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Chapter 553: The Language of Corpses
One hundred million timers form a "line" that is one thousand light years long.

Now this line has become the "track" for transmitting that strange power.

The timer was contaminated by that strange power, and the time reading on it was jumping wildly.

Faced with this situation, Su Yu watched coldly without taking any action.

Soon, that strange power had spread to the middle of the line, which was five hundred light years away from Su Yu.

Su Yu was ready to abandon the warship and escape.

Fortunately, that power continued to extend for another hundred light years, then seemed to run out of steam, stopped, and then slowly retreated.

Su Yu breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that this kind of power could not leave the Ou Ming River system too far.

His position should be safe.

This is as it should be.

If this strange force could move at will, there would be no need to set up such a "trap" at all.

"But we still can't be careless, but we can't be timid either..."

"Anyway, let's scan all the star systems first."

After determining the coverage range of that strange power, Su Yu began to explore.

He wants to scan the entire Omin Galaxy and its more than 500 billion star systems!
This is an incredibly large project, but with the help of the star tower terminal on the unknown battleship, Su Yu can completely achieve it.

The star tower terminal on the battleship, when used to its full potential, can directly scan everything within a radius of 1,500 light years.

The scan range is amazing.

However, the diameter of the Omin Galaxy is 110,000 light years, and the scanning range of the Star Tower terminal is far from enough to cover the entire galaxy.

At this time, Su Yu was a thousand light years away from the Ou Ming Galaxy, on the side edge of this big "disk".

The Star Tower Terminal is like a searchlight, projecting a circular area with a diameter of about one thousand light years on the large disk of the Omin Galaxy with a diameter of 110,000 light years.

Everything within this circular range can be scanned by the Star Tower Terminal.

If it is out of range, the warship will need to move to complete the scan.

Su Yu planned to circle around from the outside of the Ou Ming River System to the core and scan the entire Ou Ming River System to see what the situation of this river system was.

After making a plan, Su Yu immediately turned on the Star Tower terminal at full power and began scanning.

Invisible signals are implanted, activated, and fed back by the Star Tower terminal...

At this time, Su Yu was scanning the edge of the Milky Way where the star density was relatively low. There were about three million stars within a thousand light years.

Although the number is not small, with the powerful capabilities of the Star Tower Terminal, all these star systems can be scanned quickly.

During this process, because the scanning intensity was too high, it seemed to stimulate the strange power again, causing it to erupt again, trying to rush to Su Yu along that line.

Fortunately, its range is limited, and every time it rushes halfway, it has to retreat helplessly.

After scanning these three million stars completely, Su Yu also had a general understanding of the situation of this galaxy.

In the past, the human empire had made very in-depth developments in the Omin Galaxy. Basically, one out of every ten thousand star systems was colonized.

Naturally, the residents on the colonized planets also turned into corpses.

As for the other 9,999 star systems, the environment there is too harsh and not suitable for human survival. Although the Empire certainly has the technology to transform the galaxy environment, there is no need to do so as there are plenty of galaxies.

It is estimated that tens of thousands of years ago, those star systems with harsh environments were mining areas, specifically used for mining omega metals.

Three million star systems mean about three hundred colonized galaxies, whose total population far exceeds one trillion.

These trillions of people have now turned into corpses and "minerals" inside the planet.

Even though Su Yu was extremely determined, he was still shocked when he saw so many corpses.

In particular, there are more than 500 billion stars in this galaxy. According to the current colonization ratio of one in ten thousand, it is estimated that tens of millions of star systems have been colonized.

How many people would that be? How many bodies?
This is just the Omin River System. How many river systems did the human empire colonize? How many people died in the subspace tide ten thousand years ago?
The more he thought about it, the more frightened he became, but Su Yu quickly put these thoughts behind him.

This is not the time to be sentimental, but we need to find useful intelligence from the scanned information.

However, after Su Yu used his powerful computing power to quickly browse through all the information, he did not find any useful information.

