Chapter 57 Chapter VII

Then, the following is my idea-here, draw a vertical line from this middle point, turn the whole picture of the second half upside down, and then fold it in half, so that the front half of the icon and the second half are exactly the same. Just happened to overlap.And then, the curve of the big bang and the curve of the big tearing are also overlapped, and therefore, the “size of the universe” is always kept in a fixed quantity after the first half and the second half are overlapped and added together. I thought of Norma's soft, melodious voice like a bell dangling in a paper balloon, and her drawing of the "half-fold cosmology."If the half-fold time point is really "11:26 in the middle of the night on July 15, 2006", and the cosmic time after the half-fold will always keep flowing at the same speed, then this time... On the other side of the universe at 7:17 am on July 15th, there should be a universe "3:35 pm on July 16th".

But how can we get to the end of the universe? At present, the end of the universe that humans can observe is about 47 billion light-years away, but I can't imagine such a place at all.Although this does not mean that I cannot use spatial movement to go to places I have never been to, but that place must at least exist on my "mind map", and it must be a space that allows me to generate concrete imagination.Moreover, the end of the universe is still expanding at a speed exceeding the speed of light... I don't know, and I can't even imagine, what kind of situation there is.I know that even if I try to imagine, I will immediately let the imagination become a mess, and then give up easily... But this may be a matter of course.At this time, I recalled Yingyue Danxue's words.Human consciousness can create the world.If what he said is correct, the end of the world is at the end of human consciousness.

He actually ran to that kind of place, and even bumped his head hard... I looked at Mercury C helplessly, and asked him, "What kind of place is that?" "What kind of place?" "It's the end of the world." "Ah? What's the use of asking this?" "I'm just curious... Maybe your words can be a clue for me to find there." "How could my words become your clues?" "It's not necessarily impossible. What kind of place is it?" "It's just above this place, go up a little bit through the clouds."

"A little bit higher through the clouds..." What was he talking about?Thinking of this, I woke up again.Did the "Blackbird Man" also prepare a "barrier" over the Princeton Hotel? "Could it be me, you, and Shao are all locked up here?" Mercury C showed a sarcastic smile and said: "If it is said that it is locked in by the world, then it makes sense, but I don't think that shit pervert would do such a thing. Otherwise, you can go up and have a look." "Is it above the clouds?" "That must be closer than Fukui Prefecture."

This is true. I covered my head with my hands while jumping in the bedroom toward the sky I couldn't see.Because I really don't want to use my head to test the hardness of the "barrier", and my head and neck are not as strong as those of Mercury C... But, at what speed is this space movement realized?Can simply putting your hands over your head really withstand the oncoming impact? With a little anxiety, I came to an altitude of about 800 meters above Chofu, and now I have passed through the lowest cloud layer over the Princeton Hotel, but I can't feel the existence of the "barrier".I looked around in the "huhu" wind, everything has its own depth and three-dimensional sense, and is flowing slowly.The screen-like thing that separates me from Mercury C and "Tip" does not appear here... What will the picture of the reverse world look like?Would it be a lot like a movie being rewound?No, it must be different.I'm now reminded of that screen just now.At that time, the reason why we were able to see those pictures on the "barrier" was because the light penetrated from the "barrier".And if the "barrier" itself is a real screen, or any other substance, then the light will not only pass through, but also be reflected back to that side.However, that "barrier" is probably just a simple space boundary, so it hardly reflects any light.Therefore, even if there is such a "barrier" between the world here and the future world where time flows backwards, the light on that side will only become the light source on that side.

