Everything Xiao Yu saw defied common sense. He observed countless strange phenona, the likes of which he had never seen nor even heard of in the three-dinsional main universe throughout his hundreds of thousands of years of cosmic experience.
After going through an explosion and recombination, this small universe was much smaller than before, roughly only one third of its original size. All matter inside it had vanished. There were no planets, no stars, no visible, macroscopic matter at all.
No, that was not quite correct. Xiao Yu observed that not far from the probe, a massive planet, or rather sothing resembling a planet, suddenly appeared. It was not spherical but irregular in shape, with countless protrusions and depressions and many spike-like mountain peaks. It had appeared before Xiao Yu without the slightest sign beforehand. Xiao Yu had not detected any process of dust condensation, nor any indication of large-scale material flow nearby.
Setting that aside, the way this ‘planet’ existed also absolutely did not conform to Xiao Yu’s basic physical theory. Its mass was very large. With a rough estimate, Xiao Yu concluded that it was larger than Jupiter in the Solar System. It was fundantally impossible for such a gigantic rocky planet to form in the universe. That was not the main point though. Most critical of all, how could a planet with such mass fail to reach hydrostatic equilibrium and beco spherical, yet still remain in an irregular shape?
On top of that, there were even more unbelievable phenona on this planet. For example, so substances that were clearly low temperature solidified gaseous elents were mixed together with a vast sea of high temperature magma. Yet there seed to be no heat conduction between the two. The high temperature magma and the low temperature solid-gaseous material simply coexisted peacefully.
This violated the second law of thermodynamics.
Then a huge chunk of rock suddenly separated from this irregular stellar body, and it did so at extrely high speed. Yet Xiao Yu did not detect any violent explosion on that body. To tear such an enormous piece of rock away from a planet’s main body and overco its gravity, an enormous propulsive force would be required, which could only be produced by an explosion of sufficient violence.
This enormous rock simply detached from the planet for no reason. After it left the body, it suddenly disappeared from Xiao Yu’s sight. After this rock vanished, that gigantic irregular planet also disappeared, just as it had appeared, with no sign, no reason, and no explanation.
The disappearance of this irregular planet was only one of many unimaginable bizarre phenona. In this small universe which, though reduced by two thirds, was still extrely vast, all sorts of things that would shock Xiao Yu, any one of which could completely overturn his current scientific foundations, were everywhere. Xiao Yu felt like an idiot who knew nothing at all about this universe.
For example, the speed of light in this small universe was not a constant but a variable that was changing without cease. Up to now, Xiao Yu had already tested this most important constant in the universe tens of thousands of tis. Among these tens of thousands of tests, not even two results were the sa. Moreover, there was no pattern whatsoever in the distribution of these results. The speed of light could suddenly drop to slower than a snail’s crawl, or suddenly rise to thousands or even tens of thousands of tis faster than the speed of light in the three-dinsional main universe.
Inside this small universe, intense bursts of energy would suddenly erupt without any warning and then vanish without a trace. The entire small universe might suddenly be flooded with blinding light, only to beco pitch dark in the next instant. Strange things might erge out of nowhere and then disappear again… Everything was grotesque and kaleidoscopic, and nothing could be explained by any existing theory.
Yet oddly enough, the probe that Xiao Yu had launched was completely unaffected. It still operated steadily, adhering to all the laws of the three-dinsional main universe.
Xiao Yu’s attention was completely drawn to this place. He even halted his ongoing research projects. Xiao Yu keenly realized that he might have inadvertently created a new world, and that this world contained inexhaustible riches waiting to be unearthed.
Xiao Yu recalled what he had encountered when traveling between galaxies via the Star Gate. In that aningless three-dinsional universe, Xiao Yu had observed situations similar to this. There, the speed of light would change, and here, the speed of light was also changing, except that the anomalies here were far more intense.
Xiao Yu simply watched everything here in silence. He did not interfere. He only observed.
