He said he met her by chance because of luck.

But in the girl’s view, this is precisely another form of fate.

It was a very low probability event that I would come to another world, and it was also a low probability event that I would fall into the gap between time and space. It was also an extremely lucky coincidence that he happened to rescue me from the lake.

The superposition of various low-probability events led to my encounter with him.

How could she not believe that her meeting him was another form of destiny?

“There is no such thing as destiny.”

Xia Zhi forked a small piece of cake and handed it to the girl, feeding her and continuing

“As far as the laws of the universe are concerned, uncertainty takes precedence over time and causality.”

“The universe does not allow the existence of a vacuum where all states are determined to be zero, and the fluctuating and disturbed fields give birth to everything in the world. The world does not allow measurements of infinitely accurate precision, and space-time is thus given a meaningful minimum interval.”

Admiring the cute look of the girl puffing up her cheeks like a hamster while eating the cake, he chuckled and continued

“Uncertainty dominates everything in this world. That’s why the world is full of unknowns and wonders, isn’t it?”

…Just like this, Xia Zhi would occasionally talk about topics that she didn’t understand.

But it didn’t matter, she could still listen with gusto. Even just watching him talking to her and listening to his voice was a very happy thing for the girl.

“Then my encounter with Xia Zhi…” The girl blinked.

“It’s not the same thing… but if you want, you can still use that term.”

Xia Zhi said this.

Hearing this seemingly contradictory answer, Xiao Origami showed a puzzled expression.

“I didn’t mean ‘destined’, I meant at that time…”

After a pause, the boy looked into her eyes with a smile and explained meaningfully:

“And now, this fate has been ‘determined’.”

…Similarly, this doesn’t mean he’s not romantic.

Feeling the inexplicable touch in her heart at this moment, and her heartbeat accelerating again under her chest, Xiao Origami thought with a slightly red face.

Although he may not mean it romantically.

Despite knowing this, the girl was still very happy to receive this answer.

She usually goes to bed early, but that night she sat on the balcony and chatted with the boy for a long time.

As the night grew darker, the girl couldn’t help but yawn, revealing a somewhat tired look.

Obviously, staying up so late is too much of a stretch for her, who is still so young.

Xia Zhi thought to himself and looked at the balcony next to them, which was empty except for them.

I was stood up.

He sighed helplessly, stood up and walked to the sleepy girl, gently picked up her petite body, and took her back to his room.

In a daze, the girl felt her body being gently placed on the soft bed.

Just like when I first came here, I need the boy to accompany me every night.

Feeling the quilt covering her body, she regained consciousness and saw the boy’s back as he was about to turn around and leave.

The girl subconsciously reached out and grabbed his sleeve.

“That…”

Seeing Xia Zhi’s questioning look, she took a deep breath, mustered up her courage, and asked nervously, “Can you… kiss me?”

This… isn’t too good?

Xia Zhi thought hesitantly.

Then, looking at the girl’s nervous eyes, he seemed to understand something and he breathed a sigh of relief.

“Good night.”

Xia Zhi leaned over, kissed the girl gently on the forehead, then rubbed her little head, stood up and left the room.

Feeling the lingering touch on her forehead, the girl buried her head under the quilt, and the half of her face that was exposed was faintly flushed.

“……Good night.”

The girl’s soft response echoed in the room.

With a happy mood, she slowly closed her eyes…

……

The direction of time is not important in the fundamental laws of physics, and cause and effect do not have the usual meaning in basic physics.

As for the basic laws of the universe, the law of causality is not universal.

Under this scale, things move according to the laws of nature. But this does not mean that the “present” determines the “future”.

就好像为什么2之后是3，而之前是1。并不是2的存在导致了3，这只不过是数字遵循的一种规则模式而已。

At the microscopic scale, the regular patterns followed by events dominate everything, and the law of causality is just one of its manifestations at the macroscopic scale.

Time itself is not an absolute objective existence, but a man-made concept used to describe the order of occurrence of such regular events. When the order of such events changes, time itself will naturally change accordingly. Therefore, the theory of causality based on “time is absolutely reliable” is not reliable.

In the normal flow of time, the past and present determine the future, and a nuclear explosion in a nearby area may double the concentration of carbon 14 carried by trees that grow decades later.

Small changes in the past have an impact on huge results in the future (good things promised), and such impact can also be transmitted in the opposite direction.

