Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 819

[Chapter 800: Focus on the future]

After hearing what Pilot 2 said, Duncan’s expression immediately became a little solemn. He stared into the eyes of the person opposite and said in a deep voice: “A bigger ‘Infinite Sea’? Why do you think so?”

Pilot 2 briefly After thinking for a while, I briefly organized my thoughts and suddenly asked a seemingly irrelevant question: “In the world where you were born, the civilization that created you, have they reached the ‘last step’?”

“The last step? “

“Duncan frowned when he heard this, “You mean…”

“Master all the truths in the world where you live, know all the mysteries and the beginning and future of the universe, and have the ability to control the universe itself. Make changes – the laws of nature become a tool that can be readjusted and set, rather than an iron law that must be passively adapted. “

Pilot 2 said, with a hint of emotion and nostalgia in his expression, before appearing in this posture. After that, even his “emotional” changes seemed to be much closer to human beings.

“My creators gave this stage of civilization a name. They called it ‘transcendental criticality’ – although they themselves failed to reach this stage in the end, they also touched its threshold and continued to do so. This summarized the conditions required to reach this stage, and their crowning achievement… was to create a ‘time capsule’ during the construction of New Hope, and use it to arrive at the end of the world.

“The fire usurpers, although my creators have not really reached the “transcendence critical point”, they have concluded through huge calculations: ‘Mortals’ can indeed reach this height through civilization

.

Power, the mathematical cornerstone of the universe can be pried. “

Pilot 2 stared closely into Duncan’s eyes, as if heavy pressure was condensed in his eyes.

“Fire Usurper, I have observed you for a long time and made careful calculations. The civilization behind you has gone further than my creators. What I want to know is whether they have really arrived. That ‘last step’? My creators, are their judgments about the end of truth… correct?”

Facing Pilot 2’s burning eyes, Duncan finally nodded slightly.

“Yes, they have achieved it.”

This may be the answer that Pilot 2 has been waiting for for such a long time, but the moment he really heard the answer, his eyes suddenly became blank, and he stood blankly. It took several seconds for him to suddenly react: “This stage really exists…so civilization can really ‘finally cross the line’…the system is open…”

Duncan frowned and was about to ask something, but Navigator 2 seemed to suddenly wake up and spoke quickly: “That civilization must have realized the observation of the outside of the universe? Do they know the existence of other universes and have begun to think about it? How to get through that ‘barrier’?”

Duncan was slightly startled, and then he recalled in his mind the “message” he heard from human civilization in that bright starlight.

A message beyond the cognitive model. The events occurred “outside the universe”.

After thinking briefly, Duncan spoke: “I’m not sure if they have started thinking about other universes, and I’m not sure what the ‘barrier’ you mentioned is, but they did clearly observe events ‘outside the universe’ ——The first and last ‘extraterrestrial event’ they observed was the ‘Great Annihilation’ that had not invaded the real dimension at that time, or strictly speaking… it was other worlds that were crashing in. “

” Yes, that’s it! Unequivocal observation of events outside the universe! It’s the first step – the ‘first step’ that exists only in theory, and that my creators ultimately wanted to see if it could be done. …..This is it!”

Pilot Two said quickly, and he became excited. This was the first time he was so excited since they met – this man in white robes, imitating a long-dead mortal, The man with a tired face walked excitedly and circled the hill several times. Then he suddenly stopped in front of Duncan, his eyes seeming to burn.

The wind blew over the hills, the vast plains in the distance were filled with grass waves, and the rivers were sparkling.

“The Fire Usurper, ‘outside the universe’, this is the key, the universe exists. The ‘outside’ world is not unique. The essence of the Great Annihilation is the collision of multiple universes. In other words – in the ‘Great Annihilation’ In the face of such a level of disaster, if you do not have the ability to jump out of

the world , then no matter how high a civilization develops, no matter how huge and sturdy a shelter we build, it will be meaningless, even if it is as big as a galaxy.

As big as a super galaxy cluster, when another world crashed in with

a roar –

Pilot 2 opened his hands and gestured in a somewhat exaggerated gesture – it seemed that he was not just imitating the appearance of one of his creators , and even imitated a piece of living personality data, which made him behave like an ordinary mortal at the moment:

“Pop, like a soap bubble, it shattered. “

He maintained this posture, with a complicated expression on his face. He seemed to be trying to force a smile, but it was as if he was about to cry.

