The Name of the Rose [Interstellar]

The formed black hole will turn the universe from closed to open, and come to an end in gravitational collapse.From the perspective of the program, it is the parameter error that causes the program to crash and close abnormally.

But there is a position that can avoid this big collapse of universe, and that is the intersection point where the two plane equations intersect with the ecliptic plane.

According to the Father, there is such a special point in every universe.It is like a constant in a program, unaffected by the program itself.At this "constant point," most of the laws of physics cease to hold.

Xue Yuan secretly calculated that the remaining nuclear fusion fuel can accelerate objects with a mass of no more than one ton to 90.00% the speed of light.If the engine of the "Argo" is modified, this requirement can be fully met.

He can drive the wreckage of the "Argo" and fly towards the sun at full speed, causing space-time disturbance and the series of chain reactions behind.

He intends to find an excuse to send Qi Lian to that "constant point", where he can escape the collapse and return to the original universe.

And Xue Yuan himself will be vaporized during the flight to the stars, and he will not wait for the moment when the universe collapses.But if you're lucky enough, you might be able to catch an "upload" before you die, keeping an electronic backup after your biological self ends.

This is not entirely for Qi Lian, but also for himself to end up in a more decent way.He had volunteered at the Fleet Medical Station and knew how painful the advanced stages of radiation sickness were.He has been beautiful and acting all his life, and he also wants to retain a little self-esteem in the end.

The brunch ended in a quiet atmosphere.Qi Lian packed up the tableware and took them to the kitchen sink to wash.

Xue Yuan also stood up, and slowly walked to the kitchen door.There is a sentence that he must say to Qi Lian, because I am afraid that there will be no chance in the future.

However, it is really difficult to take the initiative to say such a simple sentence.

He pretended to glance at Qi Lian casually, and came up with a very lame opening line: "By the way, you asked me to tell you a story the other day. I just remembered that there is one of the best love stories in the world, only four A word. Do you want to hear it?"

Qi Lian turned her face away, waiting for his next words.

After a little hesitation, Xue Yuan gritted his teeth and said the four words quickly: "I love you too."

The sound was like mosquitoes, almost inaudible.

Qi Lian froze slightly, his lips fluttered.Xue Yuan thought he was so touched that he was about to emphasize that "I'm just telling you a story", but unexpectedly he said seriously: "Where did the word 'also' come from? I never said it 'I love you'."

"........."

Xue Yuan's little soul was furious.The soul is light, so need to say? !You love me is the default factory setting!

But this kind of inner drama can't be said directly, so I can only look at the ceiling: "Did you speak just now? I seem to hear some strange voices, it must be my hallucination."

"...It's your hallucination, I didn't say anything." Qi Lian was able to change it, and hurriedly continued to wash the dishes.The room was very warm, and he was only wearing a shirt, which reminded Xue Yuan of the first meeting with him in that laboratory a few months ago.When he saw him for the first time, Qi Lian lay on the glass and looked around curiously, like a newborn puppy, full of innocent kindness towards the world.

Thinking of this, Xue Yuan felt an unbearable pain in his chest again.I don't know if I have given you the world you expected, and have I let you down and hurt you?

He suddenly felt a little resentful that fate had given them too little time, and before he had time to hand over a better future into his hands, he had to leave in a hurry.

Involuntarily, he hugged Qi Lian into his arms from behind, wanting to feel this warm body for a while longer.

Unprepared, Qi Lian was hugged, and the bottom of his hand slipped, and the bowl stained with detergent slipped out of the sink and fell to the ground.Fortunately, there was a thick blanket on the ground and it didn't break.

"Ah." Qi Lian let out a short cry, then bent down to pick it up.

"..." Xue Yuan suddenly felt that it was very necessary to tell this child the horror story of "the younger brother picking up soap", lest he become a temptation in the future without knowing it.

He stopped him, "Don't pick it up, just let it stay there. — Well, did we ever fuck in the kitchen?"

"Is your body okay?" Qi Lian worried for him.

"You'll know if you try it. I think I'm very energetic today~" He made his voice rippling to the fullest to conceal the infinite desolation in his heart.

