Volume 4: The End of the World Chapter 33 Broken Time
The sudden change of the scenery in front of her made Yin Lisi feel dizzy. After covering her head and standing still for a long time, she finally recovered from her trance.
The air was filled with the smell of mold and alcohol. She was no longer in the lavishly decorated reception room, but in a deep, dark tree hole formed by tangled roots.
To be precise, it was deep in a tree hole formed by the tangled roots of dying people. The dry and cracked trees around it reminded her of the shriveled mummies she had seen in the circus when she was a child.
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It was not until this moment that she realized that the view before her eyes was the scenery she saw with normal eyes before she inherited the surname "Hemer" and obtained the [Eye of God].
At this moment, his vision was no longer filled with the threads of time, the tracks of magic, the colors of emotions, and the reality of other forms of matter. Instead, it was filled with outlines, materials, colors, viewpoints, shadows... the normal material world that mortals could see after being disguised by the curtain.
"Excuse me, is this Miss Yinlis?"
Just as Yin Lis was watching intently, a female voice called her name faintly from behind her, which frightened her so much that her neck suddenly stiffened.
She turned her head tremblingly, and saw a girl with a black cloth wrapped around her eyes and holding a lantern with swaying orange light standing behind her.
The other person was wearing neat nun's clothes and had a gloomy expression, looking like some kind of ominous symbol.
"Yes...Excuse me, who are you? Where is this place?"
She turned around warily and asked.
"The correct question should be... what time is it now and why do you know me, Miss Yinlis."
The other party said this sinisterly, his facial expression still as stiff as a dead person, and it looked like he would turn into a ghost and rush towards her in the next second.
Yin Lis was so frightened that he dared not even breathe. He slowly moved backwards, planning to find the right opportunity to run away.
But at this moment, the other party suddenly raised his left hand to cover his mouth, and then laughed non-stop.
"Hey, don't really run away. Otherwise, Lady Sibilla will scold me to death when she comes back."
"Do you... do you know me?"
Yin Lis, who was confused by the other party's sudden interruption, looked at the girl dressed as a nun in front of him with a puzzled look on his face and asked very cautiously.
She was sure this was the first time they had ever met.
The girl stopped laughing when she heard that, then dusted off her elbows and replied:
"Of course I know you, Yinlis Hemer. The last leader of the sisterhood that Lady Sibyl could see. But since you don't know me, it probably means that this is the first time you see me. In that case, I am quite lucky?"
The second half of the sentence is complete nonsense. Since you don't know her, it must be the first time you see her.
Yin Lisi thought.
But the other party was talking like nonsense and couldn't help but chuckle.
Taking advantage of this moment, the broken clues began to reassemble in Yin Lis's mind.
She recalled the time thread she adjusted before she lost consciousness; she recalled the visions she had seen about the "past"; and finally, combined with the fact that the girl in front of her called herself "the last leader of the Blind Sisterhood", a possible answer that was not difficult to guess, but sounded extremely absurd, came to her mind.
Although it was incredible, her consciousness traveled through time and came to the era of Sibylla Hemer, the first leader of the Blind Sisterhood.
It was just like the visions that Sibyl saw from her first-person perspective in her dreams. In the past, she had always thought that those were just memories left by Sibyl, but now...
Noticing the smell of alcohol filling his nostrils when he breathed, Yin Lis raised his hands and lowered his head. His eyes looked through those hands covered with calluses and flashing with complex rune tattoos, and he saw "his" mature breasts and long, straight legs.
There is no doubt that her consciousness is now possessed by Sibilla's body.
And Sibilla's consciousness...probably went back to the era in which she lived?
"So...what era is it now?"
Yin Lis asked in disbelief.
"How can I know how future generations will describe our chaotic times?"
In response, the girl shrugged and replied.
"So what year is it now?"
Yin Lisi continued to ask.
In response to this question, the other party showed a sly smile on his face.
"According to Lady Sibylla's speculation, it was probably several hundred years before your time."
"I mean, what time is it exactly?"
Yin Lisi asked.
Upon hearing this question, the other party immediately showed an expression of "taking the bait", and then deliberately sighed:
"That question is meaningless because you will never be able to understand that time."
"Why?"
Although he knew that asking this question was playing into the other party's hands, Yin Lis still couldn't help but ask out of curiosity.
"Because… well, if you must know, it is the date of the month of the year of the Platinum Calendar."
"when?"
