Star Empire

"If we are ready, we can continue with the next work." The strange feeling around Kriz was instantly dispelled by these uncomplicated words - these words were said by His Majesty Weisrifan. Recognized her voice.

"...The next job?" Kriz felt a sense of coolness and pressure for no reason. This feeling seemed familiar, just...when he was studying courses with explosive information density!

However, Kriz's attention did not stay here for long. A larger and more conspicuous change attracted his perception - he had been tightly wrapped in a large, balled net, and this net wrapped himself around him. The tangled webs...are very similar to those glorious large-scale structures.

"The authority level has been determined, and the defense fleet directly responsible for the individual 16-2-20-xs4028 has been put in place."

"Follow the guidance, Kriz. You still have some things to learn, and you need to complete this part yourself."

Kriz nodded, and the seven figures in front of him left. The seven order fields surrounding them also turned into meteors and disappeared into the void. The countless eyes gathered here dispersed again, and the soldiers stationed on standby in the Lieyang Outer Ring Defense Circle breathed a sigh of relief, and everything in the daily environment returned to their eyes.

"It looks like I still have to go to class first..." Although the pressure caused by being watched by countless intelligent people has dissipated, Kriz is still not happy - it seems that he will attend the next class. .

…

"...Why...looks so crude?!"

Looking at the giant facility in front of him, even though Kriz had been prepared for it, the "extreme simplicity" of these things still surprised him.

"Well, the physical examination facilities are not protected by any outsourcing materials. All the components are directly exposed, and the noise is scary. Unfortunately, I still had good guesses about this "knowledge import port", but it turns out that this thing looks The style of painting is not as good as the similar equipment I saw in that decommissioned ship when I visited the ship before!"

Recalling the medical examination experience in which the huge ring that could spin tens of millions of times per second and was embedded with countless synapses, field generators and probes seemed to be photographed on his face again and again, Kriz couldn't help but shudder. Had a chill.

"Please understand, because the people who need to use them only require that they can perform the corresponding functions. Therefore, the purpose when building such equipment is that as long as the functions are fulfilled, everything else does not matter. Well... you need to modify it Does it look gentler?"

"I-" Kriz wanted to say something, but his words were suppressed.

"However, because these devices were not designed with appearance decoration factors in mind, their basis for modification in this regard tends to be zero. If you insist on modifying them, it is not impossible, but... it may take some time. .”

"...It's not necessary, as long as it can do what it's supposed to do." Kriz waved his hand in rejection. He looked around, at the huge stars arranged in an arc, and then at the plain and simple transparent crystal box in front of him, which was not much bigger than himself. It feels like you have to put up a tent in the corner of the palace to sleep.

"Oh." Kriz shook his head slightly, then jumped up and lay down.

"let's start."

"All equipment has been tested, all equipment is operating in good condition, and the interaction between equipment is good. The environmental conditions of the equipment are stable, and the monitoring system is operating normally."

"The indicators of individual 16-2-20-xs4028 are in line with the predicted expectations, and the fluctuation range is within the safe zone. Confirm that the individual indicators are within the normal range and you can start inputting information. All emergency thrust functional areas have entered the highest level of emergency response state."

"Confirmation - final preparations are completed, final inspections are completed, and information infusion can begin."

"Start pouring information in."

After receiving the command, the world line storage remote terminals fixed on an arc were activated. Countless records have been mobilized, and behind these metal giants, countless knowledge and data stored in the world are being quickly extracted.

The huge metal giant is just a terminal for external output, and behind the terminal is connected a complete world. Those worlds are world line storage banks - super memories that appeared many epochs ago when the empire just started to develop explosively.

To this day, its performance remains unparalleled. Over the eons, the empire has made a series of improvements to it, but these improvements have not touched the essence of the world line repository. Their role is only to improve the retrieval speed and retrieval accuracy of the repository.

