Star Empire

"Division of ranks?" When asked this question, Victorville thought for a long time and finally shook his head helplessly.

"We do not have the exact basis for clearly dividing levels. We mainly determine how information at different levels should be used by studying the nature of information. But what exactly determines the division of levels, and what fundamentally determines We have not yet determined the levels of world and extraordinary energy.”

".There is no conclusion. This is not a big problem." Σ-48 shook his head slightly and continued:

"In our understanding, the most widely used concept of unified information is carried forward by the Gods, and the Gods. The guys among them have either been powerful for too long, or they have stood at the forefront of order and civilization since their birth. At the top, their theories may become somewhat ungrounded later on.”

"Is it because this three-dimensional division method only shows that such division is reasonable and consistent with reality, but it is completely impossible to find the "why" from these theories themselves?" Vidoville asked.

"That's true - since you have already been in contact with Quadrant Continent, you must have studied the "Nine Heavens" of Quadrant Continent, and used the "Nine Heavens" model to reorganize your knowledge system and research results, right?"

"That's right. After analyzing the nine-day stratification method, we rearranged our knowledge system according to this new layering method. In the process of practice, we adjusted the nine-day sky ordering so that it can Better to show the "progressive development" - such changes are more suitable for us."

"You should have realized the difference between the "nine-day division method" and the "three-dimensional division method." The nine-day division method can show traces of development and progress, while the three-dimensional division method is more like a direct explanation of the current void. results, but it doesn’t tell anyone who wants to know the details why.”

"If you have seen the quadrant-level hub of the Gods and the scene when the Gods' "Heavenly Ceremony on Earth" is fully unfolded, you may have a deeper and clearer understanding of the difference between the two divisions."

Σ-48 reached out and tapped the space around the table a few times. What appeared in front of Victorville were three inverted pyramids with their centers located in the same straight line and stacked together. These three inverted pyramids grew rapidly from bottom to top. The second inverted pyramid was a thousand times larger than the first inverted pyramid, and the third pyramid seemed to have no bottom at all! !

"These pyramid-like images are generated from top to bottom, while the Nine Heavens of Σ are generated from bottom to top." Vidoville immediately discovered the most obvious difference between the two. "However, I still don't understand how these contents are related to the problems between us."

"Do you think the two connecting points in the middle of the three connected inverted pyramids are the dividing lines of ranks?" Σ-48 asked.

"Maybe but what does that mean?"

"Do you think there will be something blocking there that will cause the already tightened "spire" to re-expand into the "bottom" of the next pyramid?"

"If so," Vidoville thought of something, "wouldn't the first dividing line be the world barrier?"

"Close, but not complete." Σ-48 nodded slightly, "To be precise, the gap between the lowest mortal level and the extraordinary level is a layer of "self-consistent completeness."

Hearing this, Vidoville took a breath of air-heavy content is coming!

"The difference between ordinary things and extraordinary things is this level of complete self-consistency. This is the third level so far, that is, the difference between the ordinary level and the extraordinary level."

"Whether it's the world or the various kinds of extraordinary energies you call - when they themselves remain at this level, they themselves can ensure that they can determine and explain their own in a reasonable way from all angles. Existence. Their state can be stable by themselves and does not require the assistance of any external objects. Even if they are thrown directly into the void, they will gradually dissipate in an eroded manner. And if ordinary things are exposed in the void - They will collapse in an instant and nothing will be left.”

Having said this, Σ-48's eyes looked at Vidoville, "The ranks can only be from top to bottom, not from bottom to top - you should know what this sentence means, right?"

"Of course, we have done research in this area. Low-level information cannot be broken through from bottom to top on its own, no matter what. Our theory believes that under ideal conditions, there may be a limit point in the amount of information. , after crossing this limit point, even if the information in a single set is at a low level, they will inevitably "collapse" into a high-level information structure."

"Only in this way can they continue to exist stably. But this ideal condition requires breaking the premise of "relying on oneself alone"." Vidoville stated.

"Information at a lower level cannot break through from bottom to top without the help of higher-level information. Use the existence in the world to gradually merge into a higher-level existence, and re-"burn" things that have been completely differentiated and decayed into extraordinary things. Energy, such a thing naturally exists." Σ-48 confirmed Vidoville's statement.

"However, in the process of doing this - in the process of "firing", the low-level information selected by the beings is actually affected by the laws of the entire world during the fusion process. In other words, in their reverse recovery of information bits When there is a higher level, it is the world itself as a higher-level existence that pulls the low-level information from a higher position to the process of "climbing" to a higher level."

"In the second level of extraordinary energy, we can perform a series of operations on extraordinary information to cause them to decay downwards and form a series of ordinary substances or structures. In this process, the extraordinary energy originally possessed" "Complete self-consistency" will be completely destroyed. An insurmountable gap will appear."

"If you want to maintain this kind of "complete self-consistency", there are requirements for information bodies with this property - for example, they must exceed a certain total amount of information and must retain a certain structure -" said At this point, Σ-48 handed over the dominance of discourse to the late-born junior sitting in front of him: "What can you think of?"

