Chapter 535: There's Another Big Brain!

"Do you guys think there's a possibility that it's time?"

Yuan Shang, stared at by everyone until his scalp somewhat tingled, could only brace himself and say: "If we exclude reincarnation cloning, space, and the Big and Small Jokers disguised, these factors, I think there should only be time left, right?"

"Simply put, this script has four timelines, independent of each other, but also proceeding simultaneously."

"I guess the other three groups are also us, also the real us. You guys might as well think about it. According to Ping Chengxun's description, what he wrote was the copy of a husband killing a wife."

"The key characters that might be involved in this are the husband, wife, witness, and police."

"What if the four of them have different understandings of this incident?"

"For example, murder cases generally have a trigger. But the wife doesn't think a certain matter is the trigger. Therefore, before she died, she didn't think she would die."

"However, the husband thinks the trigger is indeed the trigger; he feels this matter touched his bottom line."

"When the police review the murder case, they feel both parties should be spanked fifty times; both are at fault."

Yuan Shang did not forget the Avoidance of Lying.

"If it's like this, it can explain why there are four groups of us, but we can't meet when walking out of the Dark Zone. Moreover, looking at Chen Ran's previous designs, I instead feel that on the four timelines, one or more groups might be fake, traps specially designed for us."

"For example, a certain group among the four groups might be an outsider's degree of understanding of the murder case, thereby making them also draw a different view."

His meaning was very obvious. If Chen Ran had foreseen in advance that they could deduce it was [Time] doing mischief, then with Chen Ran's level of insidiousness, he would absolutely insert a fake group to Fish in Murky Waters.

"If that's the case, this will be troublesome. Simply put, if it's a timeline problem, then if we kill us on other timelines, will we die? Probably not. But if the other three groups of us were stripped away from our past timelines, then if we kill us, we will also die."

This is very easy to understand. Without yesterday, how could there be today?

By the same logic.

Without the them of yesterday, how could there be the them of today?

Speaking up to here, Yuan Shang asked everyone with a look of horror: "Who among you still remembers how long we rode the bus? It needs to be precise to the second!"

"Around 1200 seconds," someone replied.

After all, players in Hell all had a good habit of looking at their Watches the first instant they arrived at a Secret Room.

But, this reply left Yuan Shang dissatisfied.

Simply because opening one's eyes to look at the Watch, and the bus stopping to look at the Watch, these two times would both spend extra time.

Qin Shu had a different opinion: "I think the recorded time is meaningless now. If there are four groups of us, Chen Ran could completely make the four groups of us wake up on the bus at the same time."

Hearing this, Yuan Shang's face turned pale.

The person he cursed inwardly was naturally Chen Ran.

"Wait!" Yu Jiyun hurriedly called a stop, asking somewhat dazedly: "What exactly are you guys talking about?"

Seeing that many people were puzzled, Yuan Shang, Qin Shu, Ling Yu, and a few others scratched their heads. Yuan Shang explained: "Simply put, if the deduction just now isn't wrong, the four groups are all us, just us from different timelines, arriving at the Villa District at the same time. That's why the situation where the four groups of us can't see each other in the Dark Zone appeared."

"For example, assuming the fifteen of us are the us of today, the remaining three groups are the us of yesterday, the day before yesterday, and tomorrow."

"Chen Ran pulled the us of the day before yesterday, yesterday, today, and tomorrow, all onto the four timelines but onto the bus at the same time. Uh, how should this be explained?"

"The future is uncertain."

"If it's a time problem, then the us from the day before yesterday definitely cannot have an accident. If the us from the day before yesterday died, there wouldn't be yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Simply put, whoever died among the us from the day before yesterday, that person in the other three groups might disappear."

Yu Jiyun scratched his ears and cheeks listening to this: "But the problem is, since the us from the day before yesterday experienced coming to the Villa District, then the us from yesterday should have also experienced coming to the Villa District?"

Yuan Shang also became somewhat speechless saying this, going crazy as he said: "Didn't I just say it? The future cannot be determined. Assuming the deduction is correct, the us from the day before yesterday had our fate changed by someone and came here. But the us from yesterday still operated according to the original fate trajectory. That is, the us from yesterday, in their yesterday, hadn't been to the Villa District. By the same logic, the us from today, in their day before yesterday; the us from tomorrow, in their three days ago, had none of them been to the Villa District."

"This would cause a situation where the four groups of us—the day before yesterday, yesterday, today, and tomorrow—had all never come to the Villa District. Now Chen Ran pulled the us from these four days all to the Villa District. Therefore, the four groups of us are all coming here for the first time. This is the problem of different timelines."

Hearing this, the players who didn't understand seemed to understand yet not understand.

Looking at it from a God's-eye perspective.

It could be assumed like this.

Assume that ten days later, in front of Qiu Yinong lay four kinds of fruits: apple, mango, watermelon, and grape.

Today's Qiu Yinong time-traveled to ten days later and chose the apple.

Tomorrow's Qiu Yinong time-traveled to nine days later and chose the mango.

The day after tomorrow's Qiu Yinong time-traveled to eight days later and chose the watermelon.

The Qiu Yinong from three days from now time-traveled to seven days later and chose the grape.

But, for the specific time of ten days later, there were four Qiu Yinongs existing; they were all at the same point in time.

The her from three days from now knew what she herself took yesterday, the day before yesterday, and three days ago.

But the problem was.

What if it was the same time on four different timelines?

Today's Qiu Yinong time-traveled to ten days later, saw there were four kinds of fruits on the table, and she took one away.

Tomorrow's Qiu Yinong time-traveled to nine days later, saw there were three kinds of fruits on the table, and she took one away.

Tomorrow's Qiu Yinong did not possess the memories of yesterday.

In her eyes, there were originally only three kinds of fruits on the table.

Simply put.

In Qiu Yinong's original fate, today's her, tomorrow's her, the day after tomorrow's her, and the her three days from now, would all not go to take fruits.

But, her fate was changed by someone. Today's her time-traveled to take fruits. Then from this point forward, her fate would develop towards the direction of her original fate.

But in her original fate, tomorrow's her had her fate changed by someone again, and time-traveled to take fruits.

Therefore, today's her and tomorrow's her did not have shared memories.

That is, tomorrow's her didn't know she already went to take fruits yesterday.

Simply because tomorrow's her was the her in her original fate. In her memory, she didn't go to take fruits yesterday.

However, the Qiu Yinongs on different timelines would still meet ten days later.

It was just like a long river of fate, diverted into four rivers at a certain node, and then converging into the same river again at a certain node.

By the same logic.

These four groups of people were four groups of people pulled out from different times in their original fate, appearing at the same point in time in the future.

Of course, this was only Yuan Shang's deduction.

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The thirteen people wore expressions of agony. They rubbed the center of their brows.

If they weren't Hell players, they would definitely greet Chen Ran's family tree. Just what the hell were all these things?

Brain-burning!

Moreover, among the four timelines, there might exist a true timeline, there might exist a fake timeline manufactured by Chen Ran, and there might also exist spatial or cloning problems.

It was truly brain-burning!

Just thinking about it made them feel their brains couldn't keep up with Chen Ran's line of thought.

There was also the most crucial point.

From beginning to end, they didn't know what this script was for?