The powerful 700 billion performance allowed it to travel in any environment that you could imagine. Even without activating its protective shield and spatial concealment system, it was more than capable of facing any extreme environment on Earth. I didn't know what God Father wanted to see, but every time I wanted to stop the car, he would say, "Choose a direction and just walk down it."
Alright, it seemed that at this moment, God Father, who was like a neighbor's second brother, still had a sense of mystery to him. But what exactly was just a random walk? In the past 30 minutes, we had already been to the South Pole, the Mariana Trench, the middle of the Sahara, the peak of the Himalayas, the Mississippi River, and the Maldives — I thought that God Father would be interested in the most magnificent scenery on Earth, but the conclusion was that to this mighty being, there was no difference in any scenery. He wasn't interested in any of them — or perhaps it was the opposite, he was interested in all of them, but he felt that we should continue walking.
Alright, after such a period of time where I could completely relax and interact with him, perhaps I already understood a little about this Second Brother sitting in the front passenger seat. He was gentle, friendly, and had an aura that made others trust him. This was something that I already knew. Also, what I just felt was indifference and extreme "laziness." Yep, laziness. This was a trait that could only be described as a personality trait in Void Creatures. Laziness didn't just refer to Void Creatures' lack of initiative. It also referred to the fact that Void Creatures had a tendency to "treat things slowly" when dealing with everything in the world. I discovered that God Father and I both liked to slowly think about a problem and calmly face the problems that we had to deal with. No matter how big the problem was, we both had the same expression: a very indifferent smile, and then a slight grumble, taking our time to work, or even pretending to work.
I was slightly weaker than him in that I still had the feeling of 'going crazy'. I didn't know if it was because I had a lot of naughty brats around me, or if it was because my cultivation wasn't high enough.
He studied the aurora borealis at the South Pole, the sandstorms of the Sahara, and the bright lava lake at the bottom of the Mariana Trench. However, he didn't explicitly say what he was studying. He just gave people the feeling that he had something to do all the time. After a full forty-five minutes, I finally couldn't take it anymore. It seemed that we had visited all the places of great value on Earth. We had activated the hyperspace engine and stopped at a scenic spot for three to five minutes. We had found a World Wonder at every altitude. In the end, God Father's attention didn't seem to be on the local scenery at all. I was certain of this. If he was interested in the scenery, he wouldn't be studying ants under Victoria Falls. "Speaking of which, Xing Chen, what are you planning to see?" I still remembered that God Father had asked me to call him by his name. However, no matter how I looked at it, there was only one way to call him Xing Chen, so I just called him Xing Chen.
"There's nothing much to see in the near future." God Father looked at the sky. There were no clouds in the sky above the Grand Canyon of Colorado. "I'm trying to verify an idea of mine. There's some progress now, but … can we go further?"
"How far?" We stopped at the Grand Canyon on the other side of Earth to see if there were any further tourist attractions. Then, Shallow Shallow suddenly jumped out of her train of thought. "Hey, are we going to outer space?"
God Father looked up and said, "Deep space … Perhaps we really need to go there to confirm the situation. Chen, let's go to the depths of this world. "
I was dumbfounded. I thought to myself, Didn't you say that we were going to go for a walk in the beginning? Is there a need to be so exaggerated? However, after thinking about it, to a bunch of foreigners who could travel across worlds as a field trip, entering deep space might not be a field trip at all. So, I shook my head and activated the teleportation function within the 700 billion world. As for the destination … Alright, I followed God Father's instructions. I closed my eyes and chose a coordinate that I might be interested in. A slight sense of dislocation and a buzzing sound during the teleportation flashed by. We had already arrived in deep space. A light blue energy barrier floated above the 700 billion post-modern car. We had already entered outer atmosphere mode. The interior of the car started to reorganize itself. Soon, the seat and compact controller disappeared. The car's outer shell started to become transparent. The four of us seemed to be floating in space, and our surroundings were clear at a glance.
Our luck was not bad. There was actually a celestial body in sight. 99.9% of the space in the entire universe was barren. The seemingly starry space actually had no more impurities than a swimming pool with a hundred grains of sand mixed in. However, when the 700 billion world had provided the coordinates earlier, it had automatically included areas with gravitational points in the list of options. With a single space jump, we were directly led to the vicinity of a dim brownish-red star.
There was a lone brownish-red star hanging in the upper left. From this distance, it seemed huge, almost ten times the size of the sun from Earth. The lines on its surface could even be vaguely seen. However, the car's celestial body analyzer (Listen, in the car! How impressive!) showed that its true size was actually smaller than the sun. This brownish-red star's nuclear reaction was slow, and it had a massive core. The surrounding space was filled with air that had cooled down, causing the red light in the surroundings to increase by a few orders of magnitude. The analyzer detected that it contained relatively heavy metal elements, as well as some leftover substances from the planet.
