Observer...
It was the first time Chu Guang had heard that name, yet it felt strangely familiar.
Perhaps that intense sense of déjà vu was the Morphogenetic Field at work. Because the borehole device had created an "unstable point" in the membrane of the universe, he, standing here, had received resonant information from the void or another universe.
And at that very instant, Chu Guang suddenly realized that he seemed to have awakened psionic power as well.
And perhaps the psionic power he had awakened was precisely why he could communicate telepathically with this being calling itself the Observer.
At the same time—
That was also why Xiao Qi could not see it.
"Observer... I still don't quite understand. What are you observing, or rather, what is your purpose?"
Meeting that gaze from the void, Chu Guang paused before continuing.
"And... you said you came from the void. What is your relationship with those three consciousnesses?"
Perhaps because he had asked so many questions at once, the unseen voice pondered for a moment.
"I... can perhaps be considered a child of the Primordial Light, though perhaps not. I can see many things, but I alone cannot see myself."
"As for my purpose, knowing too much is not necessarily a good thing for you. Your mission has already been accomplished. You successfully allowed your civilization, which stood on the brink of extinction, to continue... At least in this universe, you overcame a nearly unavoidable calamity and transformed into an entirely new kind of existence."
"As for the crisis several tens of thousands of years from now, that is not your mission. It is something your children... and the children of other civilizations in this galaxy will have to face."
In other words...
Several tens of thousands of years from now, human