Not cold [Interstellar]

Ke Wei coughed, "Where is the Pope?"

"I don't know either." The fat bishop said, "I couldn't ask him what I wanted. Before he died, he escaped with the teleportation technique of our Anta civilization...so I actually hope that you can Do you know where he teleported to? I have searched his house, but I couldn't find the teleportation point, and I couldn't find what we wanted."

The fat bishop moved his hand, showing the metal fragments he was familiar with.

Ke Wei had never seen the fragment shown by the fat bishop.But he did see fragments of the same family as it in Abino's laboratory.There is also a piece that Ke Wei took back from himself in another time and space in a different space.

A three-dimensional image of metal fragments rotating appeared in front of the fat bishop: "Tell me the whereabouts of this thing honestly. I don't want to waste time. I have many ways to make your life worse than death. If you cooperate, I can spare you today." You die."

After releasing the threat, he was surprising, saluted the fragment respectfully, and spoke a language that Ke Wei could not understand.

It's just that as soon as his voice fell, an indescribable change took place in this still space.

Above the head of the fat bishop, a space distortion occurred.

When the fat bishop saw the people in the space that was about to merge, he was greatly frightened and said in disbelief, "The God of Creation...you are the God of Creation!?"

The people inside also replied in the language of Anta civilization: "Hey, thank you for letting me out in a crooked manner, then... let you guess again?"

The fat bishop was full of fear, and tremblingly connected to a communication line: "Your prisoner has escaped..."

But the next moment, the fat bishop stopped moving, his expression was still in fear, and his body was like a robot with a disconnected wire.

Smoke billowed from one of the fat bishop's spines, and his chip was destroyed in an instant.

Ke Wei took a deep breath, and he shouted: "Who is there? Come out!"

Jin Ran jumped down from that weird space.

Jin Ran raised his hands high and said with a smile: "Ke Xiaowei, relax! Put the gun in your hand away, don't get nervous, you'll shoot me through, it will hurt a lot."

When he said this, the edges of his body were still blurred lines, but they quickly became clear at a speed visible to the naked eye.

His smile towards Ke Wei is still familiar, but the strange appearance of him here and now makes Ke Wei understand that this is no longer a coincidence.

"This smell... Bait ragweed? Okay." Jin Ran sniffled and sighed: "So there's not much I can change."

Ke Wei looked at him, silently hid the language translator of Anta Civilization behind his back, and did not speak.

Jin Ran's tone was warm and familiar, as if he was talking to a good friend, and he didn't seem to notice Ke Wei's vigilance at this time: "But don't worry, you were bled once before, and I gave you another blood transfusion. That toss is equivalent to changing your blood once, even if the ragweed enters your body, you will definitely not die like the Pope."

"When the time is still and the ban is lifted, you leave the Holy See immediately, go to the hospital to draw out the blood, and then put the blood bag I gave you last time back into your body, the sooner the better, the harm is minimized, you can still live a long time."

Ke Wei grasped a key message: "Where did you get the blood bag you gave me? You gave me a blood transfusion, and whose blood was it?"

Jin Ran frowned secretly, and said with a smile, "Why...how did you suddenly think of asking this?"

There was something wrong in Ke Wei's heart that he couldn't tell.

His blood is different from ordinary people, Jin Ran told him personally.But at this moment, Jin Ran talked about him, unwilling to give him a definite answer.

Ke Wei felt uneasy. He looked at Christine and the others who were still in the same posture behind him, and asked, "Jin Ran, how can we restore the time to normal?"

"There is no other way, just wait, I will accompany you."

Ke Wei looked at him quietly: "Jin Ran, where did you go after Huang Xing saved me last time?"

Every time Jin Ran appeared so strangely, he came and went out of thin air.He was originally Ke Wei's best friend, but now his confusing whereabouts cast an ominous shadow over his identity.

Jin Ran took the Pope's seat indifferently, and crossed his legs: "I know, you have a lot of doubts about me. But to be honest, I don't want to lie to you. There are many things that I can't tell you yet."

"why?"

Jin Ran blinked: "Because...don't let me tell."

