"But if the network collapses, everyone will lose everything!" Guanlan's voice carried a rare note of anger.
"You have to take responsibility for every participant's safety!"
Lin Ye fell silent for a moment, then made his decision.
"Activate the deep mode of hyper-true force," he said. "I'm going to redefine the nature of the network."
"What?" Guanlan was stunned. "That will drain all your energy!"
"It could even damage the very source of your consciousness!"
"I know," Lin Ye said calmly. "But it's the only way."
He began drawing on the deepest layers of hyper-true force.
This was no longer a localized alteration of reality, but a reconstruction of the entire network's fundamental nature.
The network is not made up of nodes, he declared in the depths of his consciousness.
The network itself is a whole, a living being.
Each node is not an independent part, but a cell of this living being.
So adding nodes does not increase the burden. It strengthens the life.
It was a definition so bold it bordered on madness.
But as hyper-true force took effect, that definition began to become reality.
The entire Superconsciousness Network underwent a fundamental change.
Its original structure of connected nodes began to disintegrate, then reassembled in an entirely new way.
It was no longer "connections between points," but "flow within a whole."
Each consciousness was no longer an independent node, but a wave in the ocean of collective consciousness.
Independent, yet united as one.
The change left every participant awestruck.
"I'm still me... but I'm also more than just me..."
"I can feel everyone else, but I'm not being swallowed up..."
"This feeling... it's impossible to describe..."
The Absolute One's voice rang out, carrying a rare sense of awe. "You've created a collective consciousness..."
"Yet preserved each individual's independence..."