This was a star that had burned to the end of its life. In the past, it might have turned into a red giant. It had swallowed its own planetary system, and then collapsed into its current state. The remaining dwarf star had become its own tombstone. In the empty and silent darkness, only the remnants of its former body and the planet had turned into clouds to accompany it. Er, it seemed like I was being artistic again. However, the dying celestial body in space really did seem to have a kind of desolate and tragic beauty. Even though I wasn't an astronomer, and I didn't know where this feeling came from, after seeing this dying star, I still felt a little sad.
Father God glanced at me. "You feel sad. Even though the other party is just a celestial body, when you inexplicably feel touched by the lifeless things in the world, you have started to become a qualified Void Creature. Subconsciously, you have become one with your own essence. You are the source of all things, so your heart is connected to all things. Also, because you are the place where all things end, the passing of all things has a deep impact on you. "
I took a deep breath. Regardless of whether I understood it or not, I first memorized this seemingly powerful sentence before saying, "Er, I've learned something. However, are Void Creatures really that great?"
"It's just that the Void is great." Father God smiled. "Actually, it won't be long before you enter the next stage. You will start to feel calm about the cycle of all things, and you will no longer feel sad about the specific death. However, this doesn't mean that your emotions will be destroyed. Instead, you will enter a higher stage of wisdom. You will start to realize that life and death are all concepts that are born from the Void. The dead still exist in your eyes, so you will start to grasp the power to create something out of nothing and the power to redeem all things in any situation. However, that still requires time."
"Er, I think it's still too early to talk about this. I just figured out how to transform myself for more than 24 hours."
"When you forget what time is, your Void form will no longer have any restrictions. However, it is indeed a little too early to talk about this now." Father God smiled. "Actually, I just wanted to confirm why after the Void Cataclysm, only the known worlds survived. Now, I have some guesses."
"The world, after forming a connection with the Void Creatures, mutated."
Father God pointed at the vast space outside and said with a smile. He wasn't pointing at the distant nebula, nor was he pointing at the dwarf star that was just inches away. Instead, he was pointing at the darkness.
I stared at it for a long time, and only retracted my gaze when I saw that Shallow shallow was seeing double did I say, "I didn't see anything."
"No, you saw it. It's just that you aren't aware of what you saw. This is an instinctive awakening process." Father God smiled. "I've studied the creatures in this world and discovered an interesting phenomenon: The eyes of the mortals in this world are able to see the tip of their own nose. However, almost no one is aware of this at all times."
"You're saying that the thing was right in front of me, but I subconsciously ignored it?" I rubbed my eyes in confusion and continued to stare into space. Alright, I knew that Father God probably wasn't talking about things that could be observed with the eyes. I was just trying to see if I could really see anything.
"It's more or less the same. These changes are very, very subtle. With your current level of control over your own power, you won't be able to discover where you left your own traces. It's just like how a mortal can't smell his own scent like a dog after walking on a road."
I thought to myself, Father God's ability to make analogies isn't that great. Listen to this analogy.
"Mutation. Mutation. In other words, the world that has anything to do with the Void Creatures has mutated. Then?" I slowly understood what Father God was concerned about. "You think that this has something to do with the Void Cataclysm?"
"At least this mutation could be the reason why all the worlds that were blessed by our race survived the Void Cataclysm. I was just paying attention to the information flow at the bottom of this world and noticed that there were some extremely tiny marks in all the information. I also paid extra attention to the 'marks' in two different spaces: Earth is the place you live most often, and this space before you might be your first time here. However, in these two places, the tiny marks in the information flow at the bottom are of the same strength, which means that the mutation is' evenly 'occurring throughout the world. It could even become the information signature of this world. You know how to identify a world in the Void, it's through its information representation. If the same data can be observed at any point in the world, then this data has a very high chance of becoming the information representation of the current world in the Void. In other words, because of our existence, the world has a label, and this label is for the Void to 'see'. I've been thinking about this for the entire night, and I only wanted to confirm it with you this morning. "
I didn't know what Shallow Shallow was thinking, but the first thought that came to her mind was, "Wow! You didn't sleep last night? You didn't feel sleepy after staying up all night? "
Father God glanced at me in shock. "How can she look at the problem from such a sharp angle?"
I was embarrassed. "… That's her problem."
Father God did not mind. He smiled and waved at Qian Qian. He replied seriously, "It's not that exaggerated. I fell asleep while I was thinking about it. It's probably around ten."
I slapped my forehead. You returned to your room at nine forty-five and fell asleep at ten. You only thought about it for twenty minutes before you fell asleep, and you still dare to say that you've been thinking about this for the entire night? Looks like Father God is also a ruthless person in the world of laziness. Void creatures are all lazy …
Father God probably realized that he gave himself away, and coughed awkwardly a few times before continuing to explain to us. "Of course, there's another problem, and that is whether the extra information fluctuations appeared because of a connection with the Void creatures. In other words, we need to eliminate the possibility that they are self-generated by the world."
