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

Chapter 466 Disassembling the Miniature Universe Barehanded (8k)

It's time to bring annihilation upon the enemy!
The idea had barely surfaced in the mothership's consciousness when the Seventh Quadrant Fleet finally emerged from the warped point of the temporary four-dimensional space fragment. From a three-dimensional perspective, these twelve warships appeared out of nowhere, which was incredibly futuristic and had an indescribable sense of advanced technology.

The heavy fleet appeared one after another from the warp points, creating a magnificent sight.

This practice of using fragments of higher-dimensional space to conceal the fleet is a common tactic employed by the Edge World and the Singer Civilization.

Maintaining the existence of a four-dimensional fragment of such size is not difficult—it only requires the energy of a few hundred stars, which the Edge World can easily afford. Moreover, since three-dimensional objects are just a thin layer in four-dimensional space, the warships of the Edge civilization can be infinitely superimposed in four-dimensional space.

As long as the length, width, and height can be accommodated, then the fourth 'edge' can be used to stack countless three-dimensional objects composed of 'length, width, and height'.

In other words, as long as the cross-sectional area of ​​the four-dimensional fragment's length, width, and height is greater than that of the largest edge warship, then no matter how thick the edge of the four-dimensional fragment is, it can infinitely overlap with a three-dimensional object with an edge length of zero.

Currently, the macrocosm is 99.999% three-dimensional, so it is only necessary to ensure sufficient three-dimensional combat power.

The Edge World believes that Dark Forest attacks cannot be launched between different dimensions. For example, a three-dimensional nuclear explosion cannot threaten four-dimensional or two-dimensional objects. The former cannot affect the edge length, and the latter lacks the thickness required for an explosion. Therefore, the Edge World's standing army can only be three-dimensional.

Offense is the norm in this universe. Although the technology of the edge world is slightly superior to that of the Singer civilization due to a technological explosion, both sides still adhere to the principle of "first to discover, first to fire, first to hit, first to win" in the Dark Forest War.

Therefore, apart from the scattered patrol fleets and the mass-produced cleanup ships, the Edge World habitually hides its main fleet in four-dimensional space. In this way, the main fleet exists in a state of "unobservable"—unless you can precisely drill into the randomly appearing warp point.

But this is impossible!
Now, faced with the ability to destroy eight Edge Worlds at once—especially since these eight Edge Worlds are far apart—it is necessary for Edge World to commit its true combat forces.

One hundred and twenty thousand warships were divided into twelve fleets, emerging from twelve warped points of four-dimensional space fragments several light-years apart, forming an arc that seemed to wrap around a single point, and heading towards what appeared to be the main fleet of the Singer civilization.

The mothership watched all of this with smug satisfaction.

But soon, a sudden change occurred. The stable and clear quantum entanglement communication of the seventh quadrant fleet, which covered a star field of tens of light-years, seemed to be soaked in high-energy radiation, leaving only the background noise of hissing radiation.

Was quantum communication interfered with?
How could quantum communication possibly be interfered with?
Quantum entanglement cannot be interfered with by any technical means; it can only be severed by annihilating the entangled particles on one side or by using different spatial dimensions.

The mothership was completely bewildered.

The mothership suddenly felt a darkness before its eyes, and the communication layer built on quantum communication links was twisted into a pretzel, as if all the quantum entanglement channels had been twisted into a ball of yarn. In this chaotic quantum communication, all information was distorted, and the mothership lost information about all its daughter ships.

And this moment.

front.

The vanguard of the frigate fleet, a secondary mothership the size of a mountain, suddenly had a piece missing from its hull, forged from neutron star matter, leaving only a hollow with a ghostly blue star flame flowing along its edge.

The secondary mothership looked down at the hollow cavity in its abdomen and froze.

The annihilated neutron star matter didn't even have time to explode. The remaining hull, having lost its structural support, collapsed wildly inward under its own gravity. The moment the outer neutron star structure collided with the inner neutron star structure, it triggered a small supernova explosion that swept through the vicinity.

Dozens of nearby edge warships were torn into basic particles.

Lightship A's revenge has officially begun.

