Falsifying history is good business

From the bloody and ignorant Middle Ages to the civilized and orderly modern society, Lin You did not go home immediately, but went to the Garden of Eden, which seemed like the wild times. When he met God, he said straight to the point: "Do you know about the celestial intersection where the story of the Witcher and the story of the Lord of the Rings take place?"

"Of course, I watched the space-time gap take shape." God was unexpectedly frank. "You were not in the big world these days. Did you go to deal with the space-time gap?"

"Didn't you recommend me to go there? Was it you who created the gap in time and space?" Lin You asked.

"No; the gap in time and space is a natural formation. It appeared when the world of Arda gradually approached the world of the witcher."

"And you turned a blind eye to the chaos it caused."

"On the contrary, I intervened at the first opportunity. If I hadn't intervened, the exit of the space-time gap in the Demon Hunter world would not be on the banks of the Yaruga River where the army gathered, but in the depths of the uninhabited Blue Mountains. Do you know the difference between the two?" God asked back.

Lin You thought about it and said, "In an uninhabited mountain range, no one would notice the invasion of orcs for a long time. There are a lot of forests and animal resources that can be utilized in the mountainous areas, and they will produce a large number of strong orcs to expand the army. It is estimated that before being discovered, the orcs have already established a foothold and even established cities and countries - just like they did in their hometown Misty Mountains?"

God nodded slightly: "You see, this principle is very simple, you can easily figure it out, right?"

Lin You was still puzzled: "Since you intervened, why didn't you care about it in the end, but gave up halfway and let Dandelion come to find me instead? Ciri - one of the protagonists of that story - traveled through several worlds to find me and almost got lost."

"You should have noticed the collision of rules between the two worlds, right? That's why I had to withdraw. The mutual penetration of two logical rules is bad enough. If I or any other world god system gets deeply involved, it will become three or even more hugely different logical rules entangled with each other; then I will still have to withdraw. In this case, why not withdraw from the beginning?"

"You should have told me earlier."

"How could I know that you would be so anxious to leave that you didn't even consider coming to ask me a question? Whenever we encountered a problem in the past, even if you didn't try to shirk it, you would at least ask a question."

Lin You couldn't help but laugh at himself: "Sure enough, working too hard will definitely cause problems."

"I won't comment on what you said." To this day, God has basically given up trying to correct the writer's work attitude.

God's various explanations were well-founded and Lin You could not find any solid reason to doubt him. He thought about whether he should immediately raise the issue of the change in the speed of time to question him, but on second thought he held back.

The change in the speed of time flow is implicit, and similar changes actually occur frequently; sometimes it speeds up, sometimes it slows down. Most changes are for the purpose of integrating the story world. It is necessary to push the timeline and story line to a certain node so that it can be integrated more conveniently and safely.

It's just that this time it happened to be stuck at the moment when Lin You entered the demon hunter world, so it seemed suspicious; this kind of suspicion can be thought about in the mind, but it can't be brought out as solid evidence.

The author slightly restrained his initial attitude of accusing others of something.

"Has the world been peaceful during my absence? It seems to have been... um... more than ten days?"

"Except for the few times when Minerva lost her temper at the beginning and I had to step in to block the fluctuations of divine power caused by her, everything has been peaceful." God said dimly, "From this, I found that there is a big problem with your family's education of children."

"No, this is her nature, and has nothing to do with education. In the original Saint Seiya story, this girl's rebellious period came very early, she bullied others and had a bad temper; on the contrary, after entering puberty at the age of fourteen or fifteen, she became compassionate and reasonable." Lin You argued, "So, I don't need to bother educating her. In another four or five years, she will change on her own."

"Is this also the reason why you didn't even leave her a message before you left?" God teased.

Lin You shrugged. "Indeed, I was negligent. I didn't expect to be away for so long, and I forgot that the Demon Hunter world is different from those stories that have not yet been integrated. Time will continue to flow. I always thought that when I finish dealing with things over there and come back, time will still stop at the starting point. By the time I discovered my mistake, more than ten days had passed."

