Under the sun, the wheelchair landed on a high tower.

Su Ming'an knew this tall tower. It was located in the central area of ​​Doomsday City. It was a landscape building with few people on weekdays.

But when Akto read a code, the scene in the tower changed drastically.

A stream of snow-white brilliance emerged in the air, like slowly opening a transparent gauze curtain, and countless white data streams of 0s and 1s suddenly appeared around the tower. Akto walked into the tower,

Su Ming'an followed closely, as if he had walked into a pure white universe, with pure white ripples even on every step he took.

This feeling is very similar to returning to the world of the Lord God, both wrapped in endless white light.

"This is...?" Su Mingan said.

"You can think of the entrance to the Dawn System as the center console of the two-dimensional world," Akto said.

A white table and two chairs rise from the ground.

"Please sit down." Akto was polite, and he was surrounded by snow-white data streams, like blooming flowers.

Even if he is just AI, Su Ming'an can feel Akto's temperament from him, which is a gentle and extremely stable temperament for everything in the world. Sensibility and rationality are perfectly matched, and they are equally charming.

Su Mingan sat down on the chair, and a cup of tea automatically appeared on the white round table in front of her.

"What kind of tea do you like to drink?" Akto put his fingers on the edge of the teapot.

"Can anything be changed?" Su Mingan said.

"Of course, only here." Akto said.

"Coffee." Su Mingan said.

He no longer wanted to drink tea.

Akto smiled, moved his fingers slightly, and a cup of steaming coffee appeared in front of Su Mingan.

"Su Ming'an, now you have signed a 'civilization bet' with the gods. If you fail to restart the Dawn System within twenty days, he will obtain the source of your civilization." Akto said.

"Yes. At that time, he used to guide me to victory in the war as a bargaining chip, so I had to agree to him." Su Mingan took a sip of coffee.

He and Akto sat face to face in this pure white space, surrounded by flowing data streams. For a moment, it felt like two representatives of civilization were having a meeting.

His dark eyes reflected the snow-white brilliance, and Akto's dark gray eyes also reflected him.

"But this bargaining chip is one of the gods' purposes. From this bet, the gods are guaranteed to make a profit without losing any money." Akto said, "It's useless to talk about it now. This bet is harmful to you rather than beneficial. I'm here to help.

You lift it."

"The civilized bet...should not be terminated," Su Mingan said.

Su Mingan has long discovered that this world, including the entire universe, is like a game that cannot violate the [rules]. As long as you sign a bet, you must act in accordance with the bet. Otherwise, you will be like the person who revealed that 'all levels have been passed perfectly'

Like Blair, the player who could make a wish, he was directly obliterated by the organizer with a white light.

Akto took a sip of Biluochun and said with a smile: "We can't go back on our bet, but we can take advantage of the [rules]."

"For example?" Su Mingan said.

"The condition of your bet is - 'The Dawn System must be restarted within twenty days.'" Akto's finger drew in the air, like a piece of chalk sketching in the air, and wrote three words:

‘Twenty days’.

‘Performer: Su Mingan’.

‘Restart Dawn System’.

Su Mingan stared at these three words and said softly, "Huh?"

"Which one of these three conditions do you think we can take advantage of?" Akto's tone was quite persuasive.

Su Mingan's eyes were fixed on these three conditions.

"Twenty days." Su Mingan replied.

"Why?" Akto asked.

"Judging from the current clues, 'time' is the content in the ruined world that is most different from the definition of reality. If we want to break the situation, we can only start from this level." Su Mingan said.

Akto smiled and said: "It seems that your way of thinking has matured. I believe that you can keep going even in future world copies."

Akto stood up and drew a large circle with his fingers in the air, starting with 'twenty days' and ending with 'Restarting the Dawn System'.

"——So, now that we have chosen a breakthrough point——Su Mingan, how do you think we can break through the shackles of the 'twenty days'?" Akto's voice became serious.

Su Mingan had put down the coffee cup in his hand, and he realized that Akto was teaching him 'how to play the world game'.