Ke Wei didn't hear what he said clearly, and confirmed, "Who are you talking about?"

Jin Ran was obviously stunned for a moment: "Actually... I tried to tell you who you are just now, but the rules of this world don't allow you to hear it."

Ke Wei narrowed his eyes: "What do you mean?"

"I use a roundabout way of saying it." Jin Ran looked into his eyes: "I can't open any door in any time and space. Every time I can act, it is defaulted by the rules. Rules are a thinking life body, and I'm not allowed to divulge information about the rules."

Jin Ran showed a contemplative expression: "It's just that I have to go to a place now to verify one thing. Ke Wei, I want to rewrite part of the rules and try to thoroughly test the foundation of everything."

"There is a very important thing..." Jin Ran thought for a while, but he was vague: "I just got some ideas, but I'm not sure, give me some time to think about it."

Ke Wei looked at him silently, and based on the scattered information, many guesses flashed in his mind.But he knew too little information to fully understand the hidden meaning behind Jin Ran's words.

Jin Ran said, "Ke Wei, these shapeshifters just now... want to know something from you?"

Ke Wei said calmly: "I don't know what they are doing, and I suspect that they have already killed the Pope."

"Where is the Pope? Is he really dead?" Jin Ran frowned and said, "You are his only disciple, how could he not leave you a word?"

Ke Wei's eyebrows seemed worried: "I don't have his whereabouts."

Jin Ran didn't ask any more questions, but just said: "Be careful yourself, even if one day you find the clues left by the Pope, you must handle them carefully."

Ke Wei was silent for a moment: "Where did you go this time? When you disappeared, I was always worried. I shouldn't have let you leave alone."

Jin Ran smiled inexplicably: "In fact, we can't predict what will happen in the next second. You don't have to take everything on yourself."

Ke Wei said softly: "Jin Ran, since you came out of the black hole, I haven't had the chance to have a good conversation with you and ask what happened to you."

Jin Ran was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said: "I've been away for more than a year, and I never thought that your life would undergo such an earth-shaking change. You are so young, but you even have children, and they are all set up. The extent of the family, this progress is really a bit scary."

"What about my body...it's hard to explain to you clearly. Let's put it this way, I use the power to manipulate every cell and every molecule in my body to combine and disperse. Under certain conditions, I can indeed enter the gap in the universe by myself. Shuttle in different spaces."

Ke Wei reacted quickly: "So you won't die?"

Jin Ran didn't look particularly happy: "It's hard to tell. Only after I've been through this life have I realized that there are too many things in this universe that we don't know. Never be sure about anything. We firmly believe in, Thought to be the most basic truth, it can be overthrown in minutes."

Ke Wei seemed to feel sorry for him: "How much hardship did you suffer in the black hole to become what you are now?"

Jin Ran also gradually relaxed: "The whole person is broken down, do you think this experience will be very pleasant? Oh, it's very uncomfortable, don't mention it, I don't want to think about it."

Ke Wei paused, then gently changed the subject again: "Then let's say goodbye...Jin Ran, I still remember that when we were young and we first went to the orphanage, it was my first birthday, and you secretly helped me that night Looks like a celebration.”

"Isn't it?" Thinking of the past, Jin Ran echoed, "We grew up dependent on each other."

Ke Wei seems to be immersed in reminiscing about the past: "I often think of that piece of cake that you secretly saved on my birthday, and then when you looked at the stars at night, you mysteriously handed it to me. If you If I really can’t come back, how guilty should I be?”

Jin Ran smiled and said: "You still remember the past, the cake was made of cranberry sandwiches, you don't like sweets, you ate all of them. Then we watched the stars together and said we would be good friends for life. "

Ke Wei lowered his head, and let out a "huh" with a vague expression.

Jin Ran looked at Ke Wei's expression: "Ke Xiaowei, I really need your help now."

Ke Wei looked up again, with a sincere expression: "You say, I will try my best to help you if I can."

Jin Ran persuasively said: "We have seen the metal fragments in Abino's laboratory together. The Pope also has some of these. They alone record the four-dimensional coordinates of the universe and time. They are very important... "

Ke Wei was puzzled: "What's the use of them?"

