Marchieri, from the Tumen Empire that no one had ever heard of, went into Gorgon's Abyss alone, and died alone in the ruins of the asteroid factory. The only clue he left behind was a few words on the factory pipeline. In all respects, he was as small as a speck of dust in this mysterious and strange world.
But the few words he left behind made Hao Ren feel that a corner of the boundless darkness had been lifted. There seemed to be an unimaginable truth in those few words, but it was difficult to penetrate the hidden secrets with mere speculation.
Hao Ren thought of the "special observer" explanation. Marchieri might have come from a civilization that accidentally understood the mysteries of time and space and was able to observe the end of the universe, so he could come to explore the secrets of Gorgon's Abyss after the destruction of the world by the Mad Lord. However, there was always a vague resistance in Hao Ren's heart, which made him unwilling to put too much weight on this explanation.
That was because it was too far-fetched. Even though it made sense, it relied on stiff guesses to build it up.
Hao Ren always felt that there was a deeper meaning to the appearance of this "Marchieri". This L 'Haronne … was probably not as simple as a fragment left behind after the collapse of the universe as previously speculated.
"In his last words, he mentioned that 'all collapsing history is tilting towards the source point'," the MDT reorganized the information elements in the short message and determined that this sentence was of great value. "This description is very close to the typical doomsday characteristics of 'the collapse of the universe at the information level.' And judging from the first part of the message, Marchieri said this because he 'saw' something with his own eyes in the depths of Gorgon's Abyss."
"All collapsing history … According to Rheia, the Black Pine Forest, Gorgon's Abyss, and similar 'secret realms' can all be regarded as collapsing history," Hao Ren said, pinching his chin. Although he was standing in the hostel of Snowfrost City, his vision and most of his consciousness were on the side of Gorgon's Abyss, so to others, he was standing alone in a dark room, talking to himself and making strange movements. If an outsider passed by at this moment, he would definitely be shocked. "And tilting towards the source point … This source point should refer to a 'point' at the end of the universe, maybe a point in time, or maybe a place. If it's the latter, then it should refer to L 'Haronne? No … I don't think it's that simple … "
"Maybe we should take a look at what the third probe sent. It found some interesting scenes at the border of Gorgon's Abyss," the MDT suddenly said.
"Oh?" Hao Ren said in a slightly raised tone. "Synchronize the vision."
The image in front of him immediately swayed, and the scene of Marchieri and the asteroid factory was then switched to another strange space. The moment he saw the scene in front of him, Hao Ren judged that it was already at the border of Gorgon's Abyss.
Because the world was divided into two distinct parts. On one side of the dividing line was Gorgon's Abyss, full of turbid clouds and a dark red background, with huge space pumice rocks and starship wreckage all over it. On the other side of the dividing line was a vast expanse of darkness, as if facing an abyss of darkness.
"Is there anything here?" Hao Ren frowned.
"You can't see it with the naked eye, but with a filter, it's different …" the MDT reminded him.
The probe activated its own multi-frequency filter, and Hao Ren's field of vision began to show some strange colors. As the range of collection continued to expand from visible to the naked eye, things that could not be observed by conventional means finally appeared in front of him. He saw a curved mark suddenly appearing in the boundless darkness outside the border of Gorgon's Abyss. The mark was extremely wide and had a pale texture. Around it were countless tiny branches like turtle cracks. It floated in the supposedly empty darkness, dividing the boundless space into two, and slowly wriggled as if it was alive.
"What is this?" Hao Ren was confused. "Is there a World Scar in Gorgon's Abyss?"
"Although I know you are talking nonsense, sometimes you can stumble upon the truth …" the MDT said faintly. "Although it has serious distortion and decline, according to the energy sample collected by the probe, this crack contains the divine power of the goddess of creation."
"… Wait a minute, that means this thing is from thousands of years ago …" Hao Ren said.
"Yes, the divine shock wave that broke free from Rheia's control thousands of years ago and completely destroyed old L 'Haronne. What you see in front of you is its aftermath. So in a sense, this crack is indeed a World Scar. The World Scar in the Physical World divides L 'Haronne in two, but that is only a small part of the whole crack. More of it extends into the' lower regions' like Gorgon's Abyss, and because the evolution of information in the lower regions has stopped, it still maintains the form of a divine shock wave, and will remain so forever. "
"You can do that?"
