The Wallfacer: Everyone wants to break through my wall.

Chapter 347 Hunter and Prey

"If they don't intend to occupy the Aries region, why go to such lengths to destroy the Aries civilization?" Lin Feng asked, frowning.

Edith said, "I don't know. There are many blind spots in that battlefield. Even though we lost a lot of sophons, we didn't get any valuable intelligence."

"This is very strange. Their departure means they know the Dark Forest Theory, but if they know the Dark Forest Theory, then there is no reason for them to engage in interstellar war with the Aries civilization."

Lin Feng found himself increasingly unable to understand the situation of the Golden Bull civilization.

The Unified Group initially believed that the Taurus civilization was unaware of the Dark Forest Theory.

This is not impossible. If quantum entanglement real-time communication technology were developed much earlier, enabling faster-than-light information transmission, the chain of suspicion, one of the foundations of the Dark Forest theory, would become extremely fragile.

As a result, the Dark Forest Theory becomes very difficult to deduce.

Even if one is unaware of the Dark Forest, it does not hinder survival. Just like the Trisolaran civilization, aggressive and malicious civilizations generally do not actively send coordinate information to the outside world.

If there are no other civilizations near the Taurus civilization, then the Taurus civilization would probably only be able to understand attacks such as light particles and two-dimensional foils after it has developed a light-speed curvature spaceship.

Such a civilization, ignoring the dark forest, rashly launched such a large-scale and fierce attack on the Aries civilization, which naturally becomes reasonable.

However, the Taurus civilization's current actions have overturned the assumptions of the unified entity.

Clearly, the Taurus civilization knew about the Dark Forest theory; otherwise, why would they have so easily given up the Aries dominance they had gained at the cost of so many of their compatriots?

"You just said they're leaving the Milky Way?" Lin Feng asked.

Edith replied, "This is just a speculation based on the flight path. It's also possible that they will stop midway and change course. Sophon is still tracking them with all its might."

Lin Feng then turned his gaze to Ryougu, "Ryougu, you know more than I do. I want to ask you something."

"go ahead."

Lin Feng asked, "If... I mean if, the Taurus civilization left the Milky Way, would the difficulty of finding them in the universe increase or decrease?"

Suzumiya replied, "Even luminous celestial bodies become less noticeable in intergalactic space. Although it is vast and largely unobstructed, the sheer scale stretches the wavelengths of all naturally emitted waves to the same level as the cosmic microwave background radiation. Undoubtedly, this increases the difficulty of discovery."

"I see..."

Lin Feng nodded in understanding. After learning about Liang Gong's reply, a decision he had made began to become clearer.

……

"This is a battle? Are you sure you're not mistaken?"

"Are we going to hunt 'hunters'?"

Such discussions became frequent because they were simply too sensational.

"If you're scared, you can quit now. It will be too late to quit when the mission starts," the captain said.

"Who said we were quitting? We were forced by those space hunters to abandon our human flesh and blood and atomize ourselves. How could I possibly let go of this opportunity for revenge? Make sure I'm at the forefront!" one of the team members retorted.

The captain said, "What kind of vanguard is this? The entire attack strategy is just one thing: a surprise attack to wipe out the entire civilization in one fell swoop. If the enemy makes any further moves, it will be considered a strategic failure for us."

One of the team members froze, then asked in astonishment, "This...this is a bit much, isn't it? Just one surprise attack? You call that a strategy? Who came up with this idiotic strategy? Are they playing the Pearl Harbor attack game?"

The captain explained, "We're attacking a civilization that's technologically superior to ours. If the enemy makes any further moves, it means we're all likely to die, understand?"

"What if he didn't die?" someone asked.

The captain replied, "Go ahead and do whatever you want. If the raid fails, but we're not dead or captured, it means the enemy can't do anything to us for the time being. We have the ability to fight them. As for how to fight, I don't need to teach you, do I?"

After confirming that none of the team members had any objections, the captain continued, "The participants in the mission will be given a suicide procedure, so that even if you are captured, you will have the ability to reflect on your actions."

"Playing this so ruthlessly? Are you planning some kind of dirty trick of discarding someone after they've served their purpose?"

The team members were dumbfounded. They had never encountered this operation before. They only knew that AHSMC had suicide programs, which were considered extremely dangerous information that posed a serious threat to Atomic Man. They never expected that this thing would appear in their host computer one day!

This only fueled everyone's curiosity about the objective of their mission.

"Captain, who are we supposed to attack?"

