Chapter 528

Wu Wu Pifu and Po sat in the pastoral field, and Po smiled and said, "Everything here is depicted by my soul existence, so I won't treat you to anything. After all, my soul existence is already very little now, so let's get down to business..."

Wu Wu Pifu nodded silently. He 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, Wu Wu Pifu asked several questions at once.

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

Wu Wu Pifu also frowned and said, "I don't understand what you mean by layers. Where is the root?"

Po said, "Since you know the root, your civilization should be around the fifth to sixth layer... It's like this, my civilization divides the model of the entire world 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 root layer is calculated from the third layer down. One, two, and three can belong to the root layer. Then the fourth layer is the power projection field of the root, the fifth layer is the pollution of the root upward, 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 the world model of my civilization... Well, it seems your civilization generally knows this. The consumption of existence is less than 1%."

Wu Wu Pifu was still confused, 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 root layer also starts from 0.3."

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

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

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

Wu Wu Pifu frowned and said, "It's 1.0, it's the absolute real layer."

"Oh, I misheard... Ah!?"

Po's reaction was huge. He stood up suddenly, almost stumbling to the ground. He walked a few steps toward Wu Wu Pifu hurriedly, then stopped because he felt it was incredible. He looked at Wu Wu Pifu for a long time, and only then said, "As the first contact between two civilizations, we should be honest, right? You... aren't joking with me, are you?"

Wu Wu Pifu nodded seriously and said, "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 trembling slightly. He said again, "Can I ask one more question? You, and your civilization, what do you rely on to penetrate into the dream world? Is it a gift from an ancient benevolent root? Or a relic of a once-hegemonic real civilization? Of course, it doesn't matter if you don't answer. I'm just too excited, too curious..."

Wu Wu Pifu thought for a while and said, "Our civilization manufactured something called the main brain..."

Wu Wu Pifu didn't feel that there was anything that needed to be kept secret. After all, he could see that Po was dying, and he estimated that he only had this conversation time left.

After Wu Wu Pifu finished speaking, Po immediately said, "But the kind of power you used just now? It's a very powerful civilization-specific extraordinary power. But to manufacture a strange object that penetrates the dream world by gathering the brains of a large number of such extraordinary beings??"

Wu Wu Pifu thought for a while and said, "The power I just used 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 have the following..."

After talking for a long time, Wu Wu Pifu finally explained the relationship between the super-brain and the main brain, and Po fell into deep thought.

After a long time, Po said to Wu Wu Pifu, "Because your civilization hasn't fallen to a certain level, many pieces of information that are common sense in my eyes are still unknown to you. So here, I need to introduce some specific things to you."

Wu Wu Pifu looked like he was listening attentively. Po said, "All of my pollution stems from the loss of existence. And the so-called existence is actually another name for reality."

"Existence?" Wu Wu Pifu murmured.

Po nodded and said, "That's right, this is the definition of reality and illusion. Everything real possesses existence, and existence is defined by intelligent life. In the absolute real layer, which is the 1.0 world you mentioned, this definition will derive and restore, and existence can also be considered infinite... I say this, maybe you still don't understand, so I'll give you a simple example."

"In the real world, a planet gave birth to primitive humans. They produced initial intelligence. And with intelligence, there was existence. At the same time, the power of definition was produced. They would define food, define beasts, define death, define this heaven and earth universe. Thus, all of this had the foundation of its real definition and possessed existence. At the same time, the primitive humans who defined all of this didn't have any loss. This is the diffusion of existence in the absolute real world. And with the progress of civilization, the more vast the universe observed, the more complex the world observed, the more thick its existence definition becomes. The entire real universe will become more and more stable. And all of this belongs to the unique situation of the absolute real world."

Wu Wu Pifu frowned and said, "Can't you define it at will after falling toward illusion?"

Po nodded. He thought for a while and said, "How does your civilization describe definition?"

Wu Wu Pifu didn't quite understand. He shook his head. Po smiled and said, "We all possess the same form, so I think we should be the same type 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, characterization, and summary—this standard process to decide the definition power of a thing, right?"

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

Po nodded and continued, "Good, since we have a common cognition of 'definition', then the conversation can continue... After civilization falls, from the ninth layer, which is the 0.9 level, pollution begins to be possessed. Its characteristic is the appearance of extraordinary power. At the same time, some inexplicable bizarre phenomena that cannot be explained by the scientific world view appear sporadically. The lower the layer, the stronger the extraordinary power, and the more bizarre phenomena. These are actually 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 intelligent life itself begins to be consumed."

Wu Wu Pifu thought for a while and said, "So existence is actually the 'reality' belonging to life, and the 'reality' of civilization and the world is actually 'food' that life can absorb, or something similar, right?"

Po nodded appreciatively and said, "That's right, it can be understood this way. Because all reality actually depends on the definition of intelligent life. Once there is no intelligent life, then the entire world actually has no meaning. This is the beginning of loss. So your understanding is not wrong, so existence is the reality of life, and it can be supplemented by the 'reality' of the real civilization of the era where it is located."

Wu Wu Pifu 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-held model belonged to not having enough points.

Po saw Wu Wu Pifu nodding knowingly, and only then said, "I know you have very many 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 falsehood side needs to consume reality to transmit. If it is changed to life, it needs to consume existence. My existence is now wood without roots. If I use a little, I will have a little less. So I can't answer all your questions. You can only choose some questions for me to answer. At the same time, I must also retain some existence to give you the coordinate point to my civilization."

Wu Wu Pifu'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 body and spiritual consciousness were already gone.

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

Wu Wu Pifu was silent, and at the same time, he suddenly realized.

Why some information from low-benchmark reality cannot be told to bystanders with weak strength? For example, when he first met Chu Minghao, he couldn't tell the information about the root. And why some pollution, even if just seen, brings erosiveness? At the same time, these pieces of information are like the Outer Gods or Great Old Ones in the Cthulhu worldview. Just knowing them is enough to make the weak deform.

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

Wu Wu Pifu was silent for a long time before asking, "What will happen after existence is consumed?"

Po smiled.

"It's nothing more than dissipating into smoke. But this is a relief for me. And there is such a proverb in my civilization. To put it in common terms..."

"Hope requires sacrifice."

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

(End of chapter)