I Have A Super USB Drive Chapter 482: The Law of Causality

Chapter 482: The Law of Causality

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

By the ti Chen Chen returned to the battlefield, all the survivors had been cleaned up and even the corpses with gunshot wounds were piled into a tall heap, which was drenched with gasoline, then burned.

Not only that, but also the onlookers who were involved had their mories wiped, forgetting everything they saw. This was replaced by a new mory of the angel statues slaughtering the army.

“Sir Godfather, I’ve already dealt with everything here and I haven’t found any omissions.”

At this mont, Little X’s voice suddenly ca from the headset. Although Chen Chen had transford, his headset was still worn over his ears.

“Good. I’ve also gotten back my things.”

Chen Chen nodded and threw a blue, glowing dicine bottle and a USB flash drive to a Black Knight beside him. At the sa ti, he looked at the sky and suddenly said:

“Ti’s up.”

Following his words, Chen Chen’s body seed to be deflating and white mist began to pour out. Then the white mist beca more dense, even covering Chen Chen’s huge body.

In the next second, Chen Chen’s body shrank rapidly like a deflating ball and the exoskeleton of his entire body directly turned into powder, emitting an unpleasant sll of rot...

When the white mist dissipated again, Chen Chen had regained his previous size. On the surface of his body, there was still a layer of monster skin that was gradually dissolving.

“Sizzle...”

Chen Chen ca out of the decaying shell, naked, and he staggered on his feet. Two black knights imdiately supported him.

It was only then that they could see that Chen Chen’s body had changed from a muscular body to a skinny fra, just like a severely malnourished refugee who had not eaten for a few years.

Moreover, not only had his body beco emaciated, but all the hair on his body had disappeared.

He was like an insect that transford into a cocoon and turned into a butterfly. At this ti, Chen Chen was covered in new skin from top to bottom. This skin was smooth and delicate, as fragile as a baby’s.

However, no outsider would have seen all of this. The Black Knights that had been prepared imdiately put on a warm duvet over Chen Chen and then several of them carried Chen Chen into a black car and quickly drove away...

When the car left, the rest of the Black Knights also re-assud their invisible form, and turned and left the battlefield.

An hour later, Chen Chen returned to the Spire Experintal Base thousands of miles away via the Gantz sphere.

Chen Chen, upon his return to the base, imdiately received top-level dical services. Glucose and nutrients were channeled into Chen Chen’s body as if they were free. What Chen Chen had to do was to restore his body. Unlike ordinary people, with Chen Chen’s physique and the dical thods of the Spire Laboratory, it did not take long for Chen Chen to return to his peak state.

...

One day later, Chen Chen woke up hazily in the hospital bed.

He stretched lazily, looked around, and saw that he was now in an intensive care unit. The room was filled with dazzling tal walls. At the sa ti, there were several bunches of flowers set out before the bed, giving off a hint of fragrance.

The light was not turned on. Still, it was very warm and bright because a shaft of sunlight was shining in from the window. Chen Chen looked toward the source of light and gazed out of the window, and he could even see that outside, there was a huge park with hills and streams. Dozens of visitors walked slowly by, laughing among themselves.

If he kept quiet, Chen Chen could even hear the laughter from the group of visitors and the chirping of birds outside the window.

Seeing this scene, Chen Chen was not surprised because he knew that all this was not real. The so-called scenery outside the window was a kind of 3D holographic image, and the warm sunshine was nothing more than LED light that simulated the real sun.

This kind of light was invented by a genius scientist who was discovered by the Eco Science City. A long ti ago, humans had discovered that the natural light they perceived was the diffusion of the interaction between sunlight and other various particles in the air such as nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon dioxide.

Thus, this genius scientist used an LED floodlight to simulate the sun and at the sa ti, replaced the atmosphere with a layer of nano-material, reconstructing the Earth’s atmosphere over a distance of more than 10 kiloters to obtain a sunlight experience that was close to reality.

At this ti, in the scene outside the window, an additional optical system was added to enhance one’s depth perception. When soone stared at the LED light outside the window, no matter from what angle, they would see the sun hanging high in the sky. It could be passed off as the real thing.

Within ten seconds of Chen Chen’s awakening, Little X ca in through the door in a white dress. She swaggered to Chen Chen’s bed. “Sir Godfather, you’re awake. Do you need breakfast?”