The captain didn't intend to hide anything. He replied, "You know the tragic state of the Taurus and Aries civilizations, right? If the mission fails, you will all be captured, which means the unified entity will become the next Aries civilization."

The team member asked, "Why should we attack such dangerous guys? We don't know much about them to begin with, and even Zhizi has to be very careful when observing them."

"This is not a question we should be concerned about. If you really want to know why, go ask those higher-ups yourselves."

The Atomists began to construct a dark labyrinth in intergalactic space, which was composed entirely of dark space with no matter involved.

The Black Zone will spread, but that's okay, because Atomic Man has calculated everything.

The order to engage in battle was fully relayed. Hunting down a hunter in the universe, especially one who had just successfully destroyed a civilization, truly excited many Atomists.

However, many people are also worried.

"Will the Taurus Civilization really fall victim to this?" Some people doubted the effectiveness of the Black Domain Maze.

The purpose of building the Dark Labyrinth was to force the Taurus Civilization's large fleet to slow down from near-light speed to normal low speed, while also serving as an encirclement to prevent the Taurus Civilization from escaping.

The designer of the Black Labyrinth was certain, "They will inevitably fall into the trap. Even now, the highest speed of matter movement is still the speed of light. Even that kind of wormhole attack is achieved by bypassing the speed of light limit to reach faster than light. The probes launched by the Taurus civilization nine years before their departure could only detect up to nine light-years at most."

“If we set up this dark cage with a scale of more than nine light-years, they will naturally become like turtles in a jar. At the speed of light, their reaction ability is basically non-existent.”

The questioner hesitated for a moment before continuing, "But we can't be sure exactly where the Taurus civilization's large fleet will appear. They are affected by length contraction, and if their reaction is even a second slower, they might be off by a light-year. It's impossible for it to be exactly the moment the probe touches the dark zone."

The designer of the Dark Domain Maze dismissed the issue, saying, "These are minor problems. They can be solved by assigning more people. This strategy originally required a large number of people to participate."

The hunter has already set the trap; all that's left is to wait for the prey to come to him.

During the years that the consortium was setting up its traps, some changes were quietly taking place in the Milky Way. The consortium's spies in the Milky Way observed an increase in the number of wormhole-type faster-than-light attacks.

Chapter 348 The Taurus Civilization breathed a sigh of relief

This is an intergalactic space war, the second such war the Taurus civilization has participated in since the Aries War.

However, unlike the Aries incident, this time they were forced to participate. The Taurus civilization, which was leaving the Milky Way at near-light speed, was unable to react in time before entering the ambush zone.

In a vast open space about 230 light-years away from the Milky Way's disk, the battle between the Taurus civilization and the Unified Entity began.

The Taurus civilization collectively migrated out of the Milky Way, with its fleet stretching for light-years. The array, including the particle detectors deployed on the outermost ring, had a diameter of nine light-years, roughly equivalent to 4.5 times the largest diameter of the Oort Cloud.

When the particle detectors at the outermost edge of the Taurus civilization's fleet formation lost their quantum entanglement state due to entering the ambush zone's dark domain, the fleet, composed of spaceships as basic units, appeared in large numbers in intergalactic space, looking from a distance like a dense, luminous cloud.

With just a simple probe, the Taurus civilization knew they had entered a trap set by an unknown enemy.

This is a dark domain encircling the area with an inner diameter of about nine light-years. These intricate flight paths form a cage, surrounding the massive Taurus civilization fleet within.

The Taurus civilization's large fleet could not return the way it came, because behind them lay their own wakes, and these dark domains they themselves left behind blocked the only large entrance and exit to this encirclement.

There is only one way left to leave the encirclement: to pass through the gap between the black domains.

However, this means that the entire Taurus civilization's fleet must be dispersed, and if they encounter any problems, such as enemy attacks, it will be difficult for the warships to provide mutual support, because the Dark Domain will block their way, making it impossible to provide cover for attacks or to quickly reinforce each other.

The most troublesome point is that the warp drive cannot be used to traverse the gaps between black domains.

While warp drive can propel a spaceship at low light speeds, it still leaves a trail. Although the light slowness of these trails is very low, they are still light slowness trails. If one spaceship uses warp drive to cross the gap between dark zones, it will take more time for another spaceship to catch up with it along the same route using a warp drive. This is undoubtedly detrimental to the reinforcement between spaceships.

For this reason, the Taurus civilization used the pulse engines on its spaceships as the main propulsion source to traverse the gaps in the black domain encirclement.

This engine emits a bright light when in use, but that doesn't matter in the current situation, because the Taurus civilization knows that they are surrounded and constantly monitored by unknown enemies hiding in the shadows.

