This aura is deadly

"I've seen you, but the clothes you wear are different from what you are wearing now. Maybe... something happened in the meantime, which caused some changes..." Wang Aileen said, writing with a pen.

"I don't think that's true. How can you see something that hasn't happened yet? Or, if you knew you were going to do something in the future, would you still do it? If I didn't let it happen. …Isn’t this future meaningless?” Chen Kedao.

"Maybe so, but the flow of time is relative. If someone can really travel through time... you travel from 2009 to 2006, then 2006 is your future." Wang Aileen explained.

"Then how do you explain the grandfather paradox?" Chen Ke asked.

"Maybe there is no grandfather paradox at all..." Wang Aileen lowered her head, thoughtfully.

"It's impossible. If a person travels back to a year before he was born and killed his parents, then he will not be able to exist in the future. If he does this and can still exist, you can only use parallel universes to explain it. "Chen Ke shook his head.

"Chen Ke, what you mentioned are all settings in science fiction movies, games, and novels. They are things imagined by those writers. Real science does not think about problems like this." Wang Aileen said.

"But I think that statement is quite scientific..." Chen Ke complained.

"I've been thinking, Chen Ke, I've been wondering if humans are too arrogant. The grandfather paradox we hypothesize is a product of linear thinking, and the butterfly effect and parallel universes are also designed to envision changing the past. To justify it, we have been worried about the impact our actions after traveling through time and space will have on the universe, but..." Wang Aileen said, frowning.

"But what? If we go back to the past and change history, the direction of history will be completely different, and drastic changes will definitely occur in the future. Isn't this very reasonable?" Chen Ke asked.

"Chen Ke, have you ever thought about what a person would become if he could travel through time?" Wang Aileen asked.

Chen Ke was stunned for a moment, and suddenly felt a chill on his back.

Wang Aileen's question is a kind of reverse thinking. Her meaning is very simple. If a person travels through time, it will disrupt the order of the universe. This is human beings' wishful thinking and arrogant conjecture. The real question that should be considered should be, if a person can travel through time, Then he is still not human...?

"Diana and I traveled through time on the subway, but as you can see, I am here, and you have seen Diana, and we have not become that different." Chen Ke said.

"This may involve the difference between passive time travel and active time travel. I mentioned just now that no matter how old an era you travel to, you are not essentially going back to the past, but just going to your future. You change It's your future, not my present... It's a bit convoluted to say that, but what I want to say is that different individuals have different perceptions of time. You go back to 2006, but I didn't go back. Our 2006 is really Is it the same 2006...?" Wang Aileen said.

"I almost understand what you mean... What you mean is that the time you experience is different from the time I experience. It can even be said... If I were a person living in 2006, I would encounter When it comes to you who traveled through time in 2008... then for us, that moment can be called the present..." Chen Ke followed Wang Aileen's train of thought, but noticed some doubts.

"No, if you did something in my time that shouldn't have happened, then does my present life have been interfered with by you? According to you, your time travel is bound to happen to me as well. Then when you go back to your time...will your 2006 still be my 2006..." Chen Ke was a little confused.

"Here's the problem... You just used a very good word called time interference. This is also the part that I can't understand. Without considering parallel universes, everyone's perception of the universe is different. You can start from your If you jump out of time and interfere in someone else’s time, will it change when you return to your time? Or, once you jump out of your own time, can you go back? Stand up and quickly take a note and write something down.

"It's impossible to talk about this thing. In short, the 2006 I went to no longer exists. It is definitely not the 2006 of 2008... It's so confusing, but it is true." Chen Kedao.

"What if it was originally our 2006...?" Wang Aileen said suddenly.

Chen Ke looked at Wang Aileen and didn't understand what she wanted to express.

"I think you can't explain that place unless you use the parallel universe hypothesis," Chen Ke said.

Speaking of which, Chen Ke felt that the year 2018 he was originally in might be of the same nature as the year 2006 that had been devoured by the gods.

"Maybe it's just other worlds at different latitudes. If there is an explanation, this statement may make sense." Chen Ke added.

"Okay, I wasted some of your time before, let's talk about the business, the ash element in your blood. Let's put it this way, this kind of elemental knight does not exist..." Wang Aileen said.

