I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 663: Surge of Chaos

Sure enough, the Eternal Thirst returned soon, and with it, it brought the answer.

"It's because of Yuan Kong..."

"What is Yuan Kong?"

"It's a big funnel, and the things under the funnel are overflowing..." The Eternal Thirst explained: "The bottom of the abyss is surging, and the precipitated chaos seeps up through the holes in the abyss, constantly eroding..."

"What do you mean?" Ivy asked.

"Well... although you have many eyes, there are still many things you cannot see, such as the strings of time, the web of space, the void of the soul... The things that seep up from the bottom of the abyss are called entropy worms. They will attach themselves to any object and give it 'chaos'. You can regard them as a kind of creature or as a parameter."

The Eternal Thirst's pipe tentacles gestured randomly in the void, as if drawing the outline of a butterfly.

"The entropy worms are everywhere under the funnel. Other things will be trapped under the funnel due to gravity, but they are living things and will crawl up through the abyss. As they become more and more numerous, the funnel will become more and more chaotic."

"You can't see them, you can only analyze them from a macro perspective, and then you will feel that the world is becoming more and more wrong."

Listening to the Eternal Thirst's story, Vine also had a general understanding.

"Have they always been climbing upward? If the abyss has always existed, why hasn't this happened before?"

"Because they are living organisms, they need a reproduction process and follow a population growth curve. There is a maximum environmental carrying capacity. Their numbers are not very high at the beginning, but they grow slowly. After reaching a certain number, they will begin to migrate upward from the bottom of the abyss. As their numbers increase, their influence gradually increases."

"Are their numbers still increasing now?" Vine asked.

"Yes, we haven't even reached half of the environmental carrying capacity, and the growth rate is still rising."

After hearing the explanation of the Eternal Thirst, the vines immediately realized that this chaos had just begun. As the number of entropy worms increased, the degree of chaos would increase sharply.

The scary thing is that other creatures in the abyss don’t have the same macro-vision as it does, so they can’t feel what is happening and will only be blinded by the specific chaotic events.

"We can't let them spread any further." Vine made a prompt decision.

"Is there any way to destroy those entropy worms?" it asked the Everthirsty.

"You can't destroy them. They are immortal...or rather, their life and death are opposites. If you want to kill them, it will make them more active."

"What if we let them live? Will they die?"

"You can't do that. Entropy reduction is impossible unless you jump out of this isolated system."

"Isolated system?"

"Yes..." The Eternal Thirst pulled a book from the library shelf and held it in front of the vines. "If we are the words in this book, this book is an isolated system. Entropy worms will keep crawling in this book. As words, you can't kill them. Only by jumping out of the isolated system, jumping out of this book, can you kill the entropy worms on the pages."

"Can my jelly jump out?" the vine asked immediately.

"No."

The Everthirsty One felt a little lonely and gently put the book back.

"It can't be helped. We are just words in a book."

"You and I, and jelly too, are all given meaning by words. We are what the words say we are. We are just defined sentences or words. Remove these definitions and we are meaningless words. We are absolutely inseparable from this isolated system."

"Don't even think about it, this method won't work..."

The vines had never seen the Everthirst look so helpless.

“No knowledge on how to get out of isolated systems?”

"No."

"Is it that you haven't acquired this kind of knowledge yet?"

"Impossible." The Everthirsty denied several of the vines' questions in a row.

So, Tengman didn't ask any more questions. Since this method was not feasible, he could only look for other directions.

Since there is no way to eliminate those entropy bugs, is there any way to stop them from spreading?
The vine told the Eternal Thirst his idea, and the Eternal Thirst thought about it and proposed a method:
"Add a filter to the hole."

"Filter?"

"Yes, so that those entropy worms can't climb up. They can only go down, not up." The Eternal Thirst explained.

"How do we add a filter?"

"Just use something orderly to block the hole in the abyss. It won't affect the function of the funnel, and it will also prevent those entropy worms from coming up."

"Orderly stuff?"

"Yes, the best choice is life."

Living organisms are a huge reservoir of chemical reactions, and the metabolic processes of life are based on biochemical reactions.

"From a certain perspective, the meaning of life lies in the ability to resist the increase of its own entropy, that is, the ability to reduce entropy."

In life activities, due to the inevitability of entropy increase, living organisms constantly go from order back to disorder, and eventually irreversibly move towards aging and death.

If you want to resist the worms of entropy, the best "filter" is life.

"Life can resist entropy increase and is also plastic, making it the perfect filter."

As the Eternal Thirst spoke, he looked at Wenwen behind the vines...

The vines immediately understood the Everthirsty's intentions.

"You can't ask."

"It has just created itself. This is the best choice." The Eternal Thirst advised calmly.

"No, just because it has just created itself, it cannot be used. It does not have the ability to make its own choices yet, and this is unfair to it."

The vines blocked the way forward, directly blocking the Eternal Thirst's prying eyes.

"Well, you don't have to care about it. There's no need to shoulder such a big responsibility. We are just words floating in this isolated system. Even if you don't care, there will be other lives that will."

The Eternal Thirst has actually never taken this matter too seriously. If it weren't for the transaction with the vines that had to be completed, it wouldn't care about this kind of thing at all.

In fact, it didn't want to tell the vines about these things, because it knew that if it told the vines about this, the vines would definitely intervene and it would end up in trouble...

Sure enough, it was just as expected.

"I have to take care of it... If the dam is broken and no one repairs it, the flood will drown everyone."

After Vine said this to the Eternal Thirst, he left with Wenwen.

The Eternal Thirst had no choice but to watch them pass through the jelly and drill towards the abyss...

The Eternal Thirst stood quietly for a while, then slowly walked to the bookshelf, took out a book, and then went to the reading table and sat down.

It was a locked book. The Eternal Thirst carefully opened the lock, and the title of the book slowly appeared...

"The Traveler".

Gently stroking the books, the Eternally Thirsty felt somewhat helpless.

"It seems that the title of the book needs to be changed again..."

(End of this chapter)