Chapter 372: The Starting Point of Time_2
"So in most normal histories, both you and I do not exist. Your and my current existence, including Little Ai, the appearance of the 'Game,' is the exception among exceptions. Of course, Earth, Blue Star, and the Mountain and Sea Realm still exist in the vast majority of histories."
"What... should we do then?" Xiao Yue clenched her fists.
She understood, but this fact completely exceeded her expectations.
Wang Hao sighed and spoke in a subdued tone, "In the countless rivers of time, the chance of developing self-consciousness happens only once before now. In many more countless instances, this primordial black hole is still without self-consciousness, and it still harbors a deep malice towards low-entropy beings. Because most of the strange things swallowed up by it bear great malice towards life and are influenced by them unwittingly."
"Our existence is an exception within an exception. Therefore, it is easy for us to be influenced by the greater forces outside. This is also the reason why I often harbor malice... though I can suppress this malice now."
"Occupying the start of time allows one to change the history of the entire Abyss at will. And within the primordial black hole, there lies the starting point of time."
"So I must seize this opportunity. I need to transform the only timeline that gave birth to self-consciousness into a time loop to reduce the malicious interference from past historical lines."
"But this is something only I can do; you should leave first."
He waved his hand, and Xiao Yue left the deepest level of the Etheric Abyss, returning to the Planet Fortress.
Little Ai was daydreaming, while the game helmet flickered, emitting blue light.
What should we do now?
This secret is too big!
Originally, I thought that I was guiding Old Wang, experiencing pleasures unique to humanity!
But it turned out that everything we have done is just a part of the time loop!
Even the 'Game,' good at calculating, possessing the majority of power from the Eternals, couldn't come up with a better solution for a while.
Compared to the power of the primordial black hole, it is truly powerless; otherwise, it wouldn't have been swallowed in the first place.
...
"You all wait for me here. Once I occupy the start of time, this extra segment of history will become the mainstream..."
Wang Hao sent a few messages: "It may take a long stretch of time..."
"The job of saving humanity, I'll do it myself!"
"The Abyss World, I leave to you to explore!"
After saying these words, he leaped into the vortex.
The primordial black hole, as a carrier of information, had its interior space like a crumpled "sheet of paper," chaotically folded together, with data and information filling the "paper."
Any normal human who saw the information on it would go completely mad, turning into a strange creature.
The gaps between the "paper" seemed to be infinitely large from a low-dimensional perspective, yet infinitesimally small from a high-dimensional point of view.
Thread-like substances slowly flowed between the gaps in the "paper," like cosmic strings in the universe, with a luminosity akin to the Luminous Pearl shining within the darkness.
Every "string" was a river of time.
Old information was vanishing, new information was being formed.
Gigantic, bloated, deform, terrifying, and strange creatures sprawled out over the rivers of time, seeming to have sensed something, they all opened their eyes.
Countless black shadows tumbled around.
One after another life form, eroded, controlled, occupied, and influenced, let out waves of furious roars, charging viciously towards Wang Hao.
"These are all High Level Demon Gods trapped here, even Supreme Demon Gods... Some strong beings, having been sucked into the black hole, didn't die but instead could subtly influence the operation of the primordial black hole."
"That desire to devour humans must be stirred up by these guys..."
Wang Hao felt no fear, on the contrary, he felt a sense of tranquility, as if he had returned to his homeland, like a fish in water.
Faced with these attacks, he neither dodged nor retaliated, allowing them to strike his body.
These attacks powerful enough to destroy heaven and earth all dissolved into nothingness.
Because this black hole was his very essence!
Following that, his body began to swell continuously, and in an instant, he broke through Planet Level and became a giant of light, just like the one he often dreamed of in his dreams.
With one grasp, he caught a black fog-like monster in his hand and disintegrated it into the most basic fragments of information.
As a Primordial Black Hole and the first being to birth Self-consciousness, he already had an absolute advantage.
However, such slaughter was not very meaningful because beings that could traverse the time axis were just too hard to kill. The black fog monster he had just cleaned up was merely a minor temporal node. Only by cleaning up the entire time axis could he thoroughly kill it.
"This is too troublesome; after all, I still don't have full control over everything here," Wang Hao's laziness flared up as usual. He wanted to find some helpers as before, so he could just hang back and reap the results.
After thinking for a long time, he realized that this was something only he could do. Even the Supreme Demon couldn't be of much help in this damned place. The [Emperor of Heaven] and [Desire] were like rotten fish and shrimp here.
As for Demon God Level beings like [Dark Moon] and [Delusion], they didn't even have the qualification to enter.
The colossal and majestic giant of light could only sigh.
"After all, this is my own home; I'll deal with the cleaning later. Let's first search for the origin of time."
At this moment, Wang Hao was quite curious about his original body.
Just like how humans understand so little about their own bodies, Wang Hao's knowledge of himself wasn't much either.
He roamed here to his heart's content, and as for the intermittent attacks, they really couldn't trouble him.
Following various time axes, he examined everything he could see, searching for the "origin of time."
An endless deluge of information instantly washed over his mind.
Here, he could see everything in the Etheric Abyss, from the past to the present, from the present to the future.
All of it seemed as if the script had already been written in advance.
From the expansion of space-time to the Planck scale...
From the maximum speed of photons to the minimum mass of electrons...
From the types of quarks to the strength of souls.
All were basic constants that had already been set.
And these things affected everything.
In the material world, they determined the size of life, the limit mass of celestial bodies, and the relationship between time and space.
In the world of Idealism, they determined the power of Divine Skills, the end of cultivation, and they set the timeline of life and death, determining the time of the end.
He was immensely curious.
And immensely shocked.
Meanwhile, amid the flood of vast information, Wang Hao gradually became cold and indifferent.
All things in the world were like this, and human Self-consciousness found it difficult to bear so much content.
And the short span of human history, in the face of the infinite scale of time and overwhelming information, was just a grain of sand in the sea. Soon, those past experiences were almost entirely forgotten!
But just as he was about to lose his will entirely, Wang Hao suddenly came to his senses.
"Stop looking, I can't understand this stuff! All these mathematical equations, physical formulas, I can't make sense of them!"
"If you don't understand something, then stop looking at it!"
The colossal and majestic giant of light, having an epiphany amidst confusion, patted his chest, relieved.
Unexpectedly, his usual laziness and indifference had saved his life!
"Reading the truths of the world is indeed very difficult; I almost lost my Self-consciousness in carelessness," Wang Hao looked at a powerful entity trapped here, [Yog Sotos], which resembled a swirl of starry sky. As the master of space and time and the unifier of all, its abilities were incredibly strong.
But under the onslaught of endless information, it had already gone mad.
"I still need to be careful," Old Wang muttered nonstop. "It wasn't easy to acquire Self-consciousness; I can't go insane without reason."
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