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Chapter 231 The Artificial Universe is Too Abnormal

The legendary "Upper Realm" of the people on the continent of Lanvassa was actually something the Babel bees had come into contact with long ago.

It is a special artificial universe developed by the Unity Civilization after studying the past psionic technology tree of Beehive and the resulting technological explosion. In this artificial universe, individual will is equivalent to energy. Therefore, in macroscopic physical terms, the development of things is changed by the free will of individuals.

Thought can not only govern matter, but can even transcend matter itself and reverse the increase of entropy.

In this artificial universe, individual will becomes something like an objective entity.

However, this artificial universe is quite unique compared to the artificial universe built by the previous unified civilization.

In the early stages of exploration, the microscopic organisms did not discover any life. This artificial universe appeared unusually desolate compared to the artificial universes that the bee swarm had explored before.

In the previous unified civilization's universe, there were all sorts of miscellaneous things, including gods, demons, and chaos devourers.

However, the artificial universe we are exploring now contains nothing.

It means, literally, nothingness; there is no light, no god, no architecture, no chaos.

Only after microscopic organisms invaded this artificial universe did it begin to undergo physical changes due to its own physical rules.

This is a very strange thing. Legends on the continent of Lanvasa record that true gods reside in the upper realm, and powerful beings in the lower realm can also enter the upper realm and become gods after reaching a certain level.

It doesn't matter whether gods live in the upper realm or not; a large number of life forms certainly live in the upper realm. Even if the connection between the upper and lower realms is later severed, would all the creatures in the upper realm starve to death?

No, in this universe where individual will can interfere with matter and even reverse entropy increase, life forms won't starve even if they don't work, because they can eat until they're stuffed just by imagining it.

However, all indications from the artificial universe currently being explored suggest that there are no signs of life in this universe except for microscopic organisms that have secretly infiltrated it.

Otherwise, even if there is only one living being, that being's thoughts will continuously influence the artificial universe, causing the entire universe to undergo a series of enormous changes due to the influence of individual will.

So here's the question: where did all the life forms in the upper realm go?

Were they all dead, or did they all flee and escape?

To answer these questions, a more extensive exploration became essential. The microscopic beings then contacted planetary beings, using their spiritual power to open microscopic wormholes. Through these wormholes, they began a full-scale exploration of the artificial universe left behind by the Unity Civilization.

However, this exploration not only failed to answer the question, but also raised an even bigger question.

This artificial universe, left behind by the unified civilization, is not only devoid of life, but also lacks any trace of life, making it far more empty than the swarm initially anticipated.

Even the true gods of the upper realm are all like savages, not living in any buildings, not even using beds when they sleep, just floating to sleep, without blankets or clothes, so they don't have wardrobes or anything like that. But the unified civilization needs buildings.

The Unity Civilization left behind many relics in the last man-made universe explored by the previous swarm, so there's no reason why there shouldn't be anything in this man-made universe.

This is so strange!

Just as the microscopic organisms and other individual bees were considering whether to change their exploration strategy to see if there were any details they had overlooked in exploring this artificial universe, the information about this artificial universe suddenly went black within the bee swarm network.

The information connection was broken, and the microscopic organisms within the artificial universe inexplicably all died. The swarm of bees outside the artificial universe had no idea what had happened.

Even if planetary life forms from artificial universes open a microscopic wormhole, all they will see through the wormhole is a special mirror reflecting light.

After relaying the sudden developments to the Tucker Superintelligence and the Cosmic Union, Lu Shang issued the next instruction, ordering another batch of microscopic beings to invade the Upper Realm.

This was done to lure the enemy into attacking microscopic organisms.

Any attack requires receiving information before it can be executed, which creates a hard requirement for an attack to be launched.

For example, before launching an attack, it is necessary to know that the enemy exists before considering carrying out the attack. It is impossible to launch an attack when the enemy does not exist.

Lu Shang believed that the enemy might be in the artificial universe being explored by the swarm, or through a microscopic wormhole, spying on all the changes in the artificial universe. Only after seeing a series of physical changes occur in the artificial universe due to the entry of the swarm's thoughts did they carry out the attack.

The microscopic creatures' exploration was once again unsuccessful. The mirror at the other end of the microscopic wormhole was stronger than they had imagined. It was impossible to warp or destroy it with psionic energy, let alone enter the target universe by impact. The microscopic creatures were blocked outside and could no longer pass through the wormhole as before.

The swarm of bees wasn't inflexible. Seeing that the opened microscopic wormholes were impassable, they used mathematical derivation of spatial coordinate systems and randomly selected some previously unopened spatial coordinates to attempt a breakthrough.

However, after the planetary creatures opened new microscopic wormholes, they were surprised to find that they still could not enter; the other end of the wormhole was still a reflective mirror.

