Chapter 734: The Choice of the Gate of the Destiny Stone
Traveling through time is a cliché, and in today's more mainstream terms, it's called the Rebirth Stream. No matter who you are, there will always be all kinds of unsatisfactory things or regrets in life, if you have the ability to go back to the past, what will you do?
It will definitely make up for the regret of the past, which is not only a missed past, but also a vent of dissatisfaction with the current life, and if there is such an opportunity or ability, everyone will definitely make changes. For example, if you have caused a tragedy because of something, you will avoid it, if you take measures against your first lover for some reason, you will take the initiative to grasp it, or if you are dissatisfied with the quality of life, there are countless opportunities for lottery, gambling, housing, etc.
It is based on this that the rebirth flow satisfies people's various regrets, so that it can always be very popular.
But is that all that planestime can change?
The butterfly effect, also known as topological chain reaction, refers to a long-term huge chain reaction in a dynamical system in which a small change in the initial conditions can lead to a large long-term chain reaction of the whole system. This theory is very applicable in the topic of time and space.
《steins; In the story of "Gate", the early stage is a foreshadowing of the butterfly effect. Every time a text message is sent, something changes a little bit, and maybe something changes in a place they don't know. Perhaps, they have done something irreparable.
"It would be nice if Xianglintang was here too. Mayuri said to Okabe with regret.
Xianglintang is the Tianman business center set up in the world, the only one in the world, "steins; The story of "Gate" takes place in the world, and there will naturally be many industrial advertisements in Tianman.
"Ugh. What are you talking about, Xianglintang's words, isn't it over there......" Okabe raised his finger, but his arm froze in the air, and his voice became smaller and smaller.
His eyes were stunned for a moment. Pupils constrict.
They are on the streets of the earth, but this is not the world.
The streets are still there, but the world is gone.
"What are you talking about, Okabe? Mayuri muttered in confusion.
"How could Xianglin Hall be here. Okabe's companion, the fat hacker, Hashida Zhiya, said as a matter of course.
Okabe looked around, his eyes filled with fear, the street was still the same street, but all the familiar things were gone. The open mouth could not be closed for a long time. The pupils are dilated and there is no focal length.
Only the audience and him know that the world line has changed,
Everyone's memories have also changed, but he is the only one who ......
Originally, I felt that this ability was quite cool. But when he saw Okabe's eyes, Mu Linfeng's heart suddenly became uneasy and depressed.
He seemed to understand the panic in Okabe's eyes, it was the fear of the unknown, he didn't know what the future would become, and he didn't even know what the past was like, because although he still knew his friends, their memories were different.
in this world. He is like a lonely observer, ostracized, isolated from the world.
Accompanied by ED's passionate singing, Okabe's frightened and confused eyes. It has given a great impact on people's hearts.
If the story is compared to a spring, then the spring was loose before, but at this moment, suddenly there is an invisible force compressing the spring, compressing it hard, when it is compressed to the limit. Springs burst out!
And "Steins; The outbreak of Gate begins with the death of Mayuri.
The most painful thing in the world is not watching someone you care about die in front of you. It's that she obviously has the ability to manipulate time to go back in time, but she can't change the doomed ending that she will die no matter what. I had to watch her die over and over again in various ways of dying.
Mayuri dies inexplicably again and again, and Okabe travels over and over again, saving, failing, and crossing again, falling into a dead cycle of eternal June similar to "When the Cicadas Cried".
However, compared to Rika, Okabe's suffering was even greater, because he had to watch his dearest person die in front of him. There's always time, so what?
But he couldn't save his friends.
As if Mayuri's fate was destined to death, the whole world joined forces to kill Mayuri.
After more than ten words of foreshadowing, the plot begins to unfold like a rampaging flying machine, and the final excitement in exchange is extremely exciting, like a repeated climax after a long foreplay. At this time, the previous volt nodes have received appropriate and specific responses, as if the length of the foreshadowing is completely testing people's qualifications to watch this show.
The moment when Mayuri dies, the moment when all the foreshadowing is ready to get a response, and the moment when the climax of the story gushes out of majesty and sharpness, is the beginning of Okabe's transformation into a butterfly and his growth from a boy to a man.
