"That's a cute little guy." Jules said, "Maybe you know him too. A charming and deadly killer, following your tracker. It found us in the base and killed the man you executed. I was in surgery. Luckily, my backup was close to base and had a shuttle attached to it. I met it quickly. It said its name was..."
"I think I know who it is." Ji Xun interrupted, "I also considered the possibility that you were awakened in advance - however, I originally thought you would have more backups."
"Yes, it's much more than you think, Mr. Ji Xun. This is arranged by the system, and your memory reading technology cannot check it."
Jules blinked slightly. Her pink irises flashed with a grid-like shimmer. In Ji Xun's memory, these eyes were unique among the immortals.
"But I'm still confused," she continued. "Even if we have some backup, it can't compare with the weapons in the base. And since you successfully invaded our most important fortress, why don't you kill us all? With Compared to the time you spent exploring this place, eliminating our backup is not time consuming. Yes, I think you intend to let us go."
Ji Xun didn't answer. He had a polite look on his face that he didn't intend to argue.
"I don't know what you think, Mr. Ji Xun." Zhu Er said, "Our last meeting was quite hasty. Maybe you heard about this city from my children, and then you were in a hurry. Entering this city. You don't want to waste time discussing anything with us, but you don't intend to completely deprive us of the opportunity to defend ourselves. Or you are worried that you will still need us to explain how to use the slicer after you come out. …”
"I don't think that's necessary."
"I still thank you anyway." The immortal man replied, "I didn't wake everyone up because I thought it was worth a conversation between us. This is an exploratory attempt, for my...former colleagues, I I don't think they need to get involved immediately. I respect Wes's integrity. After all, he maintained the last base very well and actively eliminated all threats. However, he lacks a little pioneering spirit, which will cause us to miss valuable opportunities. As we have done since What I learned in design work is that everyone should play a role in the appropriate position.”
She smiled arrogantly and complacently and made a good luck gesture. However, when Ji Xun saw this gesture, the expression on his face slowly disappeared.
“I assume,” he said, “that your former colleague is just stepping away from the project temporarily?”
“Perhaps some of them will exit permanently.”
"I'm surprised." Ji Xun said, "When facing me, the first thing you do is to reduce your own kind. This is not logical."
"What is the same kind, Mr. Ji Xun?" Zhu Er asked, "Blood connection or common experience? After you see this city, you should understand that all this is meaningless. Here, there is only one thing that divides life into categories. , that’s the thought.”
"For infinity," Ji Xun said, "thoughts are as meaningless as bodies. Structures and classes are unstable."
Jules looked at him with interest: "I'm not sure this sentence means what I understand."
"You really don't understand." Ji Xun replied, "Before your calculator was started, you gave it a countably infinite structure so that it could exhaust the expressive power of the physical level. This does not involve model issues - for To people who study this level of difference, it’s called a first-level wishing machine.”
"The wishing machine." Jules repeated, "This is a very loose term."
"This is a generalization that leaves room for room," Ji Xun responded. "It is difficult to properly name parts that are more expressive than our ability to describe."
"So what exactly do you call these 'more expressive parts'?"
"The outside world divides them into six levels."
"You created a level six wishing machine?"
"No, level six is a width beyond theory. So far, we only know what level four is - that is about the choice of axiom system. The person who created it named it 'unbounded', but in In general discussions, I think 'true type' is the more common usage."
Ji Xun said briefly. He had no intention of explaining more, but the listeners showed a professional interest. She obviously wanted to ask the other party to continue talking, but Ji Xun shook his head briskly.
"We have digressed for too long," he said. "Please tell us about your creation of the first-level wishing machine."
"I think you already know most of that from Wes's head."
“Narrative and perspective can change the same story completely.”
Jules stood up quietly. The most beautiful immortal man wandered around the room again. Her expression as she pondered was mixed with pride and sadness.
"I was born at a very bad time, Mr. Ji Xun," she said. "When my parents gave birth to me in the new capital, the final conclusion of astronomy had already told us when the universe would be destroyed. But it was a very bad time. A result that surprised us. The world will eventually be destroyed by ice - this was a popular lyric at the time, telling us that heat death will be the end of the universe. But the person who wrote the song and the astronomers of his time were all wrong. The universe didn't choose an eternally peaceful death, we got the Big Crunch."
"Singularity Contraction"
"I think we're talking about the same thing."
"So, that means there will be new expansion after that. Your universe will be reborn."
Jules gave him a thoughtful look. But she said nothing about it.
"New universes will still be born," she said, "and the world will continue to cycle over and over again. This is good news for nature - and allow me to use a bit of animism here - but from our standpoint, the new universe has no It makes no sense. We have to escape this big squeeze, otherwise the story ends here. All the necessary resources for this are gathered and transported to the last destroyed colony in the simulation, which we then call the New Capital. It’s hard for you to tell from the ruins left today what our grand situation was back then, Mr. Ji Xun, all the scholars you can find in the universe are in that city, trying to find a way to continue.”
"I admit that it is a very fascinating sight." Ji Xun agreed, "The last epic in the universe."
"We try to stop the big squeeze, even if we just propose a theoretical solution." The most beautiful immortal man said, "Hundreds of sidereal years were wasted because of this. This matter cannot be solved, Mr. Ji Xun, this is It's like wanting living things to move without aging. We hypothesized how to use a gravitational cover to buffer, or move to a certain space within the singularity - yes, for other possibilities outside the universe, we had not yet understood at that time Come to a conclusion. Maybe we can escape to a place where we haven't been squeezed."
"A very enlightening idea." Ji Xun said calmly, "You may find that shrinking the universe is not the biggest problem."
"That's exactly the biggest problem," Juul said. "Imagine being in a closed jar, and the walls of the jar are collapsing every second. Some parameters that were once stable have changed, star explosions and gravitational hole landslides, and so on. There's our own state... that's hard to explain. With all the research we were doing, I doubt anyone could quite sort it out. I couldn't tell you what the biology was trying to do, except that they were trying to shift Life forms - psychic waves might have survived the squeeze. However, they all clearly failed. We didn't have enough time to do it all. We wasted too many opportunities. In the ninety billion year lifespan of the universe Here, we only occupy the tiniest part of the end, just like the last drop of water left before an ocean dries up. No matter how slowly this drop of water evaporates, it cannot reverse the drying up of the entire ocean, but it has become a source of inspiration ——If this drop of water ceases to exist after ten seconds, at what moment will it have the last basic substance left?"
Ji Xun quickly smiled.
"I see," he said. "You've constructed an intrinsic supermission."
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