Psychics don't die from gunfire

Chapter 608 Ten Million and One Time

"Records and Truth" have been accumulated for 8,000 years, passed down from generation to generation by practitioners, and learned by the Silent Society. It has cost countless efforts and resources to create a supreme wonder, a unique miracle of embodiment.

——[The infinity of all things].

Endless information flows from the interlaced light and shadow of this crystal ball, and countless images flash every second. If an ordinary person stares at it, his consciousness will be overwhelmed and collapse into the tiniest dust.

Song Shi didn't even look at it.

He stared at the former closely, his eyes not moving at all - so even Song Shi gradually began to feel tired.

".Incredible."

After a long while, Song Shi uttered four words.

"You actually came up with the idea of ​​making this kind of thing, and actually made it."

“Thanks for the compliment.” Mortimer admired the translucent crystal ball. The interlaced spots of light reflected on his face, like the patterns of a Klein bottle, magnificent and strange. “The compliment from Nan Dou is quite valuable.”

"The laws of space and time and the law of causality are the basic theories that constitute the 'infinity of all things',"

Mortimer finally took his eyes off the crystal ball.

"The forefathers of the Silent Society pondered over this issue, and they pessimistically but rationally realized that if things continued like this, they might occasionally ascend, but overall they would still decline endlessly. The future of Terra would only be an eternal end, and this was the final answer."

"Hey"

Song Shi sighed.

"Do you remember the historical nodes?" Mortimer smiled. "Our history has never been a straight line. On the contrary, it is made up of many segments of varying lengths. The birth of these segments is the 'historical nodes'."

"And historical nodes influence the direction of the future." Song Shi let out a breath.

"Take Corporate Alliance, for example, a most ordinary corporate man you'll find anywhere."

"He had just worked a 13-hour shift and returned home exhausted. He took a breath, drank a sip of water, and took out the dinner he had prepared long ago from the refrigerator. No matter which one he chose, heating up pre-made white maggot sticks or chewing cold energy bars, the impact on the future of the world would be minimal. In fact, even the word "minimal" is an exaggeration."

Song Shi said: "Ignore it."

"Yes."

Mortimer nodded.

“So, if we want to change the future, we don’t need to go through the whole picture from beginning to end, and pay attention to every detail. Instead, we only need to lock in the historical node and use it as the starting point. Different choices from it can lead to different futures.”

Mortimer raised his index finger and tapped the air.

A thumb-sized white star of light appeared alone.

Mortimer nodded a second time.

The light star flickered for a moment, and suddenly a line was formed, no, many lines appeared, some were winding, some were straight, and they spread in different directions.

Immediately afterwards, new stars of light began to appear on these spreading lines. Some of them were brighter, some were dimmer, some appeared faster, and some appeared slower. But every time a new star of light lit up, it would inevitably cause many new branches to extend from this line.

In the blink of an eye, the net expanded exponentially, with crisscrossing lines inside, so complex that it was beyond imagination. Starting from a star of light, it expanded in an instant, turning into a complex scene that filled every inch of Song Shi's vision.

The sight is intimidating.

"Following this line of thought, let's move forward." Mortimer allowed the network to continue to expand, connect, and change: "History is knowable, but the future is invisible. This is an indisputable truth for most people, including most psychics."

"To be honest, even if I am not an expert in 'prophecy', even if I am the fifth level expert in 'prophecy' [Revelation], it is impossible for me to predict every event in detail and have insight into the future."

"Our [revelation] is actually the most reasonable, and is not as mysterious as some people think."

"Is there any reason for [balance]?"

Mortimer laughed. "I thought everyone knew that. Balance is the most unbalanced and unreasonable path."

"—back to what I was saying."

"But if we can grasp every historical node and know all the branches after its choice, then the future is no longer an unknown thing for us, but a 'future history' that can be foreseen and accurately predicted in advance."

“This is the Infinity of All Things.”

Song Shi pinched his brows and said softly.

"You relied on the records and truths collected over the past eight thousand years to recreate eight thousand years of history, and then I can't say whether this simulation can still be considered a 'simulation'."

"Heavenly Way, Akashic Records, Origin." Mortimer thoughtfully provided some more suitable titles.

"—but there is more to it than that."

At this time, Song Shi shook his head.

He stared at the other person with his eyes sharp.

"This is just the first step, right?"

"A keen sense of smell." Mortimer smiled reservedly, "Even we dare not say that we have mastered the 'absolutely correct' history, but history is inherently correctable. Some mistakes will be passively transformed into truth before its torrent."

"But it's still not enough—"

"If that's all, it still won't change anything."

Mortimer's expression was as if he was giving a grand speech in the auditorium, but in fact his heart was already filled with joy, and he was ready to suddenly confess his love to the teacher on the judges' panel in the next moment and wake up all the sleepy audience.

"——The Law of Space and Time."

Song Shi spoke each word with emphasis.

"Time". This is a concept that is theoretically equivalent to "space".

However, in reality, during the long years of the Sixfold Path, the latter appeared more frequently than the former. Even those psychic powers that involved the concept of "time" were mostly limited to normal effects such as opening time slots, local acceleration, slowing down the flow of time, and future contracts.

Mortimer chuckled. "If the Infinity of All Things encompasses the entire Terra, then all problems will no longer be problems, and all costs will no longer be costs."

“We can travel through various historical nodes at will, and find limited choices from infinite choices—choices that lead to the best future. We will have countless possibilities for trial and error, and every current, wrong branch will become an experience towards a better future.”

"Remember what I said? Those unscrupulous lunatics who do whatever they want? Well, let them fight on their own! It doesn't matter if they fight until the world collapses and everything is destroyed!"

"Even if Terra is destroyed ten million times, we will still have the possibility of the ten millionth and first time!"

(End of this chapter)