studiobondurri Chapter 183: The 3rd World
Chapter 183: The 3rd World
In the spring of 2265 AD, the Imperial fleet carrying the fifth batch of human immigrants from Earth set sail for the five planets of the heavens.
Within five years, Panna had grown to 1.75 meters tall, and her face had become much older than her age. That same year, Chu Xiaolu also graduated from the special forces.
Zhou Yuan was luckier than he was in the Earth Empire of the Origin World, as he frequently went out with two beautiful women without any hesitation.
In the summer of 2265 AD, Earth's first sniper ship was put into service. This fifty-kilometer-long ship directly destroyed a large human target ship. This greatly boosted human morale, and the fear of the Quadrifoglio fleet disappeared.
Between 2266 and 2286 AD, significant progress was made in energy shield technology, the "Sky Eye" system, artificial intelligence, intelligent robots, energy crystals, superbrains, quantum long-distance communication, genetic engineering, artificial wormholes, light transmission, travel speed, consciousness storage/transplantation, and teleportation gates, some of which have already been put into practical application. During this period, based on Zhou Yuan's suggestion, the Academy of Sciences also conducted research on modular manufacturing technology, quark photon engines, and superphoton quark cryogenic insulation materials.
In the spring of 2288 AD, Earth's humans witnessed the grand wedding of Zhou Yuan and two beauties, Chu Xiaolu and Pan Na.
Zhou Yuan's appearance remains unchanged, while Pan Na has lost her baby face and matured, and Chu Xiaolu is still young and beautiful.
In the summer of 2288 AD, the first human immigrant fleet arrived at the planet Triton, where they began large-scale production and construction.
In 2298 AD, humanity destroyed Sirius, creating a stellar wormhole. The Alpha Fleet passed through this wormhole and traveled approximately 500 light-years away.
However, this time the artificial star black hole has brought more trouble to humanity on Earth.
The "Sky Eye" system discovered that within a radius of approximately 400 light-years from Earth, wherever Earth-like planets exist, the tracks of intelligent civilization fleets have been detected. Their target is the solar system. The Quadrilateral Star Fleet is the closest extraterrestrial invasion fleet to Earth. Including the Quadrilateral Star Fleet, there are ten intelligent civilization fleets within a 400-light-year radius.
Humans on Earth are baffled by the appearance of so many civilization fleets around their planet, and they begin to suspect that the government is hiding something from the public about extraterrestrial civilizations.
Scientists at the Imperial Academy of Sciences were also baffled by the sudden appearance of so many alien fleets. Previous observations of these Earth-like planets had not revealed any signs of intelligent civilization. Since humanity created the stellar wormhole, nine intelligent civilization fleets seemed to have appeared overnight.
Government officials and scientists gathered to discuss and debate this strange phenomenon.
Zhou Yuan put forward his own idea, believing that the artificial star wormhole created by humans not long ago for "faster-than-light travel" broke the existing laws of the universe. This virtual universe has already activated the repair and cleanup mechanism. The many civilization fleets that appeared overnight are meant to extinguish the bug that is human civilization.
“Zhou Yuan, your idea can indeed explain this strange phenomenon, but how can it be proven? Even if we are in a virtual universe, the virtual universe has its own set of rules and laws.”
"Yes, Dean Kofi, you are absolutely right. The virtual universe has its own set of rules and laws. If you want to prove my hypothesis, it's very simple. We can destroy the Procyon III star system near Sirius and create a stellar wormhole to see if a new intelligent civilization fleet will appear."
"Hmm, this is worth a try." Thomas ordered the plan to be implemented, and instructed the Alpha Fleet to proceed to South River III as soon as possible.
"Everyone, there's another startling piece of news," Dean Kofi sighed softly. "After thirty years of observation by our 'Sky Eye System,' this virtual universe, like the MATRIX, also has many parallel worlds. To be precise, this virtual universe has one billion small worlds. Each small world is parallel to the others, and we are currently in one of them. Just as ancient Buddhist teachings describe, this universe does indeed have three thousand worlds, namely, the Great Thousand World, the Middle Thousand World, and the Small Thousand World. This virtual universe has one thousand Great Thousand Worlds, each Great Thousand World has one thousand Middle Thousand Worlds, and each Middle Thousand World has one thousand Small Thousand Worlds. This virtual universe has one billion Small Thousand Worlds."
"Is it possible for us to reach other minor worlds?"
"If we assume that each of the billion smaller worlds is closely connected to the other smaller worlds around it, then the diameter of each smaller world would be approximately 6357 million light-years. According to Zhou Yuan's method of dividing the three-dimensional space of the spherical universe, our smaller world belongs to the 17th star sector of the 28th star region in the 39th quadrant."
"What are all these smaller worlds used for? To simulate the evolution of civilization?"
"We haven't figured this out yet. Our MATRIX project simulates the evolution of civilization. We don't know if our virtual universe is also simulating the evolution of civilization."
"One question is, how did our ancestors know that there are three thousand worlds in this universe, and that each higher-level world contains one thousand lower-level worlds?"
"This possible explanation is the cycle and evolution of the virtual universe."
"Zhou Yuan, what do you mean by this?"
"This universe is virtual. Our virtual universe and our small world have gone through countless cycles of civilization and evolution. I personally believe that perhaps in these many cycles of civilization and evolution, some people with special abilities have emerged, just like me, who have some kind of superpower. Among your ancestors, there may have been superhumans from the previous cycle of worlds, such as the gods, Buddhas, saints and the like in the various religions you have recorded. However, with the great development of technology, individual abilities have been weakened or even degenerated, so 'superhumans' are very rare."
