The Wallfacer: Everyone wants to break through my wall.

However, a very strange thing happened: they discovered that the material that was escaping out of the solar system at near the speed of light eventually returned to the solar system and pointed back towards the sun.

The Atomic Man players were suddenly dumbfounded.

Some people, not believing in superstition, simply do not use the speed of light curvature, but instead use stellar winds to accelerate to near the speed of light and escape out of the solar system.

However, the result was the same as before.

"Can't escape?! That's impossible! Why can't we escape the solar system?"

As the two-dimensional area expanded significantly, the Atomic Man players became increasingly anxious, and soon someone noticed something amiss.

"Those stars are fake! The entire solar system is now enveloped by a space bubble! There's no way to escape using only the speed of light and curvature!"

"What? A space bubble!?"

Until the end of the game, not a single player successfully broke through the space bubble that sealed off the solar system and escaped outside the solar system.

The players naturally felt indignant, feeling that the developers were playing a trick on them.

Who would suddenly launch a two-dimensional attack without any warning as soon as the game starts, and then use a space bubble to block their escape route?

"Feng Taylor, you guys are cheating! Nobody starts a game like this!"

Lin Feng responded to the players, "My game is like this. It can be more than just this. It can be something else entirely, and it might even be the kind of game that matches your imagination, although the chances of that are not very high."

"In short, the new game I developed is just as ever-changing as the virtual space exercises of the past. It's like the reality we face now, and it won't change because of anyone. If you're not happy, you don't have to play it."

This nonchalant attitude naturally drew enthusiastic greetings from the players.

However, faced with Lin Feng's report, the players wisely chose to behave more politely.

One of the players said to Lin Feng, "I have some questions I'd like to ask you, Mr. Taylor."

"Questions about the game?" Lin Feng asked.

"Yes." The other person nodded.

Lin Feng gestured, "Then you can ask."

The player asked, "In this game, are we playing the role of fugitives, or a seed for the continuation of civilization?"

Lin Feng said, “Think whatever you want. Whether you become fugitives or seeds, it doesn’t matter. The universe will neither rejoice because of your survival nor celebrate for the glory you bring to civilization. The same goes for this universe survival game.”

Will you participate in this game?

The other party then asked a question that immediately piqued the interest of the players, who looked at Lin Feng with expectant eyes.

Lin Feng thought for a moment and replied, "In the future, but the game has only recently gotten on track, and I still have a lot of things to take care of."

One player asked, "One last question: can this game truly offer the same 'freedom' as in real life? Can we, like in the real universe, freely form partnerships with creatures of other races?"

Upon hearing this question, Lin Feng's expression shifted strangely a few times, but he eventually returned to normal.

"Of course you can. As I said, you can do whatever you want. As long as you evade the Space Hunters and survive in the Dark Forest, you will win the game, no matter what method you use."

Chapter 340 A General Discussion of Life

"How are the players doing? How many fewer people participated this time?"

Lin Feng asked a game manager who came to report to him.

The previous gate-opening kill couldn't possibly have not affected the players' enthusiasm for actively participating in the game, a fact that Lin Feng was well aware of.

But if he had to do it all over again, Lin Feng would still make the same choice.

Because Lin Feng needed to make the players clearly understand one thing: this game wouldn't indulge anyone, and it wasn't designed for entertainment.

As for whether players will give up due to the game's unexpectedly high difficulty...

Lin Feng wasn't worried about this at all. He just needed to tell the Council of Ten to issue a daily task for participating in the game, which was part of the original plan.

However, the game has only just started operating and many aspects are not yet perfect. Lin Feng plans to contact the Council of Ten after it is fully perfected.

“Half gone,” the game manager replied.

Lin Feng shook his head in disappointment. "They're too delicate. When I first proposed the virtual space exercise, at most two-thirds of the people didn't participate."

Looking back at the era of Crisis Era, the group of players who dared to participate in the games he designed and became more resilient with each setback stands in stark contrast to today's players.

The supervisor replied, "It's understandable that they would make this choice. Faced with an overwhelming group of space hunters with an absolute advantage, they have no other choice but to eke out a living like insects in the cracks. In the unified entity, they are 'humans,' but in the universe, they are 'insects.' Many people find it difficult to adapt to this demotion in their status."

"Ultimately, this is all your fault,"

Upon hearing this, Lin Feng was taken aback; he hadn't expected his supervisor to say such a thing.

"Oh...is it my fault?"

The supervisor replied, "You've protected them so well that they have no idea what their place is in the universe."

Lin Feng dismissed such remarks with disdain, retorting, "If this logic held true, humanity would never have reached where we are today. Strictly speaking, everyone now is enjoying the protection of our ancestors and the fruits of their labor."

"Arguing about this is pointless. You have your opinion, and I have mine. Neither side can be swayed."

"By the way, is the author of this 'General Theory of Life' still being detained?" Lin Feng asked about another matter.

This book was started when the Unified Body embarked on its journey to leave the Milky Way, and Lin Feng only began to pay attention to "The General Theory of Life" after the journey ended and a large number of diverse reproductive methods appeared.

The theory of life is that life is highly unified, but is limited by the physical level, which creates barriers.

The theory states that there is actually no distinction between species. Life is limited by the rules of the universe, preventing them from achieving a high degree of unity. However, if this physical barrier can be broken down, two species can be regarded as the same species.

This idea originates from the Tower of Babel in the Bible. God feared that people would get too close to heaven, so he destroyed the Tower of Babel under construction and then imposed restrictions on people, causing them to fall into endless infighting.

However, when Lin Feng learned about this book, he also heard that the author had been punished.

The reason is that they disseminated their theoretical content to the atomic network without review.

