Seeing that Grayman was about to finish self-destructing, a countdown had already appeared on the screen, and Gu Chi, who remembered that he still had something to do, immediately rushed forward.

"Smack!"

Slap the console.

It's like shooting a snowflake TV from an old era.

Of course, the black box where Grayman's memories and thoughts are stored is not a television, and the programs in it are so encrypted that even the best hackers in the real world can't crack it, and if he wants to self-destruct, no one can stop him.

But on the contrary, Gu Chi has a completely unreasonable speech.

Before, Gu Chi really couldn't do anything about Grayman, after all, the "genetic encoding" of digital life was beyond his cognition and understanding, but now he has Taoism and nature, and he has an extra 2,000 points of equivalent Dao rhyme, and he is forced to enforce the law across borders, and with this slap full of Dao rhyme, Shengsheng stopped the countdown.

The screen freezes to a "3".

Gu Chi said loudly: "Come out!" ”

Huang Jiao: "......"

Eye: "......"

Grayman: "??? ”

Previously, it was the "eye" who manipulated time through mysterious powers, allowing him to see miraculous and completely inexplicable scenes, which caused his old friend to forcibly suspend his self-destruction process by some unknown means.

His belief had already been shattered once, and Gu Chi's purpose had been achieved.

As long as he is not there, the war loses its dominance and will naturally stop.

But he never expected that Gu Chi wouldn't even let him self-destruct......

What the hell is this guy trying to do?

Grayman's angry face reappears on the screen.

"You've already won, aren't you even willing to give me a decent death!"

"I know you're in a hurry, but don't worry about it yet."

Gu Chi breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Grayman reappear, and said, "Old friend, let's make a real deal. ”

Grayman refused: "You have nothing to give me." ”

Or rather, he doesn't have what he wants.

A person who has lost his faith has no point in even living, what kind of deal is there to make?

He has seen the essence of "past" and "future".

For NPCs like them, this is a never-ending time loop from which only death can be relieved.

"No, death can't be relieved." Gu Chi said, "Think about it yourself, the real world will usher in the end of 4402, after the end, the horizon will be born from ruins and fragmentation as we just saw, in a few hundred years, will Dr. M still rebuild civilization, will you still be born, will you use a football to break the teacher's utensils, create Qingguang Enterprise, and become the current Grayman?" ”

These words directly made Grayman's blood pressure soar.

He thought that the most painful thing in the world was to lose his faith, but Gu Chi told him that there was something more terrible than losing his faith, that is, even death could not escape the cycle of past and future.

"Enough!" Grayman's eyes were red, "You devil! ”

"I just want to destroy quietly, why should I be deprived of even my last hope!"

"Hey, don't get excited."

Gu Chi hurriedly said: "I'm not depriving you of hope, I'm giving you hope." ”

Grayman: "Fart! ”

Because of Gu Chi's words, he doesn't even know if it's right or wrong to self-destruct now, what kind of hope is this?

"We can change the future!" Gu Chi said, "Think about it, the past of the horizon is the real world, so as long as we change the ending of the real world and prevent the end from coming, won't the horizon be gone?" ”

"And without the horizon, the future you will cease to exist, so that you can get out of the cage of time and completely free yourself from the cycle."

"So what you have to do is actually very simple, and that is to help me."

Gu Chi said with a serious face: "Give me the synthesis method of Kα series alloys, as well as other technologies you master, the more you give, the stronger we will be, and the more confident we will be in dealing with the end of the world in the future." ”

"I promise you, as long as you are willing to help, in return, I will do everything in my power to let you die in peace and never be resurrected again."

Grayman: "? ”

Huang Jiao: "......"

Eye: "......"

That's right, Grayman really shouldn't want to live in a cycle anymore.

But why does it sound so weird?

Do you take other people's things, and you have to try to cut off their lives?

"After talking for a long time, you just want my technology." Grayman saw through his old friend.

This is a man who can pick people up from the coffin board in order to get someone else's treasure!

Gu Chi: "You just say that this logic is right." ”

The past changes the future, and this is the truth wherever it is placed.

The so-called change of the future to the past is actually just a false proposition caused by incomplete information and different perspectives.

From a real-world point of view, Grayman is a person from the future, and if he helps them survive the apocalypse, it can indeed be said that the future changes the past.

But the person who did this is Grayman, and the correct way of thinking should be from Grayman's point of view, which is essentially the past changing the future.

Seeing that Grayman was still looking at him with hatred, Gu Chi pretended to be dissatisfied: "It's not that I said, old friend, I'm enough buddies for you, who have the opposite position to you and are enemies of each other, and they still think about you everywhere, for fear that the coffin board will be lifted after you die, but what about you?" ”

"Still look at me like that."

"It makes me sad."

Grayman: "? ”

Sad fart, I think you're going to laugh!

