Chapter 260
If humanity could still be destroyed or enslaved despite such a significant advantage, then it truly deserves its fate.
However, this wouldn't happen. Wen Jing's gaze fell upon the two people who were excitedly recording the surrounding star field.
After all, the 'protagonist' of this era is right here.
While this Clone was acting alongside the teacher, Wen Jing, who contained the vast majority of power and Personality Network, was actually located in the void of an Ancient Wilderness world.
This 'void' only appeared after she devoured all the matter from the ancient natural Ancient Wilderness.
In the past, this kind of area had no value to Wen Jing; she would leave after absorbing it. But now, for her, who has full Information Perception, this is the place closest to the essence of the entire universe.
A complete sense of information means that she can continuously and deeply receive all information without any expenditure; it is an instinct that is possessed simply because it exists.
In this special interdimensional space free from other material interference and connected to the Ancient Wilderness universe by the characteristics of the Awakened, Wen Jing's long hair spread out into the surrounding void.
Each strand of hair can be said to be a manifestation of the Xu Yuan, a kind of information channel.
Dean Bai's intuition was correct. Without the Limiter, Wen Jing, who also possessed complete Information Perception, was growing stronger at an exponential rate every second. She had now transcended biology and civilization and was beginning to move towards the realm of concepts.
At this moment, she is receiving information from the entire universe at a speed that surpasses any material carrier, and has even surpassed the speed at which new information is generated in the universe.
As time goes by, she will eventually receive all the information, both old and new, and at some point achieve 'omniscience' of the universe.
Omniscience is omnipotence.
Of course, Wen Jing still retains all her original emotions.
After all, evolution is about becoming richer and more complete, not about subtraction. While exploring profound truths, she can also engage in other social and emotional activities, which will only occupy a very small part of her attention.
In the past two years of perceiving the universe, she has come to understand the root causes of many phenomena, and has also raised unanswered questions...
For example, a teacher's special passive Luck should not be called a ' Luck Aura ' but rather a ' Protagonist Aura '.
Every era in human history, every so often, a 'protagonist' like this emerges.
The so-called Protagonist Aura allows the possessor to be born into good fortune, turn misfortune into good luck, and basically not die before completing their "mission of the times".
Dean Bai is the most obvious example—even after his death, he can transfer the Protagonist Aura to the right person and be resurrected in the future.
Of course, even the protagonists of an era aren't entirely immortal.
The most direct scenario is that the entire human society suffers a cataclysmic blow, and all races cease to exist, so naturally there is no such thing as a protagonist.
In past human eras, the leaders who rebelled against Alaya and the Mastermind were also the protagonists of their time.
However, the Protagonist Aura is not static; it changes according to the overall situation.
After Wen Jing resurrected Dean Bai, the Protagonist Aura returned to her. Meanwhile, Weiluo, who wasn't originally a protagonist of the era, gained a weaker Protagonist Aura because she handed over the throne to him.
For example, why is it that only humans can give birth to Awakened, while other intelligent beings cannot?
Because humans are the first intelligent species in the entire universe to generate unrealistic fantasies, they resonated with the extraordinary origin of the universe.
Yes, one of the information rules of the current universe is 'placeholder'.
Humans are not the only intelligent beings in the history of the universe, nor are they the only beings with imagination. However, the ancient humans before the discovery by the Alaya Race were the first to develop fantasies on a collective scale.
Totems, myths, ancestor worship... these are all manifestations of collective imagination.
Therefore, even though other intelligent races made far more technological progress than humans, they missed the opportunity and lost the ability to enter the Ancient Wilderness.
Everything in this universe is ranked within information; some rankings change, and some do not.
The ranking of "the order of intelligent groups that generate collective fantasies" cannot be changed, not even if Wen Jing can tamper with the information, because she is the strongest Awakened. To deny this is to deny herself, just like asking God if he can create a stone that he cannot lift, which is a paradox in itself.
Rankings like 'technological level of cosmic civilizations' are naturally subject to real-time changes.
As for the question, it is that Wen Jing has already obtained all the information about this universe from its birth to its discovery and captivity by a Type III civilization by perceiving historical information.
However, although they share many similarities in form and historical trajectory with the remaining texts and totems in the Ancient Wilderness, they do not match.
More precisely, before the 'author' set the ' Ancient Wilderness cannot be recorded', the culture of the ancient humans in this world was, in turn, influenced by the information brought back by the Awakened from the Ancient Wilderness ruins.
Ancient Wilderness ruins are known to be a reflection of human civilization.
But if it's a mapping discrepancy, then those words shouldn't be exactly the same as Wen Jing's in his previous life.
