mynovelonline Chapter 233: Hypercube
Chapter 233: Hypercube
Over the course of four months, the Milky Way base has reached approximately 200,000 parallel worlds. Regardless of their stage of development, all the human civilizations in these 200,000 parallel worlds have been attacked and slaughtered by the replicator fleet. This virtual universe has begun to abandon human virtual memory.
Zhou Yuan had no choice but to convene the leaders and scientists of the two major human civilizations to discuss how to deal with this situation.
"Everyone, I am heartbroken and distressed that so many parallel worlds of human civilization have been destroyed, but I cannot save them all. Does anyone have a good way to stop this from happening?"
"Sage, we can't possibly rescue all the human civilizations in these billion minor worlds. If we want to stop this, I personally believe the Earth Empire needs to be bolder. Since the virtual universe is preparing to destroy all human civilizations in parallel worlds, we can retaliate and severely damage the virtual machine. For example, we can create a massive vortex, like the so-called black hole you mentioned, to devour the Milky Way and other galaxies." Thomas remembered Zhou Yuan mentioning black holes to him and George, and he, George, and Mei Ruolan had witnessed a black hole rapidly devouring a galaxy. Thomas's thinking was: since the virtual machine is eliminating humanity in parallel worlds, then I will destroy the galaxies in parallel worlds.
"Bonim, what do you think?"
"Sage, based on my understanding of the Empire's history and technology over the past few months, Speaker Thomas is right. This virtual universe needs a Big Bang similar to your original world."
Zhou Yuan was quite surprised, not expecting Bonim to say such a thing. Zhou Yuan had always thought that his strength was insufficient to achieve a cosmic Big Bang, but Bonim reminded him that he possessed the Cascaded Heavenly Bowl and the force field generator for hyperspace travel. Using these two weapons, he might not be able to achieve a Big Bang on a universe-wide scale, but he could certainly achieve a Big Bang on the scale of a middle thousand worlds (three thousand small thousand worlds).
Thomas and Bonim were actually expressing the same idea: destruction. One thought of a black hole swallowing everything, and the other thought of the Big Bang.
"Huo Jing, if the virtual universe launches another 'dimensional attack' on us, such as a sixth dimension or higher, can we evade or retaliate?"
"Last time, my mother world's human civilization was completely wiped out in the 'Dimensional Ascension Strike.' We could have safely escaped by destroying the sun to create a passage, but this passage was blocked by high-energy attacks from the outside, while the inside was filled with the high energy of the sun's explosion. The collision of high energies from inside and outside made escape very difficult. Based on our years of research on 'Dimensional Ascension Strike' and the 'six-dimensional space' we previously created, I personally suggest that the fleet must navigate in the form of a 'Halo Garden.' This way, we can use the sun to create an escape passage. In addition, to prevent being hit by high-energy collisions from inside and outside, we can use a super energy exchanger to concentrate and continuously fire at a certain area of the six-dimensional space to create a continuous passage, which will greatly increase the probability of escape."
"Xiaolan, is that so?"
"Yes, Sage, in the fourth edition of the game, several players used this method to escape the sixth dimension, but many other players, despite using this method, ultimately failed to escape."
"Since the methods and game settings are the same, why do some people escape successfully while others fail?"
"Sage, it's like this. We analyzed the fluctuations in the stream of consciousness of these players during the game and found that the energy fluctuations in the brain-computer interface devices displayed by the players who successfully escaped the six-dimensional space trap were stronger and more regular. Moreover, I asked Professor Huo and other scientists to analyze these quantized stream of consciousness data, and they found that there were strange information symbols mixed in with the quantized stream of consciousness data of the successful players. The Academy of Sciences is still analyzing these strange symbols. Originally, I was going to tell you this after the analysis was completed."
"Strange information symbols?" Zhou Yuan muttered to himself for a moment. "Xiao Lan, let's go take a look after the meeting."
"Yes, sage."
After nearly an hour of discussion, Zhou Yuan had already formed a plan in mind. He assigned the tasks one by one, especially the mass production tasks of the force field generator that drives interstellar hyperspace travel, the cascaded Sheng Tian Bo, the Sniper Arrow, and the super energy exchanger.
Subsequently, accompanied by Mei Ruolan and some scientists, Zhou Yuan arrived at the UWARS company building. In the data exchange center of the Cosmic War game, rows of light crystal structures stood, with some kind of data rapidly churning on them. Zhou Yuan knew that it was the stream of consciousness data of players during the game.
Mei Ruolan led Zhou Yuan to the central area of the data center, where a huge sphere of light floated—the supercomputer Zhou Yuan had provided to UWARS. Below the sphere was a very smooth display screen. Mei Ruolan pressed the screen, causing ripples to appear and revealing the display interface. After a series of actions, Mei Ruolan stepped aside, inviting Zhou Yuan to view the player's consciousness stream data.
As Mei Ruolan said, those players who successfully escaped the six-dimensional space and were trapped in the quantized stream of consciousness data did indeed contain strange symbols. These symbols were scattered and chaotic, without any clear meaning. However, these symbols were not part of the human stream of consciousness and should not have appeared in the stream of consciousness data. Zhou Yuan was all too familiar with the quantized or photonic data of human consciousness.
Zhou Yuan turned to the scientists beside him and asked, "Could you now present these stream-of-consciousness data packets in a three-dimensional holographic format, simulating the human brain?"
