Chapter 1,470 Cooling and Solidification

I looked at the dark and deep space around me, and there were piles of doubts in my mind.

This is indeed inside the Gate of the Abyss, and it is the oldest Gate of the Abyss. The vague and unpleasant feeling in the surrounding environment also proves that I am not in the wrong place. However, this is the place I jumped in in my memory. The Gate of the Abyss is different: in memory, the interior of the Gate of the Abyss is a chaotic space between the perceptible and the imperceptible. All information is in an amorphous state, because the scenes seen through the naked eye are "imperceptible". Understand the information, so you will feel that the surroundings are extremely dark. In the Gate of the Abyss, the only "scenery" you can see is the chaotic "air masses" that occasionally surge out of the deep darkness, and even those air masses are They are not real matter or light and shadow, they are indescribable information storms. Your senses are exposed to this information, but cannot understand it, so they appear in the form of chaotic air masses to the naked eye - the above are all normal abyss. The view inside the door.

However, here, I did not feel the obvious aura of madness, nor did I feel the dizziness caused by being exposed to a large amount of "indescribable" information. There was only ordinary darkness and the feeling of being helpless. A little bit of discomfort. I looked around, but I didn't see the kind of chaotic "air mass" that is common in the Gate of the Abyss, nor did I see any other strange things. The most incredible thing is that the space here is very stable and the coordinates are in a perceptible state, which means that what you are in is just a normal hole with no light! This doesn't look like an abyssal environment at all!

Oh, yes, there is a little difference between this place and the normal space: there is that kind of weak abyss reaction all around. If any other ordinary people came in, they would probably go crazy in an instant.

"You feel something different," Father God floated slowly in front, and his voice rang in my mind, "The space here is solid. Apart from the atmosphere, there is almost no chaos and collapse here. Element."

"There should be a shared space behind all abyss gates." I adapted and found that it was much more convenient to move around here than inside a normal abyss gate. "The fallen apostle has taken advantage of this to do this once before. , they set out from their own territory, and then sneaked all the way into the empire in the abyss and then emerged..."

"I know this. You told me before," Father God nodded, "So you judge that there is a connected space 'underneath' all the abyss gates. We have also confirmed this situation through research, and between all abyss gates It is also true that the same discontinuous zone is observed in all the doors... It’s just that the situation is a little exception here, this is the place below the oldest abyss door.”

"It looks like a normal space," I looked up at the exit of the abyss. The silver halo left when the Crystal Lake opened can still be seen here, so there is no need to worry about getting lost in it. "Even the spatial coordinates here are stable."

"Not only are the spatial coordinates stable," Father God said, pointing into the distance, "The Earth."

Then I saw a flash of light suddenly erupting in the direction of Father God’s finger, and then large stretches of endless mountains and dangerous rivers began to emerge out of thin air following the trajectory of the flash. This spectacle lasted for several seconds, almost as long as I breathed. The vast continent appeared in front of me. However, not long after, the continent began to disintegrate and split, just six or seven minutes later. It was shrouded in all kinds of earth-shattering disasters, and then bit by bit swallowed up by the surrounding darkness.

"Although it will be destroyed quickly, it is indeed possible to use Genesis here," Father God explained, "This means that despite the harsh surrounding environment, it still supports the existence of the most basic order and even allows mortal matter to survive here. For a moment and a half. You also know that the normal abyss environment is a 'vacuum zone of order'. Anything that has order but does not have resistance will be deprived of the very foundation of its existence in an instant. Then it will collapse in the blink of an eye... ...But the land just now was created without any protection. Being able to be born means that the most basic order exists here."

"What on earth is going on?" I knew nothing about these sophisticated professional knowledge, but I could understand what Father God was saying about something sensational: the Gate of the Abyss actually allowed an orderly entity to appear from scratch. s things. This is absolutely against the nature of the abyss.

"I don't know either," Father God shrugged indifferently, "and there are many strange things. We also conducted a deep dive here, and then went down all the way to look for discontinuous zones. Guess what we found? "

I looked at Father God’s half-smiling look and made a bold guess: “The wrench that fell when you were building a house?”

Father God: "...I appreciate your optimism, but can we be more serious?"

I spread my hands and said, "Aren't you making things difficult for me? I don't know what you will find down here."

"The core of the deep dive - that is, the deep dive ship made by the Gods - moved all the way to the place where the discontinuity zone should appear, but found nothing." Father God looked down at the endless darkness below, as if to see Where the deep-diving ship arrived that day, "then we let the equipment continue to dive, and the result...in the end, the deep-diving core hit the end of the space, and then emerged from near the door of the abyss."

I was stunned for a moment before I realized: "You mean this is not only a space, but also a closed one?"

