"It seems a bit far-fetched. Let me introduce myself first. My name is Guan Yifan."
Guan Yifan seemed to realize that he seemed to be taking the topic further and further, and then Guan Yifan came back to his senses.
"I have only heard about you from Cheng Xin's mouth and a few words in the historical records of mankind."
he continued.
Regarding Zhang Heng, even if Cheng Xin didn't tell him, he did know something.
After all, Zhang Heng, Luo Ji, Wade, Zhang Beihai, Shi Qiang, Yun Tianming, etc... figures who have made significant contributions to human civilization are all from the same era.
Living in the same era as these great people above was still an era when human civilization was the weakest and most powerless.
Perhaps Zhang Heng's personal actions have not contributed as much to human civilization as those of the people above, but they are certainly not much different, and they can definitely be recorded in the entire history of human civilization.
Therefore, when he knew that he was facing such a person, Guan Yifan chose to give him enough respect first, regardless of the conflict between him and Cheng Xin.
He also felt that Zhang Heng was respected enough by him.
After all, without the initial efforts of people like Zhang Heng, there is no telling whether human civilization could have survived the Trisolaran disaster.
Where did the fleeing fleet come from behind?
"If you don't mind, I'll continue to call you Professor Zhang!"
Guan Yifan continued.
Since Professor Zhang's identity was Zhang Heng's social identity in human civilization, he felt that Professor Zhang should be the one worthy of his respect.
"do not mind."
Zhang Heng shook his head and said that he didn't care about the so-called title.
At the same time, when he heard the name Guan Yifan, his impression of the name was finally recalled, and he sighed in his heart; It turns out it is this guy!
After all, Guan Yifan was one of the protagonists after those characters in the Earth Age of the Trisolaran Universe were offline one after another and human civilization entered the interstellar era. Basically, only a few people such as him, Yun Tianming, and Cheng Xin were still active.
Therefore, there is no reason why Zhang Heng would not know about him.
However, even though Zhang Heng knew about Guan Yifan, he didn't show any strange behavior. Instead, he continued to say calmly: "Then you are here because of Cheng Xin's affairs?"
Knowing Guan Yifan's identity, Zhang Heng also immediately knew his purpose.
Guan Yifan nodded, admitting it.
"Then do you know what happened between me and her?"
Zhang Heng continued.
Guan Yifan nodded again, and then said: "I know."
"Then give you a few minutes to convince me."
Now that a person like Guan Yifan, who was much more rational than Cheng Xin, came to communicate with him, Zhang Heng also decided to give him a chance.
Moreover, he has never been against using communication to solve problems.
War is also a continuation of politics. If it is not necessary, it is most cost-effective to solve the problem at the negotiation table.
Seeing that Zhang Heng had adopted a negotiating attitude, Guan Yifan had no choice but to bite the bullet and continue: "I wonder what you are asking for?"
From what Cheng Xin said, he only knew that the cause of the incident was because of fringe civilization.
Cheng Xin captured a group of military forces from fringe civilizations. Zhang Heng came to ask for them, but Cheng Xin refused to give them. This led to a conflict between the two parties, and Cheng Xin was beaten back to the small universe.
But it stands to reason that if Zhang Heng only wanted to capture the prisoners of the fringe civilization, there was no reason why he should still hold onto Cheng Xin after fulfilling his purpose?
After thinking about it, he still felt that Zhang Heng might also have intentions of targeting Cheng Xin.
Otherwise, it would have been impossible to use such despicable methods to try to force Cheng Xin to come out of the small universe and submit.
However, he didn't know why Zhang Heng targeted Cheng Xin.
Prior to this, Cheng Xin and Zhang Heng had only crossed paths in the past Earth era.
At that time, Zhang Heng also gave Cheng Xin gifts, so it was impossible for Zhang Heng to have any ill intentions towards Cheng Xin at that time.
Later, when there was no interaction at all, where did the malice come from?
He couldn't figure it out.
Zhang Heng did not answer, and Guan Yifan continued: "I can assure you that she will step down from the leadership of this human civilization, let alone go to the solar system to do anything that affects humans in the solar system. I will also lead She leaves the current universe."
