jdhmnovel Chapter 281: Game Player
Chapter 281: Game Player
The Imperial Military Academy was established only eight years ago, much later than the Imperial Star Bureau and the Imperial Academy of Sciences. The Imperial Military Academy was initially established primarily to meet the needs of human warships on the two planets for interstellar travel.
In fact, the nearly 160 galaxies in the entire super-droplet are no secret to Zhou Yuan. Moreover, there are no other intelligent civilizations in these galaxies, so there is no threat from alien civilizations or interstellar wars.
But Zhou Yuan felt that everything needed to be prepared for, to prevent problems before they arose. Zhou Yuan established the military academy to cultivate humanity's ability to conduct interstellar exploration, interstellar warfare, and even future galactic wars and higher-dimensional space wars.
Currently, the military academy's military training utilizes panoramic virtual reality technology, which is undoubtedly thanks to Zhou Yuan's current powerful three-dimensional space technology. This panoramic virtual reality technology, whether it's for spacetime experiences such as landing on planets, building warships, interstellar exploration, interstellar warfare, intergalactic navigation, wormhole travel, five-dimensional space, and six-dimensional space, or for instilling advanced weapons and technologies like super energy exchangers, teleportation portals, star-sniping ships, sky-sniping arrows, and the Heavenly Bowl, makes the trainees feel as if they are actually there, experiencing a very realistic experience.
Students at the Imperial Military Academy are generally geniuses. They must first study foundational knowledge and theory at the Imperial Academy of Sciences for four years, followed by six years of simulated training at the Military Academy. The most engaging part for the students is playing the "Cosmic Conquest" game. After graduating from the six-year program, these gifted students are around twenty-five or twenty-six years old, at which point they are allowed to actually board human warships.
Zhou Yuan knew that talents nurtured in a comfortable environment were not truly talented. He instructed Nana to design a "hostile alien civilization" for humanity. This "hostile alien civilization" consisted of three planetary replicators located six light-years away from Earth in different locations. However, these three planetary replicators were a completely virtual alien civilization. Although virtual, they were incredibly realistic. These fully virtual replicator fleets were waiting for the arrival of the human exploration fleet. Once the human interstellar exploration fleet reached the vicinity of the planets, the replicator fleet would attack.
The little bee spaceship, carrying Zhou Yuan and Lefia, quickly arrived at the Earth Empire Military Academy.
The Imperial Military Academy erupted in cheers. All 15,000-plus students took their seats in the fan-shaped section of the academy's massive conference center, their eyes filled with adoration as they gazed at the enigmatic Zhou Yuan at the center. Ye Wangzhou, a recent graduate from the Academy of Sciences, was particularly excited, his idol of many years a source of immense awe, constantly whispering to those around him. All the students at the Military Academy, of course, knew Ye Wangzhou's father; their graduation certificates all bore Zhou Yuan's signature.
Zhou Yuan had already ordered the speech to be broadcast live to all of humanity. Zhou Yuan, who had always appeared in mystery, has now decided to reveal his background and the secrets of this world.
Using the spherical holographic display, Zhou Yuan summarized his experiences in the Source World, the Mother World, and this five-dimensional space. He mentioned the six elements of the universe: time, space, matter, energy, consciousness, and information. He also discussed the Earth Empire, the four-dimensional virtual machine (super holographic universe), the super-body droplet, the five-dimensional human race, the five-dimensional intelligent race, and the six-dimensional black hole. Zhou Yuan didn't hide anything, except that he didn't mention that these human consciousnesses were transformed through the mirror symmetry of the human race's consciousness.
These ignorant humans, with the exception of a very few, such as Zhou Yuan and his four wives, were hearing this for the first time, and were naturally extremely surprised. All of humanity was pondering how humans, existing in three-dimensional space, could survive and thrive in five-dimensional space, especially since this fifth dimension was also home to powerful human and intelligent races. The 15,000 cadets at the military academy now understood why their military training included many projects and technologies they found incomprehensible.
"Fellow countrymen, fellow students, I hope you will abandon your current sense of superiority in three-dimensional space. Understand that even what you consider a magnificent three-dimensional super-body droplet might be nothing more than a cell under your microscope in five-dimensional space, or perhaps not even a cell at all. Moreover, we must survive in the war between the five-dimensional human race and the five-dimensional intelligent race. The methods and means of warfare employed by these two five-dimensional races are beyond our comprehension. Take the human race, for example; I know they possess sophisticated physical attack methods like 'dimensional ascension attacks' and 'dimensional reduction attacks,' and they can even utilize mathematical laws as weapons. You might wonder how these weapons of war have anything to do with mathematics? Don't underestimate mathematics. Mathematical laws are more comprehensive, thorough, and perfect than physical laws; you could say they are weapons of law." "I understand. A being in a sixth dimension, more powerful than the five-dimensional humans and intelligent beings, seems to be controlling the five-dimensional space with mathematical laws. That's why, before I went to the Military Academy, I told the Dean of the Imperial Academy of Sciences that we should establish a Higher-Dimensional Space Mathematics Research Institute to specifically study the relationship between mathematics and higher-dimensional space, and the applications of mathematics in higher-dimensional space, such as group theory, topology, manifolds, fractals, Riemannian functions, and so on. I have sufficient reason to believe that in the five-dimensional space, we can only understand the physical laws of the five-dimensional space through mathematics. Besides the influence of mathematical laws on higher-dimensional space, I think you are all familiar with the role of consciousness fields. Twenty years ago, the solar switch incident—although you were young then, your parents should have told you about it, or you should have learned about it yourselves from the internet. The solar switch incident was indeed my doing."
