There was no sudden attack or any threatening move.
457 just stared at Zhang Jike for a while, and finally sighed and half-crouched in front of the middle-aged soldier.
He changed his previous defensive attitude and introduced himself in a friendly manner.
"Let's get to know each other again. My name is Zhang Heng. I am the World Breaker from timeline 457."
"Boundary Breaker..." Zhang Jike muttered, desperately trying to digest every word from the young man's mouth.
If it were a month ago, if a middle-aged soldier heard such words, he would definitely think that there was something wrong with the young man in front of him.
But since seeing Hamilton, the 'Terminator', Zhang Jike's world view has been reshaped, and now he has a very strong receptive ability.
"Zhang Jike." After a moment of silence, Zhang Jike politely reported his name, although he did not understand what Zhang Heng meant by 'boundary breaker'.
And 457 didn't say anything, he just waited silently, as if he had expected that Zhang Jike had a lot to ask.
"What Boundary Breaker means is..." After being silent for a while, Zhang Jike decided to pretend to understand and honestly asked the doubts in his heart.
"It's more troublesome to explain, um... do you know about the double-slit interference experiment?"
There was an uncertain look on 457's face, and his tone was calm and patient, as if he was communicating with a child who was inexperienced in the world.
"Double-slit interference experiment..." Zhang Jike looked stunned, with a look of recollection on his face, "I've heard of it, but I'm not very clear about it. What's wrong?"
"Well, it doesn't have much to do with that."
Before 457 could continue, Wang Yu, who was sitting cross-legged on the ground not far away, quickly added.
"Well……"
457 and Zhang Jike had three black lines hanging from their foreheads at the same time.
Seeing that the two of them were no longer talking to each other but turned their attention to himself, Wang Yu paused what he was doing and added a little helplessly.
"Xiao Hengheng, what's the use of telling him these complicated things? It's obvious from the first glance that he's not engaged in scientific research. Tell him something easy to understand to save time."
Hearing this, Zhang Jike also nodded in agreement.
Although he had received the education he deserved, what the young man in front of him was about to describe was obviously beyond his ability.
According to the other party's method of popularizing science, not to mention whether he can understand what the "Border Breaker" is, I'm afraid it will be good if he can't fall asleep after hearing it at the end.
After all, he is a soldier, not a scholar engaged in scientific research.
"Okay, let me keep the metaphor as simple as possible..."
The young man also listened to the advice and nodded slightly towards Wang Yu.
After thinking for a while, 457 spoke again.
"You know soap bubbles, they are beautiful things formed by the surface tension between liquids..."
Zhang Jike nodded. He still knew such a straightforward thing. After all, who had never played with soap bubbles when they were children.
"The world you and I live in, well... the universe, are two different soap bubbles. I am on soap bubble No. 457, and you are on soap bubble No. 22."
As he spoke, the young man grasped with his left and right hands, as if holding two invisible soap bubbles.
"But what is different from ordinary bubbles is that these soap bubbles do not exist completely independently, but are placed one inside another, layer upon layer, never ending..."
Seeing the young man's left and right hands joining together to form a ten-finger ball in front of his eyes, Zhang Jike blurted out: "Matryoshka doll?"
"Uh, yes! It's just a matryoshka doll! One layer after another, never touching, they are parallel to each other."
457 nodded repeatedly, feeling happy that Zhang Jike finally caught up with his thoughts.
"Normally speaking, there will be no material exchange or even any connection between bubbles with different numbers, but the emergence of the broken blade has changed this."
He released his hands, and there was a sound of mechanical bullets coming from 457's mechanical left arm. In Zhang Jike's surprised eyes, the surface of the forearm quickly cracked, revealing an inconspicuous blade.
It was about a foot long and completely black, as if it had been thrown into the fire and burned for tens of thousands of years. The blade was jagged and the whole thing looked dilapidated.
"This is called the Broken Blade."
Zhang Jike became curious and subconsciously wanted to get closer and take a closer look.
But the next second, the robotic arm quickly closed, blocking the middle-aged soldier's view.
Ignoring the disappointment in Zhang Jike's eyes, 457 continued his explanation.
"This thing can break the barriers between different 'soap bubbles' and connect two worlds that originally had no influence on each other."
"So the person holding this broken blade is also called a World Breaker?"
The middle-aged soldier did not remain silent, but asked tentatively.
"Yes, but due to the constraints of the timeline, there is usually only one World Breaker, which is me."
"The principle of this thing..."
Staring down at the young man's mechanical left arm, Zhang Jike seemed to want to take another look at the inconspicuous broken blade, but before he could finish his words, 457 rushed to interrupt.
