Chapter 556: The Spiral Overture of Void and Dimensional Reduction

"SP-02, The Spiral Overture of Void and Dimensional Reduction."

"Containment measures: One, perform a routine patrol every thirty-three hours, thirty-three minutes, and thirty-three seconds. After every thirty-three routine patrols, perform three highest-specification inspection-style maintenance."

"Two, at any time, do not get within three meters of the thick mist, and it is best to keep it at more than thirty-three meters. This is a safe distance."

"Three, after entering the containment hall, do not say more than three sentences. If for any reason you have said three sentences (including sneezing, that's right, I solemnly warn anyone, sneezing, yawning, or making any sound for any reason, this also counts as 'one sentence'!), then please say at least one more sentence within three seconds to ensure that the number of sentences spoken is not three or any multiple of three."

"Four, this item is just to fill the number, it has no meaning, no need to pay attention to it, but this item must be added. I once again seriously warn everyone, especially those with level three or higher permission, if I see this rule deleted again, I will think that this containment station has been invaded by SP-02, and I will have to take extreme reactions, including activating the 'non-existent' reality eraser that you have been discussing. You will never want to see all this. Of course, if it is really activated, you won't see it either."

"Description: SP-02 does not exist in reality. From any non-intellectual investigation, it is essentially just void, empty, without any material entity, and without any 'existence' characteristics in any sense. From radiation, to particles, to information investigation devices, to reality anchoring devices, to imaginary space and virtual particle investigation, it, does not exist!"

"No one knows when SP-02 was contained by us, nor does anyone know where we found it, how we contained it, and how we determined the above three... damn it, the above four rules. No one knows (I'm not bragging, as a level four permission holder, and one who can talk directly to the administrator, I have really asked countless people, and the answers I got were all unknown), so there is reason to believe that SP-02, from the number, to the entry, to the containment hall, to the containment measures, all of this is a containment object... This is not an adjective, but its entirety is a whole, a containment object that exists in our Containment Foundation."

"As a single-digit containment object, the danger level of SP-02 is level five, which means it is very important. Therefore, since it was contained, countless experiments have been conducted on it, consuming countless manpower and material resources. According to incomplete statistics (see Directory 1), more than one thousand personnel have sacrificed in the research on it."

"SP-02 is a patch of thick mist standing in the SP-02 blockade hall. Its size is thirty-three cubic meters, but it occupies a room size of thirty-three square meters. It will not spread, and there will not be any changes. From any angle, it is a patch of thick mist that is too thick to see through. But once you walk within thirty-three meters, you will see things inside the thick mist, usually long objects, occasionally glowing spheres, and in very rare cases, you will see humanoid individuals walking, living, and talking in the thick mist. But these phenomena are only seen by intellectual life, and any information recording of non-intellectual life cannot see this phenomenon."

"Any personnel who see the individuals, objects, or light sphere phenomena in the thick mist will enter a collective dream in the next three to thirty-three days. They claim that they are personnel of the Victorian style and era. That world is in the peak period of the Age of Discovery. Nobles enjoy the dividends of the Age of Discovery, balls, songs, gorgeous dresses, beautifully dressed ladies, accompanied by waltzes and the smell of cream at dinner parties. And outside of this, gangs are rampant, prostitutes are on the street, working people, and even lower-level colonized people and slaves..."

"There are very few people whose cognitive decay resistance level test reaches ten or more. They will dream of a grotesque and disordered doomsday world. The stars of that world surround the doomsday planet where they are, covering the sky with tentacles that wrap and annihilate the stars, and humanoid creatures turn into mud and flow everywhere, chasing the light that appears and disappears in the sky, and being burned and destroyed by the light. This is the liberation or sublimation they pursue."

"In very individual and very accidental cases, special personnel of the Foundation whose cognitive decay resistance level exceeds fifty points will dream of entering a peaceful world. That peaceful world is prosperous and flourishing, but the high-level power holders of that world are conducting some taboo experiments, secretly using a large number of people as experimental subjects and consumables, and the resistance organization has also begun to form secretly, with the goal of overthrowing such a government and high-level."

"All personnel who have dreamed will turn into ■■■■■■ within three to thirty-three days..."

"Directory 1, no one knows how many people have disappeared. Once people who have dreamed disappear, all their remaining information will gradually dissipate, just as if they had never existed. However, this disappearance has a process. Currently, there are 262 disappearance records in the containment station, and there are 355 documents with only a few words. That's right, the owners of these documents with only a few words... they have disappeared, and it is estimated that they have disappeared for some years."

"Directory 2, for all people who have dreamed, are disappearing, or are about to disappear, their mental state will change continuously. At first, they begin to question the truth of the real world, developing to the middle stage, they will continue to be in a daze, memory loss, and cognitive impairment between reality and illusion. When they reach the later stage, they will continue to shout some unknowable languages and sound words. Through the reality anchoring device, they are forcibly judged for cognition, and the specific meanings obtained are basically 'this is impossible', 'this is false', 'I want to wake up quickly', and so on."

