MC Creative Mode: Wholesale Perpetual Motion Machine

Chapter 350 A War Inevitably Long

"Yeah……"

In the starry sky, Xincheng remained silent for a long time.

He looked up at the enormous, moon-like Tiga, then back at the desolate starry sky, and then looked down at the planet Azure Ocean, which had just been restored by time manipulation.

"Haha..." He suddenly laughed heartily. "What nonsense have I been worrying about?"

"Isn't it always been like this?"

"What does it matter if morality is not universal? My education and my life have shaped my values."

"Morality is certainly a fictional thing, but why can't we fight for it?"

"Walk on our own path, and crush some ignorant bastards along the way, isn't that enough?"

The sense of relief spread across the starry sky, leaving the people on the planet Weihai below, who were bewildered by his resurrection, feeling a sense of confusion.

"By the way, Daigo, the Machine Island incident should be considered resolved now, right?" After feeling relieved, Shinjo adjusted his mood and asked Tiga.

"Probably..." Tiga did not give a definite answer immediately.

He stretched out his hand, and in an instant, a nearly pure black sphere, like a black hole, appeared in his palm.

Immediately afterwards, the pure black sphere began to expand rapidly, engulfing the new city.

As the seemingly endless and ceaseless magnification continued, gradually, some blurry fiber networks began to reveal their interwoven structure.

These fibers continued to magnify until the smallest point of light that made up the fibers transformed into a vast supercluster of galaxies.

"This is the observable universe we are in now," Tiga explained as he and Shinjo strolled through the dreamlike projection of the starry sky.

As they strolled, the two entered the Virgo Supercluster, and from the Local Group, they arrived in the direction of the Milky Way.

Then, Tiga pointed towards the southern constellation Eridanus, and the two walked over.

"This is... the Icarus Hypervoid!"

This is a vacuum zone that is almost completely empty, so thin on a cosmic scale that it is unimaginable. It is one of the most terrifying places in the universe: the Great Void!

The Icarus Supervoid, with a diameter of approximately one billion light-years, is one of the largest cosmic voids observed by humans before they ventured beyond Earth. It is located near the Coma Supercluster.

Shin-chan couldn't help but glance at the Coma Supercluster next to him, which formed a stark contrast with the Icarus Supervoid.

In this projection of the universe simulated by Tiga, even the degree of distortion of spacetime is almost perfectly reproduced.

The senses of the new city could clearly perceive the obvious distortion of spacetime caused by the enormous mass of this extremely dense collection of galaxies, as well as the large void beside it, a place so empty that it could even be described as a zone of some kind of spacetime decay and disease.

The two vastly different cosmic environments caused Shinjo to feel a strange and uncomfortable sensation simply by sensing them.

He almost instinctively sensed that if he stepped into the center of the Great Hollow, the abnormal changes in the environment alone could completely destroy him.

Immediately afterwards, the two stepped into the center of the great void, where an unprecedented, enormous, and unimaginable black hole appeared.

No! This is not a simple black hole, but an anomalous creation of a spacetime singularity!

"Daigo, is this... is this also some form of existence for the Machine Island?"

Shinjo observed the peculiar structure that Ultraman Tiga had simulated. Even though it was just a simulation, Shinjo could still sense something unusual about it.

It was a cosmic environment, a completely upside-down anomaly in the cosmological constant.

Inside this strange spacetime structure, there seemed to be countless other universes, far too many to imagine.

“That’s right,” Tiga nodded, reaching out to fiddle with the strange spacetime creation. His tone was emotionless as he calmly explained, “New City is just a mechanical island in the universe for us now, for the Land of Light, and for photon life forms. It’s not a threat.”

"But, New City, what do you think a civilization that can completely abandon or no longer need intelligence in order to survive and continue its existence would do to maximize its chances of survival?"

Xincheng shook his head.

Tiga continued to explain: "Through deciphering information, I have gained an understanding of most things about this civilization and have strategies to deal with them. However, this is only limited to our current universe."

Tiga calmly recounts the survival strategies of the civilization behind the Machine Island.

The generation of mechanical islands follows a pattern similar to the "von Neumann probe," but it is not rigid; rather, it possesses a high degree of autonomy and adaptability.

Each mechanical island is an independent intelligent unit capable of self-replication and proliferation using available local resources.

That ancient civilization, born in some unknown universe and at some unknown time, may have used its technology to simultaneously sow the seeds of the initial mechanical island throughout the entire universe, or even countless universes and times.

These seeds carry basic replication algorithms and testing protocols.

When the information of a basic unit of a mechanical island arrives in a resource-rich galaxy, it will collect matter and energy to construct a basic unit of mechanical island. The replication cycle is automatically adjusted according to the situation to ensure efficient diffusion.

In order to avoid overcrowding or resource competition, the mechanical island employs a variety of complex space-filling algorithms.