"I won't go into details about the principle, because I don't understand it either. The only thing I can tell you is that the energy required for this thing to crack the 'diaphragm' is huge, and there is a strict time limit."
Zhang Jike was silent, and his sluggish expression showed that his brain was overloaded and thinking about something.
After a long while, the middle-aged soldier spat out a few obscure words.
"Minkowski...space fragmentation effect..."
"What? What big truck driver? Crushing response at startup?"
457 raised his eyebrows, obviously not hearing what Zhang Jike was whispering clearly.
"He's talking about the Minkowski space fragmentation effect!"
The beauty in the back couldn't stand 457's poor hearing, so she added impatiently.
"You know this?"
After hearing what Wang Yu repeated clearly, the expression on 457's face changed continuously, and finally settled on a strange expression.
"No, someone also told me, a person who saved my life not long ago, a person with a similar identity to you..."
457 and Wang Yu looked at each other and asked in unison: "What is his name?!"
"The seventh-generation guard bionic human, code-named 044, Hamilton."
"???"
A big question mark popped up in Zhang Heng and Wang Yu's minds.
Where did this fairy come from? I have never heard of such a person...
457 scratched his head and cast a questioning look at Wang Yu behind him.
The latter shrugged, returned his attention to the potion bottle in his hand, and dropped a very irresponsible sentence at the same time.
"Don't look at me. He already said he is a seventh-generation guard bionic man. He definitely cannot come from timeline 659. Although my technology tree is a little crooked, it is generally on the right track. No. Maybe point out omnics, a technology that consumes a lot of energy and is prone to self-destruction.”
"But my timeline doesn't even mention this kind of technology. A protective bionic man, isn't that a Terminator?!"
457 looked confused, and the image of a big muscular man dual-wielding Gatlings suddenly appeared in his mind, shooting wildly while shouting that I will be back.
"Yes, I feel like The Terminator too..." Zhang Jike blinked, a little surprised that there was such a muscle popcorn movie in another world.
However, he did not let this distract him and continued.
"Hamilton said he came here through the Minkowski Space Breaker with only one purpose, to protect the girl around him."
"What an old-fashioned plot..." 457 frowned and looked at Zhang Jike in front of him with an exaggerated expression of confusion. It seemed that what the other party just told was not the truth, but a fabricated story.
"What's the girl's name?" Wang Yu seemed to have picked out the appropriate potion and was about to crush it in her hand. After hearing Zhang Jike's words, she casually interjected.
"??????????????? I don't know." Without hesitation, the middle-aged soldier chose to tell a little lie here. After all, he still didn't know the position of the man and woman opposite him.
Hamilton was thrown out before just to exchange information better. As for a girl like Sun Jiayi who is powerless, it would be better to keep it as secret as possible.
"That's all, it's not important. It's probably sent by some timeline where the technology is advanced but the World Splitter hasn't been born. But why is Mao protecting girls? If the target of protection is different, maybe he can still find it. Let’s talk to him…”
Although 457 and Wang Yu had no intention of pursuing the question, their soliloquies still aroused Zhang Jike's vigilance.
The two people opposite seemed to have a hostile relationship with the old man!
Thinking of this, Zhang Jike's slightly relaxed vigilance raised his voice again.
It doesn't matter if he dies, but it would be bad if his former savior is implicated.
Not noticing the change in the expression in the middle-aged soldier's eyes, 457 turned his head and continued in a tone mixed with statements and questions.
"So you are not surprised to see the two of us before. The reason is probably because you have already met the bionic man named Hamilton, right?"
Zhang Jike nodded, and after a while, he added thoughtfully.
"He is very strong and has weapons far beyond this era..."
The reason why I added this sentence is really not because Zhang Jike was curious about Hamilton's skills, but mainly because he wanted to use this opportunity to give the man and woman in front of him a sideways blow——
The 'Terminator' named Hamilton is holding one in his mouth. You must not have the idea of confronting him!
If the man and woman on the other side are smart, they must know the pros and cons and will not easily think of provoking Hamilton. In this way, Sun Jiayi's safety will have an extra layer of protection.
But what surprised Zhang Jike was that after listening to his "good words", Zhang Heng and Wang Yu didn't have much surprise on their faces. Instead, they showed a look of normality.
"From your previous description, Hamilton probably comes from another timeline. If he doesn't have any skills, how can he protect his target?"
After saying that, the woman used her right hand hard and smashed a medicine bottle with a click.
Zhang Jike frowned at the simple action, because he noticed that the glass shards from the medicine bottle were embedded in the woman's palm, and the blood mixed with the medicine was dripping onto the ground...
