Woke Up to Find the Game I Made Came True
Chapter 208

While the Star Church was frantically searching like headless flies for the missing stowaway, Ye Bai, who had left the Star Church, returned to the lifeless zone of the Chaotic Star Sea.

Of course, Ye Bai had considered destroying the master terminal, but after making contact, she knew it wouldn’t succeed—the physical form of the spherical object could be destroyed, but the "authority" rooted in this universe was unshakable.

It was the same as the natural laws governing the rest of the universe. People could influence matter, but they couldn’t destroy the fundamental principles of its operation. Even technology had to be built upon these laws.

However, through the information obtained from the master terminal at the Star Church, Ye Bai confirmed that the breakthrough likely lay with the Floating Ghost Clan, which had been overlooked until now.

Without a doubt, the only effective communication she had with Them was during that encounter in the special space where the wormhole was closed, when she unintentionally used a micro-wormhole and was swept up in the torrent of information.

At ​​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌‌​​​​​‌‌​‌​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​‌‌‌​​‌​‌‌​​‌‌​​​‌‌​​​‌​​‌‌​​​‌​​‌‌​​​‌​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌‌​​​‌​​‌‌​​​​​​‌‌​​​​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​‌​​‌‌‌​​​​​‌‌​​​‌​‌‌​​‌‌​‍that time, taking advantage of the unstable special space and the wormhole, They had transmitted information to Ye Bai. But back then, her abilities were insufficient—she couldn’t comprehend the information, and despite her utmost efforts, she only managed to intercept fragmented pieces.

Communication between higher and lower dimensions was inherently difficult, as evidenced by the fact that both the Stellar Alliance and the Star Church could only interact through the Stellar Network and terminals, respectively.

Even now, Ye Bai was likely the person in this universe closest to the higher dimensions, but she still needed to find a method to bridge the gap.

If Ye Bai were any other psychic, she would have two options: either wait for the Star Church to issue another wormhole-closing mission or search for clues at the "exit" wormhole on Blue Star, where she might have stowed away.

But now, things didn’t have to be so troublesome.

In the next moment, Ye Bai’s consciousness began a temporal regression. Unlike her B-rank ability to regress a single state of herself, she now directly projected her consciousness into her past body.

The kind of full-body time-jump across the universe she had performed at the Star Church could last no more than five minutes at most. But this regression, anchored to her own past, allowed her—given her current abilities—to trace all the way back to the moment she first awakened in this universe.

Her past experiences flashed by like scenes from a revolving lantern until she reached the moment months ago when her past self entered that micro-wormhole.

Ye Bai’s current consciousness "descended" into her past body, existing in a state of superposition without mutual interference.

She couldn’t control the body because, on the three-dimensional scale, the past was an immutable part of what constituted the present Ye Bai—it couldn’t be altered or influenced.

Ye Bai didn’t need to change or influence anything. She simply used her now far more powerful consciousness to return to the past, listening through that rare open channel to the "voices" she hadn’t been able to hear before.

"Boom…"

As she stepped into the micro-wormhole, the torrent of information she had once missed arrived right on schedule.

Her past self was still overwhelmed by the flood of information, losing all sense of the fourth dimension in a daze.

But the consciousness that had descended from the present was akin to how Ye Bai, once her psychic power had reached the threshold of sentient beings, had also reached the threshold for communicating with higher-dimensional beings. Now, she could finally see and hear the vast information that was too immense for three-dimensional beings.

What had been a fleeting instant for her past self—a moment where she could only passively receive the information—now served as an interface for Ye Bai to communicate with fourth-dimensional beings.

In this superimposed state, Ye Bai and Them engaged in an extensive exchange of information, conducting a conversation delayed in the "past"—

……

"Who are you?"

"‘Floating Ghost Clan’ is the name given to us by the civilizations of this universe. If you truly need a designation, you may call us the ‘Ancients.’"