In this way, is the "barrier" dark and unable to reflect anything? Probably not.Because the light irradiating the past here will also be bounced back by the countercurrent time on the other side of the "barrier"... So, those light rays will either be reflected, or they will return to the original track.If light is reflected, then the "barrier" should not be like a screen, but like a mirror.If the light returns to the original track, then it should be like a mirror with no upside-down left and right... But in this way, no matter which side you face, you will meet your own reflection on the "barrier"... In short, if the "barrier" "Show up around here, and I'll be sure to find out.With this thought in mind, I, who was already in free fall towards the Princeton Hotel, jumped into the sky again in one go.On July 15th, the morning in Chofu was very clear, and I could see cumulonimbus clouds piled up in the distance.Over the Princeton Hotel, only a few small clouds dotted the sky.When I passed through one of the cloud clusters just now, I saw that the sky directly above was an endless blue... While thinking about these things, I still kept jumping upwards about 300 meters at a time, but I still didn’t See anything resembling "Barriers".At this time, I was already at a height higher than the top of the cumulonimbus cloud... the current altitude has probably reached about ten kilometers.The temperature had also dropped to around minus forty degrees, and it was unbearably cold, so I just jumped up about 30 kilometers.After passing through the troposphere and entering the stratosphere, it became warmer and warmer as I went up, but this time the air became thinner and thinner, my breathing became more and more difficult, and my head began to hurt, so I had to go back to the Princeton Hotel for a while. Room 201, the moment shortly after I left.Will this cause diving sickness?I really shouldn't be so reckless to go to such a high altitude.Now maybe a blood vessel in the brain has ruptured. I covered my head with anxiety and went back to Mercury C. He laughed when he saw me.

"Eh? You got hit on the head by the 'wall' too?" What does it mean to be hit on the head? "No. I climbed desperately to find the 'wall' above the clouds, but I started to get a headache when I climbed too high. It may be because the air pressure changes too much, and the blood vessels in my head were squeezed..." "Wow, haha. You idiot, who asked you to mess around." "Hey...Mercury, are you really sure that the 'Barrier' is there?" "My 'wall' is there. But my 'end of the world' is not necessarily your 'end of the world'. Isn't that obvious."

"what does that mean?" "Didn't a famous detective say it when I was in Pineapple House, detective. In the era when people thought the world was a big table, the world was a big table. Don't you remember those words?" Human consciousness can create the world. Yingyue Danxue's words resurfaced in my mind again.At the same time, Mercury C also continued: "Because everyone holds a similar world view, this earth and the entire universe can remain in a stable state, and the end of the world seems to be set accordingly, but now I I have long since disbelieved in the existence of others. This is of course. Because my world is something that belongs only to me. Hmph, so you have to observe the things around you carefully and think carefully. Now in this world , even the mind or consciousness can run into other people's corpses, or into other non-human substances, and can change their appearance at will. In this way, it will no longer be difficult to tell who is who and what is who. Who is what? And ah, now we don’t know how many people can freely travel through time and space. Maybe there will be countless such people gathered at the same time and place? It’s even possible that everyone except me People are actually the same person, or the mind of the same person, one might be the future me. In this kind of world, the only thing I can trust is myself. So now, even the world’s I don’t believe in the shape anymore. Anyway, time and space can be distorted and interspersed at will. Who knows what and how a certain thing is changed. So I only believe in what I can see, feel and touch Stuff. So, the end of my world is above the clouds here."

What kind of a man this is, I couldn't help thinking.He could really doubt the whole world.Of course, there is nothing wrong with Mercury C's suspicion itself, it's just that I can't doubt it as thoroughly as he does.I still believe in this world to a certain extent, sharing this world with other human beings, and this feeling still makes me feel a little warm.But at the same time, I also think that maybe now I should really be as utterly skeptical of everything as Mercury C is.After all, as a detective, the opportunity for all thinking lies in suspicion.If you can't doubt things thoroughly, you can't think thoroughly about them...

Mercury C said again: "Speaking of which, how high did you go?" "The upper part of the troposphere is too cold, so I jumped up to a place with a higher temperature in one breath. I should have reached the upper part of the stratosphere. But that's just my feeling, so it should be About forty kilometers." "Wow, then if I go again now, maybe I can reach such a high place." Ok?I didn't understand at once. "Do you trust my experience?" "It's okay. After all, you are the key to this incident." "But in this way, you should have been influenced by my worldview a long time ago, and you will be able to go up to the stratosphere just now."

