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Taking Genshin Impact as an example, there is a special monster called "Dawei Chu" in the game. It is the avatar of the game's creator and spawns randomly at a certain location on the map.

Suppose that the spawn rate of "Dawei Hill" in a certain map is 50%, but the player does not enter that map and the monster spawning program does not execute, then does "Dawei Hill" exist?

It may or may not exist; it's in a "superposition state" with each probability being 50%.

However, as soon as a player enters that map, this "superposition state" will quickly "collapse" into a specific result of "being present" or "not being present".

Similarly, the "action at a distance" of "quantum entanglement" is also prevalent in the game world. For example, treasure chests containing a series of quest items may look and contain the same items, but once you open one of them and get "quest item 1", the next chest you open at the next location will definitely contain "quest item 2".

Whenever and wherever you open a treasure chest, it immediately affects the items inside another chest because the items in both chests are generated from the same probability table. What affects their contents isn't some kind of "action at a distance," but rather internal code invisible to the player.

There's also the "delayed selection experiment" that violates causality—it's like a player controlling a character in a game to shoot an arrow at a monster. From the player's perspective, the arrow flies out in a beautiful parabola and hits the monster's body. But if the monster suddenly becomes "hyperactive," like twisting or flying, the attack is lost.

While the logic of shooting arrows in the game may seem no different from that in the real world, in reality, whether the arrow will hit the monster is already a certainty the moment the player clicks the mouse.

The animation creates a causal illusion for players, who assume that the hit or miss is determined by whether the monster dodges after the arrow is fired. However, the game program calculates the hit probability before the arrow hits the target and then uses the hit result to draw the arrow-shooting animation.

If the game's programmers had a brain fart and added an extra hit detection point between the arrow and the monster, and the system did a second calculation and found that the hit probability was 0, then the player would see the arrow suddenly disappear during flight, returning to the initial state and playing the animation again... This is what is meant by "quantum delayed choice," where "the future changes the past."

Almost all the special phenomena at the microscopic particle level can be explained using the logic of a virtual game world.

Why not spawn the monsters on the map beforehand, instead of waiting until the player enters the map to spawn them?

Because we need to save system resources...

Why must a particle's state be determined only when it is observed, instead of being determined before observation?

Because we need to save system resources...

No matter how well Genshin Impact's program is optimized, it still needs to conserve system resources. It can't allow users' entire computers to only run one game and be unable to do anything else. The same applies to Earth Online.

The same applies to Teyvat, where Han Fulai is located.

If we assume that the Heavenly Principle is a "programmer," then it becomes entirely understandable that the "fate system" it created would have those strange characteristics—after all, there is no "perpetual motion machine" in Teyvat, and the resources of the ley lines are not infinite.

Sky Island also needs to conserve resources; if Tenri is injured, he will also need to "hibernate."

In the battle of "Ichisho no Soma" (The Land of Pure Land), five hundred years later, Ray the Movie also personally confirmed to him in "Ichisho no Soma" that "reincarnation" exists on the continent of Teyvat.

"Human civilization will flourish to its peak in this generation, then disappear, restarting the cycle and returning to the first generation..."

"'All prosperity, of course, comes to an end. But that does not mean there is no eternity. At the end of the cycle, the earth will once again welcome spring. Therefore, eternity is cyclical.' — This is the 'eternity' that the laws of nature once promised to mankind."

—Ray Movie once described the “cycle” on the continent of Teyvat to him in this way.

Han Fulai did not show any surprise at the time, because for a time traveler, especially one who had played online games, this was just a basic operation that existed in any online game - "server rollback".

There are only a few operational methods for handling system crashes: shutdown, patching, clearing and rolling back data, restarting... The "reincarnation" set up by the "programmer" Tianli in Teyvat is just to prevent data from overflowing and exceeding the storage limit of the ley lines.

