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

Chapter 349 The Mad Universe

Upon hearing the words of the Carbon-Based Federation Commander, Luo Qing felt as if the clouds had parted and the confusion in his mind had been answered.

Luo Qing sighed: "No wonder... I was wondering why I saw your work on the non-stellar isolation zone was still 122 light-years away not long ago, but how come it has appeared near the solar system in the blink of an eye."

Luo Qing pointed to the child Qing:

"So it was because of him that you came to the vicinity of the solar system to find me ahead of time?"

Blue's intelligent field flickered slightly: "Yes, after arriving at the first cantilever, I had this warship come here without stopping. It even used the star of the Eridanus system as a springboard to perform a stellar leap, and then performed a short-distance space jump across nine light-years, just to see with my own eyes what the main body he mentioned looks like."

Luo Qing shrugged: "As you can see, I am not a powerful being. Entropy Ping Guangpo, who can kick a roadside dog a couple of times, can beat me into a sorry state. A Trisolaran probe can make the human civilization under my protection unable to raise its head. My weakness is known to the whole world."

Lan smiled and said, "Humans are humble carbon-based life forms."

Luo Qing: "To tell you the truth."

Lan: "But at least in my understanding, you are a special existence. I have never seen such a special god-level individual as you... It seems that you have not even completed pure energy transformation and information transformation."

Luo Qing: "This just shows I'm bad. I'm just a demigod who fits the low-entropy state."

Lan: "How strange! It's not just you; everyone on Earth is in a low-entropy state. Even an ant or a cockroach is a low-entropy creature. The process of life, from its emergence to aging and death, is itself a process of changing from low entropy to high entropy. But you... you've maintained a constant low-entropy state. As far as I know, you haven't aged at all, have you?"

Upon hearing this, Luo Qing instantly transformed into an old man with a white beard.

The blue intelligent field turned into a light gray, representing silence.

Luo Qing ignored the reaction of the Carbon-Based Federation Commander; he planned to present himself in this form from now on.

Sometimes, it's time for people to get a little older.

The white-bearded old man said, "Let's not talk about me for now. More than your curiosity about me, I'm very curious about you. I really want to know where you found such a child who looks exactly like my evil Qing clone?"

Blue: "27240 light-years away."

Luo Qing was stunned by the distance.

"That can't be right. My clone's flight speed is only about 10% of the speed of light. I created it 5 years ago, and 2 years ago I sent it to the Trisolaran system to intimidate the Trisolarans. How could it have traveled so far in such a short time?"

The blue intelligent field switched to a clear sky blue, and he began to explain to Luo Qing: "This is a coincidence. Xiao Qing once described the whole process to me. I can explain it to you: Your clone should have been on its way to the Trisolaran system. In the Oort cloud, it accidentally entered a four-dimensional fragment with a diameter of 300 million kilometers. This massive four-dimensional fragment should be a fragment that has been orbiting the sun in the Oort cloud."

Lan: "Because the spatial weight of four-dimensional space is very heavy, and there is an additional spatial dimension, three-dimensional space is much more fragile than four-dimensional space. It's like putting a very heavy iron block on a piece of paper. This four-dimensional fragment carrying your clone broke through three-dimensional space and came to a place 2.7 light-years away, which means it went directly from the end of the first cantilever to the middle of the second cantilever."

Lan was worried that Luo Qing wouldn't be able to understand, so she directly fed the following content into Luo Qing's mind.

The three-dimensional space of the universe is like a continuously curved sheet of paper. An iron block breaks through the top layer and falls to the next layer. If this sheet were flattened, the straight-line distance between the two points would be 2.7 light-years.

Lan: "What I just demonstrated in your mind is the simplest theory of spatial wormholes. Whether it's stellar leapfrogging or the small-scale spatial jump of this warship, they are essentially applications of spatial wormholes." Lan: "The Trisolaran civilization has witnessed the existence of this fragment. They once sent more sophons to Earth, but these extra sophons all fell into what they considered to be the sophon blind spot."

After absorbing a large amount of knowledge and digesting it for a while, Luo Qing finally learned the reason for the disappearance of the clone, and then grasped the key to the problem.

"How can there be such a large four-dimensional fragment near the solar system?"

Luo Qing was utterly baffled: "A four-dimensional fragment with a diameter of 3 million kilometers, if unfolded in three dimensions, would be at least the size of a space no smaller than the solar system. Who created this four-dimensional fragment?"

Luo Qing's words made Lan realize that
The human god named Luo Qing in front of him had a shallower understanding of the common knowledge of the universe than he had imagined.

Even though he had underestimated the other party's knowledge base as much as possible.

My God, how can there be such a god?

No wonder the risk-taker's sensor didn't like talking to him about these things; who wants to talk about common sense that everyone knows?
While everyone else is discussing virtual games, you're still asking endless questions like how to kill zombies in Peashooter, why three blocks connected together disappear, why Mario can jump, and why the big fish can eat the small fish. Isn't that annoying to listen to?

After a long period of fluctuation, Lan's intelligent field finally calmed down and patiently explained: "Luo Qing, the universe was previously a higher-dimensional universe. About 132 billion years ago, the total area of ​​the three-dimensional universe exceeded that of the four-dimensional universe. Since then, the universe has entered the three-dimensional universe era. The large four-dimensional fragment wandering near the Oort cloud may not have been created by an advanced civilization. Apart from those stupid dinosaurs, no advanced civilization would have the time to deliberately maintain something that is bound to evaporate and requires a lot of energy to sustain."

"That four-dimensional fragment is most likely a remnant of the four-dimensional universe that is constantly evaporating."

Luo Qing was stunned for a moment upon hearing this.

He reviewed the intelligence he already possessed.

Luo Qing: "That's not right."

Lan: "What's wrong?"

Luo Qing: "...The Risk Remover sensor deceived me. It previously told me that the Big Bang theory is correct, that is, the universe exploded 132 billion years ago, experienced a brief period of high-dimensional universe, and quickly descended to a three-dimensional universe. But in your statement, the three-dimensional universe appeared 132 billion years ago."

Luo Qing emphasized: "132 billion years ago, this is the exact time of the Big Bang as predicted by mankind, but in your case, it has become the time of the transformation from a four-dimensional universe to a three-dimensional universe."

Upon hearing this, Lan's mind turned slightly red.

Lan: "The risk eliminater did not deceive you. The Big Bang theory is indeed correct, but there are some contradictions in the timing."

Lan: "The three-dimensional universe is the longest existing state of space since the birth of the universe. Compared to the three-dimensional universe, the four-dimensional universe has only existed for about 76 million years, and the five-dimensional universe has only existed for about 2 million years. And so on, the higher the dimension, the shorter the existence time of the universe."

Lan: "The eleventh-dimensional universe existed for only a few dozen hours. Don't think this time is short. In fact, considering the superluminal speed of light of 0.162 meters per Planck time in the eleventh-dimensional universe, these few dozen hours are incredibly long... longer than a trillion years as we perceive them. It was a truly wonderful era, a truly wonderful idyllic era, a long, almost completely eternal idyllic era..."

Lan: "In the eleventh dimension, all life forms think at an extremely fast speed. Everyone is immersed in eternal beauty without knowing why, but that is not true eternity, and there will always be an end."

(End of this chapter)