The copied replica randomly selects a jump direction, but avoids close contact with existing replicas by detecting hyperspace signals. It uses large-scale structures such as galaxy clusters and superclusters as references to ensure that the mechanical island uniformly covers the observable universe.

The replication of mechanical islands typically relies initially on stellar energy. After constructing the initial basic unit, the energy engine is then built to collect matter and perform mass-energy conversion.

In special circumstances, such as being in a large cavity where it is impossible to collect conventional materials or make collection difficult, the existing individuals will automatically decompress a portion of the technology according to relevant data.

Thus, the basic units that utilize other forms of energy, such as vacuum zero-point energy, will occupy those areas.

“And, Shinjo,” Tiga looked at him and sighed with a hint of helplessness, “the project to completely eliminate the Machine Island is ridiculously large.”

"This is not like in movies and TV shows, where you can simply remove a signal hub to paralyze out-of-control nanobots."

"There is no such thing as a mechanical island."

"But!" Shinjo asked with some doubt, "Don't you and the Land of Light already possess some kind of transdimensional attack method?"

"We can predict the future to a certain extent, and we can communicate with our future selves to a certain extent. As for you, you are already able to transcend time and space and interfere with the past."

"Couldn't we directly lock onto the civilization behind the mechanical island upstream in spacetime, strike the mechanical island where the spread first began, and then, over time, cause all the subsequent machines to disappear synchronously?"

However, when faced with Shinjo's question, Tiga shook his head again.

He looked into the distance, and then, points of light bloomed in his eyes, creating a mirror-like image in front of the new city.

"This... is the future Land of Light?" Shinjo could see in the mirror that it was a land of light, filled with buildings made of crystal-like material, where countless giants of light lived.

“No, rather than saying this is the future, it’s more accurate to say that this is just a possibility of the future,” Tiga explained. “From your current perspective, time may just be a river that flows from top to bottom; if you block the upstream, the downstream will naturally dry up.”

“But time is not static!” Tiga looked at the new city before him, at Horii, Masaki Keigo, Director Sawai, and almost all the people of the Land of Light, and gave countless answers at the same time.

As Shinjo asked in confusion, Tiga continued.

"The past is changing, the present is changing, and the future will also change."

"The time we see now is just an illusion; time is one-sided and fragmented."

Ultraman Tiga looks at the past and at the future.

Countless different versions of Tiga also looked over at the same time.

A battle beyond anyone's imagination is being fought endlessly in the past, the future, and the present.

Different possibilities, different changes, intertwining, overlapping, replacing each other...

In the midst of dynamic changes, only by observing according to subjective thinking can we barely pinpoint seemingly stable timelines.

Just like the battle against the God of Electromagnetism, both humans and the God of Electromagnetism reached superhuman transformations and higher levels during the battle.

However, at that level, there is no real difference between life and death, past and future.

Even though Tiga and the Land of Light still exist, even so, they still have some lingering attachment to the past.

However, time interference still causes significant problems.

Tiga said, "Shinjo, do you remember the perspective we had inside the black hole just now?"

“Of course I remember…” Shinjo’s tone was somewhat complicated.

In that strange place where time and space coordinates are completely reversed, where time can roam freely like space, and space can only move forward like time, once you've experienced it, you'll never forget it.

Tiga said, "For us, who have fully evolved after reaching the Superman Revolution, interference with time is simply their natural process."

"The future Tiga, the future Land of Light, will gradually evolve into a form that we can no longer comprehend."

"But we are still ourselves now, and our proactive intervention in time can lead to some very troublesome things."

Tiga paused for a moment before continuing to explain, "As I just said, there's no such thing as a mechanical island like the runaway nanobots in the movies, where you can just disconnect a signal hub to stop everything."

“Each mechanical island is essentially a completely physical and informationally isolated entity.”

Each mechanical island can call for support from other mechanical islands via signals, but that's all it can do. There are no direct commands from one mechanical island to other mechanical islands.

Each mechanical island makes independent decisions based on local information, executing the algorithm preset by the unknown previous civilization.

However, despite complete isolation, the mechanical islands possess an implicit coordination mechanism to avoid repetitive civilization observation and moral tests, or unnecessary waste of resources. While the units on the mechanical islands themselves do not have a hierarchical relationship, they communicate at specific times to ensure each other's presence.

Just as wild animals mark their territory with lines, mechanical islands can mark tested or cleared areas by emitting gravitational waves of a specific frequency, leaving quantum imprints, or giving specific marking signals depending on the situation. Other mechanical islands will avoid interfering once they detect these markings.

"In a sense, each mechanical island can be considered a member of that unknown civilization."

"They are isolated from each other. Unless there are special circumstances, they will essentially adjust their actions according to their environment and the information they receive, through some preset evolutionary algorithms."