Jin Ran said: "The things Anta civilization has been looking for give me an idea about 'rules'. These things should play some role in it, but I'm not sure, so I want to use it for research first."

"I can't figure it out."

Jin Ran asked, "What's wrong?"

Ke Wei was caught off guard and directly launched an attack: "Since those metal fragments are so important, why didn't you just take them away when you were in Abino, before everyone was suspicious of you?"

He picked up the gun decisively and aimed at the person in front of him: "Where did Jin Ran go?"

Jin Ran didn't speak, Ke Wei had never looked at him with such unfeeling eyes: "When was he replaced?"

Jin Ran suddenly fell silent, and smiled shortly: "Where did I reveal my secrets?"

"On my birthday, you never gave me a cake. The cafeteria made steamed stuffed buns that day... The real Jinran, it's impossible to make a mistake."

Ke Wei fixedly aimed at the person in front of him: "Where is the Jinran I know?"

"Jin Ran" was silent for a moment, and then said: "You don't understand, Ke Wei, I'm not an enemy, I'm different from them."

Ke Wei gritted his teeth and repeated: "Where is my Jinran? Was it also replaced by your transforming robot?"

"Jin Ran" slowly revealed a smile: "I never lied to you, I am Jin Ran."

Ke Weiduan shouted: "Your technology can imitate biological DNA! Maybe your disguise is impeccable, but I... I think something is wrong with you."

Jin Ran thoughtfully said: "That's right, you have always been cautious. After I came here, I revealed a lot of flaws, and you really saw them all."

Jin Ran said slowly: "At that time you were in the heterotopic space, when you saw you in 6062, that mirror space, this kind of opportunity is rare. You had such an extremely rare opportunity to become The closest thing to a 'rule' exists."

Unmoved, Ke Wei chose the highest gear for gathering energy, and the muzzle of the gun emitted a dazzling electric light with the sound of piercing electricity: "I'm not going to ask a third time."

"Jin Ran" sighed: "Ke Wei, give me 5 minutes, I have to say a lot of things before you can understand what happened."

"'Life' has a kind of energy, and 'death' has the power of another channel. When the two completely opposite forces of 'life' and 'death' are fused under certain conditions, you will master a ...more complete power."

"Ke Wei, when you were in the mirrored space, if you took the metal fragments and directly grabbed your hand in another space that was about to die...you would become an existence like me."

"I am Jinran, but not your Jinran. When your Jinran was sucked into the black hole, he was so courageous that he dared to rush in. Although in the black hole, the dimensional wall of space and time was broken, many principles were lost. Constraining force, but it is very dangerous inside. As a human being with no protection, he was very lucky to escape unharmed... It's just that the timing of his landing was not very lucky."

"As soon as he came out, he saw the ending of your pterosaur planet after being drained of blood. He was greatly stimulated, and he plunged back from the unclosed crack, wanting to find the same world and move forward. It’s time to come out and change the outcome of your murder.”

"Of course, this is also because the space wall above the original ecologically protected planetary park has been broken many times by people from the Anta civilization. It is a very convenient place to enter and exit. The Anta civilization has some secret coordinates in the Galactic Empire. This The planet is one of those communication points."

The incident became clearer, Ke Wei shook his head in disbelief, and said: "In the first timeline, Zhong Yue was killed on this planet. Then, Jin Ran saw me here again..."

"That's right, let's go date in another place in the future, although I think you all probably have a shadow of this place." Jin Ran nodded and admitted: "Actually, your Jin Ran has been to the second timeline where you are. Now you survived safely because I came to save you from Mobai and push all of you to the third timeline."

"As I said, the black hole is very dangerous. After he entered this time, he was not so lucky." Jin Ran recounted the facts indifferently: "When he had only one breath left, he found me...and then when he begged I entered the black hole and went to your universe to save you."

Ke Wei was so shocked that he couldn't speak.

