Chapter 169

[Phantylia No. 3: After adding the variable of the "Miss Miss Tingyun" body, after only 120 cycles, she entered a state of obsession; clearly, even an Emanator, when encountering things that cannot be understood, will doubt life.]

[Phantylia No. 78: After realizing that the corpse of "Miss Miss Tingyun" was "herself," her behavior changed from confusion to aggression, starting to attack the shadows of the past and future.]

[Phantylia No. 156: After solving three of herself, she seemed to realize something and chose to commit suicide, seemingly wanting to summarize the cycle. Unfortunately... this is also a part of the cycle.]

Lin Qi recorded it over and over again.

Recording his doubts about the Emanator in this way one by one.

Then he reached a conclusion.

[Conclusion: An Emanator is still a "person"; even if it is a Heliobus composed of energy, it cannot escape emotions such as fear and terror, especially when facing things it cannot understand, it is even more so.]

[Conclusion 2: After falling into a time loop, without external interference, it is impossible for an Emanator to escape the cycle by themselves, at least this avatar cannot; she will fall into this eternal prison.]

[Conclusion 3: Time still has many mysteries that have not been solved; although these cycles were specially arranged by me, it seems... the same person can only exist once in the same space-time. If there are more than two existences, they will inevitably fall into slaughter. Until only one remains.]

Looking at the three conclusions he summarized.

Lin Qi fell into deep thought.

Speaking of which.

Lin Qi's purpose at the beginning was not this.

He was just here to join the fun.

By the way, explore the remains of the Aeon.

Unexpectedly.

The Emanator of Destruction appeared halfway.

Immediately.

Lin Qi had an idea.

He wanted to experiment with some characteristics of an Emanator, as well as his mastery of time.

Yes.

Everything Phantylia experienced was done by Lin Qi.

After Phantylia's avatar boarded the ship, Lin Qi shrouded the Luofu Luofu Xianzhou merchant ship with a Synesthesia Dream and used the time ability he had mastered.

Thus.

There was the situation of Phantylia entering the cycle.

Research on the time machine, although not yet successful.

But Lin Qi's understanding of time had risen to another level.

Now he could even adjust the time flow of the Jarilo-VI Synesthesia Dream to twenty times that of reality!

Not only that.

He could also perform local backtracking.

This is different from repairing objects through the authority of creation; it is time reversal in the true sense.

And it's not through a time towel, but by Lin Qi himself!

Just from this point, Lin Qi's understanding and control of time had improved by a large margin.

This was also the reason he let Phantylia enter the cycle.

Currently.

This means was not as direct as the energy attack of the Star-Shattering Spear.

But the effect on the spiritual level was surprisingly good.

Even the Heliobus who played with spiritual attacks had her spirit become bad because of this.

But Lin Qi was not very satisfied with the experimental results.

Or rather.

Not completely satisfied.

"The same person cannot meet on the same timeline? Otherwise, there will be problems?"

Speaking of which.

Lin Qi had been thinking about the time machine.

According to normal logic, if he developed the time machine, then his future self could completely send the time machine back to the past, letting his future self take fewer detours.

Even if he didn't send the time machine, sending construction materials or related technologies was also possible.

If that didn't work, sending some other technologies back twenty or thirty years, wouldn't he have taken off long ago?

And according to this inference, after developing the time machine, Lin Qi's efficiency in completing technologies, strength, or even "creating" the Aeon itself would increase countless times.

Even...

Exceeding the time when the time machine was developed.

It should be the moment Lin Qi crossed over, he became a god.

Or became a higher-dimensional existence.

Because with a time machine, it's equivalent to having infinite time.

Then no matter what technology, no matter how lazy he is, it can be completed under the power of time.

Converted to a normal timeline.

It might be shorter than a second.

Just like what some people have mentioned, the moment strong artificial intelligence appears, a technological singularity will appear.

Just like Nous, they have calculated all the technologies of this universe.

And with the blessing of near-infinite computing power, they might have used very little time to calculate these technologies.

If there was a time machine.

With the blessing of infinite time, Lin Qi was also equivalent to having infinite computing power.

Theoretically, what Nous could do, he could also do, and do better.

And now.

The production of the time machine had fallen into a bottleneck.

The "technological singularity" or the scene of "ascending to godhood" in the guess had not been realized either.

So, there was only one possibility.

That is, the time machine might not have been developed?

Not only has it not been developed now, but it won't work in the future either!

In fact.

Lin Qi had already discussed this conclusion with Herta before leaving Jarilo-VI.

Herta's view was similar to Lin Qi's.

In her view, once the time machine was successfully developed, Lin Qi would instantly become the only god in this universe.

The kind higher than an Aeon.

After all, even an Aeon cannot truly travel through timelines at will.

The Terminus who goes against time?

They are indeed involved in the field of time, but compared to a time machine, they are still a bit worse.

At that time.

After discussing this conclusion, Lin Qi was somewhat melancholy.

He even had the idea of giving up research.

After all, according to the inference, all research would be in vain, so what was the point of continuing research?

To some extent, this had a sense of "fate" being fixed.

But now.

Seeing Phantylia at different times slaughtering each other, Lin Qi had other guesses in his heart.

"Perhaps the time machine is not unfinished, it's just..."

"Time is a ring, the true self is unique?"

"That is, no matter which timeline, there is only one me?"

"Instead of being like Phantylia, where there is one of herself at every point in time."