"Could it be, you..." Roland blinked.
"That's right." It seemed to have rested from a heavy burden, and the corners of its brows rose a little, "It's you—I have to say, time is a very scary thing, the next thousand years, ten thousand years, and ten million Years, you will stay in this small cradle, maybe at first you will feel that you have a lot to explore, but in fact the period of emptiness will come sooner than you think. But even for thousands of years, the relative Compared to the universe, it's just a snap of a finger."
The guardian paused slightly, "Sometimes... I think time is also a kind of magic. You feel its flow, and you are also changed by it. If you want to maintain yourself in such a long time, you must give up the big Part of the emotion, or that kind of nothingness will break you completely sooner or later. Of course, it's too late for you to go back on it now."
Roland looked at each other in surprise - for the first time he saw a smile on its face.
"You mean, I'll end up like a machine too?" Then he grinned slightly, "Don't worry, I'm not going to stay here forever, I'll take a step before I'm completely numb— But that is not a breach of the agreement. At that time, I will choose a suitable life to take over this important task for me. Maybe we will meet again on the other side of the universe in the future."
The guardian said disapprovingly, "Let's wait until you can last until then."
"By the way, since you are the core of the cradle, can you still leave alone?" Roland suddenly thought of a key question, "Will the world fall apart as soon as you leave?"
"So you didn't even figure out this basic thing, and you made a big deal in front of me?" It stared back in disbelief, "First of all, a qualified system should have multiple backups, not to mention a collection of thousands of people like me The creation of the essence of technology of a thousand civilizations."
"Secondly, the memory of the cradle is really huge and not suitable for movement, but they all record the data since the implementation of the door plan, including the characteristics of the seeds of life and the evolutionary process. I don't need to leave with these memories. , I only need to keep the part of the content that I have been born with."
"Finally, once you connect to the knowledge base, you will naturally understand how the cradle works. As long as it doesn't mess up, it can run for tens of thousands of years on its own. But to keep it going, you have to take good care of it. - After all, the cradle is not easy to damage, and the life inside is not guaranteed."
"I'm relieved in this way." Roland let out a slow sigh of relief, insisting that his current body finally relaxes.
It didn't take long for the other party's expression to change significantly. Not only did he put his unhappy attitude directly on his face, but his tone was much more arrogant - this also made it more like life.
"While I'm still here, if you have anything to ask, just ask." The guardian said with his arms crossed.
"Uh... so fast?"
"Don't you realize that the consumption of the world of consciousness is a huge burden for you?" It shrugged, "If you want to ensure that you are still intact after the fusion of consciousness, it is best to start this step early."
Roland couldn't help twitching the corners of his mouth. It seemed that the abnormally reduced red numbers above his head were really related to the dream world. After thinking for a while, he said, "Have you heard of... this place on Earth?"
This time, he used his original language.
The guardian closed his eyes for a moment, and seemed to be searching for relevant information, "Well... there are 3,251 results for planets with similar pronunciations, but considering the characteristics of the species, you should be asking about the outer edge of the Galaxy No. 3 cantilever. solid planets."
"How is it now?" Roland asked quickly.
"Now? Of course they died together with the opening of the rift. According to records, they once expanded to the center of the galaxy, and the memory bank also has biological data of this species." It was suddenly startled at this point, and then looked at in surprise. Xiang Roland, "Wait, that was more than 94 million years ago. If you were born in the cradle, how could you possibly know about this planet?"
"In fact, this is something that has always bothered me..." He briefly recounted his origins with a wry smile.
"There's still such a thing—" The guardian showed an interesting expression, "So the time flow of the packages is not exactly the same..."
"What... time flow?"
"Yeah," it explained, spreading its hands, "you've probably heard of the idea of parallel universes—when a sufficiently powerful divergence arises, it leads the world in two directions. And the two worlds The respective rate of change is called the wrapping time, and what you can feel is the observation time. However, since the observer who makes this point is always in one of the worlds, this assumption can only stay on paper. superior."
"So you mean—" Roland said with a surprised expression.
"Yes, the powerful energies generated by the Gates project may be exactly what brought you here, as if the parallel membranes briefly overlapped under the impact - a divergence that turned our universe into two parts, one surrounded by The magic is full, and the other is that the door plan failed, the universe remains the same. But because of the difference in the time flow of the package, it looks like you have spanned tens of millions of years, but in fact the two things happened at the same time ."
"Uh... It's a bit difficult to understand," Roland rubbed his head, "but does this prove that there is some way of connecting parallel universes?"
"You can think so, after all, this is a field that even the creators have not been exposed to." The Guardian seems to be interested in this topic, "Theoretically, parallel universes and multiverses are two concepts that can coexist. But in fact the former is more difficult to verify than the latter. But since you are here, maybe this is a way to break the universe towards death. It’s just that for me, this issue is no longer important, and I leave it to you Do your own research."
After it finished speaking, it waved its hand, turned and walked towards the end of the white platform - there appeared a small door, and the other side of the door was scarlet.
Then many figures appeared in front of Roland.
They look strange, and there are even humans and demons. These translucent figures hurried towards the guardian and merged with it one after another.
And in the human figure, he saw Lan, Ipsylon, and those divine envoys who had a relationship—
Epsilon waved goodbye to him, with a very happy expression, obviously she had already got the answer she wanted.
Lan stayed in front of him for a few seconds, lips slightly opening and closing.
Judging by the shape of the lips, it was a "thank you".
When all the figures of the guardian overlapped and walked out of the small red door, the pure white space suddenly collapsed into countless fragments - along with Roland's body, but he did not feel any pain or strangeness At this point, I only felt that my whole body was extremely relaxed, as if the heavy body had been removed. A large amount of information poured into his mind like a wave, and he seemed to have countless pairs of eyes. Whether it was the empty universe outside the barrier, or the vibrant world inside the barrier, they were all presented in his consciousness.
He became the cradle.