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1. The true God

I am a true God, in every sense of the word.

To you reading this text, I am almost omniscient—as long as you don't ask me to answer philosophical questions like "What is the purpose of the universe?" and "What is the meaning of existence?" And don't ask me about the details of when the universe was born or what lies beyond it...... I can tell you how many galaxies, how many stars, up to how many atoms there are in the universe, and I can even tell you what the last decimal place of pi is. As long as there is a question with a definite answer, I can answer it.

For you, who can see the third paragraph, I am almost omnipotent - as long as you don't make me kill myself, "create a stone that I can't lift myself"; And don't let me help you go back in time...... I can destroy a galaxy or even a small universe in a single thought, I can change almost all the laws of physics like pinching plasticine, and I can even "grab my own hair and lift myself". At least in this universe where you live, I can do everything you can say and theoretically possible

I can shake anything in the universe, but fate is like a crucified - I try with all my might, but I can't reverse even a unit of time.

Nothing in the universe can kill me, but death is still a curse - I try to do everything I can, but I can't escape even a unit of distance.

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Before I tell you everything, I have to give you a brief description of my life that I don't know how to evaluate. In order for you to understand everything I say, I will use your native language and try to pick words and vocabulary that you can easily understand. Although doing so can sometimes lead to the inability to depict something accurately...... If you encounter those things, don't try to understand them, there are some things that are incomprehensible to three-dimensional life.

Why don't I know what it was like when the universe was born? Because the moment I gained consciousness, this universe already existed.

Since I exist, and this universe existed before me, there should logically be a creator god, but I haven't met him, and I don't even know if the creator god exists - if you see him, please tell me that I want to see him, call him daddy in front of him, and ask some questions.

Just kidding, I know you haven't met the creator.

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Not only did I not know the creator God, but I actually found no evidence of His existence, and I had been a God from the moment I became conscious.

After analyzing various clues, I believe that the universe originated from an explosion - from the moment I "opened my eyes to the world", the universe was constantly expanding, and elementary particles were constantly being generated, cooled, and precipitated from the void to form matter......

At this moment, the universe is eleven-dimensional.

This newborn universe, which has not been changed in any way, is really a beautiful pastoral, and that era, more than 10 billion years ago, we can call it the pastoral age of the universe.

Of course, that beauty is only something I can fully feel, because I am the only 11-dimensional being in the universe - for any life other than me, the 11-dimensional universe can only be described mathematically, but it is impossible to imagine it, and they or your brain are not dimensional.

At that time, everything was perfectly symmetrical, matter was evenly distributed in every space in the universe, and the universe could be seen almost the same from every direction.

At that time, the speed of light was infinite, and all interactions between the universe at the speed of light were beyond the distance, and could travel from one end of the universe to the other in an instant.

At the beginning, I said, "Only time is the only thing I can't shake", but in reality, time has no meaning in the pastoral universe: the force generated by every elementary particle in the entire universe can act on another elementary particle at infinity in an instant...... Everything happens in an instant and ends in an instant.

In addition to the fact that space is multidimensional, even time is also multidimensional, and there are infinite possibilities that can occur at every moment, and there are also infinite endings that have been produced......

Can you imagine what the world is like? No, even I've almost forgotten what it feels like, but you should understand one thing: the universe itself is alive, it's a whole, a life.

And that life is me.

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You must ask, how did the universe become like this now?

My bad.

Of course it was my fault, I made a near-suicidal move in order to survive - I lowered a dimension of the universe.

Yes, I lowered one dimension of the universe, causing this universe to fall from the eleventh dimension to the tenth dimension in an instant.

This first dimension to be destroyed is a temporal dimension. In an instant, all the elementary particles of the pastoral universe curled up in a dimension deep in the structure - a dimension that did not disappear, but only indented into the microcosm.

In fact, it is precisely because all of these destroyed dimensions have not disappeared that the transcendental action still exists in the depths of the elementary particles, a phenomenon that you humans call quantum entanglement.

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You're sure to ask again:

Why did you kill yourself?

Because I found out that I was dying.

How could you die?

Because this universe is dying.

