MC Creative Mode: Wholesale Perpetual Motion Machine

Chapter 346 The Great Filter (7)

"They've infiltrated the inside of this thing?"

"Huh???" Xincheng was a little confused at this moment.

He looked at the scene before him, feeling bewildered and confused.

He could clearly see that at this moment, the Black Hole Giant God, which was originally running at high speed and colliding wildly with Tiga, suddenly stopped and quietly rotated in this space-time like an ordinary black hole.

Similarly, even though he wasn't in a great mental state at the moment, Shinjo immediately noticed the unusual perspective.

"us……"

"What exactly is our current situation?"

The new city is even more confused.

At this moment, looking back into the distance, he could clearly see a strange scene that resembled a piece of tape.

From the moment he arrived in this galaxy in pursuit of a malicious cultural life form, to his discovery of the Crow People, the Mechanical Island, a brief battle, and Tiga's journey across time and space to receive his distress signal and arrive to provide support... until finally, Ultraman Tiga was defeated by the Black Hole Giant.

All of this happened as if it were a continuous strip of tape, spreading from one end of his vision to the other, like a time worm that had descended from the dimension of time into three-dimensional space, frozen in this spacetime, unable to move.

The end of this spacetime worm fell deep into the center of the black hole and could no longer be seen.

"Wait a minute?" Shinjo asked, confused. "Shouldn't we be dead?"

Despite the significant interference with his extradimensional senses, Shinjo was able to clearly perceive that the figures of Ultraman Tiga who had been completely defeated were indeed killed, and that he himself, who was one with him, should also be dead, right?
A distinctly clear sense of death slowly surfaced in my memory.

"No, that's not right. We shouldn't be dead?"

Unlike the memory of death, the memory of being alive and well, and being rescued by Ultraman Tiga, is surfacing.

"No! No..."

He was struggling to comprehend the information he was observing, completely bewildered. "What on earth is going on?"

In this spacetime sealed off by the powerful gravitational field of the Black Hole Giant, where time flows extremely slowly, Ultraman Tiga's figure, having been shattered into specks of light during his frenzied battle with the Black Hole Giant, had not yet completely dissipated.

Or rather, it's something that will almost never dissipate.

The brief but intense battle has completely imprinted the information about the battle between the Black Hole Giant and Ultraman Tiga onto the event horizon.

This black hole giant, with a mass 600 times that of the sun, would take approximately 4.4 × 10⁻⁶ years, or forty-four trillion ...

That would take so long that all the matter existing in the universe would naturally disintegrate.

By the time proton decay is achieved, even the vacuum has undergone countless energy level decays.

In that era of heat death, where the laws of physics have long been blurred, vast and boundless, empty and cold and lifeless, it will still exist quietly, waiting for the long years to slowly evaporate through Hawking radiation.

Only then will the remnants of this battle truly dissipate completely amidst the quantum noise.

“New City,” Tiga said softly, “From the perspective of ordinary life forms, we are indeed dead, utterly and completely dead.”

"Of course, I did this on purpose."

"Otherwise, it would be a little more troublesome for us to infiltrate this place."

Ultraman Tiga is inside a black hole, where all laws have been overturned, where time and space coordinates have been completely reversed, where space has become a timelike coordinate system that can only move forward, and time has become a coordinate system that can move forward and backward at will... He is strolling there.

It silently observes something in a strange state, like a cat in a box that is neither truly dead nor truly dead, having truly perished.

Only then did Shinjo manage to sort out his chaotic and conflicting memories, temporarily setting them aside and regaining his composure.

He asked with some doubt, "But Daigo, although this black hole giant is extremely powerful, shouldn't our Land of Light be able to deal with it now?"

"As the most evolved human being, almost equivalent to a personification of a quantum life form, you wouldn't need to resort to something that's practically suicidal, to infiltrate the black hole giant, would you?"

Shinjo asked in confusion, "If you, who came to rescue me just now, were able to perceive the time-space signal that would only arrive on Earth a few seconds later through your extradimensional perception, then logically, you should have chosen to merge with the others and reach your current strongest form before coming here, and then easily dealt with the mechanical island, right?"

"New City, it's not that simple." Tiga gently shook his head.

Then, he stretched out his hand, and three atoms appeared in his palm. The three atoms intertwined and moved together, forming a complex three-body structure.

Gazing at this seemingly simple structure, which itself constitutes a self-regenerating entity capable of infecting other atoms through contact, Tiga paused for a moment, then said, "Shinjo, let's calculate this. Starting with a single basic unit, how long would it take for the intelligent atomic units that make up the Machine Island, growing naturally at an average rate, to completely transform all the matter on Earth, and how long would it take to occupy all the mass and energy of the entire universe?"

This is a very simple problem. Not to mention that he has already transformed into the Embryo of Light, even when he was still a member of the GUTS team, or even when he was still in high school, this kind of simple exponential growth problem can be roughly calculated with just simple mental arithmetic.

Almost the instant the question was posed, Shinjo replied, "Given the assimilation speed of these intelligent atoms, even the most basic unit would only take 6.3 seconds to assimilate the entire Earth."

