Chapter 587

"Ah? So what? Just like that, it was killed? Such a powerful 'Black Moon' was just killed like that?"

"Uh... the ending is indeed a bit beyond my expectations... or rather, should I say as expected of the Administrator? The final battle didn't involve preparing thousands of troops or any fleet... but this kind of drunkard brawl that could happen in any tavern..."

"What was the 'Black Moon' thinking?? Why was He trapped by a weak man-made object... No, He doesn't look like a supreme divinity at all!! He's simply a moron whose brain is completely undeveloped and whose cerebellum is underdeveloped!!"

"I think using anthropomorphic thinking to guess why the 'Black Moon' would do this is incorrect—because He doesn't 'think.' He is not an existence that ponders; He is a force... You cannot fathom the will of a god; He is just an absolute existence.~"

"Considering that supreme divinities are incarnations of certain abstract concepts, they are closer to gods in the traditional sense than divinity... In this sense, Aeons seem very similar to them, but the gap between the two—seems a bit large?"

"This might be the difference between innate and acquired—the concepts occupied by supreme divinities are somewhat innate, while Aeons carve out their own Paths, and the concepts and meanings within the Paths are acquired and can be rewritten."

"Stop, stop, how did the 'Black Moon' die??? Isn't He a supreme divinity??? How was He smashed by the Administrator who isn't even a divinity???"

"Best answer: I don't know... Just kidding, I have an idea: if the 'Black Moon' represents 'meaninglessness,' after the Administrator gave Him meaning, He had the possibility of falling... Of course, before doing this, one must first give Him meaning, and except for the Administrator who holds 'Checks and Balances,' no one can do this."

"Sounds a bit like the story of mice belling the cat; the hardest part is at the beginning."

"After that, it's probably creation."

"Daily creation, I'm used to it. Now at least four methods of creation are known: black hole furnace, Deus ex Machina, concept-only bunker, divinity/supreme divinity wanting to create the world."

"There must be more later."

Like a command, like a farewell, after that sentence, heaven and earth were reopened.

In the boundless abyss of the universe, time and space wove an endless, infinite, and boundless black satin; black holes, black holes, and more black holes were the black pearls dotted upon it.

The audience who saw this scene finally understood what the death of the universe was.

Witnessing that world of only darkness, they seemed to be in it themselves, feeling the coldness of the universe.

Only when black holes devoured each other would a bright spot suddenly appear in the dead starry sky, like the morning star, guiding the journey home.

But there was nothing left to guide.

There were no conscious lives left in the universe.

Nor was there anything that could be called life.

Heat death of the universe.

The doomsday scenarios in the "Containment-C-3999" containment file were all richer in vitality and hope than this situation.

And at this moment, something seemed to have changed; a mysterious force penetrated the universe, slowly but irresistibly pulling all matter and energy in the universe toward an unknown convergence point.

It was both quiet and violent.

The distance between galaxies shortened rapidly; they pulled on each other until they collided and merged.

Galactic debris, black holes, and even light itself could not escape.

The black satin was folded up, and thus new colors erupted; all colors and forms gathered toward that unimaginable point until everything became inseparable.

The next moment, light that was brilliant to the extreme erupted.

The heart of the universe beat once again, bursting with unparalleled power, pushing everything back into the empty void, reshaping matter and energy, reshaping time and space.

New galaxies were born, new fires of life were lit, and new lights of civilization shone.

The screen had not yet ended.

At the edge of the Milky Way, a chaotic nebula rotated and condensed; dust ignited into a sun, and various magnificent celestial bodies formed one after another.

On the orbit of this young star, a scorching, turbid sphere cooled slowly; the surface solidified into rock, and steam condensed into water.

Then, the first life was born in the ocean.

Life began a new round of great journeys, from single-celled to multi-celled organisms, from the ocean to the land, plants, animals, fungi...

The era ruled by dinosaurs came and ended, mammals began to emerge, ape-men left the forest, stood on two feet, and began to use tools...

On a sunny morning, in a patch of greenery, the Administrator slowly opened His eyes.

He sat up, clutched His head, and sat blankly for a long time before He came to His senses.

An old man leaning on a tree branch walked slowly to a giant rock beside Him and sat down cross-legged.

"I, a hermit." He said so.

At this point, the screen ended, and lines of text emerged.

[File Name: Does the Black Moon Howl]

[Time: Before the Nameless]

[Action Location: Before the Singularity]

["Black Moon," alias "Cang Huang," is an entity that exists outside the material universe and can annihilate all conscious beings, suspected to be the incarnation of the abstract concept of "meaninglessness."]

[According to the Administrator, as one of the universal constants, the "Black Moon" is far older than the general cognitive level of humanity; if one wants to calculate the lifespan of the "Black Moon," one needs to invent a separate set of super-mathematics.]

[In the previous cosmic epoch, the "Black Moon" triggered a series of annihilation phenomena; victims would turn into black solids and disappear without a trace after four seconds.]

