Cowboy Xia looked at this silent Susha curiously.

The personalities of the two are like two extremes, one is talkative and the other is taciturn.

The old collector sat aside, dressed in a robe, his eyes cloudy, and his body thin, like an ordinary old man on the verge of death, and he could not see anything special.

"Uncle, are you really the collector? Why don't I look like it, there's no momentum at all, you can't be an impostor, right? ”

Cowboy Natsu curiously reached out and pinched the old collector's skin, as if to see if it was a dummy.

"Young people, be respectful of the elderly." The old collector glanced at him and slapped his hand away.

With that huge starry battleship, the identity of the collector can't be faked.

He looked at Su Xia, who was sitting in the middle, and asked, "Is the boundary seeking machine here with you?" ”

"Hmm."

Su Xia nodded, and instead of taking out the boundary seeking machine, he said, "I want to know all the information about this machine." ”

"Well, you have reason to know ......"

The collector looked at the three identical Su Xia, took out a portable projector, and pressed it lightly.

The projector shook, and immediately on the desktop in front of several people, a three-dimensional image of a strange machine was projected.

It's the Boundary Seeking Machine.

"There are many legends about this machine, and there are many theories about its specific purpose, but the appearance of the three of you confirms one of the rumors, namely...... It can connect to other worlds. ”

The collector paused, and continued: "Of course, there are other theories. ”

"Some people say that the role of this machine is to create clones and instill false memories in clones, so that the clones think that they are from another world, when in fact there is no other world at all."

"Huh?"

Hearing this, Cowboy Natsu's eyes widened, and he immediately said that it was impossible.

He was a living man.

He has real memories and will never be a clone of someone.

If it was really a clone, how could he explain the battleship he brought?

"Believe it or not, it's only a subjective level, and everyone can have a different opinion."

The old collector spoke slowly, telling a lot about the Boundary Finder machine.

This machine is ancient.

It has existed for countless epochs, as if it had existed since the Big Bang.

As for its role, most people in the outside world still believe in the first statement, which is to find another world.

The forces of destruction in deep space are believed to be searching for the real world.

"That's nonsense, if it's looking for the truth, then the world of the three of us, which one is real?" Cowboy Xia said indifferently, "Could it be that all three of our worlds are real, and only this world is fake?" ”

"There's that to say."

The old collector bowed slightly, and continued: "But there are also those who believe that all the world is false and false, and that the truth can only be seen by destroying everything. ”

"Why did you think about it?"

"Suspicion." The old collector pointed to Cowboy Natsu's head, "Have you ever doubted your existence?" Did you create it from God, or did you evolve? ”

"I think it's evolutionary." Cowboy Natsu replied.

"Could you just be a virtual character simulated by some supercomputer? Could the world we live in be a fake space in a game or movie? Or is it the spiritual world common to all living things? If so, what are our flesh and blood like? ”

"This ...... Reasonable. ”

Cowboy Natsu didn't refute and thought about it seriously.

There are countless possibilities in this world.

Occasionally, there are some phenomena that cannot be explained, and will be regarded as a bug in the false world by those who are interested in it.

"If this machine is really so powerful, who created it?" Cowboy Natsu asked again, "Is there really a creator?" ”

"This involves a legend that has been passed down for countless thousands of years......"

Legend.

Once upon a time.

In this universe, there is a very ordinary little inventor.

He made money by inventing practical small objects, had a happy family, lived a happy life, and had a carefree first half of his life.

But one day, his planet was affected by an interstellar war, his hometown was destroyed, and his family and friends died in the war.

When the war ended, he was left alone, numb, sitting on the ruins of his home.

After that, he disappeared for a long time.

It is believed that he either died or left the planet that made him sad and went somewhere else.

A few years later, he suddenly reappeared.

At that time, he seemed to be crazy.

He was unkempt, ragged, chattering, and talking all day long in words that people couldn't understand, like an incorrigible psychopath.

He said that the world was false and that his family and friends were not dead.

It is only their virtual bodies that have died, and their real bodies are still alive in reality.

He lived like that crazy for more than ten years.

More than a decade later, in his dilapidated factory, he built a machine that claimed to be able to see through the false and see the truth.

Later, on a stormy and thunderstorm night, a blinding light suddenly erupted in his factory.

"After that, no one saw him again."

The old collector's voice was old, and he slowly narrated the story, telling the story in its entirety.

Some say that the inventor managed to go to the real world and be reunited with family and friends.

It is also said that he just died somewhere by accident.

And the machine he built is the boundary that countless starry sky forces are looking for now.

"What an outrageous story." Cowboy Xia couldn't help but complain, "A crazy inventor can make such a powerful machine?" ”

"It's just one of the origin stories."

Old collectors say there are many more origin stories.

The one he just said is only the one that is the most widely circulated, and many forces in the starry sky have recorded it.

It is not known whether the inventor went to the real world or not.

Many people think that he may have just gone to a different world.

"Uncle, if this machine is obtained by those forces of destruction, do they really have a way to use it?" Cowboy Natsu asked.

"Yes."

The old collector looked solemn and said: "It is said that this machine can link various different worlds, and every time it links, it will leave an anchor point in that different world. ”

"Anchor?"

"Yes, like the world you're in." The old collector solemnly said, "After this machine sends you to this world, your world is connected to this world, and the connection between the two is an anchor point." ”

"What's the use of this anchor?"

"Coordinates, positioning."

The old collector is concise and to the point.

Once connected, an anchor point can be generated.

Once the forces of destruction have this machine, they can travel to the rest of the worlds through the anchor point and join forces with the forces of destruction in those worlds.

"Joining forces? Are they going to make a 'Grand Alliance of Villains of the Heavens and Ten Thousand Worlds'? ”

Cowboy Xia couldn't help but complain.

(End of chapter)