Chapter 976: Searching for Flaws |
This bubble had bought Xiao Yu the most precious one year of time. If the Dark Star Civilization knew that the bubble they had created while bearing the backlash of the Logic Weapon was now helping Xiao Yu, who knew what they would think in their hearts.
For Xiao Yu, as long as there was a one in ten thousand possibility that the Divine Ark and Pegasus Civilization had been imprisoned inside the black hole, Xiao Yu would not risk destroying the black hole. But the Dark Star Civilization did not know this point. Standing from their position, in order to make Xiao Yu have reservations and believe this point, they would inevitably make more arrangements and create more signs to make Xiao Yu believe this point. Xiao Yu believed that it was precisely because of this thinking of the Dark Star Civilization that the Divine Ark and Pegasus Civilization had not ultimately been destroyed. Because the Dark Star Civilization would worry that if Xiao Yu could, through some method they could not predict, learn that the Divine Ark and Pegasus Civilization had already been destroyed, their words would lose their deterrent effect, and naturally, they would have no way to achieve the goal of restraining Xiao Yu.
The living Divine Ark and Pegasus Civilization had value. The dead Divine Ark and Pegasus Civilization had no value.
This was the origin of the bubble. The Dark Star Civilization had issued a command to the Logic Weapon. Through some unknown method, the Logic Weapon created this kind of bubble that could exist perfectly inside a black hole, protecting the Divine Ark and Pegasus Civilization. Now, it was also protecting Xiao Yu.
Xiao Yu had already told Ares and the others this point. After learning that the Dark Star Civilization had unexpectedly helped them by a strange combination of circumstances, everyone had their own feelings in their hearts.
“However, there is still one point that worries me.” Nordin said, “The universe civilization is undoubtedly extremely powerful, and their attitude toward us has undoubtedly already been decided. Then there is one point that is very worth worrying about. Why would they leave us one year of time and let us search for a method to deal with them? Since you, Xiao Yu, can enter this bubble, why can the universe civilization not? Why do they not directly break into the bubble and kill us all, instead of insisting on waiting one year?”
Xiao Yu smiled slightly and did not speak. Ares was the same. The remaining Number Four, Number Five, Lorna, and the others also looked at Xiao Yu with puzzled expressions.
This was indeed a very difficult question to understand, so everyone had not figured it out. But very clearly, Xiao Yu and Ares had already understood the key point within it.
“The reason is very simple.” Xiao Yu sighed and said, “Because inside this bubble, the universe civilization is not our opponent.”
“What exactly is the reason?” Lorna asked impatiently.
“The reason is very simple…” Nordin sighed and said, “Just like back then, the microscopic civilization, as a Level 7 Civilization, was not a match for us when we were a Level 6 Civilization… The microscopic civilization’s strength lay in the microscopic world, while the universe civilization’s strength lies in Rules. We have reason to believe that only when Rules are under their control and formulated according to their own wishes can the warships of the universe civilization display their power. In other words, under the Rules currently followed by the three-dimensional main universe, the warships of the universe civilization very likely are not our opponents. And they cannot change the Rules inside the bubble. So they do not dare to come in.”
“Yes, exactly.” Xiao Yu nodded and said, “This one year of time is our final chance, our only hope of survival. Therefore, mobilize all the forces we can currently use to search for the flaws in the Rules formulated by the universe civilization. Four, Five, Ruto, lead the Central Research Academy of Science to abandon all current ongoing research projects. Use all your energy on this matter. No matter what discipline, no matter what branch of scientist, all must be mobilized. You must know that the Rules flaw of the universe civilization may very possibly exist only in some extremely insignificant place. It may belong to any discipline. Mechanics, optics, high-energy physics, life science, computational science, material science, fluid mechanics, and so on. I will dispatch enough detectors into the external space controlled by the universe civilization to provide everyone with enough initial material. Then let our work begin.”
“One year later, if we can survive, we will celebrate our reunion then. Now, I command you, begin work!” Xiao Yu issued the order solemnly.
“Yes!” At this moment, everyone present, including Ares and Nordin, all spoke this word in unison. Everything was very natural, just like it had been under Xiao Yu’s leadership in the past.
