Live broadcast of Honkai Impact 3rd, I chose to expose Kiana in Sky City!

"It starts again, it starts again, time for this man's academic speech..."

[My destination is "the other side of the world": it belongs to the boundary between the worlds, a place where we can redefine "time".]

"Hmm~ I understand. Now comes another explanation that I don't understand, _(:з」∠)_"

"Indeed... I didn't expect that reading a game plot requires a certain academic foundation..."

"Haha, these are just very basic things, right? But speaking of it, this man's imagination... is simply beyond ordinary people."

In the live broadcast room, bullet comments floated across the screen...

Obviously, after several rounds of scientific terminology bombardment and debates, most of the audience had become resistant.

Although Otto hadn't finished speaking, they had already guessed what he was going to say next and they didn't quite understand it.

This is even more serious for Li Suchang.

[…Is there a simpler way to put it? Last time you said this, I didn’t understand what you were going to do at all.]

[Okay. Let's use an analogy. Let's say... we are walking on the beach.]

In order to take care of the Valkyrie whose academic level was not up to par with his own, Otto immediately began to explain the most basic concepts.

Because there is simply not enough time now, he chose the simplest analogy to popularize knowledge.

[When we walk on the beach, we leave a trail of footprints. When we look back at these footprints, we can clearly find the way we came.]

[However, while footprints on the beach are easy to identify, in other cases, things are much more complicated.]

Imagine a garden with forking paths - each path in the garden merges from different branches, and each path extends into new branches...but when we look back, our footprints are gone.

Now that we all have such a garden in our heads - let it represent a more abstract concept: time.

The garden of time is always branching, leading to countless futures. And when we think about these branching roads together.

...we will realize that it is a big tree whose roots and crown extend infinitely.

This tree does not exist in any dimension that we can directly access; therefore, we call it——

【「Tree of Imaginary Numbers」】

Otto then explained the basic concept of the tree of imaginary numbers.

Anyway, Alicia and the others were confused.

Even Yulandel herself was very confused about this...

Of course, after obtaining enough information, Yulandel was able to understand some things.

And raised my own questions...

[Since the direction of time cannot be violated, how do you plan to turn back time for yourself?]

[I can't turn back time. No one can turn back time.]

And time, in essence, is just a piece of paper growing out of the tree of imaginary numbers.

So what if we could control the tree of imaginary numbers and change the direction of growth of a certain branch?

"Not manipulating time, but manipulating the world???"

A winding golden bullet screen floated across the screen...

Obviously, as one of the best scientists in the previous civilization, Snake quickly reacted... These people in the later era have very creative minds...

Chapter 289 Otto: Although I am easily misunderstood, this time I am telling the truth

Obviously, Dr. Mebius has realized the concept that Otto wants to say...

It is not about trying to manipulate time to go backwards, but about trying to manipulate the thing that generates time - the tree of imaginary numbers.

This brain hole can be said to be a brain hole that many scientists cannot react to...

Its subtlety lies in the fact that it reverses the ordinary people's inherent cognition of controlling time.

Starting from the things that generate time, it can be said that this is a very subtle and interesting way of thinking.

"What a pity. If I hadn't known that he was going to die, I would have wanted to discuss my experimental experience with him~"

A winding golden bullet screen floated across the screen...

Mebius's words immediately surprised Alicia.

"Eh? He's...going to die? What's going on?"

"Haha~ Who knows? Just watch carefully. There will definitely be a good show next!"

It was clear that Mebius not only understood the principle behind Otto's actions.

I also understand the price he paid for doing this...

Everything that happens has its price.

Either you give energy or you lose something.

In short, no matter what you do, there will be a price. This is the basic rule of the world, and even the tree of imaginary numbers must abide by this rule.

And what Otto is about to try will come at an extremely heavy cost.

Erasing the traces of the passage of time, it seems like returning to the past.

But in fact, all traces of the existence of everyone at a specific point in time were erased.

In other words, it is to exchange the present for the past and the future...

As for the person who personally performs this feat, it is absolutely impossible for him to survive...

And then, what Otto said completely confirmed Sheshe's guess.

[We can now stably perceive the passage of time because we have naturally reached a coordination with the growth of the imaginary number tree.]

[On the other hand, if we can push the "growth point" of the imaginary number tree back to five hundred years ago... the world five hundred years ago can abandon the present moment we are in, and abandon the future that has become history——]

At the end, Otto spoke of this devastating feat in a rather relaxed tone.

【It takes its own time as the origin, starts from a new benchmark, and re-evolves. 】

Such complicated rhetoric is hard to describe, let alone the audience who are observing from a bird's eye view in the live broadcast room.

