The air was quiet for a moment.

There was silence in the office.

Xiao Qi looked at Chu Guang worriedly, and asked him with his eyes if he needed to call Heya, and bring a few more psychiatrists by the way.

However, Chu Guang shook his head, signaling that it didn't need to inform the people of the Guards Corps, it could handle it.

It's not entirely out of confidence in his own strength, but mainly because he doesn't feel a clear threat from the other party, or has obvious malicious motives.

Although his feelings are not necessarily accurate, they still have some reference value.

After all, perception is actually the embodiment of "psychic energy", and the connection between the two parties at the moment is not a form of resonance field.

Chu Guang didn't know how this was done, and the other party seemed to be surprised that the connection between them was established at this moment, but no matter what, being able to communicate was a good start.

He is better at using the methods of managers than by force.

Besides, if it's really a trouble that you can't solve by yourself, it's the same with how many people come......

About five minutes later, the voice of darkness drifted into his ears again.

"Pen...... Well, I didn't take it, but I know how it disappeared and where it went."

Chu Guang didn't speak, but waited for it to continue.

The voice paused for a moment, and sure enough, it continued.

"It is about the nature of the world you live in and the final destiny of the world, which is still too far away for you, but one day it will come...... The story might be a bit long, would you be interested in hearing it?"

Chu Guang said from the goodness.

"I want to hear about it."

"Then I'll start from the beginning......

The dark voice continued.

"A long, long time ago, before the first universe was born, everything was in absolute static, with neither an increase nor a decrease in entropy...... There is not even a concept of time."

"At a certain moment, a particle as small as dust vibrates, and it triggers an avalanche-like chain reaction that finally breaks the eternal silence. Lights lit up in the infinite chaos, voices appeared, and there were many new things that did not exist in the world beyond time...... We call this original universe the 'primordial universe,' and that was the beginning of everything."

Chu Guang frowned slightly, he didn't know how this guy got to the origin of the universe from his pen, but he still continued with his words.

"You're talking about...... The Big Bang? I think I've heard of it, but I don't know it very well."

The voice in the darkness neither affirmed nor denied, but continued in a calm tone.

"Everything shifted from eternal stillness to never-ending motion, time began to take on meaning from this moment, and the primordial universe continued to expand in an eternal increase in entropy...... It's like a soap bubble that gets bigger and bigger."

Chu Guang asked stunned.

"Fertilizer, soap bubbles?"

The voice in the dark said patiently.

"Yes, that's the easiest way to understand, and if I don't use examples of concepts you understand, you can't imagine what the primordial universe was...... It's like ants can never understand what the sea is, what is the difference between the sea and the river in front of their house, and what a manned spacecraft is."

"Anyway, it's a huge bubble, and its size is impossible to measure in light years. If your galaxy is compared to a single leaf, it is the sum of all the leaves in the entire galaxy...... It's even bigger than that."

That...... It's amazing.

Chu Guang was stunned by the size of the world, but he didn't have any more thoughts other than that.

If what this guy of unknown origin said was true, even the vast galaxy was just a leaf in front of that huge order of magnitude, and the bacteria living on this leaf didn't seem to need to worry about those distant things.

That exists at a distance from humans

Civilization is too far away.

It's like a story from another world.

Even if a wildfire broke out in this forest, it would be enough time for the bacteria on the leaves to multiply for generations before the flames turned everything to ashes.

That being the case—

As bacteria, they should eat the leaves in front of them first.

As if seeing what he was thinking, the voice in the dark continued in a eloquent tone.

"You're right, it's not the duty of a snail or an ant to keep the forest in order. But...... I'm talking about the origin of the void. If I don't explain what it is, you won't understand what the void is, how it came about, and where your pen went."

"I agree with you, please continue." Chu Guang looked at him and said.

The voice in the darkness seemed to have intended to do so, and continued at a gentle pace.

"The 'primordial universe' has existed for a long, long time, and there is no reliable clue to prove whether there was a civilization in that universe. Even I, who have existed for a long time and explored many universes, have not found any traces of the civilization of that universe in the endless universe. They may not have existed in the first place, or they may have existed and become something else."

"But our quest wasn't for nothing. Through the clues that can be followed, we know that the primordial universe gave birth to three 'consciousness bodies' at the same time as matter. And they are the masters of the Void—the primordial light, the unspeakable mist, and the darkness of chaos."

This guy's style of painting gradually became strange, and the concepts he described went far beyond the understanding of the material world of human civilization.

Chu Guang couldn't help but ask.

"What's that?"

The voice in the dark did not sell off, and gladly answered his question.

