Star Empire

"...the decay of arcane energy from the void to the world of order is showing an increasing trend? When did this start?"

"A few days before this achievement was achieved, there were already certain subtle changes. However, the arcane radiation curve has not had an absolutely stable fluctuation pattern during these months of monitoring. But in the recent period, While the arcane radiation curve is showing a growth trend, the growth rate has also begun to rise, and its degree has begun to exceed the regular value - we have never observed a similar graph before."

"Zhai Cahir, can your information vision clearly see the possible reasons for this?"

"...It's hard to explain. There are only some very weak fluctuations that can only be slightly detected, and they are almost impossible to classify."

Zhai Cahir frowned, "I don't have the ability to directly perceive what is happening in the void, but near the natural arcane energy field on the world barrier, I feel that something... I should say something may have happened. changes, but none of the devices could recognize them - and I didn’t feel that there was anything unusual about it.”

"Perhaps this is also a normal phenomenon? It's just that we haven't discovered it before—?"

Before Vidoville could finish his guess, an emperor-level communication request instantly diverted his attention. Weisrifan's voice rang out from Vidoville's mind: "I just felt something coming from the depths of my soul. With weak vibrations, the "soul of the world" seemed to be active for a short time, and then fell silent again."

"……What?"

"Your Majesty, I am Ikarim. The mapping connection between the heart of the world and the universe itself has strengthened."

"The Empire Network reported that the output of the crystal energy reactor began to increase for unknown reasons, and the activity of all stars in the universe increased slightly..."

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"So, who has any inferences or more reasonable guesses about the reasons for this series of events?" In the center of the brilliant galaxy in the universe, in the space city filled with the light of golden crystal energy, Victorville looked at being called back for a meeting High-level individuals - except for Ikarim, because according to the report submitted, he believes that this is the best opportunity to observe the heart of the world and the operation of the current world. At this moment, he is still commanding countless crystal energy field generators. , and there are a large number of mathematical rate calculation arrays running around in the universe, hoping to catch the "heart of the world" that is constantly jumping.

However, there is a slight imbalance in places such as the newly built colonial space city - the previous inexplicable information stimulation destroyed the balance of countless stars.

Perhaps due to the intervention of the empire, the overall environment of this world seems to have become a bit extreme - certain "arcane stars" that are flashing with lavender light and are disturbed from the beginning of the world are caused by "arcane stars" that should not appear in theory. Coronal outbursts also caused some disturbances for a time - these coronal outbursts are even irregular in a small area. However, according to the existing observation records, which correspond to almost half of the universe, it seems that most of them are truly "catastrophic level". "The star corona disasters seem to be far away from the core area of ​​​​the empire's activities.

In order to resist the relevant effects, all space facilities, including spaceships, space cities and other things, have turned on the strength of the crystal energy shield to the maximum - the newly built fleet is in much better condition, but the shield generator on the space city is absolutely Most are still old models. True military-grade shields like the "Immortal-class A1" fortress battleship, which can neutralize anti-phased attack information and completely ignore physical-grade solidified information, have not yet been fully popularized.

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"...According to my observations, the intensity of the decay of the void into the world of order has increased, the activity of the heart of the world has increased, and the activity of stars has increased...During this period, I compared all relevant models and thinking circuits...these events It can be attributed to a relatively similar phenomenon... Chief Cavinriel once used that phenomenon to describe the crystal energy vortex - Genesis, but it is just different levels and different degrees." Zhai Cahir held his chin and relaxed Xu said.

"...It sounds like it's something we can't handle yet..." Vidoville shook his head, "Do you have any clues about the source of the influence?"

"It can only come from the distant void, at least around us... there is no source, and the radar has no response."

Zhai Cahir shook his head, "At present, there are no other worlds of order within the range that the void radar can clearly scan, and in our world of order, whether it is crystal energy, arcane magic, or the world itself, other The levels are all equal or approximately equal, and it is impossible for them to directly bypass other existences of the same level to play this role without external operations."

"Um... By the way, Weisrifan, are you sure you really want to keep that strange world soul in your soul?"

"Well, I have always thanked Vidoville for your concern in this regard... But I'm afraid I really can't separate it anymore... When I relied on the soul of the world to control the world fragment environment, I had already established a relationship with it. A very deep connection, and therefore I did not strengthen my life form, but relied on the soul of this world as a "buffer zone" to correct my own information structure..."

