138: Chapter 138: Our Future selves Help Our Present Selves

Looking at Xiaoyu's somewhat bewildered expression, Jiang Zhe didn't continue with examples. His tone softened slightly as he switched to a more realistic question.

"Xiaoyu, in your life, have you ever had such a moment—the split second before you were about to do something or go somewhere, a voice you couldn't understand suddenly popped into your head, or a strong feeling told you, 'Don't go'?"

Upon hearing this, Xiaoyu snapped out of her previous state of panic.

"Isn't that the Earth Consciousness telling us?"

"The Earth Consciousness wouldn't tell you things that are all 'good voices.' What I'm asking about now is that voice which is 'good for you' and 'never harmful to you.'"

Xiaoyu nodded gently, "Yes, many, many times!"

"For example, once I had arranged to go to a newly opened mall with Lin Yue. Just before leaving, I suddenly felt a strong resistance and my heart palpitated—in the end, I didn't go. As it turned out, there was an accident with the escalator at the mall that day; a child got stuck in the escalator steps and died of suffocation."

Jiang Zhe asked again: "Was that 'Don't go' voice clear?"

"Very clear, just like..." Xiaoyu's beautiful eyes turned as she found a description, "It was like I was talking to myself, yet it felt very strange!"

"Good!" Jiang Zhe sat up straight, his expression gradually becoming serious, "Think back again. After you heard this voice and followed it, was the outcome usually 'beneficial' to you? For example, you avoided trouble, or by some twist of fate, you encountered something good, right?"

Xiaoyu recalled carefully and nodded again, "Yes, it was beneficial; there were also unfavorable ones, but the unfavorable ones—as you said before, Big Brother, it was the Earth Consciousness making the wrong choice for us in order to make us die."

Jiang Zhe nodded slightly, "Then, the most fundamental question arises: at the time that 'voice' appeared, you didn't have any rational basis; you didn't know the mall would have an accident, nor did you know what consequences changing your choice would bring."

"That warning appeared out of thin air, right?"

"Right."

"Then, Xiaoyu, think about it—this warning that appeared out of thin air, was beneficial to you, and was correct, where did this information come from?"

Xiaoyu was stunned. She had never thought about this question.

Where did it come from...

Even racking her brains, she couldn't know.

But one thing was certain, it was definitely not the Earth Consciousness!

A brief silence appeared in the livestream room, and then the barrage erupted like a tsunami.

"Damn, I've had that. In my third year of high school, I skipped class to go to an internet cafe. When I got to the school gate, I suddenly felt so panicked that someone seemed to be pulling me back; I ended up not going... The next day I found out that someone was drag racing at the school gate and hit a student who was skipping class to go to the internet cafe; just thinking about it gives me the creeps!"

"+1, before a business trip, I dreamed the plane crashed. I woke up scared and, on a whim, changed to the high-speed rail. As it turned out, the original flight was delayed by eight hours; if I had taken that plane, I wouldn't have been able to close that 8 million contract; I wouldn't have been able to change my life."

"Last week, just last week, I almost got on the No. 9 bus I take every day. At the last second, my legs went weak and I didn't get on. It turned out later that the bus drove for twenty minutes and collided with a dump truck. Out of twenty-four people on the bus, 9 died!"

"I am sure this is not metaphysics. This feeling really exists, it is not that Earth Consciousness intervening and harming my choices."

"So where on earth does this voice, action, or revelation come from?"

At this moment, in the Kyoto Family Quarters.

Professor Chen Runzhi watched these barrages and spoke to his old brothers with a solemn face:

"When I was studying local chronicles in the past, I saw quite a few similar records; a miscellaneous record by a doctor in the late Qing Dynasty wrote—a medicine merchant would always suffer losses if he felt uneasy before purchasing goods; if he felt calm, the journey would go smoothly."

"I only thought it was a matter of experience at the time, but now it seems... there is a deeper meaning!"

Old Qian, Old Wang, and Old Liu carefully savored this statement. In fact, they had all experienced similar situations to varying degrees.

On the other side, in Qingfeng Temple.

Zheng Ming's lips parted slightly as he listened to what Jiang Zhe said and the reactions of the netizens.

For the first time, he did not refute it, because he also thought of a crossroads ten years ago. Suddenly his heart trembled, and for no reason, he didn't continue walking forward, but instead, as if guided by a ghost, took more than thirty meters back.

Then...

"Bang!"

At the intersection that Zheng Ming was about to cross, a dump truck collided with a private white car, and no one in either vehicle survived.

