Infinite Job Transfers Starting from Mechanic-Chapter 1101 - 554: The Language of Corpses (Part 2)
Among the colonized star systems, there are millions, and the number of bodies is countless.
Su Yu had become numb to seeing so many bodies.
After scanning so many constant stars and so many bodies, Su Yu still hadn’t found any useful information.
With such a large population, one could only imagine how prosperous a civilization might have developed, containing immeasurable information, but now it’s all gone.
This Oming River System seems to be an information black hole; no matter how prosperous the civilization, nothing is left behind but bodies.
It’s like a massive graveyard, where billions of beings rest in silence.
Su Yu sighed softly, ready to restart the battleship and continue the scan.
Previously he had circled around the outer perimeter of the Oming River System, now he was preparing to enter the inner circle, scanning layer by layer until he reached the center of the Oming River System and could scan the entire system completely.
However, just as Su Yu was about to start the battleship, inspiration struck.
"No! It’s not true that no information was left behind!"
A thought suddenly occurred to Su Yu.
Those bodies, although they left no information beyond themselves.
But they themselves are information!
This information is... quantity!
The quantity of these bodies!
On each Colonial Star, the number of bodies is different.
This is quite normal; if different Colonial Stars had the same population, that would be strange.
So previously, Su Yu hadn’t paid attention.
But now, Su Yu thought of a possible scenario, whether there might be some useful information hidden in the quantity of these bodies?
Su Yu hurriedly tallied the number of bodies on the millions of Colonial Stars he had scanned, getting a vast number.
With his strong computational power, he began to analyze these numbers.
Soon, Su Yu actually derived some useful information.
At first, Su Yu tried to analyze the precise number of bodies on a specific planet, like how one planet’s population was 9,736,723,451.
Su Yu attempted to analyze whether there was some secret hidden within this number, and whether there was a linkage with the population numbers of other planets.
But Su Yu soon gave up.
Given such enormous numbers, the potential combinations are more numerous than atoms in the universe, and no matter how powerful Su Yu’s computational power, it was all in vain.
Therefore, Su Yu quickly switched to a simpler approach.
This approach was as simple as it could get; Su Yu counted the population on each colonial star system and then compared it with adjacent star systems to see which had a larger population.
Soon, Su Yu’s statistics produced results.
He found that the number of bodies between adjacent planets exhibited a certain regular fluctuation.
For example, this star system has a larger population, and that star system has a smaller population.
Larger is treated as 1, smaller as 0.
This formed a sequence of binary code: 11000101...
More fewer fewer fewer more more more fewer fewer...
"Is this... a communication code?"
These binary codes indeed contained information.
Moreover, they were not complicatedly encrypted; very straightforward.
So once Su Yu found the approach, he quickly decoded it.
It was a type of communication code Su Yu recognized, similar to the Morse Code from before Su Yu’s crossing.
Decoding it and translating it into the Human Empire’s language, familiar to Su Yu, yielded a vast amount of recorded information about the millions of Colonial Star Systems, preserved through the number of bodies in different star systems!
This method of information preservation, which Su Yu had never heard of, was cruel and shocking.
This is the language of the bodies!
After decoding it, Su Yu first saw a string of warnings: [Oming River System is a trap!]
[Do not enter! Do not enter!]
Su Yu’s heart tightened as he continued reading.
[Imperial Calendar 30104, September.]
[An anomalous time loss phenomenon appeared in a constant star system at the center of the River System. Researchers were sent to investigate, to no avail, the researchers died, the entire population of the star system perished.]
[October, the time loss phenomenon began to spread, affecting thousands of constant star systems. The Tenth Prince led the ’Devouring’ Battle Group to investigate and halt it, to no avail, the Devouring Battle Group was annihilated, the Tenth Prince escaped gravely injured, all Imperial subjects in those star systems perished.]
[Entering a state of war, urgent contact with the Empire’s high command, but there was no normal response. Although communication seemed normal, the attitude on the other side was strange. After further investigations, the Prince discovered, communication had long been cut, those communication signals were false.]
[Prayers to the Great Radiant Emperor, to no avail, the Emperor’s power did not descend, has something happened to the Great Emperor as well? No! Impossible!]
[The time loss phenomenon spread anew, the Prince ordered a withdrawal from the Oming River System, to no avail. Phenomena of space-time lockdown and causal disorder appeared at the edge of the River System, escape was impossible.]
[We are already unable to escape, this River System is too eerie, all internal space-time and causality have been sealed, like an independent universe.]
[Continuing research on the time loss phenomenon, to no avail, to no avail...] 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂
[Research shows, the time loss phenomenon can cause all creations of civilization and information to be lost, leaving only the corpses of humans preserved.]
[The Prince says there’s a creature here that devours information. Information is the root of the Universe, there may be a Cosmic Undead lurking here.]
[The Prince, of noble status, knows much vital information. He tells us, there is not just one universe. In an ordinary universe, matter and energy are finite. Our universe actively devours and hunts other universes to achieve true infinity, and it might have succeeded now.]
[But the price is that those devoured universes, dead but unyielding, turn into various terrifying monsters, unleashing horrific disasters.]
[Now, we may have encountered such a monster.]
[The Oming River System is this monster’s lair and trap to lure civilizations to settle, waiting for them to develop to a certain extent before devouring them.]
[Energy and information are the roots of the Universe. This time loss phenomenon can devour all the information of a civilization.]
[The reason it leaves corpses may be because that Cosmic Undead has lost its energy, leaving only information, hence it can only devour information.]
[There may also be other reasons, such as... turning these corpses into Oming Metal to attract the next civilization here!]
[We found it unbelievable; a Cosmic Undead? We had never heard of such a concept. But the Prince, so noble, surely wouldn’t deceive us.]
[We asked the Prince what we should do? We’ve never met such a formidable enemy, don’t even know what form it takes, nor how to confront it.]
[The Prince also fell into deep thought, and meanwhile, the time loss phenomenon continued to spread, devouring the lives of countless Imperial subjects.]
[The Prince finally made a decision; he told us he would face the monster alone to win us a slim chance of survival.]
[If he fails, we need to find a way to preserve information to warn those who come after.]
[Initially, when the Oming Clan was annihilated, they left bodies but no warning information. We cannot do the same; we are the glorious Imperial humans of the great Radiant Emperor!]
[The Prince didn’t reveal how he would fight the monster. He only told us what we should do.]
[We needed to control the population of each planet, because after the information of civilization was devoured, only bodies would remain. The number of these bodies was essentially the only information that could be preserved.]
[After the Prince left, he disappeared without a trace, and the spread of the time loss phenomenon slowed down significantly. The Prince must be engaging in some unknown battle with the monster, and has achieved some success.]
[We followed the Prince’s instructions, starting to relocate populations between different star systems to preserve this information in the form of communication codes.]
[The Prince said, these pieces of information should not be encrypted in any way; the more complex, the more easily they could be devoured.]
[By the time we had successfully preserved the above information, much time had passed, and still no news of the Prince, while the phenomenon of time loss continued to spread.]
[It seems the battle is not over yet.]
[So, we continue to relocate populations to leave more information.]
[This information includes various data about the Oming River System, historical records, which are proofs of our existence...]
