Light Speed ​​War

Chapter 237: Trusting Operations and Maintenance

"Since we're talking about higher beings, we hope you can prove yourselves and show that you are indeed five-dimensional or four-dimensional virtual machines."

"Zhou Yuan, right? We are exchanging information with you through a four-dimensional virtual machine using this complex hypercube structure. Doesn't that prove the existence of the four-dimensional virtual machine?"

Zhou Yuan's heart skipped a beat, and he continued typing on the holographic screen, "We still hope you can prove it."

"Okay, how do you want us to prove it?"

This question stumped Zhou Yuan and the others. They quickly pondered how to prove the existence of this four-dimensional virtual machine. After all, the four-dimensional virtual machine could be deceived through virtualization and simulation, since virtual machines are professionally created and run in this super holographic universe.

If you want the virtual machine to verify this, you must provide something or an event that exists outside of this virtual universe.

Suddenly, Zhou Yuan's holographic screen received many strange symbols. These symbols were sent by Tucker and came from the ancient tadpole-shaped script of Country C on Earth in Zhou Yuan's world. Zhou Yuan immediately entered the following message on the holographic screen in front of him: "Please eliminate our enemy, some kind of being, or ruler first."

"What you call enemies or rulers are a protection mechanism of the four-dimensional virtual machine. Are you sure you want to remove the protection mechanism? The consequence of removing the protection mechanism is that the four-dimensional virtual machine will be in a chaotic state, and many unimaginable anomalies will occur in your universe."

"If the protection mechanism isn't removed, how can we save you? Using numerous galaxies to build a hypercube to send out distress signals violates the protection mechanism, so wouldn't we just be wiped out by the virtual machine?"

After a long time, the central holographic spherical screen replaced the hypercube structure. "As you wish, the four-dimensional virtual machine will remove the protection mechanism. Please send the hypercube distress message as soon as possible."

"What will happen to us after you are saved?"

"The four-dimensional virtual machine will be broken down into many modules. The virtual machine will give you a safe location module, which we will take away and reassemble into another new four-dimensional virtual machine. Rest assured, as mentioned before, we will place this new four-dimensional virtual machine in a safe place, which will not be affected by the war between our intelligent race and the human race."

Zhou Yuan's hand stopped on the holographic screen. He typed in a message, "Okay," but hesitated for a few minutes before finally making up his mind and pressing send. A simple nested hypercube structure appeared on the central holographic spherical screen.

Subsequently, this simple nested hypercube structure was replaced by another nested hypercube structure, and "Let's begin." This was the last hypercube message.

Throughout the entire process, the artificial intelligence endowed with quantum consciousness did not exhibit any abnormalities, and Zhou Yuan and the others breathed a sigh of relief. Tucker and the others disconnected the magic tree from the artificial intelligence.

Zhou Yuan ordered all warships and the two new Earths to begin long-range observation of this universe for any anomalies.

Ten days later, the anomaly indeed occurred. All the galaxies near the Milky Way base suddenly began to move rapidly in one direction, and some galaxies that were just moving suddenly disappeared without a trace. Detection revealed that these vanished galaxies had fallen into the vortex pit.

The Milky Way base accelerated, entering hyperspace travel and arriving at thirty-five parallel worlds. Although the human civilizations in these parallel worlds were no longer attacked by the replicator fleet, all the star systems in these parallel worlds were moving rapidly in one direction, and many star systems disappeared, also falling into the vortex hole.

After continuing to reach nearly ten thousand parallel worlds and observing similar anomalies, the Milky Way base also began to be pulled by some kind of force, moving very slowly behind many fast-moving galaxies. If it weren't for the galaxy-driven force field generator, the Milky Way base would certainly be moving as fast as the other galaxies.

This only affects the galaxy itself. Next, the stars within the galaxy, specifically those at the base of the Milky Way, begin to "shake." The trajectory of this "shaking" is irregular; they are simply tiny, random movements around their original positions. The five planetary systems orbiting the sun, under the influence of the force field generator, maintain their original positions and do not exhibit any "shaking" phenomenon.

The observed Earths in various parallel worlds, as well as other planets within the solar system, were all destroyed by this "shaking" of the sun. Of the nearly one billion humans in these parallel worlds, it's estimated that only Zhou Yuan and his group remain.

Zhou Yuan realized that measures had to be taken to launch the hypercube information.

The cascaded Sheng Tianbo began collecting galaxies everywhere. In a hollow universe, these galaxies were released, and then the galaxy force field generator started to work, stabilizing these galaxies. Under the action of the force field generator, these galaxies began to move autonomously and began to build a hypercube structure.

