A Colossus rushes in at the start

Chapter 34 This civilization is too restrictive

A few weeks later, two more visitors came to the Holy King's palace. They told him that the world did not revolve around the mother star, but around the star Heng.

Furthermore, it was told that if the star continued to decrease in brightness in this manner, a cold wave would sweep across the entire mother star.

Such fallacies immediately shook the worldviews of everyone, including the sage king.

The Celestial Affairs Bureau reacted most strongly, retorting rudely, "You're saying that Heng Hui is the center of the world?"

"Yes, only in this way can we explain why some of the bright spots in the sky sometimes move backward..." Caul explained their theory to the Astronomical Bureau in a long, rambling manner.

Unexpectedly, the Celestial Affairs Department interrupted Caul's theoretical explanation.

"Absurd! The Earth-centric theory has already been proven: light objects float, heavy objects sink, and the Earth is the place where all heavy objects converge, thus making it the center of the world."

"You're saying Mother Earth isn't the center of the world, but Heng Hui is? Then why don't we, as heavy objects, fall towards Heng Hui?"

Based on this question, Kaul proposed the hypothetical concept of "universal gravitation" according to the Henghui centrism.

As expected, Caul and Buff were ridiculed and mocked by the entire Sage's Palace. The skeptics asked them in return—if gravity really exists, why didn't they attract each other by force?

Neither Caul nor Baiflian could answer this question, because they had not yet studied universal gravitation in depth. Their visit to the Holy King was mainly due to the issue of the stars, which compelled them to come and deliver the news.

"Great and wise ruler, they are clearly just like those deceitful people who encouraged you to pursue immortality in the past, trying to gain your trust with clumsy tricks and then exploit it for their own benefit. I believe they should continue to be severely punished as a warning," the Celestial Minister said loudly to the ruler on the throne.

Kaul and Beflin anxiously warned, "Your Majesty, what we're saying is true! The celestial phenomena will grow increasingly cold! Henghui is the center of the world, the source of all light and heat, and is directly related to the celestial phenomena of Mother Earth! If Henghui's burning weakens, everything above Mother Earth will be plunged into absolute cold!"

"Take him away. He will be publicly executed after the next cycle of the heavens." The Holy King gave the order with displeasure.

Kaul and Beflin were thus escorted away from the Sage's Palace by a group of law enforcement officers.

"The sage ruler is wise and benevolent."

The Celestial Affairs Department subtly flattered the Emperor, which slightly improved his otherwise unpleasant mood.

The emperor instructed the song and dance troupe, which had stopped due to the heated debate, to resume their performance.

"Don't stop, keep singing, keep dancing."

……

In the starry sky, a Star Alliance fleet, sailing in the open space between stars, received a message from a swarm of bee creatures.

"Detected psionic responses in bee swarms."

"Where are the coordinates?" the main commander on the bridge asked.

The subordinate reported: "On Moro Star, there exists an Alpha-level civilization protected by the Alliance within this star system."

The information was not transmitted by a probe launched by the Star Alliance, but by a hidden observation station that the Star Alliance had set up in the star system long ago.

This time, a signal from a swarm of bee-like creatures was detected, so an alert was sent to the nearest Star Alliance fleet.

The commander-in-chief did not rush to order his men to go there, but instead asked his subordinates.

When was the observation station set up?

"Before the Milky Way has completed three-thousandths of its revolution," the subordinate replied.

The commander then asked, "In such a long time, they should have already set foot in space, right?"

The subordinate replied, "No, according to the recording, after they established a highly centralized regime on the ground, the ruling class became obsessed with building massive architectural complexes."

"Why build something like this?" the commander asked curiously. He had seen many civilizations that couldn't leave their home planet, but he had never heard of one that was obsessed with building massive complexes.

The subordinate reported the information gathered by the observation station: "In order to highlight the achievements made during the reign of the ruler, the culture of this civilization has a custom of measuring the achievements of the civilization at a certain period by the number of palaces."

"Influenced by the will of the rulers, the idea of ​​objective understanding of the physics of the universe cannot be popularized, because most civilizations will regard individuals who embark on non-mainstream development as objects that need to be corrected and characterize them as 'not doing their proper work'."

After the report, the subordinate asked uncertainly, "Commander, should we activate the Alliance's protection protocol for this civilization?"

The commander said, "There's no need for that. The protection period has expired. The entire galaxy has been orbiting for three-thousandths of a second, and this civilization still hasn't left its home planet. This is enough to show that their potential is so mediocre that it's close to that of primitive life forms. They have no value in being absorbed."

"Contact several nearby fleets to launch a surprise attack on the swarm of bee creatures on Morro."

The subordinate responded, "Yes!"

……

On the day of their execution, Caul and Befren were bound in a humble manner in the large square beneath the Palace of Sages, surrounded by many flammable materials.

Such an execution naturally attracted many citizens of the Great Wilderness Kingdom to come and watch.

"Trust us!"

"You can browse our observation notes!"

"The brilliance of Henghui is waning periodically; the cold will soon arrive!"

Buffalo and Caul shouted and appealed again and again, hoping that their compatriots would listen to them, but their compatriots gathered around, only wanting to see how they would die.

"Don't worry about the cold; it will never befall you."

The person appointed to supervise the execution was the Celestial Affairs Officer from the last palace debate. He said, "The Holy King has ordered that you will be burned to death by flames during the hottest period of Heng Hui. You will not feel any cold in this way of dying."

As the Celestial Bureau waited for the stars in the sky to reach their highest point, just as they were about to give the order to set fire, they heard the people of the Great Wilderness Kingdom pointing at the sky in panic.

"Look! Heng Hui!"

"Henghui has a hole in it!"

"Oh my god! Henghui has gone out!"

……

This was a small-scale raid by the Star Alliance against the Babel Tower swarm.

After discovering through hidden observation stations that the swarm was rapidly proliferating planetary life in this star system, the Star Alliance immediately decided to launch a surprise attack on the star system.

Having learned from past defeats, the Star Alliance plans to adopt a hit-and-run tactic, with multiple fleets simultaneously launching near-light-speed black hole-induced strikes at the star from a distance of one light-day.

By suddenly detonating a star, they quickly destroyed some planetary life forms.

However, a day later, the observation post they had envisioned had not been destroyed.

The star, which collapsed and exploded due to the black hole-induced impact, was completely covered by a mass of blackness and then fell silent.

The raging stellar energy was suppressed by something even more raging...

"Report! The strike went smoothly, but the enemy suffered no losses!" the subordinate reported to the commander in charge of the small-scale operation.

"This is really not good news." The commander-in-chief was extremely heavy-hearted.

The Great Wilderness Kingdom within this star system felt an even heavier burden than the commander-in-chief.

Because they're going to wipe out their entire race!

The Dark Ages, spanning countless years, have arrived!

(End of this chapter)