Chapter 208
While the Church of the Stars was searching for the missing stowaway like a headless fly, Ye Bai left the Church of the Stars and returned to the lifeless zone of the chaotic star sea.
Of course, Ye Bai did not think about destroying the main terminal, but after coming into contact with it, she knew that it would not succeed - the material form that constitutes the sphere can be destroyed, but the "authority" rooted in this universe cannot be shaken.
It is the same as other natural laws that exist in the universe. People can influence matter, but they cannot destroy the laws that govern its operation.
However, through the information obtained from the main terminal of the Church of the Stars, Ye Bai confirmed that the breakthrough point is likely to be the Fuyou Clan, which had been ignored before.
There is no doubt that the only time she communicated effectively with them was when she encountered a flood of information when she unconsciously used the micro wormhole in that special space where the wormhole was closed.
At that time, with the help of that unstable special space and wormhole, the other party conveyed information to Ye Bai, but she was not strong enough at that time and could not understand the information. She tried her best but could only intercept sporadic fragments of information.
It is difficult for higher dimensions and lower dimensions to communicate with each other, as can be seen from the fact that the Star Alliance and the Church of the Stars can only communicate through the star network and terminals respectively.
Even though Ye Bai is probably the person closest to a higher dimension in this universe, he still has to find a way.
If Ye Bai was another psychic, she would have two options. One is to wait for the Church of the Stars to appear again to close the wormhole, and the other is to look for clues in the Blue Star Wormhole, the "exit" through which she might have smuggled in.
But there is no need to be so troublesome now.
The next moment, Ye Bai's consciousness began to go back in time. Unlike when she was at level B and was retracing her own state, now she was directly allowing her consciousness to descend into her past body.
When she was in the Church of Stars, Ye Bai could only jump through the universe for five minutes at most, but with this kind of backtracking based on her own past, she could even go back to the time when she woke up from this universe with her ability.
The past experiences passed by like a cursory glance, until a few months ago, when Ye Bai in the past entered that micro wormhole.
Ye Bai's current consciousness directly "descended" into his past body, in a state where the two consciousnesses were superimposed but did not affect each other.
She could not control her body because, in three dimensions, the past was part of the present Ye Bai and could not be changed or influenced.
Ye Bai doesn't need to change or be influenced, she just needs to go back to the past and listen to the "voice" that she couldn't hear at that time.
"boom……"
When stepping into the micro wormhole, the flood of information that Ye Bai had missed came again.
In the past, Ye Bai lost his fourth dimension under the onslaught of information and was at a loss.
The consciousness that descended from now on was similar to Ye Bai's mental power reaching the threshold of intelligent creatures. It also reached the threshold of communicating with higher-dimensional creatures. She finally saw and heard the information that was too huge for three-dimensional creatures.
In the brief moment that was only for Ye Bai in the past, Ye Bai in the present exchanged a large amount of information with them, carrying out an exchange that was delayed in the 'past' -
"Who are you?"
"The Fuyou Clan is the name given to us by the civilization of this universe. If you really want to find a reference, you can call us 'Ancient'."
What appeared in Ye Bai's perspective were a large number of formless light spots, or information flows that could transcend three dimensions. They looked somewhat similar to the "default image" she had used when negotiating with the Star Alliance on the Star Network.
In essence, this communication is not linear. Each light spot can communicate with Ye Bai about different issues synchronously, and Ye Bai can do the same in return.
But Ye Bai is not a four-dimensional creature after all. Even though a large amount of information exchange is carried out synchronously, she still instinctively forms a sequence. So in this communication, she may be a little "slow" from the other party's perspective.
The 'Ancients' were not perfunctory and exchanged a lot of information, answering Ye Bai's questions one by one.
"You already know from the 'interferometer' that Universe 00 is the previous universe. We, carbon-based life and silicon-based life, are both primitive life forms that originated there."
"Actually, if we really follow the timeline, we belong to the 'future people' who come after you. Your guess is correct. The evolution of Blue Planet in Era 01, where you are now, is the same historical trajectory that was experienced in Era 00."
"The difference is that silicon-based life forms created a large number of carbon-based civilizations in Anno 01, which was earlier than the development speed of Blue Star civilization. As a result, after experiencing the same technological explosion, the Blue Star people of Anno 01 were quickly influenced by the ideologies of other civilizations after entering the universe, and took a different path from Anno 00."
"Silicon-based life? Is that the 'stars'?"
"You're talking about creating a carbon-based civilization. Does that mean that in the previous era, unlike the universe of this era, there were other carbon-based civilizations?"
From the ancients' perspective, Ye Bai slowly asked two questions.
"That's right," an ancient replied, "Silicon-based life forms are what you now know as the 'Stars'. The depth of knowledge they possess has always been ahead of ours. Long before we even broke through to Earth-level civilization, they were already on the verge of reaching semi-transdimensionality."
Another ancient answered Ye Bo's second question: "In the 00 era, there are only two kinds of life civilizations in the entire universe. One is the carbon-based life civilization of us Blue Star people, and the other is the silicon-based life civilization."
Both answers shocked Ye Bai extremely, especially the second one.
"What is semi-transdimensional? Aren't you already fully transdimensional beings?"
"Are you saying that in Epoch 00, in such a vast universe, there were only two civilizations? Could it be that they haven't been discovered yet, so you don't know?"
