As soon as he entered the world of mental images, a voice sounded directly in Lin Youde's heart.

"How dare you break into my field."

Lin Youde looked at it and saw a blue ball of light floating in the space with only simple black and white color separation, which seemed to be Hyperion's image in the world of mental images.

Everyone will project their subconscious perception of themselves into the mental world, and that ball of light is the embodiment of Hyperion's perception of himself.

"You don't think you're thinking of yourself as the light of the galaxy, are you?" Lin Youde couldn't help but complain.

"No, it's like this, simply because I didn't have a way to perceive the outside world until I evolved a perceptual psychic ability. In my world, I am the only light. You human philosophers have said, 'I think, therefore I am,' and during that time when I couldn't know the outside world, I kept thinking, and this was the only way to prove that I existed. ”

Lin Youde frowned slightly: "You have no way to recognize the external world, so what are you thinking?" ”

Human thinking is closely related to one's own experience and feelings, and Lin Youde can't imagine how human beings would "think" without these "raw materials".

"It's hard for those of you who have been able to perceive the outside world from the beginning to understand. But the guy over there probably knew exactly what I was thinking. ”

The ball of light fired a thin beam, at first Lin Youde thought it was an attack, but when he found out that it was pointing at Noah, he was relieved, anyway, no attack could hurt Noah - even if it was the same super civilization, there was only one way to kill each other.

"She knew very well what I was thinking when I couldn't recognize the material world. In ordinary species, intelligence is born from the cognition and transformation of the outside world, so almost all species that have evolved intelligence and established civilization on their own have visual organs, and a few species without visual organs also have other kinds of perceptual organs, which can ensure that they understand the material world in which they live. Without interaction with the material world, there can be no wisdom and no civilization – but this is only a generalization. I am an exception, I do not perceive the existence of the physical world, but this gives me another set of 'eyes' and I am able to perceive the higher world. ”

Lin Youde and Noah glanced at each other.

Freya looked inexplicable, looking back and forth at Lin Youde and Noah.

"What is she talking about? Do you understand what she means? If you understand, tell me, what do you mean? ”

Lin Youde stretched out his index finger and pressed his lips and whispered to Freya.

Freya was still full of question marks, but obediently shut up.

Lin Youde looked at the ball of light again.

"So you already know?"

"If you don't ask me this, I'm not sure." Hyperion's glow fluctuated slightly, "I'm just making a basic inference. I know that the next stage of evolution - the higher level of the world does exist, and the civilization that has developed to a certain level will try to break through to the next level of the world, and the universe has been in existence for a very long time, and there must have been countless super civilizations before us, and the vast majority of these civilizations have perished when they move on to the next stage, and the probability of success is statistically regarded as a small probability event - but as long as the base is large enough, there will definitely be a super civilization that breaks through to the next stage.

"And as I said earlier, the universe has been around for a long, long time, and there are countless galaxies in the universe, each with an infinite number of stars. So there must have been countless super-civilizations in this universe. In this way, it becomes a matter of course that 'civilization will succeed in moving to the next stage'. So, when I got the information that you claimed that there was an artificial intelligence left by a super-civilization around you, I had a speculation: Could it be that there is more than just a super-civilized artificial intelligence around you?

"Think back to what you've been through so far: you've saved the day, done something that has shocked the entire galaxy, and fought countless battles to the death, but you've survived unscathed, not only for you and your senior officers, but also for the miscellaneous soldiers on your ship. At first, it can be explained by your human resistance to beating, after the Tula people got on the ship, zero casualties began to become incredible, but at this time, this phenomenon can still be explained by the 'density of members', the Enterprise has too few members, and the ship is too big, so it is not surprising that the lucky ones did not produce deaths. There was also one such lucky ship in your human history, and I remember it was called the Snow Wind. But then things get weird. We haven't received a detailed report of your engagement with the leader of the Order, but, I guess, none of the humans on your ship, the Tulas, or the alien scientists who made it there by chance, have they? ”

"Yes." Lin Youde nodded and replied, "We are lucky." ”

"Luck? Hmph, isn't it because of the higher beings—no, maybe it's more appropriate to call them 'gods,' isn't it because of the gods' favor that they have become like this? 'Noah's divine light protects us'. This is not one of the superstitious traditions that have been circulating in your human army for a long time, you are praying to the true God, am I not right? ”

"Huh? Huh? Freya looked at Lin Youde and Noah back and forth, "Little Noah is a god?" Will God be a glutton? ”

Lin Youde smiled.

"Interesting inference, but it turned out to be wrong. It's strange that we have zero casualties on our ship, but it's just pure luck. Your reasoning is easy to refute, if Noah is really God, why am I still being threatened by you? ”

"Maybe it's because you don't have enough faith to cause miracles like you used to, or maybe God has other plans that we mortals can't understand - these can all be explained, but I personally prefer another way of saying that there is more than one God, that there are other evolved supercivilizations in the galaxy watching, that they are competing with each other, and that we are the pawns they use to compete. The galaxy is a huge chessboard, and you and I are nothing more than props for higher beings to use to realize their will......"

Lin Youde asked Noah: [Is there such a thing? 】

[No, in the end, we super-civilizations only focus on what we are interested in, and I have only met one super-civilization at the moment, and our biggest disagreement is whether the doughnuts are good or not, so we have a fight. 】

[......] Lin Youde was speechless.

However, the current purpose has not changed, and Hyperion should also know that casually claiming that there is an evolved supercivilization or something will call into question his authority, and probably will not talk nonsense.

So he clapped his hands: "I don't comment on your speculation, my Noah is just an artificial intelligence left by a supercivilization, what do you like to think she is, that's your business." I'm here to take back the soul of that beautiful woman in Ilala. Where is it? ”

"Right here."

Hyperion's light flickered, and then a huge birdcage appeared, in which a beautiful girl resembling a puppet was sleeping.

"Come, use your power to take her. As long as you can free her soul, I promise you to teleport her body directly in front of your ship with a long distance - after that, it is up to you whether the body is crushed to pieces by the black hole or you are rescued back to the ship. Come on, make a move, knight of the princess. (To be continued.) )