Lu Ning did not expect that she and Zhao Xihua would meet by chance at a coffee shop in District 2.
She and Ye Nai came here to meet Wei Yin, but as soon as they entered the door, they saw Zhao Xihua reading a fashion magazine and drinking coffee in the corner.
"Good afternoon, two beautiful girls."
An astonishing smile bloomed on Zhao Xihua's face. Even after what happened before, it was hard for Lu Ning not to feel a little fondness for her when facing her directly.
"I didn't expect to meet you here." Lu Ning walked to sit opposite Zhao Xihua and asked in a low voice, "What are you doing in the second area?"
"You probably don't like roundabout answers, so I'll just tell you the truth, that blue rose badge." Zhao Xihua put the magazine on the table and smiled.
"Impossible to leave it to you."
"I just asked you not to hand over that thing at any time." Zhao Xihua said something that surprised Lu Ning, "According to what Li Yanke told us, that badge is the key to unlocking the evil tree formation diagram in the book, but I never If he doesn’t completely believe what others say, no matter what deal he makes with others, it’s safest when it doesn’t happen, do you understand?”
Lu Ning nodded.
She had not called Li Yanke in the past two days, nor was she ready to fulfill her "agreement" with him. But even so, Zhao Xihua still had to remind herself to explain what she had probably discovered.
"I originally planned to steal it, but after seeing you, I thought it would be better for you to hold it." Zhao Xihua glanced at Ye Nai, "I have met the person who opened the door, and I also know her abilities and limits. This thing You can’t give it to her, otherwise it will kill her.”
"You question her strength?"
"I'm just telling the truth. You should have met with my immediate boss? Aren't you? Okay... I'll explain it a little bit." Zhao Xihua nodded his eyes.
Ye Nai also pulled up a chair and sat down.
"I can only use the precognitive part of Peter Charlotte's ability to 'weave the future'. What we intercept from this world is information, and then we learn the parts we need to know through the information. It's like No matter what the graphics look like in a computer game, what the people writing the program in the background see is just the code."
"Such a big restriction?"
"For this reason, I asked both Qingyu and Xiaochang to try to inherit the evil canon and gain abilities, just to test whether this is an accidental phenomenon." Zhao Xihua said, "The conclusion is that it is indeed the case. The superpowers in this scene should all have flaws. .”
Deficient ability?
Is this an open-mindedness in the scene?
"But don't think too beautifully." Zhao Xihua shook his finger, "First of all, there is no causal relationship between the strength of the ability and the size of the flaw. The flaw in Qingyu's ability to rain is that once it is activated, he cannot control it to stop, and Xiao Chang's trap The distance between the labyrinth and the labyrinth is only ten meters. Neither of these two abilities is particularly powerful, but the restrictions are not small at all. So when it comes to the evil of the source of matter, if it can provide unlimited energy supply, it is at best a permanent reactor. That’s all, it must have some other uses…”
"Covering up flaws?"
"I need a test, and you definitely need it too. Just don't go there anymore in District 8. Don't worry, we are not enemies, and I have no interest in making enemies in the scene." Zhao Xihua put the empty coffee cup in his hand, "Okay, in exchange, I want to know something from you, such as... what are the capabilities of the managers of the third district?"
"I have no idea."
"Um?"
"I'm not directly given the power to use abilities like you. I was just given a life-saving amulet. Although I have seen her do it several times so far, there is not much in common in terms of the results. point."
Zhao Xihua became even happier after hearing this.
"It seems that he is a much more cautious person than my manager! In this scene, there is finally someone who can guard against us. This kind of challenge is interesting...can give me additional answers A question? Do you know the situation in District Six? At least this girl passed by there that day." She pointed at Ye Nai.
"Okay." Lu Ning briefly talked about returning the dragon to the sea, as well as Goulart and Solite starting a war in the sixth area.
Zhao Xihua was as interested as if he was listening to an interesting story, and when Lu Ning finished telling it, he still had an unfinished expression.
This person is enjoying it.
