"Is our world real?"
After returning home, Xiao Ai grabbed Fangzheng and asked this question.
Fangzheng glanced at Xiao Ai.
"Why are you asking this?"
"You should know the answer, right? Tell me!"
Xiao Ai grabbed Fangzheng's hand hard. Her face was a little pale, while Ming Mei stood there uneasily, not knowing what to do.
"That depends on what you think the real world is."
The Twin Maids had gone to rest, so Fangzheng took out three bottles of juice and placed them in front of the two. He also opened one for himself.
"To be honest, I don't really like this kind of philosophical proposition, but I think what you're trying to say is … Was your world created?"
"… … …"
Xiao Ai nodded.
"Then I can give you an answer — yes."
Hearing Fangzheng's answer, Xiao Ai's face suddenly turned pale. Ming Mei also looked at Fangzheng in surprise.
"So, God is real?"
"The one in the Bible? That doesn't exist. Look, as I said before, if your world is compared to a program, then we are the programmers. We made up this world and set it to run automatically, but that's it. "
Fangzheng spread his hands and looked at Xiao Ai.
"You should understand what I mean."
"I, I can … …"
Xiao Ai seemed to be a little out of breath. She reached out to open the juice and took a sip. Only then did she manage to calm down.
"Then, then why did you create us?"
"Summer homework."
"… … Huh?"
"Summer homework. Look, because a teacher gave us a topic — Primate Evolution and Civilization Development Research, we created this world, then observed, recorded, and reported it. You've been to university. Don't you understand? "
"I understand!!"
Xiao Ai slammed her fist on the table.
"But why? Why us? Do you think you have the right to play with our lives just because you created us? Can you set everything we want? "
"Zhibao …?"
Ming Mei was somewhat dumbfounded by Xiao Ai's sudden outburst. Although she was quite surprised, she didn't expect her sister to go berserk. However, Fangzheng could also understand that although Little Grief was not willing, she was still a scientist. Once a scientist discovered that the world and everything she had explored had been set up by someone — well, it was not surprising that her faith would collapse.
"Alright, don't be so agitated. I'm just joking."
Fangzheng chuckled and reached out to touch Xiao Ai's head.
"Actually, there's no harm in telling you guys. Um, here's the thing …"
As he spoke, Fangzheng told Xiao Ai and Ming Mei about the Order Race, the things in those worlds, and even the crisis of Chaos, including the inner and outer worlds. Of course, to increase his persuasiveness, Fangzheng also showed them some videos he had taken in other worlds, including the internecine killings in Hope School and the spread of despair among the super high-leveled students, as well as the indiscriminate slaughter of the adults by the children in Tower and the city …. To be honest, just watching these videos was enough to scare the two of them.
"So, according to what you said, Chaos has contaminated the entire universe?"
"For now, most of the universe is like a terminal cancer patient. Although there are places that haven't been contaminated, only a very small part of them is left."
Fangzheng spread his hands. It was easy to talk to a scientist. Ming Mei was already dizzy and wanted to go to sleep.
"But … I don't think there's any chaos in our world."
Xiao Ai frowned.
"According to what you said, there should be similar chaos in our world, right? But why didn't I notice it?"
"You're right. You didn't notice it …."
Fangzheng muttered to himself.
"Is there really such a thing?"
Hearing this, Xiao Ai was shocked, while Fangzheng rolled his eyes.
"Duh, do you know? The last time I went camping with you, it was winter. Then it turned into spring. After I came back from camping, it turned into autumn, and now it's summer again …. I don't even know when I'll be able to celebrate the new year. "
"How is that possible? We were on vacation during the spring outing, and then …. "
Xiao Ai was stunned for a moment.
"I didn't notice anything wrong …."
"Of course you didn't notice it. You're in this world, so you can say that you've mutated along with this world. But it's different for me. To put it bluntly, the timeline of the 365 days of a year in this world has been completely disrupted. Not only are the dates not connected, even the days are repeated. If we don't solve this problem, I guarantee that in 20 years, you'll still be living the life of a primary school student. "
Fangzheng was sure that he was not lying. That was the only thing he was certain of.
Xiao Ai's expression changed slightly when she heard Fangzheng's words.
"That's why you bought those clothes …."
"Yes. It's convenient and simple. You can add or remove them depending on the weather."
Fangzheng spread his hands helplessly. Xiao Ai was talking about Fangzheng's wardrobe. It was filled with a black trench coat, black trousers, a black suit, and a black shirt. Xiao Ai had been complaining about Fangzheng wearing anything else other than black, but she did not expect that to be the reason.
