"Since there is nothing else to do, let's tell the second part of the story we haven't finished before." Sheldon finally sat down with Merlin, and the dim light gradually became fainter, and finally only the light appeared in the room.

Show the figures of these two people.

Merlin and Sheldon were bored, so Sheldon just started talking.

"Last time, we talked about the contract between Merlin and World Tree. World Tree gave Merlin the supreme power to go back in time, but Merlin needs to deceive time in order to obtain the secret we desire most, which is our soul.

The deepest and most untouchable mark is called the mark of Didamo."

If he wants to cheat time, he needs to commit five unspeakable lies. He can go back to the past, but he cannot violate the paradox of the established time.

"What is the paradox of a given time?" Merlin asked, "Could it be that something ulterior will happen if we go back to the past?"

"Haha, let me give you an analogy," Sheldon knew how smart Merlin was, and his tone became more energetic. He raised his hand and made it into a ball, "Suppose I have an apple in my hand right now."

In fact, he had nothing in his hands.

"There is an apple in my hand, but this apple has been eaten by me in the past." Sheldon said, "Looking back in time may cause an obvious fault. Everything has its cause and result.

.”

Because you eat this apple, the apple is digested from your stomach, so the apple no longer exists in front of you.

If your current self holds an apple in your hand, and your future self goes back in time and snatches and eats the apple in your so-called "past" self's hand, will you still have this apple in your hand now?

"This is a question worth thinking about." Sheldon murmured, "It's so interesting, isn't it?"

"This is related to the cause and effect of something. You may not understand it now, but you should be able to understand it later." In Merlin's sea of ​​consciousness, Nightmare listened silently, and at the same time, he softly reminded the somewhat confused Marquez.

Cheating time may be cheating cause and effect. This concept is too ethereal, we might as well break it apart.

"Merlin, can you still understand what I'm saying?" Sheldon felt that Merlin's expression was getting duller, so he asked him with a smile.

Suddenly, Merlin's eyes were filled with an illusory deep blue. Then, he was stunned for a moment, then calmly turned his head and whispered: "Maybe, but I think this story is very interesting."

"Haha, okay then..." Sheldon still overestimated Merlin's understanding ability after all, "Then I'll continue talking."

Merlin must use his own understanding to think and separate. This is something that most people don't think of. They just do it blindly instead of looking for the crux.

What he wants to deceive is the past, present, and future.

So, how to deceive the past?

He hopes to found the Merlin Cult to carry out his first deception. He has gained the ability to go back in time, and the World Tree tells him that he can only affect the past indirectly, not directly.

That is to say, what has been done in the past and the current situation must be logically self-consistent. In other words, I can eat this apple, but if I can replace it with another apple, then it does not count as a direct impact. If

The consequences will be serious. The endless turbulence of time will wrap up Merlin and tear him into pieces, leaving him without a burial place. Of course, according to what World Tree said, he will naturally correct time and get everything back on track.

Merlin is very smart, not ordinary smart. He used his unique illusion to cover up the surrounding environment of the World Tree and transformed it into the appearance of a holy land. What is even more commendable is that he carved on the World Tree

He has not yet completed his research on the art of spiritual transformation of human beings, and suffixed it with his own name, making people think that it is a gift left to them by the World Tree, and hopes that future generations can continue to dig deeper.

This is the first lie to deceive time: a magic trick that appears out of thin air.

"Of course, this is just a story. No one should be able to go back in time. Of course I can't." Sheldon smiled and rubbed Merlin's head, "So, don't indulge in empty fantasies and be down-to-earth.

Doing everything well is the most important thing.”

"Well. So if...you could go back in time, what would be the first thing you think of?"

"Haha..." Sheldon's smile was tainted with a hint of bitterness, "I don't have anything I want to do."

"Ah? Don't you have anything to regret? Don't you want him to change back? If possible..." Merlin seemed a little unbelievable, so he continued to ask.

"Some things are meaningful even if they fail." Sheldon said softly, "If I really affected the past, I might not be able to face the scene after the change. Changes can be good or bad.

, I don’t need to take such a big risk to change anything. For me, having you now should be enough."

"Is what he said true?" Marquez asked the nightmare who was accompanying him.

"I don't have the ability to read minds." Nightmare's voice was stagnant, "Maybe...he is a good person."

"I want to see what life was like before. Without sophisticated magic instruments, they also created many miracles with their own hands." Sheldon paused for half a second and continued, "

So, let’s talk about Merlin’s second lie.”

Merlin, to be honest, does not have a 100% chance of winning this game, because the initiative is not with him. So he must do something more extraordinary, even if it violates a series of time laws. If

Everything is governed by the World Tree, which is no different from being manipulated alive.

Therefore, he used illusions to leave his [phantom] in the past, making them think that Merlin really existed. Although the shadow was very fragile and had little power, he could speak, he could think, and he had his own independent

Soul - You must know that an artificial soul is not so easy to create. You need to tear off a small piece of your own soul, then infuse it with huge magic power, and finally make it into an unstable aggregate, which is very easy to dissipate. He is in

Bet, he was betting that he could.

"This is a well-planned scam..." Sheldon said solemnly, "All scammers end badly in the end. Merlin is setting himself up for trouble."

But he was not afraid. He even endured this pain and worry. The tearing of the soul was no joke. The emptiness in the soul would haunt Merlin's brain day and night. Sometimes, he

He would yell inexplicably, saying that he was the biggest fool in the world, and sometimes, he would just sit quietly on the bench and cry silently.

"But...he never thought that he could be saved from the beginning to the end."

The will of the World Tree warned him that he had crossed the line. If he did something extraordinary again, he could not guarantee whether Merlin could survive this test.

After returning to the present, he found that the world he was in had not changed much. This just showed that his plan had worked, and the World Tree's little abacus seemed to be showing signs of collapse. He was now afraid and could not support himself.

Not until then.

But that's fine too.

"As for Merlin, who is under the wheel of history, what he does now has nothing to do with the past. Because he knows that he will eventually become history."

"So, he successfully deceived the past?" Merlin frowned slightly and questioned.

"Of course - no. All influences are indirect, not direct. He has to detonate all the foreshadowings he set before. I actually can't remember some details clearly... However, it can

An illusion lasting five to six hundred years, one to two thousand years, can only be performed by Merlin." Sheldon scratched his head in embarrassment, indicating that his memory was not that good.

But it's getting late. This story is very simple, but also very complicated. It's really hard to tell it all at once.

"Then, let me recall how Merlin deceived 'now'." Sheldon simply turned off the light and lay down with Merlin, "That's the end of today's story."

"Well, good night."
Chapter completed!