Chapter 147

Herta tested the strength of an "Emanator."

What left Lin Qi speechless was that she was even crazier than him when testing the Path of Erudition.

If it weren't for the fact that her "Emanator" status allowed her to access at most one ten-thousandth of the resources, Lin Qi felt she might have played even bigger than he did.

One could even say...

She was really about to become a "magical girl."

"That's enough, you can stop now! And you're lecturing me?" Lin Qi said speechlessly, then put a stop to Herta's "creation" behavior.

"Fine, let's play until here for today," Herta said, still unsatisfied. "It's a pity that an Emanator is just an Emanator; after all, I'm not an Aeon. Even with all my efforts, I still can't reach one percent of yours."

Lin Qi did not speak.

One percent?

In fact, Lin Qi could access all the resources.

Which was one hundred percent.

Calculating it this way, the "created" Emanator Herta didn't even have one ten-thousandth, let alone one percent.

This was the unbridgeable chasm between an Aeon and an Emanator.

Even in the Simulated Universe, this remained true.

And once the Aeon was created, the preliminary work for the Simulated Universe was more or less complete.

They could even start the simulation right now.

Both Lin Qi and Herta were people of action.

They immediately began the first simulation.

The specific process was to select an NPC, let them adventure and level up in the Simulated Universe, and gradually step onto a Path in the process, subsequently attracting the attention of an Aeon.

Herta would then observe and record when the Aeon intervened.

Like this.

The exploration of the mysteries of other Aeons was completed.

And to accelerate this process, there would be some special devices, or rather, encounters, to allow the NPC to better step onto a Path.

As for Lin Qi...

As an Aeon with extremely high autonomy, he could intervene at the appropriate time, or interfere with the actions of other Aeons.

There was no other way.

To highlight the capabilities of an Aeon, the Simulated Universe provided a considerable amount of resources to the "Aeon."

Even Herta couldn't control it.

Only Lin Qi could.

But only by intervening as another Aeon would the simulation not fail to proceed.

Otherwise...

If the Aeons' behaviors didn't match reality, how could one explore the mysteries?

Then there was the issue of the "brain in a vat."

After some simulation.

The two reached a conclusion.

Higher dimensions indeed existed!

The Aeons were a typical example.

In one accident, a hacker even stepped onto the Path of "Erudition."

Just as Herta was preparing to clear this bug, she unexpectedly discovered that the total amount of resources for the Path of Erudition had actually increased by a sliver.

Although it was less than one in a billion and easily ignored as an error.

But Herta, with her genius intuition, realized this might not be a coincidence.

Therefore.

She conducted some more simulation tests.

This time.

She consciously let a portion of hackers and NPCs step onto the Path of Erudition, and then measured the total resource amount again.

The result greatly surprised her.

When a real-world hacker stepped onto the Path of Erudition in the Simulated Universe, the resources of the entire Simulated Universe would actually increase!

Although extremely tiny, it was indeed a growth!

However, NPCs stepping onto the Path of Erudition would not cause an effect.

After thinking for a while, she notified Lin Qi of this information.

"You mean, the Path of Erudition might actually exist?"

Lin Qi guessed after hearing Herta's statement.

"It's not that it might exist, it definitely exists!"

Herta voiced her conjecture, "Although the individual Pathstrider is negligible to an Aeon, isn't the expansion and extension of the Path itself caused by more people walking on it? Aeons don't need faith, but the Path needs like-minded people; even Nihility has fellow travelers! If a Path doesn't have a single practitioner, does that Path still have a need to exist?"

Lin Qi realized and replied, "So... is it possible that we can really create an Aeon?"

"Theoretically speaking, it is possible."

Herta nodded.

But after saying that, she added another sentence.

"But this is very difficult! According to my calculations, unless you can incorporate the vast majority of intelligent life in reality into your dream space, otherwise... creating an Aeon can still only exist in the Simulated Universe."

"..."

Lin Qi was somewhat speechless.

Incorporate the vast majority of intelligent life into the dream space?

If he could do that, what would it matter whether he became an Aeon or not?

Only a god could do such things, right?

Theoretically feasible does not mean practically feasible.

Just like a monkey typing out a masterpiece of millions of words, it is indeed possible in terms of probability, but even if it reaches the end of the universe, the end of time, it is impossible to achieve.

Of course.

This does not mean Herta's discovery has no value.

At least it represents a direction.

Furthermore...

Incorporating the vast majority of people in this universe into the dream space might be unrealistic.

But it didn't say that people from other universes couldn't be.

Lin Qi suddenly remembered Welt.

He came from another universe.

Or rather, another root on the Imaginary Tree.

If he could get some clues from him and find the path to other universes, then becoming an Aeon was not impossible.

"What are you thinking about?"

Herta suddenly leaned in, less than a fist's distance from Lin Qi's face; one could feel the hot air exhaled by the other party with even a slightly heavier breath.

But Ms. Herta clearly didn't care about this.

She just noticed that Lin Qi had suddenly fallen into silence, seemingly thinking about something.

Until a certain point.

Lin Qi seemed to have figured it out, and Herta leaned over to ask.

"I'm thinking that there might be a chance; what if we find other universes? You should know that there is more than just our universe," Lin Qi smiled.

Herta was stunned for a moment, and like Lin Qi, fell into silence.

Clearly.

She was also aware of the existence of other universes.

In fact.

There were some life forms from other universes in the cosmos.

Although the number was very small, they did exist.

This was strong evidence proving the existence of other universes.