But it didn't take long for him to understand what was going on.

The one in the lens should be the self who crossed for the first time.

Judging from the scene inside, it seems that the two are hiding from something, they are hiding in an ordinary residential house, and what the owner of this house is doing now is not visible from the video.

"If you know where Alice and I are, why don't you kill me?" Su Ming asked.

Su Ming began to suspect that when he crossed for the first time, he was actually closely monitored by Zhou Ziming as he is now.

But why did Zhou Ziming spy on himself and not take any action? This puzzled him.

"You have a lot of questions, what a curious young man, in that case, then I'll talk to you about something interesting."

Zhou Ziming smiled and moved a chair and sat down, and said with a smile.

Su Ming looked at Zhou Ziming in front of him, and the doubts in his heart became heavier, he didn't even know what Zhou Ziming was thinking in his heart, these completely unpredictable practices gave people the feeling that he really seemed to be just playing, doing those things with a playful mentality, and occasionally choosing some wrong practices to increase the difficulty for himself.

For example, now he knows the location of Su Ming and Alice who crossed over once, but he doesn't take any action.

"You may have been wrong in the first place, my target is not Alice, nor you." Zhou Ziming took out his mobile phone, and clicked a few points on it while speaking, and soon Aike walked in with a waiter who moved a small table and placed it in front of Zhou Ziming, and then the waiter put a plate of snacks and a cup of coffee on the table.

Su Ming could smell the mellow aroma of the cup of coffee from a distance.

Zhou Ziming waved his hand, and Ai Ke left with the waiter, I don't know if it was Su Ming's illusion, he always felt that Ai Ke glanced at him meaningfully when he left.

"Now that I have coffee snacks, it's a pleasant atmosphere that's perfect for a conversation." Zhou Ziming said.

Then he continued, "You always thought I was targeting you and Alice, but haven't you ever wondered why I would target you both?" What's in it for me to do that? ”

Although Su Ming was silent, he listened carefully.

It is true that Su Ming did not have any benefit in doing this, and in the end he didn't understand what Zhou Ziming's final plan was to do before he crossed over, but there is no doubt that he must have touched some invisible boundaries and created obstacles for the other party, so the other party wanted to kill him.

And Alice may have also touched that "line", so she was also targeted by Zhou Ziming.

Another possibility is that he was used as a tool to deal with himself and was sacrificed by Zhou Ziming.

"I don't know what you're trying to do, but I'm getting in your way, so you're going to kill me, right?"

"No, no, no, you still misunderstood, my target is not you at all, my opponent is much more difficult than you, but I can tell you one thing, that is, no matter how you escape, it is useless, this game, you and Alice are indispensable, even if you don't know me, even if you don't enter the toy box at all, it will still become like this in the end."

Zhou Ziming suddenly talked more, and Su Ming carefully discerned, trying to distinguish the potential conspiracy in Zhou Ziming's words.

Language is an art, and when used effectively, many things that would otherwise be complex can be accomplished.

In any language, there is an element of inducement, either intentionally on the part of the speaker or not at all.

But a person like Zhou Ziming can't easily let go of every word and punctuation mark he says, maybe a little carelessness will fall into his carefully compiled trap.

"Don't say a word, it seems that you are really very vigilant guy." Zhou Ziming laughed and teased while eating the snacks on the table.

"You need not doubt that everything I have just said is true, but you seem to have some errors in judgment, and these mistakes are not good for you and me, and for this reason I want to reveal some important information to you, and if you listen carefully, it will be good for both of us."

What Zhou Ziming said made Su Ming's curiosity even heavier, what information did the other party want to reveal to him?

"Do you have any specific knowledge of the act of traveling through the past?"

Su Ming: "What do you mean?" ”

"I'll give you a simple example, now that you have crossed, you can see yourself before you crossed and yourself who crossed for the first time, which shows that the world after crossing is still the same world, and it is indeed just a time rewind.

But if you think about it carefully, if this is the case, you and Alice before the time crossing will be affected by the self after the time crossing, but in retrospect, you were not affected by any future self before the time crossing, right? ”

Zhou Ziming's words made Su Ming's heart startled, and if he thought about it carefully, it was indeed the case.

Before Su Ming crossed over, Alice didn't encounter Su Ming who crossed for the first time at all, that is, it was different from the current Su Ming who didn't cross over, so that the current Su Ming might not find the forbidden fruit, but if the self who didn't cross now didn't eat the forbidden fruit, then there would be no future self, which produced a paradox.

"Hehe, it seems like you're aware of that.

It wasn't so easy to change in the past, and as long as you affect the rhythm a little, then everything will be completely different. Zhou Ziming said with a smile: "For example, if I go out now and kill you who are with Alice outside, and another you who doesn't know anything about the forbidden fruit, what will happen to you now?" ”

A trace of cold sweat slipped from Su Ming's forehead, although he had already considered the problem of this butterfly effect, but because he had never seen a special phenomenon in reality, he had not thought about it carefully, and now that he thought about it, a sense of fear arose.

What if Zhou Ziming really did this? What will happen to him?

Will it just go away?

Will the existence of the current self disappear, and anyone will be as if they don't know this person?

Zhou Ziming seemed to see through Su Ming's thoughts, and directly gave Su Ming an answer that he hadn't asked yet.

"Don't worry, even if I do, it won't be anything. Although killing you naturally produces a contradiction in time and space, this will not affect the future, which is one of the laws of time and space travel: the contradiction between the future and the past will not collapse this stable system, it will create another system by itself. ”

Su Ming was confused when he heard this: "This ...... What does that mean? ”

"Let's give you an example. A person is A before crossing and B after crossing, and if B kills A, then it creates a causal contradiction, right? At this time, out of the stable protection of time and space itself, it will divide into a parallel world again, that is, in fact, at the moment when B kills A, the world he is in is no longer the world before he crosses over, but a parallel world exactly the same as that world, and the A that B kills is not the self before the crossing, but the C of the parallel world, a self that comes out of thin air.

