"See the hope that the empire can rise from the civilization on the other side?" Sandora raised her eyebrows when she heard what Abyss Xiling said, "Do you mean that the other party has some super power that can help you rebuild the empire? What key resources or technologies... ”
"Neither, according to my observation, the civilization on the other side is not too strong, not necessarily stronger than you, but they have mastered the deep diving technology far beyond you and me." Abyss Xiling shook his head, "The key is not them body, and some information I found from their spaceship—have you noticed that the matter from the other side has some peculiarities?"
"I discovered it earlier," I nodded, "Things from the other side are missing some 'properties', and I don't know if it's unmeasurable or what, anyway, it feels 'incomplete', either without quality or shielding gravity. "
"If my research is correct, the things on our side will be the same on the other side—the civilization on the other side will also be amazed that our material properties are special, and there are many unmeasurable properties. This is the dislocation phenomenon on both sides of the abyss. In the process After further research, I found that this dislocation phenomenon is not only applicable to the world of order, but also applicable to the abyss environment. Of course, not every substance can be dislocated accurately, but as long as it is something that produces dislocation, it will have some wonderful properties , you must have noticed the wrecks I brought this time, they are 100% unpolluted in the abyss, don’t you feel strange?”
I felt a thought flash through my mind like lightning, and I seemed to be grasping the train of thought of Abyss Xiling: "You mean... immune!"
"That's okay," Abyss Xiling nodded, "When I saw those wrecks for the first time, I was shocked by their incredible nature, and then I have been trying to find the reason why they are not polluted. At first I just started from the routine I started with the physical and chemical analysis of these substances, thinking that this immunity comes from the microstructure of these substances or their information expression methods, but soon I found that my research path is too narrow, and their immunity to pollution is not due to their special nature, but has A higher level cause - to do with the structure of the void."
Now I haven't fully understood what is going on with this structure, but what is certain is that no matter Xiling or Protoss, they don't know enough about the void, and everyone doesn't realize that it actually has another side... This is a bit strange It's very easy to understand, but if you think about the words 'Civilization on the other side', you can roughly understand it..."
I realized in an instant: "You mean... there is another void on the other side?"
"Theoretically, the concept of 'another void' should not exist, because the void is endless and supreme, and its own existence determines its own uniqueness, but the various properties presented by the 'other shore civilization' make people have to think about it." See those five words," Abyss Xiling nodded and said, "So I used the second method to explain this phenomenon: according to different observation angles, the void presents two sides, but in fact it exists so singularly, just like A piece of film, we are on this side, and the civilization on the other side is on the other side. Due to the different viewing angles of the two, the void shows completely different properties in the eyes of both sides, so everything connected to the void also shows different properties. : The abyss, order, matter, time and space, and the connection between all these things are completely different on the two sides."
"Where is the abyss? Or...in the model you proposed, what is the abyss?" I couldn't help being curious, the model assumed by the other party is very tempting, it regards the void as a membrane Known civilizations such as Xiling, Starfield, and Huron are the front of the membrane, and the civilization on the other side is the back of the membrane. The so-called "two sides" are naturally the two sides of the void, but this model does not seem to leave a place for the abyss: It stands to reason that the ubiquitous abyss should exist with the membrane, but it obviously cannot be equivalent to the void, so it must be excluded from the membrane, so should it be on the front or the back
"The abyss does not exist," Abyss Xiling said surprisingly, "If my model is correct, the abyss actually does not exist in a certain sense—don't rush to show that expression, think about it carefully, the abyss is something Is there a definite 'thing'? Or, apart from 'phenomena' that can be seen but do not conform to any laws of reality, such as two-dimensional patterns and the gate of the abyss, is the abyss measurable?"
"The pollution of the abyss is measurable." Sandora didn't know what to think of, and she seemed very cautious when answering this question.
"That's right, the pollution of the abyss is measurable," Abyss Xiling breathed out again humanely, "We have been deceived by this concept all the time. The pollution of the abyss is measurable, and every time it appears, it brings It is pollution, so both Xiling and the Protoss equate the pollution of the abyss with the abyss itself, so that no one has ever realized what the essence of the abyss is... It is more abstract than 'phenomenon' and 'concept' Thing, it is a staged 'manifestation' in the process of the void, although it seems to exist, we can even build a deep dive ship to drill into it to explore, but you are really sure that the essence of the abyss lies beneath the gate of the abyss Is it?"
I felt that my head had become a mess, so I spread my hands straightly: "Don't talk about these complicated theories, can you give a more intuitive example? Even a similar example is easy to understand."
"It's very simple." Abyss Xiling put his hand flat in mid-air, and with a light wave, he created a light gray light film out of thin air, "Now let's assume that this is the void, of course the real void is much more complicated, here The examples are just simplified for the sake of understanding."
