Without any warning, doomsday factors simply appeared out of nowhere. And the initial doomsday factors differed from the subsequent stable-state power of doomsday. Though called factors, their composition contained no energy whatsoever; they more closely resembled memes in an informational state.
At the same time, this informational state was extraordinarily tiny, yet immensely dense. Even at Zhao Cheng's current level, he could only make out the outermost layer of its information structure.
Then, the doomsday factors began to replicate themselves...
At a rate of once every 0.1 seconds.
Seeing this, Zhao Cheng understood clearly that replication was merely the beginning. A purely informational state had limited interference with the material world; greater changes were surely to come. Perhaps, to doomsday, the doomsday factors now appearing were like cells. A single cell indeed had limited use, but once their numbers grew sufficient and they combined, they could undergo ten thousand transformations.
Thus, after a moment's thought, Zhao Cheng flicked his hand, sending forth a stream of sword light. With the Super-Dimensional Sword, he wiped out the doomsday factors before him.
Of all the powers Zhao Cheng currently possessed, only the Super-Dimensional Sword was particularly suited to dealing with a power like doomsday.
Second simulation. Year thirteen after arrival. Witnessed doomsday in its initial state. After the first doomsday factor underwent nine consecutive self-replications, it was destroyed. Doomsday's first duration of existence: one second...
In the section Zhao Cheng had specifically opened on the Panel, titled Doomsday Observation Experiment Log, another entry appeared, along with partial structural models of the doomsday factors he had just observed.
Zhao Cheng's decision to destroy the doomsday factors had undoubtedly been carefully considered. He wanted to see whether this method could prevent doomsday's arrival.
Of course, even before doing this, Zhao Cheng had felt