Chapter 341 Mr. Ashes

"I have seen you, but the clothes you wear are different from now. Maybe...something happened in between, which led to some changes..." Wang Ailin said, and took notes with a pen.

"I don't think this statement is correct. How can you see things that haven't happened yet? In other words, if you know you will do something in the future, will you still do it? If I don't let it happen...then won't this future be meaningless?" Chen Ke said.

"Maybe so, but the flow of time is relative. If someone can really travel through time...you travel from 2009 to 2006, then this 2006 is your future." Wang Ailin explained.

"Then how do you explain the grandfather paradox?" Chen Ke asked.

"Maybe there is no grandfather paradox at all..." Wang Ailin lowered her head, thinking.

"It's impossible. If a person travels to a year before he was born and kills his parents, then he can't exist in the future. If he does so and still exists, you can only explain it with a parallel universe." Chen Ke shook his head.

"Chen Ke, what you said are all settings in science fiction movies, games, and novels, which are imagined by those writers. Real science doesn't think about problems in this way." Wang Ailin said.

"But I think that statement is quite scientific..." Chen Ke complained.

"I have been thinking, Chen Ke, I have been wondering if humans are too arrogant. The grandfather paradox we assume is a product of linear thinking, and the butterfly effect and parallel universe are also self-consistent for the purpose of changing the past. We have been worried about what effects our actions after traveling through time and space will have on the universe, but..." Wang Ailin said, frowning.

"But what? Going back to the past to change history will completely change the direction of history, and the future will definitely change dramatically. Isn't this a very reasonable thing?" Chen Ke asked.

"Chen Ke, have you ever thought about it the other way around? If a person can travel through time, what will he become?" Wang Ailin asked.

Chen Ke was stunned for a moment, and suddenly felt a chill on his back.

Wang Ailin's question is a kind of reverse thinking. Her meaning is very simple. It is a wishful and arrogant conjecture of human beings that people travel through time to disrupt the order of the universe. The real question should be, if a person can travel through time, is he still a person...?

"Diana and I traveled through time through the subway, but as you can see, I am here, and you have seen Diana, and we have not become so different." Chen Ke said.

"This may involve the difference between passive and active travel. I mentioned earlier that no matter how ancient the time you travel to, it is not essentially going back to the past, but going to your future. You change your future, not my present... It's a bit confusing to say this, but what I want to say is that different individuals have different perceptions of time. You go back to 2006, but I don't go back. Is our 2006 really the same 2006...?" Wang Ailin said.

"I almost understand what you mean... You mean that the time you experience is different from the time I experience. You can even say that... If I am a person living in 2006 and meet you who traveled from 2008... Then for both of us, that moment can be called the present..." Chen Ke followed Wang Ailin's thoughts, but he noticed some doubts.

"No, if you did something that shouldn't have happened in my time, then my present, is it considered to be interfered by you? According to what you said, your travel is also inevitable for me? Then after you go back to your time... Is your 2006 still my 2006..." Chen Ke was a little confused.

"That's the problem... You just used a very good word called time interference, which is also the part I can't understand. Without considering parallel universes, everyone's perception of the universe is different. You jump out of your time and come to someone else's time to interfere. Then, when you return to your time... will there be changes? In other words, once you jump out of your own time... can you go back?" Wang Ailin thought and quickly took a pen to write something down.

"There's no way to talk about this. Anyway, the 2006 I went to doesn't exist anymore. It's definitely not the 2006 of 2008... Damn, it's so confusing, but it's true." Chen Ke said.

"What if it was originally our 2006..." Wang Ailin suddenly said.

Chen Ke looked at Wang Ailin, not understanding what she was trying to say.

"I think you can't explain that place unless you use the parallel universe hypothesis." Chen Ke said.

Speaking of which, Chen Ke felt that the 2018 he was originally in might be similar to the 2006 that had been swallowed by the gods.

"Maybe it's just another world in a different latitude. If there must be an explanation, this statement might make sense." Chen Ke added.

"Okay, I wasted some of your time before, let's talk about business, the ash in your blood. Let's put it this way, this elemental knight does not exist..." Wang Ailin said.

