I, with a long knife in my hand, can only do one move

"I don't always live on the bookshelf, I always need a private place to rest."

Before Cheng Rang asked, Leticia answered directly as if she knew what question he wanted to ask.

"Sit." She pointed to the chair opposite the coffee table.

Questions popped up in his mind one after another, and after Cheng Rang pulled out his chair and sat down, he couldn't wait to ask, "What happened after that?"

He knew that Leticia must know what he was asking.

But who would have thought that Leticia suddenly asked another question: "In your eyes, what is freedom?"

Cheng Rang was taken aback: "You seem to have asked me this question once, and you seem to have also said, don't answer questions with questions."

"It seems that you remember quite clearly." Leticia sat on the sofa and gently smoothed the skirt corner of her pale gold dress with her hands.

Cheng Rang watched Leticia's actions, and found that although it seemed normal, it was full of disobedience.

What's wrong...

With a scrutinizing gaze, Cheng Rang carefully looked at Leticia in front of him from head to toe, and compared with the messy memories in his mind before, he suddenly noticed the difference.

clothes on her body.

It's not the black and white sailor suit and white stockings that I customized for him, but a light golden robe that covers the naked skin of the whole body like the first time we met.

"This..."

Leticia found that Cheng Rang had noticed the difference in her body, first waited politely for a while, and found that he really didn't intend to continue, and then slowly said: "I don't know if it is the difference in strength, or you I have experienced something special. In short, the normal situation should be that everyone will not realize what happened before, except me."

"So what exactly did you do?"

Leticia felt helpless at Cheng Rang's impatient questioning, she shook her head lightly and said, "You have to go on a date with Isabella before eight o'clock, so I don't need those things that will give you headaches. Let me explain it to you."

"All in all, those troublesome things are over, and it's probably as if they never happened."

Cheng Rang let out an ooh at first, then suddenly turned around and said, "Huh? How did you know I was going on a date?"

From the very beginning, he only said that he was in a hurry. On the roof not far from the city wall in the quarantine area, there was only an agreement between himself and Isabella. How could it be possible in Leticia, which is more than ten kilometers away? Know so clearly!

Leticia said: "Because this is an event that has already been determined, I won't even interfere, and you will definitely rush back to meet her before eight o'clock."

"Interference, what is the interference?" Cheng Rang waved his hand, and said simply: "I only know that you are floating in the sky naked, speaking the lines of the second class, and rubbing a ball with one hand to face the monster, and then the screen flashes into That's it now!"

"The future is given by the past, and what has already happened is an established fact." Leticia waved her hand and pulled out a book from the shelf, wrapped it with a pure white spell ribbon and sent it to Cheng Rang .

She raised her chin slightly to indicate to Cheng Rang: "Turn over as you like."

Could it be that the answer is still here?

The heavy weight of the book in his hand indicates that this heavy book must have a lot of pages, at least more than 1000 pages. Cheng Rang opened the book with doubts.

"Page 562."

Even before Cheng Rang could see the number of the page he had turned, Leticia had already spoken a number.

Focus on the open book

Looking at the lower right corner of the page, the cursive number "562" proves what Letitia said is correct.

"What do you mean, you are a great prophet? But if you spend all your time with books like you, you can probably guess which page I turned. What's the point?"

Leticia sighed softly and said: "This is destined to happen, there is no need to get familiar with it. To tell you the truth, I haven't even touched the books in this room much."

She went on to say: "For human beings, the choices you think you are free are just leading you to events that have been determined in the future. This is something that has already been determined by what has happened, that is, the established facts in the past. So I would say that freedom is not about being able to do what you want, but being able not to do what you don’t want to do.”

Chapter 24 Cause and Effect

"I've heard what you said before." Cheng Rang snapped the book in his hand shut, "I asked you what the difference was, but you said you didn't expect me to understand."

"So you still have questions about that now."

"of course."

Leticia paused and said: "You are aware that the cause and effect of the world line has changed, and the previous memories have also been retained. Based on this, I can responsibly infer that the world you have traveled through should not be just another one. As simple as a parallel world or parallel universe, it should also include changes to major causal differences in the past world..."

"what are you saying?"

"You have changed the history of a world...not even many. But it doesn't make sense...I don't know how to explain it to you."

Leticia seemed unable to find a reasonable explanation for what Cheng Rang had experienced, and frowned helplessly.

