Light Speed ​​War

Chapter 171: The Darkness Invades

The three star system fleets of the Earth Empire—Tianxing III, Tianxing IV, and the Capital System—continue their journey through hyperspace.

Zhou Yuan received representatives from six intelligent civilizations capable of hyperspace travel. He then addressed over six thousand leaders or representatives of intelligent civilizations capable of interstellar travel at the "Wisdom Gathering Hall" in three star systems, calling on all civilizations to unite and fight against the forces of darkness. Many of these civilizations were hearing about the forces of darkness for the first time.

For those underdeveloped, primitive, or even primitive intelligent civilizations, Zhou Yuan assigned his subordinates to handle affairs. Wei Shan, Lefia, Aya, and Chu Xiaolu also frequently made secret patrols to the home planets of these underdeveloped civilizations. The four beauties were quite interested in so many intelligent civilizations and their planets, and they were very enthusiastic, devoting a lot of energy to managing these intelligent civilizations.

Six months after the hyperspace journey, Zhou Yuan received a hyperspace communication message from four major civilizations, including Pandora, the first cosmic wall in the 83rd star system:

Your Excellency Zhou Yuan of the Earth Empire, the dark forces have invaded the 98th Star Region. The speed at which the dark forces are invading and destroying the Cosmic Great Wall is accelerating, to the point of acceleration. Currently, more than 800 Cosmic Great Walls have been destroyed. The scenes of the destruction of numerous Cosmic Great Walls were shown in the encrypted video that was subsequently sent. Our master has notified the 25 low-level super civilizations on the front line of the first Cosmic Great Wall to accelerate its construction. We estimate that this will be completed in another year. Then we will proceed to improve the second Cosmic Great Wall in the 64th Star Region. Our master and the other Cosmic Great Wall lords have already united. In the near future, our master and his allies may appear on the cosmic battlefield. Our master informed us that the last Cosmic Great Wall in the 28th Star Region has been largely completed thanks to the efforts of various super civilizations.

The ensuing encrypted video playback showed scattered, shimmering ribbons of light of varying lengths on the screen, like feathers battered by a strong wind, swaying precariously in the darkness. Suddenly, these shimmering ribbons of light went out, like streetlights in a city without power, plunging the space that had just been illuminated into complete darkness.

These ribbons of light, varying in length, are each part of a cosmic Great Wall containing dozens to hundreds of superclusters.

Zhou Yuan was secretly alarmed. The invasion of the dark forces was too fast. The Earth Empire had previously optimistically estimated that the 64th Star Region would be invaded and destroyed in 500,000 years. It seemed that if the first Great Wall of the Universe blocked the dark forces, the 64th Star Region would probably be destroyed by the dark forces in less than 10,000 years.

The three star fleets of the Earth Empire finally arrived at the 17th sector of the 28th star region in the 39th quadrant. Apart from the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy, there are five other star fleets remaining in the 17th sector. The other star fleets must have gone out to carry out missions.

Three star systems entered the Imperial fleet base. Zhou Yuan reported the relocation of the intelligent civilizations to Thomas, the Imperial Fleet Commander-in-Chief. Thomas immediately broadcast a province-wide announcement, warmly welcoming the arrival of the various intelligent civilizations and expressing his willingness to fight alongside them against the forces of darkness. Subsequently, the warp-space blockade of the "Hall of Wisdom" in the three star systems was lifted. To maintain the security and order of the star systems, the Empire placed "Eyes of the Stars" in the three systems to monitor active intelligent civilizations and dispatched warships piloted by super artificial intelligences to patrol the interstellar space of the "Hall of Wisdom."

Intimidated by the Earth Empire's overwhelming power, the various intelligent civilizations in the "Wisdom Gathering Hall" of the three star systems coexisted peacefully without any conflict. Instead, some intelligent civilizations exchanged and shared technologies and cultures with each other.

Following orders from the Matrix Civilization, Tianxing-2 departed from its base and sped towards the section of the Third Cosmic Wall already constructed in the 28th Starfield. As planned, Tianxing-2 was to deploy a certain amount of mined and refined radioactive heavy elements in each star system within the Third Cosmic Wall. The Matrix Civilization repeatedly emphasized that a certain amount of radioactive heavy elements must be deployed to each star system. As Karina had guessed, these radioactive heavy elements were a crucial component of the Third Cosmic Wall and a vital weapon against the forces of darkness.