"Light is the origin of all things, fog is the unpredictable cause and effect, and darkness is the end of the reincarnation of the universe...... They are both consciousness and rules, and together they form the building blocks of the Void."

"There are clues that the birth of the consciousness has accelerated the collapse of the primordial universe. When that huge soap bubble bursts with a bang and explodes into an infinite number of smaller soap bubbles, there is an endless 'new universe after this'."

"And your galaxy, and even all the other galaxies beyond the galaxy and within the horizon, is one of the endless bubbles."

"As for the void, it is the gap between the bubbles and the bubbles, which is the 'wall' that you have learned by digging graves."

"There are three consciousnesses born in the primordial universe, as well as new consciousnesses that have been conceived over the long years, and countless corpses of the universe that have died."

Chu Guang looked at it in a daze, and it took a long time to digest this huge amount of information.

The universe is an endless bubble......

And the Void is the corpse of a dead universe...... Including the part of the corpse of the original universe that failed to give birth to a new universe?

In the face of all this unbelievable information, the matter of the fountain pen no longer seems to matter.

Unable to suppress the curiosity in his heart, Chu Guang couldn't wait to say.

"It's not what we've learned from pioneer civilizations...... The universe they depict is a nested structure."

Of course.

He doesn't agree with this nested structure.

In contrast, he is more in favor of the idea of parallel universes, in which different universes exist independently of each other, like two parallel lines.

The voice in the dark said with a smile.

"This is normal, the same apple will inevitably have different understandings in different people's hands. The child you are talking about is only talking about the "sea" that they themselves saw. Just as you explain the membrane of the universe with the theory of dimensions, you interpret the membrane of the universe as a plane that vibrates in the 11th dimension. And they use the theory of the creator to explain the consciousness in the void

a relationship with the universe."

After a pause, it continued.

"They are smart, but not smart enough, confusing the concepts of dimension and membrane, believing that the universe is nested in layers of nesting dolls, that the consciousness of one existence must be created and enveloped by the consciousness of another existence earlier, and that the three consciousnesses born in the primordial universe are the creators of the universe in which they live, and the omnipotent rulers...... This is inaccurate."

Chu Guang stared at his eyes that were getting clearer and clearer at that time, shocked by this astonishing reality, and at the same time, he suddenly realized another problem.

"In other words...... The place where the pioneer civilization went was not actually the Creator's universe?"

There was a hint of approval in his dark gaze.

"You are very smart and have a high level of understanding, and you deserve to be a continuation of that person...... You can barely see his shadow on you, though."

Chu Guang was stunned and said, "Whose shadow?"

"An old man I once knew, it was a long, long time ago for you...... Don't worry, it's not important to you."

The voice in the dark did not answer directly, but just lightly lifted the topic and continued the topic just now.

"To answer your previous question, I think there are two understandings as to whether the 'pioneers' you are talking about went to the Creator's universe. As I said before, their understanding is just not accurate, but that doesn't mean it's wrong."

Chu Guang: "...... What do you mean?"

The voice continued.

"It depends on your understanding of the Creator, or the ultimate pursuit. The Creator as they understand it is the origin of all things, and the Creator as you understand it...... I guess it probably refers to the existence of something concrete. If you think about it a little, you will realize that these two creators are essentially different beings."

When he heard this, Chu Guang finally suddenly realized the problem.

From the perspective of the "pioneer civilization", the group of spiritualists understood that the "Creator" is the origin of consciousness, and this corresponds to the three major consciousnesses born in the primordial universe from the beginning.

They have made contact with one or all of the three consciousnesses, made some kind of deal, even signed a contract, and eventually traveled to their own world—

And there is the void beyond the cosmic membrane!

However, this is not the case with the Creator as understood by human civilization.

Due to its own development process, which focuses more on the exploration of matter, human civilization's understanding of the Creator is also more concentrated in the level of "things", rather than the subjective "creation".

And these "things" happen to be not created by the so-called three major consciousnesses, but were born in the primordial universe, and are the infinite possibilities generated by the collision and entanglement of countless particles!

No wonder......

The message left by the pioneer civilizations has shown them more than once that they are different and do not conspire with each other.

It is true that human civilization and pioneer civilization are not on the same track from the very basic understanding!

Chu Guang, who realized this, was shocked.

Boy......

After a long time, the pioneer civilization did not go to another higher universe, but plunged headlong into the void!

The place where Dr. Qiu Shiye went was probably there—the gap between the universe and the universe!

The pioneer civilization warns them to be careful of what is on the wall, but the guys obviously don't realize that the place they are going to is actually the wall-

Even the Creator as they understand it is a thing of the wall!

