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One can imagine that if Lin Yi encountered the "Information Integration Thought Entity" without knowing anything about it, the best outcome would be to abandon everything that could generate information, including but not limited to various worlds, reincarnators, and the God Space that he had painstakingly built, and then escape to a place where information could not reach.
A more plausible ending would be that after destroying the vast number of worlds it created, it would become lost within the "closed system," meeting the same fate as the "fragments" that had fought and failed against the "Information Integration Thought Entity."
However, this "maximum probability" became invalid with the self-collapse of the information body.
While it is foolish to fight a losing battle, the scattered information is a guiding light that is far from sufficient before it completely disappears. Whether it is out of the instinct to collect information or the need for the "fragment" of information about Lin Yi, the "Information Integration Thought Entity" is destined not to let the remaining information of the information body disappear. Therefore, its only choice is to devour, analyze and digest it, just as it did when facing the civilization of another world.
However, this group flirting also indirectly exposed its location.
One coordinate, one concept.
But when the war was abruptly erased under the cover of countless communications, Lin Yi, who had traveled back to this world from the information, also sensed the remaining information from the information body. It did not point to Earth or any specific region, but was evenly distributed throughout the entire universe.
The concept of having no physical form means it will not appear in a specific location. Even if it is revealed to exist in a certain world, it will not be presented to you as precisely as a human or other living being.
Just like the signals sent by a human using a mobile phone, you know they exist but can't see them at all. The existence of the Information Integration Thought Entity in this world is a similar result. It separates all the information that constitutes the "self" and covers the edges that can be seen—stars, galaxies, black holes—while also hiding in corners that cannot be seen: molecules, atoms, quarks...
It is information.
But even in this false world built on information, it is still a world.
In this way, it makes sense why there are so many unreasonable restrictions in this world.
If we consider this world, which exists as the "body" that integrates information and thoughts, as a computer, then the "plot" and "characters" that appear in this world are like files and data in the computer. It can easily modify the parameters of the files and tamper with the data—this is where Haruhi Suzumiya's ability to "make her wishes come true" comes from.
To be precise, it's not that Haruhi Suzumiya possesses this ability, but rather that the Information Integration Thought Entity grants her this power. It incorporates Haruhi Suzumiya's cognition as a parameter into the computer's loop calculations, and then reflects it back into "reality," resulting in a "god" who can easily cover the world with cognition using seemingly frivolous means.
The essence of the power of the Neon Ballet IV6 Flag Rising is extremely simple, and it has even been shown to Lin Yi more than once in the hands of different people.
Information coverage.
The truth behind "changing the world" is to replace one existing information environment with another.
Controlling the entire process is the Information Integration Thought Entity, which allows it to easily complete the "loop"—adjusting the parameters to their initial state, or simply "system restoration," and adding power limits—restricting the parameters to a fixed value, or setting rules that only allow entry and not exit—an internal firewall.
For the "computer world" created and controlled by the "Execution Integration Thought Entity," the information entity is probably a piece of data carrying a small amount of virus but with high observational value. However, at the moment the virus shell is cracked, it does not choose to be assimilated by this system, but rather disintegrates itself, leaving behind a small amount of data that becomes a new signpost...
Until Lin Yi arrived.
"Thank you for everything you did for that message. Now, I'm back."
Following the newly torn rift in the "system," the heavy, cold Death Star slowly changed direction, pointing its numerous cannons—a forest of them—at the azure planet beneath its feet through two world portals composed entirely of data.
Geothermal energy extraction rates: 50%...80%...100%
[Output rate 98%, Gaia Energy Cannon ready to fire]
【3】
【2】
【1】
【emission】
The immense heat that had accumulated over billions of years around the sun was instantly extracted, and through a complex energy conversion mechanism, it was transformed into hundreds of orange-yellow energy beams that swept down towards the planet beneath their feet.
According to calculations based on the rules of the normal world, any one of these events could trigger a thermal upheaval in the Earth's core, indirectly causing a mass extinction. However, this is not the world we are talking about—and its rules are not normal rules.
