Yang Wuji didn't have the ability of the illusion god and the president to interpret deep dreams in an instant, so he could only lie honestly in the attic and stick deep dreams on the door of his consciousness to check them.

In a deep dream, Yang Wuji turned into a middle-aged woman, standing in a huge white laboratory, looking at a huge experimental cabin surrounded by transparent walls in front of him, and excitedly clasped hands with another gray-haired man.

"Dad...... We've finally waited for this day. History is in our hands! As long as half a day later, after the experiment is successful, the first small universe mimiced by "virtual energy" can come into being! From then on, we human beings will be able to rely on virtual energy, ignore time and space, and become an existence that is incomparable to any race in the universe! The two of us will be remembered by history, and the universe we live in will become the main universe in the true sense! ”

“……”

Unlike the woman's extreme excitement, the old man standing beside her seemed to be in a somewhat depressed mood.

"Lan Lan, I don't know...... I don't know if it's right or wrong......"

"Dad, what are you talking about? Void energy is your life's work, the real supreme research results, why do you think it's wrong? ”

The woman was affected by her father's emotions, and her mood gradually calmed down.

The old man was silent for a moment, and then explained:

"Yesterday, Canaan came to see me with Yunyun......"

The woman's face froze when she heard this, but the old man ignored it and just continued:

"Looking at Yunyun's lively appearance, I suddenly thought of one thing, that is, if you and Canaan are not separated, the three of you are still together, and even your mother and her are still alive......

Saying that, his eyes were a little empty, as if he was imagining something:

"And then I thought...... If the void energy can really mimic the universe, can I transform these beautiful wishes into reality in the mimic universe? ”

As he spoke, the old man's gaze was as deep as the sea, and he looked straight at the woman:

"You say, even I think so, what if the future imperial government thinks so? If the fate of all people is no longer controlled by themselves from birth, but is monitored and manipulated by others, like puppets, then can we human beings still be considered alive? ”

“……”

The old man's words pierced the woman's heart deeply, thinking about her daughter's innocent little face, she struggled for a long time, and finally made up her mind:

"Dad, I see what you mean...... But in case the situation you said arises, I need to do some preparation, it will take more time. ”

“…… How long will it take? ”

The old man didn't ask about his daughter's plans, only about her needs.

"At least three years."

The deep dream ended with the woman's answer.

Yang Wuji was confused, he went downstairs to find the Phantom God, and the Phantom God didn't speak, just gave him a look of "Say it quickly if you have something to say, let it go if you fart".

"Teacher Phantom God, I've finished reading my deep dream...... In this deep dream, the monitoring of the empire is indeed mentioned, and the source of the monitoring is also mentioned, which seems to be related to something called 'virtual energy'. And the person in the deep dream is the creator of the void...... Isn't it possible that as long as I can figure out the principle of virtual energy, I can learn how to shield the Empire's surveillance? ”

The phantom god took a sip of black tea and snorted:

"Good idea, but it's a pity that you're too arrogant, how long have you been exposed to virtual energy? Want to figure out the principle of virtual energy? ”

"I've been exposed to Void Energy?"

Yang Wuji was stunned for a moment, his mind turned sharply, and suddenly a flash of light crossed his consciousness:

"Teacher, the so-called virtual energy, shouldn't it be those blue lights floating in the information layer of the deep web? The deep web also has something to do with virtual energy?? Does the Empire rely on the deep web to monitor everyone? ”

His guess made the phantom nod his head:

"Not bad, not too stupid."

I don't know if it's an illusion, Yang Wuji feels that after the relationship between the two of them has been established between teachers and students, now the attitude of the phantom god towards him has suddenly changed a lot.

"I hope it's not my wishful thinking."

The Phantom God didn't know about Yang Wuji's thoughts, and began to directly give him the essence of the Imperial Deep Web, as well as the truth of the so-called virtual energy.

It turned out that the two people in the deep dream just now, the elderly man was Zhang Mingguang, the most famous physicist and mathematician in the empire more than a thousand years ago, and the other middle-aged woman was his daughter Zhang Ailan, who was also an excellent mathematician and genius programmer.

Together, the two developed a peculiar medium, which they named "Void Energy".

"After you kid finished that set of question banks, you should know what 'source energy' is by now, right?"

The phantom god introduced and asked Yang Wuji a question.

"Yes," Yang Wuji nodded, "It's the Imperial Academy of Sciences' definition of the form before the formation of the cosmic singularity." It is a so-called special existence that can be transformed into any matter, any energy, any motive force, and constitutes any spatial dimension, but its own inertia is infinite. ”

"Then you should also know that source energy itself is an academic definition, right? In fact, no one has been able to discover or capture the source energy at all. ”

The phantom god continued to explain in an orderly manner.

In her explanation, Yang Wuji learned that the extremely powerful and omnipotent deep web was actually composed of "virtual energy" and "information"!

