Chapter 526: Hope Requires Sacrifice

Su Xing and Po sat in the pastoral field, and Po smiled and said, "Everything here is carved out by my soul existence, so I won't treat you to anything. After all, my soul existence is very small now, so business is important..."

Su Xing nodded silently and asked, "What is the Final Real Civilization Plan? Does your civilization still exist? What is existence? Is the information sent to my civilization left by you?"

Because there were too many questions, Su Xing asked several questions at once.

Po frowned slightly, thought for a moment, and said, "Can I ask a presumptuous question? Your civilization... about what level has it dropped to now? Fifth layer? Or fourth layer?"

Su Xing also frowned and said, "I don't understand what you mean by the number of layers. Which layer is the source at?"

Po said, "Since you know the source, your civilization should be around the fifth to sixth layer... It's like this, my civilization divides the entire world model into eleven layers from bottom to top, from the void source of the zero layer, to the bottom layer of the first layer, the supreme layer of the second layer, the sub-supreme layer of the third layer, the source layer is calculated from the third layer down, one, two, and three can all belong to the source layer, then the fourth layer is the power delivery field of the source, the fifth layer is the pollution of the source going to the upper layer, the sixth layer is the isolation layer, the seventh layer is the real civilization derivative layer, the eighth and ninth layers are the real civilization echo layer, and the tenth layer is the absolute real layer. This is my civilization's world model... Well, it seems that your civilization knows it all, consuming less than 1% of existence."

Su Xing was still inexplicable, but he also said, "My civilization judges all this based on the benchmark reality. 1.0 is the real world, and below it are 0.9 to 0.1 respectively. The layer where the source is located also starts from 0.3."

Po nodded and said, "That's about the same. After all, the zero-layer void source is just a guess. So far, no existence has been able to prove or falsify it... So, what has your civilization dropped to? Is it 0.6? Don't tell me it's already 0.5 and 0.4."

Looking at Po's expectation, Su Xing said, "In the 1.0 real world, currently..."

"0.1?" Po frowned, "Impossible, if it's 0.1... Do you know what the concept of 0.1 is? It has already broken away from the narrative expression concept, it can't be 0.1..."

Su Xing frowned, "It's 1.0, it's the absolute real layer."

"Oh, I heard it wrong... Ah!?"

Po's reaction was extremely huge. The whole person stood up abruptly, almost stumbling to the ground. He walked a few steps toward Su Xing, and then stopped because he felt it was incredible. He looked at Su Xing for a long time before saying, "As the first contact between two civilizations, we should be honest, right? You... aren't joking with me, are you?"

Su Xing nodded seriously, "Speak when you have something to say, don't be so exaggerated. I'm not joking with you, and I don't like joking."

Po sat down again, but obviously, he was extremely excited, his whole body was trembling slightly. He said again, "Can I ask another presumptuous question? You, and your civilization, what do you rely on to penetrate into the dream world? Is it a gift from the ancient benevolent source? Or a relic of a once-hegemonic real civilization? Of course, it's fine if you don't answer, I'm just too excited, too curious..."

Su Xing thought for a moment and said, "Our civilization manufactured something called the Main Brain..."

Su Xing didn't feel there was anything that needed to be kept secret. After all, he could see that Po was not long for this world, and he estimated that there was only this conversation time left.

After Su Xing finished speaking, Po immediately said, "But the power you used just now? A very powerful civilization-specific extraordinary. But to gather a large number of such extraordinary people's brains, it can actually manufacture a strange object that penetrates the dream world?"

Su Xing thought for a moment and said, "The power I used just now is not all of the Super Brain. The Super Brain has different attributes, and is also divided into explicit Super Brain and implicit Super Brain. Just the Super Brain attributes I know are these..."

After talking for a long time, Su Xing finally explained the relationship between the Super Brain and the Main Brain clearly, and Po fell into deep thought.

After a long while, Po said to Su Xing, "Because your civilization hasn't dropped to a certain level, many pieces of information that are common sense to me are still unknown to you. So here, I need to introduce some specific things to you."

Su Xing made a listening gesture, and Po said, "All the pollution of mine stems from the loss of existence. And what is called existence is actually another name for reality."

"Existence?" Su Xing murmured.

Po nodded, "That's right, this is the definition of reality and illusion. Everything real possesses existence, and existence is defined by sentient life. At the absolute real level, which is the 1.0 world you speak of, this definition will derive and restore, and it can also be considered that existence is infinite... I say this, maybe you still don't understand, then I will give a simple example."

