Fantasies That Descend on Collapse

Chapter 34 I hope the content of this chapter will not cause disputes...

This is a very special meeting for Walter Yang and Josh Aam.

The atmosphere of the meeting was not as oppressive as when I first met with the bishop, nor was it as comfortable as talking with my friends in the past.

This is a conversation that should be extremely special and important to him, and it is also a conversation that may not be repeated after being missed.

"..."

Thinking of this, he just took a deep breath, and then slowly moved his gaze from the table in front of the other party facing himself to the other party's familiar appearance to him.

The familiar appearance, the calm eyes and the gentle demeanor even without a smile made Yang at this moment not as calm as he appeared on the surface.

He was suddenly a little thankful that he had chosen the open terrace of the me agency for this meeting. If he had changed the place, he might have been sweating profusely because of being too nervous.

Thinking of this, Yang subconsciously stretched out his hand to straighten his not-so-messy collar, and then announced the beginning of the meeting between the two with a greeting that seemed a little clumsy compared to before.

"Good evening, sorry to keep you waiting so long..."

"Ah...it's okay, I just waited for a while."

The question and answer between the two was so dull that there was no special feature, and if it was carried out according to the planned process, perhaps Yang should take advantage of the situation and ask the other party the question that has puzzled him for a long time since the last meeting.

But when it came time for him to put it into practice, he didn't know how to speak.

It's as if you memorize the script you need to recite on stage behind the scenes, but you become unable to speak when you are on stage.

After falling silent, he just covered his mouth with his hand that he couldn't continue the topic at the moment, and then began to spread his thoughts.

I don't know how to start the topic, I don't know how to ask questions, I don't know how to face the other party.

Concentrating all his thinking on these three questions, he couldn't help being a little distracted, and it wasn't until a moment before he realized what he had done.

The sudden silence in the middle of the conversation and the fact that he was distracted for a long time, no matter who he is, he will be angry and annoyed by it.

Thinking of the consequences of his behavior, Yang Cai suddenly put down his palm covering his mouth, looked at the other party, and thought in his heart how to apologize for what he had done earlier. Faux pas.

And what he saw next made him understand that he just made another wrong judgment.

Without the annoyance that I had guessed in my association, the other party was still as calm as at the beginning, and at the same time mixed with a little bit of gentleness that was hard to find.

It was as if a stable elder was watching and staring at his junior who seemed too immature.

Just like before...

The scene in his eyes gradually coincided with his memory, and Yang, who was obedient to his own heart in an instant, just opened his mouth to propose the invitation that had been preserved in his memory for a long time as usual.

"Another game of...chess, Mr. Planck?"

The invitation from the heart was fleeting, and he didn't regret it until he caught a glimpse of the other party's slightly surprised expression.

And what he heard next was the third surprise that he hadn't expected during this conversation.

"Of course, Joachim."

The unexpected answer, the unexpected address, accompanied by the two, was the smile that should already be in his memory for him.

There is no surprise at all, after all, it is not for this reason that I choose to initiate this meeting, isn't it?

Yang, who had come to his senses, did not show his first smile in this meeting until now.

"But let me explain in advance, I only know the rules of chess, so there should be no problem, right?"

"No... no problem, really..."

"Thank you very much..."

------

"Ah, the general."

The plain words were accompanied by the movement of the queen. This chess game that was born between the two due to an accident finally came to a winner.

"Well, then, is there anything else to do, Mr. Walter?"

Looking at Yang who was sitting opposite him, who was still staring at the chessboard in silence until now, Luo Chen just adjusted his sitting posture a little bit, then watched with a light smile at the slightly lowered head, as if he was still thinking about it until now. The opponent in the chess game.

"..."

Yang, who was so questioned, did not give a due reply, nor did he make a due statement. He moved silently and placed all the black and white chess pieces on the chessboard in the correct positions.

After a while, he slowly raised his head, and then spoke.

"I would like to ask you what the information you disclosed to me was for... Ah, no, these are not important..."

Suddenly, he seemed to realize something, and he denied the question he had raised before, and did not continue until after a little thought.

"Can you tell me, who are you...?"

The previous short and equal match allowed him to calm down his nervousness, and at the same time, it also allowed him to clearly sort out the questions he wanted to know the answer to.

There are many questions, but most of them seem too trivial, and after eliminating all unnecessary questions, there is only one answer he wants to know.

