Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1648 The Sordid Things of That Year
"You can't go?" the representative of the Dayan civilization said.

The one who returned to the void: "No."

"Can't or dare not?" the representative of the Dayan civilization asked again.

This time, the Returning Void One did not answer directly, but explained in detail: "Because the infinite microcosm has been separated from the greater universe, it no longer actually belongs to our greater universe. And the only way for our greater universe to go to the infinite microcosm is through our Returning Void."

"Our Ruins support the foundation of this universe, which is the group of existing micromanifolds of the larger universe. By first entering our Ruins and then crossing the microscopic world composed of those micromanifolds, we can reach the infinite microscopic world."

"Since the finite microscopic world of our universe is separated from the infinite microscopic world, there are still some commonalities among them. As long as you can understand the secret of the infinite microscopic world from the existing finite manifolds, you can use the finite to contain the infinite, reach the true infinite microscopic world, and find the divine creation micro-element."

The representative of the Dayan civilization was also troubled after hearing these words.

This requires mastering the secrets of the infinite microscopic world!
But the infinite microscopic world is no longer in this universe. How could the civilization of this universe possibly grasp something that doesn't exist in this universe?
The Void Returners certainly knew this was impossible, which is why they claimed to be able to discern the secrets of the infinite microscopic world from existing finite manifolds—but how could that be possible!
"Isn't there any other way?" The representative of the Dayan civilization was still unwilling to give up.

"No!" the Void Returner replied, "That's the only passage. If the Divine Creation Microcosm wants to return to the Greater Universe, it will definitely pass through the Void Returner, so..."

Therefore, as long as the issue of the Divine Creation Micro-Element remains unresolved, we must remain in the Ruins of Return to prevent it from returning to the Great Universe and reigniting the war between god-level civilizations in the Great Universe.

It's even possible that when the Divine Creation Micro-Elements return to the greater universe, they might destroy the Void while the Returning Ones are away. Once the Void is destroyed, many physical rules of this universe will collapse, because the Void currently supports the "foundation" of the microscopic world of this universe. The various particle activities and laws of the microscopic world constitute the various phenomena of the macroscopic world. Without the microscopic world, the self-consistent Standard Particle Model of the greater universe will become inconsistent, and the physical laws will become chaotic.

This chain reaction could cause a mass extinction of life in the universe, and the edifice of physics would collapse. Civilizations that cannot maintain their own physical laws would perish as a result.

A universe with inconsistent laws will become like a program with bugs, eventually collapsing due to the accumulation of bugs.

This is a catastrophe that could destroy the universe, and the universe may disappear as a result.

There are actually solutions; there are two methods that several god-level civilizations already know about.

First, the divine creation micro-element reconnected the separated infinite micro-entities back to the macrocosm, making the infinite micro-entities the foundation of the macrocosm once again.

Secondly, the restarters replace the destroyed microscopic world with their infinite multidimensional world, that is, they make the infinite multidimensional world another self-consistent channel of operation.

If the rebooters succeed, in the future universe, when people observe the laws governing microscopic particles again, what they see may no longer be the various manifestations of particles, but rather a macroscopic mapping of multidimensional combinations.

The Returning One did not speak, but the representative of the Great Evolution Civilization already knew their meaning, so he cast his consciousness toward the Restarter in the depths of the infinite multidimensional world.

The Rebooters first stated that if the Ruins and that finite microscopic world were destroyed, with their current capabilities, they could not immediately replace them with an infinite multidimensional world; they could only try their best to prevent the universe from collapsing.

The reason why the Returning Void Beings were able to make the Void the new foundation of the universe was mainly because the microscopic world still existed. Although it was a finite microscopic world, the Returning Void Beings replaced the infinite channels required for the self-consistent operation of the universe's rules with their own infinite rules, thus stabilizing the universe. However, despite this, the macrocosm still cannot return to its original state.

The most direct manifestation of this is in the highest warp speed. Even though a cosmic civilization has the ability to modify the rules of physics, it cannot break through the warp speed of three thousand times the speed of light because the foundation of the universe cannot withstand it.

It wasn't until the Rebooters created an infinite multidimensional world and opened another infinite channel for the self-consistent operation of the universe's rules that the warp speed level of a cosmic civilization was able to improve.

However, it still cannot reach the level of that year.

Even reinforced structures have limited load-bearing capacity.

The Rebooter finally answered the question posed by the representative of the Great Evolution Civilization. He slowly said, "Alas, we never expected things to develop like that, let alone that the Divine Creation Micro-Element would be so insane. It all started with the war between group technology and individual civilizations. Back then, in the war against the so-called Children of the Universe, the Divine Creation Micro-Element was actually just one of the twelve battle alliances."

"At that time, they were still the Micro-Element Civilization. During the joint campaign against the so-called Children of the Universe, the Micro-Element Civilization led its own forces on expeditions east and west. In the middle of the war, after joining forces with eleven other resistance groups, they established a prison to hold individual civilizations."

"They were the ones who created that pixelated cage," a representative of the Dayan civilization interjected.

"Yes, the Micro-Element Civilization at that time was not actually the most powerful civilization. There were other civilizations among the eleven teams that were much stronger than them."

The representative of the Great Yan Civilization interjected again: "Because of the pixel cage?"

“Yes,” the Rebooter replied. “After they created the Pixel Cage, they began to lead all research projects targeting individual civilizations. Anti-Entropy Element was just one of them, and it was also something they used to appease all the civilizations involved in the research.”

"In fact, there are many studies that they have not made public. They use the strength of everyone to study individual civilizations, but they keep most of the research results to themselves. It is precisely for this reason that they later surpassed others and became the most powerful cosmic civilization at the time in the later stages of the war."

"After that, they became the first god-level civilization. After becoming a god-level civilization, they sealed away the data and results of the collaborative research they had done back then. Their purpose was already obvious at that time. It was also at that time that the Micro-Element Civilization became the God-Created Micro-Element."

"Fortunately, at that time, the Divine Creation Microcosm had not gone too far. In addition, the leading civilizations of the other eleven teams had also participated in those studies and obtained some valuable data. As a result, those civilizations eventually made breakthroughs one after another and became god-level civilizations. We and the Returning Void were two of them."

At this point, the representative of the Dayan civilization could roughly guess what would happen next, so he took over the conversation and said, "So after you successively became god-level civilizations, you thought you were on the same level as the Divine Creation Micro-Element, and then together with the Divine Creation Micro-Element, you created some kind of new cosmic order that restricted subsequent civilizations from becoming god-level civilizations?"

"Almost," the restarter replied.

The representative of the Great Evolution Civilization continued, "After that, you began to feel that the Divine Creation Micro-Element should make public those previously sealed research results, at least to the eleven god-level civilizations of you, since those were also your research results."

"Almost," the Rebooters replied again, but this time they didn't finish. They continued, "However, the Divine Creation Microcosm rejected us, arguing that those results were of great importance and that most of them were research findings from after they became a god-level civilization. Not only that, they also wanted to seal all the research materials in the infinite microcosm."

(End of this chapter)