However, although there is no hierarchical relationship, the unit that has decompressed more technology can input certain priority instructions to other units, such as briefly allowing another mechanical island to use local resources before separating.

Unless a special event occurs, such as a series of rebellions that trigger continuous technological decompression, the mechanical islands handle related events independently without sounding a global alarm.

"Since there is no intermediate network, the only way for the machine island to solve this problem is to work on each individual unit."

"Huh?" Shinjo asked in confusion, "Didn't you say that the mechanical islands prioritized decompressing units with more technology, allowing them to input priority commands to lower-level units?"

Tiga shook his head again: "That's the key point."

He looked at his hands, and the silver on his palms suddenly receded, revealing the form of the Black Hole Battle Body.

"The mechanical island will automatically decompress the corresponding technology according to different enemies and different elimination targets, so as to carry out the elimination at the right time."

At this point, Tiga turned his gaze to the strange spacetime structure in the center of the large void.

The light and shadow are rapidly flowing backward, revealing a time 103 billion years ago, in the early universe, when this great void was not yet a great void.

A horrifying battle unfolds before the new city.

It was a special life form born within a star, which underwent a superhuman transformation; a stellar monster.

Once this life form was detected by the mechanical island unit as possessing a dangerous ability, the relevant tests began.

However, the ferocious monster did not choose to obey, but instead chose to fight, and in the process, it quickly began a crazy evolution of superhuman transformation.

However, it is not simply a matter of Superman's transformation that can surpass Mech Island, because Mech Island's state is merely a low-energy standby state.

This is no gentle battle where someone steps on another's foot and dies on the spot; it's extermination!

When encountering individuals who have undergone a superhuman transformation, the Machine Island will automatically decompress the collected data to extract technology and corresponding intelligence that can completely overwhelm the superhuman-transformed civilization or individual by at least two levels, and carry out absolute extermination to ensure that they are wiped out completely.

Or perhaps, it will only stop when it has completely expressed its submission.

Not long ago, the battle between Tiga and Machine Island was similar. In essence, Tiga's performance should have been completely crushed by the Black Hole Giant God, and crushed like an insect under one foot.

Even if Tiga were also in a superhuman transformation state, rapidly evolving during the battle, the result would be the same, because the Black Hole Giant God's technological decompression would only be faster than the superhuman transformation.

Even if Tiga borrows power from the future to gain the strength to crush the Machine Island, as long as the gap is not too large, the Machine Island will immediately provide the corresponding technology.

Although they could eventually defeat it completely, the damage would be immense, so Tiga took a slightly shortcut.

By leveraging the perpetual motion effect granted to Earth by Fangzheng, Tiga, while deliberately displaying his own energy consumption, subtly manipulated spacetime with an additional massive amount of energy, all while ensuring that all battle scenes were completely normal.

Thus, they completely deceived the core of the Black Hole Colossus and, through a higher level of power, completely occupied and invaded it.

In other words, at this moment, Tiga is regarded by the other mechanical islands as a mechanical island that has decompressed into the form of the Black Hole Giant God and is in a standby state.

However, even so, clearing out all the mechanical islands in the universe would still be a huge undertaking.

Like a pack of wild beasts, Tiga, in his black hole-like form, can manipulate all the mechanical islands within tens of thousands of light-years by using signal deception. However, outside this range, the other mechanical islands will not respond.

Furthermore, such manipulation does not allow for the simultaneous centralized destruction of these substances.

Because of the different levels, the Black Hole Colossus form does not need to call for support from other mechanical islands like the Mechanical Island form.

If the Black Hole Colossus needs reinforcements, it means it has encountered a stronger enemy and is temporarily suppressed.

Therefore, the commands it can release outward will only be written directly into the vacuum, allowing the mechanical islands of other units in the universe to rapidly decompress their technology and quickly construct more advanced combat units to carry out annihilation strikes through greater range and volume of energy control.

Even so, the location and territory occupied by each mechanical island can be quickly filled by replicating and multiplying existing units after the mechanical island temporarily leaves its location.

Tiga sighed slightly: "Now we can take advantage of the isolation of the mechanical islands to defeat them one by one, eliminate all the mechanical islands in standby mode, and simultaneously use disguised signals to occupy their territories."

“Furthermore,” Tiga pointed to the strange spacetime structure in the large void before him, “the state of the Mechanical Island is merely an energy-saving mode.”

"The mechanical island adopts a certain 'principle of minimum intervention', consuming only the necessary resources to avoid disrupting the cosmic ecosystem, thereby ensuring its long-term existence."

"This is why the mechanical island did not directly decompress into a black hole battle form, completely occupying the entire mass of the universe in the form of a black hole."

"Similarly, if it has undergone technological decompression, it will not deliberately consume energy to regress to a lower extreme state, but will remain in a high-level standby state."

