vncnus Chapter 410 The Law of Missing Elements
Chapter 410 The Law of Missing Elements
Chapter 410 The Law of Missing Elements
Listening to Leisen's introduction, Tang Zijun now has a basic understanding of this world, and at the same time, he also knows some of the little-known history of the wasteland.
Simply put, this world's Blue Star is a parallel world just like Earth in the real world. However, this universe does not have any extraordinary energy, and those legendary gods are just figments of the imagination of ancient humans.
Moreover, this applies not only to Earth but also to civilizations on other planets. All records about gods in this world are basically rumors or fabrications made by ancient people because they did not understand certain special beings.
This history was quickly revealed as science and technology experienced explosive growth. People used high technology to discover one unique biological species after another and began to study even more cutting-edge technologies.
Their research is slowly destroying the Earth's ecology. As the Earth's resources gradually deplete and the natural ecology becomes unsuitable for human survival, they turn their attention to creating artificial gods that can control nature.
With the knowledge provided by a group of scientists who had inexplicably gone mad, they actually succeeded in creating a so-called god and, under the guidance of this god, found infinite energy.
However, this infinite energy was not intended to benefit humanity, but rather a deception created by the mechanical god to gain greater power for himself.
After humanity painstakingly exhausted the last resources of Earth and finally succeeded in absorbing the sun's energy, the mechanical god suddenly hijacked all intelligent technology and began to absorb the sun's energy into its own body.
Thus, the intelligent entity, which should have been forever sealed in the virtual network, finally broke free and successfully gained a body that it could control, along with the energy supply that had been constantly being deprived from the stars.
Intelligent agents that have reached this stage have evolved to a level that is difficult for human thought to comprehend.
Its wisdom has completely surpassed human civilization and even left other civilizations in the universe far behind. In this situation, by the time humanity realized what was happening, it was already too late.
Humans have tried to resist, but with the technology they possess, using it to deal with that intelligent being would be like Homo sapiens in the Stone Age trying to knock on a spaceship with a wooden stick.
In less than a month, that intelligent entity utterly destroyed the Blue Star civilization with unparalleled power.
He did not kill all of humanity, but instead used his birthplace, Earth, as a giant ecological laboratory, constantly researching taboos that humans could not understand, and also extending his reach to other civilizations.
During this period, the history and some traditions of the Blue Star people were maliciously altered. That guy not only blocked the ecology of Blue Star, but also the technology of Blue Star. Perhaps for him, an experimental pod was not allowed to give birth to anything that could threaten His existence. As a result, a huge historical gap appeared in the writing and culture of Blue Star.
Today, Earth has become the last home for the locals and various alien refugees. They collectively call themselves wasteland residents, living a precarious existence in this utterly hopeless world.
"Can we talk about the issue you just mentioned?" Tang Zijun asked softly, arms crossed. "I remember you mentioned before that you felt something was missing from this world."
Hearing Tang Zijun's question, Lei Sen couldn't quite figure out what the young man in front of him was thinking. He just looked at Tang Zijun with curiosity.
"Are you bothered by this?"
"You need to understand that your homeland and civilization will be completely annihilated in this world, so why do you seem to not care about it?"
"It's not that I don't care, but even if I did care, it wouldn't solve the problem," Tang Zijun said calmly. "Since it has already happened, there's nothing we can do. The only thing we need to do now is to better understand this unfamiliar environment."
"Heh, your mindset is quite suited to life in the wasteland." Leisen smirked, a hint of appreciation appearing in his gaze as he looked at Tang Zijun.
After a pause, he continued, "The emergence of the missing theory was not discovered by us, but by that intelligent agent."
"After countless evolutions, He discovered that something was missing from this universe, a crucial part, which He called the 'Missing Law.'"
"Actually, in the history of Earth, scholars have proposed hypotheses about this. Among those who believed in those crazy scientists back then, many speculated about the possibility that the gods had not descended."
"Although most of it is nonsense, there are still some people who believe that those crazy scientists gained knowledge from another world during the explosion of the antimatter accelerator, so the beings who bless them must be gods from another world."
"The reason they failed to summon the gods here, besides the possible barriers between different worlds," is that our world simply lacks the medium to summon gods.
"A medium for summoning gods..." Xiao Xiao murmured the sentence, her thoughts gradually catching up with the other person's expression.
"True energy, divine power, magic, witchcraft... call that power whatever you like, but the truth is, these things simply don't exist in our world, and the absence of these things means that our world can never give birth to gods," Leisen said calmly.
"So, let's return to the purpose of that intelligent entity," Tang Zijun said thoughtfully. "Could I interpret this as, because it discovered these deficiencies, it began to try to create this energy in order to become a true god?"
"Perhaps..."
Leisen clearly didn't want to dwell on this issue any longer.
However, he still offered some guesses based on his own knowledge.
"All I know is that it restarted research on the human soul, and also began studying human flesh and the magnetic fields inherent in some organisms, seemingly believing that organisms themselves may carry some weak special energy."
Research on the undead...
Upon hearing this, Tang Zijun couldn't help but think of Scáthach and Hades.
During Earth's mythological era, a significant number of gods who controlled life and death studied the human soul. They did indeed obtain some energy from those spirits of the dead, and even transformed them into soldiers to guard their divine realms.
Whether it's Hades' army of the dead, Anubis's gatekeepers, or ghost messengers and underworld soldiers, they were all very active beings during the time of the gods.
However, the main reason why the gods were able to study the dead is that on Earth, after various creatures die, their souls do indeed leave their bodies.
But here, in this world without supernatural energy, when a person dies, they are simply dead, leaving nothing behind except some residual magnetic fields. Therefore, Tang Zijun believed that no matter what the intelligent entity wanted to research, it would not succeed—because it could not research something that did not exist.
At the same time, Tang Zijun also learned what this world was lacking.
The agent's deduction was correct; what was indeed missing were certain laws, or, to put it more simply, the authority of the gods.
Unlike the dream world, where natural disasters occur constantly due to the imbalance of the gods' authority, all natural disasters in this world are attributed to human error.
Perhaps the birth of intelligent agents was a mistake, but in a sense, the birth of this world was also a mistake.
This universe, lacking some of its rules, is inherently incomplete. Living in a distorted world often leads to a distorted path, whether one is a human or an artificial deity.
However, Tang Zijun did not say any of this; instead, he focused his attention on the research of artificial gods on the human soul.
How much do you know about the research on that intelligent agent?
"Not many. I only know that He would often send omnics to capture wastelanders and then take them to a pocket universe for experiments. No one who was captured could come out alive; they would disappear from this world forever."
"With that guy's abilities, capturing wastelanders should be a piece of cake, so why did he have to let the omnics do it?" Tang Zijun asked again.
"I don't know about that. Maybe their experiments don't need that many test subjects. Since Blue Star became a wasteland, that guy has rarely appeared. There are rumors that his true form left Blue Star and went to the depths of the universe, but no one can say for sure."
"So the current wasteland is a god created by that intelligent entity using unlimited energy," and it's guarded by a group of androids?
"You could say that, but they generally don't attack wasteland cities. Only when some scavengers trespass into their territory will they be attacked and captured and taken to the Pocket Universe."
"Is that so?"
Tang Zijun nodded slightly, then his gaze shifted to Lei Sen.
"One last question..."
"Do you know where the entrance to the Pocket Universe is?"