Did the world end today?

Chapter 218 Overdrafting Everything

Ayana provided very limited information.

There are only two useful keywords.

"A terrible man."

"spirits."

These two keywords couldn't point to anyone Lin Xu knew. He tried to get Ayana to describe more of the man's characteristics, preferably his "physical features," but it was clear that this was unlikely to be effective.

Because Aishwarya's "peeping" is actually one personality peeping at another personality.

Instead of a real person spying on another person's conversation.

Everything was blurry; rather than being a spy, it was more like the memory of one personality had somehow seeped into another.

It is destined to contain only minor fragments and is unlikely to provide any strong clues.

We can only put it aside for now.

But at least now we have Ayana as a lead.

The next time you enter the bracelet world, you can directly activate official resources and begin your investigation by focusing on her.

What we need to do now is to sort out the existing information as much as possible to prepare for the next entry into the world of the bracelet.

After playing with Ayana for half an hour, Lin Xu left the activity room and returned to his office.

After sitting down, he immediately opened his notebook and began to sort out the current clues.

Based on all the information gathered, the world of the "Alliance Era" is now very clear.

First, this is a "Level 2 Destiny Stone World". In other words, if the "Level 1 Destiny Stone World" in which you are located is the main world, the trunk of the tree, then the worlds of "Starship Age" and "Age of Confusion" are two branches, and the world of "Alliance Age" is the third branch.

When it was on the first two branches, the butterfly Lin Xu was not disturbed. So after taking off from the main trunk, it landed accurately at the very end of the branch. After it left, the branch withered, and the butterfly did not cause much disturbance to the development of the branch.

As he flew toward the third branch, due to the branch's "swaying," which is an inherent disturbance in the "Alliance Era" world, he landed at a random location on that branch.

And each time he falls, the branches wither, but new branches grow out, and that is a new world.

Based on this principle, the motivation of the error corrector is also quite clear.

They believe that their world has a chance to survive the apocalypse through its own growth.

Therefore, they wanted to eliminate the influence of "pollen" and "butterflies".

The hunting of pollen and butterflies is justifiable because they believe that once the "butterfly contingency plan" is activated and the influence of pollen is exerted, it will change the "normal" development path of the world, crowd out resources, and cause the world to deviate from the right track.

This is called "error correction".

Therefore, within this logic, there is only one problem:

Why did Yu Changwen say that the reason for killing the butterfly was that "the butterfly will come back to life"?
This statement is very strange.

You can kill a person for any reason, but you shouldn't kill him because he "can be resurrected."

Unless, of course, you are actively trying to revive him.

Unless, of course, this resurrection is beneficial to you.

butterfly
An idea suddenly popped into Lin Xu's mind.

Could these people be using the butterfly as a "verifier" or a "file reader"?

They try to validate the rationality of their world's trajectory by constantly hunting butterflies.
If butterflies only appear in a world "about to be destroyed by the apocalypse," then simply killing a butterfly and seeing if it reappears will tell us if we've followed the right path, right?
But there's a problem with this guess.

This contradicts the functionality of the bracelet.

If the bracelet can actively select a world, why not just choose a world that has already survived the apocalypse to obtain all the information?
Therefore, it's not that butterflies can only enter a world that is about to be destroyed.

At this juncture, however, the entire world has yet to find the way out!

Those who correct errors cannot be unaware of this.

Then there is only one answer.

They're using butterflies to perform a "world rollback"!
Their thinking is different from that of the Destiny Stone world, and also different from the escape strategies of Zhou Yue and Lan Shi.

They didn't care whether they lived or died, or whether the branch they belonged to withered or not.

Because they know that as long as the butterflies keep reviving, new branches will keep growing.

They believe that there will always be a branch that can grow strong and eventually become a big tree!

Good guy.

These people are real gambling addicts.

They wanted to gamble on that one in a billion, or even one in a trillion probability!
How is this possible?
My time in the world of fitness trackers is limited.

If the Error Corrector's plan really proceeds as planned, then their main world will be finished.

Because they simply cannot obtain enough effective information and technology.

The development of the main world will be severely limited!
Therefore, error correctors and butterflies are natural enemies.

However, those who correct errors must utilize butterflies.
Everything makes sense now.

At this moment, Lin Xu suddenly realized what the complex expression on Yu Changwen's face meant when he saw him in the bracelet world.
Everyone in the world is trying to save humanity in their own way.

Perhaps there will be conflicts between these different approaches.

Perhaps some of these methods are simply wrong.

However, I also have no right to condescendingly criticize them.

Those who correct mistakes are your own enemies.

But they are also a worthy opponent.

Next time we meet, I will do my best again!

