Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1355 The Collapse of the Fast World

This is quite scary.

This is precisely why it is the most concerning cosmic catastrophe for all cosmic-level civilizations, because no one knows where the next vacuum decay zone will appear or how long it will expand.

This situation is similar to oil spreading out of random locations in the ocean, and the randomness makes the oil-contaminated areas grow faster because it expands to all corners of the world.

When the Star Defenders told this news to various civilizations, they raised some questions. For example, if vacuum decay occurs in this way, why did those Level VII civilizations go to a certain place to solve it?

The answer is obvious: it is a region where large-scale vacuum decay occurs.

In fact, the civilizations did not originally think that the cosmic catastrophe of expanding at the speed of light was so terrifying. After all, everyone had the ability to travel faster than the speed of light, so if they couldn't solve it, they could just run away.

As long as you stay ahead of disasters, they won't affect you.

However, the random occurrence of vacuum decay changed the thinking of various civilizations, because they might unknowingly be surrounded by vacuum decay regions while running.

On the long voyage, civilizations have heard the defenders of the stars say more than once, "I hope our long voyage is not too late." It is precisely because of this that civilizations know that time is precious and the faster they complete the long voyage, the greater their chance of survival.

According to the Star Defenders, one of the driving forces behind the "Vacuum Zero Point Energy Non-Proliferation Treaty" was that those Type VII civilizations discovered the way vacuum decay occurs.

The cosmic catastrophe of vacuum decay is truly fitting. In the vacuum decay region, all energy becomes unusable, quantum states fall to their lowest point, vacuum zero-point energy becomes unusable, the energy level of the entire universe falls to its lowest point, and all civilizations that survive according to the existing laws of the universe will perish.

If this is indeed a vacuum decay region, then the Great Voyage Organization will have to find a way to avoid it. They can either find a gap to pass through, but that would be too dangerous, or they can retreat the way they came.

There's nothing we can do if we don't want to make a wasted trip. It's better than being surrounded and destroyed by the vacuum decay zone while we're on our way. The Great Voyage Organization wouldn't be so presumptuous as to solve a problem that even a level seven civilization couldn't.

People have some understanding of vacuum decay, but the other two are new to them.

"Wait, what is the 'world collapse'? I haven't heard you mention it before." Knowing that everyone had questions, Yue Yuan asked the Star Guardian.

“You didn’t ask!” the Starry Sky Defender said in his usual tone. “And even if you had asked, I wouldn’t know.”

what? !

Ah!
Damn it.

"What kind of looks are you all giving me? I'm not an encyclopedia. What I know about cosmic-level civilizations are all information records left by the Dayan Civilization. If they didn't leave any, of course I wouldn't know. What's so strange about that?" The Star Guardian imitated the laughter of the six distinctive technological civilizations, and then continued, "However, although I don't know the specifics, I do know the general idea. According to the limited records of the Dayan Civilization, the collapse of the Fast World originated from a unique technology of a cosmic-level civilization. They somehow managed to cause a certain rule of the Fast World to collapse."

"What rules?" Yue Yuan asked, noticing everyone's gaze.

"I'm not entirely sure. The Dayan civilization doesn't seem to be an expert in this area either. Based on the information they left behind, it should be something similar to vacuum decay in a slow world, which would cause everything based on the rules of a fast world to fall to the edge of a slow world."

The Star Defender continued, "The collapse of the fast world means the breakdown of the rules of the universe. The consequence is that the entire framework of the universe's rules will have loopholes, and there will be inconsistencies in the rules. The final result is the collapse of the entire universe's framework."

"However, the Dayan civilization doesn't know what impact such a situation would have on their civilization. They've only heard of it and haven't experienced that kind of attack. Oh, it's said that some cosmic-level civilizations have proposed solutions to the collapse of the fast world. There are two methods. One of them seems to be called something like, let me check the database... Oh, it's about creating a multiverse to avoid disaster. It's an avoidance strategy."

"Another approach is rule-based intervention. Many civilizations have proposed resolving the issue by demarcating boundaries. My own unfortunate creator, the Great Evolution Civilization, agrees with this view, at least according to my records. The general idea behind this method is to demarcate boundaries on a large-scale cosmic scale."

Hearing this, Yue Yuan felt that the Starry Sky Defenders seemed to have missed something, so he interjected on their behalf: "What boundary?"

“Oh, I forgot you don’t understand these terms.” The Star Guardian wasn’t annoyed. He explained, “The so-called boundary definition is the macro-micro boundary definition. The Dayuan Civilization and some cosmic-level civilizations believe that these originally vague macro-micro boundaries can be defined by rewriting the rules, and then this defined boundary can be ‘buried’ on the dividing line between the fast and slow worlds, so that the fast world will henceforth be completely classified as the micro world.”

"Well, I understand the specific physical and mathematical processes involved. According to the description of the Dayan civilization, it should be to make the fast world a part of the infinite microscopic world that does not affect the macroscopic world, so that the entire framework of the universe will not be affected by their collapse."

"However, it seems that many cosmic-level civilizations disagree with their approach, saying that doing so would make the microscopic world even more obscure. That's true. In fact, the Dayuan Civilization also knows the consequences. If they really make it a macro-micro boundary, then the gap between the macro and micro will become enormous. The direct consequence is that when macro-civilizations observe the microscopic world, they will only see a fog."

The virtual meeting hall was filled with scientists and elites from six distinct technological civilizations. Given their knowledge base, it wasn't difficult for them to understand what the Star Guardians were saying.

The slow world is the world where all civilizations currently reside, which is the main framework world of the universe, where the speed of light is the highest and most conventional speed. The fast world, on the other hand, is the world of tachyons, where all kinds of tachyons exist, and all tachyon weapons and technologies can only function based on the rules of the fast world.

According to the Star Defenders, the Dayan Civilization even believes that such wide-range attacks that instantly and clearly exceed the speed of light actually have the shadow of the rules of the fast world.

If that's the case, then as soon as the world collapses, even if various civilizations still exist, they will lose all their area-of-effect attack capabilities.

However, it's highly unlikely that it will exist anymore. After all, as the Star Guardians said, the framework of the main world was already in trouble at that time, and any civilization without the ability to modify the rules would definitely perish.

Unfortunately, the Star Guardians also don't know what the collapse of the main universe framework would look like.

(End of this chapter)