Fangzheng had no choice. He could feel the temperature, but he could not determine the season. If he went out in a short-sleeved shirt in the middle of winter, he would definitely be regarded as a fool. Therefore, he simply bought clothes that could be worn in all four seasons. If it was cold, he would add a trench coat. If it was normal, he would just wear a jacket. No one would be stupid enough to ask him why he was dressed like that in this season ….
"But do you really need Belmond to join our plan?"
After learning the ins and outs of the matter from Fangzheng, Xiao Ai became even more worried.
"Even if she can't tell us the location of the Black Man's boss because of … .the 'setting', we have other ways. Didn't you say that there's a very powerful mind reader?"
"It's mind control. She's a psychic."
Fangzheng gave a simple reply.
"Don't underestimate her ability. Her ability is not as simple as mind reading. She can tamper with other people's memories and thoughts at will. In short, she only needs to meet you for less than a minute, and you and Ming Mei will forget that you're sisters and start over as strangers."
"… .is she really that scary?"
Xiao Ai's expression changed when she heard this.
"Of course, the ability itself is quite scary, but she's a very righteous person, so you don't have to worry about her abusing her ability. Unfortunately, it's useless for her to come here. There's no such thing as an ability in this world, so even if she comes to this world, she'll only become an ordinary person who can't use her ability. Oh, by the way, her physical strength is extremely weak. She's the type who can only run for five minutes and then gasp for half an hour. So, without her ability, she's even weaker than an ordinary person. "
"No way."
Xiao Ai was dumbfounded when she heard this.
"I don't think she's fat. She's just like an ordinary junior high school girl."
"In fact, she's just a sports idiot with no sports cells."
Fangzheng waved his hand.
"As for Belmond, you don't have to worry. She'd better do what she's told. Of course, we can't rely on her alone, but if she can help, that would be great."
Fangzheng's request for Belmond was actually very simple. He wanted Belmond to leak as many clues as possible about the Black Man Organization to Conan so that Conan could find the Black Man Organization's nest as soon as possible. As for how to do it, Belmond would decide for himself.
Now that it was confirmed that there was no way to get a confession from the Black Man Organization by arresting them, Fangzheng could only count on the protagonist, Conan, to help him.
In fact, Fangzheng had also thought of bringing Belmond back for Conan to interrogate, but after thinking about it again and again, he still felt that the risk was too high. After all, this was a world of reasoning. If Conan asked directly, it would not be called reasoning. It would be fine if Belmond told Conan about it, but if he could not, and Fangzheng had to explain all this to Conan … .that would be very troublesome.
He did not want to tell Conan that the reason why he could solve the case was because he was the protagonist, so people died wherever he went, and that every criminal would deliberately use all kinds of ways to cover up and fight with him ….
Conan would definitely shut himself up on the spot when he heard that.
Even if Belmond could not directly tell Conan the address with a secret code, at least this could speed up the progress of the main storyline. After all, Conan had been acting for 20 years. There might not even be 20 episodes related to the main storyline ….
"Ring ring ring."
At that moment, his phone rang. Fangzheng picked up the phone and looked at it, then answered the call. Conan's voice came from the other side.
"Where are you?"
"I'm at home now. I'm going to bed."
Hearing Conan's voice, Fangzheng chuckled.
"What's the matter?"
"You're asking me what's the matter? Not long after you left, the captain of the Ghost Ship was killed! And almost everyone suspects that you did it! "
"Oh."
"Oh?"
"What else? If you can't find the real culprit, you can only say that you're incompetent. If you find the real culprit, I won't have to take the blame. Don't you think so? "
"… ….."
Hearing Fangzheng's answer, Conan almost choked on his breath. You're the one who ran away inexplicably. Why are you blaming me for being incompetent? If it weren't for the fact that I can't beat you, I … Fine, I just can't beat you.
"But how did you leave?"
That's right. This was the reason why Conan called Fangzheng. He could not figure out how Fangzheng managed to leave the yacht so quietly. Conan originally thought that Fangzheng had disguised himself as someone else and hid in the cabin, but after searching the whole cabin, he still could not find Fangzheng even after he found the real culprit who killed the captain of the Ghost Ship. He had no choice but to raise his hands in surrender and make the call. But who would have thought that Fangzheng had already gone home to sleep?
If Conan could not figure out how he did it, he would definitely lose sleep tonight!!
"Haha."
Hearing Conan's question, Fangzheng chuckled.
"Take a guess."
After saying this, he decisively hung up the phone.
Conan would not be able to sleep tonight.
(End of this chapter)
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