Star Empire

"...Cavenriel, are you crazy?" Looking at the extremely impactful and gorgeous lights in the center of the conference table, which were changing like a ballroom, everyone couldn't help but feel a little strange. Not only these participants, but also the entire A large number of operators around the hall who are responsible for the synchronization and docking of various ship levels and personal level information in the fleet also cast curious eyes. Anyway, the content discussed in this meeting is something that civilization will have to face sooner or later in the future. From the current point of view, , The higher-ups of civilization don’t think this is worth keeping secret.

"Change your style, face this new knowledge, new environment, new encounters... It doesn't matter if I use a new speaking style, right? It won't affect efficiency anyway!"

Faced with the sudden interruption, Cavinrel felt a little dissatisfied at this time - "I said, how long have we been under that unknown shadow? Are you still willing to inherit that dull, stereotyped and strange thing?" Life style?”

"But this...now...well, I can't refute..." Vidoville waved his hand helplessly, "Please continue."

"Your Majesty the Archon, I suggest you give it a try - not for anything else, just for the sake of the path we can take in the future." Cavinriel suddenly became serious, and his words rang out from the secret will channel, " Everything we have now is based on the worldview that was finally formed by being guided, and now, we must find opportunities to start experimenting with everything again - otherwise, I am afraid that our path will continue to continue the shadow of the past."

"This...well, in a sense, you are indeed right." Vidoville and the girl next to him looked at each other and nodded in unison, "Please continue."

"Okay... I have to say that although there were quite a few surprises in this void detection, at the same time, we also made huge gains!"

"First of all, according to the calculation results, our fleet route has a certain "weight" in the direction of the Ark Trek on Earth 16. If we conduct this first test a little later, then our entire fleet may When entering the lost zone, communication between each other is likely to be directly cut off, and even our fleet may no longer be able to maintain the order field, and then be directly engulfed."

"It can be said that what happened to Ark No. 16 gave our entire exile fleet a new life!"

In Cavinriel's excited shouts, several floating light screens separated from the light beam, were magnified and highlighted, and displayed in front of everyone. When they saw the information displayed on the screen, everyone present couldn't help but tremble. Shivering: Although the "course" of the fleet is chaotic, there is still a general general trend in the end - if calculated based on the final direction of the fleet after the navigation rules are relatively clear, the fleet will collide with the barrier in at most two and a half months. bump.

"Of course, now we have circumvented this problem in advance, and after this problem, we already have a rough functional relationship - as long as we conduct some similar follow-up experiments within a certain period of time and test some details, we It won’t be long before we can figure out exactly what trajectory we’re on – at least then we’ll be able to quantify the parameters we can now adjust to sailing.”

Cavinrel's voice interrupted everyone's thinking, "The next thing is the key point. There is discontinuity in the void - for us, this is probably the first time we have observed it with our own technical equipment. Something that was not revealed in the original theory!”

"Regarding this, Zhai Cahir may have seen something, but he is still recuperating and cannot attend the meeting. However, he confessed before he fell into coma that this void discontinuity phenomenon is related to the "void boundary"... Also Cavenriel, can you calm down?" Listening to the voice in the light screen array that was already half an octave higher, Vidoville couldn't help it anymore.

"Ah... oh, I'm sorry, Lord Archon, but I think these findings are worthy of my emotional feedback." Under Vidoville's questioning, the somewhat frantic chief scientific officer finally calmed down a little, "Yes. Yes, you mentioned just now that the word General Master Zhai Cahir used when referring to this phenomenon was "demarcation"?"

"That's right." Victorville nodded, "It refers to void information communication. He emphasized this part."

"Then... the situation is very likely to be like this: originally we speculated that the unknown existence that sent the message may have interfered with the void structure, thus forming a "distortion zone" in the void, but if this phenomenon is not a "distortion zone" "If it is "demarcation", then the possibility of this explanation is relatively low."

"The word meaning locking bill we have carried out in order to strictly determine the stability of information transmission is of great value -" At this point, Cavinriel couldn't help but asked again seriously, "You must ensure the accuracy and the correct use of words." That’s the case—otherwise the changes between words are likely to bias the overall decision-making process.”

