A Colossus rushes in at the start

Chapter 97: Fist-to-Flesh Touches Are Too Physical

On a small hill in Karana, a large, modified transport vehicle was parked nearby.

Under the tranquil night sky, two Urumqi residents were using a small microwave oven to roast a freshly hunted animal.

One of the Ussuri people seemed a bit nervous, glancing around anxiously every now and then, as if afraid someone might appear. While looking around, he asked, "Where did you get this? It's contraband."

Since countries issued bans and confiscated all large-scale pulse devices based on the Dark Forest Theory, the situation has become overcorrected. Household appliances and walkie-talkies are no longer allowed to be privately owned.

The two Urumqi residents now possess this small microwave device, and if caught, they could face the death penalty.

"We built it ourselves, and there's an even bigger one on the vehicle," another Ussuri man said nonchalantly, then pointed to the transport vehicle.

"Even bigger?! Blonda, what are you planning to do with this?"

The somewhat nervous Ussu people, upon hearing their companion's words, belatedly realized that things had become more complicated.

He thought that when he was invited out, he would just use a small microwave to grill some wild game to satisfy his cravings, but if that was all, there was no need for a large microwave.

After all, making this kind of thing isn't something that can be done in a day or two; it's clearly been planned for a long time!

Blonda also laid her cards on the table with her friend, stating her purpose directly: "Of course, it's to contact aliens and send them our distress message."

"I've calculated it. In a few days, Karana and Rasu will align with the signal amplification point. At that time, we can send a distress signal to the universe. When this signal enters the signal amplification point, the Gambi black hole will also be at that location. The radio waves will receive another signal amplification as they pass near the Gambi black hole."

To put it simply, it's a repetition of what Observer Drey did, except the message has changed from "I left my mark on this universe on behalf of civilization" to "Other civilizations in the universe, come and save us."

Blonda's companions clearly did not understand her behavior.

"Are you crazy? According to the Dark Forest Theory, actively sending information means an attack is coming."

Blonda looked at her companion with a half-smile and asked, "...Do you really believe in that so-called Dark Forest theory?"

Before her companion could answer, Blonda took out a debit card from her pocket and said to her companion, "See this card in my hand?"

"There's a hundred million in this card. All my savings are in here. Guess what I'm going to do next."

The companion glanced at the card in Blonda's hand, then at Blonda herself, not understanding what she was trying to say, and could only remain silent.

"..."

"Can't guess, right? Heh."

Blonda chuckled, snapped the card in her hand, and threw it into the small microwave device to destroy it.

Looking at the destroyed savings card, Blonda said calmly to her companion, "Life is about agency. Just like I did, I can care about the 100 million in the card, or I can not care about the 100 million in the card. It depends on whether I want to do it today, on my feelings, not on any theory."

"Civilization is the concrete manifestation of the social interaction of a group of life forms with subjective initiative. It is a chaotic state. Trying to confine the 'chaos' of the entire universe with a fixed and unchanging framework is futile. Who gave the Ussuri people the right to teach extraterrestrial civilizations in the universe how to do things?"

"The Ussu people are terrified of the attacking Holy Scorpion civilization fleet, yet they still dare to try to dominate the civilizations of the entire universe. The saying 'When the Ussu people think, the Supreme God laughs' is really not wrong. If I were the Supreme God, I would laugh too."

Blonda's companion countered with a question: "What if you eventually discover that the Dark Forest Theory is correct, and your actions led to Karana's destruction? What will you do then?"

"That means luck isn't on Karana's side, that's all," Blonda replied.

He continued, "Without extraterrestrial civilizations as a reference point, the universe is dynamic. But with extraterrestrial civilizations as a reference point, the universe changes from dynamic to chaotic. It can be a pile of excrement, or it can be precious gold, or it can be both gold and excrement at the same time, or it can be half gold and half excrement, or it can be some other messy thing..."

Blonda rambled on and on, to the point that his companions looked at him with great concern and astonishment.

"You're crazy."

Upon hearing this, Blonda's expression froze, and she stopped speaking abruptly.

After a moment of silence, Blonda spoke to her companion in an extremely serious tone.

"I'm not crazy, the universe is crazy."

……

The unknown civilization was located in that vast area of ​​altered rules within the galaxy. It was enveloped in a microcosm by the Babel swarm using psionic energy, leaving behind a massive, tiny wormhole.

Through these tiny wormholes, the swarm can open a tunnel connecting the main universe to a smaller universe at any time.

Although the rule-altering regions expand at the speed of light in normal spacetime and spread from the microcosm to the main universe through these tiny wormholes, it's not a big problem. We can use time slowing down to prevent the regions from expanding.

From a macroscopic perspective, the entire disk galaxy looks like a pancake that has been bitten into by some giant monster. However, the civilizations in the galaxy will have to wait more than 100,000 years to witness this scene.

The only remaining problem is those black spheres that are running around everywhere. Wherever these spheres go, they change the physical rules of the surrounding space, and the areas where these rules are changed spread outward at the speed of light. This has caused many "holes" to appear in the atomic biological intelligence network that the swarm has spread throughout the universe.

"Letting the enemy keep running like this isn't a solution."

"The bee colony needs a solution that can solve the problem once and for all."

The battle is now decided; only these remaining enemy black spheres have not been completely eliminated. The mainframes do not want to see the swarm suffer further losses and are eager to find a way to quickly eliminate these black spheres.

"That's easy to solve."

Having withdrawn from the main battlefield, Lu Shang casually circled a vast area with a diameter of 400,000 light-years on the star map of the swarm network.

Lu Shang said in the swarm network: "Use the old method to directly enclose this range of space into the microcosm."

"Then they will keep shrinking the interior of the universe, and unless these spheres can cross the cosmic barrier, their escape will be meaningless."

Following Lu Shang's strategic instructions, countless planetary beings, numbering in the trillions, rushed towards their assigned node coordinates at faster-than-light speeds.

The planetary creatures responsible for pursuing the dark spheres haven't relaxed much either. Although other strategies have taken their place in the pursuit, they cannot let their guard down in order to lull the enemy into a false sense of security.

The end of this interstellar war is approaching little by little. Once this area is contained within a small universe, all that remains is foolproof operation.

They continuously physically assaulted this unknown civilization, while simultaneously using gravitational waves to inquire whether it was willing to communicate with the swarm. They continued assaulting and inquiring until the other party was willing to communicate with the swarm.

This is what is known as "talking about physics," a physical and direct form of communication between civilizations, invented by Lu Shang.

However, to Lu Shang's surprise, this seemingly tough, dangerous, and aggressive unknown civilization yielded much faster than he had expected.

On the main universe side, before the smaller universe spanning 400,000 light-years has even been fully defined, an unknown civilization, imprisoned and fragmented on the other side of the smaller universe, has already broadcast information using gravitational waves.

【armistice!】

(End of this chapter)