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

Chapter 470 I'm Just a Cat (5k)

Human analysts struggled to analyze the war between the gods because the vast majority of the gods fought at speeds far exceeding the speed of light, which visible light cannot catch. This rendered all human analytical methods ineffective.

How can you analyze something you can't even see?

All anyone could see was that the gods simply vanished suddenly and then reappeared in other places without any apparent movement.

Only when the gods slow down to the speed of light can humans see those blurry shadows of colliding energy.

But the situation soon changed. As Luo Qing pointed slightly toward the direction of the solar system, the light cone telescope immediately vibrated. Its millions of transparent lenses burst forth with intense, seven-colored light, and the light cone telescope, spanning tens of thousands of kilometers, began to autonomously change its focus.

These devouring empires extracted a translucent material, as hard as a white dwarf, from a supernova remnant. This material transformed into a seven-colored beam of light, illuminating the Trisolaran star across four light-years.

Countless high-definition images came one after another.

Even the gods who were fighting at the speed of eleven-dimensional light transformed into a blurry, dynamic image visible to the naked eye, appearing before humanity.

"This……"

The technicians in charge of operating the telescope were dumbfounded.

"The light cone system is autofocusing."

"Don't move it, don't interfere, let it move on its own."

"Luo Qing, the light cone telescope actually has a slow-motion function?"

"Can anyone calculate how many times this has been slowed down?"

...

The war between the gods lasted for a very short time, yet it felt as if tens of thousands of years had passed for everyone present. The sheer volume of information at the speed of eleven-dimensional light overwhelmed everyone's minds, forcing the light cone image to cut 99% of its content, leaving only the most crucial fragments.

For example, the scene where Luo Qing punches Quark Star into a black hole.

When the 'slow-motion' video ended, everyone felt as if they had escaped from an endless deep sea, their spirits severely depleted, and they were all panting heavily.

It's too much to ask of them to comprehend this battle of gods using the human brain.

The video recorder and intelligence analyst struggled to their feet and gritted their teeth to continue recording the information they had just 'seen'—since the live broadcast could not be reproduced, humans could only review the secondhand information they had recorded.

But the Federal Chairman and Luo Ji no longer needed this information. In the deliberately slowed-down video, both of them knew the outcome of the war, especially Luo Ji, who had memorized almost every detail of this divine war.

"What did I just see...? How did that black hole appear?"

The Federal President was getting old and his energy was failing. He felt like he had just had a long dream and seemed to have trouble distinguishing between illusion and reality.

Luo Ji calmly replied, "The black hole was that quark star, an absolutely rigid quark star that could not collide with. Shi Luoqing grabbed the opponent and punched him to death. After the quark star died, it naturally collapsed and became a black hole."

The federal president was stunned for a moment after hearing this.

"So, the black hole in the Trisolaran system was created by Luo Qing..."

Luo Ji nodded.

The Federal Chairman looked at Luo Ji with a complicated expression: "Dr. Luo Ji, I look forward to seeing you grow to this level."

Luo Ji wanted to explain something, but his old habit of facing the wall kicked in, and he ultimately stopped himself from speaking.

While everyone was watching the live stream, the wave of music from four light-years away continued to wash over the solar system. These were the aftershocks of the battle between the mirror and the hostile god. Since it had been verified that the spatial wave did not cause any damage to the solar system itself, the formation was no longer activated.

Throughout the tumultuous solar system, both the Federation Chairman and Luo Ji witnessed the formation of the "Four Bodies." 0.1 seconds after the formation of the "Four Bodies," the moon-sized carbon-based Federation warship above Trisolaris also released a black hole-level gravitational field to counteract the black hole gravitational field of Quark Star. This directly led Trisolaris into a brief "Five Bodies" era.

"The Trisolaran planet is about to be torn apart!" someone exclaimed.

"Gravity has broken the Roche limit!"

But reality ultimately disappointed people. Before Trisolaris entered the event horizon of the black hole, the mirror intervened, and a spatial curvature slide directly shifted Trisolaris by tens of billions of kilometers at the speed of light, making Trisolaris an outer planet similar to Pluto.

"That mirror actually saved the Trisolarans' planet," the Federation Chairman exclaimed in surprise.

Luo Ji said, "God's preferences have nothing to do with universal morality; it's just a matter of a single thought."

The scene of the Trisolarans gliding away is being rapidly analyzed by human recorders.

Europa

Qian Mengjian: "As expected, he's not completely dead. We urgently need a powerful method to eliminate him completely."