"I promise."

"Hmm... Then it is very possible that the void itself is not a completely continuous existence. The void is indeed not nothing. It may not be nothing as described in the theory of appearing out of thin air. Everything is incorrect - That may be an ideal statement. It is possible that in the void, on a large scale, there are still certain macroscopic "laws" reflected."

"What's the specific content?"

"After receiving the navigation data of the Sixteenth Ark, I used the margin left by Commander Zhai Cahir's broadcast to track the message that was quite powerful for us. The result was, After "drifting" a certain distance along the deviation direction of certain information, the difficulty of tracking this information suddenly rises. Considering that although the information itself is in contact with the void, it does not need to interact with the void except for the decomposition of the void... …”

"The survival of the Sixteenth Ark and its return data show that there is no abnormality in the order field in that area. Therefore, the void in that area blocks the transmission of information and the navigation of the Ark, most likely because of that area There is a big difference in the void. To give an inappropriate example, that "barrier" is like the dividing line between fresh water and salt water. We are not sure whether this theoretical barrier really divides the void, but At least for communications, the interference is real."

"Hmm..." Vidoville tapped the table gently, thinking about Cavinriel's words. On the side, Weisrifan, who had regained his composure, said: "What Cavin Riel said...makes sense, but we can't completely deny low-possibility conjectures until we are absolutely certain. Cavin Riel, please continue Combining the information sent by Zhai Cahir with the navigation data of the Sixteenth Ark, we will further try to analyze this "demarcation layer."

"Understood." Under the control of Cavinriel's consciousness, more light screens were separated from the entire light column and suspended between the previously enlarged light screens. A set of large holographic images were simultaneously projected to each in people's minds.

"The information sent by Zhai Cahir is a somewhat rough information deviation navigation method." Cavernrel used the pointer that looked like an ultraviolet laser cannon to indicate the interface left for him internally. Due to the synchronization The question swept out a circle of dazzling purple light outside.

"According to the revised navigation mapping rules, if this piece of void data from Zhai Cahir is applied to the void we are currently in, compared to the log data of the Sixteenth Ark, the communication content loss rate will reach 4%. More than fifteen, while the information intensity dropped by more than sixty percent. According to the second guess, there is a large and fixed gap between that part of the void and the part we are in, just like two incompatible systems Like the dividing line, it filters out the information encoded by our own algorithms."

"So, there is a big gap between the void itself on both sides of this "dividing line"? If you think about it this way, will there also be a big gap between the two parts of the void products?"

"Wait a minute... No, no, what I think is still a bit too simple... Although the exact source of the unified theory of information is unknown, at least we have verified most of its contents so far. There is no reason for only the description of the void to appear. Fallacy..." Cavinriel suddenly shook his head again, "The gap between such idealized models is too big, so the gap cannot be ignored..."

"As for the gaps in other aspects, this involves the issue of "compatibility"... I can only say that it is possible, but there was no problem with the voyage of the Sixteenth Ark itself. It was the communication fallacy that exposed the situation..."

"Theoretically, the void breeds infinite possibilities, and infinite orders have infinite combinations - our language does not have a fully compatible vocabulary. I think we should not jump to conclusions before we have deeper research. Good, otherwise, we may form wrong speculations and records when this knowledge system is almost blank... Archon, I can only give these guesses."

"It seems that the mystery in this is not enough to be analyzed by current knowledge... Okay, I understand." Vidoville nodded, "Then let's do something more realistic first. Cavenriel , can you roughly mark the "dividing line" on our current "void navigation chart"?"

"This is more difficult. After all, the void is infinite, and the range we can currently scan is too small."

Cavinrel's somewhat embarrassed voice came from the light beam, "However, marking within a certain range is not a big problem. According to the results scanned by my information broadcast, this layer of barrier is within certain information offset parameters. To measure, if this barrier is regarded as a film, then the position of this film..."

The window array surrounding everyone's heads was instantly greatly simplified. Among the remaining bright screens and holographic images, a golden, specially marked, huge and thick light wall stretched across the fleet. In this On the bright light wall, several strange symbols representing the information offset parameter range and numerical values ​​were marked in large black characters.

