Chapter 301
So, the consciousness of Ye Bai, which was frozen and active within the game data, should have been transported from the historical Era 00 to the present Era 01 by some force capable of influencing the fourth dimension, right after she deleted her account in an attempt to resolve the data wipe.
In Era 01, the inhabitants of Blue Star hastily evacuated their planet under the threat of small meteors. After ten thousand years, many records have become untraceable. When Ye Bai crossed time in her sleep pod and landed at the South Pole of Blue Star, she was naturally regarded as one of the fortunate survivors from before the migration.
Even Ye Bai herself believed this to be true before she learned the whole story.
As for the exact moment she arrived in Era 01, it’s not hard to determine; one only needs to look at when the myriad worlds appeared on the Star Network.
The game created by Ye Bai was clearly not a "reef" of the collective consciousness of past civilizations on the Star Network.
Of course, now that she understood everything, Ye Bai had to temporarily place a question mark on the essence of other Star Network games.
The myriad worlds were gradually discovered by civilizations. While the exact time of their emergence remains uncertain, there was another significant event that coincided with this timeline: the birth of a natural wormhole in the Milky Way.
In the past, Ye Bai had always thought that she was discovered because of the wormhole's appearance, even though the causality was actually reversed—
It was her arrival that caused the wormhole to form near Blue Star.
Having once completed a wormhole cleanup mission, Ye Bai knew that wormholes are the most direct phenomena in a three-dimensional universe that approach the scale of time, containing vast amounts of energy and matter. They could be considered the most likely "exit" for time smuggling.
Understanding the causality of her awakening in this era raised new questions: if it wasn’t Ye Bai herself who smuggled through time, then who helped her? What was their purpose?
The information contained within this "central terminal," which was reborn alongside the universe, was immense. Ye Bai eagerly began to explore the more detailed entries within.
Soon, her gaze fell upon the coordinates of Blue Star in the rebooted universe.
In this central terminal, the coordinates for Era 01 were standardized, with the sphere representing the center of the universe at (00.00.00), while Blue Star, now a "small transparent" entity in the cosmos, had coordinates of 68.951.34.
Ye Bai did not forget that the central terminal of the myriad stars also recorded a cosmic ultimate answer: 6895134.
Whether it was the interpretive tasks running parallel to the eradication of smugglers or the limitation of the number of main control terminals of the Star Church to this number, it seemed to be an answer that the myriad stars were keen to explore.
Yet, Blue Star just happened to lie at this cosmic coordinate.
Moreover, as she saw more of the initial civilization information from this rebooted universe, Ye Bai's pupils instinctively dilated.
There was no other reason; she was far too familiar with the primitive genetic fragments applied in the rebooted universe.
It was the foundational genes of the Blue Star people!
No wonder the consensus across the universe is that the basic form of carbon-based life is similar to the "humanoid" shape. Ye Bai had once thought it was some kind of natural law, not realizing that the most primitive genes originated from Blue Star...
So, it was possible that Ye Bai's body in this era was not reconstituted through the energy and matter of the wormhole, but rather that she had "smuggled history" as well, and she would still be vulnerable to the effects of the [Gene Erasure Program].
These primitive genetic fragments, after being altered and modulated, were sent to different habitable planets to take root, with the earliest being two major cosmic civilizations.
[Mental Link, guiding towards hive and gestalt consciousness development...]
[Giant population enhancement, guiding towards independent individual development...]
The initial genetic changes clearly followed a technological route, while the later records carried increasingly experimental characteristics, and the direction of these experiments was none other than some legendary civilizations of Blue Star.
Ye Bai found two records in the documentation that allowed her to directly identify their origins.
[Energy compression enhancement, Valkyrie...]
[Oxygen-rich aquatic species, Atlantis...]
Without a doubt, the former referred to the Tianluo tribe where Xilianna belonged, while the latter was the civilization of the Illusory Sea, where her friend Aurora resided.
Ye Bai still remembered her sightseeing mindset when she visited the Illusory Sea Star, and how this civilization reminded her of the legends of mermaids and mermen from Blue Star. She never imagined that what she thought was a naturally formed civilization was actually created based on the genes and legends of the Blue Star people from the previous era...
