From the Three-Body Escape to Super God

Chapter 288 A Unique Interstellar War
This continued until Sky Blade 7 was about five hundred light years away.

It was also at this time that the space, which had basically no matter around it, suddenly began to change.

The surrounding space also became much brighter in comparison.

Zhang Heng, who observed this inside Sky Blade No. 7, immediately began to collect more data on the surrounding space.

In general, although there is still no matter such as dust, the existence of photons can be observed.

Even if photons exist, the number is still very small.

But it can also be proved that there is most likely a light source nearby.

According to previous inferences, all the stars may have been divided up.

Those civilizations or forces that own stars will never let the light from the stars leak out.

This also means that the source of the photons here is unlikely to be emitted by stars.

But the terrible thing is that the source of the photons is coming from the direction of Sky Blade No. 7...

"Be careful, there may be an unknown civilization ahead..."

Zhang Heng began to remind Yan Dao.

After much thought, he was more inclined to believe that Sky Blade 7 was about to enter the territory of some unknown civilization or force.

Or maybe a civilization was passing by in a spaceship.

The source of these photon information is leaked from their spacecraft.

As mentioned before, although there are many primitive civilizations outside the metaverse, there are also many low-level civilizations.

Just like the previous civilization in the triangle, they make a living in the universe outside the metaverse by relying on a certain alliance or civilization.

A civilization at this level would never be able to block all information sources of its own spacecraft like Zhang Heng did.

They may not even know the curvature technology for light-speed travel.

Therefore, the civilization that may exist ahead is most likely of this level.

Otherwise, they would not be unaware that the leaked information source would expose their existence.

"Should we take a detour then?"

Hearing this, Yan frowned and asked.

If you want to reduce the occurrence of accidents, taking a detour is obviously the best option.

Anyway, no matter what level of civilization may exist ahead, it will not affect me.

However, Zhang Heng had other ideas and was not going to take a detour.

"Nirag didn't tell me at the beginning where the Star Alliance is located outside the Metaverse."

"If we want to find the Star Alliance, we have to rely on ourselves."

"Originally, I was planning to wait until I encountered a civilization that was lower than ours, and then get information from them."

"Now that we have encountered them in advance, they must be them!"

After Zhang Heng finished speaking, he had already set his sights on the possible civilization ahead.

With his current level, plus Yan who has Maya.

If we consider them as one civilization, then their combined strength is much stronger than that of the Singer Civilization...

Even Yita, the main civilization that was once comparable to a marginal civilization, was not as powerful as they are now at its peak.

With such hard power, we can say without any modesty that no matter how terrifying the world outside the metaverse is, they will always have a place there.

The civilizations that could be their opponents are definitely a minority and cannot be everywhere.

Therefore, Zhang Heng had no reason to be afraid of the civilization that might exist ahead.

They don't even have the ability to block the leakage of their own information sources. No matter how powerful such a civilization is, it will not be strong enough to threaten them.

"Then it's up to you!"

Seeing that Zhang Heng had made up his mind, Yan said no more and directly agreed with Zhang Heng's decision.

In fact, according to her original personality, she would not think of taking a detour.

Besides, she had just achieved a qualitative improvement, and it was time for her to expand.

If she hadn't been afraid that Zhang Heng would criticize her for being reckless again, she would have wanted to just rush over right away.

Although angels will not bully the weak, they are not so saintly as to give way to the weak.

In particular, Zhang Heng also said that once outside the metaverse, one must temporarily abandon human nature.

There is even less to say. The strong have even less reason to give way to the weak.

Afterwards, under Zhang Heng's control, Skyren No. 7 began to speed up again.

Although he was certain that the observed photons came from the front, he could not determine exactly how many light years away they came from.

After all, theoretically speaking, forms of existence like light will continue to be transmitted in an absolute vacuum if the problem of absorption is not taken into account.

The photons he was observing now were the first to arrive here from the source.

That is to say, it refers to the first ray of light emitted at the moment when the light source emits.

If you want to calculate the specific distance through observation, you need to collect more photon data information.

Even if it is just a ray of light, its photons are still emitted in the form of a light cone.

However, the range of the light cone is so wide that it would be more practical to accelerate directly towards the source of the current photon instead of spending so much time collecting and calculating it.

Without further ado, when Sky Blade No. 7 moved at ten times the speed of light, it reached the light source in just about a year.

"No wonder the photons we observed before were intermittent. It turns out that the so-called light source exists in this form!"

After arriving at the source of the photons, Zhang Heng was also a little surprised.

It turns out that there is not one, but two civilizations ahead.

They are at war right now.

The spacecraft that were hit by the warring parties did not behave like what is shown in science fiction movies; huge explosions, spreading fireballs, flying debris, the spacecraft disintegrated, and only a pile of scrap metal was left.

In reality, any spacecraft hit by enemy weapons would simply disintegrate.

The light source is the light wave attack weapon they use to shoot at each other.

These light wave attack weapons are extremely fast and can hit enemy spacecraft in an instant.

After the strike, the light waves emitted did not disappear from the visible horizon as the spacecraft disintegrated.

Instead, it continues to exist at its original speed for a long distance.

Although the light will not disappear, it will decay.

This is also why Zhang Heng could only observe photons 10 light years away.

According to preliminary estimates, the effective range of their light wave strike weapons should be within one or two light years.

Beyond this distance, the light waves will decay infinitely until they become photons.

The two civilizations that are currently fighting, as well as the scale of the war, would be considered extremely large if placed in a metaverse.

After all, if it can reach one or two light years, it is enough to destroy a star system. The Three-Body Galaxy in the Three-Body Universe was only about 4 light years away from the Earth!
If they fight between these two galaxies, they can directly affect both galaxies.