This pastoral universe has been expanding from its birth to its destruction by me. I can't describe how fast it expands, because this expansion is a "holistic" expansion that does not exist outside the universe in space and time. Not to mention that the speed of light is infinite, and I have no concept of distance and time at all, so the concept of "size" is almost meaningless to the pastoral universe except for time.

I also can't explain to you what the boundaries of the universe look like, the universe is in a state where you can't understand the "bounded and boundless", which is within my "omniscient and omnipotent" range, but I can't explain it to you.

But I do feel that the expansion of the universe is slowing down, and at this trend, it will soon begin to shrink, and eventually become infinitesimal, and everything including me will shrink to a singularity - and then I will die.

What to do, why don't you lower the time dimension by one and try it?

Because the concept of time does not exist, everything happens instantaneously and ends instantly, so the moment this idea arises, I put it into practice.

I destroyed one of the eleven dimensions of an elementary particle, and its change instantly led to the collapse of other elementary particles around it, and due to the infinite speed of light and force, this collapse also spread in an instant, and the entire universe changed dramatically in the blink of an eye.

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One dimension collapsed, and the huge energy generated blew this pastoral universe into countless ten-dimensional parallel universes and small universe fragments.

I also shattered into innumerable parts, and each universe had an "I", but disconnected from each other.

The laws of physics are slightly different in each universe, perhaps due to the difference in the distance between the different parts and the first elementary particle that I destroyed. But I'm not sure, it seems to be on the edge of my "omniscient" range again.

That's right, when you want to get to the bottom of it or push the limit, the phrase "omniscient" is a joke.

The 10-dimensional universe is similar to the 11-dimensional universe, but it is very different - in this universe, the speed of light is no longer infinite, but "very large...... This may seem like a small difference, but the consequences are huge.

The first consequence is that the universe is no longer a whole, and I can't sense every part of my body in an instant - you can interpret it as "paralysis". I can no longer grasp everything in this universe at once, although the transcendence still exists in the depths of matter, but it is no longer the perfect state of "every particle and every particle has an overdistance effect", but has become a crippled state of "every particle has an overdistance effect with only a small number of particles that are exactly the same as itself" - that destruction has made most particles in the universe a little different from other particles, so there are very few particles that have an overdistance effect.

For me, who has seen the ultimate beauty of the idyllic universe and is accustomed to doing everything in an instant, the ten-dimensional universe with a limited speed of light is simply disgusting, and I almost suffer from "slow phobia......

I immediately regretted it, although the concept of "time" came into being immediately after the dimension was lowered, and in fact I lived longer, but I did not have the slightest joy in extending my lifespan, not only because of the slow beam of light in this universe, but also because of another discovery - this ten-dimensional universe also seems to have a tendency to slow down and expand. In other words, I just delayed the arrival of death for a moment and did not stay away from it in the slightest.

How so? It's better to wait for the universe to be destroyed and reborn.

But the nightmare has only just begun.

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2. Cosmic warfare

I can no longer control the entire universe in an instant, and at the same time, life other than me has arisen in the ten-dimensional universe - they are the first beings in this universe to be made of matter and move in a form you can understand. In the ten-dimensional universe with the speed of light, they grew rapidly and soon became god-level beings.

What is a god-level existence? I define it as: a civilization or individual who is not a god, but has almost the same ability as me within the scope of its own ability - they can destroy a galaxy or even a small universe in an instant within a certain range, and they can also change the physical laws of a certain area like pinching plasticine.

At first, I welcomed their presence. Because I have been in a deep state of self-reproach and regret after discovering that I have made a terrible mistake, I have been quietly waiting for the collapse and destruction of the ten-dimensional universe -- with the hope that after the ten-dimensional universe collapses into a singularity, the re-formed universe will be the eleven-dimensional pastoral universe again.

This kind of hope is not unreasonable, the collapse will recover all the material energy of the universe (some low-level civilizations think that hiding in the small space they have created can avoid this disaster, but in fact the collapse will destroy everything), since there is no shortage of raw materials at all, then the resulting universe should also be unchanged at all, I hope that the new god in the new universe will not do the same stupid thing as me......