After this command, everyone was mobilized once again. That was an enormous force formed by the combination of several trillion people and Xiao Yu, who possessed super-powerful computational power. The universe civilization was undoubtedly a powerful existence that had roamed this universe for no one knew how long. During this time, no one knew how many civilizations with either powerful strength or powerful wisdom had failed before the universe civilization. Among these civilizations, in terms of strength, there were unknown numbers that were stronger than Xiao Yu. But they had all failed. Now, beside the corpses of countless predecessors who had fallen, Xiao Yu once again stepped onto the journey.
Perhaps, just as the music civilization had said, only an existence type like Xiao Yu, only after possessing unparalleled powerful computational power, could comprehensively inspect the Rules formulated by the universe civilization, and only then could he search through this vast ocean of technological data to find that tiny difference which might exist only in a number several million digits after the decimal point.
Or perhaps, countless other powerful civilizations could not find the flaws of the universe civilization, and Xiao Yu also could not find them. But at this moment, Xiao Yu had to do this. This was the only chance to survive.
Under Xiao Yu’s mobilization, the enormous civilization machine once again began operating fiercely. In the Central Research Academy of Science inside the Civilization spaceship, and in the academy branches inside the other tens of thousands of spaceships, countless scientific researchers became busy. Because the first batch of technological data had already been transmitted over.
Xiao Yu had already manufactured detectors that met the requirements at the fastest speed, then scattered them out of this bubble like scattering sand. Under the strange Rules formulated by the universe civilization, these detectors could not work normally at all in the beginning. Xiao Yu gradually explored and gradually improved them, finally improving them to their current state.
Detectors suitable for the Rules outside the bubble simply could not operate inside the bubble. These were almost things from two different worlds. Xiao Yu spent enormous effort before barely achieving this step. But even so, after these detectors were launched out, they were still being damaged at a shocking speed. The average operating time of a single detector could not even reach one minute. In such a terrible environment, Xiao Yu was barely carrying out detection through enormous quantity.
At present, every piece of information was extremely precious. Now, this extremely precious detection data was classified by Xiao Yu into different categories, then sent to different scientific research project teams in the Central Research Academy of Science, where they carried out preliminary screening and calculation on this data, as well as related logical operations.
This observational data was completely different from the data currently followed in the three-dimensional main universe. The simplest example was the speed of light. In the current observational data, the speed of light was completely different from here. The work Xiao Yu and these scientists currently had to do was to use the current basic observational data as a starting point, analyze the relationship between one kind of data and another kind of data, find the laws existing here, that is, the physical laws within this Rules system, and then combine them with other observational data to verify these physical laws. If the results matched, then there was no problem. If the results did not match, then further analysis was required to see whether some unknown law was at work, or whether it was purely a contradiction in the laws.
What Xiao Yu needed to search for was precisely these contradictions in the laws, that is, Rules flaws.
For example, in the three-dimensional main universe, the second law of thermodynamics stipulated that heat could only transfer from an object with higher temperature to an object with lower temperature. An object with lower temperature could not transfer energy to an object with higher temperature without producing other effects. In other words, it was impossible, without producing other effects, to reduce a cup of water at twenty-five degrees Celsius by five degrees and make it become twenty degrees, then add these five degrees to a cup of water at thirty degrees Celsius and make it become thirty-five degrees.
If a similar contradictory phenomenon occurred, then Xiao Yu would need to continue searching to see whether there were any other effects existing in this process. If no other effects existed, then good, this would be a Rules flaw in the current three-dimensional main universe. Because the second law of thermodynamics had been supported by countless other observational data and experiments, yet a mistake happened precisely here, and there were no other reasons affecting it. If this was not a flaw and a loophole, then what was it?
What Xiao Yu needed to search for was this kind of flaw. The music civilization had said that as long as he found this flaw, then reproduced it through experimental methods, the Rules formulated by the universe civilization would completely collapse, and thus cause the destruction of the universe civilization.
“It is just… it seems the music civilization also cannot be certain whether there really are flaws in the Rules created by the universe civilization. But thinking about it, there should be… After all, the Rules formulated by the universe civilization are not the Rules currently followed in the main universe, which have been followed for more than ten billion years and undergone more than ten billion years of testing…”