A series of regular transparent windows began to appear in the outer shell of the metallic giant along the equator. Through these windows, the boiling flames inside the artificial celestial body could be seen. These flames flow out through transparent lenses, forming a bright brilliance that surrounds the planet in space near the celestial body.

Immediately afterwards, they condensed to form narrow and clear light pillars and illuminated the "crystal interaction cabin" at the center of the circle.

"Hiss—" The sudden influx of information made Kriz feel a little uncomfortable. However, the discomfort quickly dissipated. In a short period of time, my body adapted to this information perfusion method, and the perfusion system also adjusted the structure of the information flow based on the feedback.

With the coordination of both parties, the information flow connecting the two quickly entered a state of balance.

"Well...it seems that this technology cannot be abused casually. The consequences of casually using this technology causing individuals to lose the initiative to learn new things and accept different existences are relatively minor. The influx of such a large amount of information will It will inevitably impact the original basic structure of the individual. If used improperly, it is not impossible that the original personality will be directly destroyed..." Kriz read out part of the story, and the questions that had been lingering in his mind were solved. solved to a certain extent. But he still felt puzzled about the empire’s education system:

According to my understanding, in addition to the methods I have been exposed to, other ways the empire imparts knowledge to newborn children include but are not limited to using ancient paper, pen and ink, stone carvings and even oral transmission - the current density of knowledge and information in the empire They are so tall that the amount of information in one sentence can be put down in a library in other civilizations. This sentence is considered concise and clear.

I really can't imagine how such high-density information can be transmitted in those ways. If you really teach in that way, maybe tens of thousands of years will not be enough to complete the introduction of a course. This approach is really not some kind of Performance art...?

Faced with the impact of the flood of information, the first thing Kriz felt was confusion. But he knew that it didn't matter. He just needed some extra time to further summarize and organize the information.

After further adapting to this feeling, Kriz began to try to grab some content from the information flow to use as reading material to pass the time. I have to say, this feeling is amazing.

…

"Revolutionary ideas are taking shape"

"The way the world in the void determines its position in the form of "frequency" is considered by the empire to be not completely suitable for the current technological system of the empire. We have re-synthesized the existing frequency theory with the classic space-time position theory. In this aspect, the concept of There have been signs of progress a long time ago. The frequency theory is similar to the earliest concept of information unification. They were not deduced by Chinese scholars based on their own theoretical research. This has led to their continued deepening in our In the process of use, incompatibility gradually appeared.”

"...After the new comprehensive theory was established, by trying to synthesize these theories, we further determined the form and method of the world's impact in the void on the basis of the old theory. This research result explains the impact of the fault zone The reason for the mismatch between scope and point views of the world.”

"At the same time, this result can also better explain an ancient question: Why are civilizations that have initially entered the void still able to find infinitesimal "points" in the void even though their own ability to fix void coordinates is extremely low? "

"The specific appearance of the world in the void should be an infinitely small point in the true sense. This statement has received a lot of support, but doubts about this have never been cut off. One of the powerful doubts is “Locating infinitely small points in the void requires active calculation capabilities based on extraordinary foundations that can at least handle the level of countably infinite collections. If the requirements are more stringent, the minimum level of active calculus required to deal with this problem may need to be a level that can handle the smallest uncountable infinite set. The empire is far from reaching this level. At present, the existing evidence shows that even Σ civilization cannot reach this level. ""

"Now, we have begun to update and iterate the past explanations of this series of problems, which requires the introduction of a new concept: world neighborhood."

"Just like the neighborhood of a certain point of a function itself will have unique properties related to this point. The neighborhood of the world will also make the "point" of the world form a center in the void with the point as the center. This neighborhood of world-affecting features.”

"At present, we confirm that there is no physical structure in this neighborhood that can be intercepted and preserved. We can only determine its existence by the fact that it can form a disturbance."

"It can be said that it is precisely because of the existence of world neighborhoods that order and civilization can leave their homes to explore the unknown. World neighborhoods enable void navigation to change from locating a point to locating an interval with a clear size. This It greatly reduces the entry threshold required for the void engine to take effect normally."

