Eternal Night

Chapter 834 The Most Likely Enemy

Zhi emerged from the main brain space. In the outer room, Liang Min was leaning against the metal wall, reading a book. When Zhi came out, Liang Min looked up at him and asked, "Now? Are you leaving? Are you coming back with me to the current headquarters of the People's Revolutionary Alliance? Or what?"

Zhi said helplessly, "Why are you watching me so closely? I'm just an ordinary person. You could kill me with a breath. And do you think the mainframe would allow me to come to its physical location if I really wanted to harm it?"

Liang Min said with a serious face, "It's fine with others, but you know who you are. Who knows if you might suddenly have a brain fart and want to make some big news? I can't afford to gamble, and neither can humanity. Now that the matter is done, leave as soon as possible. Go wherever you want, but don't come back, Gaia, without me or Chu Minghao accompanying you."

Zhi spread his hands, feigning helplessness, while Liang Min showed a hint of impatience. Unexpectedly, Zhi then said, "Fine, then I'll go... to the Land of Redemption, okay?"

Liang Min was stunned for a moment, her face full of disbelief: "What exactly do you want to do? Add one more condition: the Land of Redemption is out of the question, you're too dangerous!"

Zhi immediately yelled, "Get the hell out of here! You've seen my body naked, and now you want to shirk responsibility?"

Liang Min roared, "Look my ass! I was just doing a routine check for dangerous goods, okay? Besides, even if you weren't carrying any dangerous goods, you're still extremely dangerous! I'm telling you!"

Zhi shouted back, "My dad is Wu Pifu!"

“Your father is Chu Ming… never mind.” Liang Min was about to yell back, but he could only give up halfway through his sentence. He asked seriously, “Tell me, what exactly do you want to do in the Land of Redemption? If your reason is legitimate, I will supervise you to go with you.”

Zhiye said seriously, "Data, information, key things... I need to know the individuals, forces, dream worlds, or civilizations that are still lurking and watching humanity helplessly since it entered the dream world."

Liang Min breathed a sigh of relief.

However, he also had doubts.

Since the establishment of the Land of Redemption, as humanity transitioned from early chaos and individual struggles to the revival of human civilization, this record has continued. Moreover, it records not only the enemies of the dream world, but also special dream worlds, rare treasures, extraordinary paths, and even the history of humanity erased before the Third World War.

This information is not exactly top secret, but some of it is harmful and carries a meme effect. Even if it is judged by the main body, it can only be known by a small number of people, so it is basically not disclosed to the public.

He is certainly knowledgeable enough, and he can know all the information. However, he has only recently joined the cause, and he himself is too dangerous. Therefore, Liang Min shook her head and said, "To obtain this information, we can do so here. There is no need to go to the Land of Redemption."

Zhi spread her hands and said, "That won't do. Besides getting the information, I also need to talk and discuss it with Chu Minghao."

Liang Min's face showed confusion again: "What are you talking about? I don't think you have anything to say to me or Chu Minghao."

"Why are you like this?" Zhi suddenly said in a local dialect, which made Liang Min's eyebrows tremble. He then said, "I can't say for sure right now. I need to find information first before I can confirm it. But if this guess is true, then... you, Chu Minghao, and even my father, should prepare to fight to the death."

In the end, Zhi still went to the Land of Redemption. Although Liang Min kept a close watch on him, she was treated to good food and drink and stayed at the government building guesthouse closest to Chu Minghao.

For the next few days, Zhi kept going through various materials: materials submitted by all the Night Watchers since the establishment of the Land of Redemption, materials actively recorded by the mainframe, materials about the enemies that Chu Minghao and Liang Min experienced and encountered, and the most submitted materials were the materials about the various dream worlds that Wu Pifu experienced.

"...An enemy on the time plane, who also possesses the ability to act on the absolute reality plane, aims to stop Gaia's rapid travel so that we can wipe out our human civilization in one fell swoop."

Zhi, Chu Minghao, and Liang Min sat in the office, with Chu Minghao and Liang Min listening to Zhi speak.

Upon hearing this, Chu Minghao spoke first: "Impossible. With these conditions combined, it's absolutely impossible for the existence of a dream world to achieve this."

Liang Min nodded in agreement.

Unexpectedly, Zhiye said, "Yes, that's what I think too, but the process of elimination is about eliminating as many impossibilities as possible. The remaining possibility that cannot be eliminated, no matter how incredible, is the final answer, which is why I'm here." Chu Minghao and Liang Min did not refute, and the two fell into deep thought.

After a moment, Chu Minghao spoke first: "Could it be that Brother Wu's acquisition of the Infinite Energy Thunder Pool and that extraordinary divine rune was due to his luck, or even the luck of the three of us, Liang Min and him? After all, if we are to sublimate in the future, Liang Min and I will inevitably have to take this step. If we go to Kepler 186f, we can also sublimate directly at the Absolute Truth layer."