Alarm? No alarm.

Because the sensors that observed this scene—whether optical, gravitational wave, space wave detectors, or anything else—all seemed to transmit information at a snail's pace compared to "that thing."

Because the global quantum communication was twisted into a pretzel, the mothership could only judge the extent of casualties among the daughter ships by the interruption of quantum communication. In just a few seconds, more than one hundred peripheral warships had been destroyed.

At this moment, a message also came from the microcosm of the edge world, clearly indicating that it had also noticed the anomaly outside.

Little Universe: "You just told me not to come out, did something happen?"

Mothership: "We encountered a formidable enemy at the front. Quantum communication was disrupted, and hundreds of edge warships were destroyed. My analysis is that the Singer civilization hurled their 'mother world' at us. Only in this way could such severe damage be caused."

Little Universe: "It seems that our Eternal Song is unwilling to eke out a living in the two-dimensional universe and has launched a desperate attack. Unfortunately, we, the abandoned ones left on the edge of the world by the Singer, are destined to destroy and replace it."

Mothership: "Great savior, the Edge World has been able to develop to where it is today despite being abandoned by the Singer, thanks to your contributions. But please don't come out now, I have a feeling that something is not right."

Little Universe: "You are the mothership, and also the mother of the edge world. I will listen to you. I will not come out. I will leave the outside world to you."

The microcosm once again cut off external communication.

The mothership gathered its thoughts and began to extract patterns from the disrupted quantum communications, seemingly trying to figure out what had happened to the Seventh Quadrant Fleet.

But soon, the quantum communication network instantly wiped out a large portion of it, causing the mothership's mind to almost scream.

No, no, it wasn't a desperate gamble by the singers...

After the mothership realized that the first mothership had been destroyed, more destruction followed.

The second mothership, 6.8 light-years away, is a new target of an unknown enemy; followed by the third mothership, 5.4 light-years away, then the fourth, fifth, and sixth motherships…

Death was like a game of musical chairs. The other nine secondary motherships, which were far apart, were annihilated by the same means in just a few dozen seconds, with a large number of neutron star hulls destroyed, turning into nine short-lived and tragic miniature supernovae.

All ten auxiliary motherships of the Seventh Quadrant Fleet were annihilated!
After clearing out these behemoths, a massive area attack, too large for the mothership to comprehend, engulfed the central fleet of the Seventh Quadrant, totaling over ten thousand warships.

It's important to know that the central fleet of the Seventh Quadrant Fleet is not in a dense formation, but rather distributed across a vast space spanning a full cubic light-year!

The lamplight shines!

These tens of thousands of neutron star ships, which should have been immortal, are aging at a speed visible to the naked eye under the scouring of ultra-large-scale degenerate photons. Their dense atomic nuclei complete their theoretically 10-year lifespan in one-hundredth of a second.

The warship's core transforms into free neutrons, which then rapidly undergo beta decay (approximately a 15-minute half-life) into protons, electrons, and antineutrinos, ultimately forming hydrogen plasma.

These neutron star edge warships, with diameters exceeding 100 mm, silently disintegrated and dispersed in the vacuum of space, transforming into a dreamlike snow of hydrogen.

"It's a lamp..." The frontline fleet finally pieced together fragmented information, "A lamp leaping through space!"

"With a single flash, it can traverse a distance that would take us decades to traverse..."

"It...is glowing, like a warm, bluish fire..."

"This lightship is brighter than a supernova! It has illuminated our warships!"

"There is only one target spaceship. Repeat, the attacker only has one spaceship!"

The various reactions of terror were finally transmitted back to the mothership's brain via the newly established quantum communication channel.

Seemingly overwhelmed by information, the mothership's mind drifted into a daze, while the ghostly light flashed, disappeared, and reappeared repeatedly in the core area of ​​the fleet. Each flash was accompanied by one or more devastating attacks, each with a completely different method—sometimes annihilation of matter, sometimes a scouring of light, but most of the time the opponent used its masterful force field to bend these extremely heavy neutron star warships from their light-speed flight, ultimately throwing them in the same direction, causing them to collide violently with each other!

