It's time to improve the strength of the infinite world

Chapter 189: Change and...departure from linear time?
The school is quiet and lonely at night.

The empty sports field and the dark and silent teaching building stood desolately in the night wind, without any movement.

Logically speaking, an ordinary junior high school girl would never want to come to the school alone during this time, but Suzumiya Haruhi was different. Not only did she dare to come alone, she also went straight to the sports equipment warehouse in the corner of the playground with a clear goal.

In a remote corner behind the warehouse, there are wheelbarrows, line-marking machines and several bags of lime powder.

I don’t know whether it was negligence of the school staff or she had planned it in advance.

But it should be the latter.

"Hey, are you just going to stand there like this?"

After working hard to move all the prepared tools to the side of the sports field, Miss Suzumiya breathed a sigh of relief and wiped the non-existent beads of sweat from her forehead. She thought for a moment and turned to look at someone who was watching with his hands behind his back. She saw that the other person had a nonchalant expression on his face.

This made Miss Suzumiya feel inexplicably unconvinced, just like before, so she decisively called out.

——Doesn’t he want to know what he’s going to do at all?

——Isn’t he a little curious?

"Oh, I see. Wait a minute--" Hearing Miss Suzumiya's shout, the magician who was thinking about something with his head down looked up, then nodded and walked over casually.

"Hey, is there anything you want to ask...eh?"

The junior high school girl crossed her arms and held her head high in a somewhat arrogant manner, but she did not expect that the other party would walk past her, push the marking machine, and then walk quickly on the playground. White, conspicuous lines appeared on the ground as she walked past.

Suzumiya Haruhi was stunned for a moment, subconsciously staring at the scene with wide eyes.

——What is going on?
——Shouldn’t he ask himself what he wants to do?
——Why didn't you even ask and just started to operate the marking machine? !

Xia Zhi moved very fast, as if he didn't need to think at all, and he pushed the line drawing machine back and forth on the sports field. And whether he was walking in a straight line, an arc, or suddenly turning to change the angle, he was very decisive and didn't hesitate at all.

At first glance it looks like a random, disorganized mess, but in fact it is not.

From watching the whole process, you can find that he obviously had a plan in mind, as if he was referring to some real example and drew it in one go.

"..."

"..."

Suzumiya Haruhi was speechless, and when she came to her senses, the young man had already finished the work. He pushed the marking machine leisurely back to the edge of the sports field and stopped beside it.

"Okay, done."

He spoke briskly, clapping his hands.

What was presented on the sports field was a huge and abstract graffiti. The strange pattern looked like the Nazca Lines. It was obvious at a glance that it would definitely make the news tomorrow.

In fact, this is indeed the case. After all, it is the famous "campus graffiti incident."

When Xia Zhi learned about Suzumiya Haruhi's information, he naturally investigated the matter. Therefore, after seeing the actions of the current junior high school student Miss Suzumiya, he already understood what her plan was... So there was nothing to worry about, and he simply copied and pasted the pattern.

Three years later, he knew what the graffiti should look like.

And now, he copied the graffiti from three years ago through memory.

If you think about it this way, things suddenly become very interesting, because it means that once this fact is acknowledged and this history is preserved, then it means that -

When Xia Zhi conducted an investigation three years later, what he saw were the graffiti he had left three years ago.

And the graffiti he left behind three years ago is what he saw when he conducted an investigation three years later.

When the snake of time bites its own tail, a paradox has undoubtedly emerged. If you look into it carefully, you will find that although it seems to be a reasonable cycle, his changes to history have become a part of history itself. However, in fact, the real irony lies in the origin of the graffiti.

How does the information subject appear?
It can't be that it just appears out of thin air in time, right?
This is of course impossible, after all, even information is conserved. Therefore, this graffiti can only be the creation of Miss Suzumiya herself, and it is the embodiment of her own will. If Xia Zhi did not do it directly, Miss Suzumiya would probably also instruct him to draw such graffiti next.

It was just that he chose to take direct action, changing the course of history...

Now it depends on whether Miss Suzumiya is willing to acknowledge this history so that the world line process can be fully covered.

As long as she agrees, then the so-called paradox may not be a big deal. In the final analysis, it all depends on how Miss Suzumiya chooses this history, just like how she decides the form of existence of the world.

After being stunned for a long while, the leader, who is still a junior high school girl, finally reacted. She was suddenly excited: "You...how do you know that this is what I want! How did you know!" There were little stars in her eyes, and she grabbed his sleeves tightly with excitement.

