Did the world end today?

Chapter 381 Jigsaw Puzzle Experiment
As the exploration of boundaries and deities deepens, more and more knowledge begins to be fixed.

Under Calvin's leadership, three "universal principles" were first established.

First, heaven actually exists, gods actually exist, and they can exert influence on humankind through methods unknown to humankind.

Secondly, there is a boundary between heaven and earth, which hinders communication between humans and gods and distorts the flow of information, so that prayers to the gods may also have distorted consequences.

Third, communication is a two-way street.

Based on these three principles, the "religious rationality" tone of this world has been fully confirmed.

Such rationality cannot be denied by the church.

Because their ultimate goal is to establish a more direct and smooth communication with the gods.

When this banner was raised, the "priests" represented by Calvin had already stood on the high ground of divine authority.

Classical physics first achieved explosive development. Then, after nearly a century of risky "rituals" and at a relatively acceptable cost, it crossed the most difficult stepping stone in basic science. At an alarming speed, the world leaped directly from the Iron Age to the Quantum Age in just 150 years.

Of course, the world during this period was extremely distorted.

Steam locomotives, diesel locomotives, jet aircraft, satellites, and large-scale particle colliders—products from entirely different eras—coexisted simultaneously.

Similarly, the structure of the world was completely torn apart.

Groups that have mastered a great deal of advanced technology are like isolated islands, dotting the still-unenlightened sea of ​​civilization.

They tried to expand their sphere of influence and connect all the isolated islands, but eventually they found that when the sea was filled in, the original islands had become towering cliffs and mountains.

Two hundred years later, the people here finally discovered the true nature of the gods.

The theory of holographic duality was born. Based on Kelvin's theory, a new theory that fully conforms to higher-dimensional physics was proposed.

First: The human world is the three-dimensional world in which humans live, heaven is the higher-dimensional world, and the boundary is the holographic boundary of the spacetime edge.

Second: The boundary encodes all information from high dimension to low dimension, and due to some topological defects, it distorts the flow of information, ultimately changing the reality within the three-dimensional spacetime.

Third: Boundary mapping can be bidirectional, but it requires more energy and more information.

At this point, religious theory was completely shattered.

It took only 200 years for the "Border God Cult" to rise to its peak and then be completely destroyed overnight.

With the complete demise of religion, the last shackle on humanity's path of pursuing reason was also completely removed.

A brand new future unfolds before humanity, and all the world's resources are being poured into a grand plan.

That is, the Border Project.

According to the plan, humanity must completely unravel the secrets of the boundaries and achieve the ultimate "reality editing," thereby further ascending to higher dimensions.

However, the plan did not go smoothly.

Its difficulty is simply too high.

When human civilization finally encountered obstacles after two hundred years of rapid progress, the underlying characteristics left by thousands of years of religious civilization gradually emerged.

Fanaticism, paranoia, sacrifice, even self-sacrifice.
Driven by this trend of thought, the first "testing ground" was born.

Humans used limiters to demarcate an area in a corner of the Earth and began to continuously attempt to communicate with "gods," that is, "four-dimensional space."

The results of the communication will be recorded in other areas outside the limiter and input into the ultra-high-powered quantum computer as a fixed interpolation for breaking the boundary coding rules.

Everything in the testing ground was sacrificed; they brought about incredible breakthroughs, but it wasn't enough.

More and more testing grounds were established, and the world was torn apart.

Or rather, it has become a jigsaw puzzle, piece by piece.

The chasms of the void ultimately isolated the puzzle world, and in the end, only a very few worlds truly achieved dimensional ascension.

However, they did not fully unravel the secrets of the boundaries. Their ascension to a higher dimension was, in fact, only partly due to "luck."
After reviewing the entire course of world development, Lin Xu let out a long sigh of relief.

A religious civilization eventually moves towards rationality.

Ultimately, however, they were still unable to save civilization through pure physics.

"So, what was the reason for their ultimate failure?"

Lin Xu asked:
"If a part of the 'puzzle' has been upgraded to a higher dimension, does that prove that they have solved the secret of the boundary?"

"Then why can't they pass the information to the other puzzle pieces?"

"It's not that it can't be done, it's that it's useless."

Jiang Xingye shook his head and replied:

"This is the most crucial information they obtained—by comparison, how to influence the lower-dimensional world through boundaries is not so important."

"This is the message."

"The boundary is uneven."

"There is a theoretical general solution for the boundary, but they have no chance of obtaining this general solution."

"They can only obtain locally effective solutions for boundary encoding within a certain range."

"understood."

Lin Xu nodded thoughtfully.

If the "religious world" or the "puzzle world" yields only a partially valid solution, then that solution is meaningless to oneself.

We still need the scholars of the world of Destinystone to start exploring from scratch.

The good news is that at least they have proposed a proven and usable route.

Thinking of this, Lin Xu asked:
"So, what were the specific steps they took in conducting the 'jigsaw puzzle experiment'?"

"I will send you this information directly."

Jiang Xingye gave a brief answer.

Then she continued speaking:
“But I think what you’re more interested in right now is the matter of that ‘Border Ghost’.”

As she finished speaking, Lin Xu frowned slightly.

He asked:
"Are you referring to the ghosts of my world, or the border ghosts of the so-called 'religious world'?"

In fact, since the boundaries are uneven, even if one could obtain information about the boundary spirits of other worlds, it would be meaningless to oneself.

Because he could neither change the real world through this ghost, nor obtain any usable information.

However, Jiang Xingye's answer surprised him.

"It's a ghost from your world."

"As we said last time, the completeness of the world I live in is increasing further."

"Now, I have the ability to inject a small amount of information into your world."

"During the process of information injection, I discovered the essence of that 'ghost' on the boundary of that world."

"As you said, it is not a physical entity, but a defect."

"A generative defect that is like a 'mirror image'."

(End of this chapter)