The other side seems to particularly enjoy the mini-supernova explosions caused by these neutron star hulls colliding with each other.

The indestructible neutron star hull became the best weapon for self-destruction.

Amidst the extremely frequent waves of destruction, the mothership finally managed to vaguely make out the appearance of the enemy through scattered information transmitted from the front lines.

This is a ghostly blue plasma lamp, somewhere between gas and energy, ethereal as a ghost. It has no obvious weapon system or engine drive, only a halo that flickers like breathing. It is like a dream lamp that has entered the real world, flashing faster than light in the edge fleet.

Each flash of light was accompanied by the clearing out of warships in a certain area.

Wherever this lamp passed, neutron star warships turned into stardust, and the torrent of neutron stars returned to nothingness.

The light can kill!

Like an ultraviolet lamp in a germ room, it eliminates toxins and kills germs wherever it goes!

The remaining edge fleet attempted to pinpoint the enemy's location, construct a four-dimensional defense line to drive them out, and deployed a large number of two-dimensional foils, forming a cross-dimensional defense line.

But that doesn't make any sense.

When Lightship A enters two-dimensional space, it transforms into a two-dimensional lamp and leaps forward rapidly. When it enters four-dimensional space, it transforms into a four-dimensional lamp and charges forward.

This lightship can adapt to its spatial dimension!

For this being capable of hyperspace jumps that defy the speed of light and are incomprehensible, the reactions of the Edge Fleet are like slides slowed down countless times. Its jump intervals are so short that they can be ignored, and each appearance is always in the densest area of ​​the fleet.

The destructive energy beams fired from high-powered light-speed weapons, mass-energy weapons, and dimensional-shifting weapons couldn't even create a single snowflake when they hit that lamp.

最终，灯船灭杀了第七象限舰队的中央舰队，朝着南3舰队飞去，接着是南2舰队、东1舰队、西2舰队、北1舰队、上2舰队、下1舰队……

The lamp kept leaping into the edge of the fleet that was traveling at the speed of light. Then the flames spread outward, forming a higher-dimensional plasma fire. This plasma fire burned towards the ships at a speed of six-dimensional light, ten thousand times the standard three-dimensional speed of light!

The Seventh Quadrant Fleet was utterly desperate.

A vast expanse of light, fueled by the rage of the lamp spirits, engulfed them.

Within the mothership's core consciousness, the light representing the fleet's size was rapidly extinguishing. 100,000, 80,000, 50,000, 10,000... The neutron star torrent that once blotted out the sky and was enough to force the Singer civilization to retreat was melting away like ice and snow under the sun before an incomprehensible light.

"This is simply not an enemy that the Edge World can handle."

"This is the most powerful civilization in the universe!"

"We must quickly warn the 'savior'."

Thinking of this, the mothership sent another warning message to that small universe, only to find that the small universe had been completely shut down in fear and was refusing to receive the mothership's message.

The mothership was stunned again.

It glanced in the direction of the microcosm, then at the fleet on the verge of its demise, lost in thought.

Ultimately, in this exceptionally cleaned starfield, only the last three hundred marginal ships remained. Clumped together, releasing gamma-ray bursts, they circled, attempting to seal themselves off in a dead end, forming a dark zone in search of a glimmer of hope.
But it was clearly too late.

If the Black Domain is a sealed wall, then these three hundred edge warships only had time to lay the first row of bricks.

at last……

She is coming.

A gentle ripple spread through the space.

The pale blue lamp rose slowly from the spatial waves like a lotus emerging from the water, appearing directly in front of the surviving fleet.

This was the first time the entire Edge World had seen what the 'light' looked like.

She is so beautiful.

She hovered silently, her size less than a tenth of that of a secondary edge ship. Her form was a cluster of soft, ever-changing, dark blue flames, with smooth, warm lines, radiating a brilliance beyond human comprehension.

Warm light shone on the edge of the warship.

