novelraw Chapter 555: Information
Chapter 555: Information
Chapter 555: Information
One day later.
Jie Ming stood before the newly completed altar and raised his hand to wipe away nonexistent sweat from his forehead.
Though called an altar, it looked more like a massive metal ring array.
Tens of thousands of rune nodes were densely embedded across the ground, with a fist-sized crystal core floating at the center, it was the external interface of the Fate Subsystem.
“It’s done.”
The group of sixth-ring logistics wizards behind him all breathed a sigh of relief.
They had barely slept for the past day and night, working at full intensity to keep up with Jie Ming’s pace. Fortunately, they had finally finished on time.
“Lord Jie Ming, can this altar truly allow everyone to share computational power?” the leading female wizard could not help but ask.
Jie Ming nodded. “Not only that, the computational power of all wizards within range will receive an amplification. How much you can draw depends on your own spiritual endurance limit.” He paused, then added, “However, don’t expect to become invincible with this. It’s only an auxiliary tool. The real fighting still depends on yourselves.”
Several wizards nodded.
In the distance, other wizards had already begun probing again.
Beams of light rose from within the red zones, passing through the fissure and entering the Information Plane.
This time, with the protection of the altar arrays, even if an invasion occurred, the connection could be severed at the first moment, greatly improving safety.
But Jie Ming did not move.
He simply stood there, staring at the fissure in the sky, his gaze deep and profound.
“Master, are we not sending anyone else?” the black giant priest beside him asked in a low voice.
“No need.”
Jie Ming shook his head. “The intelligence obtained from using you to probe is ultimately not complete enough.”
He took a deep breath and made up his mind.
“This time, I’ll go personally.”
The black giant priest was stunned, then showed a worried expression. “Master, this…”
“Relax.” Jie Ming waved his hand. “The Fate Subsystem can even withstand their invasions. Going in for a stroll won’t kill me.”
He said no more. His figure flashed and flew straight toward the fissure.
The fissure grew closer and closer.
Jie Ming could feel the plane barrier right in front of him.
Unlike the thick, obstructive feeling of other planes, the barrier of the Information Plane was thin like a layer of light curtain. It required almost no effort; a gentle touch was enough to pass through.
In the next instant, he plunged entirely into pure whiteness.
The sensation was difficult to describe.
It felt like falling into a boundless sea of light, with no up or down, no left or right, and even the sense of “self” being diluted. Soft white light surrounded him from all directions, enveloping his body.
Jie Ming hovered in the sea of light, closed his eyes to feel it for a few seconds, then opened them again.
“All-Purpose Eye.”
His pupils instantly turned a faint golden color, with countless fine runes flowing deep within.
Under normal circumstances, the All-Purpose Eye consumed enormous amounts of spiritual power and computational power. Even as a fifth-ring wizard, Jie Ming could not sustain it for long, and the detectable range was quite small.
But now…
Golden light flickered at his glabella as the Fate Subsystem operated at full power.
Vast amounts of computational power poured into the All-Purpose Eye, instantly diluting its originally terrifying consumption to a negligible level.
Jie Ming immediately felt his field of vision change.
What he saw was no longer a pure white sea of light, but countless tiny elemental particles.
Fire, wind, water, and earth—the four basic elements were distributed around him in an extremely uniform proportion.
They existed independently, interfering with one another not at all, suspended in a state of near-perfect equilibrium.
It was precisely this equilibrium that caused all wavelengths of light to overlap, forming pure whiteness.
“Interesting…”
Jie Ming murmured to himself, his gaze probing deeper.
Then he discovered the problem.
“No.”
He frowned.
If all elements were distributed in a uniform free-floating state, then where had “space” gone?
Space was formed by wind elements.
Under normal circumstances, wind elements would arrange themselves according to certain patterns to create a three-dimensional spatial structure.
But now, these wind elements were scattered completely uniformly, without forming any structure at all.
In other words…
“There is no space inside this plane?”
Jie Ming was startled by his own conclusion.
“Then what is the environment I’m in right now?!”
He immediately mobilized more computational power to deeply analyze the state of the surrounding elements.
A few minutes later, an even more shocking discovery emerged.
It was not just space.
There was no time either.
Time was formed by water elements, yet those water elements were also uniformly scattered, showing no signs of flow.
“No space, no time…”
Jie Ming fell into deep thought.
Then how did he perceive “position,” “distance,” and “movement” right now?
He closed his eyes and carefully sensed his own state.
Moments later, he opened his eyes, a flash of understanding in them.
“It’s my own information.”
The sense of space he felt was actually subconscious information inherent to his own soul.
He was accustomed to the thinking patterns of a three-dimensional world. When coming into contact with the surrounding elements, he automatically influenced the wind elements, causing them to temporarily construct a “space” structure to accommodate his perception.
Similarly, his sense of the passage of time was also temporarily constructed by water elements.
In other words…
In this plane, as long as there was information, anything could be achieved.
With a thought, Jie Ming attempted to construct the image of a stretch of land in his mind: brown soil, solid ground, and the distant sky.
The white light around him fluctuated violently.
Immediately afterward, land truly appeared beneath his feet.
The land materialized from nothing and rapidly extended outward in all directions.
Standing on it, Jie Ming could clearly feel the solid sensation under his soles and even smell the scent of earth.
But the land stopped extending after roughly a hundred kilometers.
At the edge, the white light and the land clashed fiercely, eventually reaching a stalemate.
Jie Ming knew this was the limit of his computational power and spiritual power.
Maintaining the existence of such a large stretch of land required continuous output of information.
This was the extent of what he could currently achieve.
With another thought, the land beneath his feet rapidly faded away, turning back into a pure white sea of light.
Jie Ming took a deep breath.
He finally understood the true nature of this plane.
“The reason those cannon fodder units took so long to encounter the enemy before wasn’t because the distance was great.”
“In this plane, distance has no meaning at all.”
What truly determined “near” and “far” was information.
The greater the information quantity, the easier it was for the natives to perceive it.
The more similar the information structure, the easier it was to “approach” them.
When those cannon fodder units first entered, the information they carried was too little to attract the natives’ attention at all.
Fortunately, the cannon fodder units maintained continuous connections with the wizards, equivalent to a constant influx of external information.
Only after existing within the plane for some time and continuously generating new information did they gradually “draw closer” to the natives.
“No wonder.”
Jie Ming recalled the natives’ behavior during their reverse invasions.
He had previously thought they had launched multiple attacks in a short time because of some scheme.
But now it seemed it was simply because the rate at which outsiders accumulated information was roughly the same.
Only when the information accumulated by the probing units reached a certain threshold would the natives capture the signal frequency and follow the connection over.
Having figured this out, the corners of Jie Ming’s mouth curved into a smile.
“So, if you want to move in this plane, there’s no need to bother flying at all.”
He closed his eyes and began actively adjusting the information on his body.
He recalled the various types of information he had come into contact with during the previous information battle, attempting to make his own information structure closer to that of the natives.
The white light around him began to distort.
A faint, intangible connection emerged deep in his consciousness.
Jie Ming opened his eyes and looked in a certain direction.
Something there was “approaching.”
He smiled.
“Found you.”