Today he is more enthusiastic than ever.That breathless hug seemed to bring Qi Lian into his heart, as if if he didn't, Qi Lian would run away to a place that he could no longer touch.

After lying down on the carpet exhausted, Xue Yuan held Qi Lian's feet.He is not a foot fetishist, but Qi Lian's paws are too cute, the round toes are like the pads on the soles of a dog's feet.

When the soles of the feet were stroked, Qi Lian's legs couldn't help curling up.The soles of his feet are ticklish.But because Xue Yuan liked it very much, he desperately restrained himself from moving.That kind of unstoppable look was so funny that Xue Yuan couldn't help trying to tease him: "Hey, call me by my name in Russian to hear."

"Hmm... Ваня (Vanya)." Qi Lian had never called Xue Yuan that way before, and his tone was timid.

"The pronunciation is very standard. Did you learn Russian by yourself?" Xue Yuan gently touched the sole of his foot again.

"Learned... a little bit. Ah, I know what возлюбленный (beloved) means."

"Oh? What do you mean?" Xue Yuan raised his jaw.

Qi Lian was silent.After a while, he suddenly asked: "Does everyone have their own beloved?"

"That's not necessarily true." Xue Yuan raised his chin, "Many people never find the right person in their whole life."

"Because they didn't tame each other?"

"No. Because of the toxin."

"Toxin?" Qi Lian was puzzled.

"Yes. It's a bad thing accumulated in our hearts." Xue Yuan touched his heart, "This world will give people experience and wisdom, but it will also give people toxins. These toxins will be in our hearts It settles down, gives us pain, and finally becomes part of ourselves. Some people happen to detoxify each other and they are lucky enough to redeem each other with love. But most people are not so lucky and have to poison each other. Even if it becomes family With friends, there is still nothing to do. There is nothing you can do about yourself or the other party."

"Do I have toxins too?"

Xue Yuan shook his head: "You are an exception. You only have the good part on your body, and you haven't accumulated any toxins yet."

Qi Lian sat up and looked at her lover's face very seriously: "I want to be the one who can detoxify you. I used to be stupid and didn't understand anything. Did I often make things difficult for you?"

"You don't need to be so modest, you are still stupid now." Xue Yuan raised his head, kissing those bright and clean lips lightly.Where the tip of the tongue brushed, there seemed to be a slight astringency, like the slightly bitter fragrance of gorse, which comforted his heart sweetly and softly.

Gorse, ilfioredeldeserto, barren flower.

No matter what day or night, or what time in the world, there is still such a free and silent soul after all.Like the gorse growing on this desolate planet, silently offering fragrance to the earth and the sky.

In the fine afternoon, the sun is fading to the west.The slanting light half envelops the ice sheet that has not completely melted, dragging out light blue snow shadows.

The reassembled "Lover" and "Argo" turned into two small aircraft, parked on the field outside the hut.

Xue Yuan found a very far-fetched reason: the planet is too small and too far away from the star, so it is very inaccurate to use the parallax method to calculate the distance on the surface of the planet.So he and Qi Lian each took an aircraft and went to two measurement points on the ecliptic plane, so that the data obtained would be faster and more reliable.

This work is not complicated and can be completed before dark.

"One of these two measurement points is relatively close, and the other is slightly farther away." Xue Yuan took out two small balls of paper and threw them into the air, "Here, come and draw lots, and you can go wherever you get. No one is allowed to complain. .”

This is a trick to avoid Qi Lian's suspicion.In fact, the coordinates written on the two balls of paper are the same, and they are both the spatial coordinates of the "constant point".

The result is self-evident, Qi Lian caught that coordinate.

"It's really nerve-wracking." Xue Yuan pretended to be distressed, "Why do I have to run so far?"

"Then let's change it."

"No, let's do it like this." Xue Yuan waved his hands gracefully, feeling a fine layer of sweat dripping from his palms.

As soon as Qi Lian arrives there, he will steer the "Argo" into sub-light speed, reach the center of this star system, and detonate the two suns.He didn't know how fast the universe would collapse, but he thought it would be in an instant.

