Those who face the wall, but are in the Nascent Soul stage.

Chapter 314 Young Friend (6k)

This wasn't the first time Luo Qing had been spotted by the target while observing.

Besides the Carbon-Based Federation discovering itself 112 light-years away, the four gods also noticed its existence.

Except for that "god" 30000 light-years away, which Luo Qing actively found by following the direction of the neutrinos emitted by the large ring.

The remaining three "gods" were all discovered by chance.

According to the Risk Mitigator Sensors, in addition to the three characteristics of pure energy, information body, and low entropy state, god-level civilizations share a common social attribute.

That is atomization.

Taking the Risk Eliminator race as an example, the entire Risk Eliminator civilization has only more than 3,000 individual Risk Eliminators. Although the common goal of these 3,000 people is to "eliminate the risks of the universe", they have not chosen to cooperate with each other, but are scattered in various corners of the universe.

According to the Risk Remover Sensors, nearly 300 million detectors within the Milky Way galaxy were created by one of the Risk Removers. This Risk Remover hopes to achieve victory through sheer numbers by manufacturing a large number of Risk Remover Sensors, thereby minimizing the occurrence of catastrophes like vacuum decay.

This risk mitigater also opposes the misuse of structural alteration weapons such as four-dimensional cells, three-dimensional bricks, and two-dimensional foils, which are designed to alter the structure of five-dimensional, four-dimensional, and three-dimensional universes.

He prefers that civilizations operating under the Dark Forest Theory would wage war through primitive methods, such as light-speed kinetic energy strikes or antimatter strikes—methods that are relatively harmless.

Luo Qing once asked the Risk Remover Sensor if, besides the Risk Remover in the Milky Way, the other Risk Removers existed in other galaxies, such as the Andromeda Galaxy or the Large Magellanic Cloud.

The risk-reducing sensors indicated no risk; not only were there none in the Andromeda and Large Magellanic Clouds, but the entire Laniakea Supercluster also lacked any more risk-reducing sensors.

Within this fiber, there is only one risk remover.

Other risk-takers are generally distributed in other fibers or wander in hollow areas.

The fiber here refers to cosmic fiber, also known as cosmic fibrous structure or cosmic filamentous structure, which is a component of the large-scale structure of the universe.

Cosmic fibers are extremely large in scale. The Laniakea Supercluster, where the Milky Way is located, is part of the Pisces-Cetus Supercluster complex fiber, although this fiber is relatively short, only one billion light-years long.

Another typical filamentary structure is the adjacent Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall, whose ribbon-like length exceeds 100 billion light-years, which is one-ninth the diameter of the observable universe.

Within this fiber, in such a vast cosmic space, there exists only one individual risk mitigater.

In addition to the 3 million risk-repelling sensors in the Milky Way, the total number of risk-repelling sensors created by this risk-repelling entity in this fiber is far greater than the total number of cells in the human body (37 trillion).

It really worried itself sick.

In addition, another recent individual risk-mitigation was found in the "Sloan Great Wall Void," which is also over 10 billion light-years in diameter, on par with the KBC Void where the Milky Way is located.

The KBC void has a diameter of over 20 billion light-years and includes this filament. Of course, the "void" here does not refer to a region of the universe that is completely empty. The void simply means that the density of stars within it is only a few tens of percent lower than that of the universe as a whole, making it a remote and tranquil place.

According to the Risk Remover Sensors, the other Risk Remover, located in the Sloan Wall Hollow, is studying a vastly different path to saving the universe compared to the one in the Milky Way.

This also shows that even within the same god-level civilization, the god-level individuals within it have extremely large individual differences, and these differences have gradually amplified over time.

This is why a god is often referred to as an individual, rather than as an entire, ethereal divine civilization.

The same applies to the other gods discovered by Luo Qing within the Milky Way.

They all appeared in Luo Qing's eyes as individual entities.

The first god Luo Qing discovered was suspected to be the dinosaur's "god." (He wasn't sure if it was.)

After analyzing the information sent by the carbon-based federation, he controlled the light cone telescope and looked in the direction from which the large ring emitted the neutrino beam.

