Zhou Ming opened the door, walked quickly into his apartment, and immediately looked up at the window directly opposite the door.

Outside the window, there was still an eternal gray-white mist, and the thumping sound was like a patient raindrop knocking on the window, and although there was no figure to be seen outside, the knocking sound itself proved that the visitor was standing at the window.

Zhou Ming clearly sensed the breath standing at the window the moment he entered the room—it seemed that because of the last "connection", that breath was particularly clear.

When someone visits here, can they be directly perceived on the "other side"?

Zhou Ming thought in his heart, and at the same time walked quickly to the window, and almost as soon as he came to the window, the familiar face of Lei Nora had already appeared outside the window, and behind him was the equally familiar, classical and gorgeous bedroom.

The Frost Queen was still patiently knocking on the glass, her slightly hollow eyes reflecting the glittering starlight - Zhou Ming immediately opened the window and greeted the only guest who would visit him here: "It's good to see you back." ”

"Please let me in......" Rei Nora was stunned for a moment, her eyes seemed to take a long time to focus on Zhou Ming correctly, and then said in a slightly weak tone.

Zhou Ming instantly sensed that something was not quite right with the other party, and immediately moved out of the way to the side, and at the same time reached out to help the frost queen.

The next moment, with the slight sideways movements of Ray Nora, he finally found the other party's empty left arm—not only the left arm, but even part of the shoulder, chest, waist and abdomen, and almost a third of her upper body was gone! It's as if something has swallowed it neatly!

What's even more bizarre is that there is no blood flowing out of the broken part of her body, only a vague "light film" covering those broken parts, and I don't know if it's an illusion...... Duncan felt that the "light film" was even slowly expanding and extending......

It's further devouring what's left of the Frost Queen's body!

Seeing that Ray Nora was trying to climb over the window with some difficulty, Zhou Ming instantly woke up from his shock, hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed the intact half of the other party's body, and carefully picked her in - he felt that the other party's body temperature was very low, like a cold ghost.

"We haven't seen each other for a while," Rei Nora looked up and smiled at the friendly "Old God" in front of her, "There is an incredible sense of security to see this 'palace' of yours after a thrilling trip......

"Don't sigh about this yet," Zhou Ming quickly interrupted the other party, and asked quickly while helping her to the sofa in the living room, "What's the matter with your arm?" ”

"Don't worry about me, my arm...... Still," Ray Nora sat down on the couch, gasping a little weakly, and pressed her left right hand on her left shoulder, pressed against the empty 'air', "I was clutching something in my hand, and it would make my body 'disappear', but I didn't dare to let go, as soon as I let go, it would dissipate, and I had tried so many times, so I clung to it all the way...... Now it seems that it has probably been held for too long. ”

"In hand...... Clutching something? Listening to the other party's words, Zhou Ming was slightly stunned, and subconsciously looked at the other party's empty left body, "What's in your hand?" ”

"I'll try to get it into your hands now," Ree Nora took a deep breath and seemed to regain some strength as she sat up, as if she was raising her right hand and handing over something invisible, "I don't know what will happen to it when it falls into your hand, maybe it will still dissipate, or it may become something else...... I can't ......."

Her mind seemed to have been affected by "something", and her words became slurred, but she still passed the thing unswervingly, Zhou Ming couldn't see it, he could only raise his hand and continue—he felt himself touch the cold fingers of the Frost Queen, and then something that was equally cold and soft and loose, and that thing fell on the palm of his hand.

Ray Nora literally handed over something invisible, something that was real, but couldn't be seen with the eyes.

In the next second, Zhou Ming noticed that Lei Nora's disappeared body began to recover rapidly—her shoulders, chest and abdomen reappeared, followed by her entire arm.

And he could still feel the cold, loose mass in his palm.

“…… It's still there," Zhou Ming looked down at his palm, his tone full of surprise, "What the hell ......is this?" ”

He stopped suddenly, his eyes widening in astonishment—in his gaze, something "something" slowly emerged from the palm of his hand, first as a near-transparent shadow, and then as the shadow began to feel solid, turning into a gray mass that looked like pinched dust with blurred edges.

The gray mass lay quietly in Zhou Ming's palm, its interior seemed to be undergoing incomprehensible changes all the time, its core seemed to be squirming and trembling, there were always strange outlines emerging, and its edges seemed to be covered with a layer of visually disorienting fog, just staring at it for a while, it made people feel dizzy.

