The temple was dark, silent, and filled with the smell of dry metal.
The deepest metal wall cracked a passage as wide as one person along the center line of the circular relief, and it was pitch black inside.
Li Liang stood quietly in front of the passage.
From the moment he was awakened by Messi, he missed his home, his father, and his younger brother all the time. Later, he discovered that he had unusually high authority and that his younger brother might still be alive, so he looked forward to one day getting here and leaving. to his brother.
However, when it came to this moment, he hesitated.
Li Shuang wanted to kill him.
Why?
Ling Yi knows that he was brought to the present by Li Liang from the future, which means that Ling Yi and his brother are likely to know the truth of the matter. If not the whole picture, at least they know the most critical part.
In addition, there is no need for Zero One to tell such lies that can be seen through in a blink of an eye. Moreover, it is true that only Li Shuang, who became Zero, can control the authority and send guard robots to the earth to kill him.
He is not afraid of being ambushed. At this moment, he is in a state of near invincibility. Although it is only temporary, at least for now, even looking at the entire spiritual world, there are not many creatures that can threaten him.
He is not afraid of death. Even if the time observer suddenly appears in the next second and ends everything, he will not be afraid.
He was just afraid...afraid of finding out that his brother really wanted to kill him.
No matter what timeline, no matter what bullshit plan, no matter what the last resort was, he didn't want to, nor was he willing to stand on the opposite side of his family.
finally.
Li Liang walked into the passage and walked in the darkness.
The metal wall was about ten meters thick, and the passage was not long. Soon, the feeling of oppression disappeared, and the surrounding area seemed to become empty.
The air was a little hot, and there were rustling sounds in the darkness.
Sudden.
A beam of light was cast from above, illuminating a five-story small bungalow.
The small building stands alone in the middle of the empty ground. It looks like an ordinary board building from a thousand years ago. At that time, people called unit buildings with five floors or less small bungalows, and those with five floors above were called small high-rises or high-rises.
Li Liang instantly recognized that this was the place where he and Li Shuang grew up.
Home.
His vision became blurry, and he walked slowly closer, walked through the familiar unit hall, came to the elevator, and pressed the up button.
Ding.
The elevator door opened and he walked in. He pressed the button for the 4th floor completely relying on muscle memory without having to think about it.
The elevator doors close and the buzz rises.
Ding.
The door opened.
Li Liang walked out of the elevator and looked to the right. Sure enough, it was still the security door with the door frame looking like a dog had chewed it.
When the community was robbed, my father wanted to replace the security door, but he was blindly confident and remembered the wrong size. He led the workers to carry the door back and realized that he had bought a larger door. So he waved his hand and sawed, sparks flew out, and the result was like this. Vice virtue.
He smiled and wiped his eyes.
The security door was unlocked and ajar.
He walked forward and opened the door gently. A pair of slippers were already placed in front of the shoe cabinet. Li Liang changed his shoes and walked into the living room step by step.
Sitting on the sofa was a gray-haired old man.
He was so old that he was so thin that he was reduced to a handful of bones. He was wrapped around a blanket, shivering and trying to stand up, but it was difficult to even lift the blanket.
Finally, the old man stopped struggling, slowly raised his head, and shouted softly: "Brother."
Li Liang burst into tears.
"I've been thinking about how I should look when I see you if you come back," Li Shuang, who is getting older, seemed a little embarrassed and said vaguely, "I originally prepared a bionic body, which is how you see me for the last time, but , I also felt that using a bionic body felt a bit strange, so I awakened my original body... It was difficult to save it, so I made some bionic transformations on it, but the effect..."
Li Liang slowly approached and sat down next to his brother.
Noticing that his brother's face was full of tears, Li Shuang patted his brother's arm, but his hands were shaking uncontrollably: "Don't be like this, brother, it's just that this body... is too old."
Looking at Li Shuang's wrinkled face, Li Liang said painfully: "Why...don't you drink the 'Ascension' potion..."
"Oh, I think eternal life is boring, and I have to live, so I used my consciousness structure as the basis to design Xi'an's underlying system. It's actually quite good. Brother, this is also a kind of eternal life," Li Shuang He smiled and said, "And it's very cybernetic."
"Don't lie to me," Li Liang shook his head: "am is already dead, and dad definitely doesn't want to see you become a size zero."
"Oh, you've met Ling Yi...well...you were blaming yourself at that time and felt that you had killed them. I actually felt the same way at the time and even had a fight with you," Li Shuang pursed his lips. , "But then, I thought, well, my sister-in-law and my father don't want to see you living in regrets all your life, so... Fortunately, you haven't experienced those things now, which is good. I'm very happy."
Li Liang still shook his head and said nothing, but just put his arm around his brother's shoulders, just like before.
The room fell silent.
The two brothers clearly had too much to say, but they just sat together, not knowing how to speak or where to start.
for a long time.
Li Shuang smiled and asked, "Brother, do you want something to drink?"
"Do you want to drink?" Li Liang stood up, walked to the refrigerator, opened it, and smiled, "What to drink? Coke or Sprite, and here's Nescafé."
"Anything is fine."
