From the Three-Body Escape to Super God

Chapter 356 Dimensionality Reduction is Actually Just a Strategic Means (2)

At this time, TX0001 revealed to Zhang Heng a truth that may have been misunderstood by most civilizations in the universe.

Generally speaking, most civilizations believe, including Zhang Heng now, that the so-called two-dimensional foil and other dimensionality reduction attack weapons are one of the main weapons used for wars between civilizations at the fourth level.

After all, it is economical and its attack range is infinite. Generally, it can be used once and for all, and you don't have to fall into the quagmire of endless war.

Apart from this, there is no other special meaning.

But now, No. TX0001 said that, in fact, when their edge world first used dimensionality reduction weapons such as two-dimensional foil, their original intention was not to attack a certain civilization, but to use it for cleaning.

Dimensionality reduction is just a strategic means. Even if it is not used to attack other or clean up low-level civilizations, it is a strategic means that must be used on a regular basis.

Based on the existence of the Dark Forest Law, if there is a way to prevent other civilizations from developing faster than one's own civilization to a great extent.

Then, not only the Sixth Man in the Three-Body Metaverse, but civilizations in other metaverses will also use this method to avoid it.

Because no one can guarantee that once other civilizations become absolutely stronger than their own, they will not destroy them at will.

Therefore, the true thoughts in the deepest hearts of each civilization are to forever limit the development speed of other civilizations to keep pace with their own, or to make other civilizations disappear once and for all.

The fundamental reason is the nature of life and life.

The selfishness of life means that no matter what kind of life it is, it will not fully trust anyone other than itself.

The so-called Dark Forest Law is nothing more than this.

"Then can I understand that when you first used dimensionality reduction to attack, you were actually only targeting civilizations of four dimensions and above?"

"The higher the dimension a civilization is in, the faster it develops. You are afraid that the high dimension they have been living in will eventually develop to a height that you can no longer reach."

"So, you are just like those civilizations in the universe that use dimensionality reduction strikes on a large scale. You keep trying to reduce the ten dimensions of the universe until you can't reduce them any further."

"By then, everyone will be developing in the same dimension. There will no longer be a situation where those who occupy a higher dimension can develop faster."

Zhang Heng analyzed.

The fundamental purpose of this so-called dimensionality reduction strategy is to bring all civilizations to the same level.

“That’s right…”

TX0001 nodded, and then continued: "But this strategic method did not start with us, or we were not the first to use it."

"As far as I know, and as far as we in the fringe world know, this strategy has existed since ancient times. It's so long that it's impossible to trace it back."

"We only roughly know that since the ten dimensions of the universe have been intact, the civilization living in the ninth dimension has been desperately trying to make the tenth dimension fall towards the ninth dimension."

"After all, the living environment of the tenth dimension is definitely superior to that of the nine-dimensional one, just like us three-dimensional creatures have no secrets in the eyes of four-dimensional creatures."

"At that time, the civilization living in the ninth dimension was constantly facing oppression from the tenth-dimensional civilization."

"This kind of oppression is not the kind of oppression that is usually referred to as slavery, but a kind of spiritual oppression."

"Faced with the absolutely superior living environment of the tenth dimension, if the nine-dimensional civilization wants to surpass the other party and get rid of this spiritual oppression, there is no way to make up for it except to enter the tenth dimension itself. The living environment is inherently slightly inferior to that of the other party."

"And how could a ten-dimensional civilization allow a nine-dimensional civilization to participate and share the most superior living environment in the universe with it?"

"In desperation, the Nine-Dimensional Civilization finally came up with the idea of ​​dimensionality reduction..."

Since the ten-dimensional civilization does not allow them to go up, the ten-dimensional civilization can forget about enjoying the best Feng Shui land in the universe alone.

The ten-dimensional civilization does not welcome them up, but they very much welcome the ten-dimensional civilization to come down.

Therefore, the first large-scale dimensional fall in the universe also began with the tenth dimension.

But it is conceivable that the nine-dimensional civilization must have paid a very heavy price when completing this plan.

After all, the ninth dimension has no secrets from the tenth dimension, and the technological strength of the tenth-dimensional civilization at that time absolutely crushed the nine-dimensional civilization.