“…… What the hell is this thing? Zhou Ming finally couldn't help but mumble in a low voice, and then suddenly looked up at the Frost Queen next to him, "Where did you find this thing?" Is that the 'beyond the borders' you mentioned last time? ”

After getting rid of the "invisible thing", Lei Nora's body and spirit obviously began to recover quickly, at this time her face was much more normal, and when she heard Zhou Ming's question, she immediately nodded lightly.

"At the end of this gray mist, beyond the 'border' I mentioned last time, this thing is everywhere...... The whole 'world' over there is even made up of them," she recalled, "and since the last time I talked to you, I've started to feel and see them, but I still can't figure out what they are, and the most incredible thing is that this thing can be 'bringed' back, so I brought a little bit back to see what you had in mind." ”

Zhou Ming's brows furrowed a little, and after confirming that this thing was really from outside the end of the world, it seemed that countless ideas and speculations had popped up all at once, and with the emergence of countless ideas, he felt it even more vaguely......

Something in one's own "essence" has loosened.

His "metamorphosis" accelerated again.

The surrounding starlight rumbled and trembled, and countless incomprehensible humming whispers seemed to echo in the starlight, and Ray Nora glanced cautiously around, then calmly suppressed her mind, trying not to pay attention to the voices that echoed in the stars.

It's not the first time she's been to this place, and she's not going to make a fuss like last time.

Ancient gods, it's probably such a B movement when I think about it.

And at this moment, Zhou Ming finally exhaled softly, he guessed what this thing that Ray Nora brought back, and now it was only left to verify his conjecture.

He raised his hand, a faint green flame dancing in his fingertips, and he tried to consciously interfere with the flame, recalling how he felt when he "transformed"—in his gaze, the faint green of the flame was fading, and the faint starlight appeared in the jumping flames.

He slowly clenched his hand, and gradually submerged the cold and amorphous gray mass with the starlight, and he clenched his hand into a fist, and the gray mass slowly dissolved into the starlight.

Ray Nora's eyes widened, and she watched the scene in amazement and curiosity.

"You...... Any idea what this thing is? She couldn't help but ask curiously.

The star-laden giant turned his head and whispered a gentle, joyful voice to her—

"It's raw materials."

"Raw materials?" Ray Nora listened in amazement, apparently not understanding, "What ingredients?" ”

"The raw material of the new world, the basic unit of information - as I guessed before!" Zhou Ming looked at Lei Nora's eyes, he slowly opened his hand, the gray mass had completely dissolved in the starlight, dissolved into his body, and he fully understood the essence of this mass of "matter", "Information is indestructible, information will only be transformed, the theory of Pilot 2 is correct, information is the cornerstone of everything - everything is the expression of information, even the Great Annihilation itself, this is the same!" ”

Ray Nora listened in confusion, and Zhou Ming had already gotten up from the sofa at this moment, he couldn't suppress his excitement and joy at this time, and subconsciously walked around the sofa in a circle, thinking quickly while walking, and stopped abruptly from time to time, sorting out his complicated thoughts.

"The world is made up of information, and the essence of everything moving in the earthly world is the expression of information and the process of interconnection and transformation," he paused in front of Ree Nora and quickly explained to the frost queen, "You can think of the whole world as an incomparably large 'mathematical machine' that contains all parameters and operates consistently, and everything in the world is the data that appears in the operation of this machine, and everything that happens in this world is the 'solution' of this mathematical machine......"

Lei Nora followed Zhou Ming's train of thought with difficulty, and at this time couldn't help but ask: "You mean, our world is illusory?" ”

"No, it's true – because we're part of this mathematical machine, and we're the result of a lot of information," Zhou Ming waved his hand quickly and continued, "If everything is information, then there is no 'truth' in the world outside of information, and this explains the nature of the Great Annihilation...... But this part will take a long time to explain, and I'm sure you can figure it out yourself, and the key thing I'm going to say is...... The information itself does not disappear, its 'base unit' only transitions from one state to another......"

Zhou Ming stopped suddenly, he tried his best to think, and then waved his arm extra hard.

"Because the 'mathematical machine' is always there, its operation should contain all the 'solutions', and the 'parameters' that make it up will neither stop nor disappear, they will only ...... Transformed, transformed into something that cannot be addressed and read – for mathematical machines, this is still part of the 'solution', and for those of us who rely on mathematical machines to make sense of the world, this process is ...... It's called 'the end of the world'. ”

(End of chapter)