Because source energy is a collection of infinite possibilities, inert and infinite, it can isolate any form of information penetration and dissemination, which makes the existence of source energy impossible to observe, let alone control or utilize.

In the era when Zhang Mingguang and Zhang Ailan existed, although the three major forces of mankind were also very powerful, due to the limitations of information technology and transition technology, the three major forces could not radiate their territory too far.

Therefore, there is an urgent need for a breakthrough technology that can allow human beings to break the limitations of time and space, and truly realize hundreds of millions of light-years in the sense of a single thought.

As one of the most famous physicists in the empire, Zhang Mingguang has the full support of the entire empire, and everyone hopes that he can make a breakthrough in the field of source energy.

However, at that time, human beings could not even easily break the dimensional space, let alone study the source energy.

Zhang Mingguang, who has been trapped in a mindset for a long time, has to recuperate at home for a long time because of exhaustion.

At that time, her daughter Zhang Ailan, because she was unwilling to give up her identity as an underground hacker, broke up her relationship with her husband, so she returned home to take care of her father.

As a result, the father and daughter, who were originally in a flat relationship, supported each other and inspired each other in the trough of their lives, and finally Zhang Ailan proposed to design a kind of material energy aggregate that simulates source energy out of thin air in the signal network, through mathematics and programming, which is omnipotent and extremely inert, and can isolate the transmission of information to a certain extent.

This kind of aggregate that is born out of nothing is the so-called virtual energy-virtual source energy.

After the virtual energy was designed, the father and daughter collected and compressed all kinds of information in the main universe as much as possible, and then covered the virtual energy on the outer layer of these information, and also continuously compressed it, making it infinitely close to the singularity.

Eventually, the information continues to increase in entropy and forcibly diffuses inside the mimic singularity, detonating the mimic singularity.

Then the two artificially interfered with the explosion process, causing the mimic singularity to explode and form a mimic universe that is extremely similar to the main universe.

In this way, they can know, calculate, and even manipulate everything in the mimic universe with the data of the whole process.

"And this so-called mimic universe is the prototype of the deep web."

The Phantom God concluded.

However, after the mimic universe was formed, Zhang Mingguang deliberately slowed down the development of the mimic universe, and applied to the empire for the establishment of the Imperial Academy of Sciences on the grounds of lack of manpower, and he was the first president of the Imperial Academy of Sciences.

And her daughter Zhang Ailan, in order to avoid the situation that Zhang Mingguang worried about ordinary people being manipulated by the empire, returned to the signal network alone, gathered a group of first-class hackers in the signal network, taught them the knowledge of the deep web, led them to enter the deep web several years in advance, and established the Dark Star Society. And she herself is the first president of the Dark Star Society!

Later, after Zhang Ailan's death, she voluntarily uploaded her consciousness body to the deep web, and as the first generation of phantom gods, she roamed in the deep web, secretly supervising and guarding the Dark Star Society, until she found the next qualified phantom god. ”

Amazing secrets kept pouring out of the phantom god's mouth, and Yang Wuji was dumbfounded when he heard it.

"Boy, do you think that after entering the deep web, the 'body' that the system has shaped for you is far more real than the pile of program code in the virtual reality network?"

After the Phantom God gave Yang Wuji a period of time to digest the information, he suddenly opened his mouth to ask.

Yang Wuji listened and nodded:

"It does feel that way."

The phantom god smiled:

"That's right, because your body in the deep web itself really exists in the large mimic universe of the deep web, and it is your clone created by the deep web with all the information related to you and the virtual energy!"

"Is that really the case......

Yang Wuji smiled bitterly.

From the moment he heard that the prototype of the deep web was a mimic universe, he was a little suspicious.

"The so-called imperial surveillance is to transmit everyone's relevant information into the deep web, and then create a doppelganger for everyone in the deep web, and monitor everyone by observing and deducing the movement trajectory of the doppelganger!"

The Phantom God told Yang Wuji about the final settlement.

It turns out that this is the essence of imperial surveillance......

It is equivalent to creating a parallel universe that is almost exactly the same as the real world, and then creating a clone that is highly similar to the person being monitored in imitation of the real world.

Unless there is no information about this person on the deep web.

After the shock, Yang Wuji pondered for a while, and suddenly found a problem:

"That's not right...... If that's the case, how do we block the surveillance?! You can't let me slaughter my body in the deep web, can you? But as long as my information is in the hands of the Empire, they can recreate a thousand or ten thousand of my clones at any time. Is that ...... Somehow to find my identity and destroy it all? ”

Yang Wuji looked at the Phantom God, and the Phantom God snorted coldly as if he had seen through his thoughts:

"Boy, I advise you not to bother, your identity information has already been absorbed and fused by the deep web, and the same is true for other people's information, if you want to destroy this information, unless you can destroy all the deep web, otherwise the deep web's monitoring of everyone will never stop, and there is no way to modify it! This is the highest law of the deep web of empires! ”