Visibly, the orange beams of light, carrying terrifying heat, weakened at an almost exponential rate during their transmission. In less than five seconds, they weakened to an intensity that could not even penetrate the atmosphere, while they were still a full twenty-one seconds away from their true target.
Not only the "Gaia Energy Cannon" that was launched, but even the Death Star, which had just pushed most of its volume into this world, ushered in an unexpected "change".
Beyond the reach of the naked eye, information filling the entire starry sky surged toward the Death Star like omnipresent seawater. This terrifying information, ranging from the smallest atoms to the largest celestial bodies, completely replaced and covered every part of its structure. Then, the information integration entity controlling this "computer" opened a file named "Death Star" and modified one of its "parameters".
Volume: 6.083 × 10000000000 km³
—It removes the first four digits and a decimal point.
In human mathematical concepts, going from 0 to 0.1 is even more groundbreaking than going from 1 to 10000. The former represents a qualitative change from nothing to something, while the latter is merely a quantitative change from something to more.
What happened before Lin Yi's eyes at this moment was the same qualitative change, only its beginning and end were reversed.
The Death Star, which was just a second ago blocking the sun and the earth and whose shadow could cover the entire surface of the planet, disappeared without a trace the next second.
There was no fire or explosion, so naturally, it wasn't destroyed at all; it was simply that four numbers were deleted from the information that constituted its existence.
6.083
For the first time, something called information revealed a terrifying power beyond imagination in front of Lin Yi.
Information Integration Thought Entity: Chapter 706 Information Integration Thought Entity (7)
To counteract the Death Star, which possesses a physical concept and existence, the Information Integration Thought Entity consumed an enormous amount of information. However, even such a vast quantity appears insignificant in the face of this boundless "Information Universe."
As the information vacuum created by the depletion of the Death Star is filled and covered by a flood of more information, this time it shifts its focus to the intruders.
"...You never told me that information could be processed in this way."
[Key information missing, unable to be parsed]
With his palm outstretched towards the empty starry sky, the "Singularity" ability, which had returned to Lin Yi's palm after the collapse of the information body, erupted with hundreds of times the intensity of the information body's hand.
Centered on the point of standing, an invisible force seemed to stretch and wrinkle even the space itself. The surging information was directly expelled by the repulsive force that exceeded the normal physical parameters, forming an information vacuum belt with a diameter of three thousand kilometers in a short period of time.
Taking advantage of this gap, the second Death Star, along with twenty-three folded spaces, squeezed into this world through the passage, and then perished and collapsed one by one under the cover of information... in the same way as before.
Lin Yi frowned as he watched this scene.
With the singularity in front of him, he took a step and arrived at the surface of "Earth," his target. Ignoring the gasps and stares around him, he pressed his right hand to the ground. The terrifying computational power of the "God" instantly calculated the gravitational center of this planet and deployed the "gravitational singularity" at the same location before the surrounding information could reach him.
The next second, the pedestrians who were still hesitating whether to come over and greet them suddenly felt a weight on their bodies, as if another mass had been forcibly added to them, and they couldn't even stand up for a moment.
This was just the beginning. The next second, the gravitational constant from the Earth's core surged again, reaching four times the normal value, then eight times, sixteen times, and thirty-two times—
By this time, there were almost no living beings left on the planet; only clumps of flesh and blood, blurred by the pressure of gravity, proved that they had once existed.
The majestic skyscrapers and magnificent mountains were the second to collapse. The heights achieved by adjusting for a one-time gravity environment were not much more stable than sandcastles under thirty-two times gravity. With a deafening roar, every object was dragged vertically toward the ground—even the dust was no exception.
Next came the crustal structure covering the ground. Faced with the ever-increasing contraction of gravity at the Earth's core, cracks burst open one after another. In less than a few minutes, this planet, which had given birth to countless lives, was on the verge of collapse, like an egg with its shell cracked.
