Celastia opened her eyes.￥f.￥f

For a while, Su Wubing felt that what he saw was an hallucination. However, his sensory signals repeatedly reminded him that this was not an hallucination, and the princess of the Sky-horned Beast had really woken up.

"Well...good afternoon."

For the ponies, the form of the celestial horned beast may be no different from that of the demigod. When the first princess stood up, this huge difference became even more obvious. The celestial horned beast not only has a long lifespan, but also has a strong power... It combines all the advantages of the three races, but also has a very tall figure. As the oldest of all celestial horned beasts, Celastiya is as tall as two ordinary ponies, and her slender figure is also very different from the round and chubby ordinary ponies.

"Good afternoon." Su Wubing swallowed. In my memory, Su Jing always met the teacher in a human form, and she had been curled up on the sofa. There were few such situations when he felt oppressed in front of this teacher. Is it simply because of the difference in height?

"Ah, my lovely disciple, this is the first time I have seen you appear in front of me in this form." The Skyhorse Beast happily touched Su Wubing's head with his hooves, "Do you feel a little scared? There is no way, you are a unicorn now. In the rules of this world, the Skyhorse Beast will naturally feel a little... pressure on you."

"I am not Su Jing." The little unicorn insisted, "I am Su Wubing."

"There is no difference in my perspective. You have to know that time is different from yours. I can see the shadow of the young man in the future in you, and more... Well, maybe I shouldn't say much. Like me, the power of gods and demons can pass through the constraints of time and space, and see hundreds of billions of possibilities in an instant. To me, you are Su Jing. Su Jing and Su Wubing are two names of a person. Isn't it? Sooner or later, you will become him. And his past is the you now." The Heavenly Horned Beast said a lot like a tongue twister, which made the unicorn feel a little dizzy.

"Teacher. I have one thing to ask you." Su Wubing gritted his teeth, "What exactly did you leave here? And why are you... still here, instead of leaving this multiverse?"

The celestial beast shook its mane gracefully and chuckled, "These are two questions. But it's not a bad idea to answer you. The first thing I'm left here, 'Creation Project', as the name suggests, is a miniature multiverse."

"……What!?"

"A miniature version of multiverse. Well, it is not so exaggerated. It still has great flaws. It may not be considered a complete multiverse structure. It is just a skeleton and a model. There is still a gap between me and Emperor Wu. At present, only Emperor Wu can touch the level of truly creating a perfect multiverse. I can create a self-consistent world, but... the level is relatively low. Something is missing. Maybe it is the limitation of my own ability." There was a hint of melancholy between the eyes of the Heavenly Horn Beast. "As for its function, it is very simple, you can guess."

"I can probably guess." Su Wubing sighed.

A multiverse, even if it is just a model, can achieve too many careers. In fact, the world formed by data he is in now can be regarded as an extremely simple multiverse. Each world fragment constructed is equivalent to a small plane, and a system connected by many fragments. It is essentially a "multiverse".

The Twilight Sparkle, who has mastered the "creation project", can almost be regarded as the omnipotent true god in this small multiverse. The "original point" is in her hands, and everything can be reversed in one thought... If this world can continue to expand, then in this world, wouldn't she... the eleven-star god and demon?!

No, it's impossible. Su Wubing was a little upset by this idea. If Twilight Sparkle could really fully master the Creation Project here, then she wouldn't be fucked by a mere meme virus. She would definitely not be able to exert all the power of the Creation Project.

"It's not for fighting." Celastiya seemed to know what he was thinking. "Using it to fight is like taking a dictionary to hit people. Of course, it's very powerful, but the 'Creation Project' is mainly used to study the structure of the universe. It can be said that it is the crystallization of my life's knowledge."

"That……"

"The second question is, why am I here? The reason is very simple. I am the Sky-horned Princess Celastia. If I am not here, where will I be?" the first princess asked back.

"But... Tianqing... you are not..."

"The one who left this universe was Ludwig Goethe, or his metaphysical, sublimated concept. I can even say that as an individual, Ludwig Goethe still exists somewhere in this multiverse, but his part as a 'god and demon' has been sublimated and has left this universe. What remains is nothing more than a shadow of the past, a thought and body that he used to walk on the ground. Yes, it's like me."

Su Wubing didn't understand what she was saying.

"Have you played a board game, trpg?" Celestia asked rebelliously, "A game where players and hosts tell stories together. As the runner of the world, the host sets up a stage for players and tells stories, while the player plays the roles he created, creating stories and legends between people's interactions... You are promoted from an ordinary adventurer to a god and demon, which is equivalent to you from a virtual character in the story to a player sitting at the table. You "upgrade" and enters a higher field. And when you leave this table and this stage, your character card is still left on the table. This is what happened when "Tianqing".

"... Then, why don't you come out to host the endgame and let the world become what it is now?" Su Wubing asked in surprise.

"It's very simple. Without a character card played by the player, it's just an NPC that the host can use." Celastia smiled, "We are left with our own obsessions. As NPCs, we also have our own stories, our own wishes, and our own lives..."

