Fate, this illusory concept had become substantial under the four-dimensional perspective. To be more specific, four-dimensional life forms could control the direction of the collapse of the quantum superposition state, allowing events or things to develop in the direction they wanted.
In fact, it was easy to understand. The development of matter and the derivation of events were all opportunities. Changing fate meant giving others more choices, or creating more opportunities.
However, fate was also unique. This meant that no matter what choice one made or how one created opportunities, the final fate would be fixed. It was like how the entropy of the universe increased and the eventual disappearance couldn't be changed.
Sometimes, having more choices wasn't a good thing because choices were the source of pain. The low crime rate in remote villages didn't mean that the people there were noble. It was just because they didn't have choices. Without choices, there wouldn't be pain.
Right now, Luo Kai was preparing to create an opportunity for the humans in this world to break through their own cognitive limitations. The result might not be good, but it would just be an additional choice.
In this world, there was no better way than creating a program. As for what kind of program it was, it still needed to be carefully thought about.
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After Xu Ming left in confusion, Luo Kai went into deep thought and took out the Nightmare Beast once again. Any existence of space or data would need coordinates and nodes. The Nightmare Beast wasn't just the node that constructed this virtual world, it was also the coordinate that led to the real world.
Invading the node meant leaving the virtual world and coming to the real world. This time around, he tried his best to conceal the waves of his spirit force. Therefore, the invasion was done silently.
The real world was a huge space battleship floating in the endless deep space. Although it was in the negative space, the battleship would still show signs of metal fatigue. This was the law of time and nothing was an exception. After countless years, the battleship's body was showing signs of breaking apart and gradually couldn't maintain its integrity.
Luo Kai's soul form stepped onto the battleship for the first time. Although it was called a battleship, it was more like a mountain. There were ravines and deep holes everywhere, as well as countless wandering spirits.
The moment he stepped onto the battleship, he attracted the attacks of countless strange things. They were some small black figures formed from metal and mud. They were originally ordinary inorganic objects, but now they had gained life. To be more precise, they were demonic creatures. They were different from humans with flesh and blood and ghosts with no consciousness. They were a life form that existed between the real and the virtual.
He took out the long sword that was formed from the metal snake and waved it casually. Streaks of sword light flashed and miserable screams rang out. The group of strange creatures around him were all cut in half by the sharp sword light.
The massacre continued. Under the flashing of the sword rays, none of the demons could withstand a single blow. Soon, the surroundings were filled with strange corpses. These demons were like little people molded from soft mud. After they died, they quickly collapsed into a pool of mud.
The death of any living being would produce resentment, and resentment was the source of evil energy. The evil energy produced by killing monsters was far stronger than that of other living beings. Traces of dark evil energy condensed above Luo Kai's head, slowly forming a round plate that emitted a blood-red light, which was demonic and dreamy.
These monsters were weak, but there seemed to be no end to them. More than an hour had passed. Luo Kai waved his short sword. The sword light had dimmed a little, but the evil energy above his head was getting thicker and thicker.
All kinds of evil thoughts began to attack his consciousness. The desire to kill once again filled his mind. After another two hours, no more monsters appeared. The evil energy halo above his head gradually disappeared. It had been completely absorbed into his soul.
Luo Kai kept his sword and forcefully suppressed the remnant thoughts of the heretic in his soul. Right now, he needed all forms of energy.
He closed his eyes for a moment and jumped into an underground space. The underground space was very large, and there were all kinds of forks everywhere. However, under the investigation of his consciousness, everything was clear.
There seemed to be a cabin in front of him that looked like a hibernation cabin. The cabin was not big, only less than fifty or sixty square meters. The first thing he saw was a statue in the middle. The statue was carved with fine scales, sharp teeth, and claws. It looked like a lizard standing on its hind legs, but there was a pair of wings on its back. It was full of a cold and strange aura.
