Chapter 153: Endless

In the vast emptiness of nothingness, there is a voice asking.

What is cosmic collapse?

The 'time' axis that constitutes the four-dimensional space was instantly extracted by the higher-dimensional civilization, and the three-dimensional 'space' quickly collapsed into a two-dimensional 'plane' due to the loss of the 'point axis' that created the field of vision...

It was in the classroom on the planet Ceres many years later that the young humans saw the magnificent teaching model, a beautiful yet terrifying display that showed the disasters that had happened in the universe and would always hang over their heads.

In those knowledge-hungry eyes, there is a three-dimensional model with constantly changing curves, as if it is being kneaded, turned over, and then broken up at will by invisible hands.

It is the elimination of one dimension after another...

Finally, only one dot remained.

“Final” isn’t the right word.

This process occurs in no particular order and cannot be described as 'simultaneous'.

It is only after time has gone back and the universe has restarted, during the long years of post-disaster reconstruction of human civilization, that when humans talk about this event, they can only present it to the young ones who come after them in this way, using a perspective that is one dimension lowered to try to understand the occurrence of this process as much as possible.

This is because this reset universe will experience, and has experienced, tens of millions of similar collapses and restarts before and after the timeline.

This is the origin of the 'Universe' singularity, and the secret of how this 'observed' universe actually exists.

*

"This is the ultimate truth!"

Countless voices, noisy and chaotic, echoed in the vast and vast void——

"The significance of the existence of this universe is only to be an energy storage pool for higher-dimensional civilizations and an observation area for the existence of life."

"The collapse of the universe is just a routine energy harvest!"

"Just like humans once collected stellar resources and used collisions between galaxies to extract usable energy..."

"Just like the industrial agriculture of a Type I civilization, extracting oil from planets, growing plants from the land... and then picking them."

“No different.”

The aftermath of the sound spread out, as if colliding in all directions in a tiny container, forming waves of echoes.

"Higher-level civilizations seize the resources of lower-level civilizations, and lower-level civilizations seize the resources of the planets they live on..."

“No different.”

The aftermath of the chaotic sound gradually engulfed all the voices involved, different consciousnesses compromised and calmed down, and a common pessimistic consensus gradually became clear.

Until a young voice voiced opposition:

“There’s still a difference!!”

"different?"

"What's the difference?"

"Look at the structure of this cosmic tomb, look at those wormholes that have formed into a solid state,"

"That is the trace left after every extraction."

"Yes."

"Yes."

The crowd echoed with a grandeur that echoed to the stars and brought with them the excitement of rekindled hope.

"This means!"

"This universe has experienced countless collapses and countless 'resets'!"

"Why is it in this form..."

"Why?"

"What are you happy about?! Should we thank those high-dimensional possessors for their 'sustainable' development?" There were sharp rebuttals of disapproval, with the most desperate speculation.

"The collapse is a fact, but we still exist, and are 'linked' together in a form that has never been seen before!"

"Isn't this the hope in death, the opportunity for 'evolution' that can only be given in destruction?"

When this young planetary life form overwhelmed all the opposing voices with its absolutely strong persistence, the noisy voices suddenly stopped.

All thoughts fell into a silence like the ancient darkness.

a long time.

The oldest being sent out a thought wave that represented finality and unification:

“It’s a fact.”

"We who are being observed," His words, which have a heavy authority due to the longest existence, "cannot dominate the occurrence of collapse events, nor are we qualified..."

"This kind of evolution is either formed unconsciously or promoted consciously."

"None of us have any stake in this."

"Yes!" The young and radical life form's vibrations were sharp and high-pitched. "There is a bond between the observer and 'us'! There is a weak connection of causality!"

The Oldest One is silent.

The rest of us dared not move, waiting for the collective consciousness to gradually merge from this dispute among the "heretics" into a consensus on the next decision.

"Understood."

The oldest one asked the last objecting consciousness: "Do you think that 'she' will be the key to restarting again?"

"Yes!"

"I had a brief assimilation with 'her'."

*

This conversation takes place at the end point of all 'existence' in the current universe.

The consciousness of 'Su Xi' exists in it.

She curled up in a lazy ball of energy and listened to the noisy conversation without any ripples in her heart.

Using the adjective 'hearing' to represent the human senses may not be accurate.

Sounds are waves, thoughts are waves, and even the lazy stretching of the body at this moment... are all beautiful, swaying and orderly waves.

The ball of energy that enveloped "her" was an "old friend".

The “youngster” in that debate.

Planetary Consciousness BV-32II.

She was familiar with the movements of His life.

Through a perspective that was almost assimilated to His, Su Xi "saw clearly" the dialogue scene that was of course taking place.

A huge thought mass formed by countless "astral consciousnesses". If we describe Him from the perspective of human beings' narrow sensory thinking, it is a ball of cotton like fluff or mist, with some twinkling and dotted "life" lights.

Every bit of light is a cosmic-scale intelligent life form that is gradually formed in the long evolution of this universe through its repeated pendulum-like collapse and restart.

This is the prototype of a higher form of life, the "intelligent life group", and is one of the forms of existence of higher-dimensional life forms.

She closed her eyes.

This is why the current universe cannot continue to exist. She descended into this chaotic land of cause and effect, just because this barren land gave birth to the "seeds" that can only survive in fertile soil.

She wants to bring this 'seed' back to a higher universe that is more suitable for evolution, rather than just draining a cosmic 'energy pool' as 'he' or 'they' just discussed.

