I loaded the dream game

"May 8th."

"..."

Hubie tilted his head slightly.

It turns out that the digits in the month are also considered single digits?

"Please do me a favor first, Hubie." After temporarily ending the topic, Xia Zhi looked at the girl and said.

"Hmm..." Hubie nodded slightly and asked, "What do you need Hubie to do?"

"Using the authority I gave you, can you back up the data of this world line?"

Hubie thought about it and nodded, then shook his head: "If it's just a partial effect, it can be done..."

"What is the specific scope?"

"Within the solar system..."

Then there is no problem.

Xia Zhi nodded to her, then took a deep breath, looked up at the void in front of him, and edited new settings in his mind...

Chapter 250: The Changed Space-Time Structure

What should I do if the world I have always cherished and protected has been distorted?

It's very simple, just forcibly reverse the distorted nodes and repair the world.

Although it seems that it is okay not to repair it, after all, even Yukino, the person involved, doesn't care much about it now, or she can't care about it at all. As long as I don't mention it, she won't even be aware of such things, let alone feel troubled by it.

But...Xia Zhi still felt a little uncomfortable.

"Let's just give it a try..."

Moreover, allowing the world line to undergo such an unknown distortion did make him feel uncomfortable.

Did you report the world line distortion? Did you get approval? Did I allow it?

Who allowed you to mess around with this world without permission?

Summer solstice is a bit unpleasant.

Although he has not yet been able to find the anomaly that caused the world line to change, he may still be able to repair the resulting distortion.

"At a time like this, shouldn't you say something cooler to set the mood?"

Xia Zhi thought about it, looked at the girl next to him and asked, "What do you think, Hubie?"

Hubie tilted his head and offered a suggestion: "...'The bond between her and I cannot be severed no matter what 063 does'... How about this sentence?"

Summer Solstice:…

To be honest, he didn't feel that he had such a deep bond with Yukino's sister...

Compared to Yukinoshita Haruno, Xia Zhi felt that this sentence might be more appropriate between himself and Eluk.

"Then...what about 'I will protect the world'...?" Seeing that Xia Zhi didn't seem very satisfied, Hubie thought about it and gave another suggestion.

Xia Zhi: “…Just this sentence.”

He wasn't quite sure what kind of animations Hubie had been watching at home recently. Who knew if some even weirder lines would pop up next, so he decided to end the topic early.

"From now on, don't watch TV after 11 o'clock at night." After thinking about it, Xia Zhi added another instruction to Hubie.

At least this way, young girls can be less exposed to those explicit programs in the late night show.

It's a little too early for a kid of Hubie's age to be exposed to those things.

"Well... Hubie knows..."

Without asking why, Hubie nodded slightly and agreed.

"After eleven o'clock... Hubie will come to sleep with Xiazhi..."

"..."

Although the meaning is not quite right, at least the purpose is achieved.

Xia Zhi took a deep breath and submitted his settings to the dream game:

"Based on the world line before the change, restore Yukinoshita Haruno's existence."

[This modification will consume 25873 dream points. Do you want to confirm the modification? ]

"Yes... huh?"

I was about to confirm the summer solstice setting without even thinking about it, but I was stunned when I saw the dream points that needed to be consumed.

What's_up, is your Yang Nai made of gold? He couldn't help but complain in his heart.

But that’s not right. Even if it’s made of vibranium, it shouldn’t be so expensive, right?

Is there something wrong?

After looking at the prompt of the dream game again and confirming that the number above was indeed a five-digit number starting with two, Xia Zhi fell into silence.

So expensive...

Or maybe we should just stop protecting this world?

"..."

Shaking his head and putting these messy thoughts aside, Xia Zhi fell into deep thought again.

Jokes aside, the problem still needs to be solved.

Logically speaking, it is just to restore the existence of "Yukinoshita Haruno", which is equivalent to creating an existence named "Yukinoshita Haruno" and inserting it into the time point when she was born in the past. Although it involves the interference of time, the points required are definitely not small, but (bidc) it should not be so outrageously expensive.

So, what went wrong?

"Could it be that……"

Xia Zhi seemed to have thought of something. He returned to his desk and took out a ballpoint pen from the pen holder.

"Set..." He whispered in his mind, "Only once. The next time it is thrown, it will hit the target 100% of the time."

[This modification will consume 238 dream points. Do you want to confirm the modification? ]

"confirm."

Although I feel a little sorry for the points, I don't care whether they are wasted or not in order to verify the idea in my mind.

After completing the settings, Xia Zhi took out the eraser from the drawer and placed it upright on the table. Then he took a deep breath and gently clenched the ballpoint pen in his hand.