The previous experience allowed Yang to get the answer that the other party was not completely hostile, but other than that, he knew nothing.

As long as the other party's true identity is known, all questions can be answered on this basis.

But the premise is that the other party must be willing to answer this question.

"..."

Looking at Yang Shi who was sitting opposite him with a very serious expression, Luo Chen suddenly felt a little regretful, why did he make such a fuss at the beginning.

Back then, I was able to reveal this information to the other party without fear, which was entirely based on the premise that the two of them would never meet in this situation in the future.

But what Luochen didn't expect at all was that, in his opinion, this should be completely impossible to come to the world, and it would come so quickly.

"So, who do you think... who am I?"

After contemplating for a while but unable to decide how to answer the other party, Luo Chen could only be distressed, and then threw another question to the other party who was waiting for the answer.

"No, I can't guess."

Facing the question that came back to him again, the answer Yang gave was an irrefutable denial.

"I don't know your real identity, I don't know where you come from, and I don't know why you look like this."

"If you can't tell me your real identity for some reason, then please explain your purpose of getting close to Einstein and Tesla."

"The previous contact let me know that you are not completely hostile to us, but approaching without any purpose is almost impossible in my opinion..."

Speaking of this, Yang stretched out his hand to caress his glasses that had slipped off the bridge of his nose.

"So your answer may affect our future... conversation style."

Undoubtedly, this may be Yang's last warning, if he chooses to remain silent or gives an unreasonable explanation...

But that explanation...will the other party really choose to believe it...

"..."

Facing the question from the other party that could almost be said to be an ultimatum, Luo Chen just thought in silence, and the anxiety and distress that gradually emerged made him bite his lower lip with his teeth. .

The short period of time seems a bit too long in such a depressing atmosphere, and the two people in this short and long period of time are both under different pressures from each other.

"Okay, but I hope that you can believe the explanation I gave..."

The long and short time finally came to an end, and after giving such a compromise answer, Luo Chen just straightened his sitting posture, with a tired expression on his face.

"Mr. Walter, have you ever heard the saying, 'The world is a chessboard'?"

"checkerboard?"

Yang, who caught the words in the opponent's words, just glanced at the chessboard on the table, and then returned to the opponent again.

He didn't understand why Luo Chen mentioned this word that had almost nothing to do with the answer at this moment.

"Yeah, the world is a chessboard."

"And even if it is a chaotic chess game, after the end, there will still be a game record that matches it."

Luo Chen said so, and then moved the chess pieces on the chess record with his hands. With the throwing and moving of the black and white backgammon, the white king on the chessboard finally showed a tendency to checkmate.

"See, Mr. Walter, the beginning of the chess game represents the beginning of the world, and the end of the chess game represents the end of the world."

"At this time, you and I who have completely read this chess game are the observers of this chess game."

"Wait, are you trying to say...?"

Yang, who heard the other party's explanation, combined with the information the other party had given him, he inexplicably thought of a possibility.

A wildly daring, utterly absurd, but all too plausible possibility.

Well, the other party is actually...

"I used to...Because of some unexpected factors, I observed the direction of this world and became an observer of this world."

Although he had already guessed this result, after hearing the affirmative answer from the other party, even he, who had a special experience more than ten years ago, faced the person sitting opposite him with calm emotions. Someone with the same appearance as that one.

But soon, he discovered that the answer given by the other party was the most fatal flaw.

"Then how do you explain why you, as an observer, appear here?"

"All an observer can do is observe the direction of the world, but cannot change the direction that has already been set."

Ignoring Yang's question, Luo Chen just explained on his own, and at the same time pointed his finger at the chessboard that fell into the end.

"No matter what method is used to obtain these messages, no matter where they are viewed from, and no matter what the direction of the world will be, all the observer can do is just watch."

"But now, because of one accident, I became another accident."

As he spoke, he just reached out and took out a white pawn from among the chess pieces he had taken from the side, and placed it on the chessboard.

"Now I am this white soldier, a participant in this world."

"...?"

"As an intermediary, I cannot change what has happened in the past, but I can change or what will happen in the future."

Luo Chen, who had explained to this point, just moved the white pawn that represented him, and then put another white pawn that had left the field back into the board.

"But after I made this move, I can no longer see what kind of changes will happen in this world after this."

"Now I am equal to all of you, I will be hurt, I will die..."

"I don't know if people who will die in the future will die again now, and I don't know if people who will live in the future will still be alive today."