Lu Ning has seen all kinds of tourists so far. Faced with various difficulties and dangers in the scene, they have positive or negative reactions. Even the crazy people in Fairy Tale Paradise have seen it, but even they can't. No one would enjoy the various difficulties in the scene.
This made her recall the scene when the other party pointed a gun at her forehead.
This person...even if he didn't have the ability to predict things, he might still shoot himself with such a bright smile.
"What is Greed's ability?"
"Swallowing power." Zhao Xihua replied with a smile, "He can completely swallow up the phenomena caused by all abilities on things, but then he must return it to the user of the ability within a short time, otherwise he will bear those effects. This ability Not only are there time and distance restrictions, but the number of people he can swallow is also limited, so it’s easy to kill him specifically.”
"You sold someone so easily?" Ye Nai's mouth twitched.
"We are tourists, and our mission is to kill people and seize treasures. Do we still have to pretend to be peace-loving in front of our own people? I like to experience the convenience of communication brought by different personalities, but I don't like hypocrisy."
Zhao Xihua stood up and looked at Lu Ning with satisfaction.
"We are on the same front, don't worry. In addition, I have met Guo Mengxu. Now the first layer of secrets in this scene is gone for me, and the rest is the hidden route... I don't I won’t hinder you, but maybe I will provide some convenience when necessary! I hope that the next time we meet, it will be on some means of transportation on the return trip.”
"I prefer it to be the final battle."
"Hahaha! For people like me who can't hold their shoulders or lift their hands, it's better to avoid some fighting scenes, aren't you right?"
With this half-joking tone, Zhao Xihua ended the conversation, paid the bill and left the cafe.
"Is she waiting for us here specifically? She has a foreknowledge..."
"I don't know, but it doesn't matter." Lu Ning ordered three cups of coffee, and then picked up the fashion magazine that Zhao Xihua put down without taking it away. On it was a girl in fashionable clothes, and something that Lu Ning estimated she would never know in her life. Wearing some weird clothes on display.
She turned the magazine up, and a white crystal as smooth as a pebble slipped from the middle of the rolled pages. When she took it, a chill ran from the crystal to the palm of her hand.
"She said that she needed to be tested, and we also needed to be tested. So I asked one more question about Greed's ability, and she gave a very detailed answer." Lu Ning tapped the crystal with the blade of the sword cart, The sharp sword in the past failed to leave any trace on the crystal this time.
"What do you mean?" Ye Nai didn't understand.
"It's nothing." Lu Ning laughed, "You just need to know that she does intend to cooperate with us... No, she is prepared to cooperate with everyone."
The so-called long-sleeved and good at dancing. Before, Lu Ning didn't quite understand how such a person could perform in various dangerous scenes, but now Zhao Xihua has really let her know a thing or two. Let alone being neutral, even Lu Ning Ning, whose previous relationship had dropped to freezing point, can be brought back.
"Once this kind of person wants to be friends with you, he can directly give you a price that you can't even say no to."
On the other hand, what about the enemy?
Lu Ning raised the crystal and looked at it in the sunlight, then put it back into her inner pocket.
"So she's really working with us?"
"She's not stupid. The combat capabilities of the highest level in this scene are obviously beyond the norm. There is no need to think about the ending if the tourists kill each other. I don't think we can spend the next fifteen days peacefully and return without completing the options. , in case there is a map cannon incident in the end... Ye Nai, you have experienced more scenes than me."
This is true.
The scenes intercepted at the distribution center always span some major event, blocking the way for tourists to get by through inaction to the greatest extent. Even those who are dawdling in the first level have their own ways to survive. I have never heard that you will always be safe if you hide.
Several terrifying scenes flashed through Jumonmon Yana's mind, and she quickly shook her head to drive these nightmares away from her head.
At this time, Wei Yin also arrived.
"Sorry! I'm late. It took me some time to catch up on the paper..."
"Isn't your investigation incomplete?"
Wei Yin sighed.
"It seems like you didn't go to college. Postgraduate students don't necessarily have only one paper to write..."