"But all in all, you can't be a normal person." She came to this conclusion after thinking for a while.

Cheng Rang suppressed the surprise in his heart, and said with a smile: "Your words sound like insults."

According to Leticia's speech, Cheng Rang was indeed able to incorporate all the events in Hersharemz Rot that went back four years ago.I have changed history and made history.

But after continuing to communicate with Leticia, Cheng Rang discovered something was wrong here.

"paradox"

The system issued a task to use the identity of Gracefell to investigate the origin of Labra in the Little Garden and the cause of Hershalemzlot, but the subsequent process was that Cheng Rang used the identity of Gracefell to directly return Four years ago, Helsharemz Rot saved the world and contributed to the establishment of Libra, and then appeared in Little Garden, wrote legends, and made history.

But if... If Cheng Rang did not choose to complete that task at that time, but chose to return directly, Labra, who was previously recognized by Hakoba, still appeared nearly a hundred years ago, and Gracefield at that time Who will it be?How did the second enchantment disaster of Helshalymzrot end?How can an existence that has never appeared write legends, gain merits, and be recognized by Hakoniwa?

This is where the paradox cannot be explained.

Take the most classic and simplest example: "I'm lying."

If the person who says it is lying, then "I am lying" is a lie, so he is telling the truth; but if it is the truth, he is lying again.Contradictions are inevitable.

But it is obvious that the paradoxes of time and space are much more complicated than these, and cannot be explained clearly with such simple words.

In Leticia's words, all causes and effects are doomed from the moment of its birth and cannot be changed.

"But all of this is limited to the race bound by cause and effect, that is, human beings."

Races that are bound by cause and effect will produce results from cause, and cause must follow fruit, which is equivalent to the arrival of autumn, so the leaves are yellow;

But certain observers can influence the order of cause and effect to a certain extent and change it.

For example, the famous Wheeler delayed choice experiment is a thought experiment proposed by a human physicist John Wheeler. It is a deformation of the double-slit experiment. huge differences between.

This experiment proves that the behavior of the observer can determine what happened in the past, that is, the effect happened before the cause.This conclusion is contrary to the traditional view of reality.

This level of behavior is of course impossible in the cognition of human beings, but it does not mean that it is not feasible in the cognition of other races.

The Time Curse-World is a taboo-level spell that allows Leticia to use the behavior of interfering with the causal level to completely crush and obliterate the existence bound by the causal.

Because my defense ability is very strong, all your attacks are ineffective against me.Because I can absorb your attack and return it in a doubled form, your moves cannot defeat me. This degree of causal effect is basically equivalent to nothing in front of the time curse-world.

"Then you are so awesome, why didn't you kill me with this move?" Cheng Rang asked.

But Leticia raised the corners of her mouth and said with a nasty smile: "Then how can you be sure that I haven't used this trick on you? After all, if I didn't explain it to you, you wouldn't even Don't know anything."

Such a dispute is meaningless...and Cheng Rang is also concerned about Leticia's chaos.

Come to the practice and feel speechless.

"Interfering with cause and effect requires paying a huge price, most of which are death at the cost of existence, and it is precisely because of the loss of death that I can afford this price."

"But this is also cause and effect."

"Who says it's not?" Leticia leaned on the soft back of the sofa with a relaxed expression, and gently closed her eyes.

Perhaps it is precisely because this ability can bring her everything she wants that Leticia is so eager to pursue the death that she cannot achieve.

Because you can't die, you can't die.

This tight closed loop is both a sail and a shackle on his way to explore the truth.

In short, since the matter has been resolved, it is meaningless to ask further questions, and choosing to live the present is what Cheng Rang cares about.

"It's 45:[-], I should go." Cheng Rang got up from the chair, "I heard a half-understood truth from you, and in the end it means that our destiny has been decided from the very beginning. Yes, it can't be changed, can it?"

"For you, not necessarily." Leticia opened her eyes and looked at the black-haired man in front of her.

"Oh?"

"Because I'm talking about normal people."

"...So it does sound like you are scolding me."

Cheng Rang couldn't help laughing, waved his hand at Leticia and said, "I understand, I'm going to change my destiny with my own hands, and be a free man. If I don't want to do anything, I won't do anything."

If you don't want to accept the predetermined fate, then don't accept it, but let it go and break it severely.

A shiny silver 1 Zell coin was held in Cheng Rang's hand.

"Guess pros and cons?"