All the clues were strung together, and Chu Guang gradually understood everything.

After working on it for a long time, the perforator was not borrowing light from the wall of the Creator Universe, but digging the corner of the void!

And that dead monitor lizard is supposed to be the existence of the void......

「…… It seems that you have gradually understood the essence of the 'perforator', and now I want to tell you about the membrane of the universe.

That's the thing you really pierced."

The dark voice continued in a gentle tone with a hint of a smile.

"Remember the parable I made earlier? I liken the universe to a soap bubble."

"I still remember," Chu Guang said cautiously, "so what do you mean...... The membrane of the universe is the protective layer of the universe?"

The dark voice continued.

"It can be understood that this conceptual membrane is indeed related to the stability of the universe. But a more accurate explanation is actually ...... The membrane of the universe is the universe itself. And the three-dimensional world you can see is actually a projection of the 'membrane' in the 11th dimension, on the 'interface' of the 3D."

"Once you understand the concept of projection, you can understand why this universe is filled with so many things that you can't see or touch. The 11-dimensional membrane can be projected on a 3-dimensional interface, and naturally it can also be projected on a 0, 1, 2-dimensional, 4-dimensional, 5-dimensional, and so on......

"Based on this principle, you can think that the universe is made up of projections of countless different dimensions, or you can think that the membrane at the apex of latitude is the essence of the universe."

"As for the existence of the void...... That is, things outside of the bubbles, under normal circumstances, you can't touch the bubbles directly, let alone enter the bubbles."

"However, they also have their own methods, such as using psychic abilities, which you call the Resonance Field, to connect with the 'consciousnesses' that live in the bubble, to bewitch them, or to make a deal with them, and to use the latter's power to project themselves on an interface within the bubble...... It's like what you did before."

Chu Guang swallowed his saliva and asked cautiously.

"In other words...... Our actions have actually shaken the foundations of the universe?"

There was a hearty laugh in the dark, and then he spoke softly.

"Don't think too highly of yourself, at most you have carefully picked up a grain of sand from the desert, and you will not be able to change the ecology of the entire desert. And the projections that have invaded your world, as you can see, can be destroyed. There are even some clever natives who deliberately trick beings from the void into descending and hunting them down to gain some kind of power that you don't know yet."

Chu Guang immediately asked.

"What is that power?"

"Haven't you noticed a change in your body? But it doesn't matter, you'll notice it soon, I don't need to explain this to you, you have your own medical examiner."

The dark voice smiled and continued.

"In short, the bubble that envelops your world is much stronger than you think, otherwise you wouldn't exist in this universe. Not to mention, in this galaxy under your feet, there are already many civilizations that have passed it, but until those civilizations go to the end of their destiny, it is still fine."

"Not to mention a hole that is invisible to the naked eye, even a galaxy-level hole that will gradually heal over time...... And your pen is likely to have been removed to fill this hole."

"So I sincerely suggest that you take it easy at your own doorstep, or change to a more massive celestial body research that is a little further away. Gravity is a good thing, and projections in any dimension can't get rid of it."

"Of course, if you're making a stellar hole, then the trouble you're letting out isn't a joke, and you're going to disappear a few planets along the gravity surface."

When he said this, the laughter suddenly took on a hint of loneliness, as if he was regretting.

"But then again, even if the membrane of the universe is stronger than you think, I must admit that the birth of civilization will accelerate the heat death of the universe. Just as the birth of the Three Consciousnesses hastened the decline of the primordial universe, so your birth will also accelerate the heat death of the universe beneath your feet...... Even in your lifespan, you can barely see the change."

"Eventually, all the new universes will be like the primordial universes, again and again

Split into smaller bubbles in a single explosion, or go to the end of life in an eternal increase in entropy, and finally merge into the void."

This cruel fate seems to have something similar to the rise and fall of the Human Federation.

Chu Guang couldn't help but be a little distracted when he heard this.

But more than the fate of the universe, what he cares more about is who is this guy?

Why does it know so many things?!

And—

It seems to know the original administrator of Vault 404!

It's unbelievable that a high-level being with a perspective high enough to overlook an entire forest would pay attention to the fate of a certain bacterium on a leaf......

Thanks to it, he learned many things that he would not have known in his lifetime.

However, the confusion in his heart did not decrease, but became more and more because of it.

After a moment of silence, Chu Guang asked the question he had wanted to ask from the beginning.

"Who the hell are you?"

As if anticipating him to ask the question, the voice in the darkness replied in a gentle tone.

"Of course I'm also a being in the Void...... And it has been around you for a long, long time."

"You can call me an observer."