Lu Ning, who was not a real high school student but had never written a paper, had nothing to say.
Putting other issues aside, Wei Yin brought good news.
She visited Professor Pfister yesterday, and while getting some opinions and reference materials from him, she also described Peter Charlotte's abilities to him.
This seemingly shocking power to ordinary people did not surprise Feist, and he even gave Wei Yin some "small toys".
"Scientifically speaking, predicting the future and changing the future is not theoretically impossible, just like the famous experiment conducted by Professor Pfister." Wei Yin took out a black square box from her backpack. There is a small lens on each side of the box.
Laplace's Demon.
Indeed, physicists once imagined that an individual who mastered all the theorems in the world, understood the initial state of all matter, and had infinite computing power could calculate all the past, present, and future. Although this theory was once denied by modern quantum theory, powerful scientists will never give up the inclusiveness of the theory.
Wei Yin put the square box in front of her eyes, looked at Lu Ning through the lens, and said with a bit of fresh knowledge: "Professor Pfister's research direction includes this. Schrödinger's cat box is determined by observation. And the same can be true in the future. If humans can transcend their own dimensions and look for the uncertainty that escapes from high-latitude space, when 'observation' occurs, everything will automatically become a foregone conclusion——"
"It sounds like it was memorized by rote."
"Hey! I study history, so it would be great if I can remember it!"
Wei Yin put the box down and pretended to be angry and shouted.
Lu Ning smiled and gave up the joke, pointed at the black box and asked, "Where is that box?"
"Peeping box, this is the name given by Professor Pfister. Through it, you can see what some objects will look like after a period of time. However, the information captured by this box has a considerable error. Sometimes you can see decades later, and sometimes you can only see A few seconds before my eyes. But people... can always be distinguished by their age. What I see is that you are about the same age as you are now. Have you cut your hair? Lu Ning, it seems that within a few minutes to a few days, you are... Everything is fine." Wei Yin smiled, shook the box in her hand, and handed it to Lu Ning, "Would you like to try it? It's very fun."
"Hmm...is this thing so powerful?"
"It requires a special battery. It seems to be called an annihilation reaction layer... I don't know how long it will last. Professor Pfister doesn't have any extra."
Lu Ning nodded, raised the viewing box with a hint of curiosity, and looked out through a lens.
What came into view was the burning cafe, the broken glass and the blood-stained bar. It was undoubtedly a scene that was in ruins.
"this--"
Lu Ning was surprised and turned her perspective and landed on Ye Nai.
The girl had turned into a cold corpse, with a deep bloody hole in her throat extending to her heart. The expression on her face was one of helplessness and regret, and perhaps a sense of relief.
She quickly turned to look at Wei Yin.
The quirky girl still had a smile on her face, but there was a hole in her chest that looked like a hole shot by a large-caliber sniper rifle. Her posture was slightly weird, but with that kind of injury, an ordinary person couldn't continue to live.
Lu Ning saw a flash of red light on Wei Yin's fingers. It seemed to reflect some outdoor light, and it seemed to be...
The last sight was of the building outside that was turning into dust and rising toward the sky.
Everything is back to normal.
Lu Ning put down the viewing box and felt her heart beating wildly. Some not-so-good memories came flooding back, and this time... she could even see the ending of the two people around her.
"What's wrong?"
Wei Yin took the spy box and looked at it, then shrugged and put it back in her backpack.
"It's a pity that the power is out. Ye Nai, I originally wanted you to try it."
"Wei Yin, is what you see here a decisive future? Or is it just a possibility of countless futures?"
Lu Ning asked quickly.
"When a cat is observed, life or death has already been decided." Wei Yin explained, "But we don't know exactly when the cat was observed, because the mechanism may not be triggered until hundreds of years later."
At this point, Wei Yin suddenly realized the meaning of Lu Ning's question.
"Lu Ning, you didn't see anything... not a good sight, did you?"
"Yes." Lu Ning frowned, "But I really don't want this kind of 'prophet' at all."
