The red moon returns

Chapter 458 I have a friend

Pie may fall from the sky, but it won’t be my turn. If I want to eat the pie, I’d better do it myself.

There is gain and loss, and there is no gain without effort. Lynch has always believed in this belief.

Even if there were billions of Lords of Glory acting as middlemen, such a crucial secret would not be revealed to oneself easily. Moreover, besides the skills, there were also small gifts attached, so one would inevitably pay an equal or even higher price.

This is reasonable, and Lynch can feel at ease. Otherwise, he will suspect that he will be silenced afterwards.

There is indeed a price, but the price is a little unexpected.

After entering the River of Time, Lynch will not go to the Silver Gate to meet Tavier At-Umr, an incarnation of the Lord of Billions of Glory, but will go around the Angle of Time to pay homage to the Lord of Tindalos, the leader of the Hounds of Tindalos, and hand over a small box to the other party.

It sounds a bit scary, but it is logical and doesn't seem like a scam. And the scarier it sounds, the more credible it is.

So Lynch agreed. After all, this was arranged by the Lord of Billions of Lights. Although it was an evil god, judging from its current performance, it was still trustworthy.

It's not that it has no malicious intent. In fact, one of Lynch's biggest experiences in the past few months is that it is difficult to distinguish between evil gods with good intentions and bad intentions. They simply do something for a certain purpose. It doesn't matter whether it is good or evil, and they don't care about the consequences of doing so on the mortal world.

However, Lynch judged from the current situation that Yog-Sothoth's goals did not conflict with his own and there was no need for him to be deceived, so he was willing to trust the other party temporarily until he found something wrong.

Besides, the neighbors didn’t remind me, so he must not have died.

Correspondingly, the Yis people would teach him how to avoid the hound's mark before he entered the River of Time, and to take the goods first and pay later. It seemed that, just like Yog-Sothoth, they were not worried at all that he would cheat and deny his promises. Maybe these guys who play with time are all so mysterious.

"Wait, I have another question." After everything was finalized, Lynch finally asked the most concerned question, "Can the past be changed?"

"Hmm?" The Yisi man looked at Lin Qi curiously, as if he was studying his mental journey. He looked at him for a long time before saying, "Okay."

“But why doesn’t anyone do it?”

"How do you know no one does this?"

Lynch opened his mouth, but was speechless.

“In fact, not many people do this.” Ignoring Lin Qi’s expression, the Yis continued to explain, “The cost is too high, and there is no point.”

"Can you explain it?"

"Time has inertia and will develop along a trajectory. If this trajectory is changed, the inertia of time will continue to make automatic corrections until it returns to normal." Lynch nodded. This is the convergence of the world line.

"And this inertia not only affects the people and things being changed, but also the source of the change, that is, the person who is doing it. When he tries to change the past, this inertia will have a huge impact on his existence. If he can't withstand this impact, it will generally manifest as the change being disrupted and failing. If it doesn't fail, then the person who is doing it will be shattered by inertia, and the past, present, and future, all existence will be erased."

Hiss, this is the legendary three deficiencies and five disadvantages in my hometown, only this is more thorough. Lin Qi's mouth trembled, and he already felt cold.

"In fact, the executor has to bear not only the impact of the direct change, but also the impact of the change in the future. For example, if you want to change the past and kill a person, then all the behaviors of this person in the future, including the impact on his descendants, will require you to bear a part of the inertia. The same is true for saving a person. This kind of impact is difficult to calculate. It is possible that you killed hundreds or thousands of people, but the inertia is very small, because those people have no influence from generation to generation, or they will die soon for various reasons. In short, their life and death will have little impact on history. But it is also possible that you just want to break a flower pot, but the result is directly erased, because the flower pot will kill someone in the future, and if that person survives, he will become a tyrant, thus changing the fate of countless people."

The three of them were listening attentively. It was wonderful knowledge. Lynch could understand part of it based on the knowledge he had accumulated in his previous life, but the other two ladies had difficulty understanding it.

"So everyone who has the ability to step into the river of time will be very cautious and avoid any active changes to the past. We travel to key historical nodes only for research, not for change. This is why we try our best to avoid the attention of the world and finally clear the memories of the exchangers."

"Wait..." Although she didn't quite understand what was said, Officer Natalie immediately realized the problem. "Telling us this doesn't count as a change? We didn't swear to keep it secret. Can you still erase our memories?"

"That's not possible, but..." Yisi said calmly, "How do you know that this is not the trajectory of time?"

"what?"

"What if all this was supposed to happen? I'm just reconstructing history. No, should I say I'm also a part of history?"

Officer Natalie was overwhelmed. The more she thought about it, the more confused and tangled she became. Her mind was nearly going crazy until Lynch's pipe was put into her mouth and lit. Only then did her confused mind gradually calm down.

Lynch sighed. It was true that one could not be careless for even a moment in the mysterious world. Just hearing some forbidden knowledge almost drove a professional crazy. No, he almost went crazy just by sitting there and thinking about the forbidden knowledge. It seemed that he needed to be more cautious in the future and not try to understand everything.

But Lynch still sighed and continued to ask: "You are talking about the executors, what about the individuals who are changed? For example, if I save someone, what will happen to this person?"

"He will repeatedly encounter life-threatening situations in the second half of his life until he dies. This is the correction of time inertia on him. Moreover, if he leaves behind offspring that should not exist before his death, then the entire lineage of these offspring will frequently encounter dangers and will soon die, allowing time to return to its normal course." The Yis people once again showed their curiosity and asked, "Why do you want to ask these questions?"

"Well, I have a friend who encountered some problems and asked me to ask." Lin Qi smiled awkwardly, "He is in an out-of-control strange object...so, he made a promise that is not easy to fulfill. Isn't this asking me to find a way."

"Is this friend of yours really yourself?" The Yis people didn't delve into it. "It doesn't matter whether it is or not. There is no point in doing that. Even if it succeeds, it will be a torture for the person being changed. What's more, it only changes that timeline, which has no effect on the present. If you really want to help the other party, you should start from the Dreamland. Maybe there is a way to solve it. But I can't give you the specific method. We are not familiar with the Dreamland. Well, I have said everything I should say. So, I wish us a happy cooperation. By the way, this is a small gift from us. I hope you like it. Oh, you will like it."

As he spoke, he pushed over a heavy, thick rectangular metal box, about the size of a computer bag. It was finely crafted and full of technology, clearly exceeding the technology of this era.

(End of this chapter)