"Didn't you just think about Shao and that pervert just now, and didn't care about the structure of the world? Maybe it's because of this that I haven't been affected? And even if it's your own worldview, you may have some doubts, right? Is it? But let’s ignore that for now. Speaking of which, do you want to continue to confirm where the 'End of the World' is? If you just want to confirm, then there is no need to go there to see it." "No, wait a minute. In order to find out the nature of the 'barrier', I also need to see what the so-called 'end of the world' and the 'reverse future' look like." My doubts are too shallow, and I have to follow the prevailing world view to go to a place 47 billion light-years away.I just jumped to the sky 40 kilometers away, and I can't bear it anymore. Do I really have the ability to jump into the universe, travel through the galaxy, and then cross the super galaxy cluster, and jump to the end of the big void?If I really want to go to that kind of place, I can't go there alone, but I should bring the whole environment around me to that place...in order to protect myself as much as possible in various emergencies. But how on earth am I supposed to get there? If I don't have a specific impression... Just when I was about to start thinking again, Mercury C suddenly said: "It's very simple. Can't you and I go to places we don't know? At least if there is no geographical map or globe It’s impossible with the support of images. However, you and I have places we can go without using a map, right?” think.Affected by Mercury C's words, the answer emerged in my mind. "...that's where I've been in the past." "That's right, your brain is still very good. And now, you just want to confirm the existence of that 'wall', right? That 'wall' is not just something that exists on this side, it can also be hit from the other side to the wall." from the other end.Ahh...that's how it is. Mercury C waited for me to wake up belatedly, smiled and continued: "Although traveling through space cannot enter the reverse future, it can be achieved through very simple time travel. In this way, as long as you go to the current world In the parallel future, it is enough to make a space jump to the position where you are at this point in time. "Of course, if you must check the position of the 'wall' from this side, you can also go to the future world to confirm your position, then come back here, switch to the space jump mode, and go there again , but it’s just a waste of effort.” I looked at Mercury C’s smile and strongly felt that the previous method would do.If there really is a 'barrier' between this world and the future world of Reverse Flow, I will probably hit it hard.Although I don't know where the "end of the world" is, but if it's just a matter of temperature and air pressure, I should be able to solve it easily.I will definitely not jump into the sky rashly like I did just now.I will close myself in a space and go to the "end of the world" together with the surrounding environment.In this way, if such a "barrier" really exists, and the reason for the formation of that "barrier" is above the flow of time, it will not be me who will bear the brunt of that "barrier", but I will bring it with me that space.With such a buffer zone, the damage I receive will definitely be greatly reduced.If a few more layers of buffer space are used to crash into it, the safety factor can be improved a little bit more.Well, there is always a way.I will always find a way. Mercury C said to me who was buoyed up: "This is a past topic for me, and I am ready to assault the room just now. So I can go to rescue Shao at any time." "Wait a minute," I said, "do you already know how to manipulate time?" Mercury C laughed "hee hee", and said, "I don't know yet, but don't worry about it. You gave the hint yourself, but it still took so much time." what did he say? "Although I don't quite understand what you're talking about, but if you don't care, I don't care, anyway, I trust you. And the 'barrier' at the 'end of the world' can be confirmed after the incident. In short, let's put that first, Teach me how to change the speed of time." Mercury C said to me who was anxious: "I don't know if this will change the speed of time, but you don't have to worry. I think it is still very important for you to go to the 'end of the world' to confirm the existence of the 'wall' Yes. Because in this way you can keep up with my thinking. After all, whether it is knowledge, experience, theory or time, all of these are accumulated. Stop talking nonsense, hurry up and come back, anyway, it’s just a moment.” Indeed, I didn't notice that Mercury C ran over Chofu just now, and before that, it ran to the future world to confirm its position.Because we can adjust the specific moment of traveling through time and space at will.So I shouldn't let Mercury C wait too long. "Very well, then you have to wait for me to come back." As soon as I finished speaking, Mercury C waved to me impatiently. "Go away, you useless idiot detective." Despite the tense situation about to break through the barrier, I still couldn't help thinking: Although Mercury C, you are right, but after all, your mouth is really cheap.But he also smiled because of his reliability.Although Mercury C caused me a lot of trouble in Pineapple House, I didn't expect him to help me so much now. Then I remembered what Mercury C said just now.There must be a trap here.So now is not the time