As the "gravitational singularity" exerted its force at sixty-four times the gravitational constant, and the entire planet began to collapse inward, Lin Yi released his hand from the already shattered ground beneath his feet and vanished without a trace in the shifting space, leaving only a faint sound in the increasingly heavy air.
"Singularity Reversal".
Appearing at the spot where the second dead star disappeared, Lin Yi stared at the planet that suddenly burst into bright light not far away—a planet collapsing outwards in a reversal of sixty times the repulsive force.
Against a silent backdrop, terrifying energy swept outwards at the speed of light, causing a dense distortion of space wherever it passed, as if observed through a magnifying glass. The nearest lunar surface was directly shattered by a tenth of its structure in this sweep, and in the impact, it was derailed from its orbit and "slowly" pushed away from the sun into the distance.
In Lin Yi's eyes, the Earth's remains had broken into countless "fragments," each drifting in different directions. If nothing was done, a new "asteroid belt" would appear in the Sun's third orbit in the near future.
However, this world has "gods," and these "gods" cannot simply allow this place they created to gather information to disappear. They opened the file named "Earth" and adjusted the "time" parameter to reflect a period of three minutes prior—
On a timescale, nothing happened.
In the third orbit of the solar system, Earth remains the same Earth, and humanity continues to thrive there. The moon remains the same moon, continuing its orbit around this planet.
—Nothing happened.
"is that so……"
The last blank fold space used to consume information and buy time collapsed into unconnected atoms after the "mass" parameter was removed, disappearing without a trace from the horizon. In just three minutes, using a weapon called "information," the Information Integration Thought Entity destroyed most of the attack system that the Main God Space had spent hundreds of years accumulating with almost no effort.
Just as armies in the age of firearms faced armies in the age of cold weapons, when an insurmountable "gap" appeared in one aspect, the result would be a one-sided massacre, and what stood between the two sides was the existence of "information".
For this world that is simply created using information and data, the Information Integration Thought Entity can be considered a true god.
Here it knows everything, because it itself created all existence, and naturally understands everything about all existence.
Here it is omnipotent, because all existence is itself, just as a human can move its hands and lift its legs, it can control everything here even by using only its instincts.
In this false world, it is a god in the true sense.
Even invaders from the outside world are destined to be unable to fight against it, because the longer they stay in this world, the more information they acquire. Once they acquire a certain amount of information, the Information Integration Thought Entity will understand the existence of the invaders—just like the Death Star that was just erased, and will have the ability to absolutely control the invaders.
When Lin Yi came to understand this reality, the first "attack" from the Information Integration Thought Entity did indeed land on him.
The target wasn't Lin Yi, but rather the ability Lin Yi possessed: Singularity Reversal.
The "gravity" and "repulsion" that were taken from the "World Tree" system, along with the abilities formed through his own understanding and transformation, were gradually covered up. Just like the Death Star just now, this singularity reversal ability system was forcibly and irreversibly erased.
Anything that appears in this false world will be observed and recorded by the Information Integration Thought Entity, and this will be the case the more it is exposed and used. Once the Information Integration Thought Entity has finished recording something, it will naturally not allow that thing to continue to exist on the structure of the "virus".
—It removed the ability to "reverse the singularity".
Information Integration Thought Entity: Chapter 707 Information Integration Thought Entity (8)
An extremely eerie feeling surged within him. As the Information Integration Thought Entity acted without any concealment, Lin Yi's memory still contained his understanding and application of the "Singularity Reversal" ability, yet he was completely unable to use it—as if this ability had become a fallacy from its very basic structure.
Undoubtedly, this is the method of the "gods." They create the world and then transform it. Naturally, anything that appears in this world is within the scope of their transformation.
"But if that's the case, why not just transform yourself into your most complete form?"
Following the "Singularity Reversal" ability, Lin Yi found himself starting to have a vague feeling about the "Space" ability he had just used—before the second ability was deleted, he stepped onto the surface of the blue planet beneath his feet again, treading on the edge of the collapsing passage.
—The ability to "space" has been removed.
