Xiao Xue, who was now by my side, was not actually a real existence. Her current state was merely an aggregate of information—self-consistent, complete, and precisely expressed information of various kinds combined according to certain rules, forming a phantom called "Xiao Xue" that looked no different from a physical entity. Yet she herself still did not exist in this spacetime. All the information needed to compose her did not belong to the phantom itself, but was material she had "borrowed" from the current spacetime. It was like taking out a loan to buy a car, except when repayment came due, everything had to be returned. For the phantom Xiao Xue beside me, that due date was the moment the Void Cataclysm occurred. The essence of repayment was that her phantom body would break back down into the information units it had originally "borrowed."
Yet the dissolution of the phantom body would still leave something behind: information she had generated before dissolving, information that belonged to her—namely, all her memories. Those memories were not borrowed. They truly were the phantom body's own wealth—indeed, it could be said that they were the only things Xiao Xue truly possessed in this spacetime.
After the Void Cataclysm occurred, none of the memories and personality carried by the phantom body would disappear. Instead, they would advance along the Timeline and gradually merge with her true body. According to the two bear children's calculations, this merger would accompany Xiao Xue throughout her entire childhood and be completely finished when she turned seventeen. Seventeen-year-old Xiao Xue would then become an ultimate? true? profound? Super Bear Children, possessing a unique set of memories: inverted memories. The exact moment these memories took shape would be the instant she projected her phantom over here.
Of course, that was only the