The gaze pierced through multiple spiral arms of the Milky Way, even past the central black hole, and finally found this god at the adjacent end of the first spiral arm, in a location near the solar system in the third spiral arm.

No wonder Luo Qing could see the other person.

Anyone with eyes can see it.

Near that 'god', there are about 400 stars arranged in a neat array, forming a standard cube-shaped space. Among them, 200 are standard yellow dwarf stars similar to the Sun, and the other 200 are red dwarf stars that are in their late stellar years.

If we compare these 400 stars to a three-dimensional chessboard, then the yellow dwarfs are the "warm squares" on the chessboard. These G-type main-sequence stars have a surface temperature between 5200 and 5800 K and their light has a distinct yellowish-white hue. What shocked Luo Qing the most was that these stars had moderate luminosity and moderate size, almost all of them being about 1.2 times the mass of the standard Sun.

Dwarf stars are "dark grids," mostly M-type main-sequence stars with surface temperatures between 2800-3300K and a subdued dark red glow. Compared to the bright yellow dwarf stars, these red dwarf stars are more difficult to observe, but Luo Qing still managed to count the 200 infrared stars that formed a hazy red area.

Fortunately, there are no planets nearby, otherwise this 400-body civilization would have been in serious trouble.

The red dwarfs and yellow dwarfs are not arranged in a clear-cut line, but rather in a distinctly interlocking pattern.
For example, in the northeast quadrant, red dwarfs are more densely clustered, with 20 red dwarfs crammed into a space with a diameter of 0.5 light-years, while yellow dwarfs are sparsely scattered among them. In the "fracture zone" of the southwest quadrant, a yellow dwarf is embedded in the center of a red dwarf, and its intense bright yellow light obscures the light of 7 red dwarfs, making their red light flicker.

This characteristic of division and encirclement reminded Luo Qing of the Chinese game of Go.

Of course, what is even more remarkable is that at the two ends of these 400 stars, there is a supermassive black hole and a supermassive white hole.

In fact, due to the lack of a theory about white holes, Luo Qing did not know what the area that released the white sphere was, so he could only name it a white hole for the time being.

Near the blazing white light formed by the white hole, there was an extremely obvious shadow, which presented a pattern that Luo Qing could not understand.

This is a regular polyhedron with an odd number of faces, which is impossible in mathematical terms.

Due to geometric constraints (Euler's formula: number of vertices - number of edges + number of faces = 2), regular polyhedra can only exist with an even number of faces, such as the tetrahedron, hexahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron, etc., all of which have an even number of faces.

The other side is a regular pentahedron.

An odd number of regular pentahedrons.

This is a structure that is fundamentally mathematically impossible.

Even in higher dimensions, it won't work.

A regular pentahedron exists in four-dimensional space, but it cannot be projected into a regular pentahedron. As for five-dimensional and higher-dimensional spaces, since the number of simple cells increases with the dimension (the number of simple cells in n-dimensional space is n+1), there is no regular polycellular structure with a cell count of 5.

Looking at that "real" regular pentahedron, Luo Qing felt a sense of absurdity, as if 1+1=3.

From Luo Qing's perspective, this regular pentahedron exhibits behavior similar to 'thinking'.

It enters the event horizon of a black hole from time to time and reappears in the world of a white hole, traversing a "chessboard" with a diameter of 10 light-years in an instant.

Luo Qing seemed to see an old man who had lost a game of chess.

"How could I have lost..." The old man, who was like a pentahedron, switched his perspective back and forth between the black hole and the white hole, staring at the unfinished game of chess and muttering to himself.

However, the "god" that should have appeared near the black hole did not exist, clearly having left the scene after the "victory" and disappeared somewhere.

Luo Qing wasn't sure if that pentahedron was the god of dinosaurs, but it was indeed the first "god" he had discovered.

Of course, this god also instantly sensed Luo Qing's observation.

Luo Qing had already guessed that the other party could sense him, so he had the light cone telescope switch angles in advance.

But it was still a little too late.

