The empty room was quiet except for the slight white noise of the operation of electronic components.

The chair with its back to the door remained motionless, like a silent theatergoer.

Chu Guang didn't know if the professor's old friend "Observer" was also watching.

But even if it was, it probably wouldn't be able to jump out and say anything.

After all, it said that the next encounter would be dozens of thousands of years later.

If he can wait until then.

The professor standing on the screen seemed to be lost in distant memories. He stood quietly and thought for a long time before speaking in a eloquent tone.

"That happened a long, long time ago, more than three hundred years ago."

"I can't remember whether that was the first time or the second time I saw it, but it was indeed the first time it had a heart-to-heart conversation with me."

"At that time, I had mastered the mysteries of the four basic forces, and gradually began to use gravity as a medium to touch the boundaries of dimensions... Just as observers expected, after we mastered the power comparable to stars, we obtained

The key to the stars.”

Chu Guang had a surprised expression on his face.

"Hyperdrive? You invented it?"

The professor shook his head.

"No, I'm not very interested in specific applications. Those things are mainly done by my students. However, my research on neutrinos, quark-gluon slurries and gravitons has laid the theoretical foundation for the hyperspace engine.

.Including deflector shields, including the anti-gravity you are familiar with, they are actually all extended applications of hyperspace theory..."

It’s okay if you’re not interested…

Feeling the smell of cock coming towards his face, Chu Guang touched his nose unconsciously.

Although he knew very well that the other person did not mean to show off, he found that he was still being pretended.

Perhaps this is due to specialization in the art industry.

Rather than showing off, he's still better at being sinister.

When he said this, the professor suddenly stopped talking as if he thought of something.

"I won't tell you those complicated things. If you are interested, you can learn about it yourself. There is a popular science book called "Past, Present, Future" on the bookshelf of the library on the B4 floor, which reveals in popular language

The principles of hyperspace and FTL engines are more friendly to amateurs."

Chu Guang nodded.

"I read it a long time ago...you wrote it?"

He didn't remember who the author of that book was, but he remembered that the "gravitational bond" mentioned in that book opened his eyes. It turned out that this was how super-light navigation in the era of the United Nations was actually done.

The professor smiled and said.

"That's not true. It was written by my student."

Good guy.

Got it again!

Chu Guang coughed lightly.

"...Are we digressing from the topic?"

"Sorry, the interruption was a bit long."

The professor smiled sheepishly, resumed his previous tone, and continued.

"In short... on the Nth year after the establishment of the People's Federation, we got the key to the sea of ​​​​stars and completed the first ascension of the entire human civilization. From that day on, our frontier was no longer just the earth.

Begin to expand to other planets outside the Earth-Moon system.”

"And just when the People's Federation needed me the most, the Observer found me and predicted future crises and various 'natural disasters'. In the end, it wanted me to go to Mars to dig a grave, one bigger than Nanmen II.

The ruins are small and have multiple tombs... However, due to some things, I didn’t go there.”

Chu Guang: "What happened?"

The professor was silent for a while, as if he didn't want to talk about this issue, but he seemed to feel that it was a thing of the past, so he finally spoke.

"A little personal matter... My wife was seriously ill. At least at that time, there was no cure. Even at that time, we had mastered the power of the stars. Moreover, those who stand in a similar position to you also

They didn’t want me to take risks, and they tried to persuade me for a long time... In short, I finally chose to stay in the era I should be in."

"There's really nothing we can do about it, it's human nature." Chu Guang nodded, with some appreciation in his eyes.

He is not an emotionless person.

On the contrary, he not only attaches great importance to feelings, but is also very willing to make friends with people who value feelings.

Although people with such weaknesses may not necessarily be good people, they usually have a bottom line. They will pay attention to what they eat and look like, they will have some scruples, and they will not do anything like giving birth to a son without a butthole.

By the way, this is one of the reasons why he remains single.

Even though he has never done anything like giving birth to a son without an asshole.

"Really? You think it's human nature, right...Besides, things are not that simple."

The voice that floated through the screen was filled with complex emotions. It was hard to describe whether it was about leaving something behind or taking up some responsibility that did not belong to oneself.

"...According to the facts I learned later, that guy concealed quite important information. There were indeed some 'good things' buried in that tomb, but at that time we did not have the ability to fully excavate the ruins. Once inside,

I can't get out, no matter who goes! No wonder it asked me to go, it's just a trap, this guy wants to kill me!"

Chu Guang was stunned for a few seconds, with astonishment written on his face.

"Observer...want to kill you? Why?"

The man on the screen was silent for a while, and then said after a long time.

"I don't know, maybe it doesn't necessarily want to kill me, or maybe it just wants me to disappear for a while. According to it, my progress is beyond its expectations. It is a cross-regional organization that cooperates on a global scale...

In other words, the People's Federation was born ahead of schedule, two centuries earlier than expected."

"More than that, including the completion of the first fusion reactor, including the construction of the space elevator, etc., are all based on the common prosperity of all mankind."

"Although I think this is not a big deal, it is a trivial matter in the face of time, and it is not my fault alone, but it thinks that we are moving too fast in this universe, and there is an undercurrent under the vision of prosperity.

.”

"According to its point of view, the explosive progress of science and technology has allowed us to skip the problems that we should have encountered and the real-life tools that should have been obtained from solving problems. Once our speed slows down in the future, we will have skipped

Problems will break out in a concentrated manner, and then just a small risk will make all our efforts in vain, and this risk is almost certain to happen in the future."

Chu Guang pressed his eyebrows and thought for a while, trying to clarify the contradiction between the two parties.

To put it simply, the observer hopes to provide appropriate intervention, but the result of the intervention exceeds its own expectations.

So it plans to remove the distractor.

No--

This is actually not quite accurate.

A more accurate statement would be that it gave the professor two choices.

Either go to Mars, accept its "macro-control" and develop in the direction of a boundary breaker.

Either give up the system and stay on your original timeline, but the price is that it will remove excessive interference, or withdraw the "helping hand from the void".

According to the professor, he actually no longer had much use for the system given to him by the observer.

If there is no higher-level pursuit, there is really no need to obey the mercy of observers in order to keep the system.

"...What happened next?" Chu Guang continued to ask.

The professor on the screen said slowly.

"It actually didn't matter after that. It said it would go to the future to find other people, and then it disappeared with the system it gave me, as if it had never been there. But it doesn't matter anymore. I've said it before.

I don’t really need its help anymore...but it seemed very lost and came back to me after many years. It didn’t say why it came back, but I can probably guess that maybe it was because it found that there was no future.”

Chu Guang: "This 'no' means...there is no boundary breaker?"

The professor shook his head.

"It refers to everything... According to it, if I continue to stay on this timeline where I am, our civilization will be overdrawn and lose all the future. Or to put it another way, countless universes in which I exist will be

It will turn into ashes, and until the final heat death of the universe, the next 'Boundary Breaker' will not be born."

Chu Guang's Adam's apple moved, he was silent for a long time, and then he sighed softly and said.

"This sounds too exaggerated."

The professor smiled lightly.

"It's quite exaggerated, but in fact it also has its truth. According to its soap bubble theory, the two time states of the past and the future exist at the same time in the void, and the multiverse and parallel worlds also exist at the same time. I am

Any decision taken on the timeline of my existence will change the future results, and these changes are possibilities that existed at the beginning of the universe."

When he said this, the professor's voice suddenly took on a hint of loneliness.

Chu Guang wasn't sure if there was any regret in it, but there was definitely helplessness and annoyance.
To be continued...