Did the world end today?

Chapter 252 You Don't Belong to This World
"You are Zhang Liming."

Lin Xu repeated himself.

“I don’t know how you did it, but you are Zhang Liming.”

"Moreover, you are Zhang Liming in this world."

"You already found Ayana, didn't you?"

Across from him, Ayana remained silent.

Her eyes were empty and blank, and she looked at Lin Xu without any emotion.

It's like a patient whose prefrontal lobe was removed due to extreme treatment methods for mental illness.

For a moment, Lin Xu even thought he had guessed wrong.

He even felt that Ayana in this world was truly trapped in a cycle of "resistance," making her impossible to exploit.

But here's the problem.

If we can't make use of it, then how did the "error corrector" and "Zhang Liming" from back then manage to communicate with her?
There is a serious logical contradiction between communication and non-communication, and the only factor that can explain this contradiction is Zhang Liming.

Therefore, no matter how outrageous the answer may seem, it can only be this answer!
But even knowing the answer, it is still impossible to break through.

With six minutes remaining, Lin Xu spoke:
"We must find out all of Ayana's interpersonal relationships and life trajectory."

"In 2027, you judged that Ayana would not have received any attention, but it is very likely that this judgment is wrong."

"She has already attracted attention, but this attention has been deliberately hidden."

"Zhang Liming alone cannot handle Ayana."

"Guo Aixia".

"Where is he now? And where is Yu Changwen?"

After Lin Xu finished asking the question, Jiang Xingye immediately replied:

"Yu Changwen should be fine; he's still in prison."

"Guo Aixia was under semi-monitoring, but he did not show any particular abnormality."

"Is there nothing unusual, or are you just not paying attention?"

Lin Xu frowned.

Jiang Xingye paused for a moment without speaking, while Qin Feng, who had remained silent throughout the video conference, finally spoke.

"It's because we haven't paid enough attention."

“We will immediately trace all of Guo Aixia’s movements to determine whether he has any connection with Ayana.”

"But that will take time—how much longer do you have?"

"3 minutes."

Lin Xu answered in a deep voice.

At this moment, he truly felt what overly arrogant people could do in a world environment of "rapid advancement".

They were like merchants carrying goods on a journey, with the rich and prosperous Silk Road ahead. At each point they reached, their goods could be converted into a vast amount of wealth.

It is precisely because of such abundant and hopeful expectations that they have fallen into a spiral trap.

They no longer bothered to pick up the scattered items on the ground, because the value of those things was far less than the value of the goods they could quickly sell at the next stop.

Are things that can fall off really unimportant?

How do you know if it's just a piece of ordinary scrap paper or a travel permit if you don't pick it up?

But no matter what, the mistake has already been made.

Unable to rely on additional information and running out of time, Lin Xu could only try to find a breakthrough from Ayana.

But if the person in front of me is really "Zhang Liming", how can I get him to talk?
If he speaks up, even if it's just a denial, it would be a breakthrough.

Without time to think too much, Lin Xu poured out all the information he already had.

"You are the leader of the Error Correctors organization, you are the leader of the Error Correctors organization in countless eternally superimposed worlds."

no response.

"You want to restart the world by hunting butterflies, but you can never be aware of the restart. The inertia of this world will make your efforts completely futile."

"Because you are not a personality that exists across worlds, your information can only be stored in [location]."

and many more.

Lin Xu's heart suddenly skipped a beat.

In that instant, he had a feeling of "a sudden inspiration" or "a flash of inspiration".

A personality that transcends the world.

He Qijun.

The flow of information.

Information flow between different worlds.

Ayana.

port.

These keywords one after another surfaced in Lin Xu's mind.

Then, in a very short time, all the information came together to form a clear narrative.

Zhang Liming really needs a cross-world personality to optimize his "reboot" plan.

If he can tell that random restarts won't bring any effective benefits, surely he can tell the same thing?
Therefore, he had to do something.

Then he
What can it do?

Entering the higher-dimensional channel, we attempted to use the method He Qijun had previously employed, leveraging the port of Ayana, to transmit information.

This has happened more than once.

It has happened countless times, even "unintentionally"!
Ayana from the world of Steins;Gate once possessed Zhang Liming's personality.

Lin Xu clearly remembered that before Aishwarya's personality was awakened, Zhang Liming's personality had resisted. And at that time, the words he uttered were...
“I am the chief scientist at ALICE.”

At that time, Lin Xu felt very strange. If this personality came from the world of Destiny Stone, how could he say such a thing?

