Chapter 300
However, this was of no concern to Ye Bai.
Her mental energy surged, and a strange light flickered deep within her pupils. The sphere in her vision began to rewind its history, reverting to a time before it had turned red.
Here, Ye Bai saw a multitude of tasks and technologies.
Ordinary tasks: cleaning wormholes, guiding civilizations...
Indeed, as the central hub, all the tasks assigned to the people of the Chaotic Star Sea by the members of the Star Alliance originated from here.
Wormhole tasks in the ordinary category were generated roughly every few months, while tasks related to guiding civilizations were more frequent, appearing several times a month. The universe was vast, and even with a low density of civilizations, many still existed.
As for technology, it went without saying. All the knowledge and techniques Ye Bai had encountered before were present here, and the highest authority was the gene erasure program she had just experienced.
This was likely a significant weapon that was not easily deployed even within the Star Alliance.
At the same time, Ye Bai noticed that the number of main control terminals that this sphere could split into was fixed at 6,895,134, matching the number of lights she had seen during her rewind.
The latest data indicated that a main control terminal had recently been "recovered" and had completed its re-splitting.
Comparing the time, Ye Bai immediately realized that this was the terminal belonging to the destroyed Le Lun. It turned out that even if a terminal was destroyed, it could be reborn here with just a bit of time.
So, did this mean that the direct members of the Star Alliance were essentially fixed at just over six million?
In addition, there were two special tasks within this sphere that the other main control terminals had not displayed:
Special Task One: Eliminate any stowaways immediately upon discovery.
Special Task Two: Uncover the meaning of 6,895,134.
Ye Bai had already experienced the first task firsthand, but the second left her somewhat stunned.
Did this number hold some special significance? The light emitted by the sphere, the maximum number of main control terminals it could split into, was also this number. It seemed the "Stars" were very eager to know the answer to this number.
Anyone who could complete these two special tasks would be granted one requirement.
This requirement had no preconditions and could perhaps be understood as... any requirement?
Ye Bai recalled the moment she discovered she was a stowaway, the sudden change in Le Lun's expression. He had gone to great lengths, risking being hunted by the Alliance, to extend his soul's limit. If he could complete this special task, it was likely that all his previous troubles and lifespan would be wiped clean.
But with her "rich experience" of being hunted, Ye Bai was quicker to act.
As Ye Bai pondered, the rewind did not stop; it was happening at an astonishing speed.
As a core item hidden deep within the Star Alliance, the sphere's positional environment remained unchanged; only the various data changes within it were in flux, with a few core figures from the Alliance having made contact.
Time raced backward, and Ye Bai furrowed her brow, actively accelerating her pace.
The sphere was the true core of the Star Alliance, and this core was likely the item most deeply connected to the mental energy universe in the entire cosmos. She had to trace back to the moment of its birth.
The birth of the sphere occurred earlier than Ye Bai had anticipated, so early that even her currently immeasurable mental energy experienced a significant drain.
“Buzz.”
Finally, after rewinding millions of years, accompanied by a resonating shock at the level of consciousness, Ye Bai felt a "top."
In her astonishment, she witnessed a scene she had never expected.
A singularity exploded, matter spewed forth, and the universe was born.
As the newly born universe emerged, alongside a vast amount of matter still in its primordial state, this plaza, this stone pillar, and this sphere came into existence.
Within the newly formed sphere, traces of information that had now been deleted flickered by.
【Universe reboot complete】
【Current Era: 01】
【Constructed Planet: Solar System, Blue Star (68,951,34)】
【Generated Era 00 carbon-based life gene template】
【Injected Era 00 initial memory of the cosmic pattern】
...
A universe reboot... Now it was Era 01. When did Era 00 occur? Before the universe was rebooted, there had been another universe?!
No wonder Ye Bai felt a peak when she rewound to millions of years; was that the starting point of this universe reboot?
In other words, this universe, recorded in the Star Alliance as having intelligent life for over a billion years, essentially only had a history of a million years. The current intelligent beings were not the result of natural evolution but rather utilized the gene templates from the previous era?
Because the gene templates were identical, the gene erasure program could disregard species and become a powerful weapon...
And the memories of even older histories within cosmic civilizations were actually injected later, much like the Meiga and Luojin nurtured by black holes, with the technology to achieve this also coming from the Star Alliance's exchanged technologies...
The essence of the world was not a game, but the truth was not much better than the idea that the world was a game.
From the very beginning of the universe, all civilizations of intelligent life, whether in the Star Alliance or the Chaotic Star Sea, were essentially under the control of the "Stars."
Even to this day, the Stars were still issuing tasks that influenced the direction of civilizations...
What exactly were the Stars? What was the purpose behind all this?
Information similar to a divine realm control console flashed before Ye Bai's eyes, and a torrent of thoughts surged in her mind, gathering into a storm. When she saw one particular line, Ye Bai suddenly froze, a jolt coursing through her body as if she had been electrocuted.
【Residual Task】
【Seek the ultimate answer of the universe, the meaning of 689,534】
【Eliminate stowaways from Era 00】
Beware of the Stars, do not be discovered, stowaways, the extra ten thousand years of soul activity limit... The information that had puzzled her for so long converged at this moment.
In the midst of shock and astonishment, Ye Bai was also overwhelmed by an indescribable feeling. It turned out that she was called a stowaway because she did not actually belong to the current Era 01.
This stowaway was not crossing space, but time.
Ye Bai was a historical stowaway from Era 00, before the universe rebooted.
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Chapter 207
The universe reboot and the information about belonging to Era 00 brought Ye Bai immense shock.
If she truly belonged to the previous era before the universe reboot, it also meant that her understanding of past history did not pertain to this universe's Blue Star, but rather to the Blue Star of Era 00.
The era Ye Bai inhabited, the myriad worlds she created, her experiences of consciousness entering the divine realm after being frozen... all should have occurred in the previous era. After her slumber, the future of Blue Star diverged from the history she currently knew.
So when did she arrive in this era?
Various pieces of information flashed through Ye Bai's mind after her awakening.
Some past events that seemed extremely "lucky" were, in fact, not coincidences.
Now, Ye Bai had a complete and clear grasp of her memories. Coupled with her consciousness entering the divine realm, her personal conscious activity time was precisely fourteen hundred years. This duration clearly indicated that she could not have simply survived the universe reboot from her own era to the present.
The term "stowaway" was enough to clarify the issue.
For Ye Bai, who could not yet perceive or reach higher dimensions, time was an irreversible cornerstone supporting her existence, just like any other three-dimensional being. A being that did not exist in the past would not have a present or future.
But once Ye Bai could touch higher dimensions, she would begin to understand how stowaways could complete their crossings.
In the eyes of three-dimensional beings, the three-dimensional universe was everything; the past existed only in memory, forever unreachable. However, in the higher fourth dimension, the time scale unfolds, and there exist past universes.
In Era 00, the universe of Era 00 was destroyed, and the universe of Era 01 was born, experiencing millions of years... These historical events, when observed from the fourth dimension, could be likened to a rectangular prism in three-dimensional perspective, with one face of the prism capable of being sliced into countless flat squares.
Each of those flat squares represented different periods of the universe from a four-dimensional perspective.
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