"According to the current situation, the range that our fleet can safely sail is right here. Taking these data as the final limit, what will happen if we cross this fuzzy limit... I have no way of guessing yet."

"Hmm... It seems like the fleet needs to make a big turn." Vidoville raised his voice and said into the beam of light, "Among the remaining directions we can move forward, choose one that can take into account both speed and distance from the boundary layer. And the shipping lanes of our home universe are contaminated by unknown sources!”

"clear!"

"Okay, except for those with senior management authority, everyone else should go back to their respective jobs. Pay attention to the content after the update. For us, the situation we have to face when entering the void from the universe can be Much more than ever went from planet to space."

Vidoville waved his hand and dismissed everyone, along with the light screen pillars surrounding the central ring hole of the table. At the same time, an invisible wall surrounded the table. Vidoville rested his chin on his hands, looked at the attendees around him, and his expression became serious:

"What should I do about the Internet?"

"First of all, this is our dereliction of duty." Eisendel and Cavinriel stood up together and apologized to Vidoville. "We will increase the level of perceptual thinking as soon as possible and reduce the use of logic modules that are no longer within the scope of application."

"The issue of responsibility is secondary. Counting Weisrifan and I, we have not considered this situation, let alone noticed it. The key situation at the moment is that we should spread the dispersion among those citizens as soon as possible. The data in the storage array must be gathered back quickly! However, the more difficult problem to deal with is that the underlying protocol does not allow us to do this! Especially now that even if the network segment has been divided and the arbiter computer has been destroyed, the underlying protocol still Our decision will still be blocked on the grounds that an empty authority did not participate in the decision! Now we can’t do anything!”

"It is indeed impossible to directly access everyone's private storage array... This is a troublesome thing, and they don't know it yet. I'm afraid it's not convenient to explain such a problem." Cavernell thought for a moment, "Now This data is like mist, dispersed in all network nodes, and every time we access it will cause storage reallocation. The more times we access it, the more difficult it will be to gather it in the end."

"By the way, Cavinriel, even when the Federation was still sound, the Arbiter computer did not have the authority to store information in those people's memories without permission. How did this network do this? "?" Weisrifan asked.

"I can only ask you or Mr. Victorville to check the underlying protocols and ancient laws." Cavernrel looked at the two consuls:

"To be able to do this, there must be a problem with the underlying protocol itself. It may be that some older, outdated but undeleted entries suitable for doomsday situations were activated under the current situation, or it was when we evacuated. , that weird pollution still affects us to a greater or lesser extent. After all, we finally concluded that that kind of pollution can spread along the information path, and before we left that universe, we had to pay attention to that kind of pollution and its Derived products have been observed.”

"Well... we can only let Zhai Cahir recover and take a look again. He said at the beginning that in his information perspective, the areas touched by that kind of pollution will show a weird "blind spot". Now This is the only way to detect whether that unfortunate thing is lurking in the corner of the civilized Ark fleet."

Vidoville shook his head in disappointment, "We are too passive now. By the way, how to deal with those discrete data? We still have enough storage equipment. We can split it again based on the current situation and ensure that the independent network segments have Is there enough storage capacity?”

"No, Your Excellency. Not only no, even the storage devices in the current network do not have enough storage capacity. If there are, the network as a whole will not reallocate these resources to ordinary nodes." Cavernrel He answered bluntly.

"...Perhaps, there is another device that can help translate and extract the information we need." Ikarim, who had been whispering to Isendel in a low voice with a very low sense of presence, suddenly said, "And, that device is Right now."

"What is that?" everyone asked in unison.

"That's it." Ikarim looked to the side, "The math rate core, it can simulate any kind of memory by building a 'pure mathematical environment' that can function in real conditions, and then shaping a suitable model. . And theoretically, there is almost no upper limit to this approach. No matter how high the development level is in the future, the upper limit is infinitely high. Of course, that requires us to have powerful enough equipment and enough energy."

