I loaded the dream game

Why is this?

"Summer Solstice...Analysis completed..."

Hubie slowly opened his eyes, breathed a sigh of relief, and after the golden light in his eyes gradually faded away, he raised his head and looked at what Xia Zhi said.

Xia Zhi asked: "What was the result?"

"Just as Xia Zhi thought..." Hubie nodded and replied: "Time, space and cause and effect... are separated..."

"..."

really.

Xia Zhi thought silently in his heart.

What consequences will arise if the time, space, and causality of the past and present are separated?

Just as we have just seen, changes to the past cannot affect the present, and everything we do now will not be able to be fed back into the future. In other words, for the "present", the so-called "past" and "future" will only become a conceptual definition, an existence in "memory" and "imagination", and will no longer have practical meaning.

To use a simple and vivid analogy, the space-time structure of this world is like a roll of film. No matter which frame of the film is cut, modified, or deleted, it will not have any impact on other films.

Of course, this does not mean that the "future" of this world is predetermined like the stories in those film clips.

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In fact, if we want to describe it more accurately, we can say that the "present" they are experiencing is not "projecting" the film, but "shooting" and "making" the film itself.

This also explains why what the End Camera does is not to "determine" the future, but to simply shoot the "future" fragment that follows this world line in advance and bring it to the present.

Therefore, rather than saying that the future will not be fixed by the camera, it is better to say that the future captured by the camera itself is fixed and cannot be changed by the present.

This speculation was verified through the dream game and received a positive answer.

"So that's how it is..." Xia Zhi breathed softly.

Because he was sure that the camera would not work on him and that the future it captured was not certain to come true, Xia Zhi didn't take it seriously.

Unexpectedly, the settings that come with its characteristics actually changed the space-time structure of the entire world.

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Compared with its main characteristic, this originally ignored secondary characteristic caused a more serious impact, which also sounded a wake-up call for Xia Zhi - no matter how simple it looks, one must never underestimate the characteristics attached to any anomaly.

But... Having said that, if we look at this matter itself, it cannot be said to be a completely bad thing.

After all, when the space-time structure is changed, it is equivalent to locking the world line of this world to a certain extent. It can no longer be restarted casually, and the entire space-time structure will no longer collapse due to the disappearance, distortion, collapse or any other reasons at any point in the past.

Even if something in the future travels back to the past, it will not be able to have any impact on the current time plane. From this point of view, it saves him a lot of trouble. At least he doesn't have to worry about the world line being destroyed one day.

"But... the timing is still a little off..."

Xia Zhi fell into deep thought.

Although he was certain that the changes in the space-time structure were indeed caused by the derivative effects of the terminal camera, there were still some time conflicts that made him confused.

After all, if we really look at the time, the appearance of the End Camera should be earlier than Suwako's consciousness traveling across time.

But why, in the end, the world line was still changed?

Is it because the dream game has a higher priority? Or is it that the time when the derivative effect takes effect is different from what was expected? Or is it caused by other abnormal effects?

"Tsk... As expected, time is something that gives people a headache if they think about it in depth..."

Xia Zhi couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

Chapter 252: The girl’s “date” invitation?

Now Xia Zhi finally understood why it took so many points to restore Yukinoshita Haruno's existence.

It is not about creating a "Yukinoshita Haruno" and inserting it into the initial point in time, but it is equivalent to creating countless "Yukinoshita Haruno" and spreading them on every frame of "film" from her birth to the present.

Of course, since there is a smallest unit of time called time quantum, this number will definitely not be infinite.

至于具体是多少……按照雪之下阳乃二十岁的年龄来算的话，大概差不多有3.4x10^53个普朗克时间的长度，也即是3.4x10^53个“关键帧”。

Looking at it this way, Xia Zhi actually felt that the more than 20,000 points collected in the dream game were a bit too little. When spread out, the unit price of each "Yukinoshita Haruno" was less than one ten-millionth of a point, and it was not possible to sell it wholesale at such a high price.

Of course, if one just wants the girl to "return" to this world, it is not impossible to achieve this by using other tricks.

For example, if we ignore the past that has been frozen, we can directly create an individual identical to "Yukinoshita Haruno" and insert it into the "present" time point, and then modify the world to the state it was before her existence disappeared, which can achieve the same effect.

It’s just... although I have been using "creation" as an analogy, "creation" is different from "restoration" after all. The individual "created" by him is not the same individual as the original "Yukinoshita Haruno". Using this method is equivalent to giving up the disappeared Yukinoshita Haruno and choosing to replace her with a new individual.

Xia Zhi himself doesn't care, but if you put yourself in Yukino's shoes, if she knew about this, she would definitely feel very alienated, right?

Anyway, if this kind of thing happened to Xia Zhi, he would never be able to accept it.

Moreover, if this method is used, it will inevitably involve modifying the consciousness of others, including modifying the consciousness of Yukino, Mafuyu-sensei, Kato-san, and others who have seen or come into contact with the existence of "Yukinoshita Haruno", which is also something Xiazhi does not like to do.

and so……

"I'm sorry, Miss Yang No, I can't help you for now."

