Those who face the wall, but are in the Nascent Soul stage.

Chapter 263 Who Will Save Me?

Compared to the first spiral arm, the second spiral arm experienced a fierce battle to defend the Milky Way, and the number of stars remaining in this region is extremely small.

The remaining star systems recently experienced another cosmic "flash of light," causing many stars to enter a state of helium flash or supernova explosion and be destroyed.

This "thought wave" in the universe started in the neighboring Andromeda constellation. The Milky Way is just a stepping stone for it. The universe's thought started from the sixth spiral arm, has already crossed the second spiral arm, and is spreading towards the first spiral arm.

This round of "thought" will most likely leap out from the end of the first spiral arm, emitting "neurotransmitters" composed of gravitational waves, and fly towards the next galaxy cluster, acting on the "neurons" in other galaxies to carry out this round of thought that could not be completed.

As for what the universe is actually "thinking," no intelligent life knows. Fortunately, this round of thinking only swept across the edge of the Milky Way and had little impact on the core territory of the carbon-based federation.

In short, due to various natural and unnatural factors, the central region of the second spiral arm is no longer suitable for the development of low-tech civilizations.

Besides the two-dimensional universe regions, low-light-speed fog regions, and supernova remnants caused by war, most of the remaining stars are in the state of red giants after helium flashes, or even white dwarfs.

Therefore, finding a healthy, sufficiently massive giant star in this region is extremely difficult.

To protect the few remaining healthy star systems in this region as much as possible and minimize the impact from other star systems, these million interstellar warships are all conducting stellar leapfrogging around this supermassive star.

This star is large, without any other planets, only a stellar cloud formed from interstellar dust. It is an isolated stellar system, and in its prime, it is the best 'springboard', practically born to serve the fleet.

As a thousand microcosms opened—the black squares that E Qing saw were the 'doors' through which the microcosms opened—a million interstellar warships sailed out one after another, forming a well-organized hyperspace formation.

This high-density array can maximize the efficiency of stellar leapfrogging. After all these preparations were completed, the fleet leapfrogging operation began.

Space jumps via a single star are inherently inefficient, and this round of leaps will last for 5 time particles (approximately 20 years).
When we reach the second stellar leap zone, there will be a large number of mature stars, and the leap speed will be greatly accelerated.

Starfleet's leapfrog operation will last for 20 years.

The distance between the evil Qing and the fleet is... 15 light-years.

As the enemy saw the fleet just beginning its stellar leap through their line of sight, the enemy also detected them at a distance through quantum monitors spread across a radius of 100 light-years.

E Qing suddenly felt a jolt in his senses, a vague sense of foreboding.

The Galactic Carbon-Based Federation interstellar fleet has now completed 75% of its stellar leaps, and the remaining fleet happens to have the interstellar fleet's supreme commander in command.

The supreme commander was currently contemplating the long-range image of the evil Qing.

In fact, the carbon-based Federation fleet had already detected the small-mass four-dimensional space fragment the moment it fell into the vicinity and completed a scan of the fragment.

After confirming that the four-dimensional fragment had fallen there accidentally rather than being a 'Trojan horse' plot by the silicon-based empire, the carbon-based federation fleet was relieved.

As for the 'Lord of the Rings' civilization graveyard within the four-dimensional fragments, it was completely ignored by the Supreme Commander. He had seen far too many similar four-dimensional civilization ruins. In fact, one of the main constituent civilizations of the Carbon-Based Federation was itself a victor in the previous universe's dimensional reduction war, a member of the four-dimensional universe's life form. Naturally, he had no curiosity about this loser surviving in the fragments.

However, the life form that flew out from the warped point of that four-dimensional fragment aroused the Supreme Commander's interest.

As if realizing that he had been discovered by the other party through long-range observation, E Qing turned around and ran away without hesitation!
It instantly accelerates from 0 speed to 0.1c speed.

Upon seeing this, the supreme commander's eyes lit up.

What life form can accelerate instantly to 0.1c without any form of energy fluctuation being detected?

The relative distance between the two is extremely vast; 15 light-years is 141.9 trillion kilometers. To communicate with that life form across 15 light-years, the Supreme Commander directly ordered the nearby quantum detector to make a medium-scale communication call.

The middle membrane, also known as the primordial membrane, is essentially an electromagnetic wave communication system. It has weak penetrating power, is easily interfered with by cosmic microwave background radiation, and is prone to blurring and distortion. For interstellar civilizations, primordial membrane communication often signifies weakness and the expression of goodwill. The Supreme Commander hopes the other party will receive its goodwill.

(Note: The original text describes four communication methods based on fundamental forces: long branes, medium branes, short branes, and light branes. These correspond to the four fundamental forces: long branes correspond to gravity, medium/primitive branes correspond to electromagnetism, light branes correspond to the weak force (neutrinos), and short branes correspond to the strong force. Information is transmitted using the strong interaction.)
But the problem is... Evil Qing has neither the ability to receive electromagnetic waves nor the ability to analyze electromagnetic waves, so how can it receive goodwill from the other party?
From E Qing's perspective, he felt his hair stand on end, as if he had been caught in a static electric field, a sensation that intensified his fear.

Oh no, we've been locked down by a powerful being!
In a panic, Evil Qing broke through its limits, reaching 11% of the speed of light, and continued its escape. The Supreme Commander, seeing this, fell into deep thought.