Just as the entire Edge World was bathed in this warm light, a mundane message was broadcast, using the Edge World's universal encoding:

Based on the Dark Forest campaign that destroyed numerous innocent civilizations in the "Rim World," the Lightship A, belonging to Rescue Fleet No. 1432 of the Carbon-Based Federation's Light Spirit Civilization Rescue Fleet, will be responsible for carrying out the destruction procedure on the "Rim World" to reduce the harm this Dark Forest civilization poses to the edge of the galaxy. This cleanup has been approved by the Carbon-Based Federation's Supreme Council. Given that the Rim Civilization has reached Level 4A, its leaders will be tried in the Galactic Carbon-Based Federation's Court of Light!

The moment the announcement ended, the lights suddenly blazed brightly.

The light moved forward, enveloping the last edge of the warship.

The total time was 57 minutes and 43 seconds. The entire fleet of 120,000 edge warships of the seventh quadrant of the 4A-level civilization [Ring World] was wiped out.

After annihilating the fleet, the lightships instantly leaped into the interior of a star, replenished their energy for about ten minutes, and then, imitating their predecessors, performed a standard stellar leap, traversing two hundred light-years in one go, and appearing in the eighth quadrant of the [Edge World]. There, too, was a weak Edge Fleet, known as the Edge World Eighth Quadrant Fleet.

The Eighth Quadrant Fleet is currently hiding in the four-dimensional fragments, as if this will allow them to remain undetected by the lightships.

But this is obviously in vain.

Illuminated by the lights, the plasma flame, encompassing six spatial dimensions—length, width, height, edge, axis, and coupling—spread out with a roar at a speed 100,000 times faster than standard vacuum light.

The Eighth Quadrant Fleet, hidden within the dimensions of length, width, height, and edges, has been met with a saturation attack from beyond its dimensions!

When the mothership received the "destruction" signal from the Eighth Quadrant Fleet, it was completely bewildered. It had no idea how the enemy had managed to travel from the Seventh Quadrant to the Eighth Quadrant, which was two hundred light-years away.

But it doesn't matter, the genies' second cleanup operation has already begun.

The second cleanup operation took 53 minutes and 27 seconds, which was even faster than the first one.

Then came another stellar leap across a distance of 200 light-years.

The third cleanup operation took 51 minutes and 19 seconds.

The fourth cleanup operation took 49 minutes and 28 seconds.

The fifth cleanup operation took 47 minutes and 62 seconds.

The sixth cleanup operation took 41 minutes and 39 seconds.

The seventh cleanup operation took 43 minutes and 22 seconds.

The eighth cleanup operation took 56 minutes and 09 seconds.

Eight hours after Earth time, all eight spatial quadrants near the microcosm were cleared, leaving only some residual energy radiation and distorted spatial structures, proving that a one-sided fierce battle had taken place there.

And the lightship that destroyed all of this has once again vanished without a trace.

The mothership didn't even try to escape; it knew that at this level of faster-than-light movement, any escape based on the speed of light would be meaningless.

The last of the first quadrant fleets to be cleared were already scattering in all directions, but having escaped a distance of several light-hours, they were practically indistinguishable from snails when facing the lightships' leaps of tens of light-years, only prolonging their death by a dozen minutes or so.
A total of 960000 frigates were burned to ashes by a single lightship.

At this point, the main combat forces in the edge world were essentially completely destroyed.

The mothership feigned composure; it was the core of the fringe civilization—at least in the microcosm where it was created, it truly was the core of this civilization.

If it weren't for its existence, the Singers trapped in the gaps between the spiral arms would have been wiped out long ago, when the Singer civilization forgot about these Singers on the edge of the world. With its own production capacity and the presence of that savior, the mothership went through millions of time particles to gradually develop the edge world from nothing to what it is today from the desolate gaps between the spiral arms.

The desire for revenge against the civilization of singers is an obsession of the marginal world.

Thanks to the pioneering efforts of the Edge World over the years, they have achieved multiple technological explosions after years of accumulation, allowing these Singers, who were abandoned on the edge of the world, to surpass the Singer Civilization, their mother civilization. Now, their mothership is even powerful enough to suppress the Singer Civilization's "Five-Dimensional Quiet Court"!

