"First of all, where we are now is the 'end of time'. Of course, this is just an artistic term, and in a more 'practical' way, it is a 'quarantine zone' separate from the 'universe'. ”

"You can think of this as a fenced off area for 'anomalous files,' at least for the 'original purpose.'"

The "Professor" slowly explained the role of "the end of time" for this "data universe", which is a "recycle bin" like a "recycle bin" like the "void", but a "quarantine zone".

For the "universe", which is similar to a computer, this is the repository of various "risk data", and the "universe" may not be able to confirm the degree of abnormality of these "risk data", so it is necessary to set up such a place to observe those "risk data".

Among them, those who are certified as "risk-free" will be re-invested in the "universe", and those who are "risky" may be thrown into the "void".

After all, for the "Trojan Horse Virus" that may destroy this "space experiment", normal people will not put it in the "recycle bin" ordinary, and "File Shredder" may be their final destination.

This seems to echo the nature of black holes, perhaps the "black hole" itself is a kind of "file shredder"?

However, these are all "before", judging from the tone of "professor" and Li Wenyuan's personal experience, there have been many changes at the "end of time" now.

At least now this is not a "tribunal" like a place, otherwise the human race, which is clearly prepared to disrupt the "experiment", would have been "cleaned" long ago as "risk data".

"Of course, it used to be the 'most dangerous' place, but that wasn't the case with the Ring of Time."

"The Ring of Time?" Seeing that he finally talked about this "mystery" that had been a long time, Li Wenyuan's heart inevitably became excited, and he even unconsciously repeated it.

This is a feeling that he has not experienced for a long time since becoming a "data life", and this may be the impact of this flesh and blood body, although it is not "rational", but it also has a different feeling.

And the "professor" also directly talked about the essence of the "Ring of Time":

"The 'Ring of Time', like this place, is an artistic term for Him, and from a 'practical' point of view, I prefer to call Him 'The Wheel of Time.'"

"He is like a kind of 'bug' in this universe, he appeared here at some point, with a strange nature like 'life', but he seems to stand outside the whole 'world', unaffected by the 'cycle'."

"Actually, we haven't figured out what He is until now, but one thing we have figured out is that at least for the present 'universe', He is the embodiment of 'time.'"

Such an explanation sounds full of metaphysical atmosphere, and although the concept of "time" itself is abstract, it still sounds very difficult to imagine defining "time" in terms of some kind of "individual".

And the "professor" also explained helplessly: "I know this sounds very unscientific, but one of the identities of the 'time beetle' is indeed 'time'. ”

"In this 'universe', 'time' itself is also a kind of data, but compared with the complex 'material data' that emerges on the surface, 'time data' is much lower."

"Theoretically, 'time' is indeed an attribute that we artificially assign to matter, but for the 'universe' 'time' is a necessary property."

"The 'universe' needs a scale and a scale to evaluate the 'development progress' of 'data', and this scale is 'time'."

"So since it is data, there is room for manipulation, you can simply understand that one of the 'data' that constitutes the 'underlying code' of this universe is the 'time beetle', and what you should wonder about is how this 'underlying code' forms 'life'."

But that goes back to the question of where we don't know where He came from. Maybe a high-dimensional being can't stand this kind of 'experiment' and personally participates in the 'experiment'? Maybe it's because the underlying code of this 'universe' has accumulated bugs over a long period of time, resulting in such a 'time bug'? Or is it something more? ”

"All in all, that's one of our understandings of Him."

"Haven't you ever communicated with the 'Time Crab'?" When he heard this, Li Wenyuan couldn't help but ask rhetorically.

He originally thought that the "Professor" could stay in this kind of place for so long, and he should already know a lot about the "Time Crab", but now it seems that it may not be like that.

And the "professor" is quite helpless about this:

"As I said before, this is just one of the understandings we have based on the 'universe' itself, and in fact I think that the ontology of the 'Time Crab' may have come from a higher world, or simply from the 'outside', in the same world as the being who dominated this 'cosmic experiment'."

"And 'time' is just a manifestation of Him in this 'universe', and we have no way to communicate with His level of existence at all, and even 'naming' may actually be just some kind of fixed-running program......"

Li Wenyuan fell into a short period of contemplation, and after talking about the other name of the "Ring of Time" from "Professor", he realized what the "Scale of Time Frog" that had led him here was.

This thing seems to be the scales of the "Ring of Time", and the "scales" must be a "creature", in other words, the "Time Crab" can already appear in the "universe" as a "certain creature".

This reminded him of the "Void Bug", although the "Void Bug" seems to be different from the structure of any other creature, and is indeed not a "creature", but it can be referred to as a "worm", and perhaps it also retains the characteristics of a "creature" to some extent, and the "Time Worm" seems to be some kind of "worm" as well.

So Li Wenyuan informed the "professor" of the news of the "scales of the time beetle", and the professor was also very surprised by this.

"Is He already capable of doing this? Perhaps, in the future 'cycle', there will be a lot of changes......"

"What do you mean by that?"

"Because this means that the 'Time Beet' has been able to actively exert influence on the 'universe'." The "Professor" immediately explained.

