen due to pressure, with a hint of helplessness and deepness in his tone: "The environment we are currently in is exactly like this... When we first set foot on What you enter is not the real "Watchmen" movie world, but you fall directly into the story constructed by a certain weaver. "

"It's just that compared to 'outsiders' who use secret props and can actually interfere with the development of the story, we are more like plot NPCs who are trapped in the story without knowing it."

——Because it is a "story", it can be reset more than once. At best, you only need to close the book recording the story and read it from the beginning; and precisely because it is a "story", it needs the so-called " "Protagonist" exists, because a story without a protagonist has no reading value.

“The three elements of a story…character, plot, and setting.”

Zheng Zha said: "The so-called story is what happened to a specific character in a specific situation, but in the world of Watchmen, there is the background environment of the Cold War between two superpowers, and there is also the layout planned by the Pharaoh. As a plot, the only thing missing is the protagonist of the story, Rorschach.”

"Perhaps we are in a world where Rorschach does not exist, considering that a significant part of the Watchmen movie is the thoughts, feelings and narration of real events from Rorschach's diary, which serve as The narration and testimony of his experience.”

"You want to say that we are now in Rorschach's diary?" Qi Tengyi said thoughtfully: "Because it is a diary written by him as the first person, he does not exist in this story, because he is this person. part of the world…”

"Yes, that's what I want to say, and this can also explain why Dr. Manhattan has never appeared in this world, but this world is full of traces of him."

Zheng Zha slowly raised his right hand, looked at the Lord God's watch on his hand, and said slowly to the one-line task prompt: "As for why the Lord God only gave us such a simple task, the reason is also very simple. Because only by finding Dr. Manhattan can we leave this box and return to the real world..."

"Perhaps this is what the Lord God wants to tell us and has always hinted to us. Because this world is a real, artificially shaped box, a box located inside the world of "Watchmen" The box in..."

The box, the creator of the box, and outside, the creator of the story...

"It seems that someone has told me this theory before..."

Suddenly, Qi Teng covered his forehead and said with confusion on his face: "Is it Chu Xuan? No, it doesn't seem to be him, but who is it? There should be another person in our Zhongzhou team. A wise man, a wise man who is different from Chu Xuan, but also knows many things..."

"I think that's Yang Yun, the real captain of our Zhongzhou team...the one who has been leading us forward."

Different from the previous situation where only a name remained in his mind and he knew nothing about the rest, Zheng Zha seemed to have drawn an outline in his mind. Fighting Yinzhou, defeating demons, destroying gods...and many of the slightly strange places before, seemed to be explained at this moment after adding the variable named "Yang Yun".

"...But Zheng Zha, thinking about Yang Yun cannot change our current situation."

Although he knew that it was inappropriate for him to speak in the current atmosphere, Luo Yinglong, who had just joined the Zhongzhou team and was not very familiar with Yang Yun, still spoke up to remind him. In his view, solving the immediate problem is obviously more urgent: "Even if we understand that we are in 'other people's stories', the problem is still not solved. If we cannot follow the Lord God's prompts to find Dr. Manhattan, then everything is empty talk... "

"There is a way. The key to the outside world has been completely gathered."

Zheng Zha smiled and answered Luo Yinglong's question. The man opened his clenched left fist, and in the palm of his hand was the medal belonging to the comedian, which contained trace elements of Dr. Manhattan.

"The story begins when the comedian was murdered."

The one on Zheng Zha's right hand was the red cat that Chu Xuan found behind the chair and belonged to the Pharaoh.

“Cats are compasses that guide our way forward.”

"...I still don't understand what you are doing now."

Luo Yinglong looked at Zheng Zha's badge on his left hand and the cat on his right. He looked like a poor acrobat. He shook his head helplessly: "Even if I know that cats and badges are important, I still don't understand what you are going to do and how to put this together." Take advantage of these two things..."

Zheng Zha did not answer directly, but said: "There is such a theory in the movie Watchmen that every creature has an intrinsic field, or an internal force field, which binds all the atoms of the creature to the right position. This is a quantum fingerprint composed of four basic interactions, and each person is unique."

"...It sounds like some kind of folk science theory." On the other side, Qi Tengyi shook his head helplessly: "Zheng Zha, you don't really believe it?"

"Each world has its own rules, and existence is reasonable." Zheng Zha said firmly: "And don't you think this theory is very similar to the 'light of the soul'?"

"You mean..." Qi Tengyi was surprised at first, and then turned to shock. After a few seconds, his face gradually became enlightened, as if all the previous doubts and confusions were suddenly connected.

"That's right, my soul light 'Sky-walking Dragon' has the ability to strengthen and sublimate."

The light of the soul light shone between Zheng Zha's hands: "So next, I will upgrade these two items that are directly related to Dr. Manhattan..."

"Then, transcend this 'box' and find Dr. Manhattan's traces." (End of this chapter)