But it doesn’t matter. One of the advantages of Yulandel is that she will ask if she doesn’t understand.

[Abandon? Re-evolve? What will happen to our current world?]

[It won't matter. In terms of the result, this abandonment is mutual. Your existence will not disappear, and the environment you are familiar with will not change much. ]

"Oh? Nothing's wrong? Haha~ This guy really talks without restraint~"

A winding golden bullet screen floated across the screen...

It was obvious to Dr. Mebius that Otto was lying.

What do you mean by "nothing will happen"? Does he believe that?

Doing this may seem like going back to the past, but in reality it is erasing the present in exchange for the past.

Abandon the old world and embrace the new world...

Thanks to this man, I can say these words so easily...

[…There is no such thing as good things coming out of nothing in the world.]

Fortunately, although Yulandel is a bit rigid, it doesn’t mean she is stupid.

Almost instantly, the most powerful female warrior in the world sensed the difference in the situation...

Unfortunately, Archbishop Otto will not let him know the truth so easily...

[Of course. But the price I have to pay for this matter has nothing to do with you.]

[Okay, that's all for the pre-mission explanation. What follows is what I asked you to do:]

After the small talk, Otto finally told everyone the tasks he wanted to assign.

[I need you to help me guard the area between Dawn Observation Deck and Dany's Trail, and prevent anyone from entering - including Theresa on Hyperion.]

【......Why?】

Faced with such an incomprehensible task, Yulandel was the first to raise questions.

The answer was...

[Of course, it’s because I need to perform very precise and targeted operations on the imaginary number tree. ]

[As you know, I am easily misunderstood - so I don't want to be disturbed by anyone during this time.]

""misunderstanding""

"How could anyone misunderstand him?"

"Hehe...Isn't he really going to be able to fool these Valkyries with these words?"

As Otto made a joke about how he could be easily misunderstood, comments from the audience immediately spread across the live broadcast room...

Obviously, given Archbishop Otto's great reputation, everyone without exception thought he was lying.

【But--】

[——Li Sushang, you are responsible for controlling the Dawn Observation Deck and the Shaniyate Bridge.]

Before Yulandel could ask further questions, Archbishop Otto began to assign them respective tasks.

[Rita Rossweisse, you are responsible for controlling Sainte Plaza, Alpine Street, and Dani Trail. I will provide you with the necessary auxiliary forces.]

[Yulandel, you stay in the middle and maneuver.]

After explaining their respective tasks, Otto immediately said "the communication has been completed" and hurriedly ended the communication.

Ignoring the inquiring questions from Yulandel, the former bishop of Tianming once again cut off the communication cleanly.

In one sense, he really needed to hurry up and complete a necessary step in his plan...

But on the other hand, he was also waiting for an opportunity - an opportunity to make the plan perfect and to minimize the cost of implementing the plan.

However, the S-class Valkyries of Destiny have no way of knowing this yet.

They can't know either.

And at the same time...

In Hyperion's laboratory, after nearly an hour of intense analysis, the data from the "Herrserk Collision Experiment" has been preliminarily analyzed.

Looking at the data displayed on the test bench, Tesla was a little puzzled.

[Yes. Indeed, just as you predicted before, the imaginary singularity of the Ruler is also a ring structure with a geometric configuration. But - is this ring too small?]

[Changguang once speculated that due to the Domination Theater, the imaginary singularity of this Herrscher might "leak" into the extra dimension. Have you taken this factor into consideration?]

Seeing this, Dr. Einstein also began to analyze.

Naturally, her words made Dr. Tesla a little annoyed.

[Of course I took that into consideration, you idiot! Take a look at the data here for yourself.]

[The estimated radius of the ring structure is approximately equal to 10 orders of magnitude of Planck length... The confidence level is 4 standard deviations... Hmm? 10 orders of magnitude?]

[Yes, this is too weird! Even if it is as small as the size of an atomic nucleus like the singularity of the First Ruler, it is still 20 orders of magnitude of Planck length!]

Tesla shared his discovery and put forward a hypothesis.

The Herrscher power of this Herrscher core is only effective in extra dimensions.

This just woke Einstein up and made her realize something more crucial.

[Dr. Tesla...Have you ever thought of such a possibility...]

[Hmm? What's the possibility? Don't keep me in suspense. Just speak frankly.]

Under Tesla's questioning, Einstein slowly expressed his views.

[Before we conducted the Herrscher collision experiment... the power that governs the Herrscher may have collapsed into an extra dimension.]

[What I mean is that perhaps someone has artificially interfered with or exploited the power of the Ruler, so that it can only be effective in an extra dimension now.]

Tesla was stunned when he heard this.

From the time this Herrscher core was condensed to the time it was handed over to anti-entropy research.