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Chapter 611 No way, no way, no way an author would have to take a break and need a leave of absence?
“It’s not hard to understand,” Gu Mian pointed to the horizontal line, “This line can be seen as the timeline of your world, and the three dots on it represent different points in time.”

The dots are labeled 0, x, and y from left to right.

0 represents the time when the evil god statue appeared in that cave.

x represents the time when you discovered the cave.

'y' represents now, this very moment, the exact time when they are actually sitting here.

Gu Mian first placed her hand on 0: "First of all, we need to understand one principle—only by appearing can we be discovered;
"For example, say today, I killed a murderous teacher in this room..."

Even with his mouth gagged, the murderous teacher still managed to conjure a large question mark on his face.

Gu Mian ignored the murder teacher's ghost-like expression: "I've placed his body here. At any time after this point in time, if you come to this room, you will find the murder teacher's body."
“But I killed him today. If you had come to this house yesterday, you wouldn’t have found a body here.”

Louis nodded: "I understand."

He wasn't sure what Gu Mian wanted to say, so he just listened attentively.

Meanwhile, the Killing Teacher, stimulated by Gu Mian's "Killing Teacher Corpse Theory," turned pale, even though his face was originally as white as if it had been splashed with paint.

"Of course, the example I just gave was the situation under normal timeline, but the timeline of your world is slightly different, which causes a bug in the theory that 'only when it appears will it be discovered'."

Gu Mian drew another horizontal line below the previous horizontal axis. This new horizontal line was very long, extending from the far left to the far right of the window.

After drawing the line, he marked the three points 0, x, and y in order on the new horizontal line.

Gu Mian pointed to the new line below: "This is an infinitely long horizontal line, which is the timeline of the normal world, that is, the timeline of the evil god statue you discovered. This is an infinitely distant horizontal axis."

As he spoke, he pointed back to the short line above, then connected the leftmost side and the side with the y-th point with an arc: "This is your world. If, at this very moment, time has been loaded, then this arc represents the load. Now I will describe the content of your timeline. Let's assume the leftmost side is a save point..."

Since Gu Mian didn't know at what point this world would save its data, she simply made an assumption about it, since it wouldn't affect the conclusion of her reasoning anyway.

He then marked the small segment from the far left to 0: "This period is the time from when the game is saved until the evil god statue appears in the cave. Let's assume this period is '1'. Note that the evil god statue does not exist in the cave during this period."
"Next, the period from 0 to x is the time between the appearance of the statue and its discovery; let's assume it's '2'."

Finally, the time from point x to point y is from the discovery of the statue until now; let's assume it's '3'.

“We just assumed that we would load the save file now, that is, load the save file at point y,” Gu Mian’s hand traced a circle along the arc and finally returned to the far left of the line segment, “and then we would reappear here and repeat the time period '1', '2', '3' again. In other words, if the system loads the save file, your time will only repeat within this small segment, which can be considered a cycle.”

“But the timeline inside the cave is a little different,” Gu Mian reached out and drew the endless line below again, “The timeline from the save point to 0 is '1', from 0 to x is '2', and from x to y is '3'. These segments are the same as the ones above.”

The Killing Teacher was in a daze. He first listened to the "Killing Teacher's Corpse Theory" in front of this terrifying lower class, and then he heard him talking about 0123xy, save and load timelines. He felt like his brain was about to explode.

He felt that the man's voice even drowned out the cheers of the upper class below, making him feel so excited and wanting to die. "But at point y, the world reloaded," Gu Mian's hand stopped at point y on the line below, "but the evil god disagreed. It believed that time should continue to move forward, so it tried to break this rule and force time forward. But at this time, the world had already reloaded and returned to the far left of the timeline. The world restarted time period '1'. Note that the evil god statue has not yet appeared in this time period. There should not be such a thing in the world. So the statue in the cave became Schrödinger's statue, a statue that is both dead and alive;

"In the world's perception, it shouldn't exist at this time, but in one's own perception, it should have existed long ago, so it became what you see."

It was transformed into a statue of an evil god that was both dead and alive, and then it became ruins.

But at least it was a success. A world rollback erases everything that exists after all save points are wiped out, but the ruins of the statue remained. It wasn't eliminated by the world; it succeeded.

“It followed its own path without being rolled back,” Gu Mian continued to walk to the right along point y, “until the outside world line reached 0, which is the time when the evil god statue appeared. So a new evil god statue will appear in the cave, and then the '1', '2', and '3' time points will continue to repeat on the straight line. It is worth mentioning that whenever the outside world cycles back to '1', the statue will become a Schrödinger's statue, a void statue. It will become ruins until the next 0 point arrives.”

Gu Mian repeatedly wrote '1', '2', '3' after the y-point on the long line below.

“I understand,” Louis said, looking at the two lines on the window. “Our time is a line segment, a cycle. The statue’s time, however, is an infinitely long straight line. Although it is affected by us and constantly dies and is reborn, its timeline always moves forward.”

“That’s right,” Gu Mian nodded. “The statue has its own independent timeline. It won’t disappear or change location due to a rollback. And you picked up all the junk the moment you discovered the cave… cough cough, bringing out the remains of the statue inside. After that, there was only one complete statue left in the cave. The statue’s timeline is independent. It won’t disappear due to a rollback, nor will it increase due to a rollback. If the world rolls back to before you discovered the statue after you found it and cleaned the cave, then when you find the statue in the cave again, there won’t be any remains. You will only see one complete statue, or one statue and the remains of another statue.”

"Similarly, the statue's remains are unaffected by rollbacks. Imagine that after you take the broken statue out of the cave, the world suddenly rolls back to before you discovered the evil god statue. You've forgotten your memories of the statue, but the statue you took out will not be affected. It will still be where it was before the rollback and where it is after the rollback. At that time, you will be shocked to find the remains of this unfamiliar statue in your home, in your laboratory, and in your museum."

"You might wonder why this thing is here? How did it get here? If someone is smart enough, they might be able to deduce that the world has gone through another time loop."

"So, after the statue was discovered, did the above situation occur in your world?" Gu Mian asked.

Louis stared blankly at the two world lines spreading through the dust, and after a long while, he finally managed to say, "No."

In other words, after the statue was discovered, the world never rewound to the point in time before the statue was discovered.

“There’s one more thing,” Gu Mian continued, “As long as the statue keeps moving, the slight rollbacks in the world will inevitably be detected. The statue’s position is not affected by the rollbacks. If I put it in room A on the first day and put it in room B on the second day, and the world suddenly rolls back to the first day on the second day, you will find that the statue is in room B on the first day, even though you put it in room A that day. If you’re smart, you can guess what happened, right?”

Louis turned his gaze to Gu Mian's face, seemingly conjuring up something like, "This kid is terrifyingly powerful."

He stared at Gu Mian for a long time before finally speaking: "You really are..."

genius?

"ghost……"

Gu Mian: "..."

Is this a proper way to praise someone? "Terrifyingly terrifying" would be an understatement!

There are no pictures, so please use your imagination!
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