The blue dragon watched Tang Shi kill Xiaoqing, and even his soul was annihilated, and said with a smile: "It is worthy of being the person chosen by the gourd." ”

Tang Shi frowned, looked at the blue dragon and said, "Who are you?" Why do you know gourds? ”

The blue dragon restrained his smile, looked at Tang Shi, and said, "Knowing my name is not good for you, you can call me number four." I'm your ex. ”

"Ex?" Tang Shi was stunned.

Number Four said, "I said that we are one kind, you are not the first one to have a gourd, and I am your kind. ”

Countless thoughts flashed through Tang Shi's mind, looking at No. Four, he asked, "You said that you are No. Four, and you are my predecessor, so ......"

Number Four smiled lightly and said, "As you can imagine, there have been four people who have owned gourds before you, and you are the fifth. ”

"What?!" Tang Shi was surprised. Although he has always been forced to cross by the gourd, he also has pride in his heart, that is, he is unique. But now someone told him that he had four people who had owned gourds before him.

"Wait, you said that the gourd had four owners before me, so why is it still in a broken state?"

Number Four sneered and said, "Broken state? That's just one side of the gourd. ”

"You mean the gourd is intact?" Tang Shi asked in surprise.

Four shook his head and said, "It's damaged, but it's not the same as you might think. ”

Speaking of this, Number Four suddenly looked stunned, as if it was down, and it took a few seconds to recover as before. After regaining his senses, he looked at Tang Shi and said, "You will know about this matter later, listen to me now." ”

In today's understanding, the universe is 13.8 billion years old, and if the concept of time in the universe is compressed into a year from the perspective of human cognition, then in this time span, one month is equivalent to 1 billion years, and one day is equivalent to 40 million years.

On January 1, the universe was born, the Big Bang.

On January 10, the oldest stars are born.

On March 15, the Milky Way was born.

On August 31, the sun was born.

On September 21, life appeared on Earth.

On December 28, the first flower appeared on Earth.

At 23:00 on December 31, humans appeared. After 59 minutes and 46 seconds, humanity entered the period of civilization.

At 23:59:59 on December 31, mankind entered the digital age.

In a dozen seconds, human beings have evolved countless civilizations and created countless miracles.

But what would you think if someone told you that the universe has only one year' life? Or the world will restart in the next second, what do you think?

Number Four tells a cliché, old-fashioned tale of the destruction of the world. One of the keys to this story is what the 'world' was like before the universe was born.

As we all know, the universe has multiple dimensions, and time and space are cosmic attributes. If the universe does not exist, space-time has no meaning. It's like a baby is not born, and his time is meaningless.

So, in the world before the birth of the universe, Number Four called it 'nothing'. Nothing is the basis of the birth of the universe and the trajectory of everything that runs.

At the time of the first Big Bang, nothing was ignorant and disorderly. At that time, the universe lasted only seven days before it came to an end.

Although the time was short, Wu realized many things in these 'seven days'. After an unknown amount of silence, it turned on its second big bang.

This time, the universe lasted for three months. Countless galaxies were born and destroyed. Countless races were born and perished. Nothing is like a bystander, and in an unconscious move, the second universe is destroyed again.

Then there are the third, fourth, and fifth universes, which are maintained for longer and longer. Until the fifth universe, nothing and the universe can be maintained for 'a whole year'. Just as he was about to start a new chapter, the universe collapsed for no apparent reason.

It didn't even know what was happening, and the universe was destroyed again. So in order to figure out the reason, the universe has not been restarted again and again. But each time the universe can only last 'one year'.

In order to break free from the shackles of this year, no research has been done on all possibilities. Finally, on the eve of the end of the universe, he discovered the clue.

In an inconspicuous corner of the universe, he discovers a singularity. Every time the singularity begins to expand, the universe falls. It's like there is a universe that is a balloon, and there is a needle in the expansion boundary, and every time Wu blows this balloon big enough, it will touch this needle, and then with a bang, the universe will cease to exist.

Not very angry, but even more frightened. Because it can't get into that singularity. It is desperate to know everything inside this singularity. After countless attempts, it finally found its chance. On the eve of the expansion of the singularity, it will affect the surrounding races, that is, humans.

In a sense, human beings have certain attributes of the singularity, and they have no choice but to use this to collect the attributes of the singularity, so he even thought of a way to use some medium as a collection tool to collect human traits. This medium is the gourd.

When Tang Shi heard this, the information was like a flood opening the floodgates, and the impact was too great. After brushing his thoughts, he asked, "If there is only one world from beginning to end, then what about those worlds that I have traversed?" ”

Four explains: "Those are worlds created based on the properties of the singularity, somewhere between the virtual and the real. So far, the singularity has not been reached, so it is necessary to use a gourd. In fact, all along, what you collect is not space-time energy, but singularity attributes. Its ultimate goal is to collect enough singularity attributes, break through the shackles, and leave this 'world'. ”

"Wait, there are so many humans, why does it only choose me?" Tang Shi suddenly remembered the question that had been bothering him and asked.

Number Four smiled, shook his head, and said, "It didn't choose only you, it chose all of humanity. In the 'more than ten seconds' since human beings entered civilization, it has never chosen again. Every single one of them has been screened by it. ”

"How is that possible?!" Tang Shi was surprised and said in disbelief. There was once an estimation that taking the Egyptian civilization as the starting point of time, then over the past 6,000 years, nearly 30 billion people have been born in human beings.

In other words, 30 billion people have owned gourds, and such a large order of magnitude, even if you are not careful, it is impossible to completely cover up the traces of the existence of gourds.

No. 4 obviously saw what Tang Shi was thinking, and there was an inexplicable look in his eyes, and he said, "You may be surprised why so many people are screened but no one notices, it's because his screening method is very special. ”

"Special?" Tang Shi was puzzled.