"After reaching the boundary of space, it will return to the starting point, which means that the space is closed and continuous. We then tested it many times and the return path was exactly the same each time, proving that not only is this place closed and continuous, but it also has a stable structure. However, because it is still It is the abyss environment that makes it impossible to draw the spatial structure here with ordinary methods." Father God sat down cross-legged in mid-air, and his calm and unhurried voice echoed in my mind, "So the children used some Indirect methods, such as continuously placing detectors in all directions, have roughly clarified the structure here, and confirmed that this is a huge cavity similar to a long and narrow cave. The cave is symmetrical everywhere, extending from one point to infinity. You will encounter Go to the edge of the closed space, and then return to the starting point exactly...just like the second type of closed order universe."

"Is this still an abyss?" Like Father God, I sat down cross-legged in mid-air, my face full of confusion.

"Of course it's the abyss," Father God chuckled, "Look at the environment here. If you bring equipment, you can also test the various constants here. You will find that chaos and inconsistency are still the main themes of this place, but other than that Outside. It’s structurally solidified.”

I noticed that the other party mentioned a word: solidification.

Chaos is solidified, change is solidified, destruction and chaos are solidified, no matter what they are, when they solidify, they will no longer conform to the consistent properties of the abyss, because the abyss is ultimately a thing that promotes "change". To push all things to destruction. It does not allow anything to stay in its current state. It will continuously push everything that can be infected to destruction until the target is not even ashes left. This is the nature of the abyss.

But what if the abyss itself solidifies?

"Do you have any guesses?" Father God suddenly looked up at me, "The children tried to use theoretical research to explain this phenomenon, but they encountered a lot of trouble. Maybe our intuition will be closer to the truth than their theory .”

"The talent of void creatures," I scratched my chin, "but for a while I really can't think of anything to explain it... According to this, this abyss gate is independent from other abyss gates. It is a space with basic order, boundaries, symmetry, closure, and indirect measurability. There are no fixed constants, and there is no discontinuous zone phenomenon... Let me think about it."

Father God smiled and waited patiently for me to get a clue. I pondered for a long time, thinking about how to stimulate my "intuition". Then I patted my head: If intuition can be actively stimulated, Is that still a passive effect?

Not everyone is like Tavel. Even schizophrenia can be practiced as an active skill...

So I stopped fussing with my few brain cells and directly said a word that I had vaguely thought of: "I feel like this place is like a ruin. Or something burned out... Anyway, it was once very active. Now. Something to cool down.”

"I feel this way too. We both have the same intuition. Then it seems that the truth is almost the same," Father God smiled. "I said, this is like a 'solidified' place. If we regard a normal active abyss as It's magma that flows endlessly, so this place is a bit like a cooled magma rock. Chaos solidifies into order, and the first thing to be ordered is space. If this is really the case, then this place may not be completely 'cooled' yet. Over time, As time goes by, it should continue to 'solidify' until the chaotic tendency here completely disappears and turns into a mediocre initial space. However, this may take quite a long time, and I may not have the patience to follow up and observe. .”

I suddenly remembered a question that I wanted to ask before but had no chance to ask: "Speaking of which, this Gate of the Abyss has been in the God Realm for so many years. Is this the first time you know what's inside? Have you never come down before?"

"I came down a long, long time ago," Father God replied. He could even say the words "a long time ago". Those years must have been insanely long. "I remember that time when the world of gods was just beginning. It hasn’t been established for too long, and I only know a little about the Gate of the Abyss. I came down there once at that time.”

"Didn't you notice that the environment here was weird at that time?"

"Do you think I always look for the gate of the abyss and jump down when I have nothing to do?" Father God gave me a strange look. "After I came down, I felt that it was too dark in here and the feeling was not good, so I didn’t stay here for long. Although I have seen other forms of abyss gates since then, I never thought about it too much. You know, void creatures are a race full of inertia. Void creatures will not take the initiative to cause trouble unless necessary. Things - How could I have the time to analyze the properties of each abyss gate one by one. After that, I created the Protoss, but the main goal of the Protoss was to destroy the abyss. The children had also conducted several deep diving activities to inspect the gates. What is there exactly below, but they found that it would not help to completely eliminate the abyss, so they did not go deeper... As my derivative power, the Gods also partially inherited the inert side of the void creatures. This should be regarded as the only one among the stars of the stars. It’s a shortcoming. If I hadn’t heard about the discontinuous belt from you not long ago, I really wouldn’t have noticed this door here again: I almost forgot about it.”

I quite agree with what Father God said, especially the part about laziness: "Indeed, procrastination alone is almost everyone's late stage. But why is the Xiling Apostle under my name so stubborn? After extensive research, we discovered the discontinuity zone earlier than you did?"

Father God looked at me with an even weirder expression: "...You did not create the Xiling Apostles, and they are not lazy - have you forgotten that this empire of yours was actually picked up?"

