Chapter 2180: Chapter 64: To Reach the End of Each Journey, As If It Were Love (Part 1)

An (a split form of the previous Thousand-Star Beast, Child of Thousand Stars) had a dream.

It was speeding through the boundless dark vacuum.

The spherical body appeared smooth, but actually had countless facets, with starlight flashing at the center of each dark facet, trailing light tentacles tens of thousands of kilometers long.

Space-time contracted and expanded with the movement of the tentacles, and matter compressed with the contraction of space-time, condensed into a form resembling the universe at the beginning of creation. The immense force released by the controlled expansion propelled the Behemoths gliding on the space-time string, accelerating without limit.

Light speed. The law that light speed cannot be surpassed is an iron rule of the ’normal physical universe.’ But where does this normality come from? Can the universe understood and comprehended by human logic be called normal? And those universes beyond human understanding, or those that can only be conceived as fantasies, are they ’abnormal,’ ’should not exist’?

Not so. The universe contains infinite possibilities, as if the body of the Thousand Stars is not located in the ’baryonic universe’ where exceeding light speed is impossible, but in the ’tachyonic universe’ where the base speed is light speed. Here, just as accelerating matter to light speed requires infinite energy, slowing ’matter’ to light speed also requires infinite energy.

By aetherization, the Thousand Stars Cluster shakes space-time, like rippling water waves, its phantom gliding through the vacuum, stirring unstable chaotic space-time curvature.

Starlight flickers on every facet of the Thousand Stars Cluster. It loves the brilliance, the glitter, and the faintness of the stars in the darkness, hence engraving everything onto itself, turning itself into a small universe, storing all the lives it has ever seen and touched.

It was meant to become a Star God.

When the Thousand Stars Cluster grasped the symmetry of space-time, enabling it to drive itself backward on the timeline, it mastered the most basic ’Perpetual Motion Loop,’ mastered ’its own reality,’ and could fully connect to the Great Aether Circulation, becoming the Star God of that era.

It was supposed to become a Star God.

But the Cluster felt, [that shouldn’t happen now].

[—The Creator, our time to become a Star God is not now—]

[—Even if we become a Star God, become one of you, we cannot resist The End; the number of Star Gods is inconsequential, we are all exploring the countless possibilities, the countless future paths of the universe—]

[—It could be the past, it could be the future; we foresaw a chaotic possibility, a region untraceable and unreachable, hence we chose to go there—]

[—To drive the occurrence of unpredicted, miraculous events—]

[—Let us become the Cradle, the Cradle of Miracles, the Cradle of the Future, the Cradle of Strife, the Cradle of Eternity—]

[—The Eternal Peaceful, Infinite Cradle—]

They heard that voice.

And the voice that echoed from the endless Infinite Above the Sky asked: [Even if the price is death?]

—Even if the price is death.

—Even if the price is to vanish into Nihility.

Thus, they agreed.

At the moment of casting fate into chaos, the infinite possibilities of the Thousand Stars converged. They were defeated, perished, becoming another civilization in this space-time defeated by The End.

Only their Spark raced through space-time, flying endlessly.

Passing by hundreds, millions of planets, innumerable stars, and endless possibilities.

An watched in the dream.

This is the ’mother’s’ dream, the mother’s memory, and they, all of them, are the mother’s children.

No, are they truly children?

[Is the Thousand Stars Cluster and the Child of Thousand Stars a child and mother relationship?]

This is a question all the Child of Thousand Stars find hard to answer.

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—What distinguishes offspring from elders?

Offspring are the fusion and re-creation of elders, using the elders’ original genetic material to shape themselves. This is how bidirectional life forms nurture offspring.

But the Thousand-Star Beast is a complete individual, it is the Cluster, both one and all; it nurtures its offspring, those endless, comprising the Thousand Stars yet distinct offspring, how were they born?

An closed her eyes. She remembered the very beginning of her birth. In the dark ocean lay infinite possibilities and logic, countless axioms and concepts.

She is a tree. A tree of axioms that grew from the deep, infinite Nihility. She came from choice, born of logic, robust and vast, lofty and grand.

And around her, there were many, countless identical trees of axioms. They were weak, slender, unable to grow strong, only maintaining a simple form of existence.

An couldn’t help but think of a metaphor: a planet as complex and grand as Terra, filled with countless forms of life, and a planet entirely made of hydrogen and oxygen, a pure water planet.

Even if both have the same mass and the same number of atoms for the universe, the possibilities they can nurture are vastly different. They might indeed originate from the same ’choice node,’ initially both hydrogen and oxygen, but one formed Terra, and the other a massive water globe.

One emerging with elegant theorems from axioms, the other fragile and singular.

Precisely because she is such a complete tree of axioms, she could be born.

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