There's no way to deny this!

There are still some explanations for what happened before, such as saying that I must have seen it wrong, and he was actually very close to me at the time, so he was able to catch me so quickly; or saying that he knew me one-sidedly, so he was able to call out my name, and so on.

Although these reasons are a bit far-fetched, they can be accepted reluctantly.

However, how to explain it this time?
Suzumiya Haruhi was very sure that the graffiti was exactly what she had imagined. But before that, it only existed in her mind. At this moment, she could not describe the wonderful feeling in her heart.

My heart is beating faster!
It's like I've finally met destiny!
This is surreal! This must be the surreal thing I want to see!
"you guess?"

The magician looked at the graffiti on the sports field and smiled.

"I don't want to guess! Tell me now!" The captain of the trumpet held him tightly, fearing that if he let go, he would disappear like an unreal dream. There was also a hint of urgency in his tone, "Are you really a magician? Or a time traveler? Is that right?"

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"..."

“…All of them.”

Xia Zhi blinked and said calmly.

This time he did not deny or fool around, but chose to admit it directly.

The previous conversation, the discussion about whether God had failed when creating the world, was just a preliminary test, to see if this was the case, and also to see the reaction of this suspected Kami-sama... It can be seen that Miss Suzumiya is somewhat shaken.

Although she didn't seem to be self-conscious on the surface, she seemed to be somewhat conflicted subconsciously.

Xia Zhi naturally wouldn't be so arrogant as to think that it was all her words that caused it. The only reason she could say was that the captain's heart was already in a mess. She was already very conflicted inside, and had been in a state of tug-of-war, like a balance that was swinging left and right.

He just added a little weight to one side of this shaky scale.

But, this is not enough...

Although the captain began to lean towards the other side of the scale, he was still unable to truly get rid of the entanglement and could not make up his mind.

"All?!" Miss Suzumiya's voice suddenly rose in response to Xia Zhi's sudden honest answer.

Her expression first showed disbelief, then became a little suspicious. She stared at him strangely, hesitated for a moment, as if she wanted to confirm something, and asked tentatively: "Then, then...are you an alien?"

"Yes, I am an alien too."

"Then are you still from another world?" Miss Suzumiya's expression began to become subtle.

"You can say that, I am indeed from another world." Xia Zhi nodded calmly, also admitting this speculation.

After all, in terms of the basic nature of existence, he does possess all of the above attributes, which in a sense can be said to be... the so-called "cuteness"? ——Anyway, he is the kind that the leader likes, and probably because of this, he appears here.

However, although his answer was very straightforward, however——

The team leader, on the other hand, was not so convinced.

Her face fell all of a sudden, and she glared at him angrily: "I'm serious! Don't always treat me like a child!"

No matter what I asked, he admitted it straight away! What's the difference between that and not admitting it? He must be treating me like a child!
"I know, I'm serious, actually--"

The young man sighed and was about to say something, but suddenly stopped talking. He felt that at this moment, some powerful corrective force was acting on him, beginning to erase his existence in this time and space, just like using an eraser to erase lead words on paper.

It was only because he was able to actively determine his own existence that he was still able to stand here firmly at this moment and would not be expelled immediately.

However...the correction force is also not stable, but is rapidly increasing in scale and becoming increasingly powerful.

In just a few short seconds, he felt something so huge that it was difficult to describe, as if the entire world was pressing down on him.

If you want to force a confrontation, you will have to pay a greater price, which seems unnecessary.

Was the bet wrong?

After all, she is unwilling to make a choice in this dilemma?
The magician understood and breathed a sigh of relief, no longer resisting the rapidly growing correction force, and his figure began to fade. The previous conversation was still within the other party's acceptable range, but now he was ready to tell the truth directly, and he finally crossed the line.

If this were not the case, he should have been able to stay in this space and time longer.

But there was nothing he could do about it. After all, he had made the wrong bet, and the captain was not going to make a decision just because he pushed him.

at the same time--

On the other side——

"How can you make people believe that you are serious?" Miss Suzumiya did not notice that someone was disappearing. She just muttered in dissatisfaction. At the same time, she could not help but look at the huge graffiti on the sports field again and again. She felt more and more that this was the picture she wanted to see in her heart.

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"..."

"Hey, why aren't you talking?" Miss Suzumiya asked unhappily with a pout as she didn't get a response for a long time. She withdrew her gaze and glared in the direction of that person angrily.