Every time the light dots flashed, a message was transmitted. Moreover, the messages provided by different 'ancients' were all in order, without any duplication:
"Semi-superdimensionality is a state we share with the stars. You can see part of us. We are now a unity of mass, energy, time, and information. We no longer exist in the three-dimensional scale of the universe and have entered the four-dimensional universe. This is semi-superdimensionality."
"We and the silicon-based life forms are still not fully trans-dimensional beings. Both of our civilizations once believed that after 'ascension', we would be able to comprehend the ultimate truth of the universe. However, once we truly reached this state, we discovered that we could no longer directly interfere with the three-dimensional world, and we still cannot decipher the true meaning of 6895134."
"Yes, there are only two types: carbon-based life and silicon-based life. At the end of the 00th Anniversary, we personally explored the still-expanding boundaries of the universe, but still failed to find any other intelligent life forms."
"Or perhaps there is only one possibility, which is also the direction we are exploring - that there are other true super-dimensional life forms that we cannot perceive in our current state."
True super-dimensional life...
From the large number of answers, Ye Bai felt that his cognition was refreshed again and again.
"What is the Star Network?" The answer to this question was also given by an ancient:
"Now that you have reached a state of complete unity between mass, energy, and time, and semi-unity between mass, energy, and information, you should be able to sense a large portion of the four-dimensional universe we exist in. The current star network technology, like the star cluster technology, is a way of influencing the three-dimensional universe from the side of the four-dimensional universe."
The spiritual universe that Ye Bai had felt before was indeed a part of the four-dimensional universe, but it was only a part, and more of it was invisible to her.
Gu continued, "The Star Network is a 'switch' that turns on the spiritual power of the carbon-based life forms of this era. If you look through the history of Anno 01, you'll find that spiritual power only began to emerge with the advent of the Star Network. We intend to use the Star Network to gradually synchronize the mass, energy, and information of the carbon-based life forms of Anno 01—what you understand as enhancing spiritual power."
Ye Bai suddenly realized that this was the case. No wonder the spiritual power of this world had never gone astray from the fantasy civilization of brutal force in the Ten Thousand Worlds, but was still moving towards scientific application.
Because before the existence of spiritual power, cosmic civilization had already embarked on the scientific direction under the initial interference of silicon-based civilization.
The reason why mental power exists is that it is an ability provided to carbon-based intelligent life by the "ancients" of the four-dimensional universe. They said that Ye Bai's "mass-energy-time unification" refers to the time ability, and "mass-energy and information semi-unification" refers to her current level of mental power?
"It's just that the 'information' depth of silicon-based life is higher than ours. Silicon-based life directly provides cosmic authority and sets an upper limit for the highest mental power for the Interference Star Network."
Ye Bai knew about this. The 'Lord' that Leren mentioned set an A-level mental power limit for this world, in addition to a soul limit.
"Then what is the upper limit of soul activity? Oh, and why is my soul's upper limit ten thousand years longer?"
An ancient replied, "The upper limit of soul activity was set by the silicon-based life forms to identify stowaways, that is, you. Because the universe was restarted, the 'time distance' between Epoch 00 and Epoch 01 is ten thousand years. Therefore, as long as you travel from Epoch 00 to Epoch 01, your soul's activity time will inevitably increase by ten thousand years."
Ye Bai asked, "How could Le Lun have broken through this limit at that time?"
Gu's eyes flashed. "We interfered to protect you, because at this moment, you were almost discovered."
Ye Bai paused, feeling awkward for a moment. The "now" the other party was referring to was naturally the "now" when he was in the side area of the wormhole, curiously trying to pry open the space.
"Then why do the stars and silicon-based life also support carbon-based life, giving the 'jammer' to the people of the Chaos Star Sea? Why do they support the new silicon-based civilization?"
Faced with this problem, during the communication, the ancients who were transmitting information quickly had rare pauses, as if they were also sighing.
Then a few points of light sent a message to Ye Bai:
"We forget that in your time, you didn't have this awareness yet... Because in your time, the people of Blue Star had only just stepped into space, and weren't even considered to have achieved a breakthrough to Earth-level civilization."
"Silicon-based life is not the kind of life that you think of, similar to our carbon-based life, that lives on the surface and in the atmosphere."
"It was only when our civilization had developed to near-transdimensionality and we were looking back to understand why we were producing the Overview Effect on the Blue Planet that we finally discovered the existence of silicon-based life forms and were able to communicate with them."
"Yes, it was discovered that they had existed around us for tens of thousands of years before this."
As the messages came one after another, Ye Bai realized something and began to tremble uncontrollably. Then, when the final answer came, he fell into the climax -
"Compared to the formal term 'silicon-based life', the name 'Stars' actually fits them better."
"Silicon-based life is the vast number of lifeless stars in our universe, besides the blue planet..."
At this moment, Ye Bai's mind was filled with memories of his time on Blue Planet. Those were reports about the astronauts of that era returning from space. Almost all of the astronauts, when looking back at Blue Planet from the universe, felt an unprecedented loneliness, fragility, and hesitation in addition to various emotions related to life.
This was believed to be caused by the complex psychological feeling caused by seeing something that was once extremely grand become smaller and viewed from a "God's perspective". It is collectively referred to as the overview effect in psychology.
And now, through a photo in his memory, Ye Bai also felt that indescribable emotion at this moment.
In the darkness, those distant and unknown stars, separated by an epoch of time, seemed to have turned into pairs of eyes, staring at her and the blue star in front of them.
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