to be delusional.Now we can only confirm that Hoshino's head was cut off, and judging from the situation of the tip and the room, it is still impossible to judge whether the "Black Bird Man" was also successfully killed later. The battle is just about to begin now. I checked the clock in the room again.It is seven twenty-eight in the morning.Eleven minutes have passed since the time I saw before I jumped to the sky.Then, the countercurrent future that is parallel to the present should also be set back by eleven minutes, and the world at the other end should be around 3:24 p.m. on July 16th.Mercury C and I stayed in this room for at least eleven minutes, so when I went to this room in that world, I should have at least eleven minutes to spare. very good. I glanced at Mercury C, which was frowning at me, and focused my mind, jumping into the future. It was dark again, and I landed in the small bedroom of room 1201 in the Princeton Hotel, but the figures of Mercury C and Xiaoxiao had disappeared.The sheets and quilt on the bed had been changed and made, no one had slept on it.I glanced at the clock on the side table again, it was exactly twenty-four in the afternoon.The date is also displayed below the digital moment, which is July 16th.I did come to the date and the moment in my goal.It was still bright outside the window, but the window where the sun was shining just now was already in shadow.At this time, the sun must be shining inward from the other side of the building.The curtains were drawn and I was able to see the station and streetscape of Chofu clearly.The children who seemed to be singing about the summer afternoon, the middle school students who were still wearing uniforms even though it was a day off, and the mothers who came out to buy supper ingredients shuttled through the streets like a group of busy ants.I opened the door and peeked into the master bedroom of room 1201, but Twig was no longer there either.Except for the supplies provided by the hotel, there is no luggage in the room. Probably no guests have stayed in this semi-suite after we checked out.I suddenly thought of something, and turned around quickly, and the door of the small bedroom that I opened just now was indeed closed.So I remembered what Baji said.Even if we go to the future world, we won't be able to leave any influence there.I tried to reach out and open the door again.Then let go, wanting to see when the door closed automatically, but this time it remained open without any movement.So I thought it might not work to keep looking at it, so I deliberately looked to the side, but the door still didn't move at all.But at this moment, the sound of someone approaching quickly came from the corridor outside.I became nervous and stared at the entrance of the semi-suite, waiting until the footsteps passed by the door and finally disappeared into the distance. Then I turned my gaze and found that the door of the small bedroom had been closed silently at some point. The sudden change and the pretending ignorance of the door as if saying "I've never been opened before", I couldn't help laughing, and then fell into a deep incredulous sigh.human influence?It turns out that the awareness of something can actually move or fix that object... In the following time, I felt a brief tremor.In this world, no matter what I do, I will not cause trouble to others. Similarly, no matter what I do, it will not remain in other people's memory. Besides, I have no way to do a specific thing for a specific person. matter.Although this is a very free state, it is also a very lonely cage.But it's not the same thing about whether I feel sad or miserable because of it.The only thing I feel right now is something like a void.In this world, no matter what you do, it's all in vain... But now is not the time for a place like this to be melancholy about this needless sense of alienation.I stomped on the spotlessly soft carpet and jumped to the rooftop of the Princeton Hotel.Unique to summer in Japan, the sultry and slightly sweet, slightly heavy wind blows on me near the evening.I took a deep breath and started to focus.I imprison the air around me.The wind stopped immediately, and the sound disappeared.I should have been wrapped in a sealed cylindrical space with a radius of about two meters, and I looked up at the sky.There should be another "Princeton Hotel" and another "I" at the other end of the sky.While I might bump into a "wall" on the way there, I don't care about that.Because no matter where I hit that wall, I believe that the space that surrounds me will act as a buffer to protect me from injury.If I don't encounter the "barrier", I will directly enter the world on the other side and land in front of another "I", but I don't have this kind of memory myself. So off I went. Immediately, the space around me collided with something as I wished, causing me to stumble while standing in it. The end of the world is white. It turns out that the "barrier" does not reflect my figure like a mirror.There is nothing there, just a blank white, if it is ordinary white, it should make me, a foreigner with green eyes, feel very dazzling, but because there is no light that pierces the eyes, so I just See a calm and thick, boundless white. I stretched out my hand and looked around, and in a certain direction, I encountered something that looked like a "wall".It has the same non-tactile touch as the "barrier" that separates me from my shoot.I started the