Chapter 7: Universal Information
Chapter 7: Universal Information
After perfectly disguising the dog’s corpse, he put it back in the doghouse and waited for others to discover it after they returned home.
Bai Ge believed that as long as a forensic pathologist did not examine it, the true cause of death could not be found.
In his Brain Hole World, he was the Absolute Sovereign, and he forcibly disguised the dog’s corpse by reshaping its muscles and fur to make it appear as if it had died suddenly.
Related to the stone in the esophagus, most people would not investigate deeply.
The reason a forensic pathologist might uncover it was that Bai Ge was not a medical professional, and he lacked confidence in perfectly disguising it as a choking death.
The Natural Laws in the Brain Hole World partly stemmed from his knowledge and partly from pure imagination.
Here, if he said the dog’s physiological structure was this way, it was that way.
But the Reality world would not indulge him.
On Bai Ge, fantasy and Reality were connected, but the products of fantasy were not acknowledged by Reality.
This point, Bai Ge had already figured out.
Scientific principles and Natural Laws were not universal.
One was his fantasy, and the other was the objective facts of Reality.
Nevertheless, something universal still existed.
That was art, or perhaps including philosophy.
Philosophy was invisible and untouchable, and Bai Ge could consider it meaningless, so only art remained.
Beautiful things were the same everywhere; beauty depended on the beholder.
For example, music, paintings, sculptures, etc…
These things could not become ugly in Reality.
For the entire Brain Hole World, Bai Ge did not necessarily need to set every detail.
Most of the time, he only needed to set a rough outline, and the Brain Hole itself would fill in the details.
It was largely constructed spontaneously based on Bai Ge’s subconscious.
For instance, the nearly destroyed cultivation planet was a pure fantasy and unrealistic, yet if Bai Ge perceived it as real, it was real.
However, the civilization on this planet was a real civilization, containing a vast amount of Information in countless details.
Bai Ge had not idly set these details himself.
Initially, they were filled in automatically, with the fantasy originating from Information in Bai Ge’s memory, like various novels or news.
Additionally, some details “evolved” based on Bai Ge’s subconscious logic; this evolution was something even Bai Ge’s subjective thoughts could not achieve.
“The world’s many magnificent and splendid sights, even if viewed by someone from Reality, would be breathtakingly beautiful.”
“Could I possibly make money by filming movies? Recording the real life here and profiting from it…”
“Well, theoretically it’s feasible, but earning money isn’t that simple.”
The reason was simple: Bai Ge did not believe that Reality would be like the novels described—posting videos online, communicating via the internet, accepting payment under a fake name without attracting any greed or trouble.
Once he profited, how could he explain the origin of the characters in the videos?
If he truly never showed his face or revealed real data, and the videos were stunningly beautiful, how could he safely collect money? He did not know hacking skills to avoid detection.
Money was not so easy to obtain.
Bai Ge was an adult, and he disliked harboring excessive illusions of luck.
“Art…haha, am I really going to become a real-world matter processor?”
Bai Ge left the villa, first going to a noodle shop outside for a meal, where he ate three bowls in a row.
“I didn’t expect that altering real-world matter…would require consuming Energy.”
Consuming Energy was something Bai Ge discovered while modifying the Vicious Dog corpse.
His stomach became extremely hungry after finishing with the corpse, and his body felt weak.
This situation was abnormal because it occurred right after manipulating the Vicious Dog corpse, and there was no reason for such sudden hunger.
“Humans replenish their body’s Energy through eating, so using this ability consumes my internal Energy?”
“No, I used it so frequently before without issue. Probably, only when affecting real-world matter does this feeling occur…”
It was clear that purely controlling the Brain Hole World was cost-free; Bai Ge could toy with it as he pleased.
But real-world matter was different—using the power of the Brain Hole World to influence it out of nothing had a cost.
“What a headache… in that case, what super factory was I thinking about? If I spend all day eating frantically, how much modification can I sustain?”
“Forget it, I won’t think about it now! I’ll first go get the final payment from Mr. Chen.”
…
At ten o’clock at night, Bai Ge finally returned to his own home.
Besides getting a rabies vaccine.
He also handed the item to Mr. Chen’s people, received ten thousand yuan in final payment, plus the generous ten thousand yuan deposit he had gotten earlier.
In just half a day, Bai Ge completed one job and earned twenty thousand yuan.