“Bring it on.”

Chen Chen replied. After the mutation from the G-virus injection, his stomach was already unbearably hungry.

Little X imdiately obeyed. Then, she jumped up and sat down on the chair next to Chen Chen’s bed with her legs dangling and gently swaying. “Sir Godfather, there has been news from Northern Arica that all angel statues have been contained. The situation you were worried about will not happen anymore.”

“I hope so.”

Chen Chen shrugged indifferently. “I’m just afraid that it will leak out again in the future and cause an irreversible human crisis.”

“By the way, Keith’s dead body has been transported back.”

Little X said again, “Moreover, his body has been dissected, but nothing has been found.”

“That’s to be expected. I just had a hunch. If there were any abnormality, it ans there was a problem.”

Chen Chen waved his hand.

“Right...”

Little X said dubiously, “A guy who couldn’t be killed by four Black Knights even after being hunted for a day, yet he died so easily in the end. It does feel rather incongruous.”

Chen Chen showed a thoughtful look when he heard these words, and then said, “If my guess is correct, it’s because his ‘mission’ had been completed...”

“Mission?”

Little X blinked with so confusion. “You an his mission to deliver AD-001?”

“Yes.”

Chen Chen explained patiently to the increasingly anthropomorphic Little X, “You should know that there’s often such a rule in movies, that once soone becos the protagonist of the story, they will never die before the story ends.

“Everything about the protagonist represents the developnt of the story. Losing the protagonist ans that the story cannot go on. Until the end of the movie, when the protagonist loses the value of advancing the story, then they may die...”

Just when Chen Chen was talking about this, the door of the intensive care unit was opened again. A Black Knight pushed a dining cart in and parked it next to Chen Chen’s bed.

Chen Chen did not hesitate. He first picked up the bucket of milk and drank it in big gulps. After the bucket of milk was emptied, he grabbed the barbecued at and various high-calorie foods in the dining cart and swallowed them.

While eating, Chen Chen continued to speak, “Rember, in the movie Deadly Crisis: A Shocking Sche, the movie ends just as the protagonist hands the drug to the other party. This also ans that the protagonist isn’t needed to further advance the story, so the protagonist’s plot armor begins to disappear. Since the movie doesn’t say whether the protagonist is dead or alive at the end, then there’s a possibility of him being killed.”

Hearing Chen Chen’s explanation, Little X was a little stunned by the realization. “So that’s it...”

Then, she saw Chen Chen was still frowning, so she asked again, “Then Sir Godfather, why are you still frowning?”

“Because I’m thinking.”

Chen Chen swallowed a piece of butter and then pointed to his head. “I’m thinking about how the USB flash drive interferes with reality and causes the situation in the movie to reoccur in reality. This principle is very important and it may even involve a branch of science that’s more terrifying than s. No, it may have gone beyond the scientific system and now concerns the field of philosophy...

“Have you determined that the USB flash drive interfered with reality and caused the plot in the movie to happen, rather than the USB flash drive foreseeing the future and then influencing us to make the movie?”

Little X was a little puzzled about Chen Chen’s affirmation.

“Of course!”

Chen Chen replied without hesitation, “X, you know that we’ve obtained AD-001 and we’ve also unlocked the manufacturing process of the drug and can produce this drug at any ti. When Osmond’s drug hits the market, we can even sue them for stealing our technology. So, why should I pay so much attention to the drug produced by Osmond?”

“Because AD-001 isn’t important. What’s important is to understand the rules of the USB drive.”

Little X replied.

“Correct.”

Chen Chen affird. “The reason I want to kill Keith isn’t to vent my anger nor is it because I’m afraid that he’ll beco a dragon-slaying hero... Well, the second thing is a little true, but the most important thing is because I need to test whether I can kill him.

“According to the story of the movie I shot before, when Keith has already delivered the drug to Parker, the film ends. If even after that, I still cannot kill Keith due to various coincidences, then it ans one thing — Keith isn’t only the protagonist of the movie, he may also represent a more terrifying identity.

“This identity is difficult to explain, so let’s call it the ‘Dinsion’s Child’ for the ti being...

