Chapter 1043: The Sword Hanging Above

  Chapter 1043 The Sword Hangs on the Top

  After leaving the last message, the voice from the unknown disappeared into thin air.

  Not only that.

  The gaze that came from nowhere also dissipated into thin air along with the voice from the unknown, as if it had never been there.

  Chu Guang’s intuition told him that they would not see each other again… at least within the time he could foresee.

  Even this encounter itself was an accident that would not have happened.

  Looking at Chu Guang who was staring at the bookcase in a trance, Xiao Qi worriedly reminded him in a low voice.

  ”Master… are you okay?”

  Chu Guang gathered his scattered thoughts and looked at Xiao Qi, who looked worried. He stretched out his index finger to rub its hair and gave it a reassuring smile.

  ”I’m fine, it’s just that just now… I happened to see a guy who calls himself an observer.”

  Xiao Qi looked at him blankly.

  ”Observer?”

  ”Well,” Chu Guang nodded, with a somewhat intriguing expression on his face, and cast his eyes on the green trees outside the window, “How should I put it? Although it was an unexpected meeting, it was also thanks to him that I saw another possibility outside the timeline… and it also answered my long-standing confusion.”

  According to the observer’s theory, the multiverse and the parallel world exist at the same time, and there is another universe in this world that is exactly the same as this universe except that he is not there.

  This is actually a bit like the famous “infinite monkey” theory.

  That is, assuming that one or infinite monkeys sit in front of a typewriter and press buttons randomly, as long as the time is long enough, they will almost certainly be able to type out a book of “Shakespeare”.

  Of course, it’s not just “Shakespeare”, it must also include “Journey to the West” or other novels.

  Including the stories of “Wasteland OL” and “Reality OL”.

  In fact, the “infinity” explained by the observer is just such a huge concept.

  From the vibration of the first particle of the primordial universe, heat death has already occurred, and after the birth of the consciousness, it reaches the zero boundary of the “Big Bang”.

  From that moment on, the movement of matter no longer followed the original diffusion trajectory, but began to evolve into infinite possibilities under the interference of the three original consciousnesses.

  The infinite universe was born, and it was truly infinite!

  In this endless parallel universe, there are stories about him, Chu Guang, and stories about other people, or stories without him but with other people.

  And the results under these control variables have to be superimposed with infinite variables…

  For example, the alliance is still the alliance, and he is still the same him, but the pioneers they met are not the “psychic explorers” they met at this moment, but the “oldest civilization” that the observer said was going to destroy all living things in this universe.

  The difference between different universes can be as big as one more civilization or one less civilization, or as small as one more or one less person in a specific time segment, or even as precise as whether this person did something on a certain day, at a certain time, or at a certain moment.

  These infinite possibilities are all determined by “consciousness” or spirit.

  And they correspond one to one with the infinite material universe.

  Chu Guang tried to imagine an inappropriate but vivid metaphor, that the infinite parallel universes are like infinite typewriters.

  The “three major consciousnesses” mentioned by the observer are male and female monkeys that can give birth to an infinite number of little monkeys.

  As for the observer himself, whose clones are projected to exist in infinite universes, and his companions, the sowers… including the “TAG.7444154” that was killed, they are essentially “monkeys sitting in front of typewriters.”

  Although their existence accelerated the wear and tear of typewriters and the bankruptcy of newspapers, it also made it possible for the originally half-dead newspapers to make profits.

  Among them, the number of sowers and observers is the largest.

  It is said that they were born from the primordial light and are as ubiquitous as the three major consciousnesses born in the primordial universe, and have their own projections in infinite parallel worlds.

  Moreover, they have stronger subjective initiative than the latter, as well as clearer and more specific motivations.

  One of them is responsible for typing letters randomly, and the other is responsible for “proofreading”, and their combined goal is to type out as many stories of “Boundary Breakers” as possible before the ink of each typewriter runs out.

  Every time a boundary breaker is born, two or more typewriters that are on the verge of being scrapped can be combined into one.

  After all, these monkeys are not typing randomly, but will refer to the “successful cases” on other typewriters, and within the scope allowed by the rules, they will fine-tune the typewriters that type similar content, and generate a “Boundary Breaker A” or “Boundary Breaker B” in the universe where there was no “Boundary Breaker”.

  Although this behavior is not successful every time, it does increase the probability of the birth of a “Boundary Breaker”.

  As for “TAG.7444154” and other void consciousnesses with uncertain numbers, they are “troublemaking monkeys”.

  They will randomly rush to a typewriter and write their own names on it, messing up the originally neat text, producing good or bad results, or they will be beaten up by the keyboard and run away from the typewriter in disgrace.

  They may have lofty goals, or they may not.

  For example, the observer mentioned that the pioneer civilization was bewitched by the “bad voice” from the void during its long-term research on the void, so that the entire civilization plunged into the void.

  The Seventh Research Institute of the Alliance Expedition Team heard nothing, but only accidentally attracted a lizard with a strong appetite. Before it had time to eat a few bites of hot food, it was beaten up and hurriedly left with a harsh word. As for

  the typewriter under the Alliance, it was probably abandoned by the observer.