"At the same time, the world neighborhood itself also has an adsorption effect on other order fields. If the information body wants to park into other order fields, it only needs to let itself enter the neighborhood influence range of the order field, and then let the interaction between neighbors Just "Gravity" completes the next task."

"With the changes caused by the gradual overlap of neighborhoods, the form of interaction between the order fields will gradually transform from the external dominance of the void to the internal dominance of the order body. For travelers across the void, the world will no longer appear like a point. , but becomes a macro-information ocean with seals.”

"...The above process is similar to deep space navigation - when the vehicle travels in space with a scale of tens of millions of light years, most of the target stars, no matter how huge they are, are blocked by such a distance. It seems like it’s just an insignificant point after all.”

"However, as the distance between the vehicle and the target celestial body gradually shrinks, the nature of the target celestial body itself and the impact it can cause - such as its own size and gravity, will no longer be ignored. When the spacecraft is hit by the target celestial body, After the gravitational circle is captured, the ship then maneuvers to remain relatively stationary with the target celestial body to complete its voyage."

"Cross-world voyages are similar to such a process, except that the conditions involved in cross-world voyages are cumbersome and complex beyond imagination, and many of the specific transformation processes are still unclear. At present, this field is still in the process of Extensive use of empirical formulas..."

"At the same time, it is precisely because of the existence of the world neighborhood that the fault zone has many properties that would have made us feel incredible before: the fault zone will cause the information in the border area to begin to be lost before it hits the imperial border. This is because the fault zone It is caused by the pollution of the "world neighborhood" owned by it."

"For fault zones and other super-worldly giant entities with their own unique effects, the world neighborhood will be further transformed into a unique "influence neighborhood." While retaining their original properties, these "void influence circles" will also It will spread out the unique disturbance possessed by the core it surrounds."

"It is precisely for this reason that when fighting against the fault zone, it is the best way for the large fleet to form a battle formation and rely on solid positions to conduct positional warfare. At the same time, ships lower than the super flagship should be prevented from being alone in areas other than the rear Actions, especially void navigation - they are very likely to be directly sucked into the fault zone directly by the affected neighborhood of the fault zone..."

“…so don’t worry too much about the scale of the fault zone being larger than we think – if two contaminated worlds get too close together, their neighborhood will pull them and cause them to merge. This is the fault zone outward. Specific behavior when merging frequency coordinates.

"This performance is actually similar to a problem that occurs in void navigation - if two order fields are too close, then the neighborhood between the two order fields will dominate this part and do not form the information structure of actual space and time. . They are still an extension of the neighborhood formation, but from a distance, the order fields in this area will "glue" together to form a much larger structure than theoretically possible."

"This is also the reason why when a void ship approaches two very close worlds in the early stage, it will find that it will be strongly interfered and may randomly fall into one of the worlds, and the end point will become uncertain."

"It should be noted that the existence of world neighborhood also further proves the correctness of the view that "void is not empty". If the void completely erodes order or the void is completely empty, there will be no basis for the existence of world neighborhood. Moreover, the existence of world neighborhoods also explains why the boundaries of order fields will have different forms of light and shadow fluctuations during the process of fusion: they are the collision and fusion of world neighborhoods with each other, and the influence of order fields on each other changes from the dominance of void conditions. It is a natural phenomenon formed in a process dominated by orderly conditions.”

"It is important to distinguish the difference between the two processes of "world neighborhood integration" and "sinking into the interior of the order field" - the former will cause disturbances at the edge of the order field, but at this stage, between different order fields, It is impossible to see each other's internal structure using conventional means. Once the dominant form changes and the real order field fusion and sinking process begins, both parties will see each other's internal structure in an instant. Under normal circumstances, this There was no delay in the process.”