High-level construct units, scattered throughout the universe and in various forms and postures, will also monitor the mechanical islands of other lower-level units in their own corresponding forms.

In summary, this is a distributed, robust system capable of continuously carrying out the missions of previous civilizations without any central control, thus ensuring maximum survival.

"New City, speaking of which, Mechanical Island is actually quite similar to a malevolent cultural life form."

The Mechanical Island is almost a physical embodiment of a civilization meme.

Ultraman Tiga's gaze was very serious.

With the help of the perpetual motion machine effect, Tiga can obtain almost limitless computing power. Using such a computer to conduct simulations, the information obtained from the logical body constructed from three basic particles as basic units on the mechanical island is astonishing.

These self-replicating intelligent atoms may seem simple, but they are actually quite terrifying.

It is not a basic intelligent material used to automatically "build" spaceships or weapons, but a stable state of existence based on the current physical laws of the universe, formed by the civilization behind it after it has ultimately compressed and encoded everything (knowledge, consciousness, purpose).

You could even say that this is not an object, but a piece of "living code" written into the universe and operating on the basis of the laws of the universe!
Use three microscopic particles, whether they are quarks, neutrinos, or more fundamental hypothetical particles, or more macroscopic atoms, molecules, or even cells, or even three planets.

Basically, any object or entity that can constitute the motion of the three-body system can become an information carrier of the civilization behind the mechanical island.

The unpredictability and complexity of the Three-Body system give it an enormous and unimaginable capacity to carry information.

By deciphering any basic unit of the Three-Body Problem, Tiga can completely obtain the history, knowledge, technology tree, and corresponding instructions of its entire civilization.

That enormous, terrifying amount of information was fractally compressed and holographically stored in this microscopic system, with each three-body system containing all the information of the whole.

This encoded state is metastable under normal physical conditions in the universe. It will not disintegrate on its own, but will only reach a metastable state like the mechanical island during the natural increment process, and then temporarily stop.

However, once triggered, it will immediately "activate" and unfold into a more complex form.

The mechanical island has no fixed form; its appearance depends entirely on the cosmic environment and the level of threat it faces, much like a program that can change according to context.

Depending on the environment, it will be in standby mode with completely different postures.

It could be a mechanical island drifting in the starry sky, a cloud of dark matter, a complex three-star system, or even a piece of DNA code passed down through generations of a certain race.

They maintain a form that continuously collects cosmic information, consumes very little energy, and exists almost eternally.

When the emergence of a civilization is detected, its development is observed closely in various forms, with its internal particles performing low-intensity calculations.

Upon detecting the high-risk technology, the mechanical island immediately transformed from its camouflaged state into a visible combat platform and began deploying robots to execute the test protocol.

Upon encountering strong resistance, immediately implement corresponding suppression measures based on the magnitude of the resistance, and even employ appropriate technological decompression techniques.

When faced with an erasure target possessing spacetime-related capabilities, it can be decompressed into a black hole battle body, compressing a large amount of mass to form a controllable singularity, and using its event horizon and spacetime distortion effects for defense and attack.

In other extreme energy environments, such as the ultra-high energy environment close to the early stages of the Big Bang, it decompresses into a pure energy life form.

When faster-than-light movement or reconnaissance is required, it is decompressed into a quantum entangled cloud, becoming a probabilistic wave logic system.

It can be said that the "shape" of the mechanical island is merely the optimal solution of its internal algorithm to the external environment.

It is essentially a programmable substance, and at its core is the eternal and unchanging three-body encoding instruction set.

This specific instruction set is constantly being disseminated in various forms.

At present, it is difficult for Ultraman Tiga and the Land of Light to even determine how vast the universe this unknown civilization has spread in, or what form it has taken.

Because, although the current three-body motion information of the mechanical island has been analyzed, it is only outdated information.

Finally, Tiga looked into the void, at the vast past and future, and slowly said, "New City, this will be a very long war."

"Once the mechanical island is decompressed to the appropriate state, its original civilization and wisdom will be fully restored."

"They will continue to develop, and after resolving the crisis, they will re-encode the Three-Body command information."

"even……"

Tiga shook his head and returned to the starry sky with Shinjo.

He casually picked up a stray interstellar meteorite and carefully examined the hydrogen and oxygen atoms inside the icy meteorite, looking at the protons, neutrons, and electrons, at the quarks…

In essence, intelligent atoms are simply natural atoms that have undergone specific editing to respond to corresponding information.

Natural atoms themselves can also be directly manipulated under certain conditions.

And who knows whether natural atoms, or even some smaller microscopic units, or even the fundamental units of spacetime themselves, are intelligent units that were deliberately edited by some civilization or individual?
"The Mechanical Island may be the first generation, but how many times has that unknown civilization, that civilization that transformed itself into a great filter, iterated without our knowledge?"

(End of this chapter)