Without knowing what Zhang Heng wanted to do, he could only guarantee this.
If this doesn't work, then there's really nothing he can do.
"Did you know she was dangerous?"
At this time, Zhang Heng suddenly asked.
"But there is more than one existence like her in the universe."
Guan Yifan also replied.
Of course he knew exactly what kind of virtue Cheng Xin was, and he could do anything with his sudden sensibility.
However, as he said, people like Cheng Xin, or intelligent creatures like Cheng Xin who can be dominated by perceptual psychology at any time, are not uncommon in the universe.
Take Cheng Xin's very irrational behavior of leaving behind five kilograms of the mass of the small universe during the last zeroing cycle.
There are not a few civilizations who do what she does.
Therefore, even though he and Zhizi both knew that this might not be good, they still did not stop Cheng Xin.
Because even if they stopped Cheng Xin, they couldn't stop other civilizations that did the same thing.
The same applies now. Although Cheng Xin is very dangerous, he may do things that endanger the people around him and the universe at any time.
But without her, wouldn’t there be such an existence in the universe?
Will not.
"Oh, by the way, I can also reveal a piece of news to you. It's news from the first world of Trisolaris. I think this news is enough to exchange for Cheng Xin's life."
Reasoning and all that, it's like being around a comet, it's empty space.
Only then did Guan Yifan show some substantial sincerity and believed that he could convince Zhang Heng.
"oh?"
After hearing this, Zhang Heng, who had been unmoved, finally changed his eyes slightly, expressing his interest and gesturing for Guan Yifan to continue.
Regarding the current civilization structure of Trisolaris civilization and the existence of the first world of Trisolaris, Zhang Heng only learned about it not long ago.
He even knew that Yun Tianming had become the boss of the Trisolarans.
If what Guan Yifan said was that the news coming from the first world of Trisolaris was something he still knew, then he could indeed relax.
But it was only this once. If Guan Yifan could do his best as he said in the future, and if Cheng Xin dared to jump in front of him again, he wouldn't mind killing him again.
"They said that the Zeroers' restart of the universe this time may be different from the last time, or even different from any previous time..."
Guan Yifan repeated what he had said to Cheng Xin before to Zhang Heng.
However, compared to what he said in front of Cheng Xin, he spoke in more detail to Zhang Heng.
Moreover, there are more personal opinions about him.
Cheng Xin couldn't understand him. He seemed to hope that Zhang Heng would have a different view.
"I believe that in this return movement before the restart, the Zeroers will no longer broadcast to the small universes of various civilizations, and will only involve the levels of each metaverse to the greatest extent."
"Each metaverse is just like the previous small universes. If the masters of each metaverse do not cooperate, they will not be able to restart in advance or smoothly."
"So, this restart is very difficult and the failure rate is also very high!"
After all, in the past, when restarting, the individual metaverses were started one by one, and finally the big universe outside the metaverse was reached.
When a single metaverse restarts, the Zeroers can only do some assistance and other tasks, and the rest must be led by the master of the metaverse.
Unless it is an ownerless metaverse like the Pangu Metaverse, it is possible for the Zero Returners to personally lead the process.
After Guan Yifan finished speaking, Zhang Heng also pondered for a moment before saying: "What you said makes perfect sense. It will be very difficult to restart the universe this time..."
In fact, as early as when he first returned to the three-body metaverse and entered the cosmic string, he knew through the alliance representatives in the cosmic string that the Zeroers were going to restart the universe in advance.
However, those alliance representatives did not tell him the detailed reasons for Zero Zero to restart early.
Only "Harrigan", the representative of the Star Alliance, told him some speculations about the Star Alliance itself.
Because of the unique concept of the Star Alliance, apart from celestial beings, there are not too many other forms of VI level civilizations in their alliance like other alliances.
In other words, apart from their celestial beings, many of the remaining civilizations within the Star Alliance are civilizations that have not yet completed the independence of their conscious bodies.