But the development of events was completely beyond my expectations: when two god-level civilizations met, they actually started to attack each other directly, for reasons that I couldn't understand at all - both sides believed that the resources in this universe were limited and would be exhausted sooner or later; Both sides believe that the first strike is the strongest; Both sides are sure that their technology is good enough to destroy the other in an instant......

Of course, the reason is not as simple as these three points, but I am not going to go into details, and you must not try to explain this phenomenon in sociology - the fact is that the relationship between different god-level beings is extremely simple and perverted: if you find each other, you must destroy each other immediately.

Thus, the moment the god-level beings of the two ten-dimensional universes discovered each other, there was no attempt at communication or peaceful coexistence, and the first cosmic war began.

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Unfortunately, as a god, there is no being of the same level as me in the pastoral universe of the eleventh dimension with whom I can communicate; And after the destruction of this perfect universe, every god in the multiverse has the same memories and thought patterns as me, and there is no need to communicate with each other; There is no conflict of interest between the gods of each universe - it is difficult for different universes to communicate and exchange matter, and matter in one universe is rejected by another.

Because of the above reasons, I can't empathize with the clash between these small god-level civilizations, but I'm not ready to interfere, after the pastoral universe was destroyed by me, I have actually become the biggest criminal in the universe, and I am not qualified to point fingers at any civilization or individual, just quietly be a truth-telling onlooker of the true God......

But things quickly developed beyond my expectations - although the speed of light in the ten-dimensional universe is not infinite, its overall rhythm is still so fast that it is completely incomprehensible to the lower dimensional life.

Three seconds after the birth, the First Cosmic War began.

For the first half second, both sides attack hostile planets and galaxies with ordinary weapons; Gradually, with the development of technology, the two sides began to use regular weapons or causal weapons to try to completely destroy the hostile star field; At less than a little in the fourth second, the war escalated again...... Realizing that the two god-level civilizations that could not eliminate each other through conventional means, they invariably began to develop "dimensionality reduction weapons". While I was hesitating whether to stop them, the deepest destructive force of the material fabric was awakened for the second time - the war of dimensionality began.

Thus, less than four seconds after the eleventh dimension of the universe was lowered to the tenth dimension, the universe was lowered by one dimension.

This time, the dimension that collapsed was the spatial dimension, and one of the two warring sides emerged victorious: the civilization, which I call "A", survived this tragic cosmic upheaval by actively lowering one dimension of its own before using dimensional weapons on the enemy.

The speed of light has decreased once again, and my body is actually missing a macroscopic dimension! I feel a little angry and intend to intervene and prevent the dimensional war from happening again.

But at this time, a new civilization born from the nine-dimensional universe called itself "Cosmic Restarter" came up with a plan that I didn't expect - they believed that this universe actually had twelve dimensions, and the zero dimension was the twelfth dimension. Now that the pastoral universe is a thing of the past, let's simply continue to lower the dimension, reduce the dimension to zero, just like turning the clock past 12, and complete the restart of the universe in an alternative way.

Yes, I didn't think of it, and even though I was almost omniscient, my creativity was almost non-existent because of that. I couldn't think of a good solution to the problem, but I was moved by the plan of the "Cosmic Restarter", so I decided to break the jar and continue to quietly watch the universe evolve.

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The war continues to break out, and the pace of the universe becomes slower and slower due to the decrease in the speed of light: the nine-dimensional universe is reduced to the eighth dimension after stabilizing for more than an hour; The eight-dimensional universe existed for two days and then was destroyed in the "Third Dimensionality Reduction War"; The war continues to one lower dimensional world after another...... The seven-dimensional universe existed for five years, the six-dimensional universe lasted for more than 6,000 years, and the five-dimensional universe lived for nearly 10 million years.

The dimension is constantly destroyed by war, the speed of light is constantly reduced, and several old civilizations, including the "A" civilization, have developed technology to the peak, and they have even sensed my existence and tried to kill me! I can't bear to tell them the facts - this is impossible, as long as the universe remains, I am immortal.

The pace of the universe is getting slower and slower, and even the pace of war is getting slower and slower, so that by the time of the four-dimensional universe, any civilization that is produced anywhere in the universe can survive for a long time in places beyond the reach of god-level civilizations, and take the opportunity to develop enough to protect themselves - and those god-level civilizations can only stare at the low speed of light and wait for others to catch up with them in technology.

