Wake up.

Bing Shijue opened his eyes.

What he saw was a small cosy room, lying on a soft couch with a comfortable blanket on his body.

Not far away, a fire was burning.

By the light of the fire, Bing Shijue realized that this should be a library, or at least someone's study. Because there are densely packed books around the shelves, and even piled up directly to the ceiling.

Sitting up softly, Bing Shijue looked around and saw on the other side, near the door, a young man about his own age sitting. He was flipping through the books, but the sound of flipping through them was very soft, and he didn't seem to notice Bing Shijue's awakening.

However, Bing Shijue has no memory of how he arrived.

Only at the end, when the anger is poured out on the black discs.

"Am I dead?" Bing Shijue looked at the young man, and also noticed the way he raised his head, no different from the peers he had glimpsed before, "Or is everything that happened in Yanjiang City just a dream, just a plot that I conceived when I came to your house to discuss the plot?" ”

"These two questions are interesting." The young man said, closing the book in front of him, "But do you need something to eat before we talk?" ”

"Hmm...... Hamburg? Bing Shijue subconsciously wanted to radiate divine thoughts, but found that he just turned his head and looked at the door.

Divine thoughts can't be emanated at all.

"It's funny, I actually chose Western food." The young man nodded, and Bing Shijue suddenly found that a black dining table appeared in front of him, and among the inky plates were the burgers he had just imagined in his mind.

"Is this an illusionary world in the sea of consciousness?" Bing Shijue looked at the young man, "You saved our lives when we were decomposed?" Are you the ancestor of human civilization? Or is it that the power of human civilization used to have a deal with you, so you made a move at this time?"

"Worthy of a novelist." The young man smiled slightly, "Imagination and thoughts are relatively developed, but the answer is not right. ”

"That's?"

"Let's eat some first." The young man said, "You don't really belong to life now, and you don't belong to death. ”

"And I am?" Bing Shijue lowered his head and looked at his hands, "I think, so I'm here?" ”

"Not really." The young man nodded slightly, "Even I don't belong to life, nor do I belong to death. ”

"Hmm......" Bing Shijue frowned, although he didn't know the specific situation, it was obvious that this young man had no ill will towards him. Second, if you can save yourself from a level 3 civilization, the other party's civilization level must have reached a higher level.

As for what he talked about, it does not belong to life or death, it may have saved himself in a unique way.

"Your guess is good." The young man nodded, as if he could read the thoughts in his head, "But I'd better explain it to you in detail, otherwise our conversation won't be able to continue, just like your novel, we have to move the plot forward." ”

"Speak, please." Bing Shijue thought for a moment and reached for the hamburger.

When you bite into it, the crispiness of the toast, the aroma of butter, the soft and juicy beef, the refreshing taste of pickled cucumbers, and the freshness of tomatoes pour in.

This real feeling made Bing Shijue take a few more bites, and it didn't take a few seconds to swallow the hamburger.

"Let's have some snacks and drinks." The young man said, "For the sake of communication, you can call me instant." ”

“shun？ Instantaneous? Bing Shijue looked at the cola and fries that appeared in front of him, and his original tension was relieved a little.

"Yes." "My identity is a researcher of a level 8 civilization. ”

"Level 8 civilization?" Bing Shijue's hand that was about to pick up the fries stopped in the air and stared blankly at the moment.

"That's right, level 8 civilization." "But this concept is too complicated for you, but it is not appropriate to explain our civilization in terms of gods, we have no religion. But you can understand our level 8 civilization so well, and every child born in our civilization has the abilities of the gods in your history. ”

"We have discovered all the current universes, and at the same time, we have discovered everything outside the universe, and we know that our universe is actually many universes tied together, like bunches of grapes." As he spoke, a bunch of grapes also appeared in front of Bing Shijue's plate, but inside the grapes were countless giant stars, "Let's call it, Cosmic Cluster." ”

"There are 871681526 universes in the universe cluster we are in." Instantaneously said, "If when a universe expands to the extreme, escapes. This energy will be attracted to the cosmic clusters, and other cosmic universes will be born in different places. Or to strengthen the forces of other universes. ”

"We are a level 8 civilization...... For the sake of convenience, you can call us Instant Civilization. Instantly, he also came to Bing Shijue, sat down on a chair, picked up the grapes and stuffed them into his mouth, "Discovered all the cosmic clusters." ”

"Then we set our sights on the periphery of the cosmic cluster." Instantaneously said, and handed the grapes to Bing Shijue, "You should have come into contact with the 4-dimensional space fragments of the Luo Clan, right?" ”

"Touched." Bing Shijue thought for a moment, and swallowed the grapes as well.

"The 4-dimensional space debris gives us a glimpse of the world outside the cosmic cluster." Instantly stretched out his hand and drew a bunch of grapes in the air, "You graduated from Yanjiangcheng University, and you know that there is nothing outside the universe, right?" Because there is no such thing as a space-time idea. ”

"Yes, then why is four-dimensional space fine?" Bing Shijue asked.

