Chapter 19: Bifurcation of Time and Space
"Forty or forty months? Three, three and a half years!! ”
Shirley's words, for Lu Ren at this moment, were really no less than five thunderbolts, which made Lu Ren's brain seem to have turned into a mess, and the whole person sat there stupidly, unable to speak for a long time.
Shirley sensed that something was wrong with Lu Ren, and asked anxiously, "Master, what's wrong with you?" ”
Lu Ren barely recovered from his dementia, and said to Shirley with tears: "Forty months, three and a half years...... Shirley, Shirley, are you sure you're not playing with me? ”
Shirley said, "Master, what are you talking about?" ”
Lu Ren's tears were about to flow: "Do you know what era I am now?" ”
Shirley said: "The earth calendar is around April 193 AD, and the specific and detailed time point is unknown. This time I successfully searched for the master's space-time coordinates, and I still have to keep the synchronization operation here to ensure that the owner can be accurately contacted next time. ”
"......" Lu Ren was speechless for a moment, but he could only sigh and shake his head again: "It's that I forgot, you don't care about history like us people." Let me tell you this, Shirley, the era I live in now is one of the most chaotic and darkest times in the history of China, and it can even be said that wars may break out anytime and anywhere, and natural and man-made disasters are constant. If I were to persist in such an era for three and a half years, I really don't know if I can withstand it, maybe one day I will die if I am not careful! ”
Shirley was shocked and said hurriedly: "Master, you can't give up on yourself, you have to hold on no matter what, forty months is actually not a long time!" ”
Lu Ren smiled bitterly: "It also depends on the circumstances under which these forty months have been completed." The most important thing is that as far as I know, the name 'Lu Ren' has never appeared in historical materials. If I am just an inconspicuous little person, where the cat has been hiding for forty months, and is not qualified to be recorded in the historical materials, so it does not appear in the historical materials, of course, this situation is the best. But I always feel that as a traverser, no matter what I say, I will make some noise, and there is no reason why I don't even have a name in the historical materials, so the biggest possibility is ......"
Speaking of this, Lu Ren paused, although he was very reluctant, he still gritted his teeth and said his thoughts: "The biggest possibility is that I accidentally hung up in these forty months." I am not Xiang Shaolong in "Looking for Qin", Qin Shi Huang will make a book-burning pit for him to erase the historical record. You must know that the pen of the official historian of this era is very poisonous, and there are many people who dare to write wild history. ”
To be honest, Lu Ren's words are actually related to his subconscious mentality of "the traverser should make some noise", and Lu Ren had such worries before this, but he has always been deliberately avoided by himself. How many people will be fed and have nothing to think about their own death? But at this moment, Lu Ren's mood was really chaotic, and he subconsciously said these subconscious thoughts.
Of course, Shirley didn't know this, but she understood what Lu Ren was worried about, and immediately said to Lu Ren: "You don't have to worry about this master, because the historical time and space you are in now are different from the historical time and space you should be in." ”
"Shrimp!?" Lu Ren was stunned at the time, and as soon as he came back to his senses, he hurriedly asked, "Shirley, what do you mean by that?" ”
Shirley on the other end flipped her fingers down and down, and transmitted a large section of data to Lu Ren: "These are the materials left by the previous master during the test, I can't explain it clearly, but I believe the master can understand it." ”
Lu Ren immediately checked these materials, but it was okay not to read them, but after reading them, Lu Ren's mouth opened wide in shock, and he said dumbly: "Won't it?" Isn't this completely different from what we generally think of as a theory of space-time? ”
Generally speaking, people generally think that if someone really accidentally travels back in time and space, then what he does after crossing over will inevitably trigger a butterfly effect, and there will be two results.
The first result is that after this person triggers the butterfly effect, history may be completely rewritten, but this person is likely to be due to the butterfly effect, for example, he directly or indirectly affects someone's life experience, and as a result, this person does not meet the person he should have married and had children, so a series of reactions are likely to make the traveler disappear suddenly for no reason;
Based on this, some people have proposed a second result, that is, although the traveler has crossed, his crossing itself is a part of modern history. There are many people who support this point of view, and novels like "The Legend of Qin" are also written with this point of view.
Lu Ren is also a supporter of the second view, which is why he has the same kind of worry as before. But when he saw the information "he" had left behind, this view was immediately overturned.
According to the information left by "him", although the time-traveler has traveled through time and space and returned to the past, it cannot affect the original process of his own time and space. It may seem like it's the same as the second view, but the information left behind by "him" has written a surprising result - time travelers will only produce time and space forks!
It can be understood in this way, that is, after the time-traveler returns to the past, what he does will actually open up a new parallel space-time, so that the space-time will develop in a "Y" shape, and the original space-time of his own place will not be affected, because this is a fixed-shaped energy operation that cannot be changed.
