Those who face the wall, but are in the Nascent Soul stage.

Chapter 432 The Silicon-Based God Who's Doing Nothing (3k)

There are two lines in the universe.

One is a dead end, and the other is also a dead end.

They are pitch black and silent, where time and space are frozen. All concepts of dimensional space no longer apply in the dead zone. At the zero-dimensional scale, it is a pipe dream to escape by jumping through higher-dimensional space.

Two lines, two pitch-black dead lines, fixed in different directions in the almost infinite space of the universe.

They do not intersect; they gaze at each other from afar across the vast void.

The Death Line is very wide, with a diameter of 10,000 kilometers, roughly the diameter of the Earth. However, its width is negligible compared to its length, which is about 10,000 astronomical units long, or about 0.158 light-years, a full 1.5 trillion kilometers.

This proportion surpasses all human imagination regarding "lines." Even the cables of a space elevator appear as short and thick as barrels in comparison.

These two dead lines have become a silent spectacle in a corner of the Milky Way.

The volume of space covered by the two dead lines is equivalent to the sum of the volumes of at least 160 suns.

This might be insignificant in the grand scheme of the universe, but considering the spatial span between the Trisolaran system and our solar system, its sheer size makes it comparable to two giant celestial bodies.

Fortunately, the dead lines themselves have no mass and therefore do not generate gravity. They are just like their name suggests, like two dead lines lying quietly in space.

As luck would have it, one of the lines lies in the middle of the solar system and the Trisolaran system, like a long black needle with its two ends pointing to Earth and Trisolarans respectively, placed along this 4.22 light-year-long path.

This death line was the second death line released by the rule god named 'Three Thousand Feet'. At that time, the mirror, severely injured, instinctively wanted to seek God's help, so it flew towards Earth.

In order to block the mirror's escape route, this deadly line was created and released here by the God of Rules, which just happened to block the mirror's inevitable escape path.

—If it weren't for Luo Qing's sudden appearance, the God of Rules would probably have indeed been able to 'annihilate' the four gods.

As for the other dead line, it is about one light-year away from the Trisolaran system and even farther from the solar system. Compared to the empty dead line in the middle, this dead line, which is also 1.5 trillion kilometers long, has swallowed up some things.

A sword, a cube, a regular pentahedron.

The eleven-dimensional immortal sword, the absolute rigid body, and the regular pentahedron are all 'sleeping' here.

Among them, the gods of the geometric civilization had come to the vicinity of this dead line some time ago. As good friends of the regular pentahedron, the arc square prism, the acute-angled sphere, the blunt-headed pyramid, the bottomless frustum, and the bidirectional wedge circled around this dead line again and again.

They all want to get the pentahedron out of it.

Unfortunately, they did not succeed.

The only thing these geometric gods can do is disturb space and slightly accelerate the evaporation of the death line.

If nothing unexpected happens, it will take at least several hundred thousand Earth years for this dead line to fully diffuse into slow fog.

It would take at least several million years for it to diffuse into a 'thin' slow fog.

Only then can the absolutely rigid body and the regular pentahedron escape the coverage of the slow fog.

Fortunately, hundreds of thousands of Earth years are not too far for the gods. The geometric shapes took thousands of "group photos" of the pentahedron "sleeping" in the death line to commemorate the unfortunate event of this fellow being falling into the death line, and then left with a laugh.

The two death lines drifted alone in the universe.

Although it can serve as a prison for the gods, the Death Line is not a particularly advanced weapon in the universe, and it can hardly be classified as a type of "weapon." At best, it can only be considered a common "human" phenomenon.

Wherever a warp drive spaceship travels, it will cause the creation of a "deadline".

Yes, beside that dead line lying between Earth and the Trisolaran world, there are also traces of the existence of 415 other dead lines.

Those were the contrails left by the 415 light-speed ships of the Trisolaran Second Fleet during their warp drive.

These finer lines, against the dark background of the universe, leave 415 neatly arranged lines, like a black ink brush spreading and diffusing in the water.

However, the dead lines generated by these curvature engines are worlds apart from the dead lines actively released by the God of Rules.

The Second Fleet's warp drive was only powerful enough to leave a dead line about ten meters in diameter, which is almost the smallest dead line phenomenon in the universe. But even such a primitive light-speed engine with extremely low power left an indelible mark on the universe.

The ability to leave an irreversible mark on the universe is one of the main indicators that led the Carbon-Based Federation to classify the Trisolaran civilization as a Class A civilization.

Although the traces were not obvious.

The Second Fleet's warships do not need to be large. Limited by the power of the light speed warp drive, the size of a single warship in the Second Fleet is only one-tenth that of the First Fleet, much smaller than a human star-class warship, and roughly the same as an interplanetary warship, equivalent to a human aircraft carrier in the early 21st century.

The ten-meter-diameter dead line generated by these "small" light-speed spacecraft would evaporate into "slow fog" in about one nanosecond due to the expansion of space itself.

The smaller the volume of the dead line, the faster it evaporates in space.

During the Second Fleet's journey of a total of 4.3 light-years, approximately four light-years were spent traveling at the speed of light, and the entire journey was conducted under light-speed curvature. As a result, the tiny dead lines that were left behind, spanning four light-years, have now expanded into 415 slender, cone-shaped low-light-speed black holes over time.

This low-light-speed region, named "slow fog" or "dark zone," has spread hundreds of kilometers from those fine dead lines. The slow fog is thinnest at its edges, where the speed of light is closest to the normal speed of light in a vacuum.

But no matter how thin the slow fog becomes, it can never completely disappear, and this area can never return to normal light speed levels. This is based on the proportion of these 415 dead lines spreading into slow fog.

