Chapter 1115 - 221: Tier 3 Hell Task

Chapter 1115: Chapter 221: Tier 3 Hell Task

Gao Gong didn’t answer the question directly. Being able to encounter ’dimensional ascension’ at this stage indeed piqued his interest. He looked at Ye the Big Lolita with keen interest and said:

"Do you know that the essence of this move is dimensional ascension?"

Ye the Big Lolita silently shook her head.

"Have you experimented with this move yourself?"

"I don’t want to court death," Ye the Big Lolita replied speechlessly. She felt that even in her current state, self-’Apocalypse’ would be equivalent to meeting her end.

"Indeed, this is truly a weapon used in ’civilization warfare’ and a means for ascension, which indeed shouldn’t appear here."

Gao Gong pondered, thinking that this ’Energy Dimension’ might conceal even more.

"What exactly are you talking about? Can’t you stop being a Riddler?" the Little Woman asked anxiously, her curiosity also piqued.

"Let’s put it this way: when mentioning ’dimensional ascension,’ you must first talk about dimensional reduction, or what is known as a dimensional strike."

"The interstellar wars we experienced before, as well as the skirmishes between the Federation and the Republic along the long border, essentially belong to conventional interstellar warfare, not civilization warfare."

"True civilization warfare is never targeted at an individual or a region but at the civilization itself."

"For example, reducing an entire civilized world from a three-dimensional universe to a two-dimensional universe through some ’technical means’ and killing all civilized individuals through a deadly environment during that process — that’s called ’dimensional strike’."

"In contrast, there’s dimensional ascension, but generally speaking, dimensional ascension is used not as a civilization weapon but as a means of ascension."

Gao Gong glanced at Gao Yuanyuan and explained the key point:

"Actually, all non-ascended virtual civilizations should be called ’semi-virtual civilizations.’ The reason is simple: their hardware storage devices, whether biological or mechanical, are stored in the physical world. Destroying these devices, and no matter how real the ’Virtual Realm’ is, it will be destroyed."

"If that’s all, virtual civilizations wouldn’t be called the ’best at hide and seek’ civilization. In the past, well, as long as the hardware is still in the physical world, virtual civilizations are only virtually in form. True virtual civilizations would ascend all hardware through civilization ascension."

Gao Gong paused for a moment and then said something that left Gao Yuanyuan extremely shocked:

"After completing dimensional ascension, all attacks from the physical world, whether the most basic physical ammunition or energy bullets, even Black Holes or gravitational waves, cannot destroy a virtual civilization or kill any civilized individual."

"Because all your ’hardware storage devices’ are no longer in this world."

"The indestructible Carbon-Based Civilization, the endless Mechanical Civilization, the Infinite Energy Civilization, and the forever unseen Information Civilization — these are the descriptions from the Civilization Council regarding the ascended forms of the four major civilizations. In my understanding, they are fundamentally true."

Gao Yuanyuan was speechless with shock for a long time.

The semi-literate Little Woman couldn’t feel the shock and was instead very focused on the topic just discussed:

"So, where exactly is the dimensional ascension to? If Yuanyuan ascends in the future, could I still see her?"

Gao Gong thought for a while and decided to reveal some secrets that only leaders of ascended civilizations would know, as his younger sister would likely follow this path in the future.

"The location of the virtual hardware after dimensional ascension is the most core secret of a virtual civilization. In the ascension mode, the Power of Civilization can ’fine-tune’ the cosmos; this fine-tuning is ’dimensional ascension,’ not everyone ascending out of the cosmos and disappearing."

"For example, some virtual civilizations will place their virtual hardware on a small number after billions of digits in ’Pi’ through such ’cosmic fine-tuning’. As long as that number doesn’t change, the virtual is eternal."

"Alternatively, a virtual civilization might transform into a high-dimensional laser, residing forever in Schrodinger’s mode of ’existence’ or ’nonexistence.’ We generally call this a Schrodinger-style civilization."

"The above two belong to being deeply hidden, but are still within the range of cosmic constants. Personally, I recommend grafting the virtual hardware onto another cosmic timeline in such a way that if a civilization war occurs, the enemy civilization must first bypass the blockade of the Time Administration Bureau to attack you. And they wouldn’t dare escalate, as there are eyes of Level 9 Civilizations above. After all, timelines are forbidden zones for top-level civilizations. However, this kind of operation also carries great risk, akin to writing Little Yellow Literature, easy to be banned..."

Gao Gong looked up and found the three girls staring at him, shocked beyond shock. Realizing he might have said too much, he quickly coughed twice and said:

"These secrets were secretly told to me by the Purple Giant Star Hall. Just keep it to yourselves and don’t tell others."

Gao Yuanyuan nodded seriously, saying, "Brother, I will keep it a secret!"

"So, does this mean Ye could become rich? Does this count as mastering a weapon of an ascendant civilization?" Huang Yuanli asked.

Ye the Big Lolita was also a bit confused, knowing the move’s power was formidable, but could it indeed reach the level of ’destroying civilizations’?

"No, because so far, it’s just a phenomenon, not a weapon," Gao Gong paused and thoughtfully said:

"However, such a situation suggests two possibilities: one, a civilization war once occurred in this dimension, with a civilization using a ’dimensional ascension strike’ on the enemy."

"Another possibility is that a civilization ascended in this dimension, also opening up the ’dimensional ascension’ avenue."

"The former possibility is larger, because this dimension doesn’t appear to be complete, but rather a fragment of a dimension."

Gao Gong squinted his eyes; in the Energy Dimension, all ’sight’ is the manifestation of energy fluctuations. If you could see the end, it implies that its range is limited, whereas a complete, normal dimension should be infinite.

This signifies that it is just a fragment of a dimension, a dimension fragment destroyed by a ’civilization weapon.’

"So, you’re saying—" the Little Woman asked again, her eyes shining as if she had grasped Gao Gong’s thinking.

"Pure ’Apocalypse’ is just a Tier 4 means, but if we can deduce the technology behind ’Apocalypse,’ then we would have mastered a ’civilization-level weapon’!"

Gao Gong finally expressed his core view, and simultaneously brought up a task.

[Tier 3 Task: Dimensional Ascension Weapon]

Difficulty: Tier 3 - Hell

Task Brief: In a fragmented Energy Dimension, you accidentally discovered a kind of ’dimensional ascension phenomenon.’ So, is it possible to analyze this phenomenon into a ’civilization weapon’ prototype?

Task Objective: Develop a ’dimensional ascension weapon’

Task Reward: Experience +10 billion, Cosmic Treasure of choice *1, Leader Template Mission Fragment *3, 3rd Stellar Vortex Reputation +1 million

Note: Once you develop this thing, you’ll have it for life.

Somewhat unexpectedly, the system’s thinking coincided with Gao Gong’s.

If it were indeed developed, even a Level 3 Civilization would not dare provoke him again, considering that it’s still unclear if they have developed a ’civilization weapon.’"

"Right, I forgot to ask, what’s the name of this Energy Dimension?" Gao Gong suddenly remembered something and asked.

"After I became the ’Dimension Sovereign,’ I could vaguely hear its murmur. It calls itself ’Soul Mask,’" Ye the Big Lolita replied.