The footsteps of the Pope and Opal echoed in the empty hall. They passed through the corridors and finally stood in a hall. The ground in the hall was a glowing cosmic star map - an area that humans have already explored.
"This place is called the Hall of Star Maps." Gleibney said, "It's a place where unruly children are locked up. No one has been locked in for a long time."
Opal looked up and saw a light projected from the top of the hall. In the center of the hall, there was a blue crystal-like projection device embedded in the ground. Gleibney put the knife on it, it hovered and rotated in the air, and turned into a With its sword-like shape, countless fiery red droplets formed around it, and with a humming sound, a real fire phoenix spread out a spherical red light and enveloped them.
"This is the repair device brought by the phantom people." Gleibney said: "It can repair all devices outside our knowledge field, and the ivory tower gave them to me before leaving."
Opal said: "Why does the Holy See disagree with the ivory tower?"
"The disagreement is a matter of personal preference, and I dislike them very much because they say 'philosophy is dead, and philosophy can't keep up with science,'" Gleibney said.
Opal could not laugh or cry, Gleibney said: "It has already begun, after the death of the saber-toothed tiger, Nolan tried without the dragon ray and saber-toothed tiger, and the result of the failed attempt was to drain all its energy, and at the same time the white night The Nimbus also exploded unexpectedly, destroying all the planets around it."
Opal said: "What is Nolan going to do?"
Gleibney said: "Using the energy of the white luminous wheel, the planets around it jump to the distant star at the same time, leaving the star's influence area."
Opal said: "Why did he do this?"
"Before this, there was an energy shock in the luminous wheel, and Nolan believes that on these planets, there may have been changes in the human race, and this change will lead to the evolutionary branch of the entire race... Of course this also It's just my guess, my guess is often wrong, you can listen to it as a joke. After leaving the Star Map Hall, we can no longer discuss this issue, we are now standing in front of the ancient god, its influence covers the Star Map Hall, our Consciousness cannot be detected by stars."
Opal said: "You mean the stars are reading our conversations all the time?"
"Not necessarily," Gleibney said. "They don't care about little things most of the time, but it's always good to be careful. After all, most of the other universes are dead, and new universes are being born. If this The next time everything goes well, its shell will wake up slowly for a period of time. You hold the heart of Nirvana and pay attention to the movements here at any time. I don’t have much time, so I can only help you one more time.”
Opal held the ruby and turned his head to look at Glebney, who once again gave an unfathomable smile.
"When it is resurrected, can I control it?" Opal said.
"Not necessarily," Gleibney said. "You still have to go through it, but Cororin believes you can. Try it."
Gleibney turned to leave, and Opal stood in the Star Map Hall, feeling that the real fire phoenix in the center was watching him.
"Can you hear me?" Opal tried to communicate with it.
However, the real fire phoenix did not answer, as if he was spying on his spiritual world and consciousness, and Opal stood for a long time, not knowing how long it would take for it to wake up, he sat down and made up his mind to wait here until the phoenix wakes up. .
Can he really control the Phoenix
Opal thinks it is unlikely, after all, he is too far away from Recht and Corollin, and they are not on the same level at all. What kind of strength is he? Opal has always lacked a clear understanding of his own strength. He cannot be the savior of the world, let alone the height of Horius and others.
[Is your soul free?]A slightly magnetic male voice sounded in his heart: [Do you exist for yourself, or are you born for some kind of responsibility?]Opal: "!!!"
Opal recalled many things he had done, and the scenes in those memories reappeared one by one in the spiritual world.
[When you have the power to dominate the world, what will you do? ] The voice asked again: [The dragon ray, saber-toothed tiger, tao and star fox all got the answers they wanted, how about you? ] Opal replied: [I was born for myself, but Mr. Coroline wants me to follow him to build a new world. I think he is right, the universe cannot avoid war, and I do not agree with some of his actions , I don't want this world to go through too many either-or choices, leaving a ruin in the end, and then rebuilding with difficulty.][Mr. Recht's belief is to protect everyone, I agree with his belief, but I still don't agree with some of his practices, like his attitude towards replicants, enemies and some wars. Because there is no one way to protect everyone perfectly, the differences between ideas and survival have always existed. ] [Intelligent life forms will always pursue transcendence, stability is relative, chaos is eternal, I want to use my own way... to unlock all the clues left by Nolan, and maintain what I think is worthwhile. Only I am strong enough to avoid the dilemma.] That day, Phoenix did not say anything to Opal.
