dtnovels Chapter 300: The Bridge Between Galaxy
Chapter 300: The Bridge Between Galaxy
The Earth Empire's "Time and Space Administration" has registered and administers 115 faster-than-light travel intelligent civilizations and 369 light-speed travel intelligent civilizations. Ye Wangzhou issued orders to these 115 faster-than-light travel intelligent civilizations to advance into the Canes Venatici Cosmic Void. The Star Alliance forces formed by these intelligent civilizations successively arrived at the Earth Empire's Tianxing 6, 10, 15, and 19 star systems. Chu Yuzhou, as the commander-in-chief of the Star Alliance forces, led the massive fleet into hyperspace, heading towards the Canes Venatici Cosmic Void.
The mountain air was crisp and clear at dawn, and the eastern sky was a rosy glow as a bright red sun hung on the horizon. After his morning exercise, Zhou Yuan returned to his quarters at the Parthenon Palace, washed up, and then went out to the west towards the Caris Palace, where a delicious meal had already been prepared by his servants.
"Zhou Yuan, what's wrong? You don't look too well these past few days."
"Carlisle, I'm fine."
"You've worked so hard these past three years and two months. How about we take a day off today?"
"Carliss, no need, I'm just worried about Chu Yuzhou and the others."
What happened to Chu Yuzhou?
"They set off this morning for the Canes Venatici cosmic void."
Carlisle certainly knew about the void in the universe, because she had seen clusters of stars suddenly disappear on a holographic screen.
Zhou Yuan wanted to use those intelligent civilizations to explore the "isolated island" star system in the void of the universe. However, he was worried that Chu Yuzhou would not be able to handle unexpected and complex situations. Before Chu Yuzhou set off, Zhou Yuan repeatedly warned him that if he could not handle it, "it is better to leave."
Kalis has completed the recording of electromagnetic waves and relativity; the next step is quantum physics, which is estimated to take another month. Because Zhou Yuan is with her, even if Kalis makes minor mistakes, Zhou Yuan will correct them promptly.
The tadpole script created by Minotaur spread rapidly among ancient humans as the gods dispersed it. The gods also created relatively complex mechanical tools for these humans to facilitate farming and animal husbandry. Of course, iron and steel smelting technology also began to become popular among humans.
Zhou Yuan wasn't just worried about Chu Yuzhou, but also about Nana. For the past three years, Zhou Yuan had deliberately stayed with Kalis, giving people the illusion that he was infatuated with Kalis and that's why he stayed at the Pantheon for so long.
During the three years that Zhou Yuan was labeled as having visited the Pantheon almost eight times under the guise of traveling and relaxing, his four wives reported to him each time on the Academy of Sciences' secret research on Nana and the feasibility of replacing Nana, the artificial intelligence.
Four days ago, Zhou Yuan was informed that, to the surprise of the Imperial scientists, Nana had set up a protective mechanism for herself half a month ago. If Nana were destroyed, all of the Empire's machines, equipment, and weapons would become ineffective. Nana seemed to have sensed the Academy of Sciences' movements and the fleet's surveillance of her, and had now completely bound herself to the Earth Empire.
Nana's actions greatly worried Zhou Yuan, but he seemed to have no good solution. If he really turned against Nana, it would be a lose-lose situation for both of them. That day, Zhou Yuan clearly told Tag Zhou Yuan to have the Imperial Fleet secretly build new warships at this galactic base. The fire control, defense, and propulsion systems of these warships would be disconnected from Nana's connection and controlled by new artificial intelligence and super brains provided by the Academy of Sciences.
The Asgard Mountains are a majestic, continuous range, with the Palace of the Gods built atop its highest peak. After breakfast, Zhou Yuan and Caris rode a golden eagle to the foot of a higher mountain in the Asgard Mountains. This higher mountain had been carved into a huge cave, and inside the cave, there were naturally many gold ingots engraved with tadpole script, a dazzling expanse of gold as far as the eye could see.
Zhou Yuan and Kalis arrived at the engraving room. At the entrance, Minotaur, the god of wisdom, Hephaestus, the god of blacksmithing, along with several giants and elves, were waiting as usual. When the two appeared, they bowed in greeting. Kalis nodded to them and then stepped into the engraving room. The others followed.
Kalis looked at the gold nugget she had finished carving yesterday, continuing to recall the knowledge in her mind. Quantum physics was far too profound for her; she pondered for a while before looking up and beginning to recite aloud: "Minova, the god of wisdom, drew Kalis's language in tadpole script. Then Hephaestus, the god of blacksmithing, and a giant hammered and scratched the gold nugget, creating marks on its surface. Then an elf, holding a half-full container of solution, dipped a 'brush' into the solution and slowly dragged it along the marks, etching shallow grooves into the gold nugget. Then the elf dipped the 'brush' again into the solution and dragged it heavily along the shallow grooves, deepening them until the tadpole script on the gold nugget was two millimeters deep. In the lower right corner of the gold nugget, a small Arabic numeral would be etched. This is how one tadpole script is carved, and so on, etching the content below." After the gold blocks in the engraving chamber were all etched, several giants moved them outdoors and arranged them in numerical order inside the cave. Then, several giants carried the gold blocks back into the engraving chamber for the next round of etching the tadpole script. Zhou Yuan's job was to check if the recorded content was correct. He first had to confirm the accuracy of the tadpole script translation with Minova, and then proofread the characters on the gold blocks.
