135: Chapter 135: The future of the dying world is exactly the same as reality!

"Objective facts from millions of cases?"

Xiao Yu's beautiful eyes widened, and she subconsciously shook her head. How could there be so many objective facts?

Meanwhile, in the Huaqing University lounge.

Professor Zhao Chengfeng showed an approving expression. "Xiao Yu's thinking this time is very critical; indeed, a theory that cannot be falsified has limited value, or even no value, in the academic world."

The teachers and professors at the History Staff Quarters and the president's office were also holding their breath, waiting to see how Jiang Zhe would respond.

In the living room, on the sofa.

Facing his sister's sharp rebuttal, Jiang Zhe didn't get angry but instead showed a smile.

He took out a tablet, his fingers flying across the screen as he pulled up some information existing in that world.

"Xiao Yu, you think everything is a coincidence or can be explained by other theories," he said while operating the device. "Then let's start with a small case."

He pulled up a screenshot of a medical literature abstract from over ten years ago and pushed it in front of Xiao Yu.

"In 2012, the Journal of Near-Death Studies recorded a real case—a forty-two-year-old USA female teacher, Maria S., who suffered cardiac arrest due to acute myocardial infarction; during the subsequent rescue, she was clinically dead for about three minutes."

Xiao Yu leaned forward, carefully browsing the screenshot of the rare case in the academic report.

"After resuscitation, she described that in those three minutes—her consciousness seemed to have experienced over 20 years of time—the [time dilation] effect I mentioned to you before: while the speed of thought cannot rival the speed of light in reality, it does indeed break through the speed of light on a certain level."

"In dreams constructed by thought, or even other experiences—time is infinitely stretched, and the time experienced in each layer of a dream is different; especially in a dream within a dream, a person's perception of time almost approaches infinity; the so-called 'ten thousand years in a single thought' can be realized in the deepest level of a person's dream."

"I understand this!"

Xiao Yu nodded.

"After Maria woke up, she described this experience to the doctors—she saw herself moving to a coastal city she had never visited, living in a white house with blue shutters; she experienced her daughter's graduation ceremony at a university in that city, and even heard a joke in the president's commencement speech—[don't forget to pay off your tuition]."

"The most critical thing is!" At this point, he paused for a moment, his expression gradually becoming serious. "She saw her future husband—a man with a crescent-shaped scar on his left cheek wearing tortoiseshell-rimmed glasses, planting a maple seedling in the yard and saying to her: let it grow old with us slowly!"

Xiao Yu was stunned; her focus was a bit different from that of the viewers.

This report in full English with translation was so long; how did her brother record all the details after just one glance?

At this time, millions of viewers in the livestream also found the original text in related reports.

"Holy crap, I found it, it's actually real!"

"This is in the 2012 Issue 3 of the Journal of Near-Death Studies. Damn, it's all in English with very few translations. Did our brother learn it at a glance? Or did he memorize it beforehand?"

"Damn, he definitely memorized it beforehand. Also, how is it so specific?"

...

"This is real!"

Dr. Zhou Ming also found this specific case and pushed the laptop to Zheng Ming, Wang Chongyang, and Celestial Master Zhang for them to watch.

Upon seeing it, Zheng Ming's urge to say something suddenly stopped, and his expression turned serious.

In the frame, Jiang Zhe's voice came through.

"After Maria recovered, her life returned to normal."

"In the fifth year after her recovery, due to a job transfer, she really moved to that coastal city."

"Seven years later, her daughter was admitted to a local university and graduated successfully—at the graduation ceremony, the president really said that joke to all the parents: [don't forget to pay off your tuition]."

"Nine years later, through a friend's introduction, she met a man with a crescent scar on his left cheek wearing tortoiseshell-rimmed glasses, who was also a landscaper."

"After dating for two years, they got married—it was her second marriage. The marital home they moved into was exactly that white house with blue shutters—a typical house in the USA suburbs, cheap and spacious."

"In the first spring after their marriage, her husband planted a maple seedling in the yard, and his exact words were: [Let it grow old with us slowly!]"

As the narration ended, there was dead silence in the living room.

Xiao Yu looked away from the tablet with difficulty, looking at Jiang Zhe with some astonishment.

In this case—Maria first spent decades in a near-death experience, then woke up and returned to reality—mistaking it for a dream.

But as time passed, every detail of the future world in the near-death experience gradually aligned with reality.

Did Maria see the future?

No, she experienced the future of the real world in her near-death experience, and the [experienced future] was almost identical to the [future in reality].

This is just like what her brother said before...

That consciousness can see the future in extreme situations!

At this thought, Xiao Yu shook her head repeatedly, fear in her beautiful eyes: "It's too accurate, this is just too accurate... so accurate it's inconceivable!"

"No, no, it's a coincidence. With so many people in the world, there will always be such coincidences!"

At this time, the viewers were also frowning, finding it somewhat inconceivable—this case was truly too terrifying!

Future in near-death experience = Future in reality!!!