"Although the 'Time Dragon' represents the 'time' of the 'universe', it was not able to exert any influence on the 'world' beyond the black hole in the past, and at best it was to the extent that it caused auditory hallucinations to individual intellectual beings, and it must be limited to the black hole."

"Perhaps after participating in this 'cosmic experiment', even he can't disobey this underlying rule, and can only exert influence to a limited extent."

"But the appearance of this 'Scales of Time' proves that He is now able to exert influence on the outside world in the form of 'matter', which is a huge breakthrough from 0 to 1, which means that we can get in touch with Him very early in the future, and then retrieve 'our fragments'."

"You should know that the only places that can store the 'fragments of the past' are the 'Void' and here, and compared to touching the black hole, it is obviously much more difficult to find the 'Void', and the sooner we 'wake up', the more time left in the 'universe', the more we can do."

"As long as there is enough 'time', it is possible to capture that 'foreign will' or directly 'break the cycle', and this discovery is really significant."

Li Wenyuan really didn't expect that such a scale could have such a big impact, and it sounded like a great thing for them.

And since the mysterious "foreign will" was mentioned at this time, Li Wenyuan also questioned it in passing.

"Even if you don't ask, I'll say it, it's about what we've been trying to do, and the nature of this 'cosmic experiment.'" With a wave of the Professor's hand, the surrounding "cosmic landscape" changed into a seemingly highly developed urban planet.

And they are standing in space, overlooking the planet.

"That 'alien will' is the biggest mystery in this universe, and it is also the most dangerous existence."

"There is no warning of its appearance and disappearance, but traces of it are clearly felt in the historical records of those destroyed civilizations."

"And we suspect that it is the one who is leading this 'cosmic experiment.'"

The urban planet below, which was in good condition, suddenly had a huge change, and a huge amount of industrial exhaust gas was emitted into the atmosphere, and even the powerful purification ability of the urban planet was difficult to solve.

Not long after, there seemed to be a riot on the planet, and explosions occurred one after another on the surface of the planet, and in a short time, the entire urban planet was blown into ruins, and there was no trace of life activity anymore.

As the scene changed, the "professor" spoke of the effects of "foreign will".

"This is a civilization that I don't know how many epochs ago, invaded by an 'alien will'."

"The arrival of this 'alien will' has made a mess of all the well-being civilizations, and this urban planet is one of its masterpieces, as the home planet of this civilization, although the production capacity of this urban planet is not high, it is a spiritual holy place for the entire civilization."

"Originally, there were only leisure and entertainment areas on this planet, after all, for this civilization that can be invaded by 'foreign will', resources are no longer a problem for them, but after its arrival, this 'entertainment city planet' has been replanned as an 'industrial city planet', and the former 'paradise' has become a 'waste gas hell'."

"If that's all it takes, but the 'alien will' doesn't know what kind of madness it has, and forcefully reversed the way of life of the entire civilization, and finally caused the species in the civilization to crack and destroy in civil strife."

"Although this 'foreign will' has left in style, the people of that civilization still left a record."

As he spoke, the environment changed again and again, and he came to a monument standing in the ruins of the earth, and the words on it were eerie, roughly stating that they had been invaded by a mysterious being, and all of them were forced to submit to the rule of a certain will.

In the process, that will manifests an incredible amount of terrifying power, such as being able to violate the law of conservation of matter, directly causing the entire civilization to add a large amount of resources out of thin air.

It is really possible to "create something out of nothing", so that the amount of resources in an empty cosmic warehouse can be exploded in an instant, without any movement, and even let the camera in the warehouse record the process of the sudden appearance of resources with their own eyes.

When he heard this, Li Wenyuan, who had already understood the "nature of the universe," knew that this must have used the means of "data manipulation" to transform one kind of "data" into another kind of "data," which was essentially the same as the law of conservation of matter.

But what the "foreign will" does next is even more exaggerated.

The monument clearly records how the "alien will" "turned back time" for the sake of the dead scientist, and although these people did not know that time had been reversed at first, there were so many times that almost everyone was vaguely aware of it.

And this is consistent with Li Wenyuan's understanding from the "void", according to what "he" said not known how long ago, there was a civilization that thanked the "foreign will" for this, because objectively speaking, the "foreign will" did greatly help that civilization in reversing time.

“…… But later 'foreign will' seems to be becoming more and more 'skilled', and each time it can 'play bad' civilization perfectly...... It's like he already knows what the end of this civilization will be if this continues, so he quickly gave up on this civilization......"

and...... Manipulating time? He also thought of the "Time Crab", but did not say much, but asked about the purpose of the "professor" and "foreign will".

"Considering the results of thousands of 'cycles', the 'foreign will' ...... It seems to be 'raising Gu', it is looking for a powerful civilization that will not be destroyed no matter what, which is why he always chooses those powerful civilizations to invade. ”

"This may be one of the purposes of this 'cosmic experiment', it is to study how to transform 'data' into power, I think that the 'alien will' may have a way to transform 'data' into the real 'world', and the 'cycle' again and again is its 'pursuit' of interests."

(End of chapter)