In words you can understand, if you want to kill your past self, then time and space will create a clone of you to deceive you, and although the clone you kill is exactly like you, it is no longer the original universe self. ”

Zhou Ziming's example is vivid.

But Su Ming still had a doubt: "What is the parallel universe?" Do you mean the kind of world that wins and loses? Is there one more such world as a consequence of causal insanity? ”

"No, no, no, you misunderstood, it's a mirror world, and there is no possibility of crossing parallel universes.

For another example, now you're crossing for the second time, right?

If I go out and kill you outside, and you make a third crossing, you will find that you can't find the last time you cross after crossing, that is, the self that crossed the second time, obviously crossed three times, but in the end there are only three Su Ming in this world.

In other words, you are actually only a second time traveler, and the last time is invalidated due to causal confusion to form a new parallel universe. The third time crossing is nothing more than a trip from the wrong parallel world to the right one. After Zhou Ziming finished speaking, he took another sip of coffee, he smiled and observed Su Ming's expression with interest.

And Su Ming sat on that chair, his eyes flickering, and his mind kept thinking.

Then Su Ming suddenly laughed, he laughed, like crazy, tilted his head and laughed non-stop, if his hands were not handcuffed, then maybe he would have covered his stomach.

Zhou Ziming seemed to have guessed Su Ming's reaction a long time ago, and he was not surprised at all, still sitting there calmly, drinking coffee.

Although this logic sounds flawless, it is actually ...... It's fake, right? Su Ming's eyes flashed.

He almost got scammed.

First, the other party forced him to fear by erasing the other two of himself as threats, and then instilled this whole set of theories that had no loopholes at all.

But if you take into account Zhou Ziming's purpose and assume that everything is false, then it can be understood.

If you follow the other side's statement, then anything that affects the past will cause the death of someone who should have died or the survival of someone who should have lived.

He originally traveled to save Alice and Situ Qing, assuming that he did save Alice and Situ Qing in the end, then Su Ming, who was the same era as Alice (that is, Su Ming, who didn't know about the forbidden fruit), would have no motive to travel through time and space, and he would always stay with Alice in the original time and space.

But in this way, that Su Ming did not cross, and there would be no self after crossing, so the causal paradox was born, and the universe where Alice survived became a parallel universe.

At the same time, the situation will enter a logical loop.

Alice must die so that Su Ming can travel through and not form a parallel universe. But if the self after crossing over saves Alice, then there must be a parallel universe, which means that the Alice who will be saved after that time is no longer the original Alice, and the original Alice is still dead in the original universe.

Or rather...... What will happen if you only let Situ Qing die? Will you still cross over that way?

No, no, no! It can't be like this, isn't it like sacrificing Situ to save Alice? One of them is his friend, the other is the person he likes, and neither of them can be sacrificed.

After thinking about it repeatedly, Su Ming finally came to a conclusion: if Zhou Ziming's theory is correct, then his journey to rescue will be meaningless, no matter how he saves it, it is not the original Alice that he saves.

"You want me to give up saving Alice to come up with such a tight space-time system, right?" Su Ming smiled: "It's a pity that you are wrong, I will never believe you!" ”

Su Ming's judgment did not rely solely on intuition, but had a certain basis.

Because if it is according to Zhou Ziming's theory, the only value of the existence of the forbidden fruit is to continuously produce parallel universes, and it is impossible to change the past.

Su Ming believed that the existence of the forbidden fruit was not just for the purpose of indiscriminately creating parallel universes, but must have a more important role.

"Looks like you're not going to believe me, it's a pity." Although Zhou Ziming said regret, his expression did not seem to be particularly disappointed, as always, with a smile, very calm.

He stood up, as if intending to leave.

When he turned around, Zhou Ziming paused, turned his head and asked: "If I say that we are all God's toys, will you believe it?" ”

"Cut, who would believe it! Anyone's toy is good, but it's never your toy. Su Ming replied with a sneer.

Hearing this, Zhou Ziming shook his head, turned around and walked out, closing the door by the way.

At the door, Aike stood there waiting, and when Zhou Ziming came out, she obediently stood next to Zhou Ziming.

"Lord Ziming, why...... What if you don't tell the truth to your master? Eco asked cautiously.

Zhou Ziming smiled slightly and replied, "Why do you want to tell him?" ”

"Because, it's going to be faster, and you don't have much time, do you?" Ai Ke felt that the other party was knowingly asking, but she also knew that the other party's considerations must be more and more complex, and there was definitely a reason for him to do so.

"People, it takes time to grow. A radical and complete change of one's worldview is tantamount to destroying one's personality, and he will not accept it. Just like he couldn't accept that he was the second Su Ming at the first time.

I will patiently wait for the time to come, when I will complete all the plans. ”

After speaking, a cold light flashed in Zhou Ziming's eyes.

"What's next?"

Zhou Ziming asked.

Eco flipped through a folder, which was slightly out of place in Echo's hand, but Echo's expression was like that of a secretary.

"Next, Lord Ziming is going to meet the master after the fifth crossing, oh yes, and the master of the sixth crossing is also going to meet, the master seems to have a little collapse because he has witnessed too many of the same endings, as if he has a little hallucination." Eco replied, her gaze shuttling back and forth over the papers, checking the priorities of the itinerary and making accurate judgments.

"Okay, got it, then little Eco is here for a while."

Zhou Ziming pushed open another door and walked in, and the inside was the same arrangement.

There was a black-haired boy imprisoned on the chair, and his appearance was exactly the same as Su Ming's.

(Tianjin)