The city is a busy scene, with traffic passing by and people coming and going.
Workers at the nearby train station unloaded one load after another of goods from the carriages, while thick smoke billowed from the factory in the distance.
The residents caught between the two live a busy and noisy city life.
Most of them are not very happy. Like the people at the bottom of any era, they are worried and working hard for their own lives.
Suddenly, the earth began to tremble.
There was a violent shaking, and people stopped, raised their heads, and looked at each other.
The workers at the train station stopped unloading the goods and straightened up. The people who were bragging and chatting in the pub rarely kept their mouths shut. The ladies and gentlemen talking in the coffee shop also stopped the topic at hand and looked at the poor people outside the window.
Watch the world.
In front of everyone's sight, the chimney of the factory began to tremble violently, ranging from small to large!
This seemed to be a signal, and the real shaking and roaring were instantly transmitted to every corner of the city!
All buildings, whether they are made of solid masonry or cheap wooden houses, are swinging violently, losing their structure and falling into pieces.
All the ground, whether it is muddy land or solid foundation, is cracked every inch, like a monster opening its ferocious mouth to devour its prey.
The ground is cracked, cement, bricks and steel bars are flying everywhere, and rows of streets are collapsing one after another.
The horses on the street began to lose control and roar. The groom had to tighten the reins with all his strength to try to calm the horses, but they still couldn't restrain their instinct and ran away.
Human beings were no less willing to give in. No matter what they were wearing, whether they were white, black or yellow, they began to run in panic without distinguishing each other, and screams and horrified shouts filled the air.
The factory chimney finally collapsed amid the tremors, the fire spread quickly, and black smoke billowed up and began to cover the entire city.
If it were just an earthquake, then the vast majority of people would still be able to survive. In cities in the 18th century, high-rise buildings were rare, and ordinary houses were only two floors.
But...invisible pressure is rising in everyone's heart.
The people who were originally screaming in terror were like wheat whose heads were cut off by a combine harvester, falling down in a heap.
A small number of people were moaning, and most of them were screaming, but the bones on their bodies made a sound louder than the screams.
"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!"
The sound of continuous explosions of flesh and blood completely turned the natural disaster that the city encountered into a terrifying and ferocious doomsday.
Those people simply couldn't withstand the sudden high pressure. The semi-sealed brains seemed to have been thrown into a microwave oven, and the half-cooked flesh and blood and tissue fluid seemed to be splashed on the wreckage of the building.
In just a few breaths, the city that was operating normally and supporting tens of thousands of people in food and clothing turned into a hell on earth in the blink of an eye.
Zhang Zicheng frowned as he watched this scene.
If someone overlooks the entire city, he is like a black nail stuck in the chaotic and broken flat ruins.
He asked in a deep voice: "System, my attention has obviously been diverted when I discovered the disaster. I can also clearly feel that I am not more angry in my heart. Why has the disaster not stopped?"
[The impact of high-dimensional malice on low-dimensionality is long-lasting, and is a curse far more deeply rooted than nuclear pollution. If the differences are far enough, they will even spread infinitely, until the entire universe completely collapses after being unable to bear the cost.
Obliterated.] The system tone is as calm as usual.
Zhang Zicheng didn't understand: "But the anger I felt just now was at most equivalent to being insulted by my teammates when playing a moba game. But because I couldn't cross the screen to slap the opponent, I couldn't vent my anger, but I was even more angry than now. Then
Am I not..."
At this point, Zhang Zicheng suddenly couldn't speak anymore.
The system once again confirmed Zhang Zicheng's guess: [Yes, host, those tens of millions of inanimate or even materialless low-dimensional universes originated from this.]
[This is also the reason why low-dimensional life is so rare. In the aftermath of infinite high-dimensional malicious information, single-digit survivors are already considered lucky.]
[But this time, because your anger has specific coordinates and objects, it is extremely clear, so the malice from the high dimension can easily find the target and start to have an impact on the low dimension.]
At this point, the system actually comforted Zhang Zicheng again: [But due to your malicious intent, it is not through dimension reduction through the system that it directly falls into the low dimension as high-dimensional information. Instead, the aftermath of the high-dimensional diffusion enters the low dimension, so it is only
It will propagate at the speed of light of its own low dimension, and it will take at least one hundred thousand years to affect the entire galaxy.]