When saying goodbye to Qi Lian, Xue Yuan found himself surprisingly calm.Even when Qi Lian tentatively asked him "what's for dinner", he didn't show any strangeness.

It seemed that everything had been properly arranged according to the script a long time ago, and he had already accepted it completely, and he just performed the scenes that he should complete step by step.

In order to prevent any changes, Xue Yuan stepped into the Argo first.

Qi Lian suddenly asked behind him: "Are you coming back for dinner?"

"What stupid words are you talking about?" Xue Yuan gave him an ambiguous answer, trying to restrain the urge to look back at him again, fearing that his determination would be shaken once he turned his head.

Do not look back.he warned himself.There is only one last thing left to do, and soon, soon it will all be over.

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☆, the name of the rose

Epilogue, The Name of the Rose

〖"You are not like my rose at all, you are nothing." The little prince said to the roses, "No one has tamed you, and you have tamed no one.... You are beautiful, but you are Empty, no one can die for you." - "The Little Prince"

During the flight of the aircraft, there was a sentence that kept echoing in Xue Yuan's mind:

"The free will given to man is nothing more than letting him choose between madness and chaos."

This was written by Huxley in the preface to "Brave New World", and my father often quoted it tirelessly on various occasions, as if this was the only truth in life.

Xue Yuan used to take it lightly.He is an extremely pessimistic optimist. Although he often makes negative remarks, he always believes in his bones that human will and spirit are ultimately independent and free.

Today, however, he's a little less sure.Perhaps, what quantum theory says about determinism is true.Since the Big Bang, the direction of each particle has been established.Everything is a written book, and there is no destiny that can be freely chosen.

Where is the digital father now?Was it watching him from somewhere he couldn't see?

However, the father's "now" is probably not the same as his "now".Just like a person reading a book, the timeline inside and outside the book has nothing to do with each other.

He thought of his younger brother from his father again, and suddenly felt a little guilty: for so long, he didn't often think of this only remaining relative.

Compared with Xue Yuan, who has a strong desire to perform, his younger brother has been an unnoticed child since he was a child, completely overshadowed by the brilliance of "star brother".The relationship between the two brothers is like Sirius: People only see the radiant primary star, but they don't know that it has a faint companion star that cannot be seen by the naked eye.

And the younger brother has never expressed dissatisfaction with this, and he can be his brother's little follower with peace of mind.

I remember that when my younger brother was in primary school, the conduct comment he got from the teacher was "there is a communication problem".In fact, this is not a problem of the younger brother alone.Even Xue Yuan, who looks like a social prince, also doesn't know how to really communicate with others.Such a character is like a family curse, hanging high above every member's head, with a fatalistic and pathetic color.

He grieves for himself and his family.For years, they never understood each other, never had the possibility of that.

But Xue Yuan knew that his younger brother had a desire to communicate in his heart.The reason is that my younger brother has been fascinated by the Rosetta Stone since he was a child-this stone is a symbol of "interpretation" and "communication".

Coincidentally, the word "rosetta" means "rose" in Italian.

I don't know if it was inspired by this meaning, the younger brother once whimsically proposed to invent a secret language exclusive to the two of them, called "Rosetta".

When he first saw the ID "Rose Knight", he should have thought of his younger brother immediately.Now that I think about it, when my younger brother took off the name, was he silently calling for help in his heart?Did he realize that Luo Suo was the younger brother earlier, and what happened later would not happen again?

However, history cannot be assumed.The reality has already been cast: his indifference and ignorance killed the last ray of hope in his younger brother's heart.

If possible, he would like to go back in time to the moment when Rosso spoke to him for the last time.If I insisted on talking to my brother at that time, what would have happened?

That may never be known.

The aircraft climbs and traverses through the exosphere.The instrument panel shows that the current height above the ground is 800 kilometers.The aeronautical phase was over, and the Argo entered the spaceflight phase, freed from the constraints of the planet's gravity.