Hearing this, Vidoville's eyes flashed, and Cavinriel and Isendel also breathed a sigh of relief. However, the question from Weisrifan once again cut off most of everyone's enthusiasm: "If you need to do it in mathematics, How much energy will be required to add an additional mathematical environment for storing data in the existing database while the rate core maintains fleet-wide time calibration and information offset master calculations?"

"Increase by 0.5%, there is no way Your Excellency, except for the unification of information and its related technologies that were screened out before we evacuated, from drilling wood to making fire to the present, there are also vast seas and federations that stretch for tens of billions of years. The huge accumulated historical records, coupled with the current authority network, personal information database, soul preservation redundancy, etc., it is also a severe test for the mathematical rate core to store such a huge amount of information."

Ikarim met Weisrifan's gaze and said, "Your Excellency, this is the most effective method at present. While the underlying protocol of the network still reserves read-only permissions for us in citizens' personal memories, The lost data must be recovered as soon as possible, otherwise if there is an accident and someone dies, the data stored in his memory will also be locked. In the absence of the highest authority to pass, this part of the data It’s really “dead”!”

"Where is the most important part of our data now?" Wei Ruifan asked, and soon she continued to add: "Now that there is an effective method, we must do it as soon as possible. If it is delayed, It would be a shame if something unexpected happened.”

"Understood, Your Excellency Vesrifan." Ikarim saluted to Vesrifan, "The most important part is mainly our scientific knowledge system and mathematical knowledge system. This part is mainly the unified theory of information. Before confirmation, the knowledge system based on the classic unified theory has relatively few technologies and concepts derived from the information unified theory; then there is the soul preservation system and its redundant units, which are necessary maintenance Generating modules; and then... our inherited memories."

"Then, if we eliminate the knowledge based on the classical unified theory and remove or reorganize relevant records, how much energy consumption can be reduced?" Wei Ruifan's eyes became sharp.

"Let me do some calculations..." Ikarim reached out and pulled out an information communication broadband cable from near the mathematical rate core, connected it to the back of his head, and began a high-intensity information exchange. Everyone stared at Ikarim silently, watching him with his eyes closed and his body emitting more and more intense golden light.

"Don't burn it out. His crystal energy fusion is not perfect yet. If it exceeds the high-frequency crystal energy crystallization disease, it will not be cured!" Cavernelle flew over and tugged on the gold thread that was getting brighter. Pulling away, the moment the light faded, he saw some bright golden fragments appearing on the back of Ikarim's neck.

"Are you okay? Wake up!"

"Hmm... It seems that the power is turned on a bit too much..." Icarim recovered from the link state in a daze, "Sir, after removing the corresponding information according to your request, the excess energy consumption can be reduced by another 20%. …Hiss, it hurts.”

"Is it not painful to suffer from crystal energy crystallization?" Cavinrel looked at Ikarim, who was holding the back of his neck, and couldn't help scolding, "High-frequency crystal energy, even those of us who have lived with the crystal energy environment for thousands of years, People who have been there for a long time don’t dare to approach at will. You are so powerful. You dare to use your body in a low fusion state to hard-wire crystal energy equipment. But fortunately, your body and soul have been transformed with basic chips after all. And the dose of radiation you received is not too large. After you rest for a while, your body will resolve it on its own."

"Weisrifan, I can understand the reason for abandoning the basic knowledge of the old theory. After all, in other universes, many detailed laws are likely to be brand new, and retaining those are of little use, but why reorganize such a large-scale memory stream? Then basically It records the entire federation." Vidoville looked at the consul next to him with a strange look in his eyes, "These contents are more or less of reference value, even if viewed from a third-party perspective."

"It is naturally impossible to abandon these records. To separate our memory of the Federation is to completely separate us. This is something we cannot allow under any circumstances - but now, our civilization itself is driven by indescribable circumstances, and we have We are on a completely different path. In this regard, we must re-examine and think about some of the possible experiences we have had, some of the possible ideas we have had, and some of the dark corners that have never been considered. Did we miss something or label something incorrectly?”

The girl stared at everything in front of her seriously, "We are walking in the unknown. Right and wrong have now lost the standard of measurement."

