Chapter 912: A New Attempt |
At this moment, Xiao Yu thought of many, many things.
Back when the Divine Ark Civilization still existed, he had once asked that emotion expert to infer Chen Mo’s intentions for him. At that time, that emotion expert had said that Chen Mo had encountered a great calamity and believed she could not escape it, so she had specifically chosen Zhang Shengya and sent her over. Later, for some unknown reason, she had actually survived that calamity, so she then sent the spatial lifeform to deliver a necktie and had the spatial lifeform give him a small test.
Now Xiao Yu already knew that the spatial lifeform was a Sweeper of the Andromeda Galaxy, and that the Sweepers and Guardians were both chess pieces laid down by the Rebel Alliance to obstruct the Completion Plan. Seen this way, Chen Mo had seemed to belong to the rebels’ side. But now Xiao Yu knew that this was wrong. Chen Mo could absolutely not belong to the rebels. Chen Mo should be the Spokesperson.
The Spokesperson of the universe… Back then, Chen Mo, as the Spokesperson, had very likely suffered a major threat. This threat most likely came from the Guardian of the Way. Xiao Yu did not know the exact process. Xiao Yu only knew that the outcome of this threat was that the Guardian of the Way fell into slumber, and Chen Mo sent him the necktie. Xiao Yu had no way of knowing what role the rebels played in this upheaval.
Xiao Yu sighed faintly.
“The feelings between Chen Mo and me began in the Earth era, and during the Earth era, neither of us had yet understood our own origins. It was a pure and sincere feeling, mixed with no impurities at all. I hope this pure feeling can remain unchanged until the end of the universe. Chen Mo, I do not know how you see me at this moment. But I have never changed. I love you. I started loving you a very long time ago, and that has never changed. You must wait for me…”
“No matter what you become, I will never change, and my feelings for you will never change.”
At this moment, Xiao Yu’s mind became incomparably clear. Xiao Yu had already sorted out this complicated tangle of emotions. What you become is your business. As long as I do not change, that is enough.
Having figured this out, Xiao Yu temporarily set these thoughts aside and devoted himself fully to thinking about how to escape his current predicament.
This idea seemed reasonable, but it still had no use, just like reversing course at the critical point. Because a double negative becomes a positive, no matter which direction Xiao Yu traveled, he could not escape from here. In fact, still unwilling to give up, Xiao Yu really did conduct a field test. He specially manufactured a custom ship that could survive inside the quasar, then launched it into the quasar. But until it was swallowed by the enormous black hole inside the quasar, it still did not manage to leave this place.
His final trace of hope was extinguished as well. Xiao Yu had already tried every method he could think of. Xiao Yu knew that his thinking must have entered a dead end. There had to be a way to leave here, and that way had to be within what he was capable of doing. But Xiao Yu could not find it, could not think of what that method was.
By now, more than ten years had already passed.
“The music civilization said that the rebels used the Logic Weapon to attack me in order to stop me from going to the Feiyuan Galaxy. It came to rescue me, yet it gave me one thousand years. It is waiting for me in the companion galaxy of this quasar. Subtracting the six hundred years needed for the journey, that means I still have about four hundred years. In other words, the music civilization probably believes that with my ability, I should need about four hundred years to escape from here. Four hundred years… what method would take four hundred years?”
Xiao Yu muttered to himself, thinking with all his strength.
“Perhaps I really have already entered a dead end.” Xiao Yu thought. “Up to now, I have been trying to escape from here on the physical level. Perhaps I should change my line of thought. Since this is a Logic Weapon, maybe thinking about it on the level of logic will be of some use.”
“If what prevents me from leaving is a certain range around this quasar… then is there some way for me to leave here without moving?”
Since if he moved, then moving outward would have his direction reversed, and he would be unable to leave. Moving inward was useless as well. It seemed that when he moved inward, approaching the quasar, the reversal rule of that Logic Weapon would not be triggered. Then he might as well remain where he was and not move. But… if he did not move, then how could he possibly leave this place?
This sentence was somewhat contradictory. It was like standing inside a room. If you refused to move, then how could you possibly leave that room?
