Chapter Ninety-Eight: Fate and Prophecy

Steel City, Laboratory 04.

The treasure bag sent Leibniz away, and found that the gossip leader had already sat on the chair and winked at him, and he was as naughty as a child. When he was crying and laughing, Treasure Bag suddenly remembered that "the leader appeared in the city", and said: "I have a question for you, and I can only ask you, because you are the only player who has been to the other world, and the only player who has observed the leader up close. ”

The gossip sect leader put down the things in his hand and said, "You ask." "When it comes to the leader, his whole aura is different.

At the beginning of the "Doomsday Confrontation", players did not blindly endure the invasion of otherworldly creatures, they tried to fight back, and the gossip master, who was best at stealth assassination, went to the otherworld along the wormhole, with the goal of killing the leader of the dragon and solving the war from the source. Of course, everyone knows the ending: the gossip leader was discovered by the leader and the operation failed.

"I know you've already talked about what you've seen and heard on your trip to the Atlas at the Battle Meeting of the Restoration Mission, but today, you should have new ideas to add, right?"

"The Otherworld, though vast, is desolate. If the resources on our side are 100, then the resources of the other world are less than 10. I have some wilderness survival skills, but I don't think I can last three days in the other world. It's not just food and drinking that are not only a matter of food, but also the composition of the atmosphere, the density of the air, the gravity environment, and the concentration of radiation that are not suitable for our survival. ”

"Why do you think you can sustain a large army and produce a large number of pioneers despite the lack of resources?"

"The resources they need are not the 'resources' we refer to in context, and you have more say in this than I do."

The treasure bag is noncommittal. Indeed, otherworldly creatures are strange species beyond imagination and cannot be measured by common sense. "Go on."

"'No tree grows in a pot.'" Using elven proverbs, the gossip leader drew a circle with his fingers: "So the creatures of the other world vigorously develop space technology, they open wormholes and go to other places to collect resources. This is the nature of their race, constantly plundering and absorbing, almost like the group of plane bandits in the world of power, of course, the latter have no special hostility towards us, and the creatures of the other world want us all to die. ”

"Speaking of wormholes, this is just what we call them, and the creatures of the other world call wormholes 'bridges'. ”

"It doesn't look like a bridge!"

"Because they are good at space technology, for them, bridges, like wormholes, are designed to cross certain obstacles in the three-dimensional world and connect the two sides. Therefore, in their lore, bridges have a very, very important status (like the 'doors' of necromantic creatures) and require the protection of the gods. Considering that otherworldly creatures make their fortune from wormholes, it's understandable why they worship wormholes. Okay, you go ahead, tell me how you assassinated the leader? ”

"I [sneaked] all the way, and with intuition and analysis, I found the capital of the other world, and then found the lone leader. It seems to be a ball of light, but in fact, the light is only an appearance, and there is a hidden body inside. I didn't have a second chance, so I didn't rush into it. When I tried my best to use the [Scouting Technique] to find its vital point, the leader suddenly discovered me......"

Speaking of this, the gossip leader held his head, his smart eyes were blank for a moment, his ten fingers trembled from pulling his hair hard, and his teeth were clenched, and anyone could see that he blamed himself.

Baibaobao smiled and patted the other party on the shoulder awkwardly: "It's not your fault, you've done well enough." ”

"If only I could call the other thieves......"

"At that time, the communication was cut off, and the time was tight, so you couldn't get in touch with the helper. Don't think about it, let it pass. The treasure bag is actually not very good at coaxing people, but he knows what to take to comfort the other party now: "Hey, I'll help you process the Astantto (special) three-piece set now,

What do you think? ”

If the leader was really able to time travel, maybe it would have known that it would be assassinated, so all the actions of the gossip sect leader were useless, and the fault really wasn't him. The treasure bag will not be stupid enough to say this, what if the gossip sect leader is deeply affected and will never recover?

The guy who controls his destiny and can anticipate everything in the future......

The "Doomsday Confrontation" should be lost.

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Steel City.

"So, in fact, fate exists, huh?" Fermat asked.

Strunm frowned, always feeling that it was not good for two scientists to discuss such an ethereal thing as fate, but there was no way to refute it.

In general, theologians tend to think that God created the whole world, even to the point of controlling fate. God is the beginning of time, the origin of matter, the first impulse, and the cause of all things. And the alchemists don't think so. Alchemy advocates equivalent exchange, ice becomes water, water becomes steam, fire becomes electricity, electricity becomes magnetism, and the transformations between matter and matter, energy and energy are equivalent, and water or electricity can never appear out of thin air. There is no god who can create the world, at most he transforms something else into the current world, and if so, the alchemist is a weakened version of the god, and creation is only an experiment (this statement also leads to alchemy being denounced as a heresy by the Holy See).

There are countless gods in the Qiankun world, and the magic they have handed down also proves that they are not ethereal, but the alchemists still believe that the world has no will, the probability of anything happening is random, and the gods, as higher creatures, actually have to follow the theorems of nature, and cannot interfere with the operation of the world as they want. Apples fall to the ground, corpses rot, and plants burn to ashes...... What really supports the operation of the world and regulates the proper way of everything is the law.

Tym?? The space-time correction mentioned by Mason is that space-time either prevents anyone from destroying the history that is a foregone conclusion, or cooperates with the revision of history, either of which makes it seem that space-time has the will to exist. Of course, some scholars have suggested that we do not choose out of our own will, that every choice is manipulated by fate, and that laws are tools of fate.