The pace of the universe is already too slow, and even dimensional weapons can't destroy the universe in a short period of time. More than 10 billion years have passed since the complete disappearance of the five-dimensional universe, and the "Seventh War of Dimensionality Reduction", that is, the war that tried to reduce the universe to three dimensions, has already begun.

At this moment, this universe is in a peculiar state: the "Seventh Dimensionality Reduction War" has not yet been fought, and the four-dimensional part still exists; In the part where two-thirds have been completely turned into three-dimensional, the "Eighth Dimensionality War" in which the two civilizations "A" and the "Cosmic Restarter" tried to reduce the universe to two dimensions began in a hurry.

At this moment, there are already many scattered areas in the universe, and under the attack of weapons called "two-way foils", they have begun to fall into the second dimension at a low speed of light.

There are still new civilizations emerging in the three-dimensional universe, and in the eyes of these nascent civilizations, perhaps the universe is so perfect and natural...... But in fact, every inch of space, every elementary particle, and every physical law and constant in this universe is all the ruins of the war formed by the "First Dimensional Destruction", the subsequent seven "Dimensional Wars", and the "Eighth Dimensional War" that has already begun.

The speed of light has dropped to 300,000 kilometers per second, and the pace of the universe has slowed down to an unprecedented degree. I had almost lost control of the universe and was just slumped in bed waiting to die.

Even so, the rate of expansion of the universe continues to decay unwaveringly and hopelessly......

3. The origin of the Lord God

Every time there is a dimensionality reduction war, the universe will split into a huge number of parallel worlds, how many are there? If you think about the most bizarre and unlikely world, you can find similar or even identical worlds in parallel universes.

In the process of watching this tragic and perverted cosmic war, I have nothing to do, and often monitor and understand the situation of other parallel universes by breaking through the barriers between parallel universes.

Because of the slight difference in the parameters at the time of splitting, there are differences between each parallel universe, and so far I have not found two parallel universes that are exactly the same - in fact, I have seen all kinds of magical worlds: because of the different laws of physics and the difference in energy levels, parallel universes can be divided into five categories: no magic, low magic, middle magic, high magic, and Honkai Irregularity.

This classification is very crude, and it makes no sense to me - because they are essentially the same, the strongest individual in the supreme demon world who claims to be a god or immortal, and the strength is equivalent to that of a god-level civilization that has reached the peak of technological development in the demonless world, the difference is only that the path taken is different. To me and my splinter, they were no different from a germ, and I could erase them whenever I wanted. The only difference is that the stronger the being, the more energy it takes me to erase it......

Theoretically, yes, but in fact I am a very competent spectator, and since I was born, I have not intervened in any process within the universe, let alone erased civilization - I have no desire to do so, and the operation of erasing one civilization may be a spectacular celestial phenomenon in the eyes of another civilization, but I have seen the ultimate beauty of the universe, and I do not need to make big fireworks to please myself; I have no motive to do so, and nothing has succeeded in angering me, or rather, nothing has the right to anger me, except for a brief period of time when the civilization I call "A" has made me angry.

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I observed a large number of parallel universes and found a strange thing: every universe is following almost the same path of dimensionality reduction, and most of the universes are stuck in the stage of coexistence of two-dimensional, three-dimensional and four-dimensional at the moment!

In the Demonless, Low Demon, and Middle Demon planes, the ones who launch dimensionality reduction wars are all civilizations with god-level technology...... It's easy to understand. In the High Demon Plane, it is the god-like individuals who hold great power that cause the reduction of dimensions. It stands to reason that the behavior of individuals should not be as regular and predictable as that of the group and society as a whole - but what surprised me was that these individuals would also engage in "divine warfare" with individuals of their own level for various reasons, and then reduce the universe to dimensions.

This is definitely not a coincidence, I can easily understand the principle of each dimensionality reduction method in each multiverse, but I can't understand why the entire multiverse is reduced together as agreed, even if there is no life in the fragmented space generated in some dimensionality reduction, the energy level drops automatically to the lower dimension under the influence of the surrounding low-dimensional universe - the higher level that may exist in the underworld and determines the direction of the universe The great existence that makes me feel both awe and awe.