Below the statue was a coffin. The lid of the coffin had been opened, and there was only a black arm bone that was as long as a person inside.
Luo Kai's eyes flashed with a trace of silver light. His gaze was attracted by the murals on the wall of the tomb.
The color of the murals was very bright, and the depiction was very vivid. He saw that there were densely packed little people besieging a huge monster with three heads and six arms. Some of these little people were holding bows, some were holding spears, and each of them was sitting on a strange mount. Some of them seemed to be able to fly and float in the air to fight with the monster.
These murals depicted the scene of the battle between humans and monsters. Although the monster was terrible, the humans finally besieged it and killed it after paying a heavy price. The monster's body was burned by fire. In the end, the six arms of the monster could not be burned, so the humans buried them in different parts of the world.
Luo Kai walked to the coffin and carefully observed it. The bones in the coffin were densely packed with ant-like little black people. The aura was exactly the same as the mudstone monsters he had just killed. Could it be that the monsters were born from this bone?
He was secretly shocked and chopped at the strange arm bone with his sword.
"Clang!" The bone was not damaged at all, but the little black people attached to it were chopped to death.
He attacked again, and in a short while, the little black people attached to it were all killed. The original appearance of the bone was revealed. It was a smooth, jet-black arm bone.
This thing should be the corpse of the strange creature that the humans had collectively killed in the murals. The monsters were born from this thing. How could a dead thing give birth to a monster?
He put away the dagger and reached out to touch it. He felt a slight numbness in his hand. It seemed to be attached to a layer of inexplicable energy, and it was very heavy. It seemed to be just a piece of arm bone, but it was at least tens of thousands of pounds.
Luo Kai moved and seemed to inadvertently pass by a gap in the stone wall. After leaving, he suddenly stabbed the dagger into the stone wall.
A translucent liquid little person slid out of the stone wall. There was a small hole in its chest. It looked at Luo Kai with horror. The concealment technique it was so proud of was useless against this human. It tried to scare him: "Human, you dare to break into the forbidden area of our Pantheon temple. You must be tired of living!"
Luo Kai expressionlessly stretched out his hand and pointed. A wisp of evil flame shot out from his finger and directly ignited it. In a moment, it was corroded into ashes. Then, he looked at the arm bone and ignited another wisp of evil flame to burn it.
It seemed that the existence behind this Desire World was also a god of the Pantheon temple. This arm bone was obviously an evil thing. Let's see if I can destroy it.
Unfortunately, the arm bone's hardness was far beyond imagination. It was still crystal clear under the Chaotic Evil Flame that could corrode anything. There was no sign of it melting, and a black light could be vaguely seen circulating inside.
"This is the remains of the Evil God. It contains a trace of the Evil God's obsession after his death. You can't destroy it" a cold female voice resounded in the cabin.
Luo Kai wasn't too surprised and indifferently said: "You're finally willing to come out."
The female voice faintly sighed: "I had no other choice. In order to preserve the seeds of humanity, this was the best way"
Luo Kai retracted his evil flame and turned to look at a corner. A ray of light appeared out of thin air there, constantly distorting and transforming into a 3D projection of a woman with a somewhat cold temperament.
She was very beautiful, and her appearance was somewhat familiar to Luo Kai, but he couldn't find the source of this sense of familiarity.
She was the main program of the Desire World, a programmed life form created by artificial intelligence. In the world she created, she was naturally an invincible existence, but in the real world, she was only a mainframe that had been running for countless years. This was the biggest drawback of a programmed life form, destroying the foundation of its physical existence would naturally erase it completely.
In the virtual world, Luo Kai had crossed swords with her several times, but the two of them had never communicated before. This was the first time they had met, and the feeling she gave him was that of a human being. She didn't seem like a cold mechanical program, nor did she seem like an evil Nightmare Beast.
Matter would always develop, and the evolution of life would also have no end. A simple calculation program constructed from two or three one-dimensional Laws could also produce self-concept.