"Doesn't exist? What do you mean?" Chen Ke asked.

"It is a memetic infection, a suggestion of self-destruction. If you think it exists, it will exist and start to replace your original structure, but if you ignore it..." Wang Aileen hinted.

"I understand..." Chen Ke realized the problem.

The principle of memetic infection is to strengthen the impression of the phenomenon of "turning to gray" in other people's minds, and spread it with the basic meme "this disease is contagious". This is how those people ruined it in 2006 .

But there is another thing in that world, and Chen Ke still has not found the answer.

What are those red maggot people...

Invisible gods devour the world, the Great Black Pillar spreads memes to exterminate mankind, and the man-made Sorrowful Daughter... Where did the Maggot Man come from? Why are there piles of sandbags at subway entrances? What were they originally trying to block inside?

"That means there is no antidote for this thing. As long as you don't take it seriously and gradually forget about it, you can slowly cure yourself?" Chen Ke asked.

"I don't know if it can heal itself, but at least it shouldn't spread or get worse." Wang Aileen said. After she finished speaking, she suddenly looked at the pile of ashes on the board.

Chen Ke noticed that the readings on the monitor were constantly fluctuating up and down. Naturally, he couldn't understand what those readings meant, but for some reason, Chen Ke always felt that this pile of ashes was alive.

"It's strange. It has been in a stable state before, but now it is extremely active, as if it wants to communicate with us..." Wang Aileen walked over and looked at the readings on the screen.

"You just said this was the body of an investigator... It was cremated... Why are there still readings? What are those readings?" Chen Ke walked over and asked.

"Heartbeat...and brain signals..." Wang Aileen replied.

"Nonsense..." Chen Ke clasped the back of his head and looked back at the door. On the door was written the number of the research room: 0451.

Wait a minute, wait a minute...

Chen Ke suddenly remembered something. It seemed like someone had told him this string of numbers...

Parker…

He remembered the last moment in Van Hed, when the great void began to gradually disappear due to the completion of the cycle...

Parker once told Chen Ke that he felt like he was a pile of ashes... he could see a door marked with the number 0451...

"When did you find this pile of ashes? Where did you find it?" Chen Ke asked.

"More than two months ago, something happened in Xijin Building. An investigator was bitten to death by a human-faced dog. His body has been decomposing since it was transported here, but it still maintains... normal physiological signals... ..." Wang Aileen said.

"Parker...? Can you hear me?" Chen Ke finally dared to determine who this piece of ash was...

"What are you doing...?" Wang Aileen asked doubtfully.

"Parker, if you are alive, please give me some indication..." Chen Ke said, looking at the monitors above his head.

The waveform began to tremble violently, as if the pile of ashes was saying hello to Chen Ke.

"I don't know if this is useful... but that's how Faralis was brought to life by me... I can only help you so far..." Chen Ke said, reaching out and inserting his palm into the pile of ashes. middle.

"Are you...? That's an experimental sample! Take your hands out!" Wang Aileen suddenly shouted. On this point, she was very serious.

Just when Wang Ailin reached out to grab Chen Ke's wrist, the pile of dust on the tablet suddenly gathered automatically...

As if being pulled by some force, the ash rotated and gathered on the flat plate, emitting a red flash, like an ember that had not yet been extinguished.

"Chen..." Someone suddenly said something, which he couldn't hear clearly. It seemed that his vocal cords were gradually taking shape, but Chen Ke recognized Parker's voice.

The ashes entangled themselves and formed a tornado. Wang Aileen covered her mouth and nose. The scene in front of her made her speechless.

The ash tornado suddenly jumped up from the tablet, as if it had self-awareness, and suddenly fell to the open space in the center of the research room.

The gray-white ashes suddenly became colored, and with the flash of red light, a man squatted on the spot.

"Fuck! Fuck! A miracle of science!" Wang Aileen opened her mouth in surprise. She watched that ball of ashes turn into an adult man, right in front of her eyes!

"Parker!" Chen Ke laughed.

Parker is still wearing the same clothes he wore in the Great Void and the Xijin Building, and he still looks the same.

He stood up and touched his body, then looked at Chen Ke and smiled: "What took you so long?"