Sky Curtain: The Darwin Incident at the outset, the Declaration of the People's League

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"Through a black hole to a new universe?" he murmured. "Are you serious?"

He looked around at the space-time torn apart by gravity.

"I've been investigating here for hundreds of years, and I wouldn't dare say I can 'travel' through a black hole. What do you think a black hole is? A bus?"

However, he then thought of the technology of that civilization.

"Okay, maybe you guys are really good."

——Star Journey World——

McDonald stood on the deck of the spaceship, looking at the sky with an astonishingly bright gaze.

"Oh wow! So this is what it's like after passing through a black hole?!"

He excitedly turned to Gudu: "Did you hear that! There's a new universe behind the black hole! You can become a god there!"

Gu Dong's lips twitched.

"McDonald, that's from another world. We need to find the Rainbow Sea first—"

“But the Rainbow Sea is behind the black hole!” McDonald interrupted him. “Maybe that ‘Intelligence’ lives in the Rainbow Sea!”

*Gulp* (covers face)

Dia fell into deep thought.

"Traversing the black hole..." she whispered, "If that empire really succeeds, what kind of beings will they become in the new universe?"

She looked at the sky.

"They will be the new 'gods.' And what will be the original inhabitants of that new universe?"

The company has achieved a very high level of expertise in black hole detection through more than half a century of research.

This time, however, it's different from other ordinary planetary colonization efforts.

We will take the entire company workforce and resources with us in one go, packing up all the culmination of our millennia-long efforts, and send it to the new universe aboard a large spaceship.

Based on all of the above considerations, the Vision Needle Project was born.

The company has decided to build the largest spacecraft in the history of our civilization in our home galaxy.

Because this new spacecraft is so enormous, there is no shipyard or planet in the entire galaxy capable of undertaking such a massive project.

Our engineers could only use the wisdom of people from the pre-space age, employing methods similar to those used in large space stations, to assemble such a spacecraft in near-Earth orbit around our home planet.

This process could take decades.

During this period, the group also needs to prepare to find a good black hole.

If we're going to do something, let's do the biggest thing ever.

The one in the center of the Milky Way is pretty good.

As the most massive object in a galaxy, all stars are within its gravitational pull, making it undoubtedly the best choice for the group to conduct a global survey.

However, the problem now is that this black hole doesn't belong to us; it belongs to an eternal empire of some ancient bastard who has lived for countless billions of years.

Furthermore, we don't even have a path to the center of the Milky Way.

Currently, only three hyperspace routes to the center of the Milky Way have been discovered. Of these three routes, one is too far away, another has too many small countries and is difficult to control, and only the last one, the hyperspace route controlled by the Tree People civilization, is the easiest to conquer.

[We only need to conquer dozens of star systems and fewer than 5 more planets to achieve our goal.]

"Just? Tsk, this civilization is really powerful."

In 2380, the war between the Group and the Tree People Civilization began.

Since the two sides are evenly matched and have allies to support them, we cannot guarantee a 100% win rate.

Therefore, the group concentrated the vast majority of its main forces, hoping to crush the Treant civilization's fleet in the early stages of the war in order to quickly end the conflict.

In 2382, the group's main force clashed with the enemy fleet in a large-scale battle in the Tilger system.

Although half of the enemy fleet escaped via faster-than-light warp, our side successfully sank dozens of battleships of the Treant civilization, gaining a certain advantage on the southern front.

Is there a north and south in the universe?

Never mind, it's just a minor detail, no need to worry about it.

[At the same time, because we concentrated all our main forces on the southern front and abandoned the super-redline route in the north, a large number of enemy main fleets entered the group from the northern star system.]

Our only remaining fleet is deployed in the capital system to prevent the Horizon Sting, which the corporation has invested countless resources in building, from being affected by the war.

In 2383, with the complete collapse of the northern front, even the capital system, originally located in the heart of the empire, began to become unsafe.

Despite several sorties, the security fleet protecting the Horizon Sting was unable to stop the incoming enemy fleet outside the capital system.

[Without a choice, the group's top management had no choice but to order the Horizon Stinger to forcibly jump to a more southern star system, leaving behind the security fleet to buy time for the main fleet to return to reinforce.]

[In 2384, although the situation on our northern front was not optimistic, our fleet's tenacious resistance allowed us to hold out until the arrival of several newly commissioned fleets.]

The Treant civilization's offensive was halted near its capital, while our attacking forces successively captured several star systems to the north of the Treant civilization.

[Except for a few planets where the attack was temporarily abandoned due to the lack of ground support, the hyperspace route to the center of the Milky Way has been opened.]

[From now on, we won't need so many troops on the front lines to maintain the offensive posture. We just need a few fleets to guard key supply points and prevent the enemy fleet from launching a counterattack.]

[At the same time, our giant elephant also leaps into the fray.]

Our goal is to open up shipping routes, not to conquer planets. So how can we quickly eliminate these troublesome enemy colonies?

All we need to do is blow these planets to pieces.

We would call it highly efficient.

Countless people felt their hair stand on end because of this sentence.

"...blow up the planet."

"They fought for four years, lost countless lives and countless fleets—and then, with giant elephants, shattered the enemy's planet."

"They even call it efficient?"

"Is there life on those planets?"

The sky did not answer.

But everyone knows the answer.

Have.

Of course there are.

It's just that we don't need to care.

In 2385, the group launched a counterattack against the enemy fleet that had occupied our northern star system.

[Attack from both the north and south simultaneously, following the route the enemy previously took when they invaded our northern star system]

In just one year, the northern new territory was recovered by our side.

The following year, the group ceased hostilities with the Tree People civilization and spent six years opening up a hyperspace route to the center of the galaxy.

Just as we were preparing to confidently wage war against Old Man Bidet and wipe the Eternal Dynasty off the map of the universe, we realized that we had seriously underestimated the Eternal Dynasty's fighting strength.

They actually converted three planets into warships! Their total strength far surpasses ours.

Planets transformed into warships?

In the world of The Wandering Earth, the people here immediately thought of their planetary engines.

So, this concept is completely fine?

Both sides share similar ideas!

However, the next second, the sky poured cold water on them.

With the company's current technological level, if such a massive thruster were installed on a planet, the entire planet would collapse under its own gravity.

Unless they change the laws of physics!

[And it seems we have awakened such a behemoth]

According to calculations by other security departments, the Warriors Dynasty is highly likely to awaken in 16 years, that is, in 2400.

We need to put all 9000 billion+ people in the entire group into the Vision Needle over the next 16 years, and also build an even larger security fleet to slightly delay the local forces.

More than 9000 billion people?

16 years?

Pack them all into one spaceship?

“More than 9000 billion people…” an ordinary person murmured, “There are only 80 billion on Earth.”

"They are an interstellar civilization, so of course they have a large population."

Another said.

"But 16 years, packed into a spaceship? How is that possible?"

"They can use a synaptic machine to remove some of them—"

Before he could finish speaking, he froze in his tracks.

Synaptic mechanism.

Burning consciousness.

Using living people as processors.

Their thinking has been distorted!

That day finally came.

The limited number of new fleets built by the group over the past 16 years is completely insufficient to compete with the enemy.

The group lost this battle.

However, it's not entirely meaningless.

[Using the time gained, the Horizon Needle successfully traversed the universe and arrived at a newly born, young universe!]

"Oh, boss, with our technological level, we can completely rewrite the rules of this universe. I wonder if you have any thoughts on modifying time and gravity?"