Vitalis: "I see that the crust of Trisolaris has cracked, and a large amount of mantle magma has spread to the surface. This means that the Trisolarans are likely to obtain enough resources from it, and we must deal with it as soon as possible... Could we have a batch of star-class warships accelerate to 0.5 times the speed of light and give Trisolaris a barrage of fire first?"

Grant rejected Vitalis's suggestion: "No, although Trisolaris is on the edge of the Trisolaran system, it is still in a four-body motion. Four-body motion is more unpredictable than three-body motion. Even if the cannonball is accelerated to 60%, it will still take six or seven years to fly. We cannot predict the future coordinates of Trisolaris in its disordered motion."

Vitalis clenched his fist: "I know, that's why I suggest bombing a few high-probability coordinates, taking a gamble, at least to interrupt the Trisolarans' regeneration speed and give our light-speed spaceships time to conduct research."

Qian Mengjian: "Let's try the gamma-ray burst. If it misses, we can treat it as a military exercise. We're just killing time anyway."

兰州
Ding Yi: "The coldness of distant planets cannot destroy this technological civilization; it will likely cause more trouble later."

Dr. Chen: "If the sky falls, the tall ones will hold it up."

Ding Yi: "That's true, Old Chen. What's your attitude towards the Trisolarans?"

Dr. Chen thought about it carefully:
"I want to collapse the Trisolaran into a quantum state. The quantum state is the state that is most likely to be close to your 'Uncertainty Theory'. The Trisolaran has enough samples to help the two of us complete the calculation and correction of the key uncertainty constants."

Ding Yi shook his head: "That's difficult. Where are we going to find such large macroatoms?"

...

Just as the Trisolaran planet was shifted by tens of billions of kilometers, this battle of gods, which lasted for about ten minutes, finally came to an end.

Li Bai slew another god, leaving only three opposing gods who banded together and fled at the speed of light, pursued by the other gods at the same speed. Under the tracking of the Super Light Cone Telescope, this divine war was about to end.

"Is it over?" This thought popped into many people's minds.

"No, it's not over yet. If it were that simple, Luo Qing would have been back long ago."

Some people are calmly analyzing the situation.

Sure enough, just as this divine war was about to end, another change occurred. The carbon-based Federation warship suddenly unleashed a large number of weapons in a certain direction, and then a new hostile god headed straight for the bombardment of countless weapons, flying at the speed of five-dimensional light, about 1000 times the speed of vacuum light.

Humans cannot discern the difference between gods, but when they saw the new, powerful god soaring towards them under the full firepower of the carbon-based Federation warships through the light cone telescope, everyone realized something was wrong.

Just what kind of terrifying existence is this?

Based on the performance of the carbon-based Federation warships in bombarding the star god, human intelligence analysts quickly derived a wealth of information.

[Deity No. 11: Code Name: Singularity] (Status: Hostile!)
Intelligence analysis: "The enemy is immune to the bombardment of light particle kinetic energy weapons and photon beam attacks. All the weapons bombarded by the Federation warships exhibit a clear black hole effect when they hit the enemy: that is, the weapons are distorted and stopped within the event horizon of the black hole, and seem to have infinite spacetime curvature characteristics. This is simply a singularity!"

Soon, under the immense pressure of this supreme deity, Luo Qing's side was severely suppressed, and the other three deities seized the opportunity to leap out of the light cone's observation range.

The game turned into a 5v1.

Amidst the tense gazes of everyone, Luo Qing was suddenly transported away by the mirror, and then the defensive line formed by the four gods engaged in a long and protracted battle with this singularity god.

The second round of the battle of gods lasted a full week.

The music wave lasted for a full week.

Everyone watching the live stream stayed up day and night, their eyes bloodshot, for seven days and seven nights straight.

Everyone could clearly see that the continuous battle of gods for more than a hundred hours had turned the space around the Trisolaran star system into various ruins. The space itself was no longer stable, and even photons were trapped in that ruined space. The battlefield of more than a hundred light-years around the Trisolaran star system had become a trap.

Qian Mengjian said, "The route to Trisolaris is blocked. If the Solar System fleet does not avoid these battlefield ruins during its subsequent expedition to Trisolaris, our warships could easily be destroyed."

Vitalis: "Then let's take a detour."

A week of intense battle had also left the Mirror God showing signs of fatigue.

Over the course of this long week, humanity has deciphered that this spatial wave is essentially a rhythmic and musical "music." Human musicians have named these spatial melodies played by the mirror, but by this time, the mirror god's music has become hoarse, discordant, and unpleasant to listen to.

