Light Speed ​​War

Chapter 232: Critical Situation

Four months later, all the underground humans moved to a new planet, New Earth II. The original Earth was transformed by Zhou Yuan into a fortress, a super death star weapon.

The Milky Way base, after acceleration, enters hyperspace travel. The four nine-star and ten-star orbiting systems around the sun are full of life after human intervention. Many planetary resources have been developed, and warships, robots, replicators, celestial bowls, energy exchangers, interstellar catapults, etc. are manufactured.

Zhou Yuan used his existing high technology to create a brand-new brain-computer interface device for UWARS Company. Genetic engineering, cloning technology, consciousness scanning, storage and transplantation technology, etc., were fully utilized and developed by mankind with abundant planetary resources.

Zhou Yuan awakened Huo Jing, Chu Xiaolu, and the more than one hundred scientists from their deep hibernation. Huo Jing and some human scientists studied higher dimensions. Zhou Yuan himself, along with some human scientists, studied the Demon Tree and photon-based consciousness.

In the new Earth era of 1045 and 1049, Huo Jing and Chu Xiaolu passed away one after the other, and their clones appeared.

After nearly fifty years of research, humanity has finally developed a systematic theory about higher-dimensional space.

In the year 1052 of the Earth's New Era, the Milky Way galaxy detached from hyperspace and entered normal space, reaching the vicinity of the Milky Way galaxy in parallel world number 2325849. Human scientists, far removed from both galaxies, artificially created a six-dimensional space. Videos transmitted back by the AI ​​of the unmanned warship showed that the strange properties of this six-dimensional space were almost identical to those experienced by Zhou Yuan and his companions. This six-dimensional space lasted for approximately one hour. Of course, with increased energy, the theoretical duration could be longer.

Zhou Yuan led a fleet of warships to the skies above Earth in this parallel galaxy. He and Panna then boarded the Invisible Bee spaceship and landed in a deserted area of ​​the city. Human civilization on this Earth had already entered the interstellar travel era, reaching a speed of seventy percent of the speed of light.

Ships come and go among the skyscrapers. People come and go on the bustling streets.

Zhou Yuan and Pan Na wandered aimlessly through the streets. Pan Na felt tired, so the two went into a teahouse to have some tea and rest.

The people in the teahouse were drawn to the news broadcast on television. It was President Bonim giving a speech.

"...Interstellar Explorer Team 5 has transmitted images of Gliese, an Earth-like planet 22 light-years away. Strange, mechanical scorpion-like creatures inhabit it. Interstellar Explorer Team 5 has been completely wiped out. We will dispatch an expeditionary fleet to destroy them..."

Suddenly the TV image started to shake, Bonim's voice became inaudible, and then the TV went completely white.

The crowd was puzzled, not knowing what had happened, when screams and urgent air raid sirens blared from the street.

When Zhou Yuan and Pan Na went outside, they saw a circular vortex opening up in the sky above them. Zhou Yuan and Pan Na disappeared into thin air, causing a stir of fear among the people around them.

Zhou Yuan and Panna returned to the flagship. Through observation, they discovered six circular vortex holes appearing in the sky above the planet, and these holes were gradually expanding. The human civilization fleet on this planet began deploying around these six vortex holes.

Above this planet, not far from the six vortex holes, Zhou Yuan's warships have been deployed.

When the vortex hole reached a diameter of about one hundred meters, the human civilization fleet on this planet launched an attack. Countless beams of intense lasers were aimed at the vortex hole. The attack by the human civilization fleet seemed to stimulate the expansion of the vortex hole instead. The diameter of the six circular vortex holes suddenly increased dramatically. At the same time, countless black mechanical scorpions poured out of the vortex hole.

These black mechanical scorpions were incredibly fast, and they all climbed onto the warships, beginning to devour their hulls. Soon, another batch of mechanical scorpions arrived. A dozen or so large warships of human civilization accelerated towards the center of the vortex hole, and soon after, powerful explosions occurred. The self-destruction of these warships only slowed the clone army's advance for a few minutes. Dozens more warships of the human civilization fleet self-destructed within the vortex hole. The mechanical scorpions increased their attack speed, and the skies above the planet were filled with the explosions of mechanical scorpions and human warships.

Human civilization's warships rushed from other parts of the solar system to join the battle against the replicant fleet, but the result was the same: these warships that came to provide support were instantly annihilated.

Just when humanity was in despair, a miracle occurred. Humans observed a large number of warships suddenly appearing in the planet's skies. These warships rapidly transformed, each disintegrating into independent modules. These modules accelerated and crashed directly into the mechanical scorpions. Although Zhou Yuan's replicant army was fewer in number, it possessed superior quality. The sky was littered with debris from the impact. Zhou Yuan dispatched more and more fleets, and the replicant army rapidly increased in number. The mechanical scorpions began to falter in their attack, and their numbers began to dwindle. When the six vortex holes closed, the mechanical scorpions were annihilated even faster.

