The giant corporations that started from Night City

In addition to Sophon, Water Drop has naturally become a possession of the world's giant companies. However, the technical content of this technological creation is not very high, and the giant companies can also develop it on their own.

But something for free is better than nothing.

Next is the Trisolaran civilization’s light-speed travel engine device, their curvature engine.

Although the universe giant has already mastered the superluminal technology and can use it at any time, the Trisolaran curvature drive engine still has its own unique features.

It is more perfect than the curvature technology of giant companies.

In the "Three-Body" universe, the function of this curvature-driven spacecraft is not limited to navigation, but to change the living environment of the universe!
Curvature drive will change the structure of the universe. Only one spacecraft can pass through the same navigation trajectory. If other spacecraft want to continue to change the curvature to achieve the speed of light, they can only use more powerful curvature engines.

Otherwise, the spacecraft passing through this trajectory later will not be able to reach the speed of light and can only move at a slow speed.

It can be said that in this trajectory space, the speed of vacuum light is reduced due to changes in structure.

If we continue to use space curvature drive to reduce the speed of vacuum light in trajectory space to an incredible level, it is possible to reduce the speed of light to zero.

However, the lowest speed of light that the Three-Body Civilization can achieve is 16.7 kilometers per second. This kind of low-speed space is also called the black domain.

This is a death zone where even light cannot escape. Once light enters the black zone, its speed will immediately drop from 30 kilometers per second to 16.7 kilometers per second.

The speed went from lightning fast to as slow as a snail.

This point is more interesting to the staff of the Science Hub than light speed travel. On the surface, the black domain is a side effect of curvature drive, but in their opinion, it is the most useful kind of restriction weapon.

"What do you think the Black Domain is useful for?"

Luo Ji, who had just joined the scientific hub of a global giant enterprise, looked at Qiansihu, Otto and others curiously and asked.

"This is a more extreme technological blockade than Sophon's." Qiansi Fox responded.

The black domain will not disappear on its own in a short period of time, and we can only wait for the natural changes in the curvature of the universe to slowly repair itself. But this is like cutting down a forest and waiting for the forest to grow back intact.

Given the natural recovery time of the universe, it would take at least hundreds of millions of years.

The Earth has only been around for 45 billion years, and the Big Bang has only been happening for 138 billion years. Hundreds of millions of years of natural recovery time is enough for a civilization to go through countless rises and falls.

This almost means that the black domain formed is completely enough to lock the future of a civilization.

Hearing this, Luo Ji reacted quickly.

If the Universe Corporation uses more than a thousand curvature-driven spacecraft and accelerates them to the speed of light in different directions with the solar system as the center, the resulting trajectories will spread out and become one.

What would happen if a black area was formed that covered the entire solar system, and the speed of light in this black area was reduced to 16.7 kilometers per second?

It is obvious that for the humans trapped in this area, even daily long-distance communication will become a big problem, let alone developing civilization.

For example, radio waves, which are the basis of modern communications, have a speed of electromagnetic waves in a vacuum that is approximately equal to the speed of light in a vacuum.

If the speed of light is forcibly reduced to 16.7 kilometers per second, then there will be at least an 800-second delay when calling from Europe to America.

This makes normal communication impossible.

The entire human civilization will regress to the era before the Industrial Revolution.

What’s even more terrifying is that the speed of light in a vacuum is even lower than the third cosmic speed, which means that the black domain will tightly grasp every ray of light, making it a veritable black hole.

A civilization trapped in a black hole, unable to use any communication devices, this is an alien continent completely restricted by some kind of shackles of heaven.

"So, we can use this method to restrict the technological development of a certain civilization." Luo Ji thought thoughtfully.

With the productivity of the Universe Giant Corporation, there is certainly no problem in using a batch of curvature-driven spacecraft to do this.

If only one planet is to be blockaded, a hundred curvature ships would be more than enough, which would be even more deadly than the technological blockade of Sophon.

Hearing this, Paul suddenly remembered that the Universal Corporation was creating some fantasy continents in the Birch World, and perhaps this black domain technology could be used to blockade the world.