Weisruifan shook his head, "If I am forcibly separated and survive in this environment full of high-frequency crystal energy, I will probably turn into a citrine sculpture soon... Oh, by the way, I want to take the arcane path and It’s not that I have my own way, maybe I was... But after integrating this strange and huge information body, I also gained mathematical-level information matching capabilities. I have a hunch that my choice will be correct." The Queen sighed softly. He took a breath and said, "I hesitated a little bit, but now it seems like this is more of a one-way street."

"...In this case, there is really no other way. I believe that our civilization is now capable of solving most of the problems related to research. The point is Lil, can you still ensure that you are controllable?" Victorville He asked seriously, "This question... I know that maybe I shouldn't raise it inappropriately. You and I have the same authority. I have no right to forcefully interfere with your thoughts and actions, but if there is an uncontrollable situation with the authority of the emperor..."

"If it really gets out of control... I hope you will be able to kill me... After all, I don't have any unique power here."

"..."

"Forget it, everything is waiting to be done now, and civilization is booming first. This is completely contradictory. It is completely unnecessary and meaningless for me to mention this. This is my fault. Then Zhai Cahir's research has also made great progress. Pretty good progress, Li'er... try to reorganize your original body to a high-level state as soon as possible. Without the buffer of the World Soul, your original body is too fragile in the current environment."

"Understood." Wei Ruifan nodded, "By the way, Zhai Cahir, I will give you another task. Victorville, please also pay attention. The current network... the highest level authority seems to be unable to be handed over. Once again, If something goes wrong, the unplaceable air authority will block the operation of the empire, just like the position once occupied by the arbiter. Even if the impact is usually small, once a serious situation is encountered, the lack of the highest authority will have consequences... It’s self-evident.”

"Yes... Your Majesty, but I must make it clear to you first." Zhai Cahir stood up, "The underlying protocol constraints at the highest authority level were determined and completely sealed when the empire was reorganized in the Annals of Exile. Unless the entire network is restored, It was completely destroyed by the death wave like before, otherwise I would not have the ability to modify it, and the network's own authority level had been lowered when the operation gap appeared, so the handover of the highest authority... I can only consider practical modification measures from your perspective.”

"These are not too many problems. The problems must be solved step by step. First..."

Before Vidoville finished speaking, the space city's AI issued a warning: the entire universe was abnormal, all macroscopic material structures stopped operating, and all information changing activities stopped.

"What? The universe has stopped?" Vidoville waved his hand gently, and the golden walls around the entire space city instantly became like a water curtain, disappearing from everyone's sight, superimposed on the superimposed waves all over the universe. The anomalies of the universe are clearly visible in the super-dimensional vision formed by the network of various detectors:

The entire universe seemed to have turned into a still photo.

As the main body of matter in the universe, all massive stars that are still waiting for gravitational reorganization and fusion and only rudimentary galaxy structures have stopped moving, all galaxy cantilevers have stopped, and the hydrogen jets formed by the star-making movement have also solidified. , the blazing prominences released from the surface of the adult star were directly frozen... This strange phenomenon spread throughout the universe in an instant.

Under a normal physical environment, once a moving object loses its speed, gravity will immediately take over and pull everything involved, squeezing these various materials into a dense star and ejecting a large amount of them. Uncooperative substances.

But now, none of this has happened. The planet just stays in space quietly without making any changes. If you look at the microscopic level, you will find that no matter what scale you go to, everything is the same, even energy. The most microscopic quantum traced by conventional physical means has also lost its uncertainty. It is smaller than quantum and grander than the universe. In the endless information field, everything is still.

"... I guess in such an environment, we can step into the same river countless times... Ikarim! What did you do over there?" After a slight pause, Vidoville's shouts spread all over the place. The entire network of spiritual connections.

"Your Majesty! My team and I have captured information that is entangled!"

"...???"

After the perpetual clock counted for five minutes, most of the attention of the empire's top officials gathered in Ikarim's testing ground, as well as the curious attention of everyone in the entire universe.