Therefore, this can only mean that the civilization reflected in the Ancient Wilderness is not from the current universe.
With these newly emerging questions in mind, Wen Jing continued to interpret the information of the universe, turning everything unknown into the known.
Five years have passed in the blink of an eye.
Human civilization has ventured into space and recently joined the Star Alliance, becoming one of the mysterious and rapidly developing new cosmic civilizations.
It is worth mentioning that both the Federation and the Empire chose to conceal the existence of Awakened in their interactions with other civilizations. Many goals achieved by Awakened using their superpowers were all described as technology, which is similar to Wen Jing's actions back then.
On this day, while she was meeting with Weiluo to discuss preparations for the human delegation's participation in the Star Alliance Resonance Assembly, she suddenly had a change of expression, as if she had sensed something.
"Dean Bai, what's wrong?" Weiluo asked softly.
"It's nothing." Dean Bai shook his head somewhat blankly, then came to his senses. "Let's continue."
Wen Jing, amidst the Ancient Wilderness, opened his eyes.
In that instant, her Clone, which was secretly stationed in the space of the human binary star system, suddenly collapsed and disappeared into the three-dimensional universe, entering the fourth dimension.
While her main focus was on sensing information, she also devoted a portion of her thinking to researching and creating a culture and technology unique to the Insect Race.
With the added benefit of sensory enhancement, she not only fully Digestion and understood the technology of the two level-three civilizations, but also broke through the technological bottleneck that even the main Mastermind had not been able to overcome.
The Mastermind did not actually die, but was trapped in four-dimensional spacetime.
At this moment, Wen Jing has replaced it and become the most technologically advanced civilization in the universe.
Because of the 'author's' setting, when she was at the forefront of technology, she automatically ascended to the fourth dimension.
At the same time, the Mastermind fell from the fourth dimension.
In the Federation's space, a crystalline core suddenly appeared out of nowhere at the orbital location of the Tenth Star.
The core technology fell into the hands of one person.
However, this hand did not belong to Wen Jing.
"Oh? Is this the next chapter of 'Invincible Under Heaven,' titled 'An Enemy from the Sky'?"
In the Ancient Wilderness, Wen Jing complained, but her eyes were full of interest.
In space, two blurry figures, one bright and one dark, are rapidly coalescing into a physical form. The energy that constitutes the two figures was born out of thin air in the universe and quickly rose to break through the S-level in a very short time.
The nearby technological equipment should have been able to detect them, but it encountered information-level shielding or suppression and did not react abnormally.
The light and shadow caught the core of the Mastermind, and the light shone on the core, reading and exchanging information.
The shadowy figure on the side, however, did not need to do so. Instead, it appeared to possess Information Perception capabilities, allowing it to acquire intelligence out of thin air.
"What a peculiar universe."
Shadow sighed, "Awakened, Ancient Wilderness... the concepts of the extraordinary are not scattered across living beings, but rather directly manifested in a special spacetime."
"Let's first ascertain the situation in this universe," Light and Shadow said. "How come the Mastermind only has one core left? What's the current state of humanity? Have they encountered the Insect Race?"
Despite being in outer space, their voices could still be heard normally, as if they were not bound by the rules of the universe.
"You can see for yourself that the humans are perfectly fine," Shadow said, arms crossed, clearly displeased.
But then her voice changed. "Oh no, we're too late! The queen of this universe has already evolved to—"
The words stopped abruptly, and the shadow turned its head to look at the space between itself and the light and shadow.
From the moment the two appeared, Wen Jing hovered between them, just an arm's length away.
However, if it weren't for the targeted information from the shadows, no one would even realize that the target was standing right next to them.
The figure turned its head with some confusion, and then its light trembled.
The black-haired woman smiled at the two of them, and, defying the rules of the universe, made a sound in space.
Are you talking about me?
Chapter 260
The two figures were startled and instinctively took a step back.
At the same time, the light and shadow's hand suddenly went empty; the location information of the Mastermind core had been altered, and it appeared directly in Wen Jing's hand.
Seeing this, he didn't even think about taking it back. Instead, a strange light flashed around him, and he prepared to leave this universe.
Faced with Insect Race that has grown to this level, the only solution is to abandon them and stay away—a lesson they learned from traversing countless universes.
"Etc..."
The shadowy figure beside her quickly spoke up, stopping the other person, because she had sensed the information of this universe and knew Wen Jing's past. "In this universe, she was also human, at least... she used to be."
Upon hearing this, Guangying paused, startled.
Having traversed countless universes, he had seen Insect Race with humanoid forms, but he had never seen Insect Race truly standing on the side of humanity.
He quickly asked, "Is this the universe's response to 'wishes'?"