There are still a lot of materials recorded in the back, and Lu Ren didn't look at it...... To be honest, I can't understand it. Anyway, Lu Ren only needs to understand one thing, that is, he is basically equivalent to entering a parallel time and space, and it doesn't matter how much trouble he makes in this time and space, and in the time and space where he is, of course, there is no record of himself.
After being stunned for a long time, Lu Ren was still a little incredulous, so he checked the information left by "him" again. However, Lu Ren still didn't look at the scientific research data that he couldn't understand, but consulted the diary left by "him". From these diaries, Lu Ren learned that "he" had crossed three times during the experimental stage of the teleporter, and once deliberately created a prosperous dynasty, but when "he" returned, he did not see any record of this dynasty in historical materials. And a dynasty that has been strong for more than a hundred years, there is no reason why it will not be seen in historical materials.
It is precisely because of this bold act that "he" is convinced of his theory of space-time bifurcation, at least his space-time teleportation device cannot return to the real past, and in the end, "he" also left such a sentence in his diary:
"Since going back in time doesn't change my time and space, what's the point of me going back in time? Goodbye to my dear, it's not that I don't want to save you, it's that I really can't save you. ”
After reading this sentence, Lu Ren's heart trembled: "'He' made this thing, could it be that he wanted to return to his own planet and save his relatives before the planet was destroyed?" ”
It's just that after this tremor in his heart, Lu Ren immediately shook his head and shook off this kind of thing that might be called "sentimentality", after all, now is not the time to sigh about this. After calming down and thinking about it carefully, Lu Ren quickly understood that what he should be thinking about now was how to survive these forty months, three and a half years.
With the right way of thinking, thinking about things is much clearer and clearer. Soon Lu Ren knew what he needed most now, so he immediately instructed Shirley: "Shirley, you immediately access the earth's information network and help me find all the historical materials you can find about the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Sanfen Guijin period." Well...... The approximate time period is from 180 A.D. to 250 A.D., and the more detailed the better. ”
According to the information left by "him", Lu Ren learned that if the space-time bifurcation was generated on the original historical process, so that it opened up a quasi-parallel space-time, that is, it became two space-times, but the original process of the two space-times was still the same, and the difference was only to see how much influence this time-traveler could make on the bifurcated space-time. Under this premise, the historical records of the original time and space in his own place are very useful to Lu Ren.
Lu Ren knew very well what a chaotic era the era of the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty was, and at this time, he was basically poor and white, and Shirley couldn't send anything over, so the idea that he wanted to get some hardware to ensure that he was safe and sound in these forty months was simply. In contrast, it is more suitable for one's own conditions to grasp the accurate historical trend, and at the same time not to destroy it, so that this parallel time and space that has been opened up still follow the original process, and to find a safe place to hide according to the original process. At the very least, Lu Ren can also have a bottom in his heart, and he can always improve his own safety factor more or less.
It's just that the wish is beautiful, but the reality is cruel. Shirley's response made Lu Ren almost scold the street in the middle of the night:
"Please forgive me, host...... For the time being, I can't do what my master wants, because the base is not only short of energy, but many facilities and functions have not been fully repaired, and there is no way to connect to the earth network in a short period of time. ”
"......" Lu Ren's forehead had several blue tendons bursting out. finally suppressed the urge to scold the street, Lu Ren really asked Shirley in a crying voice: "Then how long will you use this repair?" Don't give me another decade or twenty months. If that's the case, I'll just plunge headlong into the moat and drown......" Not to mention, there is really a pond not far from Lu Ren.
Of course, Shirley knew that Lu Ren's words were purely frustrating, but she still immediately said to Lu Ren: "It won't take too long, after all, there are enough materials in the base, and the demand for energy is not large, all of which add up to three months." That is, three months later, when Shirley contacts the owner again, she will send the historical information you need to the owner. ”
"Three months?"
Lu Ren calculated, according to his current situation, three months later should be the autumn season when Cao Cao raised troops to attack Xuzhou, and now he has now hid in Tancheng Mizhu's house, and it should be no problem to hide safely for three months. As for the information available in three months...... Let's talk about it at that time, it seems useless to think about what will happen in three months at this time, and besides, there is no information yet! If you have the information, you can think about it no matter how you want it, and it is more realistic than the chaos without the information, and then take one step at a time.
(Note: Regarding the setting of time and space bifurcation and parallel time and space, this is purely the bottle's need for a plot setting in Lu Ren's early state of mind.) Speaking of which, the bottle still remembers that when he was trying to write "Survival Reform", someone shouted in the book review area, "Since you have crossed over, you have to change history, what is the point of not changing the pig's feet", and the bottle can only laugh at this.
In addition, the insistence on setting it in parallel time and space, in a sense, can be regarded as a kind of respect for history by the bottle himself. Because the bottle has always believed that real history has no ifs and cannot be changed, we can only imagine and assume. But in any case, the real history should be respected. Even if this history is bleak, sad, and humiliating, it should be faced and respected. If we can't face up to and respect history, then we are really no different from animals...... Well, the bottle admits that this is a scolding of a certain nation. )