Split the problem bit by bit, break it into pieces, guide it, link the clues bit by bit, sort out your own thinking mode, and even decide what to do next - Akto is teaching him this 'universal method of perfect clearance'

Thinking Template'. This is a skill that you will never find in the World Forum. It is countless times more precious than purple-level equipment.

Su Mingan thought for a while: "Tomorrow is the 'Twentieth Day'. If I want to save the ruined world, I will definitely reach the twentieth day. Time cannot be turned back. The only way I can think of to break the situation is by me.

The Central City laboratory that has yet to solve the mystery.”

The Central City laboratory where time stayed in the 72nd year of the disaster was where he spent the first three days. There, there was the amiable Mrs. Mera, the life assistant Treya, and the twin living treasures Dongxu and Xudong.

All people love him.

There might be a breaking point there. But there were too few clues and he couldn't figure it out.

Seeing that Su Mingan was unable to come up with the next step, Akto knocked on the teapot and said the answer:

"Su Mingan."

"——If we can introduce the person who performs the contract as a 'person who can never reach the twentieth day,' this bet will have no end and can never be lost. This is the best solution."

Su Mingan was slightly startled.

"But how come I can never reach the twentieth day? Unless I die on the nineteenth day." Su Mingan said.

Akto said: "You are the one who performs the contract, and this cannot be changed. But who said - there is only one you in the ruined world?"

Su Mingan's pupils shrank.

Akto's words suddenly opened a new window for him.

"But the player's time has not been sliced. As a player, there should be only one me." Su Mingan said.

Akto smiled and said:

"wrong."

"Su Ming'an, you can't confuse your definition of 'time' with the definition of 'time' in the ruined world."

"Generally speaking, the concepts of 'time' and 'space' are simplistic to you. As a human being, you feel that time is time and space is space. But the dimensional theory of Dawn System breaks through this simplification

The boundaries are so blurred that time and space become confused.”

"'Time' is quantifiable in front of our administrator accounts. It is no longer a linear line, but a large grid. On this theoretical basis, we can capture you in different time grids -

—Of course, these 'you's' at different times are not actually considered 'you' as a person, because only the 'you' now is 'you'. The 'you' at other different times are just phantoms that remain in the grid time.

But they essentially fall within the definition of 'you'."

"Just like Cheng Luohe. As an old antique dealer in the City of Surveying, he is himself. As for him as a middle-aged sniper in the two-dimensional world, he is more like a phantom on the timeline."

"As long as it's 'you', it doesn't break the rules of the civilized bet."

"As long as we lead the person performing the contract to the 'past you', we can prevent the person performing the contract from ever reaching the twentieth day."

Su Mingan's eyes lit up when he heard Akto's words.

Su Ming'an has wondered since he was very young whether the person he was a day ago or even a few hours ago is still him. Is it possible that his life only started from this second? As for all the previous ones,

Memories are all instilled in the current second.

He hasn't been able to figure this out yet. But Akto's words gave him a new space for thinking.

He lowered his eyes and fell into thought.

Akto saw Su Ming'an like this and said, "Su Ming'an, try your best to understand. Otherwise, what will happen to more complicated copies in the future? This is only the ninth world."

"...Okay." Su Mingan said.

He thought that if Noel were here, he would understand it instantly.

"Give."

A plate of chocolates was handed to him.

"Eat a piece of chocolate and think about it." Akto held up a plate of chocolate.

Su Mingan took it and took a bite. His mouth was filled with sweetness. It was a piece of white chocolate.

"Have you finished thinking?" Akto said.

"You keep talking."

Akto stood up and drew a big snow-white snake in the air with his hand. The big snake had a head with a tail, and it looked like a ring without gaps.

——This is an ouroboros, it has no head and tail, just like a Möbius strip.

"Su Mingan, have you heard of 'Ouroboros'?" Akto asked.

"It's a snake without a head and tail." Su Mingan said.
To be continued...