"The role of this research result does not stop there - in the early years of the expedition, many units that could conduct void navigation reported the problem of "inconsistent voyages" when traveling between two relatively static worlds - this is Just like the same road, if the starting point and end point are exchanged, its length will become different."

"Actually, this problem is also due to the influence of world neighborhoods: Since the empire lacked a stable ruler in the early days of the Expedition, and the void engine often needed to be calibrated, the empire's rule at that time was that the void engine could convert any The world is used as a benchmark to carry out proofreading operations. However, no two worlds are exactly the same within the currently known void. Each world has its own relatively unique structure and characteristics."

"Therefore, when the void engine is calibrated, it will inevitably be "specialized" by the current world - which naturally explains why the same route will be measured with different ranges, because the scales of the rulers used to measure it are different. same."

"It can be seen that the impact that world neighborhoods can have is reflected in all aspects inside and outside the world..."

"...It's so complicated. It seems that it is really not a simple matter to achieve success in the current empire."

Kriz flipped it down casually. The piece of "information bread" he pulled out of the river was still very long. The following content seemed to describe the connection between the fault zone and this research result. It was probably "The actual scale of the fault zone is not as large as previously thought, and the coverage interval of the fault zone does not reach the scale of an uncountable infinite set."

The report pointed out why previous studies were fallacious: researchers at that time ignored that the world neighborhood would degenerate under the corrosive impact of the fault zone and show abnormal feedback over long distances, which would increase the scale of the fault zone. It looks much larger than it actually is.

However, this only removes the conclusions drawn from erroneous observations. The essence of the fault zone has not changed, nor has its own nature. The fault zone is still dangerous and remains the most vigilant disaster in the void.

However, by taking advantage of the influence that world neighborhoods can have, the Empire can more accurately predict the scale and trajectory of fault zones - fault zones will form large-scale void quiet zones and "information loss zones, and the impact of these zones Both size and strength are directly related to the scale of the fault zone itself…

"I have to sigh, no matter where you are, no matter what field you are in, how many people must be working hard behind these results." After looking at this long and endless piece of information bread, Kriz had no plans after all. Just eat it. After all, this is just killing time. Seeing that the progress bar of "Initiation" was not even halfway through, Kriz casually pulled out another piece of "bread" from the information flow: the filling of this piece of "bread" was related to extraordinary energy, and it seemed... it was better than A piece of bread has a lot of history.

"...the "frequency" of extraordinary energy has a new application field. Before this, the frequency of extraordinary energy was in most cases only linked to the ability of extraordinary energy to promote change. The higher the frequency of extraordinary energy, the more it contains The more the first push is, the more changes it can cause - a parallel to ancient optics."

"Now, the frequency of the supernatural power can be used more directly. By fusing the frequency properties of the supernatural power with the concept of main axis time, we have what can be seen as an adjustment of the time of the supernatural creation - borrowing the projection of different worlds in the symbol "Different scales" on the sexual axis, we can break up the same time and use it in different ways."

"...What does it say here?" Kriz's interest was suddenly piqued.

"...the symbolic reincarnation from the birth of the world to the end of the world serves as the standard unit of the main axis of evolution, placing the evolutionary processes of different worlds in a unified form that can be accepted by the empire. The forms of evolution between worlds are different. Some worlds may be torn apart in a short period of time due to the loss of their own stability, while some worlds can survive many pseudo-Poincaré returns.”

“If a standard period of time in these worlds is determined as one tick, then under the same total length, worlds with shorter lifespans may be able to divide this total length into tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of ticks, while worlds with long enough lifespans may The number of ticks that the world can divide into this total length even needs to be represented by an exponential tower. This unique splitting phenomenon was later transformed and applied by the Empire, and the Empire's time unit also has the ability to change the basic tick length in this way."

"...Change the basic moment? But how does this relate to the acceleration of time...is it regarded as the acceleration of time?" Kriz frowned. "Wait a minute, I remember at the beginning, just before receiving primary education, there was a period of time where we stayed completely at home. During that time, we were required to adapt to the environment and coordinate our reaction speed... Is that because of this?"