By using the Black Domain and Sophon as a means of blockade, it is entirely possible to create a number of low-level martial arts fantasy worlds in the Birch World, such as the alien continents such as "Joy of Life" and "Ever Night".

At this moment, Luo Ji seemed to have suddenly thought of something and said, "Could it be that there are already civilizations using this black domain technology to block the area they are in?"

"Use a method similar to a cosmic security statement to prevent advanced civilizations from attacking themselves."

Luo Ji's mind was very active and he thought of the point that Qiansihu wanted to explain one step ahead of time.

Yes, using the Black Domain to issue a statement similar to a cosmic security statement to the outside world is indeed an alternative way for low-level civilizations to beg for mercy from high-level civilizations.

To put it simply, it means destroying one's own martial arts and killing the possibility of developing one's own civilization, making the advanced civilization feel that they are not a threat, and naturally there is no need to waste time launching attacks.

Even the Black Domain itself is likely to be a way for the Dark Forest to strike, in line with the goal of reducing the speed of light in order to eliminate the threat to civilization.

"Dr. Luo Ji, you have an extremely keen insight into the laws governing the operation of this universe. Yes, this method is indeed used by many civilizations to avoid attacks from other advanced civilizations."

Qiansi Fox nodded. In the universe of "The Three-Body Problem", there is a low-light-speed civilization called the cemetery civilization. They use this method to trap themselves in the low-light-speed area and permanently give up external expansion.

The cost of self-isolation as a way to avoid blows is the loss of future possibilities.

However, this way of declaring cosmic safety is more like a commonly accepted rule and does not have any compulsory force, just like using flash to avoid being killed in a game.

If the Singer civilization is still determined to throw a piece of two-dimensional foil down to attack, these low-light-speed civilizations will still be helpless and can only sit and wait to die.

The so-called declaration of cosmic security is essentially a futile ostrich behavior. This self-castration life-saving method that is disdained by advanced civilizations is the worst choice.

Of course, it is impossible for the giant corporation to use such a ridiculous method to blockade the solar system. It will only use this method against other civilizations.

"Now we are patiently waiting for the arrival of the Dark Forest Strike from other advanced civilizations. This is a great opportunity for observation."

Qiansihu revealed the plans of the headquarters of the global giant company.

Although the Dark Forest strike has already occurred once, the 50J187X3 star system, 1 light-years away from the solar system, is too far away and the giant enterprise was unable to observe it.

This means there is no way to know the specific situation.

Therefore, it is crucial to know how the Trisolaran system, which is only 4.2 light-years away from the solar system, will be hit.

Only by understanding your opponent's background can you know what to do next.

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The singer has no name of its own. It is just a civilized cleaner who sticks to his post. He just likes to hum ballads with his vocal organs while working, so he is called the singer. It boarded a spaceship called "Seed" and left the mother world to come to the low-entropy world to perform cleaning tasks.

The task is not complicated. All you need to do is look through the coordinate data to determine which civilizations have exposed their positions in this life-and-death game of hide-and-seek, and then kindly remind them by "cleaning" them up.

My friend, you are exposed.

Hide yourself and clean up well, this is the law of survival in the universe.

It is not difficult for them to do this. When the cleaners see a burning cigarette butt on the ground, all they have to do is raise their feet to extinguish it and then throw it into the trash can.

A large amount of light particles are stored in the warehouse of the seed ship. The singer himself is not sure how many star systems have been destroyed so far, but there are relevant records in the host database of the seed.

But this task has become trivial.

Because the home world of the singer civilization is at war with a marginal civilization, both sides have invested a lot of resources in this war, and the singer's work has gradually become unpopular.

But it doesn't matter.

The Singer civilization is not the only civilization that cleans up low-entropy worlds. There are countless cleaners like it in billions of low-entropy worlds.

There is always someone doing this work, one more or one less won’t make any difference.

After all, being a cleaner is easy, and finding unextinguished cigarette butts is also simple. What the universe lacks the least is potential civilizations, and we just need to lure them to reveal their tracks.

