"You mean that this time loop is not purely supernatural, but man-made scientific research?" Guo Ming's eyes widened and he pointed at himself, "As for us, we were thrown into a closed time loop?" ”

Gu Fan nodded a little solemnly, then took out the reports found in the central hospital, he took out the [Feasibility Study Report on the Time and Space Cycle], moved his finger to the paragraph he saw before, and said, "Look, what is said here is already very clear. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"But even if we know it's a man-made scientific study, it doesn't mean we can find a way out."

"Of course there is a way." Gu Fan smiled, and moved his finger to another paragraph of the report, "Look at this paragraph." ”

Guo Ming stepped forward, only to see that the report said something like this:

"In view of the lengthy and complex explanation of the principles of the theory of time loops, this report will omit the description of the basic principles of this theory and focus on several experimental approaches to creating and breaking the time loop...... So, when a person is stuck in a time loop, how do you break it? First of all, we need to distinguish the similarities and differences between time loop and time reversal, assuming that time reversal is to move back and forth along a straight line on a two-dimensional plane, then time loop is to curl up this two-dimensional plane, so that the straight line on the plane forms a self-enclosed circle, it is worth noting that time reversal fundamentally changes the unidirectionality of time, while time loop retains unidirectionality, and shifts the focus to the transformation of space......"

Guo Ming looked at it, was silent for a while, and slowly spoke: "En...... Can I say I didn't get it. ”

"Actually, I didn't understand it either. But that's okay, that doesn't stop us from finding a way to break the time loop. Gu Fan put away a few reports, "Many times, we just need to grasp the key points of the problem. ”

"Uh, so the point of this question is ......"

"Space." Gu Fan affirmed: "The basic condition of the time loop is spatial transformation, that is to say, the condition for the formation of the closed loop of time is to achieve curling, so there must be a device in this city related to the cycle." ”

Guo Ming's eyes lit up and said, "In other words, as long as we find this device to maintain time closure, we can break the time loop?" ”

"That's right!" Gu Fan's confident voice sounded, "And I'm sure this device must also be in the central hospital!" ”

"Can I not go." Guo Ming had a bitter face and looked at Gu Fan with an embarrassed expression.

Gu Fan glanced at Guo Ming and said categorically: "Can't!" ”

......

July 4, 2074 at 10 p.m., Central Hospital

Guo Ming lowered his body at this time, slowly marching in a dark corridor, looking at Gu Fan who was swaggering around with a baseball bat in front of him, and couldn't help but whisper: "I said, can you keep a low profile?" We're sneaking into the hospital now, okay! ”

Gu Fan still walked by himself, and said without looking back: "How many times have I told you, there is no one in the hospital at this point." There was a zombie crouching around the corner in front of me. ”

"How do you know there's no butterfly effect!" Guo Ming still whispered with some unease: "Maybe there are a few more patrolling security guards in the hospital now." ”

"You don't believe it...... Tyre! It's you again! Gu Fan encountered the zombie that pounced on him yesterday again, after killing the zombie with the same means, Guo Ming finally believed that no one would find them, and the two accelerated the search process, but until they reached the top floor, they did not find any suspicious devices.

"There is not much time left...... Guo Ming took his electronic communicator, looked at the 23:18 displayed on it, and said worriedly: "Is it possible that he is not in the hospital?" ”

"No, definitely at the downtown hospital, it's just that we may have missed something." Gu Fan pondered hard, carefully checking the memories in his mind, trying to find the place he had missed, suddenly, his eyes lit up, he raised his head and said loudly: "By the way, we haven't been underground yet!" ”

A quarter of an hour later, the two of them arrived at the underground parking lot of the central hospital, which was empty except for a few cars. Gu Fan was wearing an old-fashioned quartz watch on his wrist, as if he was looking for something.

"When did you buy an antique watch on your body? How convenient it is to use an electronic communicator to check the time. Guo Ming looked at the quartz watch on Gu Fan's wrist and asked with some puzzlement.

"Sometimes the hands can more intuitively express the truth we want to know," Gu Fan didn't look back, still staring at the hands on his watch, slowly searching, "Since it is the junction of the 'closed loop', the time will inevitably be a little different from usual." Let me see...... Got it! ”

At this time, the second hand of the watch on Gu Fan's wrist suddenly began to tremble extremely quickly, reversing backwards for a while and then accelerating again, as if time was completely disordered here. Gu Fan looked at the watch with trembling hands, stomped his foot towards the ground where he was, and affirmed: "It's right down here, you can't be wrong." ”

"How are we going to go down?" Guo Ming looked at the empty ground around him and was a little stunned.