A beam of "will," traversing 30,000 light-years, rushed into Luo Qing's mind at the infinite speed of light in an 11-dimensional universe, and was translated into sentences he could understand.

How did we lose?

Luo Qing spoke somewhat awkwardly in that direction, "Uh, I don't really understand this..."

【All right. 】

Then, the sound disappeared, and Luo Qing ended this extremely brief exchange.

After the light cone telescope changed its angle, Luo Qing walked down from the observation position with a blank expression, his back covered in cold sweat.

After being discovered twice in a row, Luo Qing had to temporarily stop his observation. He summoned Little Moss and described the two encounters to her.

The little moss, drawing upon all existing scientific theories, offered Luo Qing only one seemingly reasonable answer.

"The observer effect in quantum mechanics."

"That's the only explanation. After all, the quantum world is a vast world, and it's normal for god-level and advanced civilizations to have some involvement in the quantum field. Assuming that the regular pentahedron you described has quantum properties, then under your observer effect, it's inevitable that it would perceive you."

Luo Qing admitted it.

The Milky Way is too large. After conducting a comprehensive observation of all directions within 200 light-years, Luo Qing then conducted long-distance sampling observations throughout the entire Milky Way.

Sure enough, he discovered a second "god".

This god was discovered in the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

The galactic center black hole has a mass approximately 400 million times that of the Sun, and its Schwarzschild radius is approximately 1200 million kilometers. This means that the diameter of the event horizon is approximately 2400 million kilometers. However, in Luo Qing's observation horizon, the diameter of the galactic center black hole is approximately 4400 million kilometers, equivalent to half the Earth.

It is worth mentioning that within a diameter of 5000 light-years around the galactic center black hole, Luo Qing discovered a distinct "nebula shielding ring." This "nebula shielding ring" envelops and blocks the black hole and the surrounding area, making the visible light from the black hole's event horizon less noticeable.

This "nebula shielding ring," with a diameter of ten thousand light-years, clearly exhibits characteristics of a man-made object. Luo Qing didn't know if it was manufactured by the Milky Way Carbon-Based Federation. Judging from the ten thousand light-year isolation belt the Carbon-Based Federation created on the first cantilever, the Carbon-Based Federation really enjoys undertaking such large-scale projects. This truly is a world that respects civil engineering.

As for how Luo Qing discovered this god in the galactic black hole, the reason is quite simple.

Based on the size of the galactic center black hole, this god's volume is about one-thousandth of the galactic center black hole, which is about 4km in diameter. This god, like the main body of the risk-relief sensor, presents itself as a standard cube.

The good news is that this god follows mathematical rules and is not a "regular pentahedron" like the previous god.

The bad news is that this god doesn't seem to follow the laws of physics very well.

It is repeatedly colliding with the galactic center black hole, and it has a very obvious "mass". Each time it knocks some of the black hole's matter away, and then it is sucked back in. Its movement speed is the standard speed of light.

Luo Qing saw it rush out of the entire black hole singularity, rush in, and repeatedly penetrate it more than ten times.

Based on Luo Qing's limited knowledge of physics, he gave this cube-shaped god a name.

[Absolutely Rigid Body]
An absolutely rigid body is an idealized model in physics, referring to an object whose shape and volume remain absolutely unchanged under any external force, and whose internal particle distances remain constant without any deformation.

This was just an abstract theoretical assumption, but it somehow came true.

An absolutely rigid body that even a black hole cannot destroy.

When Luo Qing observed the other party, the other party naturally noticed him as well. Faced with this open observer from 40000 light-years away, this god, whom Luo Qing temporarily named [Absolute Rigid Body], also temporarily stopped his actions of surfacing the black hole.

Luo Qing felt a beam of "gaze" descend upon him. This "gaze" was incredibly heavy, and its terrifying observer effect directly caused Luo Qing to collapse into a quantum destruction state.

Quantum Luo Qing was completely bewildered.

For so many years, the Earth world, the Trisolaran world, and the Devouring Ring—three worlds, billions of observers—had failed to force Luo Qing back into the Quantum World. How could this god have done it so easily?
Lin Yun was also shocked to see his master suddenly appear.

