Chapter 2939 Guarding the Gate of the World

Every conversation with Mr. Zheng Qing felt that he had benefited a lot.

Especially this time.

How he wished that this conversation would go on forever, but he knew that this was just an unrealistic wish.

The light swept the leaf boat forward quickly, and the concept of time became a little confused at this moment. Zheng Qing felt that time seemed to be passing by every second, but he also felt like a little bug in amber, forever frozen at a certain moment.

He subconsciously reached out to touch his belt to check the time.

He touched nothing.

Then he remembered that the silver pocket watch was being held in his hand by the "outside" self at this moment, as a weapon, fighting with another legend.

Mr. noticed his little action.

He smiled slightly. "——In this dimension, you don't need to care about time."

He seemed to know what the boy was thinking. After a simple comfort, he changed the subject and continued the previous topic: "But you have a very keen sense of time, which is good and will help improve your adaptability to 'Taiyi'. Speaking of time, it reminds me of your use of the time converter this semester... Don't worry, I don't object to your use of the time converter during your studies, and you didn't break the rules during your use. In fact, I thought you would use it more boldly, such as turning the hourglass twice more occasionally, and accompanying the little white cat to explore other parts of the school, instead of being stared at by the little fox and studying under the cat fruit tree..."

Hearing the words 'little white cat' and 'little fox', the young wizard's ears turned red. He tried his best to stay calm and argued in a low voice: "But, sir, that's not in accordance with the rules."

"Yes, the rules."

The gentleman restrained his smile, and there was a little more emotion in his tone: "Just As we just mentioned, every powerful wizard has his own rules, and time is a rule that everyone will follow and protect... But perhaps it is precisely because of the excessive concern for "time" that the wizards' ability to understand time has been curbed.

I have always suggested that the Alliance should be more lenient with the rules for wizards to travel through time and space. Because I hope that young wizards can truly understand some concepts that are more important than "changing the future" in the initial time and space knots... I hope that these travelers are not simply addicted to the excitement of influencing the future.

When people talk about going back to the past, they are always worried about doing some small things wrong and completely changing the present; but when people are in the "present", almost no one really thinks that they can completely change the future by doing some small things now.

If you jump out of the long river of time and space, are not bound by the time dimension, and have no concept of the past and the future, it is difficult for you to resist curiosity and not put your "center of gravity" on the final outcome..."

Zheng Qing nodded frequently. Indeed, just like now, since he knew that this was a high-dimensional world, he couldn't help wanting to catch the fleeting light outside, to see if there would be a legend falling in the sky over Phuket Island, to see how the battle between him and that handsome boy ended, to see what mistakes he made in his thesis defense, to see where he would be next semester, and so on. "...This curiosity about the ending is an instinct, you don't have to feel ashamed."

Mr.'s voice continued to ring in his ears: "--but you must think more deeply. You should remember that the past is convergent and the future is divergent. Based on the concept of 'now', everyone has an infinite future... So, when you have the opportunity to see countless endings, you will eventually feel tired and bored-this is also the final destination of most high-level wizards-losing interest in life, and the meaning of existence is gradually eroded by 'truth' and 'time', because only by breaking away from time can your existence have meaning; only by pursuing the truth can you maintain enough freshness and strangeness, and continue to anchor your existence."

"Does this mean that truth is also a dimension?" Zheng Qing stared at the veins of the leaves under him, thinking.

The gentleman nodded with satisfaction: "It's a very bold guess. This is also the view held by a small number of dimensional wizards. If we follow this view, there is a bigger world and a wider unknown outside the truth..."

"Is the 'home' you just mentioned similar to the old people in Huiziji?" Zheng Qing felt that his thoughts were particularly active at this moment. His thoughts turned and he thought of the place where he had lived for a long time from what the gentleman just said.

The gentleman did not expect him to suddenly mention Huiziji.

He hesitated for a few seconds.

"Huiziji."

His voice had a little more emotion, but immediately, that trace of nostalgia disappeared without a trace. He did not immediately answer Zheng Qing's question about Huiziji, but mentioned Sanyou Bookstore again: "- You can probably guess that after I leave, I will leave Sanyou Bookstore to you, and you will become its new store manager."

Zheng Qing nodded slightly.

But inexplicably thought of the small shop on the pedestrian street.

D&K is located at No. 97 on the pedestrian street, and Sanyou Bookstore on the pedestrian street is No. 99. Between the two is a talisman grocery store run by an old Taoist named Mu Mingzi. If the master leaves, should I also buy the store in the middle and connect the three stores? By then, just looking at the facade, it will probably be more impressive than the wandering bar opposite.

"...This is a very heavy responsibility."

This sentence immediately pulled the young wizard's thoughts back. The gentleman looked at him and said solemnly: "In addition to storing the books of 'Sanyou', Sanyou Bookstore is also a dimensional door."

"Dimension... door?" Zheng Qing tried hard to recall the small bookstore where he stayed for a long time when he was a child. Compared with the gorgeous and dazzling colors around him at this moment, he really couldn't connect the two.

"To describe it in less rigorous terms, just as 'books' are the intersection of the two-dimensional world and the three-dimensional world, bookstores are the intersection of the three-dimensional world and the higher-dimensional world. There are many such intersections in this world, temporary, long-term, and permanent, because the dimension line is always in motion, and there will always be intersections between high-dimensional and low-dimensional worlds. And every time an intersection appears, a Sanyou Bookstore will be born... The one in Huiziji is the first one, and you can also understand it as the 'ancestral home' of other Sanyou Bookstores. The old people you just mentioned are certainly some old people who have lost hope and vitality, but at the same time, they are also the guardians of Huiziji. They guard the door of the world and prevent the risks of higher dimensions from spilling over into the world of ordinary wizards."