Chapter 209

So, do humans have an overview effect on the blue planet because they can feel the gaze of the stars?

Ye Bai asked again, "There is no civilization that has an overview effect on Blue Planet right now. Is it because of spiritual power?"

"No, it's because they, like us, have become semi-transdimensional beings. Now, the planets in the Anno 01 universe are just planets, but in Anno 00, silicon-based life has remained unchanged since the birth of the universe. There has been no birth, no death, and the number remains constant at 6,895,134."

This number again...

"Then why is Blue Planet the only one without silicon-based life? Also, are all other uninhabited planets inhabited by silicon-based life?"

"Uninhabited planets aren't necessarily all inhabited by silicon-based life, but silicon-based life only exists on uninhabited planets... After all, in Epoch 00, only Blue Planet had intelligent life, and Blue Planet doesn't harbor silicon-based life. Perhaps it's related to its coordinates, or perhaps it's related to the fact that carbon-based life has already emerged. We don't have the answer to this question."

"The genes of the Blue Planet humans in Epoch 01 remained unchanged because the Silicon-based civilization also knew of the Blue Planet's peculiarities. There was no standard answer to the Blue Planet's coordinates in our time. It was only after both we and the Silicon-based civilization ascended that we 'saw' it."

Ye Bai was horrified. "In Epoch 00, the cosmic coordinates... were also fixed? Aren't there different values ​​in different reference frames?"

"Yes, in a four-dimensional universe, the basic properties of all matter in three dimensions contain information. The coordinates of Blue Planet are the same as the ultimate answer: 68.951.34. Silicon-based civilizations restarted the universe and reconstructed Era 01. Aside from the addition of some carbon-based civilizations, all matter in the universe remains the same as in Era 00, not just Blue Planet."

The number of silicon-based life forms and the coordinates of the blue planet... are all related to the ultimate answer to the universe. But until now, neither Gu nor the stars have found the true explanation to the meaning of this answer.

Amidst the flood of information, Ye Bai raised the most critical question:

"Then why did the silicon-based civilization do all this? Restarting the universe, injecting the genes of a carbon-based civilization, Epoch 01... It seems like an experiment on their part. And what role do you, who seem to be opposed to the stars, play in this?"

"No, not an experiment, but a war."

Ye Bai's thoughts faltered again: "War?"

An ancient explained, "We and the silicon-based civilization are not just in opposition. More precisely, we are now at war. However, this is a 'four-dimensional war' that is difficult to observe and inaccessible to the three-dimensional universe."

"The Starnet is one of our means of attack. The jammer can be their 'defensive weapon.' As for the wormhole... you can think of it as the battlefield traces left behind after our battle with them."

The formation of the wormhole was actually the trace of a battlefield between two high-dimensional civilizations... Ye Bai felt a sense of inexplicable funny in his shock.

So the Church of the Stars' mission of closing the wormhole, in other words, can also be called clearing the battlefield, right?

"Silicon-based life forms won't close wormholes outside the chaotic star sea to prevent them from interfering with the development of normal civilization. We've deliberately launched local wars many times, paying the price to create wormholes, all for strategic purposes. For example, using the star network to activate mental power, sending you from Epoch 00 to Epoch 01, and leaving this communication channel."

"The historical Era 00 is the area we occupy, while the newly opened Era 01 is the area occupied by the silicon-based civilization. As you can see, we, who are in the destroyed Era 00, are at a disadvantage, while the silicon-based civilization occupying Era 01 has the advantage on the battlefield."

"As long as we allow them to complete their final plan, our information will be reduced to zero and completely wiped out."

The information received shocked Ye Bai. If the ancients who had already ascended lost in the dimensional war, let alone other carbon-based life forms in the three-dimensional universe.

"But...why did the war happen? What caused it?"

"What does the Silicon-Based Civilization want to do by restarting Era 01? Is it just to establish a strategic base?"

The ancients replied: "These questions actually all have one answer - to seek the truth of the universe."

"After becoming four-dimensional life, not only silicon-based civilizations, but also us, have been liberated from material needs, even our survival needs. As long as the spirit of four-dimensional life exists, there is no death. Therefore, the only thing left is the pursuit of knowledge, the only need shared by all intelligent life forms: the pursuit of ultimate truth."

"To explain the cause of this dimensional war, we can start from when we first discovered silicon-based civilization."

"When we discovered silicon-based civilizations, their development had already crossed the boundaries of the universe and begun exploring dimensions. We hadn't found other life, so we began searching for other life forms. Then, through the Overview Effect and gravitational waves, we established communication with them."

"We, who discovered other life forms in the universe for the first time, were excited to communicate with them. Interestingly, do you know what they think of humans?"

"Cruel, selfless, chaotic."

"Silicon-based civilizations have no class structure. Regardless of whether they are on a large or small planet, or have abundant resources and energy, they will not harm, exploit, or destroy their own kind for their own benefit. Similarly, they will not sacrifice themselves for the sake of emotional connection, community, or meaning."

Ye Bai was stunned by this, and then he was speechless at this comment: "...Is this the reason why the war broke out?"

"No, whether humans are cruel or selfless, it makes no difference and has no meaning in the eyes of silicon-based life. They are different from carbon-based life that evolved from weaker beings. Even in the three-dimensional universe, they have long since liberated themselves from material and survival needs. Only the pursuit of knowledge remains."

"After discovering the silicon-based civilization, we even had a 'honeymoon period' with them, working together and communicating with each other, until we calculated the ultimate answer to the universe and completed dimensional ascension one step ahead of each other, becoming four-dimensional life forms."