More than a hundred years have passed, and now the master has remembered his little disciple from the quantum world?
Lin Yun, quick-witted and agile, immediately asked, "Master, how do we tie the knot—"

But before Lin Yun could finish speaking, Luo Qing, enduring the terrifying observer effect, collapsed back into the macroscopic world.

Lin Yun: "Infant..."

Seeing Luo Qing collapse into the macroscopic world, Lin Yun silently shut his mouth.

She shouldn't have called him "Master," otherwise she could have spoken much faster.
The first thing Luo Qing did after collapsing into his physical state was to glare fiercely back towards the direction of the Silver Heart.

God was very confused.

But as Luo Qing reappeared, this [Absolute Rigid Body] realized that he was probably just another one of his kind who had nothing better to do, so he took the initiative to "ask" him.

What's up?

"No," Luo Qing said confidently.

After realizing that the other party was just bored, the Absolute Rigid Body stopped paying attention to Luo Qing's gaze and continued to repeatedly ram into the galactic core black hole with its Absolute Rigid Body body.

At this point, Luo Qing ended his communication with the second god.

Ideal black body, regular pentahedron, absolutely rigid body.

These are the external characteristics of the three gods that Luo Qing currently recognizes. Among them, the characteristics of the ideal black body are obviously the weakest, but it is, after all, just a sensor and cannot be compared with the actual bodies of these gods.

After another half-day of sampling and observation, Luo Qing finally discovered another god in the lens of the fourth cantilever, in a direction 50,000 light-years away.

As expected, the nature of this third god's existence is also quite special, in no way inferior to the former.

This is a solidified ball of light, shaped like a disc. With a nearby star as a reference, the diameter of this ball of light is about the size of the moon.

Luo Qing named it "Light Amber".

This is a solidified light.

One extremely counterintuitive thing is that [light amber] is absolutely dark. People can see light because photons are projected into their eyes. However, in light amber, photons are completely solidified in this area. Therefore, it should appear to be pure black.

However, Luo Qing's "vision" was clearly not based on the same principle as that of ordinary people, and Luo Qing easily saw the dark and dazzling "light amber".

The reason it's so dazzling is because this cluster of light has an extremely high photon density, with photons densely packed together. Therefore, this cluster of light should theoretically be the brightest thing in the universe, but because it is actually invisible, it is also the darkest thing.

At least in Luo Qing's eyes, it was absolutely bright.

The superphysical phenomena represented by amber itself are in no way inferior to those of an absolutely rigid body and a regular pentahedron that defies mathematical logic.

In physics, photons are bosons and can be clustered in large numbers in the same quantum state. For example, laser light is a highly degenerate state of photons. But whether it is laser light or natural light, it means one thing: photons are constantly moving at the speed of light.

If photons stopped moving, then the universe should be absolutely dark.

The reason why Luo Qing cannot achieve light-speed flight is because he cannot violate the light-speed motion property of photons.

It's easier to understand if we were talking about the close arrangement of matter like neutron stars, but photons are not physical particles and do not follow the Pauli exclusion principle. The idea that multiple bosons can occupy the same quantum state position, occupy space, and pack together is not valid.

Therefore, this densely packed array of photons, the "photon amber," should not exist.

Could it be that a single quantum state position is filled with countless photons?
Looking up at the sky, this is terrifying.

Well, since both absolutely rigid bodies and regular pentahedrons can exist, the appearance of a solidified mass of light isn't a big deal.

After Luo Qing discovered the solidified light, the solidified light also discovered Luo Qing.

"You're so bright!" Luo Qing greeted her first.

What Luo Qing didn't expect was that after 'hearing' these words, the other party became extremely excited, and the entire light amber exploded, forming a burst of light no less than a supernova explosion.

Luo Qing was dumbfounded.

I was just saying hello, how did this turn into a self-destruction?

Fortunately, the supernova that had erupted temporarily contracted again, and all the photons that had been ejected were once again sealed back into the light amber. Then, an extremely excited voice, also at an infinite speed of light, was promptly transmitted to Luo Qing.