Based on the time calculation at the speed of light in the 64th star field, the Great Wall of the universe in its true sense was completed at three points in time.

In the year 8180 of the Great Wall Era, the first cosmic Great Wall of the 83rd Star Region was completed.

In the year 8656 of the Great Wall Era, the second cosmic Great Wall in the 65th star region was completed.

In the year 9184 of the Great Wall Era, the third Great Wall of the universe in the 28th star region was completed.

In this universe, apart from the virtual civilization, all super-civilizations, advanced civilizations, and ordinary civilizations have retreated to the inner circle of the third cosmic Great Wall in the 28th star region. This universe has probably never before seen such a high density of intelligent civilizations in the 28th star region.

Each super-civilization is employing various methods to conduct long-distance observations of the distant First Cosmic Wall. Under the coordination of the Matrix Civilization, each super-civilization has completed its battle deployment and preparations.

The three cosmic walls are like three magnificent, enormous, luminous spherical curtains, each enclosing its own space. Each cosmic wall consists of numerous galaxies arranged in a regular grid pattern, closely connected on the surface of the curtain. These grid galaxies rotate rapidly, and the gaps between the galaxies are filled with globular clusters or stellar clusters.

The various super-civilizations detected that wherever the dark forces went, the light ribbons of the Great Wall of the Universe snapped and vanished into nothingness, just like a city light suddenly going out, plunging that space into darkness. Taking advantage of the increased speed of light caused by the massive energy released after the destruction of the Great Wall of the Universe, the dark forces accelerated their pace of destruction; in other words, the dark forces were accelerating the destruction of the various Great Walls of the Universe.

In the year 9458 of the Great Wall Era, the dark forces swept through the world, devouring and destroying numerous star systems along the way, and directly descended upon the vicinity of the first Great Wall in the 83rd Star Region, effectively besieging the city.

The first cosmic Great Wall of the 83rd Starfield activated its protective mechanism. Many grid-like galaxies on the spherical surface began to rotate rapidly, faster and faster, until they resembled spinning silver discs. The supermassive black holes at the centers of each grid-like galaxy began emitting gamma-ray burst shockwave rings. These gamma-ray burst shockwave rings swept forward with overwhelming force. In the previously empty, pitch-black night sky, spatial ripples rippled, as if space itself had been distorted. The visible light that followed the gamma-ray bursts, like white snakes just released from Devil's Island, snaked and raced rapidly through the distorted space.

Soon, the rotation speed of the grid galaxy gradually decreased, the gamma-ray burst ring subsided, and everything returned to normal. The forces of darkness retreated. The various intelligent civilizations within the Third Cosmic Wall rejoiced.

In the year 9474 of the Great Wall Era, the grid system of the first cosmic Great Wall in the 83rd star region activated its protection mechanism again. The situation was the same as last time, and the dark forces were repelled once more.

Within the third cosmic Great Wall, however, a change occurred. Various super-civilizations concentrated their star systems in the 17th sector of the 28th region of the 39th quadrant, which is also the sector where the Earth Empire's base is located. Nearly five thousand star systems were clustered together, forming a "globose supercluster."

In the year 9562 of the Great Wall Era, the grid system of the first cosmic Great Wall in the 83rd Star Region activated its third defense mechanism. Various super-civilizations detected countless thin, long, needle-like objects in the dark space. This time, the dark forces, with the speed of a sword piercing the heart, directly breached the globular clusters or stellar clusters filling the gaps in the grid system. These globular clusters or stellar clusters that filled the gaps were reduced to nothingness, and dark areas appeared in the gaps of the grid system. The vast cosmic Great Wall's spherical curtain appeared riddled with black holes, and darkness was eroding the light.

The first Cosmic Great Wall, constructed from numerous star systems transported from the Cosmic Great Walls of the four star regions (83, 84, 85, and 86), a massive, brightly lit spherical shield, was extinguished as if by a power outage. At first, they went out one by one, then one after another, until finally, the entire spherical shield plunged into a dark abyss, devoid of any light. The first Cosmic Great Wall had fallen, swallowed and destroyed by darkness.

