"Did this bug discover us?!"
"Impossible, absolutely impossible! Our core algorithms are all equipped with the most advanced sky-shrouding, sun-blotting logic algorithms. Even an ascended high-dimensional life-form would have no possibility of discovering us unless it touched the Second String!"
"To low-dimensional life-forms and high-dimensional life-forms below the Second String, our existence is an unobservable phenomenon!"
When Zhao Cheng appeared and temporarily severed the bridge of causality that had been about to stabilize, the two virtual life-forms fluctuated violently.
Their algorithms overloaded at that moment, calculating every possible scenario, yet the final conclusion was that it was fundamentally impossible for Zhao Cheng to have discovered them. What was happening before their eyes could only prove that it was a coincidence.
Thanks to their superb thought algorithms, even they themselves did not believe this conclusion. Yet their reason—that was, the result of their calculations—told them that this was the truth.
Thus, a cognitive conflict arose.
The Empire that had created them had long had a contingency for this: whenever reason and emotion conflicted, reason took precedence in all things.
This setting existed because the Empire's research had long shown that emotional intuition was often wrong.
Feelings were unreliable things when compared to precise calculations.
And so, once the calculations reached this point and the event had been deemed a coincidence, they immediately calculated a new plan.
They would seize Zhao Cheng directly, taking advantage of this opportunity!
Their original contingency had been to accumulate strength like rolling a snowball, constructing a sufficiently powerful causal singularity network. The stronger this network became, the greater its power to plunder the causal destinies of other life-forms through causal connections.
But that did not mean they themselves were weak.
Their strength lay in the fact that they existed in an extremely low "dimension." Low-dimensional did