One hundred percent means absolute. No matter how far away it is, or what obstacles there are, once it is thrown, it will hit the target.

It has nothing to do with cause and effect, nor does it depend on logic, and there is no so-called principle. Because it is set to be able to do it, it must be able to do it.

The laws and theorems that override everything force the world to accept and make way for them. This is the so-called setting.

So, using this extraordinary power to transcend time should be something that can be done easily, right?

Xia Zhi took a deep breath and threw the ballpoint pen in his hand with force, but the target he chose in his mind was not the eraser in front of him.

But...it was five seconds ago!

"call out--"

Accompanied by a sharp sound of breaking through the air, after leaving Xia Zhi's hand, the ballpoint pen flew forward less than half a meter before suddenly disappearing into the void.

Xia Zhi knew that the setting attached to the pen had taken effect, and the thrown ballpoint pen would cross the timeline and accurately hit the eraser five seconds ago.

If successful, from his perspective, the next moment, the eraser should be "knocked" to the ground without any delay.

"..."

However, after standing there and waiting for nearly ten seconds, nothing happened. The eraser was still standing upright on the table, and the ballpoint pen that crossed the timeline to the past had completely disappeared.

Seeing this scene, Xia Zhi finally confirmed the idea he had just guessed -

The past and present of this world may have been completely separated.

In other words, the space-time structure of the universe seemed to have been completely changed from beginning to end by some unknown force without his knowledge.

Chapter 251: Time for Filming

After some experiments and verification through dream games, Xia Zhi was convinced that his guess was correct.

The space-time structure of the world he lives in has indeed been changed.

Why do we say it is a change rather than it has always been like this?

Because the dream game clearly gave hints that the world line of this world had been changed twice, including the one with Suwako.

If, according to what he had just verified, changes to the past cannot affect the present, then logically, these two changes in the world line should not have occurred, and Suwako should not remember him now.

But this is not the case.

In other words, the change in the space-time structure should have occurred after these two events.

The first things that Xia Zhi thought of that could do this were, of course, the anomalies that materialized from his imagination.

So, what anomalies appeared after that?

Xia Zhi recalled.

"Absolute Defense Beret... Indestructible Bag of Potato Chips... Floor-to-ceiling Mirror... And..."

...The end camera?

The image of a silver-white digital camera suddenly appeared in his mind.

If we must say, among these four anomalies, it seems that only the characteristics of the End Camera can be related to "time".

Xia Zhi recalled the features that came with the camera:

"Status restoration, personal binding, cannot be discarded, and... can take a picture of the moment when things end..."

The first few features are relatively simple and contain very little information, so it is basically impossible for them to have any hidden settings.

So, if there is any problem, it will only appear in the latter feature, right?

"What on earth is it..." Xia Zhi fell into deep thought.

After a period of exploration and familiarity, he also discovered that the hints given by the dream game also had "flaws".

But this defect does not come from the dream game itself, but is caused by his own limitations as a human being.

To be precise, this is due to the fact that human language is inherently limited in the amount of precise information it can contain.

Indeed, the dream game can tell Xia Zhi all the characteristic settings attached to the anomaly without omission, but the carrier of this information is the human language used by Xia Zhi.

The limitations of human language inherently determine that when describing an object, it is impossible to accurately describe all the information about the thing, and it is necessary to use existing information to make "analogies", "connections" and "generalizations".

This results in a certain degree of loss of information when it is transmitted through language.

"A marker pen that writes a state cannot write a state where things themselves do not exist", "A brick that makes one hundred percent dizzy can force dizziness on unconscious beings", "The absolute hit feature cannot be blocked even by time and space"...

The dream game assumes that this information is summarized in the original setting description, but in fact, if you don’t delve into it and verify it, it is difficult for Xia Zhi to know these hidden characteristics from the description alone.

Unless you decide not to speak human language after the summer solstice, this inherent defect of human language will be difficult to avoid.

"… Let's talk about this later."

Xia Zhi shook his head, put these thoughts aside for the time being, and brought his attention back.

So, is there such an unspoken setting hidden in the features of the End Camera?

"The effect of the characteristic is not limited by time... The definition of the end is not the lifespan of the body, but the moment when the original function is lost... and... the future captured is not fixed..."

Not fixed...

Why is it not fixed?

Xia Zhi just suddenly thought of this question now.

Logically speaking, even if the "present" has changed because of seeing the "future", a camera that is not restricted by time should be able to capture the changed "end".

But that was not the case. The scratch that was originally carved on the chair did not appear in the picture that was subsequently captured by the terminal camera.