"Hello—hello—"
"Great Being, are you still there? Still there?"
The scruffy middle-aged man, shrinking without end, shouted into the boundless blank world. All he could see before him was endless white.
He waved the Lying-Flat Society Freelancer business card in his hand, flailing his limbs as he swam forward through the endless white void.
Li Heng looked down at the tiny scruffy middle-aged man.
Somewhere that was within arm's reach in his eyes, yet forever invisible to the scruffy man, another dust-like white point of light was slowly approaching him.
As the white point of light drew nearer, it shrank without end, and its approach appeared to grow slower and slower.
Contained within that white point of light was Paradise—not the Protagonist Paradise of the Paper People in the Material Universe, but a Paradise that housed a group of transcendent Information Lifeforms.
There were very few of them, merely a finitely large number, insignificant even within a single dimensional world.
Bao Bao, Azure Emperor Fang Qing, Azure Emperor Wan Qing, and those prisoners Bao Bao had rescued from the Dark World.
There were also Meng Qi, who had once transcended and left the True World, his girlfriends, You Shuiyue, Jiang Yue, Gao Lan, Han Guang, and a whole host of others.
All of them were within that infinitely shrinking white ball of light, transformed into tiny specks of dust floating beside Li Heng, close enough to touch.
The real world was vast, but the vision of finite people was far too small.
In these people's understanding, the world they inhabited was endlessly vast and boundless.
They had escaped that terrifying creature which could casually create and destroy Endless Dimensional Worlds, feeding on transcendent Information Lifeforms and Hyper-Turing Machines.
But in this world, what freedom could the weak possibly have?
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