The little girl that I jokingly called a Mixed Elemental lifeform was indeed a rare case. Right now, she still had parts of a human's body structure, but the energy system in her body was designed according to the Shiring Apostles. At the same time, she also possessed a portion of the Protoss's power. This made it almost impossible for her to be categorized as a race — perhaps the Supreme Goddess of Life could consider creating a class of primates and name her Xi Yan.
Originally, according to the general logic of the Shiring Apostles, those who possessed the mark of the Empire were the property of the Empire. Since the little girl named Xi Yan had Psionic energy in her body, it was only natural that she had to listen to the orders of the Empire. However, this obviously didn't take into consideration her human rights as a free person. If it was Sandora, perhaps she would naturally give Xi Yan a Imperial Army number and order her to report to the army. However, after some consideration, I decided that it would be better to let the little girl choose how she wanted to live.
Xi Yan was obviously a little surprised by my decision. Even when we were bidding each other farewell, she was still sizing up my older sister and me suspiciously. Regrettably, until the very end, I still wasn't able to change the unfortunate child's way of addressing me as "Uncle."
Getting to know that little girl was a small interlude, but it made me ponder even more. That was: Could this be a special case?
After returning to the guest hall, I pressed Pandora and Pandora down on the chairs. Then, I mentioned the matter of the little girl named Xi Yan to Sandora. The latter obviously didn't care much about a stranger who possessed Psionic energy, but she was very interested in the Empire's legacy. She also said what I was thinking about.
"After the collapse of the old Empire, there were obviously countless legacies left behind. Battleships, outposts, colonized planets, and even probes in remote areas. The number of things that a civilization that transcends the Void can leave behind is astonishing. It's impossible for the collapse of the Empire to erase all of those relics. Right now, they are wandering in some corners of the Void and some remote worlds. Some of them might even be operational — these legacies can allow a civilization to advance by leaps and bounds into the ranks of high-end civilizations, but they can also cause a great disaster."
This was the new thought that Xi Yan's incident had given us. A certain reckless Protoss had used an Empire base to create a non-staff Shiring Apostles. At the very least, that outpost was now under our control. But what about the rest? There were also countless outposts scattered across thousands of worlds. Even if only 1% of them were still operational, they would be ticking time bombs.
"I'm afraid that similar things have happened before," the Dark Goddess, who had been silent all this while, suddenly said softly, attracting everyone's attention. "My sentinel once reported that an unprecedented war suddenly broke out in a world, and the entire civilization was instantly wiped out. The combat team that arrived later found something that looked like Schilling technology, but there were only two or three similar reports, so there was no reference. "
"Maybe some civilization discovered the ruins of the Empire and mistakenly used the weapons inside for civil war." Sandora sighed. "This kind of thing is not unexpected. Something similar to the Olympus organization has happened on Earth."
How should I put it? This was equivalent to giving more than 20 Big Iwans to every vassal during the Warring States Period. Allowing a young civilization to master doomsday weapons had always been the greatest mass murder. Low-level civilizations that were still in the stage of civil war would not be able to resist the power and charm of the Empire's weapons. There would always be lunatics among them who would let the light of psionic cannons shine on their heads. When Shallow shallow learned to use a fruit knife at the age of five, that was a painful lesson.
After a short discussion, Sandora and I unanimously decided to add one more task to the daily work of the Space Administration: Be vigilant of abnormal technological explosion in your own world at all times. Once a country suddenly mastered the power of technology that exceeded a certain threshold, we had to ascertain whether someone had unearthed the ruins of the Empire in the shortest time possible. The special forces of the Space Administration would be responsible for retrieving those relics.
This was a reminder from Xi Yan's case. It was also one of the small inspirations that we received after coming to the God Realm. The main thing that God Father wanted to discuss with us was the recent abnormal actions of the Fallen Apostles. In this aspect, we had already reached a consensus. After finalizing a few future actions, especially the details of the opening of a teleportation portal to the God Realm in the City of Shadows, Sandora and I decided to bid farewell and leave. We also got Pandora to bring back Liliana and the others who had gone crazy from playing. However, before we left, God Father said something that made me stay behind.
"Friend, follow me. There are some things that I should tell you personally."
It seemed that the actions of the Fallen Apostles were only one of the reasons why God Father had invited us to the God Realm. His other goal was to tell me something.
After Sandora led the big and small family out of the Temple of Father, God Father led me into the depths of the Temple of Father.
