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Chapter 192 This Civilization is Too Desperate

At this moment, the Mulan people finally realized how naive they had been indulging in their self-indulgent space wars.

The psychological defenses of the people on their home planet collapsed immediately. Their proud Teya defense system was not even a tickle to the destroyer of the universe.

The rulers of the Mulan civilization, along with their entire families, escaped at faster-than-light speed aboard the Ark, a replica of the alien escape spaceship's faster-than-light engine.

Upon discovering this, the lower strata of the Mulan people's civilization witnessed a rapid collapse of social order.

The only force that still maintains order is the Mulan Civilization Space Force, which is engaged in space warfare. The army's high level of obedience allows the soldiers to maintain stability and order even when faced with fear and helplessness.

Fleets of the Mulan civilization unleashed their full firepower against the planetary creatures, some even specifically targeting their enormous, seemingly weak, eyes for bombardment.

This attack continued until the Mulan civilization fleet had run out of ammunition, at which point they stopped.

After the initial panic subsided, some Mulan people gradually realized that this enemy, whom the spaceship's AI called the "Universe Destroyer," did not seem to have any intention of destroying them. From the initial attack until their fleet ran out of ammunition, there was no sign of any counterattack.

As a result, all sorts of rumors and gossip began to circulate on Mulan Star.

Some say that the universe destroyer is dead, which is why it didn't destroy the Mulan people. But even though the universe destroyer is dead, its corpse is still very powerful, so the Mulan people's attacks have no effect at all.

Some say that the Destroyer of the Universe observed the Mulan people in some way, felt their love and beauty, and therefore could not bear to harm them.

Some even say that the universe destroyer is a divine messenger. The civilization that built the alien spaceship that arrived on Mulan Star three years ago was destroyed by the divine messenger because it did not respect the gods. Some of the Mulan people believe in the existence of the gods, so the gods simply sent the messenger to appear and admonish the Mulan people to learn to believe in the gods.

Just as the Mulan people were consoling themselves with various possibilities and the Mulan civilization's space force was preparing to launch another probing attack, unusual activity occurred on the planetary side.

The Mulan people watched in horror as the 'Cosmic Destroyer' gradually turned pitch black, until it resembled a black hole, but it did not exhibit the terrifying mass and gravity of a black hole; it was simply absolute blackness.

Then, the pitch-black sphere began to expand at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The Mulan civilization fleet, which was closest to the target and preparing to carry out a bombing mission, was the first to be engulfed by the dark sphere. There was no violent explosion or any dazzling physical effects; it was simply swallowed up by the dark sphere and then there was no further reaction.

Subsequently, news came from the observation station on Mulan Star that they had seen a similar pitch-black wall appear near the Kuiper Belt, which they initially speculated to be a pitch-black sphere whose expansion range was already quite large.

After experiencing despair the first time, all the Mulan people went through a second despair.

They watched in horror as the star Taiya, which had illuminated their home planet for billions of years, was easily swallowed by the dark sphere. Then the starry sky was obscured by the expanding sphere, and then their home planet Mulan was completely engulfed.

The entire planet Mulan fell into absolute silence.

Lu Shang took a sip of purple tea and said, "When entropy increases stop, it also means that time stops. Although the method is different, it is not like freezing reincarnation, which directly removes the time dimension in spacetime. Instead, it creates a unified coordinate system and uses spiritual energy covering the entire universe to force all particles to stop moving. However, it can still achieve the same effect as freezing reincarnation."

All actions of cosmic life forms have ceased!

It can't even think, because all its matter is frozen by the psionic energy of the planetary beings!

The native civilizations within the cosmic life forms also quieted down. Except for those native civilizations that cowered in their microcosms, the native civilizations that remained in the macrocosm were all imprisoned by the psionic energy of the planetary beings.

Spacetime tells matter how to move, and matter tells spacetime how to bend.

Now, the swarm is using psionic energy to influence spacetime, telling all matter—none of you are allowed to move!

The cosmic war is over!

……

Mulan Civilization Ark

It is about 34 light-years away from the Mulan mother star system.

The rulers of the Mulan civilization, who had successfully escaped the mother star system, celebrated with singing and dancing in the ark.

Even though there are no longer any low-ranking Mulan people serving them, it doesn't matter. As long as they are alive, they can sail the Ark to other planets, establish new homes there, and then use the cloning machines on the Ark to create new low-ranking Mulan people to serve them.

The Ark represents the pinnacle of Mulan civilization's technological advancements after absorbing alien technology. It boasts a high degree of automation and is equipped with a highly intelligent AI system, which is the same AI system from the crashed alien spaceship. Only a small number of people are needed to oversee the operation.

A staff member who came to relieve the shift entered the control room and casually asked, "Any news from Mulan Star?"

"No more news," Mulan replied with mixed feelings as she waited for her shift to end.

