Cataclysmic Era: I can unlock the tech tree

Before the human fleet could respond, the Cleaners civilization's planetary fortress crashed into the two-dimensional starry sky.

They did not ascend to the fourth dimension, but entered the battle in their normal state!

Gravity shielding, disarmed!

Incredibly powerful gravitational fluctuations emanated from around these planetary fortresses!

Some of the planetary fortresses released gravity comparable to that of the quark planet!

Meanwhile, another part of the planetary fortresses has been transformed into deep "black holes"!

The gravity around it is so strong that even light cannot escape it!

Imagine thousands of quark stars and small black holes darting around within a range of 100 light-years. Just how powerful would that be?

Now, human civilization has a complete understanding.

The once flat canvas of the starry sky now has a lot of wrinkles!

Gravity from three dimensions easily crosses the dimensional barrier and acts on two-dimensional space.

This incredibly powerful and chaotic gravity simply and brutally disrupted the internal structure of the giant star painting!

……

Inside the Earth.

Looking at the starry sky in the holographic projection, which was wrinkled and even began to distort, Lü Yongchang was filled with horror.

"Quark Star!"

"Just how many sophisticated materials did the Cleaners civilization use to build these planetary fortresses?!"

In theory, for the sake of starship flexibility, dense materials are usually only used on the surface armor of starships.

However, these planetary fortresses clearly do not adopt this conventional manufacturing concept.

Lü Yongchang has reason to suspect that more than 50% of the volume of these planetary fortresses is filled with dense quark material.

This is just Quark Fortress!

Those black hole fortresses that have already turned into deep black holes will only have an even more terrifying proportion of dense materials in planetary fortresses!

They even need to use certain methods to increase the degree of spatial distortion around themselves!

Only in this way can these black hole fortresses create a "black hole"-like effect!

Lu Yongchang looked at the observation data and real-time images projected on the screen with amazement.

Although these quark fortresses and black hole fortresses are extremely expensive to build, their combat power is definitely worth the price!

With a technology similar to that of dark matter stabilizing fields, it is difficult for two-dimensional starry sky to carry out dimensional reduction attacks on quark fortresses and black hole fortresses. It can only let them travel back and forth, destroying their internal structure!

In just over ten minutes, the pressure on the Earth had been greatly reduced, and it even began to have excess energy to assimilate the surrounding two-dimensional starry sky!

What?

Are these idyllic dimensional beings coming to provide support?

Do you really think the Sweeper Fleet's Quark Fortress and Black Hole Fortress are pushovers?

Let alone the Cleaners fleet, the human flagship after it escaped its predicament would be enough to give those dimensional creatures a run for their money!

An hour later.

With the combined efforts of the Cleaners' fleet and the human fleet, this colossal painting of the starry sky, spanning a hundred light-years, was finally shattered.

The shattered giant star map slowly dissipated in the three-dimensional universe, transforming into a surging particle storm that added power to the growth of the Boötes Hollow Nebula.

The Earth slowly glides through the dissipating two-dimensional debris, heading towards the neutral war zone not far away.

An inconspicuous two-dimensional fragment drifted slowly through the starry sky and landed in the half-destroyed [Golden Crow] battleship.

After the Earth was completely gone, a small shadow appeared on the battleship's deck, like an indelible stain.

The shadow moved swiftly along the deck, creeping into the interior of the essentially defunct Golden Crow battleship.

More than ten minutes later.

A faint glimmer of light flashed in the central computer bay of the [Golden Crow] battleship before returning to darkness.

Similar scenarios are not uncommon.

……

When the Cleaners, the Neutrality Faction, and human civilization temporarily formed a united front, the Pastoral Faction finally halted its extremely frenzied offensive.

These dimensional beings seemed to have received some kind of order and began to slowly retreat, increasing the distance between themselves and the three forces.

But they didn't leave completely; instead, they stayed in the edge of the Boötes void, as if waiting for some opportunity.

Regardless of what the other two forces think, human civilization is certainly happy to see such a scene.

In the human civilization base area located at the rear of the battlefield, the Zero Point Energy Well Array and nearby factories are operating at full power, replenishing forces for the possible upcoming major battle.

At the same time, construction of a 10-light-year-scale tachyon computer officially began.

Time has sided with human civilization.

……

Neutral faction war zone.

A fleet of warships of diverse styles gathered in this somewhat chaotic star system—at the request of human civilization, the "talks" would take place in the neutral zone.

The Earth's surface, still gleaming with its fine quark armor, slowly made its way to the center of the neutral faction's war zone, surrounded by ten Chi You fortresses.

According to the previous agreement, human civilization needs to provide sufficient evidence to prove its pastoral identity.

This is also the only opportunity for human civilization to bring the civilization of cleaners into a united front.

Under the watchful eyes of the neutral civilization, the Tenth Empire, and the Cleaners civilization, the port gate on the side of the Earth slowly opened, and a large transport ship sailed out from it, heading towards the public research platform in the distance.

Tachyon signals are circulating in the neutral faction's battle zone.

In Earth's 15510 calendar year, human civilization discovered a four-dimensional vacuolar structure in the Shapley Supercluster and used this structure to master dimensional ascension technology.

This four-dimensional vacuole is approximately 100 light-years in size and contains numerous galaxies.

[From the state of these stars, it can be seen that this four-dimensional cavitation has undergone an extremely long period of time...]

Before the introduction could finish, the Cleaner civilization sent a tachyon message, interrupting the human civilization: [Wait! Are you sure the four-dimensional void is 100 light-years in size?!]

"Of course," Lü Yongchang, aboard the Earth, gave an affirmative answer, then countered with, "Isn't this what you discovered about four-dimensional cavitation?"

[...less than a light-year.]

Looking at the text in the holographic projection, Lü Yongchang fell silent.

No wonder the Cleaners civilization failed to discover the truth about the pastoral society from the four-dimensional bubble.

A four-dimensional void less than one light-year in size... It can't even fit into a single galaxy!

He skipped that topic and continued his presentation.

In these four-dimensional star systems, we discovered numerous remnants left by advanced civilizations.

Subsequent research indicated that these relics belonged to an advanced civilization called Troy.

Human civilization has recovered a still-functioning information recording device from the ruins, which contains the history of the Trojan civilization.

Although there is no direct evidence, based on the various descriptions, we believe that the Trojan civilization had an extremely close connection with the Pastoralists, and may even have been their leader!

The moment the words were spoken, the large transport ship had already come to a stop on the public research platform built by human civilization.

A four-dimensional hypercube device, heavily protected by a dark matter stabilizing field, is clearly presented before the eyes of all advanced civilizations!

P.S.: The plot is mostly sorted out now, and I'll resume two updates a day tomorrow.