General Raiden's "Unit-01," also known as "Fleet," suffered a great mental shock after learning the truth about the world, even developing a madness that led him to believe that "everything is permissible" because "nothing is true."

But Han Fulai wouldn't do that.

Prior to this, he had already learned from Wendy that Teyvat was actually a "Truman Show," a "fake world," and he wasn't greatly shocked.

After all, he was a small-town exam-taker who could be swept from a third-tier town to a top-tier university. His greatest strength was "adapting to the rules of the game." If he hadn't transmigrated, no matter how many setbacks he suffered, it would only have made him depressed for a few days before he continued to work overtime...

In his words, it's about "seeing the truth of life and still loving it."

How you live in Earth Online is how you live in Teyvat Online. It doesn't matter where you work overtime.

Moreover, players aren't all obedient children who simply follow the game designers' instructions; finding program loopholes has always been a specialty of players.

Driven by this mindset, he conducted an experiment with Mona specifically on the concept of "consciousness determining matter."

The experiment yielded three conclusions:

First, the "false heaven" controls "fate" by forming a "trend" through a large number of prior causal relationships.

Second, the "destiny" set by the "false heaven" is not absolute.

Third, and most importantly, "consciousness can determine matter."

Based on Mona's experiments, the logic behind the Sky Island's fate system's "writing fate" is likely based on a "causal language model."

Mona wished to "find money," and for the "fate system" to fulfill her wish, there had to be a "cause" that led to this result.

If she goes out shopping with her wallet and it falls to the ground and she picks it up, that's "finding money." If she goes out shopping without her wallet and it's late at night and no one else has dropped their wallet on the street, then the "cause" becomes "there's money to pick up in the wishing well."

The reason Mona couldn't use the "consciousness determines matter" method to conjure up a large amount of Mora for herself is because her "water divination" only has the authority to "write" but not "modify." She can't achieve things like "Mona was born the world's richest person" by altering history...

However, Raiden Shin, the "God of Life" who once altered the history of Inazuma, somehow usurped the "system modification" authority belonging to Sky Island and even left a "system backdoor" for her sister Raiden.

This became the key to their "future saving the past" operation.

If Han Fu were to explain this process of "revising history," he would say something like this:

Due to the existence of the "False Heaven," the continent of Teyvat can now be viewed as a program loaded onto a "quantum server." The characteristic of this "quantum server" is that data writing can transcend the "locality" of time, which means it can modify "causality."

Raiden planted the Divine Cherry Tree during the "Dark Calamity" era 500 years ago, but the Divine Cherry Tree appeared in Shadow Mountain 3,000 years ago. This phenomenon can be regarded as a "reversal of cause and effect" caused by "delayed observation".

According to the principle of "delayed choice quantum erasure", the future choice, namely the act of "planting the divine cherry tree", sends information to the past in the form of "quantum entanglement", causing the divine cherry tree to appear in the Inazuma ley line five hundred years ago ahead of schedule.

The Divine Cherry Tree in its quantum entangled state is essentially located in a higher-dimensional space. The consciousness space left behind by Raiden Shin is the "Hilbert space" used to access this higher-dimensional space. Only within this space can one truly touch the Divine Cherry Tree's true form.

"Dream Together" is the "quantum entanglement medium" left by Raiden Shin, the "thread" connecting the two microscopic particles.

Only by holding a “single-minded dream” can one manipulate one end of an entangled particle to influence the other end.

In countless parallel worlds, there exists Inazuma who survived because of the Divine Cherry Tree, and there exists Inazuma who was destroyed because of the absence of the Divine Cherry Tree. Raiden Shin used her "observation" to bring the timelines together, fixing Inazuma's timeline in the "surviving world with the Divine Cherry Tree".

However, Raiden's "observation" had a major flaw: the existence of "Evil Star." Perhaps she was powerless at the time, but in any case, she was unable to remove the contamination of "Evil Star" from Inazuma's timeline.

