Chapter 911: I Only Wish Your Heart Were Like Mine |
“The first type of causality weapon designates a result, then relies on the universe’s self-completion ability to evolve a cause. It seems that my destruction of the Large Magellanic Cloud was because I came under attack from a causality weapon. This type of causality weapon gives rise to another kind of existence, namely the executor, and the executor will receive a certain reward from the universe itself, or possibly from the Guardian of the Way. The second type of causality weapon also designates a result, but it is much more powerful than the first type, because it does not need a cause to support the result. Correspondingly, it also does not require an executor. What I am encountering now should be the third type of causality weapon…”
“The third type of causality weapon is fundamentally different from the first two. The first two types deliberately ignore the cause and only specify the result, while the third type requires a cause as support, except that it reverses the result produced by the cause. I want to leave here, and I have made many efforts to do so. That is the cause. But because the third type of causality weapon reverses the result, although I have made efforts to leave here, I cannot leave no matter what. Among these three types of causality weapons, this third type seems to be the weakest. The first is stronger than it, and the second type of causality weapon is the most powerful.”
At this moment, another thought entered Xiao Yu’s mind.
“The Rebel Alliance is undoubtedly far stronger than the Guardian Civilization, that is, the Dark Star Civilization. The Dark Star Civilization possessed the first type of causality weapon. Since the Rebel Alliance is countless times stronger than the Dark Star Civilization, how could they possibly possess only the third type of causality weapon, which is even weaker than the one the Dark Star Civilization had? Since they do have it, why do they not use it?”
“There are two explanations. First, the Rebel Alliance believes that against me, using only the weakest causality weapon is already sufficient. Second, using a causality weapon comes with some kind of limitation, and the greatest possibility is that it will bring some sort of backlash. This backlash is something even the Rebel Alliance cannot avoid. Therefore, in order to reduce the backlash, they chose the weakest type of causality weapon. I believe the second guess is the one closest to reality. And if that is the case… then the Dark Star Civilization was merely a pitiful chess piece under the Rebel Alliance. Because they were afraid of suffering a strong backlash from using the first type of causality weapon, they handed it to the Dark Star Civilization, letting the Dark Star Civilization use it, and also letting the Dark Star Civilization bear the backlash afterward… How pitiful. The Dark Star Civilization probably thought it had picked up some kind of treasure.”
“If so, then the reason why a mere Level 6 Civilization like the Dark Star Civilization was able to obtain something as powerful as a causality weapon, and why no other powerful existence came to snatch it away, can also be explained. This causality weapon is not some good thing at all… Only a foolish civilization like the Dark Star Civilization would treasure it as if it were a jewel.”
“But… weak though it may be, it is still a causality weapon, and it is based on a different principle from the other two types. I still do not know how to deal with it. This test given to me by the music civilization, or perhaps by the Spokesperson’s side, is really quite thorny…”
There was one very simple line of reasoning. Since this third type of causality weapon reversed the result, and because of that, Xiao Yu wanted to leave here but could not, then what would happen if Xiao Yu reversed the cause instead?
For example… because of the influence of a causality weapon, if you walk east, you are reversed into walking west. Then if you directly walk west, would you be reversed into the direction you originally wanted to go, turning it into walking east?
Or, near the critical point, if Xiao Yu’s fleet continued to move forward, its direction would be reversed, turning it into movement toward the quasar. Then… after crossing the critical point, when the direction had already been reversed, if Xiao Yu chose to approach the quasar, would the causality weapon reverse that into moving away from the quasar? Could this method be used to achieve the goal of leaving the quasar?
This was a very simple and easily testable inference. But regrettably, it could not allow Xiao Yu to achieve his final goal. Because Xiao Yu had already tested it in practice, and the facts told him this method would not work.
Yes, during the time he was thinking, although Xiao Yu did not believe the trap laid by the Rebel Alliance would leave such an obvious flaw, he still chose to try it. The final result, unsurprisingly, was failure. After this failure, Xiao Yu rapidly thought out the reason for it.
The reasoning was simple, and the reason for failure was equally simple. Because this causality weapon reversed the result of every attempt to move away from the quasar, the process of Xiao Yu’s failed attempt went like this.