If the conscious body is not independent and faces the universe returning to zero and restarting, there is no chance of going to the new universe.
Unless there is the help of civilizations above level VI, the Star Alliance can only rely on the group of celestial beings and cannot help all life consciousness bodies within the Star Alliance become independent.
Therefore, the Star Alliance certainly hopes that the universe will be reset to zero as late as possible.
The more time they have, the more civilizations within them will achieve independence of consciousness.
At that time, they can continue to maintain their existing resources and status during the next universe return to zero cycle.
Otherwise, in this universe return to zero cycle, it will only be consumed without developing new successor forces, and the entire Star Alliance will not be able to sustain several return to zero cycles.
At the same time, Harrigan also felt that other opposing coalitions probably thought the same way.
The Star Alliance believes that it is definitely not a good idea for them to reset the universe to zero in advance, and it is definitely not a good idea for other alliances.
After all, they don’t know whether there will be a day when the universe becomes heat-dead and cannot be restarted again.
But they know that as long as they lag even a little behind in this universe's zero-return cycle, they will definitely fall behind in the next, or the next universe's zero-return cycle...
Even Zhang Heng himself had opinions about the Ten-Dimensional Pastoral Alliance and the Zeroers after hearing what Harrigan said, and gave up the idea of joining them.
Because he had just owned two metaverses, and he was about to reset them to zero before he could warm them up. Of course he was not happy...
Now that he had received this news from Guan Yifan, he had to say that what Guan Yifan said really made him feel like he could see the moon through the clouds.
Damn it, the reason why the Zeroers in the Ten-Dimensional Pastoral Alliance have been strongly opposed by those alliances is that they don’t want the Metaverse model to continue to exist?
However, if you put it this way, Zhang Heng's rejection of restarting the universe in advance will not be so great.
Although he will also lose all his current metaverse, if everyone will lose everything, he will not be the one who loses the most.
On the contrary, if such a new universe without the Metaverse can be born, it will be the most perfect development environment for a rising star like him.
It's better than what it is now. If you don't join a certain alliance, it will be the end of your development.
Because, the metaverse with material resources is basically occupied by various alliances, and outside the metaverse, these old people will not leave even a speck of dust for other civilizations.
However, it is not difficult for Zhang Heng to accept psychologically. After all, he will not be the one who loses the most, and he may achieve better development in the new universe.
"Do you also think that this new universe is worth looking forward to?"
Guan Yifan said with some joy after realizing that Zhang Heng's words did not express any opposition to the Zero Returners' restart plan this time.
But Zhang Heng's next words poured cold water on him: "It's worth looking forward to, but have you ever thought about whether the conscious body can travel to the new universe if it has no independent life?"
"As long as this problem is not solved for one day, and as long as each alliance feels that it is inconsistent with its own interests, Zero Zero will not be able to restart."
"Even if the Zeros are the most powerful existences in the universe, they still cannot resist the opposition of all civilizations."
"So, this restart plan is no longer just difficult to implement, but impossible to implement."
In other words, no matter how much you look forward to it, it is all in vain, as that day is destined to never come!
"But, weren't there many independent lives without consciousness during the past restarts? Didn't those top civilizations finally respond to the return movement and restart the universe together?"
Guan Yifan felt a little confused.
Is there any difference between the two?
"It's different. When restarting in the past, those top civilizations could control the time of restarting their own metaverse and minimize losses."
Zhang Heng explained: "This time Gui Ling wants to restart in advance, but it is impossible for the top civilizations to agree to it because they are not fully ready yet."
"What about when they're ready?"
Guan Yifan still refused to give up and continued.
Restarting the universe, even in advance, does not happen overnight.
Even if most civilizations are against GuiZero now, time will pass day by day, and as time goes by, those top civilizations will always be ready one day, right?
Moreover, even if they are not ready, the universe will eventually come to the day when it has to restart.
At that time, what reason do they have to oppose the Zeroers?
But Guan Yifan soon realized that the key problem was not that they were not ready, but that they simply did not want to lose the Metaverse in their hands.
(End of chapter)
