freenovelworld Chapter 202 The Mind Conquers All Things
Chapter 202 The Mind Conquers All Things
"The experiment seems to be nearing its end."
In the universe, two figures were watching two fleets fighting in the distance. These two were none other than the long-lost observers, Tianchen and Dixing.
"The moment of truth is almost here. We've been waiting for this day for a long time," Tianchen said, rubbing his hands together excitedly.
"I really don't know which of these four Earths will ultimately win this war."
Upon hearing this, Di Xing glanced at Tian Chen.
"The problem with Earth-4 hasn't been resolved yet. Are you really that confident that Lin Xuan will be able to participate in the final battle?"
Upon hearing this, Tianchen couldn't help but chuckle.
"It's not that I'm confident in him, but the Trisolarans are just too weak. Compared to the crises that the first three Earths faced, the Trisolaran crisis is the weakest of the four Earth crises."
Upon hearing this, Earth nodded in approval, expressing its deep agreement.
"An invasion by a Type 2 civilization, Tianchen, I really feel it's a bit unfair. Why is it that my Earth VI is facing a direct attack from a Type 4 civilization's Dark Forest, while they are only facing the Trisolaran crisis?"
Tianchen smiled.
"It doesn't matter. It's not all good. Low risk means low progress in the technology tree. The Trisolarans are just a level 2 civilization. What do you expect humanity to gain from this war?"
"Compared to the first three Earths, this threat is negligible. Once the time for the showdown arrives, I bet you, Lin Xuan's Earth 4 will be the first to be destroyed."
Di Xing didn't respond to the other party's words. He never made promises lightly, lest he be proven wrong too suddenly.
However, this does not mean that he is optimistic about Lin Xuan. In fact, Lin Xuan's Earth 4 is progressing too slowly. To this day, it has not even broken through the limitations of a Type 2 civilization and built a star ring.
Compared to the fates of the previous three Earths, it was indeed a little worse.
Creation is born from destruction.
The four remaining experimental vessels all suffered a disaster similar to the Three-Body Problem.
Earth One encountered a machine crisis. When they were developing artificial intelligence, they were unlucky enough to be targeted by an advanced mechanical civilization, who casually threw a source code of intelligence into their machines.
The result was that all the electronic devices on Earth One began to develop their own consciousness and launched a full-scale war against humanity, turning the entire planet into something like Skynet from Terminator.
Fortunately, Earth One survived, and even benefited from the misfortune by acquiring a large amount of mechanical technology, almost maxing out the mechanical technology tree.
As we all know, the rest of the world was governed by machines. The entire civilization revered knowledge, and the technology tree went completely astray, leading to machines that transmitted knowledge. All of humanity's knowledge and wealth were firmly in the hands of one person, who was the ultimate producer of Earth One!
The disaster that Earth II encountered was global evolution. The entire civilization went through more than a hundred years of dark and doomsday-like times. Humanity was almost overtaken by those intelligent animals who took control of the planet.
Although humanity eventually regained its position at the top of the food chain, its technological development went astray. Through continuous research on the genetic samples of those organisms, the technology of Planet Two became primarily based on bioengineering and gene editing.
At the same time, the political structure of the entire civilization also became extremely egalitarian, with all resources having to be distributed equally and every individual having to completely submit to the needs of the group.
Tianchen calls this Doomsday Crisis Syndrome, and this type of political system is often seen in novels about zombie outbreaks.
If the crises of the first two were still within the normal range, then Earth III went straight into fantasy.
These unlucky souls somehow managed to connect to the portal between the edge world and the imaginary space, and their entire civilization was invaded by void creatures, almost resulting in their complete annihilation.
Even as observers, they knew very little about the void, only that it was a region beyond the edge of the world.
Before mastering the ability to ascend to higher dimensions, any civilization below level 4 that wants to connect to the void is courting death, because that area is an entropy zone according to the rules of the existing universe.
Entropy is a concept that describes the degree of disorder, and the void is the largest entropy region. Within the entropy region, no known rules can work, but the rules of the universe cannot completely escape the parameters of the void world.
Just like the imaginary and real parts in complex numbers, the imaginary part is meaningless in calculation, but it cannot be operated on completely without the imaginary part. The concept of imaginary space comes from this.
A Level 4 civilization once made a bold conjecture about the void.
That is, the void is the true appearance of the universe. The universe should be a chaotic and disordered entropy zone. Later, a super-advanced civilization established the existing universe and created the so-called rules of the universe, which people call physics.
To put it simply, the idea is that everyone originally lived in a dark forest with no rules, until one day a farmer came, fenced off a piece of land, established a farm, and told the turkeys in the field...
"From now on, this is my territory. I will build a new universe here, and you will receive your food every day at three o'clock in the afternoon."
Then the turkey scientists took this farmer's rule as the rule of the universe and called it physics.
However, they soon discovered that some of the patterns they had found seemed to be meaningless, such as the wolf howls coming from outside the farm.
They couldn't see where the wolves were, and the wolf howls had nothing to do with the farmers distributing food, but they could still hear the wolf howls and couldn't ignore the fear they brought by the sound, which was what was called an imaginary number.
Then one day, wolves outside the farm broke through the fence erected by the farmer and entered. This is the invasion of the real universe by void creatures.
The fence is the edge world, so the civilizations that participate in resisting the invasion of the void in the edge world are all cosmic defenders who are trying to protect the main universe from destruction. They have an absolutely irreconcilable conflict with the void creatures outside the universe.
With this description, you should be able to understand what kind of crisis Earth III is facing, right?
It's like Xiao Yan was attacked and killed by the Soul Emperor as soon as he left the beginner village.
But Earth-3 was not destroyed, and it acquired a large amount of technology from the void, directly maxing out the idealistic technology tree.
The mind conquers all things!
This has led to Earth-3 never forming a unified political system, remaining in a strange state of chaos and order. However, there are many civilizations like this in the universe, which only means that the people on Earth-3 are among the luckiest.
Compared to the previous three civilizations, the Trisolaran crisis did seem rather inferior, and it even failed to force Earth-4 to develop its own mainstream technology.
From this perspective, Earth 4 is likely to suffer a great loss in the final showdown!
Unless they can simultaneously master methods to deal with the three civilizations of mechanical technology, genetic technology, and void technology in a short period of time after defeating the Trisolarans, everything Lin Xuan has done will become a boon for others.
That's why the two observers didn't think highly of Lin Xuan at all.
Are you kidding me? Mastering how to deal with three different tech trees at the same time? How is that even possible?!
It's already remarkable for a civilization to master even one technology tree. Throughout history, no civilization has ever been seen to have simultaneously mastered the mechanical, biological, and void technology trees.