"We're going to lose."

"What the hell? Where did the mirror send Luo Qing?"

“Sending him away was the right decision. Luo Qing’s movement speed is only the speed of light, while the god in front of us moves at a speed of 1000 times the speed of light. Once he catches up, he will die.” Immediately afterwards, this singularity god unleashed its biggest attack to date.

A dead line!
A dead end stretching over 100 light-years across the Trisolaran galaxy.

"Another dead end has formed!" someone exclaimed.

"That death line was indeed created by God."

Two years ago, humans had already observed the formation of the first dead line, but the light cone telescope at that time had not been upgraded by Luo Qing. Therefore, in the eyes of humans, the scene two years ago was just the sudden appearance of the dead line, and all other anomalies could not be seen.

But this time, humanity clearly witnessed the entire process of the death line forming.

Due to distance and the speed of light, the first dead line that humans saw was actually formed later, while the dead line in front of us was formed for the first time.

The death line suddenly appeared at a distance of about 168 light-hours from the Trisolaran galaxy, and then the regular pentahedron, the absolute rigid body, and the half-mirror were swallowed up by the death line.

"It's over," someone said.

Humanity has a clear understanding of the physical properties of the death line. In that region of zero light speed, nothing can escape, not even a god.

Without hesitation, Li Bai and the Mirror fled in different directions. For some reason, the Mirror had already fled towards Earth. The Singularity God chose to pursue the Mirror. Since both the Mirror and the Singularity God were flying towards Earth at faster-than-light speed, the light-tracing telescope once again lost track of them.

Both the Mirror and the Singularity God have exceeded the speed of light, creating a bizarre time paradox for humanity. They had already seen it two years ago—the second death line—at the instant Earth and the center of the Trisolaran system formed, but only now do they see them flying towards Earth.

With this, all human observation came to an end.

The Supercone Telescope also lost its seven-colored light and returned to its state a week ago, becoming an ordinary optical telescope.

"The live stream has ended. Due to the time paradox caused by faster-than-light travel, we can no longer see this scene because it happened two years ago, and two years ago, we didn't see anything due to technical limitations."

A line of explanation text typed by a technician appeared in the upper right corner of the screen.

Luo Ji and the Federal Chairman remained silent for a long time.

"What exactly was the scene from two years ago?" Luo Ji asked.

The Federal Chairman said, "Just like that, the death line appeared right in the middle of the Trisolaran system and Earth. Other than that, we didn't see anything."

Luo Ji: "Based on the second death line, we can deduce that the mirror flew towards Earth. Why would it fly towards Earth?"

The Federation Chairman smiled wryly: "How could we possibly know? It couldn't possibly be that they came to Earth for help. We saw it too. During that week of fierce fighting, the Carbon-Based Federation dispatched a large number of light-speed fighters to perform space jumps and appear near the battlefield to participate in the interception of that singularity god. Unfortunately, it had no effect. If the Carbon-Based Federation can't stop it, the mirror can't possibly expect us humans to help it."

Luo Ji frowned, and for some reason, he suddenly thought of Einstein.

...

兰州
Ding Yi: "The singularity chose to pursue the mirror instead of Li Bai, and the mirror actually chose to flee towards Earth... Interesting."

Dr. Chen: "It seems that the mirror may not have escaped. It traveled two light-years at faster-than-light speed and was eventually intercepted by the singularity at the midpoint between Earth and Trisolaran, which led to the second dead end."

Ding Yi: "Why do you think we should run towards Earth?"

Dr. Chen pondered, "Perhaps it's because the risk eliminater is here... I remember there's also a light amber in the sun, these two can also be considered 'gods'?"

Ding Yi: "That risk remover is just a sensor, and Guangpo is treated like a pet by Luo Qing. I don't think these two can stop that exaggerated singularity."

Dr. Chen: "You mean..."

Ding Yi said quietly, "After Einstein passed away, Xiao Bai and I once scanned his grave with a neutrino detector in the middle of the night."

Dr. Chen looked shocked: "Why did you make Bai Ice sweep someone's grave? You can't treat your own student like this."

Ding Yi continued, "Guess what I discovered?"

Dr. Chen couldn't help but say, "It can't be Einstein's quantum ghost, can it?"

Ding Yi shook his head: "No, I didn't find anything. I didn't even find his ashes... You know, I saw Einstein being pushed into the crematorium with my own eyes, and I even presided over his funeral. I saw the urn being buried with my own eyes."

"Damn." Dr. Chen got goosebumps all over.