"So, extraordinary information can be used to create mundane substances, and can modulate countless different frequencies to create countless subtypes. However, there is a limit to its degradation process. Once this degradation process exceeds the need to maintain "completeness" "The bottom line of requirements, then the extraordinary properties originally possessed by extraordinary energy or the products of extraordinary energy will no longer exist - the same is true for the world, but the division and degradation of the world are not the same as the expression process of the decomposition and deterioration of extraordinary energy. .?!"

Speaking of this, Vidoville couldn't help but open his eyes.

"Basically correct. But here, divinity becomes a very troublesome variable in this problem - divinity can be divided and given at will. From this point of view, it does not conform to the more common extraordinary level. The binding rules. However, it is resistant to the impact of extraordinary energy. Of course, it will be resistant to any information, and the same is true for ordinary information."

Having said this, Vidoville felt that this "man" from the pre-civilization once again showed his helplessness:

"We have discussed this issue with those gods many times, but with little success. While obtaining divine authority, this authority gives the recipient resistance and the ability to control information. Now, the control of information The upper realm is extraordinary energy and the world, so we once believed that God, the world and extraordinary power belong to the same level. However, divine authority cannot coexist harmoniously with the current level theory, and many properties of divinity conflict with our current theory. It’s difficult to summarize them together.”

"The final result, as I have already said, is that the divine system is removed from our hierarchy. However, this will not affect the effect that divine authority can produce. Just like no matter what the name of the chaotic sea is, However it is perceived, its world-shattering, order-destroying nature remains unaffected."

"Easy to understand." Vidoville scratched his head. He seemed to be confused about things he had never heard of and never thought about, such as chatting and laughing with a group of real "gods" in the void and expressing dissatisfaction with them. I really can’t keep up with the rhythm of these words.

"As for the difference between the extraordinary level and the void level." Σ-48 changed the topic, "The "curtain" you mentioned before is the dividing layer between these two levels."

"Ah?"

"Indeed, you may be surprised, but that "curtain" is indeed the dividing layer between the extraordinary level and the void level. However, the part above the extraordinary level is called the void level, not the breakthrough. A transcendent level can directly reach the end of the void, but there is still a very, very huge gap."

"Just like our Nine Heavens and Extraordinary - we collectively refer to the unknown realm beyond the Ninth Heaven as the Supreme Heaven, and everything under the curtain above the mundane as Extraordinary - I still don't know how you name and understand Extraordinary , do you determine the scope of the extraordinary based on the nature of the extraordinary energy itself, or based on other criteria? However, this does not affect anything. What I want to say is that the curtain is already on the ninth heaven. Who knows, this supreme sky How big is the gap between it and the zenith of void?"

"The curtain. Where is it?" Vidoville asked. It was only then that he was completely sure why the range that extraordinary power could construct could not be fully accepted by the Nine Heavens System - compared to the Nine Heavens System, Indeed, the oldest "three-order" system is more suitable to express its existence and nature!

In addition to these, he quickly realized that many of the empire's hypotheses would become theories, and many of the old theories were likely to be overturned - many things, such as the foundation of the world, were not built from the bottom up, but from the bottom up. Top down! Many Genesis models and descriptions, including the Origins meme, will be inverted, and those most basic things are not the lowest - they are higher!

If this is indeed the case, then research on the microscopic and existential foundations will be shaken - the chaos and ambiguity of the microscopic realm. Those properties are not because the microscopic realm is indeed the case, but the closer to the microscopic realm, the more clear the information is weakened , and the more they are weakened, the more serious their own properties will be missing. When the properties are missing to a certain extent, they will naturally have no stable properties!

"It can be said to be almost everywhere - or, in other words, it exists in the gap between order and void. Outside the field of order, outside the world barrier, in the void. These places are all shrouded in curtains. I think, in your civilization Scholars should have proposed this hypothesis a long time ago, but your civilization has not paid much attention to it for a long time, and you also lack some means to prove these conjectures, right?"

"Indeed, wait, so to speak, has Σcivilization ever encountered such a problem? Why is this-" Vidoville wanted to continue to ask about the details, but was interrupted by the man sitting opposite him. He waved his hand to stop it.

"There is no way. This is probably because some greater power is taking effect. The power of the void does not want us to study and clarify something too eagerly, so the void can always use countless small influences to ultimately make us move in these directions. Not much progress—these powers always work."

"Even if I say it here, you will unknowingly forget it, or list it as an unimportant item, or lack the verification method and eventually have to give it up. Also, I don't know what you will do next. I think, but I need to remind you here that what I say is only what I know."

"I swear by them because there is currently no better theory than them. These swear words also have the possibility of being overturned in the future. Just like when studying "Nine Heavens", we once combined extraordinary power, world, universal The concepts and laws and other things are placed on the same level of "sky"."

"Because at that time we believed that this was indeed the case, and the narrow nature of things created with extraordinary power was indeed concentrated on the seventh level of the sky. But later, with the expansion of research, we discovered that the breadth of the extraordinary realm was far from What we were able to achieve at that time, and we did that because, in fact, what we categorized as the "standard state" of extraordinary energy and extraordinary power. Their standard state is very narrow in scope."

After a moment of silence, Σ-48 continued:

"However, there are still many things worth saying about the "curtain" itself. In fact, it is the void that flows downward from the cracks in the curtain that have fixed shapes and decays. Only in this void can such and such worlds exist, and each Our civilization has also developed and utilized various extraordinary energies.”

