Chapter 939: Construction Complete |
Clearly, before the final result appeared, the possible consequences that changes in stellar bodies throughout the universe might produce were infinite, and any kind of situation could occur. It was only that Xiao Yu had a logical method of judgment to distinguish events caused by natural phenomena from those caused by artificial interference. As long as he could determine, among these possible consequences, which ones were related to Xiao Yu, he could distinguish them. Then, according to the development of events, by continuously using elimination, he could ultimately analyze the final command the Dark Star Civilization had given to the Logic Weapon.
“There is no doubt this is feasible in logic. It just means an unimaginably enormous computational demand.” Xiao Yu sighed inwardly. “By constructing Supercomputing Centers, I can carry out some preliminary screening and judgment work. It is only that the amount of data I still need to handle personally remains immense…”
“But there is no helping it. In the situation where the universe civilization has already failed, I am Chen Mo’s only hope.” Xiao Yu silently thought about this issue. “Begin construction. No matter what, completion of the mission takes first priority.”
This meant a new round of even more massive construction tasks. First, Xiao Yu had to once again enrich the current intelligence network. The density of detectors needed to be increased further. At the very least, it had to be increased three to four times on top of the original basis in order to form effective monitoring over the entire Feiyuan Galaxy. Then came the construction of Supercomputing Centers. The Supercomputing Centers required this time would be even larger than those Xiao Yu had built when fighting the virtual life civilization, and their numbers would be even greater. Naturally, the time and effort required would also be greater.
After digesting the computer technology of that Level 7 Civilization on the computational direction, Xiao Yu, whose computational power had undergone another enormous breakthrough, once again felt the limits of computational power at this moment. Xiao Yu had already pushed his computational power to the extreme, and only then did this vast construction task slowly begin moving forward.
This was a transformation task aimed at an entire galaxy, and the Feiyuan Galaxy was also an exceptionally vast galaxy. Such an enormous construction task was enough to leave any Level 7 Civilization stunned and speechless. Back in the Milky Way Galaxy, within the Guardian Alliance organized by the Dark Star Civilization, even the combined construction ability of tens of thousands of civilizations did not amount to one ten-thousandth of Xiao Yu’s current construction capability.
Under Xiao Yu’s construction capability, the region within nearly one thousand light years of the core of the Feiyuan Galaxy truly became an incomparably enormous construction site. Countless spaceships shuttled back and forth here. Stars were transported here one after another and then dismantled, or turned into detection instruments and launched toward the outer regions of the galaxy, or turned into construction bases and left here.
The construction of transmission channels was still continuing. But just as Xiao Yu had expected, all of these transmission channels were destroyed for various reasons before they could be completed. By the later stages, Xiao Yu no longer placed any hope in these things at all, and was merely repeating mechanical labor.
The ultra-strong gravitational source construction plan was also proceeding in secret. To tug at the Central Black Hole of a galaxy, it undeniably required incomparably immense power. This also meant an extremely massive volume and mass. Within Xiao Yu’s huge construction site, the ultra-strong gravitational source had been disguised by Xiao Yu as a supermassive dock almost the size of Jupiter. Inside this gigantic instrument were winding energy circuits everywhere, and a full several hundred stars arranged around it served as its energy source. Once it was successfully constructed and activated, these several hundred stars would completely burn away all their life force in just one hour, ultimately achieving the purpose of moving the Central Black Hole.
Besides this, Xiao Yu was also thinking about another issue, namely the backlash effect of the Logic Weapon.
At present, it was known that after the Logic Weapon was used, it would cause backlash to its user. According to Xiao Yu’s estimate, it was precisely because of this that the Dark Star Civilization had not given the Logic Weapon orders such as ‘destroy Xiao Yu’ or ‘forbid Xiao Yu from destroying the Central Black Hole.’ One principle was very obvious, the harder the target was to achieve, the more severe the backlash suffered after issuing the command. Then one question arose, where was the limit of what the Dark Star Civilization could endure?
How was one to judge the difficulty of executing a goal? Was it harder to destroy Xiao Yu, or harder to clearly know the position and state of motion of an electron? One had to remember that according to Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, even Xiao Yu could not accurately know both of those pieces of information about an electron at the same time.
