The giant corporations that started from Night City

Once the three-dimensional world begins to fall into the two-dimensional world, it will never stop. Just like water falling from a height, higher dimensions will continue to slide into lower dimensions.

This dimensionality reduction attack will not stop temporarily until the entire universe changes from three-dimensional to two-dimensional.

The speed of dimensional fall is the speed of light, which means that the two-dimensional fall caused by the two-dimensional foil will continue to extend from the Three-Body Galaxy to the surrounding areas.

One day the dimensionality reduction attack will reach the solar system.

The solar system is only 4.2 light-years away from the Trisolaran system. At the current expansion rate of the Two-Dimensional Foil, it will reach the solar system in four years, and humans will suffer the same tragedy as the Trisolarans.

It is only a matter of time before this two-dimensional foil destroys both the Trisolaran Galaxy and the Solar System.

As the two-dimensionalization of the Three-Body Galaxy gradually came to an end, the second and third stars also sank into the two-dimensional plane one after another.

At this point, the Three-Body Galaxy has become a giant screen with zero thickness, and a permanently frozen picture of the starry sky is born.

The two-dimensionalized star gradually dimmed, and the light in the core area also dropped sharply, and soon only the ring structure could be seen.

The radiation area is also getting dimmer and dimmer. The light and heat that have been surging and boiling for billions of years have fallen into a dead silence and become a viscous wriggling state. The ring in the convection zone is also gradually deforming and collapsing until it disappears completely.

The outermost circle of golden gas around the star became a withered leaf, forever losing its vitality.

The only thing that is certain is that gravity still exists in the two-dimensional world.

After losing the support of radiation, those solar prominences flying in space are slowly pulled back by the gravity of the stars.

Everything in the three-dimensional world will perish after falling into two dimensions. No three-dimensional creature can survive in a drawing board with zero thickness.

Of course, there are stars, planets, and life forms in the two-dimensional universe, but they must operate using a completely new mechanism and mode.

It’s a pity that such a scene cannot be seen by human eyes.

The senior executives at the War Moon headquarters fell into deep thought.

This was the first time that mankind had witnessed the attack methods of an advanced civilization, a killing method that was no less powerful than many law-level weapons of the world's giants.

The giant corporations in the universe also control a number of law-level weapons that can destroy the world, such as the Big Rip and vacuum decay, which can also achieve similar dimensionality reduction effects.

However, the technological weapons of the giant enterprises are too explosive, leaving almost no room for recovery, while the two-dimensional foil can at least preserve the existence of the two-dimensional world.

As long as those civilizations can transform themselves into two-dimensional ones in advance, they can avoid this world-destroying disaster.

There is not much time left for the Universal Corporation. In four years, the solar system will be forced to be two-dimensionalized along with the Three-Body System. If the integration operation cannot be completed, I am afraid that only the ether phase engine can be used.

"We can't stay here any longer. We must return to the main universe immediately. Let's hand it over to the Science Hub and use the Ether Phase Engine to evacuate everything here."

Song Zhaomei said firmly that she had an intuition that kept telling her that a devastating disaster for the entire universe was approaching quickly.

The longer they stay here, the greater the trouble they will face, and by then it may be too late to retreat.

The cosmic giant enterprise still has a chance to leave the Three-Body Universe. With the Sophon Project and the water droplets, as well as the Three-Body Civilization with maximum evolutionary potential, the giant enterprise can still complete the integration in other universes.

There's no need to dwell on this.

But Morgan Blackhand questioned: "So should the integration mission still be completed? Even if the two-dimensionalization is irreversible, there must be ways to delay and hinder this process."

Morgan Blackhand doesn't want to give up any universe easily, not to mention that the big fish in this universe has not appeared yet. Wouldn't it be better if he could win over the god-level civilization behind the scenes?

However, Song Zhaomei simply did not believe that those god-level civilizations would really be willing to cooperate with the world's giant companies.

Because the underlying tone of this universe is endless suspicion, it is the cosmic version of the candle shadow and the axe sound. The giant companies of the universe extend a helping hand, but what awaits them may very well be a butcher's knife.

You know, the wealth accumulated by these god-level civilizations is not necessarily worse than that of the world's giant companies.

"We don't need these friends who can't be controlled. Now that we have the Trisolarans, the life and death of other civilizations has nothing to do with us."