Now, what they need to do is to let Raiden Movie use the permissions left by Raiden Shin to "observe" again through the "system backdoor" of the Divine Cherry Tree, and rewrite the history of Inazuma, so that the history collapses into the only solution that "includes the Divine Cherry Tree but does not include the Evil Yao Contamination".

Yes, it's that simple.

Chapter 256 The Eve of the Autumn Equinox [5k]

September 22nd marks just one day until the Autumn Equinox and also just one day until the "Guanghua Rongcai Festival".

As of today, the General, the Yae no Kōji, and that "Minister of the Interior" Mr. Han have been "missing" for seven days.

The simultaneous disappearance of Inazuma's Shogun and Gekikai-tei's Permanent Vice Minister will obviously cause enormous turmoil.

Fortunately, Ayato Kamisato temporarily suppressed the unease from the outside world by claiming that "Lord Oogami is performing a purification ritual at Narukami Taisha Shrine to cleanse the Inazuma ley lines, and Lord Kōji and Lord Han are accompanying him on his orders."

The most important matters of state are sacrifice and war. It is certainly a good thing for the Shogun to perform a sacrifice to protect Inazuma, and it is also the proper duty of the Shogun. No one can say no to it. It is also perfectly reasonable for the "Minister of Ceremonies" in charge of the sacrifice and the "Minister of the Interior" who is the Shogun's inner courtier and private secretary to accompany him.

Furthermore, the recent ley line pollution and monster incursions in Inazuma have been contained, indicating that the General's sacrifices have been very effective, so others will not suspect anything in the short term.

Currently, the only people in Inazuma who know the truth about the matter, besides the parties involved, Kei and Paimon, are the Kamisato siblings, Sara, and the two deacons in the government office.

But the truth will eventually come out. Putting aside the issues of the Divine Child and the Shadow, Han Fulai was a key figure in the Inazuma Reform, and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call him the "Shadow General."

The affairs awaiting his attention at the Shogunate were piling up, and the Liyue Fleet had also sent people to report to Vice Minister Han on the progress of assisting in the land development work on Haiqi Island. Even Xingqiu had privately come to her brother Han to ask for a new calligraphy copybook...

To put it bluntly, even without the General and the Palace Attendant, the court can still function as usual, but without Lord Han, many things become truly difficult.

Ayato could only silently pray that Lord Han and the others would return soon.

Of course, there was also good news—this morning, Ayaka sent someone back to tell him that Miss Ying, the "General's Side Servant," had finished her training today and officially "emerged from seclusion."

This means that the General, the Palace Attendant, and Lord Han are all likely to return.

In order to successfully welcome back the Shogun, Ayato is making final preparations for the "Radiant Splendor Festival".

The "Radiant Splendor Festival" is a traditional festival in Inatsuma. It is said that in ancient Inatsuma, there were five poets who were skilled in singing and composing poetry. They were known as the "Five Poet Immortals." Every year, one of the Five Poet Immortals would send one of them to present the collection of poems written by the five poets to the general for his appreciation. This event became a popular topic of conversation.

Later, people used them as models to create many different stories about the Five Song Immortals, and also developed the "Guanghua Rongcai Festival" to commemorate the emotions and joy that poetry and literature brought to people.

This year's "Glorious Celebration" is different from the past.

The Inazuma Civil War has just ended, and this celebration is exactly what is needed to soothe the wounds inflicted on the people by the war. Furthermore, after the General lifted the "Isolation Order," normal exchanges with the Teyvat nations urgently need to be restored.

Taking advantage of the "Radiant Splendor Festival," the "Eternal Kingdom" showcased a new look to the world.

According to the original plan of the High Priest, this year's "Radiant Splendor Festival" will be a collaboration with "Yaedo" on light novels, aiming to hold a "cultural exchange exhibition with light novel creation as the core" and create an "international cultural event that is both unique and in the style of Inazuma".

