"And we Contract Anomalists are the ones who specialize in containing anomalies."
"Look at his injuries. He was wounded by an anomaly during containment."
Yue Wen waved his hand calmly. If not for the blood all over him and his missing arm, he would have looked no different from an ordinary person.
Even Chen Lisha felt that his resilience was extraordinary.
Afraid of scaring the newcomers, Weng Xu said, "Don't worry. As long as you're not dead, they're all minor injuries."
Yue Wen chuckled. "A mere fatal injury isn't worth mentioning."
"Where's the next stop again?" Weng Xu checked the Smart Brain, which contained a detailed map of all the train's stops.
"Azure Star 001, then Blue Star 000, and finally the terminal."
"Azure Star? Blue Star? Why do the names of those two worlds sound so similar?" Chen Lisha could not help asking.
"It's normal that you think so. In fact, most worlds are quite similar. Worlds that are close to each other share quite a few common traits. Some are even parallel worlds of a certain world, with identical names."
"When that happens, we assign them numbers. Whichever one is discovered first gets the earlier number."
"For example, Azure Star 001, 002, 003, 004. The first world discovered is numbered 001, because any one of them could be a parallel world or the main world. Only after confirming that it is the main world will its number become 000."
"So Blue Star is a confirmed main world? Is there any way to verify that?"
"Well..." Weng Xu scratched his head. "That's the kind of thing powerful Contract Anomalists have to handle."
At any rate, he had no idea what distinguished a main world from a parallel world, much less how to tell them apart.
It probably involved profound