After thinking it over for a long time, Thanos looked up at the universe and sent his mental power spreading across it.
If a consciousness truly existed within the universe, he would surely be able to sense it.
But even after searching for a long time, he felt nothing.
Strange. Was my reasoning wrong?
Though puzzled, he did not withdraw his mental power. He let it drift without directing it.
After a while, he sensed one fixed star after another flicker, then return to normal.
On the other side of the universe, more fixed stars flickered before returning to normal as well.
They seemed to be ordinary bursts of nuclear reactions, nothing more.
Then a thought flashed through Thanos's mind.
The next instant, his consciousness crossed the Multiverse and entered his avatar aboard Sanctuary Three in the Milky Way Dimension.
Sanctuary Three was a Planetary Level warship his subordinates had built over a decade ago to pay homage to him.
What did Planetary Level mean? It meant Sanctuary Three was the size of a planet.
It stretched an astonishing thirty thousand kilometers in length, twelve thousand in width, and ten thousand in height.
Despite its enormous size, its hollow design kept it from generating powerful gravitational waves.
When he opened his eyes, Deep Blue's projection appeared before him in the form of a little girl.
"Master."
Thanos nodded without speaking. Centering his mental power on this body, he sent it spreading outward.
He examined the brains of one Intelligent Life form after another, growing more certain of his idea with each one.
If the brain cells were removed from a human brain, leaving only the nerves, it would look like a universe.
The universe's fixed stars were like the neural nodes of a brain.
In other words, the universe had