Every atomic being is a part of civilization, and they believe they have the right to make their own choices, although Lin Feng sees these as nothing more than the delusions of troublemakers.

"We should actively engage with that civilization! Together, we can build a stable and orderly galaxy!"

"Bullshit! What hardships has the Unified Body endured to ensure that the non-existent strategy has continued to this day? Do you know how many people have sacrificed everything to bring civilization to where it is today? Just to satisfy your delusions, you want to destroy it? Disregarding the survival of civilization?"

The side supporting active engagement firmly replied, "This is not wishful thinking! The order of the Milky Way is moving from chaos to stability! The Dark Forest theory is not an immutable truth; it is merely a product of the Farmer's Theory, a result of the collective choices made by advanced civilizations in the Milky Way. Now, with the faster-than-light intervention of this advanced alien civilization, the stabilization of the Milky Way's order is an inevitable outcome!"

The Dark Forest is not a natural law of the universe. Unlike the four fundamental forces, it did not exist after the Big Bang and cannot be easily erased.

Strictly speaking, the Dark Forest Theory is a law of biological behavior, as are the principles of offense and defense, both of which are based on biological behavior. If the principles of offense and defense and the Dark Forest Theory are applied to non-living matter, they become inapplicable.

Biological behavior can be altered. If a powerful external force constrains or limits biological behavior, rules governing biological behavior, such as the Dark Forest Theory and the principle of attack and defense, can be broken.

Now, an external force has emerged: a galactic overlord civilization from Andromeda. This civilization is actively eliminating hunters in the Milky Way, gradually bringing order to the chaotic galaxy.

This means that the Dark Forest Law is gradually being broken.

Without hunters, the Dark Forest can be just as dark.

Those who opposed contact countered, "Then there's no need for us to actively engage with that civilization. Who knows whether that civilization harbors goodwill or malice towards us? Their willingness to provide stability to the galaxy doesn't equate to them not being hostile to the Unified Body; the two are not necessarily equivalent!"

"You know, we destroyed the Taurus civilization. Put yourself in their shoes. If you were a civilization, and you learned that a civilization you once came into contact with had been destroyed by another unfamiliar civilization, how would you view that unfamiliar civilization? Would you think they would be a friendly civilization, or would you think they would be dangerous?"

This question immediately left the party supporting the contact speechless.

It's a very simple line of logic: if a stranger kills someone you just greeted and are even slightly acquainted with, that kind of murderer is naturally extremely dangerous.

The integration is embodied in such a 'dangerous murderer'.

Among those supporting contact, someone angrily accused, "Ultimately, isn't this still Feng Taylor's fault? He orchestrated the attack on the Taurus civilization. Our unified entity is a kind and loving civilization; Feng Taylor should bear full responsibility for this!"

Upon hearing this, those who opposed contact were also quite angry. Many of them were staunch supporters of Lin Feng, namely the Taylor faction.

"Do you know what you're saying? Feng Taylor is a great figure in the Unified Body! It's because of his theory of non-existence that we've been able to live so safely until now! If you have the guts, put your hand on your conscience and repeat what you just said, and I promise I won't report you!"

Those who supported contact retorted without fear, "So what? Does being a great person mean you can make mistakes and not take responsibility? Attacking the Taurus civilization was a wrong decision in itself, and it also went against the direction of the 'no strategy'. The 'no strategy' never advocates taking the initiative to attack others!"

"His initial demand to attack the Taurus civilization was an attempt to tarnish the image of the unified civilization!"

The two sides started arguing fiercely, with no intention of continuing the discussion peacefully. In the real world, this would probably have escalated into a full-blown brawl.

The argument gradually affected the higher-ups of the consortium.

However, unusually, the decision-makers of the integration did not show any excessive emotion.

"Feng, is there anything I can do for you?"

Edith came to find Lin Feng. She couldn't stand the noise in the Atomic Network, especially the verbal attacks against Lin Feng.

Lin Feng said dismissively, "No need, Edith. Instead of getting angry because of this group's noise, we should think about what we should do in the upcoming social changes. Regardless of whether that galactic overlord civilization is benevolent or malevolent towards us, the internal civilizational changes within the Unified Body will inevitably occur. Human hearts are hard to settle down."

