The giant corporations that started from Night City

Earth, Nanga Parbat, the Garden of Eden.

This large manor surrounded by snow-capped mountains, lakes and forests was once the place where the Wallfacer Luo Ji attained enlightenment in Longchang, but now it has been bought by Yun Tianming.

In the front garden of the manor, three people sat face to face, drinking and chatting.

"Yun Tianming, there are several asteroids on the DX3906 star that you gave her that are undergoing vacuum decay. Is this the most romantic time bomb?"

Guan Yifan looked at the other party with a smile and talked about the interesting information he had recorded in his navigation log.

That star was a gift from Yun Tianming to Cheng Xin. During the long voyage, Guan Yifan would occasionally pay attention to the state of this star. Unexpectedly, he actually saw something interesting.

"I used to think that stars were more eternal than human civilization, but now it seems that they are not. People will disappear, and stars will disappear too. Only death is the eternal destination."

Yun Tianming forced a bitter smile on his pale face. He was seriously ill and was dying.

Like his secret admirer Cheng Xin, he graduated from the University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. However, unlike Cheng Xin who joined Fleet International upon graduation, the introverted Yun Tianming stayed in the laboratory.

Perhaps it was the blessing of the God of Destiny that allowed Yun Tianming to develop a new technology in the aviation field before he fell seriously ill. Relying on this technology patent, he achieved financial freedom at the age of 30.

After having money, the self-deprecating and lonely Yun Tianming finally had some courage to enter Cheng Xin's sight.

Buying stars for Cheng Xin was a stupid thing he did three years ago.

"Don't worry. You'll be fine."

Cheng Xin's eyes revealed concern and a little sadness. She knew that Yun Tianming liked her, but at the moment she was not interested in caring about her lifelong affairs.

As early as the day she graduated from university, Cheng Xin had already determined to make her own contribution to human civilization in this life.

For this, she can sacrifice everything she has, including her insignificant personal feelings.

Regardless of whether the Three-Body Crisis has been resolved, she will not change this ambition.

Yun Tianming still forced a smile out of habit. He knew that his feelings were destined to be a one-way ticket that would not be reciprocated, but it didn't matter. As long as they could be seen, it was enough.

Just like the star he bought, Yun Tianming had never seen it up close. He only looked at it from a distance with the help of a telescope, but this was enough.

Now he just wants to do something he didn't have the courage to do when he was a student before his life comes to an end.

For example, sending stars to express his deep love for Miss Cheng Xin to people all over the world.

For example, he bought this luxurious manor and invited Cheng Xin to drink and chat. In order to avoid embarrassment to Cheng Xin, Yun Tianming allowed her to bring along one of his colleagues, Guan Yifan.

At this time, Yun Tianming looked at Guan Yifan who was admiring the lake and asked, "You followed General Lin Yun to participate in the Doomsday Battle. Have you seen the Trisolarans? What kind of creatures are they?"

For some reason, Yun Tianming always felt that he would come into contact with the Trisolarans one day. Unfortunately, until his death, he had not been able to meet this strange civilized species.

"Just like what was reported in the news, they have smooth mirrored faces. Talking to them face to face is like talking to yourself. They have no facial features and you can't see their expressions, but it's easy to know what they're thinking."

"After all, the brain structures of Trisolarans and humans are different. We are always good at hiding secrets and our inner thoughts."

Guan Yifan always maintains a calm smile. The boring observation and recording day after day during the long voyage requires sufficient patience and concentration.

And he did a great job.

"Yeah, because our brains are different."

Yun Tianming suddenly smiled. He suddenly felt a little envious of the Trisolarans. If he could swap his brain with that of the Trisolarans, perhaps he would have made Cheng Xin understand his feelings long ago.

I will no longer be like I am now, daring to be a warrior only when I am about to die.

"I have secured a job opportunity at the Universal Corporation. I can go to Ideal City, which is another universe. I will take you there to get treatment."

"The medical technology in that world is very advanced. Even souls can be healed. You will be fine."

Cheng Xin stared into Yun Tianming's eyes and made a solemn promise. She has always been brave and never afraid to look people in the eye. She always looks into the other person's eyes when speaking.

Yun Tianming is her classmate. Whether it is because he gave her a star or because of their friendship, she will do her best to help him survive.

The opportunity to work in Ideal City is extremely rare, and it is impossible for unqualified people to go there.

She heard that the Earth and Trisolaran would be moved to another universe by the cosmic giant corporation, but she was not sure whether it would be the ideal city in the main universe.