Yin Lis was sure that the other party said a string of numbers, but then, he felt a sense of loss in his mind as if a dream had been forgotten.
The string of numbers disappeared from her mind, without even leaving the slightest impression.
"That is a time that does not exist, so even if I said it directly like I just did, your mind would not be able to understand it."
The blindfolded girl said so.
"What is non-existent time? Is it possible for time to not exist?"
Yin Lis asked doubtfully.
"It's hard to explain it right away... but roughly speaking, it can be summarized as follows: one day, Lady Sibilla used her talent to shatter a certain period of her own linear causal time, causing endless possibilities to appear in parallel. Therefore, you are in a determined future, while we are in a past with infinite possibilities."
"But the past cannot have infinite possibilities."
Yin Lisi retorted subconsciously.
The so-called past must be something that has settled.
"If it is within the framework of causal time, then it is indeed true."
In response, the other party nodded very frankly.
Then she continued:
“But if we break through the shackles of linear causal time, then the past is not necessarily certain.”
"I don't understand..."
Yin Lis still looked at the other party with a puzzled expression.
"Then let me give you the simplest example. I'm sure you've guessed that your consciousness has been temporarily exchanged with Lady Sibilla's, right? The specific principle is to use the surname 'Hemer' and the Eye of God as a medium, and then with the help of the activation of the power of the Eighth Holy Spirit... But if, under the logic of cause and effect time, you suddenly commit suicide using Lady Sibilla's body, then she will never be able to pass on the Blind Sisterhood. Do you think this will be the case?"
It's far more than that. This creates a bigger contradiction - if the Blind Sisterhood was not passed down because of Yinlis's suicide, how could she have the opportunity to travel back to Sibilla's body?
If William were here, he would definitely shout about the grandmother paradox.
"But it's a very common misconception that time is just this linear, cause-and-effect thing. And while it is true most of the time, there are some special circumstances, like right now... where it takes on a different nature."
As the girl spoke, she walked deeper into the tree hole with the dim lantern in her hand.
"Come with me, I will explain it to you slowly. By the way, I forgot to introduce myself after talking for so long. My name is Yinliana Kane, the adopted daughter of Lady Sibilla Hemer, and the future successor of the Blind Sisterhood. Well, to you, I should say that I am a senior from a long time ago."
The girl named Yinliana Kane said as she walked:
"In your opinion, time is exclusive, right? That is, a person cannot be here and there at the same time."
Although the other party had his back to him and could not see him, Yin Lisi still nodded subconsciously and replied:
"That's right."
“But this view is one-sided.”
The girl named Yin Lianna corrected her bluntly.
"Time is layered. In addition to linear causal time, there is also cyclical time that keeps going back and forth, as well as countless possible eternal times that run in parallel. In fact, the essence of causal time is the convergence of eternal time, discarding countless other possibilities and leaving only one to become a reality. And what Lady Sibilla did was to completely shatter a certain period of time, thereby deriving countless parallel and even contradictory possibilities."
"Let's go back to the previous example. If you want to commit suicide using Lady Sibyl's body, I wouldn't recommend it, but I wouldn't stop you either. This is because it's meaningless. Lady Sibyl can be here and there at the same time, dead and alive, doing this and that. We are now in a state of superposition of countless possibilities. No matter what kind of time paradox it is, it can't affect us at all. No matter how many times you kill us, it won't affect our continued existence."
After following the other party's train of thought very reluctantly, Yin Lis couldn't help but have another question.
"Then why did she go to such lengths?"
Although all possibilities are essentially oneself, to some extent, this is equivalent to abandoning the uniqueness of one's own existence. After all, humans are creatures living in causal time, and are born with exclusivity that comes from instinct. Even if it is "another possibility" that is completely identical to oneself from body to soul, it will only arouse the fear of one's own existence being replaced.
But in response to this, Yin Liena sighed slightly and said:
"On the one hand, this is her final experiment in her research on the connection between time, creation, and immortal gods. On the other hand, Lady Sibilla's fate of death is inevitable in the future, so she hopes to provide more information to the Eighth Holy Spirit in the future at least before her life comes to an end... At least that's what she said."
"So what do you think?"
Yin Lisi continued to ask.
The other party did not say anything until the two of them came to the end of the tree hole and stopped in front of a transparent barrier covered with a white frost color. Then she slowly spoke:
"You already know my last name, and you're still going to ask me?"
