Chapter 904: High-dimensional Life

The Manifold Race have existed for a very, very long time, but each individual's time is different, and their method of recording years is quite strange.

In high-dimensional space-time, normal methods of recording years are completely unusable, because even a single Mane separation can cause huge differences in the flow of time. Here, it's normal to travel out and return home to find your grandchild's grandchild has been born. Therefore, the concept of 'absolute space-time' does not exist here.

All Manifold Race are clearly aware of this, knowing that even a slight movement of their body can lead to huge differences. If they casually Transmigration through low-energy areas, it can even cause things like 'a thousand years in a glance' to happen, so conventional timekeeping methods are meaningless.

Thus, the simplest 'generational method' was born, counting how many generations they have propagated. Because the Manifold Race's propagation speed is constant, this allows them to distinguish how much time each has experienced.

This is actually quite mysterious, because due to time, some Manifold Race have experienced millions of generations, while others are still in their First Grade. That is to say, some have already stepped into or even Transmigration through the 'low-energy vacuum region', while others have always remained in their true Mexican hat, not having taken a single step.

La Qi's current time is called 'Amo Four Thousand One Hundred and Twenty-First Generation', meaning that from an ancestor named 'Amo', they have propagated for four thousand one hundred and twenty-one generations.

Currently, La Qi is conducting his research, having discovered a mysterious location.

Countless light points randomly connected and woven into a cylinder, linking different dimensions and different times.

Each light point pulsates randomly at its own rhythm; this is actually a manifestation of 'randomness', just as particle clouds randomly fill space. It is the same here.

Connections break under observation, and new light points are constantly born.

However, among these infinitely generated light points, the current surrounding space-time map displayed is in a peculiar state.

Within the light points, there is a 'shadow', and the space-time map around the shadow is 'frozen'.

Because it is a projection of space-time, time should have spatial attributes connected along a certain axis. Therefore, that map, which is the surrounding light points, should not be frozen motionless. It should pulse continuously, transforming constantly, without stopping, like an unfolding image.

Light points synchronize and meet, repeating the process of generation and annihilation. This is a manifestation of wave-particle duality.

It is also a graph projected in the most fitting way, depicting the situation of multiple time entities competing for spheres of influence.

But now, it has 'stopped' here.

The shadow has formed an unmoving 'absolute zero' region here, which can almost be seen as tangible 'solid'. Manifold Race can originally only move in the direction of 'high energy'—because it's easier this way—and cannot move perpendicular to the direction of 'low energy'—because it's too tiring.

Only a few Manifold Race with extremely high technological levels have developed techniques that can Transmigration through 'low-energy vacuum regions'. It is said that some powerful Manifold Race can already Breakthrough low-energy regions by pure 'brute force' without relying on technology, but La Qi has only heard of it and never seen it.

But La Qi felt that even so, they would not be able to Transmigration this shadow.

This is why 'La Qi' is here.

La Qi is a scholar, and he believes that within this shadow, valuable research results can be found.

After all, this is an energy level vacuum, almost a super low-energy area approaching 'nothingness'.

It's truly curious, what kind of situation could possibly form this level of vacuum, and without being eroded by high-energy regions?

It is well known that high-energy regions will natural-ly 'cover' low-energy regions.

This is a natural Law; all low-energy vacuums will eventually be eroded by high-energy regions, and everything will develop towards becoming increasingly complex and hotter.

This is an ironclad rule. Scholars even took this opportunity to think about the future outcome, which is 'extreme complexity'. All Manifold Race will be filled with powerful high-energy regions, eventually unable to bear it and losing consciousness.

This is the predetermined end.

It is well known that the essence of life is the 'flow' formed in the interwoven zone of high-energy and low-energy regions, which is also why the Manifold Race were born.

Because life requires flow, and flow requires an energy level difference. A world with an average energy level cannot produce change, and naturally cannot give birth to life. Therefore, both low-energy and high-energy regions are indispensable; this is essential for the Manifold Race to maintain negative entropy.

Then, this 'shadow', which seems impossible to fill and always remains at a low energy level, might be the solution to the predetermined end of all things.

The unknown possibilities behind this made La Qi ecstatic, so much so that he stayed here for an unknown amount of time.

But the life of the Manifold Race is limited after all; although the changes in the Mane are infinite, the limit of the topological convergence sequence in space determines their lifespan.

Time can be approximately regarded as a continuum, and so can space. Therefore, intuitively, the process of spatial points changing with time is continuous, and as long as there are always points within its domain sufficiently close to it, the existence of the limit is equal to the value at that point.

When they reach the 'limit', they will die due to 'loss of change'.

The existence of life lies in change; zero possibility means Death. Even the Demon of Death believes this, which indicates that the rules of life and Death are sufficient to weigh First Grade. Therefore, even these high-dimensional Mane beings cannot escape this point.

This kind of life and Death cannot be measured by 'lifespan' in the usual sense, and their survival time is therefore very strange, which is also their special characteristic.

La Qi worked tirelessly until another Manifold Race touched him.

The Manifold Race have no vision, but they rely on touch to detect the surrounding energy levels, determine the situation around them, and also use it for communication.

Another Manifold Race entwined with La Qi.

The two then 'entangled' together.

They began high-dimensional Mane transformations, much like the folding process of proteins. This process requires Laplacian eigenmapping to elucidate, but for the Manifold Race, it is merely instinct.

Their bodies folded and changed, every tangent space adhering to each other.

