From Terra to Terra, the Star Emperor's Holiday

Where the canvas was torn, a void flashed by, and dark matter quickly filled the hole, creating a deformed ball of light, like a bleeding wound in the universe.

Si Ye holds the two-dimensional universe of hundreds of thousands of kilometers in his hands. These two-dimensional fragments that have begun to fall cannot be sealed again. Even if they are held in Si Ye's hands, the two-dimensional world is still constantly fighting against the spiritual energy that restrains it.

There was really no good way to deal with it. Si Ye suddenly had an idea and directly connected himself to the contract with the end of reincarnation. He crossed the world and threw the two-dimensional universe fragment in his hand directly over.

With a quick glance, Si Ye seemed to see the End of Reincarnation in the virtual world beating the grumpy World Ghoul, trying to put the other party into the leather case it had prepared.

"Contractor, we are not ready yet..."

The End of Reincarnation thought that Si Ye couldn't wait any longer and came to urge it, but Si Ye said nothing and just threw a piece of material world debris at it.

"For me?"

The two-dimensional universe is still a universe, and is still composed of the matter of the real universe. Although compared with planets or souls, this empty universe tastes very bland, but it is still the snack that the evil god in the virtual world likes to eat.

Looking at this fragment, The End of Reincarnation was a little confused. He didn't understand why Si Ye, the contractor who loved to shirk his debts, suddenly changed his nature and actually started to offer sacrifices (feed) on his own initiative.

But they are separated by different worlds, and if Si Ye does not take the initiative to contact it, the End of Reincarnation will not be able to contact Si Ye.

"This is mine! My contractor gave it to me!"

A huge wave of spiritual energy was set off in the virtual realm, and the end of reincarnation blew away the dirty thread of life in the little hand.

"Isn't your contractor a freak who never pays back his debts? How can he be so generous... He offers you a sacrifice without asking for anything. But if this is the case..."

The four evil gods looked at the fragments of the two-dimensional universe that were swallowed by the end of reincarnation. Their conceptualized bodies seemed to swallow their saliva. The suits that they originally didn't want to accept now seemed acceptable.

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Chapter 284: Zero

For the various civilizations in the Three-Body Universe, today is truly a heart-pounding day.

A sparse and ordinary gravitational wave broadcast spread across the universe, a coordinate, plus a sentence that was not encrypted but also had no dictionary.

This is normal. In this deep universe, some weak civilizations do this all the time.

Civilizations that are too weak to directly destroy threatening neighbors send coordinates and information to more advanced and free hunters to do the work. These civilizations are often called "Star-Bombarders."

Many civilizations believed that this was just the birth of a new "Star-Bullet", and some weaker civilizations began to try to track the location of this Star-Bullet civilization, intending to strike first.

But then, things started to go wrong.

A powerful string broadcast filled the monitoring channels of many civilizations. The accompanying language dictionary made translation easier for each civilization, but also more confusing.

What does open mic mean?

Some civilizations with more advanced technology were horrified to discover that this string broadcast contained something beyond their understanding.

Because its propagation speed exceeds the gravitational waves caused by string oscillations and reaches superluminal speed, it is better to say that it is superstring broadcasting rather than string-gravitational wave broadcasting.

But the speed of light cannot be exceeded. This is the basic law of this broken universe that is gradually reducing its dimensions. How could a super civilization that can send information at superluminal speed suddenly emerge?

Could it be that a civilization that was hiding in the fragments of higher dimensions had found a way out, reduced itself to a three-dimensional creature, and planned to dominate the universe?

All kinds of speculations are churning in the hearts of various civilizations in the universe. They all turn their attention to the starting point of the string broadcast, wanting to focus on this civilization that may rewrite the pattern of the universe.

Then they saw a scene that made them tremble all over. On the scale of the universe, a clearly visible giant hand that was not affected by the speed of light tore off a piece of the universe.

The explanation of dimensionality reduction by higher-dimensional civilization is no longer tenable. Some civilizations that tend to be theological or spiritual have begun to worship things that are beyond their understanding.

Another superstring broadcast once again swept across the universe at superluminal speed.

[What are you looking at? I told you to speak up. If you don't, I'll call you out!]