"We must be more prepared to face the unknown."

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"That's true, but to reconstruct our entire memory flow on such a large scale? Do you mean... just let us just use our own impressions and memories to replace all of this...?" Hearing Everyone couldn't help but be surprised at Weisrifan's order.

"If from all subjective and objective perspectives, our experiences, our memories, and everything we create are inaccurate, and may even be some kind of weird secret destiny, then how much energy do you think we can have? To study and ponder countless similar but worthless things in tens of billions of years of stagnation? Besides, I mean reconstruction, we must seriously add our own thinking to it instead of completely eliminating it!"

"We must think carefully and study what is behind those data and records! In other words, relatively speaking, we need to let ourselves re-participate in the influence process of that part of the information! This process is exactly the same as ours Do the opposite!"

Weisruifan slapped the table with a cold face, "Think about it carefully. After you were exposed to crystal energy radiation until now, when you recall the past stories, you have not felt anything abnormal at all, or do you think that any discerning person would? We should see clearly that the parts that need to be improved in terms of logic and behavior, but the parts that need to be cut out are all lying openly in the entire federal system - don't you feel that it is inappropriate at all?"

"Lil, you—!" Vidoville was shocked, and immediately subconsciously pulled the somewhat excited girl under the protective panel of the table and protected her tightly with his body. At the same time, he used his own The command activated all regional protective facilities in the entire Ark main control hall.

"In any case, it seems that setting up these sectoral protections... is absolutely reasonable at this point."

Under such an awkward and inexplicable scene, Vidoville was like a cave creature carefully spying on its natural enemies from the entrance of a cave. His eyes wandered around the surrounding environment and all the participants. However, even though he No matter how short the time his eyes stay in each place, with the help of the current system and the correction and assistance of the gain plug-in after the body adapts to the crystal energy, he has the ability to clearly feel everything around him.

"Two consuls, what are you..."

Under this inexplicable action, Vidoville felt a little at ease - under the disturbance of the surveillance and perception ability that he directly squeezed from his soul, everything around him was still stable - there was a figure standing steadily in the center The majestic mathematical rate core is connected by four crystal rails to the surrounding ring-shaped control consoles. In the shipboard control hall, which has finally regained its vitality after countless years, all curious people carefully cast their eyes on this. The direction, and the strange looks from the surrounding people looking at him made him calm down.

The feeling of expressionless gaze that seemed to be made up of countless, sticky and wriggling indescribable things in the cold light and shadow did not appear, nor did those unaffected, spontaneous feelings of curiosity and fear appear. .

Looking around, the gurgling crystal energy light flow is still as usual, shining with a bright and warm light golden light. The dome of the hall that is close to the hemispherical shell is like a solid fortress that firmly protects everything. The solid crystal energy armor plates remained strong and stable under the intense gaze.

What he had encountered in the Odosil Council Temple, that terrifying realization that seemed to be enough to see through the body structure, ignore defenses, penetrate history, and see through the future, did not appear here.

"Perhaps... we can mention these contents openly now... No matter how long it takes us to re-establish a new comprehensive concept of life and cognition... at least, it is safe now." Vidoville relaxed for a long time. Take a breath.

"...Is it safe?" In his arms, the body tightly hugged by him came from a somewhat suspicious question, "No matter what, now is the best opportunity, we must explain everything to the people around us! If you are suppressed like this all the time, then I'm afraid..."

"Do you think a gaze that can penetrate the world can't kill us?" Vidoville quickly stood up and helped Weisrifan tidy up her somewhat messy shoulder straps and outer windbreaker.

"Your idea is correct, but I must also do my best to consider it - at least now, we can be considered safe. The power of that kind of disaster is unparalleled, and as far as I feel... that kind of existence... ...It cannot affect the disturbance range of crystal energy. Since it has affected us to such an extent, then after being crushed by that weird disaster, it will probably become more violent and ruthless——"

"Then if - forget it, if it's too much, I..."

"You don't need to say anything - everything around us has long been exposed to the absolute unknown. No matter whether we guess or detect - all our original theories have been completely invalidated. Now, maybe The most direct feeling is the most worthy of our trust.”