"Doesn't exist? What do you mean?" Chen Ke asked.

"It's a memetic infection, a suggestion of self-destruction. If you think it exists, it will exist and begin to displace your original structure, but if you ignore it..." Wang Ailin hinted.

"I understand..." Chen Ke realized the problem.

The principle of memetic infection is to strengthen the impression of the phenomenon of "turning to gray" in other people's minds, and spread it with the basic meme "this disease is contagious". This is how those people ruined it in 2006 .

But there is another thing in that world, and Chen Ke still hasn’t found the answer.

What are those red maggot people...

Invisible gods devour the world, the Great Black Pillar spreads memes to exterminate mankind, and the artificially created Sorrow Girl... Where did the Maggot Man come from? Why are there piles of sandbags at subway entrances? What were they originally trying to block inside?

"That means there is no antidote for this thing. As long as you don't take it seriously and gradually forget about it, you can slowly cure yourself?" Chen Ke asked.

"I don't know if it can heal itself, but at least it shouldn't spread or get worse." Wang Aileen said. After she finished speaking, she suddenly looked at the pile of ashes on the board.

Chen Ke noticed that the readings on the display were constantly fluctuating up and down. Naturally, he couldn't understand what those readings meant, but for some reason, Chen Ke always felt that this pile of ashes was alive.

"It's strange. It has been in a stable state before, but now it is extremely active, as if it wants to communicate with us..." Wang Aileen walked over and looked at the readings on the screen.

"You just said this was the body of an investigator... It was cremated... Why are there still readings? What are those readings?" Chen Ke walked over and asked.

"Heartbeat...and brain signals..." Wang Aileen replied.

"Nonsense..." Chen Ke clasped the back of his head and looked back at the door. On the door was written the number of the research room: 0451.

Wait a minute, wait a minute...

Chen Ke suddenly remembered something. It seemed like someone had told him this string of numbers...

Parker…

He remembered the last moment in Van Hed, when the great void began to gradually disappear due to the completion of the cycle...

Parker once told Chen Ke that he felt like he was a pile of ashes... he could see a door marked with the number 0451...

"When did you find this pile of ashes? Where did you find it?" Chen Ke asked.

"More than two months ago, something happened in Xijin Building. An investigator was bitten to death by a human-faced dog. His body has been decomposing since it was transported here, but it still maintains... normal physiological signals... ..." Wang Aileen said.

"Parker...? Can you hear me?" Chen Ke finally dared to determine who this piece of ash was...

"What are you...doing?" Wang Aileen asked doubtfully.

"Parker, if you are alive, please give me some indication..." Chen Ke said, looking at the monitors above his head.

The waveform began to tremble violently, as if the pile of ashes was saying hello to Chen Ke.

"I don't know if this is useful... but that's how Faralis was brought to life by me... I can only help you so far..." Chen Ke said, reaching out and inserting his palm into the pile of ashes. middle.

"Are you...? That's an experimental sample! Take your hands out!" Wang Aileen suddenly shouted. On this point, she was very serious.

Just when Wang Ailin reached out to grab Chen Ke's wrist, the pile of dust on the tablet suddenly gathered automatically...

As if being pulled by some force, the ash swirled and gathered on the flat plate, emitting a red flash, like an ember that had not yet been extinguished.

"Chen..." Someone suddenly said something, which he couldn't hear clearly. It seemed that his vocal cords were gradually taking shape, but Chen Ke recognized Parker's voice.

The ashes entangled themselves and formed a tornado. Wang Aileen covered her mouth and nose. The scene in front of her made her speechless.

The ash tornado suddenly jumped up from the tablet, as if it had self-awareness, and suddenly landed on the open space in the center of the research room.

The gray-white ashes suddenly became colored, and with the flash of red light, a man squatted on the spot.

"F*ck! F*ck! A miracle of science!" Wang Aileen opened her mouth in surprise. She watched that ball of ashes turn into an adult man, right in front of her eyes!

"Parker!" Chen Ke laughed.

Parker is still wearing the same clothes he wore in the Great Void and the Xijin Building, and he still looks the same.

He stood up and touched his body, then looked at Chen Ke and smiled: "What took you so long?"