“I don’t think the noise of a group of people constitutes social change,” Edith said.

Lin Feng smiled and said, "The changes I'm talking about are not simply these things, but changes from thought to action. Whether we like it or not, everyone in the consortium has to look to a larger scale."

Edith paused, then asked, "You mean, galaxy clusters?"

Lin Feng replied, "If humanity wants to make further progress, it must possess its own faster-than-light technology. Besides technology, there is also thought. Let them make trouble if they want to now."

Chapter 354 God Created Everything

The bright sunlight shone into each of the pits, and the scorching sun made the air tremble. The archaeological team temporarily stopped their work, and a group of people sat under the shade of a tree, waiting for noon to pass.

The refined and amiable old man chatted with Lin Feng, and the two unknowingly began to talk about science and technology.

"The essence of scientific exploration is to learn about cosmic phenomena, then summarize and generalize these phenomena, and describe them in the language of civilization itself."

"However, the universe is not a book. It won't let you read through its contents page by page like you would a book. Some things the universe hides. In order to access these contents, civilization needs to reproduce these hidden phenomena. This is the fundamental purpose of scientific experiments," the old man said.

Lin Feng asked, puzzled, "Since the universe hides the contents, doesn't that mean we'll never finish reading this book?"

If we consider the universe as a book, and no one knows how much content it contains, then after reading the book, who can guarantee that they have actually read all of its contents?

Is there really no end to scientific exploration?

The old man smiled and said, "Not necessarily. When you have learned everything you can learn, you will naturally have finished reading this book."

Regardless of whether there are still unknowns in the universe, once that person has learned everything that can be learned, he has already understood the entire universe as he perceives it.

Truth is objective, but cognition is not.

"How much do we need to know to be considered to have fully understood everything?" Lin Feng asked again, sitting in the shade of a tree.

The old man thought for a moment and pondered, "Complete the Grand Unified Theory? Hmm, or figure out where the universe came from? Who knows? These things are too far away for humankind, so far away that we're too lazy to even stop and think about them."

"Many people are born with the purpose of exploiting others or being exploited by others. This strange cycle may never be broken, and we don't know when it will be broken. After all, how can we control others or achieve a high degree of unity and cooperation without exploitation?"

As he spoke, the old man let out a long sigh.

Lin Feng said, "Actually, it can be broken. As long as the technology is advanced enough, everyone can become an all-around expert. They can break away from collective cooperation and independently complete all industrial production, technological research and development in the civilization from scratch. Such people will be free in the universe and will no longer be exploited by anyone."

Upon hearing this, the refined and amiable old man's expression turned strange. "A bold idea, but is such a civilization a civilization, or a group of civilizations? Or perhaps it can't be called a 'civilization' at all, and can only be called a group of 'wisdom'?"

……

When Lin Feng opened his blurry eyes, he saw Liang Gong looking down at him with a smile.

After sorting out his jumbled thoughts, Lin Feng's drowsy state completely dissipated.

He is now on a terrestrial planet terraformed from the Taylor system. The environment is similar to Earth, with mountains, rivers, air, and various birds and beasts.

The purpose of transforming this planet was, of course, to alleviate the longing for Earth felt by the atomic society.

Lin Feng and Liang Gong are currently on vacation. Edith has other things to do and did not come with them.

On the boundless highland grassland, Lin Feng felt the softness on the back of his head, but didn't find the legendary 'lap pillow' anything special.

"Did you sleep well?" Suzumiya asked with a smile.

"Oh no, I had another dream about memories." Lin Feng said with a complicated expression.

"Nightmare?" Suzumiya asked.

Lin Feng sighed and replied wistfully, "It wasn't really a nightmare, it just reminded me of some old friends I'll never see again."

"By the way, can that ring stellar particle accelerator really help us understand the more microscopic levels?" Lin Feng asked.

Ryougu explained, "The principle that particle accelerators can help scientific research is that they can reproduce the high-energy environment that once existed in the universe. At the beginning of the Big Bang, there were no four fundamental forces. These four fundamental forces were unified into a super force. Particles such as atoms, protons, neutrons, and neutrinos that are common in the universe today were gradually formed and appeared in the universe during the later expansion of the universe."

