Chapter 274 (2/2)

Hao Ren’s face instantly turned grim. Even the simple-minded Lily would not agree, much less him.

He understood what the MDT was trying to say; sending Becky back was impossible without taking high risks and consequences, it was a destructive action. It may have worked if the reality wall of The Plane of Dreams was still in good shape but now, even the almighty goddess, Raven 12345 was scratching her head, trying to patch the shaky wall. Sending people back in by boring a hole at this point of time was just asking for trouble.

“You can’t make an omelette without breaking the eggs,” said Vivian as she left the kitchen with a rice pot.

Amazed by her philosophical remark, Hao Ren tried to laugh. But the problem was he did not even have the “eggs”—the universe belonged to the goddess; she would not put the world at risk for the sake of one girl.

Nangong Wuyue frowned as she fell into deep though. Then, she said, “It may or may not happen. The Wall of Reality is fragile, but that doesn’t mean it would certainly crumble. We may be able to send Becky through without shaking it too much.”

The MDT wobbled and said, “Right. It’s all about probability. However, even if sending Becky back poses one-tenth of a chance of puncturing the wall, would you risk it?”

Hao Ren was on a sticky wicket; nine out ten: things would turn out to be all right, one out of ten: human extinction.

“There’s something I don’t understand: while we can bring things in and leave them behind, why can’t we do the same with people?” Hao Ren recalled Y’zaks selling his demon sword in The Plane of Dreams. The sword was not expelled when they woke up from their dreams, it instead became physical in The Plane of Dreams.

“Because intelligent beings affect information,” the MDT explained. “People think, observe, interact and process information. At the same time, people themselves also generate and cause information to multiply by way of memory. A peson is not just a lump of carbohydate, but also an entanglement point of complex information; everything a human touches, records, observes, and is curious about would connect in the realm of information. An individual possesses a limited amount of information, but the volume of information he comes into contact with is astounding. As long as the individual lives and observes the world, he would be more and more involved in the surrounding information. Remember this: information is everything, and everything is information. An observer’s involvement in the real world is deep and endless. Especially the Wall of Reality between The Plane of Dreams and the Surface World; it’s in an ambigous state where it’s easily affected by its observers. Non-living things are different. They have little impact. After all, their information is finite. The cosmic will easily digest them even if they’re very polluting as long as their impact is finite.

“Metaphorically speaking, a bullet isn’t as damaging as a single virus droplet simply because the former is limited in the damage it could cause while the latter could spread and its threat is endless.”

As Hao Ren came to grips with the truth, he spread out his hands, feeling dejected. “Probably, it would help if we whack Becky into a vegetable…”

The MDT jabbed his stomach lightly. “It’s good to be creative but being senseless about it is retarded.”

“Do we really have no choice?” asked Nangong Wuyue, still retaining a last glimmer of hope. “I think there has to be some way.”

The MDT thought for a moment and said, “If you insist… there’s another way.”

Hao Ren and Nangong Wuyue eyeballed the MDT immediately.

“Find an existing loophole,” the MDT said. “An open loophole is the safest.”