Instead of dispersing, the Taurus civilization's fleet chose a direction and broke through the encirclement by crossing the gap in the dark domain in batches.

This is naturally done to be wary of enemies hiding in the shadows. If the enemy doesn't immediately provide them with a wide-area killing tool like a two-dimensional foil, it means there's a reason not to use it, or they simply don't have the technology.

Therefore, the next form of combat can only be fleet-based battles, rather than confrontations involving weapons of mass destruction.

Taurus civilization is not afraid of being wrong; it's always good to be cautious.

Even if this isn't an encirclement, but just some idle civilization's performance art, a cautious approach won't cause any substantial damage to the Taurus civilization.

The first batch of spaceships began to traverse through the void of the dark domain.

All shipboard weapons are in a state of readiness for launch, ready to engage in combat at any time, and various detection methods are continuously scanning the entire black area encirclement.

Unfortunately, no matter how they scanned, they would get no results. Not to mention that the enemy was not on the macroscopic level and had a large amount of dark space as cover, gravitational waves, electromagnetic waves, or neutrinos would all be affected by the slowing down of light, unless faster-than-light particles were used as a detection method.

The first batch of spaceships, under the observation and cover of numerous spaceships of the Taurus civilization, successfully passed through the encirclement of the Black Domain and reached the outside of the encirclement.

Everyone in the Taurus civilization couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief for these pioneers.

Subsequently, the second and third batches of Taurus civilization spaceships broke through the black space gap and escaped the encirclement.

As time passed, the entire Taurus civilization fleet finally emerged safely from the encirclement of the Dark Domain.

The people of the Taurus civilization were all relieved and excited. Their entire fleet had successfully escaped the encirclement without engaging in battle with an unknown enemy. Naturally, the Taurus people felt the joy of surviving a calamity.

It's important to understand that they were completely unprepared for the attack by an unknown enemy. They had zero intelligence about the enemy, and the enemy's understanding of the Taurus civilization was also unknown. As long as something exists in the universe, no one can truly be invincible. Moreover, the Taurus civilization didn't consider itself particularly strong.

Even though they destroyed the Aries civilization in the last interstellar war, they still clearly recognized that they were just a tiny, insignificant speck of dust in the universe.

The Taurus people were discussing the black domain encirclement they encountered in intergalactic space incessantly.

Some say it was a trap left over from an interstellar war, and they were just unlucky enough to step into a strategic trap set by this unknown civilization against other enemies.

Some believe this might be a performance art piece by someone with a penchant for bizarre and quirky ideas, perhaps intended to scare people.

Unfortunately, none of the Taurus people realized that the ambush had already begun silently, just as they were passing through the encirclement of the Black Domain.

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Let's go back to when the first batch of Taurus civilization spaceships passed through the gap in the encirclement of the Dark Domain.

The Taurus civilization's spaceships, whose size was no less than that of human star-level warships, formed small fleets of several ships each, and they zigzagged through the gaps in the black domain's encirclement.

Despite the Taurus civilization's extreme caution and the activation of its omnidirectional radar, they failed to notice the atomic beings surrounding their spaceship, attempting to infiltrate it.

It's not that they couldn't detect it; it's just that the atomic beings were too inconspicuous. Although matter is scarce in space, there would still be some atomic matter floating around, which is nothing to be surprised about.

Moreover, they are still using pulse propulsion, and the radar is constantly detecting in all directions. Essentially, all of these are releasing particles, so it is normal for there to be more particles floating around the spacecraft.

"The Taurus civilization's spaceships have no gaps, and the outer armor is made of a kind of highly dense material, unlike molecular materials which have gaps."

Chapter 349 The Atom Man Completed the Hunt

After several attempts, the Atomic Man failed to infiltrate the interior of the first batch of Taurus civilization spaceships.

The Taurus civilization's spaceship is very similar to a droplet, with no gaps in its overall structure. Although it now uses pulse propulsion, there are no jet nozzles to be found at the engine location. Every time the spaceship accelerates, the atomic beings only see a ball of light appear behind the spaceship. The surface of the ball of light then spreads and dissipates layer by layer, thus enabling the Taurus civilization's spaceship to increase its speed.

If it were just a lack of gaps, that wouldn't be such a troublesome problem. The problem is that the Taurus civilization doesn't use molecular materials, which means that the Atomic People can't create simple nanofactories on the spaceship's outer armor to dig tunnels and infiltrate the spaceship.

Judging from the total reflection characteristics of the outer armor, the density-to-strong interaction material is only stronger and not weaker.