"Directory 3, at the request of the headquarters, at the request of the highest management committee, and at the request of more than five administrators, the three special force entries and explorations of SP-02 are as follows, can be expanded..."

"Directory 4, okay, there was no such item originally, but this item must be added. The reason is that I really don't want to explain it again, but since this item is added, then put on a video document that has not disappeared yet... No, this is not a small movie! I am an expert! I am a level four permission holder, and one who can talk directly to the administrator! How could I watch any small movie!? In short... I don't want any official staff to step within thirty-three meters during patrol again. Repeat, this kind of disappearance is a 'deletion' that will even make your pension, pension, and death allowance disappear completely!"

"Directory 4 expanded, video number: 01..."

In a one-way glass room, a haggard red-haired young woman with messy hair is sitting restlessly.

An electronic synthesized voice sounded: "Catherine, I hope you can understand that we can only talk to you in this way, because now no one knows what logic SP-02 uses to produce the meme effect. In fact, we have already placed no less than ten reality anchoring devices around your room and this interrogation room. I think as a level three permission holder, you should know how huge an expenditure this is, but unfortunately... your roommate, sorry, I don't know what its name is, disappeared seven days ago, and its file disappearance speed is very fast. Currently, we only know that there was such a person, but whether it is a man or a woman, what level of permission, what merits it had, we don't know at all."

The red-haired young woman said irritably and anxiously: "Elnos, the name is Elnos, age twenty-one, joined the Foundation one period later than me, level two permission holder, Ph. D. in biology... forget it, this has no meaning. Even if I say it, you will soon forget it. Any carrier that records her information will automatically 'delete' her, so this has no meaning, right?"

On the other side, the electronic synthesized voice paused for a few seconds before saying: "Then what do you want to tell us?"

The red-haired young woman gradually calmed down. She had eyes full of intelligence and wisdom. After she calmed down, her voice also became steady. She said: "I don't have much time left, but as a premise for some things, I still have to say it... I am very special. Since I was a child, I have been very special, because nothing can move me, and nothing can make me panic, no matter how exaggerated things are, no matter how terrifying things are, even my parents died in a car accident, I just watched coldly. People say I am cold-blooded and heartless, and doctors in mental hospitals think I am a naturally indifferent person, or some other disease..."

"In short, my cognitive decay resistance level is not unprecedented, but at least it is in the top five in the entire Foundation... 536!"

The electronic synthesized voice said: "That's right, you are the pride and treasure of our Foundation, because of you, we have decrypted more than ten containment objects and redesigned six meme containment measures for danger level three, so you are a level three permission holder, and even can become a level four permission holder in the future!"

"There is no future..."

Catherine shook her head and said: "But whether it is because of my natural indifference, naturally high cognitive decay resistance level, or my unwillingness, I hope to tell you the truth about SP-02 that I have perceived before I disappear."

The electronic synthesized voice asked: "So... what exactly is that?"

"A civilization."

Catherine said: "A civilization that exceeds our understanding and cognition..."

"Unlike what you think, after receiving the information of SP-02, it essentially has already been included in its cycle logic. We can discuss this later. Now please don't interrupt me... After being included in its cycle logic, what is expressed is the dream within three to thirty-three days, but that is actually not a dream, but the cycle logic of SP-02, which is that you become the life in it in the dream. And I... because of the cognitive decay resistance level, in the past twenty-seven days, I have dreamed millions of times, I became the life in it, and cycled at least millions of times."

"And because I fully perceived and understood the information of those millions of identity cycles, I also understood the truth of SP-02... It is a civilization!"

"This civilization was no different from us at the beginning, real world, starry sky, planets, but they were different from us, they possessed extraordinary power, every individual possessed extraordinary power at the spiritual level, and the outstanding ones among them were called extraordinary people, possessing the ability to turn void things at the spiritual level into real things."

"Then, they were invaded by unknown terror, perhaps memes, perhaps something else, in short, this invasion caused the individuals of this civilization to begin to have nihilistic thoughts... Can you imagine? An extraordinary civilization with powerful minds, the individuals of the civilization had nihilistic thoughts on a large scale. Do you know what this means?"

The electronic synthesized voice was silent for a long time before saying: "... The opposite embodiment of the ultimate anthropic principle?"

Catherine praised: "That's right! When all individuals of this civilization are eroded, as long as they close their eyes at the same time, then their world and universe, including their civilization and planets, and all individuals, will disappear at the same time... Just as they think, they do not exist, and the traces that once existed are just false things they imagined!"

The electronic synthesized voice was silent again, and then asked: "What evidence is there?"

Catherine scolded: "If there was evidence, would I need to dictate it? Who is the idiot on the other side? I want to report upward, deduct your salary and bonus!"

