A journey of seven souls escaping from the basement

Even if he replayed everything from Yabu's arrival on the island in his mind, the doctor couldn't feel that he had made any omissions.

and many more......

There is a place.

If you insist on saying that there is something that is still unknown, there is a word that was mentioned by the other party just now after being briefly mentioned.

【Passive】

"...Tell me, Yabu, what is Wuyuan?"

"As expected, the doctor doesn't know."

In other words, the doctor at this time doesn’t know yet.

"Tell me what it is! I don't know what this thing allows you to confirm? What kind of ability is this of yours? Tell me!"

Even if I rack my brain, I can only come up with one word. The confusion of not getting the result and the sense of crisis of time passing make the anxiety continue to pile up.

It seemed that in the boundless darkness, one could only hear the neighing of beasts around him getting closer and closer, but he could not get out of this dark scene. Finally, the doctor could no longer remain calm, so he turned the front of the cloth over, like a pounce on food. Like holding the opponent's shoulders.

And this is the only thing she can do at the moment, physical oppression.

"..."

But the other party didn't answer anything.

Ah...yeah...

Now Yabu can no longer tell himself everything.

The doctor, who has always been calm, has never been like this for a moment. He desperately hopes that he can have the ability to directly read other people's hearts, or a potion that can make people ask and answer questions.

But this is all just fantasy.

So how can I get the other person to speak? 10 minutes, what else can I do to make the other party speak in such a short time?

Inflict physical pain?Or is it verbal torture?

Incentive?Or rather, a threat?

But does he have anything that can threaten the other party...?

what......

A stomach-churning answer popped up in her mind, causing the doctor's pupils to shrink suddenly. She raised her head and stretched out her arms to touch the drawer of her desk. Her fingertips trembled as she touched the cold object and placed it. That thing was taken out.

——Click, click, click...

Pushing his thumb upward, the blade of the wallpaper knife slowly came out, with a cold light emitting from the tip. Faced with this sharp object that ordinary people would like to keep as far away from themselves as safe as possible, the doctor slowly pressed the sword against on his throat.

"...Tell me, Yabu, or I'll stab my throat with a wallpaper knife."

It was clearly a commanding and threatening tone, but at this moment it felt like a begging.

Ha...yeah, that's the threat.

After thinking about it for a while, the doctor could use to threaten the other party, but his own life.

"Tell me, Yabu, tell me..." The doctor's voice had a hint of choking, because this behavior was undoubtedly using his importance in the other person's heart to intimidate the other person.

This was an extremely despicable threat. Whether he agreed or kept silent, he had already completely lost.

"I will say this, Doctor, please...don't hurt yourself."

"..."

So sad......

Before threatening, the doctor expected Yao Bu's answer, but when she heard what Yao Bu said at this moment, it was a request that seemed absurd to outsiders.

I feel so sick in my stomach...

The hand holding the knife had already been put down because it could not stop trembling. The tear glands, which seemed to have been abandoned long ago, began to secrete bitter liquid, which made the doctor feel an uncontrollable soreness in his eyes and an uncontrollable pain in his throat. She started to make a small choking sound, but because she didn't want to be heard by Yabu, she suppressed it firmly.

Should I laugh now?You should laugh...after all, lo and behold, he was really threatened by this playful coercion.

He really cares about himself.

'Hahaha......'

But maybe, after this, what he cares about is no longer himself, but the similarities of his past self.

The doctor who often did physical examinations knew very well that she had been well taken care of by Yabu when she came out of the sarcophagus, and she did not have any physical diseases. However, at this moment, she felt as if her heart was going to explode.

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*Perhaps what he cared about was always the doctor who was in sync with his time.

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Chapter 92 Ontological Paradox

Passive.

That is, passive information theory, also known as ontological paradox (Ontological Paradox) or bootstrap paradox (Bootstrap Paradox).

Whether it's an animation called Stone Gate, or the TV series where a blue phone booth flies around, as long as it's a work related to time travel, this kind of paradox often appears.

The simple understanding of this paradox is that something is sent back to the past, causing an infinite loop that has no traceable source, making this thing a paradox that was not created but actually exists.

"Suppose, I like the music of a person in history and want to talk to that person, and he can time travel, phew..."

Yabu, who had just recovered from the effects of the medicine, had not fully recovered his strength. Every time he finished speaking, he needed to take a brief breather.

"So, I took all of that person's writings with me, traveled in time to a time when that person still existed, and wanted to visit him."

However, after "I" searched everywhere, a fact that made people's hair stand on end was placed in front of "I", a time traveler.

- There is no one who makes this music.

"But you have obviously heard those works in the future...ah..." Before he could finish his doubtful words, the doctor had already thought of the answer.