"Isn't that simple? Just find a world that hasn't been 'marked' before, and compare a normal world with a marked world …" I slapped my forehead halfway through my sentence. "Damn, I'm an idiot …"
"That's the problem." Father God nodded his head shamelessly. "We are Void creatures, so any world that we observe or have even the slightest connection with will be marked. Thus, theoretically, you will never find a world that hasn't been marked. They will all collapse into one answer the moment they are observed."
"I'm reminded of Schrodinger's half-dead cat."
Father God was surprised. "Who is Schrodinger?"
"The crazy cat abuser Schrodinger. He designed an experiment, and this experiment proved that observers can cause an uncertain state to collapse into a definite state. That's the general idea. Now, Void creatures are obviously the only ones that have the right to become observers in the Void, so any connection we have with the world will be viewed as an observation, and what appears in front of us is the changed universe. Unless there's a higher level of existence than Void creatures, it's impossible for us to jump out of our own perspective. "
"That's really impossible." Father God sighed. "Now, I can only use my calculations to reverse engineer the process of its birth based on the underlying information of the world itself. In the end, I can confirm that those tiny marks weren't created by the world itself. It's built on theory, but it can't be built on actual examples. What a depressing situation."
"Is it the same for other worlds?" I asked. Although Father God said that he only thought of this last night, I still remembered Xiaoxue's words. At this time, Father God should already be pondering the cause and result of the Void Cataclysm. He must have observed the other worlds, just that he didn't have a clear goal like today.
"It's a similar situation." As expected, Father God nodded. "Actually, the God Realm has discovered this phenomenon a long time ago. Every world has some 'extra products'. These extra products aren't naturally produced due to the evolution of the world, but they're like extra data that can't be deleted. In the beginning, we all thought that this was a normal phenomenon, a natural law of Genesis. If it wasn't for your daughter bringing the news, I'm afraid that I wouldn't have connected this situation with the interference of Void creatures until after the Void Cataclysm."
"I still want to confirm how broad this' connection with Void Creatures' really is. You see, there are some worlds that I've never come into contact with before. It's just that the Empire's soldiers have surveyed the coordinates of those worlds. At most, they've left an observation station. There are thousands of such worlds in the Macro World Network, but I've never personally interfered with any of them. How can such worlds be considered to have formed a connection with Void creatures? "
"Do you think that if it wasn't for your existence, those soldiers would have had the chance to discover those worlds?" Father God asked.
"… If I hadn't 'awakened', it seems that the entire New Empire would still be nowhere to be seen." I rubbed my chin as I pondered. "The New Empire wouldn't have any connection with me. So even if the New Empire were to be revived due to other reasons, the worlds discovered by the Shiring Apostles wouldn't be spared."
"That's the reason. The information absorption ability of Void creatures is much stronger than you can imagine. If you're the cause, then the consequences, as well as the subsequent chain of events, will all be under your name. Everything that you're experiencing now, all of the history of the Xiling Empire since its revival, originated from you activating a mother planet."
I nodded, indicating that I understood. Then, I gathered everything together. Icetis was already drowsy. She had come out to play, but she didn't expect that her superior and current landlord would actually travel 20 billion light years away on a business trip. The female hooligan didn't dare to voice her anger, so she could only roll her eyes and yawn. Shallow Shallow took a piece of drawing paper and excitedly sketched the dwarf planet. Noticing my gaze sweeping over, Shallow Shallow suddenly lifted her head and chuckled. "Ah Jun, do you think that the Fallen Apostles copied you in order to survive the Void Cataclysm?"
Father God and I were stunned at the same time. "That's possible!"
"The Fallen Apostles are my enemies. Does that mean that they can also be considered to have formed a connection with Void creatures?" I asked anxiously. Father God pondered for a moment, and his expression became complicated. "Of course, the Fallen Apostles are connected to you. However, more than 90% of their world has nothing to do with you. That's because the Fallen Apostles already existed before you awakened, and they discovered that those worlds weren't affected by you. In other words, your connection to the Fallen Apostles is limited to themselves, and doesn't affect their world."
Father God might have been afraid that I wouldn't understand, so he continued to explain, "There are restrictions to forming a connection with Void creatures. The first is a direct connection. You can directly come into contact with them, directly recognize them, or even hear about them. These are all considered direct connections. You and the target have formed a connection without going through any sort of springboard. The second is a cause and effect inheritance. It requires that the connected object is only able to interact with the other directly connected object because of you …"
"Just like how one directly double-clicks on a program, and the other double-clicks on a shortcut?" Shallow Shallow asked curiously. "Regardless of whether it's a normal apostle or a Fallen Apostle, they are all considered as programs. The macro world belongs to the shortcuts created by Ah Jun. However, the shortcuts on the Fallen Apostles' side are all created by themselves. Ah Jun isn't the creator, so he doesn't have access to them. So, all of their territories are excluded from the whitelist. Once the anti-virus software is activated, all of the invalid and disguised shortcuts will be deleted!"
This was the first time I was overjoyed by Shallow Shallow's logical reasoning. This lass's imagination was too sharp!
Even though the reason why she could think of this was probably because she was known as a computer killer back then, and was tormented by viruses every day.
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