Moreover, the types of light wave strike weapons they use are extremely destructive.

"Don't they know how to avoid enemy fire?"

"Both sides' ships are just staying in one area, not moving, just shooting at each other?"

After observing the ongoing battlefield between the two civilizations for a while, Yan asked a question.

how to say!

It is a bit like the line-up executions in the Western civilization at the end of the last century.

After the front row of ships were destroyed, the back row of ships would take over, and the shooting continued like this...

"This is truly an interstellar war of a unique kind!"

Not to mention Yan couldn't understand it, even Zhang Heng couldn't figure out why they wanted to wage war in this way.

It's an interstellar war, do we still need to consider the formation?
However, after observing for a while, Zhang Heng roughly understood what was going on.

First of all, neither of the warring parties has the ability to move at the speed of light, and the distance between the two sides is only one astronomical unit.

Secondly, the striking capabilities of both sides are not proportional to their defensive capabilities.

After clarifying these two points, it is not difficult to understand why they were lined up and shot.

It’s not that they don’t want to avoid it, but where can they avoid it?
Not having the ability to move at the speed of light and being so close means that they have no way of avoiding each other's attacks.

Therefore, the only way is to form a formation with spaceships. While the outer spaceships attack the enemy, they can also serve as cover for the inner spaceships, thus consuming the power of enemy weapons to a certain extent.

It won’t be possible for them to be destroyed by the enemy all at once.

After all, light will attenuate, and so will light wave strike weapons.

After destroying the first spaceship, even if you can continue to destroy the second and third ones, the power of the light wave strike weapon will decay faster with each additional spaceship destroyed.

By the time you get to the fifth spaceship, you won't have to worry at all.

Just wait for the spaceship in front to be destroyed by enemy fire, and then take over yours.

Or maybe your firepower is stronger than the enemy's, and before it's your turn to take the field, the front row of spaceships have already annihilated the enemy.

To put it bluntly, the war between the two civilizations was a competition to see whose firepower was more powerful and lasting.

"However, considering the two civilizations' equally matched military strength, both will suffer losses in the end."

Although he understood their form of warfare, Zhang Heng was still not optimistic about it: "Even if there is a winner in the end, it will be a miserable victory."

Zhang Heng made a positive comment.

At the same time, I also feel that this form of warfare should not be the mainstream warfare mode outside the metaverse.

The war between the two civilizations at this moment should be just an exception.

Under normal circumstances, two hostile civilizations would not get so close to each other.

Less than one astronomical unit, what does that mean?

It’s like there are two civilizations at a distance closer than the sun is to the earth, and these two civilizations are in a hostile relationship.

Is this possible?

Therefore, Zhang Heng felt that the two civilizations were originally friendly, but a conflict suddenly arose.

And this war was also a sudden war.

Since it is a sudden war, they can only choose the best strategy among various bad strategies.

That means being lined up and shot.

"Should we intervene then?"

Yan asked again.

She felt that since Zhang Heng came with a purpose, he probably didn't want them to both suffer losses so quickly.

At the very least, Zhang Heng will ignore them only after he has squeezed out all their value.

"I'd better come in person!"

After suppressing Yan's eagerness to try, Zhang Heng left Sky Blade No. 7 directly.

Then, he took out a slightly smaller version of the Blackwater from his small universe.

As early as the Super God Universe, he had equipped all the armies of his subordinate civilizations with small Blackwater ships like this one.

All functions are the same as those of the large Blackwater.

After boarding the small Blackwater, Zhang Heng blatantly drove the small Blackwater directly into the center of the confrontation between the two civilizations.

Such behavior is bound to be subject to indiscriminate attacks from both sides.

However, this level of attack alone is not enough to break the shell of the small Blackwater.

Although strong interaction materials can only be created by the Three-Body Civilization, a civilization of this level.

However, without a specific method, the Three-Body Civilization itself cannot directly destroy the defenses of strongly interactive materials from the outside.

Moreover, not every civilization of this level can develop similar technology.

After all, the Three-Body Civilization can be considered excellent in the Three-Body Universe.

Although the Trisolarans were only able to bully the Earth in their early days, their potential and creativity cannot be denied.

In the extreme environment of the Three-Body Galaxy, after repeated destruction and restart of civilizations, the potential and creativity of the Three-Body people have already been stimulated to the extreme.

Strictly speaking, neither the sophon nor the water droplets should have been created by a civilization at the level of the Trisolarans.

But they actually made these two things!
Therefore, compared with other civilizations of the same level living in a comfortable environment, the Trisolarans are undoubtedly ahead in cutting-edge technology.

Take the two civilizations currently fighting each other for example, they can barely be considered to be at the level of the Trisolarans, and the Trisolarians can also be considered to be at the same level.

However, neither the two civilizations nor the triangle can produce sophons and water droplets.

This is where the Trisolarans are ahead of and stronger than other civilizations of the same level.

It was like Zhang Heng was currently using only strong interaction materials to build his spaceship, but the two civilizations in front of him were simply unable to break through their defenses.

After the small Blackwater broke into the battle zone between the two civilizations, they immediately discovered the existence of the small Blackwater.

However, before they could react, Zhang Heng started to complain.

"Which civilization are you from, and why are you attacking my spaceship for no reason?"

"If you don't give an explanation, none of you can leave..."

Zhang Heng sent such information directly to the two civilizations using the official language of the universe.

That's right, he wants to turn passivity into initiative.

If he wants to get the information he wants from the two civilizations, he has to use tough measures.

But, doesn't it seem like bullying to find fault with others for no reason?
It would be different if the other party attacked him first.

Just as he said, no one can leave without an explanation.

(End of this chapter)