Chapter 929: Experiment and Speculation |
Xiao Yu’s intelligence network system was rapidly expanding. Up to this point, the space under Xiao Yu’s surveillance had already reached one half of the entire Feiyuan Galaxy, and this proportion was still continuing to expand rapidly.
Under such circumstances, Xiao Yu almost instantly detected this intense upheaval occurring within the Feiyuan Galaxy and sensed all the strange changes existing there. If such a scene were observed by a Level 6 Civilization or a lower civilization, it might cause their entire system of physical theory to collapse. But for Xiao Yu, these changes could only allow him to understand the mysteries of Rules more deeply.
“Clearly, this is two Level 8 Civilizations waging war on the level of Rules. Because the Rules are being rewritten, these tens of millions of stars, as well as the even greater number of planets and other stellar bodies, have all been affected. A star holds itself together because of its own gravitational cohesion, and because the pressure formed by nuclear fusion prevents it from collapsing too much, and so it achieves balance. But if the properties of gravity are changed, the star will violently explode and no longer remain gathered into one mass, while if the mechanism that creates internal pressure is changed, the star will suddenly shrink without limit and ultimately become a black hole.”
“This is the way Level 8 Civilizations wage war.” Xiao Yu sighed silently. “Their battles are not merely, as I previously thought, fought only on some mysterious and abstruse level of Rules. Their wars also affect the visible universe.”
Xiao Yu recalled the scene that had occurred after he destroyed the small universe of the Andromeda Galaxy’s Alliance of Civilizations, and recalled what he had seen when he used the Star Gate to complete the journey from the Milky Way Galaxy to the Andromeda Galaxy. The situation there had been the same. At this moment, the same kind of thing, the alteration of Rules, was also occurring in the Feiyuan Galaxy. There was only one difference. Xiao Yu could now only destroy Rules, but could not reshape them. After the Rules were destroyed, Xiao Yu could not interfere with them, and could only watch them slowly evolve on their own.
“Perhaps this is the difference between a Level 7 Civilization and a Level 8 Civilization. Level 8 Civilizations can already create a more favorable cosmic environment for themselves by rewriting Rules… For example, a Level 8 Civilization on the extreme stellar body path can manufacture Black Hole War Stars by changing the speed of light and changing the characteristic of black holes only allowing entry and not exit. And just like this macroscopic civilization now, it can create more convenient conditions for itself by rewriting gravity and the speed of light…”
“The war between the Level 8 Civilizations has already begun. Then the war between the Level 7 Civilizations should begin as well.” Xiao Yu thought for a while and once again shifted his attention to the void before him.
Yes, what appeared before Xiao Yu at this moment was merely a void. There were no stars, no planets, no interstellar dust, nothing at all. Yet based on Xiao Yu’s previous observations and his inferences from the surrounding environment, this should not have been an empty void. Here… there should have been a vast black hole. It should have had an enormous accretion disk, and when matter fell into it, it should have released tremendously powerful energy. The energy released by this single black hole system was enough to rival that of the entire galaxy…
But there was nothing here. Although those surrounding stars were still rapidly orbiting this place, although the entire galaxy was still remaining stable, the Central Black Hole was gone.
Now, if he could not even find this black hole, how was Xiao Yu supposed to destroy it?
“Oh? It seems the Dark Star Civilization has mastered some technology beyond my expectations… They actually hid an entire black hole. Then what technology did you use to hide it?” Xiao Yu thought with great interest.
Finding the hidden Central Black Hole was quite a challenging matter for Xiao Yu. Because even Xiao Yu himself had not mastered a method of hiding a black hole with a mass of nearly seven billion solar masses while still allowing its gravity to maintain the normal operation of the entire galaxy.
“According to my current theoretical level, the most likely explanation is space technology, and highly ingenious space technology at that, such as through the repeated folding, fracturing, and duplication of space, ultimately achieving the goal of hiding a physical entity. But… is that really of any use? As long as you still exist within this region of space, then what if I cannot find you?”
To deal with this situation, Xiao Yu had a very simple and crude, yet very effective, method. That was to directly destroy this entire region of space. It was like an ant hiding inside a wrinkled towel. If the towel had too many folds and dead knots, then there was no need to untie each knot and smooth out each fold to look for the ant. One only needed to throw the towel into a stove and burn it directly. In that way, no matter how cleverly the ant was hidden, it would still die in the end.
