Chapter 448: Observers, the Essence of Space

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Bai Cangshu swept his right hand, and Qingyun's stiff face rolled away, instantly turned into charcoal by the terrifying high temperature and flames.

Fresh blood erupted from the neck, but the face on his chest showed no reaction.

"You know very well that doing this kind of thing has no meaning."

"Life and death are merely two states of information; for us, there is no difference."

The Multi-faceted Alien made no movement, yet a new head had already reappeared, and the features of this head had changed into another appearance that Bai Cangshu had never seen before.

"This is the third time I have attempted to communicate with a life form such as you. I trust that this time, you will not be marked by the great existence that dominates you."

Bai Cangshu realized that the two previous attempts mentioned by the Multi-faceted Alien were likely the two prior occasions when the Infinite Dimensional Space had judged Reincarnators to be targets in need of purging.

In other words, contacting the Multi-faceted Alien was some kind of taboo, and furthermore, the Multi-faceted Alien could exert strong interference on Reincarnators, even causing the Space's erasure rules to fail.

【Erasure】—this was the Space's most fundamental control over Reincarnators, the core governing power that allowed Reincarnators to consistently carry out various missions according to the Space's will.

Up to now, Bai Cangshu had not heard of any ability or item that could exempt one from erasure. If compared to the abilities of Reincarnators, the Space's 【Erasure】 was likely a designated instant-death ability with a very high priority. Because it possessed the information of all Reincarnators, the Space could, according to its rules, designate certain Reincarnators who had not completed their missions for instant death.

In *Infinite Horror*, a work that could also be considered the ancestor of the "Infinite" genre, once the Gene Lock broke through to the fourth stage and overcame the inner demon, the Main God could no longer erase them.

Then, in the Infinite Dimensional Space, perhaps there also existed some kind of rule capable of resisting 【Erasure】.

Moreover, the thing that the Infinite Dimensional Space had always needed most, or rather, the foundation of all the abilities and items in this Infinite Dimensional Space, lay in 【Information】.

A Singularity was a special 【Information】, and a Reincarnator's Scarlet Drop Card was also a card that recorded all the 【Information】 of a Reincarnator.

The Multi-faceted Alien's trans-dimensional technology and the rules of the Infinite Dimensional Space, to a certain extent, both converged on 【Information】.

"Your so-called 【Erasure】 is actually just a deletion process performed on 【Information】. The method I used to prevent those two from being 【Erased】 is also simple: we only need to modify the 【Information】 so that the great existence behind you can no longer identify where those two pieces of 【Information】 are, and thus it cannot directly erase them."

"But at the same time, because modifying the 【Information】 also makes it impossible for them to be recalled, they have lost their value to us."

The Multi-faceted Alien's degree of utilization of 【Information】 was shockingly high; this was another existence, besides that Goddess of the Space, that could completely read Bai Cangshu's thoughts.

Bai Cangshu greatly appreciated their method of communication; it was far more efficient than that Goddess, without any riddler components, and they even explained everything he wanted to know one by one without him needing to take the initiative to ask.

Bai Cangshu did not need to speak; he only needed to think to receive answers.

His thought-processing speed was also very fast, and he immediately realized that the Multi-faceted Alien had no "malice" toward him. The other party needed him, and specifically needed him to be able to return to the Space, which was why the other party said that this time he would not be identified by the Space.

To this end, nuking Osaka and Tokyo was their way of disrupting the Space's perception.

"【Malice】 as an emotion is merely a reaction produced by low-dimensional beings like humans when stimulated by neurons and hormones; it is inefficient and meaningless."

"Nuking the two cities of Tokyo and Osaka will lead to the deaths of a large number of humans and completely disrupt the world line, thus generating a massive amount of calculation and change. This will cause the great existence behind you to enter a temporary 【Full Load】 state, so we still have 38 seconds to communicate."

From the Multi-faceted Alien's unhurried way of communicating, Bai Cangshu was clear that the other party was fully prepared for a transaction with him.

Therefore, there was no worry that thirty-some seconds would be insufficient to persuade him, so Bai Cangshu did not intend to continue dwelling on the boring questions of what the other party wanted him to do or whether he should do it.

The initiative for such matters always rested with him.

"Can you tell me, what exactly is the purpose of this great existence behind us that you speak of?"

"Or rather, why is it wary of us communicating with you?"

This was a question that would almost never receive an answer in any other world.

Regarding what the 【Infinite Dimensional Space】 actually was and where it came from, there were not many Reincarnators who cared anymore.

Perhaps it was because no answer could be obtained regardless, or perhaps because over these years, "Infinite" genre works had deeply influenced people through various channels, leading Reincarnators to more or less accept the concept of "Infinite."

But at this very moment, the Multi-faceted Alien might have a different answer.

"As a race that is becoming an 【Observer】, we are currently unable to observe the 【Observer】 of another universe, so I cannot answer this question for you."

The Multi-faceted Alien did not answer Bai Cangshu's question directly, but it did provide the concept of an 【Observer】. This was likely the identity, or rather, the status, authority, or something similar of the Infinite Dimensional Space in the eyes of the Multi-faceted Alien.

"One last question, Multi-faceted Alien. If you can answer me, no matter what chips you offer, I will trade with you."

At this time, there was less than ten seconds left. Bai Cangshu looked at the human face on the Reincarnator's chest and asked a key point that many Reincarnators and Plot Characters had repeatedly asked him since entering the Space.

"Since you believe that humans are not special and life is not noble, then in your cognition, what is the 【Heart】? Does the so-called 【Heart】 truly possess power that transcends the material world?"

Facing this question, the Multi-faceted Alien clearly paused for a moment. Whether it was thinking or retrieving information, this question was more difficult for the Multi-faceted Alien to answer.

And when Bai Cangshu asked this question, he was also thinking in his heart about a race like the Multi-faceted Alien, which had completely eliminated the concepts of good, evil, and ethics possessed by humans due to high evolution, and about the things that guys like Kori, Kageyama Shigeo, and Saitamu cared about.

Was there still any meaning?

To the Multi-faceted Alien, using a nuclear blast to bomb two large cities and letting millions or even tens of millions of humans die was probably no different from a human child pouring hot water into an anthill out of curiosity.

Then, because of such things, because of humans who die easily, are discarded easily, or even resurrected easily and created easily like those ants, did having other thoughts hold any different meaning?

Bai Cangshu was very curious. He wanted to truly see clearly whether the strength of those guys was because of this 【Heart】, or if it was only because they were strong that they could afford the luxury of possessing a so-called noble 【Heart】.

Bai Cangshu felt the high temperature on his skin beginning to fade; the aftermath of the nuclear explosion was about to dissipate, while his body had suffered a considerable degree of radiation and distortion.

It was a level that would cause an ordinary person to die very quickly.

But for Bai Cangshu, it was merely a matter of spending a little time to recover.

If necessary, he could destroy his body bit by bit and then use his Immortality to regrow it.

"Based on our current cognition, the so-called heart is nothing more than a resonance pattern triggered by quantum vacuum fluctuations in a carbon-based carrier. All discussions regarding free will, moral intuition, or aesthetic experience are essentially poetic misreadings of specific implementations of the second law of thermodynamics."

"However, the 21 grams of information in a human will undergo unknown changes because of this thing."

The Multi-faceted Alien's body began to disintegrate. It finally reached out its hand, and Bai Cangshu simultaneously canceled the passive defense of his Limitless. The Multi-faceted Alien's finger touched Bai Cangshu's body.

"Your Soul weighs more than usual; your so-called 【Heart】 is that weight..."

(End of chapter)