``` ["Why are you unwilling to let the original self in reality, who possesses the Simulator, glimpse more of the future?"]
[You had intended to ask, "Why is Li Ping probing into the simulation experiences?" But as your thoughts raced, you suppressed that impulse.]
[Too little return for the effort. Better to strike straight at the heart of the matter.]
[At your words, Li Ping fell silent again.]
[This time, his silence lasted even longer than before, as though he were repeatedly weighing the benefits and drawbacks on opposite ends of a scale. Clearly, his next answer carried enormous significance.]
[Finally, Li Ping broke the silence.]
[“Because there is a Higher-Dimensional Existence from [the future]!”]
[“A Higher-Dimensional Existence from [the future]?!”]
["[The future]?"]
[You voiced your questions through "Number One Other-Self," your tone betraying your confusion.]
["Since we already exist in a higher dimension, how can there still be boundaries between [the past], [the present], and [the future]?!"]
[Drawing on the knowledge of "Old Self" and the "True Scripture," you knew well that, under the logic of ordinary worlds,]
[[The River of Time] governed everything. It was the channel all lower-dimensional beings had to follow downstream.]
[At the higher-dimensional level, however, worlds were like sheets of paper, folded and rewritten at will. They should no longer have been bound by the concept of "time."]
["Not so!"]
[Li Ping's voice rang out again, carrying a detached certainty.]
["Though there is no passage of 'time' in a higher dimension, there are 'possibilities.' It is not that [the future] does not exist, but merely that it has yet to be witnessed and anchored!"]
[You only half understood and felt helpless, barely managing to grasp that Higher-Dimensional Existences also possessed the concept of [the future].]
[In an instant, your memories raced back to the