Chapter 935: Rich Experience |
Xiao Yu very decisively gave up the attempt to continue building transmission channels and advance into the three-dimensional world where the Central Black Hole was located. Because Xiao Yu knew that as long as the Logic Weapon was still in effect, there was no way he could achieve his objective. Countless low-probability events would occur, and in the end these events would destroy the transmission channels he had painstakingly built.
And the most crucial point was that before the final result appeared, Xiao Yu had no way of knowing which low-probability events were targeted at him and which low-probability events were part of the universe’s natural evolution. This meant that Xiao Yu had no way to eliminate in advance the butterfly that caused the hurricane.
So Xiao Yu could only give up. At this moment, Xiao Yu became the ‘executor’ that prevented himself. If Xiao Yu’s understanding was correct, then Xiao Yu knew that at this moment, the universe should already have allocated him a certain bit of benefit.
But there was another very serious problem before Xiao Yu.
This problem was that Xiao Yu had given up the attempt to enter that three-dimensional world, so how was he supposed to destroy the Central Black Hole of the Feiyuan Galaxy? Xiao Yu did not believe that just because he had acted as executor this once, and the Dark Star Civilization had used the Logic Weapon this once, they would suffer enough cosmic backlash to cause their own destruction. And the passage into that three-dimensional world had already been blocked. Xiao Yu had no way to directly attack the Dark Star Civilization…
Then how was his mission supposed to be completed?
These Neutron War Stars were not Xiao Yu’s own creations. According to the order the Dark Star Civilization had given to the Logic Weapon, it seemed that the Neutron War Stars should not be within this restriction. But do not forget, in order to control these Neutron War Stars, Xiao Yu would inevitably have to make certain modifications to them so that they better suited his own usage habits, and those modifications would surely count as Xiao Yu’s creations. If he wanted to send these Neutron War Stars unrestricted into that three-dimensional world, then it seemed Xiao Yu ought to remove those things of his own creation from the Neutron War Stars. But… did this removal process count as a process of modification? And once the Neutron War Stars were modified, did they count as Xiao Yu’s creations? Would they also be subject to the restriction?
Xiao Yu had no interest in trying out these logical twists and turns. Because such things had no meaning. Even if these Neutron War Stars were sent into that three-dimensional world, so what? Xiao Yu did not believe that relying on these Neutron War Stars would be enough to defeat the current Dark Star Civilization and destroy the Central Black Hole.
“Then what am I supposed to do?” Xiao Yu silently thought over this question.
Countless huge stellar bodies transformed from macroscopic civilization lifeforms were appearing and disappearing here. Their enemies were gigantic warships, somewhat fewer in number than they were. If Xiao Yu could see them, Xiao Yu would certainly consider these warships to be utterly unscientific existences. In fact, Xiao Yu seriously doubted whether these imposing warships could actually display their combat power in a real war.
For example, their size. After mastering space folding technology, was it necessary to build warships this large? Huge warships meant much broader surfaces that could be attacked, and their maneuverability would inevitably be affected. Things of this scale were more suitable to serve as space bases, not as warships directly facing all kinds of situations on the battlefield.
Besides that, the most obvious characteristic was those unusually numerous conventional propulsion engines. In wars occurring at the technological level of Level 7 or Level 8 Civilizations, travel on the conventional level was actually not very important, because those warships could enter curvature flight at any time. So in Xiao Yu’s view, equipping these warships with so many conventional propulsion engines was undoubtedly a great waste.
Yet the war that followed exceeded Xiao Yu’s imagination. These gigantic warships, within this chaotic battlefield, fully displayed a flexibility completely out of proportion to their size. At the same time, under the propulsion of those excessively numerous conventional engines, the speed of these warships directly crossed the barrier of lightspeed. On the conventional level, their speed began climbing without limit, even reaching nearly one thousand times the speed of light. Moreover, in the course of their constant high-speed movement, they were not affected by inertia at all, as if inertia simply did not exist here.
At the same time, those huge macroscopic civilization lifeforms were also moving at high speed, and their speed was even faster than that of these huge warships, almost reaching two thousand times the speed of light. Amid this high-speed movement, the macroscopic civilization lifeforms became entangled with these huge warships. Under the effects of different Rules, all kinds of Level 6 Civilization or Level 7 Civilization weapons also shone here in a different way.