Several scientists huddled together, discussing in hushed tones. About six minutes later, a middle-aged male scientist approached Zhou Yuan and bowed respectfully. "Sage, we have discussed it and believe it is possible."
"Okay, when can it be finished? By the way, what's your name?"
“Sage, my name is Tucker. This work of restoring the three-dimensional image of consciousness is expected to be completed in seven or eight days. Of course, this will require you to provide some equipment.”
"Tucker, there's no need to say more. Just tell Xiaolan what resources or equipment you need."
"Thank you, Sage." Tucker was overjoyed. On the one hand, he had the opportunity to communicate face-to-face with the Sage, something scientists dream of. On the other hand, he saw that the Sage, who was revered by thousands, was so easy to get along with and so approachable.
Zhou Yuan also greatly admired Tucker because he understood his intentions; the phrase "restoration of three-dimensional images of consciousness" was exactly what Zhou Yuan wanted to say.
The Milky Way base began to get busy, and Zhou Yuan personally took charge of some matters, such as the cascaded Sheng Tianbo.
Nine days later, Zhou Yuan inspected the three-dimensional image restoration project of consciousness. He looked at the stream of consciousness data and those strange symbols gushing out on the three-dimensional holographic spherical screen. Although these strange information symbols had a certain pattern, they still seemed to lack a kind of coherence.
"Tucker, why do these information symbols seem disjointed?"
“Sage, you are right. These information symbols are merely projections of the four-dimensional preimage onto three-dimensional space.” With that, Tucker pushed with his right hand, and the stream of consciousness data on the three-dimensional holographic spherical screen disappeared, leaving only the strange symbols. Tucker then rotated his right hand, and the strange symbols rotated with him. In the center of the spherical screen, four huge hypercubes appeared. Within each huge hypercube, there was a nested larger hypercube, and within each larger hypercube, there was a nested smaller hypercube.
"Tucker, what are these hypercubes trying to express?"
"Sage, these are just strange information symbols in the stream-of-consciousness data package of a successful gamer. By comparing and summarizing these strange hypercubes of more than a dozen successful gamers, we have finally grasped the meaning of each nested small, medium and large hypercube."
Tucker paused for a moment, then replaced the consciousness stream data package and strange symbols on the three-dimensional holographic spherical screen with those of different successful game players. Zhou Yuan watched as the giant hypercube formed by the strange symbols of more than a dozen players changed, and vaguely felt that these various hypercubes seemed to be conveying some kind of information.
"Sage, you should have guessed it by now, these hypercubes are sending us a distress signal!"
"A distress message?" Zhou Yuan was somewhat surprised. He only thought that he was transmitting information and did not know that it was a distress message.
"Tucker, why is it a distress message?"
"Each nested hypercube is like an extension of a letter, or a dictionary of meanings. Based on the order in which players enter the six-dimensional space trap of the game, we compare, sort, combine, and interpret the information embodied in each nested hypercube. We find that these hypercubes are related to their own structural features. By projecting the eight cubic cells of each hypercube onto an orthogonal plane in three-dimensional space, each face represents a type of cubic cell binary. In other words, these hypercubes are a four-dimensional cubic cell binary representation. The four largest hypercubes embodied by each successful player in the game all express the same meaning."
"Oh, what do you mean?"
"Save us!"
"'Save us'?"
"Yes, Sage. We have repeatedly studied the strange information symbols in the brain consciousness data packets of those dozen or so successful game players, those successful players who escaped the six-dimensional space trap, and determined that the message they were conveying was 'Save us'."
"Is there any other information?"
“Sage, there is no other information. These nested hypercubes are just a dictionary, but we have already mastered this complex dictionary.”
"You mean, we can send hypercube information to these distress callers, or to some being in this four-dimensional space?"
"Yes, sage."
"Let me think about it first." Zhou Yuan walked to a table, sat down in a chair, and his mind raced.
Judging from the complexity of this hypercube used to transmit the "Save Us" message, the sender must exist in a four-dimensional or higher-dimensional space. If this virtual universe was built by beings in four-dimensional space, what trouble have these cry for help encountered? The final level of the fourth edition of this cosmic conquest game is a six-dimensional space trap. Could it be related to a six-dimensional space trap? Are these "cries for help" trapped in a six-dimensional space trap or...? However, if this virtual universe was built by the "cries for help," why have they repeatedly destroyed themselves? Why are they now frantically slaughtering human civilizations in every small world? Are they being forced into this? Or...?
Zhou Yuan thought a lot and considered many possibilities, but he couldn't be sure which guess was correct or what was really going on. It was like a small ant on a two-dimensional plane trying to guess the consciousness of someone with a height dimension.
"If I don't go to hell, who will?" Zhou Yuan steeled his resolve.
(PS: Baidu Encyclopedia: Hypercube. A hypercube is a four-dimensional analogue of a cube in mathematics. We say that a point moving forms a line, a line moving forms a surface, and a surface moving forms a solid. In four-dimensional space (not a three-dimensional-time concept), the movement of a cube forms a four-dimensional hypercube, composed of countless cubes, possessing a four-dimensional concept. In geometry, a four-dimensional cube is a four-dimensional analogue of a cube; the four-dimensional cube is to a cube as a cube is to a square. A four-dimensional cube is a four-dimensional convex regular polytope with 8 cubic cells. A cube with dimensions greater than 3 is a generalization of hypercubes or metric polytopes.)