If he had taken that road at that time...

At the thought of this, Zheng Ming's face turned pale, and a chill arose spontaneously.

Celestial Master Zhang, Zhou Ming, and Wang Chongyang looked at each other, and all saw the shock on each other's faces.

Zhou Ming did not speak. If he used medicine to explain these things, the result would only be—pale!

In the living room, on the sofa, looking at Xiaoyu, Jiang Zhe's eyebrows twitched as he switched a complex physical formula into words that Xiaoyu could understand.

"Xiaoyu, let's borrow a concept that physicists use to think about the microscopic world to make an analogy. It is called 'Quantum Delayed Choice'."

"The gist is: how a particle traverses history can be determined by the final 'observation' behavior in the future."

"The core is: future choices can affect past paths."

He didn't waste any more words on the quantum delayed choice experiment, "Xiaoyu, we won't discuss the physical details, we only borrow the 'core' of this quantum delayed choice experiment—'future choices can change the state of the past'."

"Xiaoyu, what if this 'delayed' effect also exists on the scale of a human life?"

"What if that 'you' who lived to the end and was lying on the hospital bed reviewing your life, saw the scene of this mall escalator in your 'life review', or perhaps saw yourself at 25, 35, 45 years old suddenly walking into danger without realizing it..."

"Then, would that 'future you' scream desperately in your consciousness!"

Speaking to this point, Jiang Zhe imitated that voice: " 'Don't go'!!!"

Upon hearing this, Xiaoyu's beautiful eyes widened, and her breathing suddenly tightened.

In an instant, Principal Fu, Old Wang, Zhao Chengfeng, Professor Chen Runzhi, and others suddenly constricted their pupils, and a feeling of lingering fear suddenly struck!

"If." Jiang Zhe's gaze fell calmly on Xiaoyu, "The brain at the point of death, because of some kind of extreme activity and focus, really allowed this strong desire to modify things from the end of life to be weakly transmitted back along the timeline to the past?"

"It was so weak that it couldn't convey the specific reason, it could only turn into a 'hunch' without reason, a 'voice' without reason, a 'heart palpitation' without reason, a 'momentary pause' without reason."

"And the 'past you' who received this signal, because you couldn't understand it, could only attribute it to: 'Good luck'!"

Speaking of this, Jiang Zhe narrowed his eyes, his expression suddenly became serious, and he threw out the core:

"So, the 'causality' we have always understood is actually reversed!"

"It is not because you were 'lucky' → so you avoided 'danger' → and lived to the 'end'."

"But because you 'lived to the end' → that 'final you' has the chance in the 'life review' → to send a 'warning' to all your key past time nodes that 'makes you lucky' — so that all your choices exist to let Xiaoyu 'live safely to old age'."

"The sequence is: Xiaoyu lived to old age → entered a near-death state → consciousness changed the wrong choices made by young Xiaoyu in the past → allowing young Xiaoyu to live safely to old age."

"And this is a 'super life loop' that must be completed to ensure Xiaoyu, your 'own stable existence'!"

Watching Xiaoyu's wide-eyed expression, Jiang Zhe didn't stop, but continued: "If you want to go deeper, a person who dies unexpectedly in the middle of life, his 'timeline' ends there; he won't have a 'future self' to review his life at the point of death, and thus it is impossible to send any 'warning' to his earlier self!"

"So, they can't hear the 'Don't go' voice, and their 'luck' seems to always be a bit worse!"

He paused for a moment, throwing out a question that made Xiaoyu and millions of netizens' scalps tingle.

"Xiaoyu, think carefully, those moments when you were 'glad I didn't go at that time', 'lucky I chose that at that time'."

"That mysterious voice, feeling, action that made you change your mind..."

"Do you really think that is 'good luck' that descended randomly?"

"Or is it your future self, in the projection room at the end of life, playing the already completed life movie, sending out the only 'desperate spoiler' that can be heard by the past?"

"And every time you 'obey' it, you are helping that 'future you', ensuring that 'you' can complete..."

"'Live to' the end, and then become that 'dying person' sending the signal."

Jiang Zhe took a deep breath, then slowly exhaled, "And this!"

"Is the truth of 'luck'!"

"It is also the most selfish, and most warm, original intention of the 'life review'!"

Following the series of words, the living room and the homes of millions of netizens were all dead silent.

Scanning Xiaoyu's pale, stunned face, Jiang Zhe didn't speak again, just letting Xiaoyu quietly understand and realize this ultimate truth!