Chapter 443: Observer, Essence of the Space
Splurt!
Kaito Shirogane swept his right hand. Blue Cloud's stiff face rolled and flew up, instantly turned into charcoal by the terrifying high temperature and flames.
Blood erupted from the neck, but the face on his chest had no reaction.
"You know very well that doing this kind of thing has no meaning."
"Life and death are just two states of information. To us, there is no difference."
The Multi-Faced Alien made no movement, but a new head had reappeared, and the face of this head changed into another appearance Kaito hadn't seen before.
"This is my third attempt to communicate with life forms like you. Believe that this time, you won't be marked by the Great Existence dominating you again."
Kaito realized that the first two attempts mentioned by the Multi-Faced Alien were probably the two times the Space judged Reincarnators as targets to be purged previously.
In other words, contacting Multi-Faced Aliens was some kind of taboo. Moreover, Multi-Faced Aliens could generate strong interference with Reincarnators, even making the Space's erasure rules ineffective.
[Erasure], this was the Space's most fundamental control effectiveness over Reincarnators, the fundamental dominance allowing Reincarnators to always perform various missions according to the Space's will constantly.
So far, Kaito hadn't heard of any ability or item immune to erasure. If compared with Reincarnator abilities, the Space's [Erasure] was probably a designated instant death ability with extremely high priority. Because it mastered all Reincarnators' information, the Space could designate certain Reincarnators who failed missions to die instantly according to rules.
In [Terror Infinity], a work that could also be considered the ancestor of the infinite genre, after unlocking the Fourth Stage Genetic Constraint and overcoming the inner demon, the Lord God could no longer erase them.
Then, in the Infinite Dimensional Space, perhaps there also existed some rules capable of resisting [Erasure].
Moreover, the thing the Infinite Dimensional Space always demanded most, or rather, the foundation of various abilities and items in this Infinite Dimensional Space, lay in [Information].
Singularities were special [Information]. Reincarnators' Scarlet Drop Cards were also cards recording all of a Reincarnator's [Information].
Multi-Faced Aliens' super-dimensional technology and Infinite Dimensional Space's rules, to some extent, converged on [Information].
"Your so-called [Erasure] is actually just deleting [Information]. And the way I allowed those two to avoid being [Erased] was also very simple. We just need to modify the [Information], making the Great Existence behind you unable to identify the location of those two pieces of [Information] anymore, thus unable to erase directly."
"But simultaneously, because modifying [Information] also makes them unable to be recalled, they lost value to us."
Multi-Faced Aliens' utilization level of [Information] was surprisingly high. This was another existence besides that Goddess in the Space who completely read Kaito's thoughts.
Kaito appreciated their communication method very much. Far more efficient than that Goddess, without any riddler components. Even without Kaito asking actively, they explained everything he wanted to know one by one.
Kaito didn't need to speak, only needed to think, and he could get answers.
His thinking conversion speed was also fast, immediately realizing Multi-Faced Aliens had no "malice" towards him. The opponent needed him, and specifically needed the kind of him who could return to the Space. That was why the opponent said he wouldn't be identified by the Space this time.
For this reason, nuking Osaka and Tokyo was their way of disrupting the Space's perception.
"The emotion of [Malice] is just a reaction produced by low-dimensional creatures like humans stimulated by neurons and hormones. Inefficient, meaningless."
"Nuking the two cities of Tokyo and Osaka will lead to a large number of human deaths and completely disrupt the world line, thus generating a massive amount of calculation and changes. This will make the Great Existence behind you enter a brief [Full Load] state. Therefore, we still have 38 seconds to communicate."
Kaito understood from the Multi-Faced Alien's unhurried communication method that the opponent was fully prepared for the transaction with him.
Therefore, not worrying about being unable to persuade him in thirty-odd seconds. Thus, Kaito didn't intend to continue tangling with boring questions like what the opponent wanted him to do or whether he would do it.
The initiative in such matters was always with him.
"Can you tell me, what purpose does the so-called Great Existence behind us exactly have?"
"Or rather, why does He fear our communication with you?"
This was a question that would almost never get an answer in other worlds.
About what exactly [Infinite Dimensional Space] was, how it came about, not many Reincarnators cared anymore.
Perhaps because no answer could be obtained no matter what, or because infinite genre works had deeply rooted in people's hearts through various channels over these years, making Reincarnators more or less accept the concept of "Infinite."
But at this moment, Multi-Faced Aliens might have a different answer.
"As a race becoming [Observers], we currently cannot observe the [Observer] of another universe. Therefore, I cannot answer this question for you."
Multi-Faced Aliens didn't answer Kaito's question directly, but gave a concept of [Observer]. This was probably the identity of the Infinite Dimensional Space in the eyes of Multi-Faced Aliens, or rather, something like status and authority.
"Last question, Multi-Faced Alien. If you can answer me, no matter what chip you offer, I will trade with you."
At this time, probably less than ten seconds remained. Kaito looked at the human face on that Reincarnator's chest, asking a key point that many Reincarnators and plot characters repeatedly asked him after entering the Space.
"Since you think humans are not special and life is not noble, then in your cognition, what is [Heart]? Does the so-called [Heart] really possess power transcending the material world?"
Facing this question, the Multi-Faced Alien clearly paused for a moment. Whether thinking or retrieving information, this question was more difficult for Multi-Faced Aliens to answer.
And when Kaito asked this question, he was also thinking in his heart about races like Multi-Faced Aliens who completely eliminated human ethical views of good and evil due to high evolution. Things cared about by guys like Corey, Mob, Saitama.
Did they still have meaning?
For Multi-Faced Aliens, bombing two large cities with nukes, causing millions or even tens of millions of humans to die, was probably no different from human children pouring hot water on an ant nest out of interest.
Then because of such things, because of humans who would die easily like ants, be abandoned easily, and even be resurrected easily, created easily, generating other thoughts—did it have any different meaning?
Kaito was very curious. He wanted to truly see clearly whether those guys' strength was due to this [Heart], or just because they were strong, they could afford the leeway to possess the so-called noble [Heart].
Kaito felt the high temperature on his body surface begin to fade. The aftermath of the nuclear explosion was about to disperse. And his body suffered a considerable degree of radiation and mutation.
That was a degree where ordinary people would die very quickly.
But for Kaito, it was just spending a little time to recover.
If necessary, he could destroy his body bit by bit, then use immortality to regrow.
"With our current cognition, the so-called Heart is merely a resonance mode triggered by quantum vacuum fluctuations in carbon-based carriers. All discussions about free will, moral intuition, or aesthetic experience are essentially poetic misreadings of specific implementation modes of the Second Law of Thermodynamics."
"However, that 21 grams of information in humans undergoes unknown changes because of this thing."
The Multi-Faced Alien's body began to disintegrate. He extended his hand finally. Kaito simultaneously canceled the passive defense of Limitless Technique. The Multi-Faced Alien's finger touched Kaito's body.
"Your soul weight exceeds the ordinary. Your so-called [Heart] is that weight..."
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