"Because of your incompleteness, you seek more information to supplement yourself and form a complete concept—but if you are truly omniscient and omnipotent, why not create a way to supplement yourself to complete this process?"
The "famine" hidden within the body gradually became ineffective—it was born inside the closed system and used by the information body, and the information integration thought body's understanding of it was not much lower than Lin Yi's.
"If you are an omnipotent god, why are you so fixated on this tiny planet, on your insignificant personal will, and on ridiculous thoughts and ideas?"
With a soft "crack" sound, several shards of glass fell from between his fingers.
As the person blocking his way appeared, Lin Yi smiled and said, "I think I understand."
"...Leaving here, although it won't change your fate, will at least allow you to retain some dignity when you become like me."
Looking at the figure before him, Columbia's expression showed a hint of reluctance.
He would be absolutely surprised if any member of the Transmigrator Alliance were to appear here. This "veteran" who existed since the birth of the Transmigrator Alliance—or even earlier, before the "Main God Space" had disappeared (of course, whether the Main God Space ever disappeared is now a false proposition)—and who is now the highest councilor of the entire alliance, is not on the front line against the invaders, but here.
"Are you a time traveler?"
"...Now it is."
"What about before?"
Noticing that Lin Yi hadn't stopped, Columbia put away his reluctance and stepped forward: "I used to be a 'lucky one' like you, favored by the fragments."
In any world or era, being different from one's surroundings will always attract attention, especially when it's two people dressed in "strange clothes" at a red light intersection.
Is this a movie shoot?
"I didn't see a camera."
"See that? That guy in the tight-fitting clothes is really strong!"
"Could that outfit be from cosp.lay?"
"What are you cosplaying?"
"No, the one who was very famous more than ten years ago—"
"Saiyan!"
The next second, the curious gaze turned into a shocked and horrified look. He casually flipped a car blocking his way into the air—literally flipped it over, making it spin more than a dozen times in mid-air before crashing into a building more than 70 meters away.
Clearly, with the technology of this era, even the most advanced special effects cannot create such realistic whistling sounds and explosion vibrations. Realizing that this was not a movie, the crowd began to back away, while behind them were even more unsuspecting onlookers trying to get closer.
Ignoring the crowd whose fate was already sealed... or rather, data life forms that could be easily created were of no value to me. At this moment, all Columbia could see was the figure approaching from the opposite side.
“I lost, I lost to the guy who rules this world—I lost miserably. I brought my people into this world, and at first I just destroyed civilizations, then ecosystems, then planets, but it was all in vain. No matter how much we destroyed or changed it, it still exists, and it continues to slaughter my people.”
Perhaps recalling those years, his breathing became heavy, and without realizing it, the force leaking from his feet shattered the ground dozens of meters away.
"You cannot understand the despair I felt. I possess the power to shatter planets, extinguish stars, and even turn the entire solar system into dust, yet I couldn't even deliver a single punch to it. I could only watch helplessly as it slaughtered my people and my subjects!"
They stopped at a distance of ten meters, not a bit more, not a bit less.
"Then, I gave up."
Columbia's tone regained its composure, but this wasn't calmness; it was merely the final, brief stillness before an outburst: "For the future of the Saiyans, I cannot die like this. My command now is to stop you—unless you step over my dead body. But I cannot die, so—"
A burst of brilliant golden energy erupted from that massive body, even dyeing his hair the same color. A punch, carrying terrifying power, tore through the insignificant ten-meter distance between them and slammed towards Lin Yi—
"The only thing I can do is send you to your death!!!"
Seemingly stimulated by the dazzling light, Lin Yi, facing the punch from Lin Yiqi Siwu Jiusi, narrowed his eyes and issued a command to the being in his mind.
[Restricted Area Liberated]
The sound burst forth beyond the limits of hearing, and the layers of impact shattered and flattened the standing buildings, sweeping them into the distance. At the center, two figures rushed in opposite directions for nearly three hundred kilometers—until they exceeded the limits of Honshu Island and fell into the sea.
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