Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1597 Divergent Thinking
It's a complete evolution in both offense and defense.

The attack has a wide-range fourth phase transition strike. Although this thing might kill your teammates as well, it's really powerful!

That's a powerful weapon that could wipe out even established cosmic-level civilizations in one fell swoop.

Humans have also observed the situation in the fourth phase transition region. Although not much data was collected at the time, based on the subsequent summaries of information from various sources, it is generally understood that in order to defend against this thing, you at least need to know the mechanism of the fourth phase transition.

Otherwise, no rules or shields will be effective; the mechanism will simply break it down for you.

Of course, it can't be said so absolutely. After all, the direct target of that mechanism is electromagnetic force, which is decomposed into electricity and magnetism. So if a shield that does not involve electromagnetic force is used, it should still be able to resist it to some extent.

The problem is that after the fourth phase transition, there is a series of chain reactions that will change the rules of the entire existing universe, turning the four fundamental forces into five fundamental forces, and even dark matter, which was originally only affected by gravity, will undergo a phase transition.

Humans do not know what the dark matter phase transition is, whether it is some kind of symmetry breaking or some kind of underlying mechanism of the universe, but they do know that after the dark matter phase transition, it will become two kinds of matter in the new world: one is electrical matter and the other is magnetic matter.

They are governed by the physical laws of electricity and magnetism, respectively, but the specific laws are unknown.

Judging from the current situation, only the Dayan civilization knows how those rules work.

Initially, when the fourth phase transition strike was observed, humanity wasn't certain, but now it's a done deal. This hyper-evolution of the Star Guardians has revealed the key to its existence.

If it's just a fourth phase transition attack, there's nothing surprising, since it's a form of destruction; all we need to do is release the power of the fourth phase transition.

However, the surface of the Star Guardian now has another defensive layer based on the rules after the fourth phase transition, which is the interaction of the five fundamental forces.

This is awesome.

That must be something that requires a thorough understanding of the operating mechanisms of the five fundamental forces and the ability to exist in that kind of environment.

Humans are well aware that the original outer shell of the Star Guardians was also made of existing cosmic matter, not matter from the worlds of the five fundamental forces.

He is now essentially wearing a cloak that does not exist in this universe.

So how effective is this coat at defense?

It is obvious that it is an extremely destructive cloak. Any attack method based on the four fundamental forces can be decomposed by it. That is, after coming into contact with that rule, it becomes a part of it and then loses its original destructive power.

That's not a matter of material effects, but rather a matter of cosmic mechanisms.

Because of the special nature of the fourth phase transition, it is, like the previous phase transitions, a decomposition of the fundamental forces of the universe and a trend in the development of the universe.

Once this trend emerges, it will be like a waterfall cascading down, or like a high energy level cascading down to a low energy level.

From this perspective, the Star Guardian will truly be able to roam freely from now on, and even the natural black holes of the universe will be unable to do anything to it, not for any other reason than the protective barrier on its outer surface.

If he wanted to, he could deliver a fourth phase transition attack to a natural black hole in the universe, and probably destroy it completely.

Although humanity doesn't know what will happen, with our limited knowledge of the five fundamental forces, we can guess a thing or two: the black hole will most likely disintegrate under the impact of the fourth phase transition. This is because black holes have three components: mass, charge, and angular momentum. Leaving aside mass and angular momentum, charge is definitely related to electromagnetic force, and therefore will be directly affected by the fourth phase transition.

However, after decomposition, whether it becomes new matter in the world of the five fundamental forces or a new black hole in the fourth phase transition, humanity does not know.

It can be said that if that outer layer were not in a stable state due to the interaction of the five fundamental forces, its existence would immediately trigger the fourth phase transition, making it a perfect fourth phase transition diffusion device.

It seems that the Dayan civilization did not want the fourth phase transition to spread so quickly; otherwise, with their current capabilities, they could probably have brought most of the universe into the era of the five fundamental forces.

So why didn't the Dayan civilization create an era of the five fundamental forces in the universe?
On the Dream Lyra, Yue Yuan quietly watched the Star Guardian, who seemed to be adapting to his new body, through the display screen, while thinking about the god-level civilization behind him.

He felt that the problem was still about measuring the universe.

The Dayan civilization may also be leading a plan to save the universe, but they haven't finished measuring the universe, so they haven't publicly implemented it.

So what is the plan?

Yue Yuan pondered for a long time, and he felt that the answer lay with the Star Guardians.

"The era of the five fundamental forces!" Yue Yuanxin said, his gaze towards the Starry Sky Defenders somewhat unfocused. It seemed he wasn't looking at the Starry Sky Defenders, but rather at the Great Evolution Civilization.

"Do you think the Dayan civilization is going to help the universe enter the era of the five fundamental forces?" Yue Yuan turned to the human leaders beside him and asked, withdrawing his gaze.

The more he thought about it, the more likely it seemed.

After he said that, no one else had the mind to imagine the heroic figures of the guardians of the stars.

Their gazes also transcended the phenomenon of the Star Guardians, penetrating the phenomenon to look at the essence of the Great Evolution Civilization behind it.

"It's really possible!"

One scholar frowned and pondered for a moment: "Among all the disasters in the universe, vacuum decay is the most unsolvable, but it doesn't seem to be completely unsolvable. At least there is no cure, but it seems that a symptomatic cure is still possible. From the perspective of the phase transition mechanism of the universe, the era of the five fundamental forces after the fourth phase transition may indeed be able to neutralize the vacuum decay produced by the current era of the four fundamental forces to a certain extent."

Another scholar nodded and said, "According to you, one of the purposes of the Great Evolution Civilization's measurement of the universe might be to verify this conjecture. If that's the case, sooner or later they'll come back to investigate the Five Fundamental Forces Era after they complete their universe measurement project, while we..."

The scholar who had just spoken picked up the thread, saying, "And we, like those cosmic-level civilizations in the Rebooters and Returners camps, will become pawns in this grand plan. Because we belong to the Great Evolution Civilization camp, and we've said it, and the Great Evolution Civilization has accepted it!"

"So if things are really like this, then the fourth phase transition is not a cosmic catastrophe for us, but rather the evolution of the universe. At that time, we will say: This is an inevitable stage in the development of the universe. Anything that stands in the way of history will be crushed by the wheels."

Hearing this argument, the other scientists and scholars looked at each other in bewilderment.

This argument isn't just idle boasting; it's based on facts and logical deduction, and the current state of the Star Guardians is the best evidence of that.

(End of this chapter)