Amid the endless chaotic and bizarre transformations, Xiao Yu detected a trend. The phenona here still did not obey any physical law, but they were edging closer to the rules of the main universe.
Take the speed of light, for example. In the main universe, the speed of light was approximately three hundred thousand kiloters per second. Here, the speed of light changed every mont and could be extrely fast or extrely slow. However, once Xiao Yu applied certain statistical thods to analyze the data, he discovered sothing.
He divided his observations into ti intervals of five minutes each. In the previous interval, among the fifty thousand data points he had asured, the one closest to the speed of light in the three-dinsional main universe was two hundred twenty thousand kiloters per second, a discrepancy of eighty thousand kiloters. The largest value was thirteen million kiloters per second, a difference of twelve million seven hundred thousand kiloters. In the current interval, he had again obtained fifty thousand data points. Among these, the data point closest to the speed of light had beco three hundred seventy thousand kiloters per second, and the gap had shrunk from eighty thousand to seventy thousand kiloters per second. The gap at the fastest extre had also shrunk to a certain degree.
It was not only the speed of light. The gravitational constant and the four fundantal forces here were completely different from those in the three-dinsional main universe as well. Yet when Xiao Yu analyzed their values over different ti intervals, he discovered that these constants too were drawing closer to the values found in the main universe.
After the probe entered this small universe, Xiao Yu also detected from the main universe side that the signatures of the small universe’s existence were growing stronger, and the rate at which its gravitational and spatial markers were returning to what they should be for its mass was speeding up.
This phenonon was very strange. It was as if the arrival of the probe had brought the rules of the main universe into this small universe.
“Previously, this small universe had no rules. Precisely because there were no rules and no physical laws, any kind of strange phenonon could occur here. No, that is not quite right. This small universe also seems to have been undergoing a gradual evolution. Its intense abnormal changes had been slowly calming down. It appeared to be forming an independent set of rules of its own, a system different from that of the main universe. But the arrival of my probe seems to have imposed a certain influence on it, interrupting the rules it had been forming independently and instead bringing the rules of the main universe into it.”
“But what force is driving the formation of rules? Why was the small universe’s original process of forming its own unique rules disrupted the mont my probe entered it? And since this small universe can form an independent rule system different from that of the three-dinsional main universe, could there be similar cases among other aningless three-dinsional spaces or small universes?”
Xiao Yu had basically confird this much. After he detonated the entire small universe and it then reford, it had not returned to being an ordinary small universe. Instead, like a cosmic Big Bang, like Pangu splitting heaven and earth, it had begun to form an independent rule system of its own. Its previous rules had been destroyed together with the explosion of the small universe.
“Perhaps our main universe went through the sa process in its early days. Perhaps when our universe first ford, it had no rules and no physical laws, and only over a long period of evolution did it gradually develop the theoretical system we know today. Could it be that everything I study and all the scientific theories and data I know are rely unique to this particular universe and do not have universal validity?”
“Who drove the formation of these rules? Was it the invigilators? No, that should not be the case. They ought to be guardians of the rules. When the universe first ford, these rules ought to have arisen spontaneously, and only then would there be invigilators to guard them.”
“The rules of the small universe, under the influence of a construct from the main universe, are slowly being pulled toward the rules of the main universe. But if it had never been affected by any external influence, what would it ultimately have beco? And since the rules in a small universe can be altered, how could the rules of the main universe be changed?”
At that mont, Xiao Yu’s mind was in turmoil. He recalled that during his super acceleration experint to charge at Level 7 Civilization, the speed of light had once been reduced by five hundred and twenty-one microters. This was undoubtedly a manifestation of the universe’s rules being altered. The rules of the universe could undoubtedly be changed. But how could one go about changing the rules of the universe as they currently stood?
Countless questions circled endlessly in Xiao Yu’s mind. His thoughts were in utter chaos, and he had no idea how to even begin thinking about these matters.
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