dtnovels Chapter 31: Time Reversal
Chapter 31: Time Reversal
Galactic Era 214, Star Marker (1, 1, 5, 4c0).
The Alpha Fleet began to decelerate from a speed close to the speed of light in this space, 4c0, and activated its anti-gravity and neutrino stealth capabilities. It was 2 light-years away from the Gliese 667 triple star system (stars A, B, and C).
Gliese 667A and Gliese 667B are relatively bright orange dwarf stars, positioned close together in an eccentric orbit. Gliese 667C is dimmer, a red dwarf star, and is located further away from the other two stars.
The New Earth Long Distance Telescope has already discovered that the star Gliese 667C has six planets, three of which are super-Earths.
The Alpha Fleet sailed stealthily and slowly, activating various detection methods, and discovered the third planet in the Gliese 667C star system, namely Gesang Star, which has carbon-based intelligent life. What surprised the Alpha Fleet even more was that the silver-white warships of the Thor civilization had appeared here. There was a silver-white portal used by the Thor gods near the Gliese 667C star system, and this portal was constantly teleporting various types of warships to the Gliese 667C star system.
The Alpha Fleet released a large number of portal modules and assembled them near Gliese 667B. A total of one super-large portal, five large portals, 23 medium portals, and several small portals were placed to facilitate the transport of warships and supplies from Earth. The super-large portal was placed for unforeseen circumstances, allowing for relocation to the Moon. Additionally, through long-range secret communication, the precise locations and coordinates of every star and planet in the Gliese 667 triad system were sent back to Earth, including the locations of portals and warships placed by the Thor civilization. This allowed the Moon to utilize nearby portals to transmit intelligent energy projectiles, enabling targeted, faster-than-light, and precise devastating strikes against key targets.
After these covert operations were arranged, the Alpha Fleet decided to launch a surprise attack on the Thor Gods warships.
A town-class Rutan sniper ship fired small intelligent energy beams (hereinafter referred to as intelligent beams) at the silver-white portal of the Gods of Thor. At the same time, other town-class Rutan sniper ships fired intelligent beams at the gathering of the Gods of Thor's warships. In an instant, the silver-white portal was shattered and vaporized, and the Gods of Thor's warships were instantly pierced, shattered, and vaporized row by row.
Upon discovering the ambush, the other nearly a thousand warships of the Thor gods scattered and vanished instantly, opening their own ship portals in an attempt to teleport away the intelligent beam missiles. However, the intelligent beam missiles were too energetic, overloading the portals. Soon, the portals failed, and some, overloaded, exploded within minutes, causing the warships to explode as well.
Some of the Thor's warships emitted extremely high-intensity lasers, but these were all withstood by the combined shields of the national-level Pioneer and provincial-level Sun warships' intelligent energy bodies. These Thor's warships suddenly accelerated, charging towards the human warships at nearly 70% of the speed of light in this space, but were quickly destroyed one by one by the human's cruiser motherships and cruisers deployed in front, firing point-to-point.
It seems like the gods of Thor have run out of ultimate abilities? Wrong!
Four planets are in synchronous orbit, each with a satellite about the size of the moon. These four satellites are opening windows, and each satellite has more than 100,000 super-large sniper cannons in operation!
More than 40,000 sniper cannons immediately opened fire on the Alpha fleet. Each sniper cannon carried a massive energy surge, shooting towards the Alpha fleet at the speed of light.
The Alpha Fleet remained calm, knowing that even at the speed of light, it would take about five minutes for the attack to reach them. The interstellar fleet abruptly raised its shields and accelerated its retreat, buying more time to evade. Considering the four satellites were artificial objects and likely possessed shields, during the retreat, the four city-class sniper ships (replacing the county-class Sirius sniper ships) launched lethal intelligent beam missiles at the satellites. Because it was a faster-than-light attack, in terms of time, it was merely the moment over 400,000 super-large sniper cannons fired their ultra-high-energy lasers before being instantly shattered and vaporized by the intelligent beam missiles, reducing the four satellites to wreckage!
The Thor Gods Fleet Command did not seem to panic. Instead, it sent a message to the Alpha Fleet: "Serious warning. Evacuate Gliese 667 immediately, or face the consequences."
Suddenly, a semi-transparent metallic sphere appeared in front of the Alpha fleet—a creation of the "Metal Civilization"!
In an instant, the translucent metal sphere emitted halos of different colors, a mesmerizing array of hues. Inside, the shadowy, relief-like components seemed to be spinning rapidly. Suddenly, beams of light shot out from the translucent metal sphere.
The surrounding space seemed to freeze for a few seconds.
When the Alpha Fleet recovered, it was as if time had reversed, and everything had returned to 10 minutes before the fleet's surprise attack. These 10 minutes gave the Thor's warships and the more than 40,000 large sniper cannons on the four satellites enough time to start up and fire. As a result, the Earth fleet suffered a fierce barrage of fire and had no time to dodge, relying solely on the combined shields of the various warships to withstand the attack.
