Chapter 387: God-level Civilization's Tampering with the Universe_1

Before the war had even begun, Jiang Yu had thought that Venus might be used to obtain some crucial intelligence.

Even Jiang Yu, with God's View, couldn't help but marvel: this information was too crucial.

To Jiang Yu's query, Venus replied: Only a small portion of civilizations use my method of dimension reduction, giving me immense power as soon as I enter the Three-dimensional World. Most four-dimensional beings become very weak after dimension reduction and become my prey. Even many four-dimensional beings are eliminated by Three-dimensional Life. Even if I told you the specifics, it wouldn't be applicable between you and me, as you are composed of individuals, and I am not.

Jiang Yu immediately asked, "Are you a collective consciousness of a higher-dimensional civilization? Do you first concentrate your consciousness together and then reduce your dimension as one?"

Venus: I can't explain it to you in Three-dimensional language. I can only tell you that my consciousness is much greater than yours, but it's not a collective consciousness.

Jiang Yu, "Can you be more specific?"

Venus: Come to me, and I will let you experience it.

Jiang Yu, "Could you still describe how you manipulate a planet? Perhaps then I could understand."

From Number Three to Wu Xinghai, to every combat staff member, their brains struggled to keep up.

They had finally understood First Epoch Life Form and the concept of dimension reduction, which they had almost sorted out. Then, they realized that the First Epoch Life Form might not be as they thought.

Venus: You can understand it this way. This is a low-dimensional body I crafted for myself ahead of time. By loading my consciousness into this body, I complete the process of dimension reduction.

Jiang Yu still found it hard to understand, "Why would it be a sphere?"

Venus: First, it's the best form of camouflage. Second, this shape facilitates operations in space.

Jiang Yu, pressing the topic, "It doesn't seem that powerful. Didn't you still get badly beaten by the erratic Black Cuboid People?"

Venus: The battles between First Epoch Life Forms left me scarred billions of years ago. Otherwise, there would hardly be any rivals for me in the universe today.

Jiang Yu, "Can't you recover from those injuries?"

Venus: Recovery is very slow, but I am immortal. At most, I can only be extremely weak. When the next opportunity for dimension reduction comes, I'll grasp the chance to become the ruler of the Two-dimensional World.

Jiang Yu, "How do other four-dimensional beings fare after they reduce their dimension?"

Venus: I must say, reducing individual entities to a lower dimension is a mistaken approach. Many of them are not perfect Three-dimensional Life forms to this day, referred to as, as, there's no word for it in Humanity's vocabulary; I can only translate literally: the High Entropy Group. They are clearly different from your human life forms. To me, they seem like awkwardly cobbled together bodies that don't even fit your definition of a life form.

Jiang Yu then asked, "What is the Six-dimensional World like?"

Venus: It's convenient, beautiful, and now I live within a painting. I have felt that your universe is also turning into a painting. In the future, I might have to live within your painting.

Jiang Yu, "Then let's talk more about the creatures 'on' you! And why do humans, after they die, continue to exist in a strange state on Venus?"

Venus suddenly asked out of the blue: "Do you truly understand life?"

Jiang Yu, "Can't say I completely understand it, but we have our understanding."

Venus: Let me tell you another secret. Many Three-dimensional Life forms were created by the First Epoch Life Forms!

Jiang Yu was dumbfounded: "That doesn't make sense! After you entered the Three-dimensional World, you would be subject to the Dark Forest relations with any Three-dimensional Life. Would you create an assassin that poses a threat to yourselves?"

Venus: The cosmogony and ontology of Humanity are very primitive. The universe you see is too small, and the life forms you know are too few! I don't know how to describe the meaning of life in your language. Let's put it this way: it's hard to say whether life created the universe, or the universe created life.

Jiang Yu, "Sorry, I find that statement difficult to understand. Life can create the universe? Don't tell me the end of the universe leads to theism!"

Venus: Not gods! I really can't find an appropriate word. It could be termed a law, but it's not exactly a law. In essence, life itself is based on something it can never manipulate, yet it acts like an intangible force, compelling life to push forward relentlessly, unable to escape its influence.

Jiang Yu, "Can you be more specific?"

Venus: "The reason I chose to reduce my dimension in the way of First Epoch Life Forms is that I wanted to gain the upper hand at the very beginning of the Dark Forest in the Three-dimensional World, to eliminate all dimension-reduced beings, to eliminate all newly evolved Three-dimensional beings. I believe all First Epoch Life Forms probably had similar thoughts.

However, we only realized after fighting to exhaustion that Three-dimensional beings were springing up like bamboo shoots after a rain, and many of our actions actually accelerated their evolution unwittingly. By the time we noticed, it was already too late. It's as if, as if we were being used by some force."

Jiang Yu, "So you believe, there is a force behind all this?"

Venus: It's not a belief, it truly exists. Your understanding of life is too superficial; I don't know how to explain it to you.

Jiang Yu, "If there is such a force that is similar to a law, it ought to be summed up."

Venus: It's not a law. You lack the concept.

After a moment of thought, Jiang Yu took another angle: "Then tell me, how is the life you see different from what we believe life to be?"

Venus: I've read some of your philosophical works and found that you've realized long ago that you've been deceived by photons. The things you see are not the true nature of objects but, rather, the information that photons reflect into your eyes and then are perceived by your consciousness. Have you ever thought that the photons have been tampered with?

After half a cigarette, Jiang Yu finally responded, "I get it. What you mean is, looking at life with our eyes, we've already fallen into the trap of whoever is tampering with the photons!"

Venus: Exactly. The life you see now is but a superficial representation. It's akin to how you have felt the presence of consciousness, yet still don't understand what consciousness is or where it exists. This is how God-level Civilizations weaken emerging civilizations in the Three-dimensional World; all civilizations in the Three-dimension are undergoing such a weakening.

Jiang Yu eagerly asked, "So what exactly is consciousness?"

Venus: It is the essence of life!

Jiang Yu, "Is that similar to the concepts of soul or spirit as we understand them?"

Venus: Those are idealistic ideas, absurd speculations about the unknown! You still can't find your own consciousness because it does not exist in the Three-dimensional universe! And until you do, you will never truly understand yourselves, nor the magnificence of life!