The number of participants had doubled, the Interdimension nodes had completely stabilized, and some new structures he had never anticipated had even appeared.
"What happened?" he asked.
"A lot," Guanlan said. "First, the Dimension Council passed the Network Basic Law."
"It lays out the operating principles of the network, the rights and obligations of participants, mechanisms for resolving disputes, and so on."
"This law wasn't imposed by anyone. Through consciousness resonance, it was created jointly by all participants."
"Even I never expected collective wisdom to devise such a complete system of rules."
Lin Ye nodded. "This is exactly what I wanted to see."
"The network shouldn't depend on any one leader. It should rely on everyone's wisdom."
"What else?"
"Second, we discovered the practical value of Interdimension." Guanlan displayed a set of data.
"Those gap spaces can be used to store information, and their capacity is virtually unlimited."
"More importantly, transmission through Interdimension allows instantaneous communication, unaffected by the distance between dimensions."
"That means the network can now expand into every corner of the Multiverse."
Lin Ye's eyes lit up. "That truly is a major breakthrough."
"Communication delay has always been the bottleneck in the network's expansion. Now that problem is solved."
"Third," Guanlan continued, "the Primordial Source's entry triggered a chain reaction."
"Many higher-dimensional civilizations that had been watching from the sidelines saw that even the Sixth Dimension had joined, and they began applying to join as well."
"The network now covers 137 dimensional branches, with more than five million total participants."
"That number is still growing rapidly."
Lin Ye was somewhat surprised. "Five million... That's much faster than I expected."
"Because what you created wasn't merely a network, but hope," Guanlan said.
"Many civilizations had already reached the limit of their own dimensional level and could find no