The Universal Corporation has many universes, and the qualification to go to the ideal city of the main universe means that one will have a lot of privileges.

"What a romantic promise! If I have a ticket, will you go with me? If you have an extra ticket, will you take me with you?"

Guan Yifan recited the lines from the movie "In the Mood for Love", which made Yun Tianming's ears turn red. After a brief burst of rapid breathing, Yun Tianming looked at Cheng Xin in silence.

It can be regarded as a response to the other party's invitation.

Rumble——! !

The planetary engine has begun to warm up, and in seventy-two hours the Earth will move away from the home it has lived in for nearly five billion years.

However, the earth will not wander, but go to another heaven.

……

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Main universe, ideal city.

The first thing Leon did when he returned to Ideal City was to listen to the work report made by the Emperor.

Just as he expected, in the third year after he left Ideal City, premeditated rebellions occurred in some universes.

This is of course inevitable.

Fortunately, with the emperor personally in charge of the rebellion, the rebellions were quickly suppressed, and the arrested instigators were escorted to the Ideal City, ready to be dealt with by Leon at any time.

And Le Ang also needed some blood to wipe the sword of power that had been covered in dust for several years. These alien races who attempted to challenge human civilization and shake the authority of the world's giant companies naturally became props for sacrifice.

"Nios, you did a great job. I called you here today just so you can see an art show."

Leon brought the Emperor to the headquarters of the Wanjie Base, facing a screen presented by Xeelee night fighters.

The emperor was a little surprised. He heard that the integration operation had not been successful, but Leon looked quite happy and was not at all discouraged by the failure of the integration.

What's going on here.

Even though he was very curious about this question, the emperor did not ask much. Since Leon did not choose to integrate the "Three-Body" universe, he must have his own considerations.

Why should he worry about this? He should just take care of his own business.

Immediately, Leon ordered the top executives of the giant company to take their positions one by one, and broadcast the screen image of the Xeelee night fighter to all the universes.

This is the first time that a giant company in the world has publicly unveiled the Ether Engine, and the scene of draining the universe is also the first time in history.

To achieve this kind of cross-universe observation, AI drones or sophons alone are no longer enough. Therefore, only some Xeelee night fighters can be sacrificed for observation, so that all of humanity and the entire world's civilization can witness the grand spectacle of the empty Three-Body Universe.

"start."

Following Leon's order, the three-second countdown passed in a flash, and the ether phase engine started quickly.

Luo Ji, who was observing this scene, saw for the first time a crack in the curtain of the universe. An indescribable bluish-purple light overflowed from the gap, like the roar of countless supernovas exploding.

At this moment, only by combining all the senses can we understand as much as possible the scene of emptying the universe.

"Oh God……"

The Trisolarans watched as the stars burned upward against the force of gravity, each cluster of fire spanning the galaxy blooming and interweaving into an Ouroboros-shaped Klein bottle pattern.

This was the first time in human beings and also the first time in the Trisolarans’ lives that they had seen the physical manifestation of a closed string structure.

Those Calabi-Yau manifolds that should have curled up at the Planck length are dismembering the real world with the brilliance of supersymmetry breaking.

The Orion spiral arm was the first to be dissolved into a vast rainbow waterfall. The hydrogen nuclear fusion flames of 70 billion stars were twisted into a ring by gravity and fell into the broken dimensional gap.

Guan Yifan, who was far away on Earth, seemed to see the mathematical topological structure of the Riemann surface that he had drawn when he was in college, from the pen of an old professor from Cambridge.

Now these equations in memory are taking shape and swallowing up the matter of the Andromeda Galaxy. The galaxy with a diameter of 22 light years is compressed into a speck of dust on the cross section of a Möbius ring.

The Xeelee night fighter was running very fast, and the perspective was constantly stretching backwards, trying its best to take in all the changes in the Three-Body Universe.

Soon, the entire Virgo Supercluster began to bleed.

Countless galaxies were like blood gushing out of broken blood vessels, matter was annihilating, shrinking and condensing, and then being disrupted. The supermassive black hole turned into a cluster of open Penrose triangles when it penetrated the remaining four-dimensional space.

The entire Milky Way was thrown into chaos in the blink of an eye.

As the Laniakea supercluster was completely vaporized, vacuum fluctuations set off waves that transcended space and time.

