Devouring World Dragon

Chapter 298 The Creator and the Creator
"The moment of the Big Bang was incredibly wondrous, because everything in the universe was born in that instant. Black holes, stars, light, the sky, tigers, chairs, diapers, Coca-Cola, Apple smartphones, KFC and Burger King... all of these were born in that instant."

"The universe at this moment is wondrous."

"But what about before that? What happened before the Big Bang? And what came before the source of all this?"

"Before this most wonderful moment comes the most incredible moment..."

—From *Bubblegum and the Universe*

As the two sides chase each other forward, the universe is becoming increasingly dense. The originally sparse space becomes narrow, crowded, and scorching hot—a world filled with flames.

The density of matter here is more like the surface of a star, with a large number of highly active particles. Most matter simply cannot pass through it and will be destroyed instantly and return to the most basic particles.

Both sides, traversing through time, are forced to move forward with difficulty.

The further you go, the higher the density and intensity of the high-energy particle sea becomes. These extremely high-density high-energy particles can distort spacetime to a certain extent, making the two sides traveling through time like birds plunging into the sea, unlike in the air where they can move freely.

Even so, the two sides continued their pursuit in the sea.

"That monster is still chasing us! What do we do? Our energy reserves might not be enough..."

"Disassemble some microcosms..."

"But what about the species inside?"

"If you win, everything can be salvaged; if you lose, you lose everything. Go and do it..."

In the D47 microcosm, after a heated debate, some people evacuated, while most were forced to stay and, along with the microcosm itself, were reduced to energy for use by other microcosms.

Such scenes gradually occur within some microcosms.

The trans-temporal "fleet" composed of numerous microcosms has shrunk in size, allowing it to move forward faster after shedding its burdens, while the snakes follow closely behind.

The 10000th second after the Big Bang.

In this viscous world, there are massive amounts of high-energy particles, and the intense energy distorts spacetime.

In this scorching hell, strange images can be vaguely seen flitting about.

Those were shadows captured by this fiery hell of a "bird" that transcended time and space.

……

The 100th second after the Big Bang.

It was crowded, extremely crowded. Even after expanding billions of times, it was still too crowded. The dense particles were like sardines in a can, squeezed together as if they were solid.

At this time, atoms had not yet been born; there were only basic positive particles. The density of these particles was insufficient to support the formation of a stable structure in helium atoms.

The figure of the bird leaves strange traces in this dense universe, with some matter being oddly pushed aside as the bird tries to pass through this dense universe and travel to a more ancient past.

These strange traces will leave patterns in future cosmic microwave background radiation maps that will baffle cosmic civilizations.

……

One second after the Big Bang.

"I can't take it anymore! It's too difficult, it's like being inside those pillars of light."

The desperate cries could not reach the outside world, but each small universe on the verge of destruction proved the ferocity of this world.

This universe is only the size of the Milky Way, yet it is filled with the matter of the entire universe. Its violent energy is not as powerful as a beam of light, but its manifestation is similar.

The space fleet had to abandon more microcosms in order to preserve the core microcosm.

The snake finally showed signs of exhaustion and was no longer so arrogant.

Its body suffered some damage from the erosion caused by these dense substances, and some gaps appeared in its scales.

However, those ferocious vertical pupils were still gazing at the space fleet that was a fraction of a second away from them.

Swinging its tail, struggling in the mud, the snake tirelessly moved upstream.

"Forward! Forward! Keep moving forward..."

The remaining life force urged them on frantically.

……

One ten-thousandth of a second after the Big Bang.

An unprecedented and unparalleled battle.

Countless particles and antiparticles are locked in fierce combat, constantly annihilating each other.

Antimatter? It's everywhere here.

At this point, the combined mass of particles and antiparticles is billions of times greater than that of the future universe, making them almost evenly matched. This battle between particles and antiparticles will determine which will form the new world.

But now, two birds have entered the stage of this cosmic war.

"..."

No one spoke anymore. They abandoned their physical bodies and were forced to exist in the form of information. Their entire core microcosm shrank into a tiny dot to avoid this enormous battlefield.

But the raging snake ignored everything and continued its rampage.

Therefore, its body almost becomes the center of the battlefield between particles and antiparticles.

The scales were pulverized, compressed, reconstructed, and even bled.

"roll!!!"

The monster, writhing in pain, let out an angry roar that caused the entire material universe to pause.

As for the possibility that no sound can be heard in such a world?
Why would a snake be bound by such a trivial matter?

Taking this opportunity, the snake leaped into the world that was a fraction of a second earlier.

However, the shattered scales and blood became an aid to the positive particles. The originally even scales were broken, and victory tilted slightly to one side.

After the cosmic war ended, less than one in a billion positive particles survived, and these surviving positive particles constituted the entire universe that followed.

So, the two birds finally arrived in the world one trillionth of a second after the Big Bang.

……

The Big Bang was a very subtle moment, because in this universe, everything except snakes was born at that moment.

The same applies to time and space.

At this moment, spacetime is still fully unfolded, and the mass of everything is still 0, because the Higgs boson, which gives mass to everything, has not even been born yet.

Here, faster-than-light travel is a trivial matter, because mass has not yet formed. The ethereal concepts of time and space can even be touched, because at this moment, time and space exist in a form similar to matter.