Thinking of this, Kriz quickly understood the origin of this statement - the imperial beings and imperial creations that use extraordinary information activities have a default response frequency, but this frequency is not locked. If one's own response frequency is increased, one can respond in a smaller time unit compared to an ordinary empire.

The direct feedback of this effect is that when others can only do one thing, you can already do a hundred more subtle things, and they occur within the same total time span. In this way, there is contrast and difference between the two. Different activity frequencies appear within the same reference frame, and the differences are reflected. So, from a result level, this can be seen as time being accelerated.

Moreover, through such scale replacement, many time-related operations can also be implemented by this method. But this is indeed not the real acceleration of time that acts on extraordinary levels - only when the evolutionary activities at the most essential level are indeed accelerated can it truly be called time acceleration, but... nothing can change stably at the moment. The basic nature of extraordinary information such as crystal energy.

This is like light - civilizations living in the universe that have not yet touched the level of the laws of the universe can adjust the frequency of light and use light of different frequencies to do many things. But they cannot change the properties of the photon itself, nor can they change the speed of light.

...It seems that, at least before discovering a higher level of available supernatural power than crystal energy or generating enough to subvert the existing system of using supernatural power, you want to truly change the most essential flow rate of time and keep it stable... is Not likely anymore.

"It seems like I thought I had been thinking for a long time before, but in the eyes of the outside world, this time may not have been long, because I was thinking about similar things with a higher activity frequency than usual... Wait, in the past The record also mentions this issue more than once."

"At this point, although the starting point and angle of entry are different, it is basically recognized that the time of extraordinary information itself is extremely difficult to be affected. However...it seems that judging from actual events, the empire's creations are somewhat in this aspect It will still be affected.”

While thinking about it, Kriz once again glanced at the progress bar that represented the progress of knowledge infusion. I don’t know why, but the progress bar seems to be moving very slowly now...

"...Your Majesty Wheeler, you stretched your hand a little too long. Your request is completely unnecessary. Even if we encourage and persuade, the children themselves can feel that your request is asking them to perform performance art. .”

"I repeat - my demands must be implemented."

"You ask teachers to pass on knowledge to children by carving words on stones and drawing on papyrus clay tablets. At the same time, you also need children to undergo training that even planet-level civilizations have eliminated! In order to fulfill your request, the empire How much mess will need to be built? What will the children think? What will they think of our orders and requirements? What will the educators, including teachers, think?"

"The impact of such a large-scale change to the outline is very huge, and - this is the sixth time you have made such a request, and your previous requests have not been completed yet! Although, the positive effects brought by the Emergence Ceremony The meaning is redundant, but the patience of the entire empire cannot withstand your torture!"

"Huh?!" Kriz frowned. From the torrent rushing into his mind, he suddenly filtered out this scene: a spacious room with a circle of serious-looking people sitting around a large table. people. There was another figure standing a little further away from the table. The people sitting around the table were trying hard to explain the unreasonableness of his ideas to the figure with his back to them, but these words were all rejected. .

Kriz recognized this figure - he had seen him before, in the "dream" he had when he returned home from the test site on the Abyss Boat.

"Marion Wheeler, the best memetic researcher in the empire, the emperor of the eighteenth sky area." After possessing the authority level second only to the emperor of the sky area, Kryz has been able to read everyone's information in the entire empire. Identity Information. "What is...what is he going to do?"

"...Then let me say it again, my request to join this kind of education is not to allow children to learn ultra-high-density knowledge in this way, but to let them know that learning knowledge, transmitting information, and other such There are ways to go! As for the problem of construction? Not to mention infinite universes, even finite universes - they are all very big! All worlds have large tracts of pure deep space, even if the reconstruction is 10 million more than now With billions of times the space, the space-time structure is still enough! It will still not be filled up!"

