Chapter 439: Chapter 439: Hot Restart

I’ve always thought that the only value of a certain Dull Cat Angel was to act cute, and, uh, to serve as my flashlight when I go out at night, but I never imagined that this girl could play a major role too!

Well, even though she had just helped train a whole bunch of ravens not long ago…

My impression of this girl could only be attributed to Alaya’s severely dull neural responses and her extremely scatterbrained character, which left her in a dazed state all the time. It made it really hard for me to consider her fighting capability during major events. So when she said she had a way to purify the entire galaxy, my jaw nearly dropped in shock.

Um, it had already dropped, actually, because Qianqian was beside me, compassionately helping me to put my jaw back in place.

“Ah Jun, what’s wrong?”

Noticing a sudden change in her brother’s expression, Big Sister asked with concern, and then I shook my head, “Our lamp says she has a way to destroy the entire galaxy.”

Saying so, Alaya also emerged from my Spirit Sea, accompanied by a girl with soft white light fluttering her wings as she descended from midair. A born little 007, who had no idea how she got to the bridge again, immediately cooed and cheered as she pounced over.

Forget it, I was already too lazy to bother with the guards anymore, Little Baobao’s spy skills have reached the pinnacle… Speaking of which, that bastard from Sicaro looking for Little Baobao recently, he wouldn’t be planning to use two lollipops to groom the little one into tomorrow’s bootleg Empress, would he?

I was scared stiff by this terribad conjecture, and then I resolutely decided to restrict Uncle Hei Chao’s activities to a radius of three kilometers away from Little Baobao.

“Ah!” Alaya got startled by Little Baobao suddenly pouncing on her, then with a swoosh hid behind me, “Lord Brother!! Little Baobao is coming to pluck my feathers again! Hurry and make her go away!”

The Angel Sister’s voice sounded as if she was about to cry, but wait, are you really the one who claimed to have a way to destroy a galaxy just now?

And just what sort of terrifying being are you, Little Baobao! You made the renowned Blade Queen live a life of shedding skin daily, you nearly snacked on the God of this universe numerous times, you treated the Kepulu’s Race Monument, the sacred Holy Mother Ship as a toy in your room, and now you’ve got an Angel who could apparently destroy a galaxy all flustered and at a loss for words. Could it be that the real protagonist of this book is actually this tiny tot who can only climb into bed by standing on tiptoe? I say, the original setting wasn’t supposed to be for a female lead, damn it!

With a torrent of complaints surging in my heart, I still managed to distract Little Baobao successfully with two chocolate bars, and then a group of Imperial Leaders gathered around a lamp that was an infinite energy source to seek the truth.

Facing our eager eyes, Alaya immediately grew nervous, then quickly glanced at Pandora, lowered her head, and whispered two words: “Arbitration…”

Pandora was slightly startled, then nodded imperceptibly, while Sandora revealed an expression of sudden realization mixed with a bit of interest; the rest of us, including me and Qianqian, remained clueless.

“The World Arbitration Agency,” Sandora, seeing the puzzled look on my face, immediately took it upon herself to explain, “You have three World Arbitration Agencies under your command that can still be operated. If you activate this system, everything will be resolved.”

World… Arbitration Agency!?

Such an extraordinary thing?

It never crossed my mind from the start!!

Of course, I knew about the ultimate system that could intervene with the world’s laws; Alaya herself is a part of the World Arbitration Agency, but I never imagined I’d have a day when I could activate them. For one thing, such things are sensational–its principles and uses have far exceeded my regular imagination, just like suddenly giving Qianqian a few hundred billion, her life goal would still hover around a three-bedroom apartment. If you suddenly gave me the power to manage the world, I couldn’t even fart out the three ridiculous words “Let there be light.” Secondly, due to the Empire’s prolonged slumber, including Alaya, the Arbitration Three Sages have all sustained different degrees of damage. This was mentioned when Gaia first contacted me, so from the beginning, I never considered this system within the scope of anything I could utilize.

“As for Arbitration Mode, it has almost completed self-repair,” Alaya said with her characteristic soft voice, “Gaia stayed on the mother star and with the conditions there, she was the first to complete the repairs. Then, it was my turn, because as an energy body, my recovery speed is second only to being on the mother star in the Lord Brother’s Spirit Sea, so now I also meet the conditions for rebooting Arbitration Mode. Finally, there’s Pandora… Lord Brother, Pandora is also a part of the World Arbitration Agency…”

“Ha!?” My exclamation was totally unrestrained, startling Qianqian, who was close by, into faltering. As a result, she came at me, leaving a bite mark on my neck. As for Pandora on the other side, it seemed my reaction had seriously displeased her; her headbutt was almost at an instantaneous force of three tons… But I was genuinely shocked!!

Pandora, who’s got nothing but nitroglycerin on the brain and Helium-3 in her veins, who even mutters declarations of conquest in her sleep, a militarist fanatic… could she actually be part of the World Arbitration Agency?! Could she make any proposal other than declaring war?!

“Lord Brother, the second batch of information that Gaia sent to you seemed to mention these things…”

Alaya wasn’t sure if she should remind me, but eventually, she still cautiously whispered.

