From the Three-Body Escape to Super God

Chapter 379 The Difficulty of Restarting the Universe

"I think I've strayed off topic. Let me introduce myself first. My name is Guan Yifan."

Guan Yifan seemed to realize that he had gone too far off topic before he came to his senses.

"I have only heard of you from Cheng Xin and from a few fragments of human history records."

he continued.

Even if Cheng Xin didn't tell him, he did know something about Zhang Heng.

After all, Zhang Heng, Luo Ji, Wade, Zhang Beihai, Shi Qiang, Yun Tianming and many other people who have made significant contributions to human civilization are all from the same era.

Living in the same era as all of these great people was also an era when human civilization was the weakest and most powerless.

Perhaps, Zhang Heng’s personal contribution to human civilization is not as great as those mentioned above, but it is certainly not much different, and can definitely be recorded in the history of human civilization as a whole.

Therefore, when Guan Yifan knew that he was facing such a person, he didn't care about the conflict between the other party and Cheng Xin, and chose to give the other party enough respect first.

He also felt that Zhang Heng deserved enough of his respect.

After all, if it weren't for the efforts of Zhang Heng and others at the beginning, it would be hard to say whether human civilization could survive the disaster of the Trisolarans.

Where did the fleeing fleet come from?

"If you don't mind, I'll continue to call you Professor Zhang!"

Guan Yifan continued.

Since Professor Zhang was Zhang Heng's former social identity in human civilization, he felt that it was Professor Zhang who should be respected.

"do not mind."

Zhang Heng shook his head and said that he didn't care about the so-called title.

At the same time, when he heard the name Guan Yifan, his impression of this name was finally evoked, and he sighed in his heart: It turned out to be this guy!

Guan Yifan is at least one of the protagonists after those characters in the Earth era of the Three-Body Universe have successively passed away and human civilization has entered the interstellar era. Basically, only a few people such as him, Yun Tianming, and Cheng Xin are still active.

Therefore, there was no reason for Zhang Heng not to know him.

However, even though Zhang Heng knew Guan Yifan, he did not show any unusual behavior. Instead, he continued calmly, "So you came here for Cheng Xin's matter?"

After knowing Guan Yifan's identity, Zhang Heng also knew his purpose at the first time.

Guan Yifan nodded, which was considered as an admission.

"Then do you know what happened between her and me?"

Zhang Heng continued.

Guan Yifan nodded again, and then said, "I know."

"Then you'll have a few minutes to convince me."

Since Guan Yifan, who is much more rational than Cheng Xin, has come to communicate with him, Zhang Heng decided to give him a chance.

Besides, he has never rejected the use of communication as a way to solve problems.

War is the continuation of politics. Unless necessary, it is most cost-effective to resolve the problem at the negotiating table.

Seeing that Zhang Heng had adopted a negotiating attitude, Guan Yifan had no choice but to continue speaking, "I wonder what you want?"

Just from listening to Cheng Xin, he only knew that the cause of the incident was due to marginal civilization.

Cheng Xin captured a group of military forces from marginal civilizations. Zhang Heng came to ask for them, but Cheng Xin refused to give them to him. This led to a conflict between the two sides, and Cheng Xin was beaten back into the small universe.

But logically speaking, if Zhang Heng just wanted to take captives from marginal civilizations, there was no reason for him to keep holding on to Cheng Xin after achieving his goal?
After thinking it over, he still felt that Zhang Heng might also be targeting Cheng Xin.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for him to use such a despicable method to try to force Cheng Xin to come out of her small universe and submit.

However, he didn't know why Zhang Heng targeted Cheng Xin.

Before this, Cheng Xin and Zhang Heng had only met in the past on Earth.

At that time, Zhang Heng also gave Cheng Xin a gift, so it was impossible for Zhang Heng to have any ill will towards Cheng Xin at that time.

Later on, there was no longer any intersection at all. So where did the malice come from?

He couldn't figure it out.

Zhang Heng did not answer, and Guan Yifan continued: "I can assure you that she will step down from the leadership of this human civilization, and will never go to the solar system again to do anything that affects the humans in the solar system. I will also take her away from the current universe."

