The Legendary Mechanic

"Okay, what I'm about to say is the truth about the entire universe's changes, and it's more important than all the things you've experienced before and now, and in advance, if you guys have any meeting agendas later, all of them are pushed off."

Han Xiao took in the unconcerned looks of the three of them and shook his head, his tone unquestionable.

"The truth of the universe?"

The three of them looked at each other, seeing that Han Xiao did not seem to be joking, and could not help but believe him.

Han Xiao snapped his fingers and summoned a virtual screen, on which a virtual picture of the life and death of the universe was played out, and explained:

"When the universe comes to an end, everything will return to nothingness, and the phenomena of thermal silence and the Great Collapse are the cosmic endings that many scientists have speculated about or foreseen, and various signs and experiments have shown that these are likely to be correct models of doom, but this is only the direction our universe is headed under normal circumstances ....... Not everything follows the primitive laws of nature. A long time ago, our universe was transformed by an ultimate civilization, the underlying laws of the information state changed, and what awaits us at the end of our universe is not thermal silence or collapse, but a phenomenon called the Great Reboot."

"The great reboot?"

The three of them looked puzzled.

Most of the testimonies came from some unknown items produced by the perturbation of the information state, such as the virtual mutiny virus of that year, which seemed to be a civilization before the big reboot. But not enough to be considered hard evidence, because it is uncertain whether it is a civilization that has not explored the universe, or one from an earlier timeline.

Therefore, the three of them were not unfamiliar with the concept of this term, but were puzzled as to why Han Xiao was so sure of the existence of the Great Reboot.

Han Xiao swept a glance at the looks of the three of them and slowly said:

"The great reboot I am talking about is not quite the same as what you guys understand ...... The ultimate civilization's transformation of the underlying laws of the universe has caused the universe to deviate from the natural end of the law, so the time to usher in the end is much earlier, and every great reboot is a new iteration, a new civilization in the zero universe! In the midst of a major reboot, but due to factors such as a greatly shortened development time, the likelihood of one iteration of the civilization outpacing the ultimate civilization that initially laid the groundwork for the reboot is infinitely reduced."

"So this is a nightmare?" Mabruce mused, "In that case, wouldn't all civilizations develop from scratch, and wouldn't no one be able to survive the end of the universe and reach what's called ...... what's the buzz word, transcendence?"

Han Xiao shook his head, "That's the point I'm making ...... The Great Reboot has returned the universe to zero, but the different iterations will be passed down to the new iteration in a special way, and this medium is the Sanctuary of your hearts."

The three of them were slightly stunned.

Han Xiao said to himself, "The original ultimate civilization's goal in transforming the universe was to continue their civilization through a reboot.

The function of the Sanctuary is to store the state of information that develops in each iteration, and at the time of each reboot, some of this information is randomly incorporated into the laws of the universe in the new iteration. So the universe does not go completely to zero at the time of the great reboot, but rather the underlying laws keep changing from one iteration to the next, and in this way the results of each iteration are passed on to the subsequent ones.

"So you're saying that the universe we live in at this point in ...... is not the original universe, but a world that has been changed an unknown number of times? The sanctuary is the equivalent of a ...... uh, processor?" Louis asked.

Generations of civilizations have used the Sanctuary as a breakthrough to survive the great reboot, so the Sanctuary has continued to mutate with various new functions, and the revival of the Sanctuary is just one of them. The most important thing about the Sanctuary is that it contains all the information from all the previous iterations of civilizations, as well as their last words before the end of time, all of which are left for future generations to refer to.

Although Han Xiao's tone was calm, they couldn't help but be distracted by such a grand undertaking when they thought of the sight of generations of civilizations relaying for the same goal.

But after two seconds, the three of them regained consciousness and suddenly breathed heavily for a moment.

At this moment, they suddenly realized that, if what Black Star said was true, the data stored in the sanctuary of the various iterations of civilization was an immeasurable and terrifying fortune.

The Black Star held this wealth all to himself, and if he didn't reveal it, they wouldn't be able to get their hands on it, but instead of developing it himself, he chose to reveal it.

Because they had figured this out, the three of them were even more startled at the moment, and fell silent for a time, silently digesting the shock in their hearts.

After a while, the head of the Void Spirit Sect hesitantly spoke up, probing, "You want to cooperate with us to develop the sanctuary, is it because you want to survive the great reboot? While what you just said is indeed quite amazing, let me be frank, the so-called grand reboot is still a long way off, right? Is it too early to worry about this ......"

Upon hearing this, Han Xiao revealed a smiley expression, "You think it's early?"

"Hmm ...... "The Void Spirit Patriarch stared at the situation and said in dismay, "Is our universe at the end of its term and a great reboot is coming?"