"Fortunately, the high level of crystal energy allows our development trend line to not depend on the local timeline of any ordered universe. If we had done this during the Origin Era, after Ikarim closed the Heart of the World, We can only stagnate until the end of the world comes." Vidoville sighed a little, "Ikarim, where is the heart of the world?"

"There." Ikarim transmitted a set of coordinates, and Vidoville immediately saw the heart of the world at this moment: a bright prominence above a huge blue star that had completely stopped moving. Caught tightly by the crystal energy binding field, against the background that everything has completely stopped moving, the prominence that seems to be constantly beating and struggling is particularly noticeable.

"I have to say that this is completely lucky. The Heart of the World seems to be inseparable from the entire universe, or the development of the world. When the connection reaction was enhanced, I once tried to analyze those strange bright lines. Although those bright lines seemed It is weak, but it is actually a communication connection with a very huge bandwidth. Every flash represents the flow of countless information. When capturing it, even the mathematical rate core cannot match the calculation speed of the Heart of the World - —Even though we are constantly invading and occupying the structure of the universe through our own equipment, and on the other hand we are chasing and intercepting it through a large number of crystal energy field generators, but in the end this is still a coincidence... As for the direct phenomenon, it is indeed like yours This is what we see.”

"Speaking of using mathematical rate cores to squeeze out the structure of the universe... I know that mathematical rate cores are fundamentally different from conventional electronics and quantum computers. Is it possible that before reaching a level where information can be manipulated, the existence of the heart of the world will be revealed Wait until you know something?" Vidoville asked.

"Impossible, absolutely impossible. This is a qualitative issue. Quantitative modifications are impossible no matter what."

As soon as Vidoville finished asking, Ikarim shook his head like a rattle: "The biggest difference between the mathematical rate core and conventional computers is that the mathematical rate core no longer borrows various logic gates, but directly uses the chaotic environment to Match the fuzzy information, and then refine the matching to a certain extent to finally perform the operation. In other words, during its working process, most of the media are in a chaotic state. Chaos matching and fuzzy processing, these two A point is equivalent to subtracting a conceptual infinity from the calculation amount of the tasks to be processed by our calculation processing center...The gap between the two is like a surface no matter how large it is, it cannot fill a space."

"Perhaps...I'm a little bit absolute. After all, this is not absolute infinity in the true sense, but..." After a slight pause, Ikarim said slowly, "A conventional computer can reach this level of calculation. In terms of order of magnitude, the number will be so big that it needs to be processed many times using an iterative algorithm, and the super-large numbers after multiple iterations are very likely to be basic calculations with a low-level to insignificant... Let me put it bluntly, if you use If the old scientific notation method is used to calculate by writing zero, counting from the moment of the birth of the universe, writing a zero for every smallest unit of time until the end of the universe calculated in the tenth theory may not be enough to fill in the modifiers. The number of digits required. It’s an absolute world of difference.”

"The expansion from chaos to single precision is indeed a process that is so terrifying that it is unimaginable..." Vidoville thought for a moment and understood what such a large order of magnitude difference means to a civilization that has not reached the level of information operation. He stopped asking about this matter, "So, what is the connection between the heart of the world and the "mature and developed" world?"

"We still need to explore more details... However, based on the information I intercepted from those bright lines, as well as the impact of the unknown Σ creation on the world... I may be able to confirm the following: point."

"The Heart of the World is the epitome of the entire macro-order world. We don't know the reasons for the birth of the Heart of the World and the formation process. However, based on all the information currently available to us, there is a speculation worthy of detailed study: the Heart of the World is in every world. There should be existence among them, at least there are existences of similar nature to occupy such a position."

"Every bright line in the heart of the world that can only appear under the information state is an information line. It is related to all sections of the entire world, including time, development, history, and possibly the underlying structure that we cannot fully reveal. Inseparable. According to speculation, the heart of the world is a model of the world, but this model is not built according to the structure of the world. On the contrary, it is a mirror image of the actual structure of the entire world, and they can interfere with the operation of the entire macro-order world. ."

"If you say so, then wouldn't it mean to us..."

"If we can do it... yes, it will be a very convenient springboard for overall universe operations, as long as we have enough computing power." Ikarim nodded, "It is very likely in the future." "Nature" will all be converted into products that can be mass-produced, and every "nature" will be under precise computational control."