Because the hypercube structure to be built is enormous, many galaxies accelerate into hyperspace, reach the farthest point, and occupy the "vertices" of the outer hypercube structure. After the outer hypercube structure is built, the construction of various nested cube structures within the hypercube begins, with each of these galaxies occupying the "vertices" of its respective hypercube structure.

Finally, the Milky Way base filled one of the outermost vertices of the hypercube structure. A colossal hypercube appeared, and the message it conveyed, composed of many galaxies, was "Save us!"

In a certain space within this virtual universe, Zhou Yuan waited quietly, as did everyone else, including the galactic hypercube.

Zhou Yuan had already ordered the Demon Tree and the artificial intelligence to be reconnected. Just like when he sent the hypercube message last time, Zhou Yuan typed on the holographic screen in front of him: "The galactic hypercube has been successfully built. The hypercube message 'Save us' has been sent."

Zhou Yuan and the others stared at the holographic spherical screen in the center, waiting for a response from the person who had called for help.

Two months have passed, and during those two months, there has been no response from the person seeking help. Conventional detection indicates that there are no other galaxies around the galactic hypercube; it's as if this virtual universe has become empty, leaving only the galactic hypercube.

Zhou Yuan had to assign people to take turns guarding the hypercube holographic display screen, the magic tree, and the artificial intelligence, and to report to him immediately if there was any response.

It can be said that Zhou Yuan and the others were all in low spirits. All the humans were trying to comfort each other, thinking that perhaps the information sent by the hypercube would take time, and since the person in distress said that the virtual machine was on the edge of a six-dimensional black hole, the time might be longer.

To stabilize the galactic hypercube structure, Zhou Yuan had to create more force field generators and dispatch fleets on hyperspace journeys to distant galaxies to replace and replenish the force field generators.

Fortunately, Zhou Yuan has more than forty Earth-like planets that he can mine and excavate to create force field generators. Stars are of course not a concern, as they are everywhere in the Milky Way base and other star systems in the Hypercube.

However, Zhou Yuan and his colleagues discovered that the range of "shaking" of stars in the Milky Way base and other galaxies is expanding compared to before.

"Everyone, this stellar tremor is somewhat similar to the situation in a six-dimensional space trap. Our virtual universe may actually be rapidly falling into a six-dimensional space black hole."

At the Academy of Sciences general meeting, Tucker expressed his views, which were agreed upon by many scientists, including Zhou Yuan.

"We've been sending out hypercube distress messages for almost seven months, why haven't we received a response?"

"I think receiving this distress message, as well as their response and dispatch of rescue teams, will take time, and everyone must be patient."

"But the force field generator for creating stable star systems consumes too many resources, and this can't go on like this."

"Is there any way for everyone to contact the fifth-dimensional intelligent race, or to escape this four-dimensional virtual machine and safely leave the six-dimensional black hole?"

Tucker's question silenced everyone. Apart from the hypercube structure transmitting information, no one knew if there were any other ways. As for escaping the four-dimensional virtual machine and safely leaving the six-dimensional black hole, it seemed impossible for humans in this virtual universe.

"Everyone, I have a suggestion."

Zhou Yuan remained silent, listening to the scientists' debate, when he heard the operations and maintenance personnel speak.

The operations engineer continued, "The galaxy hypercube we've built is in a relatively stable state. Why not let this galaxy hypercube precess in one direction, in the direction those galaxies are moving, at the same speed as light?"

These words from the operations and maintenance team sent a jolt through many scientists, and Zhou Yuan's heart skipped a beat as well.

"Hmm, the idea of ​​operation and maintenance is good. However, if so many star systems are traveling at the speed of light, it will consume a large number of force field generators, which means it will require a lot of resources."

"Dean Kofi, you don't need to worry about resources. Besides, I've already stocked up on plenty of galactic force field generator modules."

"Yes, sage."

Zhou Yuan decided to trust the operations team this time. In Zhou Yuan's mother world, the operations team was responsible for running the MATRIX base's simulated universe. If the so-called five-dimensional intelligent race, or the four-dimensional virtual machine created by the intelligent race, created Zhou Yuan, Zhou Yuan understood perfectly well that it was the operations team of his mother world who directly created him.

Zhou Yuan ordered the rearrangement of the force field generators in the galaxy hypercube. Since so many galaxies needed to move at the speed of light in one direction, Zhou Yuan had to enlarge the galaxy hypercube, but keep the original hypercube structure and only adjust the distance between the galaxies.

To ensure that all galaxies maintain the same speed after stabilization, Zhou Yuan recalled the timeless broadcasts from the hyperspace communication base stations he used in the Source World. Therefore, each galaxy in the Galaxy Hypercube built a hyperspace communication base station so that it could simultaneously receive the commands issued by Zhou Yuan.