"And you, if Xingming Civilization remembers correctly, your exposure to extraordinary energy started from an energy vortex, right?"

".That's true, but why do you know it so clearly?!" Vidoville thought about it carefully this time. After all, that happened trillions of years ago. Whether it was his own memory of this matter or My own memory of the history of this matter has been placed very far back, and it is not particularly easy to retrieve them.

"Although trillions of years have passed for you, for me, I am afraid that the heyday of Σ civilization was still yesterday." At this point, Σ-48 seemed a little depressed. "In the last moments of ΣCivilization, some rulers have begun to notice that something is wrong with the situation. These rulers have made a lot of preparations, and I am authorized to know these preparations. Weight Creation and Weight Civilization are one of them. , all the data that could become a weight civilization are being sent to me. And among them, there is your star civilization."

"In the event of an accidental outbreak, this monitoring station and the barrier that blocks the monitoring station will start the safety process as soon as it detects the incoming pollution, and everything here will not change anymore - in other words, the Time is frozen. To me, these more than 370 billion years are just a blink of an eye."

"ah"

"Now is not the time to mention this." Σ-48 shook his head. "Where are we talking about, "curtain", right? As I said before, the curtain exists wherever void and order come into contact, and the world barrier is naturally one of the places where the curtain exists. So, you have nothing at all It’s so unexpected. And there won’t be any obvious changes.”

"Think about it this way. The Curtain itself has a strong ability to isolate information. This should be true, right?" After learning about these situations, Vidoville did not continue to dwell on the previous topic. "The most frequent mention of the "curtain" was around the time of the Giant Malicious Metameme War. At that time, we generally believed that it was precisely because of the existence of the Curtain that it took such a long time for the giant malicious metameme to slowly penetrate. , the Veil greatly slows the rate at which giant malicious meta-memes invade current reality.”

"However, there is a connection between these things." Facing these pictures, Vidoville vaguely felt that they were clearly related to some scenes he had seen before. He had been working with the empire, but the progress was not very smooth. There is a clear relationship with some key research, but I don't seem to be aware of this last key yet.

Σ-48 said nothing more at this time, and waved his hand to summon another scene. In the picture, countless bubbles appear and then disappear from the ocean of nothingness. Among these bubbles, there are some that are particularly bright from time to time.

"This should be the most classic world in the eyes of most civilizations - the concept of void. Countless worlds live and die in the void, just like bubbles in the endless ocean. However, this scene can actually be viewed from another angle. Come and see—"

Following the words of Σ-48, three parallel planes suddenly appeared. The appearance of the bubbles that represented the world before and the extraordinary energy that made the world look brighter were changed, and they no longer showed themselves. The most intuitive appearance is that it has become a ball of fluid, floating outside the plane, and the plane is extending infinitely at this time, separating the originally continuous space.

"In this picture with a changed perspective, the highest plane represents the "curtain" we discussed before, which distinguishes the void and the transcendent. And the second plane represents the location of the world barrier. , which distinguishes the transcendent from the mundane.”

"Now, look carefully." As he said that, Σ-48 shook his fingers and placed the world and extraordinary energy that had been separated before and turned into lumps of fluid back into these planes.

"Um?"

Vidoville noticed that these fluid clumps were not placed directly back to where they should have been. They were placed on top of the curtain by Σ-48, which should be what is currently considered the "void".

As these fluid clumps gradually sank, they came into contact with the curtain - some clumps eroded through the curtain, they broke through the barrier of the curtain, and then formed a layer below the curtain and above the mundane world. Groups of roughly horizontal, more solid clouds. Some mist-like masses that penetrated the curtain and fell from above were not stopped. They continued to fall, and formed an approximately funnel-shaped structure in the interval where the extraordinary level was located. Gradually, more and more fog-like masses began to fall. A lot of fog accumulated in the funnel.

"What is this?" Vidoville asked curiously.

"This is another look of the world." As soon as Σ-48's words fell, the clouds and mist accumulated in the funnel once again tore through the restrictions between the extraordinary and the ordinary, and some dazzling light came from inside the funnel cloud. burst out. After the flash of light, Vidoville noticed that the fog that had accumulated in the hole transformed into a series of solid particles and began to fall faster.

Eventually, they come into contact with the lowest plane. And the structure formed by those small particles of entity and existing in the mundane level looks like a half-taken Rosen Bridge. , and the cut-off part of the Rosen Bridge has now fit together with the bottom plane, forming a circle with a clear size.

".Do you see it?" Σ-48 asked, "This is the process of void gradually decaying into ordinary matter. The clouds and mist remaining in the extraordinary level are extraordinary energies, and those funnel-shaped clouds are the world Another appearance of the barrier. And the things that continue to fall from the loophole cloud are the various forms of the world within the world barrier."

Before Vidoville could say anything, Σ-48 once again summoned a plane, but this plane seemed to be more solid than all the previous pictures.

"Press it." The man in black pointed at the flat surface and motioned for Vidoville to touch it.

"Huh? It seems to be very elastic?" Vidoville summoned a group of finger-like entities and gently poked the flat surface, and found that it was fully elastic. The more he tried to push it down, the harder it became. The more I want to bounce back. And when Vidoville moved the entity away, the extremely elastic plane returned to its original shape in a very short time.

"Wait a minute, this plane is-"

The tall man in black didn't speak. He shook his right hand slightly and put this extremely elastic plane together with the bottom plane in the picture he had created before.