"You two, what are you..." Seeing these two people who seemed not to be in the current world suddenly seemed to be attacked after dropping a topic, Ikarim couldn't help but feel a little strange.

"...Forget it, don't ask. No one can give an explanation for all this now. We can't even explain it to ourselves." Cavernrel's eyes wandered from confusion to clarity several times before finally finally He said slowly, "Maybe... there may be some contents that we need to experience and understand on our own... Please pay more attention to yourself and the environment around you."

"Just now...oh, there is something about history." Weisrifan turned his attention back to the main topic just now, "A world that seems to us to be uniform...three civilizations were born...Yes , three kinds of—we can’t even equip under such circumstances—diplomatic systems!”

"I would like to remind everyone that among the considerable amount of historical data we have preserved, there are a considerable number of existences - from contact with the Zerg to the independence of the Federation as a whole - the historical views we have formed - all of them are... It requires us to record all this fairly and objectively from a third-party perspective!" Cavernelle suddenly reminded.

"...What's wrong with this...?"

"Ikarim, now I don't know if what I said is correct. After all, after the total logic library connected to the rational thinking module was disintegrated, we also... But there is still a problem in the middle. This is not the way to say it. There is a problem, but rather the derivative parts associated with it…may be problematic.”

"Let me explain, this...maybe safer...In any case, judging from our personal behavior, if we want to survive and pass on, then we must fight for resources for ourselves, as small as for ourselves, and for civilization as big as... But our history says nothing of that—there’s nothing wrong with a fair and comprehensive record, but what about our thinking and understanding of it? What about the benefit and significance of those records to our civilization?”

Weisrifan's eyes swept across the entire scene, "Our current civilization still allows us to survive with such a body and habits...after a long time..."

"?"

"No, there is no need to talk about this part now." Wei Ruifan waved his hand, "Think back on those eternal and lengthy historical records with huge capacity. To put it nicely... they are like a running account, to put it harshly... you Don’t you think that looks like a log file?”

The girl deliberately said the four words "log file" in a particularly emphatic way.

"……So……"

"I've finished talking about all the possibilities related to this. Now I'll return the topic to you - in the current technology and knowledge system, there should be high and low weights, right?"

"There is a category that can be said to occupy the highest weight of all knowledge, but it is quite common." Ikarim replied, "Superconceptual mathematics, or omnidirectional transcendental mapping model construction analysis, they must take priority no matter what. exist."

"In the core of mathematical efficiency, through the virtual-energy-injection-substantial transformation of mathematical models, mathematical models can be put into the real world, and all information combinations and action rules in the real world can ultimately be expressed by mathematical models. ——Mathematical models allow variables at almost any level and range of changes to exist, and in the entire theoretical mapping space, the effects and range of changes of these variables are also considerable.”

"From this point of view, I have to say...even if the Federation...but during the Great Stagnation, the rapid development in the direction of mathematical models has enabled the entire civilization to lay a foundation for the update of the information perspective to a certain extent, and it is quite solid."

Vidoville raised his head and looked at the countless golden screens floating in the sky and around the entire hall, which were used to monitor the situation of the entire fleet, indicate the situation of the order field, the core operation status, the stability of the information structure, etc., between each screen Except for some simple lines, the rest are all unpredictable and complex mathematical formulas and equations.

"...There is indeed something reliable, but we cannot relax completely. We don't know the technical system we have now, including the use and control of crystal energy, the understanding and use of the world structure, and the things we were once extremely familiar with. How many systems are absolutely universal, and how many have sufficient scope of application, but no matter what... the inheritance of most knowledge cannot be interrupted, and these contents, at least in the first impression... they still have their uses. .”

"... Let's adjourn the meeting first. You should make backups of necessary information as soon as possible. In this case, our database and knowledge system can no longer withstand the blow." Vidoville waved his hand absently, "According to the method we have discussed so far. Just do it…we all need time to collect our thoughts.”

After he subconsciously opened the protective system before shutting down, several participants around him returned to their jobs sporadically. Some of them were still confused, and their world view seemed to have been hit in the head. Some people's eyes kept floating, as if they were absent-minded.

