Deep Sea Embers.

Chapter 806 About Embers
The stars were roaring, making a roar that seemed to shake the foundations of all things. The truth shone in the brilliance of the stars, filling the vision and illuminating the soul. Lenora seemed to feel that her mind was gradually melting in front of this roaring truth.

She was becoming a part of the truth. She was trying to understand the words of the "Thousand-Faced Star" in front of her, and some knowledge that she would never have been exposed to. She suddenly understood the logic of how things worked, and the lavender starlight was dancing at the end of her vision, so gorgeous that it was breathtaking.

She slowly raised her head, looking at the billions of eyes twinkling among the stars, and spoke softly as if talking to herself: "I understand... Those are the ashes that cooled down after the world impact... But the ashes are not 'dead', the ashes just need to be reassigned and remapped..."

Strange words came out of her mouth, and Lenora felt a little confused, but these doubts were fleeting. She naturally understood what she said, and then she saw the stars in front of her flashing with approval.

Zhou Ming looked at Lenora in surprise. He didn't expect that the Frost Queen could understand what he said so accurately. However, he didn't have the energy to think about it now - his attention was completely focused on the "ashes" that Lenora found "outside the boundary".

The "everything is information" theory of the Navigator-2 is correct. The "world" can be regarded as a "mathematical machine" that contains the data and calculation rules of all things. It is a huge information storage and calculation system. Therefore, the essence of the Great Annihilation can be regarded as the conflict and serious bugs caused by the forced merger of several incompatible "systems"...

The collision of mathematical machines caused the "information" that was originally running in order in each world to fall into chaos. A large number of parameters that could be "called" normally have now become unrecognizable, and the mathematical machines themselves have also lost the foundation for stable operation...

This "sanctuary" built by the ancient kings is like a sandbox environment that barely maintains operation after the system falls into chaos. This sandbox forcibly retains the mapping relationship of some "information", but in essence, the entire sandbox is still part of the "system crash"...

Information does not disappear out of thin air. At least in the face of disasters such as the Great Annihilation, the "information units" that make up the world do not really disappear. From the perspective of the "mathematical machine", those information units simply lose contact with the "world laws" (operating system), just like...

Zhou Ming suddenly stopped. He raised his head while thinking and looked at the computer at the back of the room. The computer was still running, and the cursor on the screen was flashing as if it had life. As he watched, the cursor suddenly moved on its own, and a line of text appeared:

"Data corrupted, formatting incomplete - World."

Zhou Ming blinked, and the words on the computer screen disappeared like an illusion.

But he had understood it—and his understanding was correct.

He exhaled softly, silently sorting out the stormy thoughts in his mind, but as his thoughts gradually became clearer, he couldn't help frowning.

He always felt that something was missing in his understanding... He was a little unsure about the fact that "information would not disappear".

Does information really not disappear? This seems to be true within the "world", but what is it like outside the world? In that vast and empty space, the endless "void" that his creator civilization had briefly glimpsed, what laws of all things exist?
Pondering over it yielded no result. A mind that had never stepped out of the world would never be able to imagine the truth outside the world. Zhou Ming frowned and shook his head slowly, but at the same time, he remembered the conversation he had had with Navigator No. 2 not long ago.

He thought of the fear and paranoia of the ancient artificial intelligence, and of the eternal worries and visions of Pilot-2 - to transcend the world.

We must leave a "possibility" for future civilizations to transcend the world.

Zhou Ming's frown slowly relaxed, and after the turbulent thoughts in his heart gradually calmed down, a smile appeared on his face.

What he couldn't figure out today, someone else would be able to figure out someday in the distant future.

Ray Nora looked at the ancient being in front of her nervously. She finally felt that the other party's stormy thought process had calmed down again, and then she mustered up the courage to speak carefully: "What are your plans next?"

Zhou Ming was silent for a moment, raised his right hand, and stared at the palm of his hand silently.

Starlight danced on his fingertips and diffused in his palms. A vague mass of "ashes" briefly reappeared in his palms, changing into various shapes, and then disappeared like a phantom.

"The most important 'raw material' problem has been solved, but the raw material situation is not what I expected," he said as he pondered, "These are 'cooled embers'. The connection between them and the world's 'underlying system' has been completely severed, and they have stopped evolving. This is different from the situation of the Four Gods and the Boundless Sea... I can't reshape these ashes through gentle 'recompilation'. You just saw that even if the ashes are reshaped, as long as my 'maintenance' disappears, they will disappear with them. These 'cooled embers' obviously lack self-sustainability...