And when this extremely elastic plane is fixed in place and coincides with the bottom plane of the original picture, the actual-sized circle that was also attached to the bottom of the picture and represents the inside of the world barrier becomes Like the fingers that Vidoville had summoned before, he pressed down a section of this elastic plane. It all looked like a gravitational well formed after the celestial body bent space and time.

Σ-48 reached out his hand and patted the extremely elastic membrane upwards from below. As a result, the squeezed elastic membrane reset in an instant, and at the moment it reset, everything that existed above it—from the loophole cloud to the contents falling from the loophole cloud dissipated completely.

"This is the chaotic sea, what you call the death tide." Σ-48 said unhurriedly. "Of course, because this cannot more intuitively reflect the chaotic sea realm and critical layer, I will replace the elastic plane with something similar——"

The man in black pointed his finger, and Vidoville noticed that the elastic membrane was converted into something that looked a bit like a sandwich pancake, a three-layer pancake with two layers of fillings sandwiched in between. At this time, Σ-48 allowed more world structures to appear in their corresponding fields, and these newly emerged worlds caused a greater degree of squeeze on the sandwich cake at the bottom——

This time, the "cake" of the sandwich cake did not deform, but its "sandwich" suddenly became much thicker.

"Did you see that layer of "sandwich"?" Σ-48 looked at Vidoville, who was stunned and staring at the model he created. He was silent for a long time, and then said seriously every word: "This is The essence of the chaotic sea, this is where the chaotic sea domain lies.”

"." Vidoville fell into deep shock and was speechless for a long time.

"There is such a structure in the void - it is infinitely vast, infinitely broad, infinitely broad, and endlessly extended." Facing this series of pictures, Σ-48 told the truth about everything, and seemed to be telling the truth to Wei. Doville listened and seemed to be talking to himself.

"At the beginning, it did not receive any squeeze from the outside world, so it was straight. However, from unknown time on, the void around this structure began to flow towards it, and it experienced multiple decays. After dilution, there was finally significant contact with the film."

"And the impact of these contacts is very huge - it gives "existence attributes" to the void that touches it and has experienced decay, and these existence attributes maintain the existence and stability of everything in the current void. At the same time, these contacts It also gives huge pressure to the membrane itself. These pressures cannot be released directly, so they continue to accumulate and superpose, eventually forming the "sandwich" in the current model - that is, the chaotic sea realm. And that layer of membrane , is located in the center of the chaotic sea area."

"As far as I know, there, the chaos pollution will show unique properties - at the neutral layer where the membrane is located, the intensity of the chaos pollution can be considered to be infinite, but the pollution intensity is infinite pollution It will not cause damage to the order entity that reaches that location. If you continue to dive, the pollution in the chaotic sea will be "reverse". While the pollution intensity instantly drops from infinite to finite, the pollution will no longer be destroyed. Our submersible.”

"Please wait a moment, continue the dive?" Victorville captured the key words, "This means, the other side."

"The other shore exists, and it is very similar to the void we are in." Σ-48 nodded, and then he directly copied a copy of the previous model and flipped it to the bottom - now, in the picture, The dead tide, or the chaotic sea, became the axis of symmetry.

"Our "building a bridge" is to open up the barrier that has never been broken between our shore and the other shore. We need to build a passage, a passage that can lead to the other shore - this is the meaning of "building a bridge". It One end will connect to this shore, and one end will connect to the other shore, that’s it.”

It was not until now that Vidoville fully thought about what everything it represented before he destroyed the decisive battle flagship corresponded to what it meant. At the same time, judging from the current situation, the existence attribute imaginary number is probably obtained from the environment on the other side - at least the content related to the other side.

".So, what is the real purpose of building the bridge?" His Majesty, the flagship of the Star Empire and the Emperor of the Star Empire, feels that his world view is somewhat shaken today - not for himself and countless scholars in the empire. I had never considered that the information provided by the remains of the Σ civilization had been studied many times by the empire, and many hypotheses had been put forward. Among them, some of the most popular hypotheses were close to the truth. Including myself, I have no idea about the existence of the other side and my hypothesis about the other side.

I understand and strongly support some of these views.

But now, those things that were still hypotheses and seemed very far away from the empire not long ago, under the words of this person from the previous generation of civilization, no longer seem so far away, and can even be said to be a bit close at hand. . However, building such a bridge may mean that it will break the existing pattern of the void - after all, the director of the monitoring station has clearly said in his words that the barrier between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait "has never existed before." be broken".

Whether it was the late period of the empire's craziest and most aggressive decision-making era, or now when the empire has developed the longest and the civilization is the most prosperous and splendid, the empire has never thought that it would use its power to change the pattern of the void. Such a thing sounds too far-fetched. Tan, those vast and majestic structures, etc., are like stars to life on earth, waiting to be studied but ultimately too far away. But Σ., this dead civilization overlord, actually wanted to do such an earth-shattering event!

My first thought was that Σ Civilization planned to expand its power to the other side and make itself a true unstoppable overlord in the void. However, this reason seemed a bit too far-fetched - Σ Civilization was indeed powerful and abnormal, but it was not even the current one. All the restrictions on this shore have not yet been completely broken. It is too unreasonable to rush to the other shore to expand, and the bridge-building operation even directly led to the demise of civilization itself.

