143: Chapter 143: A Near-Death Retrospective Across Multiple Timelines – Beyond Expectations

At this moment, on the supercomputer screen.

The virtual image of 91-year-old Xiao Ming lay on a hospital bed, at the very moment of death.

On the three-sided curved screen, Xiao Ming's consciousness data stream erupted with unprecedented fluctuations.

【Warning: Near-death consciousness activity has exceeded the preset threshold!】

【Detected loss of physical world characteristics, detected multi-timeline memory overlap phenomenon!】

【Attempting to stabilize the data stream...】

Professor Ouyang leaned in abruptly, "What happened? What is going on?"

"It is a near-death review." Professor Guan was uncontrollably excited, "It might be more complex than we anticipated!"

Inside the large central screen.

Xiao Ming's consciousness was experiencing events beyond the physical world.

The first flashback, the 7-year-old node—but not the timeline he originally experienced.

In the scene, young Xiao Ming was about to go out, clutching his chest and saying, "Mom, I don't feel well." But this time, his mother impatiently interrupted: "Stop fooling around, get on the bus!"

As a result, Xiao Ming was forced onto the bus.

Then, the brakes failed, it flipped over, fell off a cliff; the sound of shattering glass and the screams of the crowd hit.

Finally, the image froze at the moment Xiao Ming's 7-year-old body was thrown from the window, and the screen turned blood red.

The image froze at the moment Xiao Ming's 7-year-old body was thrown from the window, and then it became blood red.

A blood-red prompt popped up: 【Parallel Universe A Xiao Ming: KIA!】

"What is this?" Li Mo backed away a few steps, terrified. "The version where he didn't listen to advice?"

"The concept of parallel universes in Quantum Mechanics..."

"Is it really recognized by the supercomputer as 【existing】?"

Before they could be surprised, the screen flickered again.

Second flashback: 19-year-old node.

In the library, young Xiao Ming sat at a desk under a gloomy sky.

The economics textbook in his hand was tossed aside; economics felt suffocating to Xiao Ming.

After graduation, he barely managed to get into a small company, with a meager salary and a very mediocre career.

As time passed—middle-aged Xiao Ming drowned his sorrows in a bar, left by his wife, alienated from his children.

Finally, at 58, Xiao Ming died of a sudden heart attack in a cheap rental room.

【Parallel World B, 58 years old, Xiao Ming: Mediocre death】

The third flashback was another different space-time: 28-year-old node.

The wedding was held as scheduled in that old church, sunlight streaming through the stained glass; the bride was beautiful and very attractive!

Just as the priest said, "In sickness and in health"—an abrupt "crack" came from the dome.

Xiao Ming looked up, saw cracks spreading, and was struck by a giant stone in his bewilderment.

The image finally froze on the bride's fair hand reaching out, and his half-body crushed under the stone, unable to move.

【Parallel World C, Xiao Ming 28 years old, wedding death】

The fourth, the fifth...

As one node after another appeared, each revealed 【wrong choices】 leading to tragic endings!

Early death, bankruptcy, dying alone, accidental death...

In the seventh timeline, Xiao Ming lived safely to old age, but was plagued by poverty and illness, unable to have a good end.

And in his eighth life, it ended abruptly in middle age, dying suddenly.

At this moment, ten small windows popped up on the display screen simultaneously, each showing a 【failed life path】.

Looking at this scene, the three were too stunned to speak.

"My god!" Professor Ouyang said incredulously, "This isn't a near-death review at all; it's a full timeline review, where every different choice creates a different space-time."

"I previously thought this could only be played with in the microscopic world of Quantum Mechanics; I didn't expect the supercomputer to also recognize that Quantum Mechanics is correct and that parallel universes exist!"

Professor Guan and Li Mo on the side stared fixedly at the data panel.

【Detected that Xiao Ming's consciousness is comparing and analyzing all possible paths!】

【Current 91-year-old main timeline marked as the optimal solution!】

【Emergence in Xiao Ming's consciousness fluctuations: Strong intervention intent—intervention intensity is continuously rising】

Just then, the main screen image suddenly disappeared and returned to the 7-year-old time node, the starting point.

It was the same Fu Nation cottage, with young Xiao Ming and his mother preparing to go out.

But this time, a small floating window appeared in the upper right corner—it was the face of 91-year-old Xiao Ming, lying on the hospital bed.

The elderly Xiao Ming's eyes were open, looking very spirited.

Witnessing his 7-year-old self about to leave, his lips were closing and opening frantically.

The simulation data began to translate, 【Target is speaking, translation: No, you can't go!】

Then—

The 7-year-old Xiao Ming inside the room suddenly clutched his chest, "Mom, I don't feel well!"

This feeling of palpitations surged up realistically.

Seeing this, the three were dumbfounded.

They knew that this time, it wasn't the data model intervening—but after simulating the experience of the 【luckiest person】 they uploaded, it was the data itself acting, without any external force; everything was a true history simulated by the supercomputer itself!

Soon, three pop-up boxes appeared on the right.

【Consciousness source: Time anchor, 91 years old—near-death consciousness!】

【Transmission path: Time reverse fluctuation—Quantum delayed choice intervention!】

【Physical characteristics: Chest tightness and pain—physiological signal!】

"Damn! He really interfered autonomously." Li Mo clenched his fists, his eyes flickering, "It's the 91-year-old him, interfering with his 7-year-old self."