“Perhaps the standard of judgment is divided according to the size of the impact on the future? Then is creating one butterfly more impactful, or knocking down one mountain peak more impactful? On the surface, obviously knocking down a mountain peak has the greater impact, but after creating this butterfly, a flap of its wings may cause a hurricane, and that hurricane may destroy dozens of mountain peaks.”
This was a somewhat contradictory problem. Xiao Yu could not know what the judgment standard of the Logic Weapon was, and this was very important to Xiao Yu. Because it related to what kind of commands the Dark Star Civilization would give to the Logic Weapon, and also related to how Xiao Yu ought to respond to the Logic Weapon.
“Perhaps the Logic Weapon merely inserts some fragment into the original natural evolution of the universe’s Rules, and under the influence of this fragment, continues to let the main universe itself evolve onward. The main universe itself likely does not possess any long-term judgment mechanism, and will not judge from the long-term perspective what kind of impact some event will bring to its own evolution. Because if it could judge, that would amount to fatalism, and fatalism has already been ruled out by me. In other words, the main universe itself does not know how it will evolve in the future, so naturally it has no way to judge the future impact of some event. Then it should judge how much backlash to impose on the user of the Logic Weapon based on the impact in the present. According to this inference, knocking down a mountain peak is harder than creating one butterfly, even if a flap of that butterfly’s wings may lead to a hurricane.”
“Then, if I were the user of the Logic Weapon, I would make every effort to exploit this rule and achieve the greatest gain for the smallest cost. In other words, I would not issue a direct order, such as directly destroying a certain star, but would issue more indirect commands, such as accelerating that star’s fusion rate, or increasing the abundance of heavy elements in its core. The result caused by those commands would be the same as I expected, but I would pay a smaller price. I believe the Dark Star Civilization will also act based on this principle.”
Having thought this through, Xiao Yu quietly let out a sigh of relief in his heart. These inferences seemed very vague and intangible, but they were things similar to guiding principles. Xiao Yu’s subsequent actions would be based on the conclusions of these inferences.
In the midst of constant thought and constant construction, time quietly slipped away. The universe civilization had told Xiao Yu that the deadline for destroying the Central Black Hole was five hundred years. At this moment, two hundred years had already passed.
During these two hundred years, all more than sixty thousand Supercomputing Centers had been completed, the ultra-strong gravitational source had been completed, and the laying of the intelligence network had basically been completed. Of course, due to the limitation of time, even if these two hundred years had all been used for travel, the detectors Xiao Yu launched could only have traveled about three hundred thousand light years, far from enough to cover the entire galaxy, but this was already sufficient. Naturally, influence on the core was stronger the closer it was. For those stars at much greater distances, the previous intelligence network coverage was already enough.
Supercomputing Centers were extremely energy-consuming things. This was already true back in the Earth era. Some supercomputers consumed as much electricity as a medium-sized city. The Supercomputing Centers Xiao Yu had built were even more outrageous. On average, one Supercomputing Center would exhaust a star equivalent to the Sun in mass every month.
Behind the huge energy consumption was extraordinarily powerful data processing capability. These more than sixty thousand Supercomputing Centers had completely taken on the task of preliminarily screening the information collected from the entire galaxy. Very clearly, most of the information gathered by Xiao Yu’s intelligence network was useless, and these Supercomputing Centers were responsible for using certain logical calculation mechanisms to eliminate this useless information, then report the useful information to Xiao Yu, for Xiao Yu to personally analyze.
The massive quantity of data, after being filtered by the Supercomputing Centers, would drop to one several ten-billionths of its original amount. And even that one several ten-billionths of the data would still occupy at least forty percent of Xiao Yu’s computational power.
Xiao Yu had already created all the conditions needed to confront the Dark Star Civilization.
“We do not know what exactly you have been busy with during these two hundred years. Merely continuously constructing transmission channels? In full knowledge that the other side has used a Logic Weapon, you are still so stupidly persistent. We truly do not know what is in your head.” At this moment, the universe civilization, which had vanished for several hundred years, suddenly emerged again and mocked Xiao Yu.
“I knew you had been hiding in the shadows all along.” Xiao Yu responded calmly. “If you hide, then hide properly and keep your mouth shut. What I want to do is none of your business, and I have no reason to report it to you.”
The universe civilization once again vanished without a trace of a reply.