The cycle of futile crossing and redemption, and the fate of failure that cannot be changed again and again.
The foreshadowing laid by the long foreshadowing before was also unraveled little by little, and the identity of the working soldier was also decrypted, and it turned out that her real identity was to travel back from the future and want to change the future.
The working soldier has always been her disguise, and the stay at this point in time is also to find her father.
In the end, when she had given up looking for her father and was about to complete her mission in 1975, Mayori deduced that her father was Hashida Zhi, based on the name of the time machine she was riding on, qì (made by her father).
The time machine can only go to the past, and cannot return, which means that the working soldiers have traveled back, and for Okabe and others, they may meet in the next moment, but for the working soldiers, it has been a long time.
Mu Linfeng rubbed his eyes, and when he saw the father and daughter who had just met but were about to separate, he was a little teary-eyed.
However, I never thought that this time was goodbye.
In the next second, they received a suicide note from a migrant soldier handed over by Mr. Brown...... She died ten years ago.
"Failed, failed, failed, ......failed, failed,
On the letter, a series of "failures" were written, very hard, as if to puncture the paper, even through the TV, Mu Linfeng could feel the deep remorse and pain.
This...... Failed?
Mu Lin Feng was as stunned as Okabe and the others, and the part-time soldier had just said goodbye to them, and he died in the blink of an eye, and the mission failed......
It was as if there was a stone pressing on his heart, making him use all his strength with every breath.
The time machine malfunctioned, she had an accident, lost her memory, and did not recall her identity until a year before her death, and died in pain and remorse.
Her pain and remorse were for herself, and she felt that it would be nice not to take a detour to this point in time, but to go straight to 1975.
"I'm sorry ......"
What kind of pain is it that can write these three words?
"What did I live for now, forgetting my mission, but just surviving gracefully...... This kind of life is meaningless......"
The last stroke of the last word "Yi" was stretched very long, as if the hand was weakly hanging down and driving the traces left by the pen on the paper.
On paper, there is sadness.
Undo all the dmails that have been sent before, and return the world to the original world line - Mayuri can be saved, and the world of 2036 will not be a land of despair ruled by the holding agency of the time machine Qì, SERN. And everyone's memories will be sacrificed because of this, but Okabe, who blames himself for it, doesn't even have a chance to apologize, and no one remembers what he remembers. Witnessing a qiē, ruining a qiē, bearing a qiē alone and remembering a qiē - there will always be only a lonely observer.
The world was too cruel to Okabe, and even getting to this point didn't show him any hope. Undo all dmails. Let the world line be restored to its original state. It's a world line where the Desperate Country under SERN doesn't appear. A world line where Maori doesn't die. Then, on that world line, Makise Red Liqi will die......
The dilemma became the most severe test for Okabe.
If there is anything more painful in the world than "obviously has the ability to manipulate time to go back to the past, but can't change the doomed ending that she will die no matter what, and has to watch her die in various ways over and over again", then only has the ability to change the future, but he has to make a choice whether to sacrifice his own sweetheart or sacrifice his lover.
Okabe, who sacrificed countless precious things, and finally sacrificed his favorite people - to achieve an ideal town that he didn't care about, to get the world back on track. At the same time, he became the only person who remembered Hong Liqi in the world without Hong Liqi. Okabe, who has nothing to lose, still speaks with the same middle two as always, and forcibly announces the remake of the world with a smile.
Mu Lin Feng thought, if it is to let himself choose...... It was really difficult for him to make a decision, and I am afraid that he would rather die himself than face such a choice.
In the climax of the last wave, the op "hacking-to-" reached a perfect unity with the story, completely igniting the passion in the hearts of the audience.
At the beginning, most people didn't feel much about this extremely middle two male protagonist, and even had some disgust, but until this time, people's attitudes have changed dramatically.
Gentle, strong, forbearing, mature...... All the words of praise that can be used to describe a real man are not exaggerated when applied to Okabe, who has experienced too much at this moment.
"That's the choice of the Stone of Destiny. (To be continued)