Vidoville speculated on several possibilities, but these possibilities were all rejected by himself - Σ civilization often has such a large-scale power, and it can be said that it is almost all-or-nothing action. This long-ago void overlord cannot possibly These endings were not anticipated, and it is impossible not to have millions of plans for this. After thinking about it, a civilization may use its own future and the existence of countless lives as a "bet" to do this, which only shows that the possible consequences of this incident will be more serious than these.

"It's been a long time." Σ-48 allowed the model to continue running. More and more world and extraordinary information began to appear in their corresponding intervals, and began to cause more obvious effects on the membrane in the middle. Impact. These effects keep accumulating, piling up more and more.

During the demonstration of the model, Vidoville noticed that from time to time some worlds would suddenly disappear, and sometimes, if enough of them disappeared at once, they would be accompanied by a "sandwich" release at the bottom - these should Corresponding to the outbreak of various Dead Tide Gate events and Fault Zone events.

However, no matter how these events unfold, the pressure building up around that elastic membrane continues to build up over time. And, as time goes by, there seems to be a gap between the two sides.

"Relative to this membrane, we and the entire order environment we are in are actually foreign. In the process of gradually approaching the membrane, information is also constantly subject to decay and stripping - this may be something of the membrane itself. The effect of a kind of resistance in the void. Therefore, in the actual research process, there will be some interesting phenomena, that is, the closer to the microscopic level, the higher the degree of instability will be."

"I don't know how much of your theory is based on the complete information micro-unit stacking theory, but I think you should have noticed the problem here. As the micro level continues to deepen, information is stripped of various attributes while , they will become more and more unstable, and the rules they follow will look more and more bizarre, until finally - when the information elements have no other properties except existence, they are already very confusing and difficult to use. They build stable theories or formulas. And using macroscopic methods, you can achieve some more extreme microscopic ones."

"So." Vidoville remembered that the empire's textbooks of all generations clearly stated that students should not use a complete micro-meta concept to understand everything in the world, and the death light of the giant malicious meta-meme seemed to prove that in front of him What people say is true.

The microcosm is blurry because the microcosm itself has lost too many properties in many decay processes.

"It seems that you should be able to understand what I am talking about. As you can see, as time continues to extend, there will be more and more "realistic entities" that put pressure on the membrane. At the same time, in the long history of the void It is difficult to ensure complete synchronization between the orderly activities and the chaotic sea activities on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. The pressure between the two sides and the counterforce in the chaotic sea area will form a gap, and this gap will become wider and wider, and the relationship between the two sides will gradually change. It has to be unstable.”

"For that membrane, its tendency to violently rebound and reset is constantly accumulating. If it accumulates excessively, the external force it experiences will reach an unbearable critical point."

The moment Σ-48's voice fell, the elastic membrane sandwiched in the middle suddenly began to vibrate violently like crazy. All the suppressive force and isolation barrier against the death tide seemed to be lost in an instant. After the effect, all the pressure accumulated around the membrane was released in an instant. The raging and crazy death tide pollution was like an endless wave sweeping across the entire plane, causing everything that had evolved before to return to zero in an instant, and the dryness disappeared. Clean.

"The chaotic sea realm will completely erupt, everything will be reset to zero, and everything will cease to exist." Σ-48 said seriously, "Everything will cease to exist, and there will be no survivors. And building a bridge, It is to fight against this catastrophe that will sweep across the entire void, and to break the foregone conclusion that everything will eventually be destroyed by the chaotic sea.”

"Is it really possible to build a bridge?" Vidoville calmed down his mind that was overwhelmed by the huge amount of information. He raised his eyes and looked squarely at the man from the old Σ civilization in front of him: " Please don’t get me wrong, I don’t intend to deny any efforts, but for the entire void, it’s a bit difficult to deal with such a huge disaster by building a bridge—”

"This is the approach that our civilization, the divine civilization and even the will of the void have worked together, and after countless rounds of discussions, have finally determined that it is the most likely solution to the catastrophe." At this point, Σ-48's eyes suddenly sharpened, and he spoke His tone also became extremely firm:

"The bridge is assumed to be based on the structure of the membrane itself, and its safety is personally guaranteed by the Will of the Void. At the same time, when the bridge is erected, the bridge itself can be used as a two-way pressure relief valve to balance the pressure on both sides, which can be used in extreme situations. To a large extent, the pressure imbalance between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait will be alleviated. The bridge itself may not be able to prevent the occurrence of a catastrophe, but it can greatly weaken it. The closed loop of destruction-birth-re-destruction will be broken, and there will be no trace of catastrophe in the void. The intermittent reincarnation will also be ended."

"Closed loop? Reincarnation? Ended?" Victorville was shocked again: "Are you saying that such a thing, that is, the void cataclysm has really happened? And more than once?"

"Yes, more than once. But we don't know exactly how many times." Σ-48 nodded.

"After the catastrophe, order will be restored, and civilization and life will flourish again. This prosperity will last for a long time, until the unequal pressure caused by the two sides of the strait on the chaotic sea area is too great to be reconciled. The catastrophe will break out again, completely Flatten everything. This is called a "void cycle". The time that allows life to exist stably is called the "void era"."