This made the swarm creatures wonder if the artificial universe created by the Unity Civilization had been completely materialized, to the point that there wasn't a single mirror-like surface inside.

Subsequently, the bee swarm explored the physical structure of the mirrors at the other end of these microscopic wormholes.

How to explore?

It's very simple: bombard the surface of the material with high-energy particles to destroy it, then observe the cracks and peer into the texture of these mirrors through the cracks. Incidentally, capture the residue after the high-energy particle bombardment, and you can analyze the particle structure of these mirrors.

However, the subsequent series of tests made Lu Shang frown, because the results were far beyond his original expectations.

The mirror surface is absolutely smooth and will reflect all particles. Even if it emits a microscopic black hole, it will still be reflected back as if a particle were colliding with it.

If it were matter, a microscopic black hole would necessarily devour matter and leave a gap on the surface of the mirror, but the actual test showed the exact opposite.

This means that the mirror that prevents microscopic organisms from entering the artificial universe is neither matter nor energy, and has absolutely nothing to do with either.

The obstacle is not to materialize or increase the density of matter in the entire artificial universe, but to directly rewrite the physical rules of the artificial universe, making the spacetime of the entire universe refuse all matter from entering the artificial universe!

"Naive. Do you think that blocking them like this will prevent the swarm from getting in?" Lu Shang sneered, then gave orders to the swarm.

"Send cosmic beings and nest creatures to the coordinates of the cosmic sea of ​​the target universe to physically intervene in the target universe from outside the universe."

The swarm of bee creatures existing in the cosmic sea acted according to Lu Shang's orders, heading towards the coordinates in the cosmic sea. The swarm of bee creatures in the universe also acted according to Lu Shang's orders.

"Gather psionic energy to help the microscopic creatures force their way in!"

Vast amounts of psionic energy converged within the universe created by the Unity Civilization through the unfolding microscopic wormhole, with the aim of sending microscopic life forms to the other end of the wormhole.

Two terrifying forces are vying for dominance in the vacuum of the artificial universe: one is the physical rules of the artificial universe, and the other is the terrifying power that gathers the spiritual energy of multiple cosmic swarms of beings.

The powerful spiritual energy forcefully reversed the laws of physics in this artificial universe, creating a stable space. At the outer edge of this stable space, two terrifying forces intertwined, forming a spacetime fault that stretched for thousands of light-years—the "black curtain" that planetary beings used as a shield. Spacetime was drastically distorted, forming a physical phenomenon that could be directly seen with the naked eye.

"The psionic energy has stabilized within a range of 4000 light-years in diameter, but the power from the artificial universe is still increasing. This range may shrink in the future. Should we consider increasing the intensity of the psionic energy?"

As the physical rules of the artificial universe continued to change, attempting to overwhelm the psionic energy released by the swarm with a higher energy level, but without receiving Lu Shang's order to further increase the release of psionic energy, one of the main brains anxiously inquired of Lu Shang.

Lu Shang replied, "Do you really think that I had the swarm gather spiritual energy to create a region with different physical rules in the artificial universe so that microscopic organisms could find something there?"

The mainframe was taken aback and asked curiously, "Releasing psionic energy to create a region with different physical rules within the artificial universe—isn't that meant for microscopic beings to enter and gather intelligence on the enemy?"

"Of course not."

Lu Shang shook his head, surveying the entire situation through the observational organs of the bee swarm, and continued, "I just didn't want that obstacle to get away, so I deliberately lured them into the current confrontation."

"You know the physical characteristics of the artificial universe of the Unity Civilization. Without a manipulator, the artificial universe could not produce such continuous physical changes on its own."

"The obstacle preventing the swarm from exploring this man-made universe could be a collective or an individual."

"Regardless of who the other party is, whether they are friend or foe, one thing is certain: it is definitely related to something in the Guiyi Civilization."

Gathering intelligence is not difficult, nor is killing the enemy; the real challenge is capturing the enemy alive.

Indeed, freezing the cycle of reincarnation can quickly and efficiently imprison those who obstruct the artificial universe.

Lu Shang was worried that his opponent was using a microscopic wormhole to extend only a part of himself into the artificial universe of the Guiyi Civilization for cross-dimensional manipulation. Even if the swarm completely froze the spacetime of the artificial universe, it would be impossible to capture the opponent.

Therefore, some prior arrangements are necessary.

Thinking of all this, Lu Shang urged the cosmic creatures that were heading towards the coordinates of the cosmic sea.

"Hurry up, if this obstacle gets away, the clues we finally found will be lost."

"learn."

Because they hadn't anticipated this situation in the artificial universe, the cosmic beings didn't immediately incorporate a portion of the artificial universe's spacetime into their own. Therefore, they could only travel to the artificial universe's coordinates within the cosmic sea by moving within it.

(End of this chapter)