"Hello...... Cheng Lin. ”

On the top of the mountain peak as high as 10,000 miles, on the huge square in front of the Dragon Hall at dusk, Cheng Lin held the hilt of the He sword, and the greetings of the other party were in his ears, but his eyes suddenly tightened.

Shi Shengcun!

No, to be precise, it should be the white-haired "Shi Shengcun" he saw from afar in the last deduction!

How did he end up here?

At this moment, many thoughts appeared in Cheng Lin's mind.

Even, for a moment, he began to suspect that he was still in a world of deduction, not reality.

However, in an instant, he realized that this was an illusion - this was indeed reality, and the white-haired guy in front of him was not unreal.

"You don't have to be nervous, I don't have any ill intentions, and, even if I had, I wouldn't be able to hurt you directly due to the rules between time and space." The white-haired Shi Shengcun was not very surprised to see his reaction.

A sincere smile appeared on that plain, extraordinarily vicissitudes face.

He is indeed very similar to "Shi Shengcun", even the style of dressing is almost the same, the same clothes, shoes, glasses, even hairstyle, oh, and the pen in his pocket.

It's just that the face is more vicissitudes, the hair is gray, and the temperament is more ethereal.

"You...... Waiting for me? Cheng Lin squinted his eyes and took a slight breath, trying to calm his emotions, he understood that no matter what, it would never be wrong to stay calm.

"I thought you would ask me who I was." Shi Shengcun smiled and said.

Cheng Lin pursed his lips, this was indeed the question he instinctively almost blurted out, but after calming down, he temporarily changed the question.

Seeing that he didn't answer, Shi Shengcun nodded:

"Yes, I'm waiting for you here, well, I'm sorry, I can only choose to meet you here, and I can only stay here for a short time, so I hope to make a long story short."

Cheng Lin frowned slightly, chewed on the meaning of the other party's words, and asked, "What do you want to say to me?" ”

He still didn't choose to ask the other party's identity.

Hearing this, Shi Shengcun suddenly turned around, turned his back towards him without reservation, and looked to the west, the direction of the sun, and did not answer directly, but said:

"What do you think...... What is Destiny? ”

Destiny?

Cheng Lin frowned again, looking at the shadow cast by the other party on the square in the sun, he was sure that he did not feel any hostility, so he hesitated and removed his defensive posture, but he still held the sword:

"I want to hear about it."

So saying, he walked slowly forward to the edge of the great square, and looked to the west as well—he was a little curious to see what the other was looking at.

The mountain is too high, and you can see it farther away.

It's autumn, the world is yellow, and when you look down from such a high place, you can see countless mountains and rivers, and between the mountains and rivers, there is a river from the west.

I don't know where the river originated, but with reference to the earth's landform, it is likely to also originate from the snow-capped mountains in the far west, it is incomparably wide, like a giant's belt hanging on the earth, branching out into countless tributaries, vertical and horizontal like veins of leaves, extending to the boundless land, nourishing this fertile soil.

In the sunlight, the countless rivers are extremely dazzling.

"In my opinion, fate is like this river," Shi Shengcun did not turn his head, still focused on overlooking the earth, with a low tone with a little emotion, "It doesn't know where it originated, and it doesn't know where it is going, it just rushes intently, and in the journey of time, it will encounter countless boulders and forks, so it will be forced to diverge from countless tributaries."

Each tributary repeats a similar encounter, diverging again......

Oh, do you think they look like a huge tree lying on the ground? Trunks, branches...... Or the blood vessels in our body......

They are strikingly similar, as if they were a unity in the dark......"

Shi Shengcun said some strange words unhurriedly, if ordinary people heard it, they would probably only laugh, even Cheng Lin a day ago, he would probably only think that it was a chaotic babble.

It's just that...... At this moment, Cheng Lin suddenly remembered the scene of exploring Edlaide's memory fragment last night, and remembered the epic dragon of the stars that once stood on the bank of the Dragon City River, quietly gazing at the tributaries of the water vein......

So, he fell into deep thought, and after a moment, frowned, and repeated:

"Rivers, branches, blood vessels, ......"

"Of course, this is just a metaphor and does not intuitively reflect the root of fate," Shi Shengcun explained, "but this does not prevent us from using this 'model' to think about problems." ”

"Thinking about fate?"

