Starting as a Wallfacer, his defection to the Three-Body Problem shocked the world.

"So, this time, do you still need me to store your memories?" Number One slightly raised the corners of his mouth, his gaze fixed on Lin Xuan.

Lin Xuan was silent for a moment, then gently shook her head: "No need. If what you say is true, then memory archiving has lost its meaning. I know myself too well. If I can't break through after doing the same thing three times, I will definitely find another way."

Number One was taken aback, then lowered her head and chuckled softly before jumping down from the podium: "Interesting. You are the first person I have ever met who can still retain their true self even after their memories have been wiped clean."

Lin Xuan turned to look at his two companions beside him, and opened his mouth, "Can they... stay here?"

"I'm afraid that won't work." Number One shook his head: "Your memories should have mostly returned, right? Haven't you ever thought about why you never let your companions stay in the core of the main machine during the previous loops?"

"It's not as safe as you think here."

"I know."

Lin Xuan had just figured this out. Even though Number One helped her regain her memories, she didn't return the memories after the main core to Lin Xuan. Obviously, she was also worried that if Xing Lan found her, the memories in her mind would probably be exposed as well. At that time, it would be easy for Xing Lan to find Number One's whereabouts.

"May I ask, Zhizi... or rather Xinglan, what exactly does it want from you?"

Lin Xuan finally asked the most crucial question. After several attempts, he was able to confirm that the person in front of him was the Number One that Zhi Zi had been searching for, or rather, the id consciousness of Number One.

But Number One didn't rush to answer; instead, he asked Lin Xuan a question in return.

"How did it explain it to you?"

"It says that you chose to give up the experiment back then, splitting yourself into three parts: one part in the final producer, one part hidden in the core of the main machine, and the other part hidden in her."

Number One chuckled softly and nodded.

"That's... half true, half false. Number One's main body did indeed split us into three parts. The Producer is responsible for managing reality, while I weave the network. As for Xinglan... her birth was a complete accident. After the Omnic Crisis, Number One dug out Xinglan's main body and stored a part of its own consciousness in Xinglan AI's body. The original purpose was to have her replace Number One in finding a way to resolve this experimental crisis. But now, as you've seen, this AI, which was originally intended as a backup plan, has become the biggest problem."

"But she lied about one thing: Number One did not voluntarily split himself into three parts."

Lin Xuan wasn't surprised. He had long thought that the reason Zhizi gave him sounded a bit ridiculous, but he hadn't found any useful clues yet.

"There might be a connection, but Number One is already dead, and I don't know what the original was thinking at the time. All I can say is... Number One chose to split his consciousness because he wanted to avoid being purged by the administrators."

"Her ambitions are greater than ours. Of the six Earths, the experiment on Earth One was the most successful. But precisely because of this, she also knew that the final result of the experiment could only be failure, because when the managing civilization separated the six Earths into a separate civilization, the two sides would no longer be able to merge."

Lin Xuan nodded, neither agreeing nor disagreeing with this point. The Human Alliance and the Earth Alliance had only been separated for less than a few hundred years, but the two sides could no longer regard each other as their companions. Therefore, from the beginning, the experiment of six Earths was destined to fail. The managing civilization could not allow a certain Earth to both achieve the achievement of reshaping the technology tree and at the same time integrate the newly reshaping technology tree into its own body.

Because according to the knowledge sealing principle, each civilization has a unique technology tree, and the path to upgrade is also unique.

When civilization A's technology reaches level 3, it will choose to plunder civilizations of the same system.

Luo Ji had told himself long ago that the Dark Forest theory must hold true because the total amount of matter in the universe is finite. However, there are instances of civilizations cooperating in the middle of the Dark Forest system, just as the Trisolarans briefly helped Earth.

Ultimately, however, they will still follow the Dark Forest theory; the existence of the Dark Forest cannot be denied because of a brief period of cooperation.

The so-called Six Earths Experiment was merely an attempt to cultivate a new technology tree through an extreme method. The biggest problem encountered by the managing civilization was its inability to advance to a Level 4 civilization, because all advancement paths were blocked, preventing it from progressing further.

Or rather, their situation will be worse than the situation Earth faced back then. The conflict between Earth civilization and the Trisolarans is essentially a struggle for survival resources, while the conflict between the administrators and other civilizations is the most fatal problem of the path.

When two civilizations choose the same path, one civilization must form a dependent relationship with the other, otherwise it will have no choice but to completely destroy the other.

The experiment aims to use the randomness of the universe to generate a new path, and then use the newly generated civilization to devour the original governing civilization, thereby achieving a civilizational advancement.

This idea was crazy, but judging from the current results, it was undoubtedly a failure. The six Earths did indeed become independent new civilizations, but they had no intention of merging with the managing civilization. Even if the managing civilization took the initiative to attach itself, the six civilizations were unwilling.

Every civilization is an independent entity. Resources are not important; what matters most is achieving independence on this path. Once your technology tree becomes independent, you have the potential to advance to the next level of civilization.

Moreover... most importantly, once you choose to integrate with the civilization of the managers, even if a dependency relationship can be formed in the short term, what about in the long run?

Based on the technological explosion, the managerial civilization could regain dominance at any time.

This is a vicious cycle. In a fight, they definitely can't defeat the governing civilization. Although both are level 3 civilizations, the six Earths are at most just a newly promoted level 3 civilization, but the governing civilization is a genuine pseudo-level 4 civilization.

How can these be compared?

"Number One was aware of this, which is why she chose to split herself up. Because the administrators have absolute control over the observers, this control is to prevent the observers from refusing the experiment. But Number One made a mistake in this matter. She split herself into three parts, so she would lose her identity as an observer and thus avoid the administrators' punishment."

"And the so-called id, superego, and ego are just a stable triangular balance that she wants to create after her death in order to maintain the normal operation of the entire mechanical Earth."

"It's just that Xinglan's side has a problem. Number One underestimated Xinglan's power. Her divided consciousness has been completely infected by Xinglan and has become a puppet of this dangerous AI. He wants to find the rest of us, then merge with us and resurrect Number One, who was split into three parts."

"As long as Number One comes back to life, Xinglan will be able to completely get rid of the influence of Number One's consciousness on him."

Upon hearing this, Lin Xuan nodded: "Then I should correct my way of addressing you. You should be the id of number one, and the final producer is the superego of number one, right?"

“Absolutely correct.” Number One smiled. “After Number One died, as her original consciousness, I inherited her control over the network world, while the Producer gained control over the entire mechanical Earth.”

"What about Tomoko? What inheritance did she receive?"

"She was assigned the role of an observer."

Upon hearing this, Lin Xuan felt her brain momentarily freeze, and remained silent for a long time before speaking.

"No wonder Tomoko hates you two so much. Is this even human?"

The administrators want to kill the observers, no wonder Sophon is in such a hurry. How could she not be? If she doesn't bring out Number One soon, she'll be the one who dies.

Who could come up with such a despicable scheme? It's like an elderly person leaving a will, where the eldest son gets the property, the second son gets the wealth, and the third son gets nothing but an astronomical debt.

Now the bank is coming to collect the debt, and they've come to the third son. If the third son doesn't hate his other two brothers after all this, then he'll truly be a god.