In other words, in addition to the Shabugyō (official in charge of the shrine), the "Yaedo" (a type of religious organization) was also one of the "organizers" of this festival.

The priestess's arrangement was clearly driven by her own ulterior motives, since the revenue from "Yaedo" ultimately went into the priest's private "donation box"... However, at the crucial moment of the festival, the priest disappeared...

But the publicity had already been released, so Ayato had no choice but to take on the work left behind by the goddess.

"Araya, Kuroda, how are your preparations going?" Ayato asked the two men in front of him.

Both of them are editors at "Yaedo".

Kuroda is the store manager of "Yaedo," and he handles most of the book shelving and sales. Araya, on the other hand, is a professional "event planner" who has selected countless excellent works. The most famous essay contest in Inazuma, "The Real Light Novel Is Amazing!", was proposed and personally organized by Ms. Araya.

Kuroda adjusted his glasses and replied, "The collaboration stores are ready. 'Tenzenya' and 'Far Voyage Wind' have contacted us. The materials for 'Reincarnated as a Thunder General, and Then Invincible Under Heaven' and 'Please, My Fox Deity' are all in place! The reprint of 'The Record of Sinking Autumn' has also been completed. In addition, 'Tenzenya' has also specially added a batch of 'Statue of the Great Master of the Imperial Guard'. The manpower to maintain order has also been arranged."

“Very good.” Ayato nodded, paused, and then added, “By the way, tell Miss Kaede from the ‘Ceiling House’ to remember to reserve five statues of ‘Lord Mitakenami Oogami’ for Lord Sara…”

"Yes!" Kuroda quickly wrote down the instructions in his notebook.

Miss Araya efficiently picked up a stack of promotional brochures: "Reporting to Lord Kamisato, the books, commissioned printed materials, and promotional materials for 'Yaedo' were all bound yesterday afternoon. The Kanjo Magistrate has finished decorating the outlying island, and the display boards are all set up. Chairman Kurisu has asked members to send invitations to the festival to their respective countries, and the plaza in front of the 'World Commerce Association' has now been renamed 'Five Song Immortals Plaza' in preparation for welcoming guests from all walks of life."

"In addition, the 'Eve Festival' that you instructed to hold has been prepared. All the materials needed for the bonfire party have been prepared at 'Gokasen Plaza', and the fireworks from 'Naganohara Fireworks Shop' have also been made."

"How are the preparations for the 'Oei Narukami Kariyama Festival' going?" Ayato asked again.

Miss Araya chuckled, “To be honest, such a ritual is really beyond my capabilities—fortunately, I contacted the former shrine maiden of Narukami Taisha, Miss Hisaki Shinobu. Miss Hisaki Shinobu accepted my request and led the members of the ‘Araya-ha’ to form a lecture team to popularize the ritual process of the ‘Mio-Narukami Kariyatsu Festival’ to the public. She also specially helped to make a lot of ‘Koshifusa-washi’ (purification grass wheels)…”

"Thank you for your hard work." Ayato smiled as well.

With Yaeji in absence, the only person in "Yaedo" with experience in planning large-scale events is Miss Araya.

Ayato had only asked Ms. Araya for help with the event planning on a whim, but he didn't expect Ms. Araya to be so capable. In just a few days, she arranged all the event procedures perfectly and even used her connections to overcome various problems...

The "Mitsubakami Kariyayama Festival" is a blessing ceremony passed down for many years at Narukami Taisha Shrine. Originally, it was a ritual used to cut away weeds and pray for a bountiful harvest in the coming year. Later, it became a barrier technique to purify evil spirits. Only a handful of "regular-rank" shrine maidens in the entire Narukami Taisha Shrine can master it.

The shrine maiden who left Narukami Shrine always avoided events related to Narukami Shrine, but I never expected that Ms. Araya would even have a way to get Ms. Hisaki Shinobu to accept such a troublesome request... With Ms. Hisaki Shinobu's help, the "Migo-no-Narukami Kariyama Festival" should not be a problem.

