Chapter 1872: A Body of Concepts · Pioneer Machine
This was a very special feeling, and it was somewhat familiar.
Gao Gong carefully thought back. The reason it felt familiar was that he had experienced something similar before.
The feeling of "fishing for relics" back then.
Only this time, the "Mechanical Universe" he had entered seemed to be a plane.
A plane?
A cosmic plane?
An existence that was infinitely vast and infinitely profound, yet displayed the characteristics of a "plane" in some dimension...?
As the "pulling sensation" intensified, Gao Gong's perception, partially fused with the "Mechanical Rampage," began to "touch" the edge of this "plane."
Its material was impossible to describe. It was neither metal nor stone, neither energy nor matter.
It was more like a "foundation" or "background panel" directly woven and solidified from endless "mechanical laws" and "cosmic constants" so complex that they surpassed the mathematical descriptions of any civilization. Countless dazzlingly precise geometric structures, energy-flow pathways, and information-exchange protocols spread, intertwined, and lived and died across the "plane" according to incomprehensible patterns, like circuits both microscopic and macroscopic.
"Parallel universes? Multiverses? Branches of spacetime?"
Countless possibilities flashed through Gao Gong's mind.
"So the Mechanical Universe from before wasn't a multidimensional, three-dimensional existence like an ordinary universe, but an... infinitely extending 'plane' with some special dimension? The source of all mechanical laws, the 'homeland' or 'projection source' of all mechanical existence?"
"And the essence of the cosmic plane is to use the 'plane' to envelop the 'body'?"
But this was ultimately still the "Mechanical Rampage." Thus, this "plane" was not enveloping anything. It seemed more like it was about to shatter the "body."
Not covering, not assimilating, not enveloping.
It was shattering!
Driven by the "Mechanical Rampage"—or rather, by distorting and exploiting some property of the "cosmic