Chapter 964 - 32: Undo Move

"In the end, he still died?" Sun Hang asked tentatively.

Zuo Jun nodded: "I waited for nearly a minute, and the van that was supposed to be out of control finally appeared in my view. But it stopped slowly in front of the red light, showing no signs of brake failure. Through the half-lowered car window, I saw very clearly that the driver's mind was also very clear... However, in that timeline where the van was out of control, this driver was clearly drunk."

"So how did he die?"

"He broke free from my hand, walked forward, safely crossed the road, and continued to the opposite side of the street." Zuo Jun said calmly. "Then he was hit on the head by a falling flower pot and died instantly."

"Was it murder?" Professor Cao squinted his eyes. "Someone wanted the guy dead, but your tug caused the van to lose the best opportunity to strike, and then another killer at the high building completed the 'remedy' with a precisely aimed flower pot?"

"The flower pot was knocked over by a stray cat, and it had been there for several months. I recalled my past memories, and every time I passed that corner, the flower pot was always there... So his death could only be attributed to 'accident'." Zuo Jun said.

"I don't know why, but I thought of an old saying, 'No good advice serves the damned'. If the guy hadn't broken free from you, he wouldn't have been hit by the flower pot." Sun Hang said.

"No, I tried to save him again later, but this time it wasn't the flower pot that fell."

"What was it?"

"The cat that was supposed to knock over the flower pot."

"So no matter how hard you try, you can't change the inevitable death of that guy?" Sun Hang pondered, "This sounds a bit like a plot in a horror movie called 'Final Destination'..."

"Why have you never told me about this?" Professor Cao frowned.

"I talked to Pei Zongjun, and he said this might just be a coincidence."

"I also think it should be just a coincidence." Professor Cao nodded thoughtfully. "If, and I mean if, the world automatically corrects the course of events changed by your time reversal, then you wouldn't have been able to recover those hundred and ninety-seven high-risk experiments... Any one of those experiments could destroy the entire Dubhe Tower. It's impossible for all hundred and ninety-seven times to just be a coincidence, right?"

"What if... these experiments were meant to succeed from the beginning?" Zuo Jun looked into Professor Cao's eyes, which were like two bottomless black holes.

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!" Professor Cao waved his hand vigorously. "If that were true, I would rather believe that humans are blessed by the gods... You must know, I'm a staunch atheist!"

"What if the so-called 'gods' do exist?" Zuo Jun asked again.

"Then I think you might be the means that these so-called gods use to protect humanity," Sun Hang glanced at Zuo Jun. "The lunatics at Dubhe Tower are causing big trouble that could lead to the collapse of human civilization, so a higher dimensional deity needs you to defuse these crises... And that guy who should have been hit by a car, his life or death is insignificant, not worth using such 'precious' protective means on, or put another way, he's not worth being protected... How does it sound, isn't it more reasonable?"

"Not worth being protected, so I can't save him no matter what?"

"Maybe the total number of times you can change the timeline is limited, so you shouldn't waste it on ordinary human individuals." Sun Hang said, "As long as that person's death outcome hasn't changed, the remaining number of times you should not be reduced... Of course, I'm just guessing, pure blind speculation, without any factual basis."

"What are you talking about..." Professor Cao felt speechless. "If 'gods' really existed, wouldn't changing something be just a matter of thought? Would it really need to be so complicated? Don't tell me that gods are also bound by rules... If that's really the case, then in my opinion, these beings can't be called gods... Not even being omnipotent, yet dare to be called gods?"

"Then to say in another way, not called gods, but called chess players, how about that?" Sun Hang said.

"Chess players?"

"Let's assume this world is a gigantic chess game, and Zuo Jun is just a tool within the game used for 'undoing moves'." Sun Hang suggested another explanation. "For the chess players outside the game, although they can place pieces at will, the number of 'undo moves' is limited. And when this tool used for undoing moves wants to use its limited undo moves on things irrelevant to the big picture, the chess player will naturally intervene in these actions."

"If it's a tool, why give me self-consciousness and independent thinking ability?" Zuo Jun questioned.

"I don't know." Sun Hang shrugged. "But there is something I want to ask you."

"Go ahead."

"Have you ever doubted... the reality of this world?" Sun Hang pointed at the ground. "The 'material world' in which we exist."

"Do you also have that feeling?" Zuo Jun's eyes were slightly widened, his tone very different from before.

"I don't, I'm just suspecting." Sun Hang said, "I have too many sources of real perception of the world, the taste and texture of food, the tactile sensation and body fragrance of the opposite sex, the brain's cognition of mass, space, and time... Even the feeling of feces being squeezed out of the rectum when defecating feels extremely real to me. Although I know these senses can be simulated in the brain, looking at it from my personal memory, I have never doubted the reality of this world."

"Then why do you ask me this?"

"Because someone— I don't know if that entity is a person or not—asked me this question," Sun Hang said quietly.

"Who?"

"If I knew who it was, I wouldn't be so troubled." Sun Hang sighed, he couldn't exactly say he saw a strange cursor in a dream type out the question, could he?

Zuo Jun: "..."

"Anyway, let's talk about the things you've encountered." Sun Hang intertwined his fingers. "Why would you doubt the reality of this world?"

"It's hard for me to explain, I did a psychological test with the mainbrain, and the mainbrain believes it's because I've conducted multiple time reversals, modifying the world's timeline, that's why I'm having this illusion." Zuo Jun said.

"I think the mainbrain is right, it should be just an illusion." After a long time being unable to cut in, Professor Cao finally found his chance to speak. "Why am I sensing that your topic is veering more and more off?"

"Alright, then consider it an illusion." Sun Hang nodded. "One more question, have you ever seen any patterns or items styled like three monkeys, especially when you use time reversal?"