More importantly, the decision to hold this "Eve Festival" was only made two days ago.

The traditional "Radiant Splendor Festival" does not have a "pre-festival". This "pre-festival" was added temporarily to rescue the few adults trapped in the consciousness space.

Actually, this was a proposal from Paimon Jr.

Ying once mentioned to them that she had personally witnessed the "wishes" of the Inazuma people in "Isshin Jodo" change the general's will. Paimon, on the other hand, said that she saw the shrine maiden outside performing some kind of ceremony, bringing the "wishes" of the Inazuma people into "Isshin Jodo".

“The place we’re going to this time is very similar to ‘Isshin Jodo’… Collecting the ‘wishes’ of the Inazuma people should also be helpful, right? That’s what we call ‘ritual’!”

That's what Paimon said at the time.

Although the idea of ​​"ritual" is obviously nonsense, collecting the "wishes" of the people for Lord Narukami through rituals has been the work of Narukami Taisha since ancient times. As the head of the shrine, Ayato is very familiar with various rituals and immediately thought of the "Omyo Narukami Kariyama Festival".

The general is currently fighting in the consciousness space, collecting the "wishes" of the people, which may indeed help the general.

So he decided on the spot to hold a festival in the name of "Eve Festival" to pray to Lord Narukami.

The event was rushed, and the preparation time was quite short, but this unassuming Miss Araya was able to arrange everything for him in just two days...

Ayato even considered complaining to the chief priest—she had pulled all these talented people to "Yaedo" as editors, so who would solve the company's talent shortage?

Just then, a painful complaint came from the room next to the study: "I can't take it anymore! I really can't!"

It was the voice of that Second Young Master Xingqiu… no, it should be said, it was the voice of “Teacher Zhenyu”.

As luck would have it, when Xingqiu came to the Shinri-yashiki to find her brother Han, she happened to run into Mr. Nagahirayama, the editor of "Yaedo," who came to report to Ayato on the progress of the festival preparations.

...Then Teacher Zhenyu was locked in the "little dark room".

"Keep it up, Mr. Zhenyu! Your handwriting has improved a lot today, which shows that yesterday's special training was very effective!" Mr. Pingshan's voice was as penetrating as ever—especially when he was urging people to finish their manuscripts.

Xingqiu had already slumped onto the table: "Ugh, I can't take it anymore, my hands are so sore I can't lift them... If I had known this would happen, I wouldn't have read novels during calligraphy class."

With a headband bearing the word "Struggle" tied around his head, Mr. Hirayama put on a serious face and held up a pocket watch in his hand: "We rested for a full ten minutes two hours ago, Professor Zhenyu, hang in there a little longer!"

"Waaah..." Xingqiu sobbed silently, beginning to miss her beloved Brother Han, who was always so gentle with her.

Brother Han would never force someone to practice calligraphy like that!

—That's why, even after practicing her calligraphy for almost half a month, she still couldn't show it to anyone.

Kuroda and Araya exchanged a glance upon hearing this, both thinking the same thing: "The editor-in-chief truly lives up to his reputation as the most terrifying person among us when it comes to pushing for manuscripts."

When authors encounter trouble, the editor-in-chief always sends this editor-in-chief, Hirayama, to handle it.

Authors who were pressured by Editor-in-Chief Hirayama to submit their manuscripts were eventually able to do so on time. As for the price... well, they'd probably be living like zombies for a while...

Ayato clapped his hands, pulling the two editors back to reality: "Alright, you two, please go to the 'Extended Country Supervisor' to check on the preparations for the main light novel exhibition area. I'll also be going to the island with you two; we'll need your strong support for tonight's 'Eve Festival'."

At the same time, in the cave beneath Narukami Shrine, Hotaru was making final preparations before entering the consciousness space.

The intensive training over just one week seemed to have brought about some kind of earth-shattering change in Ying.