He had already returned to China by then!

Therefore, there is only one answer: that personality comes from another world, from a world where Zhang Liming has always remained in the ALICE project!
Zhang Liming must have entered the higher-dimensional channel and the port of Ayana by accident.

And Zhang Liming was standing right in front of him.
Obviously not.

In the countless worlds that spawned from the Destiny Stone II world, after anticipating that progress could not keep up with the speed of the apocalyptic disaster and realizing that the hope brought by blindly restarting was far too slim.
Will he really just sit and wait to die?
impossible.

He will definitely look for other ways out.

The other way out lies hidden in the higher-dimensional channels.

Or rather, it's hidden inside Ayana's body.

Using Ayana as a "lighthouse" to send messages to another world was a choice made out of necessity.

In reality, it's not that reliable.

After all, you never know whether the world you enter is progressing faster or slower.

If the progress is faster, then going there would be pointless.

Even if the progress is indeed slower, if the downward spiral is irreversible, then there is no chance to change it.

But does Zhang Liming care?
He doesn't care.

He's willing to drag countless people into this high-stakes gamble, so why would he care about gambling one more time?
Lin Xu looked at Zhang Liming in disbelief. At this moment, in his eyes, Zhang Liming had already shed his identity as a "gambler" and advanced to become a "professional probability player".

His countless efforts were solely for the pursuit of that "one in ten thousand" chance of improving his win rate.

He's already reached the limit of being extremely meticulous.
Lin Xu even developed a certain respect for him.

But now, there isn't enough time.

last minute.

Lin Xu quickly stated his judgment, then looked directly at Ayana, or rather Zhang Liming, and said:
"I'm mistaken, you're not from this world."

“You somehow locked down Ayana’s main personality, which is something you can definitely do.”

"A terrifying man"

"So you're the scary man all along."

"But if that's the case..."

“Aishwarya’s personality should be a true multidimensional personality.”

"We will find a way to eliminate this personality of yours."

"next time."

“I will come again!”

time up.

Lin Xu's consciousness gradually faded.

In the final moments before plunging into complete darkness, he vaguely saw Ayana's expression finally change.
Upon waking up from his bed, Lin Xu immediately got up and ran to his desk.

He first wrote down all the "foundations" built by Jin Xiaochuan during the Alliance era, and then he recorded his judgments about "quantum spacetime bubbles" based on clues from that world.

These two key technologies will become nourishment for his own "Destiny Stone World," and after further development, they will be put back into the "cultivation dish" of the Alliance era.

Just as Jiang Xingye said, this is the true way to use this world.

Compared to obtaining information only in the last moments before the apocalypse, this method is more efficient, with efficiency increasing gradually.

Of course, the most important point is that the next time I enter, I can arrive at the world after 2029 in the "correct timeline".

is it possible?

Probably.

After all, starting in 2025, I have entered the world twice in a row with a two-year interval.

I hope so!

Lin Xu paused for a moment, then opened another notebook and wrote down the clues he had just obtained.

[Ayana, as a beacon, has been exploited by Zhang Liming during the Alliance era; he attempted to use the 'beacon' to transmit information.]

However, this method of information transmission is highly unstable and inefficient, and its impact on the final result is relatively limited.

[Upon the next entry, we should continue to monitor Zhang Liming's personality within Ayana's body and ascertain his true purpose.]

After finishing writing, Lin Xu put down his pen.

He could fully understand Zhang Liming's logic of using Ayana to "travel between worlds," but what he couldn't understand was why the real Zhang Liming in the same world had to erase his own existence through such a near-suicidal, insane act.
Was it merely to cover up for Ayana's portrayal of Zhang Liming?
It doesn't seem that simple.

Why doesn't he just hide? Why does he have to act like this?

This line of reasoning doesn't work.
The official think tank was still waiting, and Lin Xu didn't intend to waste time figuring it out on his own.

He quickly uploaded all the information he had obtained, including the basic situation of the world's development during the Alliance era, Zhang Liming's death, Ayana's changes, and the latest developments in technology.

This time, he did not ask the think tank group for an immediate answer.

He discovered that after entering the bracelet this time, the number on the bracelet had changed directly from "2" to a flashing "1".

There's no way I can get in a second time tonight, so there's no rush.

However, he still raised a question first.

Why did the real Zhang Liming have to die?

And within minutes, a preliminary "possible answer" was found to this question.

The answer is just one sentence.

"Zhang Liming's physical death may also be a kind of 'correction'."

(End of this chapter)