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Chapter 223 The Boundaries of Squareness

The afternoon sun scorched the commercial streets of Mitakihara City, and the air was filled with the sweltering heat of summer.

Two almost identical boys walked side by side, one peeking out cautiously, the other with a calm expression.

Ignoring the knowing glances from passersby that seemed to say, "These two kids must have skipped school," they walked straight into the bustling electronics shopping street.

In his memory, the small, obscure village where young Fang Zheng lived had pitifully rudimentary infrastructure.

Although during holidays or after school, children can use their parents' phones for a while after finishing their homework, the sights of those bustling cities can only be seen in short videos.

Now, truly immersed in this bustling city, the dazzling array of shops and the flashing electronic screens filled him with barely suppressed excitement.

"This game console is so cool! Can I buy it for myself?" The boy immediately leaned over a shiny counter and asked expectantly.

On the display stand, two semi-transparent virtual figures were fiercely fighting in the air, a scene of technology that the boy had only read about in online novels.

Although it is not a fully immersive virtual reality device, it can project three-dimensional images into the air, which can be viewed with the naked eye without any auxiliary equipment.

Fang Zheng smiled and nodded, then easily paid with his phone.

The level of human technology in this world is far more advanced than that of Earth, which is familiar to young Fang Zheng.

In this city called Mitakihara, similar virtual projections are everywhere, and even the greenery is well-maintained.

The more advanced the technology, the more advantageous it seems to be for Founder Group at present.

After all, due to a certain one-sided "ignorance" of the rules, his body could only exhibit the abilities of an ordinary teenager.

Once his cube-shaped form is exposed, he will be immediately enveloped by the witch's barrier.

In this situation, the best way to acquire wealth is through cyber intrusion.

Without even needing any terminal equipment, as long as he is close to the network node, he can use the "Concerto" as a medium to manipulate electronic components by hand and delve into the depths of the network.

As long as it doesn't cause too much of a commotion, "borrowing" tens or hundreds of billions of dollars from the dormant accounts of major banks around the world is incredibly easy.

Fang Zheng, the boy who was born this morning because of him, has experienced earth-shattering changes in the morning. He signed a strange contract with the advanced civilization interface called "Incubator" and obtained "magic", but he obviously has no source of income.

Although they agreed to let him experience the adventurous life first, if they let this boy with magical powers run around the city, he would cause big trouble in a couple of days.

After all, it's another "self," so Fangzheng temporarily took on the role of guardian for this new "Fangzheng."

The two wandered aimlessly through the city, casually searching for new and interesting things to eat.
They didn't find a hotel they had booked in advance until sunset.

Fang Zheng looked at the boy, whose belly was round from eating and who was now fast asleep on the bed, and fell into deep thought.

"In fact, up to this point, I am still just trapped in the framework of 'human squareness' and acting according to past inertia."

“I may call myself ‘Humanity’s Righteous One,’ but he, this newly born boy, is also ‘Humanity’s Righteous One.’ Moreover, he is closer to ‘Humanity’s Righteous One’ than I am now.”

"But he is different from me. His present is changing, and his personality will naturally grow and change with what he sees and hears."

"If he went through everything I went through, what would his dreams and goals be like?"

"If he is shaped by different events, becoming brutal and bloodthirsty, turning into a villain... then is he still 'Fangzheng'?"

"Or perhaps, he experienced different kinds of hardships, became kind and compassionate, and was willing to sacrifice himself for others, like the righteous partners in those old-fashioned stories... Would such a 'righteous' person still be 'righteous'?"

So-called self-awareness, personality, and thought have always been vague and elusive things.

The cube-shaped human inherits all of the human cube's memories and knows how the human cube would react in different situations.

This means that Founder itself can simulate, in its calculations, all possible reactions a human might have when facing all types of events, and all the resulting personality changes. Whether it's encountering countless wonderful events from the beginning, constant calamities, endless tragic torment, being rescued from suffering, or falling in love with or hating someone because of something…

Fangzheng can deduce any event that may occur within the scope of human cognition in the universe corresponding to the mathematical structure.

He knows what choices humanity will make when faced with these events.

Fangzheng can construct a collection called "Human Fangzheng".

In this collection, the story begins with Fang Zheng, who is exactly the same as the blocky character he once was. Then, it progresses to Fang Zheng, who matures and becomes more stable after experiencing life's trials; to Fang Zheng, who deviates slightly from the right path and falls into the abyss, becoming utterly wicked; and finally, to Fang Zheng, who is incredibly kind, reaching the pinnacle of kindness beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

All these possibilities, encompassing the "squareness" of all human mental states, are included within it.

Furthermore, beyond this set, excluding the limitation of "human beings," we include all those "right-handed" beings who, through various events, have actively or passively altered their physiological and mental structures, completely overturned their mental state, and are no longer even considered human, into a larger set.

It's like a kind person in childhood finding it extremely difficult to accept an utterly evil villain claiming to be himself.

In these two sets, among all the "square ones", only a very few can be recognized by the original human square ones. Most of them will make him feel terrified, fearful, or even disgusted and nauseous.

But whether it is a smaller set limited to human mental states or a larger set with more subversive mental states, it can all be deduced in reverse and eventually return to the original square shape.

So, where exactly are the boundaries of "square"?
Fang Zheng didn't know.

So far, Fang Zheng has witnessed several vastly different worlds.

Whether it's the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths world, the Substitute world, or the wave function mathematical universe set.

In the world of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, beings like the Taiyin Holy Emperor and the Taiyin Divine Emperor exist simultaneously in different tributaries of the river of time, as well as in the upper and lower reaches of the same river of time.

They are closely connected, their powers resonate, their spirits connect, and they can even perceive the experiences of "themselves" in other timelines.

When the World Sea Battleship first came into contact with World Sea Battleships from other timelines, if it weren't for Fangzheng's forceful obstruction, the same substances and individuals from different timelines would have merged together.

It's a bit like a seesaw; when one end goes up, the other end inevitably goes down.

Therefore, in a sense, they can be regarded as a whole. Each of them in every tributary of the river of time and space, or those upstream and downstream, are just different manifestations of the same vast existence.

The same applies to the Stand world. Although many parallel worlds exist, Fang Zheng learned from the Stand Alliance that life and even matter from different parallel worlds will experience an "annihilation effect" once they come into direct contact, leaving only one.

Therefore, they can naturally be seen as different aspects of the same existence.

The set of mathematical universes related to wave functions is different. Before the wave functions are exhaustively enumerated, theoretically there is only one universe, a definite wave function collapse result; but if all of them are exhaustively enumerated, an infinite set of universes can be obtained.

In this infinite set, every life and every thing has an infinite number of different versions, some that are exactly the same, some that have subtle differences, and some that have huge differences.

Ultimately, they are just the same combination of permutations.

Although they may have an objective relationship in some subsets of wave functions due to arrangement, in a broader set they are simply identical.

The same is true of the young Fang Zheng at this moment. He possesses all the memories of the human Fang Zheng, and can be regarded as a continuation of the human Fang Zheng, or as another independent existence that happens to have the same combination of memories as the human Fang Zheng.

"So, in the end, what kind of 'square' will I become?"

"What kind of 'Founder' should I choose to become?"

The entire collection of 'square', whether benevolent, evil, calm, mad, or subversive, is within the calculations of the square man.

'Founder' looks forward to the day when this new world will allow a certain 'Founder' to be sculpted and emerge from its shell.

(End of this chapter)