Gamma rays from the death throes of the Milky Way's spiral arm collide violently on the timeline with the microwave background radiation left over from the Big Bang 170 billion years ago.

The projections of countless possible universes overlap on the disappearing starry sky curtain, and the solar system of the parallel world is flattened at the South Pole of the Riemann sphere.

The continental plates of the earth flow out the patterns of a Möbius strip on the complex plane. At this moment, individual human beings seem so small, even more humble than a speck of dust.

Kings, princes, generals and ministers are not worth mentioning; they are not even worthy of showing a single frame of the picture.

At the last moment, all the collapsed galaxy remnants arranged themselves into a huge piano key in the eleven-dimensional space. From Hercules to the Sloan Great Wall, the 830 billion light-year space-time continuum collapsed successively along the Bekenstein upper limit curve.

This is the Ether Phase Engine playing a requiem for the Three-Body Universe.

When the silence of absolute zero engulfs everything, a pure black rainbow light blooms at the singularity. That is the state when all possibilities return to zero. It is the new life that the civilization of zeroers has always dreamed of.

The Xeelee night fighter had been devoured half an hour ago. The ether phase engine had emptied all matter from the Three-Body Universe, and even the small universes hidden in the dimensional gaps were all pulled out.

It was unknown how much time had passed before Li Ang had the star gate opened. He saw that the Three-Body Universe had turned into an endless void with nothing left.

There is only a black door.

It is called a door, but it also looks a bit like a square monument. After scanning and investigation by an AI drone, it was found that the length ratio of the three sides of the door is exactly 1:4:9. No matter how you measure it, the ratio is extremely accurate.

There is no error and its accuracy has reached the level of elementary particles.

The staff of the Science Hub made their first guess.

"The length, width and height ratio of this black door is 1:2:3. This has natural symmetry and mathematical purity in geometry, like some kind of god's absolute control over the truth."

"Just like the imperial seal and axe of the Chinese emperor, these symbols of authority."

Ott Cunningham said thoughtfully that she had already released a group of AI drones close to the door.

It’s a pity that they can’t get in. They have no idea what’s inside, nor do they know whether the door can be opened.

"Nietzsche once proposed that the three stages of human evolution are apes, humans, and supermen. The proportions of this gate correspond to the transition between the three stages."

Luo Ji, who has always loved reading philosophy books, pointed out that from primitive humans to humans and the interstellar era, every change marks a turning point in civilization.

The long journey of the Universal Corporation from the Cyber ​​Corporation, a native of the Earth, to the God-level civilization has obviously come to an end. The door may just be a symbol.

Just to remind them that the end of development is a door that cannot be opened.

The appearance of Black Gate caused a great uproar in the world of the Universal Corporation. Many people were deeply disappointed. They thought that after draining this universe, they would be able to enter a brighter era of heaven.

But in the end, there was nothing...

"It seems that the Ether Phase Engine Project has completely failed. We have gained nothing, and have not revealed the ultimate truth. All that is left is a fucking broken door."

Qiansihu smiled bitterly and cursed, saying that they had spent countless thoughts and energy on this megastructure project, and that two universes alone had been blown up.

From building the model to completing the megastructure, the funds burned were enough to support the giant corporation to launch ten operations to integrate the universe.

"Isn't this good? I was afraid that if I blew up the universe, some random monsters would appear. It's good enough that there is nothing."

Jack Wells smiled innocently. He was always a little afraid of these advanced things. Unknown things were frightening, but curiosity pulled him to look in the unknown direction.

Having nothing is already good luck.

"The success rate of the Ether Phase Engine is only 30%. It is normal for it to fail. Everyone has worked so hard for so long, it's time to take a good rest."

V now just wants to relax for a while and enjoy life. After working overtime for so many years, it’s time for him to indulge himself.

As soon as the words fell, everyone looked at Li Ang, the governor of the giant company.

Li Ang did not make any new important instructions, but just asked people to put the matter on hold for the time being and prepare to deal with it coldly.

Everyone will have a three-year holiday until the next Operation All Heavens begins.

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone present cheered, and soon only a few permanent guards and Li Ang were left in the huge Wanjie Base.

Half a year passed in the blink of an eye.

During this period of time, Leon has been looking through the previous integrated data of the universe, reviewing and replaying all past actions.

Finally, in the dead of night, he opened the star gate alone and boarded a shuttle to enter the Three-Body Universe. The black door slowly opened, as if it was waiting for him.

It turned out that no one except him could enter this door.

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...(End of chapter)