"After becoming four-dimensional life, we discovered that this wasn't the 'top' we thought it was. The true meaning of 6895134 isn't the coordinates of the Blue Planet, nor is it the fixed number of silicon-based life forms. They might be related, but they're not."

"At this stage, the only remaining need for both us and silicon-based civilizations is to find that answer."

"Then, suddenly, the silicon-based civilization began to wage war against us, whose information depth was much lower than theirs."

Ye Bai was puzzled: "Hasn't four-dimensional life already achieved survival liberation?"

"We didn't understand why this happened at first, and even thought it was caused by ideological differences. Only after paying a horrific price did we realize it all stemmed from the weaknesses of silicon-based civilization."

"What weakness?"

"They don't make mistakes."

Ye Bai was immediately surprised by this answer. How could not making mistakes be a weakness?!

Gu said, "Or to put it another way, silicon-based civilizations lack creativity... The consciousness and thinking of silicon-based life forms are rooted in a perfect logical chain. If one link in the chain goes wrong, then thinking cannot proceed."

"In the past, they relied on this perfectly ordered logical calculation to stay ahead of us. However, after arriving in the four-dimensional universe, they became trapped in the shackles of perfection, unable to break through the limitations of their thinking. The upper limit of their race has been reached."

"Carbon-based civilizations are different. We often make mistakes in the process of progress. It can be said that the development of carbon-based civilizations is achieved through making and correcting mistakes. We can even save a lot of time by making mistakes. This is making mistakes, in other words, it also means creativity."

"We can foresee that as we continue to develop, even if we make mistakes, it is precisely because of these mistakes that we may actually see the 'end' that silicon-based civilizations cannot see."

This is true for both powerful and restricted silicon-based civilizations...Ye Bai asked, "So, does this mean that silicon-based civilizations have developed a competitive mentality towards you?"

"No, this kind of 'chaotic' silicon-based civilization doesn't exist, nor will it ever cooperate with us or become attached to our perspective. In their minds, problems must be solved when they arise."

"After discovering their own weaknesses and the possibility that they would never reach the end on their own, they, having traveled further than us in the four-dimensional universe, decided to acquire our creativity."

"In addition to plundering our information in the four-dimensional universe, they also restarted the universe and constructed the current Era 01, preparing to create a 'decreasing entropy universe', the opposite of the increasing entropy universe of Era 00. "An increasing entropy universe leads to an uncertain and chaotic reality, while the opposite, a decreasing entropy universe, moves from disorder to order. Everything in this universe has a definite answer."

"When the entropy of the universe drops to zero, the matter, life, and time of Epoch 01—everything—becomes completely accessible information, including all the 'errors' of three-dimensional and four-dimensional carbon-based life, which is creativity."

"To put it more simply, this is equivalent to adding a 'dimensional wall' to the current universe, turning it into a story, a game, or a movie."

Ye Bai was shocked. This was the truly terrifying "dimensionality reduction"!

Gu continued, “In fact, spiritual power is a form of energy of creativity.”

"We couldn't stop them in the four-dimensional universe, so we deployed the Star Network to activate this switch in advance, hoping to allow the carbon-based life of this era to break through the blockade that was gradually forming. But you know what happened later. This is a war. We took action, and they will naturally fight back. With the exception of you, the 'stowaway' we brought from Era 00, all other carbon-based life in this universe cannot break through the A-level mental power."

Thinking of this, Ye Bai asked, "If the Star Network is a 'switch', then why is it that only Wanjie has the obvious effect of increasing mental strength in the games on the Star Network?"

"No, the other games on Starnet are just a cover, to protect the Myriad Worlds. From the perspective of the four-dimensional universe, you're like a special drop of water in the ocean. We need more of that special water to protect you. And the Myriad Worlds are inseparable from your consciousness. To be more precise, they were brought here with you."

Star network, wormhole, smuggling Ye Bai... these are all the actions taken by the ancients in this war, and the things that they paid the most effort and cost were all centered around Ye Bai.

"So…why me?"

At the end of a large number of simultaneous question-and-answer exchanges, Ye Bai asked this final question.

In response, Gu asked her, "Do you think the NPCs in the Ten Thousand Worlds are real lives?"

Ye Bai's mind flashed through the images of Nao, Ottophis, Kraken, and other subordinates in the God Realm, as well as the figures of Carrie, Lucy, Felix, and others she met after re-entering the Myriad Realms. She knew very well that they were just data at first, but that didn't stop her from answering without hesitation: "Of course."

"Do you remember how the code that formed them was originally created?"

Ye Bai paused, then a flash of inspiration struck him, and everything suddenly became clear to him: "It's... a mistake."

"Yes, they are intelligent life forms created by you. They are also entropy-increasing life forms with the potential to break through dimensions just like us humans. Even though they are still one dimension lower, it is still the same."

"In the later Era 00, before we ascended and returned to Blue Planet, your body had already perished. It was only after we became semi-transdimensional beings that we found this special information body of yours from the history of Era 00 in the four-dimensional scale."

"For a universe with decreasing entropy to transform back to increasing entropy, the key lies in that 'wall.' This wall exists not only in this universe with decreasing entropy and in silicon-based civilization, but also in all the worlds and you."

"You are the hope we find in looking back at human history, because you are the only one who has broken through the dimension. If you can break through the wall between the myriad worlds and this universe, you will also break through the wall built by silicon-based civilization in this universe."