Those two true cosmic death lines, after spreading for hundreds of thousands of years, will likely form a slow fog region spanning several light-years, completely separating the Trisolaran world from the Earth world.

Even after a sufficiently long period of time, the slow fog will eventually engulf two galaxies, forming a club-shaped low-light-speed black hole spanning tens of light-years. The two club-shaped low-light-speed black holes will intersect, forming a "scissor-shaped" low-light-speed black hole world.

However, it would be at least hundreds of millions of years before it spreads to that extent.

Compared to the two slowly evaporating dead lines near the Trisolaran galaxy, the "dead line sphere" in the Milky Way's halo region, which is still expanding at the speed of light, is much more eye-catching.

At this point, a year had passed since the two major events: the destruction of the will of the stars and the annihilation of the galactic halo.

The diameter of this enormous, dead-line sphere has expanded to the size of one light-year.

This also means that more than a thousand gods, including Luo Qing and Li Bai, are trapped in the core area of ​​the Death Line, which is surrounded by a Death Line that is light-years thick.

And now this dead line is still expanding. According to the gods' estimates, it will eventually expand at the speed of light for one hundred years, eventually reaching a diameter of two hundred light-years.

Once the 200-light-year-diameter "death line" is formed, it will be the most spectacular "death line spectacle" in the entire observable universe.

In comparison, the two dead lines near the Trisolaran system can only be considered as two 'needles' under the mountains.

It would take about 40 to 50 billion years for the dead line, which is 200 light-years in diameter, to completely evaporate into slow fog—far exceeding the current age of the universe.

This also means that Luo Qing, Li Bai, and the gods of the Dark Forest, trapped at the core of the Death Line, will almost never be able to escape from it.

Even if the 200-light-year dead line completely evaporates, this region will form a low-light-speed black hole with a diameter of nearly 10,000 light-years. This low-light-speed black hole will forever hover in the galactic disk region extending 50,000 light-years outward from the end of the first spiral arm of the Milky Way.

Even for a god, under the constraints of a low-light-speed black hole, it would be virtually impossible to travel 10,000 light-years away at a speed of only a few meters per second.

Amidst their busy schedules, the Carbon-Based Federation held a grand funeral for Li Bai and Luo Qing, who were trapped in the core of the Death Line, in the Galactic Heart region.

The broken mirror even played a 'dirge' for them.

Although the two gods are still alive and there is hope that they can climb out.

However, given the current state of the universe, riddled with holes, it may not survive long enough for the two gods to emerge.

Therefore, in the eyes of the Carbon-Based Federation, although these two gods are still alive, they are already dead.

In comparison, at least regular pentahedrons and perfectly rigid bodies have the hope of climbing out.

After dealing with the silicon-based empire, Lan also plans to go to Earth to personally pay tribute to Luo Qing.

The impact of this [Battle of the Galactic Halo] was far-reaching. After this battle, the Dark Forest Gods within the Laniakea Supercluster, where the Milky Way is located, were almost completely annihilated.

The Dark Forest Gods within the Pisces-Cetus Supercluster gradually fled to other superclusters and even other cosmic fibers.

The very few Black Forest Gods of the Local Cluster who escaped this entrapment operation, a coordinated effort between the Stellar Will and the Bright Ocean faction, due to their slow reaction, completely hid themselves away.

The silicon-based god at the end of the first spiral arm of the Milky Way witnessed the entire Great Battle of the Galaxy, which lasted for about 2.7 femtoseconds. He saw two or three thousand Dark Forest Gods die, and more than a thousand Dark Forest Gods, who were no weaker than the silicon-based gods, jumped into the death line, which they could hardly come out of, like stray dogs, to survive. Even the powerful God of Rules chose to jump into the death line to survive.

This scene undoubtedly put immense mental pressure on the silicon-based god.

Before leaving, the more than 200,000 luminous ocean deities also discovered this weak and pitiful silicon-based god.

No one took action.

He's just a material god, and a relatively weak one at that. He can't even travel faster than light. He only got to the Milky Way because of an eleven-dimensional passage opened by another Black Forest God. It would be unbecoming of an energy god to bully such a weak god.

Besides, God's home is right here; there's no need for us to overstep our bounds.

But out of politeness, each of the light sea gods glared at the silicon-based god before leaving.

The silicon-based god was stared at more than 200,000 times.

After that, the silicon-based god completely abandoned any transgressions. It didn't even dare to attack the carbon-based federation reconnaissance ships that had come to its doorstep. Instead, it silently converted stars into silicon stars, doing the bare minimum to complete the Thinker's mission.

Although it was only passively working, the silicon-based god still brought considerable war pressure to the carbon-based federation. The silicon-based empire was replenishing its silicon stars at such a fast pace that the carbon-based federation's passive defense based on starless isolation zones would only be nurturing a tiger that would eventually turn on them.

The carbon-based federation decided to take the initiative.

First, through the reserved "bridge," the main fleet will leap into the silicon-based empire's sphere of influence on a large scale, and then launch a general offensive to quell all resistance from the silicon-based empire and besiege the silicon-based god.

The silicon-based empire seems to be making a similar choice at this moment. They have locked their attack targets on the edge star systems near the isolation zone, seemingly attempting to make a jump of up to 200 light-years through the stars within the edge range, and then slowly swim 300 light-years at the speed of light to reach the other side of the isolation zone, using offense as a form of defense.

Without the intervention of mirrors, the silicon-based empire will never repeat the disastrous defeat of the 'Alpha Blank Zone' campaign.

This is a war of life and death.

(End of this chapter)