From the Three-Body Escape to Super God

Chapter 362: Exploring the Truth of the Universe
"Is this the price we have to pay for victory in the war?"

It was hard for Cheng Xin to imagine what it would be like to live in a space with a reduced dimension.

In two-dimensional space, everything in the world looks like just a few line segments of varying lengths. Is it really possible for people who have lived in a three-dimensional world to live in a piece of thin paper without thickness?

Of course, life in three-dimensional space is equally unimaginable for people in the four-dimensional world.

In fact, it wasn't just Cheng Xin who found it hard to imagine that kind of life. Even though Liang Bing had experience in two universes, she still couldn't imagine it!
But Guan Yifan's answer was simple: "It's better than death."

Ignoring Cheng Xin and Liang Bing's shock, Guan Yifan continued, "Light speed is also a frequently used regular weapon, but building a light tomb for yourself or the black domain you mentioned is not one of them. That is just a way for weak bugs like us to save our lives. The gods disdain to do that."

"In war, you can create a low-speed black hole to trap the enemy inside; but it is mostly used for defense, as a wall and trap."

"Some low-speed-of-light belts are so large that they cross the entire spiral arm of the galaxy. In places where stars are densely populated, a large number of low-speed-of-light black holes merge into one."

"It stretches for tens of millions of light years. It's the Great Interstellar Wall. No matter how powerful a fleet is, once it gets stuck in it, it will never get out. It's a very difficult obstacle to overcome."

When Liang Bing heard Guan Yifan use the word "gods", strange emotions arose in her heart.

Compared to this, the gods who once knew the universe are truly ridiculous!

"What will happen if this continues?"

Cheng Xin asked.

"As a result of the dimensional attack, the proportion of two-dimensional space in the universe will gradually increase and will eventually exceed three-dimensional space. One day, the third macroscopic dimension will completely disappear and the universe will become two-dimensional."

"As for light-speed attack and defense, the number of low-light-speed areas will continue to increase. These areas will eventually connect as they spread, and the different slow light speeds in them will balance to the same value, which is the new C value of the universe."

"Then, in the infancy of science like ours, we would have believed that the speed of light in a vacuum, which is a dozen kilometers per second, was an iron-clad cosmological constant, just as our speed of 300,000 kilometers per second is now."

"Of course, these are just two examples. There are other laws of the universe that can be used as weapons, but we don't know what they are yet. It's very likely that all laws can be weaponized. In some parts of the universe, the laws used as weapons may even include... Of course, this is just a blind guess. It's too far-fetched. I don't believe it either."

"Including what?"

Liang Bing also asked.

“Mathematical laws.”

Guan Yifan replied.

"This is... too crazy!"

The two exhausted their imaginations, but still could not grasp this incredible scene, or even catch a corner of it.

"Will the universe become a war wasteland?"

Cheng Xin asked again, but quickly thought of a more accurate way to express it: "Or, will the laws of nature become the ruins of war?"

"It may have been... Now, the physics and cosmology in the new world are just trying to restore the original laws of nature before the war."

Guan Yifan replied: "Moreover, there is already a relatively clear theoretical model that describes the universe that has not been changed by the war.

"It was a beautiful pastoral era. That era, about 10 billion years ago, was called the Pastoral Era of the Universe."

"Of course, that kind of beauty can only be described by mathematics. We cannot imagine the universe at that time. Not only have we never experienced it, but the dimensions of our brains are also insufficient."

Guan Yifan continued: "The universe in the Pastoral Era was not just four-dimensional, but ten-dimensional."

"The speed of light in a vacuum at that time was not much higher than it is now, but close to infinity. Light at that time acted at a distance and could travel from one end of the universe to the other in one Planck time... If you have been to four-dimensional space, you will know what a wonderful place that ten-dimensional universe is."

"You can treat what I said as a story. I only saw a little bit of the truth. The rest is speculation. You can just treat it as speculation, a made-up dark myth story..."

Having said this, Guan Yifan fell silent.

But he said so much, and said it so realistically. Cheng Xin and Liang Bing were already confused. How could they regard what he said today as a nonsense myth?

"Then, can we understand that in the war era after the pastoral era, one dimension after another was confined from the macroscopic to the microscopic, and the speed of light was slowed down step by step..."

