MC Creative Mode: Wholesale Perpetual Motion Machine

Chapter 349 The Way of Self-Cultivation
"Xincheng, are you feeling lost?"

"You're starting to have doubts about the path you're on right now, aren't you?"

Shinjo looked ahead and saw Ultraman Tiga, standing several astronomical units away, having completely analyzed the Black Hole Giant God. His milky-white eyes, radiating a soft light, were looking at him.

Tiga's firm voice continued, "New City, on a cosmic scale, morality certainly has no meaning, but it does for us."

"Xincheng, weren't you just thinking about whether the civilization that created the mechanical island possessed morality as understood by humans?"

"And do they feel even the slightest bit of remorse after turning the mechanical island they left behind into a giant filter, slaughtering countless civilizations and lives?"

Xincheng nodded silently.

Tiga then replied, "Then let me tell you, they don't have it. They don't have morality in the sense of human understanding."

"They don't feel any sense of guilt at all."

"Even the so-called 'moral test' that we hear about is just a translation that the Mechanical Island uses to make its behavior more efficient so that other civilizations and intelligent life can understand it after reading information from a certain civilization."

Similarly, they created mechanical islands, allowing them to constantly filter out civilizations that dared to resist, and never experienced even the slightest sense of pleasure in destruction.

"They just don't care."

"What does it matter to you if I destroy you?"

“New City…” Tiga paused for a moment, then pointed to the dazzling starry sky. “Do you know what I discovered during my complete analysis of the Machine Island?”

Tiga silently recounted: "Death is everywhere in the starry sky. Shinjo, you should know that before humanity officially transformed into the Land of Light, when humanity first began to observe the starry sky, some very strange data was discovered."

"Those data mean that there are some strange large-scale structures in the universe, namely, large voids."

“In those great voids, matter is so scarce that it is unimaginable, like an abyss.”

"These large voids have been carefully studied by many astronomers and physicists to find out how they were formed."

Ultraman Tiga narrated silently.

Some scientists believe that the large void is the result of long-term evolution under the influence of gravity during the early evolution of the universe due to slight density fluctuations.

Some believe it is caused by the universal defects of cosmic strings.

Some people believe it is due to the unevenness of the universe's expansion.

What were Tiga's observations?

The answer is—war.

While not all of them, there are more than one large void in this vast universe. This void originated from the mechanical island's attempt to erase certain civilizations. Due to the superhuman transformations of these civilizations, they could not be erased in their basic form. After multiple decompressions of technological packages, an entire starry sky was destroyed.

Tiga gazed silently at the starry sky, then said to Shinjo, "Shinjo, do you know why I didn't feel even a trace of anger or killing intent towards Machine Island?"

"Because, from a human perspective, the civilization behind the mechanical island should be considered to have perished."

"This?" Shinjo asked in shock, "How is this possible? Even with such advanced technology, they can perish!"

"No..." Tiga gently shook his head, raised his hand, and a mechanical island materialized at his fingertips. Looking at this thing that had wiped out countless lives, he said with a complex emotion:

"Destroying you has nothing to do with you."

"Destroying me is none of my business..."

"Morality has never been a necessity for survival, but rather a fictional existence that has emerged from humanity's efforts to survive better, to better unite as a group, to rely on the power of the collective, and to benefit oneself through altruism."

"Then, is intelligence a necessity for survival?"

“No…” Tiga gently shook his head. “Intelligence has never been a necessity for survival.”

Even many animals with low intelligence continue to live and thrive silently in nature.

"Even plants, even producers that cannot move, can still silently continue to exist on Earth."

"Even viruses that don't even have a complete cellular structure can continue to exist by invading other organisms and using their cells to replicate themselves."

“New City,” Tiga sighed softly, “Do you remember the monsters, Golza and Melba, and the other weak or powerful monsters in the subspace?”

"Their brains are highly developed to support the operation of their bodies and to regulate energy. Even the weakest monsters have brains that are far more complex than ordinary people can imagine."

"Theoretically, they certainly possess intelligence far surpassing that of humans."

"But……"

They don't need it.

"They are almost all immortal and almost all capable of asexual reproduction, so they do not need a population to continue their DNA or offspring."

"They don't need intelligence, they don't need to rack their brains to figure out how to get food, how to avoid predators, or how to avoid hypothermia in a warm environment."

