Lin Xian held a gun in his left hand and the Space-time Law in his right, fully equipped for both offense and defense, with absolutely no reason to fear that Time-Space Assassin.
"If only I could know the exact boundaries of Space-Time Elasticity,"
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Lin Xian once again carefully contemplated the issues of Space-Time Elasticity and Forced Evasion.
Without a doubt, the fundamental factor that could trigger a Forced Evasion still lay in Space-Time Elasticity.
Huang Que had mentioned it repeatedly.
Space-Time Elasticity, she had said, was the most important Space-time Law, and she admitted to never having fully grasped it.
This was no lie.
Even to this day, Lin Xian hadn’t fully comprehended how the boundaries of Space-Time Elasticity were determined.
He once believed it was based on life.
That is to say, a Space-Time Traveler could harm life in this time-space to a certain degree but could never cause death.
But now, it seemed this way of thinking was also inaccurate.
Take Huang Que’s high-heels, for example.
How many ants had she stepped on? How many mosquitoes had she swatted? And because of her eating habits over the years, how many pigs, sheep, and chickens died in China?
If one were to use the killing of life as the sole criterion for surpassing the boundaries of Space-Time Elasticity, Huang Que would have violated the rules countless times by now.
Although pigs, sheep, chickens, and mosquitoes aren’t human, from a space-time perspective, there is no difference between their lives and those of humans.
Therefore, we can dismiss this conclusion directly—
The determination of the boundaries of Space-Time Elasticity has nothing to do with the life and death of a being.
So, what is it related to?
Lin Xian believed that one had to analyze specifics on a case-by-case basis.
If represented numerically,
the allowable range of Space-Time Elasticity could be assumed to be the interval [-100,+100].
In other words, the actions of a Space-Time Traveler, as long as they cause changes to the established history within the range of -100 and +100, are permissible.
For example,
killing a chicken that results in a +2 alteration to the established historical trajectory is within the allowable range of Space-Time Elasticity and is therefore permissible and can be done!
Another example:
Killing Lin Xian would change the established historical trajectory by +105, which exceeds the allowable range of Space-Time Elasticity. Thus, it would be prohibited and trigger the Forced Evasion Law.
But can every person’s life cause the established historical trajectory to go beyond +100 or fall below -100?
Lin Xian felt that it was certainly not the same for everyone, just as killing mosquitoes, pigs, cattle, and sheep differed. Although all life holds equal value, in reality, each individual’s contribution to advancing or impeding history varies significantly.
For instance,
killing Gao Yang might result in a -80 change to the established historical trajectory. This number is also within the allowable range of Space-Time Elasticity. That is to say, if a Space-Time Traveler were to kill Gao Yang, it would fall within the range permitted by Space-Time Elasticity and would not trigger the Forced Evasion Law.
Similarly,
if one were to control oneself and not kill oneself, it might only lead to a +70 change in the established historical trajectory. That behavior would also be within the allowable range of Space-Time Elasticity and is naturally permitted.
At this thought...
Lin Xian suddenly felt a chill run down his spine.
He considered an extreme possibility!
"If..."
The more he thought about it, the more unsettling it felt, the more a cold dread spread throughout his body:
"If these violations against Space-Time Elasticity could be cumulative or subtractive, then killing Gao Yang equates to -80, and killing me equates to +105."
"In that case... if one were to kill Gao Yang and then kill me, wouldn’t the two acts combined only result in a +25 change to the established historical trajectory?"
"If it’s 25, then that’s within the range of Space-Time Elasticity! It would be permitted!"
In an instant, Lin Xian experienced a revelation!
[In disturbing history while simultaneously correcting it, could it be possible to offset the damage to historical elasticity?]
He suddenly understood.
He himself had also corrected history before!
It was Tem Bank!
Within the Third Dreamland, as well as the initial Fourth Dreamland, because of the establishment of Rhein Company, Brother Wang gave up on his childhood dreams, and history was disturbed, leading to the complete disappearance of Tem Bank from the annals of time.
Clearly, history had been disrupted.
But then!
He later discovered the reason behind the disappearance of Tem Bank. Only the one who tied the bell can untie it. By reigniting Brother Wang’s childhood dreams, he managed to recover the vanished Tem Bank.
Could this not be!
Him, through some effort, altering some cause and effect, and then realigning history back to its original course?
At this moment,
Lin Xian seemed to comprehend a new Space-time Law—
[Historical Correction]!
[Relative to the disturbed history, if some actions can re-align the deviated historical trajectory back to its original developmental path... then such actions are termed—Historical Correction!]
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"No wonder..."
Lin Xian suddenly understood why the Time-Space Assassin did not kill him in Copenhagen but could take action against him in Donghai City!
This must be the Space-time Law that Huang Que truly intended to teach him!
He previously did not understand Space-Time Elasticity and Forced Evasion thoroughly enough, always assuming that everything was absolute, that the criteria for judgment were unchanging.
But the reality was not so!
Already at their meeting in the Donghai University laboratory and at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, Huang Que had mentioned that "elasticity can change, the greater the elasticity, the more that can be disclosed."