Seen from this height, with an orange-red arc across the sky as the boundary, the sky is divided into two parts: below the orange light is the azure atmosphere, and above it is the deep and endless blackness.The sunlight is no longer diffusely reflected, and staring into the distance, starlight begins to twinkle in the background of the universe.

This process is also novel to Xue Yuan.Before joining the Federal Space Force, he was in the mechanized unit of the Army and had no experience in aerospace.He has only experienced one space flight, that is when the fleet set sail from the earth.

Back then, Uncle Pei Shu gave him a set of model aerospace planes, and said: "Vanya can fly them when he grows up, fly and fly, fly all the way into space, and pick up the stars one by one."

Now he is really driving an aerospace vehicle and is going to pick stars in the universe.

He had heard before that when a person's life was coming to an end, the encounters in his life would flash before his eyes one by one.

I don’t know if it’s a hallucination, but at this moment, he really re-watched the scenes of his past years like watching a slide show:

At the age of six, he picked roses with his mother in his garden;

At the age of ten, he was in his father's library, like the Italian poet Leopardi who wrote "Plantage", "studying madly and desperately";

At the age of 20, he wore the military uniform of the Federal Space Force, with the second lieutenant rank on the epaulettes and collar badge shining golden light, and stood under the flag of the Watership Federal Fleet to take the oath...

If there is no accident, he will be awarded the rank of major by the end of this year.

When I think of this, I can't help but feel sad.According to the regulations of the Federal Space Force, the highest rank of technical officer is major general.At his age, he was promoted to a technical major, which can be regarded as extremely glorious.Alas, "Major Xue Yuan, Chief Technology Officer of the Federal Fleet", sounds so cool, but unfortunately it has never been realized.

After realizing what he was thinking, Xue Yuan burst out laughing.At this time, what he cares most about is the scenery.

Looking back on his short life, he couldn't tell what kind of person he was.He felt that he was definitely not bad, but he was not good enough either.Between "the fate of others" and "his own mood", he always tends to obey the latter.For example, the orphan named Misha he brought out from Moscow, if he had thought of a way to take him away earlier, the child could have lived a relatively normal life in the fleet instead of hiding in the dark and cramped bulkheads and suffering The tragic torment of the "man in the wall" for several years.He may have saved the child's life, but he also destroyed the other's life to some extent.

After all, he was indeed selfish.The reason for the fruitless love again and again is clear in his heart: he does not allow the other party to see his less beautiful side.It is impossible for people to be perfect all the time, just like a male peacock with its tail open, it can only show people its bright front, but when it turns around, people will see its ugly butt.So he always withdraws when the other party is most obsessed with him, making himself an eternal memory in the other party's heart.

Even now, he still does this kind of thing.Thankfully, this is the last time.

There was a tangle of filaments on the skin of the arm.Looking down, it was a strand of blond hair that had fallen.His hair had lost its former color, but it was still beautiful.

He took pity on the ends of his hair hanging by his shoulders.This action reminded him of his boyhood mantra: "I'm so beautiful, I can't die!"

At that time, every time he played games with his younger brother, he used this reason to hide behind his younger brother's character majestically, letting his younger brother handle the monsters, while he only cared about making up swords and picking up equipment.

What a willful and irresponsible brother.However, such a time is really happy.

For a moment, an old scene fell from the branch of memory like a leaf and flew into his mind.

On an early summer afternoon, the air smells of roses and coffee.Huoya's younger brother was holding a large bucket of chocolate ice cream, sitting cross-legged on a mahjong bamboo mat; he was holding a book and leaning against the bedside by the window, reading a passage to his younger brother:

"...When Reinhardt and the red-haired boy came back from playing outside, they would always be chased into that narrow bathroom by my sister. When they washed up happily and came out of the bathroom, they were wrapped tightly in towels Get up. The smell of chocolate wafts from the old table."

Xue Yuan shook his head, and drove this scene out of his mind.He didn't want to let himself go out feeling sad.

After estimating that it was almost time, he turned on the communicator and wanted to ask where Qi Lian was now.

Glancing at the dashboard, he realized something was wrong: he seemed to be off course.