For more than three years, Zhou Yuan accompanied Carlisle, Minova, and the others in doing this tedious work. If they used the Empire's technological power, they could have inscribed the entire content in less than three minutes. However, Zhou Yuan wanted the planet's superpowered individuals to lead and participate in this process as the masters, to let them know the difficulty of technological advancement and to enjoy the sense of leap and joy that comes with crossing the threshold.
The statues of Kalis have already been created among humankind, and many ordinary people have begun to live better lives. More than three years ago, these people were still afraid of lightning and slept outdoors in the wind and rain; now they live in mud houses, eat delicious vegetables they grow themselves, and raise livestock. For the past three years, the gods have also been busy, riding white eagles to spread scientific knowledge, guide people in their lives, production, tool making, mining, and smelting.
The course of ancient human history leaped to the agricultural era in just over three years. Zhou Yuan thought to himself that if evolution had proceeded normally, it would have taken ancient humans ten thousand years to reach the information age, but now, thanks to his intervention, two thousand years would have been enough.
Chu Yuzhou led four star system fleets on hyperspace travel, reaching the outer edge of the Canes Venatici cosmic void in less than half a day. Because the cosmic void had been cleared by the Empire's "Zero Degree Technique," hyperspace travel was not possible in this cosmic void with a diameter of 13 billion kilometres. In other words, if the Imperial fleet wanted to reach the "isolated island" star system, it had to build a "star system bridge" to enable hyperspace travel.
Chu Yuzhou immediately contacted Nana, who then reported the matter to Zhou Yuan. Zhou Yuan was having lunch in a cave with Kalis, Minova, and others when Nana's holographic form informed him of Chu Yuzhou's report. After pondering for a moment, Zhou Yuan ordered Chu Yuzhou's fleet to set up camp. Their mission was twofold: first, to use the long-range telescope to observe the triple-helix fiber vortex; and second, to transport a large number of galaxies to fill the void and build a "galactic bridge." Chu Yuzhou accepted the order.
The four celestial fleet star systems sprang into action. Imperial warships began hyperspace travel into surrounding star systems, deploying force field generators and establishing hyperspace communication base stations. The fleets dispatched by the 115 faster-than-light intelligent civilizations, having witnessed the Imperial fleet's overwhelming power, were even more fearful and reverent. Among these alien fleets, some previously unconvinced high-ranking commanders had become much more obedient after witnessing the Empire's strength, and many even began actively participating in the construction of the "galactic bridge."
According to Chu Yuzhou's plan, the Tianxing VI, Tianxing X, Tianxing XV, and Tianxing XIX fleets, each heading to an "isolated island" star system. For strategic deployment and security reasons, Chu Yuzhou planned to build four "galactic bridges," extending roughly from four directions to the center of the void, reaching the four "isolated island star systems" at the center of the void. Based on an inter-star system distance of 250 million light-years, each "galactic bridge" would require 260 star systems, thus requiring approximately 1040 star systems in total to build the four "galactic bridges." To utilize these star systems, a supermassive black hole must exist at the center of each star system for the Empire to modify its Sky-Sniping Arrows.
Strategically, to prevent and deal with potential unforeseen circumstances, this "Sky-Sniper Arrow" swarm, composed of 1040 star systems, can launch rapid and powerful attacks on the "isolated island" star system. Furthermore, with four "galactic bridges," the Celestial Fleet has more options for escape, far better than having only one. It's important to understand that if a "galactic bridge" malfunctions, the fleet's hyperspace travel will fail, forcing it to travel only at the speed of light. In terms of time, the entire process—from long-distance observation, force field generator manufacturing and deployment, star system transport, Sky-Sniper Arrow modification, "galactic bridge" construction, to the Celestial Fleet's arrival at the "isolated island" star system—takes approximately one and a half months.
When Chu Yuzhou reported to Zhou Yuan that he was building four "galaxy bridges", Zhou Yuan was first taken aback, and then couldn't help but admire him. From Chu Yuzhou's arrangement to build four "galaxy bridges", Zhou Yuan saw Chu Yuzhou's extraordinary talent.
Zhou Yuan thought to himself, "Chu Yuzhou's side will need more than a month, and Kalis's side will only take about a month. Once this is over, I must go there personally. After all, those 'isolated island' star systems in the cosmic void are too abnormal, and probably extremely dangerous, since that's the territory of the five-dimensional intelligent race." The five-dimensional intelligent race seemed completely unconcerned about the Empire's attempt to incorporate advanced intelligent civilizations, and equally unconcerned about the Empire's four star system fleets leading these civilization fleets to the cosmic void. This made Zhou Yuan somewhat uneasy.
Zhou Yuan immediately contacted Nana, instructing the super-body droplet to enter hyperspace and travel to the vicinity of this galaxy. He then instructed Ye Wangzhou to dispatch eight star system fleets to the three cosmic voids of Eridanus, Boötes, and Capricornus for vigilance. Four star system fleets were stationed in the Eridanus void, while two star system fleets were stationed in each of the Boötes and Capricornus voids.
Zhou Yuan's orders were that if any of the four cosmic voids—Canes Venatici, Eridanus, Boötes, and Capricorn—experienced any anomaly, weapons such as the "Zero Degree Technique" could be used to strike at will. If the situation turned bad, the best course of action was to flee, and all star system fleets were required to rendezvous with the super-body droplet and escape together.
After a series of arrangements, Zhou Yuan finally relaxed and chatted and laughed with Carlisle, Minova and others while working. Carlisle and the others were also happy to see Zhou Yuan in such a good mood, and the work progressed faster.