“No, I don’t need false fame.”

“But publishing a joint paper can earn you the power of the Master of Knowledge… This is one of the main ways we increase our own power.”

“We’ll talk about it later. I plan to take a look at the underlying code of the simulated universe first.”

Black Tower and Screw Gumu both thought that Kong was a pure scholar who only pursued true knowledge, but Ruan Mei thought of something:

“Are you an expert in programming?”

“No, I majored in astrophysics, and I know a little bit of programming and math. I think your plan needs a maintenance specialist like me who knows a bit of everything.”

——In fact, Sora’s brain calculation and associative abilities can only be described as average, and he relies entirely on the system, but the two are one and the same, so there is no need to separate them so carefully.

“Oh? Then I must ask you for advice when I have the chance.”

“I have no intention of stealing your job, Mr. Screwgum. I will only give you suggestions on the underlying code but will not operate it. What I can provide is mainly data support and optimization services that are more in line with the real universe.”

After saying that, Kong slapped his forehead – he was always doing optimization work, so when he tested this simulated world, he also subconsciously wanted to take on the optimization part. This could be considered a professional instinct.

“…If this continues, Stephen will not be able to keep his position as the fourth partner. He needs to work harder.” Ruan Mei put down the teacup in her hand and smiled faintly.

“It’s no use. He’ll only get more aggressive when he hears there’s someone who can take his place.”

“Dr. Kong, I want to know why you are so optimistic about the simulated universe?”

Ignoring Black Tower’s complaints, Ruan Mei continued to ask, “Black Tower has invested almost an entire planet’s resources into this project, but both I, who am responsible for cultivating the Star God Primarch, and ScrewGum, who is in charge of programming, think that this project has too much investment and is too ambitious, and it is difficult to achieve the vision it was originally set up for.”

“Ugh.”

Like a little girl who was told that the teddy bear in her hand was too ugly, Heita let out a cry that was inconsistent with her actual age.

But what Ruan Mei said is most likely true.

“Ah, because I am very interested in whether the data universe can evolve into a real ‘miniature universe’.” Kong said lightly.

“Huh?” ScrewGum was stunned when he heard that.

“Our last experiment was about how to escape entropy increase. If the universe is going to be destroyed, will we perish with it? Because we didn’t want to, we burned up an entire star system and sent the entire colonial fleet out of the material universe.”

“what??”

The kidney bean cake in Ruan Mei’s hand fell back onto the plate.

“But the cost of doing so is too high. We may not always be able to find enough energy to support our continued ascension. Therefore, a hypothesis of preserving civilization through ‘dimensionality reduction’ has been proposed. I plan to try to see if I can help you optimize the simulated universe into a real universe, and break away from the influence of the material universe, and continue to maintain the consciousness activities of the entire civilization after the heat death…”

“Huh???” Heita was also a little dumbfounded:

“Well, this sounds like a more ambitious research goal.”

“Then what was your original goal in developing the simulated universe? Is it different from what I thought?” Kong tilted his head, a little confused and a little excited: “If you don’t want to reduce the dimension, you want to increase the dimension of the simulated universe? That’s amazing, please let me participate in the experiment!”

Damn, he seemed to think too highly of this project.

Create an independent universe that can escape entropy increase? No, we just want to study the mysteries of Star God.

“You mentioned the content of the ‘last’ experiment… Never mind. Forgive me for being so nosy.”

ScrewGum didn’t bother to find out whether what Kong said was true or not. It was impossible for Boshizun to misjudge a person, which meant that the “last experiment” that Kong mentioned had been successful.

No wonder he could give the Black Tower the design drawings of a black hole matter extractor just like giving away toy blueprints.

Seeing the looks on the faces of the geniuses, Kong knew that his performance was a success.

He just wanted to amuse them. After all, pretending to be cool was one of the few stress-relieving activities in his time-travel career. Besides, none of the things he mentioned were fabricated.

……

“Ugh.”

“Heita, I understand how you feel.” ScrewGum tried to comfort Heita, but his hand was just a shadow, passing through Heita’s shoulder and falling into the air.

“You don’t understand. I have invested so many resources and placed so much hope on this research, but in other people’s eyes it is just a part of the truth.”

The puppet in the Black Tower did not show any particularly serious loss, but her “heart of Tao” was indeed being tested, just like many geniuses who were outdone:

“For me, being able to infer the source of the Star God’s power is equivalent to ‘ascension’, but the ‘ascension’ he mentioned actually means moving the entire clan from the material universe to another universe or some other world…”

“Don’t worry, Black Tower. Even I couldn’t understand the theory of the tree of imaginary numbers before I started to study it. There are still many rules in this world that we need to verify.”