Of course, Bai Ge was not stupid—if this matter were exposed, Mr. Chen had ways to extricate himself, but Bai Ge would be in trouble.
Having once studied criminal investigation, Bai Ge dared not underestimate the police.
So he could not leave that item in others’ homes for long, or else it would be discovered eventually.
When that time came, he would have to go back to retrieve it.
“Annoying! One million yuan—I don’t even know how long I’ll live, so how do I earn that money?”
Resting in bed, Bai Ge could not sleep; tossing and turning, he still could not resist studying his so-called super ability.
“There are no trash abilities, only trash users—I’ve read countless books that say this… sigh, hopefully it’s true.”
He immersed his mind into the Brain Hole World; this time, it was just his consciousness roaming, with his body still lying obediently in bed, so time could be asynchronous.
After wandering for about two days in the Brain Hole World’s time equivalent, Bai Ge decided to do something.
“Create an entity with authority second only to mine to help me manage this place…”
The reason he thought this was because Bai Ge realized that he was actually not as powerful as his own subconscious.
He had visited hundreds of Universes, and his biggest takeaway was reality!
The details were too abundant; even with extremely bizarre fantastical worldviews, those Universes operated plausibly, as if they were real…
And these were generated spontaneously by the Universe based on his subconscious.
However, if he stayed too long in the Brain Hole World, his subjective consciousness would easily break the rules and disrupt the existing harmony.
The reason was simple: Human thinking was hard to forcibly “not think” or consistently maintain one fantasy over time.
Sometimes, the more Bai Ge tried not to think, the more he thought.
His thinking was fine, but the world was unlucky…
Especially those imagined settings; he might have thought one way a few minutes ago, but getting lost in thought, it drifted… and the “objective setting” changed.
For example, he initially thought Tribulation Transcendence should only have nine levels—after nine Thunder Tribulations struck, if one survived, they achieved Ascension to Immortality.
But for some inexplicable reason… as he wandered around, he suddenly thought: what about ninety-nine levels?
Therefore, it became Truth that Tribulation Transcendence had ninety-nine levels…
He could not avoid it, causing the rules of the Universe to shift chaotically at will.
Of course, he could change it back afterward.
But in this way, Bai Ge increasingly felt that this Brain Hole World was becoming meaningless to him.
“Well, set a number two dominator in the Brain Hole World, without any emotions, just a tool, obedient to me.”
“It also possesses the authority to set everything, responsible for maintaining the rules of the existing Multiverse, like the Great Dao… except me, no one can interfere with this. Moreover, when I interfere with settings, it will automatically intercept me, and only after my reconfirmation will it be implemented.”
“However, I have the authority to revoke its authority; this setting overrides all others.”
“On this basis, add one thing: its power of ‘confirmation reminder’ overrides my ‘whimsical thoughts’.”
Although Bai Ge solemnly set these rules, he knew that if he genuinely wanted to, he could dismiss them as nonsense…
But this was actually just a suppression of his own idle thoughts; as long as, when he made settings later, the “urgency” did not exceed that of the rules set now, those idle thoughts would truly be intercepted by the Number Two Dominator and not realized immediately.
For two conflicting settings, it depended on which Bai Ge took more seriously.
Clearly, the thought of creating this tool now was far more serious and earnest than his later wandering thoughts.
“You shall be named… Ling Dang.”
“I have bestowed upon you the characteristics of the Great Dao; you should have absolute computational power and logical deduction. Come on… I’ll find a problem for you to solve.”
Bai Ge needed to determine what could be universal; art was known to be universal, so surely others existed.
For example, logic.
Bai Ge turned on his computer and found a mathematics problem online that he couldn’t solve.
Mathematical logic is the foundation of all scientific laws; if this wasn’t universal, then technologies shouldn’t even be considered…
Taking the light-speed flight technology from the Brain Hole World out would probably be nonsense in Reality… utterly useless!
But Bai Ge wasn’t willing to give up without trying.
“Here, this is an advanced mathematics problem; I can’t do it. If you can, then…” Before Bai Ge could finish speaking, Ling Dang answered him as he brought in a paper filled with mathematical symbols.
“No, I can’t.”
“…”
Bai Ge laughed bitterly and persisted unwillingly, “You are the Great Dao! You know nothing at all?”
“I can provide a self-consistent answer… relative to part of the universe settings…” Ling Dang replied.