"By the way, don't mention the resource consumption issue to me - the concept of unlimited anti-crowding was proposed at least 700 billion years ago. The huge resources accumulated by implementing this concept are not for you to put there. Ash eaters!"

"——In the end, all you have to do is carry out my orders!"

"Your Majesty, you——"

"...What's going on with this person?" Although there were only two such contacts that didn't even count as "passing by", this "Marion Wheeler" left a very deep impression on Kriz. . Although more stories are needed to determine the specific details, Kriz is certain that the two elements of "stubbornness" and "stubbornness" must have been filled to the limit in "His Majesty Wheeler".

"The last quarrel was because he insisted on modifying many security parameters that seemed completely unnecessary. This time it is because he insisted on "expanding" the "path" of learning knowledge..."

Kriz knows that there is no "faint king" in the Star Empire. The possibility of a reigning Star Emperor making random decisions is very low, but why does His Majesty Wheeler make such decisions again and again? Those people are right. The positive atmosphere brought by the emergence ritual can indeed alleviate conflicts. Just like these orders that seem to be full of contradictory requirements, a small number of them can be executed unconditionally and without complaints. The positive atmosphere brought by the emergence ritual can indeed alleviate conflicts. Active promotion can block most of the unnecessary doubts and negative influences. "

"But, Your Majesty, but!! This kind of "neutralization" is limited after all, and even if it is overused, it may cause the empire to suffer backlash. It is impossible for an emperor to not consider these when making a decision, so, Your Majesty Wheeler What was going through his mind when he made these decisions and made these demands? Marion Wheeler, the only Sky Emperor of the Eighteenth Sky, now seems completely opaque.

Suddenly, it all subsided. All the pictures disappeared, and all that was left was the torrent of information rushing toward him calmly.

"What's wrong?!" Kriz felt a hint of uneasiness in his heart. The endless tide of information focused on his mind. For a moment, he found that he seemed to be confused about how the information flowed... and so on.

A blazing white sphere appeared in Kriz's consciousness. This sphere is very similar to the stars he has seen in the universe. The boiling surface of the sphere is emitting endless flames and brilliant star corona. It is so warm that Kriz feels like it the moment he sees it. When it comes to safety and belonging, even my heart seems to melt - wait a minute!

Kriz subconsciously assumed a defensive posture, and his head slammed against the crystal shell of the information exchange cabin. A violent storm rushed towards him, but this powerful storm disappeared "behind" Kriz without any interaction with Kriz.

"...The scene reappears again? It seems that you really need to spend time to control your power in the future." Kriz breathed a sigh of relief, but he soon discovered that the sphere in front of him could bring warmth and a sense of belonging. There has been a drastic change - it is now like a rapidly expanding head with a mouth wide open, emitting a silent but intrusive scream. And those starlights that seemed warm and soft just now have now turned into countless soul-destroying hooks, as if extending from the darkest abyss.

"Something's wrong - how much bigger has it gotten?"

"The highest level of alarm - it has been detected that the Void Sun mutates from the theoretical main sequence state to a super asymptotic giant. The Void Sun will expand rapidly and release an extremely strong mutated stellar wind. The entire empire, the Observer Council, and Star Star The area under the jurisdiction of the Empire's Five Heavens Seat has entered the highest state of emergency."

"...It is imperative to add anchor points. History is melting and pollution is seeping. We must be prepared. Only by preparing enough anchor points can we ensure that the foundation remains even after a huge shock..."

"Huh?" Kriz felt as if he had captured something, but those ethereal voices had long since passed away.

The screen suddenly turned, and the long river of time was still rolling forward. However, Kriz's eyes were traveling backwards against the flow of time, and he saw billions of light spots arranged along the river - each one of them was so bright, conspicuous and solid. However, Kriz, who was tracing back along them, suddenly discovered that the long river of time seemed to be mixed with foreign matter.

There is pink light flowing - this pink light seems familiar.