Kong, who had already entered the simulated universe, heard Heita’s discouraging words through remote sensing.

“Let me tell you something that interests you. Not all universes will go to heat death. I’ve been to about 70 or 80 worlds that can form a perfect cycle and never be destroyed. But they all have one characteristic, which is that once the self-circulating process is contaminated by foreign matter, it will never recover.”

As if telling a bedtime story, Kong didn’t mind sharing some of the secrets of his time travel with the geniuses, because the “height” of this world could accommodate the stories he told:

“At this time, the world that no longer pursues closed loops will save itself and seek optimization, just like humans use external means to enhance immunity – this is the kind of work my system and I do. It’s more respectable, but it’s also open all year round, and I’ll be unlucky if I encounter a world with a strong rejection reaction.”

Sora said as he led his companion towards a giant “loading screen” where he would meet a random Star God and receive His blessing.

What was uploaded into the simulated universe was the consciousness of Sora and his companions, not their bodies. But in this world, he felt that his thinking was not delayed or limited. It might be that the suture system had helped to make some minor optimizations during the upload process with Sora.

Black Tower and Screw-Gum thought that Sora had used his consciousness to forcibly reverse some codes that made him uncomfortable, which scared them again.

Ruan Mei has been paying attention to the amount of space occupied when uploading consciousness. Eula and Paimon’s consciousness are not complicated, and Holhaya’s occupancy is high, but not outrageous.

But as soon as Kong entered, he almost burst the reserved space, causing the simulated universe to run poorly, and it took five minutes just to read the bar.

The amount of information uploaded by Kong’s brain is already more than the data imported by Ruan Mei when she designed the Star God Protobody.

The stitching system seemed to realize that it had been too high-profile in order to match Kong’s rhythm, and quickly restrained some functional modules so that Ruan Mei’s work would not be interrupted.

“…According to your affinity and the laws of the development of things, you will soon meet a Star God who is most compatible with you.”

At this point, Ruan Mei was not sure whether it was an overreaction to let Kong continue to test Star God with the simulated universe, but all the data they had prepared were for Star God. If they wanted to make it more complicated, they would have to pile up more materials later.

“The fates suitable for Ms. Lawrence and Ms. Holhaiya have basically become clear, but Ms. Paimon’s fate is not so clear.”

According to the original plan, the simulation of the universe was left to Heita and Kong, but Kong’s performance was so disappointing that it felt like he was messing around rather than doing a test. Luosi Gumu and Ruan Mei would rather not sleep than help and stabilize the first test within an acceptable range for them.

“Someone has attracted the attention of the Star God… Is it Ms. Lawrence?”

The first one to feel the call of the Star God was Eula. In front of everyone, Emperor Bow Siming came galloping on the stardust and stopped in front of Eula, as if to show his approval.

“…I feel like I’ve gotten lighter—ah, what the hell is that!”

Before he could take a closer look at the majestic figure of the Emperor Bow in front of him, Holhaiya next to him was drawn into a zone of energy that was like a black hole’s accretion disk.

“Oh, it’s so uncomfortable. I feel like all the strength in my body has been sucked away – Hol Haiya?? What happened to that thing you attracted?”

It seemed as if even the reason to live became less important. As Eula looked at the existence that seemed to come from the edge of the universe, her entire mind became chaotic.

Kong, on the other hand, relied on constantly recalling how generous the rewards for daily tasks were, and forcibly resisted the laziness that seemed to have sucked away the meaning of life – he had never felt so uncomfortable when he set the alarm at 4 o’clock in the morning to read during his student days.

But after accepting the other party’s blessing, Holhaiya just frowned slightly for a while, and when it disappeared, he turned around and behaved much calmer than Eula and Kong.

“It’s ‘Nothingness’ – are you all okay? It must be very uncomfortable to be affected by Him. Do you want to disconnect the simulation temporarily? Your mental index is not very healthy.”

Heita’s tone was also a little nervous, mixed with a barely detectable numbness – she wanted to see how the Primarchs of the Star God would respond to the humans entering the simulation, but two of them came at once, and both bestowed blessings at the level of an Order. Was there something wrong with Ruan Mei’s settings?

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Just when Eula and Kong were about to be influenced by the void and give up all active thoughts, the star god “Pidan” with different sizes and wide eyes who looked like Hei Dashuai disappeared quietly, leaving only Lan in its place.