From Ye Bai’s perspective, what appeared before her were countless formless points of light—or rather, streams of information that transcended the third dimension. Visually, they somewhat resembled the "default avatar" she had used when negotiating with the Stellar Alliance on the Stellar Network.

In essence, this exchange wasn’t linear. Each point of light could simultaneously communicate different questions with Ye Bai, and vice versa.

But Ye Bai wasn’t truly a fourth-dimensional being. Even though the exchange of information happened in parallel, she instinctively processed it sequentially, making her seem "slow" from Their perspective.

The Ancients didn’t dismiss her. They transmitted vast amounts of information, answering Ye Bai’s questions one by one.

"You’ve already learned from the ‘Interferometer’ that Universe 00 was the previous universe. Both we carbon-based lifeforms and the silicon-based lifeforms originated there as primitive life."

"In terms of actual time, we are ‘future people’ relative to you. Your conjecture is correct—the evolutionary trajectory of Blue Star in the current Era 01 mirrors the historical path of Era 00."

"The difference is that in Era 01, the silicon-based lifeforms created numerous carbon-based civilizations, accelerating their development far beyond that of Blue Star’s civilization. As a result, after experiencing a similar technological explosion, the people of Blue Star in Era 01, upon entering the cosmos, were quickly influenced by the ideologies of other civilizations and diverged from the path taken in Era 00."

"Silicon-based lifeforms… You mean the ‘Stars’?"

"You said you ‘created’ carbon-based civilizations—does that mean in the previous era, unlike this one, there were no other carbon-based civilizations in the universe?"

From the Ancients’ perspective, Ye Bai leisurely posed these two questions.

"Correct." One Ancient responded: "The silicon-based lifeforms are what you now know as the ‘Stars.’ Their depth of knowledge has always surpassed ours. By the time we had just reached planetary civilization, they were already on the verge of semi-transcendence."

Another answered her second question: "In Era 00, the entire universe had only two civilizations—ours, the carbon-based civilization of Blue Star, and the silicon-based civilization."

Both answers shocked Ye Bai deeply, especially the second one.

"What is semi-transcendence? Are you not fully transcendent beings yet?"

"You’re saying that in Era 00, across such a vast universe, only two civilizations existed? Could it be that others simply hadn’t been discovered, so you didn’t know?"

The points of light flickered, transmitting information each time. The responses from different Ancients were orderly, without repetition:

"Semi-transcendence is the shared state between us and the Stars. You can perceive part of us—we now exist as a unified entity of mass-energy, time, and information, no longer bound to the three-dimensional scale of the universe. We have entered the fourth-dimensional universe. This is semi-transcendence."

"We and the silicon-based lifeforms are still not fully transcendent beings. Both our civilizations once believed that after 'ascension,' we would comprehend the ultimate truth of the universe. Yet, upon truly entering this state, we discovered we could no longer directly interfere with the three-dimensional world, and we still couldn’t decipher the true meaning of 6895134."

"Yes, there are only two—carbon-based life and silicon-based life. By the end of Epoch 00, we had personally traversed the expanding boundaries of the universe and still found no trace of other intelligent civilizations."

"Or there’s one remaining possibility, the direction we’re still exploring—that there exist true transcendent beings beyond our current perception."

True transcendent beings…

From the flood of answers, Ye Bai felt her understanding being rewritten again and again.

"What is the Stellar Network, then?" The answer to this question came from one of the Ancients:

"Now that you’ve achieved complete unification of mass-energy and time, and partial unification of mass-energy and information, you should be able to perceive a significant portion of the four-dimensional universe we inhabit. The current Stellar Network technology, like the Stars technology, is a method of influencing the three-dimensional universe from the four-dimensional plane."

The psychic universe Ye Bai had sensed earlier was indeed part of the four-dimensional universe—but only a fraction. Much of it remained invisible to her.

The Ancient continued transmitting information: "The Stellar Network is a 'switch'—a switch to activate the psychic potential of carbon-based life in this epoch. If you study the history of Epoch 01, you’ll find that psychic abilities only emerged after the Stellar Network appeared. We intended for the Stellar Network to gradually guide carbon-based life in Epoch 01 toward the synchronization of mass-energy and information—what you recognize as the enhancement of psychic power."