"The fate of the world, to be precise." Shi Shengcun turned his head and looked at him, as if organizing his language, "Do you remember the sentence you see every time you deduce?" ”

He really knew that deduction existed!

Cheng Linyu thought in his heart, his expression was slightly cold, and then he remembered the text:

At every moment, there are a million possibilities for the direction of civilization.

Then he thought for a few seconds and said, "Possibility? ”

His instincts told him that the core of this sentence was "possibility".

"Yes," Shi Shengcun affirmed, and immediately pointed ahead, the spiderweb-like complex veins of water on the boundless earth, "If you compare the world you live in to that river, then every second, due to various changes, countless tributaries will be divided.

Well, to use a more popular concept, it is similar to parallel universes, except that each universe has subtle differences, and then, in the next second, countless branches are separated again...... The factors that affect differentiation can be called 'possibility'. ”

This concept is not difficult to understand, just like Cheng Lin walking at a crossroads, he may go to the left or to the right.

So, the moment he made his choice, two different universes diverged.

In one of them, he chose to go left, which led to a story, and in the other universe, he chose to go right, so he ...... That's a different story.

And such a choice happens countless times every second, so it can be inferred that every second, there are countless worlds appearing, just like tributaries separated on the main trunk.

The concept is not new, but it has never been proven.

"You mean, every time I start a deduction, it's equivalent to opening up a 'tributary'? Like creating a new world? Cheng Lin asked.

Shi Shengcun shook his head lightly:

"Not entirely accurate, in fact, the change of fate is never affected by any life, at least, not by us, every deduction you make, is not to create a new world, but only to enter the world that has already happened."

"I don't quite understand." Cheng Lin frankly expressed his confusion.

Shi Shengcun thought for a moment and explained:

"Possibility exists objectively and is not subject to our will, just like the river below, you and I are a drop of water, in every second of your life, the world changes differently, so there are countless worlds born.

The vast majority of these worlds have not changed substantially, but there are a few that will change dramatically.

For example, suffering from all kinds of disasters.

As a result, they become unrecognizable from the backbone......

And deduction just allows you to pass through the barriers between the universes and enter the parallel world after the great change. ”

"Like I entered the world?" Cheng Lin asked.

"That's about it."

There was a moment of silence in the vast square.

Cheng Lin's eyes changed slightly, and after a while, he said, "So, all the deductions I have experienced are real?" ”

"Of course. The only difference is that disasters aren't caused by you pressing a button, they're already there. ”

"What about projection? Why does my world appear projected when I finish the deduction? ”

Cheng Lin asked.

"Remember the thirteenth deduction? The post-cataclysmic world and the dragon world are only next to each other, and there will occasionally be some intersection between different universes, just as different rivers will occasionally meet somewhere and then separate again, there is naturally some kind of accident, but there is also room for manipulation. ”

"And the brief overlap of the two worlds is the fundamental factor in the formation of the projection." Speaking of this, he gently pushed down his glasses, and then said with a complicated look in his eyes, "I must admit that their appearance has a great deal to do with me. ”

"So, you're the creator of this program?" Cheng Lin looked at each other without moving.

"It's not a program," Shi Shengcun shook his head and emphasized, "I never knew how to program, the so-called program is just a ...... Well, the little trick on the spiritual level, you can understand it as some kind of hallucination, I project this kind of illusion in your mind, so when you look at the screen, it appears. ”

Although Cheng Lin had some guesses after learning the truth of the deduction, he was still in a trance when he really heard this answer.

Hallucination...... Psychic hallucinations......

He instantly remembered that he had just acquired the ability of "mind manipulation", and understood exactly how it worked.

And instantly realized that as early as half a year ago, he had been invisibly affected by the person in front of him on the spiritual level.

The so-called programs, the so-called "narration", and the so-called buttons are all just mental illusions.

At this moment, countless complex emotions emerged in Cheng Lin's heart.

I want to laugh, but I can't, I want to be angry, but I find that I don't have the same.

"I must admit that this is by no means a means of light, all along, I have wanted to explain it in person, but the time has not yet come," Shi Shengcun lowered his gaze slightly with a solemn and regretful expression, "However, even if it may be a little late, I still want to say sorry." ”