Sandora and Harlan and I nodded at the same time, saying that this is easy to understand.
Abyss Xiling clicked on the light film a few times while talking, showing us the pros and cons of this film: "Now is the original void, nothing happened, there is no world, no abyss, you and I are this The front of the membrane, the civilization on the other side is the back of this membrane. Note that it is not 'on' the front of this membrane, but 'is' the front of this membrane. We must always insist on one point: except for this membrane, everything else Nothing exists, there is nothing beyond the void, so let's pretend we are two-dimensional beings, bound to this plane for a while. Then we start creating worlds, like this... "
Abyss Xiling lightly touched the light film a few times, and whenever her fingertips touched a certain place, the light film began to bulge, eventually forming the appearance of small hills: "Like this, these raised parts Produce 'evolution', regard the original void as a plane whose total sum is zero, then the partial information that produces evolution is no longer zero, they are positive numbers, and they are reflected on this membrane as crests. Remember one thing: in Any evolution that takes place on the front of this membrane can only produce 'positive numbers', which can only increase but not decrease, just like the entropy value of some universes, it is a one-way development thing. Now more and more worlds are born, You can see that the membrane is no longer flat."
The light film on Abyss Xiling's hand has produced more than a dozen bumps. According to her, these hills are the world of order as we know it.
"This is the void and the world we can see from the 'front'," Abyss Xiling let everyone see the model in her hand, and then suddenly turned it over, "This is the void and the world in the eyes of the civilization on the other side. "
The light film is still the same light film, but it is no longer a series of peaks, and the void in the eyes of the civilization on the other side is only a thousand ravines: it is such a simple thing.
"My model is simplified to the extreme." Abyss Xiling pointed to the holographic image floating in mid-air, "The world of order here is 'positive', so the world of order in the civilization on the other side is 'negative', regardless of positive or negative , are all order. Of course, this simple model is definitely not enough to explain everything, and it still has a big deviation from the facts. For example, the order world on the model corresponds one-to-one. Whenever there is a peak, there must be a wave on the back of the membrane. The trough, that is to say, according to the description of this simple model, if a Xiling Empire appears, then there should be a "Reverse Xiling" on the other side, but in fact this situation will not happen, according to my understanding of the civilization on the other side , there is no such thing as "Ni Xi Ling" and "Ni Xing Yu" on their side. The real void is not such a simple membrane, and its positive and negative sides will not correspond one-to-one. Only the Information volume: A world or anything with an information volume of X is generated on the front side, and an information volume of -X is bound to be generated on the back side. Only this information volume is corresponding, and it is uncertain what it will appear as. gone."
Sandora nodded: "The zeroing of the void, the sum of the information on the front and back must be zero."
I also nodded: "The amount of information corresponds to that of the physical object. I can understand this. It seems that the two files are the same size. One can be .avi, but the other may be .exe..."
"I find it difficult to understand your analogy," Abyss Xiling looked at this side, "but you should understand, right?"
I waved my hand in embarrassment: "Don't worry about the details, anyway, now I know that I don't have to worry about the twins who have been separated from me for many years in the civilization on the other side..."
"Actually, no matter whether there is any deviation between the simple model and the real void, you don't have to worry about this as a void creature," Abyss Xiling shook his head, "But this can be discussed later. You should understand this model now, right?"
Harlan, who hadn't spoken much, suddenly said, "Understood, this model can indeed explain a lot of things, but how does it explain the phenomenon of the abyss?"
"Because this membrane needs to be reset," Abyss Xiling pointed at the holographic image, "the zeroing property of the void, it not only requires the world on both sides of the membrane to be reset to zero in terms of the sum of information, but also requires them to be zeroed in form, and also It is to restore the flat state at the beginning: no matter what format your file is, it must be deleted, which is the ultimate zeroing. The abyss is the execution process of this ultimate zeroing, and everything goes back to the original point: in this model There is no place for an abyss, it's just a process...”
Abyss Xiling lightly tapped the light film in the air, and it returned to level in an instant.
"A process to heal the void."
I opened my mouth, and couldn't help but speak out what was in my heart: "Why do you suddenly feel that the void is so inauthentic?"
The three people in the room looked at me with strange eyes at the same time, and Sandora blurted out: "Ah Jun, is it okay for you to be so black?"
Abyss Xiling coughed twice and attracted everyone's attention again: "Actually, this zero-returning property has nothing to do with being 'authentic' or not. It has nothing to do with morality. It is just one of the properties of void. And since void contains everything, It will continue to create new worlds while returning to zero, and 'self-healing' is always carried out at the same time as Genesis, so we can ignore this kind of natural law. In short, now I have explained the void and The relationship of the abyss, as you can see, the abyss neither exists nor does it exist, if you regard it as a noun, then it does exist, but if you want to find its essence, find a place that can be called a 'old nest' In this place, it can be given up, the abyss has no body, it is just a never-ending process, in this model, it does not exist.”