"Perhaps we need a 'ground zero'? We must first reconstruct the mapping relationship of these 'raw materials' in batches and give them the 'first impulse'..."

As he said this, he didn't care whether the "Frost Queen" in front of him could understand it or not - anyway, Her Majesty the Queen seemed to understand a lot of things inexplicably, so he just regarded her as "quick in understanding".

Leigh Nora was used to it, and she passed the SAN check with ease and understood.

"Do you need to detonate the entire Infinite Ocean?" She opened her eyes wide in surprise, "Will this..."

I understood it, but not correctly.

"No, no, no, the 'atomic point' I'm talking about doesn't mean to blow up something specific, but a kind of... conceptual 'information explosion'," Zhou Ming quickly waved his hand to correct the other party's understanding, and then added while thinking, "It may also be accompanied by the release of huge amounts of energy, but this has nothing to do with detonating the Infinite Ocean..."

Although in this process, the Boundless Sea would definitely disappear - Zhou Ming did not say this out loud.

Lenora was still very curious, but this time she did not ask further about whether to detonate the Infinite Ocean. Instead, she changed the subject after a brief thought: "Do you know where the 'ground zero' is?"

"...I have some vague ideas," Zhou Ming said cautiously, stroking his chin, and then waved his hand, "But you don't have to think about it now. My current focus is still on the 'ashes' outside the border."

Lenora's expression suddenly became serious.

"The Lost Homeland is sailing at the end of the world," Zhou Ming pondered for a moment and spoke slowly, "After this voyage is over, I will go to confirm the situation outside the border in person. Regarding those 'ashes' you mentioned, I have to see them with my own eyes."

Lenora responded immediately: "What do you need from me?"

"My main body cannot leave this place... not yet," Zhou Ming looked at him seriously, "so when the time comes, I will need you to guide the Lost Homeland to the ashes."

Lenora was startled when she heard this, and looked a little confused: "What should I... do?"

"In theory, this process doesn't require your involvement - the real effect is your 'hut'," Zhou Ming said, while pointing out the window, "Park your 'hut' at the edge of the fog, and Alice should be able to find it."

"My house?" Lenora was stunned for a moment, but quickly responded, "You mean... the connection between it and the 'Alice Mansion'?"

Zhou Ming nodded slightly.

The "room" that Lenoir took away from Alice Mansion was essentially the escape pod of the A New Hope. Since it was an escape pod, it must have functions such as positioning and emergency calls. He had previously seen the message "Escape Pod Illegal Release" deep in Alice Mansion. In theory, as the mother ship, Alice Mansion (A New Hope) should have a way to relocate to the escape pod.

As long as the mother ship can locate the escape pod, Alice (Pilot Three), who is at the helm of the Lost Homeland, should be able to find Lenoir's true location at the border.

This is the best way Zhou Ming can think of to reach the "land outside the boundary" - after all, at the end of this world where order has collapsed and time and space are disordered, similar positioning and navigation methods are required to reach the destination, and the Lost Hometown is no exception.

Of course, we must also consider the possibility that the positioning function of the "escape pod" is damaged, the positioning of the "Alice Mansion" as the mother ship fails, or the connection between the two is distorted or interfered by the special environment of the border - before Lenora leaves, it is necessary to leave some backup means.

Under Leigh Nora's curious gaze, Zhou Ming raised his right hand, and a ball of dark green flame stained with starlight was quietly burning in his hand.

"Take this, it's a more powerful flame than the one I left on you before," Zhou Ming said, "If Alice can't find the 'hut' by then, I'll try to build a passage with flames - but this is just a backup plan. The power that flames can transmit is limited. If possible, it's better to let the Lost Hometown reach that place."

Looking at the quietly dancing flames in front of her, Lenora obviously hesitated.

The fire was so bright and filled with starlight that it was almost blinding in the dim and chaotic space. She could also feel the enormous power that filled the flame, a power that even frightened her a little.

She had never felt such fear when she decided to dive into the Frost Deep Sea.

But after a brief hesitation, Her Majesty the Queen nodded slightly.

She held out her hand to the flame. "I'll take it—beyond the border, I'll be waiting for you and your Lost Homeland."

(End of this chapter)