Chapter 971: A Bright Point |
Perhaps this example could be made even more extreme.
Suppose Xiao Yu obtained the Logic Weapon, then began searching for low-level civilizations in this universe, raising them in captivity and absolutely controlling them. Then, when he had an objective that needed the Logic Weapon to achieve, he would find a low-level civilization, throw the Logic Weapon to them, and let them issue a command originating from himself. If this low-level civilization was destroyed because of the backlash, then he would simply throw away their corpses.
The birth of a civilization was extremely difficult. Xiao Yu had a deep understanding of this point. But thanks to the enormous base number, one thing could be certain: the number of low-level civilizations in this universe definitely would not be small. This also meant that Xiao Yu’s method could be used repeatedly. Even if using the Logic Weapon once sacrificed one civilization, so what? In any case, in this universe, there were so many low-level civilizations. Xiao Yu could completely capture several hundred or several thousand low-level civilizations and reserve them.
This method had extremely low requirements for the quality of a civilization. Xiao Yu did not even need to look for civilizations that had already entered a technological society. Even civilizations that were still in primitive society, as long as they possessed thinking ability, would meet the requirements.
In fact, in this incident, having the Dark Star Civilization issue this command in his place was, in essence, no different from capturing weak low-level civilizations and having them help him issue commands.
“The first point that can be clearly established is that something I can think of, as one of the most powerful existences in this universe, the Rebel Alliance has no possibility of not thinking of it… But why did they not do this?”
This was the most critical point. If this method was truly feasible, then why did the Rebel camp not use it? Why did the Rebel camp not use it?
To be more precise, the Rebel camp had used this method to a certain extent. They had handed the Logic Weapon to the Dark Star Civilization and let the Dark Star Civilization use the Logic Weapon, with the backlash also borne by the Dark Star Civilization. However, the Rebel camp had not directly controlled the Dark Star Civilization to issue commands to the Logic Weapon!
Directly controlling a low-level civilization to issue commands to the Logic Weapon was undoubtedly the most efficient, trouble-saving, clear, and fast method. But the Rebel camp had not done that, while Xiao Yu had done exactly that!
Xiao Yu began to feel chills in his heart.
“If… the backlash of the command to destroy me through the Logic Weapon could destroy the Dark Star Civilization, then if the Logic Weapon is used to destroy the universe civilization, could this backlash destroy me as well?”
This was a very serious question, but Xiao Yu had no ability to interfere with how this question would develop. The commands to the Logic Weapon had already been issued. It was certain that the relevant situation had already begun executing. At this time, how could the commands still possibly be revoked?
Xiao Yu forcefully suppressed the unease in his heart and continued observing the current situation. This was the most critical moment for rescuing the Divine Ark and Pegasus Civilization trapped inside the black hole. Not the slightest relaxation was allowed. But another portion of his computational power had already begun quietly calculating how he should respond if this backlash truly descended upon him.
There was only one situation available for reference, and that was the Dark Star Civilization’s circumstances after suffering backlash. That backlash had led to the death of that Level 7 Alien Beast. After the Level 7 Alien Beast died, Xiao Yu had clearly seen how severe the casualties were that those out-of-control Alien Beast offspring had brought to the Dark Star Civilization. Nearly one-third of the intelligent beings of the Dark Star Civilization had tragically died in that disaster. The strength of the entire civilization had been severely weakened, and it could not recover for several hundred years.
And another point that could serve as reference was that the backlash from destroying a Level 8 Civilization would certainly be much, much, much more severe than the backlash the Dark Star Civilization had suffered that time…
Xiao Yu silently thought in his heart. At this moment, the environment within this space had been quietly changing all along.
Xiao Yu could not precisely describe these changes, because among these changes, many involved mechanisms and principles that Xiao Yu did not understand. Xiao Yu also could not know what kind of consequences they would bring. Xiao Yu merely watched quietly here.
Xiao Yu suddenly saw that the volume of the Central Black Hole of the Feiyuan Galaxy seemed to have become a little smaller.
The volume of a black hole in the usual sense did not refer to the volume of the singularity, but to the volume of a sphere formed with the black hole’s event horizon as the boundary. Now, the volume of this black hole was gradually decreasing.