The “hunting” star god was not observing Eula, who was given power by him, but was on guard against the nothingness that had already left.

To be honest, Kong wasn’t even sure if Lan wanted to challenge Void, would Void be too lazy to even resist. Of course, it was likely that this kind of Star God-level battle would not be easy to simulate in a simulated universe.

As the breath of nothingness disappeared, Lan made sure that the troublesome guy did not stay, and then turned his gaze to Kong.

But He did not bestow His blessing, nor did He show any emotion worthy of special concern. He just kicked off with all four hooves and returned to the sky – in human terms, He flew directly out of the startup interface. His departing posture was like an arrow breaking through the air, as if even the stars could not stop His mighty leap, allowing Kong to see what kind of person this Star God who is “most willing to share power” is.

“Wow, I almost fell asleep just now – that guy has a sleepy aura…”

After Lan Du left, Paimeng belatedly wiped the drool from the corner of his mouth. She was the most unique person in the whole audience.

“Nothingness, truly… an unpleasant fellow, but he seems to have a subtle understanding of the destiny he is following. Why is that?”

When Sora is playing badly, he is exactly the same as Him – after being tired from work or fighting, he lies on the bed without thinking about what he will eat the next day. It doesn’t matter if he starves to death, he can just wait until tomorrow.

But Horhaiya was not favored by Zhizhi, but Xuwu came after smelling the scent…

“Does that guy really choose his own messenger? Go out of his way to get up and invite another lazy bastard to play with him? What’s the logic of this?”

Sora began to question.

“I am only cultivating the Primarch based on the known information of the Star God. Similar behavior has appeared at a certain period of time.” Ruan Mei explained.

“But I think that given Holhaiya’s personality and background, she should be appreciated by Master Boshizun.”

“Well…about intelligence…”

Ruan Mei’s tone became a little hesitant. Although it was still gentle, one could tell that she was trying to hide some emotions.

“The original body of the Master of Knowledge has not been installed yet. Due to our identities, the simulation of the fate of knowledge will be a little… difficult. Moreover, the Star God will not lower his gaze every time. Maybe the Void took a fancy to her this time, and the next time she comes in, she will have more things in her mind and will not be chosen.”

Ruan Mei is not only an expert in creation, but also a psychologist. However, even a genius like her seems to have something that she cannot touch.

“…Oh~ I understand.”

Kong Xin thought this was too damn real. To put it bluntly, he was just afraid of being blamed by his boss?

However, he really did misunderstand Ruan Mei and Bo Shi Zun. Bo Shi Zun was not unhappy about providing some “answers” to his messengers, nor would he feel unhappy about others interpreting Him. But whether the messengers could understand the answers He provided was another matter. Ruan Mei believed that she was not yet a genius enough to be able to understand Bo Shi Zun, so she had been hesitant to take action.

“Forget it, it’s nothingness. How do you feel now, Holhaiya?”

“Nothing special. If I have to say something different from before… Does it count as the fact that the equipment’s Originium is now more abundant?”

Holhaiya did not have too many negative emotions due to being involved in nothingness. She shook her staff. Since entering the office of the Black Tower, she has been in a relatively empty state.

Only she herself knew why it was nothingness that came to her…

She learned that the species’ 400 years of memory was just a blink of an eye in the eyes of some people, and was treated as a kid by a lynx. In addition, she successfully witnessed the scene of the Terra starry sky being stripped away – from the moment she landed on Rhodes Island, Holhaiya lost some of her insistence on the pride of her race, including her identity as the president of the Astrology Association, which was not so important anymore. After all, who would waste their feelings on meaningless things?

After she got together with the Doctor, she was able to gain some motivation, but there was no doubt that she no longer had anything special to worry about as long as it did not involve the void. It was true to say that she was “empty”. The Black Marshal did not assimilate her, but only blessed her because she was not from this world.

“Eula, what kind of power did Storm grant you? Can you describe it?” After confirming Quetzalcoatl’s situation, Sora turned to the Vengeful Knight.

“How to explain it… ‘Faster speed than before’? It’s probably a power called [Imperial Car Super Light All-Rounder].” Eula clenched her fists, then raised the greatsword and swung it. Apart from lightness, she couldn’t think of any other adjective to describe it.

“Oh, ‘Warp Attack’?”

Compared to the vague blessing of nothingness, hunting is much simpler and more brutal.

“Remember Mona’s technique of projecting water elemental force directly onto the enemy without waiting for the trajectory to fly? You can think of this as something similar, but much more powerful.”

“I’m not quite sure how to use it—”