A Colossus rushes in at the start

Chapter 159 This civilization has run out of luck

The Mosuridi civilization, an ordinary planetary civilization in the Vorsotis system, has been venturing beyond its own planet for some time.

Although it wasn't manned spaceflight, the probes and satellites, just like humans, were successfully launched into space.

This also allowed them to glimpse a corner of the true face of the universe and develop many emerging technologies. It is a civilization full of infinite possibilities for the future.

Of these technologies, computer and semiconductor technologies are the most popular.

The rise of the Internet led to a huge market for computers and semiconductors in the entire Mosuridi civilization, causing the entire civilization's research and development to shift towards the field of computers.

This led to a series of technological innovations, such as touch technology and electronic camera technology, which were developed accordingly.

Money makes the world go round; the more money you make developing these technologies, the more diligent the research and development departments become in developing them.

However, the people of the Mosuridi civilization recently discovered that an incredible change is taking place in the universe.

This incredible change occurs at the microscopic level.

Initially, 6nm chips lost their original functionality, followed by 7nm, 8nm, and 9nm chips, which successively lost their original functionality.

This forced the entire civilization to adopt outdated 10nm chips, which had already been phased out by the market.

Those electronic products and old-fashioned machines that had been phased out by various host users have reappeared in people's sight.

About six months later, two simply dressed Mosuridi men, who could be compared to homeless people, walked along the street. One of them was pushing a cart full of chips and shouting to sell them.

"Selling chips, selling chips! New 10nm chips, affordable prices, fair pricing, first come, first served! Selling chips, selling chips..."

Whether they were tired or had given up completely, the two Mosuri people parked their cart on the side of the street and sat down directly on the ground.

"It's no use. Who would buy this kind of electronic waste now? Let's just accept reality." One of the Mosuridis sighed, utterly disappointed, and said to his companion.

His companion retorted, "This isn't electronic waste! These are chips, the culmination of our Mosuridi industrial expertise! The entire chip manufacturing process involves thousands of steps. Assuming a 99% success rate at each step, multiplying 99% by 99% over thousands of steps brings the result close to zero! The existence of each chip is of immense significance to civilization; it is a symbol of civilization!"

Rebuked by his companion, the Mosuridi retorted angrily, "No matter how advanced the manufacturing process, something that can't be used is just garbage! Do you understand? At least works of art have aesthetic value, but do chips have that? The value of a chip lies in its usability, but what value is left in a chip that can't be used? Wake up!"

Yes, what value do unusable chips have?

The reprimanded companion fell silent, dejected and deeply hurt, muttering to himself.

"I went to great lengths to pull strings and purchase so many of the latest chips ahead of time. It was a golden opportunity to get console users to willingly open their wallets. With these two factors combined, I should have made a fortune. Why, why did this happen...?"

Seeing his companion's deeply disheartened expression, the Mosuridi thought for a moment and changed the subject, saying, "I admire you too. You still have the leisure to make money and recoup your losses, when the world is about to descend into chaos."

The inability to use high-precision chips had a huge impact on the entire Mosuridi civilization.

First, the satellites will definitely be scrapped en masse, because the old satellites have been phased out, and the satellites currently in use are high-performance, multi-functional satellites that use high-precision chips.

Secondly, the entire Mosuridi civilization's internet system was paralyzed.

Because of numerous technological innovations, many mainframe computers adopt the latest technologies.

However, the latest chip technology is no longer usable, and these mainframes, along with a bunch of data, naturally become useless electronic waste.

The entire Mosuridi civilization began to regress, and everyone was worried that the future would become even worse, which triggered a series of social conflicts.

Seeing his companion remain silent, and judging from his expression, seemingly having recovered somewhat from his dejection, the Mosuridi continued, "Scholars say the reason the chips are unusable is due to increased microscopic quantum activity, causing them to become unusable due to the quantum superposition effect. At this rate, I'm afraid even 20nm chips won't be able to function in the future. I wonder what will become of civilization..."

His companion interrupted him, retorting, "So what if the world is in chaos? Life still goes on, doesn't it? Does that mean you can stop eating?"

"Even if all the computers in the world became useless, and everyone could only calculate things by using an abacus, at most it would just set the era back to before the electronic revolution."

Regarding the future of civilization, the companions were much more optimistic than the Mosuridis.

Electronic products are not necessities for the people of Mosouridi. If they are gone, they are gone. At worst, everyone can go back to the pre-electronic revolution era, when the people of Mosouridi can still live normal lives.

At worst... it's just not as good as it is now.

Looking at his self-satisfied companion, Mosuridi said, "Have you forgotten about our brains? Our organic brains are also composed of computing units. If this trend continues, the destruction of civilization is just around the corner."

His companion laughed incredulously, "Haha, brain? That's an exaggeration. My brain is perfectly fine now; I can count from 1 to 1 million without any trouble."

"Listen carefully, one, two, three... ten million... what comes after ten million again?"

When they reached ten million, his companion suddenly paused, and after thinking carefully, realized that he couldn't remember what the number after ten million was.

Hearing his companion's words, the Mosuridi sitting next to him couldn't help but ask curiously, "Is there another number after ten million?"

Upon hearing this, his companion's expression turned serious. "Right, is there any number after ten million?"

There shouldn't be any numbers after ten million, right?

But why do I feel like there are more numbers after ten million?

What unit was the 100 million I mentioned earlier?

The Mosuridi civilization was fortunate because they lived in the Vorsotis system, which was owned by the Babel bees.

At the moment of the destruction of the previous universe, the Babel swarm, along with the entire Vorsotis galaxy, carried it to a new universe. Thus, the entire civilization was able to escape death without knowing it and avoid being neutralized into nothingness by negative quantum attacks.

But this time, it seems they've run out of luck.

……

The intercosmic war continues and is showing signs of escalating. In the newly formed main universe, the war has spread from one end of the universe to the other, causing the overall entropy of the new universe to increase by four percentage points.

Beyond the universe, the void entities were suppressed by the cosmic life forms due to their massive size, and could not gain any advantage in combat.

In this time of crisis, the Babel swarm seemed to be collectively slacking off. Even when the enemy attacked the newly formed main universe, they did not take any action, but instead actively used the matter they had plundered from the G universe to expand their scale.

This wasn't because the Babel bees were betraying their allies to protect their own civilization's interests; rather, it was an order given to them by Lu Shang—not to attack or defend, but to increase their numbers.

"Lu Shang, as you requested, the mass plundered from the G universe has been completely transformed into cosmic life. What's next for the swarm?" Kasha reported to Lu Shang.

Lu Shang issued the attack order: "Listen to my command, open the microscopic wormhole, and use psionic energy to distort the entire spacetime of the enemy's universe to create a miniature universe."

"The structure of the microcosm doesn't matter. I only have one requirement: the speed at which the microcosm is created must be fast, so fast that the enemy cannot stop it."

(End of this chapter)