The electronic synthesized voice was silent for a bit long this time, at least a few minutes later: "Cough, Ms. Catherine, please continue."

Catherine stabilized her emotions slightly before continuing: "I have played government high-level officials in the peaceful world many times, and thus learned the self-rescue method of that civilization. They planned to create gods, and then use the created gods as the ballast of the race by 'devouring' them, but it was obvious that this plan failed, but it was not a complete failure. This god they imagined to be omnipotent did not succeed, but it created three near-god beings, three most powerful extraordinary people."

"But at this time, the void phenomenon was already very serious. The elites of the entire race plus the three near-god extraordinary people could not stop it together. And after the crazy research of the scientists and researchers of that civilization, they confirmed that the void phenomenon was based on the reality they existed in. So, they carried out the final plan after the god-slaying plan..."

"They, the extraordinary people, government, high-level, dignitaries, and all elites of that civilization, linked the minds of all individuals of the entire civilization in some way. I remember I said before that the particularity of this civilization is its extraordinary ability at the spiritual level, and after gathering the minds of the entire race, they did an inconceivable thing... They reduced the dimension of their civilization!"

The electronic synthesized voice suddenly opened, even if it was an electronic synthesized voice, without any ups and downs, but anyone could hear the surprise in it.

"Dimensional reduction? Reducing dimension from reality to electronic programs, electronic games, or books?"

Catherine affirmed: "That's right, some kind of peculiar collective thinking, or some kind of indescribable misleading, made them believe that as long as the entire civilization was reduced from the real material level to a lower narrative information level, then they could avoid the erosion of void, so they reduced the dimension, abandoned the essence of all life in the entire civilization, and reduced the dimension from real narrative to the bottom narrative layer."

"With the self-existence logic of the three near-god existences as the anchor point, the individuals and extraordinary powers of the entire civilization were all reduced in dimension... If I were to describe it, it would be like the entire race committing suicide in an instant, and then relying on these three equally suicidal super individuals to dream, and dreaming them out again..."

The electronic synthesized voice said incredibly: "But even if it is dimensional reduction, it should be a low-level narrative information existence, but we have tested everything, no! Let alone low-level narrative information, even imaginary information does not exist!"

Catherine showed a mocking smile. While laughing, she poked the wall with her finger. She didn't know if she had no pain, or wanted to use this method to resist something more terrifying, her finger was poked bloody and still didn't stop.

She said: "This is exactly what I want to say... They forgot that the void emerged from the mind of every individual among them. Do you know what this means? Even if the individuals of this civilization were reduced to low-level narrative information, even if they were all civilization individuals dreamed out by the three super existences, their consciousness still carried void. Even if they reenacted the civilization and reconstructed the civilization in the false low-level narrative layer, this void still followed like a shadow... We all know that the dimensional reduction of the narrative layer will lead to a huge amount of information dissipation, just like the dimensional reduction from four-dimensional space to three-dimensional, and three-dimensional to two-dimensional, 99.9999... % of the information will dissipate, because low dimensions cannot carry the multi-dimensional information expansion of high dimensions!"

"Originally, according to the plan of this civilization, after the dimensional reduction got rid of the void erosion, as long as the super existences continued to stabilize the anchor point, the accumulation and accumulation of information would gradually reenact the civilization and make them gradually recover... This time might be extremely long, but this is also a hope. However, before the recovery at this moment, their memories would appear with space-time paradoxes along with the dimensional reduction, that is, what they had done before, as long as the situation was similar, they would still do the same thing. So when the void erosion appeared again, this recovering civilization did the same thing again..."

The electronic synthesized voice made an incredible sound: "So... this civilization continued to reduce its dimension!?"

Catherine showed a mocking face and said: "That's right, they made the same choice as before. According to the space-time paradox axiom, you cannot go back to the past to kill your grandfather. Similarly, in the same narrative situation, they cannot think of any other processing method than dimensional reduction. So, in the low-level narrative information layer after dimensional reduction, they reduced the dimension again, and it became three super existences falling into the next layer, dreaming out the super existence of themselves, and the dreamed super existence of themselves dreaming out the entire civilization..."

The electronic synthesized voice was completely silent.

Catherine suddenly stopped poking her finger. Her finger was gone, and she smiled bitterly: "My time is almost up... By the way, the last information record, because of my personal particularity, this information is estimated to be able to be retained for a long time... I suspect!"

"This civilization did not just suffer from void erosion. They might have been subjected to another erosion from the beginning, but they didn't know it, but thought that their actions were their own judgment, and they thought of it themselves..."

"This civilization was simultaneously eroded by two different effects: void and dimensional reduction!"

"They might be a very special civilization existence. Continuous research on them will bring unimaginable huge help to our world and the entire Foundation, but the premise is..."

"There are a large number of people like me, or... people whose cognitive decay resistance level exceeds mine!"

"That person who exceeds many, exceeds ten times, a hundred times, a thousand times... countless times!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 557 =====