"They only need pure violence to get everything they need."

“Golza and Melba, they do not need to eat regular substances, and can eat almost anything.”

"They need nothing. Except when fighting, they don't need to use their brains at all." "For humans, there is always something to do in life. But for these two monsters, and for many other monsters, they can even remain still, completely stagnant, silently sleeping for millions or tens of millions of years until a crisis that threatens their survival arises, at which point they will be forced to wake up."

So, what's the difference between the monsters and the mechanical island?

Its basic intelligent atomic units, with minimal efficiency, can completely occupy a planet in just a few seconds, and occupy all matter in an entire vast universe in just a few minutes.

If the technology package is decompressed, the speed is even more exaggerated. In less than a minute, it will completely occupy all the matter in the entire observable universe, and even all the usable vacuum energy.

What more could they possibly want from something like this?

no need.

They need almost nothing anymore.

The exact time and place of the civilization that created the mechanical island are difficult for even Tiga to trace.

Because the mechanical island is not a product of this universe.

It is unknown when or from which universe it began, but it was a mechanical island created by a certain civilization.

Then they need nothing, because they themselves do not possess morality as understood by humans.

All their wisdom is merely a byproduct of their own survival; they have nothing to pursue like the morality that humans fabricate.

For people like them, once they have fully satisfied their own needs, what use is wisdom?

Tiga completely analyzed the mechanical island, and all the information he obtained showed that this unknown civilization had compressed its own wisdom, its own race, and all its technological information through multiple layers of compression and sophisticated algorithms, and carried it into the complex three-body motion composed of just three atoms.

Therefore, their continuation is already eternal, requiring almost nothing more.

They gave up thinking again, they stopped everything, and simply let the creations carrying the information of their own civilization slowly spread across the starry sky.

Then, in this vast universe, after occupying the entire universe, the Mechanical Island will spontaneously decompress a portion of its technology to construct a black hole battle body. Utilizing the strange spacetime inside the black hole, where time and space coordinates are completely reversed, it will use this special time machine to project information into other parallel universes, into the past and future, and into even more distant realms.

A single thread can cause any three atoms, or any other three-body structures, to move, carrying that information, then assimilating it outwards, creating mechanical island units, and continuing the diffusion process.

Past, present, future...

How many universes are there? How vast is this realm?
In short, who knows how many times the Machine Island has replicated itself or how vast its territory it has occupied?

They exist quietly, continuing their existence silently.

Until a crisis is encountered, until some possible threat is detected, the mechanical island, operating at minimum power, will briefly awaken and then eliminate all possible threats.

Perhaps, only when one day, in that vast and boundless expanse of space and time, all the mechanical islands face a crisis that threatens their complete annihilation, will that civilization awaken once more, harness its wisdom to resolve the crisis, and then return to slumber.

"But!" Shinjo asked, finding it hard to believe, "To these bastards, is this even considered living?!"

"Even if advanced intelligence exists, all it needs to do is keep copying, and then it's unwilling to even think, just existing in a near-eternal slumber!"

Tiga murmured softly, "Just like those monsters."

"What does it matter to you if I destroy you?"

"What does it matter to me if you destroy me..."

……

“But!” Tiga’s words were full of tenderness. He stretched out his hand, and an extremely gentle light slowly spread throughout this area that had long been destroyed in the great war.

As the soft light spread, a blinding light suddenly burst forth in Xincheng's eyes.

He stared intently into the distance.

There, as if a video were playing in reverse, the vast and boundless light spread in the opposite direction, condensing the entire scene of Tiga's battle with the Black Hole Giant God, and continuously receding backward.

Gradually, a burst of explosive light condensed in the starry sky, and then the explosive light gradually collapsed, condensing into a beautiful blue planet—Weihai Star.

"In the new city, morality has meaning for us."

"Even if morality is a fiction, what's wrong with fighting for something fiction?"

Ultraman Tiga looked into the distance.

In this vast starry sky, layers upon layers of reflections appeared in his eyes.

That is history, the history of countless civilizations that were filtered and destroyed by the Machine Island.

"Morality has no inherent meaning; it is only the meaning we assign to it."

"What does destroying you have to do with you?"

"And what does saving you have to do with you!"

"I will follow my own path!"

(End of this chapter)