Y'zaks told Hao Ren what had happened in the past. Perhaps it was too long ago that his memories were a little messy. What left the deepest impression on him was the reaction of the strange old man after he was captured by the demon guards.
"He wasn't afraid of me at all. Even when I stood in front of him in my original form, it was useless." Y 'zaks found it a little unbelievable when he thought about it. "The flames on my body ignited his robe, but the old man just slapped out the flames on his robe and asked me to put him back so that he could continue his experiment. I had never seen such a guy before, and I thought it was interesting, so I gave him two choices.
"I told him that because he was a very interesting human and brought me a great sense of novelty, I would show him mercy and let him choose between the two choices. The first choice was to spare his life. He could leave this place freely, but he was not allowed to take anything with him because those things were the spoils of war of the demon army. The second choice was to allow him to go back to continue his experiment, but he would only have one year left to live. After his death, his soul would belong to me. "
Y'zaks suddenly made a face when he said this. Of course, he could just roll his eyes. After all, this big brother's face usually looked like a grimace, and any expression he made would be too effective. "Now that I think about it, it's a little... Uh, shameful. I was young at that time, and I wanted to catch up with the trend and gain some popularity. At that time, it was popular among the demons to scare humans, grant a wish, and take away the soul. This way, I could show my 'king's demeanor'. At that time, I thought that a normal human would choose to live, but the old man surprised me again. "
"He chose to stay for the experiment, right?" Hao Ren had expected this. Such a story was not surprising to him, but it must have been something new to Y'zaks back then. "What was he researching?"
"He was studying the universe and what was outside the 'space bubble zone'." Y'zaks nodded. "I didn't understand these things at that time. I just thought that the old man was really interesting. He was crazy and dared to challenge the demons, so I let him continue his experiment. Unexpectedly, the old man thanked me, turned around, and went back to his laboratory. He continued his research in the ruins of the kingdom of demons. This time, I couldn't control my curiosity, so I went to see what he was researching.
"Then, he told me about his' space bubble zone 'conjecture. Like a teacher educating his students, he did not care about my demon identity at all. He gave me a book in a serious manner and stood in front of his lab bench to talk about it. He mentioned a very novel conjecture that scholars of all races had never thought of before. Do you remember that I just told you that the spatial structure of my home is different from the other universes? We have a lot of fragmented space 'capsule' structures, and the entire universe seems to be made up of such small bubbles. The 'sac' did not have a celestial structure as large as the Milky Way. Most of the space was occupied by a continent, or the largest space bubble did not exceed the size of a galaxy. The old man called this structure the 'space bubble zone' and strictly categorized each space bubble. He had been studying these things all his life and had come up with a theory that the bubble zone was not the true face of the universe, but a twisted, abnormal galaxy. He found that there were many problems with the laws of physics in the bubble zone, so he speculated that the entire bubble zone was not formed naturally, but was formed by the distortion and shattering of a normal galaxy after a certain celestial body underwent a drastic change a few years ago. He thought that the bubble zone was actually just a very inconspicuous oasis in the real universe, and a very unstable and abnormal oasis. The real endless world was outside. As long as you cross the outermost layer of the bubble, you can see the endless starry sky. "
Y 'zaks suddenly exhaled. "Just like the starry sky I see in your world."
Hao Ren thought for a moment. "... This place has been smoggy for more than a year. Can you see the stars?"
Y 'zaks rolled his eyes and patted Hao Ren on the shoulder. "So Vivian is right. Your mouth has evolved to eat and drink, and it's useless!"
Hao Ren smiled awkwardly. "Go on, go on."
"Our world can't see the starry sky like yours," Y 'zaks took a sip of wine. "When you look up at the sky in a space capsule or a space bubble, you see all kinds of strange things. There are planets, auroras, phantoms of nearby space, and occasionally a few stars. But you will never see a sky full of stars. For thousands of years, people in our world have regarded this as a normal phenomenon. Only the old man felt that something was wrong. He did not know how to calculate the theoretical size of the universe, and found that the size was surprisingly large, so he desperately tried to find the boundary of the bubble zone. According to your world, he should be a scientific genius. But in our world, he was just a lunatic, and he was born in a small human kingdom ruled by idiots, which made him an annoying lunatic. That's why he was so down and out when I first met him. In our world, as an alchemist, if you can't make war weapons useful to the country or luxury goods useful to the nobles, you're a failure. The old man only knew how to study the stars and space, so he was ostracized by everyone. If it wasn't for his father's noble blood, he would have been kicked out of the royal city. "
Y 'zaks paused for a moment, and a strange smile appeared on his face. "Ironically, this' useless alchemist 'who was ostracized by human society finally built his long-awaited large laboratory in the demon kingdom. All kinds of advanced equipment that the human kingdom could not produce were later built in the demon world."
Hearing this, Hao Ren could almost guess what was going to happen next. "So under the guidance of this scientist, you opened your eyes and found that the sea of stars is a man's romance, and began to plan for the world's great unity..."
It turned out that Hao Ren's ideas were only suitable to appear in stories. The reality was probably not so good. Y 'zaks shook his head and said, "No, I didn't have such a high consciousness at first. Like everyone else, I only thought of one thing — if the' bubble zone 'theory is true, then the whole universe is actually a small piece of the universe. Whoever can find the boundary of the bubble zone is equivalent to gaining an endless territory. That's what I thought."
Hao Ren was speechless.
"So the only difference between me and the others was that no one believed in the little old man's words, but I did." Y 'zaks grinned and made a face. "I felt that there was an endless territory outside the bubble zone that I could conquer, and this could show my power. So I decided to support the little old man's research project. I made him my chief scholar, responsible for finding the boundary of the bubble zone. My change of mind happened hundreds of years after that.
"The little old man's research was indeed not a hot-headed delusion. He spent most of his life calculating the whole world, and he had found the law of the interconnection of the bubble zone. He just hadn't found the law outside the bubble zone yet. With the help of his semi-finished products, I expanded the territory more than twice as fast as the other demons. This made me more and more believe in the theory of the bubble zone, and I was actively looking for ways to break through it. It was in this process that I slowly discovered the vastness of the universe, and the blindness of the various races in the world.
"It's ironic. I'm the demon who started the most wars, but I was also the first demon to discover the blindness of war.
"One year, I formed an expeditionary force to explore the edge of the 'world' according to the rules of teleportation that the little old man had researched. I personally led the team. The exploration was not a success, but we went further than anyone had ever gone before. We saw amazing things that no one had ever seen before: a storm that covered the entire planet, an atmospheric bridge that spanned the two Gemini stars, a deadly cosmic environment, and many other things. My expeditionary force was directly exposed in space during a teleportation accident. More than half of them died on the spot. My most powerful general was captured by a dim planet and instantly turned into ashes. During that decade-long journey, I saw an indescribably great power, the power of nature that no race in the world — even powerful creatures like demons — could resist. Countless races blindly and ignorantly fought for the leftovers in the bubble zone. No one had ever thought that there was such a great truth shrouding the small world outside.
"The little old man was also in the expeditionary force. I transformed him into a half-demon so that he could study the secrets of the universe for me for a longer time. Even so, he had reached the limit of human life. He signed up for the expeditionary force so that he could see the things that he had calculated with his own eyes before he died.
"In the end, we didn't reach the border of the bubble zone. The little old man was exposed to high-energy radiation on the day that the expeditionary force decided to return. He soon died.
"Before he died, he told me that when you fly so far away and look back at the direction you came from, everyone will realize that you were once an idiot.
"So I led the expeditionary force back. In the second year, I began my unified war plan.
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