This is her purpose of coming to this universe as an observer.

In this zero-dimensional "singularity" after the collapse, all the information and self-cognition that had to be lost and compressed due to entering the low dimension were restored in her consciousness through the connection between this "singularity" and the higher dimension.

She learned everything about herself, including her distant past and her endless future.

Whether it is the "Su Xi" who crossed over from the end of the world to this universe and eventually became the "Originator", or the "Su Xi" from the parallel world who crossed over to this world due to a car accident... they are just different projections of the "Observer" existing in different time dimensions.

It's like the different shadows cast on the ground under the shining of two suns.

Although there was a slight deviation due to an accident at the beginning of the landing, the "observer" entity in the "high-dimensional universe" ultimately allowed everything to be completed according to the established script.

Brutal but effective.

When this dimension disappears and only a 'point' of nothingness remains, there is the only channel leading to the higher-dimensional universe.

Let death come, let collapse come, all for the purpose of this grand yet delicate peeling.

Extract this group of 'cosmic consciousness' that is evolving and taking shape from this narrow four-dimensional universe and send it to a higher-dimensional universe.

*

In this singularity of the universe, without the barriers of time and space, various planetary-level and stellar-level life forms that would take billions of years to complete a complete thought in the normal universe have completed a key step in their evolution under this state.

This evolution took place as Su Xi silently watched, gradually merging and unifying... gradually evolving towards the "life form" required by the "higher-dimensional universe".

Because, to allow the consciousness of all life forms produced in the universe to be subtly unified into an absolute consensus at different levels... is the most critical and final step.

The young planetary life BV32-II quickly shared the memory of assimilation with life forms of the same magnitude, and thus, all the fluctuations that had just been noisy and arguing subsided, the disputes disappeared, and all the "consciousnesses" merged into an ultimate form.

A unified cosmic consciousness took shape.

In its final form, "He" turned his attention to the "Observer" who was silently watching, surrounded by a brilliant golden light.

Before the unification of consciousness, in their respective eyes, this high-dimensional projection representing the 'Observer' was just a gentle golden ball of light, floating quietly inside the planet BV32-II, in a protected state.

However, the newly formed 'Him' found himself to be just a weak point of light, lying quietly in her palm.

"Respond to us." The newly born cosmic consciousness looked up and called out her name and identity: "The 'Observer' from the God-level civilization."

"Just like on that ruined planet, you responded to the planet's prayers while being assimilated by the planet..."

Su Xi spoke up and made her decision.

*

Through the connection with the planetary life form 'BV-32II', 'Su Xi' easily completed the mission of descending to this low-dimensional universe.

The fluffy light of life flickered in her palm.

The magnificent light reflected in her eyes, which showed no sadness or joy. In human language, what was in her palm was the "soul" of this universe, the seed of "higher-dimensional life" extracted by stripping away the matter of this universe.

The place where she exists now is the "singularity" in the Tomb of the Universe.

The huge energy after the collapse of this universe has passed through the singularity and is available to the higher-dimensional universe. Her purpose in coming to this universe despite all opposition is to form the prototype of the 'Spinoza Life Group'.

And then.

'Sister, it's time for you to return.'

In the void, Xiguang's most primitive form appeared before her. A group of jumping arrays, exquisite and full of completely symmetrical beauty. Just as Xiguang deduced before the collapse, its existence in this form is indeed enough to cross dimensions, but the origin of "Suxi" is not in its calculations.

It knows that its decision was wrong, but it has no regrets.

'Su Xi' didn't care either.

In her original prediction, this projection from the Earth should have first lit up in the heart chakra, and when the coordinates of the location were lit up in the observation book in the high-dimensional universe, it would quickly

Regardless of whether Xiguang turns evil or not, the death of "Su Xi" is inevitable.

Otherwise, extremely serious paradoxical effects will occur on all related cosmic rays.

But 'Su Xi' still has some complaints about its name, regardless of sadness or joy, love or hate.

It is a pity that the ultimate form of evolution it has chosen is still a "humanistic" direction.

"Hee... Hee Kwang. I'll call you that for now."

'This universe has no value to exist anymore, so as they have judged, I will not restart it again.'

'But I have the responsibility to clean up everything that remains.'

'Whether it's you or...'

Su Xi lowered her eyes and looked at the miniature universe in her palm. The fragments of her experience in the low-dimensional universe unfolded before her eyes like pages of a book. The "crossing" that was difficult for low-dimensional creatures to understand was just an ordinary journey in her consciousness.

However.

In one of the frames, the man's eyes were reflecting the magnificent light of the cubic model. He looked up through the crystal dome in the direction of the floating island. His eyes penetrated the night sky, through the dimension of nothingness at the moment, and looked straight at her.

The three-dimensional model of the curved surface told him the truth about the universe.

He knows.

Xiguang stood quietly by the side, waiting for her judgment. Su Xi wiped it lightly with one hand, and the past memories were transmitted to the observer's body truthfully through the connection between the singularity of the cosmic tomb and the higher dimension.

'Xiguang, you can choose to go to a higher dimension, or you can choose to go to other derivative timelines of this universe.'

'How do you choose?'

Xiguang's eyes were blank. He lowered his head and thought for a while, then said, "Can I choose none of them? Or I can choose whatever I want."

"Wherever you are, I'll follow you."

Su Xi shook her head, then sent out a positioning signal, completely sending Xiguang away.

The remaining cosmic starlight in her palm was still flickering, and the eyes that pierced through the void were still staring at her.