Harlan couldn't help but blurted out: "What exactly did the deep diving ship pass through? Isn't that the abyss?"
Abyss Xiling seems to have guessed that someone would ask this question: "Suppose a fire broke out in a building, and you ran out of it, did you pass through flames or fire during the process?"
"The deep-diving ship passes through 'pollution', not the abyss." Harlan was stunned, and then he couldn't laugh or cry, "This sounds like sophistry, just a word play."
"Abstract to a certain extent is really like a game of words when debated," Abyss Xiling also agreed with Harlan's opinion, "but the fact is true, the bottom of the gate of the abyss is likely to be a special 'space' phenomenon in the void , this 'space' phenomenon can lead to the back of the void, but it is not the lair of the abyss at all. In short, don't go too deep into this aspect, after all, I am just proposing a possible model. After all, what the deep diving ship passes through is the abyss The lair or just a passage to the back of the void doesn't matter, what matters is that things on one side of the void are occasionally completely immune to the abyss taint on the other side, which is the key to everything. Observing the same on both sides of the void Things will find distinct properties, and as is true of the matter of the world of order, so also of the abyss: the abyss on the opposite bank is harmless to the world of order on our side, and conversely the ordered things from the opposite bank are in the abyss on our side The gate is also completely undamaged, although not everything can take advantage of this loophole, but at least it shows us a way, if we find out the rules... Can you imagine how meaningful this is?"
I know that the main event is coming: "If the abyss is the process of the void returning to zero, then it will take effect on both sides of the 'membrane'. According to the model you gave, things on both sides of the void cannot be 'interpreted' from each other, so a Things on one side will not be recognized by the abyss when they reach the other side, because such things do not exist for the abyss... Finally, bypass this and return to zero?"
"The specific process in the middle is not yet clear, but this immune phenomenon is already a fact, isn't it?" Abyss Xiling nodded, "You should know that although the polluters are in the abyss camp, even we cannot be immune to the abyss. That is something that is also fatal to us, and looking at the entire void, the only threat that can cause fatal harm to the empire is the abyss-as long as this trouble is permanently solved, the empire will never face a greater enemy than it. So knowing this I started researching how to use this discovery, initially I thought of duplicating the material from the other side on 'this side', but soon these attempts failed: the material from the other side cannot be copied , or can be reproduced, but it will never exhibit the properties I want, so I settle for the next best thing... "
I finally put everything in order: "You thought of building a bridge and moving to the opposite bank collectively?"
"This is just the first step. The second step after the migration is collective evolution. I will try to change the life forms of all the apostles so that the entire race is completely immune to the abyss—even if it can only be immune to the abyss on the other side, this is a huge improvement. The first It is very easy to realize the second step. Changing the material form and attributes is a simple technology. After the second step is over, I will build a new branch on the other side with the local "order", and even build another Xiling Empire, and finally pass the The 'bridge' sends them back to this side...”
"So they will be completely immune to the abyss on 'this side'," I widened my eyes, never expecting that Abyss Xiling has such a grand plan, and the so-called bridge building is only the first step, "You To open up the two sides of the void and build an empire that is a mirror image of each other on both sides, from now on the Xiling apostles will become a race that is completely immune to the pollution of the abyss... In addition to fighting other civilizations of the same level or dying by themselves, the empire is really You don’t have to worry about encountering enemies anymore, you just neutralized the greatest enemy of the empire!”
Abyss Xiling smiled: "At least it sounds feasible, doesn't it?"
My thoughts began to run quickly, and countless mysteries that I had never figured out before began to be matched one by one: We once got several black shuttles. Although these black shuttles were also polluted by the abyss, some of their parts were surprisingly intact At first, experts such as Tavel thought that this was only because of the superb deep diving technology of the "opposite shore", but now it seems that this is likely to be related to immunity; we also know that there is an abnormal order area in the "bottom" of the abyss. After the interface, the pollution of the abyss is decreasing rapidly. Now it seems that the "bottom" is probably the opposite bank. If it can cross the interface, it will no longer be "diving", but "floating" to the opposite bank. The process of "pollution receding" guessed by Occam back then is actually just an illusion. The real situation is that the closer to the opposite bank, the less sensitive the abyss there is to the orderly things on this side; I also suddenly thought of myself The illusion that I "see" every time I enter the state of "Mind Traveling Void", the undulating ocean, a plane that tries to return to calm but is always turbulent... This is probably also related to the model guessed by Abyss Xiling!
"Your guess may be right!" I suddenly looked at the opposite Abyss Xiling, "I've seen' the true form of the void." RS