What's more, the cleaning process does not require any resources. Just a tiny particle of light can detonate a star.

At this moment, the singer has received a coordinate system information broadcast by gravitational waves near the seed's navigation line.

It’s just a little strange that the location marked by the broadcast is actually the location of the broadcaster.

This is undoubtedly a very stupid behavior. No qualified hide-and-seek player would shout that he was hiding here after hiding.

"A civilization that is not very smart."

The singer sang softly while taking out a grain of light from the seed warehouse.

It locked its gaze on the star system indicated by the coordinates, and the main core followed the singer's line of sight, like a bow ready to be released.

The force field tentacles grasped the light particles and were about to eject them, but the singer looked at that place again and the force field tentacles relaxed.

That star system has no planets, only three stars with extremely chaotic motion patterns, forming a hellish world that is not suitable for the survival of low-entropy civilization.

"How strange, has this place been cleaned up?"

Although destroying the planet is one way to clean up, it would be somewhat time-consuming and laborious.

After all, each star is itself a huge powder keg, and its internal injuries are composed of an extremely sophisticated energy balance system. If calculated properly, just a slight disturbance can cause a series of chain reactions in the star.

Once this chain reaction spreads, it will break the local balance and produce a larger-scale explosion, which is enough to destroy the entire galaxy.

So under normal circumstances, the target of the light particles will be the star where the target is located. Directly attacking the target planet will not be able to destroy it completely in one go.

And destroying a planet also requires more material, which is a serious waste of resources.

Cleaners are not allowed, and there is no need to deliberately target a planet. The best option is to destroy the star once and for all.

Immediately, the singer carefully observed the Three-Body System, trying to find the remains of the destroyed planet. After all, no matter what form of attack was used, there would always be some traces left behind.

Even a wisp of stardust could serve as a sign of planetary destruction.

But a strange thing happened.

There are absolutely no remains of destroyed planets in this star system, as if the planets had never existed.

So the question is, where exactly are the gravitational wave signals emitted from? Logically speaking, it is impossible for civilization to be born on a star.

How come the coordinates of this signal point to a galaxy where there is no civilization or planets?

Could it be that something went wrong with the system, leading to the wrong star system?

But the Singer soon denied this speculation because it saw a curvature-driven track in this star system.

What’s strange is that the source of the curvature track is actually an empty star field, as if it appeared out of thin air.

Or in other words...

There used to be a planet in that place, but for some reason it suddenly disappeared, leaving only some curvature tracks to prove that they had been here.

"Maybe they used some technology to hide the planet."

The singer thought about it and realized that some civilizations did possess similar technologies, and it was impossible to identify the location of the other party's planet using only ordinary reconnaissance methods.

This requires the use of more advanced observation tools, which happen to be available on the seed spacecraft.

However, just as the singer was about to activate an observation prop called Big Eyes, the elder of the mother world appeared and stopped him, saying that ordinary cleaners were not qualified to use this tool.

"What are you going to do? You don't have time to use your big eyes right now."

The singer elder said coldly.

The Big Eye is an observation device based on four-dimensional technology that can observe regardless of distance, but the cost of using it once is relatively high.

In a period when the Singer Civilization is tightening its belt to prepare for war, any unnecessary expenses must be strictly controlled.

"There's a very strange low-entropy civilization. I want to take a closer look at them." The singer answered truthfully.

"You only need to take a look from a distance to determine whether there are traces of civilization. Even if you are not sure, it is not expensive to use a light particle."

The elder was dissatisfied with this younger generation who was a little too curious. The cost of using the big eyes once was equivalent to that of ten cleaners.

It is not qualified to use such a good observation prop.

Seeing the elder's firm attitude, the singer did not make any further requests.

Cleaners are the most common and ordinary technical workers on seed spaceships, and are always looked down upon and disdained.

The singer was just an ordinary member of the spaceship and had no right to talk back to the elders, so he had to directly clean up the Three-Body System. Any traces of civilization that were left must be eliminated.

Then, the singer took out the light particle from the seed warehouse again and prepared to throw it at one of the stars in the Trisolaran Galaxy. (End of this chapter)