Global Collapse

Chapter 610 Time Management Master Gu Bengbeng

"So you two had a secret conversation behind my back?" Gu Mian stroked her chin.

Louis smiled: "We just happened to run into each other and chatted about a few things."

"What is it?" Gu Mian asked.

"About you, about this world, about their world, and... Earth."

The worlds in the instance are all derived lower-dimensional worlds. Two people from different lower-dimensional worlds are talking about higher-dimensional worlds, with the background still in Jin Hu's hospital full of love and hope. Just imagining that scene is hilarious.

Gu Mian asked curiously, "Did the discussion reach any conclusion?"

Louis shook his head: "We don't even know why this world came into being, or why the game started. If I hadn't taken this position, I wouldn't even know that I was in a low-dimensional world."

He said this without any attempt to hide it from the teacher next to him.

Gu Mian took a moment to glance at the pink-clad little guy, only to see his expression begin to look blank.

"Speaking of lower-dimensional worlds," Gu Mian began, "how did you realize that you exist in a lower-dimensional world?"

He had asked Chu Changge the same question.

Chu Changge's answer at that time was "wrong".

The world is "wrong," and then it is corrected, causing a serious distortion in people's memories. They remember the "wrong" story, but in reality, only the correct version exists.

After that, some intelligent people began to doubt the reality of the world.

Louis was unaware that Gu Mian was pondering Chu Changge's words. He sat in his chair, watching the fireworks outside the window that had not yet burned out, and began to recount the clues that had appeared in this world.

"Déjà vu... It starts with someone realizing at a certain moment that they seem to have experienced what is happening now before, and that feeling is very strange. For example, we are meeting for the first time today, and you and I are sitting here talking, but at this moment you suddenly feel familiar, as if this scene has happened before;
"Later, more and more people experienced this, and people were completely baffled. So we gave this phenomenon a special name: 'déjà vu'."

"At that time, we did not associate déjà vu with the lower-dimensional world until someone was building a cave to imprison the lower classes and discovered a ruin in a corner underground. That was about ten years ago."
"The entrance to the ruins was located in a vast forest. At first, the man did not realize anything was wrong, but as he explored further, he was astonished to discover that the ruins were composed of countless identical buildings."

Gu Mian thought to herself, "Surely no one would build a whole bunch of identical buildings in a cave in a primeval forest."

"When the ruins were discovered, only the remnants of the building remained, but the person still keenly noticed the problem: the patterns on the remnants, the stains on the damaged wall, and even the textures on the exposed bricks were exactly the same, just like a copy and paste."

“Every time we picked up a broken fragment, we would find countless identical fragments in that cave, even with the same cracks. At that moment, we realized that this was the corpse of the world, that our world could be manipulated at will, and that we understood that this was a low-dimensional world.”

The corpses of the world...

Gu Mian pondered the sentence repeatedly, and something occurred to him: "Loading a save file?"

Louis glanced at Gu Mian and nodded: "That's right, load the save file."

"Just like playing a game, at some point in the game, the player suddenly becomes dissatisfied with the current situation and loads the save file to go back to the past. The players in the game will forget the memories of this time, and the game world will also return to this point in time. Perhaps we built magnificent buildings or created amazing works of art after this point in time, but the moment the save file is loaded, all of these things will be gone, and there will not even be a trace of their existence."

"This is also why we experience déjà vu. At this moment, we may have experienced it countless times, but we don't remember it. Only at a certain moment will our brains resonate strongly with our past selves at this time, and that sense of familiarity will immediately disappear under the pressure of the world."
"And that underground cave is a bug."

BUG.

Gu Mian nodded in agreement. Being able to leave traces in the world's rewind time was indeed quite a bug.

"The world is still affected by save-loading, but the world cannot completely eliminate the traces in the cave. Each save-loading can only cause the underground buildings to collapse, but it cannot eliminate them. After each save-loading, a new, identical building will appear on the ruins. After countless save-loadings, the place becomes a ruin until we discover it and realize that our world has been saved countless times."

Gu Mian frowned: "When you discovered that cave, was there an intact building inside?"

Why was it that only that place could leave traces in the world's rollback? Gu Mian felt that there might be secrets of a lower-dimensional world in that building.

“That’s right. When we discovered the cave, there was indeed a well-preserved building standing in the ruins. But calling it a building isn’t quite accurate; it was a two-story temple.”

A temple? Could it be inside...?

"A statue of an evil god?" Is this evil god making a cameo appearance in a TV series? It keeps showing up to make its presence known.

Louis nodded: "Yes."

It seems that the statue of the evil god has affected that place.

Since it could actually interfere with the world's save file, Gu Mian realized that this evil god wasn't as pathetic as she had imagined.

"You guys didn't bring that person out to suppress the restricted area later, did you?" Gu Mian thought of the evil god statue in the restricted area hospital.

“We certainly won’t touch the intact one, but there are still quite a few broken statues in the ruins.”

"So you glued that broken statue back together and sent it into the restricted area?"

"That's right, we picked up all the statue fragments we could find and cleaned the inside, leaving only the temple..." Louis replied.

No wonder the statue looked so dilapidated when I first saw it. Gu Mian thought to herself.

Then he considered another issue: "So, in your world, there hasn't been a save/load that spans a long time. After someone discovered that cave, you haven't experienced a save/load that spans a long time again."

"Why do you say that?" Louis asked curiously. "Because we still remember that cave, right? But it could also be a memory from a save file. Maybe many years after we discovered the cave last time, the world was reloaded, and following the original trajectory, that person discovered the cave again, so we have the memory of the cave again."

“No,” Gu Mian suddenly stood up and drew a horizontal line on the dusty windowpane. “Look, this horizontal line is the timeline of your world.”

He placed a dot in the middle of the line and then drew a circle, making the line resemble a positive and negative axis in mathematics.

Louis looked at the horizontal line on the window: "Is this the time we discovered the statue?"

“No,” Gu Mian rejected his statement, “this point is the time when the statue was created.”

Then he placed a dot not far to the right of 0 and marked it with an x: "This is the time when the statue was discovered."

He pointed to the right again, drew a dot to the right of the x, and labeled it y: "This is now."

Hello everyone, I am Gu Mian, the time management master.

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