Chapter 574: The role of mortals

Wu Pifu is actually quite curious about the strength of Gaia humans now, especially the average combat power of extraordinary beings among them.

Since Chu Minghao's rescue battle, quite a long time has passed. According to the size of Gaia humans, the place of salvation can recuperate, and Chu Minghao and Liang Min sit in the light and dark sides of Gaia humans at the same time.

This situation is much better than when Wu Pifu just woke up. At that time, the maintenance personnel, compared with the night watchers now, can really be said to be playing with their lives.

Even though nearly 10,000 extraordinary beings died in Chu Minghao's rescue battle, Gaia humans should have many powerful extraordinary beings now, and with such logistics and security guarantees, their strength should also progress rapidly.

"You're joking."

Xu Ruonan and her hundred people were taking Wu Pifu to the volcano area. Hearing this, she smiled bitterly, "If I wasn't familiar with your nature, I would definitely think you were mocking us."

Wu Pifu frowned and said, "How to say? Is it possible that the overall strength of humans is still weak now?"

Xu Ruonan shook her head and said, "If you want to talk about overall strength, our human civilization is very strong. Look, we are about to declare war on another ancient civilization. Not only do we want to kill the three sources of this ancient civilization, but we also want to kill the source of another civilization. Do you say it's strong or not?"

Wu Pifu was silent. He didn't know how to answer, and always felt that Xu Ruonan was mocking him.

After Xu Ruonan said this, she shook her head and said, "It's not that I'm talking about you. As one of the three giants of humanity, you have no awareness of your own positioning at all. Not to mention anything else, at least you should know the general situation of humans now... According to the statistics at the beginning of this month, the current number of awakened Gaia humans is 7.2 million, the number of registered extraordinary beings is 120,000, and the number of registered night watchers is 780,000. You should at least know these numbers, right?"

Wu Pifu didn't speak, just thought silently for a while, and then said, "The number of extraordinary beings is so small? Less than one-tenth of the total population?"

Xu Ruonan rolled her eyes and said, "Big brother, I called you big brother... You don't want to think about it. Extraordinary is pollution. To practice extraordinary, first of all, you must be able to withstand this pollution. It is already very powerful to have this proportion. Moreover, the President is promoting the national extraordinary qualification detection plan. All awakened personnel, even if they don't want to be night watchers, must have the legal obligation to conduct extraordinary qualification detection. In this way, the number of extraordinary beings should be able to increase by a few percentage points, but this is also the limit, okay?"

Wu Pifu nodded and asked again, "What about strength? How many people are at the strongest level?"

Xu Ruonan's white eyes were almost rolled into epilepsy, and she complained, "Do you know what kind of concept you are talking about? You don't want to take the three giants of humanity as an example, do you?"

Wu Pifu thought for a while and said, "What about the level of Gao Zhanggong?"

Xu Ruonan thought seriously for a few seconds this time and said, "If the strongest level you think is the level of Gao Zhanggong, then all humans combined should have nearly a hundred people. The specific number still needs the monthly data report. By the way, the strongest level you mentioned is called the title level in our address, that is, night watchers with titles belong to this level. The number changes every month. After the report comes out this month, the number should be close to a hundred, right?"

This number didn't satisfy Wu Pifu.

Only a hundred people have titles. He couldn't help but ask again, "Are there any particularly outstanding ones among them, the kind that are far superior to Gao Zhanggong and other titled figures?"

Xu Ruonan's eyes started to "epilepsy" again, and she complained, "Do you know what you are talking about? Some 'common sense' you don't know. First, more than 95% of current night watchers are raiding the 0.9 Dream World. Second, we night watchers do have our own determined strength levels, but this is not officially recognized, nor do all night watchers think so. Basically, there are two standards: titled and untitled. Third, among all titled people, the strongest are the three teams of Chu Yuyan, Gao Zhanggong, and Wang Yihui. They belong to star ace teams, but Chu Yuyan and Wang Yihui take the elite team route, while Gao Zhanggong takes the guild big team route."

Wu Pifu knew all this. Xu Ruonan continued, "As for the kind of individuals who are stronger than titled night watchers... maybe there are, but I don't know. After all, there are indeed lone individuals who enter the Dream World alone, and then stay in the Dream World for a year or two at a time. By the way, you might want to say that if you stay for more than a certain number of days, there will be nightmare attacks. That's the past. Since President Chu Minghao sat in the place of salvation, and Liang Min wandered in the 0.9 to 0.7 Dream World in the dark, nightmare attacks have rarely occurred. These should be common sense that you must know!"

Wu Pifu was about to reply, but Xu Ruonan didn't wait for him to speak and continued, "Also, don't use the common sense of you, Liang Min, and Chu Minghao to replace our common sense. I am a presidential candidate, and I also know many confidential intelligence. For example, in the Dream World, there are only three levels: mortal, sublimated body, and source. But you don't know how to use this level to evaluate night watchers. It's as ridiculous as saying why people don't fly physically. Or let's put it this way, except for the three of you, who in existing humans can fight against sublimated bodies, even groups? That group, or how many people can fight against the sublimated bodies you have fought, you can say a number casually."