I whistled, looking skyward–damn it, the table of contents of that report alone was two gigs!! How do you expect me to read it all!!

“After spending so much time together, you actually didn’t know that your own sister is the World Arbitration Agency, Ah Jun, you really are… the most powerful Leader in history…” Sandora had been facepalming and sighing since a while back, and now her face crumpled even more. “We all knew about this, we thought you knew too!”

“Uh, really…” I felt awkward and frustrated. I really wanted to burrow into the ground and hide there until the next millennium!

Without any choice, Sandora urgently supplemented my knowledge about the World Arbitration Agency. Among the knowledge, the most important was about the agency’s chief rule when arbitrating. This made me understand why someone who seemingly couldn’t touch fairness, calmness, or wisdom with a ten-foot pole, like the loli general, could hold such an important post.

In short, it’s about an absolute logical thinking mode–the World Arbitration Agency can think in two modes. One is their normal Apostle Form, like Alaya’s lamp form, Gaia’s projection form, and Pandora’s Shorty form. In this form, they act according to their own personalities, think in their own habitual way, full of subjectivity and emotionality. But their Second Form is what can be called the World Arbitration Agency: a pure logical judgment machine.

In that form, they transform into huge Celestial Fortresses (being able to serve as a Xyrin Apostle in Glory Form is a basic requirement), merging their spirit and even soul into it, preserving normal memory and personality, yet their thought process enters a pure logical state, relying solely on a complex and perfected yes/no judgment mechanism for their actions. In this state, even someone as hot-blooded as Pandora might make a decision to peacefully resolve an issue, and even a dimwit like Alaya might develop a complete management plan. I call this the hot-blooded dimwit compensation state…

But here’s a problem: starting arbitration requires three Celestial Fortresses. Alaya and Pandora are easy to arrange here, but what about Gaia?

She’s far away beyond who knows how many World Barriers in another world! Even someone as formidable as Pandora had to use all her energy for that scale of a one-way transmission!

“The main issue isn’t the distance,” Pandora said quietly, “the Space-Time Management Center has been activated, and transport between us and the mother star can become normalized–Brother, I’ve submitted that report to you.”

Pandora’s tone carried a heavy sense of grievance, and I felt embarrassed under the watchful eyes of everyone.

Uh, wait, if mother star transport has normalized, why haven’t we seen Gaia yet? I recall that she once mentioned being very envious of Pandora for being able to stay by my side.

“First, Gaia is currently the only Manager on the mother star, her departure would weaken the strength of our home. Second, Gaia… It’s very difficult for her to leave the mother star; her situation is quite unique and she cannot easily leave that planet, that would be a rather troublesome process.”

Pandora’s explanation piqued my curiosity. Unable to leave the mother star? What could be the reason?

But seeing that even the usually silly Alaya was showing an expression that suggested she didn’t want to talk about the topic, I forcibly suppressed my curiosity and started discussing the difficulty in establishing the Arbitration Institution. The biggest issue being: since Gaia can’t leave the mother star, how do we establish the Triple Star System? Surely, if it stretched across the Endless Void, the Arbitration Agency would be ineffective, right?

“We can pull your mother star over here,” Sandora said with an indomitable confidence as she gently clapped her heart.

“You’ve got to be joking!” I exclaimed in disbelief. To teleport a planet from one universe to another might be plausible if it were just an adjacent parallel space, but do you have any idea how far my mother star is from this universe? Almost a distance that could make Pandora spew blood!

“It’s simple,” chimed in Sandora. “The Space-Time Management Center is responsible for opening a Space Rift in the Kepulu Star Zone large enough for an entire planet to pass through, and as for the effort to teleport the planet here–that’s where Dingdang comes in.”

“Eh?” The little thing rummaging for candies in my pocket heard someone mention its name and curiously poked its head out, its face smeared with chocolate… fudge! So you’ve started snacking in my pocket, huh!

“Setting boundaries for worlds is part of your job scope, right?”

Sandora smiled and reached out to lift the messy-eating little thing from my pocket. After holding its arms and pondering deeply for a while, it had an epiphany: “Ah! So this is Dingdang’s job!”

I clearly saw Lilina’s figure turn ghastly pale in an instant.

Being a spokesperson for such a God, you truly suffer more than Jesus, girl.

Reminded by Sandora, Dingdang finally remembered its own functions, and I, once again, was shocked by the bugs of the Star Domain Divine Race acting as GMs.

How is the world defined?