Everyone nodded, as if Zhou Yuan's explanation made sense.
"If we want to see the small world next to us, or even break through the middle thousand world, the great thousand world, or this virtual universe, we must break through the speed of light. Artificial stellar wormholes are still a bit slow. Last time, the Sirius stellar wormhole only jumped five hundred light-years."
"Operations and maintenance, how's the hyperspace travel simulation going?"
"Mr. President, after nearly thirty years of simulations, we have achieved some small results, but there has been no major progress. An astonishing fact is that, based on the recent destruction of Sirius, we added a program that involved the destruction of a large number of stars and discovered a miracle. In the simulation, we destroyed more than ten stars and discovered the possibility of hyperspace travel. Later, I discussed with Dean Coffey and other scientists and concluded that the destruction of a large number of stars could create a tidal force field and space curvature in space. This situation is not quite the same as stellar wormholes. The curvature of stellar wormholes is relatively small, while the curvature caused by hyperspace is very large. When the curvature exceeds a certain limit, space can flip, thus enabling hyperspace travel."
"So that means if we want to continue hyperspace travel, we'll have to destroy a lot of stars along the way?"
"Mr. President, according to our analysis, that is indeed the case."
Thomas looked at Coffey, and Coffey nodded.
"Zhou Yuan, you proposed the concept of hyperspace travel. What are your thoughts on the simulation results from the operations team?"
“Thomas, in my source world, we can indeed travel through hyperspace.” Everyone’s spirits lifted, as if they had seen a glimmer of hope. “In the source world, we call space flipping the Klein space flip. Operations, you just said that to achieve hyperspace travel, we need to destroy a large number of stars, but that’s just what you see on the surface.”
"Appearance?"
"Yes, that's just the surface. To achieve hyperspace travel, which is space flip or space warp, you need a tremendous amount of energy. Destroying a large number of stars is just one manifestation of obtaining that enormous energy."
"Then how do you obtain such enormous energy?"
“We used the Klein force field generator. One of the main components of this force field generator is the ‘super energy exchanger.’ The ‘super energy exchanger’ can extract and expel vacuum zero-point energy, and even dark matter and dark energy. You certainly have no concept of vacuum zero-point energy, dark matter, and dark energy, because these three things simply do not exist in your virtual universe.”
"So that means we can't achieve hyperspace travel?"
"That's not necessarily the case."
"Oh, could you explain in more detail?"
"We utilize the energy released by stars, as the operations team just mentioned. The problem is that during hyperspace travel simulations, the destruction of stars releases energy in a diffuse manner. We need to collect the energy released during the destruction of stars in a concentrated and efficient manner so that the Klein force field generator can succeed."
"You mean...?" Coffey looked at Zhou Yuan in surprise.
"Yes, Dean Coffey, deploy the Klein force field generator inside the star."
"Huh?" "Oh my god!" "No way?" The attendees couldn't believe it.
"Hehe, everyone, I know you can't believe it, but even in the Origin World, we humans started out just like you. Is it possible for the internal temperature of a star to be so high? That's why, Coffey, I had you research superphoton quark cryogenic insulation materials twenty years ago."
"I see. Fortunately, the Academy of Sciences has not disappointed you. We have already applied this material to teleportation portals and warships, but I really didn't expect it could be used in the sun. It seems that the Academy of Sciences needs to speed up the production of this material."
"Coffee, if you need resources, just tell us."
"Mr. President, thank you very much."
"However, Coffey, I must remind you that the super energy exchanger requires a quark photon engine."
"Don't worry, after you gave us the principles and architecture of the quark photon engine last time, my colleagues have made a major breakthrough. Together with modular manufacturing technology, it will be realized in about a year."
"Okay, thank you for your hard work, Coffey." Thomas was overjoyed, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief. They all knew that if Zhou Yuan didn't exist, the world would probably end in 2310.
In the year 2300 AD, at the celebration of the new century, in light of the leapfrog development in Earth's technology and military, and based on Zhou Yuan's suggestion, Earth renamed its important organizations, establishing the Earth Empire Fleet, the Earth Empire Academy of Sciences, and the Earth Empire Star Bureau. At this time, the Imperial Fleet, including those from Earth and Celestial V, comprised nearly one hundred fleets. Each fleet possessed five large sniper ships, a dozen Hercules-class cruiser motherships, dozens of Sun-class cruisers, and numerous medium and small warships. Each warship was modularly and intelligently manufactured. Each fleet was equipped with a teleportation portal module; while this portal could not transport planets or stars, it could easily transport various types of warships. Each fleet could travel at near-light speed and conduct quantum long-distance communication.
In 2304 AD, Helios III was destroyed by the Alpha Fleet. Subsequently, the long-range "Sky Eye" observed that four civilization fleets suddenly appeared around Helios III, which was about 100 light-years in diameter, confirming Zhou Yuan's hypothesis.
In 2306 AD, the long-range "Sky Eye" detected that the Quadrilateral Fleet had suddenly begun traveling at near-light speed, and analysis of its flight path suggested that the number of warships was increasing. At the same time, Thomas, the commander-in-chief of the Earth Empire's fleet, ordered twenty fleets to set sail from the solar system to confront the Quadrilateral Fleet.