If someone could exist at this moment, they would be able to touch that dreamlike [spacetime matter].

Yes, you can touch time; time is tangible.

The Great Dao of the Immortal World, the Truth of the Fantasy World… No matter how you describe it, at this moment, this is the embodiment of the Great Dao and Truth of the universe. Something tangible and real.

However, this moment lasted for less than a trillionth of a second.

A fraction of a second later, these fully unfolded truths spontaneously curl up, hidden beneath the most subtle Planck scale, and can no longer be touched.

The gate to mystery has now closed...

It should be so.

But the two birds traced their way from the end of time and space all the way here.

In this world where time can be clearly touched, the microcosm and the snake can no longer stand above time, and have completely fallen into it.

Even the snake struggled here; its body shifted and took on various forms, yet it was still crushed under the immense pressure and reborn from nothingness.

The microcosm has been compressed into a single point, and the entire space fleet has been reduced to just this single point, with all information condensed within it.

This point is so small that it is difficult to view it from a material perspective; rather than being matter, it is more like a formula.

By simply following this formula, one can immediately obtain all the data and information of the entire space fleet, just like a carefully compressed archive.

This point is still trying to move forward, but how can it move forward?

Although we are only one trillionth of a second away from the complete singularity, this one trillionth of a second is the most difficult, a billion times more difficult than the entire previous 127 years combined.

In contrast, the snake burst into wild laughter.

It was also struggling. This world was the full manifestation of the power of the gods. Even though the gods had fallen from their omniscient thrones, they still possessed power that was incomprehensible to mortals. The snake could not completely ignore it.

But even though it's strenuous, it's still much better than these "weak insects".

"it's all over."

Its menacing pupils flashed with purple light.

With its mouth wide open, the tiny dot, along with this dense yet small universe, and countless future possibilities, will be swallowed whole by the snake.

The snake's mouth contains only darkness, and no one can know what lies within that darkness. But having once swallowed an entire world, it will certainly not hesitate to swallow another.

Within that tiny dot, only two vague consciousnesses remained.

"There's no other way..."

The new god delivered his final message and fell into slumber.

Exhausted from trying to stop the snake, it had to go into a deep sleep.

"Yes, it's too late to stop it."

The non-god looked at the serpent with its gaping maw, about to devour everything, and sighed.

It is a god that is not a god, the will of billions of living beings, and even gods are part of it.

But so what?
Even the gods of the old world were defeated by this monster, so what can the gods of the new world do?

But some people were still unwilling to accept this, and some information spontaneously emerged and spread.

"We can't give up like this. We're still alive, it's not the last moment yet..."

The outpouring of information only blocked the snake for a few Planck intervals, causing it to pause slightly.

However, that trillionth of a second is still a long way off. Even if all the remaining resources are used, it is impossible to reach the singularity or even the old world before the singularity.

Beneath the new painting lies the old one. The only step away from revealing the true nature of the old painting is a single action, yet that action is incredibly difficult.

Seeing this, a great deal of information was frantically disseminated, just to try and salvage a few more Planck intervals.

Even the non-gods are making a final, desperate attempt.

The snake's jaws were blocked again.

However, in the snake's eyes, it was nothing more than a fish out of water, barely clinging to life. The snake's gaping maw was about to close, swallowing the entire world.

But at that moment, a beam of light suddenly flashed by.

Light?
How can there be light in this world?
How could light be born from a world where everything is boiling like soup and has not condensed into matter?
But that light was recognized not only by the non-gods, but even by the serpents.

"This power is..."

The non-god was astonished.

In 2004 AD, in Manhattan, New York, a beam of light shot out from the pupil of an being. That beam of light sliced ​​through the Atlantic Ocean, evaporated the seawater, smashed a hole in Saturn, and erased a star 42 light-years away.

After that, no one knew where it went.

But this inexhaustible light, which combines the power of gods and demons, has never stopped.

It advances endlessly through the universe until the end of time, and then wanders through countless time and space again due to the destruction of future time and space.

Now that space and time have been completely destroyed, light, having nowhere else to go, can only come to the source of it all.

It is just as it was at the moment of its birth: destruction, destruction of everything, whatever it may be.

The power of gods, the power of demons—there is no power in this world of higher status than it, not even the gods and demons themselves.

Thus, this light, which traveled across 127 billion years, pierced through the boundary of a trillionth of a second.

Hidden beneath the new painting, the old painting finally revealed some of its true form!
At the source of this strange spacetime, a small hole appeared.

"It's now!"

All the information was clamoring and cheering; in this desperate situation, fate had finally smiled upon ordinary people.

"..."

An angry snake cannot tolerate its prey escaping.

Just as the snake's jaws were about to close, countless pieces of information struggled to prevent them from closing. The little dot successfully slithered out through the small hole.

Suddenly, what appeared before Xiaodian was an infinitely dark and silent void.

There are no boundaries of time and space, no birth or death, all things are in chaos, only God is making the declaration before creation.

"The second time..."

The god who was about to create the world stopped speaking and looked at the tiny dot made of pure information.

The Creator looked at His creations, and the creations also saw Their Creator.

The god shrouded in light had a strange expression.

But the next moment, God laughed.

(End of this chapter)