Deep Space Wandering Fleet
Chapter 483 - 481 A Small Gift

Chapter 483: Chapter 481 A Small Gift

Whether you believe it or not, the text continues.

On the spaceship, a biological computing chip with the identifier "887921DDFG" had been damaged. The specific cause of the damage was a malfunction in one of the molecular power motors, which then triggered a series of chain reactions...

An old man named "Hu Dahong" had passed away, and his quantum consciousness was uploaded into the virtual world with the identifier "IKJ009234"... Mr. Hu Dahong then embarked on a brand-new life...

Cold sweat dripped down instantly, even within Virtual Space, Zhang Yuan felt his muscles trembling slightly. Well, he didn’t actually have muscles now; it was just an illusion caused by his overly chaotic brain.

He did not know whether these texts were real or fake... But deep down, he believed the texts were real, computed, rather than observed by the other party and then fabricating a function for it. It made no sense for a high-level civilization to make a fool of him.

Zhang Yuan took a deep breath and skipped several sections related to the Galaxy Shining. He then saw the emotional reactions of several comrades waiting in the trading market.

Including Zhao Qingfeng pacing around, the chip in his Power Armor running at high speeds, the sweat on Old Zhao’s forehead, the emotions of worry being generated, and even the secretion of hormones in his brain.

The mental state of these comrades was clearly very tense, with hardly any communication between them, just sitting there and occasionally checking how much time had passed...

But various emotional fluctuations and hormone secretions, coupled with cellular renewal every second, produced a volume of text that one could spend a hundred million years reading!

It was too specific.

This feeling was simply terrifying!

It felt as if a cold air penetrated from the tailbone up, seeping into every cell of the body.

This was... the core content of the Gaia Faction, predictive mathematics!

When the mighty power, which Level 6 Civilization could only begin to comprehend, was displayed in front of Zhang Yuan, it was too horrifying; he almost forgot to breathe.

Everything had become a predestined existence engraved by numbers, and this feeling was not pleasant.

He did not know how much time had passed when the numbers behind turned into a bunch of gibberish, and Sigma stopped the computation.

"Sigh..."

After pondering for a while, Zhang Yuan vaguely understood why the Hicks Civilization liked to collect art, history, and culture from various civilizations; they actually wanted to explore so-called "predictive mathematics."

As for these artifacts needing to be genuine and lawful in provenance, these were additional stipulations imposed for exploring this discipline. The Hicks Civilization could very easily determine the authenticity of these items.

If these artifacts were all counterfeits, then it would be impossible to trace information back to an entire civilization.

Indeed, what else in the universe could be more complex than a Wisdom Civilization?

As the Abel Ring believed, how could the evolution of stars, the motion of meteorites, or black holes devouring planets compare to the complex evolution of a civilization?

Zhang Yuan regained his senses and said, "Thank you for sharing this knowledge with me, making me realize my own insignificance and ignorance. The disciplines we create compared to real predictive mathematics are but a drop in the ocean. If this great discipline were truly accomplished, what could possibly trouble you in the universe? With calculation, all answers are attainable."

The Abel Ring’s response seemed to carry a bit of a smile, "You needn’t belittle yourself. Every civilization has risen step by step from weakness; a civilization that has never experienced setbacks will not have a great future. Just like some innately superior civilizations, they can easily reach the Level 5 of civilization, but without exercising and exploring a more perfected Philosophy Tree, they will never achieve pure energy."

"The same path applies to any discipline, evolving from simple to complex. As for our troubles... There are many indeed."

"We can trace back the history of civilizations with the information we have, but predicting the true future is difficult."

"Our computing power is still limited. For numbers like π, the meaningful information may emerge way later and discontinuously, so it doesn’t hold much significance. We must find predictive functions with faster convergence rates... This is a very challenging task."

"Also, because of the computing power, I calculated for 17 hours before your arrival to find a history similar to that of your civilization within this one hour. The data beyond that had already lost its converging nature, completely losing its predictive function. This suggests that the function is only an approximation, not truly real. After you return, you might be able to compare this information..."

"Second, the Gaia Faction has never achieved the phenomenon of computing power completely surpassing the predicted facts. It may be that our capabilities are insufficient, or it may be a limitation of the Universe itself; this is the ultimate question of our entire faction, whether it is possible to use predictive mathematics to fully predict the future of the entire Universe."

Zhang Yuan understood the other party’s meaning.

That is to say, predicting a small region for a future period might be feasible, but if the Abel Ring wanted to predict the entire content of the Universe within one second, it would be inadequate; it often required two seconds or even longer calculation time.

Thus, since the event had already occurred, the prediction had lost its meaning.

Even if the computing power was increased and more complex functions were found, the information that could be calculated in the future would also increase; thus, it could only approach, never fully achieve accuracy. Therefore, the so-called prediction had become a paradox.

This problem was indeed bizarre...

As for why this was so, nobody knew.

Of course, even if not predicting but merely using retrospective inference on past history, the results were still surprisingly astounding.

Zhang Yuan asked, "Then, is the future already fixed? If the future of the Universe is indeed a certain number computed by some function, hasn’t it already been determined? What then is the meaning of our existence?"

The Abel Ring replied, "If no one knows the next number, how can you know whether it has been determined? We have not even found this function, nor do we know if it truly exists. It might even be constantly changing. Why do you insist that our Gaia School is definitely correct?"

Zhang Yuan fell silent, seemingly at a loss for words... For a normal human, not thinking this way would be abnormal.

The Abel Ring continued, "We have an algorithm that can skip a lot of calculations to peek at some of the subsequent numbers, but we haven’t found the true functional form of this Universe, not even the Gaia Civilization could, which is truly a lamentable matter!"

"Perhaps our actions are just bringing us one step closer to failure."

"If you wish, I can predict a small fragment for you. But I cannot guarantee its accuracy."

Zhang Yuan eagerly said, "Of course, I would like that. Thank you very much for your small gift."

With this small gift, he could at last explain to his companions what exactly was going on.

"They’ll probably be quite shocked!" Zhang Yuan thought with a bit of mischievous delight.

This time it probably took about two hours...

Zhang Yuan was continuously experiencing and trying this super perception and super thinking, striving to remember this feeling.

If he missed this opportunity, he truly didn’t know when there would be another chance. Zhang Yuan faintly felt that this was even more important than Curvature Technology.

On the other hand, as he watched the continuously changing shape of the sphere, Zhang Yuan silently thought, high-level civilizations also have their own troubles, troubles in which humans could not even intervene.

He was already struggling to understand...

The gap was simply too immense. The gap between a divine being and an ant.

After receiving the small gift, he finally asked, "So, if you truly compute the characteristic equation of this Universe, what will you choose to do next?"

"No, we can only approach it, we cannot truly calculate it. We seriously suspect that once it is calculated, the entire Universe would immediately collapse! Just knowing that it truly exists is enough for us... That means the Gaia Faction has already learned the truth of the Universe. Is there anything more fulfilling than this in the world?"

"Completely excavating it would be too boring. We might look for another interesting target instead."

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