Were we humans truly the only intelligent life in this universe?
Even in the era of the New Humans, so-called wise men and scholars still asked the same question, pondering it for themselves.
The vast, boundless universe inspired endless imaginings, yet even now, with the age of interstellar colonization already underway, no other intelligent life had been discovered. An unprecedented loneliness shrouded these introspective New Humans.
Some bored philosophers even began to fantasize that, after New Human colonial securities scattered across the various planets and Huadi Quantum Technology's rule collapsed, contact between the humans of each planet would gradually diminish. With certain genetic mutations, all manner of "virtual" humanoid creatures like those in Heavenly Net optical-brain ID games would begin to appear.
However, was the so-called universe truly infinitely vast?
"This is the Cosmic Great World."
Ye Mingyue pointed ahead at the world, which was even more vast and boundless than the Wizard World.
"A great world without a World Garment. In its place are a Spacetime Refraction Mirror and the Huadi Perpetual Motion Machine's protective layer. Even without this Perpetual Motion Machine protective layer, aside from us, under natural selection, probably no advanced lifeform would choose to invade this world. That is also one reason why the Cosmic Great World has remained relatively safe."
Green understood something about the Spacetime Refraction Mirror. It was a refractive domain that made the interior of the Cosmic Great World seem boundless, similar to the spatiotemporal refraction at the edges of certain small worlds. It was a transformation from a conceptual circle on paper into a three-dimensional circle of space and time.
"Why?"
Green voiced the question in cooperation, but his tricolored light eyes had already been drawn to the boundless Perpetual Motion Machine Protective Shield covering this world's surface.
It was