After the Earth fleet was attacked, it immediately launched a counterattack. Several city-class sniper ships destroyed four more satellites, and many of Thor's warships were also annihilated.
A terrifying scene unfolded. Suddenly, the translucent metallic sphere of the "Metal Civilization" reappeared, emitting concentric halos of different colors—a mesmerizing array of hues. Then, time seemed to reverse again, and the Alpha Fleet found itself back to approximately 10 minutes before the surprise attack. The Alpha Fleet was attacked again, and it retaliated in kind. The translucent metallic circle reappeared, and time seemed to return to 10 minutes prior once more.
This was repeated five times, and although the details of the process were different, the result was the same!
After the fifth response, the Alpha Fleet surprisingly escaped the attacks of Thor's warships and large sniper cannons, but dared not launch another attack rashly. This nearly 10 billion-kilometer stretch of space felt eerie to humanity, almost ghostly.
The Alpha Fleet dared not proceed rashly and suddenly accelerated back to the vicinity of the Gliese 667B star portal.
"Gentlemen, were we just time-traveling?" Fleet Commander Koru asked his subordinates.
Everyone seemed puzzled. Could a time machine really exist?
"Let's awaken and teleport Dean Zhou Yuan." It seems that whenever there is a scientific or technological problem, everyone will think of Zhou Yuan first. It can be said that Zhou Yuan's contribution to human civilization is almost unique and unparalleled.
Two days later, Zhou Yuan and Wei Shan were teleported to the vicinity of the star Gliese 667B.
"Time reversal? A time machine?" Zhou Yuan was also quite surprised. Could the translucent metal sphere that the Earth Federation Academy of Sciences had not yet been able to analyze clearly be a "time machine"? Zhou Yuan closed the door to think about it.
Time, time, what exactly is time?
Humanity on Earth was initially trapped by the speed of light barrier. Six hundred million years passed inside the solar system, but only six hundred days occurred outside the solar system. The key lies in the speed of light. The third law of the speed of light proposed by civilization states that if the speed of light of matter in two isolated systems is the same, then they must also be on the same time axis.
Are the speeds of light the same, existing on the same time axis? And the speed of light in space depends on density waves. This means that each time the translucent metal sphere "casts a spell," it alters the density waves of this space, maintaining the speed of light in this space at the cosmic intrinsic speed of light value at the time of a certain event. Naturally, the speed of light in this space decreases monotonically along with the cosmic intrinsic speed of light. This is like a clock that keeps moving forward; someone turns the hour hand back to a certain moment, and the clock continues moving forward. Someone then turns the hour hand back to that moment again, and if that person has enough power, it seems they can turn the hour hand back to that moment many times. Because the natural speed of light in this space decreases over time, the metal sphere turning back time increases the speed of light. Increasing the speed of light increases the density waves, which is simply increasing energy density or decreasing matter density. The fourth law of light states that the exchange of energy or matter can change the speed of light in a space. In other words, the key lies in that translucent metal sphere; it seems to act as a medium or conduit for energy or matter exchange. Could it be a super energy exchanger?
Zhou Yuan finally sorted out his thoughts. But where did the super energy come from? Hmph, who cares where it comes from? Since you can increase energy to increase the speed of light and turn back time, I'll do the opposite at the same time, weakening the energy to prevent you from increasing the speed of light.
A day later, three massive portal modules were transported from Rutan to Gliese 667b and self-assembled. Combined with the existing massive portal, Gliese 667b now has four massive portals. Meanwhile, humanity on Earth is also deploying four massive portals in the Rutan system.
Another day later, the Alpha Fleet split into six squadrons. The first four squadrons escorted four super-large portals and placed them symmetrically around the location where the translucent metal sphere appeared, about 10 billion kilometers away.
The other two teams, the fifth team, are slowly moving towards the super-Earth, while the sixth team is maintaining the same speed. However, the two teams are kept in a hierarchical relationship, with a distance of 50 million kilometers between them.
Following the initial operational plan, the fifth squadron deployed a town-class sniper ship, the Rutan, to fire small, intelligent beam missiles at the silver-white portal of the Thor gods. The first raid was almost a replay of itself. However, this time, the four pre-positioned mega-portals were already connected to the four mega-portals in the Rutan system. When the translucent metallic sphere appeared and emitted a halo, it quickly seemed to run out of power, no longer displaying its previous radiant glow, but instead flickering violently. After a few seconds, it slowly dimmed, seemingly about to go out, but the clock continued to tick forward without being forcibly reversed.
The sixth squadron's municipal-level Tian Shen sniper ship immediately launched a smart beam missile. Surprisingly, this smart beam missile failed to shatter the translucent metal sphere. So, a provincial-level Taiyang sniper ship launched another smart beam missile, which only split it in two. This shows that the translucent metal sphere of the "Metal Civilization" is extremely hard, even harder than the metal in the rectangular metal box in the navigation log.
Zhou Yuan finally understood why humanity had spent decades trying to open the translucent metal sphere they had found on Rutan Star. It turned out that such high energy was required to blast it open, and even then, it was only opened, not shattered.
It truly lives up to its name as a "metal civilization".