After the other participants dispersed, Vidoville held Weisrifan's hand. At the same time, a highly confidential barrier was quickly pulled up from around the conference table to protect the two of them.

"This is a higher level of confidentiality." Vidoville even seemed a little nervous at this time, "...it seems that you are not completely unaware of the speculation and feeling."

"...Unless there is more direct and clear evidence, everything we are doing now...I can only choose not to think about it, but just be prepared to see if we can cope with the changes by staying the same." When mentioning this , Weisrifan also became a little more serious, and even owed a few points to Vidoville, as if this could reduce the sense of presence and the chance of leakage.

"Tens or even tens of billions of years of stagnation, especially at the microscopic level. Our accelerators are even powerful enough to penetrate the universe, but they still cannot extract any more information from those microscopic particles; our thoughts are stuck. Due to the gap between matter and space-time, the unification of the four fundamental forces is far from being able to unify the universe into a singularity or the situation at the very early stage of the Big Bang. However, few people have tried to make changes, even if the previous handful have passed away. Scientists have tried to make changes, but they have been inexplicably killed in the demonstration stage."

"I'm sure that even without the crystal energy vortex attached to the world barrier, as long as there are sufficient experimental conditions, we will not be the ones to bring the unified information into the federal knowledge system. But in such a free federation, they Thoughts that should have been respected have been strangled inexplicably.”

"That's not what worries me." Vidoville also tilted his body, further closing the distance between himself and Vesrifan. The two of them could even be said to be biting their ears: "After the Ark Fleet leaves the world barrier, At that time, we received the undecipherable message. This message was not sent after our passive void exploration ship left the world barrier, nor was it sent after major problems occurred in the target universe or our universe."

"Based on these circumstances, I have reason to believe that perhaps there is indeed an existence that we don't know about and how many levels above us is observing us in the dark and even affecting us."

"What do you think the purpose of 'them' will be?" Weisrifan asked softly. The Ark seemed to have turned into a submarine, and sailing near them was a fleet of concealed objects that could tear apart space. , a slightly louder conversation can lead to disaster.

"I don't know, but according to the current situation, I think 'they' are preventing us from leaving the world barrier."

"Maybe there is one more thing." Weisrifan added, ""They" may be observing us, secretly guiding us to fail to discover the unity of information, observing what will happen when we are unable to break out of the universe, and what will happen to us? How to deal with a situation like this.”

"...I don't know why this is happening, but...what should we do now..."

"Us?" Wei Ruifan frowned slightly.

"...Yes, we, at a small level, we are the two of us, the people who can lead this fleet forward, but at a large scale, the entire fleet, this civilization. Just now...you should also be able to feel that we The meetings and topics are actually not clear, with guessing, confusion, jumps... Similar discontinuities and jumps appear frequently. Indeed, if we only need one result, then we really don't need to care much about logic, but if we talk about our logic Itself is already unstable, so our cognitive and thinking tools for understanding everything and reality..."

"We cannot doubt ourselves, let alone make unreasonable guesses about everything we do - we have been looking at the world through an inexplicable veil for a long time. When this veil is lifted...the reality of the world What is the situation? How many things can we do and cannot do at present? How accurate is our cognition? How many actions are under influence and born from the shadow..."

"... We have formed a set of cognitive systems under this influence... that may have been formed by unknown influences, so how will this affect our future..." Vidoville looked at the tightly locked The gate looks like a road that has become a dead end.

"Perhaps, everything we have established now is really not as reliable as... a child starting from scratch."

"But we have now pushed part of the world structure away from the world, and we are still surviving stably in the void that does not follow any rules. We can even continue to discuss these things now."

Weisrifan reached out and pulled Victorville's shoulder back to face him: "No matter what, I can only maintain the status quo now and take it one step at a time... Trust your first feeling, and then..."

"Don't think too much."

(One chapter cannot be restored, so the modified and rewritten part is placed here. The missing parts of the two chapter numbers are the same, and the content is in a connected state, with no direct gaps.

I hope you understand, thank you. )