Opal was a little confused. He wondered if he should tell Rector that the Phoenix was about to wake up, but how should he explain it to Rector? He began to gradually understand why Nolan did not choose Recht as his successor, because Recht was not the person he wanted, and Coroline shouldn't be either, but Cororin was more inclined to Nolan's beliefs Some.
He also knew why Coroline never explained the White Luminous Wheel to Rickett - it was impossible for Rector to accept Nolan's actions and the result of the explosion of the White Luminous Wheel. Before that, Rector trusted Nolan wholeheartedly and regarded him as a mentor. Once he knew all this, Nolan's first belief as Rector would collapse and his belief would be questioned. , which is more serious than being betrayed by Cororin.
Opal slept in the Star Map Hall, and when he woke up, he found himself being held against the wall, leaning on Raymond's arms.
"Andis said you came here." Raymond said.
"Yeah." Opal rubbed his eyes and yawned, as if for fear of waking the sleeping phoenix, he whispered to Raymond, "I don't know when it will recover."
"This is the phoenix?" Raymond looked at the red machine in the center. Now it's bigger, and stretched out countless thorn-like devices, as if he was slowly soothing himself during the repair process.
Opal nodded and asked, "Do you think it knows dragon rays?"
Raymond raised his wrist and said, "Try it, they should know each other." He shook his wrist, and the dragon ray was awakened, turning into gleaming silver fragments and flying to the open space, and then swirling to form a silver giant with one knee Kneeling down, staring at the fiery red machine in the light.
Its eyes glowed blue, as if communicating with the phoenix in some way they couldn't hear.
"The teacher said that Alex doesn't know what plan is going on." Raymond said: "The empire will have a big move in the near future."
Opal became more energetic and asked, "What else did you say?"
Raymond said: "He asked us to protect the Pope. The empire has a series of military mobilizations, and I am afraid that it will deal with the Holy See of Stars."
Opal froze in his heart, and then said: "No way, you have such courage?"
Raymond said: "He learned that deep in the Lion's galaxy, near the black hole, there was a private Rotman domain, like a testing ground, so he is now going to that private testing ground. And Justin has left and is going to the military. Served. After the wrench returned to Fierce Star, everything was normal, the rebels did not go back, and Xun and Sid left."
Opal doesn't know why, he always feels that this is the tranquility before the storm, but now he must stay in the Holy See of Stellar, which is a bit tied.
Raymond left Dragon Ray in the Star Map Hall and left with Opal. Another day later, Opal entered the Pope's study alone.
Andis didn't come to deliver the medicine today, and Xiao Q was assembled again. Going around in the study.
"Phoenix still has some time to wake up." Opal said actively.
Gleibney nodded and was putting together a jigsaw puzzle.
Opal asked curiously, "What is this?"
"I'm creating an artificial universe. Let's hear your understanding of the third question today, Opal."
Opal poured a cup of coffee, poured the water into the pot, it glowed under the refraction of sunlight, and said: "The third question, I think it is like this... Why are there these laws, so that the world is just like this? Why is it We and not other races? Why do electrons go around atoms... these are... well, the origin of the formation of this world, including why it was born, there must be something in control of it, it may well be... just... you yesterday That thing you said."
Opal winked at Gleibney.
"Including the big bang and the birth of the world." Gleibney pointed to the boiling water in the clear glass jug, which was slowly boiling and forming blisters, and he said: "Our world is like these blisters, and the beginning is' No, when the temperature is heated, it is produced from the No, and it expands rapidly and rises."
Looking at the jug with the opal side, Gleibney said: "This process, which the ivory tower people call 'quantum fluctuation', is like a tide, and it will suddenly happen in a vacuum, and if it reaches a certain limit, it will not stop. Inflate and eventually become our universe."
Opal nodded, and Gleibney said again: "Let you see this little game I made."
He put a chip into the projector on the top of Xiao Q, and there were many black and white grids on the unfolded light screen.
"It's a chess board," Gleibney said. "A flat, two-dimensional world. Of course, I've put together ten-by-ten chessboards, so that they have more and more space for their activities. We put The four suits of spades, hearts, clubs and diamonds are placed in the four central squares. They are divided into two camps, black and red."
