After going around in circles, they still ended up back with Lumiaire, so Duanmu Huai had to use his personal terminal to contact Lumiaire again and have her conduct a comprehensive check on QB.
The result was......
"Hmm, as Miss Ann said, this is not a creature but a projection of a data collection...... It should be a higher-dinsional existence."
"...... Could you make it a bit clearer?"
Duanmu Huai indicated that he was illiterate in this area and needed a bit of education.
"Uh...... how should I put it........."
Facing Duanmu Huai’s inquiry, Lumiaire, on the other side of the screen, thought for a mont, then took out a piece of paper and an apple, and placed the ball on the paper.
"Let’s put it this way, if we were two-dinsional creatures living on paper, we could never know the true appearance of this apple. We could only determine its appearance through the part of the apple touching the paper, but this is obviously inaccurate. Just like now, we all see an apple pressed on the paper, but for the two-dinsional life on the paper, they can only detect the part of the ball in contact with the paper, not the whole apple, so......"
As she spoke, Lumiaire took a small knife and shaved off half of the apple, then placed it on the paper again.
"Like this, we, living in the three-dinsional world, can freely change the shape of this apple, whether cutting it into circles, squares, or even triangles, that’s because we are in a higher dinsion and thus can clearly recognize this existence. However, for creatures in the two-dinsional world, they do not have this ability, so what they confirm is only the part that touches the paper, and we can decide how to cut this part."
"Oh...... I can almost understand it, so this thing appears as a white squirrel to us, but in fact, it is not a white squirrel, but so high-dinsional creature deliberately projecting this form into this dinsion...... So this thing is neither an angel nor a demon, right? A subspace creature?"
"It seems not quite like a subspace creature either......"
"Then, their ability to manipulate human destiny is also because they are higher-dinsional beings?"
"I can’t confirm that......"
"Ah, but I’ve heard about it."
Lumiaire shook her head, but Ann quickly followed up.
"I rember reading so books about prophecy and destiny before, which recorded that so prophets could transcend our world in a short ti and go to higher domains, where everything is unhidden, and the fate of everything is in their grasp........."
"Alright, if that’s the case, then these guys having such outrageous abilities can be understood."
Duanmu Huai also had no plans to discuss this troubleso issue, which was neither pure science nor theology; it was enough to know the situation.
"But the problem is, what do these guys do all these ssy things for? Since they are higher-dinsional beings, they should be stronger than the people of this world."
Duanmu Huai couldn’t understand it, like if he encountered a subspace demon or cultist, he would definitely seek help from the people of this world, not from two-dinsional creatures on a piece of paper. Conversely, if the opponent were truly in a higher dinsion than this world, why would they need low-dinsional creatures?
"According to the information gathered from that entity called QB... it seems their purpose is to save the universe."
"...... Save the universe?"
"Yes, because of the second law of thermodynamics, the entropy of the universe will increase over ti and eventually beco thermally dead. To prevent this, the QB clan decided to send energy to the universe in this way to delay the arrival of heat death."
"Wait a minute, I’m a bit confused."
Upon hearing this, Duanmu Huai was thoroughly puzzled.
"You an, the universe will inevitably perish one day, so these aliens use this thod to absorb human energy and send it to the universe for an extension? Is that what you’re saying?"
"...... Generally speaking, that’s correct."
"This doesn’t seem right; do humans have such capability? No, I’m not doubting humanity, but this is just an ordinary civilized world. The humans here don’t seem to have any powerful spiritual energy... How can they extend the universe’s life?"
"Based on the data I’ve retrieved... the QB clan developed a technique to convert emotions into energy. However, since the QB clan has no emotions, they chose humans as the target. And because teenage girls are the most sentintal, they chose them and initiated the Magical Girl Project. The specific steps are... first, by detecting, selecting girls who will impact the future world, make contracts with them, and fulfill their wishes by altering causality, turning them into magical girls."
"Hmm...... then?"
"Then... they have lost the future, so they inevitably beco distorted, which is why magical girls produce impurities due to emotional fluctuations or excessive magic power consumption. Once the impurity reaches a limit, the imnse emotions unleashed at the mont of transition from hope to despair in magical girls will be converted into energy by the QB clan using their technology, and then sent into the universe."