Is the other party trying to 'run away'?
The supreme commander ordered the command ship to draw an eight-dimensional line.

The speed of light in a vacuum in three-dimensional space is 30 km/s.
The speed of light in four-dimensional space is 10 times that in three-dimensional space, at 300 million km per second.

(Note: Since the original work's description of the speed of light in higher dimensions is limited to the fact that the speed of light in four-dimensional space is 10 times that in three-dimensional space, the following settings are a private addition to this book.)
The speed of light in five-dimensional space increases exponentially, reaching a hundred times that of light in four-dimensional space, approximately 30000 million km/s. At this speed, traversing the Kuiper Belt would only take 0.1 seconds.

The speed of light in a six-dimensional vacuum continues to increase exponentially, reaching a thousand times the speed of light in five-dimensional space, approximately 3000 billion km per second. At this speed, it would only take 13 seconds to travel from the solar system to the Trisolaran system.

The speed of light in a vacuum in seven-dimensional space is ten thousand times that in six-dimensional space, or 3000 trillion km per second.

At the speed of light in seven-dimensional space, a distance of 15 light-years can be reached in about 0.047 seconds, almost an instant. Even traversing the entire Milky Way would only take 5 minutes.

The supreme commander drew out a thin line composed of eight dimensions.

The speed of light in eight-dimensional space is 100,000 times that in seven-dimensional space, which is 300 trillion trillion km per second. At this terrifying speed, it would only take about 0.3‰ of a second to cross the Milky Way (100,000 light-years in diameter).

Therefore, the eight-dimensional space line is the main communication method of the carbon-based federation within the Milky Way. Under this communication method, ultra-low latency communication of less than 3‰ of a second can be achieved within the Milky Way. The eight-dimensional line is the communication method most commonly used by the supreme commander.

Although this method of information communication is far more efficient than the super effect of quantum entanglement, it consumes an enormous amount of energy. It requires the quantum tides existing in the vacuum to collapse into a state of existence, forming specific particles, and then expanding this string of basic particles into an eight-dimensional space state.

Therefore, this communication technology is not recommended for use by low-tech civilizations. Low-tech civilizations should simply use quantum communication to cleverly facilitate long-distance communication.

As for the speed of light in nine-dimensional space, it is one million times that in eight-dimensional space. This speed can only be expressed using scientific notation, approximately 3 × 10⁻⁶ km/s × 1000000 = 3 × 10⁻⁶ km/s. This speed would only take 20% of a second to cross the KBC void, which has a diameter of 6.3 billion light-years, and only 3 seconds to traverse the observable universe (930 billion light-years).

As for the speed of light in ten-dimensional space and eleven-dimensional space, they are no longer of practical significance, as they are almost equivalent to arriving in an instant. However, we can still give a set of numbers here: the speed of light in ten-dimensional space is ten million times that in nine-dimensional space, that is, 3 × 10 km/s × 10000000 = 3 × 10 km/s.

The speed of light in eleven-dimensional space is one hundred million times that in ten-dimensional space, which is 3 × 10 km/s × 10 = 3 × 10 km/s. This number is already too huge. Therefore, if we convert the distance unit to light-year and the time unit to femtosecond, the speed of light in eleven-dimensional space is approximately 11 million times that in ten-dimensional space, which is also a very large number.

The speed of light in an 11-dimensional universe is approximately 3170 billion light-years per femtosecond.

If you still can't understand this concept, you can simply consider the speed of light in eleven-dimensional space as approximately 0.162 meters per Planck time.

That is, a photon travels 162 millimeters in every Planck time, which means that the energy density of the eleven-dimensional universe is extremely high, far exceeding that of black holes in the three-dimensional universe, and approaching the singularity.

This also confirms a key piece of information Luo Qing obtained from the Risk Remover's sensors: in the 11-dimensional idyllic universe era, the speed of light is nearly infinite. This conclusion does indeed fit the 'nearly infinite' conclusion; starting from the ten-dimensional cosmic speed, the speed of light in higher dimensions can almost instantly reach any corner of the universe.

Unfortunately, the speed of light in higher dimensions is only nearly infinite, not truly infinite, which limits the universe's energy to a finite rather than infinite level.

In short, it seems that the Supreme Commander, in order to express the importance attached to this life form drifting in the depths of the universe, directly used the eight-dimensional line to communicate.

After the eight-dimensional line extended to E Qing, a thought wave with a distinctly questioning tone was transmitted from the eight-dimensional line. The Supreme Commander's thought wave instantly poured onto E Qing, thoroughly soaking him inside and out.

Supreme Commander: [Huh?]

The voice appeared in E Qing's mind. Without any language translation, after the thought waves analyzed E Qing's brain structure, the Supreme Commander had already learned what could be called the primitive language and writing of humans.

Supreme Commander: [Who are you, and what are you doing?]

E Qing was terrified. He covered his ears as if he couldn't hear anything and continued to race towards the first spiral arm on his sword. His speed broke through again, reaching 12% of the speed of light!
Save me, my original self, save me, Emperor Shun, save me, Confucian sage, save me, Taoist ancestor, white emperor (crossed out) Bai Hongtu, save me, ancestral commander Liu, anyone will do, just save me.

Eqing regretted it, Eqing really regretted it. He had truly realized the wickedness of this universe. Compared to everything he had suffered in these short few months, Shanqing's experience was nothing.

This universe is terrifying!
And now, this great terror is relentlessly pursuing him.

(End of this chapter)