"Hiss~ It's a bit hair-raising. This case is a coincidence, right?"

"It doesn't seem like a coincidence; the key is that there's no record of it being faked."

"The human population is so large; it's really understandable for one or two such cases to appear!"

"..."

Inside the Qingfeng Temple.

Zheng Ming thought for a long time before looking away from the case on the tablet.

"The probability of it being a coincidence is high, or it could be Maria's later memory being beautified. After all, with so many people near death every day globally, it's entirely possible for one or two cases to match in detail—after all, Murphy's Law says that with a large enough base, something someone thinks of will eventually happen in the future."

"I think Maria subconsciously moved to the coastal city and then befriended the man with the crescent scar because she was pursuing the experience from her near-death experience."

Dr. Zhou Ming, who was beside him, took over the conversation, "I know about this case; it is indeed famous in the medical world, but not famous enough."

"The key isn't that the details match, but that multiple highly correlated cross-details gradually came true over a span of more than ten years. Explaining it simply as a coincidence has a very low probability, exceeding the range of [reasonable chance] in medical statistics."

In the living room.

Xiao Yu put down the tablet and shook her head hard, "Coincidence, an isolated case. Brother, it's still too inconceivable; once this involves science and medicine, it deviates too much from the metaphysical content you mentioned before!"

"My subconscious feeling is that it's fake; I don't really believe these things."

When Jiang Zhe talked about metaphysics before, especially when science was hard to verify, Xiao Yu felt that with her IQ, she couldn't argue.

But recently her IQ had been rising; she saw flaws in everyone, and could even see through the test questions to the examiner's little intentions—it was very strange, even nine parts wonderful!

"Is there more? This can only be considered an isolated case!"

"Of course."

Jiang Zhe showed an approving smile; there were so many of these cases!

Other near-death patients' cases involved spending years, a decade, or two decades in a near-death experience, and when they woke up...

Only less than 20% of things from the near-death world happened in reality, but Maria's case approached 80%! (Ps: True.)

"Since that's the case, here's another one."

He operated the tablet and pulled up another case.

"In 1998, in Osaka, Japan, a psychiatrist named Kentaro Nakamura suffered a serious car accident, a traumatic brain injury, and remained in a near-death state for about eight minutes."

"After resuscitation he described, in that conscious experience, he saw himself three years later in front of a shrine with a red torii gate and a huge bronze bell, saving a little girl who was almost hit by a motorcycle."

"At that time, he remembered the kanji [An] engraved on the shrine's bell, as well as the yellow raincoat the little girl was wearing and the red backpack on her back."

"Then as time passed, he didn't take it seriously, until the same day of the same month three years later, when Kentaro Nakamura went to Kyoto for a trip. At the Fushimi Inari Taisha, which has the famous Senbon Torii, he did indeed save a young girl on the road who was nearly hit by a delivery motorcycle."

"And the girl was wearing a yellow raincoat and carrying a red backpack. He looked up and saw the word 'An' engraved on a bronze bell in the corner of the shrine; he was completely stunned and stood there for dozens of minutes."

"Later, police records and media reports both confirmed this incident." (Adapted from a near-death time-travel experience of a Japanese neuroscientist)

Seeing the case on the tablet, Xiao Yu's breathing gradually quickened, but she still shook her head sharply, "Brother, this..."

"No, it's not very likely; it might be that near-death patients unconsciously integrated subconscious information and then pieced together what they thought was [future information], and then every move they made after waking up was subtly moving toward the [future] in the near-death experience."

Actually, by this point, Xiao Yu was already lacking confidence.

Because...

It was too real!

Why was the future world in the near-death experience exactly the same as the real world?

This made no sense at all. Could it be that as her brother said, everyone is currently in a revolving lantern state?

Xiao Yu still shook her head repeatedly.

At this moment, the viewers narrowed their eyes, sensing the gravity of the situation.

They knew that these two cases were both verifying from the side—it seemed the patients weren't predicting the future, but reading it—the future of life is predetermined, and thereafter, every move of the people in these two cases was heading toward that predetermined future.

Just as Xiao Yu and the viewers continued to try to resist.

Dr. Zhou Ming, who had been silent, suddenly jolted his plump body and looked up sharply, his expression becoming solemn.

"Wait!"

His gaze fell on Zheng Ming and Wang Chongyang.

"Xiaoyu's brother hasn't even gotten to the main point yet; he is dismantling his own sister's cognition step by step."

"What do you mean?" Zheng Ming's brow twitched, unable to understand.

Zhou Ming said with a serious face, "Because there is an even more terrifying case, one that cannot be explained by any [coincidence] or any existing scientific framework."

"If that case is real..."

Dr. Zhou Ming's Adam's apple bobbed with difficulty, his gaze somewhat horrified.

"Then it directly proves in a roundabout way that our world is really running on a set of rules that everyone can't see, but have already been predetermined!"

He was well-informed, but hadn't thought of these cases at first.

It wasn't until Jiang Zhe gave two specific cases that the most terrifying case in his mind was awakened!