Liang Bing also quickly thought of the crux of the problem.

Is this the truth of the universe?
When dimensions above four existed, could the level of being able to surpass the speed of light be comparable to the known universe of Super God?
It's just that now there are only broken three dimensions left that the speed of light seems so unpleasant. Even when encountering areas that have been reduced in dimension, or dead lines and black areas, the so-called curvature technology is no longer of any use.

"I said, these are all guesses." Guan Yifan did not answer as carefully as before this time, and his voice gradually became lower: "No one knows whether the truth is darker than the guesses... But one thing is certain, the universe is dying."

At this time, the spacecraft stopped accelerating, and it seemed to have reached its destination.

"Okay ladies, we're almost there."

Guan Yifan was the first to stand up from the cabin where his body was secured.

But Cheng Xin and Liang Bing seemed not to have heard his words. They were still immersed in his previous remarks, or in a daze!
"Maybe I shouldn't tell you this!"

At this moment, Guan Yifan suddenly felt a sense of regret.

"I'll know sooner or later."

Cheng Xin raised her head only then, but her voice was still very soft.

"I'll say it again, that's all speculation, there's no real scientific proof, don't think too much about it, just focus on your life."

Guan Yifan shook his head helplessly: "Even if the things I said are true, they are all measured in billions of years."

"You go to our world, and it will be your world too, and live the life you want there."

"Don't cross time so much. As long as you limit your life to 100,000 years and the scope of your life to 1,000 light years, those things will have nothing to do with you."

"One hundred thousand years, one thousand light years, is that enough?"

One hundred thousand years of living time and a thousand light years of activity range are indeed enough.

"Thank you!"

The two expressed their gratitude to Guan Yifan again.

"Can your light-speed spacecraft produce a dead line?"

Seeing that the spaceship driven by Guan Yifan had dropped below the speed of light, Liang Bing asked curiously.

A normal-power curvature ship was not capable of this, at least not the one she and Cheng Xin had driven before.

She actually developed that spaceship herself.

However, no matter how much she invested in research, she could not upgrade the warp engine on the spacecraft to travel at more than twice the speed of light.

Now, seeing that the spaceship driven by Guan Yifan seemed to be traveling at superluminal speed, she also wanted to explore the other party's technology.

But Guan Yifan's answer disappointed Liang Bing: "Far from it."

After all, if this spaceship could have a dead line, he wouldn't dare stop his superluminal flight when he was so close to his own world.

"Have you ever seen a warp ship that can create a dead line?"

Liang Bing asked again.

“I haven’t seen it, but I’ve seen the dead line left behind.”

Guan Yifan replied: "We believe that the dead line is usually created by the Zeroer."

"Zero?"

Hearing this, Liang Bing repeated these words that seemed familiar to her yet strange.

"Also called Restarters, they could be a group of intelligent individuals, or a civilization, or several civilizations. We don't know, but their existence has been confirmed." Guan Yifan continued: "Zeroers want to restart the universe and return to the pastoral era."

"How do they do that?"

Liang Bing was shocked!
Isn't this a bit too horrifying?

I originally thought that what Guan Yifan said before, that the "gods" of this universe used dimensions to attack, was already outrageous enough!
Unexpectedly, there is something even more outrageous, it can actually restart the universe?

"According to our guess, if we move the clock past twelve..."

Guan Yifan replied: "For example, in terms of spatial dimension, it is almost impossible to pull a universe that has fallen into a low dimension back to a high dimension."

"But we can work from another direction, reducing the universe to zero dimension, and then continue to reduce the dimension."

"In this way, it is possible to go back to the beginning from the direction of zero and return the macroscopic dimension of the universe to ten dimensions."

But this is just their guess. Perhaps the method of restarting the Zeroer will be simpler and more brutal.

"Zero dimension? Have you ever seen space being reduced to zero dimension?"

"No, I have only seen two-dimensionalization like you. I have never even seen one-dimensionalization."

Guan Yifan shook his head: "But there must be people doing it somewhere. No one knows whether they have succeeded."

"Relatively speaking, it is easier to reduce the speed of light to zero, and they have done more to try to dial the speed of light past zero and recreate infinite light speed."

"Is this possible, theoretically?"