"Because ......" was about to explain, Bing Shijue nodded suddenly, "It's good that you understand, the size of a piece of paper is limited, but for paper, the outside world is infinite." ”

"We can see a lot more space debris." Instant continued, "Outside of our cosmic cluster, we have observed other cosmic clusters," which is a very joyful thing for us. Because after exploring the cosmic cluster of this universe, it is as if they already know their own room, and many people don't even have the motivation to continue surviving. ”

"So, our exploration fleet is ready to go. But there were also a lot of problems. Instant sighed.

"What's the problem?"

"The laws of the universe are different." Instantly revealing a distressed look, "When our exploration fleet set sail from our universe, passed through the 4-dimensional space pipeline, and reached other universe clusters, it directly ceased to exist, and the dissolved matter directly became something we never understood. We can't detect these things either. ”

"But the bigger problem also arises, with the 4D space probe, we see that the matter in other cosmic clusters is like this, but when we take it to our cosmic cluster, this matter is different."

"We tried the stupidest, most primitive way, to deliver a fixed substance and then observe the transformed state." "After a few times, the project was quickly stopped. ”

"The first is that we transfer matter from the past into each other's cosmic clusters, and the state presented is completely incomprehensible to us. Even if the same mass and the same object travel to other universes, the observed results are completely different or even irregular. ”

"Second, because we have given the cosmic cluster energy of our own universe to other cosmic clusters, the overall energy of our cosmic cluster is unstable."

"We have indeed reached level 8 civilization, and the resources of more than 800 million universes are at our disposal, but when we see that there are other universe clusters, there may even be tens of millions of universe clusters waiting for us to explore, and there are even thousands of different physical laws waiting for us to analyze and explain."

"It's just that after hundreds of millions of years of attempts, we have failed, and the other cosmic cluster has also tried to send us matter and information, but they all failed." Momentarily sighed, "We were going to use the mass of matter conversion for information exchange. For example, if we give each other hydrogen atoms, helium atoms, and lithium atoms, but after the things transmitted by the other party's universe become our matter, we don't see any law at all. ”

"We've also tried quantum state communication, string state communication, and even four-dimensional pipes reaching into each other's cosmic clusters."

"The most painful thing for us is that these exchanges have failed, and everything has changed when it enters other universes." (Four-dimensional space is limited, foreshadowing, use it then)

"All the ways of communicating ended in failure." Shaking his head instantly, "We even wondered if other cosmic clusters were going to attack us, but when their attack methods came to our universe, they turned into all kinds of elements. And will they approve of us that way? ”

"Of course, this idea was quickly overturned, civilizations that can reach level 8 civilizations, or civilizations that understand the cosmic cluster, will not be stupid to open a station with the same unknown civilization as themselves, there are too many things that can be brought by communication, and war will only consume the energy of the cosmic cluster they originally lived in."

"There are fewer and fewer people studying cosmic clusters, and our civilization has encountered a sad barrier." Instantly rubbed the grapes and threw them into his mouth, "So we set the level of civilization and position a civilization like ours at level 8." Only if it can truly overcome the cosmic laws between different cosmic clusters can it truly be called a level 9 civilization. ”

"Time has passed, and our universe has been destroyed and reborn. Because we are like a fish in water in our own cosmic cluster, we have probably experienced more than a thousand times of the destruction and rebirth of cosmic clusters, and there are fewer and fewer people who study cosmic clusters, and I am the last generation of people who study cosmic clusters. Instant said.

"Why?" Bing Shijue asked, he had finished the meal in front of him.

"Because of our research, the cosmic cluster lost too much energy, and our civilization was destroyed." Shaking his head instantly, "Although the cosmic cluster itself redivides the energy, it will also be long after the fall of our civilization. ”

"So you're the last life in your civilization?" When Bing Shijue looked at the instantaneous gaze, he also felt a trace of regret. He knew that the young man named Instant must have saved a lot of money and talked to him again. Otherwise, the history of a level 8 civilization alone would be enough for him to absorb for a long time. Not to mention that there are so many cosmic things involved.

"No, we already said at the beginning that the two of us belong neither to life nor to death." Instant shook his head, "I'm talking to you right now at an interval of 11 to the 18th power. In layman's terms, this cosmic cluster has been reincarnated more than 600 million times. ”

"You mean, you're dead?" Bing Shijue struggled to make sense of the concept that made his scalp tingle.

"Standing in your time is so understandable, and the death of our civilization is a foregone conclusion. But for me, our civilization will be wiped out in millions of years. "If you understand it this way, our civilization can see the past and the future, and by observing the movement of those basic substances in the universe, we can deduce what has happened in the past and what will happen in the future." ”

"We can't change the past, but we can do it by something like ...... That's right. The butterfly effect proposed by your Earth civilization will change the future. When he said this, his face was full of pride, "I am now in my own research institute, and I am talking directly to you in the future. ”