The Mulan people did not develop faster-than-light communication technology, but some faster-than-light communication devices were found in the wreckage of their crashed spaceship and could be used.

To ascertain the situation on their home planet, the rulers planted trusted confidants who regularly reported back to the Ark using a faster-than-light communicator. In exchange, these confidants' children were allowed to board the Ark.

Once all contacts on the home planet are lost, the Ark can assume that the Mulan people on the home planet have been completely wiped out.

"Luckily, we didn't believe the rumor that the universe destroyer was dead and went back, otherwise we Mulan people would probably have been wiped out."

"Finally, I can get a good night's sleep."

The Mulan people who came to relieve her were speaking in a very relaxed tone, showing no sorrow whatsoever for the destruction of their compatriots on their home planet.

Mulan, who was handing over her shift, cautioned, "Now is not the time to let our guard down."

The Mulan people who came to relieve them were unimpressed. In their view, they were already safe and would serve as the spark of Mulan civilization, piloting the Ark to spread the seeds of civilization throughout the universe.

He didn't think the Destroyer of the Universe could catch up with them. After all, if the Destroyer of the Universe could catch up with them at faster-than-light speeds, then that alien spaceship wouldn't have had the chance to crash on the northern continent of Mulan Star.

So he said, "Relax. The universe is vast. With the Ark equipped with a faster-than-light engine, as long as the Ark is functioning properly, it will be extremely difficult for the universe destroyers to find and destroy us."

"We are safe now."

Mulan said this, but after waiting for a long time, she did not hear a reply from her companion. This strange silence made Mulan turn to look at her companion.

Are you listening to me?

Then, his colleague, who had already changed shifts and was about to leave, pointed with trembling hands at the screen in the driver's cab.

Mulan looked in the direction her companion was pointing, and was so frightened she almost had a heart attack. On the screen was the "destroyer of the universe" they had been discussing!

A celestial-level planetary being is watching the fleeing ark spaceship with its enormous eyes!

Without a second thought, the Mulan people immediately put the Ark into faster-than-light mode.

Just when they were full of hope, thinking that they had temporarily shaken off the enemy, they were once again met with despair as they escaped faster-than-light travel and saw the planetary creatures.

After that, no matter where in the universe they travel at faster-than-light speed, when the faster-than-light speed ends, the universe destroyer will soon be found nearby.

But an even more despairing fact was discovered: the number of "Cosmic Destroyers" was enough to cover the entire universe, and they did just that.

These "cosmic destroyers" are arranged in neat square formations, with a spacing of three light-days, which is the distance that light travels in three days.

No matter where the rulers of the Mulan civilization go, they will have to face these "destroyers of the universe"!

As the planetary beings followed Lu Shang's command and used their spiritual energy to restrain the movement of matter within their respective areas of responsibility, the rulers of the Mulan civilization could only huddle in despair in a corner of the ark, waiting to be devoured by the black spheres extended by the planetary beings.

……

Under Lu Shang's command, one by one, cosmic life forms were captured by the swarm, with approximately 32 naturally occurring cosmic life forms from the cosmic sea being captured.

The swarm, controlled externally by cosmic organisms and internally by planetary organisms, suppresses spacetime distortion and freezes the movement of matter. Through this combined internal and external approach, they firmly bind these cosmic life forms.

Since life sciences were not Lu Shang's area of ​​expertise, after completing these captures, he handed these cosmic life forms over to Nanali and the other main brains for research.

Lu Shang then processed the messages sent from the Cosmic Union.

They discovered some clues from the remnants of the universe that the swarm had forcibly seized.

Strictly speaking, it's not a major discovery; it's just some particles.

These particles are products of other physical rules because their energy levels are more ground-state than the matter in the cosmic debris, and therefore they do not decay into the matter in the cosmic debris under the influence of the physical rules of the cosmic debris.

It is very likely that during the Planck time of the opening of the microscopic wormhole in the unknown universe, the particles from the other universe that tunneled through the quantum tunnel could be used to deduce the physical rules of that universe.

Then, the swarm only needs to keep searching for other universes according to this set of physical rules to find the culprit that plundered the swarm's universe matter with a high probability.

Although the probability is still very low, even if it is found, it cannot be ruled out that it is a new universe opened up by other civilizations under the same physical rules, like the new main universe of the Tower of Babel swarm.

But knowing these things is much better than not knowing them at all.

Whether it was due to good luck or not, the cosmic biota's exploration in the cosmic ocean discovered a supermassive universe.

This universe has a mass exceeding that of all the universes the hive has ever encountered, and therefore its size is astonishing, with a diameter of trillions of light-years.

And most importantly, based on the physical rules detected by the cosmic beings, it can be determined that the matter in this universe and the alien particles found in the cosmic debris are governed by the same set of physical rules.

In other words, the physical rules in this universe are exactly the same as those used by the unknown civilization that plunders the universe's matter!

(End of this chapter)