Those who correct mistakes must be eliminated.

Random disturbances must also be eliminated.

The next time I enter the bracelet world will be when war breaks out.

Lin Xu raised his hand and glanced at the bracelet; the number on it had only returned to a flashing "2".

He wasn't sure if it was just his imagination, but he felt that the bracelet's "energy" was recovering more and more slowly lately.

At first, a good night's sleep could restore me to two or even three points.

What now?
After a good night's sleep, it takes another whole day to barely recover to 2 a.m.

Is the bracelet limiting the speed at which I enter the new world, or is it slowing down the rate at which the new world is created?
Perhaps both are possible. But in any case, at least for now, it's impossible for him to immediately enter the bracelet's world to explore.

But we can't just sit idle.

In each of the bracelet worlds, the people there are desperately searching for a way to avert the apocalypse.

Of course, one's own world cannot rely entirely on the information provided by those worlds like vampires do.

It's time to push forward with a real "salvation plan".

Such a "salvation plan" cannot be as simple as a "dimensional ascension plan" or an "escape plan"!
It must be complete and reasonable.

It must be something that aligns with one's own action trajectory.

Therefore, the initial draft of this plan could only be formulated by ourselves.

Thinking of this, Lin Xu picked up a brand new notebook.

He wrote a line on the cover.

"Four five-year plans before the end of the world".

After writing it, he paused for a moment, then shook his head and crossed it out.

Five years is still too long a period for an apocalyptic crisis.

Two years is too short, three years is just right.

Leave the last two years as verification, or as a redundant backup.

That's right, that's how it's arranged.

Lin Xu opened his notebook and then solemnly wrote down the first paragraph.

"By 2025 to 2028, we should accomplish the following tasks."

"First, we will fully complete the industrial system upgrade led by nuclear fusion, room temperature superconductivity, and new artificial intelligence, build a strong productivity foundation, and provide sufficient impetus for basic scientific exploration."

"Second, basic scientific research needs to be accelerated. We should form a preliminary understanding of the world after the opening of higher-dimensional channels and the change of physical rules within three years, and extend this understanding to more in-depth exploration."

"Third, we need to gain a preliminary understanding of the form, causes, and avoidance methods of 'doomsday' within these three years, and begin to formulate subsequent avoidance plans."

"Fourth, the reverse flow plan must be fully implemented and a corresponding talent and education system must be established to provide sufficient impetus for human development over the next 17 years."

Fifth, we must take into account the development of all aspects, including the improvement of people's living standards and the progress of social culture. Civilization enriches the years; the richer the culture, the more impetus it can provide for scientific and technological development.

A few hours later.

Inside a seemingly ordinary red building.

The old man held the document that had just been submitted in his hand, read it in silence, and then couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

"A very good plan."

He spoke to the man sitting next to him:
"This report combines his own experience with the external conditions he needed, and it is written in a relatively objective and reasonable manner."

"From my perspective, there's not much of a problem with this report."

"The only problem is, is the demand to achieve industrial upgrading in three years too aggressive?"

After saying this, the man with glasses smiled wryly and said:

"This is beyond what can be described as 'radical'; it's downright insane."

"Three years? What can you do in three years?"

“It takes more than three years for a factory to go from construction to production.”

"Not to mention that what he wants is a 'next-generation' industrial system."

“Under normal circumstances, let alone three years, we can’t even do it in five or ten years.”

"but."

At this point, the man changed the subject.

"However, we had no choice."

"Comrade Lin Xu is right, and Butterfly is right."

"We must lay a very solid foundation in order to have the strength to meet the needs of rapid development in the future."

"With the end of the world approaching, every individual and every department must go all out."

"Furthermore, it's not that we can't meet this requirement at all."

"Because the development of technology is predictable, and even 'locked in'."

"This is an unprecedentedly strong expectation."

"So, we have no concerns."

"We are facing the greatest crisis, but also the greatest opportunity."

"We can overdraw all our resources in the face of this opportunity."

"And such overdrafting will not carry any risk."

"Because everything we overspend in the short term will be realized in two or three years, or even one or two years; while everything we overspend in the long term will be realized after the end of the world."

Is twenty years a long time?

As soon as he finished speaking, the old man slowly nodded.

"It's indeed not long."

"Moreover, what you said is very interesting."

"Overspending everything."

The old man handed the report back to the man.

"In this way, we will hand this report over to our colleagues at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and notify other research and production departments at the same time."

"Revise and improve this report, and once that's done, we'll implement it accordingly."

"Comrade Lin Xu is absolutely right."

"A five-year cycle is too long. With the end of the world looming, our first three-year plan is..."

"It's time to get started!"

(End of this chapter)