A Mane is approximately considered a curved space; at every point in this space, the local area can be approximated as a flat 'small patch', and on this flat small patch, a vector space can be defined, which is a 'tangent space'.

Furthermore, if one knows each small local patch, one can piece together the global Mane. In other words, they 'knew each other's thoughts'.

This is the most convenient point. Moreover, if one doesn't need to know every tangent space, then one only needs to touch a part, such as 1% of the tangent space, to achieve a 1% level of communication.

This is all because each group has a corresponding algebra. An algebra is a vector space obtained by taking the derivative of a group transformation in a specified direction in space and at the identity transformation.

It's a wonderful ecology. Through this, they can both Fuse and cut off, and their own bodies can undergo any degree of folding, expressing almost infinite 'meanings'.

That is to say, their language system is inherently extremely developed. According to different 'dialects', or 'algorithms', information measured in TBs can be transmitted every second, and some Cultivate-rs can even increase it to the PB level.

This is quite normal. A protein folds itself, then undergoes transcription and translation, easily expressing all of life's genetic material. The specific spatial structure formed by special shape folding is the basis for its biological function, and a protein is merely an approximate three-dimensional Mane.

As high-dimensional Mane, the Manifold Race's bodies can fold in directions and complexities that proteins cannot compare to, so the amount of information transmitted is naturally terrifyingly large.

In Li Qi's view, their Cultivation was only First Grade, and they hadn't Cultivate-d much, relying solely on their innate talent as special beings. But it was already enough to handle an information load that would make ordinary First Grade explode.

This also led to their extremely vast knowledge system. Every Manifold Race could learn everything others knew in the fastest way.

Of course, whether they could understand it was another matter. Memory does not imply comprehension; writing down a lot of things without understanding them is useless.

This entanglement quickly ended. La Qi and this suddenly arrived Manifold Race had completed most of their conversation; they had transmitted a large amount of information. The rest was just some minor 'communication'.

It was probably like, the file has been sent, now just chat a bit.

To chat a bit, only a partial overlap of Mane was needed. They separated like this, then a small section of their bodies touched.

La Qi 'said' thus: "I have received it. This is very valuable."

Actually, this wasn't 'speaking', but 'folding' out this information, folding their high-dimensional bodies, and then being able to express information.

"That's good. I have also received your research on these shadows, but... progress doesn't seem to be going very smoothly," the other party replied.

"Yes, this thing is very abstruse. Next, I plan to delve into it," La Qi said.

"Delve into it? This is an energy level vacuum. If you enter it, you will die. Your complexity will be flattened by the energy level vacuum, eventually turning into a low-dimensional network," the Manifold Race member questioned.

"I am prepared. If my time will only be wasted in mediocrity, then it's better to delve directly into it. The truth of the Universe has limits, which means... the Manifold Race who can leave their names are also limited," La Qi said firmly.

This is the pursuit of Manifold Race scholars.

Every time a 'theorem' is discovered, that theorem will be named after its discoverer.

Then, the truths of the Universe are finite, and the names inscribed are also finite. And because of the Manifold Race's communication method, they use specific waveforms to record these specific nouns.

That is to say, their names have become part of high-dimensional space.

This honor is La Qi's pursuit.

"Alright, then I'll leave. My descendants will come here again after three generations. The time flow rate here has some issues. This is our last meeting," the Manifold Race member said.

"Goodbye," La Qi greeted, and then the other party left.

The other party directly disappeared from the spot.

Of course, in La Qi's eyes, this was not a disappearance, but the other party folding himself through another dimension. They stopped interacting; he had already gone far away.

The Manifold Race almost exclusively rely on touch. They depend entirely on touch for everything, perceiving vibrations similar to sound, or directly touching something. Therefore, when a Manifold Race member converges their body, folding away some of their dimensions, they can leap to another level that other Manifold Race cannot perceive.

This is difficult to understand, but it is their accustomed ecology.

Ordinary beings live in three-dimensional space and cannot easily change it. But suppose, if a person's body could deform, and he eliminated his 'thickness', becoming two-dimensional, then three-dimensional beings would not be able to observe him.

Similarly, when you fold away a certain dimension of your body, you no longer exist in that dimension.

And the Manifold Race are naturally capable of folding themselves. As high-dimensional Mane, they can not only fold away their own dimensions, but can even curl themselves up into a 'point', making their interior a complete self-loop Calabi-Yau space, so that no one can see them except themselves.

This is their special form, even among all the special races Li Qi has seen, it is considered unique.

Just after La Qi bid farewell to his companion, he took a deep breath, then delved into the 'shadow'.

That was a super low-dimensional shadow.

It was an energy level vacuum.

It was the Death land of the Manifold Race.

But as long as he delved into it, he might find a way to solve the end of the Universe, a way to solve the infinite spread of high-energy regions.

However, just as La Qi delved into it—

He suddenly heard a voice: "Hello, La Qi."

The Manifold Race can perceive 'vibrations', after all, the essence of hearing is also touch.

La Qi wanted to respond to the other party.

But he found that he didn't know how to respond to this voice.

He couldn't grasp the other party, so naturally, he couldn't send messages to them.

However, at this moment, something touched La Qi.

Is the other party speaking?

La Qi immediately felt the other party's 'folding', hoping to perceive their language.

These protrusions... they are three-dimensional, with five distinct bumps, different to the touch, but they are not folded.

How strange, it reads as garbled.

This is not the language of the Manifold Race.

Also, what's going on...

So much pain!

The amount of information is so vast!