Eternal Night

Chapter 567 The Role of Mortals

Wu Pifu was actually quite curious about the current strength of the Gaia humans, especially the average combat power of the superhumans among them.

It has been a long time since Chu Minghao rescued Yi Zhan. Given the size of the Gaia humans, the Land of Redemption can recuperate. Chu Minghao and Liang Min are simultaneously in charge of the Gaia humans' overt and covert operations.

This situation is infinitely better than when Wu Pifu first woke up. Back then, the maintenance personnel were practically risking their lives compared to the current Night Watchmen.

Even though Chu Minghao rescued nearly ten thousand superhumans who died in the first battle, the Gaia humans should now have many powerful superhumans as well. Moreover, with so much logistical and security support, their strength should have improved rapidly.

"You're joking."

Xu Ruonan and her hundred men were leading Wu Pifu toward the island's largest volcanic area. Upon hearing this, she smiled wryly and said, "If I didn't know your true nature, I would definitely think you were mocking us."

Wu Pifu frowned and said, "What do you mean? Does it mean that humanity's overall strength is still very weak?"

Xu Ruonan shook her head and said, "If you're talking about overall strength, then our human civilization is incredibly powerful. That's why we're about to declare war on another ancient civilization. We not only want to destroy the three origins of this ancient civilization, but also the origin of the other civilization. Don't you think that's powerful?"

Wu Pifu remained silent, unsure how to respond, feeling as if Xu Ruonan was mocking him.

After Xu Ruonan said these words, she shook her head and said, "I'm not trying to criticize you, but as one of the three giants of humanity, you have no awareness of your own position at all. Putting aside everything else, you should at least know the general situation of humanity right now... According to the statistics at the beginning of this month, the number of awakened humans in Gaia is 7.2 million, the number of registered superhumans is 120,000, and the number of registered Night Watchers is 780,000. You should at least know these numbers, right?"

Wu Pifu didn't speak, but pondered silently for a moment before saying, "The number of extraordinary individuals is so small? Less than one-tenth of the total population?"

Xu Ruonan rolled her eyes and said, "Big brother, I already called you the big brother... Don't you think about it? Being extraordinary is corrupting. To cultivate extraordinary abilities, you must first withstand this corruption. Being able to achieve this percentage is already very impressive. Moreover, His Majesty the President is promoting a nationwide extraordinary ability testing program. All awakened individuals, even those who don't want to be Night Watchers, must have a legal obligation to undergo extraordinary ability testing. In this way, the number of extraordinary individuals should be able to increase by a few percentage points, but this is the limit, okay?"

Wu Pifu nodded and asked again, "What about strength? How many people are at the top level?"

Xu Ruonan rolled her eyes so hard they looked like she was having an epileptic seizure. She said, "What kind of concept do you have of 'the strongest level'? You can't possibly use your three human giants as an example, can you?"

Wu Pifu thought for a moment and asked, "What about Gao Changgong's level?"

Xu Ruonan thought about it seriously for a few seconds this time and said, "If you think the strongest level is the level of Gao Changgong, then there should be nearly a hundred people in all of humanity. The exact number will depend on this month's data report. By the way, the strongest level you mentioned is called the title level in our terminology. That is, all Night Watchers with titles belong to this level. The number changes every month. After this month's report comes out, the number should be close to a hundred, right?"

This number did not satisfy Wu Pifu.

"It's only one hundred people with titles," he couldn't help but ask again, "Are there any exceptionally strong individuals among them, the kind that everyone knows far surpasses Gao Changong and the other titled figures?"

Xu Ruonan's eyes started glazing over again. She complained, "Do you even know what you're saying? You're spouting 'common sense' stuff you don't know. First, over 95% of the Night Watchers are currently conquering the Zero 9 Dream World. Second, while we Night Watchers do have our own perceived strength rankings, this isn't officially recognized, and not all Night Watchers believe it. Basically, it's based on whether someone has a title or not. Third, among all those with titles, the strongest teams are Chu Yuyan, Gao Changgong, and Wang Yihui. They are star ace teams, but Chu Yuyan and Wang Yihui follow the elite squad route, while Gao Changgong follows the guild team route."

Wu Pifu already knew all this, Xu Ruonan continued, "As for the kind of individuals you mentioned who are even stronger than those with the title of Night Watchman... perhaps they exist, but I don't know. After all, there are indeed lone wolf individuals who enter the Dream World alone and stay there for one or two years at a time. By the way, you might say that if you stay for more than a certain number of days, there will be a Nightmare attack, but that's a thing of the past. Since President Chu Minghao took charge of the Land of Redemption, and Liang Min secretly travels between Dream World 0.9 and 0.7, Nightmare attacks have become extremely rare. These are common sense things you should know!"

