Quiet.
Quiet dream.
Then wake up from the dream.
Richard opened his eyes, looked around, and found that he was sitting on a bench on a modern urban street. The street was bustling with people and traffic.
Koret was beside him, slowly stood up, frowned and looked around, and then walked onto the street looking a little confused.
A black car came quickly from a distance, getting closer and closer to Crete, making a sharp whistle, trying to make Crete dodge.
Koret heard the sound and ran away. When he saw the car, he was stunned and stood motionless.
Richard hurriedly stepped forward and pulled Korette back just before he was hit.
"Didi—"
A black car passed by with its horn honking, and vague curses came from inside the car.
"You don't have eyes... you're crazy!"
Creed continued to be stunned, looking at everything around him with doubts in his eyes. He touched the bench next to him and whispered: "Is this the outside of the box? Is this what's outside the box?"
Then he turned around, looked at Richard and asked, "Are we really outside the box? Or somewhere else?"
Richard didn't answer, but noticed a leaflet on the ground, picked it up, read it, and then handed it to Corrett.
Creed was puzzled.
"Look at the content above." Richard reminded.
Creed looked at it and found that it was just a very ordinary advertisement, promoting a store. There are pictures, slogans, addresses, and contact information, but other than that, there is nothing else.
"What?" Creed was still confused after looking at it.
"Can't you see it yet?"
"What?"
Richard said: "You know... I have a bold guess now, but I need to confirm it."
"Huh? How to confirm?"
"Follow me, you'll know soon." After finishing speaking, Richard walked away.
Kored frowned and hesitated, but finally followed.
Following Richard, he walked all the way, and after ten minutes, he arrived at a somewhat remote winding alley.
Creed asked Richard: "Why did you bring me here? Could it be that being here can confirm your guess?"
"right."
"How to do it?"
"Watch it." Richard looked into the depths of the alley and shouted, "Manny, come out!"
"Meow!"
With a meow, a thin and small black stray cat ran out. It was slightly startled when it saw Richard, and then quickly approached, rolling around at Richard's feet, making an affectionate appearance.
Richard looked at the cat for a long time, and finally took a deep breath, with a look of complete understanding on his face, as if he had figured everything out.
"Well, a cat?" Corrett asked at this time, "A cat can confirm your guess?"
"Don't you understand yet?" Richard looked at Koret and said, "Why is a stray cat so affectionate to me inexplicably? Because I have raised it."
"Raised? Where?"
"Of course it's the Earth." Richard looked at Coriter and spread his hands, "Haven't you seen it yet? The place we are now is the Earth."
"Earth?!" Koret lost his voice, "But Earth, isn't it the virtual world I set? How...how did I end up on Earth after leaving the box?"
"Because this earth is the real earth, and it is also another new box you arrive after leaving the box."
"New box? You mean, outside the box, or inside the box?"
"Why not? I left a box and arrived at the box you are in. You left the box, why can't you go to another box? You said that you used your world as a template to create a virtual earth, and it is also Your world is created using the real earth as a template.
You said, you created me, so you are called Richard and I am also called Richard. In fact, I created you too, and I named the cat Manny, and I named you Manny - Richard Manny - before you created mine, I actually created you. "
Koret: "..." There was silence for a long time.
After a long time, he looked up at the sky, blinked and asked: "In this case, one layer after another...how many layers of boxes are there?"
"The number of layers in the box may be far beyond your imagination."
"Then..." Koret looked at Richard, "Doesn't that mean there is no possibility of getting rid of the box?"
"Indeed." Richard spread his hands, "Because even if you get out of the last layer of the box and reach the world outside the real box, you can never be sure whether it is a bigger box."
"That means we can never control our own destiny and can only be manipulated like puppets by beings outside the box?"
"That's not necessarily true?"
"But you said we can't get out of the box."
“It’s true that we can’t get out of the box, but we can get into it.”
"Um?"
"The right path is not to go outward, but to go inward." Richard said, "Why should I create you, and then let you create me? Why should I use the real earth template to create your world, and then use your world Creating a virtual earth? Just to go deeper into the box, just to make the box have more layers."
"has no meaning?"
"It makes a lot of sense. Have you ever heard a saying? The vassals of my vassals are not my vassals. Therefore, the boxes within the boxes are not simple boxes. As the number of layers of boxes increases, the outer box affects the inner box. The force will become weaker and weaker until it disappears. In that case, the box living in the deepest part will be freed from the control of the outermost box.”
"The vassal of my vassal is not my vassal? In this way, can we get rid of control?" Koret muttered to himself, looking at Richard after talking for a long time, "Just think that what you said is right, but there is still one thing that I don't like. Understand - you said that our existence is to create more boxes to get rid of the control of the outermost box, so what does our behavior of breaking out of the box count? Isn't it causing trouble? "
"This situation is actually normal. Breaking out of the box is part of the plan." Richard replied, "Because designing a box from scratch always has many flaws, which requires exiting the box from time to time. Make corrections to get a perfect box. Countless perfect boxes are combined, superimposed, and nested together to form a complex and tight system, which can truly compete with the outermost box."
After hearing this, Koret fell into thinking and said for a moment: "Okay, I admit that what you said is very logical, but even so, it is just logic. You can't convince me through a cat that I need you..."
Koret was talking and suddenly stopped, because he saw the clouds in the sky began to gather without warning, quickly covering the sun in the sky, and then transformed into the shape of a giant umbrella, which happened to be "held" in the sky. Richard's head.
There was a "boom", lightning flashed, and a thunderbolt fell from the blue. It landed in the palm of Richard's hand and condensed into a purple thunder ball.
Holding the purple thunder ball in his hand, Richard looked at the somewhat surprised Koret and said: "Actually, you can do this too. I created you, you created me, and you and I are both the outer box 'I' part of it, so we all have the ability to manipulate the boxes that are on this level."
After speaking, Richard directly threw the purple thunder ball in his hand towards Corrett.
Koret was shocked, but he still caught it out of rationality, and later found that he seemed to be able to control the thunder ball. After thinking about it, he grabbed it hard and smashed the thunder ball into pieces. With a "pop" sound, the clouds gathered in the sky quickly dissipated and the sun emerged again.
The sun shone again, Corrett's face showed the original expression, and all the doubts in his eyes were eliminated.
Taking a deep breath, he looked at Richard: "Okay, I believe it. So what should we do next?"
"Next?" Richard stretched out his hand, a faint golden light emerged from his fingertips, and said slowly, "Next, of course, what we have to do is to try to create a perfect box, of course, create one... that completely matches our imagination. An ideal world.
Any regrets you have had can be made up for, and any ideas you have had can be tried. This is where the fun lies. Try to imagine..."
"Let us begin creation..."
"First there must be light..."
As he finished speaking, the golden light on Richard's fingertips suddenly brightened, and for a moment, the sun eclipsed it.
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