This was an extremely long and serene corridor. The entrance was guarded by twice the number of guards. Perhaps this was an indication of how unusual it was. In the hallway, only my footsteps and God Father's echoing footsteps could be heard. Bindis and Dingdang didn't follow me.
We had already been walking down this long corridor for ten minutes. God Father was still leading the way without saying a word. I didn't know if I should open my mouth to break the silence, so I followed behind him silently for the time being. Behind us, the entrance of the corridor had already disappeared. There wasn't even a single light dot to be seen. This meant that this corridor was slightly curved. In front of us, there was still no end to the long corridor. At the start, the walls on both sides of the corridor were filled with exquisite murals and sculptures that could be seen everywhere in the Temple of Father. However, the deeper we went, the fewer things there were on the walls. Now, there were only bare white stone walls and torches with white flames rising from them. I felt that I might have already left the core area of the Temple of Father. Now that this corridor had entered a special place, the architectural features of the Temple of Father gradually disappeared. It was as though I had walked into an ancient tomb.
"Do you know what the Abyss is?"
I suddenly heard a calm voice beside my ear. I realized that God Father had finally spoken.
"Consciousness of destruction?" I recalled the knowledge that I had received from Sandora. "Something that doesn't belong to matter or energy. The essence of its existence is destruction. It leads all orderly things to an end. It's similar to will, but purer than will. The most dangerous thing in the multiverse. It's invisible and has no substance. It spreads quickly and its source is unknown. However, it seems to be related to the void. "
"Yes, this answer is enough for all of you," God Father said in a low voice.
At this moment, we had finally reached the end of the corridor. There was still that indescribable feeling of distance. It was as though we had reached our destination in an instant. We had arrived in a vast, pitch-black space. The corridor behind us could no longer be seen.
My eyes tried to adapt to the surrounding darkness, but I still couldn't see anything clearly. Even my spiritual power, which I was already familiar with, couldn't detect anything. This place that could possibly be a 'hall' prevented outsiders from observing its true appearance in any way. Both vision and spiritual power were blocked.
"Let there be light," God Father said.
God Father said. Thus, I finally saw the situation clearly.
This wasn't a hall at all. It wasn't even an indoor space. We were now standing at the edge of a circular balcony with a radius of a few hundred meters. The center of this huge circular space was slightly sunken. Outwards, there were staircase platforms that were more than ten meters wide. Each platform had a drop of about one meter. This made it look like an ancient arena. At the edge of the circular space was a circle of neatly arranged giant stone pillars. Every giant stone pillar was equally spaced, and they were about a hundred meters tall. Above the stone pillars were broken arc-shaped stones that floated randomly. These giant stones would occasionally drift together to form a giant circle with a radius similar to that of the 'arena' below. However, that was only for a moment. In the few minutes that I had been observing, they had spent most of their time wandering aimlessly in the sky. They looked like space debris that had lost its gravity.
The entire space was floating in a desolate space. Apart from the circular 'arena' beneath our feet, there was nothing else around us. There was only the cold, deathly darkness that shrouded the platform.
I looked at this strange place curiously. I didn't understand why God Father had brought me here. It looked like an independent space. The boundless darkness around me interfered with my senses, making it impossible for me to accurately determine my current spatial coordinates. However, my connection to the spiritual link was still open. The feedback told me that I was still in a certain space in the God Realm.
"Look at those things," God Father said with a smile.
He extended his hand and pointed at the giant stone pillars. "They form a barrier that prevents the void outside from interfering with the order here. It's absolutely safe inside this platform, but once you leave this barrier, you'll enter the void directly."
I was shocked. It turned out that the pitch-black space outside wasn't the universe, but the void. However, it didn't seem to be the same as the void that I had seen before. It was too calm. Perhaps Father had used some method to suppress it.
"How do you feel about this place?"
God Father suddenly asked. I scratched my head in confusion. "What do you mean how do I feel? This place looks desolate. It's too spacious. Also, the thing floating in the void makes me feel uneasy. Remember to bring me along when you go back later! "
God Father's expression slightly stiffened. However, he still smiled nonchalantly. "It is indeed desolate. However, it's extremely difficult to create order in the void without creating an abyss. I can't carve out a world to make this place grander. This Void Throne took me a long time to create, but it was a success. In this place that will never be corrupted, we can safely do many things. "
I was momentarily stunned. It was only a few seconds later that I realized that God Father was about to mention the true secret of the abyss!
"Follow me. This is my experimental platform."
