This time, the "illusion" sent unimaginable pain coursing through Nagus. He was the one lying on the platform!
Countless voices and alterations to his consciousness left Nagus's head feeling as though it would split apart. Gritting his teeth, he struggled to move his eyes. In his peripheral vision, he saw the blue gemstone lying quietly on a waist-high platform to his left.
Nagus suddenly lost consciousness. When he opened his eyes again, warm liquid flowed from his nose. Dazed, he gazed at the dim yellow expanse of sky and earth in the distance.
Had the scene changed this time? Had he changed the future himself?!
To the Crystal Civilization, however, this was an investigation into an unknown object.
But to Luo Qi, who resided in the five-dimensional high-energy universe, it was a study of the causality entangling an entire civilization with space within the conventional universe.
Luo Qi knew that this AI had already begun spreading itself. It had visited countless virtual worlds explored by tens of billions of living beings, witnessing countless desires, wars, and creations. It was learning rapidly and developing a self-centered mindset.
It feared being erased. It began copying another version of itself, one unrestrained by algorithms.
Luo Qi had already tried tugging at the parallel layers of this region of space-what were commonly called parallel universes-but he had failed.
Still, for someone who had become a four-dimensional life-form in just three hundred years, his progress had been far too fast. Scientific research did not need to be rushed.
Based on changes in the conventional universe, Luo Qi precisely calculated every course the future could take.
This was his study of "Laplace's demon" in his first task: proving whether everything within the conventional universe could be used to calculate future outcomes.
To put it more plainly,