Chapter 1680: Chapter 657: Trillions of Years of Slavery [4000 Words]_2

"This might sound somewhat absurd, even like gambling on luck. But in the course of human evolution, there has always been a great deal of luck involved—so why not give it a try?"

"We chose to finally activate Ren Zhong precisely because he is the finest among all of us. We have staked everything on him; we can no longer bear another failure. If he fails as well, then we can only stay here forever, watching humanity being fooled like idiots, slaughtered like swine, manipulated like tools, driven by the true enemy into mutual slaughter. My companions and I will endure this never‑ending torment in the world after death."

"Yet we cannot go into the outside world to help Ren Zhong. We have no way to arrange his life, nor can we lend him a hand when he is in mortal peril. But the Super Network surveillance system that the Mechanical Empire built under the guidance of quasars is far too powerful. Even Ren Zhong, without some extraordinary means, could not possibly break through the Super Network’s blockade. There have already been far too many failed attempts."

"So we had to do more. In fact, Zhe Luo are already very close to their goal. The computation of the Grand Unification Formula appears endless, but just like 0.999... with infinitely many 9s after it, in the end it still equals 1. This is a very simple mathematical truth; applied to the Grand Unification Formula, it follows the same logic. Countless trillions of Earthlings, computing for trillions of years, have already infinitely approached that final 1. But... we will not let Zhe Luo succeed, and Zhe Luo cannot succeed."

"When they, in order to better control Earth’s humans, tampered with the cosmic rules of the Ancient Disk Galaxy, using information flow to remodel the human brain to fit their computational needs, they thereby doomed themselves to never breaking through this bottleneck. For this violates human nature, and it suppresses the greatest talent of Earth’s humans—imagination."

"What we call emotion is in fact an extension of imagination. When you hear another person’s tragic story, you feel their pain as if it were your own. On the surface, it seems this is emotion at work. In truth, it is your imagination throwing your whole being into the other’s situation of that moment. This tactile feeling of emotion—another’s suffering that nonetheless makes you just as sorrowful—is real, and it is the greatest treasure of Earth’s humans, this perfect carbon‑based life."

"Only infinite imagination can lead humanity beyond the limits of the universe itself, to see through the universe’s essence. Only imagination can graft wings onto a fish, let the fish burst out of the water and soar in the sky above. A fish that cannot imagine can only live forever beneath the water’s surface; its occasional leap is nothing more than reaching the mouth of the well for a single glance, then falling back down in despair."

"Therefore, the final step of the Grand Unification Formula can only be completed by true humans, only they can cross this threshold. Yet because of past failures, Zhe Luo have a vigilance toward humanity that defies description and cannot be disobeyed. They will not use the thirty million hostages in their hands to carry out the final step of the computation; instead they will forever hide on the far side of the quasars, waiting for humanity to deliver the answer of its own accord."

"Even if this waiting must be extended by another ten trillion years, a hundred trillion years, or even to eternity, they will still wait. This is the paradoxical chain of suspicion built into their nature as losers—inescapable. Unless... their enemies catch up with them. But that has not happened. Thus this is our chance. We one hundred thousand people accomplished the final step, completed the Grand Unification Formula. We also obtained Zero Return Technology. Then, drawn by the secrets of the universe, we reached the boundary between the world after death and the real world, carrying our own consciousness and the Nameless City formed from our spiritual power, broke through, and merged into a single chaotic consciousness, waiting for Ren Zhong to receive us. At the same time, we established the fulcrum of time and space upon Ren Zhong."

"In the end, we further altered the cosmic rules within the range of gravity of the Source Star System. Under these rules, whenever Ren Zhong dies, his consciousness does not come to the world after death. Instead, it remains in place for a single instant, then, using his own memories as a fulcrum, it draws along the entire Source Star System and reverses time to one month earlier, or to the fulcrum set at his previous death. The essence of this phenomenon is Poincaré recurrence. To make so many elementary particles return to their original positions would ordinarily take an infinitely long time, to amass enough accidents into final inevitability. But the power of unification can accelerate this process without limit. It needs only one second—one second of absolute time!—to rewind the Source Star System!"

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