"What did the message say?" Huo Gu asked.
The regular fluctuations of the black hole's radiation were fed into the Celestial Mechanism Megastructure. The information was not encrypted, so deciphering it was no more difficult than translating an ordinary alien language.
Several minutes later, under the immense computational power of the Celestial Mechanism Megastructure, the message from the black hole was deciphered.
The Collectors that formed the Celestial Mechanism Megastructure examined the deciphered contents with some unease before relaying them to Huo Gu.
"It is a message addressed to you, Will," a Collector said.
The message was not long, yet it contained a great deal of information—fate is causality, and causality is fate. Huo Gu, come over here. You cannot escape...
The sender of the black hole's message had called Huo Gu by name. Huo Gu was genuinely surprised and fell into deep thought.
This massive black hole possesses intelligence?
That is impossible...
Like Huo Gu, Ming also fell into deep thought. However, what Ming pondered was different from Huo Gu's concern. It was thinking about why the black hole possessed intelligence and could transmit messages.
Judging from all the signs, the black hole seemed to be like it—a celestial body that had developed its own thoughts.
Yet according to basic physical reasoning, the hypothesis of a black hole life-form did not hold up.
"The message unquestionably came from the black hole. If the black hole itself does not possess intelligence, then an Intelligence must exist within it." A Collector kindly reminded Ming, lest it become trapped in a dead end of thought.
*Neither is possible. Time perception would be affected by the spacetime compressed by such immense gravity. Under the length-contraction effect, time would pass extremely slowly. One second inside a black hole, compared to time in normal spacetime,