As we all know, there are no concepts of space and location in the Void. The “distance” between two worlds has nothing to do with coordinates, and is solely based on a numerical value set by the gods. Why do the Milky Way and Centaurus belong to the same world? Why can’t there be a Third New Tokyo in the Magic Prohibition World? Although this boundary is represented by a World Barrier, it is determined by a “virtual address” set by the gods, like partitions on a hard drive. Invisible and intangible, it firmly divides data, and with its authority as a Management God, Dingdang can redefine the limits of a world to include something from outside its world–of course, this is only possible if both worlds are under its name or if one is unclaimed. Otherwise, redefining world boundaries without consent would result in a fine of a thousand yuan or detention for fifteen days for disturbing public order…

The process is akin to using a tool to rewrite hard drive partition information, transferring data from the D drive to the E drive. Of course, the actual operation is much more complex, but it seems to be no problem for Dingdang. It received a world code recognizable by the Divine Race from Alaya, then had me temporarily relinquish sovereignty over my mother star. The next step is for our Lord God to include this mother star under their world name, followed by my restoring sovereignty over the mother star and commanding it to enter this universe through the Space Rift in the Kepulu Star Zone–a series of maneuvers that ingeniously circumvents World Laws concerning resident land rights…

I feel that it’s a waste not to have Dingdang flipping real estate, and this little thing seems to have a commendable interest in exploiting legal loopholes…

It feels like we’ve become under-the-table land dealers right under the gods’ noses, and we’ve even recruited a member of the Divine Race as an accomplice…

I decided to leave this seemingly illegal transaction to the professionals, Alaya and Dingdang. Taville, meanwhile, was responsible for activating the space severing system of the Space-Time Management Center in Shadow City. Although Dingdang was helping us with the policy, allowing such a massive celestial body to traverse the Void was quite a challenge for the newly operational Space-Time Management Center.

Then there was the issue of “purifying” the Kepulu Star Zone. An Abyss Gate that has been leveled up by Void Energy, Xyrin Technology, and residual powers of the gods, if it were to burst, could absolutely permeate every atom in the star zone with the violent nature of the Abyss. This meant that not a single atom could remain in the Kepulu Star Zone; in fact, even time and space needed to be thoroughly sifted several times, which elevated the problem to a Law level.

Conventional weapons can turn a planet into fragments, powder, or even vaporize it into gas, or transform it into energy. But no matter what, such destruction is merely superficial; the space once occupied by the planet remains, its history remains, its place in the river of time remains. And any remaining bit of it could become a potential hiding corner for the Abyss.

“Hot Restart.”

Faced with the problem I raised, Pandora replied succinctly in her characteristic manner.

I teared up: “Wasn’t it just a moment ago when I was shocked to find out you’re from the Arbitration Institution? Is it really necessary to hold a grudge until now?! Would it kill you to cut your brother some slack for his Mortal Level intellect?!”

I cast a pleading look at Sandora, who had long been prepared to explain to us illiterates, even going so far as to have the black tea ready to soothe her throat.

Speaking of which, where the hell did that black tea come from?! Even if it’s to go along with the plot, can’t you at least show me the process of brewing the tea?!

Sandora completely ignored the urge inside me to flip the table and instead gently sipped her black tea, explaining unhurriedly, “Hot Restart was a method of deep Purification of the world, used during the glorious era of the Empire.”

“All things within the world, be it matter or energy, even space-time, and dimensions, in what form do they exist?”

“I don’t know.” Qianqian, Big Sister, and I shook our heads without hesitating, satisfied now? Now that your inner sense of superiority is appeased, hurry up and continue, you Glutton Queen!!

“From the perspective of the Law, it is ‘existence’ that allows for existence, from the perspective of Technology, it is ‘attributes’ that allow for existence; it’s that simple.”

“For example, a metal ball–it has mass, and we feel its heaviness; it has hardness, and we feel its solidity; it has strength and structure, and we feel its texture; as well as its volume, temperature, color… This series of attributes constitutes what we call a ‘metal ball.’ In our eyes, it is as if it exists in the world. Now, let us remove this metal ball, leaving behind only this series of attributes–if that’s possible–and based on these attributes, can we determine that the metal ball exists?”

“I’m reminded of the Wind Cutting Ice Flower from the Magic Prohibition World.”

“Hmm, you could say that; they are similar,” Sandora nodded at me, “A series of baseless information forms the characteristics of existence, but Wind Cutting Ice Flower isn’t perfect. She lacks a lot of information. Therefore, her existence is still illusory. We won’t discuss this now. Let us now think about the process in reverse, if you are given a metal ball and then I take away its mass…”

Sandora led us through the thought process with a smile.

“Taking away its volume, its density, its temperature, color, texture, strength, the space it occupies, its history, everything that can be used to describe this metal ball, I take it all away. Now, Ah Jun, do you think this metal ball still exists?”

I opened my mouth but found–this question is unsolvable!!

Does it exist?

How can you assert its existence? All the attributes representing it have disappeared; you can’t feel it, measure it, or even as far as the world itself is concerned, a physical object that can no longer interact with the outside is not acknowledged to exist.

But has it disappeared?

You’re simply unable to observe this metal ball anymore. Is it not too idealistic to declare its disappearance based solely on the fact that the metal ball can no longer provide any informational feedback to any outside observation?

“This problem has troubled quite a few philosophers,” Sandora said lightly as she touched her lips, “but in the end, we found the answer: the metal ball indeed has disappeared. Once all the information constituting its existence is gone, it evaporates from any and every dimension–a ‘thing’ that can’t produce any information essentially doesn’t exist.”

“And Hot Restart is based on this principle.”

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