"In the real world, a planet gave birth to primitive people. They produced the initial sentience, and with sentience, there was existence. At the same time, there was also the right of definition. They would define food, define fierce beasts, define death, define this heaven and earth universe. Thus, everything had the foundation of its real definition and possessed existence. At the same time, the primitive people who defined all this themselves did not have any loss. This is the expansion of existence in the absolute real world. And as civilization progresses, the more vast the universe observed, the more complex the world observed, the more heavy its existence definition will be, and the entire real universe will become more and more stable. And all this belongs to the unique situation of the absolute real world."

Su Xing frowned, "After falling into illusion, can't you define it at will?"

Po nodded. He thought for a moment and said, "How do you and your civilization describe definition?"

Su Xing didn't quite understand. He shook his head, and Po smiled and said, "We all possess the same form, so I think we should be the same kind of life. This is the inertia after the Final Real Civilization Plan is executed. So I think you and your civilization should also be based on cognition, description, description, summary, and summary, this standard process to decide the definition right of a thing, right?"

Su Xing suddenly realized, "See a thing, recognize it, describe it, describe it, and finally summarize... That's right, this is indeed the definition process of a new thing for me and my civilization."

Po nodded and continued, "Good, since we have a common cognition of 'definition', then the next conversation can continue... After civilization falls, from the ninth layer, which is the 0.9 level, it begins to possess pollution. Its characteristic is the appearance of extraordinary power. At the same time, some inexplicable, strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the scientific world view appear sporadically. The lower the layer, the stronger the extraordinary power, and the more strange phenomena. These are actually the manifestations brought by the void pollution source. And to define such non-reality is actually a process of reality being eroded by illusion. In other words, the existence of sentient life itself begins to be consumed."

Su Xing thought silently for a moment, "So existence is actually the 'reality' belonging to life, and the 'reality' of civilization and the world is actually the 'food' that life can absorb, or something similar, right?"

Po nodded appreciatively, "Yes, it can be understood this way. Because all reality actually depends on the definition of sentient life. Once sentient life is gone, the whole world actually has no meaning. This is the beginning of being lost. So your understanding is not wrong. The existence of life is the reality of life, and it can be supplemented by the 'reality' of the real civilization of the era where it is located."

Su Xing nodded knowingly.

From what he had seen and heard, it was indeed so. For example, personnel coming out of the lost places needed points to fill, otherwise they could only disappear. And now his hand-puppet appearance belonged to not having enough points.

Po saw Su Xing nodding knowingly, and then said, "I know you have a lot of questions, but since you understand the conversion relationship between reality and falsehood, then you should understand one point... I can't answer all your questions, because any information involving the false side needs to consume reality to transmit. If it is changed to life, it needs to consume existence. My existence is rootless wood, and it will be less if I use it a little. So I can't answer all your questions. You can only choose part of the questions for me to answer. At the same time, I must also reserve part of existence to give you the coordinate point to where my civilization is."

Su Xing's heart moved. He thought of the hundreds of thousands of points he still had, but he immediately understood that points were useless to Po, because he only had a soul left, and his physical body and spiritual consciousness had long since disappeared.

Po also seemed to understand Su Xing's thoughts, and smiled, "It's useless. You must have carried a lot of reality, but that is already useless to me. I have been watched and infected by the pollution source, from life to 'ghost', and from 'ghost' to 'Zhai'. If it weren't for your desperate battle, I would even have turned from 'Zhai' to 'Xi'. At that stage, I wouldn't even be able to talk to you. Every word I say will be terrifying pollution in your ears, leading to a significant reduction in your existence. So now we can still communicate, which is already a blessing, and we can't force it."

Su Xing fell silent, and at the same time, he suddenly realized.

Why is it that some information from low-baseline realities cannot be communicated to those with weaker strength? For instance, when Chu Minghao first met him, he could not speak of the information regarding the source. Furthermore, why does some pollution bring about corruption even if one merely looks at it? At the same time, this information is like the Outer Gods or Great Old Ones in the Cthulhu mythos; merely knowing of it is enough to cause the weak to mutate.

It was all because understanding the information on the void side itself was already a kind of pollution and erosion.

Su Xing fell silent for a long time before asking, "After existence is consumed, what will happen to you?"

Po smiled.

"It's nothing more than vanishing into ashes, but this is a relief for me. And there is such a proverb in my civilization, which means in popular terms..."

"Hope requires sacrifice."

"And I... now hand over the light of this hope to you and your civilization!"