"As expected of the descendants of Zhenren, it's easy to understand!" Xu Dingjia was very satisfied with Jiang Cheng's performance, nodded and smiled, and continued to ask, "Do you know, besides being called Zhiren and Zhenren, do we have any other titles? ?”
"Original person? I remember you said that." Jiang Cheng thought.
"The original person mainly refers to the real person! For example, the original person Adam and so on... And there is a kind of title that covers both the perfect person and the real person." Xu Dingjia paused and said cautiously: "The ancient mortals also called us He is a prophet!"
"Prophet? You? Me?" Jiang Cheng wanted to laugh. The carefree young man in front of him, and himself who thought he was not a good person, turned out to be the legendary prophet. If he told others this, Xu Dingjia would definitely be regarded as a lunatic. However, recalling his previous experience, Jiang Cheng's words did not make Jiang Cheng feel much surprised, so he continued to ask: "You mentioned precognition before, do we still have the ability to predict the future? Then why bother breaking into the orphanage and taking risks? , wouldn’t it be over if we just predict it directly?”
"Your understanding of prophets is still too one-sided. But I can't blame you. After all, from an ordinary person's perspective, prediction means being able to predict the future." Xu Dingjia shook his head, looking unfathomable.
While the two were discussing, they suddenly noticed that Li Feng groaned and passed out in the driver's seat. Xu Dingjia said calmly: "Don't worry, his life is not in danger. This is the activation of the body's self-defense mechanism. Temporary coma can avoid the pain caused by memory erasure. When he wakes up, he will forget everything that happened in the orphanage. It’s like…a reboot.”
Jiang Cheng carefully observed Li Feng and found that he was breathing evenly and his body showed no other abnormalities, as if he was asleep. After confirming that the other party was indeed fine, Jiang Cheng felt relieved.
Xu Dingjia said: "Taking advantage of this period of time, I can talk to you in detail about the issue of prediction. This is also one of the important abilities of our true people and true people."
Jiang Cheng was full of curiosity about the identity of his so-called descendants of real people, so he continued to ask: "From what you said before, it seems that this ability to predict is not simple."
"Of course not!" Xu Dingjia said seriously: "The so-called foreknowledge is actually just a general term. I have said before that real people and great people... I will call them prophets collectively. I will tell you the difference later. Prophet Because there are certain defects in the physical body, the restrictions on mental power are weakened, allowing the spirit to feel the existence of higher dimensions through the limitations of the three-dimensional body. Because of this, the prophet can also sense changes in the flow of time. Perception of time Flow is the essence of prediction.”
"This is no different from what I said before." Jiang Cheng frowned and said, "Isn't sensing the flow of time the same as predicting the future?"
"From a certain perspective... it's not wrong." Xu Dingjia tried to speak more clearly and said: "However, truth and falsehood are often similar, but only by mastering the subtle differences can we truly understand the truth. "
Jiang Cheng rolled his eyes and listened patiently.
Xu Dingjia said: "What do you think the time flow should be like? Is it like a line, extending infinitely forward?"
"Is not it?"
Xu Dingjia said: "There are also various conjectures in the scientific community about the flow of time. Among them, most people believe that time grows like a tree, but it will extend out countless branches, which is another possibility at a certain node. , also called the time branch. The theory of the multiverse also comes from this."
Jiang Cheng couldn't say anything about this topic and just nodded dryly.
"But there is an obvious problem with this theory." Xu Dingjia changed the topic and said: "It can be seen from this metaphor that they believe that the future time is full of variables, while the past is unchanging."
"Could it be said that the past will also change?" Jiang Cheng asked tentatively, and then he denied: "How is this possible!"
Xu Dingjia smiled and said, "Not only can you not accept this conjecture, but also many people in the scientific community cannot. But in fact, this exists. Have you ever heard of time resetting?"
Jiang Cheng shook his head.
Xu Dingjia explained: "Time reset is a conjecture circulating on the Internet. It roughly means that time was reset at a certain point in the past, so many people's memories have been confused, such as the death of some national leaders or celebrities. The time does not match the time in their memory, etc. However, many of them are just misunderstandings caused by rumors. I have to say that the consciences of many media people are really eaten by dogs. As for whether this conjecture is correct, yes It doesn't matter to me. What I want to say is that time reset does happen, and it has happened many times. Many legends and myths seem absurd, but in fact they are all because after time reset, people's consciousness It left an impression, and people used their imagination to process it and turned it into all kinds of bizarre stories. In fact, those stories all have shadows of the truth of the past... "
Jiang Cheng was so stunned that he interrupted the other party and said, "What does this have to do with the precognition mentioned before?"
"This is a kind of time flow." Xu Dingjia said matter-of-factly: "The time that has passed, no matter whether it has changed or not, will leave a certain impression on people. This impression does not exist in memory, but on the spiritual level, beyond It can be seen without the limitation of three dimensions. Mortals can more or less feel the branches of time in the past, while prophets can feel the branches of time in the future."
"Time branch? Future?" Jiang Cheng seemed to understand something, "So, you are saying that the future time branch does not mean that it is the future we will definitely face, is that what you mean?"
"You are gradually beginning to have the thinking ability of a real person." Xu Dingjia praised Jiang Cheng and continued: "So, the prophet can also make mistakes. But it does not mean that the prophet is definitely wrong, but that what he sees is only the future. The other direction. From a certain point of view, the prophet is not wrong. God knows whether that time branch will really come, but it is just something that will happen with a certain probability. In fact, the real prophet is far better than what is recorded in ancient books There are more, but only those who made correct predictions were recorded. Others were regarded as liars and magicians, and ended miserably. Of course, maybe in another branch of time, they were the real prophets, and the others were Became a liar.”
"Moreover, in fact, the foreseen future is not a clear picture, but a sense of the flow of time, which is something beyond the description of secular language, just like a blind man trying to describe colors. So, even if you can sense time Flow, describing its changing state is also a big problem. Therefore, the contents of many ancient prophetic books are very obscure, not intentionally by the authors. Many times, they themselves do not know what they are. Only when the time comes, Only then can we have the opportunity to verify whether the prediction is accurate."
"According to what you said, this kind of prediction ability is useless." Jiang Cheng had originally been looking forward to this ability, but he was immediately disappointed when he heard what the other party said.