However, all she saw was the dark runway at night.

It was empty, without a single person in sight.

"..."

"..."

The girl was obviously stunned for a moment, then turned around in panic and looked around. However, no matter how hard she looked, she could not see the tall and slender figure, as if it had never appeared before.

Miss Suzumiya stood there in a daze, lost in thought in the night breeze.

After a moment, her petite body, which seemed to be frozen, moved slightly. She turned her head to look at the lines on the sports field, and then looked at the machines, lime powder and other things next to her.

What was going on? Was I really dreaming?

Talk about it.

It seemed that he didn't even ask his name clearly.

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A flower in front of you.

During the summer solstice, I found that the scenery around me was completely different.

It was no longer the playground, running track and teaching building under the night sky, but the scenery of his own workshop, with spacious space around it, various magic tools, rows of bookshelves, and even he himself was standing right in front of the bookshelf, seemingly selecting something to read.

what's the situation?
Even if he came back, shouldn't he appear next to that intersection?

He frowned slightly, not being able to figure out what was going on for a moment, and at this moment, there was a light knock on the door in the distance.

open the door.

Nagato Yuki stood outside the door and said calmly with a blank expression: "Suzumiya Haruhi is downstairs. She just called in and said she wanted to see you."

"Looking for me? At this time? Then I'll go take a look."

The young man looked at the time, thought quickly, nodded, and walked past the literary girl to the door. Behind him, Nagato Yuki was watching quietly, with a faint light flickering in the depths of her eyes behind her glasses, as if she was exchanging data with somewhere.

The world seemed to have changed in some way.

She is applying to download some intelligence about the changes from the information integration thought body for comparison.

the other side--

Xia Zhi quickly went downstairs from the seventh floor, and then saw Suzumiya Haruhi outside the apartment at this time. She was wandering back and forth at the intercom next to the hallway.

And she seemed to have just run all the way here. Her face was a little red and she was breathing slightly. I don't know if it was because of excitement or strenuous exercise, but it was more likely to be both, which made her look so excited now.

Hearing the footsteps, the girl immediately turned around and saw his figure appear in her sight.

Her eyes suddenly burst into excitement. She bit her lips hard and looked up and down at the young man in front of her. The more she looked, the more excited she became.

"Suzumiya-san?" Xia Zhi was a little uncomfortable with her burning gaze, and asked tentatively: "What's the matter with you?"

"three years ago!"

Suzumiya Haruhi spoke directly, but still stared at him with a stubborn look on her face: "I've actually seen you before... three years in East Junior High! Do you still remember?!"

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"..."

So this is ah!

Xia Zhi curled the corners of his mouth and suddenly realized in his heart that it was not that he had made a wrong judgment and then made a wrong bet.

It was that the leader at that time was not really ready, or she did not want the change to happen from that time. So it was meaningless to try to convince her directly at that point "three years ago".

But the seeds were planted after all, and they began to sprout three years later...

Or rather, she chose him.

"Why don't you say anything? You don't want to admit it, do you?" Seeing his strange expression, the leader obviously misunderstood. She stepped forward and pointed at him aggressively, "I remember it! I already remember it, don't try to lie to me this time!"

"You must be the time traveler! Right!"

She made this assertion with absolute certainty, which formed a stark contrast with her previous contradictory behavior of belief and doubt.

As the girl finished her words, Xia Zhi felt something abrupt in his mind - some image invaded his mind.

It's like a flashback, but also like being able to see the future.

Time seems to have become something tangible.

The past, present, and future are parallel.

It was as if Guang had completed all the calculations at the beginning of his journey. He realized that at this moment, he truly received the cross-timeline information transmission from himself and understood the information exactly... Regardless of the form, when the same information can be transmitted back and forth, time is opened to him.

The synchronization of memories is happening.

It is absolutely impossible to imagine such changes and experiences with human thinking.

Because human thinking is linear, humans are accustomed to using cause and effect to explain the world... For example, one event triggers another event, or a cause leads to a result. In short, things develop from the past state to the future state.

Humans are accustomed to describing things in linear time: the past, present, and future. The three cannot be interchanged. The past contributes to the present, and the present will change the future.

However, for Xia Zhi, this was no longer the case from this moment on. He was able to understand and grasp the events comprehensively, simultaneously and holistically.

He also no longer lives in a linear flow of time.

(End of this chapter)