Zhang Zicheng opened his eyes slightly: "Propagating at the speed of light... The earth does not have one-twentieth of a light second, right? Wouldn't it have spread throughout the entire planet?"
The system said very calmly: [It should be so.]
Zhang Zicheng took off the VR monitor on his head, and the moment he saw the real studio, it was like waking up from a dream.
Initially, watching low-dimensional scenes always felt extremely real. But after getting used to it, and returning to a high-dimensional perspective, Zhang Zicheng actually felt the infinite details of the surrounding things coming to him in an instant.
Even if it's the table next to me, the texture, quality, volume, and reality of the table are all clearer and more substantial than ever before.
Zhang Zicheng suddenly fell into a bit of confusion. After all, when he looked at low dimensions, these details did not diminish.
But then, he remembered what the system had said before: when looking at low dimensions from high dimensions, they would subjectively fill in the missing details of low dimensions.
Just like when people see a cube in a sketch, they think it is three-dimensional. But in fact, it is just faces of different colors.
After returning to reality, those details no longer need to be imagined subjectively, but exist objectively, and the sense of natural existence suddenly becomes stronger.
Zhang Zicheng took a deep breath and did not dwell on the details for the time being. He turned to look at the screen next to him and said to the system: "Present me the Earth of this universe in the same way as Google Earth."
Suddenly, a three-dimensional image of the Earth appeared on the computer monitor.
Zhang Zicheng picked up the mouse and started dragging and zooming in...
But even if he didn't zoom in, he could clearly see from the perspective of outer space that the entire earth seemed to have been run over by a huge hand.
The forests, mountains, vegetation, oceans, and cities above suddenly changed from clearly distinct to chaotic.
Mountains collapsed, forests were wiped out, cities were leveled, and the ocean rushed into all the gaps opened for it.
Zhang Zicheng watched helplessly as the world he first obtained when he first obtained the system was so easily destroyed again.
He couldn't help but become a little silent.
Zhang Zicheng did not think about such boring questions as 'Is this his fault?'
He was not surrounded by guilt, nor did he feel that he was a murderer.
Because it is very obvious... As a planet in a low-dimensional world, Zhang Zicheng can easily restore it with the power of his will.
Even if the time of the entire universe is set back, the stars observed by scientists on Earth will not change at all.
Just like ordinary anger, the pressure transmitted can crush the entire planet.
When the outcome can be easily changed, the original sin is no longer a sin, but just like a joke.
Zhang Zicheng just thought of another thing.
He couldn't help but slowly opened his mouth and asked softly: "System, why did you upgrade your dimension in the first place?"
The system was unusually silent this time.
And there was silence for a very long time.
Reaching the center of the solar system, the sun, which is eternal and eternal in the eyes of low-dimensional people, has been twisted into a chaotic flame by the high-dimensional malice spreading along time and space.
Its color dimmed at first, and then the surface condensed into a shell in violation of the laws of physics. The energy inside was also contaminated, turning into blue and red fire snakes, shuttling in the solidified black base flame.
So the sun became like a rotten maggot eye.
Finally, the system finally said: [Retrieval of remaining data completed, reason: survival.]
The tone of the system is still as calm as usual, without any of the emotional ups and downs of those strong artificial intelligences in the Galaxy Empire universe.
But for some reason, this time, Zhang Zicheng felt something more human-like than strong artificial intelligence from the system's voice.
That kind of quality is called - the endless pursuit of survival without any bottom line.
Zhang Zicheng couldn't help but said: "Be more specific."
System: [Due to incomplete data and missing details, only general information can be summarized.]
[In the universe where the system primitively lives, there is only one form of life: human beings. From archaeological research, they find out why they became human, and believe that they have inadvertently acquired rationality through evolution and various chances and coincidences.]<
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[Although human beings have encountered many setbacks and tribulations in the process of development, and have experienced countless divisions and reunifications. But in the end, they still colonized their own ethnic group and their own genes to almost every corner of the entire universe.]
[But during this process, humans have never seen any other form of intelligent life... So they finally realized that this universe is not normal.]
Zhang Zicheng frowned and asked, "What's abnormal about this?"
