I Have a God Simulator

Chapter 337: Chapter 325: The World is a Cold Toy

Ju was calculating.

To the vast majority of Gods, a Divine Kingdom was a set of coordinates in the Void Cosmos, fertile ground for nurturing Faith and population, and the external shell where rules formed a closed loop.

But in Ju’s eyes, a Divine Kingdom was an instrument for calculation.

The myriad lifeforms on a world’s surface were the partial results of the world’s continuous computations. By continuously reverse-engineering the evolution of each lifeform, one could trace them back to the world’s vast evolutionary algorithm.

Every world was an unpredictable black box.

Life was the black box’s external hardware; rules were its deep, internal system.

The calculation and evolution of rules led to the non-cyclical birth and destruction of various lifeforms. In turn, the continuous evolution of life provided feedback to the entire world’s environment, thereby altering the course of its rules.

Just as the first maxim from its distant memory stated: Everything is computation, and computation is everything.

Ju had few impressions of its home left. This was a necessary self-castration, a way to store the maximum amount of algorithmic information in the minimum amount of carrier space.

Algorithms were the key to touching all things.

It only knew that it came from the annihilated Giant State Civilization. To escape a self-destructive end, it had fled into exile by reducing its dimensionality, arriving in the Void Cosmos World within the simulator.

Everything about the Giant State Civilization was described within the number 42. As for whether there were any other survivors, it did not know.

If it had sufficient computational power and could construct the corresponding algorithm, it could decode the vast information of the Giant State Civilization through this number and its own being.

This was not something that could be accomplished overnight.

Ju formulated a hundred-thousand-year plan for the Crawling Area.

In the first ten thousand years, it would complete the foundational infrastructure for the Divine Kingdom’s peripherals, stockpile sufficient Faith energy and computational units, and establish a series of viable algorithms in preparation for future large-scale computations.

In the second ten thousand years, Ju would officially push the Divine Kingdom to perform primary computations. It would use the world as a calculator to reverse-engineer the layer of rules, thereby finding the underlying rules of this Divine Kingdom’s black box and gradually cracking them.

In the third ten thousand years, its goal was to fundamentally crack the main rules of its own Divine Kingdom and achieve an extremely high degree of control. Based on this, it would gradually reach out to other worlds, cracking their black boxes to accelerate its accumulation of computational power and resources.

In the fourth ten thousand years, the fully prepared Divine Kingdom would officially Sail, breaking through the Slow and limited Crawling Area to enter the Flying District where rules were unlocked. There, it would complete the Divine Kingdom’s expansion and update.

From the fifth to the tenth ten-thousand-year period, continuous, large-scale computations would officially begin. That would be the time to crack and search for the Giant State Civilization.

…

But plans are always subject to change.

Ju encountered an accident in its first millennium.

Intense turbulence in the rules caused the Divine Kingdom to jolt along, entering a dangerous region filled with Gravel Worlds. At its center lay a Divine Kingdom without a Main God.

This place, called Sun Casting Bay, had no Divine Format and a remaining population of several tens of thousands.

Ju maneuvered its world to overlap and border it.

After a detailed on-site investigation, it confirmed that the God here, the Firefly God, had already fallen. It then began to gradually merge Sun Casting Bay with its own Divine Kingdom.

Sun Casting Bay was a world that had been repeatedly modified. The Firefly God had cut it into a three-layered space.

The first layer was Fog Harbor at the top, inhabited by a group of Lamp Makers called the Lamp Race.

They were assembled from metal, red carbon, crystal, leather, and a series of other parts. Their core was the carbon body within—which also served as the Lamp Race’s spine and brain.

Fog Harbor was shrouded in black fog year-round. Fog Beasts haunted the mists, sometimes touching or even destroying members of the Lamp Race, causing them extreme Fear.

The second layer was Carbon City in the middle. This was where the Firefly God had used special carbon ore to nurture and modify the Carbon People.

The third layer was the world’s bottom, the very Foundation of the entire Screw-Shaped World. This was the Firefly God’s workbench. The wonders, the World Pot and the Nine-Grain Pillar, were located at opposite ends of the bottom layer.

Although it had obtained this Divine Kingdom, Ju knew little about Sun Casting Bay.

The Lamp Race and the Carbon People lived in two isolated worlds. They were like pets or commodities cultivated by the Firefly God, knowing nothing of their deity besides worship and Fear.

Everyone was Each Performing Their Own Task according to the Firefly God’s requirements. Even though their God had fallen, they still followed the Oracle, repeating the labor and Order of the past.

Ju quietly observed everything in Sun Casting Bay.

As long as a civilization’s program could still function, one should not casually alter its algorithm. This was one of the rules of the Giant State Civilization.

Ju’s Believers were a Race known as the Tri-Colored Insect.