“According to the rules of fantasy, the Dinsion’s Child represents the will of the world and is loved and favored by heaven and Earth. In that case, he can’t be killed by any thod.

“Whereas according to the scientific view, the Dinsion’s Child represents the laws of the world. For example, the founding fathers of those unifying dynasties in ancient tis. After the great chaos of the world, there must be soone who can calm the troubled tis and stabilize the world. This was the law of human society in the Central Plains at that ti. Even if the first person fails, there’ll be a second and a third, and there’ll eventually be one person who succeeds...

“When this person is completely successful, just take a look at his life achievents and you’ll see that it’s as if the gods are gaming the system for his sake. He can’t be killed no matter what danger he encounters and he’ll finally succeed in his great cause.”

Having said this, Chen Chen swallowed the last bite of the food, with a look of rejoicing. “It’s just that at the beginning I wasn’t sure whether Keith was such a ‘Dinsion’s Child’ or not. It was not until I killed him, that I determined that he... Was not! Because how could the Dinsion’s Child be killed by so easily?

“Since Keith wasn’t the Dinsion’s Child, it naturally rules out the speculation of ‘the USB drive foreseeing reality and then influencing us to make the movie’. Then there’s only one conclusion — Keith’s existence and even everything that happened these days, was the result of the USB drive interfering directly with reality.”

“So, that’s it...”

Hearing Chen Chen’s explanation, Little X’s eyes lit up and she finally understood. “In other words, the USB drive is likely to have the power to control cause and effect?”

“That’s right.”

Chen Chen nodded. “In fact, before experiencing this incident, I still had so doubts about whether cause and effect existed. After all, I thought that a person only becos the Dinsion’s Child after having achieved sothing, not the other way around. But now, I’m certain that cause and effect are likely to exist...”

Speaking of this, Chen Chen’s eyes glowered with anticipation. “It can be said that this is a new ability of the USB flash drive that we’ve discovered after tics, which is different from conventional science and mysterious s. Rather, it’s a more obscure, abstract force, and for the ti being, we can define it as... The law of causality!”

Hearing Chen Chen’s summary, Little X imdiately clapped her hands, revealing a sudden burst of joy. “If you say that, then the USB flash drive’s specific manifestation of causality should be this — once the USB flash drive’s owner takes the initiative to film a movie, it’ll cause the story of the fild movie to appear in reality, right?”

“There’s another prerequisite, that is, the fild movie can be recognized by the USB flash drive.”

Chen Chen added. “And it doesn’t necessarily occur in reality. Didn’t you notice that Chronicle 2 didn’t occur in reality? So, when you write the screenplay, it’s best to be as close to the real world as possible...”

“If a movie made by the USB drive holder becos reality, then as long as we shoot a movie in which Blacklight Biotechnology unifies the world, doesn’t it an that we’re destined to rule the world?”

Little X asked again.

“We can try, but I don’t hope for much.”

Chen Chen shook his head and smiled bitterly. “You didn’t realize that we fild more than just Deadly Crisis: A Shocking Sche. Later, we also fild science fiction films such as Cancer Man and Immortal. But none of them succeeded. Why is that?

“Combined with everything that has happened in reality today, it’s very possible that Deadly Crisis: A Shocking Sche can be recognized by the USB flash drive because of the final open ending. Openness implies infinite possibilities and infinite possibilities represent infinite parallel universes. As for the extrely realistic Cancer Man and Immortal, they were discarded because the ending was too fixed.”

“Then, what’s the use of this rule?”

Hearing Chen Chen’s theory, Little X was dumbfounded.

“We can shoot movies to supplent a technology we urgently need, but it’s best not to have any major plot conflicts.”

Chen Chen resolutely said, “This is the experience I’ve learned from this incident. You should notice that to conform to the reoccurrence of the plot in the movie, there were first the angel statues and then the Northern Arican army. I almost died thanks to all this. All of this was not shown in the movie... This is the ‘backlash’ of the U disk.”

“In other words, this thod of filming movies isn’t only a shortcut but also a double-edged sword. If we use it well, things can progress smoothly, but if it’s not used well, human civilization may perish because of it...

“After all, the information that can be presented in a movie is limited. It’s impossible to show everything and the parts that aren’t presented could an life or death or even more infinite possibilities...”