At this point, Lin You felt that he had laid out everything, so he "casually" asked the question he was most concerned about: "However, why did I spend more than ten days in the Demon Hunter and Arda worlds, and more than ten days in the big world? I remember that the time flow in those two worlds was faster, right? Before I went there, more than ten days there were only equivalent to more than ten hours in the big world."

"You're lucky. Recently I've been thinking about fixing the ratio of the time flow rate between the big world and the real dimension. It just happened to coincide with this celestial sphere conjunction." God's answer was also spoken casually, and it was difficult to tell whether it was true or false.

"Is this... an attempt to implement a 'fixed exchange rate'?"

"Hmm?" God was stunned for a moment, then reacted and couldn't help laughing. "Yes, fixed exchange rate - a very appropriate description. In the past, the speed of time changed frequently, mainly to facilitate the integration of different story worlds; now that the big world is gradually stabilizing, the need for integration is no longer urgent, and it is time to act prudently. It is also because this celestial sphere conjunction reminded me; if the speed of time in the demon hunter world was not so different from ours, perhaps you could have dealt with the problem in time in the first month of the orc invasion, and the impact on the two worlds would have been smaller."

Lin You seemed to be lost in thought. When he noticed from the corner of his eye that God was watching him, he suddenly laughed out loud.

"why are you laughing?"

Lin You shook his head and sighed: "It's nothing, it's just that your words reminded me of a joke I heard in the real dimension in the past; I just thought it was a joke at the time, but now I think it's quite appropriate."

"Oh, can I hear this joke?" God was also intrigued.

"Of course. You may know that in ancient Chinese mythology there is also a setting of time speed difference, called 'one day in the upper world, one year in the lower world'."

God nodded and said, "Indeed, I have heard of it. This setting is still used in the 'natural world' in the East."

"The joke is related to this setting." Lin You stretched out three fingers while speaking. "It's said that Erlang Shen heard his beloved sister say that she wanted to go out and relax on the first day. On the second day, he got news that his sister was traveling around in the lower world - that is, the human world. On the third day, he found that he suddenly had a nephew who was half-immortal and half-mortal. He was caught off guard and his mentality exploded."

“Haha…” God laughed very politely, and even took the opportunity to tease Lin You, “So, because of Minerva, can you empathize with Erlang Shen’s mentality?” “Minerva?” Lin You was stunned for a moment and then began to grit his teeth, “If it were me, if Minerva dared to do such a thing, I would beat her ass, not just arrest her and lock her in my room.”

With the "vow" to beat his sister's ass in the future, Lin You left the Garden of Eden and returned home. However, no one noticed that the writer's face darkened the moment he left the Garden of Eden.

In the question and answer session just now, God behaved very normally from beginning to end, and his expression and tone were no different from the past; but the writer is certain that God is hiding something.

Although every question has an answer, the logic of each answer is somewhat far-fetched; it seems like a "reasonable" answer that has to be pieced together just to deal with the questioning.

"It must have happened very suddenly, catching you - or you all - off guard; because the problem has not been solved, and the things you wanted to do have not been done, you have to go to great lengths to find various excuses to explain to me in order to delay time to finish the things." Lin You silently guessed in his heart, "The question is... what exactly do you want to do? This matter must involve time changes, and the early and late, fast and slow of the process is measured by the speed of time in the real dimension; so, is there a person or thing that is not affected by the speed of time in the big world?"

With guesses in mind, Lin You walked out of the library, and saw Minerva squatting in front of the fireplace in the reception room, throwing a pile of books and papers in her hand into the fire.

The little girl was so absorbed in making the fire that she didn't notice her brother coming home. Lin You restrained his aura, tiptoed behind her, and when he looked behind her, he was immediately furious; the girl was holding either a workbook or an assignment book, all of which were the homework her tutor had given her before the summer vacation.

Although God lied to my face, he was right about one thing: there was indeed something wrong with my family’s education!