Jin Ran pointed to himself: "I am Jin Ran in the parallel universe, where many things happened differently...I'm not lying, the night you celebrated your first birthday in the orphanage, the cafeteria of the orphanage , I did make a small cake tonight."

Ke Wei vaguely guessed what he meant, but still asked with a trace of luck: "Then Jinran... my Jinran here..."

Jin Ran stretched out his arms, and he looked at his body: "he is here... we are two identical people who are mirror images. But he has been lost in the black hole for too long, so he uses some of my In a way I don't understand until now, I understand some of the 'rules'. The combination of death and life, voluntary sacrifices, unfulfilled wishes, loopholes in the rules... all his cells are fused with mine, and we are one person gone."

Jin Ran lowered his head and said, "I came back to fulfill another wish of my own, so that you can survive in peace."

Ke Wei's eyes were red, but he still said, "Do you have evidence?"

"That's right. After all, what you say is nothing but evidence? You have to let me think about it." Jin Ran smiled slightly: "But... no matter which world you are in, you are very rigorous, and this is your style of doing things."

Jin Ran's nonchalant tone towards him almost made Ke Wei think that the person in front of him was his good friend who grew up with him.

Jin Ran showed his signature smile: "I just thought of a way, how about I show you something?"

After a while, Ke Wei retracted the gun.

They knew each other well that such a weapon could hardly cause any harm to Jin Ran from the parallel universe.

But the trust shown by this move made Jin Ran's expression soften.

Jin Ran stepped forward, took Ke Wei's hand, and placed it on his head.

Jin Ran said, "Close your eyes and watch with your heart."

This Jinran showed his memory to Ke Wei.

There was a gleam in Jin Ran's eyes, he lowered his eyes to cover them, and asked softly, "Did you see it?"

Ke Wei saw Jin Ran's memory in the parallel universe, and with Jin Ran's personality, he would not easily reveal such a private thing to someone he didn't trust.

Ke Wei's spiritual power is seamlessly connected to Jin Ran's spiritual channel. He not only watches, but also actively explores the parallel life trajectory of Jin Ran for more than 20 years.

As Jin Ran himself said, on the other side of the parallel universe, many things happened differently from here.

There is no sign of any infiltration of the Anta civilization in the parallel universe. After a decisive battle by human beings, there are not many Zergs left. Only some destructive bugs choose planets far away from human habitats to reproduce silently, and even actively avoid humans. trail.

Human beings live and work in peace and contentment. Even Jin Ran and Ke Wei, who grew up in orphanages because they lost their homeland and relatives in the decisive battle, have different fates from this world.

Only Jinran chose to enter the military academy for further studies and joined the army after graduation.

However, Ke Wei chose the seminary and directly entered the Holy See, starting a completely different life trajectory from here.

Ke Wei took the initiative to test some details in his memory, and saw that Jin Ran's memory was very natural and coherent, without any sign of forgery.

The Anta civilization has the technology to copy memories, but such vivid, real, full of details, and completely different memories cannot be forged.

It's just that after remembering that Jin Ran entered the army, he suddenly cut off the memory sharing.

But Ke Wei had collected enough detailed information to believe his words.

"Your Jinran asked me to bring you a word. He said that if you change your position, you will do the same thing for him. If he seeks benevolence, you don't have to be sad."

Jin Ran sideways, with a flat expression: "In the final analysis, I am exactly the same as him, there is no difference at all. I and you in my world also grew up together, otherwise how could I agree to another version of myself? , ran here to save you."

"But I really feel that it's a pity. You were also qualified to become an existence like me... Now that the last level has passed, I have finally fulfilled the agreement with myself and obtained a complete cycle."

The appearance of Jin Ran folded his hands and folded in front of him is very similar to the cold statue overlooking all living beings in the temple: "From now on, you can come and go as you like, and you will always be one."

Jin Ran standing in front of him at this moment was almost so unfamiliar that Ke Wei could not recognize him.

At this moment, Ke Wei remembered the question that the fat bishop blurted out before he died.

Ke Wei murmured: "The God of Creation..."

"Jin Ran, the note you left me earlier said... God of Creation, what do you mean?"