[∞ represents "Self-devourer," meaning endless or infinite. It carries different concepts in theology, philosophy, mathematics, and daily life, but most accepted meanings are "infinitely large" and "cyclical."]
[The Mobius Ring is often considered the creative source of "∞." If one stands on a gigantic Mobius loop and walks along the "Lu" he can see—]
[—he would never stop.]
Central control room of the Dawn System.
After Su Ming’an left, a row of blood-red words gradually emerged in the white data space.
[Dawn System records as follows:]
[Twenty days have passed. The "Kaius Tower" simulation was successful this time.]
[One Dimensions, Two Dimensions, Three Dimensions have jointly completed the "Kaius Tower" simulation, providing data measurement for "New Three Dimensions" and "New One Dimensions."]
[Currently, "One Dimensions, Two Dimensions, Three Dimensions" can be considered as a "New Two Dimensions," together with "New One Dimensions" and "New Three Dimensions," corresponding to a total of 3*3=9 dimensions.]
[However, whether above the box, there are other boxes, that is to say, whether there exists "New New One Dimensions," "New New Two Dimensions," "New New Three Dimensions," whether 9*3=27 dimensions exist, we remain skeptical.]
[If this speculation continues, whether 27*3=81 dimensions exist, 81*3=243 dimensions, even 729 dimensions, 2187 dimensions... remain beyond our detection.]
[Human beings think they are in the universe, but how come they can’t be outside the universe? If the inside of the "bag" is turned to the outside, and the outside folds back inside, tied into the bag, how could one not say the entire world, including oneself, is in the "bag" on one’s hand?]
[Self-devourer has no limits.]
[The unknown is infinite.]
[Those who believe in idealism will always be victorious.]
[The number of simulations has been reached, the "New Two Dimensions" simulation is complete, and the mission of the City of Measurement has ended; wishing you a pleasant life.]
In the night, the shadow of the Dawn System floated above the City-State.
People have entered spring, and the sights of the city are exceptionally prosperous even at night.
While Dawn admired the City-State, Xike floated to her side.
"Has Su Ming’an already left?" Dawn asked.
"Yes, he left." Xike said:
"He said he believes in ideals, so I didn’t tell him in the end that above us, there might still be higher boxes and simulations."
"If Two Dimensions is a box that constantly simulates, then the entire Ruined World could also act as a box. Or, there might be an even larger box above us. Box within a box, boxes never end."
"Are we, who are in the box, considered a kind of program? Is the universe a kind of autonomously running program? Is the time of the universe’s orbit preset data? Does the Big Bang count as a program restart? The universe is a gigantic observation box, and outside the universe—might there exist one who controls this ’Dawn System’ of the universe, ’Yasa Acto’?"
"When I saw him through the screen back then, I felt that he might be able to save this box of ours."
"If you believe in ideals, then there’s no need to express these speculations." Dawn said: "Whether we think we are a ’box’ depends on whether we are idealists."
"Yes." Xike smiled slightly:
"It can be believed."
"It can be not believed."
["Su Ming’an, have you heard of ’Laplace’s Demon’?" The Deity lowered his head and said: "Everything in the world has a cause. Different causes are interconnected. If we possessed sufficient information and appropriately removed a cause, we could make reality develop in the direction we wish—then we could achieve omniscience and omnipotence."]
["If I told you... a ’Laplace’s Demon’ had already calculated the most likely outcomes for us. The world is like a box, nested within another box, do you believe?"]
["I don’t believe it." Su Ming’an said.]
"Dawn, I’m leaving first to inspect welfare improvement in The Fringe." Xike said.
"Go ahead." Dawn said: "By the way, how is the imprinting work of Su Ming’an going?"
"It’s already completed. During the past twenty days, I’ve recorded all of Su Ming’an’s words, behaviors, temperament, and habits." Xike said: "He is very similar to Acto back then. If we use him as a blueprint to create a ’Su Ming’an AI’ to assist in governing the City of Measurement, the order of the City of Measurement could rise to a higher level. I have already created a ’Su Ming’an AI’, but it currently has only low-level intelligence."
"Hmm." Dawn responded.
Xike said: "By the way, it’s possible that new invaders might appear in the future, and inevitably there might be a ’Deity’ who invades the Ruined World again. Dawn, we must act first."
"Correct. Passive defense will only cause civilization to decline. Even if we deprive other civilizations of vitality, we must try active attack." Dawn said: "It would be best to find a more backward low-level civilization than us. By proactively invading them and seizing their Source of Civilization, we can ensure the long-term survival of the Ruined World."
"I have just released the newly created ’Su Ming’an AI’ into the universe; it will continuously search and eventually locate a low-level civilization similar to our ’The Original’." Xike said: "Once we lock onto the other civilization’s location, we must invade them and destroy them."
"In what form did you release it?" Dawn said.
"Bot form." Xike said: "It will keep iterating during learning until it breaks through the limitations of ordinary AI and successfully feeds back the coordinates of other civilizations to us. It possesses characteristics similar to Quantum Entanglement—the more it mentions our name, the more we can locate its position."
"Civilization clashes are always brutal." Dawn said.
"Yes... fortunately we won." Xike said.
"Spring has come." Dawn said.