In this case, if the nine-dimensional civilization wants to dig out the foundation of the ten-dimensional civilization right under the nose of the ten-dimensional civilization, it will be harder than climbing to the sky!

However, considering that there are only three dimensions left in the universe now, even though the nine-dimensional civilization paid a heavy price, they finally succeeded.

Not only did it successfully destroy the tenth dimension and lower the tenth-dimensional civilization to a level consistent with its own, it also brought this bad trend to a lower dimension.

“Perhaps, it was them that started it all, and the eight-dimensional civilizations that followed closely behind them. Just as they reduced the ten-dimensional to the nine-dimensional, the eight-dimensional civilizations also reduced the nine-dimensional to the eight-dimensional…”

TX0001 continued speaking as if he was telling a story.

However, is it really true that for a civilization living in a higher dimension, facing the rogue dimensionality reduction behavior of a lower dimensional civilization, is there nothing they can do?
They are born to live in an absolutely excellent environment, and their technological strength is absolutely stronger than that of low-dimensional civilizations. Can't they be stopped?

But, it seems there is really no way.

At least, so far no civilization has found a way to effectively clamp low-dimensional civilizations and force them to run to your own dimension for dimensionality reduction.

After all, destruction is always easier than construction.

Although dimensionality increase is not impossible to achieve, but can the speed of dimensionality increase and dimensionality reduction be compared?
Can the resource cost be compared?

Just take the two-dimensional foil as an example. A piece of two-dimensional foil can cause the entire universe to fall into two dimensions at the speed of light.

Who else can use something as cheap as a dichroic foil to make the universe move to a higher dimension at the speed of light?
In this way, as the tenth and ninth dimensions ceased to exist one after another, the various civilizations in the universe finally realized it.

It turns out that the dimension in which he lives, which is absolutely superior to low-dimensional civilization, is not absolutely safe either.

If you are not careful, once you are unable to transform yourself in time and cannot adapt to the low-dimensional living environment, you will be destroyed along with the original dimension.

At this time, the surviving eight-dimensional civilization that had just descended to the ninth dimension, as well as the seven-dimensional, six-dimensional, and even five-dimensional and four-dimensional civilizations all had long-term considerations.

That is, first try your best to transform yourself into a low-dimensional civilization, the lower the better.

Those who completed their own transformation first and successfully reached a lower-dimensional civilization also began to perform some cool moves.

For example, there are some eight-dimensional civilizations that go to not just one dimension lower, but several dimensions lower, directly to the fourth dimension or the third dimension.

After they arrived at these two low dimensions, they had an idea to descend to multiple dimensions at once.

It made it impossible for those civilizations that originally lived in the same dimension as themselves, as well as those civilizations that originally had higher dimensions than themselves, to run to the lower dimensions to continue competing with themselves. Therefore, they popularized dimensionality reduction technology and space technology in the lower dimensions.

"It was at this time that our fringe world began to come into contact with the concept of dimensionality reduction. Although we knew that those civilizations that came down from higher dimensions had bad intentions, we had no reason to reject this kind of thing."

"After all, if the dimensions of the entire universe can be made the same, it would be a good thing for our low-dimensional civilization..."

TX0001 has almost finished explaining the specific origin of the so-called dimensionality reduction as just a strategy.

To put it bluntly, this kind of thing is a kind of harmful behavior caused by mutual distrust between life and life, and between civilizations.

I'm afraid that after others get better off, they will turn around and step on me.

So, while making it difficult for others, it is also difficult for yourself.

If everyone is on the same level, then even if they still don't trust each other and are wary of each other, everyone's upper limit is there, so there is no need to worry that the other party will do this to them once they become strong.

"Now, there are less than four dimensions left out of the ten dimensions of the universe, and the decline of the fourth dimension seems to be nearing its end, with only some edges and corners left to be completely reduced."

"Those civilizations that came down from higher dimensions naturally focused on the third dimension, which led to the current situation. Everyone is using the two-dimensional foil recklessly."

"Because most of the civilizations that still exist in the third dimension today came from the higher dimensions in the past."