Opal nodded and said, "Oh."
"Let's set a simple rule for it now, when there is a red pattern next to the black pattern, it will move one space to the left and copy itself a corresponding red pattern," Gleibney said. The red camp also abides by this rule."
Opal was a little confused, but he still understood, Gleibney was devising a pattern.
"When there are more than two vacancies around, all the patterns will change towards the opposite color, and when there are more than three patterns around, they will copy themselves in the diagonal grid and cover the other patterns in turn... When all the surrounding areas are When the pattern is entered, it disappears automatically...then push all the rules in reverse, and when a suit point touches the border of the board, all the rules will become anti-rules."
This rule is added, and Opal does not understand a bit.
"So what?" Opal said.
Graibini murmured: "You don't need to pay attention to the process, you only need to pay attention to the results, all the rules are designed, now, start."
He turned on the calculation button, and the four squares in the center began to change, copying new patterns layer by layer, expanding layer by layer according to a certain order, the four colors jumped in countless squares, self-replicating and more and more, see The opals are dazzling. They are measured in seconds, and they change every second, gradually covering the entire chessboard. When the giant chessboard is filled, it stops briefly, and then reverses the calculation. All the colors disappear layer by layer, and the territory moves towards The center is gathered and finally turned into four separate suits, returning to the center of the chessboard.
The next moment, designed according to the laws of Gleibney, they were once again transformed into illusions.
"I seem to understand something," said Opal.
"Very well, this is our universe," Gleibney said. "Fundamental particles are shaped by four forces and behave according to the rules. Bigger and more complicated than the chessboard we are on."
"So, everything is inevitable." Gleibini said: "As long as the law is formulated, carbon will be produced at a certain period after the Big Bang, and combined with other elements to become organic matter, the source of life. Self-random, but according to the evolution of laws, everything is inevitable."
Opal said: "Then how did this law appear?"
Gleibney said: "There must be a situation where satisfying these laws emerge from nothing, but we humans cannot spy on it... Only when we leave the grasp of the world consciousness and create a space of our own, free from the world consciousness. Influence, and evolve and transcend in this undisturbed space, from the independent world, according to the rules left over, open the dimensional barrier layer by layer, reach the highest point, and finally learn the secrets of each dimension above the fifth dimension."
Xiao Q didn't know what to do, when a clatter sounded, a fish tank suspended in the air fell and shattered. Opal hurriedly released the power of faith, picked up the goldfish that was fluttering on the ground, and put it in another. Inside the goldfish tank.
Opal said, "Is this what Nolan believes?"
Gleibney said: "That's his purpose. The phantoms were in a universe that was developing faster than ours, and they also made predictions about multi-dimensional worlds beyond four dimensions, but when they developed the jump technology and put it After putting it into practice, it turns out that five-dimensional space is not as predicted, like these goldfish bowls…”
Opal looked up at the goldfish tank Gleibney was referring to, and Glebney said: "Every goldfish has a distorted perception of the outside world because they are confined to a curved tank, but if they have intelligence , can also infer the laws of the world outside the goldfish tank based on the trajectory of the movement of external objects, sounds and images. Just like we... "
Opal said: "Goldfish bowl universe."
Gleibney nodded and said, "Yes, our goldfishbowl universe. Your father has left the goldfishbowl, and we all expected him to bring something back, but as of now, he may have disappeared. That's all I have to teach you, and I wish you all the best."
Opal said: "Wait, I have another question to ask, about a guy named Kyle and my father."
He recounted to Glebini the last time he entered the ivory tower with Coroline, who said, "You will soon find the wheel of time, because you were born in five dimensions. , the four-dimensional world consciousness cannot act on you, and now I have one more thing to say, come here, Opal."
His voice was low, and Opal went over and said, "How can we create an independent space of our own?"
"Shh..." Gleibney whispered, "they finally found it, and are now looking at us, to find the wheel of time, use it to find a new parallel universe, must after it exists, stars condense, world consciousness Before the projection is formed... let it be separated from the five-dimensional axis... Also, the pastor will entrust... "
"What?" Opal said. "I can't hear you, Your Majesty."
Gleibney rested his head on Opal's shoulder and didn't say a word for a long time.
he died.