Chapter 246: Illusion, the Feathering of the Silk Civilization

"So, what does the simulated universe rely on to alter the time of reality?"

Yan Xia voiced her confusion aboard the Kunlun.

At this moment, the Kunlun was en route to the Federation border. Since there had been no activity from the Silk Civilization's battleships for a long time, and even sending some battleships to investigate had yielded no traces of the Silk Civilization's battleships, Yan Xia decided to go and see for herself.

Did the Silk Civilization have any intention of luring them out?

There was such an intention.

Therefore, before this, Yan Xia had already deployed the biological battleships and the Zerg units on a large scale, with an overall depth of 2 light-years, ensuring that they would not fear being surrounded.

The equipment on the giant ships was even more advanced, so if they wanted to detect the hidden Silk Civilization's battleships, they had to bring the giant ships.

This time, Yan Xia not only brought the Kunlun but also 12 other giant ships.

There was another reason why Yan Xia decided to come, and that was Ella.

Ella's purpose in reaching the Pentastar region of the Sky Barn was not only for the Olive Branch Civilization but also for the Silk Civilization. The results of the Genesis Project had caught her attention, and she wanted to learn more about the effects of the Cthulhu Mythos in reality.

"Particles!"

"Or a dual-particle system."

"Everything in the simulated universe is different from the virtual world and AR. All virtual things are made up of photons, which have no actual effect on reality."

"The simulated universe operates on real particles, allowing an isotope particle to adhere to the side of a real object's particle. This isotope particle is a simulated particle, and it can be influenced by the simulated universe."

"This is a very simple theory."

"Yan Xia, stretch out your hand."

Yan Xia did as instructed.

Then she saw her hand disappear, and a virtual hand appeared next to her original hand.

The virtual hand was being caressed by a feather, yet she felt the sensation.

The next moment, a knife suddenly slashed towards her hand, and she jerked her hand back, cutting it, but it was the virtual hand.

"That's it."

"A classic illusion experiment, like suddenly placing an ice pack on your hand and telling you it's burning hot. The area with the ice pack may even show signs of burn scars."

"Of course, this is just a low-probability event, but it's not impossible."

"This is the illusion of life."

"The way all life processes information is through neurons and brain cells, and machines are no different. If you can trick the host, the host will inevitably come to a completely different conclusion."

"Remember when /Star City sent troops to the Silk Civilization? The fake starry sky caused the life of /Star City to have a perception error about time."

"And the simulated particles can make the machine believe that what the simulated particles present is real on a macroscopic level, thereby causing both life and machine life to have a time illusion through the high-frequency changes of the simulated particles."

This is a superb deception.

Imagine that every particle in your body is your hand, and next to every particle is a fake hand. Even if you can analyze that 100 million particles are fake, a human being over one meter tall has tens of trillions of cells, and the number of atoms is in the billions of billions.

Humans are like this, and the mass and number of atoms of the Olive Branch Civilization's life are at least 10 times that of an ordinary human. Their own computing power can no longer support the calculation of so many illusions.

Only the simulated universe can support such terrifying simulation calculations.

If Ella is the first in artificial intelligence and the God of Machines is the second, then if it's just the computing power of the machine equipment, without AI calculations, the computing power of the simulated universe that /Star City is currently conducting is actually still beyond Ella's body.

After Ella's explanation, Yan Xia also understood how the simulated universe operates, but she still feels it's a miracle.

"If it's just one world, it's actually just what you think, and you can use the simulated universe to create any form of world, right?"

Cultivation!

Magic!

Martial Arts!

Fantasy!

The simulated universe can construct any kind of world.

Moreover, it's not constructed in a virtual world but in reality.

What if the simulated universe could envelop the entire universe?

Yan Xia had a creepy feeling.

"That's right!"

"But the idea of enveloping the entire universe is not feasible, and it's not something that can be accomplished with technology. It's not worth the effort."

"The amount of energy consumed by letting the simulated universe envelop the entire universe is not as much as creating a universe, no, it's not even enough to create 10 universes."

It seems that creating a universe is quite cost-effective.

"..."

Ella was speechless at Yan Xia's idea, and at the same time, Ella also noticed an abnormal fluctuation in deep space captured by the detector.

"What's there?"

A star map appeared in front of Yan Xia, and the anomaly had been marked.

Yan Xia carefully observed for more than an hour before discovering a faint fluctuation.

"Let the Zerg go first, it's probably the fleet of the Silk Civilization."

There's nothing else there. This place was a battlefield before, and nothing will be left behind, and no citizens of the Federation would dare to come here.

Nine months later, the first Zerg swarm arrived, but they found nothing.

They could sense that the surrounding space of the universe was not right, but they couldn't find it, as if the two were in two different worlds and couldn't observe each other.

"What do you think, Ella!"

Yan Xia's expression was a little serious.

Ella's holographic projection appeared in the cabin. She sat on the floor, with at least five meters of hair scattered around her. Wearing a white dress, she held a white Maine Coon cat with blue eyes in her arms. Looking at the cat in her arms, she said slowly, "A cup."

"After the Silk Civilization becomes a cup, it will inevitably year."

"If it were you, Yan Xia, wouldn't you go and explore?"

Yan Xia nodded without thinking. Of course, she would.

There are many reasons for the death of life. Some are forced, and some are in pursuit of dreams. If you die in the process of pursuing your dreams, it's also considered a worthy death.

"I guess the Silk Civilization is the same. They went to explore."

"They got closer to the truth."

"Then they gradually merged into the universe and faded into the universe."

Ella saw a scene of a fleet's collective funeral in her eyes.

Incredible.

After all, that was a powerful 2.3-level civilization, but because of a truth, they were willing to die collectively.

"Silk Civilization... Yan Xia, silkworms spin cocoons and metamorphose into moths, and the legendary metamorphosis has two explanations, one is death, and the other is becoming an immortal."

"Isn't this also a kind of fate?"

That fluctuation was just the lingering sound left by the Silk Civilization. Perhaps they really changed something, causing that space to show a faint anomaly, but that was definitely not something they should investigate at this stage. Even if they could, they wouldn't go!

"Kill the Zerg. They may have been polluted."

"Send the battleship to the Orion constellation. I estimate that the scene there is the same."

"After that, we don't have to worry about the Silk Civilization for a short time, at least."

"Also, block that area, find more similar locations, and finally, send the battleship and the army to take over all the lost star systems."

Is it over like this?

Yan Xia also felt incredible, as it had not been long.

Her eyes showed a color of fear, and perhaps she should consider listing such a high-level weapon as a taboo.