A Colossus rushes in at the start

Chapter 195 This painting is too huge

A wall that is infinitely high above, infinitely deep below, and infinitely far to the left and right—what is it?

Some say this is death, but Lu Shang believes there are other answers to this wall, such as right now...

By opening a microscopic wormhole connecting to the giant universe, the Babel bee swarm had the privilege of glimpsing the environment inside the giant universe.

The cosmic environment of the mega-universe was beyond the expectations of the entire Tower of Babel swarm. Its spacetime is three-dimensional, consisting of two spatial dimensions plus a time dimension.

Planetary beings can use psionic energy to constrain microscopic organisms, enabling them to move within this two-dimensional environment, and allowing the Babel bee swarm to observe the two-dimensional physical environment inside the giant universe from a three-dimensional perspective.

Through the perspective of microscopic organisms, what is presented to Lu Shang is a huge dynamic painting.

This painting is the most exquisite super-sized painting Lu Shang has ever seen since birth.

As you magnify the painting, the details extend infinitely, all the way to the Planck scale.

The planet unfolds on the vast plane of the stars, resembling the cross-section of an egg, with its internal layers clearly visible. The planets are similar, unfolding on the plane as a giant circular pattern, with the core, mantle, and crust clearly distinct. Viewed from the perspective of a swarm of bees, they resemble a series of different colored and sized, ever-rotating ring-shaped cakes.

When a microscopic organism falls into a plane, the perspective becomes a line, which is about the thickness of a water molecule. In other words, in the entire two-dimensional space, with the water molecule as the dividing point, the microscopic scale below the water molecule is not affected by the two-dimensional space, and only the material clusters larger than a water molecule are affected and fall into the plane.

Just as Lu Shang was admiring the wonders of two-dimensional space, a spectacle never seen in the three-dimensional universe, and receiving observations transmitted from microscopic organisms to the swarm network, the microscopic organisms, which were expanding outward to explore space, discovered a civilization in a two-dimensional star system about 340 light-years away from where the swarm opened the microscopic wormhole.

For the Babel Bee Swarm, discovering a civilization in an alien universe is a good thing.

A civilization will naturally explore the rules of the universe and try to use them to make its life easier. This behavior can be conscious or unconscious.

Regardless of the type, both can be accelerators for the bee swarm to accelerate its understanding of the physical rules of other universes.

Therefore, when Lu Shang learned of the existence of this two-dimensional civilization, he immediately instructed another planetary being to secretly create a microscopic wormhole connecting to the mother star system of that two-dimensional civilization.

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Round Star Kadira, the home planet of the Dire people.

At this moment, on this planet whose outer layer is covered by seawater, a power struggle is unfolding.

The origin of this theory stems from Horn's "sparkling centrism." In the common belief of the Dill people, the round star Cadilla in which they live is the center of the world, and everything in the universe revolves around Cadilla.

However, Horn's theory of radiance suggests that the center of the universe is a radiant star, emitting light and heat, which is far from the radiant star Kadira. All radiant stars in the universe, including Kadira, revolve around this radiant star, which is the true center of the universe. Kadira, where the Dire people have always lived, is not some special radiant star.

This astronomical theory caused a great stir, both in the scientific community and among the common people of Dir.

This is like everyone on Earth believing that the Earth is round, only for one day a highly knowledgeable person to jump out and say that the Earth is not round, but flat.

The most direct result of this subversion of worldview is that people are willing to believe that this is a lie, that they are being played, rather than considering the rationality of the theory or whether it conforms to reality.

Within the entire Dir society, the strongest reaction came not from the Dir scientific community, but from the Dir monarch.

In this highly centralized, hierarchical imperial feudal society, the Dilman monarch, who holds the pinnacle of power, controls the entire Kadira. Since Kadira is the center of the world, every Dilman monarch is naturally given the title of "Lord of the Universe".

Now, Horn's theory of radiance claims that the center of the world is not the round star Cadilla, but the round star radiance, which is tantamount to stripping the Dilman monarch of the title of "Lord of the Universe".

Don't underestimate the title of "Lord of the Universe." It involves the legitimacy of a regime, and every regime will spare no effort to promote its legitimacy to everyone.

Although the current Dir king is enlightened and strives to be a wise ruler to benefit his people, he is no different from other Dir kings in history when it comes to power.

Thus, Horn, who believed he could persuade the Dire society to accept the theory of holocytosis through astronomical observation data, and his teacher Micah, were naturally regarded by the Dire monarch as a threat that had to be eliminated.

Horn and his teacher are imprisoned in the central area of ​​Cadilla, where they will be crushed to death by magnets in full view of everyone.

"I'm sorry, teacher, I didn't expect things to turn out this way."

Horn, imprisoned in the highest-level jail in the central area of ​​Cadilla, apologizes to his teacher.

In Horn's view, if it weren't for the draft he had calculated, which deduced that Hui was the center of the universe, the current situation would not exist, and the root of all this trouble would be him.

Micah denied it, saying, "I'm the one who should apologize. I oversimplified everything."

"I thought that convincing those old fogies at the Science Society would be enough, but I never expected..."

Micah's feelings were incredibly complex as he recalled the series of social reactions that followed their announcement of the "Hui-centered theory."

They realized that this idea was both sensational and difficult to accept for the entire Dir community, and that the old fogies of the scientific society would be hard to persuade unless there was clear evidence to prove the theory's correctness.

Considering only these two points, even if they ultimately fail, the worst outcome won't cost them their lives.

But Micah never expected that this matter would involve the political level and affect the monarch who was at the pinnacle of power in the entire Dir people's society.

Micah feels guilty about this; he should have thought about it more deeply.

If he had considered things more carefully from the beginning, things wouldn't have turned out this way.

Horn asked, "Teacher, after we die, does our consciousness go to the underworld?"

Micah said, "Who knows? No one has ever died and come back to life, proving that the underworld really exists."

With a hint of hope, Horn said to his teacher, "If there is an underworld, I hope to be reborn on another planet, and no longer as a Dillian."

"Why? Are you disappointed by the ignorance of the world?" Micah asked, puzzled.

"No," Horn replied, "I just want to see more of the sights I've never seen before, which is also why I entered the field of science in the first place."

(End of this chapter)