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Chapter 302 The Mainframe's Mind is Too Firm

The problem is actually similar to the problem of mutual immortality, except that the conditions for achieving it are more relaxed. It is not about guaranteeing immortality, but about guaranteeing rebirth after destruction, so it becomes easier to achieve.

However, this does not mean that such problems will disappear. When faced with an unparalleled force, such a mutually supportive relationship will inevitably be disintegrated in an instant.

After Lu Shang's guidance, the two main brains, Moston and Grana, understood.

Grana hesitated for a moment before asking, "Then... is there any way to avoid this?"

"Unknown," Lu Shang replied calmly.

Moston and Grana fell into thought, but couldn't understand how the 'unknown' could resolve the problem of the two main minds maintaining each other, so they pressed for answers.

"Unknown? What's the use of that?"

Lu Shang said, "Its role is very important. 'Unknown' means a natural passive attack avoidance, because no intelligent life knows what exists in the unknown. No one would consider throwing a punch at nothingness, so it is impossible to take offensive actions. Therefore, the only threat to special spacetime is the damage caused by non-intelligent life."

"To put it simply, it means that the possibility of a special space-time being destroyed by human intervention will be greatly reduced due to a series of accidents and coincidences."

Not knowing means being safe, because no one would be hostile to something that "does not exist" for no reason. This is why, as long as a hidden person on the battlefield does not expose themselves, they will not be attacked by the enemy.

So-called attack is just a biological way of thinking. Even if the universe is different, this way of thinking is basically the same, and the steps to achieve an attack are only a few.

By addressing the root cause, biological damage can be completely and effectively eliminated.

However, Lu Shang's proposed idea could not adequately meet Moston's requirements. "It only reduces the risk; accidents can destroy the special spacetime protected by the 'unknown'."

If it cannot be completely avoided, then it is meaningless, since over a long period of time, even the smallest probability will become inevitable.

Lu Shang shrugged. "There's no other way. This is the only method I can think of. To completely avoid any harm, we must avoid all interactions between things."

"Without interaction with everything, you will lose everything, but at the same time you can be independent of everything."

"But that's impossible."

"Leaving aside whether it's even possible, even if it were, the fundamental nature of life would be contrary to it. Life must absorb negative entropy from external systems to maintain its existence. If it were to cease interacting with anything, it would be equivalent to having nowhere to release its own entropy, and the only outcome would be extinction..."

It is impossible to completely avoid accidents, because as long as there is interaction with matter, accidents are everywhere, unless they completely cease to exist.

Even if it ceases to exist, it can still be restored to positive and negative quantum pairs, so even in nothingness, "accidents" cannot be avoided.

Then there's the origin of life. Life inevitably feeds on negative entropy. Civilization, being an aggregation of life, also feeds on negative entropy. And because of its massive size, as civilization's technology advances, the amount of negative entropy it absorbs will only increase.

The Babel bee swarm never worried about entropy increase, simply because they had mastered the method of unlimited entropy reversal, but that doesn't mean that as a civilization, they could ignore the law of entropy increase.

The only solution is to stop living.

But if even life itself is abandoned, then what is the point of continuing anything?

However, just as Lu Shang was pondering this, Grana suddenly exclaimed, "Yes! This is the direction!"

Lu Shang: ? ? ?

After a moment of stunned silence, Lu Shang asked with a strange expression, "...What do you mean? You really want to cease to exist, to become nothingness, right?"

"How do we fundamentally solve the problem of life? And even nothingness can be split into positive and negative quantum pairs."

Lu Shang couldn't imagine what future this direction could have; it was clearly a dead end, since life cannot defy its own rules.

Grana replied firmly, "I believe these problems will be solved; the key is to have a direction."

"Even if we're wrong, it doesn't matter. The worst that can happen is death, but there are still swarms of bees exploring other paths."

……

A beam of light traversed the nebula, scorching a massive hole in the nebula with a diameter large enough to fit three Earths through it.

Fleets of different appearances unleashed all their firepower and offensive capabilities at the fleet that did not belong to their side.

This was a chaotic battle where multiple forces converged, and the battlefield was littered with the corpses of aliens of various appearances, silently testifying to this fact.

The fierce battle, and even the nebula that enveloped this interstellar battlefield, was shattered by the cannon fire released by the fleet. The nebula, stretching for three light-years, resembled a loaf of bread that had been bitten by a giant beast, with a noticeable gap at the edge.

Years from now, if any civilization sees this nebula, it will probably think that the gap at the edge of the nebula was formed by the gravitational pull of a giant celestial body passing by.

The fierce space battle ended with a space strike weapon from a fleet that launched a small, dart-shaped object, about the size of a coconut, from a warship. The object maintained an extremely high speed of rotation as it moved forward.

When this dart-shaped object, only the size of a coconut, approached the center of the battlefield, its rotational speed decreased exponentially, and soon it stopped rotating altogether.

As the rotational speed of the dart-shaped object gradually decreases, an invisible wave radiates outward from the object's center.

The fluctuations were so immense that even spacetime was distorted to an extreme degree, so much so that from an observer's perspective, the dart-shaped object at the center appeared twisted and stretched into something resembling a thin noodle.

Fleets belonging to different factions activated faster-than-light warp drives before the wave arrived, escaping the area of ​​damage at faster-than-light speed.

Those fleets that reacted too slowly were like broken bones after the wave covered them, with each warship snapping in two. Even the strongest flagships could only ensure that the main parts of the hull remained undamaged, while the crew, instruments, and equipment inside were all destroyed.

When the last fleet that was a step too late to leave was unwillingly destroyed by the shockwaves of the space strike weapon, this interstellar battlefield returned to the deathly silence it had before the war began.

That's how it should be...

On a microscopic scale invisible to the naked eye, a medium-sized organism witnessed the entire space battle.

(End of this chapter)