There is no sense of direction in space, and it is difficult to identify your own position with the naked eye.But the value of the meter told him that the gravitational force of the star was decaying.This shows that he is not flying in the direction of the sun, on the contrary, he is moving away from the sun.

Having trouble with your navigation system?The route was set by him himself, so there should be no mistakes.

Xue Yuan opened the operation interface, trying to calibrate the route.There is only a big red "LOCK" flashing on the screen: the operating system is locked, and he has no permission to change any settings.

Suddenly, he understood what was happening.During these days, he was addicted to Qi Lian's body, but he forgot one very important thing: Qi Lian can directly control the operating system through nerve impulses.

Angrily, Xue Yuan turned on the communication channel and called Qi Lian repeatedly: "Where are you? Did you do something? Why is my operating system locked? Answer back quickly!!"

After a while, Qi Lian's voice came over: "It's nothing. I changed our route."

"Nonsense!" Xue Yuan was furious, "Bring me back immediately! You don't even know what you're doing!"

"I know." Qi Lian's tone was as calm as water, "The mass of those two stars has been changing, and now they have exceeded the Chandrasekhar limit. You set the program to let the aircraft enter sub-light speed, and use it to go Hit the stars. They go supernova, then explode, and turn into black holes. — so the universe collapses? You go back to our original universe, right?"

"..." Xue Yuan felt annoyed that someone had exposed his tricks.Qi Lian actually found out, and what's even more annoying is that he didn't realize that Qi Lian had found out.The current Qi Lian is no longer the cute and transparent thinking creature she was back then, she has learned to hide her inner thoughts with an expressionless face.

"Where are you now? Stop. I order you to stop immediately!" Xue Yuan suppressed his anger.

Qi Lian ignored it, and continued on his own: "Is there any use for the coordinate point you originally wanted me to go to? I calculated it, and this point is very special, it is the Lagrangian point of all the nearby stars. .If the universe does collapse, I think, it might be safer there."

There is a delay of a few seconds in the communication between them.Xue Yuan knew exactly what this meant: distance.

Radio waves travel at the speed of light in a vacuum. If Qi Lian is 300 kilometers away from him, it takes one millisecond for the radio waves to reach him.Judging by the degree of delay increase, Qi Lian's aircraft is speeding up significantly.

"Stop!" Xue Yuan cried out.

"No." Qi Lian said firmly.He never disobeyed Xue Yuan's orders, but once he made up his mind, his stubborn stubbornness to the end could only make people helpless.

Xue Yuan was so angry that his limbs went limp.In the algorithm he originally wrote for Qi Lian, he could control Qi Lian's behavior through programs.But he left a back door for that program, Qi Lian can choose to escape from the control of the program.

The original intention of doing this was to give Qi Lian a chance.The fleet's original plan was to send Qi Lian to the "wall" to investigate. He hoped that Qi Lian would get rid of the program when necessary and choose his own destiny freely to the greatest extent.

Not wanting that things in the world always go against his wishes, Qi Lian did get rid of the control of the program as he wished, but chose the fate of self-destruction.

Xue Yuan couldn't tell whether what he did back then helped him or harmed him.

"I like you. Do you accept it now?" Qi Lian said suddenly.

"what?"

"You said that you wanted me to understand what возлюбленный (beloved) means. Before that, you didn't accept what I said I liked. Now I understand. You are the rose I tamed. You are beautiful, You are not empty, because I can die for you."

The last words reached Xue Yuan's ears after a long delay.Every second, Xue Yuan's heart ached even more, because it meant that the distance between him and Qi Lian was 30 kilometers further away.

At this moment, the communication delay between them is 126.75 seconds, and they are separated by 3800 million kilometers, which is a hundred times the distance from the earth to the moon.Every word Xue Yuan heard was uttered by Qi Lian more than two minutes ago.It would take the same long time for what he said to reach Qi Lian's ears.He couldn't stop him anymore.

"Good morning." Qi Lian finally said, and then cut off the communication.

