The "System" Forced a Camera Cut, Information Gathering, Objects of Overlapping Spacetimes!
For transmigrators like Ling Yi, making money is actually a very simple matter.
Ling Yi went directly to a gold shop and, under the guise of checking the gold bars, stored them in the space of the Infinite Resource Copy System.
After that, it's like having an unlimited supply of gold bars.
Then, I went to another gold shop and sold ten gold bars. It was that simple.
As for the identity issue, it can be solved through those "document forgery" advertisements.
"I never imagined there were so many Daodao involved!" Yang Jinli, who emerged from a small alley, had an expression on her face that said, "I've learned something new."
At this moment, they all have their own ID cards, and they are real ID cards that couldn't be more real.
"Snakes have their paths, rats have theirs. These people must have some skills to have survived!" Ling Yi said casually.
Next, the two used the new documents to buy a mobile phone and get a SIM card. Then, they booked a top-tier suite at the only Star Grade hotel in Dafeng City.
Meanwhile, in a restaurant in South Shanghai, Chichi looked at Wang Lei, who had just sat down in front of him, with a completely bewildered expression.
"Haha, are you surprised? Are you not?" Wang Lei laughed loudly.
"No, brother, how did you find me?" Chichi asked after swallowing the rib in his mouth.
"Just use points!"
"Spend points?"
"I redeemed Will, the AI program from the Transcendence Matrix!" Wang Lei explained.
" Will? Isn't that the Protagonist?"
"That's right. His consciousness was uploaded to the Quantum server, and he became artificial intelligence, or rather, artificial life, which naturally allows him to exchange for it."
Chichi glanced at the redemption list on the system interface, his eyes widening in disbelief. "Thirteen thousand points? That's way too expensive!"
"It is indeed a bit expensive!" Wang Lei nodded; he was also pained by the thought of spending over 10,000 points.
"We know absolutely nothing about this world. Although it's a sequel to the 2012 movie, it's neither a sequel nor a prequel."
Chichi nodded. "Indeed, this world is in 2024, and it's quite obvious that the apocalypse didn't happen in this world."
"So, this world is either Parallel World to 2012, or something happened that caused nothing to happen in 2012," Wang Lei said.
"Moreover, this is a modern world, and a modern world without any Transcendent powers, so the role that an intelligent life form can play is enormous."
"Yes, you're right. Will would be a god in this world."
"What do you think of this main quest?" Chichi asked instead of dwelling on the points issue.
"This is a series of missions!" Wang Lei said, tapping the table.
"The search for the lost Mona Lisa's Smile, literally speaking, should first mean finding the painting itself Mona Lisa's Smile."
"I just don't know whether we need to find the original or Copy. If it's just Copy, that's easier to handle. There's an exhibition hall in South Shanghai that has Copy of this painting on display."
"But if it's genuine, then we're in trouble; we might have to go abroad."
Which do you think is more likely?
"I don't think it's useful. Let's go to the exhibition hall and take a look first!"
Chichi wiped his mouth with a napkin, stood up, and said, "Then what are we waiting for? Let's go!"
The two left the hotel and headed straight for the South Shanghai Art Exhibition Hall.
Chichi's hometown is South Shanghai, so he is very familiar with South Shanghai.
In less than ten minutes, the two walked through several alleys and arrived at the South Shanghai Art Exhibition Hall.
After buying tickets and entering, the two inquired with the staff and headed straight for the Mona Lisa's Smile portrait.
But Wang Lei stopped as he passed a plaster statue.
This is a statue of a robust Western male, seated with his head down, his right elbow resting on his knee, and his fist on his chin.
"Isn't that the Thinker Statue? What's wrong with it?" Chichi asked.
"Don't you think this the Thinker Statue is strange?" Wang Lei asked.
Chichi circled the statue twice but couldn't see anything wrong with it.
What's strange about it?
"When we were in college, there was a the Thinker Statue in the art room. Our teacher made it specifically based on the original, one-to-one."
"Therefore, in a true the Thinker Statue, the fist should be on the forehead."
Chichi took out his phone and started searching for the Thinker Statue online, but the results made Chichi raise an eyebrow!
" The Thinker Statue does indeed look like this, but many people online say that the Thinker's fist should be on his forehead, not his chin."
As he spoke, Chichi handed over his phone.
After quickly glancing at it, Wang Lei frowned and asked, " The Mandela Effect?"
"That's exactly what's said online." Chichi nodded.
" The Mandela Effect refers to large-scale collective memory distortion events. There are many such cases in the real world, such as the Thrusting of President Emmanuel Macron."
"I know, wasn't he shot and killed by a sniper in the car? I remember there's that video online."
"That's the scary part. Even in my memory, it was like that, but in reality, this young commander was shot and killed in the theater, at close range—a single bullet to the head, killing him instantly!"
"There are related videos online; go back and search for them. As for the video we remember of Xiao Tong being shot in the car, it simply doesn't exist."
Chichi opened his mouth, and after a long while, he finally said, "Are you telling the truth?"
"What's even more terrifying is that, before 2020, people online were still discussing whether the car in which this young leader was shot was a four-seater or a six-seater!"