However, before I opened my mouth to ask, God Father walked forward while explaining this place. I could only follow closely behind. "Many world templates and originally non-existent order were born here. I'm believed to be omniscient and omnipotent. However, this doesn't mean that as God Father, I don't need to think and try. Now, I'm going to let you see the truth of the void."
As soon as I finished speaking, a faint distortion suddenly appeared in the center of the circular platform. It was like a bizarre soap bubble. An indistinct sphere appeared a few meters above the platform. God Father stood beside this sphere. It was obvious that he was controlling it.
"What is this?"
Being about to come into contact with such a huge secret made me excited. However, I did my best to calm myself down and focused on the sphere with a diameter of more than ten meters above me. I felt that it contained an enormous amount of energy. However, it wasn't any kind of energy that I had seen before. Even this indistinct feeling came and went, and I couldn't grasp it at all. The gigantic sphere looked like a light-colored soap bubble. Murky colors were slowly twisting inside. There was also a weak flash of light that I couldn't be sure if it really existed. It looked just like a static hologram of the moment when a huge explosion occurred. "This is just a simulation, but it already contains all the details.
What you are seeing is the ultimate moment of the birth of the world, "God Father calmly explained. The sphere in the air suddenly disappeared and reappeared." This is an information bubble. It's in the middle of the birth of time. Before an instant that you can't understand, it's all chaos. There's a huge amount of information, and nothing exists. It's an inconspicuous dot in the void, just like how it disappeared just now. But after that instant, Order is born. Information is suddenly released, and it's orderly and clear. Everything enters a state that can be described. Matter will be born after another instant, forming the most basic entity. After crossing the boundary of nothingness, mass will be produced. Time will also start ticking at that instant, and in the first cry of the new universe — "
The dim sphere suddenly exploded with brilliant colors. In an indescribable instant, it violently expanded. Brilliant flames swept over like a huge wave. The big explosion of the birth of the world enveloped me within it. All I could see was an endless torrent of colors. The world's first light, the world's first matter, the world's first order and description. All these tangible and intangible things surrounded me … While I was at a loss, I suddenly realized that I had become a lone boat in this raging storm. Everything around me was evolving at a crazy speed, carrying out a glorious journey from zero to one. The flashes of creation were dazzling, and my slow and sluggish self was at a loss as to what to do in this astonishing project.
A hand suddenly patted my shoulder, and Father God reappeared next to me. The turbulent Evolution Scroll instantly stopped, as if someone had pressed the pause button halfway through a holographic movie.
The dazzling clouds formed into embryonic clumps, and the bright flashes were like countless broken diamonds embedded in these clumps. The first nebulae and giant stars shone with the light of the beginning in this chaotic universe. Although it was just a model for demonstration, they still dutifully released their own flashes that might only last for a moment.
The first second of the universe passed just like that.
"The world has been born."
Father said in a low voice, as if he was afraid of waking up the sleeping child.
"It's spectacular."
I sighed from the bottom of my heart, trying to grasp something from the scene just now. Father God definitely didn't let me see such a scene just to show a holographic movie to the guests. He was showing me a secret, something that would only be revealed at the moment of the world's birth. Unfortunately, I didn't think of anything in the end.
"It is indeed spectacular." Father God nodded. "No matter what form of Genesis it is, it has to go through such a process. It may manifest in various forms, but in the end, it should all be attributed to a qualitative change in an information bubble. The Shiring Apostles also mastered the technology of Genesis. They created artificial singularities and could make the newborn universe evolve according to their design. However, that technology was still the same as this. Alright, that's not what we're talking about. What I want to ask is, did you notice that at the moment of Genesis, at the moment when it went from zero to one, something disappeared? Or should I say, with the birth of the world, something … was pushed out? "
I thought about it seriously and tried my best to think. I smoothed my hair as I pondered. In the end, I could only throw my hands up and admit defeat. "Just tell me, I can't think of anything."
Father God seemed to have expected it (?!). He laughed. "Very honest. You didn't come up with a plausible answer to save your face. This involves the essence of the void. We all know that the void contains everything. It is the beginning and end of everything. All kinds of explorations of the void have shown that this is a state of absolute 'nothingness'. It has no length, size, weight, cold or hot. There is no quantity that can be described. It is always in the state before the birth of a concept … But if the void is really like that, where was the world born from? "
"The creation of zero to one. This sentence itself reveals something: we need at least 'zero' to create a one."