"Are you a child?" Leticia looked at Cheng Rang with a little disdain in her eyes.

"A man is a boy till he dies."

With a ding, the coin was bounced by Cheng Rang, spinning rapidly in mid-air.

"The opposite."

Based on the mass of the coin and the speed at which it flipped and stayed in the air, Leticia easily calculated the result when it finally fell to the ground.

But in a flash of the knife, Cheng Rang volley inserted the coin flipping in mid-air into the tip of the knife and stopped falling.

This precise grasp of skills and strength, as if showing off, made the corner of Leticia's mouth twitch.

"You are lying."

"The weak follow the rules, and the strong make the rules." Cheng Rang flicked his wrist and threw the coin on the tip of the knife back into his palm, and the long knife went into its sheath with a click, "Which one are you?"

The door of the room was closed, and Cheng Rang had already left, leaving Leticia sitting silently on the sofa.

Her lips moved slightly: "boring."

The weird city that is still covered by thick fog in winter greets the night early and is lit up by shining neon lights.

The news broadcast on the big screen is making noise as the loudspeaker vibrates, telling passers-by what interesting new things happened in HL today.

"This afternoon, a group of large-scale drone armed groups attacked Clinton Avenue for no reason. The number of casualties was about 200. The severely affected areas were concentrated in shops No. 238 to No. 253. The paranoid king Yali Kira announced that he was responsible for the attack. .”

"Because the crowd was evacuated in a timely manner, there were no more casualties in the adjacent affected blocks....What a pity! A nosy coffee shop clerk who was responsible for the evacuation of the accident, left forever because of her serious injuries We, this is also the price we pay for being too naive in this city, please take the general public as a warning, and don't easily imitate and learn."

The picture flashed on the screen, and in the photo, a pile of mosaic mechanical parts were scattered on the ground, and a human figure could be vaguely seen, the black and white maid outfit torn apart by bullets and gunfire, and the blood and engine oil. The short pink hair dyed red seemed to be telling passers-by the tragedy that happened before.

"Next, another piece of news will be broadcast..."

Chapter 25 The agreement that cannot be reached, and the agreement that must be reached.

In the home of the Campbell sisters, the clock hanging on the wall is ticking, and the time is slowly pointing to [-]:[-] p.m. He sighed inexplicably.

Why haven't you come yet... Is my clock running 5 minutes faster?

Isabella stood up, paused for a while as if struggling, and then sat back, dispelling the idea of ​​turning the minute hand of the wall clock back three or ten minutes in her mind.

"This time...he must never be given another chance!" Isabella pouted and raised her chin again, and her legs swayed even more under the table.

Although he had adjusted the time before, Cheng Rang failed to come as scheduled. Such behavior would only add trouble to his soft-hearted self.

Aile Bella couldn't go home on time because of her busy work. Since the new arbitrary door system was installed, although the time on the road has been shortened by more than half, the frequency of her overtime work seems to have increased because of this.

Office of the Information Exchange Division of Libra.

Dozens of computer mainframes are running day and night in the tightly divided work area grid. Elebela is typing on the keyboard in front of her at her workstation, planning the reports recently submitted by the field personnel. Organize and file in the database.

Look at Ailebella who works hard

He looked particularly attractive. The clothes he wore were no longer the washed white beige sweater and jeans before, but a slightly more formal black and white suit vest and black skirt. The whole person looked mature and full of heroism.

The bottom of the glass was placed on the table and made a sound, so Eilebella, who was attracted by the attention, turned her head to look. A steaming cup of hand-ground coffee was exuding a rich aroma. Another capable woman wearing glasses Smiling and looking at himself.

"Ah, Anila...Thank you."

"Pay attention to rest properly, we are all a little embarrassed by your serious work." Anila put one hand on her hip, and joked to her in a slightly relaxed tone.

"Where is it... It's just that there are more reports today, and I haven't had time to deal with them." Elerbella took the coffee and took a sip.

"Some messy incidents are happening in this city all the time. You have to treat it as a daily routine. These things have not been dealt with. In other words, there is sister Isa at home waiting for you to go back. After finishing the task at hand, you Just go back."

"It doesn't matter, I should complete my tasks well, not to mention..." Elebela's eyes shifted to the nameplate placed next to the workstation——

Intelligence Compilation Team 4, Team Leader: Alebella Campbell.

Such words are engraved on it.