I have basically completed the three-dimensionalization, and now I am quietly waiting for the end of the universe, according to estimates (and only estimates, because the expansion of the universe is not monitored by me), the great moment of the universe collapsing into a singularity will probably be sooner than the "tenth dimensionality reduction war" of the one-dimensional universe and the reduction of the entire universe to a singularity.

After all the multiverses collapse into a singularity, they interact with each other to eventually merge into a singularity and give birth to a new universe in a Big Bang.

In the process of waiting, a new question arises: after the universe is finally destroyed and reborn, the new "me" that is produced must not have the memory of the last reincarnation, what if the god of this new universe does the same stupid thing as me?

Following this line of thought, I began to feel fear: Maybe what I had done had happened countless times in the past infinite cosmic reincarnations? Even the thoughts I am doing now have been carried out by countless "gods" like me?

But since I haven't gotten the slightest bit of news from the previous samsara, then maybe the so-called "previous samsara" doesn't exist; Maybe it turns out that even gods can't leave any message for the next universe when it's destroyed?

There will be no answer to this question, and I waited as I pondered how to survive the rebirth and destruction of the universe, or at least leave some information for the gods that will arise when the universe is reborn next.

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Without a clue, nothing will remain at the end of the universe, not a single elementary particle, not an inch of space, not a trace of gravitational waves will remain. I realized my inadequacy again: because I was "almost omniscient", I had little creativity, I knew everything in this universe in an instant after I was born, and I did not gain a single new knowledge in the long life that followed—at most, I had to refamiliarize myself with my body with one dimension less and accept the whole set of physical laws with one dimension less after each dimensionality reduction.

But I do hear a lot of new ideas that I wouldn't have come up with on my own. There is an idea that left a deep impression on me: a nascent civilization in the three-dimensional universe, after hundreds of millions of years of development, discovered the eight huddled dimensions deep in the elementary particles, and thus realized the existence of dimensionality reduction wars and pastoral universes. Some of them believe that the pastoral universe is not a good place - if time does not exist, then the pastoral universe itself is meaningless, and if no one destroys the balance of the eleven-dimensional universe, then the entire universe will never stop and remain unchanged in an instant, destroy in an instant, and be reborn in an instant...... Reincarnation so monotonously?

This idea is very interesting, at least it lightens my self-blame and guilt, I destroyed the perfect pastoral universe, but made the whole universe have a "process" and a "trick" all at once. If anyone likes this fragmented but complex and diverse universe, then I can feel better.

It's okay, but I'm not going to give up trying to do something for the next universe, since these little individuals can generate so many new ideas, then ...... Maybe I can help them grow up quickly to become god-level beings, and then join in the feast of my mind trying to transmit information to the next universe?

All civilizations and individuals, strong or weak, are all running for survival, and I am the only one who is the biggest idler in the universe, so I have always done what I say - I have set up a small device in the breeding ground of some new weak civilization, and this small device is the "Lord God". It's a pretty hot name, but it's essentially just a gadget I made, and it has access to a lot of energy, but it doesn't have the ability to be one-hundred-millionth of me. Its mission is to randomly select individuals and send them to different parallel universes for adventures and gradually strengthen them when the civilization under its jurisdiction gradually matures and begins to explore this universe.

This action requires a huge amount of energy, because the main god not only sends objects that do not belong to the universe into it, but also ensures the survival of the individual; This action also takes a long time, because the main god first has to wait for this civilization to develop to a certain level; This feast of minds may also be meaningless, and reason tells me that the fate of the universe cannot be reversed......

Thankfully, for me, energy, time, and patience are the last things I lack.

It's not a game, and if no one can figure out how to send the information into the next universe in the end, we'll wait quietly for the end of the universe together...... If anyone finds it out, and the conditions are sufficient, I will turn myself into a stream of information and enter the next universe; If the conditions are not sufficient, at least the story of this universe should be passed on to the next universe, and the power to "decide the fate of the universe - whether it is a perfect but boring universe or a broken but interesting universe" should be handed over to the gods of the next universe.

- (To be continued.) )