"We can't be sure that we can trace the ruins back several eras ago, but at least there should still be many ruins from the previous era that have survived."

"When building a bridge, the activation end of the bridge must be activated near the exit of a giant chaotic sea. The activation end will greatly affect the chaotic sea area, and may even permanently change them, making them no longer active. Maybe even form a separate enclosed space – sounds familiar?”

"This is... - the Black Gate?!" Vidoville suddenly thought of the weird Death Tide Gate in the empire that houses the giant Death Tide pollution research facility. Its interior is vast and safe, and the Death Tide pollution is there. It will become very lazy, and even the most basic conventional shield can effectively resist for a long time. So this is how it came about? Is it so ancient that it transcends time?

"In terms of nature, the Black Gate may indeed come from the previous era. However, since the territory of Σ has not reached there, we have not recorded the exit of the inert chaotic sea around that area, nor have we studied the history of that area in detail. . Your "Black Gate" may come from the previous era, or it may come from a super civilization earlier than ours."

"In this void era, multiple super civilizations have appeared on this side of the void. There may be multiple civilizations that have tried to build bridges, but at least so far, no civilization has really succeeded. When the bridge failed, , after the startup end collapses, the startup end itself is enough to cause direct disturbance and interference in the chaotic sea area, and the inert giant chaotic sea outlet will be born. Since this kind of chaotic sea outlet will exist for a very long time, I remember "

Σ-48 frowned, "The Protoss will call this exit from the chaotic sea the "Gate of the Eternal Chaotic Sea."

"I see, but if the bridge is successfully built, the bridge can be used as a channel to relieve the unbalanced pressure between the two sides in both directions. What is the most important factor causing the unbalanced pressure between the two sides?"

Vidoville sighed, keeping up the pace exhausting himself physically and mentally. "If you want to balance the unbalanced pressure between the two sides of the strait, it should also be necessary for the two sides to move a large number of order worlds and extraordinary powers to the other side, and you also need to consider the "location" where they are placed. Only in this way can the gap between the two sides of the strait be compensated. Isn’t it balanced?”

"No - we are not the main source of pressure on the chaotic sea area. To be more precise - the main source of pressure is not order and civilization. If you think that it is the existence of civilization that dominates the information asymmetry between the two sides, then You overestimate our power. In a certain area, super civilization can indeed have a corresponding impact, but for the entire void, we are not worth mentioning."

"...What caused such a serious imbalance? Wait -" Vidoville suddenly remembered Cavinriel's murmuring like a dream a long time ago, "Is it false information?!"

"Indeed." Σ-48 confirmed the answer. "For a long time, it can effectively promote the development of civilization and provide civilization with a gentler and more stable environment. But in terms of the final result, it is indeed not a good thing."

"Every time the world is born, every time extraordinary energy appears and is used, a large amount of false information will be released. As for why-"

Σ-48 glanced at Vidoville: "Every world is uncertain before its birth. In theory, every world has unimaginable infinite possibilities. Every world may give birth to someone like Xingming. Super civilizations may even give birth to new Σ, but these may not appear. Every world is functioning in its own way, from birth to death. It does not rule out that some worlds occupy more places through the split iteration of world lines or timelines. There are many possibilities. But compared to all the possibilities, they are ultimately very few.”

"The same is true for those extraordinary powers. Every amount of extraordinary energy that can be utilized has infinite possibilities, and they can be used to accomplish almost anything. But in most cases, extraordinary powers are used once, twice, or After three uses, it will be abandoned. Anyway, the power furnace will continuously provide more fresh extraordinary energy. And this is especially true in the void - in the process of the birth and death of the world, there are also fault zones that are expanding and dying. In the process, a large amount of extraordinary energy will be born but discarded.”

"So, all the lost possibilities in every world, and all the unrealized possibilities of extraordinary energy. Where will they go?"

Σ-48 paused for a while. But this time, Vidoville just thought about it for a moment and broke into a cold sweat——

All of them were converted into virtual information and floated in the void!

No wonder when the giant malicious meta-meme arrived, it emitted dozens or hundreds of death rays with countless infinite points containing infinite information, but the surrounding death wave activities did not lose control instantly! If the main source of the siltation and spread of the death tide field is such false information, then although the death rays themselves are still so terrifying that there is no solution, they are no longer so exaggerated and transcendent compared to all false information.

"Break through the barriers formed by the Chaos Sea Realm, allowing virtual information on both sides of the Taiwan Strait to flow freely through the bridge. This process can greatly alleviate the imbalance between the two sides of the Strait, thereby weakening the intensity of the Void Cataclysm - this is why we need to bridge The reason for the bridge, this is why many civilizations on this coast, including the Protoss, have been trying to build bridges. It is the way out, and currently it is the only way to break the situation."

After Vidoville recovered from the shock, Σ-48 continued to complete the remaining words.

"Our civilization has prepared weight creations and a series of civilization inheritance plans including the Weight Plan. The purpose is not only to hope that the fruits of our civilization can be passed on, but at the same time, we are also fulfilling the Taichu Agreement - when the forerunners fall When he falls, his body will turn into nutrients for the future generations to move forward, so that they can rise up in time. The will to build bridges has been passed down from generation to generation between super civilizations and top civilizations, until now."

"What happened before Σ decided to build the bridge?" Vidoville looked at Σ-48 seriously and asked word by word.