Song Zhaomei argued with reason.

The cosmic corporation has integrated too many universes. It is unrealistic to rule every universe perfectly. They always need to make some trade-offs.

With only four years, it was simply not enough time to contact the Nullifier civilization again. The universe was huge, but there was no suitable superluminal channel.

It is extremely difficult to unite so many civilizations in such a short period of time, unify their thoughts, and join the global giant enterprise. If you fail to do so, you will be inviting a wolf into the house.

The reason why the world's giant companies have been able to grow to this day and remain standing is that they are sufficiently cautious. Why would they affect their basic foundation for such a small benefit?

"I also agree to leave the Trisolaran Universe. We can easily control the Trisolarans, but we can't control other civilizations."

At this time, Lucius also stood up and agreed with Song Zhaomei's proposal. They had been away from the main universe for five or six years.

Without sufficient logistical support, it would be impossible to deal with so many civilizations and win a quick victory.

The best option left for them is to use the etheric engine to empty the universe as soon as possible and blow up all the monsters.

The world's giant corporation does not need so many god-level civilization allies.

What's more, the governor of the giant enterprise, Leon, has been away from the main universe for so long. Although there are still Xeelee night fighters that can communicate with the main universe, the king must return to his throne after all.

There will never be a power vacuum, and who can guarantee that the emperor will always perform his duties conscientiously for the world's giant corporations?

"A mere two-dimensional foil can scare you like this. If you encounter any regular-level weapons in the future, will you give up the integration mission like you did today?"

Jack Wells stood up and responded bluntly, saying that he had always been a representative of the radical faction among the top leaders and had remained standing thanks to his outstanding military achievements.

For a moment, the two factions were arguing, and only the staff of the Science Hub, led by Ott Cunningham, remained silent, waiting for Leon's voice.

Civil officials and military generals each have their own factions, but the scientific hub directly under the jurisdiction of Li Ang has never taken sides or spoken out, only following Li Ang's instructions.

While everyone was arguing, Li Ang was still standing alone in front of the center console, silently watching the real-time images that had turned into a straight line.

He ignored the staff below him and focused on observing the details of the straight lines.

Some straight lines were complete, while others were intermittent or had one or two small gaps, which seemed to follow some unexplainable pattern. "Is Sophon No. 1 still there?" Li Ang asked.

[It's still there, but it's difficult for it to escape from the two-dimensional state. The two-dimensional foil is always chasing it.] AI Europa responded.

The expansion speed of the two-dimensional foil is the speed of light. In the absence of a dark matter wormhole as an escape route, the sophon can only maintain a relative distance from the two-dimensionalization that is constantly falling behind it.

Since it is impossible to truly reach the escape velocity, the sophon can only remain on the edge of the three-dimensional universe falling into two dimensions.

Just like a person running on a treadmill, the movable distance is always offset by the flow of space.

However, Sophon's movement speed is not always constant. It always makes some adjustments to slow down, which means that sooner or later it will be swallowed by the two-dimensional foil behind it.

Seeing this, Li Ang immediately ordered Zhizi to stop moving and unfold in two dimensions on the spot.

The next second, upon receiving the command, the sophon instantly unfolded into a huge mirror. This was a geometric plane without thickness, on which were etched a large number of microscopic integrated circuits by Three-Body engineers, emitting bursts of faint light.

When the two-dimensional unfolding of the sophon was completed, the space where it was located also fell into two dimensions, becoming a giant screen with zero thickness, just like the two-dimensional Three-Body Galaxy.

Surprisingly, after falling into the second dimension, Sophon was still able to send and receive signals normally.

This made the executives of the giant companies who were arguing look here and focus their attention back on the holographic screen.

This made Li Ang suddenly understand why the Trisolarans were able to survive until the end. The sophon itself can unfold in two dimensions and can obtain information in the two-dimensional world earlier than other three-dimensional civilizations.

Such an exaggerated information gap has also made it possible for the Three-Body Civilization to always foresee things and deploy various perfect strategies in advance.

"Tomoko...is not dead."

Ott Cunningham and others were stunned at first, but soon understood the reason. No wonder Leon asked the sophon to be unfolded in two dimensions. They didn't expect that the real use of this thing was here.

"The Trisolarans really bet on the right horse."