Conversely, if a tree does not have such a doubling of carbon 14 content, it means that there has been no nuclear explosion nearby in the past few decades. In this event, the carbon 14 content of the tree represents an indication of the past.

In comparison, changes in carbon 14 content are more of a record of the past than the cause of past nuclear bomb explosions.

The small changes now also represent some huge changes in the past. The “small changes” here refer to a record at the macro level, which is what people often call the result.

But what if such a “record” has been confirmed in advance?

The universe does not care about the operation of the law of causality, it will only try its best to maintain the operation of the basic laws. If one day, when such rules conflict, the universe will have to make some compromises…

……

In a daze, Origami felt as if she had dreamed about a topic that the boy had talked about with her before… Just like the situation tonight, she was unable to understand it at that time.

Strange, why did I dream about this?

She wondered to herself.

Maybe it has something to do with the things I talked about with Xia Zhi tonight.

It was fun chatting with the boy, but it would be nice if I could understand what he said.

…so noisy.

The girl couldn’t help but frowned slightly.

The noises around me seem very noisy… It’s obviously night time, why is it so noisy?

The girl opened her eyes dazedly, but she was stunned.

What she saw at this moment was not the dark and quiet bedroom in her memory, but a sea of ​​​​burning fire…

…….

Chapter 1204: Similar but not identical paradoxes exist

What I saw before me was not a familiar sight.

The flames danced wildly in the sight, crackling and burning.

Everything around was engulfed in flames. Houses and trees were burning in flames. The sky turned a doomsday orange-red color, and the whole world seemed to have turned into the abyss of a blazing hell.

Kneeling in the center of the blazing fire, looking at everything around her that was familiar yet unfamiliar, the girl’s mind was filled with confusion.

Is this a dream or reality?

Why am I here?

I was just… um!

The girl couldn’t help but cover her forehead. The noise caused by the conflict of memories gradually expanded in her thoughts, giving her a severe headache.

Dad…Mom…?

Looking at the town and streets burning in the fire, the girl’s thoughts gradually became clear.

At the same time, she finally realized

Those just now…are not my memories.

Or at least, it wasn’t the memory of “Tobiichi Origami” standing here.

The girl in the memory is both myself and not myself.

Those happy, blessed, and redeemed experiences… all do not belong to me…

The happiness that belonged to her at this moment had already been taken away…

　903 “Origami? Origami!”

The sounds from the outside world that had been blocked finally reached my ears, and I heard a worried and concerned voice.

The girl looked up and saw a strange yet familiar face of a young man.

The boundaries of dreams seem to be blurred at this moment, and memory and reality seem to overlap.

Looking at the figure in front of her that shouldn’t be here, she slightly widened her azure eyes.

This person is…

……

Xia Zhi looked at the silver-haired girl whom he rescued from the burned and collapsed house. Although he was a little surprised that she appeared here, this was obviously not the most important thing to worry about right now.

Even just from her appearance, you can tell that the girl is in a very bad condition.

Dull eyes, tear-stained cheeks, dry and cracked lips, the once lively blue eyes were now empty.

Unlike Rokuko’s calmness without any emotion, what he revealed was a deep despair.

The girl’s condition at this moment was even worse than when he first met “her”.

“Origami? Origami!”

Xia Zhi shook the girl’s body, trying to shake her consciousness… uh, bring it back.

Fortunately, the girl responded to his voice, slowly raised her head, and looked at him in confusion.

Then, as if she saw something that touched her heart, her eyes, which had been trembling and empty, gradually regained their spirits and glowed with a new light.

“…Are you here to save me?”

……

The girl’s thoughts had never been as confused, nor as clear, as they were now.

She knew very well that the memories, experiences, and happiness she had just experienced did not belong to her.

With that memory in hand, she embarked on a life different from her own, experienced pain, fell into despair, and finally got her own redemption.

Although I don’t know exactly what’s going on, I don’t know why there is another me, and I don’t know why I can get this memory.

However, these are not important.

Origami stared at the boy in front of him

He saved another self

And now he appears in front of me again, does it mean

You also……

She opened her lips slightly and asked in a dry and hoarse voice

“…Are you here to save me?”

Listening to the girl’s confused whisper, Xia Zhi was slightly stunned, puzzled by the abnormal behavior she had shown since she saw him.

However, looking at those blue eyes filled with expectation and hope, he sighed slightly and temporarily suppressed those thoughts.