Chapter 297 The Big World Comes Alive
Constantine came to see Lin You not to have a glass of wine or to chat a few words, but to borrow the extensive Floo network of Forrest Manor.

As a magical family with a history of 200 years, and a magical consultant that spans two worlds and can serve the British royal family, the Forrest family has been able to fully enjoy the benefits of the British Empire; the family's businesses are spread across almost every important colony. For the convenience of management, the manor naturally has a network of floos to all parts of the world.

I've searched all over Britain for a Floo Network node that's more convenient and safer than this one, and I guess the only way is to go to the Ministry of Magic.

After weighing the pros and cons, Constantine chose to go to the United States. Firstly, the language was common and life was convenient; secondly, it might be some kind of constraint of the world line.

After all, when the Constantine story was incorporated, the American version of the Hellblazer TV series also accounted for a considerable share. So somehow, Constantine had to live in the United States for a while.

As the green flames in the fireplace gradually dissipated along with Constantine's figure, Lin You's expression suddenly changed slightly, and he quickly walked into the library that belonged exclusively to the family patriarch.

As the door closed, a quill appeared in the palm of my hand.

The pure white goose feathers moved without wind, and the pen holder was also trembling slightly. As the writer, Lin You's consciousness was closely connected with the goose feather pen, and he naturally sensed the violent vibration coming from the deepest part of the world.

The trembling of a goose feather was just like a breeze brushing against one's face, but in Lin You's spiritual sense, earth-shaking and mountain-shaking were not enough to describe the feeling at the moment.

This vibration comes from the origin of the world and is the basis of all existence; it is not a material existence, but the intersection of the metaphysical and the physical, and it is also the focus of the quill pen's normal function.

Every word written by the writer, every drop of ink spilled between heaven and earth, and every reaction and change caused must ultimately be fed back to this origin to be "confirmed" and "implemented" to form the final rewriting effect.

Today, this source is shaking; this means that the foundation of the entire world's existence is changing, and it is a fundamental change.

As if a flash of inspiration had come to his mind, or as if he had suddenly been enlightened, Lin You suddenly understood; it was the "unknown" that was at work.

From Dantalion and Simonli teaming up to snatch the Holy Lance, to Constantine sneaking into the Vatican to steal the Holy Lance, to just now using the Floo Network to escape from Europe and go to America. Until this moment, the first "unknown" incident was truly over.

Lin You didn't know what the standard for this "end" was, nor did he know why it would take a year. He only knew that this was the choice of the big world itself. The results of the "unknown" would gradually be revealed in the big world from now on.

However, as a writer, Lin You can directly connect with the origin of the world through his quill pen, and can see the results faster than most people - even gods - without having to deduce and speculate from the gradually revealed external appearances.

The most important changes occurred in the rules of space and time.

From a material perspective, the foundation of all existence is built on time and space. The most obvious change in the origin of the big world is that the rules of time and space have been greatly strengthened; once the gods could view and even travel through the time and space nodes of the big world at will, because the big world was originally built by the gods using their own small worlds as a framework. If you open a door or a window in your own home, as long as you don't destroy the load-bearing wall, can't you open it however you want?

But now it is no longer possible. The strengthening of the rules of time and space seems to have turned the gods' homes into bank vaults; every wall has been poured with reinforced concrete, thickened, and even reinforced with steel plates. As owners, the gods can open doors and windows if they want, but it is not as easy as before. Especially traveling on the timeline is countless times more difficult than teleporting in space.

More importantly, the Great World itself will respond immediately to this "opening of doors and windows" action; to sum it up in Lin You's words: "The Great World has come alive..."

This kind of "living" is not "alive" in the sense of life - at least not yet; the current world is not a living body, and has not formed consciousness and soul. But since it is "alive", it has the possibility of "independent growth".

The big world in the past was a framework jointly constructed by the gods and the writers, and they continued to fill in this framework and enrich the composition of the big world by integrating one story after another. Such a big world is like a hard drive or a storage device, which can only passively receive information imported from the outside world; although the amount of information is increasing, it still needs operators to manually summarize and organize it.

The world that is now "alive" is like an AI that has formed an independent operating mode after sufficient training. It can analyze and summarize information content and give feedback on its own.

Perhaps it is possible that one day in the future, the "AI" of the big world will suddenly take the last step of evolution, awaken self-awareness, and even go further to give birth to a soul.

For humans, the birth of self-awareness in AI may be a very scary thing; but for the gods in the virtual dimension, if self-awareness is born in the big world, it will not be a cause for universal celebration, but at least it will be spread around to tell others.

The gods in the virtual dimension are called gods, but in the final analysis, they are all born from human consciousness; even if they see through the essence of the world, they cannot escape the influence of humans. Because that is equivalent to cutting off the root and foundation of their own existence, to put it bluntly, it is suicide.

However, a world with self-awareness, an independent world born based on the characteristics of the illusory dimension, can exist without relying on human consciousness. This world will have the opportunity to become a new foothold and foundation for all gods in the future, allowing gods to exist independently from humans.

Even more so, when the world continues to grow on its current basis, when it truly develops consciousness, it is possible that this world will give birth to its own gods...

Thinking of this, Lin You suddenly felt a chill in his heart, as if a basin of ice water was poured over his head in the dead of winter, making his hair stand on end.

Just as the writer was shuddering, the quill in his hand began to tremble again; this time it was not the resonance from the origin of the big world, but the will of the gods attached to the quill itself that was transmitting a signal.

The quill pen is a divine tool jointly forged by the gods, and each pantheon has attached its own will to it; while assisting the writer in his work, it also monitors his every move to ensure that it does not harm the interests of the gods.

Now, the information conveyed by the quill pen shows that almost every god system that has attached its will to the pen is watching the person holding the pen at the same time.

In Lin You’s memory, apart from the day when he first arrived in the virtual dimension and took the quill pen for the first time, today was the second time that he was paid attention to by almost all gods.

Soon, a portal to the Garden of Eden opened in the library; from the portal came the words of God: "Come here, Writer."

(End of this chapter)