Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Price and the Gain

"My first wish is..."

Ruan Lin's last shred of reason pressed on his heart, and he stepped on the brakes here.

There is a terrible result that I have ignored! I almost sentenced myself to death!

If all three of these wishes follow the "principle of equivalent exchange", as he said, his first wish is to "have a jump engine".

To let another civilization suffer and benefit itself is already a violation of the "principle of equivalent exchange".

What is lost will be compensated in some way, and what is gained will inevitably be compensated for what is lost.

So, if you get the jump engine, what compensation does another civilization get?

The correct answer is that it is you who gain, and it is still yourself who loses.

There is no need to cross any timeline or parallel universe, because it simply cannot travel one by one in a limited time, let alone find a self that has studied the jump engine, which is simply looking for a possibility in the endless impossible.

The easiest way is to directly travel to the future of your own timeline, and at the moment when "Future Ruan Lin" researches the jump engine, seize this achievement, erase the memory of "Future Ruan Lin", and then transmit it to your current self.

This is their own "gain".

From the moment he has the jump engine, he has become the "future Ruan Lin", and at a certain point in time, his jump engine will be seized by the sudden.

This is their own "loss".

Obviously, if it is interpreted in this way, it violates the "principle of equivalent exchange", but if it is not interpreted in this way, it violates the principle that nothing can be created out of nothing.

So, it's a paradox.

This may sound like nonsense, but the jump engine is a must-have, and it's inevitable in the future!

The wish I put forward is also what I want to achieve the most, and this is possible in the future!

In other words, the "present" is in the past relative to one's own future.

If you can change the past, then the past will mean nothing to you.

Infinitely annoyed by some past mistakes, always reminiscing about the past, and always fantasizing about the "after-the-fact model".

If I hadn't.... That's it!

Knowing that the past cannot be corrected, remembering is to better cope with the difficulties and problems in the future.

The past is irreparable, but I still have today and tomorrow.

If it weren't for the last shred of sanity, I would be buried here tomorrow and in the future!

Thinking of this, Ruan Lin was also afraid for a while, he had already calculated to this point, and his greed almost killed him.

Ruan Lin thought of a possible way to crack it:

"My first wish is to follow the principle of equivalent exchange, everything I gain after I make a successful wish, the loss cannot be borne by me in this timeline, the loss must be other civilizations!"

"My second wish is to get a rule weapon."

"My third wish is to become the highest civilization in the entire universe."

Suddenly it was silent, it couldn't even fulfill its first wish, and its own speculation was indeed correct!

"I'm glad you weren't carried away by desire, Ruan Lin."

Ruan Lin endured the anger and fear in his heart:

"What kind of being are you? Why are you making this so difficult for me? ”

Ever since it tempted itself into the sixth-dimensional space, it had been setting a trap for itself, and it definitely had some kind of motive.

But this motive is not malicious, and if it has malicious thoughts about itself, it can smash its own light computer without alarming the "gardener".

It's as simple as smashing that robot's processor yourself.

"Doomed death doesn't happen to you, you have to take more responsibility! My arrival is inevitable! ”

Everything he said made Ruan Lin unacceptable, doomed to death?

"What does this mean exactly? Is the fate of the future all predestined? ”

Its answer made Ruan Lin panic:

"All fates are predestined, and you are the only variable except you."

"I deceived you before, in fact, not only the timeline, but also countless parallel universes, and you who are communicating with me are unpredictable and unique."

"This parallel universe is invisible because of your existence."

Ruan Lin felt unprecedented despair:

It's so sad, is this fatalism? The fate has been decided, and no matter what actions are made, the results have been decided.

Except for himself, a butterfly.

Only oneself can trigger a series of butterfly effects.

If you are not a variable in this parallel universe, then the fate of everything is already doomed.

Fate, heaven is destined!

"Suddenly, if it weren't for me, what would be the original ending of this universe?"

This is Ruan Lin's deepest question.

It didn't reply immediately, and its body stopped changing.

The entire six-dimensional space fell silent.

Suddenly, the silence was broken again:

"I can't tell you more, let's stop our conversation.

Since you are so interested in high dimensions, I can hand over the relevant theories of four-dimensional spatialization to you, and you don't have to pay any price.

You shouldn't be confined to a tiny galaxy.

Goodbye, Nguyen Lin.

May space bless you always! ”

The entire six-dimensional space is like a mirror that is gradually shattering, and cracks of different sizes appear in everything in front of you, and looking behind you through such cracks, it is nothingness.

Ruan Lin was forcibly transmitted back to the light computer, and countless knowledge poured into his consciousness again.

Geometric models and countless theories of knowledge have been imprinted at this moment.

Ruan Lin hurriedly began to consult this knowledge in his consciousness, if he had the ability of four-dimensional spatialization, the earth civilization only needed a meteor-level destroyer to conquer the entire universe!

Of course, the premise is that it can always be four-dimensional and undisturbed.

Four-dimensional spatialization theory, although the information is complete enough, but this knowledge is too obscure for oneself!

It mentions the main "breakthrough direction", which is simply incomprehensible at the current level of science and technology.

But one thing is clear, the four-dimensional space is not three-dimensional plus a timeline, even if you fully grasp the ability of four-dimensional spatialization, you can't go back in time, or predict the future.

Four-dimensional space-time, mathematically Minkowski space, is a "space-time" composed of one time dimension and three spatial dimensions in special relativity, which is a pseudo-Euclidean space.

The four-dimensional space, without any limitations, defaults to the standard Euclidean space.

The strangest thing is that even though it is a six-dimensional existence, why can't its projection be observed in three-dimensional space?

In the knowledge it has just sent, it is clearly written that "there is a four-dimensional space, and three-dimensional organisms can still observe visible projections in three-dimensional space." ”

That is, if there is a four-dimensional organism, the three-dimensional creature can observe some of its shapes in the "three-dimensional view", and the other shapes can only be seen in the "four-dimensional view".

So why doesn't the flickering projection exist?