Grayman didn't know what he had done in his previous life to make such an old friend.

He didn't want to make any deal with Gu Chi at all.

It's the instinct of a corporate director.

He has dealt with Gu Chi so many times, none of which have been earned, and last time he was taken away by Gu Chi in the form of 50,000 doomsday humans.

If it weren't for this kind of trouble, this war would not have been fought so slowly, and the "scavenger" missiles in the West Sixth District plus these tens of thousands of humanoid weapons were enough to complete the crushing of the entire West Second District within three days and spread the war to the North District.

It's a pity that there are no ifs.

Grayman no longer wanted to believe Gu Chi, and he had to admit that Gu Chi's statement was right.

At least he couldn't find a problem.

And the more this happens, the more pathetic Grayman feels and the more disappointed he is with the world.

When he is alive, he needs to work hard, and now he wants to self-destruct, but he still needs to work hard, otherwise he will not die and will not feel at ease.

What else could he do?

Grayman closed his eyes again.

He's really a little tired.

So be it.

For himself, for Qingguang Enterprise, and for those who have worked with him in the laboratory, leaving a little trace of their existence in this world.

"I'll pack all the documents and put them in a black box."

"I have only one condition."

"Let Dr. M turn it on."

If Dr. M is really his ancestor, then consider this a gift from the future.

"Okay." Gu Chi agreed, "Don't worry, I will definitely hand over the black box to Dr. M intact." ”

He paused, and then said, "If you have anything you want to say, I can also convey it for you." ”

"No, I'm not familiar with him." Grayman laughed to himself, "It's just a dying man's last pretension." ”

As he spoke, he raised his eyes and looked at Gu Chi with a complicated look: "I hope you can do what you say." ”

He didn't want to come into this world again.

If it has to come, hope is no longer on the horizon.

"Goodbye, old friend."

"Never again."

This time, Grayman left no room for error.

The three-second countdown instantly goes to zero.

Once again, the screen is replaced by a jumble of numbers and codes, adding, subtracting, merging, canceling each other out, and finally turning into a pitch-black blank space, completely dimmed.

When he decided to self-destruct, Grayman also sent a message to the players he controlled, telling them to go to the horizon and tell his body everything in the real world.

If one could go to the horizon on all the timelines at the same time, they would see countless rooms on the top floor of the Qingguang Enterprise, whose lights were always on, and their lights were going out one after another.

From now on, Qingguang Enterprise may still be there, but there will be no more Grayman.

For a long time, Gu Chi looked at the blackened screen and sighed softly.

As Grayman said, he really wants the technology of Qingguang Enterprise, but there is no trace of really wanting to help Grayman free him.

Anyway, people are emotional animals, and it's not strange to have any thoughts when they are emotional, not to mention true and false, and there is no need to distinguish too much between truth and falsehood in many cases, maybe Grayman is right and they are wrong?

In short, Grayman self-destructed, and the war was over.

The synthesis method of the more advanced Kα alloy has also arrived, and there should be a lot of unexpected gains in the black box, and the two tasks of coming to the West Sixth District to find Grayman this time have been successfully completed, and the rest is to talk to the "eye" about the end of the world.

Don't look at Gu Chi all the time saying that "games are the future of reality", but in fact, he didn't fully believe it in his heart.

The reason is simple, there is no tangible evidence.

Grayman is not a player after all, ignoring another possibility.

What if the "eye" showed them the future, and Dr. M appeared on the horizon after entering the dungeon as a player?

It's not that Gu Chi is on the tip of the bull's horns, the main thing is that the nature of this matter is too serious, the end of the world is not a joke, the whole planet has been blown up, and it is not wrong to think about it more.

He looked at the man in the black robe next to him, and thanked him first: "Thank you." ”

Without the "eye", he would not have been able to convince Grayman so quickly.

"Eye's" gaze was still on the screen, a little floating, and he whispered, "Why haven't I died yet?" ”

Gu Chi: "......"

Huang Jiao's eyes became vigilant again, protecting Gu Chi behind him.

Gu Chi originally wanted to say that there was no need to be so nervous, Avrèya had said that "eye" often said something, and it didn't have any special meaning.

But apparently Huang Ji has his own understanding, and sent him a message: "Husband, be careful, he may blow himself up." ”

Gu Chi: "......"

In fact, Huang Ji didn't feel malice from the "eye", but the man who suddenly appeared was too strong and his position was unclear, so she had to be cautious.

The three of them confronted each other in the void for a long time.

Without Grayman, Qingguang Enterprise is quiet.

After almost ten minutes, the "eye" seemed to react Gu Chi thanked him, and shook his head slightly: "Don't thank me, I'm not helping you, I'm just doing what I want to do." ”

As he spoke, the fog on his face under the hood gradually dissipated and became clear.

