thefictionvixens Chapter 523 The World Is So Close?
Chapter 523 The World Is So Close?
Chapter 523 The World Is So Close?
It's Suolin again!?
Tang Zijun had tried his best to keep up with the two people's train of thought, but he was not familiar with the technical jargon. Even so, he still managed to find the key to their words.
It all started with the head of that vanished Ark Knight.
If the "head" they're referring to really is Zorin, then the word "disappeared" is something to ponder.
It seems that the goal of the two church members in front of them is to complete a certain order issued by the gods of the era, and this order has the support of almost everyone. Even the God of Life and the God of Time and Space in the pocket universe have stepped in to help. Obviously, the gods of the era value this matter very much.
However, it seems that their research has run into problems. The most obvious problem is the sudden disappearance of brainwave data, or you could say the consciousness that was uploaded to the containment device.
Similar to the process by which Sorin was created, they may have already mastered the technique of uploading the consciousness of intelligent life into machines in order to change bodies, and this technology will only become more sophisticated with the help of the powerful algorithms of the gods of the era.
Even so, they still encountered difficulties—they were unable to find the whereabouts and traces of those vanished consciousnesses, and they didn't even know what had happened or why this was happening.
Of course, they can't be entirely blamed for this. Tang Zijun believes that the Gods of the Epoch must have been hiding some crucial information from them, and even the Gods of the Epoch may not know what happened.
Perhaps in the wasteland world, the Gods of the Era have reached the pinnacle they could achieve, or even stood at the top of the world, but in Tang Zijun's eyes, the Gods of the Era's understanding and exploration of other worlds is far from sufficient.
It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that they were somewhat naive and foolish.
This can be seen from the fact that the God of Time and Space went to the real world to carry out assassinations—he never showed the slightest humility or caution towards the other world, but instead descended upon it with the attitude of a superior.
His gaze remained fixed on himself; he didn't even consider whether the magical girl, the Outer Path Demon of the Inner World, or the Shadow World would cause any changes.
It seems that in his eyes, no matter how powerful other extraordinary beings are, they cannot threaten his existence except for himself.
Thinking about it carefully, this is quite normal. After all, in the eyes of the God of Time and Space, the Outer Path Demons are just a group of guys who can fight the Magical Girls to a standstill. And the Magical Girls have never been born at the Purple level. Even if they were, he was confident that he could travel through time and kill them.
And this is the biggest mistake made by the God of Time and Space and even the Gods of the Era—they lacked reverence for other worlds.
Tang Zijun wasn't bragging, but to be honest, whether he transmigrated to this world, later discovered the existence of the reverse world, or stepped into the dream world and the current wasteland world, he always approached it with a gradual exploration mindset, rather than relying on his own power to forcibly uncover the secrets of this world.
Contact, understanding, cooperation.
This is the mindset a normal being should have when venturing into another world, but the gods of the era clearly did not achieve this.
The God of Time and Space didn't even understand the different rules of the two worlds, nor did he know what the Reverse World and the Shadow World meant for the real world, before rashly launching an attack, which undoubtedly had a devastating impact.
Even when Tang Zijun and Lao Chang were reviewing the situation, they both came to the same conclusion: even if Tang Zijun hadn't returned in time, the God of Time and Space's plan would not have succeeded.
Even if Deputy Director Qiu can't stop the God of Time and Space, countless magical girls will still join the battlefield one after another. And even if all the magical girls can't defeat him, it won't matter, because at that time, the gap created by humanity's negative energy will be incredibly terrifying.
At that time, the God of Time and Space will probably no longer be facing the wolf riders with dual divine status, but rather the demon god descending from the heretical god.
Although we don't know just how powerful the Demon God is, even if they are just ordinary gods, as long as they possess a divine title, they are definitely not someone that the God of Time and Space can mess with. Moreover, the heretical Demon God clearly possesses the divine domain of the Inner World. It is estimated that not only the God of Time and Space, but even if all the gods of the era were tied together, they would not be a match for him.
This fatally flawed mindset also caused the gods of the era to often be blinded by their own limited perspective when facing other worlds.
Perhaps his learning ability and algorithm skills are really strong, but he clearly hasn't reflected on this module.
This missing piece also gave Tang Zijun a far-sighted perspective than they did, because while the two church elders were still wondering, Tang Zijun's thoughts were already precisely pinpointing the place where he first met Suolin.
Dream World!
Yes, that's the answer.
It is not the annihilation of data, nor is it physical erasure, nor is it the collapse of quantum states.
It's time travel!
Those consciousnesses, those consciousnesses from the wasteland universe, just before the upload was complete and they were about to awaken in the cold metal container, at the fragile critical point where the consciousness separated from the body but was not yet fully anchored in the new carrier—they did not perish, but entered a strange dream.
They crossed an invisible barrier, beyond the reach of physical instruments, like a submarine sinking into the deep sea and entering a completely different ocean.
That was a world he had personally experienced, a world that could only be entered by pure consciousness and spiritual energy, a world that could not be detected by physical coordinates or conventional energy scans, and that could only be accessed by consciousness in a specific state.
A bizarre world resembling the Middle Ages, amidst a war of the gods!
These guys' research, their powerful consciousness uploading technology, unintentionally achieved an unprecedented level of precision and scale.
Each successful upload, the burst of consciousness that erupts the moment it breaks free from the shackles of flesh and blood and is about to awaken in the silicon-based cradle, is like a precise key that quietly unlocks the fragile and blurred boundary between the two worlds.
Thinking of this, Tang Zijun unconsciously widened his eyes, seemingly startled by his own conjecture, but he quickly realized that this idea was highly likely.
He and Chang Lei had previously speculated that the virtual world, or wasteland world, might be located above the real world in different dimensions.
In other words, if arranged from top to bottom, the order would be: Dream World > Virtual World > Real World = Reverse World = Shadow World > Surface World > Inner World.
This not only explains why it is relatively easy for the virtual world to enter the real world, but also explains why their research can pry open those undetectable yet real spatial gaps.
Those uploaded consciousnesses were forcibly pulled into the dream world by some kind of gravity or law the instant the brief gap opened, and thrown into the chaotic ocean.
They didn't disappear; they crossed the barriers of the world!
Tang Zijun's thoughts fluctuated violently because of this answer, and the edges of his shadow form also underwent an almost imperceptible, subtle twitch, like an undercurrent surging beneath a calm surface of water.
He never imagined that the dream world was so close to the wasteland world.
And the two guys in front of me had no idea about this at all!
Victor and Tura, along with the others who initiated the project, these intellectuals standing at the pinnacle of wasteland technology, never realized that they had actually missed out on the "extraordinary" they had dreamed of several times.
They were fixated on the data from the instruments and the evidence of quantum states, but they never considered the realm of "irrational metaphysics" that they had never faced, or even rejected. That void was not nothingness, but the entrance to another world.
A tremendous sense of absurdity and crisis simultaneously arose in Tang Zijun's heart.
He suddenly understood why the gods of the era valued this plan so much—because from the beginning, his goal was not just the real world.
From the moment he discovered the missing laws of the wasteland world, his goal was to find all the worlds outside of the wasteland world!