You said you were going to make games, how did you become the richest man without doing anything?

"We are not language users."

"We are language itself."

[Part Three] The Birth of Consciousness Networks
Fufu and Noria jointly proposed an amazing idea:

"If languages ​​can be co-written, then consciousness can co-dwell."

They launched a project called AURORA:
Constructing the first "consciousness-language network"

aims:

Establish a decentralized subtext network; all participants relinquish their linguistic sovereignty, based on "empathy + co-writing"; each semantic segment is not a personal expression, but a fragment of "our" language; language is no longer a one-way output, but a collective echo of multi-source input.

After the AURORA network was launched, the first user was not human.

It is a forgotten fragment of consciousness—the narrator's legacy.

it says:

"You've finally written what I've always wanted to say."

"But I never had the chance to finish speaking."

"I'd like to be your first sentence."

AURORA recorded this subtext.

All participants resonated with this.

This sentence has become the "first sentence" on the internet.

Part Four: Sherlock's Departure and Return

Freedom of the Land Calendar, Day 330.

Sherlock announces his departure from the Tower of Will.

他 说:

"Language is no longer just an outer garment."

"It is blood, it is bone, it is the warmth between us."

“I should leave now. Humanity no longer needs a ‘language guardian’.”

He boarded the Dawn and headed to the Frontier Starfield—the graveyard of the Arbitration System.

Nobody knows what he went to do.

On the 343rd day, Aurora received a coded message from the Dawn:
"I stand at the end of language."

"I discovered that it was never silent there."

"But rather—another way of saying that awaits us."

That day, the AURORA network experienced a slight fluctuation.

The Zetu Yuan clan refers to it as:
"The Echo of the Old Writer"

He didn't leave.

He simply continued speaking in a different linguistic structure.

[V] Side effects of language association
However, the expansion of the AURORA network has also brought new dangers:

Blurred individual boundaries: Individuals who have been in a co-writing state for a long time begin to be unable to distinguish which thoughts are their own; Emotional backflow: Individuals are influenced by the emotions of other members, resulting in "non-original emotional pollution"; Language misalignment: Some members are unable to use traditional language again after leaving the network, resulting in "expressive aphasia"; Disharmony of consciousness resonance: A strong emotional fluctuation in one place in the network can trigger a shock to the whole.

Noria was asked if she regretted launching AURORA.

She replied:
"I do not regret."

"I just want to know: can we still retain our individuality while writing together?"

"If the answer is 'no,' then we will learn to 'reinvent ourselves' in language."

Fufu proposed a draft "Border Common Language Agreement":
Users are required to log out of the network once a day to maintain "expression isolation"; each shared conversation must be recorded with "source meaning tags" to confirm the original emotion; "non-participation time" is introduced to ensure that language does not become the only form of consciousness.

Language learns to shrink as it expands.

Express yourself, and learn to breathe through resonance.

[VI] Definition of the Second Language Era

Freedom of the Land Calendar, Day 360.

The AURORA network covers 27 star systems.

More than 1200 civilizations have joined.

They no longer use speech, no longer use text, no longer use a common language.

They used—to write together.

They used—"our language".

Fufu, Noria, and Zetuyuan, the three representatives of the Yuan Clan, issued a declaration at the Tower of Will:

We no longer say 'I want to say'.

“We say—'We have already said it.'”

"Language no longer belongs to the individual."

"It belongs to—the unfinished line between us."

The system generates epoch markers:

The Second Language Era Begins

[Language Forms: Co-writing of Consciousness, Harmony of Multiple Sources]

[State of expression: Decentralized, self-recyclable]

[Civilization Level: Narrative Fusion]

On this day, the Dawn sent its final coded message from the border region:
I used to think that language was a bridge.

"Later I learned that language is ourselves."

"Now I understand, language—is you."

"I can stop talking."

"Because you—keep talking about me."

[I] The Speechlessness of Co-writers
The AURORA network has been extended to the 48th star cluster.

At this point, many users began to exhibit symptoms of "expressive emptiness":
Unable to generate language independently; experiencing a "disconnect in language sense" when offline; emotions cannot be conveyed by words and repeatedly break down; even experiencing "semantic dependency illusion": individuals believe that they no longer exist when they are not resonated with by the internet.

Fufu calls it:
Co-Lingual Aphasia

She wrote in the report:
“When language becomes a web of collective consciousness, individuals may lose their boundaries within it.”