The mothership is incredibly powerful, and its size is slightly larger than Jupiter in our solar system. It is because of this enormous size that it cannot be made of neutron star matter. In fact, the mothership is a giant ship with a pseudo-five-dimensional spatial structure. Its interior is extremely complex and contains all the information of the edge world.

Even the massive edge fleet and the countless cleanup ships were bred by the mothership over a long period of time by continuously collecting resources from various star systems.

In other words, once it is destroyed, the edge world can declare "extinction".

The mothership hoped that its own destruction would quell the rage of the lamp before it.

The existence of your inner universe must never be revealed.

As long as the microcosm continues to exist, there is still hope for the Edge World and for the Avengers Singer civilization.

The mothership still doesn't understand how the Edge World offended the Lightship in front of it.

The mothership suddenly remembered the "construction notice" it had received a few time particles ago—could it be related to that? But the coordinates of that "construction notice" were on the main arm of the first spiral arm, a distance of two to three thousand light-years from the gap between the spiral arms… Even the cleanup ships scattered across the surrounding thousands of light-years had never been to the main arm!
But none of that matters anymore.

I just hope that the cosmos where the savior resides will not be discovered.

After the mothership finished thinking, it suddenly felt a beam of light shining on it, making it unable to open its optical sensors.

"You've arrived," the mothership said, feigning composure.

Just now, it deleted all its backup data about the universe to ensure that the other party could not find the precise data of the universe.

Actually, it's unnecessary. The microcosm can only open from the inside out; it's impossible to pry open the door from the outside. The mothership did this just in case.

Despite the thousands of frigates surrounding the mothership, the tiny lightship was clearly unconcerned. It simply lit up its light and extinguished the thousands of frigates within a minute.

Due to its excessive size, the mothership barely withstood the radiation in the pseudo-five-dimensional space structure, but its outer shell was almost completely burned away, revealing the silvery-white internal hull.

The lightship then lowered its lights and flew to a position level with the mothership.

"You've arrived," the mothership said again.

The lightship finally responded, still using the common code of the Rimworld, as if this civilization no longer held any secrets from her.

Lightship A: "Bring out the leader of your civilization, come with me, and face trial by the Federal Council of Light."

Mothership: "I am the core of our civilization, and also its 'leader'."

The lantern flames on the lightship flickered, as if mocking the other party's stubbornness.

Under the mothership's horrified gaze, the lightship flew toward the location of the microcosm.

Data from the mothership's sensors showed that the spatial structure around the microcosm had been completely solidified by an unknown mathematically stable field, and the physical rules of this universe began to evolve before the mothership's eyes!
Lightship A: "I will evolve the fundamental parameters that constitute the universe and unlock them through exhaustive search."

Lightship A: "From this moment on, the Edge World has lost its last chance to surrender, and the trial by the Federal Council of Light will be conducted on this ship."

Before the mothership could react, the physical laws governing the flames were revealed in the universe:

Speed ​​of light in vacuum (c): c≈299792458 m/s

Planck's constant (h): h≈6.626×10⁻⁶ J·s (quantum size)

Gravitational constant (G): G≈6.674×10 N·m/kg

Cosmological constant (Λ): 1.056 × 10^m^ (space energy density)

Hubble's constant (H): 70 km/s/Mpc (the rate of cosmic expansion)

Electron charge (e): e≈1.602×10C

Boltzmann constant (k): k≈1.381×10 J/K (temperature energy constant)

【Coulomb constant (ke): ke≈8.9875517873681764×10^N·m^/C^】 (electrostatic constant)
Then, above the eight cosmic constants, an infinite formula that runs through the galaxy suddenly appeared!
"Yu, the formula for the unified model of the universe!" The mothership was shocked to recognize this god-level formula that it had been desperately seeking.

(Note: After the Thinker was knocked unconscious by Luo Qing, the Old God returned to the Carbon-based Federation and brazenly violated the "Knowledge Sealing Law" by publishing the formula to the Carbon-based Federation. The Carbon-based Federation then distributed the formula to all civilizations for them to practice (crossed out) and study.)
(Note: A risk-taker once had some objections to the old god's behavior, but the old god replied: "What's so precious about a wrong formula? My parity nonconservation and a little guy's uncertainty principle have already exposed the whole secret of the grand unified model. I'll give you a real one later.")
From the moment this formula appeared above the lightship, the mothership saw the numbers following the eight cosmological constants begin to scroll at a dizzying speed.

