NOVEL NEXT Chapter 365 What is the Purpose of All This?
Old Wang said with a confident voice, "Don't worry, this beam of light cannot be detected by any inspection devices! At least, the technological capabilities of Earth's civilization can't do that. You can completely conceal this experience, or you can choose to report it to your organization—I won't force you."
Number 24 felt offended.
Because he was one of the experts who studied supernatural detection devices!
He was determined that after returning, he would thoroughly investigate what happened in the "Desire" store to see if this beam of light could be detected.
Soon, he faintly sensed that he had gained an ability: by shooting this beam of light from his finger and hitting a target person, that person would enter the "Desire" store in their next dream.
A simple ability, not much in the way of offensive power, but with significant authority.
The store's owner nodded in satisfaction and then asked, "Professor Jin, as an intelligent person, how many idealists do you think need to be created on Earth to change the whole world?"
Number 24 took a sip of coffee, his expression gradually relaxed, and after a long period of contemplation, he finally said, "I don't know, maybe not many… maybe it's never possible at all. I don't understand these matters."
"However, from a scientist's perspective, as long as the progress of the era allows more young people to embark on these industries, allows doctors to find good jobs, and live comfortable lives, I consider that era to be a good one."
"If Ph.D. graduates from higher education institutions can't find decent jobs, everyone is obsessed with money and materialism, where fraud is rampant, and academic and financial oligarchies are everywhere, if children's dreams are to become internet celebrities, then the era is bad."
"Hmm, that makes sense."
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The two chatted for about an hour and a half, and Wang Hao gained many novel and interesting perspectives.
Indeed, each industry has a slightly different view of the era.
Blindly pursuing communism is not advisable; there is a transitional process involved. It's just that how this transition unfolds ultimately depends on one's perspective.
Looking at the time, since he had only received one old friend, Wang Hao said, "Now that you have accepted this power, as a token of gratitude, I can grant you one small wish by way of compensation. Of course, it can only be a small wish."
After pondering for a moment, Number 24 more or less figured out the other's temper, actually finding him to be quite reasonable… a human being?
Even his tone of speech didn't seem like a Demon God's?
Because he had never encountered such an entity that was so alike to humans—whether it was in the way of thinking or in its understanding of human society—except for humans themselves! If there's a creature that looks like a human, speaks like a human, and even its DNA is indistinguishable from humans, can it not be considered a human?
As most Demon Gods could not comprehend human society as a whole—they might recognize individual humans, but understanding society as a whole is quite difficult, just like the "Giant Void."
And this individual before him indeed belonged to that most powerful category of the "Giant Millstone."
As for the small wish, naturally…
If it's free, why not take it!
But he couldn't be too greedy; unnecessarily angering such an entity was not worth the loss.
With this in mind, Number 24 thought for a while before finally saying, "I want to know your purpose in doing all this."
Wang Hao was taken aback, "Is this your wish?"
"Yes."
Wang Hao fell into deep thought.
My personal purpose… that is actually quite a complex question.
He glanced at the little sister Xiao Yue who was sneakily trying to eavesdrop on the side, and quickly blocked her out.
"My purpose… might be to discover the interesting aspects of the human race."
"You all should have discovered some truths of history by now, the human species does not originally belong to this world, but come from another universe. That other universe is pure materialism and does not have supernatural phenomena."
"The origin of humans, is it… the Prehistoric Civilization?!" Number 24 was greatly surprised, the words spoken from the lips of the "Giant Millstone" sounded particularly convincing.
"Yes, humans indeed are what you call the Prehistoric Civilization, that interstellar civilization spread the ideology of humans, extensively modifying a large number of life forms through genetic broadcasts, turning them into the inheritors of humans. That's why humans across various parallel planes share many similarities in appearance and culture."
Wang Hao took out a file from the "Paradise Central Library," which contained various exquisite photographs.
From small planets, satellites, stars, to entire galaxies, as well as various bizarre astronomical structures—Dyson Spheres, Hawking Rings, and various grand Planet Fortresses and the like.
Number 24 held his breath; these grand constructions were made for the sake of fascination! Just the thought was enough to fill him with envy.
"They have reached the pinnacle of a material universe, almost seeing through everything in it. However, at a higher-dimensional level, they believe that the world they comprehended is still incomplete, it's missing something."
Number 24 muttered to himself, "Indeed, according to Gödel's incompleteness theorems, within the system of natural numbers, 'consistency' and 'completeness' cannot be achieved together; no one can fully penetrate the truth."