The other two were shocked, looking incredulous in their shock.

"We had a hard time defeating the World Tree civilization and enjoyed a rare relaxation, but we didn't expect ...... to have mixed emotions.

However, Han Xiao shook his head, "You're mistaken, this iteration of ours is still early in the end."

Only then did the three of them let out a sigh of relief.

But before they could completely relax, Han Xiao suddenly spoke out, leaving the three of them stunned.

"But you've already rebooted."

The words dropped.

The head of the Void Spirit Church was physically shaken and filled with consternation.

"What do you mean?"

"Four times." Han Xiao held up four fingers and slowly said, "Our universe has been rebooted four times ...... In the last iteration, you were the ultimate civilization, which enabled a program called Information State Stripping, and successfully survived the great reboot, but did not actually enter the new universe in the next iteration. The closed dark side of the universe is cycling and rebooting itself ...... In other words, you've all died a few times, you just don't know it yet!"

The three of them were at a loss for words and were shocked for a moment.

Han Xiao had been brushing the authority of the First Sanctuary during this period of time, going in and out, consuming less and less time each time, until the authority reached the fifteenth level, when the time flow rate finally converged, and the ratio of time between the main universe and the sanctuary was one to one, before all the contents of the message board were unlocked.

At this point, Han Xiao gradually understood everything. The messages from the fourth to the last paragraph of the Sanctuary were all left over from the iteration of the "three major civilizations".

At that time, there was no such thing as a "world tree," and the three civilizations flourished slowly, eventually succeeding in discovering the Sanctuary and learning all about the iteration.

Since the plan of the last iteration of the Star League was very promising, the three civilizations inherited it and improved it, forming the "Information State Divestiture Plan".

The real goal of this plan was not to completely overcome the Great Reboot, but to buy more time - to strip the universe of its information states and try to mimic the operation of the Star League, which exists in a secondary dimension, the Dark Side, in the new iteration, in a continuous cycle of reboots.

The difference is that the three civilizations, along the lines of Starlink, stood on the shoulders of giants and made near-perfect improvements, so they succeeded in stripping out the "information state" of the entire iteration, and in the next iteration formed a closed Dark Side Universe, which exists based on the information state, like a "virtual" world, which "develops in parallel" at a faster time rate ...... like parallel lines, making it difficult to intersect with the "real" iteration of the main universe, and difficult to interfere with each other.

After learning all the contents of the message board, Han Xiao sorted out the temporal relationship - assuming that the Star League is the first iteration, then the three civilizations are the ultimate civilization of the second iteration, which started the information state stripping program and transformed into the dark side of the universe of the third iteration, and the third iteration is the current true iteration.

...... It was only here that Han Xiao realized that the Sanctuary does not actually reserve empty shells of information states for the current iteration, and there is no such thing as a "tombstone". The empty light spheres of the three major civilizations and the World Tree civilization that he saw in the Sanctuary are actually the remnants of the second iteration, and the reason why there is no content in them is that they have been "stripped off" and have become the dark side of the universe in the third iteration.

The three civilizations of the second iteration took advantage of the Sanctuary's feature of adding new laws with each "cosmic reboot" to bring the cycle of the dark universe into the Sanctuary's sphere of influence.

The difference from the "big restart" is that each "small restart" of the dark universe is not zero, but is based on the established information state template, that is, there will inevitably be "three major civilizations" and other forces, before the three major civilizations contact the sanctuary, the development trajectory is basically the same ...... Han Xiao called this situation "dark iteration".

Therefore, every time the Dark Side Universe is restarted, an improved result of the Dark Side Iteration is added, and there is only a probability that "information alienation" will occur. ...... The three major civilizations are using this method to buy themselves time and gain more opportunities for trial and error.

However, this program does not last forever, and the information-state stripping program has been calculated to have an upper limit: their dark universe will exist in iteration three at most, and if another major reboot occurs and they enter iteration four, their dark universe will vanish ...... unless they can move from the dark universe to the true iteration of the main universe, from "virtual" to "real".

So, after the three civilizations have successfully entered the Dark Side, the goal becomes to break the seal of the Dark Side Universe and return to the real Main Universe of the third iteration.

--The Sanctuary's message board's third-to-first message represents the three dark side iterations of the dark side universe, and what Han Xiao is currently in is the fourth dark side iteration, and these four dark side iterations all happened within the period of the third iteration.

Because the sanctuary is not affected by iterations, the three major civilizations use the sanctuary message board to record the experience of each trial and error, so that the "self" of the next dark side iteration can improve the route based on the last experience, and create some key devices to improve the situation of the next dark side iteration ...... and this is the origin of the world tree.