“If I do not move, then the reversal rule will not be triggered, and the Logic Weapon will not take effect. But if I do not move, then I have no way to leave here. If I do move, then the reversal rule will be triggered, and the Logic Weapon will take effect, so I still cannot leave here. No matter what, I am always going to be kept here. It seems that no matter what I do, I cannot break through this logic.”
“Unless… I can solve the contradiction of ‘not moving, yet still being able to leave.’ Then… exactly how can I leave this place without moving?” Xiao Yu silently thought.
Since it was a Logic Weapon, naturally the problem had to be considered on the level of logic. To think on the level of logic was to temporarily focus only on logical consistency. As long as the logic was consistent, then it was reasonable. The problem placed before Xiao Yu had already shifted from a practical problem into a logical one. Yet as for how to break this logic, Xiao Yu still had no clue at all.
Xiao Yu began thinking once again about this assumption, namely, if a person does not move, then how can he leave the room he is in?
A thought suddenly appeared in Xiao Yu’s mind.
“This is actually a very simple problem. If a person does not move, does that mean he cannot leave the room? If he cannot leave the room, then can he not instead make the room leave him? For example… destroy the room, erase it? In that case, would he not naturally have left the room?” Xiao Yu’s mind suddenly tensed, because he sensed that his thinking seemed to have produced a bit of progress, that he had found a direction for breakthrough.
Xiao Yu turned his gaze once again toward the quasar behind him.
This violent quasar was like a sturdy room, and Xiao Yu was like that person. This sturdy room was confining Xiao Yu here, making him unable to leave. But Xiao Yu being unable to leave the room did not mean Xiao Yu could not destroy the room.
“Destroy this quasar?” Xiao Yu silently considered this possibility. “No, I have already been restricted here and cannot move too far from this place. If I destroy the quasar here, I will also be affected, and I will die too. Just like forcibly destroying the room, only for the room to crush the person to death inside it. However… perhaps I can move the quasar away? Make it move away from me?”
“The quasar moving away from me, and me moving away from the quasar, what difference is there between these two? This seems to be the same thing.” Xiao Yu thought to himself, but immediately afterward found the difference between the two, “It is like a breakup. If I dump someone and break up, and if someone dumps me and we break up, can those be the same thing? In the same way, the quasar leaving me and me leaving the quasar are also different.”
Xiao Yu’s mind spun like a tightly wound machine operating at high speed. “What I want is for me not to move, yet to still leave this quasar by a certain distance. This sentence seems a bit contradictory, but in fact it is not contradictory. The inference I have made is completely logically sound.”
This idea seemed somewhat absurd. But a Logic Weapon itself was an absurd thing to begin with. It launched attacks from the level of logic, and solving the logic was the same as solving its attack, without needing to care whether the solving process was absurd or reasonable.
This method fully satisfied the statement of not moving, yet still being able to leave. Xiao Yu indeed would not move. What moved would be the quasar. But if the quasar were moved away, then Xiao Yu truly would have left it, thus achieving his goal.
“This is very much worth trying.” After a rapid bout of thought, Xiao Yu quickly arrived at this conclusion. Xiao Yu could not destroy the entire quasar, but moving it away was still barely within his capabilities. After all, a quasar was not a true galaxy. It did not have the scale of a galaxy. Its diameter was only about one light-day or so. Compared to a true galaxy, it was smaller by countless orders of magnitude.
“A galaxy is different from a star. Moving stars is a very simple matter for me, but moving a quasar whose mass is several tens of billions of times that of a star is still a huge challenge for me. Mm… however, for me this is only a technical problem, not a theoretical one. Technical problems exist to be overcome. I am confident that in the next period of time, I can manufacture instruments sufficient to move a quasar.”
Xiao Yu once again became filled with fighting spirit.
Having a goal worth striving for was enough. What Xiao Yu feared most was that state where he had no clue at all and could only bump around here like a headless fly.
Within the Star Cluster-Class battleship Science, tightly organized and busy scientific experiments once again began. And within Xiao Yu’s mind, related calculations for developing new instruments also once again started.