Lin You grabbed the little girl by the back of her neck and lifted her up. As the little girl screamed, he pulled out the dark wood wand with his free hand and pointed it at the fireplace: "Restore it to its original state!"

The magic empowered by divine power exploded with unparalleled power, and clusters of ashes flew around and restored their original appearance; among them was at least a whole exercise book, and an unknown number of loose homework papers.

"Okay, you secretly burned the homework while I was not at home. You actually accomplished something that I wanted to do but didn't dare to do when I was a child? Our family is really better than the old!" Lin You waved the repaired homework in front of Minerva.

After recognizing Lin You's voice and face, the screams stopped abruptly; the little girl quickly recovered from the shock, shame and embarrassment, and then all her emotions turned into grievance and unwillingness.

"You never did homework when you were a kid, grandpa told me! You could skip classes and homework, so why should I go to class every day and do so much homework?" The little girl complained from the bottom of her heart, hanging on her brother's hand and crying loudly, "It's so unfair!"

"Who said I didn't go to class or do homework? When I was in school, you were still living in two-dimensional space!" Lin You put the man down and planned to talk to him properly.

"I don't believe it, I don't believe it. That's not what the housekeeper said, and that's not what the teacher said." Minerva sat down on the floor as soon as she landed, throwing a tantrum and rolling around, sobbing. "The teacher said that he had been our family's tutor for a long time, but he never came to our house to give lessons when you were a child. He only came when I grew up - that's what every teacher said."

When the goddess cries, she cries just like ordinary people, even with a bigger lung capacity and a louder voice, and her voice is more penetrating. Lin You is so overwhelmed by her crying.

The Forresters have never participated in public education for the wizarding world, nor in public education for Muggles. Learning magic is a family tradition, while learning natural and humanistic knowledge requires tutors to complete all courses at home.

As a result, Lin You never expected that this would expose to the little girl the secret that he had never been to school in his life.

Learning is not only against human nature, but also against divine nature. Minerva had been dissatisfied with studying in class, but she was too young to resist in the first two years. One day, she found out that her brother had never been to school and she was the only one who had to suffer. This unfair treatment immediately triggered the girl's emotions.

Unfortunately, this is only the little girl's own perspective; from Lin You's perspective, he studied for sixteen years in his previous life. Even if the last four years of slacking off were excluded, he actually worked hard for twelve years.

I've been caught in the rain before, so why shouldn't I tear up your umbrella?
So, when Diana and the old housekeeper came over following the sound, they saw Lin You using the "Double Copy" function on the exercise books and homework books one by one, and then viciously stuffed the doubled homework into Minerva's hands.

"There are three weeks left in summer break, and doubling your homework is your punishment for doing something wrong!"

Minerva was powerless to resist the tyranny of the true God. When she saw the old butler, she immediately threw herself into his arms, crying breathlessly.

Diana couldn't help laughing when she saw the old housekeeper coaxing and persuading the little girl away, and then looking at Lin You, who looked so ferocious and unyielding and stuck to his principles.

"I'm sure Minerva will have you at the top of her most hated list until the end of summer. How long do you think she'll go without speaking to you this time?"

"How should I know?" Lin You said angrily, "I really miss the soft and sticky little girl I was eight years old. It doesn't matter if she's a little clingy."

"She's still very clingy; she's been a little glum these days since you left."

"Depressed? Judging from her expression just now, she probably won't be happy for a long time." Lin You put away his wand and hugged his lover. "Did anything unusual happen during my absence?"

"Unusual?" Diana was surprised by Lin You's special way of asking questions, and she also realized that something happened to Lin You; "If you say abnormal... a few days ago I found a high-level angel appeared in London, and approached the manor more than once. Is it abnormal?"

"High-level angel? Do you know what level it is?" Lin You asked.

Diana shook her head. "In fact, I have no idea. After I discovered the angel's presence, I went looking for it, but I couldn't find it. Now that I think about it, it seems that the angel is intentionally avoiding me."

Lin You's expression immediately became serious. (End of this chapter)