Chapter 639: Chapter 499: Nine Palace Grid, Digital Civilization

A brand new mushroom appeared before my eyes.

It was a mushroom with two large eyeballs, with dancing numbers in its pupils.

"New series?"

The never-before-seen aura of the Divine Object aroused Liu Jun’s curiosity.

[Nine Palace Sudoku]: The world’s most elegant is numbers.

Introduction:

I am a painter and also a mathematician.

Silent, solitary, ineloquent—this is everyone’s impression of me.

As a youngster, I had a fever while in the snowy fields and had a dream.

In the dream, I saw a square grid filled with various mathematical formulas, each dancing number adorned with smiling figures.

"Genius, come join us."

After waking up that day, I began obsessively studying mathematics.

I felt there was an incredible mystery hidden within it.

In my childhood, youth, and middle age, every day after work, I would sit at my desk studying the world’s most beautiful numbers.

My wife didn’t understand; she thought I should engage more with people, build good relationships with colleagues, honor superiors... because of my lack of social skills, I missed many promotion opportunities.

My parents didn’t understand either; they believed I should focus more on my career as only money can prove a man’s social status and lead to true success.

But I just wanted to calculate.

I discovered that many beautiful number ratios could be contained within paintings, complementing each other.

Yet, my paintings attracted no interest.

Until one day.

"Oh, my god, I can no longer stand having such an unromantic husband!"

My wife left me.

My parents were even more heartbroken and disapproving of me.

But I continued counting, seeking the truth from my dreams in a mundane life.

At sixty, I suddenly wondered if that bizarre dream was perhaps false, yet I remained obsessed with numbers.

At ninety, one day, after thousands of calculations, I finally derived a stunningly beautiful mathematical formula.

It was as magnificent, radiant, and variable as the stars, as profound as if it contained the truths of the Cosmos.

And this formula mysteriously appeared in my mind:

Nine.

At that moment, the house in the snowy field, the snowman outside, the car covered by snow, the floor heating, the fireplace, the wooden house...everything before me was marked by a row of complex and dense numbers.

I seemed to...transform into a being from another dimension.

I found myself within a gigantic Nine Palace Grid, with each of the nine squares occupied by a peculiar Divine Object.

"Welcome to the Mathematical Dimension."

A voice came to my ear.

I turned and saw several strange alien creatures standing in front of me.

"You are..." I was aghast, my socially anxious and solitary nature left my mind blank.

"Don’t be nervous."

The lead alien creature, tall and skinny like a bamboo pole with a pig’s head, forced a grin that was both kind and grotesque.

"Firstly, congratulations to your civilization for breaking through the first dimension level."

"You probably don’t understand what it means, so let me explain."

"We categorize the Cosmos’s civilization levels by numbers, and your breakthrough has elevated your planet’s civilization to the first dimension level."

I was somewhat puzzled: "Isn’t it through technological advancement that civilization levels are broken through?"

The Pig-headed Man showed a peculiar smile, "Of course not, everyone present here has the power to modify numbers."

"For example, the number I comprehend is 5, and the number you comprehend should be 9, right?"

"Each of us is a super mathematical genius who, through endless calculations and deductions, have discovered a certain special divine number...and mastered it."

"You are a mathematician who masters 9; you have comprehended the divine formula, allowing you to change any number related to 9... whether in the gravitational formula or the speed of light..."

Seeing my continued confusion, the Pig-headed Man made a simple analogy.

"For instance, the value of Pi is 3.14... and the mathematicians here for 3, 1, and 4...can modify the value of Pi."

The Pig-headed Man elegantly introduced his bizarre-looking companions beside him.

The Pig-headed Man pointed to a lizard creature, "This scientist masters 3 from Pi 3.14... he can change 3 to 4... turning Pi into 4.14..."

I was utterly shocked.

Changing Pi to 4.14—what would that be like?

The fundamental numbers of the Cosmos would undergo dramatic changes; Pi would become a different ellipse... is that reasonable? Would there be no perfect circle in the Cosmos because of this?

This is ridiculous.

The Pig-headed Man laughed, then pointed to a toad scientist, "And this one, he masters 1... he can change the 1 in 3.14 to another number."

Finally, he introduced a scientist who mastered 4.

The Pig-headed Man said, "I am the last to arrive, mastering nine."

The Nine Palace Grid, scientists for 1 to 9, fully gathered here.

"Congratulations, my friend."

"The Nine Palace Grid has only a few positions, and you are the last civilization mastering a number!"

The Pig-headed Man smiled slightly.

In an instant, I keenly sensed something, "Wait, changing earlier digits of Pi 3.1415926... has a greater impact on Pi."

"If I change the later digits, wouldn’t that almost not change Pi?"

The Pig-headed Man clapped his hands and smiled, "Clever!"

"The scientist who masters 3 changes Pi ten times more efficiently than 1... because modifying the 3 digit at 3.14 results in more significant changes."

