? ? After hearing William's words, Serena and Carl, who were present, both looked at William with faces full of confusion.
"That's right. The fact that my father is even younger than I am is indeed a little strange. Heh heh."
! ! When the two women heard John Connor's self-mocking confirmation, their expressions became even more confused and astonished.
They had never seen or heard of anyone who was older than his own father. This was even more of a "Grandfather Paradox" than the Grandfather Paradox itself.
However, Serena's expression soon returned to normal, and she vaguely guessed what William was about to say.
"Heh heh." William chuckled softly before saying, "You and Skynet have a mutually dependent relationship.
"Once you die or never appear at all, Skynet will inevitably disappear. Conversely, if Skynet is destroyed, what do you think will happen to you?"
"I'll die... right?" John Connor said calmly.
"That is one possibility." William did not deny it. "You might die immediately in some accident, or suffer a fatal illness that leaves resuscitation unsuccessful."
Indeed.
Before William crossed over, he had watched a blogger in his original world, though he had forgotten the person's exact ID and name (Da Cong says it was from the movie).
But William remembered that the blogger had once said John Connor and Skynet were mutually dependent, and neither could exist without the other.
This also explained why, in Terminator: Dark Fate, after the Connor mother-and-son pair destroyed Cyberdyne Systems and prevented Judgment Day and Skynet from appearing, the young John Connor was still successfully assassinated.
Without Skynet, there would be no John Connor. No matter which timeline of which parallel universe it was, the error would be corrected automatically.
That was also why time travel, no matter when it took place,