That was exactly what Xiao Yu wanted to do now. In the vast empty region at the center of the galaxy, Xiao Yu began orderly preparations. What he deployed there were great numbers of supermassive chain-reaction Spatial Bombs. Here, this strategic-class weapon developed by Xiao Yu once again had a use.
“The Central Black Hole of the Feiyuan Galaxy is not much less massive than a quasar. To completely hide such an enormous thing together with its surrounding accretion disk, your Dark Star Civilization has truly made a grand move.” Xiao Yu thought slowly. “You may have carried out very deep research in the spatial domain, but I do not like to compete with you in technique here.”
According to Xiao Yu’s detection, at the core of the Feiyuan Galaxy, matter had vanished from a region about five hundred light years in extent. So the supermassive chain-reaction Spatial Bombs Xiao Yu deployed also occupied a space five hundred light years in diameter. Deploying these strategic weapons consumed another roughly half a year of Xiao Yu’s time.
During these six months, the core region of the Feiyuan Galaxy remained in this same calm state. Somewhere in the Feiyuan Galaxy, the clash between the Level 8 Civilizations was still continuing, and Xiao Yu continued to closely monitor the developments there. During this period, the battlefield there still maintained this strange and dazzling state. Rules were being constantly rewritten and then constantly fixed, and the natural stellar bodies in cosmic space were being continually constrained by new Rules. To be honest, Xiao Yu did not really understand the form of battle between Level 8 Civilizations. Xiao Yu could not even analyze which side currently held the advantage.
“The situation for our side is one where as long as we win one battle, we gain total victory. Even if I fail, there is still the universe direction Level 8 Civilization as another chance. But I will not place my hopes on them. Chen Mo’s situation inside the Spokesperson camp does not seem very good. I need to prove my value in order to improve the environment she is in…” Xiao Yu thought silently.
“Then, supermassive chain-reaction Spatial Bombs, activate. Completely destroy this region of space and expose both the Dark Star Civilization hiding in the dark and the Central Black Hole of the Feiyuan Galaxy… Without these cover layers, let me see how you can continue hiding.” Xiao Yu sneered inwardly.
A sufficient number of supermassive chain-reaction Spatial Bombs had already been deployed by Xiao Yu in the proper locations. Now they were merely waiting for a single command from Xiao Yu. And now, Xiao Yu solemnly issued that command.
Before detonating these monsters, Xiao Yu had already withdrawn to a safe distance far enough away. Under Xiao Yu’s close observation, boundless energy gushed out from that region.
Everything unfolded exactly as Xiao Yu had expected. Xiao Yu had carried out many such explosions before, and had extremely deep knowledge of the consequences such explosions could produce and the phenomena that would occur during them. Everything was normal, just as in the many experiments Xiao Yu had carried out before.
But everything being normal meant that something was wrong. Because in the many normal experiments Xiao Yu had carried out before, there had not been a galactic Central Black Hole with a mass of tens of billions of solar masses hidden in that space.
If there really had been such a massive thing hidden here, then in this explosive experiment Xiao Yu certainly should have observed some abnormality. Xiao Yu observed none. That was what made the situation strange.
Yes, after carrying out such a massive spatial explosion, that gigantic hidden black hole still did not reveal itself. Nor did the Dark Star Civilization reveal itself. They… did not seem to be hidden in the way Xiao Yu had understood.
“Are they not hiding themselves through space technology?” Xiao Yu silently pondered this question. “If it is not space technology, then what other technology could hide something this huge? One must know that the gravity of this gigantic black hole is still governing the many stellar bodies of this galaxy, which proves that it must still be here. It has not left this place…”
It was like being able to feel that a person was standing right beside you. You could touch him, feel his warmth, hear his voice and heartbeat, smell the scent on his body, and yet… you simply could not find him, could not see him.
The situation was precisely this bizarre.
Gradually, a thought emerged in Xiao Yu’s mind, “Could it be… a Logic Weapon? Did the Dark Star Civilization use a Logic Weapon to hide this enormous thing?”