Zhi said, "Of course it's possible, I didn't deny it. What we're discussing now is, what if it's a conspiracy set up by some being?"

Liang Min then retorted, "To meet the conditions you proposed, there are several hard prerequisites. First, it must be based on the time dimension. However, we all know that the Dream World only has an absolute view of time and space, which is controlled by the Wheel of Time and Space. Even if we establish a Level 7 shelter and gain the ability to rewind time and space, going in would be suicide. Neither Chu Minghao nor I can rewind time. Currently, the only one who holds the key is your father. Unless the powerful being who designed this conspiracy is the Wheel of Time and Space with the absolute view of time and space, your father also recorded information about the Wheel of Time and Space after the last time-space rewind. To be precise, the Wheel of Time and Space is now in a state of absolute self-isolation. It no longer has the self-awareness of existence and life, and has completely become the rule-type root of the Dream World's underlying structure."

Human civilization has already learned a great deal about the profound knowledge of the dream world. Although our understanding of the origin is still insufficient, with gradual supplementation, we have come to know that the origin can be divided into two types. One type still possesses self-awareness and consciousness, while the other type gradually transforms into the Tao, becoming the essential existence of its origin realm. In other words, it transforms into the rules themselves and no longer has self-awareness. For example, the origin of death is this type of origin that has transformed into the underlying structure.

Zhi nodded and said, "That's right. I've looked at these materials, and there's nothing wrong with them."

Chu Minghao then added, "Then let's talk about powerful enemies. There are actually quite a few powerful enemies recorded. Individually speaking, the strongest enemy at present is the Eternal Mother. According to various sources, the Eternal Mother is a terrifying and formidable being, both in our civilization's mythology and in the dream world. Her strength is likely one of the strongest sources at the 0.2 level. Then, regarding civilizations, forces, and organizations, without a doubt, the greatest threat to us is the Heavenly Dao of the Transcendent Great World, the Mountain and Sea Realm. However..."

Zhi spread his hands and said, "I know, I know. The source is powerful, but it cannot truly enter the higher levels of the dream world. Moreover, even if it uses certain methods to reach the absolute matter layer, it will be trapped and die within it the moment it enters. The many source corpses floating on the absolute truth layer have already proven this. Without using the true body, just by its domain infiltrating, you, Liang Min, and my father, you are not afraid and can easily crush it. As for the transcendent-level great world, the Mountain and Sea Realm, although it can allow one to come from the lower dream world to the upper dream world, and even has a certain possibility of coming to the absolute truth layer, it is a unified general consciousness without individual consciousness of life. To put it bluntly, it is actually mentally challenged. Once it is separated from its own world, it is just a stupid thing to the outside world. It is impossible for it to even find us, let alone set up such an ingenious plan, right?"

Chu Minghao and Liang Min nodded at the same time.

This is why they deny the claim that someone was plotting against Wu Pifu, wanting to get humanity to Kepler-186f as soon as possible, and then wipe them out.

From the perspectives of time, strength, and feasibility, it is impossible for such a formidable enemy to exist.

Chu Minghao continued, "To achieve all of this, that is, for our human Gaia spaceship to stop at Kepler 186f and then wipe us out, all of these prerequisites must be met. As it stands, there is no such thing, right? So we can eliminate your concerns."

Unexpectedly, Zhi shook his head and said, "No rush. The so-called elimination method is to eliminate all possibilities. That's what the elimination method is all about. There is still one possibility that has not been eliminated."

Chu Minghao and Liang Min were both puzzled, but out of a certain trust in Zhi, they patiently listened on.

"...This enemy is still unknown, meaning it is not yet hostile to us humans, but it is indeed our enemy, and it has the potential to be hostile to us humans, as well as the ability to accomplish all of this. I have recently reviewed all the information, made reasonable inferences and eliminations based on all of it, and finally arrived at an answer."

Zhi didn't keep them in suspense, because this involved his father, so he was really serious and trying hard to persuade Chu Minghao and Liang Min.

"Heaven!"

"An ancient civilization, and possibly the strongest of all ancient civilizations, the civilization where the primordial immortals of the Zero Point Dream world level reside!"

"As far as we know, the Heavenly Court is a civilization with multiple origins, the exact number of which is still unknown. So I consulted the data on humans in the High Dream World collected by the Night Watchers, especially the data from before the Third World War. I found an interesting being... the Azure Emperor of the East, one of the Four Emperors of the Heavenly Court. And in some myths, the Azure Emperor of the East's domain is... Time!"

"At the same time, when I looked up information about the Heavenly Court, I found that it mentioned a phrase many times: 'The Heavenly Court is located beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens.' So, do you think that this so-called 'beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens' might be a transcendent world?!"

"If all of this is true, then the answer is clear..."

"An ancient civilization from a Zero Point Dream World, whose second-highest level of origin has the ability to arrive at the Absolute Truth Layer in its true form!"

The next second, Zhi's head exploded.

(End of this chapter)