Did the world end today?

Chapter 326 Loop
Jiang Xingye gently waved his hand, and the physical entity between the two quickly dissipated and faded away.

Once it was confirmed that Lin Xu had grasped the secrets of "between dimensions," such a demonstration became unnecessary.

Sitting in the chair that had appeared out of nowhere in the empty room, Jiang Xingye continued:
"Imagine you've written a program, and a bug appears in it."

“Normally, a bug will not affect the operation of the entire system. In fact, there are many similar bugs in this program. The program itself operates through the cooperation between bugs.”

"Like a .shit mountain code program?"

"That's right, that's about it."

"In that world, your background is that of a flight control engineer, so you should be able to understand this judgment, right?"

"I completely understand."

Lin Xu let out a long sigh of relief, and then said:

"A benign bug is of course not a problem, but if a bug becomes self-replicating, then the problem is serious."

"So you mean, humans are a bug that can self-replicate?"

Jiang Xingye slowly shook his head.

"If it's just about self-replication, then it's not really a serious problem at all."

"At least based on our current understanding, the most common black holes in the universe are typical examples of bugs with self-replicating capabilities."

"The biggest problem with the human 'bug' is that we are too adaptable."

"You should know that, at least so far, we haven't found any bugs with the same level of adaptability."

"Such adaptability has extremely serious consequences, namely, we evolve rapidly as we constantly devour and erode other code."

"This is what is called 'free will'."

"We must admit that our free will also comes from a 'mis-coded' 'top-level dimension'."

"But it was this very error in coding that ultimately made us unique."

unique.

Lin Xu pondered the word repeatedly in his mind, and only when he forced himself to look at it from a higher perspective and tried to understand the whole story did he finally realize just how heavy the weight of that word truly was.

He slowly exhaled and nodded in reply:

"I understand."

"Therefore, the so-called disaster is actually a purge operation by the 'real god' at the very top."

"we do not know."

Jiang Xingye shook his head and replied:

"Theoretically speaking, in this universe, things like 'gods' or 'supreme will' do not exist at all."

"The transdimensional catastrophe we are about to face may be a cleansing, a self-defense mechanism, or more likely, a simple, routine operation in the course of the universe's operation."

"It's like a program that might go through a restart, update, or rollback."

"Such restarts and rollbacks will not affect any line of code in the program; the only thing they can affect is us."

"Only we humans, through a chance encounter, have gained 'free will'."

"And our fight against the apocalypse is essentially a fight against this higher-level law."

"understood."

Lin Xu closed his eyes briefly.

absurd.

That was the only word he could think of.

The catastrophe that swept across the entire universe was merely a routine "reboot".

The despair this speculation brought him far exceeded the sense of impending doom itself.

If there really is a so-called "god" sitting high at the top of the dimension, when he notices the erroneous code of "humanity", will he really feel fear, anger, or displeasure?
Not necessarily.

He'll probably just be confused.

Then, gently press "restart" to run the entire program again.

This may be the truth behind the disaster.

But if that's really the case, can the disaster itself still be avoided?
Faced with a more transcendent power, humanity ultimately faces an insurmountable barrier.

An animated character can't jump off the screen and slap the viewer, just as code in a program can't materialize and push away fingers about to be typed. A profound sense of powerlessness washed over him, and for a moment, Lin Xu even wondered what Jiang Xingye's purpose was in telling him all this.

Is it just to convince oneself that humanity is facing an insurmountable predicament?
He looked at Jiang Xingye in silence for a long time before finally asking:
"In this situation, is there any point in us struggling?"

"Yes, of course."

Jiang Xingye looked directly into Lin Xu's eyes.

“I know what you’re worried about—perhaps the phrase ‘bug in the program’ has given you some misconceptions that aren’t quite accurate.”

"But in reality, even within the framework of this statement, we are not on a dead end."

"You're thinking that a virtual program can never affect a physical entity, right?"

"Yes."

Lin Xu answered immediately.

Jiang Xingye shrugged and asked in return:

"Then why can while(true) burn out the CPU?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Xu suddenly realized what was going on.

Before he could speak, Jiang Xingye continued.

"In short, this is a general example."

"We can influence more than just this world or this dimension."

“There are even higher dimensions, or even another level ‘above the dimensions’.”

"But that requires us to first truly grasp the world, to grasp all the power over the world."

At this point, Jiang Xingye stood up.

"Okay, that concludes the discussion on macro and abstract topics."

"Now, let me show you the world we live in."

As she spoke, she walked outside.

Opposite her, the wall without a door automatically melted away, revealing a wide passageway.

Lin Xu followed her into the passage, and the next second, he found himself seemingly having traversed countless distances, still in the center of a grassland.

这 是
Space technology?

Or is everything here a lie?

Lin Xu stared in disbelief at everything before him, and asked:
Am I still on Earth?

"of course."

Jiang Xingye said with a slight chuckle:
"Although it may be hard to understand, this is indeed still Earth."

“We used a series of spatial reconstruction techniques to divide the Earth – now the Earth is more like a comprehensive functional area.”

"so."

Lin Xu was somewhat confused, but he also knew that this was not his main concern within the limited time available.

Let's get straight to the point.

He opened his mouth and said:
"How much time do I have? What do I need to do?"

"You need to achieve a closed loop."

Jiang Xingye replied:

"Our world is the beginning of the whole cycle, and also the end of the whole cycle."

"Simply put, if the worlds you've experienced before were just part of a cycle, then our world is the starting point of everything."

"Here, we are sending a message to your world through a higher-dimensional channel."

"That message ultimately led you into other worlds, and eventually you arrived here."

"However, such a cycle is not complete."

"And what you need to do now is to complete this loop!"

"Otherwise, your world, our world, and all worlds will cease to exist!"

(End of this chapter)