Xue Yuan was startled.At the beginning of the acquaintance, he once casually said to Qi Lian, "Good morning" means "goodbye".After that, Qi Lian never said good morning to him again until this moment.

Qi Lian kept every word he said firmly in his heart, and silently abided by it, even though this kind of strictness was nothing but ridiculous pedantry in the eyes of others.

Good morning, goodbye.

At the center of the star system, the two suns are disturbed by the surrounding space-time, crazily revolving around each other.

Qi Lian was gone a few minutes ago.He was gasified instantly and would not feel any pain.

Centered on two neutron stars, a glowing two-dimensional plane rises from the cosmos.

The program is set like this: when the universe begins to collapse, it is when the "scanning" function starts.

All objects with signs of life will be transformed into data at the moment of being two-dimensional.

Xue Yuan did not see the scene where the two neutron stars collided, because the light produced by the supernova explosion was too strong to observe with the naked eye.What he saw was a change in other celestial bodies: stars gathered from all directions and blue-shifted with this star system as the center.This star system seems to be the center of a maelstrom, sucking the entire universe into it.

Taking this universe as a frame of reference, the aircraft is actually moving faster than the speed of light.But in Xue Yuan's perception, it remains motionless, like a rock as stable as Mount Tai in the torrent on all sides, and also like the only static foreground in the picture that is fast-moving at a speed of billions of times.All the numbers on the dashboard are still, including the atomic clock, because time no longer exists.

The bright light of the supernova explosion quickly faded away.Xue Yuan looked towards the center of the star system, and only saw a huge black oblate circle and a ring around it, which were two-dimensional black holes and accretion disks.

The asteroid they once lived on had already fallen to the plane and turned into a dark yellow spot.Xue Yuan didn't know why it turned yellow. It might be that the huge tidal force of the black hole caused it to be torn apart before it fell into the plane, and the erupted lava covered the surface.It looked so small, like the last petal of a gorse.

When two neutron stars collided, a large amount of material containing gold was ejected, which spread to the entire ionized hydrogen region during the collapse.The rosette nebula emits a pale golden gleam, gradually fades away, and solidifies into an eternal painting on the two-dimensional universe drawing board.

This is the best and last gift Qi Lian gave him: a golden rose blooming at the end of the universe.

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☆, the name of the rose

Space is gone.

Time is gone.

There is absolute nothingness all around.Xue Yuan didn't know where he was: he was both outside and inside the singularity, because the "space" without space has no distinction between inside and outside.

After an unknown amount of time—or not even a second—the “LOCK” that had been flashing on the operating system screen disappeared, replaced by snowflake-like white noise.Immediately, an image appeared.

Xue Yuan, who was sitting dumbfounded with his knees in his arms, was suddenly startled, and rushed to the screen: "Killian? Is that you? You were uploaded?"

Without a doubt, it was Qi Lian's face.

"Well. Before my body gasified, I was just scanned by that plane. (*￣︶￣*)"

The cute smile from before returned to Qi Lian's face.As a data body, he is no longer affected by biological neurotransmitters, and his personality is the same as when he was born.

Xue Yuan had mixed feelings for a moment: "Where are you now?"

"Hmm..." Qi Lian tilted his head and thought for a while, "I can't tell. It seems to be nowhere, and it seems to be everywhere. I can feel you, as if you are in my heart."

Xue Yuan wanted to touch that familiar face, but only touched the quantum dot screen.He pressed his forehead against the screen, as if he could feel a little of the other person's body temperature.

"Don't worry, you will go back to the previous universe." Qi Lian comforted him, "Time is not a problem, because there is no time. (*￣︶￣*)"

Xue Yuan shook his head lightly: "No, I don't want to go back. Please, help me, let me be uploaded too."

Qi Lian was silent for a while. "I also want you to come here, so that we can be together forever. But I don't want your biological version to be terminated." He looked around, "This place... is vast, but there is no temperature. Everyone is very free, they are a universe, but they are also very lonely, no one can touch others. I like you to hug me, for me, that is the happiest."

"Bastard!" Xue Yuan heard his voice become hoarse, "Then come back and let me hug you!"