"The void is this so-called 'zero.' Its nothingness is the raw material for the birth of the world."
After Father God finished explaining these difficult things, he gave me a few minutes to understand before he continued to explain, "The birth of the world from zero is actually breaking a state of 'equilibrium.' In the real world, this equilibrium can be seen everywhere. When matter appears, there will be antimatter. When energy appears, there will be dark energy. When time rolls forward, the 'present' will continuously become history. Everything will follow the only equilibrium at the time of Genesis, and that is the return of everything to zero. This tendency caused the world to evolve into a complex state at the very beginning. In the end, it caused the universe to naturally come to an end. It can be said that this tendency to zero alleviates the 'pain' of the birth of the world in the void. However, there is only one equilibrium, and it is destined to be impossible to make up for since the birth of the world. This fatal flaw in this equilibrium is the Abyss. "
As Father God spoke, he bent down and reached his hand into a still nebula. The nebula immediately continued to evolve and rapidly created a chain reaction. A torrent of light once again surged in the surroundings, and countless galaxies were growing before my eyes.
"I know that human philosophers have a saying when they think about the world: everything in the world is divided into two parts. One part is known by humans, and the other part is unknown by humans. In human infancy, the unknown occupies the entire world, but slowly, the part that humans know will grow … Then, for a truly omniscient and omnipotent person, what does he not know?"
Father God suddenly tossed a question at me, catching me off guard. The scenery around me was already shining with stars, but I was becoming more and more lost.
"The question that he doesn't know is: What exactly does he not know?" Father God said with a very serious expression.
I instantly couldn't help but laugh. "This question isn't nonsense …"
I couldn't continue speaking halfway through my sentence. I seemed to have understood Father God's meaning.
"That's how it is. When everything becomes known, then whether or not there's still an unknown becomes the ultimate question. This question will forever remain in a paradox, unsolvable. It's the same for the world. When everything in the universe finishes evolving and everything enters a state of balance, there will inevitably be something that breaks the balance. This thing that breaks the balance is actually the residue after the birth of the world.
The void is balanced. Everything corresponds to each other, so everything is empty. When the concept of long is born, there will be a corresponding concept of short. When the concept of heat is born, there will be a definition of cold. This kind of mutual cancellation is the highest law that the void follows: everything will eventually return to zero. The paradox just now is the same. For the four words' omniscient and omnipotent ',' finding an unsolvable problem 'is something that cancels out the four words' omniscient and omnipotent 'to zero. "
Perhaps I can call this the theory of relativity at the level of the laws?
The brilliant universe around me had already finished evolving for a cycle. There were obviously fewer stars, and the nebula was dim. No new stars could be seen. Huge empty holes appeared in this universe where life was short, indicating the arrival of dusk.
"There's a toy in the God Realm called the Balance Tower. It's a very simple toy. It's actually a series of scales stacked on top of each other to form a complex structure. The smallest scale has two weights of the same weight. The slightly larger scale has a small scale on one side and a large weight on the other. Further back is an even larger scale … The world is a small scale. Its two ends contain all the matter and energy in the world. This allows its needle to always point at zero. The void is an even larger scale. On one end is the world, and on the other end is … the Abyss.
Of course, in terms of the amount of information, the Abyss can't compare to the entire world. But in terms of power, a tiny bit of the Abyss is enough to destroy the entire orderly universe. When they are placed on the Void Scale with this concept, the needle stops at zero.
The residue of the world. This is the Abyss. "
The stars in the universe around him were gradually extinguished. Like colorful lights without electricity, they turned dim and then cooled down.
"Every time a world is born, there will be an Abyss that can destroy the world. Usually, this destructive force is hidden in the depths of the void. When the world corresponding to it dies (such as the heat death of the universe due to the increase of entropy to the limit), the Abyss will also die because of the law of the void returning to zero. Thus, the orderly world and the Abyss are maintained in a state of balance."
The last star in front of him was also extinguished. The universe that had been glorious for a moment turned into a cold and silent soup.
"But occasionally, they will leak out and contaminate a normal world. Just like the ultimate problem that broke the 'omniscience and omnipotence'. Although the amount of information in the Abyss itself is pitifully small compared to the entire world, it is enough to destroy the entire world and plunge everything into chaos."
The evolution of the universe around him finally came to an end. The scene around him became an empty and silent circular balcony again.
"One problem can destroy the 'omniscience and omnipotence'. One residue is enough to destroy the balance of the entire world."
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