First, Xiao Yu’s fleet tried to leave the quasar, but the result was reversed, and Xiao Yu’s fleet became one that was approaching the quasar. Then Xiao Yu’s fleet adjusted direction once more. According to the principle that moving away means approaching and approaching means moving away, since Xiao Yu’s fleet was approaching the quasar, it should have been reversed into moving away. But the fact was not like this. After Xiao Yu’s fleet had its heading reversed and Xiao Yu controlled them to alter heading once more, it was like a double negative becoming a positive. Xiao Yu’s fleet was still moving away from the quasar rather than approaching it. So this causality weapon would reverse them yet again. This led to the result that no matter how Xiao Yu changed his heading, as long as the final result was that Xiao Yu was moving away from the quasar, the heading would be reversed. This was a very simple logical deduction, and in this deduction, the fact that a double negative became a positive was the key point. It was precisely because of this point that Xiao Yu ultimately failed.
This attempt unquestionably ended in failure. Xiao Yu continued racking his brains for a way to break this restriction.
“Let me think about this on the premise that the music civilization is on my side and came to help me. They gave me a hint but not the solution. One possibility is because of limitations, just as the Rebel Alliance cannot directly act to kill me. The second is that the music civilization trusts my ability… They believe I can solve this problem myself. No, that is not right. Perhaps they also do not know whether I can solve this problem. Perhaps this is merely another test for me. If I pass the test, they will continue standing on my side, and if I cannot pass the test, what does my life or death have to do with them?” Xiao Yu thought with some bitterness. “I am still only a chess piece after all. Just as they said, in the end you still have to rely on yourself…”
“It is only that, Chen Mo, if you truly are the Spokesperson, then do you also treat me as a chess piece? The gift you sent me, the Zhang Shengya you sent me, and the way you changed the speed of light to help me escape punishment from the Guardian of the Way or the Rebel Alliance, was it because of your feelings for me? Or because of my usefulness and value? Or perhaps both?”
In Xiao Yu’s mind, he could not help but picture such a scene. When Earth still existed, before he had yet been born into this world, deep in the universe, in that universe that no human of Earth had ever understood or touched, there was a great existence in the unseen. The current Xiao Yu knew its name as the Guardian of the Way.
The Guardian of the Way launched something called the Completion Plan. This Completion Plan had very likely been planned for a long time, or perhaps had already been carried out many times, just like with the Micron Civilization, except those attempts had all failed. In order to obstruct the Completion Plan, the Rebel Alliance also took action, laying out chess pieces such as the Sweepers and the Guardian Civilization. And at the same time that the Completion Plan was launched, the universe itself also gave rise to a response. Thus, beside him, on that tiny Earth, Chen Mo was also born there and eventually met him.
At that time, Chen Mo likely did not know her own origins. At that time, she was only an ordinary Earth girl. In the ordinary daily life of Earth, she developed feelings of love for him, while he, and it must be said, he also had not yet understood his own origins at that time.
Both Chen Mo and he had layers upon layers of fog behind them, but at that time, none of that fog had yet appeared. At that time, he was a pure Earth human, and Chen Mo was also a pure Earth human. It was between these two pure Earth humans that emotional entanglement appeared.
Then, Earth exploded, he transformed into a computer and embarked on a journey to conquer the universe, while Chen Mo may also have experienced another kind of fortuitous encounter, eventually transforming into the Spokesperson and coming to understand her own origins.
Seas had turned into mulberry fields, the universe had changed, and everything was already greatly different from the age of Earth. Both he and Chen Mo were no longer masters of their own fate.
It was only unknown… whether at this moment, Chen Mo still retained the original heart she had when she was still on Earth. Had she never changed? Or had the experiences from Earth now become to her only a joke of the past, nothing more than something she could make use of to achieve her own goals?
Now, when Xiao Yu had formed a certain inference about his own origins and Chen Mo’s origins, this question surfaced in his mind. This question was very important to Xiao Yu, even more important than how he would leave this place.
“I have always preserved my original heart. I have never changed. I still have deep feelings for you. But I do not know whether your heart is still like mine…”