Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1625 The Gods Were Just Passing By
The higher-dimensional gods came, taught us much knowledge, and then left. They were so selfless, they asked for nothing in return. Perhaps we were unable to give them anything, because in their world, our world held no secrets.

Ike, the two-dimensional gourd-man, has returned to the two-dimensional planet. As the first gourd-man to directly communicate with the higher-dimensional gods, he wrote down his experiences and feelings in his memoir.

His memoirs were eventually included in the National Museum and widely distributed to many people.

For Ike and the entire Calabash people, they could not see what the Great Voyage Organization was asking for. Therefore, in his view, these high-dimensional gods were just there to impart knowledge to them and guide the direction of their civilization's development; they were a group of selfless gods.

That's just how it is. Even though the Great Voyage Organization took things from the two-dimensional planet, it's like seeing an ant nest while walking. They only take a few ant eggs and don't need to say to the ants, "Hey, I'll sprinkle some candy for you and then take some of your eggs."

Back on the two-dimensional planet, Ayueke discusses her experiences with her assistants who share similar backgrounds, and continues writing her memoirs in her spare time.

[I met a higher-dimensional being who said He was the leader of the string players. He wasn't the aloof god we imagine; He wasn't arrogant at all. If we disregarded differences in perspective, I almost mistook Him for a kind old man.]

Oh, to me and to all the gourd people in our entire star system, He is indeed a kind old man, for He is older than all of us. Yes, I once presumptuously asked Him how long a god could live. In my mind, a thousand years is already a long lifespan, after all, our lifespan as gourd people is only two or three hundred years. But that high-dimensional god said that His lifespan is about ten billion years, or even several hundred billion years.

It's unimaginable what an incredibly long lifespan that is. I once pressed him to be more specific, but the higher-dimensional being said, "It's meaningless." Indeed, whether it's a hundred billion years or tens of billions of years, what difference does one more or one less year make? That's already equivalent to the lifespan of stars.

[Higher-dimensional beings not only possess long lifespans, but their bodies are also unimaginably enormous. My colleagues and I were fortunate enough to circle a god and, with the god's permission, scanned its physical characteristics. If you are interested, you can read a book called "The Form of God." Of course, we haven't finished writing this book yet, and it is one of the important things my colleagues and I will do for the rest of our lives.]

Yes, you haven't heard. Describing the form of God requires the combined high-dimensional physics research power of an entire nation and half a lifetime. This is because it involves not only our current cutting-edge dimensional physics theories, but also extremely complex advanced mathematics, surface geometry, and many mathematical conjectures that we have yet to solve. If we want to fully describe the form of God, we must first solve these scientific problems.

Solving these problems requires not only understanding traditional two-dimensional mathematics and geometry, but also possessing three-dimensional imagination, three-dimensional geometry, and the laws of three-dimensional physics. All of this requires exploration and learning.

The reason I'm writing this is to tell everyone that the "Form of God" project recently established by the government is not feudal superstition, but a project that truly promotes scientific development. I sincerely invite researchers worldwide with high-dimensional talents to participate in this great project. As I said, the form of God is extremely complex. My colleagues and I had already filled up our storage devices, but we still couldn't completely record the form of that God. Just when we were wondering whether we should tell Him about our predicament, it was as if God knew what we were thinking, and He simply conjured up a storage device out of thin air for us.

[That was a creation we could use. According to God, it was a storage device with a three-dimensional structure—yes, the one now in a museum. But what I'm saying is that it was actually a creation of God, using great technology, to encapsulate a three-dimensional device within our two-dimensional world. That's why we can use it.]

Similarly, it is also a creation left to us by the gods, and its value is immeasurable. In the future, once we have finished describing the form of the gods, it will surely become an aid for us, the Calabash People, in our research into higher dimensions, because it is a three-dimensional creation encapsulated by the gods using great technology. We will study it until one day we grasp its secrets and then go to the three-dimensional world described by the gods.

I once humbly asked Him what a String Plucker was. The leader of the String Pluckers kindly told me that the so-called string is the cosmic string, the most basic unit that constitutes all things in the universe, and the so-called String Plucker is someone who uses unimaginable technological means to pluck those strings to achieve the effect the String Plucker desires.

[A light pluck of the string brings life to all things; a heavy pluck destroys the world. What advanced technology that is! Yes, it is technology, and the "gods" I speak of in the text are also a result of this great technology. The reason I insist on calling the string-pluckers gods in this book is simply to tell everyone that they truly are like the gods we imagine, even beyond our imagination.]

[Furthermore, I want to tell everyone that the gods are not just one String Plectrumger; they are actually composed of several higher-dimensional civilizations. The String Plectrumger I encountered happened to be its leader, belonging to an organization called the Great Interstellar Expedition Organization. They crossed the universe from an infinitely distant place, traversing our world, and then disappeared again into the depths of space, heading to a place we cannot even see. I don't know where they go, nor what they are going to do, but I hope that in the future our civilization can also set sail like the gods, to explore the vast cosmos and embark on our own great voyage!]

Wisdom has countless possibilities, and civilization should be resilient. Although we are humble, I believe we can break free from our own constraints, overcome this oppressive world, and shatter the cage that confines us.

Many years later, Ayueke's memoir was finally completed, and just as he had imagined, the book has spread all over the world and is a popular bestseller that can be found in any bookstore on this two-dimensional planet.

Some people are obsessed with the story of the protagonist's encounter and communication with higher-dimensional gods described in the book, while others are captivated by the higher-dimensional physics knowledge written in the book. Still others treat it as a book about contact with higher-dimensional civilizations.

(End of this chapter)