Dr. Halsey couldn't help but exclaim.

While other civilizations were busy building giant ships and cannons, the Trisolarans used their most limited resources to invest in technology that best suited their version of the game.

No wonder they have the last laugh.

The characteristics of Sophon also revealed a basic point to the executives of giant companies, the true face of two-dimensional civilization.

"They are circuits, or some kind of collective data body. What the Singer civilization is doing is to transform itself into a data body to adapt to the two-dimensional world after the dimensionality reduction attack."

Li Ang has been able to guess the true nature of the singer's civilization.

In essence, the sophon is a large-scale etched circuit life form that has been unfolded in two dimensions, and the Singer civilization has transformed itself in this way so that it can still think and communicate in the two-dimensional world.

Even moving by extending the etched circuit.

At this moment, Li Ang looked at the images sent back by the AI ​​drone again. Those seemingly unchanging lines seemed to be endowed with a special meaning.

"They were not killed by the two-dimensional foil, but were reduced to integrated circuit boards. The AI ​​drones are still running, but in the two-dimensional world, the signals they can send are these lines of varying lengths."

Otto Cunningham suddenly realized that following this line of thought, the true face of the singer civilization would not be difficult to guess.

"They transformed themselves into two-dimensional forms in advance, transforming themselves into low-dimensional life forms."

Ott concluded that this is just like Amon in the "StarCraft" universe, as a high-dimensional creature, if he wants to be born in three-dimensional space, he needs to use the essence of Zerg and Protoss in advance to create a suitable body.

This is just like the fact that Satan in the Bible needed the body of a devil child to be born. All these seemingly bizarre myths and legends themselves contain strong science fiction metaphors.

Higher-dimensional creatures cannot exist directly in the low-dimensional world, so they need to change themselves.

When the entire civilization enters the low-dimensional world, the Singer civilization will be able to launch dimensionality reduction attacks on hostile forces without restraint, without any worries.

Doing this is more effective than simply defending against dimensionality reduction attacks.

Although reducing one's own dimensionality will inevitably require making many trade-offs and starting a new journey, there is always hope as long as one can survive.

It's much better than those civilizations that died from dimensionality reduction attacks.

The universe is huge, but its two-dimensionalization will not stop. One day, the three-dimensional world will be surrounded and devoured by the two-dimensionalization. By then, the surviving winners will be the civilizations that entered the two-dimensional world in advance.

"So the enemy we are facing now is a two-dimensional civilization. At least they are making the leap towards two-dimensionalization as a whole."

V thought thoughtfully, if the Singer civilization was a two-dimensional civilization, it would not be that difficult to deal with.

The technological weapons of two-dimensional civilization have extremely limited effects in the three-dimensional world, especially since there is a layer of shackles between the two dimensions, and it is not easy to attack each other.

What's more, at this stage, the Singer civilization has invested a lot of resources in its own dimensionality reduction transformation. Speaking of the combat capabilities in three-dimensional space, apart from a two-dimensional foil and light particles, they may not be very powerful in other aspects.

Maybe the combat level of their warships is not even comparable to that of the Trisolarans.

"Yes, in most cases the truth is often counterintuitive. Advanced civilizations may not necessarily be able to completely crush ordinary civilizations."

"The resources of this universe are constant. It is impossible for the Singer civilization to have unlimited resources to invest in both the two-dimensional and three-dimensional fields at the same time. At present, their cost consumption in the three-dimensional world will inevitably be controlled to the extreme state."

"After all, everything in the three-dimensional world is doomed to perish."

Li Ang's analysis was still so insightful that it allowed everyone to understand the true nature of the Singer civilization. In this case, this civilization, which spared no expense to transform itself into a data body, was actually strong on the outside but weak on the inside.

"Does this mean that we can try to capture that spaceship and arrest the singer on it for questioning?"

Jack Wells was eager to try, and he wanted to lead his troops to rush over immediately and capture the culprit who dropped the two-dimensional foil.

"In theory, yes, but exactly how that happens is still up for debate."

Song Zhaomei poured cold water on everyone, saying that the Singer civilization had only invested a large amount of resources into the two-dimensional field, and had not completely abandoned the three-dimensional world.

A lean camel is bigger than a horse, and it doesn’t necessarily mean that they are bad at fighting in the three-dimensional world. (End of this chapter)