"Well, these idiots truly don’t know what they’re doing."
After hearing Lumiaire and Ann’s explanations, Duanmu Huai’s expression was as dark as it could get.
Regardless of whether the QB clan’s goal was correct, their actions, in Duanmu Huai’s view, were heretical to the extre!
As we all know... or at least the players know, how subspace turned into a huge garbage dump and gave birth to disgusting beings like evil gods.
Isn’t it just because millions of years of war among the Ancient Saints, Fear of Death, and Star Gods have spread death and various negative emotions polluting the Subspace, plus the Spirit race who love throwing wild parties, that the originally peaceful Subspace beca the Milky Way’s largest ntal dumpster?
Then out of this stinking pile of garbage, the Evil Gods, those little cockroaches, erged.
Now, look at you, damn alien rascals, throwing garbage into the landfill for so unknown apocalypse that might not happen for who knows how many years?
And it’s refined?
The power of negative emotions transford from hope to despair is imnse, even Duanmu Huai doesn’t dare imagine it!
Previously, Subspace was almost purified thanks to the Human Empire’s last desperate fight, starving those Evil Gods and Subspace Demons half to death, and here you idiots are feeding them more?
Afraid they’re recovering too slowly, huh?
Damn it, the Chaos Legion and Evil Gods recovered so quickly before, probably because of these idiots!
Such reckless behavior, such vanity and arrogance, must be punished!
"This indeed is a headache..."
Ann and Lumiaire have spent quite so ti at the Tribunal, naturally they are familiar with Subspace and understand why Duanmu Huai is angry.
"Ah, right!"
At this mont, Ann seed to have thought of sothing, and with a stroke of genius, she clapped her hands.
"I’ve got a good idea, Mr. Knight!"
"Hmm? What idea?"
"Doesn’t that system fulfill any wish? And Mr. Knight, you’re still such a cute girl now, just sign a contract with QB to beco a Magic Girl, then wish to ’destroy Chaos Evil Gods and Subspace’, and wouldn’t that solve the problem completely?"
Upon hearing Ann’s proud proposal, Duanmu Huai gave her a sidelong glance.
"Your idea is quite heretical."
"Eh? Is, is it? No matter what wish can be fulfilled, I think it’s quite useful..."
"The Holy Grail can also fulfill all wishes, have you seen any good outcos? Not to ntion this system designed by high-dinsional alien creatures without emotions, who knows if there’s any logic us humans can’t comprehend. What if the entire Milky Way explodes on the spot? The Tribunal’s goal is to protect humans and eliminate any threat to humanity, not to blow up the universe inside out."
Basically, as players of the Judge, most know after doing a few tasks, you can’t speak carelessly about wishes.
There are too many tragic precedents because of it.
Soone wished to fly to the moon, and then suffocated — obviously, they didn’t know the moon has a vacuum environnt.
Others prayed for their country never to have war again, so the entire country was destroyed, all life died upon entering this country, and naturally, there was no war anymore.
More people hoped their deceased husband could resurrect, only to see a wobbly zombie at the door, triggering a Biochemical Crisis.
So, you can’t eat indiscriminately, you can’t speak thoughtlessly, wishes are easy, but how the wish gets fulfilled is a different matter.
Not to ntion whether eliminating Subspace and Chaos Evil Gods is feasible, can QB, this emotionless alien race, deal with them?
Duanmu Huai doesn’t believe in that nonsense.
"Then Mr. Knight, what are you planning to do? Haven’t you said you can’t use your previous strength now?"
As she spoke, Ann curiously examined Duanmu Huai before her, who raised an eyebrow.
"Just to clarify, even if I can’t use my previous strength, I can still handle you, so stop thinking about all those useless things."
To be honest, never felt this way before, now that Duanmu Huai has transford into this character, suddenly discovered Ann’s eyes on him are sowhat dangerous — how to say, he sowhat understands why sotis Greiya encounters Ann like a mouse sees a cat.
Indeed, Ann’s gaze is... quite dangerous.
"So Mr. Knight, how do you plan to deal with these guys?"
"Hmm...... let think carefully."
After all, this isn’t an easy matter.
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