Chapter 233: Entering the Chaos

To understand chaos, one must immerse oneself in it.

All civilizations and life forms belong to order, just as three-dimensional beings cannot comprehend the way of life of higher or lower-dimensional beings, they also cannot understand chaos.

Or rather, their understanding of chaos is essentially based on order's speculation about chaos, which is not true chaos.

To know what chaos is, a civilization must immerse itself in it.

This may be a novel experience.

Because order despises chaos.

Just as in our real society, individuals who follow and utilize order are often able to achieve success.

Of course, there are also those who are bound by order and remain at the bottom of society, or those who want to break free from the constraints of order and leave society.

These are all within the realm of order, but true chaos is not these things. Chaos is madness, chaos is self-destructive, like drug dealers, robbers, and the fallen... They are enveloped by chaos, some become mad due to the invasion of chaos, truly insane.

It is said to be despised, but there is also a hint of fear.

The civilization has come into contact with the Outer Gods.

The mechanical gods can sense it, and Yan Xia can find out.

"Is chaos a form of progress or regression?"

"The Federation cannot answer this question at present, nor can our civilization, so they chose to try."

"As for us, what we do is simple—misdirection."

"Or we don't even need to mislead, because we can't control chaos."

In fact, Yan Xia himself doesn't know what he should do now.

Because he doesn't understand chaos.

Any interference or misdirection he does may make chaos less pure.

Imperfect chaos is imperfect, and a civilization will not change itself for something imperfect.

Yan Xia did not explore that chaos, he should have seen something from it, and what could the Federation gain from it?

Is the essence of the universe order or chaos?

Should civilization preserve order or follow chaos?

This is the question that Yan Xia poses, and he himself does not have the answer.

The choice that the civilization makes will also influence Yan Xia's judgment.

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The 70th chapter of the fourth volume begins.

This is also the result of the civilization's influence.

Normally, the civilization cannot influence the Outer Gods, just as Yan Xia cannot influence them, because the Outer Gods are chaotic, and any interference will cause this chaos to become order.

So the civilization chose a simple method—to become an Outer God themselves.

They integrate themselves into the Outer Gods.

In an instant, countless chaotic thoughts invade the consciousness of those who integrate, and through this, the civilization tries to interpret the chaos, but when they see the chaos, they are even more shocked.

This chaos is so terrifying to them.

This is a completely different set of survival rules.

It is indescribable, beyond words, and can only be conveyed through feelings, just like the gods in the true Cthulhu myth. Although these Outer Gods do not come from a higher realm, they are more primitive.

The civilization originally thought that the Outer Gods were like microorganisms, but at this moment, they changed their minds.

Even microorganisms contain their own order, and they follow their own survival rules.

But the Outer Gods purely follow the chaos of the universe, or rather, they behave like the true universe itself. Their invasion of humans and the sea race is not for survival, nor is it necessary. They themselves do not need to eat or drink.

The reason they oppose humans and the sea race is simply because order attracts chaos, just like a magnet. They are attracted and then erase order.

Is the universe like this too?

The universe erases order, or the chaos of life itself is the universe's erasure.

Countless questions arise.

The civilization is extremely eager to know the answer itself, and through this, they delve deeper into the world of the Outer Gods.

Here, there are no emotions, no desires, only pure nothingness, and above this nothingness are the rules of the universe. These rules do not originate from the Outer Gods themselves, but from the outside, from the things they came into contact with at the beginning of their birth.

They are like a cup, accepting water, accepting drinks, you can also put ice cream inside, or fruit salad, or even rice.

You can put anything inside.

From this, the civilization feels that it may have found something.

The Outer Gods themselves are not anything, they are just carriers, and whatever they do follows the rules of the universe, it is not absolute chaos, and these rules erode the civilization of this world.

Moreover, this force is so powerful that civilization cannot resist it.

If they could create an Outer God to deal with the Federation, what would the Federation do?

The Federation would also likely be eroded by the Outer Gods and collapse, and life would disappear from the Federation.

Of course, they also consider the Federation's robots, but at the current stage, the Federation seems to be a civilization dominated by life, and if life is destroyed, the Federation will rapidly decline.

The Outer Gods can even influence the Federation's biological warships and those insects, and creating Outer Gods is absolutely beneficial to them with no harm.

But this is still not enough.

What if they themselves are Outer Gods?

They can carry anything, and these things can even include order.

This is what they have truly seen.

If so, they will achieve unprecedented progress and even break through their shackles in a short time, leaping from level 2.3 to 2.4 or 2.5, which is not impossible.

The universe exists in bursts, and so does civilization.

The burst of civilization drives civilization to progress in a short time, and this is very common in the early stages of civilization.

For example, a feudal civilization can drive the entire civilization into the industrial age through the research of a few people, completing in a short 100 years what had not been achieved in the previous 1000 years.

It is very unlikely for a higher civilization to have a technological burst, but it is not impossible.

Should they try?

This is the problem facing the civilization at this time.

Usually, the civilization would never think about this problem because they have been on the path of order for too long.

It's like you got a perfect score in language arts, and you've been studying literature-related knowledge, why would you go and do accounting or economics, even if you know it's more profitable, but at this point, you can't really switch tracks.

All of this takes cost into consideration.

You've studied these things for 20 years, and then you start learning something else from scratch, you can't possibly surpass others in this area, and you can't do it well.

The same goes for civilization.

But now, the civilization is considering it.

This is because the information they have received is that they are currently under siege from three sides, and if they don't have a burst, they are likely to be destroyed later.

What should they do?

The fourth volume hasn't even really gotten started, and this question is already haunting the civilization.