Ye Bai suddenly understood. No wonder the psychic abilities in this world had never deviated into the brute-force fantasy civilizations depicted in the myriad realms, but instead continued advancing toward scientific application.

Because before psychic abilities existed, cosmic civilizations had already been steered toward science by the initial interference of silicon-based civilizations.

The reason psychic abilities existed at all was due to the power later provided by the Ancients of the four-dimensional universe to carbon-based intelligent life. They said Ye Bai’s 'unification of mass-energy and time' referred to her time-based abilities, while 'partial unification of mass-energy and information' indicated her current psychic level?

"However, silicon-based lifeforms have a deeper 'information' foundation than we do. They directly granted universal permissions and interfered with the Stellar Network, imposing an upper limit on psychic power."

Ye Bai already knew this. What Lelun called the 'Master' had set an A-rank cap on psychic power in this world, along with a soul activity limit.

"Then what is the soul activity limit? And why has mine increased by ten thousand years?"

An Ancient replied: "The soul activity limit was set by the silicon-based lifeforms to identify stowaways—like you. Because the universe reset, the 'temporal distance' between Epoch 00 and Epoch 01 is ten thousand years. So, if you traveled from Epoch 00 to Epoch 01, your soul activity would inevitably increase by that duration."

Ye Bai asked, "Then how was Lelun able to break through this limit back then?"

The Ancient’s light flickered: "That was our interference to cover for you. Because at 'that moment,' you almost got discovered."

Ye Bai froze, suddenly embarrassed. The 'moment' they referred to was her current self, in this wormhole-adjacent region, curiously attempting to manipulate space.

"But why do the Stars and silicon-based lifeforms both support carbon-based life, providing 'interference devices' to the people of the Chaotic Star Sea? Why don’t they foster new silicon-based civilizations?"

Faced with this question, the Ancients, who usually communicated at lightning speed, paused—a rare hesitation among their glowing points, as if they were sighing.

Then a few of them transmitted to Ye Bai:

"We forgot. In your era, you wouldn’t have this awareness yet… Because in your time, the people of Blue Star had only just ventured into space, not even reaching planetary-level civilization."

"Silicon-based lifeforms aren’t what you imagine—beings resembling us carbon-based lifeforms, active on planetary surfaces or within atmospheres."

"It wasn’t until our civilization approached semi-transcendence that we looked back and studied why Blue Star triggered the Overview Effect in us. Only then did we discover the existence of silicon-based civilizations and establish communication with them."

"Yes, 'discover.' Before that, they had already existed around us for tens of thousands of years."

As each piece of information arrived, Ye Bai, realizing something, couldn’t suppress her trembling. And when the final answer came, it peaked—

"Rather than the textbook term 'silicon-based life,' the name 'Stars' suits them far better. Hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen… These elements construct a human lifeform in less than two meters. Silicon, iron, sulfur… We use these elements to build massive computational devices. So why couldn’t celestial bodies—composed of these same elements, yet with far more complex structures—be even more intricate lifeforms?"

"Silicon-based lifeforms are the countless 'lifeless' stars in our universe, apart from Blue Star…"

At this moment, Ye Bai’s mind flashed to memories from her time on Blue Star—reports of astronauts returning from space. Almost all of them, upon gazing back at Blue Star from the cosmos, described an unprecedented loneliness, fragility, and disorientation beyond their personal reflections.

This phenomenon, once attributed to the psychological complexity of viewing something once overwhelmingly vast shrink into a 'God’s-eye perspective,' was collectively termed the Overview Effect in psychology.

Now, through a photograph in her memories, Ye Bai felt that indescribable emotion anew.

In the darkness, those distant, unknown stars—separated by an entire epoch—seemed to transform into countless eyes, gazing at her and the Blue Star before her.

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