"I am now a data body, which can be copied many times. You copy me to the hard disk, and when you return to the fleet, you can create another body of mine, and I will be the same as before."

"Nonsense! How could it be the same?!" Xue Yuan couldn't help screaming, "Only you were domesticated by me, both in body and soul. If you change your body, it won't be you! Tell me, then How could it be the same?!"

"...(○︿○)" Qi Lian looked timid, like a child who has done something wrong and doesn't know how to remedy it.

"Unless you turn back time, let me upload it. If you can't go back, I won't go back." Although he knew that he was making trouble for no reason, he didn't want to give up just like that.If missed now, there will never be a second chance.He didn't want to spend the rest of his life in the regret of "if only I had persisted at that time".

Qi Lian lowered his eyes embarrassingly, and raised them again after a while: "There may be one way, but I don't know if it will succeed. There is a closed time circle around you. If you leave this coordinate point, I will be with you Which circle to go into?"

Time loop?

Xue Yuan vaguely remembered seeing this word in "The Universe in a Nutshell".It seems to say that if the mass of an object is large enough, the space-time around it can be extremely curled to form a closed loop.Time will circulate infinitely in this circle: a person starts from a certain point in time, and finally arrives before his departure, and so on.

A singularity must be something massive enough that it could explode into a universe.The space-time around it must have been warped to an unfathomable degree.

If Xue Yuan leaves this "constant point" that is not restricted by the laws of physics, he will enter a time loop.

But no one knows what will happen if they break away from the circle.Hawking said in the book that the time travel of macroscopic objects is against the sky, and it is prevented by the laws of physics, and it may be destroyed by lightning.

"If you fail, not only your biological entity will be destroyed, but even the data body will no longer exist. Have you really considered it?" Qi Lian warned him.

"I don't care. If you know what to do, do it now."

The operation interface was automatically opened, Qi Lian entered the navigation parameters into the program, and a colleague opened the liquid protection compartment. "You'd better go inside. Classical mechanics no longer works. If we leave this coordinate point, the instantaneous acceleration may exceed the speed of light."

According to what he said, Xue Yuan lay down in the liquid protection cabin.In addition to protecting him from the g-forces of acceleration, this has another benefit: he'll be in a deep sleep for the duration of the flight.If he was really struck by lightning, he would not know how he lost his soul.That's fine too.

The compartment is closed.The protective fluid is like the amniotic fluid in the mother's womb, wrapping him gently.

On the edge of consciousness, Xue Yuan remembered the slogan of the Federation Fleet:

Standing where the time of the world begins, the rose line guides the direction of my home.

Father, are you watching us?Look at our smallness and greatness, our humbleness and glory.

☆☆☆

Epilogue, The Snow Maiden and the Little Prince

For the Federation Fleet, the disappearance of the "Invisible Wall" was as unexpected as it appeared.

The technical and scientific officers suddenly discovered that the invisible source of gravity had disappeared.

They looked at the data sent back by the detector several times, and came to a conclusive conclusion: whatever the "wall" was, it was gone.

But before disappearing, the time and space around it curled violently for a moment, and then recovered instantly, as if nothing had happened.But there is one piece of evidence that something really happened: the "Lovers", which originally disappeared in the "Wall", reappeared in the state it was in the moment before entering the "Wall".

Then a strange paradox appeared: Xue Yuan and Qi Lian had already come out before entering the "wall", and this was precisely caused by what they did after entering the "wall".

No one could explain clearly what was going on, including Xue Yuan himself.He didn't really care about that either.The only important thing is one thing: Qi Lian and him escaped from that time loop and returned to before they set off.

In terms of time, the experience of the two of them in the "wall" does not exist.The years beyond that period of time only exist in their memories, and it is a history that has never happened but is true.

For a moment, Xue Yuan had a thought: Could two-dimensional time be similar to this?Everything has happened and nothing has yet happened.There are countless coexisting realities on the plane of time, history can be hypothesized, and fate can be experimented with, so theoretically speaking, there will always be an ending that makes everyone happy.

But this can only be a figment of imagination