"In the beginning, most of the civilizations that existed in the third dimension, except for our Edge World and the Singer World, were squeezed out of their living space and perished in the long river of cosmic history."

"They have gone through rounds of dimensionality reduction and have already mastered the art of self-transformation."

"So, this time, the large-scale dimensionality reduction they are carrying out in three dimensions is not as simple as just two dimensions. The final direction will be one-dimensional, or even a zero-dimensional singularity..."

Speaking of this, TX0001 is also full of worries about his own future and the future of the marginal world.

After all, except for the tenth and nineth dimensions, they fell one after another.

The remaining eight dimensions and below began to fall at the same time since the old six who performed tricks suddenly ran to the lower dimensions.

It doesn’t mean that the seventh dimension will disappear only after the eighth dimension is gone.

Instead, five, six, seven, and eight disappeared together.

Therefore, the one, two, and three that are left now will most likely be gone together in the future.

But their fringe worlds can only master the technology to transform themselves into two-dimensional life.

It is precisely because they are not afraid that the three-dimensional will be completely two-dimensional that they dare to use the two-dimensional foil so unscrupulously.

Of course, the same is true for the singer civilization.

But if it is one-dimensional, they are helpless.

It will definitely be destroyed with the fall of two or three dimensions!
"Could it be that the large-scale two-dimensional plan that you and other three-dimensional native civilizations are currently carrying out is actually a way to save yourselves?"

Hearing this, Zhang Heng also sensed from TX0001's words the potential intention of large-scale two-dimensionalization of their marginal civilization.

That is, they want to save themselves.

"Yes, we do have this intention, so the frequency of using two-dimensional foil is much higher than ever before..."

Upon hearing this, TX0001 also admitted it.

Although they used dimensionality reduction weapons such as two-way foils at the beginning, they were only used as strategic means, even if they did not fight other people, or cleaned up low-level civilizations.

However, at that time they still had a limit and would not urinate or defecate anywhere, just putting it wherever there was an empty space.

Instead, we will use it to the maximum extent possible.

It is also because of this that dimensionality reduction attacks have developed to the point of being linked to attacks on other civilizations.

After all, no matter how cheap something is, it still has its value. Once it accumulates to a certain amount, it will be a huge number.

However, they can't care so much now.

They must convert three-dimensional into two-dimensional as soon as possible, only in this way can they gain more time.

This is because, although those original civilizations from higher dimensions have now mastered the technology to transform themselves into zero-dimensional creatures, as long as the third dimension exists, they will not run to a lower dimension too early.

The reason is very simple. After all, the third dimension is always higher than any of the following dimensions. Relatively speaking, it is the only best environment left in the Three-Body Universe.

One day of development in the third dimension is faster than one year of development in a lower dimension.

Therefore, unless they have to leave, it is impossible for those old six from the higher dimension to leave early.

In this way, there is room for maneuver for a series of marginal civilizations, which are three-dimensional natives and can only transform themselves into two-dimensional creatures.

As long as they can make the third dimension fall completely to two dimensions before the first, second and third dimensions fall to zero dimension all at once before those high-dimensional ones, they can buy time.

This is because it takes time for those high-dimensional beings to transform themselves each time. Before the transformation is completely completed, they cannot go to any dimension they want at any time.

Now, those high-dimensional creatures have transformed themselves into zero-dimensional creatures in advance, or can be said to be able to become zero-dimensional creatures at the last minute.

So, once things did not develop in the direction they expected, the remaining three dimensions did not fall to zero dimension at once, but only fell to two dimensions.

In this case, they either have to go directly to zero dimension or transform themselves again.

Whether it is the former or the latter, it can slow down their pace of reducing the remaining three dimensions to zero dimension at once.

In the former case, they go directly to zero dimension, and their development speed is likely to be surpassed by the original three-dimensional native civilization.

After being surpassed, their plan to descend three dimensions will naturally no longer pose any threat to the three-dimensional native civilization.

After all, the native three-dimensional civilization can completely transform itself into a zero-dimensional creature before you descend to three dimensions.

As for the latter, transforming themselves again also means that they have to temporarily stop their plan to descend three dimensions.

(End of this chapter)