BSI Chapter 681 The Problem of Time Paradox
Chapter 681 The Problem of Time Paradox
Looking at the familiar river, Lin Hanzhou's raging imperial laws instantly subsided, and the wariness in his eyes disappeared, replaced by bewilderment.
He stared intently at the long river of time that intertwined between illusion and reality.
On the turbulent river, a mist dissipated, revealing an ordinary-looking wooden boat, moving against the current with an incomparably mysterious rhythm, slowly paddling towards his current point in time.
A blurry figure stood at the bow of the wooden boat.
The man was wearing a somewhat oversized raincoat and a wide, low-brimmed straw hat, obscuring his face.
He held a seemingly ordinary black wooden oar in his hand. With each gentle stroke in the river, he could break through countless storms of time and cause and effect, his steadiness sending shivers down one's spine.
This mysterious man in the straw raincoat was none other than himself, whom he had met in his previous life, from the distant future!
What filled Lin Hanzhou with questions was that the last time they met, he was facing a life-or-death crisis and had deliberately triggered the laws of time, which led to the arrival of his future self across time and space.
This time, however, he merely picked a flower on a mortal planet, preoccupied with figuring out how to cultivate a tool, without using any of the forbidden powers related to the Great Dao of Time.
In this situation, why would the other party suddenly come knocking on your door?
Under Lin Hanzhou's questioning gaze, the awning boat finally slowly came to rest on the "bank" where the snow-capped peak and the river of time meet.
It was at this moment that Lin Hanzhou, an expert who had also studied the Great Dao of Time, keenly noticed a detail.
Compared to their last meeting in the Immortal Realm, the wooden boat beneath their feet seemed to be "newer" in terms of its material and patterns. Although the wood also bore the marks of time, it lacked the decaying, lifeless aura of decay.
Not only the wooden boat, but even the raincoat and straw hat worn by the other person were slightly more vibrant in color than the last time I saw them.
Lin Hanzhou was only slightly taken aback by this, but he quickly figured out the logic behind it and didn't find it too strange.
The river of time is filled with the most terrifying erosion of cause and effect and the power of the years.
Even the most precious and divine artifacts will inevitably decay and fall into disrepair if soaked in it for too long.
The future self he saw in his previous life had clearly crossed a much more distant timeline.
Those beings from the future had obviously traveled for a longer time in the river of time, so the wooden boat and raincoat were more severely eroded and looked extremely dilapidated.
The future self that appears before Lin Hanzhou is still "future" to him, but relative to his own timeline, he should be in an "earlier stage" of time travel.
Having suffered less erosion from the passage of time, the equipment appears slightly newer, perfectly in line with the logic of time.
"So, he's younger now than the person I saw over 200,000 years ago?"
Lin Hanzhou thought to himself in a somewhat nested way.
Before Lin Hanzhou could completely sort out the tangled mess of time and space logic in his mind, the figure in the straw raincoat standing at the bow of the ship slightly raised his head.
Beneath the straw hat, a calm yet profound gaze, seemingly piercing through the ages, was cast upon him.
The future version of himself looked at Lin Hanzhou, without any pleasantries or unnecessary words, and calmly said:
"Give me the Harmony Flower, and I will give it to you in your next life."
"ha?!"
Upon hearing this, even with Lin Hanzhou's composure as an emperor who could remain unmoved even if Mount Tai collapsed before him, he was completely dumbfounded and froze on the spot.
He even began to wonder if there was something wrong with his ears.
Just moments ago, I was racking my brains, trying to figure out how to cross the cycle of reincarnation and safely deliver the Harmony Flower to my reborn self in the next life.
In the blink of an eye, my future self appeared, rowing a fancy boat and singing songs, and volunteered to take on this "cross-time and space express delivery" business.
What kind of bizarre turn of events is this? He's becoming his own deliveryman?
A celestial-level delivery service?
However, Lin Hanzhou is also an extremely quick-witted person.
After a brief moment of confusion, his eyes lit up, and he began to quickly weigh the pros and cons in his mind.
Thinking about it carefully, this seems to be an extremely stable and excellent choice!
The so-called "tool successor" he originally planned to cultivate, no matter how extraordinary his talent was, was ultimately just a native cultivator of this Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.
Over the long span of hundreds of thousands of years, there have been too many variables.
If that tool person dies halfway through, or is killed in the battle against the Supreme Ancient Emperor, the Dao-Merging Flower will be completely lost.
But if you send your future self to deliver the goods, then the nature of the situation is completely different.
This future incarnation is an extremely terrifying big shot who can easily go against the flow of time and even revealed in our last meeting that he could defy the Immortal King!
Looking across all the myriad realms, past and future, who else could snatch something from this powerful figure?
Whose credibility could make Lin Hanzhou feel 100% more at ease than "his future self"?
Thinking of this, Lin Hanzhou had a sudden thought and without the slightest hesitation, he took out the jade box that he had just put into his body space and held it in his palm.
However, just as he was about to hand over the jade box, his movements suddenly froze.
A somewhat contradictory time paradox suddenly exploded in his mind, making his expression instantly turn extremely strange.
Lin Hanzhou stared intently at his future self, hesitating before handing over the jade box. Instead, filled with suspicion, he asked:
"Wait a minute... wait a minute. Dude, are you out of your mind?"
"Since you are my 'future self,' it means that you came back to the present from a certain point in the future, going against the current."
"In other words, on your timeline, you have already walked through my 'future'."
"So here's the question: since you're now carrying this flower further into the 'past' of time, and you've already passed through my future, how will you 'send' this flower back to me in my next life?"
The more Lin Hanzhou spoke, the more illogical it seemed, and his tone became extremely strange.
"Are you planning to take the flowers, turn the boat around, and sail it back downstream along the river of time?"
"But to send a single He Dao Flower, you've gone back and forth through the river of time. That's clearly a losing proposition."