Wu Pifu was silent for a while, and could only shake his head.

No one can

If one were to use the Arhat Jun Tu Bo Tan Golden Body as a standard for the Ascended beings he had fought, it seemed that, aside from him, Chu Minghao, and Liang Min, there was truly no one among humanity who could contend with them. They might not even be able to delay them for a moment—it was the kind of situation where as many as came would die.

After confirming this, Wu Pifu could not help but ask: "Then on what grounds are you participating in the great war against the Psychic Civilization? Isn't this just sending yourselves to die?"

Xu Ruonan was completely speechless. She opened her mouth to roar several times, but in the end, she could only sigh helplessly: "Do you really not care about these common facts at all? We are going there to provide anchor points!"

"What?"

Wu Pifu was stunned. He knew the term, but he did not know what it meant in this context.

Xu Ruonan patiently continued: "Ever since you obtained a great deal of intelligence from the Dream World, especially the information brought back from the Lost Lands, and with President Chu Minghao and Liang Min not sitting idle either, humanity is currently slowly exploring and analyzing the structure of the entire Dream World, the Ascended, the Roots, and so on. Take the war against the Psychic Civilization, for example. In truth, the greatest enemies are those three Roots, as well as the Root behind the subspace battlefield you proposed, right?"

Without waiting for Wu Pifu to nod, Xu Ruonan continued on her own: "From the intelligence you obtained, the descriptions of the Roots, and the extremely rare records of the three of you fighting the Roots, along with characteristics like pollution and erosion, scientists have confirmed the general meaning of the eight words 'infinite cycle, perfect closed loop.' A so-called Root refers to a composite self-memetic group within a defined system. All Roots should be similar situations, differing only in the magnitude of their composition and the popularity of their definition system."

"What, what, what?"

Wu Pifu had not understood a single word.

Xu Ruonan patiently explained: "A so-called definition system refers to a worldview model within a specific concept and logical scope. To put it simply, if we design a world where the speed of light is ten meters per second, and if such a world can be established, what would the situation in that world be like? This belongs to a definition system. As for a composite self-memetic group, it can be understood as a super-lifeform that can transmit its body tissue or cellular structure through specific information. Any description of it will be subject to its erosion and pollution. By saying a specific syllable, your flesh and spiritual consciousness become filled with its cells, its nerves, its senses."

Wu Pifu immediately began to think, then compared this information with the Roots he knew.

Roots possess pollution; the more one knows the essence of a Root, the easier it is to be polluted and eroded. At the same time, Roots are unified with certain laws; for example, the Root of Death belongs to the lower-level fundamental rules.

Described this way, it really could describe a Root.

Wu Pifu asked: "Then what does this have to do with providing anchor points as you just mentioned?"

Xu Ruonan said: "Can you kill an abstract concept? For example, can you go and kill the color red?"

Wu Pifu nodded seriously: "Yes, I can. As long as this red is in a hostile state toward me and possesses initiative, then I can indeed kill this red."

"... No way? You really can!?"

Xu Ruonan shouted.

Wu Pifu's "cluelessness index" was rising rapidly.

After a long while, Xu Ruonan let out a breath and said: "But we can't do it. Aside from you, President Chu Minghao and Liang Min likely cannot either—at least not before they became Ascended. And this is indeed something they have verified. They can only defeat or kill the projections or avatars of the Roots, but as for the true bodies of the Roots, they have confirmed repeatedly that they cannot contend with them. The reason lies in the fact that the Roots have ascended once more from the 'perfect' level of the Ascended, transforming into a logically self-consistent concept. Any Root is a concept. In the terminology of scientists, they are all composite self-memetic groups; they are a mixture of concepts, logic, laws, and information. Mortals... cannot contend with them!"

"But..."

Xu Ruonan said seriously: "The Main Brain can! The Main Brain's judgment can!"

"Scientists have conducted a large number of relevant experiments, and they have confirmed one point: once the Main Brain makes a judgment on any object, it will fix that object on a cognitive level. In other words, the self-logical self-memetic group Roots, which are originally formless and substanceless while satisfying the infinite cycle and perfect closed loop, will be actualized once judged by the Main Brain. They will be transformed into top-tier Ascended that can be harmed by mortals—at least for a short time!"

Xu Ruonan looked straight at Wu Pifu and said: "So, do you understand? This is the reason we must participate in the war. Even if it means heavy casualties and countless sacrifices, we must go to the subspace you mentioned and form a channel from Rank One to the depths of the Dream World, acting as an anchor point for the Main Brain, allowing the Main Brain to 'judge' the Roots. Only then can you, Liang Min, and Chu Minghao step over our bones to move forward and ultimately achieve victory!"

"This... is the role of us mortals!"

Wu Pifu lowered his head in silence, saying nothing for a long time.

(End of Chapter)