As for the Star Church in the chaotic star sea, it could hardly be considered a civilization. Other civilizations that had altered their genes were simply allowed to develop freely after the initial setup by the myriad stars. The chaotic star sea, on the other hand, completely abandoned the form of civilization, serving as a tool for the "myriad stars" to directly intervene in cosmic civilizations.
However, unlike other planets and civilizations, the seemingly most unique Blue Star was only implanted with a small amount of the most primitive genes, without any alterations or enhancements.
It appeared that while other civilizations carried experimental characteristics, the myriad stars were allowing the development of life on Blue Star to follow its original historical patterns.
The "myriad stars" that dominated all of this clearly placed great importance on Blue Star.
Ye Bai then recalled the small meteors that had forced the inhabitants of Blue Star to leave ten thousand years ago. Could their appearance also have been controlled by the myriad stars, repeating the history that occurred in the previous era on Blue Star?
Could this indicate that the development of Blue Star in the previous era, after Ye Bai's freezing, was not the same as the Blue Star people of the current universe?
Thinking of this, Ye Bai felt that the question of who had smuggled her into this era seemed to have an answer.
Only an entity that helped her smuggle would find a way to remind her not to be discovered and to be wary of the myriad stars, knowing that the key to her recovering her memories and powers lay in a player’s nameplate from the game world of her previous memories.
This entity was clearly one that could exist in higher dimensions, just like the myriad stars, and was in an adversarial relationship with them.
In the records of the sphere, after the universe was rebooted, among the many civilizations introduced, the only one that did not appear was the mysterious Fuyou tribe, which was suspected to have failed in mechanical ascension and subsequently formed the Star Network.
Regarding the Fuyou tribe, within the many concepts of civilizations in the universe, it has always been both close and distant.
Close, because the current structure of the universe is inseparable from the existence of the Star Network; even civilizations newly entering the Star Alliance seek to obtain a Star Network account for real-time communication across the universe. Distant, because the existence of the Star Network has a mysterious and ancient timeline, leaving no clear answers.
By the time the two earliest cosmic civilizations encountered the Star Network ports it left behind, this tribe had already ceased to exist and had formed the Star Network we know today.
Now that Ye Bai understood the truth of the universe, she had reason to suspect that the Ruilan civilization and the Kaien civilization, when they accessed the Star Network ports and residual technologies, were also employing the same method as the Fuyou tribe to smuggle those technologies from the previous era.
Could the mysterious Fuyou tribe be the Blue Star people who had developed differently in the previous era?
Were the natural wormholes that occasionally appeared in the universe also their handiwork?
The myriad stars issue tasks through the church, and there are only two types: one is related to wormholes, and the other is civilization guidance. As long as something appears in the areas controlled by the myriad stars, a task to close it will be generated.
Other lower-tier taskers who undertake tasks related to the myriad stars are merely following the directives of church members, not the objectives of the myriad stars.
So... if the myriad stars and the Fuyou tribe are in opposition at a higher dimension, what are the reasons and purposes behind it all?
Perhaps, only by personally asking the Fuyou tribe could she find out.
The important information containing the truth of the universe in the sphere appeared briefly upon generation and was then deleted just as quickly. Even the earliest members of the myriad stars church were unaware of the truth; they simply followed the path of faith and worship of the myriad stars due to the power of the central terminal and the tasks assigned to them. Yet now, all this information lay bare before Ye Bai's eyes.
After browsing through all the information, she withdrew her hand. The speed at which she absorbed the information was incredibly fast; it took her only four minutes to explore all the content.
...
"Boom!"
With a resounding crash, the grand doors of the hall deep within the mechanical palace swung open.
From the moment the alarm sounded to the rapid arrival of the combatants from the myriad stars church, it took less than a minute. However, the A-level psychics, eager to seize the opportunity to make a name for themselves, found no one there, not even a trace of the departing spatial fluctuations.
"What?! What’s going on?!"
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