Chapter 1542: Chapter 1540: Plane Catastrophe
"What do you think of my entire theory? Do you agree?" After pondering for a while, Abel looked at Richard and asked.
Richard pursed his lips, "Before answering your question, I want to ask you two questions first."
"Two questions? Alright, please ask."
"First question, why did you leave beacons across numerous planes, calling me here, or rather, calling people like me who are curious about the truth of the world?"
"That’s simple." Abel answered without hesitation, "Calling you and people like you is to help me. I’ve mentioned earlier, now the sole purpose of ’Autai’s Brain’ is to find the Ultimate Spell. For this, ’Autai’s Brain’ has performed a vast amount of calculations, breaking down all existing languages in the world, recombining them, trying to generate meaningful and correct spells that can truly affect the world.
Obviously, this is an unimaginably immense task, after all, there are really too many kinds of languages in the world, and too many basic characters for each type of language. Breaking them all down and recombining, the number of spells obtained will be extremely terrifying. Even if a person starts reciting from birth until death, they wouldn’t finish. Although ’Autai’s Brain’ has significant computational power, it has not finished calculating yet, having only completed a small portion.
To improve efficiency, it’s essential to screen through human wisdom, first eliminating those almost certainly useless spell combinations, keeping the suspicious ones for experimentation. This way, maybe we can find the ’Ultimate Spell’ within a lifetime.
Initially, there were many people helping me, but later on, due to one event, they were all gone, leaving only me. After that, I struggled alone for a long time until I realized that relying on just myself to maintain ’Autai’s Brain’, replacing damaged parts was barely feasible, let alone successfully experimenting with all suspicious spell combinations, hence trying to seek external help.
Since I had to look after ’Autai’s Brain’, I couldn’t leave ’Autai’, so I used some means to send out numerous beacons to reach other planes, hoping those with goals like mine could follow the beacon to ’Autai’ to assist me, that’s it."
"So that’s how it is." Richard nodded slightly after listening.
"You can now ask your second question." Abel said.
"Alright." Richard spoke, "The second question, in fact, relates to the answer of your first question. You mentioned in your answer that initially, there were many people supporting your work, but due to one event, they were all gone.
I want to ask, what exactly happened that caused them to disappear, what happened to them? Also, on the way to ’Autai’s Brain’, I saw the ’Autai’ plane was extremely desolate, almost devoid of life, as if it had undergone a particularly brutal war, what happened?"
"This..." Abel sighed deeply, "This can only be described as a painful memory. What you want to know occurred a long time ago, when ’Autai’s Brain’ was continuously generating doubtful spell combinations, and I, along with many others, was endlessly experimenting. On the surface, everything was going smoothly, until one day, during a spell experimentation, disaster struck."
"What kind of disaster?"
"Hard to describe." Abel, recalling the moment, deeply frowned, "It’s really hard to describe. You know about the white light calamity, although one couldn’t resist it, at least one could see the white light. The disaster triggered by spell experimentation, however, had no white light at all, it was as if an enormous, completely undetectable transparent monster was released, wreaking havoc on this world.
After the disaster struck, the entire plane rapidly collapsed under the effect of invisible forces—volcanoes erupted, the earth sunk, storms arose, space trembled. In just half an hour, the plane looked entirely different from before, and we were utterly clueless on how to stop it, not knowing what to do.
But that wasn’t the most horrifying part. The most terrifying aspect occurred days later, when the plane’s collapse finally slowed down, yet people around began dying one by one without any warning.
Truly without any warning, one moment someone was speaking to you normally, the next they abruptly fell to the ground, stopping breathing. To figure out the cause of death, an emergency study group was formed, which dissected the victims’ corpses, discovering without exception that parts of the victims’ bodies were missing—whether it was the heart, intestines, or brain—disappeared mysteriously, without any scars, as if the missing part never existed."
When the study group figured out this result and published it, the number of victims had already reached tens of thousands, and panic spread like a plague. Consequently, in the wake of the plane’s collapse, the surviving civilization within this Autai plane began to collapse gradually.
Madness, destruction, suicide, continuous mysterious deaths... not long after, people in the Autai plane dwindled to only a few, and in the following days, the remaining ones died gradually, until I was the only one left.
Honestly, although I survived the disaster, I constantly worry about the mysterious deaths reoccurring, that it might someday happen to me. If I’m unlucky enough, maybe right after I finish this sentence, I would die in front of you."
As soon as those words were spoken, Abel’s body suddenly stiffened, and under Richard’s gaze, he fell straight towards the ground.
Startled, Richard instinctively reached out to help, but then the next moment he saw Abel’s falling halted and gradually stood upright again.
With a somewhat reminiscent expression on his face, Abel clicked his tongue, "Hmm, seems today is still a lucky day, can’t experience the true feeling of death I imagined."
Richard: "..." Unexpectedly, Abel, who seemed quite serious, had such a nonchalant nature deep down.
Shaking his head slightly, not wanting to argue with him, he asked about the main topic of concern, "So far, do you still know nothing about the disaster that occurred on this plane?"
"You could say that." Abel nodded.
"Haven’t you tried experimenting with the spells used that day again?"
"I have experimented, repeatedly tried many times, even reevaluated the spells experimented a month prior multiple times. The earliest attempt to repeat occurred when the disaster was ongoing, but no matter how I experimented, it had no effect on the disaster.
Let me put it this way, from the time the disaster first appeared until almost everyone in the plane was dead and the disaster disappeared on its own, it remains a mystery. Actually, I’ve even considered, maybe the disaster wasn’t caused by the spell at all, but triggered by some other unknown factor. Who knows?"
Abel chuckled self-deprecatingly and looking at Richard, said: "Alright, you’ve finished your questions, now answer mine as before—what do you think of my theory, do you agree, and are you willing to stay and help me?"