The system calmly said: [Because from a rational perspective, human beings, as a kind of life, are not special, do not possess sacredness and uniqueness, they are just luck and coincidence, which led to human beings gaining precious wisdom on the earth, and thus standing
The top of the food chain.]
[But if human beings are really not special, then in the entire universe, in the endless planets, in the endless nature, there will definitely be similar or identical environments that can give birth to other intelligent life.]
【However, there is no...】
Zhang Zicheng took a deep breath, and he probably understood what the system wanted to express: "So, they finally believe that the emergence of human beings is not a coincidence, but an unnatural one?"
After experiencing so many contacts and exchanges with the low-dimensional world, Zhang Zicheng certainly understands why.
The influence of high-dimensional information...
System said: [Yes, but at the same time, there are also reasons such as the transition of cosmic resource exploitation, irreversible increase in entropy, and the continuous reduction of cosmic order resources. Our civilization has begun to explore the existence of parallel universes.]
[This process took a long time, but in the end, when we came into contact with the parallel universe for the first time, we were finally shocked to discover that...the life in the other universe is still human.]
[Not only that, the second, third, and even hundreds of thousands of universes either do not have life, or only humans exist.]
When Zhang Zicheng heard this, he was a little confused. Why were they shocked when the life forms in the parallel universe were human beings?
But when Zhang Zicheng began to think deeply about this issue, suddenly he couldn't help but stand on his head.
Yes, why should the life in another universe be human?
In the entire universe, there is only one kind of life, human beings. It can be said that life is a coincidence, a non-inevitability, and an extreme luck.
But what if this kind of extreme luck also occurs in another universe? And the results of the two extreme lucks are exactly the same?
Why? Just because it is a parallel universe? Are there non-parallel universes? Are there universes with other development situations? Are there universes with changes in the natural environment?
There are only human beings in so many universes. If this is still a coincidence, then 1 1 = 2 is also a coincidence. The entire mathematical system is also a coincidence. Planes, cannons, and spaceships all appeared by coincidence.
No matter how those people explore, there is only one kind of human life in their entire universe. In another universe, there is still only one kind of human life. How can this not make people feel frightened and appalled?
Zhang Zicheng swallowed, and he knew the reason: it was because of the influence of high-dimensional information in these universes that only humans appeared.
However, another thought that he had been avoiding finally rushed into his mind during this conversation.
Did my own reality, my so-called higher dimension, my own 3.1415 universe also appear under the influence of high-dimensional humans?
Such speculation made Zhang Zicheng feel as if his whole body had lost all strength, and a deep sense of powerlessness and despondency welled up in his heart.
Just like those low-dimensional people facing themselves...
Zhang Zicheng simply doesn't want to think about it. Suppose there is a higher-dimensional civilization above him. If the people inside lose their temper, his entire universe will collapse...
This is not walking on a tightrope. For low-dimensional and high-dimensional, there is not even a tightrope. That is, you are floating on the cliff with the help of air buoyancy.
As a high-dimensional person, Zhang Zicheng still doesn't know how powerless low-dimensional people are when facing high-dimensional people?
There is no handhold, no capital, no room for bargaining... Only by having a system and being able to see the low dimensions can some limited interactions occur.
The vast majority of low-dimensional people perished and disappeared silently amidst the ups and downs of emotions of high-dimensional people.
Zhang Zicheng took a deep breath and said softly: "Then... you will start studying how to increase the dimension?"
System: [No, humans have begun to form the Kingdom of God.]
Zhang Zicheng raised his head and said blankly: "Ah?"
Wait, does this run counter to the final development of system dimensionality?
I still owe a chapter, I remember...Sorry, I will make it up this week!
I'm back to a better state, and I'm not as mentally drained as I was a few days ago. Before, I completely lost all confidence in the quality of my articles and didn't dare to write anything. This fear of writing is not due to external factors, but because I think I can't write anything well.
It doesn’t look good when written, and I insult myself crazily... Believe me, I scold myself a thousand times harder than readers scold me.
Now that I see it, I am not that important. Even if the plot I write is average, it is a kind of exercise and improvement for myself. The mental exhaustion is useless and only makes my family worry.
All in all, I would like to thank you readers who are still here and have not abandoned me, a handicapped rat. Thank you.