Li Liang took two bottles of Coke, opened them and handed one to Li Shuang.
"Did Ling Yi tell you? I tried to kill you," Li Shuang tremblingly took a sip of Coke.
Li Liang paused for a moment while holding the Coke, continued drinking the drink, and said casually: "I told you, why."
"Because I think there might be something wrong with your plan."
"Huh?" Li Liang didn't expect this answer at all, "What's the question?"
"Have you been to that world called Asia?"
"I've been there and met with Master Yuanshi. What about you? How did you and Zero One know about this plan?"
"I told myself that."
"Huh? What does that mean?"
"On New Year's Day in 2754, the system suddenly automatically generated a program. This program demonstrated this timeline plan to me, but at that time, you were in the temple and seemed to know nothing about this plan."
"Then what?" Li Liang frowned.
"As I prepared to perform the computational derivation of the proposed time theory...I shut down."
"Downtime is..."
"It means that the system determines that this calculation cannot be completed within a limited time or falls into an infinite loop."
"Ah, I remembered. The zero-sequence robots thought you fell into a deep sleep one day after 2754, and sent them a prophecy."
"Humanity will spend a long time in despair and loneliness, until the door to the new world opens, the Twin Gods come again, the dark side of the moon will be sprinkled with the blood of betrayers, and the upper city will crash before dawn."
"Yes." Li Liang nodded.
Li Shuang showed a confused look: "I didn't send this message. I only found out after I restarted that you disappeared, and there was such a record in the system."
"...What were Zero-One doing while you were sleeping?"
"She obtained the management rights of Xi'an. You personally gave it to her before disappearing and told her the plan."
Li Liang was stunned.
"I think the situation is a bit strange, so I continue to pretend to be in a shutdown state and observe silently until you appear again," Li Shuang asked, "Didn't that Master Yuanshi tell you this?"
"No."
"It's not in the plan automatically generated by the system..." Li Shuang thought for a moment and said, "Did he mention what I did in the future?"
Li Liang shook his head: "Master Yuanshi said that the future me does not want me to know what will happen in the future. However, you are indeed not included in the plan he mentioned. I think you may not have participated, because I know myself and will never let you know. You were involved in this dangerous scheme.”
"Maybe... Well, it was because of the downtime that I realized there might be something wrong with the plan itself."
"what is the problem?"
“You know the grandparent paradox, right?”
"Well, Master Yuanshi also gave this example. In the end, this person only seriously injured his grandparents."
"Why?" Li Shuang stared at the Coke can in his hand, "Why could he only injure his grandparents seriously? Is it because of a simple banana peel mechanism? If this person was destined to step on a banana peel before killing his grandparents, what mechanism allowed him to do so? Banana peel in the right place?”
Li Liang frowned: "You mean there will be other situations?"
"I think this person went back in time and severely injured his grandparents. Then the life trajectories of his grandparents and father changed, which led him to have the idea of going back to the past. This logical closed loop may be a stable state. Then, there must be an unstable state. Show up, like this guy killed his grandparents.”
"Isn't there a conflict then?"
Li Shuang stared at the empty space with his eyes: "Yeah, it's strange. It feels like some information is lost in the calculation."
"Could it be that the banana peels were placed by time observers to avoid this unstable situation?"
Li Shuang came back to his senses: "It's also possible. Do you think this is the main job of a time observer?"
"...It doesn't seem like it. Their work doesn't seem that simple," Li Liang smiled bitterly. "I have a feeling that the problem you discovered may be critical, and...my future self has not solved it."
"So, I sent out armed drones," Li Shuang smiled, "I wanted to see when the 'banana peel' would appear."
"Oh, do you think that if I am in a stable state now, you will definitely not be able to kill me, and something will definitely happen to cause you to fail."
"Well," Li Shuang asked curiously, "Why were you able to find the entrance to the backup spaceship base in such a short time? If you had been a few minutes later, my drone would have been able to catch up with you."
Li Liang said in a daze: "I remembered that when K and I dived, someone seemed to have cleared an area around the entrance switch, and then K said he saw the backs of two people."
"Banana peel," Li Shuang sighed, "the things behind this plan may be more complicated than we thought."
The two fell silent again.
After finishing the Coke, Li Liang asked softly: "What happened on the wedding day? How did Dad..."
Li Shuang sighed: "Brother, it's all over, forget about it."
Li Liang glanced at his younger brother and put down the empty Coke can: "The alliance forces are still outside the gate of spiritual logic. The goblin thing must be settled. Six hours are coming soon. I will go out first and continue talking when I come back. .”
"Okay, brother," Li Shuang smiled, "Come on."
Li Liang patted his younger brother's head. Although his younger brother was already very old, at this moment, he always felt that his younger brother was still a child.
He walked to the door, paused, turned around and asked, "Why is my DNA information in the underlying logic of the system?"
Li Shuang pointed to his lower abdomen and said solemnly: "I will always remember what dad said."
Li Liang smiled and shook his head and walked out of the room.
The moment he disappeared, he suddenly thought of a place where he might be able to find out what happened on the wedding day.
Maintenance drone base... There was a video there, but he never had time to watch it.