"ΣCivilization was very eager to build the bridge. The entire civilization used all its power to launch the bridge-building operation in the world called Endless Eternal Space. If I understand correctly, when I obtained these two doomsday arks, , the information database in the Ark shows that Σ’s control over the far reaches of civilization has weakened to almost zero. Most of the vehicles and most of the facilities are probably arranged in endless eternal space. The cataclysm was already approaching at that time Did it happen?"

".This is a very complex issue. It involves many contents, and many of them involve the history of Σ civilization." Σ-48 looked at Vidoville: "Can you accept these contents?"

"I'm all ears."

"Okay then." This time, Σ-48, the super-dimensional apex multi-functional entity, the director of the monitoring station, a remnant of Σ civilization that spanned hundreds of millions of years, sighed deeply. From his resolute face, Vidoville also recognized the sadness he felt at the loss of civilization. He started over, waving aside all the demo models he had created.

"The story begins around 4900 billion years ago in my civilization. At that time, Σ, a civilization alliance formed by the union of many races, had already conquered the void. Our strength was reflected in all aspects - technology, Ideas, force, territory, life. At that time, Σ was extremely powerful. Not only other civilizations, but even the true gods had to choose to give in before our glory and edge. At that time, we could even directly compete with the void in some areas. Will to discuss and communicate, and even formulate agreements and contracts.”

"With the help of the Will of the Void, we began to try to explore in a series of the most extreme directions. In order to accomplish these goals, we created the first trans-limit test site with the help of the Will of the Void - which is what it looked like before it was destroyed. .Here, we wanted to explore where the limits of order might appear, so we conducted a simulation experiment with Void Will - in this simulation experiment, we witnessed the generalized continuum in an environment that is infinitely close to reality. The first sequence. And this should be said to be the beginning of the entire Σ civilization going crazy."

".Sorry, "witness" the first sequence of the generalized continuum?" Vidoville expressed doubts about this.

"Yes, witness it - see it with your own eyes, inside the first over-limit test site." Σ-48 nodded. "Your civilization should have discussed issues such as continuity and one-sidedness of time, right?"

"We have discussed it. Our conclusion is that if an information body leads its own development and change, then it is an animation on the same screen. If time leads the development and change of the information body, then the information body looks like It’ll be like a page-turning comic strip.”

"With the help of the Will of the Void, we took the "page-turning comic strip" to the most extreme level - we completely froze the evolution ability of the information bodies undergoing experiments, and instead handed them all over to "time". "

"In this experiment, there will be an information body at the zeroth moment. At the first moment, this information body will radiate countless possibilities when it reaches the next moment. At the second moment, the information at the zeroth moment Experience once again releases an information body that was in the form of the first moment, and all the possibilities that it radiates, and the information body that was in the first moment that has radiated infinite possibilities, and all its possibilities. It will go through all arrangements until it exhausts all sets that can be arranged using the infinite elements."

"All sequences of countable infinity. Aleph One?!"

"Yes, we have witnessed the appearance of these infinite cardinal numbers in the First Transfinite Test Site. Since the First Transfinite Test Site is very special, there is no real distinction between true and false there, so are these infinite cardinal numbers real? Whether it existed or was a phantom, we can’t be sure. But the results in the first trans-limit test site soon made many of our compatriots feel anxious.”

"Because they are too big, too far away, and too far away. The technology and power that Σcivilization is proud of are nothing compared to the great power that can exist - this is anxious The original source. Soon after these emotions appeared, Σ civilization began to point its worries at the gods."

"At that time, there was a trend of thought that the gods were concealing their own strength and deceiving all the wisdom in the void. Because at that time, we believed that the authority of the gods and their strength were enough for them to rise in a short period of time. It has risen to a level beyond our reach. These trends of thought were still very weak compared to the entire civilization at that time, and the civilization at that time had enough positivity and tranquility, so these trends of thought can always be calmed down until we find our way back. There was a fragment. A black fragment with seven corners."

"At first, we thought we had just found a weird product with very specific properties that had no precedent. But when we were about to test its properties, many prophets in the civilization at that time seemed to be crazy. I don't remember If it’s wrong, we exhausted our technical capabilities at that time and we only pried out a little bit of content from their mouths——”

Σ-48 suddenly stopped when he said this, as if it took a lot of courage to say the next sentence.

"Why are five afraid of seven?"

"——Five is afraid of Seven because of narrative."

"Seven" Victorville's brows furrowed for a moment, "Could it be that seven is the same?"

"I don't know. We were preparing to test the nature of the fragment, but the fragment disappeared before we could officially interact with it. We looked everywhere we could and asked every question we could find. My fellow citizens, we have gained nothing.”

"At that time, in the entire void, except for our own lives, only the Will of the Void could enter and exit the First Translimit Test Site. This further led to our suspicion and fear of the Will of the Void and the Gods."

"Now that I think about it, the situation may not be like that. Moreover, even if it is the will of the void, there must be some reason for it. The will of the void is watching the entire void from a perspective that is different from any life order. Maybe for them, they also have It was a time when there was nothing we could do and words could not be spoken. But at that time, calmness was gradually turning into a luxury, and the continuous superposition of strong malicious and aggressive thoughts meant that we did not have good communication on these matters."

