Myriad Paths

Chapter 820 Transition

Zhong Minglou's thinking is obviously slow now.

Because the amount of information that his thinking organ can process per unit time has exploded.

It's like driving when he is tired.

The information is too much and the processing capacity is completely overloaded.

The scenery that seems to be far away will suddenly flash in front of you in a blink of an eye.

And the screen begins to intermittently "black screen and freeze" in front of him. His brain starts to wander from time to time. It is an imperceptible moment for him, but in fact it has passed for several seconds.

The other scenes on the visual interface seem to be teleporting, and the entire observable universe seems to have been blurred, completely turning into a pile of bright patches.

Zhong Minglou's mind no longer has the energy to process the redundant image data. He can't tell what he is doing. Even if a car suddenly appears in front of him, he may not be able to tell whether it is a car or a van. He can only barely judge whether it is a large car or a small car.

All the scenery turned into a blurry pixel block, with bright spots all over the field of vision, interspersed with intermittent black screens and freezes, and hearing began to weaken, and the sounds around him became high and low.

He might even have forgotten his purpose.

In short, he was already very close to mental illness at this time.

His brain was seriously overloaded, just like an ordinary person, forced to control a mecha with a speed more than 50 times that of a normal human being and running wildly on the road.

The mecha kept sending him information, and the speed comparable to that of an F1 car made the surrounding information rush to him violently, and he could only hold the steering wheel as much as possible to maintain as much safety as possible under high pressure and high speed. Otherwise, his current situation might just be a moment of careless distraction.

In just a moment, he might have rushed out hundreds of meters on the road. Other vehicles on the road would be like teleporting, ignoring the curves of the highway and rushing straight to the railings on the side of the road. After suddenly realizing it, they would be half a beat slower and slam the steering wheel back.

If he didn't turn it back, the car would be destroyed and the people would die.

His processing system was completely unable to bear the amount of information that exceeded the limit, so he could only simply process the most basic and important information.

All this was because most of his energy had been placed outside.

The "outside" of the observable universe.

He seemed to see the threshold of the fourth rank from afar, although it was untouchable, but so real.

This forced Zhong Minglou to devote himself.

And Li Qi maintained this shrinking observable universe, waiting for Zhong Minglou to find his own answer from it.

He was gambling.

If Zhong Minglou discovered the crisis of reality, then he would definitely realize the nothingness of this war. At that time, his dispute with Li Qi would naturally disappear into thin air.

Just as Li Qi and Zhong Minglou were exploring——

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In the void, there was a fourth-rank world floating.

This world was very prosperous, with millions of galaxies, which were composed of billions or even hundreds of billions of stars, and each star had many planets.

This is a typical 'material universe', there is no 'world' inside, their interior is full of planets, the whole universe is a world, there is only one world barrier, and the interior is the boundless void, its diameter can reach billions of light years, accommodating countless galaxies and planets.

Generally speaking, creatures living in this type of starry sky material world like to call their universe 'universe', and call the 'endless domain' the multiverse.

They believe that the existence of the world barrier is the boundary of the universe, and they live in a sea of ​​​​the universe.

However, this fourth-grade world is a bit strange, because it is a world that is about to die, its heavenly way has begun to decline, and the main color of the whole world has turned red.

Red, among celestial bodies, is the color of 'death'.

The blue sun is the most energetic and vigorous color, and the blue celestial body indicates that it is burning vigorously, because the blue wavelength is short and the energy is high.

Correspondingly, the red wavelength is the longest, the energy is also less, the single photon energy is the lowest, and it will gradually decay with the propagation distance, and slowly 'redshift'.

In astronomical observation, it is generally believed that the redder the color of the observed galaxy, the farther the galaxy is from the observation point.

Now, red stars can be seen everywhere in this world. They look brilliant, but then they gradually disappear, quietly, silently, and then step into a long sleep.

What is more terrifying than red is darkness. As the last light begins to fade, the stars in the sky slowly disappear into the deep space. Occasionally, there will be a flash of light. It is a certain unlucky dead star that fell into a black hole, or two dwarf stars collided and burned.

But these are just episodes. In the end, even the stars will collapse into a huge crystal ball made of carbon. At that time, its temperature will be greatly reduced, and you can even touch it with your hands. Imagine what a wonderful situation it is to touch the corpse of the stars with your own hands.

But that is far from the end.

The stars will continue to exist. The stars, a large and slender existence, are slowly sliding through the expanding chest of time and space.

It is filled with dead stars and planets that were wandering in the universe after being pushed away by the final explosion after the death of stars.

A large amount of solid matter has long since evaporated; burned up by proton decay, becoming a puff of neutrino smoke that drifts away at the speed of light. Visible and invisible electromagnetic waves spread out in the coffee-colored space,

Cosmic rays wandered from the earliest time, waiting to be discovered in a return. The flames devoured each other, releasing the curtain call of billions of neutron stars, a lament that may have started from ancient times, or it may have been brewing and accumulating for a coincidence. In the end, the waves of energy were smoothed, and there was only a pile of monotonous colors as far as the eye could see.

This is the beginning and end of the universe.

Civilizations fell into slumber or death. For countless generations, engineers from different civilizations and races struggled to maintain their civilizations with technology and means, collecting more materials to replace the decayed parts, acting noble but in vain.

The last building has collapsed. The last black hole has also evaporated.

In this universe, countless lives are thinking.