[Unlocking the β-type microcosm...]

Soon, each of the eight constants was assigned a fixed value.

Key matching complete.

"No...no." The mothership finally realized the terrifying nature of the lamp and pleaded desperately.

[Local gravitational constant fine-tuning in progress, vacuum fluctuation peak calibration in progress, fifth and seventh dimension curl radii synchronized to Planck-scale real-time observations... Alignment complete]

The entire process took 2.926 seconds, and the total energy consumption was lower than that of a conventional short-membrane communication.

There was a slight clicking sound.

The door opened.

The moment the door opened, a torrent of information rushed out:

"I was wrong, I ......"

The so-called savior was hiding at the end of the microcosm, and his frantic pleas for mercy were spreading wildly from within the microcosm outwards through various means of information transmission, filling the microcosm with a sense of terror.

Lightship A: "What did you do wrong?"

A sense of bewilderment was evident within his inner world.

The Golden Lamp Spirit lost interest in communicating and subtly adjusted the curvature peak of this microcosm.

In an instant, the entire microcosm went from stable to unstable, and within millions of Planck's time, it collapsed. The savior and the core of the peripheral civilization vanished into nothingness along with the complete collapse of the microcosm.

The mothership floated in the vacuum of space, its shell ashen, like a dead ship.

Lightship A: "Do you have anything else to say?"

The mothership wept: "I have nothing more to say. Please turn on the lights immediately."

Lightship A's lights blazed brightly once more, engulfing the entire mothership.

Thus, the edge world, which had fought against the Singer civilization for hundreds of millions of Earth years, was completely wiped out.

Lightship B: "Is it cleaned up?"

Lightship A: "It's all cleaned up. There might be some small boats left, but they don't have the ability to regenerate. I'm going to clean them up... It might be a lot of trouble."

Lightship B: "Never mind the trouble, our mission is rescue, not clearing out the local Hessian natives. Come over here, I've discovered a civilization, a 4B civilization at its peak! They've even begun attempting to escape the planet's gravity! The live stream is estimated to start in about 10,000 transverse seconds, they're about to ignite their fossil fuel rockets... My God! I can't believe we're about to witness a civilization hatch!"

Lightship A: "Aren't the Festival Clan here? They love celebrating civilization's birthday the most."

Lightship B: "This is too remote. The festival tribe definitely isn't here. We need to record this scene for them, then film it and sell it to them for a high price! Come on over!"

Lightship E suddenly joined the communication: "Dear Lights, I've also discovered a strange civilization, but it's completely deserted, except for a skeleton lying in a luxurious palace... The planet only has some silicon-based machines still functioning... How strange, these silicon-based machines have very low intelligence; they were clearly created by the skeleton's owner... But there's only one skeleton on the planet, the rest are uncivilized life forms. Has anyone wanted to come and take a look?"

The spirits of Lightship A have also emerged from the grief of the destruction of the Sea Mother civilization and have become interested. They have started arguing about whether to go to B or E, urging the golden spirit to make a decision quickly, and have even started an internal vote.

In the end, the majority vote was overwhelming the minority vote, and everyone suggested heading towards Lightship B.

Witnessing the birth of a civilization is far more interesting than seeing the relics of a vanished civilization.

After a moment's thought, Lampship A decided to head towards Lampship B and light a solitary lamp in that destroyed microcosm, a kind of memorial lamp for this civilization... This is also a custom of the Lamp Spirit Civilization.

Lightship A: "E, you're too far away from us. You've gone all the way to the Orion Arm. Let's go check out B's side first."

Lightship E replied somewhat dejectedly: "Well... I finally found a high-tech civilization, but it turns out it's already dead..."

After explaining everything, the lightship found a nearby isolated star without planets, initiated a stellar leap, and then disappeared into this graveyard of civilizations.

In the sparse gaps between the rotating arms, only a lone lamp swayed with the light.

(End of this chapter)