"I don't know." Gu Fan's face was a little solemn, "This should be the last test." ”

After nearly ten minutes of searching, the two of them finally found a manhole cover fifty meters away from here, after removing the manhole cover, they found that unlike the damp and rancid underground waterway they imagined, the manhole cover seemed to be unexpectedly dry and clean, and after the two went down in turn, they found that an iron door was embedded in one of the walls of the underground waterway, Gu Fan stepped forward and pulled it, and the iron door actually opened in response.

The two walked in the door and found that it was an office about a few dozen square meters in size. It is called an office because in this room, apart from a desk and a wooden chair, there is only a faintly glowing ring transistor.

"Oh, it's beautiful." Gu Fan looked at the ring-shaped transistor and exclaimed. "Is this electricity?"

"I don't know, but it's beautiful." Guo Ming glanced at Gu Fan and responded, "But sometimes the more beautiful things are, the more dangerous they are. ”

Gu Fan smiled, didn't speak, and threw the baseball bat in his hand to Guo Ming, signaling him to destroy the transistor.

Guo Ming took the baseball bat, hesitated slightly, and said worriedly: "Li Yan, do you think we can make a mistake?" ”

Gu Fan was stunned, and after a while, he realized that Guo Ming was calling him, and couldn't help replying: "It's come to this point, if you make a mistake, you have to smash it." ”

Guo Ming nodded, his eyes seemed to become firmer, the baseball bat in his hand tightened a few points, and he was just about to smash it, but for some reason he stopped again, turned his head and smiled at Gu Fan: "By the way, if we can really break the cycle this time, I must introduce you to my dad when I go home, and he will definitely like you very much." ”

Gu Fan was already thinking about what reward would be issued after the task was settled, and replied casually when he heard this: "Oh? Who is your dad? ”

"My dad's name is Guo Chongyi, and like your college major, he is also engaged in virtual reality (VR) technology."

"Wait," Gu Fan suddenly raised his head when he heard this name and stared at Guo Ming, "Your father is Guo Chongyi?" Guo Chongyi, the father of modern virtual reality! ”

"Now..... The father of modern virtual reality? Guo Ming was also a little dazed by this title at this time, and the baseball bat in his hand couldn't help but loosen.

"Wait a minute, wait a minute, there may be something wrong...... Gu Fan has begun to have cold sweat on his face since he heard this name, and countless pieces of information are chaotic in his mind, and it seems that he is about to become a thread.

Gu Fan's thinking turned faster and faster, and after a while, there was a trace of white gas on the door of his head, and Gu Fan's consciousness at this time had been filled with countless pictures and sounds, he only felt a roar in his mind, and his consciousness began to rise infinitely, and finally his consciousness descended to a closed room with cement walls on all sides, on both sides of the room were two rows of bookshelves, and in the middle of the room, there was a person in a black cloak with his back to him, as if he was thinking about something with his head down.

Gu Fan slowly approached the person at this time, looked at the bookshelves on both sides, stared at the person and said incredulously, "This is ...... My temple of mind? ”

"I didn't expect that after two years of not seeing, your skin is getting thicker and thicker, my dear cousin." The man in the black cloak slowly turned around, and Gu Fan fixed his eyes to see that it was his cousin, Xiao Zihan! "At most, you can be regarded as a 'thinking tile house' here, and you are still a thinking hall!"

"Cousin, you have to help me this time." Gu Fan looked at Xiao Zihan and instantly hugged his thighs.

"Okay, okay, you let go of my legs first!" Xiao Zihan seemed a little annoyed, "And how many times have I said it?" I'm not your cousin, I'm just a virtual personality you've imagined! ”

"But you're as smart as my cousin, and you look exactly like him!" Gu Fan looked at the black-robed Xiao Zihan, and said with a smile: "Besides, since you have said it...... You're a personality I've created, so help me even more. ”

Xiao Zihan didn't seem to want to communicate with Gu Fan, so he fell silent all of a sudden.

"If you don't speak, I'll take you as a promise, then I'll tell you about the situation first......" Gu Fan saw that Xiao Zihan no longer spoke, so he simply got single.

"No need, have you forgotten that our memories are shared?" Xiao Zihan replied coldly, staring at Gu Fan with a look that seemed to be mentally retarded.

"I have to say," Xiao Zihan conjured a chair out of nowhere, "You have completely made a mistake in the direction these days." ”