obligatory flat pantomime again. This is the end of the world. I can already see why this is not the mirror world I imagined.Because there is not even light here.Therefore, neither the image will be projected, nor will it make people feel dazzling. For a moment, I thought that since there was no light, it should be dark in here, but that wasn't right either.For the night is dark because of the universe, and the universe is dark because it has depth, but here there is not even depth...here is the end of the end of pure white. I suddenly thought, where did the air around me go after hitting the "barrier"?But they didn't seem to break through the space and spread out because of the collision, but still gathered around me.Because there is nothing here, which means that there is no vacuum, and I am afraid that even problems such as gravity or air pressure will be invalid here.Because there is only me here, the air can only gather around me... as if clung to me in fear.Probably because I think I need air, that air gathers around me, but even if I think it doesn't matter whether I need air or not, I'm afraid they will still stick to me.In fact, this space that really has nothing also makes everything possible because of my unique existence, and these possibilities can also become reality. I do have this exact premonition now.As long as I firmly believe that I don't need air, then air will really become useless here, right? Still, I kind of like the air.Whether it is the smell, the touch, the comfort of being in it, and I also like to hear the sound transmitted by it... I smell a new smell in the air I brought.There is a smell that has never been seen in the sky of Chofu mixed in it.It was the smell of the end of the world.Like paper clay mixed with blueberries, sweet, dry smell.But smell is also a kind of substance, and it should not exist at the end of the world, so I should be using smell instead of vision to experience the non-existent existence in front of me.It turned out that nothing smelled like this. After feeling the end of the world with sight and smell, I began to feel it with hearing again, I closed my eyes, held my breath, and pricked up my ears. Gradually, there was a sound like a child crying or a girl acting like a baby, which sounded like "uh-huh" from a distance. Uh-huh-huh-huh-huh-uh-huh-uh-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh... That voice still sounds like the air around me is afraid of this place where there is nothing, crying desperately begging me to return to the original place, but maybe this is the voice of nothingness.It turns out that nothing makes a humming sound. Then I opened my eyes and re-examined my surroundings in that small voice. The snow-white place was not like a fairyland like clouds and clouds, but a flat white.I put my hand on my forehead, trying to observe carefully whether there was some substance floating in it, but I still couldn't see anything. Suddenly, I found that the outline of my palm was blurred for a moment, and I couldn't help being surprised.what happened?I focus my gaze on the palm, and it returns to its normal shape.However, if I stare at it all the time, I am not sure whether my palm is still in the usual shape... My psychology has already begun to cause the collapse of the gestalt.Moreover, the gestalt collapse that occurred in this place is also the collapse of the actual shape of my palm due to the sense of disobedience and doubts in my heart, so now my hand sometimes swells like a balloon, and sometimes twists my fingers. Into various shapes, in short, just do not want to maintain the original state.Seeing this, I couldn't help but feel a shudder, and finally realized how fragile my perception of the body is.When plunged into total solitude in a place like the end of the world.When there are only my own thoughts, my own feelings, my own vision, my own cognition and my own consciousness, this space called my own can break free so easily.From the perspective of being able to do anything I want, I am omnipotent, but human consciousness is constantly changing.If I stay here and don't leave, I will probably slowly disintegrate and dissolve into a pool of mud before disappearing. I need the presence of the other. One's so-called self...at least myself is to some extent known through the presence of other people.And judging from the broken state of my palm, even the shape of my own body is fixed by the consciousness of others to a certain extent. I quickly gathered myself together, and returned to the roof of the Princeton Hotel at the north exit of Chofu Station in Tokyo, Japan, on Earth as fast as possible. I knelt down on the blackened cement roof and began to examine my body.There are indeed five fingers on the hand, and the joints are still bent in the original direction, and the number and shape have not changed. Relieved from the bottom of my heart, I stood up again, and suddenly found that the sky in Chofu, which was sunny when I left, was now overcast and the air became very cold.The crowd passing through the station carousel below also changed out of their summer clothes for thick coats and sweaters, and none of them wore T-shirts or half-sleeves.I was too flustered to leave "World's End" and forgot to set the date and time, and now I must have arrived at a time other than "Evening of July 16th". I found the clock next to the dial, and it said twenty-eight past two.It's daylight now, so it should be afternoon.But what