All man-made objects in these three hundred colonized galaxies have completely disappeared.

Only corpses remained, but there was no information left on them.

Their clothes had disappeared and their flesh and blood had turned to metal. Su Yu wanted to scan their internal body structure and genetic coding, but he couldn't find anything useful.

Those corpses were more like human-shaped metal statues than corpses, and their internal structures were solid.

After Su Yu confirmed that there was no useful information, he started the battleship and moved it to the side a thousand light years.

In this way, the star tower signal can scan new star systems.

At the same time, he also brought the "line" formed by the timer over and monitored the strange power of time loss in real time.

In this way, Su Yu kept moving the warship and scanning the galaxy.

Before he knew it, he had circled the entire Omin River system.

Tens of billions of star systems have been scanned.

There are millions of colonized galaxies and countless corpses.

Su Yu was numb from seeing so many corpses.

After scanning so many stars and so many corpses, Su Yu still did not see any useful information.

With such a large population, no one knows how prosperous the civilization that developed was. The information contained in it is immeasurable, but now it is all gone.

This Omin River System seems to be an information black hole. No matter how prosperous a civilization is, it will leave no trace except for corpses.

It is also like a big cemetery where billions of people are sleeping.

Su Yu sighed slightly and prepared to start the battleship again to continue scanning.

He had already circled the outer circle of the Ou Ming River System and was now preparing to enter the inner circle, circling again and again until he reached the center of the Ou Ming River System. At that time, he would be able to scan the entire system.

However, just as Su Yu was about to start the warship, an idea suddenly flashed in his mind.

"No! It's not true that there is no information left!"

A possibility suddenly occurred to Su Yu.

Those corpses did not leave any information.

But they themselves are information!

This information is... quantity!
The number of these corpses!
The number of corpses on each colony is different. This is normal. It would be strange if the population of different colonies was the same.

So Su Yu didn’t pay attention to it before.

But now, Su Yu thought of a possibility. Is there some useful information buried in these corpses?

Su Yu quickly counted the number of corpses on the millions of colonies that had been scanned and obtained a huge number.

He used his powerful computing power to analyze the numbers.

Soon, Su Yu actually analyzed some useful information.

At the beginning, Su Yu tried to analyze the exact number of corpses on the planet. The population on a certain planet was 9,736,723,451.

Su Yu tried to analyze whether there were any secrets hidden in this number, and whether there was any connection with the population numbers on other planets.

But Su Yu gave up quickly.

Such a huge number, the possibility of various permutations and combinations is even greater than the number of atoms in the universe. No matter how strong Su Yu's computing power is, it is in vain.

So Su Yu quickly changed his thinking to a simpler one.

This idea couldn't be simpler. Su Yu counted the population in each colonized galaxy, and then compared the size with the adjacent galaxies to see which side had the larger population.

Soon, Su Yu's statistics came out.

He discovered that the number of corpses between adjacent planets fluctuated in a certain regular pattern.

For example, this galaxy has a large population, while that galaxy has a small population.

Treat more as 1 and less as 0.

That will form a binary code of 11000101...!
More or less, more or less, more or less, more or less...

"Is this... a communication code?"

These binary codes really contain information.

And there is no complicated encryption, it is very simple and clear.

So after Su Yu found the idea, he quickly decoded it.

That was a communication code that Su Yu knew, similar to the Morse code before Su Yu traveled through time.

Decode it and translate it into the language that Su Yu is familiar with, which is the language of the Human Empire.

Millions of colonized galaxies have recorded a large amount of information in the form of the number of corpses in different galaxies!

Su Yu had never heard of this way of retaining information. He felt it was both cruel and shocking.

This is the language of corpses!

After Su Yu decoded it, he first saw a series of warnings: [The Ouming River system is a trap! ]

[Don’t enter! Don’t enter! ]

Su Yu's heart tightened and he continued reading.

[September of the Imperial Calendar 30104.]