"Of course, divine power can ignore the boundaries of dimensions and reality and directly affect everything in the world. Even the collapse of the universe cannot stop it from taking effect. This is why your boss' Finger of Death can instantly cause the same amount of True Damage to the target and the target's ancestors — it directly pierced through the world line!"
Hao Ren broke out in a cold sweat. "F * ck … I thought that was Raven 12345 bragging …"
"Your work attitude is very problematic … But it doesn't matter," the MDT said indifferently. "The important thing is, do you remember what Marchieri mentioned in his last words?"
Hao Ren was stunned for a moment, and then the sentence came to his mind, "'In that collapse point, I saw a crack that did not belong to our world' — the crack he was talking about is the one in front of us?!"
"Should be right."
"Wait a minute, this timeline is wrong!" Hao Ren said subconsciously. "Marchieri lived before the formation of the Umbral Realm, and the divine shockwave of the goddess of creation destroyed L 'Haronne many years after that. How could Marchieri have seen it … Wait a minute! No, the time here has already … "
"Yes, the time here has collapsed, so we shouldn't have been entangled in the timeline from the beginning," the MDT said. "And the Umbral Realm has been attached to the World Barrier of the Plane of Dreams from the beginning, and it is easy for information to seep and interfere between the two. So Marchieri is very likely to have seen the formation of the World Crack in advance at a point in time in the distant past. But the opposite is also true — the mage Marchieri from the distant past may have died in Gorgon's Abyss not long ago, or even a few minutes ago."
With the vision sharing with the probe cut off, Hao Ren covered his forehead and shook his head. "Damn it, that's why I don't like to study this kind of hyperdimensional knowledge. It's too much of a brain-cell torture."
The MDT gloated. "Haha, you didn't feel any pressure when you gave Rheia homework, did you?"
"Now that you mention it, I have to give her another set of hyperdimensional theory papers. I can't be the only one with a headache!"
The MDT swayed in the air and almost fell to the ground. "Is this how you treat your mother-in-law?! You're certain that she can't control Vivian, right? "
"I'm sure she has to listen to me before she graduates from primary school, and after that, she has to listen to her mother. She has no time to worry about other things." Hao Ren pursed his lips, then changed the topic. "But I'm curious about one thing — if the collapse of time in the cryptic world causes Marchieri to be able to observe the future is true, doesn't that mean that the fall of the goddess of creation and the reshaping of L 'Haronne are' destined '? Can even God be destined? "
The MDT swayed its body. "So there should be more complicated mechanisms inside the cryptic world. Generally speaking, the timeline disorder caused by the collapse of the world is a closed system, and the disordered timeline is limited to the period from the birth of the world to the destruction of the world. That is to say, the so-called time disorder is limited to 'events that have happened and have ended'. The goddess of creation and all her traces that appeared after the destruction of L 'Haronne's universe should not have been observed by Marchieri in theory, but Marchieri did … "
Hao Ren frowned. "A closed system became an open system? So Marchieri observed the world cracks that appeared after the closure of the timeline? "
"But this is almost impossible," the MDT swayed from side to side. "'After the end of the world, the timeline in the world system will close, and everything that happens after that will be independent of the closed system.' This is the original text in 'Introduction to Annihilation' and 'Doomsday Studies'. It is the inevitable law of the universe without the intervention of God. So far, no natural event has been observed in which the closed timeline reopens after the end of the world."
"But Marchieri did see the formation of the world cracks. A person in a closed system saw the scene outside the system. How do you explain this?"
The blue light on the surface of the MDT flickered violently. After a long period of high-intensity data calculation, it finally admitted its failure. "Insufficient computing power to build this model."
Hao Ren sighed. "Sigh, I can see that you've tried your best. Your heat sink is smoking."
"Don't worry about these details," the MDT said calmly as it smoked. "Smoke from the heat sink is a good tradition of minicomputers."
After confirming that the MDT was not at risk of burning, Hao Ren shrugged and walked to the large floor-to-ceiling window not far away.
Outside the window, the cold wind was howling, and snowflakes were flying. A blizzard was coming.
"Partner, do you still want to go to the 'old palace' to investigate?"
"Not tonight. I need to sort out the information. Let's stay here for one more day and wait until tomorrow. "
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