"After the debris disappeared, the erosion it caused to the surrounding environment continued. We studied the nature of this erosion, and after determining that it was generally controllable, we used these erosion traces and our further batch manufacturing of "mass-produced goods." Weapons and defenses were built, and their end result was the Information Annihilation Missile and the Information Blackbody Shield - I think you've seen them all."

".Yes."

"As time reached the fifth trillion years, anxiety and tension began to spread out of control throughout civilization. At that time, some apex entities who were aware of these problems once formulated various countermeasures, but as As time goes by, these measures are gradually ineffective - now thinking about it, maybe it was the fragment, or maybe it was the specialness of the fifth trillion years that attracted the attention of the giant malicious meta-meme. As an existence that instigates dissension, it accelerates The ideological corruption of the entire civilization.”

"But at that time, internal problems that could cause our thoughts to spiral out of control also began to emerge."

"As mentioned before, Σ civilization is a collective of many powerful intelligent races that have merged and moved forward together. As anxiety and worry deepened, cracks began to appear in this collective from within. Although these cracks are not directly fatal, they make the civilization's internal More collisions and contradictions occurred, which accelerated the entire civilization's ideological trend toward violence and madness."

"In the fifth trillion years, as more and more decisive battle flagships were built, the Σ civilization's military force began to advance to a higher level, but the civilization itself seemed to be difficult to achieve practical development. In order to find a breakthrough, the civilization At that time, on the one hand, the progress of the deep dive plan was greatly accelerated. On the other hand, our civilization began to try to use another possibility to find a breakthrough - "

"Using the conditions of the over-limit test site to iterate information infinitely in the actual environment, we hope to know where exactly it begins and the nature of the void begins to appear. We want to know and then do it."

"The attempt failed," said Vidoville.

"Yes, otherwise this monitoring station wouldn't be here." Σ-48 sighed again. "Civilization assembled a group of quite top forces and started this iterative process without the help of the Will of the Void. Everything went well at first, but as the iteration speed continued to accelerate, and a large number of parallel results began to occur within the civilization at that time Emerging, it looked like it was about to break through to the next stage, when something unexpected happened.”

"Barbarity, primitiveness, violence and malice descended on the first over-limit test site. They destroyed all the original properties of the test site and polluted everything in the entire test site. Advanced technologies and concepts were lost in the face of these terrifying forces. It has lost its role, development has begun to regress, and everything seems to be being pushed back to ancient times, ignorance and ignorance - this event is called the "Crimson Coming"."

"In order to quell this matter, we mobilized all armed forces and all ideological forces at that time, including all decisive battle flagships and all quadrant continents that had been completed at that time - we used all imaginable means, from all fields They all mobilized and carried out ultra-high-intensity bombing of this place that lasted for more than ten billion years without interruption, turning everything from wreckage into scorched earth, from scorched earth into dust, and from dust into nothingness."

"We eventually blew up everything here, including all the influence that Σ had here at the time. However, it was still not peaceful here afterwards."

"In order to restore this place as soon as possible, this monitoring station began to be built, and all the worlds born here were included in it. We tried our best to accelerate the evolution of these worlds, and we tried our best here to use up all the resources here. Unstable variables. At the same time, in order to prevent the possible hidden pollution here from spreading again, Σ built a void barrier to isolate this place from the outside world."

"Since then, I have been stationed here. I no longer participate in anything outside, but only as a listener, listening to the one-way information transmitted here from the outside world. And from then on, as time passed, , I began to clearly feel that the outside was becoming restless, radical, and crazy at a very fast speed. Breaking with the gods, cutting off contact with the will of the void..."

"Even, if I remember correctly - before the collapse of my civilization, this group had already begun to threaten the gods with force attacks, forcing them not to step into the territory of Σ. Alas."

"I think this is probably the result of many events and coincidences. The news I heard is that after the collapse of the first over-limit test site, all future cooperation projects were suspended."

"At the same time, the action of building the bridge has also been hindered. It is said that before cutting off the connection with the God Realm, the Gods sent many envoys to discuss the issue of "jointly building bridges on both sides of the Taiwan Strait". They hope that we can give up the unilateral construction. Bridge action…”

"However, at that time, our compatriots outside were already driven beyond endurance by their own hearts. Even from the news I heard, there were research results that believed that a new round of void cataclysm was about to break out, and there were unstable activities in the chaotic sea area. ——From the perspective of compatriots outside, perhaps, if they don’t make a desperate move, they may never have a way out or a way forward.”

"The information I received began to become less and less, and the format gradually changed from a formal alliance document to something like a whistleblower letter. Moreover, more and more of the contents were The secret plans revealed to me, such as the Weight Plan and attempts to implement the Taichu Agreement, as well as the efforts of some rulers to try to reverse this trend of thought. But those efforts must have all failed."

"After a simple inspection to determine the bridge anchor point on the other side and the approximate cross-strait mapping relationship, the formal bridge-building operation began vigorously at the second over-limit test site, which is the endless test site, without verification or actual testing. It started in the eternal space. And what happens after that, I think you can connect the rest with your own history."

"This is a disaster. Anxiety about development, suspicion of the unknown, distrust and arrogance of elders, worries about the future, arrogance and arrogance of oneself, and interference and contamination by giant malicious meta-memes. The factors are superimposed and intertwined, working together to ultimately lead to disaster.”