Liang Bing still didn't quite believe it.

After all, it is incredible for a civilization, or a group of life forms that also rely on the universe to exist, to want to influence the universe with its own power.

That is to say, even if the Zero-Resetter uses the so-called cosmic laws or mathematical laws to restart the universe,

"We don't know yet, but maybe the Nullifier's theory suggests it's possible."

"But in my opinion it is impossible. For example, zero light speed is an insurmountable wall. Zero light speed is the absolute death of all existence, which means that there can be no more movement."

"In this state, the subjective cannot have any effect on the objective, so how can the 'clock hand' be moved forward? What the Zero-Resetters do is more like a religion, a kind of performance art."

Guan Yifan replied, with some uncertainty.

Perhaps, Zeroer really has other ways to restart the universe.

His current speculation about the Zeroers is like a farmer who thinks the emperor will use a golden hoe to plow the land. He uses his own cognition to measure an existence that he cannot understand.

“The universe is rich and varied, and there are all kinds of ‘people’ or worlds.”

Guan Yifan continued: "There are idealists like the Zeroers, pacifists, philanthropists, and civilizations that focus only on art and beauty, but they are not the mainstream and cannot dominate the direction of the universe."

“Just like the human world.”

"However, for the Null Sector, their cause will ultimately be accomplished by the universe itself."

"You mean the end of the universe?"

Liang Bing asked again.

"Yes."

"But as far as I know, the universe will continue to expand forever, becoming increasingly sparse and cold."

Cheng Xin couldn't help but interrupt at this time.

"That's your cosmology, and we overturned it."

Guan Yifan chuckled: "The amount of dark matter has been underestimated. The universe will stop expanding, then collapse under its own gravity, and finally become a singularity and explode again, returning everything to zero."

"So, the ultimate winner is still nature..."

The only thing that can exist forever is nature!

“Is the new universe ten-dimensional?”

At this time, Liang Bing looked at the dark space outside through the observation port inside the spacecraft.

"It's impossible to know. There are endless possibilities. After all, it's a brand new universe and a brand new life."

Guan Yifan also looked towards the outer space, and his eyes became as deep as the universe.

"Hearing you mention the Zeroer, it suddenly occurred to me that I once met an 'Enlightener'."

"I don't know, have you heard of this Enlightener?"

Liang Bing asked again.

She had previously asked Guan Yifan if he knew Zhang Heng, and Guan Yifan said he didn't know.

Now she felt that maybe she asked the question in the wrong way.

In the known universe, Zhang Heng was later called the "Enlightener" by people. So is it possible that Zhang Heng in this world has also begun to use this title?

"The Enlightener?"

Guan Yifan felt that Liang Bing's words seemed to be comparing the Zeroer with the Enlightener. Now it was Guan Yifan's turn to be surprised: "Can you tell me more about it?"

He did not doubt Liang Bing's words. The universe is really too huge, and everything they know does not represent everything in the universe.

"Uh...how should I put it..."

Seeing Guan Yifan asking her to introduce the inspirer in detail, Liang Bing didn't know where to start for a moment.

After all, in the known universe, compared to angels, she had very little contact with Zhang Heng, and they could not even be considered to have known each other.

If she really wanted to say it, she could only say this: "If this universe really does end one day, and the Zeroer's restart plan is really feasible, a new universe will be born at that time..."

"Then I am absolutely certain that this Enlightener will exist until then."

"That is to say, if we can find this Enlightener, or learn what method he uses to avoid the impact of man-made and natural disasters in the universe, then we can live in the new universe like him..."

Liang Bing said with certainty.

Because, in her opinion, since the current universe is the universe where Zhang Heng once lived, Zhang Heng later appeared in the known universe.

Then, it means that the result has been decided, and Zhang Heng must have a way to avoid all disasters.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain how Zhang Heng later ran into the known universe.

"This is unrealistic!"

Hearing this, Guan Yifan shook his head.

Inspirer?
Who knows what form he or it takes and where it exists?
Even if it can be found, how can humans obtain the method to travel to the new universe from him?

"No, it's still possible..."

But Liang Bing disagreed with Guan Yifan's idea this time, and continued: "Because, this Enlightener is also a human being like us..."

(End of this chapter)