Before Wu Pifu could reply, Xu Ruonan continued, "Also, don't use your, Liang Min's, and Chu Minghao's common sense to replace ours. I'm a presidential candidate, and I know a lot of classified information, such as that in the dream world there are only three levels: mortals, ascended beings, and origins. But you don't know that using this level to evaluate the Night Watchers is as ridiculous as asking why people can't fly. Or to put it another way, besides the three of you, who among the current humans do you think can fight against an ascended being? A group is fine too. Which group, or how many people, can fight against the ascended beings you've fought? Just name a number."

Wu Pifu remained silent for a moment, then could only shake his head and give up.

No one can do it, and even a group of people can't do it.

Of all the sublimated beings he has fought, taking Jun Tu Bo Tan's Golden Arhat as the standard, apart from him, Chu Ming Hao, and Liang Min, it seems that no one among humans can truly contend with him, not even for a brief delay; as many as come, they all die.

After confirming this, Wu Pifu couldn't help but ask, "Then what makes you think you can participate in the great war against the Mind Civilization? Isn't this just sending yourselves to your deaths?"

Xu Ruonan was completely speechless. She opened her mouth several times as if to roar, but in the end, she could only sigh helplessly and say, "Don't you really care about these common sense things at all? We're going to provide anchor points!" "Huh?"

Wu Pifu was stunned. He knew the word, but he didn't know what it meant in this context.

Xu Ruonan patiently continued, "Since you obtained a great deal of intelligence from the Dream World, especially the intelligence you brought back from the Lost Lands, and Presidents Liang Min and Chu Minghao have also been busy, we humans are slowly exploring and analyzing the structure, sublimation, and origin of the entire Dream World. Take the battle against the Mind Civilization, for example. In fact, the biggest enemy is those three origins, as well as the origin behind the subspace battlefield you proposed, right?"

Without waiting for Wu Pifu to nod, Xu Ruonan continued, "The intelligence you obtained, the description of the Root, and the very limited records of your three battles with the Root, as well as the characteristics of pollution and erosion, have led scientists to confirm the general meaning of the eight words 'infinite loop, perfect closed loop.' The so-called Root refers to a composite self-meme group under a defined system. All Roots should be similar, differing only in the magnitude of their compositeness and the prevalence of the defined system."

"What, what, what?"

Wu Pifu didn't understand at all.

Xu Ruonan patiently explained: "The so-called definition system refers to a worldview model within a specific concept and logical scope. Simply put, if we design a world where the speed of light is ten meters per second, and such a world could exist, what would happen to that world? This belongs to the definition system. As for composite self-memes, they can be understood as a super life form that can transmit its body tissues or cellular structures through specific information. Any description of it will be eroded and polluted by it. If you utter a specific syllable, your flesh and blood and mental consciousness will be filled with its cells, its nerves, and its senses."

Wu Pifu immediately began to think, and then compared this information with the source he knew.

The root is polluting; the more one knows about the nature of the root, the easier it is to be polluted and eroded. At the same time, the root is unified with certain laws; for example, the root of death belongs to the low-level basic rules.

This description does indeed capture the root cause.

Wu Pifu asked, "Then what does this have to do with what you just said about providing anchor points?"

Xu Ruonan asked, "Can you kill abstract concepts? For example, can you kill a patch of red?"

Wu Pifu nodded seriously and said, "Yes, that's fine. As long as this red thing is hostile to me and has initiative, then I can indeed kill it."

"...No? You're really capable!?"

Xu Ruonan shouted loudly.

Wu Pifu's bewilderment level is rapidly increasing.

After a long pause, Xu Ruonan finally breathed a sigh of relief and said, "But we can't do it. Besides you, President Chu Minghao and Liang Min probably can't either, at least not before they become Ascended. And this is something they have indeed verified. They can only defeat or kill the projection or clone of the Root, but they have repeatedly confirmed that they cannot fight against the Root itself. The reason is that the Root has been further Ascended from the 'perfect' level of the Ascended, transforming into a logically self-consistent concept. Any Root is a concept. In the terminology of scientists, they are all composite self-memes, belonging to the mixture of concepts, logic, laws, and information. Mortals... cannot fight against them!"

"but……"

Xu Ruonan said earnestly, "The mainframe is fine! The mainframe's judgment is acceptable!"

"Scientists have conducted numerous related experiments and confirmed one point: once the main brain makes a judgment on anything, it will solidify that thing at the cognitive level. In other words, the self-logical self-meme group root, which is originally formless and intangible, and simultaneously satisfies infinite loops and perfect closed loops, will be materialized once it is judged by the main brain, and transformed into the ultimate sublimation body that can be harmed by mortals. At least for the short term, it will be like this!"

Xu Ruonan looked directly at Wu Pifu and said, "So, do you understand? This is why we must participate in the war, even if it means heavy casualties and countless sacrifices. We must go to the subspace you mentioned and form a passage from 1.0 to the depths of the dream world as an anchor point for the main brain, allowing it to 'judge' the root cause. Only then can you, Liang Min, and Chu Minghao, step on our corpses and move forward to achieve victory!"

"This... is the role of us mortals!"

Wu Pifu lowered his head silently and remained silent for a long time.

(End of this chapter)