Let me give you a little more about the world view of this novel.

Most of the worldview of this novel comes from cosmic holography. When I constructed the world setting of the novel, the prototype of the Grey Knight Vold (real scientist) introduced me to the holography of the universe, and was called this cosmic view may be one of the most powerful competitors of the truth of the universe in the new era. After studying cosmic holography, I constructed a relatively "convenient" worldview. In the process of construction and thinking, the main reference works are Kobayashi's "Drunk Walking Man" and Ted Jiang's "The Story of Your Life".

In this worldview, the "origin" is the origin, time, space, and existence of the world. They are just a mapping and a projection in different senses. The reason why we are bound by time is limited because our physiological characteristics are limited, and we cannot observe the world beyond the influence of time like the seven-limb barrel in "The Story of Your Life". This setting has led to the origin of several major groups and the differences between different evolutionary routes.

With this "origin", the extraordinary powers in my fantasy have a source and reason. If everything is just a projection and mapping of the origin under different circumstances, then extraordinary and unlawful things can also appear, because the origin I conceived has a higher priority on the world than the physical rules we see.

Very idealistic.

If you continue to conceive this setting, you will fall into the myth of determinism. Do we really have free will? If everything is just a projection of the origin, from the birth to the end of the universe. All time is destined, then what is the meaning of our life?

Since I was very young, I liked to read science fiction novels and came into contact with many stories from ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad. Because of my physical weakness, I also read a lot of strange things. Because I had a serious illness and was on the verge of death twice, after that, I began to think about what life is and what is the meaning of our survival? If I work hard all day long for a livelihood and spend a life of neither sad nor happy, what is the value of my existence as "Bai Bohuan" (not my real name)?

Of course, in fact, we have answers in the political textbooks from childhood to adulthood. However, I am not satisfied with this answer. Everyone tried to find the truth of the world when they were young. The same is true for me. I also tried to find the secret of fate, hoping to understand the secret of this world and enable myself to find the true meaning of life. The textbooks teach us that we should strive to build the world of communism. This is a very good, great and romantic meaning of life. However, for me, this answer is not universal.

For people a thousand years ago or a thousand years later, the meaning of life is not feasible. Perhaps when you see this, everyone will think that I am very delusional and try to find the ultimate answer to life like a philosopher.

I have been thinking about it for many years, trying to find an answer between ideals and reality, pain and happiness. The nature of materialism and rationality has allowed me to expand my horizon to the height of the universe. If readers have a certain understanding of the universe, physics... whether it is macroscopic or microscopic, I am afraid that one thing I know is "humanity". As a biological population, it is really insignificant on the astronomical scale.

Even on Earth, we may not be the masters of the parent planet. Our history is extremely short. Our achievements in culture and science are extremely brilliant compared to the other animals that survive on Earth. However, our civilization is shaky. In the overly vast void, even the earth is just a small speck of dust. The human race dare not say that its existence is meaningful, let alone an individual in this race that is not worth mentioning?

After I figured out this, I became a cynicist for a long time, and everything looked at nihilistic. However, perhaps because of my growth nature, I was unwilling to put myself into this negative mental state, so I continued to think and try to find a worldview that could make me feel more at ease.

Then, it led to the prelude to the construction of the worldview of this book, that is,... it is a bit idealistic.

My rationality and education have prevented me from trusting the "post-death world" of traditional religion (there is a saying that it can be temporarily put aside the dispute), so when thinking, I usually use the premise of "there will be no post-death world", "there will be no reincarnation and rebirth", and "there will be no karma" as the background of my thinking. Under such a cold and unsalvational premise, I have to find a "ultimate answer" that can make me feel at ease. Can I only be put into the arms of cynicism?

Looking at it ideally, if life is really only this life, only this reincarnation, then, in these countless chances, our consciousness and intelligence appear in this body, and we live a life of different, good and bad... The world is very big, but we are very small. In the process of being troubled by depression and insomnia again and again, I gradually realized the misunderstanding I had thought before, that is, the scale is too large, and I focus on the stars in the universe, but I forgot that we are rolling under my feet.

How should a person spend his life?

It was not until I walked out of the small circle of my life and began to observe more and larger crowd samples, and saw various diverse characters that I noticed the "subtle" side of this world. Everyone is so unique and everyone is so wonderful. Everyone has their own past (most of the content is boring) and their own wonderful moments. When I look far, all living beings are extremely mediocre, but when I zoom in, I can see the uniqueness of everyone.

When the sample accumulates to a certain time, the idea naturally appears.

"What is the meaning of a person's life?"

I might have the characters in the book talk like this to indirectly show my thoughts.

“No sense.”

"Yeah?"

"The meaning of every person's life needs to be found by himself. There is no fixed answer, what you see, hear, know, think of in this world... Your experiences and memories shape you who are unique... Why do you have to place yourself a standard answer to the meaning of life? When you realize this, your own life is dominated by yourself, you will naturally begin to pursue the meaning of your life."

Yes, I have been pursuing the answer to this question over the years to find the meaning of my life.

After countless tortured nights, I found it.
Chapter completed!