"In my memories, the Fusion Civilization Plan was proposed alongside the Multiverse Plan. It was only after the successful increase in the quota of level-nine civilizations that these two plans were deduced."
"The former sought to break through the upper limit of civilization at the universal level, while the latter sought to open up a new universe."
"However, the latter could already be considered a failure, because it had been confirmed that without a universal simulator, a new universe could not physically come into existence."
"As for the former, to be honest, I never expected that a successor would make it this far."
Silent One spoke frankly.
"So I can't be certain whether they can truly succeed in breaking through."
"What would happen if they succeeded?" Gao Gong asked.
"According to our deductions, a level-ten civilization would possess the power to break through the universal simulator... Or, to put it another way, the simulator system of our universe might have been left behind by a level-ten civilization. It repeatedly attempted to evolve the next level-ten civilization, but never succeeded. As system redundancy continued to increase, once it reached a certain level, it would be completely unable to continue evolving. At that point, perhaps this simulator project would be declared a failure."
"Our ultimate goal is to try to find a solution before that failure arrives. However, there are many possible approaches, and no one can be certain that their own plan is definitely correct."
"But 'level-ten civilization' is merely a term. Perhaps that level of civilization doesn't exist at all."
Silent One nodded.
"That is indeed possible. So a more realistic path to success would be to prevent the 'universal reboot' through some method. Once the universe could no longer reboot, civilizations would gain an eternity to evolve."
"In fact,