I slapped my forehead: "Yeah, that's right. I've been an emperor for so long that I almost forgot about it."

Father God and I stayed in this dark and empty space for a while to understand more of the weird nature of this place. This space is said to be a closed space, but strictly speaking, it is actually semi-closed. The Gate of the Abyss is a passage between reality and reality. When the reflection of the lake surface in the crystal lake fades, a hole opens in this space. However, because a two-dimensional plane like the Gate of the Abyss does not follow normal spatial laws, this The opening does not affect the closedness of the space itself: if you do not master special skills or possess special powers, things that fall into this space will still never be able to escape.

"How do you think this space was formed?" I knew Father God definitely didn't bring me here to show off that he just discovered that he had an extra-large basement. He must have discovered something else, so I asked curiously.

"I have a guess," Father God nodded. "The Abyss of Inertia... I wonder how much you know about this concept?"

I didn't expect that Father God would mention this word, and I was a little stunned. Then I nodded vigorously: "I know, I know, of course I know this - I have a group of scientists over there who are studying this, and I don't have a clue yet."

Father God nodded and spoke unhurriedly: "The Inert Abyss is also a type of normal abyss. It is also destructive and can cause the collapse of the world and various disasters. However, the Inert Abyss is less contagious and can usually only be infected once. , there will be no secondary jump. The inert abyss is easier to suppress or even reverse than the active abyss. The transformation speed of individuals infected by the inert abyss is extremely slow. These are the rules we have summarized, and they should be similar to what you have summarized. "

I nodded: "Yes. We have been studying this for a long time. You also know that Sandora was infected by the abyss once before, but she later recovered completely on her own ability. This is very unusual. So some scientists over there speculated that what Shandora encountered was the Inert Abyss. The dividing line between the Inert Abyss and the ordinary abyss is quite blurry, and 'infectiousness' is still an unquantifiable indicator, so Shandora's incident There has never been a conclusion.”

"Anyway, the Abyss of Inertia is a real concept," Father God looked at the darkness around him. "If it develops to the extreme, will it be such a gate to the abyss?"

I was stunned, I really hadn’t thought about this just now!

However, this statement seems to make some sense at first. But I always felt that something was not quite right, so I thought for a long time before hesitatingly said: "The Lazy Abyss does look a bit more 'docile', but this one in your basement... looks too weird, right? It's It can no longer be described as docile.”

"So I said 'development to the extreme,'" Father God spread his hands and pointed around. "This unusual place is slightly similar to the Inert Abyss: safe, gentle, and tends to be stable. It's just that the Inert Abyss is only infectious. has been reduced, but the destructive power is still the same, and the abyss phenomenon in this space is deeper in terms of 'inertia'. In the past, we have always regarded the abyss as an eternal thing, and believed that all abyss gates will not naturally degrade. But now you also know that the abyss actually changes from time to time. Since it changes overall, why doesn't it change locally? The inert abyss may be an intermediate state, and some abyss gates are created for unknown reasons. Degradation, destructiveness and infectivity decrease, which creates an inert abyss. If it continues to develop like this, it may be the abyss gate at the base of the divine world. If a normal abyss is regarded as magma, this is probably A cooling and solidification process.”

Father God's conjecture is very interesting: the normal abyss will suddenly become stable for unknown reasons (Father God calls this 'downgrade'), and then an inert abyss will appear. Sandora's encounter was suspected to be like this. Plant something, and then the inert abyss continues to degrade, cool, and solidify, and disorder tends to order, forming the door of the inert abyss. This process continues to develop and deepen, and it becomes the basement of God the Father’s house. The whole process sounds fantastic. , unbelievable - anyway, it quite challenges my three views.

"Theoretically, there will be no 'downgrade' phenomenon in the abyss," Father God also admitted this. "But now there is indeed a downgraded abyss, so we should not worry about whether it is logical or not, but should admit this fact. , and on this basis, we need to find out the reasons for it. I have an intuition that if the connection between the Inert Abyss and this weird place we are staying in can be explained, we may be able to reveal the secret of the evolution of the abyss and further explore it. Understand what the 'discontinuity zone' is."

"Then have you figured out how the Abyss of Inertia came about?" I raised my head and glanced at Father God.

The other party shook his head in disbelief: "How can it not be possible? This project has just started. I was thinking that if you are free, you can also mobilize your own scholars to help with research. We can set up a joint project to explore the Inert Abyss and the Divine Realm together. As for the basic connection, the samples are here anyway, you can just send people over to study them, I will take care of the food and accommodation..."

"Let's get over this busy period first. The research center is very busy just with the deep dive plan." I nodded cheerfully, but at this moment, an emergency message suddenly broke into my mind:

"Arjun is me, Sandora, there is news about the fallen apostle!" (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile phone users please Read at m.)