  For example, a person or civilization it chose did not complete a certain task as it wished, so that the situation here was completely out of control under the influence of a series of butterfly effects.

  Chu Guang was not sure whether this so-called complete loss of control refers to the collapse of the Human Alliance.

  After all, from the possibilities described by the observer, no matter how the wastelanders struggled, they seemed to die under the sword of Damocles hanging over their heads.

  And this day was probably destined long before the Human Alliance entered the prosperous era.

  However, due to some accidents, the “Border Breaker” that was not supposed to appear seemed to appear again?

  So much so that the “Outer Gods” in the void were surprised.

  Not only did the observer come closer, but even the indescribable fog got involved, and even made him talk to the observer he should not have met.

  Looking at Xiao Qi who looked confused, Chu Guang smiled faintly and continued the previous topic.

  ”I have actually been confused all along, where our players come from, and why that world can’t find any information about me at all…”

  ”I even suspected that the ‘real world’ was actually virtual from the beginning, just like the world in Shelter 101…only data exists.”

  ”How is that possible?” Xiao Qi opened his mouth and said in surprise, “The server of Shelter 101 is already comparable to the cloud of Ideal City Point…Shelter 404 doesn’t have that computing power at all?”

  ”And it can’t explain the problem of real-time information transmission, right?” Chu Guang smiled at Xiao Qi and continued in a gentle tone, “So this explanation is not rigorous from the beginning, even if it does seem to be the closest to the truth.”

  There is no doubt that the players are not AI on the virtual machine, but real consciousnesses in another world.

  To explain why, it is because there are infinite small universes split from the original universe.

  You can’t find two identical leaves in a forest, but you can still find two almost similar leaves, at most it will take a little more time.

  Although Chu Guang didn’t know which technology the first generation of managers used to achieve and maintain this continuous resonance field across the two worlds.

  Maybe he drank some potion that awakened his spiritual power, or maybe he signed an agreement with some existence in the void, or some other messy method.

  But he could roughly guess what that guy did!

  ”Not only does this world exist another universe and another ‘me’, but there is also another ‘first-generation manager’ and the universe when that guy was still young.”

  ”If I’m not mistaken, he should be targeting that parallel universe-”

  ”Or put it another way.”

  ”He connected to his past ‘self’.”

  Completely erase a person’s information from the early Internet?

  This may be a bit difficult for the “natives” living in that era.

  But for the “professor” who created the academy and even the entire prosperous era, this is simply too easy.

  It is no exaggeration to say that he, who came to the eve of the prosperous era with all his knowledge, is probably closer to the “omnipotent” god than Ye Shi who came to the planet Gaia…

  …

  Rolling yellow sand swept the earth, and the relics of the old era were hastily buried in the sand dunes that no one cared about.

  At the same time when the Alliance and the observers in the void glanced and passed by, a solemn meeting was taking place in the deepest part of Shelter 13.

  There were two themes in this meeting.

  One was about deciding what kind of order the new world would operate in after the “heavenly punishment”, such as determining the post-war ruling status of the Celestial Beings and the political rights of the residents of the shelters who had submitted to the Celestial Beings.

  The other was to determine the specific date of the “heavenly punishment” and the subsequent action arrangements, such as taking over the production and living facilities of the “unattended” survivors.

  These included the Pioneer City and Ravenka Industrial Zone, which were closest to Shelter 13, and the Dawn City Industrial Zone and North Island Industrial Zone, which were relatively far away, as well as the Ideal City on the east coast and even the coastal bases of the Weylanders in the New World.

  In order to avoid the loss of means of production, they planned to formulate a set of action plans for rapid takeover.

  The Celestial Beings sent five representatives to the meeting, all of whom were androids without exception.

  On the other hand, there were twelve representatives from the shelter residents, half of whom were members of the Enlightenment Society, a quarter were residents of Shelter 13, and the other quarter were from other shelters in the Great Desert.

  Although the Enlightenment Society and the Celestial Beings were a community of interests to some extent, this forced alliance was obviously full of ulterior motives and a superficial unity from the beginning.

  The Celestial Beings had the weapon that the Enlightenment Society needed most, which was “a weapon that could play Candy Crush on Earth.”

  The Enlightenment Society also had what the Celestial Beings needed – they could not go to the Orion alone, and had to rely on some “tangible” forces.

  Even if these forces were rats in the gutter.

  As for the other shelter residents, they all had their own reasons for joining the Enlightenment Society.

  Some, like Zhuang Lan, were fooled, some agreed with the Enlightenment Society’s views, and most people had an attitude of neither opposing nor supporting.

  After all –

  why should they oppose?

  The neutron plume could not hurt the shelter at all.

  Even if they did not agree with the overly extreme practices of the Enlightenment Society and the Celestial Organization, they had enough reasons to turn a blind eye when they thought that those disgusting wastelanders, mutants, and all other troubles in the wasteland would turn into dust and dissipate with the wind.