Xia Zhi thought about it and finally decided to give up for the time being.

At least until he found the non-existent anomaly or accumulated enough dream points, he had no way to restore the girl's existence for the time being.

The latter is a bit difficult now, so the goal can only be placed on the former.

But for a non-existent target, it is impossible to even describe it, so how to find it is a headache.

If it weren't for Yukino and the uncertainty that might exist in the undetectable anomaly, Xia Zhi would really have the urge to give up.

"By the way, I'm working hard on something that has never happened to Yukino, and it feels a bit like I'm being sentimental..."

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

"Then... Hubie should tell Yukinoshita Yukino everything about this..." Hubie asked, tilting his head.

"……forget it."

Knowing about this kind of thing would only cause her more trouble and would not be of any substantial help.

"In the end, I had to bear it all by myself..." Xia Zhi looked up at the ceiling, sighed softly, and a melancholy expression appeared on his face.

Hubie tilted his head and looked at him, with a hint of doubt and confusion in his eyes.

Hubie...isn't he considered a human?

Oh, it really doesn’t seem to count… Then it’s okay…

"…Summer Solstice…"

After thinking for a while, she pulled the corner of Xia Zhi's clothes, looked at him curiously and asked, "If the person who disappeared was Hubie...what would you do?"

Xia Zhi was stunned for a moment, then he touched her head and said softly: "That kind of thing will never happen."

The girl squinted her eyes comfortably, then shook her head and said:

"So... that's why I said if..."

"I won't allow that if to happen."

"Xiazhi... is cheating?" Hubie tilted his head slightly.

"No..." Xia Zhi chuckled and continued, "It's a 'rule'."

Hubie showed a puzzled expression and wanted to say something else, but he heard Xia Zhi's voice coming from outside the door.

"Brother, a classmate is here to see you."

Xia Zhi was slightly stunned. Who would come to see me so late at night?

"Just say I'm asleep..."

"Hurry up, people are still waiting at the door." Xia Zhi ignored him and continued to urge.

Then why don’t you let them come in and wait?

While Xia Zhi was complaining in his heart, he walked to the door downstairs, opened the half-open door, and saw the familiar figure of a 3.2-meter-tall and beautiful girl as pure as snow standing outside the door.

"Good evening, Xiazhi."

The girl with long black hair greeted him.

Xia Zhi was slightly stunned, and called out the name of the girl in front of him:

"...Yukino?"

Xue Nai nodded gently, gathered the hair that was messed up by the wind around her ears, looked into his eyes and asked softly: "If you have time, can we go out for a walk together?"

……

Looking at the young man's back that disappeared behind the door after saying "I'm going out for a while, and will be back soon", and the door that was closed again, Xia Zhi tilted her head slightly.

Is this... a date?

At this late hour? .

Chapter 253 Yukinoshita Yukino Wants to Know

It was a quiet night, with only a few street lamps illuminating the night dimly. The bright moonlight falling from the night sky cast shadows on the two people. The sound of footsteps that were gradually becoming consistent could be clearly heard in their ears. Although it was quiet, it was not deserted.

Walking shoulder to shoulder with a girl on a path at night was the first time for Xia Zhi to have such an experience, and it felt quite novel.

"It's so quiet..."

Xia Zhi couldn't help but sigh: "It feels like there are not many people on the street."

"After all, it's almost midnight now, so it's normal that there aren't any people around."

The girl next to him answered in a slow and gentle voice.

"By the way, it's already so late, is it really okay for you not to go back, Yukino?"

Xia Zhi turned his head and looked at her curiously and asked.

Yukino shook her head gently: "It's okay, no one will care about this kind of thing."

"No, what I actually want to say is..." After thinking for a while, Xia Zhi looked at her and asked, "If you don't go back to bed so late, can you really get up for school tomorrow?"

"…There's no need for Xia Zhi to worry about that."

I don’t know if it’s an illusion, but Xia Zhi felt that the girl’s voice seemed to become a little colder.

"But I never thought that you, Xueno, actually knew where I live." Xia Zhi thought about it and thought, I don't think I told the girl my home address, right? How did she find me?

"If it were Xia Zhi, what would he do?" Xueno did not answer directly, but threw the question back.

"Let Hubie start a wide-area search technique to search the entire city from top to bottom..." Xia Zhi replied after thinking for a moment.

"...?"

"Kidding."

Seeing the look from the girl that said "are you serious?", Xia Zhi chuckled, thought for a moment and continued, "As for me... I would probably call the person directly to ask."

"...That's almost the same, my approach." Yukino retracted her gaze and looked at the road illuminated by street lights that stretched out in the distance ahead, and said softly.

almost?

Xia Zhi tilted his head slightly in confusion.

"I asked Kato a little bit." The girl continued to answer.

I see, it’s Kato-san…

Xia Zhi suddenly thought to himself.

but……

"Why don't you just ask me?" he asked curiously.

“That’s what I wanted to do at first.”

At the very beginning?

Xia Zhi was stunned for a moment, then seemed to realize something. He took out his mobile phone from his pocket and tried to tap the screen twice, but there was no response.

Ah this...