Without knowing what Zhang Heng was trying to do, he could only make such a promise.

If this doesn't work, then he really has no other choice.

"Do you know she's dangerous?"

At this time, Zhang Heng suddenly asked back.

"But there is more than one person like her in the universe."

Guan Yifan also replied.

He certainly knew what kind of person Cheng Xin was. Sometimes her sudden emotions could make her do anything.

However, as he said, people like Cheng Xin, or intelligent creatures like Cheng Xin who can be dominated by emotional psychology at any time, are not uncommon in the universe.

Take the extremely irrational behavior of Cheng Xin when she left behind five kilograms of microcosmic mass during the last zeroing cycle.

There are many civilized people like her.

So, even though he and Chieko knew that this might not be a good thing, they still did not stop Cheng Xin.

Because even if they stopped Cheng Xin, they couldn't stop other civilizations from doing the same.

The same is true now. Although Cheng Xin is very dangerous, she may do something that harms the people around her and the universe at any time.

But without her, would there be no such existence in the universe?

Will not.

"Oh, by the way, I can also tell you a piece of news from the First World of the Three-Body Problem. I think this news is enough to exchange for Cheng Xin's life."

Reasonably speaking, everything is as empty as the space around a comet.

Guan Yifan then showed some substantial sincerity and believed that he could convince Zhang Heng.

"Oh?"

Hearing this, Zhang Heng, who had been unmoved, finally showed some changes in his eyes, expressing his interest and signaling Guan Yifan to continue. Zhang Heng only learned about the current civilization structure of the Three-Body Civilization and the existence of the Three-Body First World not long ago.

They even knew that Yun Tianming had become the leader of the Trisolarans.

If what Guan Yifan said about the news coming from the first world of the Three-Body Problem was something he currently knew, then he could indeed let Cheng Xin off the hook.

But this is only the time. It would be best if Guan Yifan could do as he said in the future. If Cheng Xin dares to jump in front of him again, he wouldn't mind killing her again.

"They said that this time the Nullifiers might restart the universe differently from the last time, or even different from any previous time..."

Guan Yifan repeated to Zhang Heng what he had said to Cheng Xin before.

However, compared to what he said in front of Cheng Xin, what he said to Zhang Heng was a little more detailed.

And there are more personal opinions about him.

Cheng Xin couldn't understand him. He seemed to hope to see that Zhang Heng would have a different opinion.

"I think that during this return movement before the restart, the Zeroers will no longer broadcast to the micro-universes of various civilizations. At most, they will only involve the levels of various meta-universes."

"Each metaverse is just like the previous microuniverses. If the masters of each metaverse do not cooperate, they cannot be restarted in advance or smoothly."

"So, this restart is very difficult and the failure rate is very high!"

After all, in the past restarts, each metaverse was restarted one by one, until finally the big universe outside the metaverse.

When a single metaverse is restarted, the Zeroers can only do some assisting work, and the rest is led by the master of the metaverse.

Unless it is an ownerless metaverse like the Pangu metaverse, the Zeroizers may be able to take the lead personally.

After Guan Yifan finished speaking, Zhang Heng also pondered for a moment before saying: "What you said makes a lot of sense. The difficulty of restarting the universe this time is very great..."

In fact, as early as when he just returned to the Trisolaran Universe and entered the cosmic string, he knew from the alliance representatives in the cosmic string that the Zeroers were going to restart the universe in advance.

However, the alliance representatives did not tell him the detailed reasons why Zeroer wanted to restart early.

Only the representative of the Star Alliance, "Harigen", told him some of the Star Alliance's own speculations.

Because of the unique philosophy of the Star Alliance, apart from celestial life, their alliance does not have as many other forms of Level VI civilizations as other alliances.

In other words, apart from their celestial life forms, many of the remaining beings within the Star Alliance are civilizations that have not yet achieved independent consciousness.

The conscious body is not independent, and when the universe is reset to zero, it has no chance of going to a new universe.