The battle lasted for nearly an hour and a half. After all the mechanical scorpions were destroyed, the replicator module army began to reassemble into warships.

Zhou Yuan saw some scattered warships of human civilization gathering, and soon he received greetings, thanks and invitations from the leaders of the human civilization on this planet.

Zhou Yuan and Pan Na arrived at the presidential palace of the human civilization on this planet. President Bonim, on behalf of all humanity, expressed his sincere gratitude to Zhou Yuan for saving his life.

"Mr. President, what are your plans? Those mechanical scorpions will come again."

"Our scientists are shocked by the vortex-hole teleportation army, and so far there is no good way to solve it. Even if all our fleets were to fight them head-on, we would definitely not be a match for the mechanical scorpions." Bonim and the others were at a loss.

Zhou Yuan sensed significant changes in this virtual universe; the virtual machine seemed to be modifying its rules. To overcome the speed-of-light barrier, the virtual machine had invented powerful weapons like vortex-shaped portals. In this parallel world, human civilization was traveling at less than 80% of the speed of light when the replicant fleet attacked. This indicated that the virtual machine was lowering its standards.

"Mr. President, if I may be so bold, some humans in other parallel worlds have had similar experiences to yours today, but their fates will be very different. The replicator fleet will definitely return, because of the existence of the Vortex Hole, and they may be here soon."

When Zhou Yuan said this, Bonim and the others were taken aback and looked at him in confusion.

Zhou Yuan had no choice but to tell them about the various aspects of this virtual universe. Even though Zhou Yuan explained it in great detail, Bonim and the others were still skeptical, but Zhou Yuan didn't mind.

Bonim lowered his head and pondered for a while, then whispered something to the others, who nodded in agreement.

"Mr. Zhou, to be honest, we don't know if the virtual universe or parallel world you mentioned is real. However, the army of mechanical scorpions will definitely come again. We don't have the strength to resist them. We hope that you can give us some guidance or help us again."

"How do you want me to help?" Zhou Yuan asked. Bonim and the others looked at each other. "Mr. Zhou, we hope you can destroy the Mechanical Scorpion Mother Planet."

"I can do that, but I can't guarantee that this virtual universe won't send fleets to destroy you again."

Everyone was slightly taken aback. From Zhou Yuan's words, it seemed that humanity's fate was ultimately extinction? But looking at Zhou Yuan and Panna, they were no different from themselves; they were all human. So how did Zhou Yuan and his group escape the fate of annihilation? Judging from the battle situation of Zhou Yuan's fleet, the level of technology they displayed far exceeded that of their own human race.

"Mr. Zhou, if I may ask, you should come from other parallel worlds, but how come you...?"

“Mr. President, the humans in my parallel world have also been wiped out by this virtual universe, but the enemy is much stronger, not just mechanical scorpions.” Zhou Yuan pointed to Panna beside him. “Well, how should I put it? We’re a bit special, I guess. We were lucky enough to escape the catastrophe of extermination.” Zhou Yuan was unwilling to reveal his and Panna’s secrets to them right now.

"Mr. President, gentlemen, let me be frank with you. I believe you have no choice but to leave here in order to avoid being slaughtered."

"Leave here?" they all asked in unison. They knew that at their current travel speed, they couldn't go very far in interstellar space, and they knew that the only way to leave was to follow Zhou Yuan.

"Yes, follow me. I will settle you on a new Earth, New Earth II, or I can move this planet and you can stay on this one. The choice is yours."

Moving planets?! A chill ran down the spines of Bonim and the others.

"Mr. Zhou, we need to discuss this before we can decide. We will give you an answer in three days."

"it is good."

Bonim and the others accompanied Zhou Yuan and Panna on a tour of the presidential palace, had lunch, and chatted for a while before Zhou Yuan and Panna left the planet and arrived at Zhou Yuan's flagship.

Zhou Yuan immediately contacted Thomas, informing him of the situation of human civilization in this parallel world and instructing him to prepare for their arrival. Thomas and George were naturally thrilled; what about the humans of another parallel world? Zhou Yuan began adjusting several multi-star orbiting systems.

Four days later, this parallel world's Earth arrived at the Milky Way base and became neighbors with New Earth One, the human civilization to which Thomas belonged.

After a series of profound shocks, the humans of this parallel world were overjoyed when the leaders of the two parallel world civilizations met and, with Zhou Yuan's approval and presiding, held a week-long celebration.

The two human civilizations began exchanging information and sharing resources across various sectors. Because Zhou Yuan held absolute control, he loosened regulations and delegated management authority to the leaders of the two planets. However, the use of armed forces required his personal approval.

After spending half a month in this parallel world, the Milky Way base accelerated into hyperspace travel.

To Zhou Yuan's surprise, he discovered that this virtual universe had begun to frantically clean up human civilizations in various parallel worlds. Regardless of the stage of development these parallel worlds' human civilizations were at, they were all being slaughtered by the replicator fleet.

Does this mean that this virtual universe no longer needs human virtual memory for simulation?