about the date here?Should I go to the ticket inspection machine at the north exit of Chofu Station... Thinking of this, I finally discovered a major fact.Chofu station and tram lines are gone, replaced by a huge station building and roads like I've never seen before.I jump to a 2006 Chofu Station convenience store that doesn't exist to check the newspaper.October 31st, the year next to the date is 2019.I was wrong for a full thirteen years.Standing in front of the glass window of the convenience store, I re-examined the scenery of the north exit of Chofu.Except for the department store building, almost all the buildings have been replaced by new buildings, and the streets are lined with new signboards.Even the students walking in this neat and orderly intersection like a theme park have a different atmosphere... The only thing that hasn't changed is the middle-aged men and women.I watched a group of fifteen or sixteen-year-old girls laughing and walking past me, and suddenly thought of Shao.She should also be a grown-up shoot in this future world... It's 2019, so she should be nineteen years old.But I don't know where Shao is now, so I can't jump to her side... and I can't see her face.Inoue shoot of the water sky official.From the words of the "seventeen-year-old Shao's heart" that is now named Xiaozhi, I feel that the seventeen-year-old Shao should be an ordinary girl, so she must have grown into an ordinary nineteen-year-old girl now.She must have finally lived a stable life after leaving me.That's fine.And she also thought of me and sent her heart to me.I'm so happy... More than just happy, I feel that this is a supreme honor, so I also really want to take a look at the shoot when I grow up.After thinking for a while, I thought of the ginkgo tree in Viharabi Kojima.When the twig was still "Jiao's mind" and just entered into the body of the shoot, I once buried a pair of knives and forks under the ginkgo tree in the backyard in order to confirm the exact connection between myself and the shoot in the sketchbook. When I signed my name on the trunk, the twig that was still "Tao's Heart" had already passed through... That, I found it.Silver knife and fork with pink cherry blossoms falling pattern.I went to Chofu immediately after reading Mr. Disco's letter. If Shao had been seventeen at this time, I might still have met her.Because I just need to wait for the tip to appear in Room 303 in Viharabi Kojima Town in order to dig out the things under the ginkgo tree... Thinking of this, I changed my mind again, it's not good.After all, I don’t know when the seventeen-year-old Jiao will go back to find that ginkgo tree... No, it’s not referring to this. In the final analysis, the letters and conversations in the sketchbook were originally what I mistakenly believed to be the "future Shao himself". What happened between "Xiao's mind", the real Shao should not know about it at all.I finally understand now.It is precisely because of this that I left the half-written "DISC" on the trunk of the ginkgo tree, and I have not yet told the tip of the pattern of the knife and fork buried under the ginkgo tree in the letter.But the reason why "Shao's Xinxin" answered the pattern of the knife and fork is because she misunderstood herself. In fact, when she did not enter Xiao Xiao's body, she had always existed beside Xiao Xiao and me, so she must be unconscious You can see me in action.Even when I pulled that Uno Chiyo cutlery set out of the kitchen, she was somewhere watching the whole thing. In this way, even if I wait until the end of time in Viharabi Kojima Town, the real seventeen-year-old Xiao will not appear, I thought with a little regret, but forget it, it is still the time of "Sao's heart" anyway. The twigs have shown me what the shoots look like.Besides, it's better not to run off to meet the real Koji now... I've been thinking about Mr. Disco, Koji once told me.However, Shao may have forgotten, in fact, the time she was with me should be the most miserable time in her whole life... I remembered the same sentence that Xiaozhi said...I seem to be with someone Go to watch the fireworks.It was a firework festival held by Chuo District. It was held at a pier in Tokyo Bay. I walked very close and saw the fireworks going up. Suddenly... I suddenly thought that the Tokyo Bay Fireworks Festival hosted by Chuo District should be Tokyo. The Bay Fire Festival, the host venue for this event is usually next to Jinghai Wharf or Hinode Station.If it was there, it would probably be very difficult to find a single person among the audience of about 750,000 people.However, I will definitely find a way to find Shao... Just when I made up my mind to jump to the Chuo District government to investigate the details, I was stopped by myself. Don't bother with Tiao, who has managed to live a stable life, but it's not this intention that stops me. In order to avoid future Chofu citizens from being unnecessarily frightened, I walked to the corner of the preserved police duty box next to the convenience store, and prepared to sneak away from the place full of illegally parked bicycles.But at this moment, I caught a glimpse of a company name pasted on the top of a huge skyscraper that stood out among the new high-rise buildings after secondary development around the station. STYRON JAPAN Stallone Japan? The map of the Central District in my mind suddenly disappeared into the sky.

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