Ding Yi was about to say something when a fat gray striped tabby cat suddenly jumped onto his lap and lay down comfortably.

"Hey? Isn't this Tsinghua University's new lazy, good-for-nothing campus darling? How did you bring it to Lanzhou? Did you raise it?" Dr. Chen recognized the chubby cat that had become somewhat popular on Tsinghua's campus network and asked with some confusion.

Ding Yi's expression stiffened: "No... I didn't bring it with me."

The cat spoke up first: "I came by high-speed train by myself."

...

Just as everyone was exhausted after seven days and nights of working hard and was about to shut down the live stream to summarize the information, another unexpected event occurred.

The light cone telescope saw an extremely close-up image, so close it seemed to be right in front of the telescope.

"Stop, stop, stop! Everyone, don't leave yet, keep watching Zhizi's live stream!" Urgent subtitles appeared in the upper right corner of Zhizi's screen.

Everyone simultaneously looked up at the Zhizi that was closing and opening again.

In the scene, that fluttering figure...

It's Luo Qing.

It's Luo Qing from four years ago!
"Everyone, you have watched the live broadcast and witnessed the power of God. There is no need to belittle yourselves. Go and strive to develop yourselves."

I have foreseen the great calamity that lies ahead of me, one that cannot be avoided. Human civilization, too, faces a true catastrophe. I have made many preparations in advance, but they may be effective, or they may be ineffective. In any case, the path ahead is for humanity to walk itself.

"When times come, heaven and earth all work together to transport heroes without freedom."

"Over the past 200 years of the Crisis Era, you have already experienced enough hardships, but the final step requires you to take it on your own. I will go and deal with a minor crisis. If I am lucky, I will come back alive; if I am unlucky, I will die. But before I die, I will try to take the other side down with me. But don't worry, even if I am completely dead, there will be many god-level civilizations in the universe working hard for this and trying to solve the ultimate problem of the universe... Even without me, they can lead the universe to a fairly good ending."

But no matter what, compared to them, I hope that humanity can eventually grow into one of them.

Time is short, so that's all I have to say. Best of luck. Before that, there's one last scene to watch in the live stream.

As Luo Qing finished speaking, the world spun around them, and the more than one thousand people watching the live stream, along with a cat, seemed to be in the starry sky two light-years away.

Here, half of a broken mirror, fleeing at the speed of eleven-dimensional light, is flying towards Earth at a speed "visible to the naked eye".

More than a thousand humans watched this 'immersive' battle of gods unfold before their eyes.

Suddenly, the second Death Line struck down, lying between the Trisolaran planet and Earth, reducing the speed of light in all space to zero, blocking the path of the God of Broken Mirror.

The broken mirror revealed a look of despair.

As Luo Qing unleashed his punch, space naturally transported him from the vicinity of the light cone telescope to the front of the singularity god in an instant, protecting the mirror god behind him.

"Didn't you run away?" The stellar will within the singularity god expressed surprise and uncertainty.

"Just one more time." Luo Qing chuckled, then threw a punch.

"What?" The will of the stars couldn't understand Luo Qing's meaning.

But He didn't need to understand. This punch sealed off all of the Singularity God's escape routes, using classical mechanics to pierce through infinite curvature, infinite density, infinite temperature, the entropy conservation within the Singularity God, the information body, the high-dimensional energy, and the Singularity God itself. It acted on the stellar will within, prematurely annihilating it.

The timeline experiences a negligible split at this moment.

Subsequently, the will of the star died, the singularity god died, and the moment the death sphere exploded, Luo Qing kicked the expanding death sphere to the Silver Halo Land, 50,000 light-years away, to prevent it from devouring the Earth. After taking one last look in Luo Ji's direction, Luo Qing also jumped 50,000 light-years away and disappeared from everyone's sight.

Fifty thousand light-years away, in the land of silver halo, beneath Luo Qing's feet, the Death Line Sphere began to expand at the speed of light.

Luo Qing glanced at the observable universe with a provocative expression, then jumped in on his own.

Within the death line, there is the only battlefield where the Thinkers can be dealt with, and also the only point in the foreseeable timeline where the Thinkers can be dealt with. If we fight too early, we will not be able to defeat them; if we fight too late, Earth will be destroyed.

Throughout history, this is the only opportunity.

"I hope the next battle is easier and that we don't break it. We still need to create a poem for Li Bai about this death line." Luo Qing muttered to himself as he watched Li Bai disappear into the death line and lose consciousness.

Outside the sphere, countless Black Forest Gods and Light Sea Gods are descending.

(End of this chapter)