The three civilizations added information materialization devices in the second dark side iteration (penultimate message), but in the third dark side iteration, information alienation occurred, from a mechanical device, became a living world tree, and a violent runaway occurred ...... This is what Han Xiao experienced in his previous life as a player.

In the end, the three civilizations of the third dark side opened the sanctuary and understood everything, so they left behind the control valve of the information actualization device, and in the fourth dark side, information alienation occurred, inheriting the essential relationship of restraint, only the manifestation mutated and became the natural enemy of the world tree, that is, the pivotal snake.

On the other hand, in the second dark side iteration, the three civilizations used information actualization devices that had not yet mutated, and eventually failed, discovering that the reason was the lack of a "real state" bridge.

In other words, the dark side of the universe must form an information link with the iterated real universe, and be able to interfere with each other in order for the information actualization device to work, so the three civilizations of the second dark side iteration carried out a plan to try to change the underlying laws of the next dark side iteration, so that the angle of the two "parallel lines" of the dark side of the universe and the iterated real universe would be shifted, and eventually intersect.

As a result, in the third iteration of the Dark Side, the underlying laws of the Dark Side universe changed, and the Dark Side successfully projected itself into "reality", and successfully acquired a portion of the information carriers of the iterative real universe, that is, the existence of the "players" - by "logging in", this group of individuals living in the iterative real universe transformed their "real state" into "information state", and pulled themselves into the Dark Side universe, forming an information intertwined, acting as an information interface ...... This is exactly what countless players experienced in Han Xiao's previous life.

After the World Tree War in his previous life, the three major civilizations acquired the Sanctuary from the Covenant, learned everything, inherited the heritage of countless civilizations, and made rapid advances in technology. At a level beyond the reach of the players, the three civilizations formulated a new plan to combine the power of their civilizations to create a "control valve" for the World Tree, which in turn would reduce the cost of dealing with the World Tree Outbreak for the fourth iteration of the Dark Side.

In addition, due to the player version update, the three civilizations of the third dark side decided that this form of "real state" bridge was not stable enough, and decided to spend a huge amount of resources to strengthen the "real state" connection in the next dark side iteration.

Since the Dark Side Universe and the Iterative Real Universe have formed a preliminary information interference, the three civilizations decided to build a stable interference bridge, rather than landing intermittently. The only objects they could choose were the individual records of information that had landed on the Dark Side, so they randomly selected objects from these records to enter the Dark Side completely and form a stable connection.

As long as this idea is correct, the dark universe can be transformed in the opposite direction through this interference bridge, from the "information state" to the "real state", away from closure, and back to the iterative real universe ...... In a better way, it's like installing an add-on package to the so-called "reality", which contains the entire dark universe, the entire Star Ocean world.

This is the real situation that Han Xiao knew from the Sanctuary, and there is no record on the Sanctuary's message board of what happened afterwards.

After learning all this, he had a rough guess about what happened afterwards, and suspected that the reason for his "rebirth crossing" was that he was essentially a randomly selected object that became a "stable interference bridge" to strengthen the entanglement of information between the Dark Side and the iterative real universe.

The information state of himself was completely captured, and he came to the Dark Side from "reality", so his "reality" self disappeared, and there is no more information about himself ....... Han Xiao is very suspicious that this is the reason why he has not seen his other self as a "player" all these years.

The fourth iteration of the dark side of the dark side of the universe caused the time of the iterative real universe to go back ten years, the message board and related records and explanations, Han Xiao still does not know the reason, but he guesses that this is because the third iteration of the dark side of the "capture" of himself, and the degree of information interference with the iterative real universe deepened, so it affected the other side of the time, but we do not know whether this is a universe-wide time flow backwards, or a small-scale change ....... However, from another perspective, this is also the dark side of the universe using the "real state" to generate information entanglement of the correctness of the idea, and has been able to produce substantial changes to the iterative real universe.

Han Xiao has roughly pieced together the causes and consequences of the various events through the records of the Sanctuary and his own conjectures, and in his opinion, the reliability of this series of conjectures has reached more than 70%.

Han Xiao concealed a part of his speculations and explained these mysteries once again.

After hearing all this, only shock and disbelief remained on the faces of Mabruce, Louis, and the Void Spirit Sect Leader, who stared blankly at Han Xiao with their mouths slightly open, already completely confused.

"This, this ......"

The Void Spirit Patriarchs were stunned.

Although they were the heads of the three major civilizations and had seen countless storms and waves, the information Han Xiao had given them at this moment had already exceeded their scope of acceptance, and their brains were caught in a short circuit.

Only after a long time, did the Void Spirit Godhead turned to look at Mabulus, his tone hesitant:

"Did you understand that ......?"

"You'll have to wait for me to run through ......" replied Mabruce dully.