Now that atomic networks have become the mainstream of human social interaction, we can no longer adopt the same laissez-faire attitude towards the online world as we did in the era before Lin Feng went into hibernation.

Theories published to the public without review can easily breed a large number of amateur scientists, which in turn can lead to misunderstandings and misinterpretations of theoretical knowledge among the public.

Therefore, this is an illegal act.

However, humans are creatures that will die if they don't step on taboos, and there will always be people who want to step on the minefield and try it out and die. There are quite a few people like the author of "A General Theory of Life".

Although the punishment is not the death penalty, being silenced for a long time is not a pleasant experience either, after all, humans are social creatures who live in groups.

"I didn't expect you to be interested in 'A General Discussion of Life.' The author's sentence has ended," the supervisor replied, quite surprised.

"I don't like 'General Theory of Life.' Those perverts who don't even spare single-celled organisms often use this theory to justify their behavior," Lin Feng said helplessly.

Originally, Lin Feng had no idea about "The General Theory of Life," but a bunch of perverts who had children with all sorts of weirdos regarded this theory as truth. When someone advised them to repent, they would throw out this theory.

"However, the content inside is indeed very interesting, allowing me to think about problems from a broader perspective," Lin Feng said.

The supervisor was taken aback. "A more daring question?"

The supervisor then remembered that Lin Feng was not only his superior, but also a Wallfacer of the Unification, constantly thinking and facing the wall for the future of the Unification.

The supervisor, realizing what had happened, quickly said, "Oh, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have asked. It's interfering with your work."

Lin Feng waved his hand, indicating that there was nothing to worry about. "It's nothing. It's not a secret. It's just a question about the relationship between life and the scale of space and time."

Lin Feng continued, “Single-celled organisms clustered together to form multicellular organisms, multicellular organisms clustered together to form nations, and nations clustered together to form unified civilizations. From this, it is not difficult to see that as the scale continues to increase, life will manifest in different forms.”

"I once thought about a question: on a larger scale, is there an intelligence that is even more advanced than 'civilization'? If such intelligence exists in the universe, how would they view the chaotic competition that is prevalent in the universe? Why would they allow the dark forest of the universe to exist? This is not a good thing for all civilizations in the universe."

Lin Feng paused for a moment, then continued, "After reading the book 'General Theory of Life,' I had an idea: if a civilization can break down racial barriers and reproduce with any living being, then this civilization's view of all life in the universe is very likely to be equivalent."

"Equivalence means..." the supervisor hesitated, then stopped.

Lin Feng explained, "It means that in their eyes, you and single-celled life are of the same importance, including their own lives. They are truly able to achieve 'equality of all beings.' The only difference between you and single-celled life is the difference in physical mass in their eyes."

"That kind of intelligence obviously cannot exist in this universe, after all, they don't even value their own lives very much," the supervisor said somewhat unconvinced.

It wasn't that she was unconvinced by Lin Feng, but rather that she was dissatisfied with the kind of 'wisdom' Lin Feng had speculated about. How could a human be like a single-celled organism? Humans have creativity, but single-celled organisms don't.

Therefore, this kind of 'wisdom' is not wise at all in the eyes of the supervisor; on the contrary, it is very stupid. It disregards human culture, thought, and everything else, and fails to see the huge differences between humans and single-celled organisms. This kind of 'wisdom' is obviously not wise.

Chapter 341 To Hide Deepest

Lin Feng said, "Not necessarily. To have this kind of thinking, one's technical level must be very high. This is the threshold for selection. Survival is the first need of civilization. If the reproduction between species is no longer so physically separated, it might be easy for this wisdom to absorb other civilizations or intelligent races."

The main point is, "But the dark forest of the universe still exists, and hunters are everywhere, so such wisdom does not exist."

"So didn't I just say that? It's all about scale. The universe is vast, and the Milky Way only occupies a very small part of it," Lin Feng said with a smile.

The supervisor paused, thought for a moment, and then tentatively asked, "You mean, the farmer's paradox?"

Lin Feng nodded. "Pretty much. The universe is not static; it is a dynamic system. This completely overturned Einstein's understanding. He even added the cosmological constant to 'fix' the universe. Later, after Hubble observations confirmed that the universe has been expanding, he corrected it."

“A dynamic universe means that its uniformity is problematic; at that scale, even a small deviation can lead to completely different results.”

"Who knows what those guys are like on a large scale in the universe?"

At this moment, Lin Feng thought of the Zero-Returners. On a large scale, there should be more than just the Zero-Returners; there might be other forces as well. But the problem is that these guys completely let the entropy of the universe increase dramatically, ignoring the fact that civilizations in the universe are constantly consuming the universe's resources. They're practically a bunch of dead people.

……

In the space survival game, a player moving at near the speed of light, heading straight towards the galactic center, receives a message from the atomic network; someone is greeting him.

Hey friend, where are you headed?

"I'm going to the black hole at the center of the Milky Way; I'll be absolutely safe there," the player replied.

"I don't think you'll make it there."

The player was taken aback and asked in surprise, "Why?"

However, the player soon understood why the other party said that.

"Because I am the hunter, and you are the prey."

"Ah, this..."

When this message from the hunter arrived, the player was somewhat bewildered.

By the time he realized what was happening, he was already out of the game.

The hunter stopped his light-speed movement and briefly glanced at the number of people he had killed.

The hunters are composed of rigorously selected elites, who are also atomic beings, and the kind with relatively flexible thinking. Looking at the five-figure number of survivors they have hunted down, and thinking about the situation in reality, the hunters couldn't help but worry.

"It's too easy. As long as we capture a player early on, gain complete control of him before he commits suicide, and seize all permissions from the Atom host, the entire Atom network will become the source of destruction..."