A murmur of surprise rippled through the hall. After the students quieted down, Zhou Yuan continued, "I'm bringing up this event today not for any other reason than to hope that all of humanity, including you, understands that in this higher-dimensional world, anything is possible. We must not use our familiarity with three-dimensional space to understand or speculate about higher-dimensional worlds. In three-dimensional space, you may think your consciousness field is weak, but in five-dimensional space, the human race is a consciousness entity, while the intelligent race is an intelligent information entity. Consciousness and information (data) entities may be the ultimate direction for the evolution of humanity in three-dimensional space." In other words, if we want to break through the limitations of three-dimensional space, we must discard our physical bodies. Of course, if we become powerful, we can retain them. The beautiful woman beside me, as you've probably guessed, is Lefia; she possesses some consciousness of the five-dimensional human race. The following is just my thought: if that mysterious force in the six-dimensional space exists, then regardless of whether it's the five-dimensional human race, the five-dimensional intelligent race, or us four-dimensional and three-dimensional beings, in the 'eyes' of this six-dimensional being, we are all information or data. This information or data should be strictly controlled by this six-dimensional being using mathematical laws.”
The students were in an uproar, and those watching the live stream from outside the venue exchanged bewildered glances. Some thought that if what Zhou Yuan said was true, then all humanity, like the humans of the three thousand worlds in the previous four-dimensional virtual machine, and even the powerful five-dimensional human race and five-dimensional intelligent race known now, were nothing more than characters in a game, while this existence in the six-dimensional space was like a player in that game.
The label Zhou Yuan and all the scientists of the Empire naturally also brought to mind game characters and players. They conducted in-depth thinking on Zhou Yuan's later mentions of the existence of six-dimensional space and mathematical laws, and the Spacetime Research Bureau accelerated its research progress.
Zhou Yuan's speech lasted for nearly three hours. It was eloquent and full of examples. Combined with the appropriate display on the huge spherical holographic screen in the conference center, it achieved a very good educational, enlightening and shocking effect on people.
In an instant, a wave of learning swept across humanity on both planets. Many repeatedly studied the holographic recording of Zhou Yuan's speech at the Imperial Military Academy, gaining a deeper understanding. Discussions and debates quickly emerged in news media and online. Sparks of human thought began to collide.
After the speech, Zhou Yuan and Leifia, led by the dean, arrived at the academy's military training base. The dean summoned three people, who were the top three fleet commanders Zhou Yuan had ranked: Kaias, Miffy, and Chu Yan.
In front of Zhou Yuan and Lefia, the three seemed both reserved and excited. Although they had just listened to Zhou Yuan's speech at the academy's conference center, this time they were face-to-face with him, and Zhou Yuan looked to be about the same age as them. Zhou Yuan glanced at the holographic screen to learn about the three's basic information, and then carefully examined them. In terms of physique and appearance, there was nothing to criticize about the three.
"Kaias, Miffy, and Chu Yan, given your outstanding grades and performance at the academy, I hope you will shoulder a significant responsibility. One month from now, the three of you will serve as commanders of the Starship 1, Starship 2, and Starship 3 exploration fleets, respectively. You will depart from the space base, leading your companions to explore the outside world. This is different from the training and exercises you have undergone in the military academy over the past four or five years; it is actual combat. You three can choose your companions from the military academy, but each of you can lead a maximum of one thousand people. You will each have only ten warships. The dean will send you the mission summary tomorrow. You three have one month to prepare well."
"Yes." The three answered in unison and saluted Zhou Yuan.
Upon hearing that it was a real battle, the three men couldn't help but feel excited, as this was their first time representing humanity in an interstellar war.
After the three of them had chosen their companions, the list was passed to Zhou Yuan by the dean of the military academy. Zhou Yuan then asked Nana to find the stream of consciousness data of these three thousand people based on the list.
A month later, in June 2004, footage of the three fleets setting off on their expedition was broadcast live to all of humanity. The massive warships evoked both a sense of human insignificance and awe at humanity's greatness. The three fleets flew in three different directions far from Earth, first accelerating within the solar system, then increasing in speed until they reached near-light speed after three days. Six years later, these three fleets would engage in an "interstellar war" with the replicant fleets they encountered. The three fleets maintained constant communication with a space base above Earth.
Zhou Yuan and Nana begin planning an interstellar war between humanity and a more advanced extraterrestrial civilization. Nana begins using powerful genetic technology at her galactic base and in other star systems of the Super-Body Droplet to create extraterrestrial biological and intelligent mechanical civilizations on various planets. Zhou Yuan believes that only war can allow humanity to mature and grow, reaching a wider world. Zhou Yuan is replicating his own experiences, rapidly imposing the experiences of the original Earth Empire's humans onto the Horizon Planets and Earthlings.