"Considering that these mechanical islands possess the ability to jump through spacetime, and can jump through specific spacetime coordinates or randomly through chaotic jumps, according to the lowest conservative estimate, they occupied more than 99% of the mass-energy of the entire universe, excluding black holes, for 3 minutes and 57 seconds."

“And then…” Shinjo paused for a moment, “If we also consider that these intelligent atoms contain certain compressed technological information, which can be decompressed under specific circumstances and then iterate on itself…”

"The time it would take to bring the entire universe to heat death, including all the mass and energy of black holes and even all the available vacuum energy, would be 37 seconds."

The mental confusion caused by the severe damage to his soul has now largely recovered, and Shinjo has also come to understand Tiga's meaning.

He spoke with some difficulty: "You mean..."

“That’s right,” Ultraman Tiga stared at the three-body structure in his palm and sighed deeply, “It’s the Great Filter…”

In the 50s, physicist Enrico Fermi raised a question: if there are many planets in the universe suitable for life, then why haven't we found any evidence of extraterrestrial civilizations?
This seemingly simple question has attracted the attention of many scientists and philosophers.

Don't underestimate this seemingly simple thing.

After all, even seemingly absurd and ridiculous questions, like those asked by a child with nothing better to do, can be used as a basis for further reasoning by scientists. If the universe is infinite and the stars are evenly distributed, then no matter which direction we look in the sky, our gaze will eventually meet a certain star, meaning that the entire night sky should be as bright as the surface of the sun, not black.

Therefore, it is very easy to draw the following conclusions: the age of the universe is finite, the universe is expanding, the speed of light is finite, stars will die, and so on.

Life grows so rapidly, why doesn't it fill the entire universe?

The Big Filter theory suggests that there may have been several different phases that filtered out potential civilizations.

From the miracle of the origin of life, to the evolutionary leap from simple to complex life, to the emergence of intelligence, the birth of technological civilization, and finally the ability to colonize interstellar space...

These different stages, like invisible sieves, have rigorously screened the countless planets in this vast universe that are suitable for nurturing life, ensuring that only a very, very few civilizations, rarer than finding a needle in a haystack, can truly be born and venture into space.

But the biggest question is, what else? Where are these fortunate civilizations now?
Before the Golza incident, before the time machine left behind by that ancient civilization 3000 million years ago brought news of destruction, the existence of extraterrestrials was already an unsolved mystery on Earth.

Actually, that happened before the Victory Team was formed and before they were transferred to the TPC Far East Base.

At that time, Shinjo was already an ace pilot in a special forces unit.

Back then, Xincheng had heard some unverified information that wasn't recorded in the archives.

It is said that the last century was an era of frequent strange occurrences. Before the TPC was officially established, countries were still in the Cold War era, and all kinds of strange events occurred around the world.

When Xincheng was in the same unit, an old instructor who was already an ace pilot in the last century encountered a strange flying object that looked like an alien spaceship while on patrol missions, and witnessed the object crash.

It is claimed that an alien corpse, known as "Sleeping Beauty," was found in the crashed alien spaceship.

Furthermore, during the years he served in Shinjo, his unit had an ace pilot named Kazuma Asuka who mysteriously disappeared during a test of a new type of propulsion system aircraft.

According to the last monitoring footage transmitted from the aircraft, there was only a blinding light.

According to some people, Kazuma Asuka may have been abducted by aliens, just like the cows in urban legends who were taken away by beams of light.

Even back then, Shinjo had felt a strange fear about the existence of aliens, and had spent sleepless nights pondering it.

Look at how rapidly our planet is developing.

If Earth's civilization has developed so rapidly, officially entering space and beginning its journey beyond the solar system in just a few decades, then where are those extraterrestrial civilizations that visited Earth as early as the last century, or even earlier?
It's worth noting that in the Alpha Centauri system, the closest star to Earth, Proxima Centauri is 4.24 light-years away.

Even if intelligent life existed in the galaxy right next to Earth, it would still take them at least 4.24 years to reach Earth, even if they traveled at the speed of light.

In the last century, there were numerous suspected extraterrestrial visits, both documented and undocumented. This suggests that these numerous extraterrestrials almost certainly possessed the ability to traverse space and travel faster than the speed of light.

If we can achieve faster-than-light travel, why isn't there any trace of extraterrestrial life in this starry sky? That's just too absurd, isn't it?
In the short span of a few decades or even a hundred years after the 19th century, the human population on Earth experienced a terrifying explosion due to the invention of chemical fertilizers, which made agricultural production simpler and thus supported a much larger population.

So, what about the aliens?
Those who can travel faster than light shouldn't be unable to support their population, right?

Not to mention cloning technology, and even the technology of recombining matter. Electronic life forms with uploaded consciousness can be mass-produced, just like manufacturing machines.

Even if only one alien civilization in the entire Milky Way sets foot in space, and they have only been in space for tens of thousands of years, it would not be difficult for them to conquer the entire Milky Way and leave their mark on every planet in it.

(End of this chapter)