They never understood until they died why they could not break through the boundaries of the universe. They tried every possible way and used everything to deduce, trying to find a way to break through the speed of light, but it was all in vain.

They could not break through the "observable universe".

And the observable universe is the event horizon.

Similarly, the surface of a black hole is like a barrier, which physically completely isolates the inside and outside of the black hole. We who are outside can never imagine the world inside the black hole, and everything that happens outside the black hole is also unknown to the world inside the black hole, just as we can never know what is outside the universe-

Babar had such an idea: "Is our universe such an isolated black hole, and are we in this black hole?"

Babar is a wise man in this world. He is a scientist of advanced interstellar civilization, dedicated to obtaining enough energy from black holes to maintain the development of civilization.

He tried everything to prevent the universe from entering destruction, but he failed.

Now, even the last batch of black holes are about to evaporate, and there will be nothing in the universe to provide energy.

In the end, he gave up the life extension surgery and chose death. There was no other reason. As the universe was declining, he was powerless and he was unwilling to maintain his life.

In other words, his "heart of Taoism collapsed".

Death made him feel happy. He felt his breathing slowed down, and a stronger and stronger sense of peace and tranquility swept through him like a tide.

Perhaps, not thinking is also a kind of happiness.

Babar's body was annihilated, and all his perceptions began to disappear.

He felt that his body was extremely light, almost making him dizzy, as if he was circling and rising in the sky.

In a trance, he seemed to see some strange scene.

He saw his own universe, and he also saw himself rising from the universe.

He has devoted his life to breaking through the "observable universe". Maybe this is his last fantasy before death? Unexpectedly, his dream finally became a dream.

Babar sighed.

Then, he saw that his universe was floating in a larger universe, and there was a "five-fingered" organ below, similar to the limbs of some organisms.

Coincidence?

It's impossible. Why would the universe float on the limbs of a creature? What kind of creature can use an appendage to lightly hold up a universe?

The world in the dream is really fantastic.

Babar sighed.

However, such an illogical thing happened, which means that he was really in a last moment of life before death.

He closed his eyes and waited for death calmly.

But what surprised him was that he could still see things when he closed his eyes.

He suddenly realized that he was indeed dead.

The things around him were real.

Could it be that... those guys who believe in "gods" are right?

Gods, in his universe, have long been proven to be non-existent. There is no god in the world who can represent the universe to create all things. If there is, this god cannot have "personality".

They discovered laws, discovered science, and exhausted all physical laws. They can get close to light-speed spacecraft, travel through the universe in a dormant form, colonize galaxies, and even extract tidal energy from black holes to maintain the existence of civilization.

However, there are still some charlatans who maintain the illusory existence of "religion", which makes Babar sneer.

However, now after death, he was surprised to find that...

He could see the entire universe at this moment.

"If this is not a dream, then it can only be what God sees, right? Will there be a messenger of God to pick me up?" Babar thought so, and subconsciously wanted to stretch out his tentacles.

Babar recalled his civilization history and the records about "God".

This species was originally a worm living in stardust, climbing on a comet, and revolving around the star with a period of 9,000 years.

Every 8,500 years of cold winter, they will move to a place close to the star and usher in a short 500-year warm thawing period. At that time, the worms will wake up from the 8,500-year slumber, begin to reproduce, and then wait for the next round of epoch cycle.

It was in this harsh environment that they gave birth to civilization.

In this case, there would have been no civilization, just some worms living on a comet, but next to this star, there was a planet, and there was another intelligent race born in the cradle of the planet, and they also sent a space probe to the sun.

The exploration failed, but the probe accidentally landed on the comet.

Inside the probe, there is an isotope battery that can convert it into electricity through thermocouples according to the thermoelectric phenomenon, and there are a lot of radioactive materials in it, as well as the remains of a deep space probe that can be called the crystallization of civilization technology.

The worms that were originally only in a warm period of 500 years now have an isotope battery that can continuously release heat for hundreds of thousands of years.

They have therefore gained the qualification to touch civilization.

Hundreds of thousands of years later, the worms broke through their comet and had the ability to travel in deep space.

Of course, they were still in the feudal era, but they were already able to travel in deep space.

This depends on two points. First, the gravity of the comet is very weak, almost to the point of having no gravity. They can let go at a specific location and be thrown out directly by the comet.

Second, they have been living on the ice of deep space comets for many years, far away from the sun, where the temperature is even close to absolute zero. They have evolved extraordinary hibernation ability and can cross the universe in the flesh without any protective technology.

In this way, in the feudal era, Babar's race relied on curiosity and directly broke into the void in the flesh, and finally landed on the planet.

The reason for launching this action was religious reasons.

At that time, they regarded the wreckage of the probe as a miracle and worshipped it as a god. They established a series of religious actions to worship this great thing that could give them warmth in the cold night of 8,500 years.

Their deep space action was essentially for "pilgrimage" and to pursue the gods they believed in.

They desperately landed on the planet. Compared with the ground of the comet, the temperature here is ridiculously hot, but they can adapt well, because the comet flies around the sun, and they will pass by the sun in the window period of 500 years. At that time, the temperature can reach hundreds of degrees Celsius, and the temperature of the planet's surface is within their tolerance range.

However, when they arrived at the surface of the planet...

They saw a ruin after the extinction of civilization.

The civilization that launched the probe has been destroyed now, hundreds of thousands of years later.

They did not leave the cradle of their home planet and died in the civil war. (End of this chapter)

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