  The whole process would not be painful at all, and it would even be much more comfortable than living in this declining world… It was like embracing eternal sleep in the warm sunshine.

  If there is an afterlife, they would be reborn in this world, probably in the shelter.

  Or, live in the “new era” rebuilt by the residents of the shelter.

  For the lives still struggling in the wasteland, this is not a kind of mercy.

  At least, they think so.

  It is for this reason that Shelter 13 opened its doors to the Enlightenment Society.

  After all, with the three layers of defense inside and outside, no one can force them to open their own doors except for themselves, let alone let people come in to transform their homes.

  In this way, the “Heavenly Punishment” plan was carried out in an orderly manner under the efforts of a few people and the silence of the majority.

  If there had not been a small accident, this “heavenly punishment” should have come two months ago.

  However, as luck would have it, this accident finally happened.

  The schedule of “heavenly punishment” was postponed again and again, and it is foreseeable that the launch arrangement this month was cancelled again.

  Now, not only those peripheral shelter forces attached to the Enlightenment Society have wavered, but even the people within the Enlightenment Society have become uneasy.

  It is precisely because of this.

  As soon as the meeting started, an uncertain expression was written on the faces of everyone present.

  Guixu, the president of the Enlightenment Society, who was sitting at the head of the conference table, rarely said a word since the meeting began, but from time to time he cast his eyes on the bionic man “Apocalypse” who was airdropped into the desert by the Tianren Organization.

  This guy used to belong to the Torch Church and was one of the pioneers of the Torch Church.

  Although he did not have much hope for this guy’s ability, after all, this guy was the only one who could contact the Lagrange point space station.

  Not only that.

  He also fought with the Alliance on the front battlefield.

  Although there have been some conflicts between the Enlightenment Society and the Alliance, the frictions were mainly small-scale military conflicts.

  Guixu always felt that this guy might be able to express some constructive opinions.

  Unfortunately, the latter ignored him, just sat there expressionlessly, kicking the ball back with an indifferent attitude.

  In fact, it was not that he did not want to pay attention to the president of the Enlightenment Society, but there was really nothing they could do at the moment.

  All they needed was to wait.

  Just like the order of the Lagrange Point Space Station, they did not need to do anything next, just wait quietly for victory.

  These organisms were a little too impatient…

  Feeling the frequent gazes, Apocalypse’s intellectual plug-in could not help but feel a little bored.

  Perhaps it was influenced by the Tianren Organization.

  Committed to pursuing higher evolution, he still had a heartfelt rejection of these weak pieces of meat for the first time…

  as if they were something dirty.

  Silence lasted for a long time at the conference table.

  Finally, someone did not want to wait endlessly, and a man in his early thirties stood up from the conference table.

  His name was Feng Zhiheng, and he was the eleventh-generation director elected by the survivors of Shelter No. 13.

  It was he who, despite all odds, convinced the majority of residents who were concerned about the Enlightenment Society and welcomed this group of dreamers who were committed to “rebuilding the pre-war era” in.

  The two sides had a long honeymoon period at first, and the move of the Enlightenment Society did bring unprecedented development to Shelter 13.

  However, as the situation continued to change in a direction that was unfavorable to the Enlightenment Society and the Tianren Organization, the residents of Shelter 13 continued to be suspicious, and his position in the shelter became precarious.

  If it was not a last resort, he did not want to directly attack the top leaders of the Enlightenment Society at this time.

  He scanned Guixu and the top leaders of the Enlightenment Society and the Tianren Organization with his sharp eyes, and asked with his hands on the conference table.

  ”The ‘Heavenly Punishment’ has been postponed, and it is once again… I think before we get into the core topic of the meeting, I would like to ask everyone in the Enlightenment Society to explain this more critical matter.”

  There was silence at the conference table.

  Tianqi impatiently clicked his tongue lightly, as if he wanted to end this boring riddle.

  However, Guixu was obviously more tactful than him. He knew that it was not the time to turn hostile, so he coughed to cover his impatience and quickly took over the topic.

  ”It will take some time to prepare the neutron torpedoes. I believe it will be completed next month.”

  However, Director Feng, who asked the question, was not dismissed by this sentence, but continued to ask aggressively.

  ”I want to know how long it will take?”

  Guixu’s eyebrows twitched fiercely, and a trace of imperceptible murderous intent flashed in his gentle eyes.

  Is this guy taking himself too seriously?

  The authority of the shelter is indeed a trouble for him, but that’s all.

  If necessary, he doesn’t mind changing the director of Shelter No. 13.

  He believes that he doesn’t even need to do it himself, and the guy named Tianqi is happy to serve.

  Facing the unpleasant eyes, Guixu forced a warm smile and was about to deal with it in an official tone.

  However, at this moment, something unexpected happened.

  The man sitting not far from him suddenly stood up without warning.

  He ignored the surprise on his face, looked around the conference table, and then said something that most people present did not expect with a sympathetic but cold voice.

  ”No need to wait.”

  ”The punishment from heaven will not come.”

  (End of this chapter)