As their name suggested, the Tri-Colored Insects were divided into red, yellow, and green, representing three different physiological Traits, or genders. They were a relatively primitive lifeform with an extremely fast reproductive rate and a short life cycle.

Ju developed them as the main population of its Divine Kingdom’s civilization because of this Race’s tri-colored Traits.

The Red Insects possessed a strong desire to reproduce and were drawn to all Tri-Colored Insects. They were always the ones to initiate courtship and mating.

The Yellow Insects were born without the need or instinct for reproduction, so they adopted a dismissive attitude toward the advances of the Red Insects.

The Green Insects were somewhere in between. They might accept a Red Insect, or they might assimilate with a Yellow Insect and change color. Their final direction would only be determined upon contact.

The biological Traits of the Tri-Colored Insects were a natural algorithm Ju had discovered.

It cultivated vast numbers of Tri-Colored Insects, expanding their population. Each insect was a fundamental digit for its operators. Tens of millions of Tri-Colored Insects were arranged in an orderly fashion on the Divine Kingdom’s land, constantly being trained and computed by Ju.

On this basis, a portion of the Tri-Colored Insects evolved Wisdom. They gradually transformed into a more High Level form, becoming the Unit Insects among their kind.

Unit Insects possessed intelligence and could lead their own kind to form individual basic units.

From when it first began developing the Tri-Colored Insects to the present, Ju had maintained a population of 100,000 Unit Insects.

While continuously perfecting the “Tri-Colored Insect algorithm,” Ju also used this method to conduct computational tests.

It used the Tri-Colored Insects to calculate the landfall time of typhoons, the temperature changes brought by volcanic eruptions, and the water level data from torrential rains.

Although the results were not yet precise, they were controlled within a predetermined margin of error.

What Ju needed to do now was further increase the number of basic Unit Insects, diversify its computational units, and form them into specific algorithms. It could then call different algorithms for different Inference targets.

Acquiring Sun Casting Bay had one major benefit: it provided a broader foundation of operators.

The Lamp Race, the Carbon People, and even the Fog Beasts all had the potential to evolve into new basic units, or even new biological algorithms.

The black fog sprayed by the World Pot had the ability to disrupt a world’s rules, causing a brief delay in their operation. This ability had helped Ju evade attacks from the Gods several times, allowing it to escape safely.

The Nine-Grain Pillar was a type of spatial coordinate, but it was damaged and temporarily unusable.

Ju further modified the new Sun Casting Bay, bringing the Tri-Colored Insects to the surface of the Screw-Shaped World and separating them from the three-layered world within.

The first ten-thousand-year plan was still underway.

However, another low-probability event occurred.

A vast and dangerous Vortex World, sweeping along numerous orbiting Gravel Worlds, barged into this region of space.

Ju drove its Divine Kingdom to flee and initiated calculations.

The Tri-Colored Insects forcibly ran an Inference on the Vortex World’s trajectory. This level of calculation consumed enormous resources, causing millions of Tri-Colored Insects to die from frequent activation.

Under the Overload, the Tri-Colored Insects computed a basic conclusion: the Vortex World’s trajectory had a 65.21% Synchronization rate with Sun Casting Bay.

‘Danger.’

Ju immediately accelerated its Divine Kingdom to escape the area.

But the Vortex World followed like a shadow, pursuing it at high speed.

This was impossible, according to Ju’s understanding.

The danger of a Vortex World lay in its imbalanced rules and its external radiation, which continuously adsorbed numerous Gravel Worlds, causing its gravitational pull on rules to constantly rise and amplify.

But a Vortex World was uncontrollable, at least in the Crawling Area.

However, reality shattered this established definition.

Ju immediately made a series of choices.

Detour. Turn. Use the numerous Gravel Worlds for cover.

‘Failure.’

Slow down. Wait for the Vortex World to approach. Activate the World Pot. Spray the black fog.

‘Success.’

Having escaped the unknown cataclysm, the fleeing Sun Casting Bay arrived in a relatively safe domain of space.

But before long, the Vortex World descended once again.

Ju checked its existing Faith and computational power.

Own forces: Tri-Colored Insect computation at Overload. Faith resources reduced to 30,000. Unable to use the World Pot again.

Enemy forces: Possesses a crushing advantage in rules and scale. Exhibits clear patterns of action. Accompanied by the Divine Kingdoms Bamboo Reed Kingdom and Ghost Realm.

Probability of successful escape: less than 10%.

Enemy capabilities exceed the scope of simulable models.

Cannot fight.

Own remaining resources are insufficient to continue resistance.

Ju chose to surrender.

Everything is computation, and computation is everything.

Only by continuing to exist can the continuation of computation be guaranteed.

It found a Celestial Lantern in Fog Harbor and used it to deliver a letter of surrender to the border of the Vortex World.

Ju was still calculating.

‘As long as it is alive, the calculations cannot stop.’