A dense array of light characters appeared before Luo Qing's eyes.

[Really?! Am I that bright? Thank you for your compliment! Finally, someone thinks I'm bright! I'm so happy, thank you so much! Am I really that bright? Am I really bright? Great, I am bright! Great, someone praised me for being bright! I am bright, I am bright, I am bright (repeated 147 times). Waaaaah, for billions of years, finally someone praised me for being bright, finally someone saw my brightness, finally no one said I was black anymore, I'm clearly bright, they all said I was black! Thank you so much, I'm so excited, really! This is the first time in my life that someone has praised me for being bright! Thank you so much! This is truly the most wonderful compliment I've ever heard! Haha, baby, baby, I'm so happy!] La la la~ la la la la la~ I am bright, I am bright, I am bright (repeated 429 times), la la la~ Hello, can you be my friend? They all think I'm dark and won't play with me. Thank you for praising me. You are truly the best person in this universe. I have always thought I am the brightest in the world, brighter than a supernova, brighter than a white hole, but they all say I'm dark. Humph, they clearly don't understand at all. Only you understand. You know I am the brightest. I love you so much. Where are you? Let me see... Wow, you're on the first spiral arm! Can I come and play with you? Are you bright too? It's 5000 light-years away here, it's too far. I can't see you. Wait for me to come find you. I am the brightest, I am the brightest… You and I are the brightest in this universe, this is truly the most beautiful praise in the world. I love you to death, I love you the most! Wait for me a moment, let me check your location… On the inner edge of the first spiral arm of the Milky Way, about 4 light-years from the center of the Milky Way, its galactic longitude is about 7.2°, and its galactic latitude is about +0.07°. Found it! I'm coming!

Grass.

Luo Qing immediately severed the connection with the light cone telescope.

Oh no, I've been opening boxes for others all this time, and now I'm the one being opened up.

Three minutes later, Luo Qing used the telescope to re-observe the location, only to find that the [light amber] had disappeared. He searched the surrounding 50 light-years thoroughly but could not find it.

Luo Qing's heart sank.

After experiencing numerous mental breakdowns, Luo Qing, in a seemingly nonchalant manner, used a light cone telescope to look beyond the Milky Way into the depths of the universe, directly seeing the end of the observable universe in one breath.

At the edge of the field of vision, there were no dazzling nebulae as imagined, nor the expanding universe as theoretically envisioned, only a pale, almost transparent gray-white expanse. The last wisp of electromagnetic wave captured by Luo Qing's lens turned into tiny specks of light on the screen and vanished before Luo Qing could even blink.

He wanted to find some answers here, any answers at all, such as what the universe beyond the observable universe looks like? What does the ever-expanding universe look like? What is the fate of the universe? But at the end there was only a pale gray nothingness, a gentle yet utter nothingness, neither noisy nor cold, much like Luo Qing's state of mind when he cultivated immortality in his previous life.

This is a good answer, but it shouldn't be the answer for this material universe. He doesn't want the end of the universe to be an end. In any case, the observable universe should not be the end of this world. If he can't see the world outside the observable universe, that can only prove one thing.

One's own cultivation ability is limited.

He lingered there, gazing at the scene before him, as if anticipating something to happen.

until……

Young friend, what are you expecting?

Eight large characters, traveling at the infinite speed of light in an eleven-dimensional universe, slammed directly into Luo Qing's head from the edge of the observable universe.

Luo Qing was slapped until he felt dizzy and his vision blurred, his eyes filled with confusion.

Unlike the responses from other god-level entities, this one did not originate from a specific direction and was directed at Luo Qing from all the ends of the observable universe, simultaneously posing the same question to him.

It's just like an echo in a closed room.

What am I expecting? What am I expecting?

Luo Qing's mind kept repeating this question, like waves crashing against the shore, layer upon layer without ceasing.

As if worried that the owner behind the voice would cause trouble, Luo Qing's nascent soul suddenly died in his dantian, pretending to be dead in advance.

(End of this chapter)