Laser-type weapons certainly had various advantages, such as simple construction and strong attack power, but they had one fatal flaw: their maximum speed could only be lightspeed. And the speed of light was simply too slow on the battlefield of advanced civilizations. In order to overcome this flaw, Xiao Yu and other advanced civilizations had developed various weapons capable of faster-than-light travel, such as Spatial Cannons, Spatial Bombs capable of curvature flight, spatial fluctuation weapons, and so on.
But on the battlefield of Level 8 Civilizations, laser-type weapons once again shone brilliantly. Because here the upper limit of lightspeed had been removed or greatly expanded. This meant laser-type weapons could also move rapidly. And once that flaw was removed, laser-type weapons were actually quite useful.
Besides laser-type weapons, there were also force field weapons, negative matter weapons, and even kinetic weapons all shining brilliantly here. This was a very strange war. And in this war, it was without question the macroscopic civilization lifeforms that held the upper hand. They moved faster, and their forms of attack were broader. They could even carry unmatched massive energy and directly ram these gigantic warships at conventional travel speeds of two thousand times lightspeed. Their way of fighting was somewhat similar to alien beasts, while also integrating the advantages of technological civilizations. On their enormous bodies, there were also plenty of technological weapons…
The universe civilization was being comprehensively suppressed.
“Since your mobility is two thousand times normal universal lightspeed… and our mobility is one thousand times normal universal lightspeed… then let the speed of light here be set to one thousand times normal universal lightspeed.” A deep sigh appeared here. “We are a Level 8 Civilization on the universe direction. Our strength lies in mastering Rules. We can, by establishing targeted Rules, erase your advantages and bring our own advantages into full play.”
A mysterious force Xiao Yu still could not understand spread through this region of cosmic space. All matter existing in this region, including every atom and every electron inside every atom, began to be constrained by this force. This was the power of Rules. All things in the universe had to be governed by Rules.
So, in that instant, the speed of those gigantic intelligent lifeforms of the macroscopic civilization suddenly dropped. Their original mobility was two thousand times normal universal lightspeed, but the speed of light here had now been changed to one thousand times normal universal lightspeed. And the Rule that lightspeed could not be exceeded had not been changed. So in that very instant, the mobility of the intelligent lifeforms of the macroscopic civilization was dragged down to the same level as the warships of the Level 8 Civilization on the universe direction. They had greater speed, but under the domination of Rules, that greater speed simply could not be used.
Their advantage had been erased.
“Your mass is huge, is it? Fine then, rewrite the Rules. Strengthen gravity, the strong force, and the weak force, reduce electromagnetism…”
The Rules in this region of space were rewritten once again. And under the domination of these Rules, the stars existing in this region were affected immediately. In that instant, their volumes began to shrink violently, while their luminosity began to increase. Gravity, the strong force, and the weak force were attractive forces, while electromagnetism was repulsive. These were the four fundamental forces of the microscopic world. It was precisely because there was attraction and repulsion, and because of the balance between them, that stellar bodies and matter could exist stably. But now, gravity had been strengthened, while repulsion had been weakened. Their volume was bound to shrink. And in order to resist the ever stronger gravity and maintain their own equilibrium, the nuclear fusion in these stellar bodies would intensify again, producing more light and heat as repulsive force to maintain themselves.
It was not only these stars that were affected. The intelligent lifeforms of the macroscopic civilization also possessed extremely great mass, so they too would be affected by these new Rules. At this moment, their bodies also began to shrink, and their speed suddenly slowed down, as if lead weights had been tied to their feet. As for the warships of the macroscopic civilization, although their size was enormous, their mass was vastly different from those gigantic beings. They were not affected by these new Rules in the slightest.
“So it really is like this… when going to war against any type of civilization, never go to war against a civilization on the universe direction.” The macroscopic civilization sighed faintly. “Because universe civilizations will, by establishing Rules, drag the performance of any enemy’s tools of war down to the same level as their own, or even lower, and then rely on rich experience to defeat the enemy… Going to war against a universe civilization is truly not a good thing.”