Deceitful Game

Chapter 299 In the end, he was still alone.

Upon hearing this, Mingpo thought of something else.

He remembered that Ai Shiping and Gao Fan had just mentioned that... they had simultaneously traveled to the past and the future to fight.

However, there is a small problem.

Mingbo had specifically tested it... because of the existence of the "Absolute Sacred Timeline," there shouldn't be a situation where "a future deceiver returns to the present."

Only the deceivers of the "absolutely sacred timeline," that is, the "present," can use the power of time.

But Mingpo believed that Ai Shiping was absolutely infallible.

That can only mean one thing.

Those so-called "time travelers" who claim to have "returned from the future" are actually time travelers who "traveled from the present to the future but then canceled time travel"! This also explains something else...

That's why we need to fight in the "future".

The future is downstream of time... Urinating upstream can affect downstream, but defecating downstream will not affect upstream.

But the people who will fight in the future will not be just one or two, but a huge group of many!

The answer is simple: what they're actually collecting is the "answer"!

Just like those miners who burn through their chips using the "continuous mining mode," constantly using their brains to mine "Bitcoin Knowledge Coins," they travel to the future to determine "what impact changes made in the past will have in the distant future."

Just like a sniper needs a spotter.

Those who travel to the past to change history are actually uncertain about their own future.

The butterfly effect exists, but chaos theory is far too complex, and human society is an extremely chaotic system. Especially with the existence of unpredictable variables like con artists… over a sufficiently long period, no one knows what the future will look like if they press that button.

This reminded Mingpo of a little game... "Please Don't Touch".

To ensure that they are certain that their behavior is correct and needs protection, or that their behavior is wrong and needs to be corrected immediately, a sufficiently distant "observer" is needed.

The deceivers chose 2070 as the year.

Why this year was chosen, none of the three of them knew. But perhaps it didn't matter... all they needed was a clear future timeline as a reference.

However, as Gao Fan and Ai Shiping said... apart from the first corporate war, which was indeed a war between humans and charlatans, the subsequent corporate wars were essentially wars between charlatans themselves.

It is a war in which charlatans of different stances attack and kill each other!

This is not exactly an invasion, not quite a conquest, but it is not exactly plunder either.

To be honest... this does resemble a religious war.

People do everything in their power to destroy the ways of others in order to achieve their own "way".

So, in order to prevent the enemy from changing the past, one way is to change the past; but if that's not possible, changing the future is also an option. As long as the future is changed at some point before 2070, then the future "interpreters" and "observers" will see the fabricated false information!

For example, a deceitful organization might hope to completely eradicate a certain nation from history.

Their strength was too great, and there were too many high-level Deceivers, so much so that when they banded together, any other Deceivers who went near them would die, and they simply could not engage in a direct confrontation.

So when they go back in time and do something...

If, through the "final observation" in 2070, it is found that "this nation has been completely destroyed."

They will then believe that they have already succeeded.

However, it is possible that this will actually happen between 2026 and 2070... say, in 2050.

The deceivers who arrived in that year launched a massacre, destroying this race from the more recent future.

Even if it is not completely extinct "now", it may just be an ongoing process, since extinction is already certain in the future, so the purpose is distorted.

Although they could send another person back once they realized they'd been tricked...

However, if enough people try to alter history within a given period of time... or rather, if enough people cause trouble, then those who change history will be unable to determine the effect of their actions.

All he could do was kill!

Kill all those who are not on the same path and who deceive the world!

That's how wars start.

They can even look up information in the future to determine "what happened at this moment in history," and then immediately go back to the past to make changes. Although the limit of the deceivers' ability to change the past is their own lifespan.

But can an eighty-year-old really change the past of seventy or eighty years ago?

They dare not.

A slight change could prevent the birth of one's younger siblings, sons, or daughters, or prevent one from ever meeting their lover again... and might even lead to one becoming a paradox.

Therefore, they will try to choose more recent history to modify, which increases the importance of the observer.

The problem is that this makes the "junior seniors" unhappy.

For the veterans, this "later, less important time" is precisely the important time they cherish!

This is the truth behind the Second Corporate War.

In a sense, it is a struggle between the younger and older factions.

And it's clear that the younger generation won in the end.

This is probably why the world has become a form of ultimate capitalism.

...But, does this really count as a victory?

In terms of stability, society has indeed stabilized. With the constraints of the collar system, the deceivers no longer recklessly alter things as they did before, and at least spacetime is no longer chaotic.

But now, the people of Nest City have even lost their human rights, the people of Central are doing everything they can to survive, and even the Celestial Dragons on the Spire have been raised to be innocent and harmless lambs... Even the board of directors of the eight giants is firmly controlled by the "Board Office".

Everyone is suffering setbacks.

Compared to the previous world, I don't see what's better about it.

But if you ask someone who lived through that era of deception if they would like to go back,

He might not be willing either.

Because he lived through that most insane era of war. He knows the devastation unchecked by unbridled charlatans, so he might be willing to accept the present evil in order to maintain the collar system.

When the war began, Pandora's box was already opened.

"Aper," Ai Shiping said, somewhat bewildered, "do you think... our resistance is meaningful?"

"What exactly is the problem? Is it the excessive power held by the deceivers? Or is it the unpredictable nature of human nature?"

"Both are possible, that's the answer."

Mingpo answered without hesitation: "But I know there's something that's definitely wrong."

"That's the game of deception itself!"

"...We all know that too."

Ai Shiping was also somewhat helpless: "But what can we do? This is the mechanism of this world... It's the 'mechanism of the world' that has existed since ancient times, since the primitive era when humans were still alive, and even before that."

"What's wrong?"

Mingpo countered, "Do you think that if a bug can't be fixed, then it's considered a system mechanism?"

"Although from a politically correct point of view, this is not good... but from a factual point of view," Gao Fan also smiled wryly and nodded slowly, "I think so."

"If a bug is not just 'unfixable in the short term,' but 'inevitably unfixable,' then it can only be a systemic issue. Even if it wasn't before, it is now."

Mingpo stared intently at Ai Shiping, as if she were meeting him for the first time.

He suddenly understood why Ai Shiping and Gao Fan were so dejected.

His death was indeed an unavoidable factor...

But more importantly, they were exhausted.

Those who survived the war had only one thought in mind: "End the war."

Although they feel that the world is wrong and their sense of morality and justice makes them disgusted with the current corrupt world... they probably don't have much strength left to resist the new order and bring about new wars.

Mingpo certainly didn't experience what they went through, so he has no right to say anything.

only………

Mingpo suddenly felt a little lonely.

...In the end, I was still all alone.