"Yes......"

The doctor's voice seemed a little strange, with a feeling that he was trying to restrain something, but Yabu, who couldn't see the doctor's situation, didn't dare to stop explaining.

He was afraid that the current doctor would really stab her in the neck, and the marking results showed that this doctor would really do that.

"When I traveled back in time, I couldn't find that person, but I liked these pieces of music very much. In order to let these pieces of music exist in this world, I published the works I brought."

"I" is the creator of these musics in history, and "I" became me.

But at this time, there was a strange element in the whole story.

——those writings.

"Who created that music in the very beginning?"

These musics seem to be endowed with certain characteristics. They are like a line emerging from a straight time axis, bending and connecting to other time points, forming a circle.

A circle with no starting point and no end.

"This music can be said to appear out of thin air. It has no source and cannot be traced back."

This is unsourced, unsourced information, information whose exact source cannot be known.

And throughout, this whole story also reflects the core point of this paradox.

——Time travelers will not change history, because time travelers themselves are history.

"Everything we do will promote the development of history towards a known ending."

"..."

"So, I will definitely go back, because I am the doctor and you have already determined the past. Think back to the past, doctor, when did you go home, and did you see me when you went home."

Of course the doctor knows this.

My past self went out with Elena for three days and returned home on the night of the third day.

Judging from the fact that the time on both sides of the pendant is synchronized, that is tonight.

And I did see Yabu at that time.

"Doctor, it has happened in the past. I will definitely match what you remember and return home before the time you remember."

It was a certainty in the past, so it will definitely happen again.

No, it's not so much a happening as a reenactment.

"I don't believe...I don't believe that everything can't be changed!" The doctor felt that her vision was darkened and there was some slight tinnitus. She held her forehead with both hands and pressed it firmly with her thumbs. I have some bulging temples.

千;?.?:寻.;,免;:,?!费!小'说,:."!裙.!?'!2.:;5?!"!5!;;,,5;",!?9".;"?5.:;.?3",;0:0　　“一定有什么不对的地方......”

I don’t believe it, or I already believe it, but I can’t accept it.

To refute Yabu, we must refute his statement.

The past cannot be changed?Is everything you do just part of history?

What a joke!This kind of thing, this kind of thing...

If you accept that the past tense cannot be changed, doesn't that mean you accept that Yaobu ​​is bound to die.

"You are wrong." The doctor grabbed the clothes on his chest with his hands and spoke in a rapid voice that was negative to Yabu, but seemed to be strengthening his heart.

"You can't go back. I won't let Dalia see the oasis, and I won't let you press down the pendant. Then you won't be able to go back. I can drag it down until tomorrow! Until tomorrow. After time I get back home! Like this, like this..."

At least this shows that the past can be changed...

"I will be deported at 5:50. This is bound to happen because it has already happened."

The time now is 5:45.

"You look like this now? Don't fool me, Yabu. I admit that what you said really shook me, but like I just said, all your methods of going back have been..."

"Because one of the information the doctor knew was wrong."

"......what?"

"Dalia's goal is not to see the oasis, because it's impossible."

The time doesn't match up.

Dalia learned about the oasis after she came here. She learned about it through Ifrit's fairy tale book. Before that, when she recruited Yabu, she didn't even know what an oasis was or that there was an oasis. Something, she couldn't possibly aim to see the oasis.

"...But you don't know what her goal is."

"PhD......"

"If you don't know, you can't accomplish it, right? Right!" The doctor's voice no longer had the intrusiveness of the past, but instead contained a hint of choking that was hard to imagine in this doctor, "right... ..”

"Zhao Bu... tell me, this is right, tell me!"

"Doctor, whether I know or not is not important from the beginning..."

From the beginning to the end, Yanbu understood that the doctor was very smart, at least much smarter than himself. Under the same conditions, the doctor could definitely think of more things that he could think of.

She actually already knew, but she still refused to accept it.

The doctor who has lost something important is like a child who has lost her way in an alley. She knows that it would be better to wait where she is if she continues walking, but her paranoia that is almost crazy prevents her from walking any further. If you don’t go down, you will never stop.

What time is it now and how long has it been since he lived in Chernobog? Yabu doesn't know.

But Yabu, who had taken care of the doctor for several months, could feel that the doctor was mentally exhausted. She had trapped herself in this dead end for who knows how long.

It was his own death that made the doctor trap himself in this alley and refused to come out.

This was his own fault, so it was up to him to get the doctor out of this dead end.

"Doctor, you have already thought of it, haven't you..."

...get some rest, doctor.

Then...let it go.

"This information [Dalia's goal] is passive information."

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*There is no concept of when the circle was formed. The circle is already there.

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