"Isn't it a four-seater?"
Wang Lei shook his head. "This is the Mandela Effect, and the Mandela Effect also has another name: the Time Correction Event."
According to the theory of time Correction, if one person's memory is faulty, it might be that person's problem; if everyone's memory is faulty, then it's a problem with the world.
"Has our world been Correction?"
"Perhaps, and quite possibly more than once!"
At this point, Wang Lei laughed and said, "Perhaps, we can find the answer in this world!"
"My God, I suddenly have a chill down my spine!"
"Unlike you, I'm actually very excited right now. Let's go see the Mona Lisa's Smile!"
The two bypassed the Thinker Statue and soon arrived in front of the Monna Lisa painting.
Because it was Copy, the painting was displayed very large, taking up almost half of the wall.
But when Chichi and Wang Lei saw the painting, they were both dumbfounded.
The Monna Lisa in the painting is not smiling; in fact, her expression looks quite sad.
His lips were tight, his gaze was slightly downward, and his face looked somewhat haggard.
Anyone who glances at her would sense that Monna Lisa must be deep in thought at this moment.
"Is this Mona Lisa's Smile? Or is it Monna Lisa's sorrow?"
Just then, an elderly man wearing a round hat walked over and said, "No, this is Mona Lisa's Smile. Doesn't it seem strange?"
"Hello, sir!" Wang Lei glanced at the old man and greeted him.
The old man nodded slightly. "In everyone's memory, Monna Lisa is smiling, but we can't find a smiling Monna Lisa; it's as if she never existed."
"But we all know it existed!"
"I vaguely heard you mention time Correction just now, but actually, it's not time Correction, but rather the Space-Time Overlap!"
At this point, the old man raised his hands and made a clasping motion in the air.
"It's like two extremely similar Space-Time Overlap, just like the world inside a mirror and the world outside the mirror are directly overlapped."
Time, space, the entire universe, everything, overlap!
"But these are, after all, two different time periods, and there will always be a slight difference, which is why Mona Lisa's Smile disappeared."
Wang Lei and Chichi exchanged a glance, but neither of them spoke, because the old man clearly had more to say.
"And things like the Monna Lisa and the Thinker Statue you just saw are objects where Space-Time Overlap!"
"They bear the shared imprint of two different timelines!"
At this point, the old man looked at Wang Lei and Chichi and asked, "To achieve the Space-Time Overlap, an important condition must be met. Do you know what it is?"
Chichi thought for a moment and said, "A mirror?"
The old man laughed and exclaimed, "Brilliant! To be precise, it should be called Mirror Image. These two spacetimes must be Mirror Space-Time."
Wang Lei asked, "Why not time-space Correction, such as someone being able to go back in time and change things, which would cause some deviations in our current timeline!"
The old man shook his head. "Time cannot be reversed. You must have heard of the banquet that Hawking hosted, inviting people from the future, right?"
Chichi and Wang Lei both nodded. Chichi had seen it by chance, while Wang Lei was interested in these things and had studied them specifically.
"No one attended that banquet, which means that people in the future could not exist, or that they were destroyed before humanity invented time travel."
Wang Lei disagreed, shaking his head and saying, "Perhaps, people from the future simply don't want to appear; after all, their existence means change."
Wang Lei spoke, he pointed to the Monna Lisa and said, "Just like this, that's change!"
"Time cannot be reversed!" the old man repeated.
He then added, "But time can be divided!"
Wang Lei immediately understood the old man's meaning and nodded, saying, "Sir, you mean, parallel universes?"
"It's Mirror Space-Time!" the old man corrected.
Seeing the puzzled expressions on Wang Lei and Chichi's faces, the old man raised both hands, one above the other, parallel to each other, palm to palm.
"Every change in the past creates a Mirror Space-Time. The past of those who invest in the Mirror Space-Time is changed again, and the branching Mirror Space-Time are the true parallel spacetimes."
The old man alternated between raising and lowering his hands.
"Like this, one positive and one negative, one positive and one negative, can you understand?"
Chichi and Wang Lei nodded. It's all the same to them, so it's not hard to understand.
The old man lowered his hands and said something that shocked both Chichi and Wang Lei.
"We humans have learned to Save the World by Space-Time Overlap with Mirror Space-Time. Do you really think nothing happened in 2012?"
"Unfortunately, this way of Save the World can only treat the symptoms, not the root cause," the old man sighed.
"Why do you say that?" Chichi asked.
But Wang Lei frowned in thought, and he roughly understood what the old man meant.
"It's like two patients, one in bad shape and the other slightly better. Even if they overlap, they're still patients."
"What if it's a healthy person?" Wang Lei asked.
The old man clapped his hands and exclaimed, "It's remarkable that you could think of that!"
"Unfortunately, the Overlap Loop of Mirror Space-Time is too short!"
Just then, the old man's cell phone vibrated in his pocket. He took out his phone, glanced at it, and his face immediately changed drastically.
He apologized to Wang Lei and Chichi, then Haste left, leaving the two of them staring at each other in bewilderment.