Whether the future can change is a question that all supermen with "foresight" in science fiction movies will encounter. In fact, Wu Mian himself faced the same situation last night, and when Pan Jiaqiang refused to be interviewed at first, he also doubted whether the report he saw on TV was just one of the futures in the "multiverse". It's just that I was busy with interviews and rushing manuscripts, and when I got home, I was busy studying the notes of the crazy professor, and I forgot this detail for a while.

Now, once again, this question is in front of us!

If the future can be changed, then of course it is better, just buy that set of numbers at the opposite point of sale, and tomorrow's news report will become "Zhuzhou lottery players alone won 12.6 million yuan", that is, the location of the lottery has changed from the original provincial capital Kuanzhou, to Zhuzhou, where it is now.

But what if the future is immutable?

That means that there is some kind of "fate" in the dark, and if you have to buy that set of jackpot numbers in Zhuzhou today, you will encounter all kinds of "accidents", resulting in failure to succeed.

For example, a clerk at a point of sale accidentally dials the wrong number, or a computer system suddenly gets a virus, or an enemy maliciously manipulates it...... Maybe when you cross the street, you will happen to be hit and killed on the spot by the speeding "seventy yards...... Then, there was another person who happened to win that set of numbers in Kuanzhou, and that person was the real winner.

Wu Mian couldn't help but shudder when he thought of this, and most of his joy was gone. His first thought was to go home and go through the notes left by the mad professor to see if there was any mention of this information, but the content of the notes was so difficult that he studied it all night, and he could understand very few parts.

However, he suddenly remembered that Professor Mad had discussed this topic with him a few days before his death. At that time, he half-jokingly asked the mad professor if he could really realize his dream of time travel, would he go back to the past and change the fate of the future? The mad professor replied that he would never make subversive changes to the past, present, and future of the original time and space, because this would lead to serious space-time turbulence.

"Since nothing can be changed, what is the point of your invention even if it succeeds?" Wu Mian rolled his eyes.

"Who says it doesn't make sense? You can be a prophet. ”

"Prophet?"

"Yes. The mad professor said seriously that those famous prophets in history, such as Yuan Tiangang in ancient China and Nostradamus in the French Middle Ages, all have the ability to "see the future", but they are afraid that the future will change due to the leakage of heavenly secrets, so they can only write some ambiguous and obscure remarks to ensure that there is no excessive disturbance of history.

"Okay, it's awesome to be a prophet, but I still think it's even more frustrating to know what is coming in the future, but not to be able to do anything about this scruple or that?"

"It's not that you can't do anything, it's that you can't do disruptive change. To put it simply, it is necessary to take advantage of the trend and take advantage of the subtleties that will not affect the fundamental process of history. ”

In order to clarify the difference between "disruptive change" and "following the trend", the mad professor gave an example at the time, for example, if you see a relative die in a car accident in a month, and you try to save him, and then you don't let him go out, hoping to avoid this tragedy, this is a "disruptive change", because it conflicts with the future you originally saw.

But if you just convince your relative to hurry up and buy a huge life insurance policy, and the beneficiary writes your name, and you receive a large amount of compensation after his death, this is called "following the trend". However, if you see too many details of future events, not only do you see a relative die in a car accident, but you also see him die empty-handed without any insurance. Then your current attempt to convince him to buy insurance becomes a "disruptive change" again.

In short, the principle is that the actions you take must not logically contradict the future you see. In this sense, predicting the future is not about knowing as much as possible, because the details of future events are like a frame, and the more you see, the more rigid the frame is, and the less room for flexibility at the moment.

"What if I don't follow this principle and have to make 'disruptive changes'? What will be the consequences? Will the universe explode?"

At that time, Wu Mian's question was purely ridiculous, but the mad professor still replied very seriously, saying that he didn't know what the consequences would be for the time being, but he was almost certain that it would definitely have an adverse effect on him, so he had no courage to try.

——Follow the trend...... Well, the mad professor's concerns must be justified, and it is the safest thing to do with the trend.

Wu Mian thought for a moment and then got up to settle the bill, walked out of the porridge shop and stopped a taxi, and rushed to the long-distance bus station.

He bought a ticket and boarded a bus bound for Kuanzhou. Along the way, he was quite nervous, and whenever he drove a little faster, he worried that he would have an accident that would lead to his untimely death.

Fortunately, there was no danger along the way, and I came to Kuanzhou more than two hours later.

Wu Mian got out of the car, bought a hat and sunglasses to put on at a roadside store, and then found the lottery ticket sales point reported in the news, and bought the winning number with 4 bets.

At that moment, he had a strong impulse to buy 40 or even 100 bets, which could theoretically expand the winning amount to hundreds of millions of yuan. But after much consideration, he gave up on such a tempting idea.

Because he decided to buy lottery tickets in strict accordance with the instructions of the "future clues", the time, place, and number of bets are exactly the same, and all the details are completely consistent! In this way, there will be no contradiction with the report that will appear tomorrow, and it is in line with the principle of "following the trend."

Holding the printed lottery ticket slip tightly, Wu Mian took the bus back to Zhuzhou with excitement and anticipation and anxiety, and rushed to participate in the afternoon "commodity fair" activities.

Many fellow reporters saw Wu Mian and came to talk, praising his report on his interview with Pan Jiaqiang for successfully attracting the attention of the entire press circle, and even Ding Zini listed it as the first reading.

Two sworn friends Pang Xun and Qi Haiguang, as well as several beautiful female reporters, also sent congratulatory messages. This is the first time that Wu Mian has been concerned by so many peers since he entered the industry, and he can't help but feel quite proud, and deeply feel that the hard work and effort he put in last night were all worth it.

Since there were no particularly important guests attending the afternoon forum, Wu Mian completed all the work by 4 o'clock and sent the manuscript and photos to the newspaper's mailbox. Then he called Asarou, claiming that he was very tired and wanted to go home early, so he didn't return to the club. Shallow Rou approved it happily, and told him to rest well.

When he got home, Wu Mian, who hadn't slept for more than a day and a night, finally couldn't stay up anymore and fell asleep. But the mental excitement could not be contained, and he always slept unsteadily.

At half past eight in the evening, he started watching the lottery on time, and as the numbers came out one after another, his heart beat faster and faster, almost jumping out of his chest......