Speak? How to say it.

The closer a civilization is to the starting point of superstring broadcasting, the more uncomfortable it will be.

They want to make a harmless statement to prevent themselves from being easily killed by this super civilization, but they are also afraid that they will be the first to stand out, and then the super civilization will not kill them, but the hidden neighbors will appear and kill them.

And distant civilizations are also watching. Unilateral superluminal communication still cannot change the depth and darkness of the universe. Too reckless communication will only bring disaster.

"Everyone is so cautious, how boring."

Si Ye suddenly missed the alien civilizations that once existed in the universe and were very unpretentious in their communication.

After all, even if they are cursing at each other, the alien civilizations in the universe will respond with a few words. Unlike this world, everyone knows that silence is golden and you can't get a word out of them even if you hit them with three sticks.

The Sentinel Array suddenly sent back a message: "Your Majesty, the Sentinel Array has received a new string oscillation broadcast directed at us. It is multi-encrypted and the cracking is in progress."

There are still a group of top civilizations in the Three-Body Universe. As the makers of the rules, the Dark Forest or any other unspoken rules are naturally ineffective on them, so it is normal that they dare to send a reply to the Star Sea Empire.

"They call themselves the Zero Sector Alliance. They wish to inquire about the Empire's origins and to communicate more efficiently with it."

The Zero Returners are a coalition of the most advanced civilizations. Some of them are antiques who survived from the pastoral era when this universe was still in the ten-dimensional period. They miss the good old days when the speed of light was unlimited and resources were abundant.

So these top civilizations spontaneously formed a coalition, wanting to reduce the universe to zero dimension, restart the universe, and return to that beautiful pastoral era.

The emergence of an empire that masters superluminal technology in this universe undoubtedly gave these beings who had experienced the pastoral era an inexplicable shock.

Si Ye's ability to tear the universe apart and eradicate the two-dimensional space from the world successfully made the Zeroers, who had long since abandoned all emotions and completed the energyization of their race, feel fear again.

The Zero Alliance wants to talk to the Star Empire because the empire, which possesses the ability to travel faster than the speed of light, has an absolute advantage in this world where the speed of light is locked, and can really threaten their plan to reduce the universe to zero dimension.

"Want to negotiate terms?"

Si Ye squinted his eyes lazily, weighing the pros and cons.

I can definitely win in a fight. With the ability to travel faster than the speed of light, I am invincible in this universe. Victory is just a matter of time.

However, the Nullifier Alliance has been deeply involved in this universe for many years. If the Star Empire wants to completely resolve it, it will undoubtedly need to mobilize several main fleets and invest more energy.

Compared with the benefits that can be gained in this universe, this is not cost-effective.

"The dimensionality upgrade and reduction in this universe is not the same as the dimensionality upgrade that the Empire pursues. Investing too much... isn't worth it. So let's talk to them and see what insights this fallen old man in the universe has."

Si Ye shook his head secretly and rejected the idea of ​​directly declaring war on the Null Sector Alliance.

The empire will build more and more cross-world portals, and there are still many worlds to explore. The Three-Body Universe is just a wheat field to the empire, and there is no need to fight with some big rats in it.

Another burst of clear text broadcasts filled all monitoring channels, and many civilizations have become accustomed to the expressionless expressions.

They cannot interfere in the affairs of the god-level civilization, but they dare not stop monitoring, for fear of missing something that will affect them.

The Zero Alliance is also very conflicted.

They received a reply from the Star Sea Empire. It was good that a civilization with overwhelming military power and superluminal capabilities was willing to talk to them instead of fighting them to the death.

But when facing the Star Sea Empire, the Zeroers, like those low-entropy civilizations in the Dark Forest, did not dare to expose too much information about themselves, for fear that the opposing empire was a trap and would wipe them out in one fell swoop.

Therefore, how to find a place suitable for communication between the two parties becomes a new problem.

In the end, the Zero Alliance provided a coordinate to the Star Empire as a place for preliminary negotiations between the two sides.

It was a galaxy that was under construction.

