Chapter 1322 Branches and Trees

Lu Mingfei nodded his head involuntarily, and the feeling of weightlessness brought him back to his senses. He had not experienced this feeling for a long time. When he was in class at Shilan Middle School, he would stay up all night playing StarCraft the next day. On the second day of class, he attended class three times and nodded frequently, earning the reputation of "Sleep God".

However, this situation has become much less common since you entered Kassel College. The main reason is that in college, no one cares whether you sleep or not, and the professors who teach will not slow down the progress of the entire class just for you. I will only remember your name and include it in the notebook. When you graduate, you will know that the days you spent comfortably will eventually have to pay off your debt.

Lu Mingfei wiped the non-existent saliva and stretched before noticing that the surrounding environment had changed. The entire classroom was empty. The new students who had gone crazy and had psychic vision were nowhere to be seen. The barrier that had been lowered to isolate the outside world was nowhere to be seen. The black baffles were also put away. It was a beautiful sunset outside in the afternoon. The blood-red sunset wrapped in the clouds was like a landscape oil painting. The church-like buildings of the mountaintop college were painted into dark silhouettes. One or two The glimpse of the white dove returning to the bell tower adds a long bell sound to this silent picture.

He threw away the gel pen in his hand, without even glancing at the white paper on the table, and walked towards the boy in a suit and leather shoes sitting by the window. He wore a small black suit, a white silk scarf, small square leather shoes, and large pale gold shoes. The eyes, which are childlike between male and female, are no different from the guy in my impression.

Before the other party spoke, Lu Mingfei suddenly stopped and pointed at him, "Hey! If you say something to me, 'Sunset, are you coming up?' I'll kick you down immediately and leave without looking back!" "

Lu Mingze paused before he spoke, looked at the red and blue sea, and smiled helplessly, "Brother, you don't expect to have another me in another world, do you? ? If you really think so, I will be severely hurt!"

"Damn it, you're still the kid!" Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment, and then his face showed ecstasy. He rushed forward and held him down. He stretched out his hand and rubbed the guy's meticulously styled hair, and forcefully rubbed the delicate little handsome guy. Playing like a chicken coop.

Lu Mingze didn't seem to be surprised by Lu Mingfei's enthusiasm. He just smiled bitterly and let Lu Mingfei toss his hair. To use a less accurate description, this could be regarded as meeting an old friend in a foreign country, or a fellow villager meeting a fellow villager, with tears streaming down his face. .

Normally, Lu Mingfei would hide from Lu Mingze like he was hiding from the god of plague, but it was different now. He was eager to see the little devil appear in front of him. This guy usually talks viciously about power, and when he hears it, he feels like he has a big head. His ears were calloused, but now he felt so friendly as soon as the other person spoke. He wished he could grab this little devil and crush him into pieces in his arms. "You actually came here with me?! You've also traveled through time." ?”

"First of all, I want to correct one thing." Lu Mingze broke away from Lu Mingfei's ravage and raised a finger, "You have not traveled through time. You are still asleep on that subway at this moment. According to Nibo According to Long Gen’s rules, the subway will automatically enter a circular line after running. This train will continue to run on the circular line forever until someone takes the initiative to change direction in the train cab. "

Lu Mingfei retracted his hand and his expression became weird, "Then why haven't I starved to death yet? Logically speaking, I have been here for nearly half a month. It's a human being to not eat pellets for half a month. You have to starve to death, right?”

“Ever heard of Einstein’s theory of relativity?”

"It's the one with the fire and the beauty, right?"

"It seems you know." Lu Mingze nodded slightly, as if he meant something.

"Is there a problem with the passage of time in this world? Can the theory of relativity explain all this?" Lu Mingfei frowned. Although he knew the theory of relativity, he was not proficient in it. Whenever the professors at Kassel College talked about these academic topics, he would fall asleep. Because the vocabulary and referenced knowledge points were too obscure and advanced, it was not possible for him, a junior at Shilan Middle School, to keep up.

"Oh, that's not the case. What you are encountering now has nothing to do with the theory of relativity, and Einstein can't explain it." Lu Mingze waved his hand, "I'm just curious if you know the theory of relativity."

Just when Lu Mingfei wanted to roll up his sleeves and give this guy a slap on the head, the other party suddenly said, "It can be considered a reference to a similar concept. For example, when people have sweet dreams, they feel that time passes quickly, but when they have nightmares, Sometimes it feels like it will take a long time, which is probably what you are encountering now.”

Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment, "Then am I having a sweet dream or a nightmare now?"

"You ask me?" Lu Mingze looked at Lu Mingfei up and down, "You are the one dreaming now."

"I" Lu Mingfei suddenly found that he couldn't give a simple and direct answer.

Logically speaking, a world where Lin Nian does not exist is indeed a ridiculous dream, but it seems a bit incomplete to define it easily, because there are still beautiful things in this world, which comfort Lu Mingfei and do not go crazy or go crazy. .

If this world is really a dream, is this a nightmare or a sweet dream? This question is worth examining.

"So this is indeed a dream?" Lu Mingfei asked after being silent for a moment.

"Brother, actually you feel it too, right?" Lu Mingze looked at the academy on the top of the mountain at dusk, the dove shadows passing through the sunset in his golden eyes, "You can't easily label everything you see now as fake. A fantasy, or a simple dream, because everything is too real, every plant, every tree, every flower.”

He said, "What you are experiencing now is a mirror world that is projected by a power close to the ancient power based on the nearby branches of the world tree."

Lu Mingfei was stunned.

"You should have learned the theory of parallel worlds, right?" Lu Mingze saw that his brother's CPU was burning up again.

"I've learned it. Quantum mechanics is so mysterious. If it weren't for the theory of parallel universes, I guess not many people would choose this course!"

"Have you ever thought about the composition and existence logic of parallel worlds?"

"You're asking me questions that even Einstein didn't figure out?"

"Try to imagine the world we live in, the deepest and darkest place in the universe where we live. From an angle that is difficult for ordinary people to observe, you can see a tree, a giant tree that is infinitely long and infinitely wide, rooted in the concept of 'world' itself."

In Lu Mingfei's mind, it seemed as if a lush giant tree that spanned the dark Milky Way appeared. The light of the spiral galaxy was the fireflies that embellished it, and the deep and terrifying black hole was the gap on its trunk. It counted the collapse of the universe as its annual rings, and every growth of it supported the expansion of the universe.

He couldn't help but shudder, which was an involuntary shock and awe of the magnificent things.

Lu Mingze continued, "We usually call this tree 'Yuktrasil'. It is rooted in the base of the world and supports the operation of the world we know in a way that ordinary people cannot understand, just like the giants supporting the sky and the earth in ancient Chinese mythology."

"Each branch of 'Yuktrasil' is a cognitive world. They are derived from the main branches of the trunk. Although they are of the same blood and origin, there are always many differences in details. For example, a branch is slightly withered and alopecia. The dragon race in that world had already perished long ago, and the blood remaining in the world was not even enough to light up the golden pupil. On the alternative extension branch of that world, brother, you did not even enter Kassel College, but gave up further study in college after graduating from Shilan High School, and chose another path that you are best at."

"My best path? What is that?" Lu Mingfei was stunned and looked up.

"Esports player." Lu Mingze looked at him and raised his eyebrows. "In that world, you chose to become an esports player. The main game you played was StarCraft 2, the sequel to your favorite StarCraft. You became colleagues and friends with many famous professional players. The professional commentators who usually entertained you all night also called you brothers and sisters. You would go to wash your feet and eat barbecue at night."

"Uh." Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment. It seemed difficult to imagine himself becoming an esports player, but it seemed that Lin Nian had complained that he was indeed a good material for this.

"Some worlds are very interesting. The branches are still lush and strong. In most of those worlds, you still took the road of Kassel College, but it was not Lin Nian who took you out of that movie theater, but Chen Motong, the girlfriend of Caesar Gattuso, so you were unlucky to fall in love with your senior sister, and at the same time joined the student union instead of the Lionheart Club, and embarked on a road of no return to coveting your sister-in-law." Lu Mingze said with emotion.

"Me? Coveting the eldest sister-in-law?" Lu Mingfei's eyes widened, pointing at his nose, "Do I look like that kind of person?"

Lu Mingze looked at him, then nodded under the other's stunned gaze, confirming that he was that kind of person, "After that, you found that you couldn't pursue the senior sister, so you coaxed a rich lady with a little brain problem who you met by chance to be your substitute, and finally accidentally killed her. I thought that you in that world line would seal your heart and lock your love from then on, but you turned around and went back and continued to pursue the senior sister with a drooling face."