“What use is that self-deceiving answer to me!” Bai Ge knew what she meant and was torn between crying and laughing.
But then he reconsidered and asked, “Wait… can you deduce the answer based on the basic settings of the universe?”
Ling Dang said, “I know all the rules and laws of the Brain Hole World, so I can provide a relatively correct answer.”
Bai Ge’s eyes lit up as he said, “Then if you knew part of the laws of Reality?”
“If it involves laws that can solve this problem, then yes, I can,” Ling Dang responded.
Bai Ge smiled, and his consciousness returned to Reality.
He began downloading a large amount of basic knowledge online, skipping Baidu Baike and specifically selecting more authoritative materials.
Although the laws Humans had summarized might not always apply or could even be wrong, they could at least solve all problems Humans had ever resolved so far.
And if Ling Dang recorded all the laws known to Humans, it would mean that whatever problems Humans could solve, Ling Dang could solve.
“So that’s it; this is the correct way to use it!”
Bai Ge stopped sleeping and searched for authoritative materials online, without much categorization.
As long as it wasn’t posted online by some fool who half-understood and spread things haphazardly… which was why he didn’t choose Baidu Baike.
“How troublesome…”
Several hours later, Bai Ge’s eyes grew tired looking at webpage after webpage.
He realized for the first time that searching for knowledge online was such a tiring task. He had always thought he could search online for anything he didn’t know, but actually finding sufficiently authoritative, detailed, and in-depth materials was as difficult as ascending to heaven.
After five hours, he finally filled his mobile hard drive, but he knew this was just a drop in the ocean of Human knowledge—in fact, not even that much.
He temporarily stopped searching, brought the hard drive into the Brain Hole, and knew that the task was long and arduous…
Doing it alone was a massive project…
“The answer has been solved, relative to the mathematical laws you provided…”
Without even looking, Bai Ge remembered the answer instantly after Ling Dang finished speaking.
This ultra-fast memory made him pause and realize something once more.
“Do I have super memory now?”
Regarding this, Ling Dang replied proactively, “I am the one who remembers it all, but you are the Absolute Sovereign here; what I know equals what you know.”
In truth, Bai Ge had realized this even before Ling Dang finished her sentence.
“I see… the second universal thing is learning… no, to be precise, it should be Information!”
“No, no, the Information of the Brain Hole World isn’t universal in Reality; Information… is only unidirectionally universal… from high to low…”
“All my ideologies come from the reality society, and all my settings here are based on that.”
“Sigh, if only there could be reverse universality… if fantastical settings could be acknowledged by Reality. If I could achieve that, I would then be like a ‘Setting Weaver’ of Reality, the ‘Absolute Sovereign of objective definitions’.”
Bai Ge shook his head, thinking this impossible.
If that happened, wouldn’t he be invincible?
“What am I thinking? I’m about to freaking lose my Life…”
At this, Ling Dang again said proactively, “Do you need to confirm it?”
“Confirm? You mean… the brain cancer?” Bai Ge paused.
Ling Dang said, “In fact, if you think it over, you’ll realize. You are only smarter than me; what I can realize, you can too. I just have no limit on simultaneous thoughts.”
Bai Ge lowered his head in thought and quickly understood.
“Can I… alter myself? Even if just in appearance?”
“Yes, you only need to expend a bit of Energy to introspect and see clearly if there’s a brain tumor or not,” Ling Dang responded.
Bai Ge hurriedly pulled his body in, focused his mind, and indeed saw his brain directly.
The rule that couldn’t affect real Life didn’t apply to himself… this was actually obvious, or he couldn’t have freely used Teleportation to affect his own body from the start.
Viewing the situation inside his cranial brain, Bai Ge found… where was the shadow?
It was a normal, healthy brain!
No tumor, not even any strange brain tissue; that shadow from before now appeared nonexistent.
“Did the MRI go wrong?” Bai Ge was pleased; he didn’t have a terminal illness after all!
“But that day, I did suddenly faint inexplicably, and then I… had a lucid dream! Which means I came here!”
“I got it! That was when I opened the Brain Hole…”
Then Bai grew puzzled again.
“Why? For no reason?”
Ling Dang said proactively, “I must tell you something I know that you don’t.”
Next, Bai Ge found out; he instantly shared the related Information.
“What? What is this thing?”