The so-called "construction" is to let a super-large light-speed spacecraft fly through this galaxy. The scratches produced by the light-speed flight will cause the trajectory of the spacecraft to produce a slow-light-speed effect, causing the speed of light to drop again, forming a continuous black area.

The black domain is different from the black hole. Its interior will not collapse into a singularity, which gives civilization the possibility to survive inside the black domain.

In the Three-Body Universe, enveloping one's own civilization in a slow black domain is a statement of security.

Because the speed of time flow in the slow black domain will produce a huge difference, when a civilization enters the black domain and then comes out, the time span of its external universe can even reach millions of years.

In terms of the speed of civilization evolution and change, wasting a million years is no different from completely cutting off the path of civilization's progress. Naturally, a civilization that has entered the Black Domain will no longer be able to make any waves in the universe.

Therefore, the black domain is also called a security statement.

The Zero Return Alliance took advantage of the fact that the speed of light would drop again when light-speed spacecraft created black domains, and continuously created black domains in various parts of the universe in an attempt to further reduce the already locked speed of light.

Finally, combined with dimensionality reduction, the speed of light in the universe will sooner or later be gradually slowed down by the black domain, and eventually drop to zero, ushering in the future envisioned by the zeroers.

Everything returns to the abyss and the universe restarts.

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Chapter 285 Unilateral Consensus

At this "construction" site, representatives of the Zero Alliance were already waiting here.

They were not sure whether there were any restrictions on the use of the superluminal means possessed by the Star Sea Empire, and they were prepared for a long wait in advance. Anyway, for those who had completed the transformation of their bodies into pure energy, time was the least valuable thing in this universe.

"Abnormal gravitational fluctuations, abnormal energy...coming."

The blue-purple psychic energy was a small dot at first, and then expanded like a flame burning away reality. In the flashing glow, the flagship Titan [Break Delusion and Enter the Void] jumped out from the jump point constructed by the psychic jump engine. The psychic energy fluctuations even dispersed a small part of the black domain that was still spreading in the distance.

"This method of passage is like folding space... but this energy is completely unexplainable. The threat level exceeds the normal threshold. Abandon all plans to bargain with the Star Sea Empire and try to meet their demands in exchange for the dream of 'Pastoral' not being shattered."

The Zeroer seemed to be muttering to himself, or communicating with someone far away.

The Star Sea Empire has previously demonstrated its ability to handle a two-dimensional universe, and now it can even directly interfere with the opponent's low-speed black domain.

It is obvious that if the negotiations fail, the other party really has the possibility of completely destroying the Zero Alliance and reducing the dimension of the universe. If the other party interferes, the success rate will drop rapidly.

This was not what the Zeroers wanted to see, so they cleverly began to change their attitude in advance, abandoning the communication on an equal footing and instead begging the weak side to the strong side, hoping to reach an agreement with the Star Empire through compromise.

Normally speaking, in a formal negotiation between two civilizations, [Powang Linxu] should deploy its formation and provoke the Star Sea Empire's ceremonial procession.

But the Zero Alliance probably lost their pure energy brains and couldn't come up with these twists and turns.

The representative they sent, an energy entity about 10 meters tall, stood alone in the pile of rocks, constantly looking at the Imperial Titan, no one knew what he was thinking.

However, Si Ye didn't care much about whether there was a ceremonial procession or whether the momentum was sufficient, nor did he need the Imperial Titan to approach the target planet. He directly chose to use a short-distance psychic jump and landed directly in front of the Zeroer representative.

"It's a bit high."

Si Ye took two steps back and looked at the slender and tall Zeroer.

“Thank you for your willingness to communicate with us.”

Hearing Si Ye's muttering, the body of the Zero Reset Representative, which was more than ten meters tall, quickly shrank. He wisely condensed his height to a level that was a head shorter than Si Ye.

Their slender bodies split apart several times, evolving their long-degenerated limbs and transforming into humans.

"Is my appearance not conducive to communication between you and me? I can change..."

"Hey, don't turn into a human. My civilization has an innate aversion to things that look like humans but aren't. Just stay the same or change into something more pleasing to the eye."

Si Ye stopped the Zeroer from changing into a human form. The only existence that could provoke human nerves more than the aliens was the aliens that resembled humans.