"Stop, my friend." Lu Mingfei pushed his hand, "Let's not talk about the fact that it was Nuonuo who took me out of the cinema. The fact itself is outrageous. Is it really reasonable for me to like Caesar's girlfriend? Didn't Caesar call someone to sink me into the artificial lake in the school?"

"No, I guess he thought you had no chance? The margin and calmness of the strong?" Lu Mingze thought for a while and said.

"This is really tragic." Lu Mingfei held back for a long time and could only utter this sentence, "Suppose, okay, suppose your parallel universe theory is true. After all, I can't provide evidence to refute what you said on the Internet about infinite worlds and infinite possibilities. Then there must be me in other world lines who are doing well! Can you pick those examples of me being glorious when you give examples?"

"Yes, and there are many. You in some world lines are very interesting." Lu Mingze smiled,

"'Yuktrashil' experienced an 'explosion' a long time ago. After the 'explosion', it experienced a terrifying re-development based on the original foundation, which led to the growth of many thriving branches on the rapidly growing new trunks. But it also seems that because it grew too wildly, it caused those branches to pierce the coating from the high-dimensional level, causing some external factors to enter the ecological cycle of those branches. The final situation is that you, the brothers in those world lines, seem a little. Crazy?"

"Crazy?" Lu Mingfei didn't understand the word.

"Those branches are too far away from us. They are basically branches that have already been extended. Normally, they won't affect us, so there's no need to worry." Lu Mingze didn't elaborate. He looked at him meaningfully and said, "There are also versions where you want to be glorious. In some worlds, you even become the new Dragon King, sit on the throne and rewrite the rules and power of the cognitive world."

"Even if it's a dream, you're too bold to dream. I'm too lazy to complain about it. But what did you say just now? What do you mean by normally it won't affect us? Affect? ​​Parallel worlds will affect each other?" Lu Mingfei seemed to have heard a very scary word, and his eyebrows were raised.

Even if he didn't believe Lu Mingze's grand and incredible nonsense, the sense of crisis would still force him to ask further.

"The branches will overlap. Sometimes, because the overlapping branches are too close to each other, a little turbulence will cause an 'intersection'. This kind of 'intersection' generally won't cause any problems. At most, people living on the branches will occasionally glimpse the seemingly true scenery and memories, such as a sudden sense of déjà vu, and some future scenes dreamed of during sleep." Lu Mingze said, "This kind of 'intersection' caused by overlapping generally won't cause much impact. There is basically no interference between branches."

"Under normal circumstances, what about special circumstances?" Lu Mingfei had a premonition of something.

"Brother, for some reason, you have peeked into another seemingly real world before, right?" Lu Mingze did not answer, but asked back.

"You mean?" Lu Mingfei's mind flashed with the boundless desert, the familiar yet strange old friend, the broken world, the war spreading like wildfire, the paradise of dragons and evil spirits.

Compared with that dream, what he is experiencing now is simply a peaceful dream. In that dream, he saw too many deaths and tragedies. The tears forced out in despair could fill the sea. Every wave of waves hitting the beach left behind painful wails and unwilling roars.

The doomsday world line, the end of everything.

"That is a world line very close to the branch we are on." Lu Mingze said lightly.

Lu Mingfei froze.

He did not believe in Lu Mingze's so-called parallel world theory, but the nightmare of the doomsday scene did haunt him for a long time. He could not explain why the stories he saw were so vivid and moving, like a Shakespearean tragedy that really happened in a corner.

——He didn't want to believe that the doomsday world was real. Once he believed the theory proposed by Lu Mingze, everything would be different.

"You just said that under normal circumstances, the branches would not affect each other, right?" Lu Mingfei felt a sense of terror in his heart, "What about unusual circumstances?"

"Unless someone can master the complete ancient power, and the oldest powers, and then find an "opportunity" that may be rare in tens of millions of years, it is possible for the branches to have a little real impact on each other that affects the cognitive world. As it stands now, basically no one can do this." Lu Mingze said calmly.

"That's it!" Lu Mingfei suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, "Then why are you so scary!"

"But there is more than one way to change the world line. The method you think of is the most impossible, the most unscientific, and the most thankless approach." Lu Mingze said leisurely, "Smart people often choose to use tricks to achieve seemingly impossible goals."

Lu Mingfei's face froze, looking at Lu Mingze and hesitating.

Lu Mingze nodded and looked at the half red sun hanging between the branches on the distant mountain top. "Obviously, someone wants to bring our branch infinitely closer to the desperate world line you have seen, and trim it into the same shape as it."