The forces of darkness advanced triumphantly, destroying scattered cosmic walls along their path, extinguishing ribbons of light of varying lengths. According to long-range reconnaissance, the sphere of influence of light in this universe is rapidly shrinking, while darkness is enveloping and contracting its reach.

The dark forces accelerated their advance towards the second cosmic wall in the 64th star region, and the second cosmic wall quickly activated its defense mechanism.

Darkness began to pierce the globular clusters and stellar masses at the gaps in the second cosmic wall, the grid of galaxies. Like the first cosmic wall, the second cosmic wall was also invaded and destroyed. Unlike the first cosmic wall, the luminous spherical curtain of the second cosmic wall was extinguished entirely at once, rather than piecemeal. The inherent cosmic potential energy of the dark forces was finally released, its destructive power unparalleled.

The "globose supercluster" within the inner circle of the third cosmic Great Wall in the 28th star region began to shrink tightly. The stars in the five thousand galaxies began to redistribute, the boundaries between galaxies gradually blurred, and then the concept of galaxies disappeared. Approximately ten quadrillion stars moved and arranged themselves rapidly, with very small distances between them. These many stars formed a very dense globular cluster, which contained all intelligent civilizations.

This globular cluster is accelerating into hyperspace, hurtling toward the Big Bang singularity.

The closer to the "singularity," the more the globular cluster consumes matter and energy due to traversing a larger region of light speed. When it reaches the fourth star region at a light speed of approximately 1500000c0, almost half of the stars in the globular cluster are lost. When it passes the first star region, only one trillion stars remain in the globular cluster. At this point, the globular cluster falls into normal space, the hyperspace of the universe no longer exists, and the "singularity" of the Big Bang will soon be approached.

When a globular cluster reaches its "singularity," it will have only about 200 billion stars left, which is roughly the number of stars a galaxy would have.

The bright spherical curtain of the 28th Starfield Cosmic Great Wall exploded like a fireball, hurling massive torrents of energy inward and outward in a spherical shape. The "cosmic heart" of each grid galaxy, that is, radioactive heavy elements, began to decay rapidly, and the energy of the decay was mixed in with the energy torrent ejected by the explosion of the third Cosmic Great Wall.

The outward-projecting torrents of energy directly attacked the forces of darkness, while the inward-projecting torrents of energy shot towards a spherical cluster of a galaxy located at the "singularity," which is also the center of the third cosmic Great Wall.

Earth Empire, the "Super Intelligent Energy Exchanger" has started up, rapidly absorbing the energy ejected inward by the explosion of the Third Cosmic Great Wall.

Zhou Yuan, Wei Shan, Lai Feiya, Aya, and Chu Xiaolu held hands and formed a circle.

The Earth Empire, humanity, waits quietly; all advanced intelligent civilizations wait quietly.

"Farewell, children." Zhou Yuan thought of the four children. "Farewell, this virtual universe."

Suddenly, Zhou Yuan sensed something was wrong. Wei Shan, who was holding his left hand, and Leifia, who was holding his right hand, both let go of his hands and clutched their heads, seemingly in great pain. Aya and Chu Xiaolu did the same.

Soon after, Zhou Yuan felt a splitting headache and instinctively clutched his head with both hands. In his hazy state of consciousness, he saw a small, bright ball of light appear above the heads of Wei Shan, Lefia, Aya, and Chu Xiaolu, and these balls of light flew in a certain direction.

"Wait for me!" Zhou Yuan shouted anxiously.

"Big brother, come quickly, we're waiting for you."

The four orbs of light transformed into various human figures, four beautiful women with smiles on their faces, waving to Zhou Yuan.

Zhou Yuan took to the air and quickly caught up with the four people; the five orbs of light disappeared.

At the cosmic singularity, a giant fireball suddenly burst open and exploded, just like at the beginning of the Big Bang. Light swept across the universe, and the various dark spaces of this universe ushered in a second light and a second faster-than-light journey.

"Hello, omnipotent intelligent being. I, Zhou Yuan, the 'photonized consciousness' of this universe, have finally seen you."