"Fate is actually a prophecy!" Stram grumbled.

Just then, His Majesty Leibniz pushed the door open. In order to confirm how well the memories of the two were handled, he eavesdropped on the wavelengths of the two, and finally couldn't help but appear when he heard this: "Prophecy? ”

Strom has long been accustomed to the haunting of His Majesty, after all, Steel City is His Majesty's home: "Yes, I think prophecy is the most meaningless thing in the world. If the future can be predicted, and the future is exactly as prophesied, doesn't that mean that the effort is pointless? To use the fairy tale analogy, the princess would be pricked by the needles of the spinning wheel and die, and in order to prevent the prophecy from coming true, the king smashed all the spinning wheels of the country, so what is the use, the princess finally died on a spinning wheel that appeared out of nowhere. ”

Leibniz: "It can't be too one-sided. Negative prophecies prepare us psychologically, while positive prophecies bring hope to us in the dark. Have you ever heard of the "Prophecy of Qiankun"? ”

"Yes." Strunm was also well-read, and immediately memorized:

"Time turns endlessly, time rolls forward, it is a circle, and it is also a line."

"When the seasons change, this tree withers, and the other tree sprouts. Under the shade of the trees, the ants are happy. ”

"The old lord fled in a hurry in winter, leaving only a secret treasure that could not be opened."

"Mountains of books turned to ashes in the blink of an eye, and the earth fell from the sky."

"Countless tragedies have been repeated, and actors are exhausted from stage to stage."

"Heroes sleep forever, and the rulers of the old times step down from the altar."

"The mirror is shattered, fate

The gears turn, and the selfish must pay for their sins with selflessness. ”

"The despicable rise from the dirt and become the head of the choir, bearing more criticism than praise."

"The sword from the Far East is unsheathed, and the stars fall from the sky, and they are no longer noble."

Strunm tilted his head and thought about it, and said embarrassedly: "I remember so much, I don't remember anything else." ”

"You're talking about the general outline. You should know that "Qiankun Prophecy" has a peculiarity, each sentence of its general outline can give rise to new prophecies, but new prophecies will only be revealed at certain times. Don't look at the general outline, there are not many derivative prophecies. I happen to have a paragraph on hand that has never been made public. ”

Five years ago, in order to cope with the "doomsday confrontation", Steel City also did a lot of work in secret. Leibniz had experienced the last "doomsday confrontation" and knew very well the power of otherworldly creatures, and it was impossible for the Qiankun world, where the forces of necromancy were declining, to stop the invasion of otherworldly creatures. He hid behind the scenes, mobilized the ships, and helped the people of the Gospel Continent evacuate as quickly as possible, while sending puppet troops to slow down the otherworldly creatures as much as possible. The Brain in a Vat coordinates everything and gives millions of orders, even having to fall asleep for up to five years due to exhaustion on the eve of the apocalyptic confrontation.

Since the brain in the vat had never had such a long pause, both Leibniz and Theseus were very nervous and decided that Leibniz would enter the dream of the brain in the vat. It was a bizarre dream, with all sorts of characters and scenes changing like marquees, one second in the majestic and glorious floating island, the next second in the dark and gloomy dungeon, to the left is the dragon's nest covered with gold and silver treasures, and to the right is the cathedral where the organ reverberates. There was no concept of time in the dream, and it took Leibniz some idea of how long it took to find the image of the brain in the vat in the dream, the dying old fortune teller.

So Leibniz told the truth what he had heard from the soothsayer:

"The despicable rise from the dirt and become the head of the choir, bearing more criticism than praise."

"The eagle was betrayed in the deepest sense, and the wounded felt sorry for each other. In the sea of bones, a new star rises and reaches the bottom line of the chessboard to become the king. The shadow and the capitalist deed of sale generally cannot break free, and the clown likes to put on a farce at home. The military flag is covered with wild hemp and cloves, and the mountains bow their heads wherever they go. The clock tightens its clockwork, and every second it only gets closer to a stop, and when it stops, it is dusk. ”

The more Fermat listened, the more wrong it became, how could this prophecy match the history of the Twilight Empire that he knew?

Strom nervously crossed his fingers and read word by word: "The despicable is us, the choir is His Majesty's 'movement', and the eagle is the kingdom of Salamunro, betrayed and wounded...... His Majesty was also betrayed by his teammates! A new star, promoted to a king, and your majesty to become a tyrant of the bones; The shadow is Lord Xueduo, and the capitalist is Schrouder?? Bray, does the clown mean the festering island that is trying to become independent? Frankie is a knight of wild hemp, Nav is a knight of lilacs, and the mountains bow their heads to mean that they are victorious......"

At this point, he suddenly shut up and looked at Fermat, who found that Fermat was just as bewildered as he was.

What does it mean that "the clock tightens its clockwork, and every second it only gets closer to a stop, and when it stops, it is dusk"? Doesn't sound lucky!

"The Prophecy of Qiankun is obscure, divination is one thing, how to interpret it is another, you can interpret it for only a few seconds, but I can't figure it out. Since it can be interpreted, it means that this prophecy is accurate. Leibniz looked at the two of them, smiling, but his trembling voice was like an uncontrollable cry. He took the two of them into his arms and rubbed their heads fiercely: "Since the old times, my soul has been tormented day and night, and it is this prophecy that has given me hope, and it is you, the new generation of necromantic creatures, who give me hope. Thank you very much. ”