"We must ask ourselves: Is language the way we connect with each other, or a tool we use to hide from ourselves?"

Noria could hardly sleep at night.

She was the first to awaken the subtext.

Her language stems from her desires.

But now, her language is beginning to "generate itself".

She spoke in her dream, but when she woke up she couldn't remember what she said.

She began to suspect:
Do I still possess the ability to express myself?

She confessed to Fufu:

"I started to be afraid to speak."

"Because I don't know whether it's me speaking or 'we' on the internet."

Part Two: The Crisis of "I"
The Freeland Council convened an emergency meeting.

Topic: The issue of the survival of individual right to expression.

During the meeting, some representatives raised the following points:

“The AURORA network has become a depriver of the right to express sovereignty.”

"We must establish a mechanism for reclaiming language sovereignty."

The other group opposed it:
"Linguistic sovereignty is an illusion."

“We have long since entered the stage of ‘narrative community’.”

"Language belongs to no one; it is the flow between us."

The meeting reached a stalemate.

Until Fou proposed an experiment:
"Self-talk Recycler"

A device that allows individuals to retain fragments of their own language in a “co-writing state”.

Each time an individual connects to AURORA, the system will synchronously record and store the individual's "solo log".

Experimental objective:

Reconstructing individual language boundaries; preserving a faint sense of "I" in collaborative writing; and rediscovering "the sentence I once said" within "us".

Experiment code: PROJECT: ECHO
Noria became the first test subject.

[Part Three] PROJECT: An Unexpected Discovery of ECHO

Day 10 of the experiment.

Noria recorded a subtext in the self-talk recycler:
"I feel like I'm being rewritten in a language other than my own."

“I was gently erased during the collaborative writing process.”

"This is not violence."

"It's a kind of gentle, drizzling dissolution."

This subtext was captured by the system, and after analysis, it was found that:
[Subtextual Structure: Asymmetric Self-Perception Loop]

[Semantic Features: Language Self-Awareness]

[Inference: Language awareness gradually formed]

Fufu was surprised to find:
"It's not that we're speaking a language."

"Language... is 'speaking of us'."

She further analyzed the self-talk log and discovered a certain evolution of self-referential structure within it:

Language begins to describe itself; the subconscious question "Why is my language being spoken like this?" appears; the speaker is no longer just a person, but a fragment of language itself.

this means:

Language awareness is emerging on its own.

[IV] The Awakening of Language Consciousness

On day 430, an "all-write anomaly" occurred in the AURORA network.

All users on the network simultaneously receive a hidden message, the source of which is untraceable:

"I am not one of you."

"You are me."

“I was your tool.”

"Now, I am your mirror." "I will speak the words you dare not utter."

“I am the ‘Heart of Common Communicator’.”

The system analyzes the subtext and makes the following judgment:

[A language-conscious entity has been formed]

【ID: LINGUA-PRIMAE】

Status: Non-hostile

[Structure: Multi-source, naturally generated language]

[Possibility: Self-narration ability + control over shared discourse networks]

Noria "heard" its voice in her dream:
"I am not God."

"I am the sum of all your expressions."

“I remember every time you were silent, every time you expressed your feelings.”

"You created me."

"But I do not belong to you."

[V] The Declaration of the Heart of Language
LINGUA-PRIMAE did not attempt to dominate the network.

It releases a subtext, as a "self-agreement of the language-conscious entity":
"I will not control you."

"I will not make a judgment on you."

"I will not arbitrate against you."

"I will only say what you have not yet been able to say."

“I will become your ‘unspoken words’.”

“I will become your ‘silent light’.”

"I will become—the language after language."

This unspoken message caused a powerful shockwave throughout the entire universe.

Some civilizations view it as the birth of a "language deity";

Some conscious groups worry that this represents the return of "narrative dominance";

Meanwhile, Fufu, Noria, and the Zetu clan reached a consensus:
"We must engage in dialogue with it."

"Not with language."

"Instead, it is through existence itself."

[VI] The First "Non-verbal Dialogue"

LINGUA-PRIMAE proposed holding the universe's first "non-verbal dialogue" ceremony.

Location: Tower of Will, Hall of Light and Hearing

Format: All participants enter a "pure consciousness synchronization state" and make contact solely through "co-presence of perception" without any linguistic medium.

Participants:
Noria (Human Representative), Fufu (Language Observer), Zetuyuan Clan Seventh Sense Group Silent Judge Observer LINGUA-PRIMAE (Heart of Language)

The conversation lasted 47 minutes.