From the appearance of the "eye" to the present, Gu Chi and Huang Ji finally saw his appearance clearly.

Much younger than expected.

But much older.

The face of the "eye" was that of a young man, who looked to be thirty years old at most, but his hair was gray, and the skin on his face was very clean and neat, but his hands were crawling with old wrinkles, a few more than before.

Those dark eyes seemed to be able to swallow the black hole of time and space, so deep that it was impossible to touch.

"Eye" has its own set of logic in doing things, Gu Chi didn't ask much, just smiled: "I didn't expect Miss Avréa to be so efficient, I asked her to help me with the conversation yesterday, and you came to me today." ”

"Eye" continued to shake his head: "Her words have not yet been brought. ”

Gu Chi: "Huh? ”

"We've met, and you should know what I'm capable of." Eye tract.

Whoever he wants to see, he doesn't need anyone to look for, and who he doesn't want to see, he can't find it.

Gu Chi didn't need to thank him, but Gu Chi had saved him on a certain timeline, so he should say thank you to Gu Chi.

But he felt that Gu Chi might be the same as him and didn't need to thank him, so he chose to come over at this time and see Gu Chi as a reward for Gu Chi saving him.

"I know you have a lot of questions, but I'm sorry, there are some things I won't tell you."

The eyes raised their hands slightly: "As you can see, everything in this world has a price, I control time, and time controls me." ”

Sounds like it's eaten up by time?

Gu Chi thought for a while: "Then let me pick a simple question?" ”

Eyes smiled: "You are a very strange person, you obviously don't believe me, and you want to ask me." ”

Gu Chi turned a corner and said, "It's not that I don't believe you, I just don't believe in fate." ”

Eye nodded: "I don't believe in fate either." ”

He could guess what Gu Chi wanted to ask.

For example, the time jump in the real world is not because of him.

Another example is that he can control the time, why didn't he just just reverse the picture to the time when the end came, and see what happened.

He wanted to do the same.

But he couldn't.

"Every time I try to see the truth of the end times, my abilities disappear for a while." "There's something more powerful stopping me and warning me not to touch things I shouldn't touch." ”

Even if he can manipulate time, in the eyes of ordinary people, he is almost invincible, immortal and immortal, and in the face of the unknown existence, he still has no power to resist.

He didn't tell Grayman about this, otherwise Grayman would have been even more desperate.

If the end is caused by it, it is equivalent to irreversibility.

Gu Chi's first reaction was the Pure Land Game: "Little Po You? ”

Although he has been picking up small wool, he knows very well in his heart that the Pure Land game itself is the most powerful thing.

Whether it's the player's abilities or the NPCs that come to reality, including "Eye" and Huangjiao, they are all part of the game in the end.

Originated from the game, it will naturally be limited by the game.

"Perhaps." "But it's not entirely a bad thing, at least for me, it's not that harsh." ”

The Pure Land Game didn't want him to see the end of the world on the ground, but he knew about it through other means and was not punished.

This proves that the rules can be bypassed.

In other words, the rules of the Pure Land game are to allow them to bypass the rules.

This would explain why many players take advantage of loopholes in the rules to make a profit, while the Pure Land game never collects rewards.

There is a very paradoxical point here.

If it is permissible to bypass the rules, why go to the extra mile to make the rules?

"Do you remember the last update announcement?" Eye asked.

He is not a player, but he can rely on the player to get the information he wants.

"Remember, I jumped several versions." Gu Chi said.

"Just jump." "It means that something has exceeded its expectations." ”

The version that should have been updated one after another had to be skipped because of this incident and went straight to the important content.

The rules that should have been strictly followed by players have also been relaxed, otherwise the original purpose of the Pure Land game will not be achieved.

And as a game, what is its original design?

No matter how difficult, how complicated, or how many deeper reasons there are, the designer should want players to clear the level.

Combined with the "emergency" just mentioned, we can draw a conclusion - when this happens, if you continue to update according to the original rhythm and bind players according to the original rules, then the final dungeon will not have any possibility of clearing the level.

That is, the end will not be prevented.

Not only Grayman, but no one can escape the established future.

This is the "eye's" understanding of the game.

It sounds logical, but there's one thing—

"You're saying it's all based on the doomsday coming true." Gu Chi said, "Since you can't see the end of the world, how do you know that the end will come, how can you be sure that the real world is the past and the game world is the future?" ”

This goes back to the original question.

The future shown by the eye can convince Grayman, but it can't convince Gu Chi.

Eye smiled: "Do you think that I was also released from the dungeon by a certain player?" ”

Gu Chi: "Isn't it?" ”

"It's not." "I came here by myself." ”

"One day I was in the morning star to reverse time, and I wanted to go back to a long, long time ago."

"Then I came to the real world."

Gu Chi: "? ”

……

(End of chapter)