“In the face of ‘external events’, no structure within the universe has strength. It can’t hold up, just like the shell of New Hope… We even used neutron star material to make its shell, but it shattered like paper…”

Duncan slowly opened his eyes. His eyes closed, and suddenly, he seemed to understand what this ancient “artificial intelligence” wanted to say to him.

“…So, a civilization must ensure that it has the ability to ‘jump out of the world’ before it can truly.” Safety’,” he said in a deep voice, “but now none of us have reached this level. Even the civilization behind me only saw the threshold of jumping out of the world at the height of ‘transcendence critical’, so we retreated. Secondly, we must ensure that there is the possibility of ‘jumping out of the world’ in the ‘new world’, or in other words…”

“The latecomers born in the ‘new world’ must have the opportunity to develop. At that height,” Navigator 2 raised its head and said solemnly, “The new world must allow this possibility and be able to ‘accommodate’ this possibility.”

Duncan did not speak for a while.

He felt an unspeakable…shock.

Pilot 2, this ancient “artificial intelligence”, has such long-term considerations that it has even surpassed all other “ancient kings”. When everyone is still thinking about whether this shelter can be saved, , what he was thinking about… was already the destruction of the new world.

Because destruction is bound to happen, maybe another great annihilation, or maybe it’s something else.

“Fear, this is the first ’emotion’ I have learned,” the voice of Pilot 2 came, very smooth and low, “The things I worry about…may seem too far away, but in the past few days After thousands of external sensors described to me the ‘feeling’ when the universe collapsed, this “fear” has become a part of my underlying logic. I know that such an event will happen again sooner or later.

“The Fire Usurper, I don’t feel safe, and so do several others – the ‘mortals’ in the shelter call us ‘gods’, but what they don’t know is that their ‘gods’ are immersed in great fear from morning to night, As long as we remember that there is a catastrophe on the scale of the ‘Great Annihilation’, and as long as we have not found a way to fight it, this fear will never go away, and this urgent desire for ‘security’ keeps me going. Thinking about a question…

“To what stage can civilization develop, and to what stage must it develop, in order to truly resist all disasters and survive them.

“Perhaps this will never end, but at least within the scope of what I can understand, ‘jump out The world’ will be a crucial node in this. “

Duncan broke the silence: “…and what you were worried about at one time was actually two things. The first one is whether it is possible for mortal civilization to develop to the level of ‘jumping out of the world’. The second thing is what I created.” Can the ‘new world’ – if it really exists – be able to ‘accommodate’ the development of civilization?”

Pilot 2 nodded slightly and asked a question: “Fire Usurper, you know the real world. ‘What’s the biggest difference between ‘sanctuaries’ like the Infinite Sea?”

Duncan didn’t answer, and Navigator 2 already gave the answer on its own –

“The word ‘possibility’ is intuitive but not enough. To be precise, in my opinion, the biggest difference between the two is ‘random’. “

Duncan repeated subconsciously: “Random?”

“A complete and healthy real universe allows the occurrence of ‘true randomness’,” Pilot 2 said slowly, “but in the shelter, there is only ‘pseudo-randomness’. “

Duncan understood the meaning of the other party’s words almost immediately.

“So, there will never be anything inside the shelter that exceeds the ‘information limit’ of the shelter,” he said quickly, “just like a villain on a two-dimensional plane. No matter how fast you run, even if you master the ability to teleport on a plane, you will never be able to “stand up” – only a system that allows for ‘true randomness’ can allow ‘supercritical’ events that jump out of the system!”

” My creators, calling this event the “Final Transgression,” believe that this may be the final stage in the development of mortal civilization… until then, we will be safe. “

Pilot Two said softly, slowly raising his head and staring at the empty sky.

It seemed that there was an end point that New Hope could never reach.

Duncan finally understood what Pilot One said to him when he was in the deep sea. What does the sentence mean –

“In fact, Pilot 2 had already calculated the outcome of this journey as early as the moment it set off. “

The end point that New Hope can never reach is a chasm that stands in front of the civilization stage. In front of this chasm, there is a spacecraft driven by a jump engine and a shell made of neutron star materials, and a weapon that is thrown hard by soldiers. There is no difference between the steel sword in the sky,

because in the face of “external events”, no structure within the universe has strength.