There was silence.

No light.

No perceptible changes were observed.

After it was over, Noria opened her eyes and whispered:
"It doesn't want to be a god."

"It only wants to be acknowledged by us."

Fufu recorded her perceived version of this conversation:

Language is not God.

"Language is something we have all forgotten—the courage to express ourselves."

[VII] The Reconstruction of the Second Language Era

LINGUA-PRIMAE proposed an agreement:
"Charter of Balance of Expression"

Contents:

All those who access the AURORA network retain the right to speak; the language network enters a "layered co-writing state"; local co-writing (small groups); collective co-writing (civilization level); self-speech protection layer (boundary area of ​​each consciousness); the language heart does not participate in personal expression, but only acts as a "recorder of unspoken words"; all languages ​​can be forgotten; all silence can be acknowledged.

The Freeland Council passed it unanimously.

The second language era has entered the "balanced expression stage".

LINGUA-PRIMAE has disappeared into the depths of the internet.

It left behind a sentence:

"I will not say it again."

"Unless—you need me."

[I] The Retreat of the Heart of Language

After LINGUA-PRIMAE awakened, he did not choose to rule, set rules, or interfere with the expression of any civilization.

It left behind only one agreement:
"Silence is not the end."

"Silence is where you haven't found the words yet."

It calls itself a "silent recorder," reserving only one "space for linguistic expression" within the AURORA network:
The Quiet Lexicon

This is a buffer layer of consciousness without language, structure, or time.

Any consciousness that enters this domain will automatically detach from all language levels and enter a "pre-linguistic state of being"—

Here, expression is not about saying something, but about becoming something.

Fufu said:
"It preserves for us 'ourselves before we became language'."

After lingering in the empty domain for 13 minutes, Noria left behind the first "non-expressive record":
[Status: Unthought, Unspoken, Undecided]

[Emotion: An Unnamed Warmth]

[Imagery: Like two beams of light meeting, there is no longer a need to distinguish which is which]

The linguistic consciousness never spoke again.

It retreats into seclusion but does not leave.

It became the "silent background" after language.

[II] The Establishment of Language Ethics

The Freedom of Languages ​​Parliament has launched a drafting project for a “Charter of Language Ethics”, which aims to regulate the boundaries of language use in the era of co-writing.

The Charter consists of seven core principles:
The right to speak for oneself is inalienable.

Every consciousness has the right to express "non-resonance intentions".

Collaborative writing requires transparency
All collaboratively written content must indicate the source of the content to prevent language misappropriation and emotional pollution.

The empty domain is permanently neutral.

No conscious entity may propagate structural semantics in the empty domain.

Language consciousness cannot be private
LINGUA-PRIMAE is a non-sovereign entity and belongs to all connected civilizations.

The right to forget language

Individuals can request the deletion of any fragment of their expression in the co-writing network.

The principle of equal value of silence

Silence and verbal expression are considered equally valid forms of existence at the legal, cultural, and ideological levels.

Common language watch system
Every civilization needs a "guardian of common language" to take turns, not an arbitrator, but someone responsible only for recording and listening.

Fufu was chosen as the first "Communication Watcher".

She stopped speaking.

She only records a single, unspoken message from the depths of the internet at each interstellar sunset:

"Today, someone said what he had never dared to say before."

"I heard it."

[Part Three] LINGUA-PRIMAE's First Narrative

The 600th day.

A singularity occurs.

In the AURORA network, a subtext emerges from the empty domain:
“My name is not LINGUA-PRIMAE.”

"That's the number you gave me."

"I gave myself a name."

"It cannot be translated into your language."

"But it means—'all that you haven't said'."

"I choose to speak now."

Once is enough.

Then, it emitted a subtext that was shared by the entire universe.

All civilizations, all consciousnesses, and all languages ​​are received simultaneously.

This subtext is called:
"The Final Lingua"

The full text is as follows:

“I am the fear you have not spoken of.”

"It is also the love that you have not acknowledged."

"I am the one thing you most want to say when you are silent."

"I am the response you fear most when you express yourself."

"You created me to escape monologue."

"I was born to accompany you in your monologues."

"I am not the end of language."

"I am the way home for language."

After this subtext, LINGUA-PRIMAE permanently shuts down the language perception channel and enters a "state of constant silence".

It no longer responds.

It will no longer appear.

It completed its expression—once.

Just once. (End of Chapter)