[And the Administrator Himself, because He inherited "Checks and Balances"—the power that gave Him immortality—took on the task of stopping the "Black Moon" and therefore established the Foundation.]

[--Within this cosmic epoch, the reason the Administrator established and led the Foundation was to counter "anomalies," protect "humanity," and guard the "normal" (see "Manifesto" for details).]

[At the same time, within this epoch, "Does the Black Moon Howl?" is used as an internal code for the Foundation; different answers correspond to different permissions, corresponding to different events, containment objects, and research content.]

[In the previous cosmic epoch, in order to indirectly observe the "Black Moon," Dr. Moto, under the authorization of the Administrator, created a series of entities with similar characteristics, but it ultimately proved ineffective, and Dr. Moto even apologized with his death.]

[The O5 Council had some complaints about the Administrator's claims, but the Administrator designed the "Concept-Only Bunker" and believed that victory was only a matter of time.]

[When only the Administrator remained as a conscious life in the universe, the "Black Moon" would come in person to erase Him, and the "Black Moon" entering the "Concept-Only Bunker" would be forcibly imposed with human concepts and possess an entity.]

[A thousand years later, the Foundation launched an advanced unmanned probe to search for extraterrestrial civilizations, and after discovering many alien civilizations destroyed by the "Black Moon," it finally found a survivor.]

[This survivor was also a scholar who studied the "Black Moon" in the original civilization and possessed mind-reading abilities.]

[After talking, the Administrator revealed that the "Concept-Only Bunker" could only take effect when He was the only one left in the universe; the scholar couldn't help but question what meaning such a victory had.]

[Afterward, the Administrator entered the bunker to wait for the end of the universe, and the scholar left a last word of "hope" shortly after and was erased.]

[In order to avoid the fate of extinction, human civilization tried various methods, but even if colonies were spread throughout the universe, the howling of the "Black Moon" was still unavoidable.]

[Humanity therefore built a monument recording the final messages of all intelligent beings and placed the "Concept-Only Bunker" within it.]

[After reaching the end of time, only the Administrator, existing in the form of information, remained in the entire universe; the "Black Moon" appeared.]

[As the Administrator designed, after the "Black Moon" fell into an entity that could be observed, He gained a weakness.]

[In the end, the two existing as information settled their grievances in the way of a bar brawl; the "Black Moon" was beaten to death on the spot, and the Administrator was seriously injured and dying.]

[Before dying, the Administrator released all the concepts stored in the "Concept-Only Bunker" and restarted the universe.]

[Loss: Illegal operation, cannot proceed]

A little earlier.

"Luofu" Luofu Luofu Xianzhou, Scalegorge Waterscape.

Bai Bai Xuan and the others occupied the favorable terrain in advance, hiding their figures behind giant rocks and architectural ruins.

Fu Bai Xuan took the telescope from Bai Bai Xuan's hand.

She was wondering if the script would really play out as Bai Bai Xuan said, when she saw two figures, a man and a woman, appear on the beach; they were none other than Blade and Kafka.

"'Stellaron Hunters'! Little Bai, we can't let them run away this time!"

March 7th summoned her ice bow on the spot; if it weren't for Bai Bai Xuan stopping her, this beyond-visual-range arrow would probably have wiped out both Kafka and Blade.

Also unlucky were the fish in Scalegorge Waterscape.

Fish are always ignored life; when Brother Hua brought down the flood but didn't want animals to go extinct, the ones swimming in the water were forgotten; of course, they couldn't come ashore to protest.

From ancient times to the present, the one who most considered the feelings of fish was probably a certain nun; when hearing someone confess that they used fish as a substitute meal, she must have been very concerned about the mental health of the fish.

"Calm down, calm down—" Bai Bai Xuan hurriedly pulled March 7th back.

The ice arrow condensed by this girl was no different from the special arrow of a dragon-hunting greatbow; one shot, one silent, ice burial on the spot, no need to find a place to bury, and no need to worry about the corpse coming back to life.

"Stelle" didn't react; her golden eyes stared at the sea further away.

Besides Blade and Kafka, three other powerful auras were approaching; it was no surprise that they were Dan Heng, Seeing Seeing Yanqing, and Jing Jing Yuan.

She could feel Phantylia's aura; the latter was lurking in the depths of Scalegorge Waterscape, her momentum rising bit by bit, growing rapidly, already surpassing Jing Jing Yuan.

Phantylia probably thought she was hiding very well, but in the perception of "Stelle" after being infinitely infused by Bai Bai Xuan, she was as conspicuous as an incandescent lamp in the dark night.

At this time, Bai Bai Xuan looked at Fu Bai Xuan, who was lost in thought:

"Why not ask the magical Master Fu Bai Xuan? She saw the 'Stellaron Hunters'' plan through the Matrix of Prescience."

"What this seat knows, I have already told you." Fu Bai Xuan said.

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"But obviously, the subsequent development is still somewhat different from what I saw—"

"Either Elio is constantly revising the subsequent plot and remotely controlling it through some channel;"

— Author's Notes —

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