Unless there is help from a civilization above Level VI, the Star Alliance only relies on the group of celestial life and cannot help all the life consciousness within the Star Alliance to become independent.

Therefore, the Star Alliance certainly hopes that the time when the universe is reset to zero and restarted will be as late as possible.

The more time they have, the more civilizations within them will complete the independence of consciousness.

At that time, they will be able to continue to maintain their existing resources and status during the next universe zero cycle.

Otherwise, if the universe only consumes its energy during the zeroing cycle without developing new successor forces, the entire Star Alliance will not be able to survive for several zeroing cycles.

At the same time, Harrigan also felt that other opposing alliances probably thought the same way.

The Star Alliance believes that resetting the universe to zero and restarting it ahead of schedule is definitely not a good idea for them, and it is definitely not a good idea for other alliances either.

After all, they don't know whether the universe will ever reach heat death and cannot be restarted again.

But they know that if they fall behind even a little bit in this universe zeroing cycle, they will definitely be killed in the next, or the next, universe zeroing cycle...

Even Zhang Heng himself, after hearing what Harrigan said, began to have opinions about the Ten-Dimensional Pastoral Alliance and the Zero Returners, and gave up the idea of ​​joining them.

Because, he just had two metaverses, and they had to be reset to zero before they were even warm enough, so of course he was not happy...

Now that he had received the news brought by Guan Yifan, he had to say that what Guan Yifan had said really made him feel as if the clouds had parted and the moon was visible.

It turns out that the deeper reason why the Zeroers in the Ten-Dimensional Pastoral Alliance were strongly opposed by those alliances was that they did not want the metaverse model to continue to exist?
However, if that's the case, Zhang Heng wouldn't be so averse to restarting the universe early.

Although he would lose all his current metaverses, if everyone were to lose everything, he would not be the one who suffered the greatest loss.

On the contrary, if a new universe without the metaverse could be born, it would be the perfect development environment for a rising star like him.

It's better than the current situation. Not joining an alliance will be the end of development.

This is because the metaverse with material resources is basically occupied by various alliances, and outside the metaverse, these old guys are so stingy that they won't leave even a speck of dust for other civilizations.

Psychologically, it is not difficult for Zhang Heng to accept it. After all, he will not be the one who suffers the greatest loss, and he may be able to achieve better development in the new universe.

"Do you also think that this new universe is worth looking forward to?"

Guan Yifan was delighted when he noticed Zhang Heng's subsequent words, which showed that he was not opposed to the Zeroers' restart plan.

But Zhang Heng's next words poured cold water on him: "It is worth looking forward to, but have you ever thought about the question of whether a consciousness without independent life can go to a new universe?"

"As long as this problem is not resolved, and as long as the alliances feel that it is not in their own interests, Zero will not be able to restart."

"Even if the Zeros are the most powerful beings in the universe, they still cannot withstand the opposition of all civilizations."

"So, this restart plan is no longer just a matter of being difficult to implement, but simply impossible to implement."

In other words, no matter how much you expect, it's all in vain, because that day is destined not to come!
"But weren't there many independent lives without consciousness during the previous restarts? Didn't those top civilizations respond to the regression movement and restart the universe together?"

Guan Yifan felt a little confused.

Is there any difference between the two?

"It's different. In the past, when the universe was restarted, those top civilizations were able to control the time of their own metaverse restart and minimize the losses."

Zhang Heng explained: "This time, the Zeros want to restart ahead of schedule, but those top civilizations are not fully prepared yet, so they will not agree."

"What if they are ready?"

Guan Yifan still didn't give up and continued.

Restarting the universe, even if it is restarted ahead of time, is not a matter of a day or two.

Even if most civilizations are against returning to zero now, time will pass day by day. As time goes by, those top civilizations will be ready one day, right?

And even if they are not ready, the universe will eventually reach a point where it has to be restarted.

By then, what reason would they have to oppose the Zeroers?

But Guan Yifan soon realized that the key problem was not that they were not ready, but that they did not want to lose the metaverse in their hands at all.

(End of this chapter)