In the scene, 7-year-old Xiao Ming didn't get on the bus; the original bus still fell off the cliff, and everyone on board died!

【Intervention complete: Avoided car accident!】

The three's expressions were extremely grave.

As the scene shifted to the 19-year-old node.

In the dormitory, young Xiao Ming was filling out an application form—the Oxford acceptance letter was right at hand.

In the elderly Xiao Ming's window in the upper right corner, that aged face had brows furrowed tightly.

The data indicated he was 【recalling】—specifically showing that 91-year-old Xiao Ming was not recalling things he had personally experienced, but recalling the mediocre, frustrated, early-dying self he saw in the parallel worlds.

【Consciousness passive content interpretation: If I choose Oxford, I will not have a good end!】

【Generated intervention signal: A dream of suffocation and the commercial prosperity outside the window!】

In the dormitory, young Xiao Ming stopped his pen and yawned—feeling a bit sleepy, he dozed off at his desk.

In the dream, it was still the dormitory, but looking out the window, he saw the bustling, neon-lit commercial street.

At the same time, an incomprehensible feeling of suffocation surged into his nasal cavity, as if he were soaked in lake water.

After waking up, he decisively tore up the Oxford application and checked the economics major.

【Node intervention complete: Went to economics university!】

28-year-old node.

Three days before the wedding, at night.

The elderly Xiao Ming in the upper right corner was staring at the tragedy of the church collapsing in the parallel timeline.

The falling boulders, the bright red blood, the bride's hand.

A flash of pain crossed his eyes—even if that was only something that might happen, the experience he 【saw】 just now in the death-flash was as real as if he had experienced it himself.

【Consciousness fluctuation peak exceeded!】

【Generated intervention signal: Nightmare—the content is the disaster scene of the church collapsing】

【Reinforced nightmare: Fear emotion!】

In the bedroom, 28-year-old Xiao Ming sat up abruptly from the bed, covered in cold sweat.

That dream was too real—the sound of the stained glass shattering, the weight of the stones falling; he even felt the pain.

The next morning, he insisted on changing the venue with the priest.

【Node intervention complete: Avoided death!】

Next, within the three's field of vision, one node after another.

45 years old, heart palpitations before a meeting—it was a warning sent by elderly Xiao Ming after seeing an investment trap.

63 years old, the impulse to cancel a flight—it was an emergency change after elderly Xiao Ming witnessed the plane crash scene.

Every time an intervention occurred, the data stream on the left side of the screen clearly marked:

【Signal source: 91-year-old Xiao Ming!】

【Transmission confirmation: Quantum Mechanics—delayed choice!】

【Content: Early warning generated based on observed bad endings!】

The three professors stood in front of the screen, motionless.

They watched with their own eyes—it wasn't the data model 【spontaneously generating】 anomalies, but a consciousness from the end of the timeline—after knowing all possible bad endings, precisely sending corrective interventions to key moments in the past.

It was like someone playing a strategy game, reloading a save to the start of each level after beating the game, using 【Quantum delayed choice】 to avoid all major life traps.

Just as 91-year-old Xiao Ming on the display screen subjectively wanted to generate more parallel timeline scenes, the data popped up.

【Cannot generate more than 10 paths, protecting computing power!】

The three looked at each other, gasping in astonishment.

This was because the supercomputer's computing power was limited, not because the human brain couldn't generate them—if this happened in reality, that 91-year-old Xiao Ming could naturally generate more and more timelines!

When the tenth node intervention was completed, the screen image suddenly began to rewind until it returned to the first simulated scene.

Just then, the main screen popped up an automatic analysis window.

Inside the interface, the cold supercomputer conclusion was running line by line through all the data recorded in the 【near-death review】 just now.

【After detection, it is known!】

【The abnormal signal of the virtual individual Xiao Ming's decision-making is 100% derived from "subjectivity", and the time confirmation source of the subjective consciousness is—his near-death consciousness at 91 years old.】

【Intervention mechanism: Near-death consciousness observes multiple timelines after major decisions regarding itself during the near-death review → Subjective consciousness is strong, identifies the optimal survival path → Sends "physiological/psychological" warning signals to major decision points in the past.】

【Time structure model: Life closed-loop exists!】

【"Xiao Ming living to the moment of sending the signal" is the necessary condition for "being able to receive the signal"!】

【Checking...】

【Verified by supercomputer: The luckiest person, whether prototype or simulated Xiao Ming—most of their luck comes from "intervention", and a small part comes from on-site discernment!】

【System evaluation: The luckiest person and the lucky person are 100% derived from upper-layer intervention; more intervention → luckier; less intervention → luckier; no intervention → mediocre!】

【Comprehensive assessment: The luckiest Xiao Ming—in the physical world he should not exist, it does not conform to current physics and mathematical models!】

【In this experiment—conscious life consciousness can ignore physical world characteristics, perfectly conforms to the microscopic world characteristics of Quantum Mechanics, perfectly conforms to retro-causality → Effect before cause → First 91-year-old Xiao Ming → Then Xiao Ming's lifelong luck!】

【In this experiment—side assessment, consciousness exists outside the physical linear space-time/macroscopic space-time model—consciousness is suspected to belong to microscopic space-time!】

【In this experiment, it perfectly conforms to the reference target: Jiang Zhe's "good luck" comes from "my future self"!】

As the massive amount of conclusions fell, the room fell into instant dead silence.

The three looked at each other, all seeing the horror on each other's faces!