As for the phenomenon of the black hole’s volume decreasing, Xiao Yu almost instantly found the most likely reason: the volume of a black hole depended on its gravity. If its gravity decreased, its volume naturally decreased. And what did decreased gravity mean? Of course, it meant its mass had decreased.
But the truth was not like this. Xiao Yu’s observational instruments showed that during this period of time, the mass of this black hole had not decreased in the slightest. On the contrary, it had slightly increased. This increased mass came from those interstellar gases or dust, asteroids, and other such things swallowed by this black hole during this period of time.
If the mass had increased, the volume of the black hole should also have increased. But why was its volume decreasing instead?
Xiao Yu silently pondered for a while, then understood.
“So that is it. This is the method being used to rescue those friends of mine trapped inside the black hole… At this moment, the speed of light in the black hole region has increased.” Xiao Yu reached this conclusion.
The speed of light was one of the most important Rules followed by this main universe. Xiao Yu’s speculation had not been wrong. To rescue someone from inside a black hole, the Rules level was the only method.
The event horizon of a black hole was the boundary between the black hole and the surrounding space in the usual sense. Outside the event horizon, the escape velocity of the black hole was lower than the speed of light. Therefore, the light there could still escape the black hole and be observed. Inside the event horizon, the escape velocity was greater than the speed of light, so no matter could escape from inside the event horizon. And on the line of the event horizon itself, the escape velocity was exactly equal to the speed of light.
Because the speed of light was a constant and did not change, the speed of light was usually used to represent a precise number, three hundred thousand kilometers per second. The exact figure for the speed of light in a vacuum was not three hundred thousand kilometers per second, but an approximate value is borrowed here. Therefore, it could also be said this way, the escape velocity on the event horizon line was exactly equal to three hundred thousand kilometers per second. The escape velocity inside the event horizon line was greater than this number, while the escape velocity outside the event horizon line was lower than this number.
And at this moment, because of the change in Rules caused by the combined effect of all stellar bodies within the Feiyuan Galaxy, the speed of light within the black hole region increased. Exactly how much it increased, Xiao Yu did not know. Xiao Yu only knew that because of the increase in the speed of light, the event horizon line of the black hole was continuously retreating, and the volume of the black hole was continuously decreasing. In this way, a portion of space that had originally been inside the black hole was exposed outside the black hole.
And it could be foreseen that the volume of the black hole would continue to shrink, and would continue releasing even more space. The Divine Ark and Pegasus Civilization trapped inside the black hole would also, along with this released space, ultimately escape the black hole.
Xiao Yu watched everything happening at this moment with an eager gaze, watching this powerful black hole continuously melt away like ice and snow under the sunlight, continuously reducing its own volume.
The change in the speed of light brought a series of reactions. The reaction of this black hole’s accretion disk became even more violent. After the speed of light barrier was increased, their orbital speed also increased with it, and the kinetic energy they carried increased correspondingly. As a result, their collisions became even more intense. The two jets emitted by this black hole also became brighter, and the energy they carried became even more terrifying…
Xiao Yu still quietly watched this place. Up to this moment, the volume of this black hole had almost shrunk by one-fifth. At this moment, on one side of this black hole, Xiao Yu discovered a somewhat strange bright point.
Most of the black hole’s accretion disk was concentrated on the black hole’s ecliptic plane. That was the area where the reactions were most violent. If this bright point had appeared there, it would not have attracted Xiao Yu’s attention at all. But it appeared at the side of the black hole, and it appeared suddenly. This quickly drew Xiao Yu’s attention.
After this bright point suddenly appeared, it paused for a short while, as if it had not figured out exactly what had happened. But in the next moment, this bright point suddenly moved, beginning to rapidly flee the black hole region.
“My friends, I have finally seen you again.” Xiao Yu murmured to himself in his heart.
The black hole was like a glutton that only let things enter and never come out. But now, through all kinds of methods, Xiao Yu had ultimately taken out from its belly the thing he wanted.
At this moment, Xiao Yu’s heart was filled with joy. It was the joy of finally reaping results after several thousand years of struggle. This meant that he could finally find a balance between completing Chen Mo’s expectation and rescuing the people he cared about, two mutually conflicting things. Before this joy, even his worry about the backlash of the Logic Weapon faded quite a bit.
“Then, blow up this black hole…” Xiao Yu murmured to himself.