"But that’s just Pi; in other numbers, they have their own fields they’re adept at changing, like the gravitational acceleration of 9.8... You control 9, and none present here can alter more than you!"

At this moment, I completely understood.

The Nine Divines of numbers from 1 to 9 have their unique advantages in different numerical domains. 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

Mathematics, it’s truly wonderful!

That dream from years ago, turns out it wasn’t false!

I had another doubt, "So, where did 0 go?"

"0? Sorry, can’t find it, we believe 0 doesn’t exist at all."

The Pig-headed Man said calmly, "What we’re looking at under our feet is the Nine Palace Grid..."

"We call it the Nine Palace Box Hall... it’s our Divine Hall meeting place."

"It only has nine palaces, thus only nine numbers; there’s no seat for 0, so we unanimously believe, 0 doesn’t exist!"

"And you, my friend, with your arrival at 9, we’ve now finally completed the nine."

The Pig-headed Man’s face was full of excited radiance, the unique fervor mathematicians have when researching numbers.

"Our Nine Palace puzzle is complete, we can embark on a grand mathematical journey, we shall officially ascend dimensions!?"

"Ascend dimensions?" I was puzzled.

"Yes, right now, immediately, have your civilization study numbers... your planet will become the super one-dimensional civilization representing [9]!"

"You are the king of your planet, quickly cultivate a multitude of mathematicians, let each citizen become a mathematician, then follow you to explore the infinite mysteries of 9!"

The Pig-headed Man was filled with fanaticism.

The surrounding mathematicians were also full of excitement, they were the purest, the most genius of the obsessive genius, their pursuit for the aesthetics of numbers had reached an extreme degree.

I nodded, "Research numbers? With me modifying the numbers related to 9 in the universe, I’ve indeed become some kind of... god."

"For instance, changing the gravity numbers allows me to adjust the gravitational numbers on everyone... to kill the opponent."

"I’m very sure that upon regaining consciousness I can rule my planet..."

Being a smart person, I soon had the next doubt, "What you just said, a one-dimensional civilization, what’s that about?"

The Pig-headed Man explained, "A single-digit civilization, we call it one-dimensional, double-digit civilization, we call it two-dimensional, and so forth."

"For example, 1, 3, these two digits can forge the number 13, together we can temporarily step into two-dimensional."

From 11 to 99, requires us from 1 to 9 to join forces, to forge new numbers..."

My eyes lit up, so unique it was.

With my perspective, I instantly detected the infinite changes in it.

For example, 11, 12, 13...19, here requires the deity of 1 to cooperate with the other 8 deities respectively, to ascend into two-dimensional, to interfere with two-digit cosmic numbers!

Three-dimensional, four-dimensional...

And so on!

The nine of us, together can forge extremely beautiful numbers...

I was immensely excited, after exchanging with these rare mathematical friends, I finally felt a release and liberation in spirit.

My entire life had been incredibly lonely, with no one to communicate with, I finally met other enthusiasts, equally geniuses.

Crack!

When I returned to reality, I was back in my lonely snow house.

But the numbers within the room told me I wasn’t dreaming.

I laughed softly, randomly changing the gravity numbers around me, I suddenly soared, straight up into the sky.

Soon, I arrived at the national capital.

White Mountain Palace.

"Who, who are you? Which kind of superhuman are you, you can fly?"

"Do you know you’re invading the greatest nation on this planet? I am President Hughes, I now demand you..."

A large number of troops fired at me.

With my altered neural parameters, I reacted incredibly swiftly, the bullets flew towards me ever so slowly.

I casually changed a number, and the bullets aimed at me plummeted heavily.

This horrific scene left everyone dumbfounded.

"I declare, this planet is now under my rule."

Ten years later.

The civilization of 9 began to rise, countless mathematicians used various graphics, retraced the path, extending along my research, to help me refine the power I mastered.

A hundred years later.

Me and my other friends, joined forces to ascend into two dimensions, 19, 29, 39, 49... These dual numbers related to 9 were all completed by me and the other deities together.

A thousand years later, we ascended into three dimensions.

"Hahaha, our technology finally broke a hundred, with three of us together, we can interfere with three-digit numbers..."

We were intoxicated by the mysteries of mathematics, delving into the mysteries of the cosmos.

Until one day, my friend the Pig-headed Man suddenly told me alarmingly: "It’s all a conspiracy, conspiracy... 0 has always existed... 0 hid itself, plotting against me?"

I was full of confusion, the Nine Palace Grid clearly had only nine numbers, how could 0 exist?

But the next moment, I realized as well.

Yes, we all overlooked, the number 0, had been in the Nine Palace Grid from the start... it was always beneath our feet.

But it was too late.

The Pig-headed Man and I turned around in horror, seeing a figure slowly approaching us.

All our efforts, all the heritage we accumulated...

Ended entirely.

We made wedding clothes for someone else.

...

"The introduction to the Divine Object is over? An open-ending? Where’s the culprit?"

Liu Jun realized this, feeling inexplicably as if it had some suspense drama flavor.