[A star system in the center of the Milky Way has a strange time loss phenomenon. Researchers are sent to investigate, but to no avail. The researchers die, and all the people in the galaxy die.]

[In October, the time loss phenomenon began to spread, affecting thousands of star systems. The Tenth Prince led the "Devouring" regiment to investigate and stop it, but failed. The Devouring regiment was completely wiped out. The Tenth Prince escaped with serious injuries, and all the imperial citizens in those star systems were exterminated.]

[Entering a state of war, urgently contacting the empire's top brass, but did not receive a normal response. Although the communication was normal, the other party's attitude was strange. After the prince investigated, he found that the communication had been interrupted long ago, and those communication signals were false. ]

[Praying to the Great Emperor, to no avail. The Emperor's power did not descend. Could it be that something happened to the Great Emperor? No! Impossible!]

[The time loss phenomenon spreads again. The prince orders to evacuate the Ou Ming River System, but to no avail. The edge of the river system is blocked by time and space and the phenomenon of causal confusion appears, and it is impossible to leave.]

[We can't get out anymore. This river system is too strange. All time, space, cause and effect inside it have been blocked. It's like an independent universe.]

[Continue to study the phenomenon of time loss, to no avail, to no avail…]

[Research shows that the phenomenon of time loss will cause all civilization creations and information to be lost, and only human corpses will be preserved. ]

[The prince said that there is a monster here that devours information. Information is the foundation of the universe, and there may be a ghost of the universe hidden here.]

[The prince is of noble status and knows a lot of important information. He told us that there is not only one universe. The matter and energy in the ordinary universe are limited. Our universe will actively devour and hunt other universes in order to achieve true infinity, and now it may have succeeded. ]

[But the price is that the swallowed universes will not die but will turn into various terrifying monsters, causing terrible disasters.]

[We may be encountering this kind of monster now. ]

[The Ouming River System is the lair of this monster, and also a trap, used to lure civilizations to settle here, and then devour them once they develop to a certain extent.]

【Energy and information are the foundation of the universe. This phenomenon of time loss can swallow up all the information of civilization.】

[The reason why the corpse was left behind might be because the cosmic undead no longer had any energy, only information, so it could only devour information. ]

[It could also be for other reasons, such as... turning these corpses into Omin metal to attract the next civilization! ]

[After we heard this, we all felt incredible. The dead in the universe? We have never heard of this concept. But the prince is so noble, he will definitely not lie to us.]

[We asked the prince, what should we do? We have never encountered such a strong enemy before. We don’t even know what form the enemy takes, nor do we know how to fight him.]

[The prince also fell into deep thought, and at this time, the time loss phenomenon was still spreading, devouring the lives of countless citizens of the empire.]

[The prince finally made a decision. He told us that he would go face the monster alone and fight for our chance of survival.]

[If we fail, we need to find a way to leave a message to warn those who come after us.]

[The Ou Ming tribe was exterminated, leaving only corpses, and no warning messages. But we cannot do that. We are the people of the great and glorious emperor, the glorious empire humans! ]

[The prince did not reveal how he was going to fight the monster. He only told us what we needed to do.]

[We need to control the population of each planet, because after the information of civilization is devoured, only corpses will be left. The number of these corpses is basically the only information that can be left.]

[After the prince left, he disappeared without a trace, and the spread of the time loss phenomenon also slowed down a lot. The prince must be fighting some unknown battle with the monster, and has achieved certain results. ]

[We also followed the prince's instructions and began to move people between star systems, leaving this information in the form of communication codes.]

[The prince said that this information should not be encrypted. The more complicated it is, the more likely it is to be swallowed.]

[After we successfully left the above information, a long time had passed, and there was still no news about the prince, and the phenomenon of time loss continued to spread. ]

[It seems that the battle is not over yet. ]

【So, we continue to migrate people and leave more information. 】

[This information is various data and historical records of the Ou Ming River System. These are proof of our existence...]

(End of this chapter)