Chapter 1: The World of the Future (I)
What does the future world look like? It is generally the same as the future in our usual sense, but it is different here: the world in the usual sense has only one world line, and if we think of it as a straight line, then the circumferential world is a function where y is equal to 1 only when x is equal to 0, and y is equal to 0 when all other values are valued.
Only Zhou Yuan's time is independent of other worlds, even if the previous second or the next second is another world line - so this future world is not a future world in the usual sense...... Of course, it's not Kuriyama's future world, it's just another possibility that exists on this timeline.
Zhou Yuan and Artoria had gone through a period that seemed long and seemingly short, that seemed to be ten years but only a second—unlike Ike's spanning time, crossing the world line would make you lose your body's sense of time—and the two of them finally arrived here.
The world in two years.
Ruined houses, collapsed buildings, broken roads. These are all over the place, and they look a bit like wasteland worlds contaminated by radiation from the Fallout set.
There just won't be lethal radiation, but instead there will be countless projections. With a large number of zombies entrenched on the ground, and crazy vandals wreaking havoc everywhere, there are probably not a few survivors in the entire city.
This situation is much worse than Zhou Yuan's point in time......
"Carlo. ”
Zhou Yuan whispered Carlo's name, and a circle of flames flowed out from the center of Zhou Yuan's body, circling around Zhou Yuan, and it burned brightly, isolating the zombies who tried to attack the two people.
There is a reason why Zhou Yuan actively chose Carlo. The partial rampage mode "internal burning" (which will not be extinguished, burning from the inside out) used on the Count that day gave Zhou Yuan a great deal of inspiration, and he might be able to bypass Carlo's duel and use part of his rampage ability.
Just like the gigantic Kazan clone used during the rampage or the rampage mode used by the Warden, although it is an incomplete ability, it is also stronger than the original method of use.
"Next, it's about how to find Rentaro Okabe. ”
Zhou Yuan put the device given by Ike back in his pocket - this thing is a round-trip ticket, which can be jumped back from the top of the timeline, but the effectiveness of the runestone will be exhausted after a round trip, and he will have to go to the League of Legends world to replace the new runestone.
However, I probably won't need a second time, right?
Zhou Yuan waved his hand violently, and Carlo's flames spread out in all directions, burning on the bodies of the zombies, making a sizzling roasting sound.
This zombie is similar to the zombies in the usual sense of Resident Evil, of course, maybe it was a virus brought from there, in short, these things are not too sensitive, but the pure linear movement speed is very fast and aggressive.
The physical fitness is not much higher than that of ordinary humans, and Artoria can easily solve this kind of thing, even if there are special mutants.
"There should still be survivors anyway...... If Rentaro Okabe is well-known in the future, then someone should know about it, right?"
"yes," Artoria nodded, "and let's go find the survivors?"
"Hmm...... By the way, there is another point," Zhou Yuan stretched out a finger, "Don't meet, or be met by your future self." When two people meet at different points in time, an unpredictable paradox will arise. ”
“…… Got it. ”
This problem is still very serious. For people who only have one straight line in the world line, they have memories of what they did in the past, so it's easy to avoid their past selves and not meet each other - but Zhou Yuan and Artoria have a big problem, the two of them don't know what they did on the other world line, or where they are......
In this case, there is naturally a way to settle for the next best thing.
"Zhou Yuan, are you sure this can work?"
At this time, Artoria tied her blonde hair into a single ponytail, with a green two-horned demon mask on her face, her chest was tightly wrapped in bandages and wore a black kendo suit; Zhou Yuan also tied her black broken hair into a small ponytail, and she was also wearing a black kendo suit with a red one-horned demon mask, and both of them were wearing clogs, and each held a sword.
It's just that Artoria has an ordinary Tai Knife, and Zhou Yuan has a Wild Tai Knife because he is good at using long weapons.
"Since you can't stop meeting each other, you can only make the other party unable to see that it's you, which is similar to sitting in a Gundam or meeting through a wall...... Remember to change your voice to the point where you can't hear it. ”
When Zhou Yuan said this, he was like an uncle who had experienced vicissitudes.
"I see. ”
Artoria's voice began to grow thicker, too.
"I haven't practiced Bajiquan at home...... Otherwise, I will be able to use the Liuhe Spear," Zhou Yuan sighed, "From now on, I will not use another ability that I know, such as the Ghost Hand...... Bajiquan will not be used either. ”
It was the future Rentaro Okabe who asked Zhou Yuan to go to Gensokyo to practice, and it is unlikely that Zhou Yuan in the future would not know about Bajiquan. But fortunately, Zhou Yuan can barely know a set of half-hung knife techniques, and the prototype is the way of fighting when Flandorolu uses the magic sword "Levatin".
It can only be said that this is basically a random wave, but after a long time, there is a little bit of a regular way of fighting.
"Understood. In the future, I shouldn't know that I have seen some of the moves of Bajiquan, so I will choose to use Bajiquan to meet the enemy. ”
Artoria replied.
"I always feel that a restricted move has reduced my strength by more than half......" Zhou Yuan sighed, "Fortunately, there are no black claws at this point in time, otherwise it would be quite troublesome." ”
Then it's time to start looking for survivors. Considering the reason why the survivors will inevitably go to the supermarket, Zhou Yuan decided to go to the supermarket first to find out if there is anyone's track, and by the way, take some supplies and other things - Zhou Yuan doesn't want to gnaw on military rations every day in the future.
The supermarket is still relatively eye-catching, right in the middle of the street, and there is a large number of zombies in front of the supermarket, so you can see that the supermarket has been cleaned up.
It's not a game, and corpses aren't going to be spawned. So, in this way, you can find out where the survivors gathered from the clues.
Zhou Yuan took a knife and walked towards the supermarket while opening the road.