Simply put, particle accelerators can simulate the environment of the early stages of the Big Bang, so the higher the energy, the more it can help civilization understand the full picture of the universe.

Lin Feng pondered for a moment and asked, "Is it possible to recreate the original ten-dimensional spacetime of the universe?"

Liang Gong said, "Yes, but it can only exist for a short time because the surrounding spacetime is more ground state than ten-dimensional spacetime, and ten-dimensional spacetime will soon collapse and disappear."

Lin Feng suddenly thought of using the Dark Domain, and asked, "If we use the Dark Domain, shouldn't we be able to make this ten-dimensional spacetime exist for a longer period of time?"

Ryouko nodded. "I understand what you mean. That ring-stellar particle accelerator uses the Dark Domain technology to simulate the early universe environment, which can exist for a longer period of time for us to observe."

Using blacklists to aid scientific research is something that has been thought of for a long time, but putting it into practice is difficult, mainly because blacklists can spread and are not easy to control.

In war, control is irrelevant, but experiments require precise parameters, which cannot be haphazardly applied. That's why the application of the black field to scientific research has only begun now.

Lin Feng stood up and waved his hand, "No, no, no, what I want to say is not just about observing the environment in the early universe, but about using that brief period of the Great Unified Super Force to create a different ground state spacetime."

Liang Gong was taken aback, but then he understood. Lin Feng was talking about using the briefly appearing Grand Unified Super Force to process the spacetime structure and then create a ground-state spacetime similar to a two-dimensional foil.

“Random passerby…you want to create a two-dimensional foil?” Suzumiya asked tentatively.

Lin Feng said seriously, "Understanding how to manufacture and actually manufacturing dimensional reduction are two different things, and this is only a small part of my complete idea. This technology is related to my plan."

Hearing Lin Feng say this, Liang Gong immediately became interested.

"Tell me about it."

Lin Feng said, "My plan is aimed at God's curse on the universe, so that our civilization can continue."

"God? What do you mean? Other civilizations in the universe?" Suzumiya asked.

Lin Feng said, "No, they are all insects. I am talking about a god in the literal sense. This god's surname is Liu, and he created everything you see now."

Liang Gong rolled her eyes at Lin Feng with a "Are you kidding me?" look on her face. "You're lying to me again. If you don't want to tell me, fine, but why lie to me?"

"If you don't want to believe it, that's fine. Anyway, this is my plan." Lin Feng shrugged, looking like he already knew this.

"...Are you serious?"

Lin Feng said, "Of course, do you remember what I told you before? God is a dung beetle, and he created the immortal god of death."

Chapter 355 Ding Yi felt very bad

"Any new changes in the Milky Way?"

"No, it's still the same as always, at least within the observation range," the Atom reported to the person in charge.

Upon hearing this, the person in charge's anger surged, and he couldn't help but curse, "Those bastards in the Milky Way can't even behave themselves. They're always speeding around in their light-speed warp drive ships, leaving behind a bunch of spreading dark zones. They also like to throw out two-dimensional foils and other dimensional reduction attacks, making it so that there's a sophon blind spot every short distance in the entire Milky Way, and we lose tens of thousands of sophons every day."

Since the Taurus Civilization briefly brushed past the galactic hegemon civilization on the battlefield last time, the Unified Body has significantly increased its surveillance of the Milky Way.

Increasing the number of sophons is useless; human will cannot change matter. The Milky Way is full of sophon blind spots, so increasing the number of sophons is pointless. No matter how many are deployed, the blind spots will swallow them all. As for the unified entity, the area it can see has only expanded by about one or two light-years.

According to the intelligence gathered by the Taurus civilization, something very significant must be happening in the Milky Way, but the Unified Body has not received any information, which will undoubtedly put the Unified Body in a very passive position.

No news is the worst thing!

Seeing his boss so angry, one of the atomists asked, "Have you seen the Plan B that the Council of Ten just sent?"

The person in charge was taken aback. "Plan B? What Plan B?"

Upon hearing this, Atomic knew that his superior probably hadn't read the electronic document that had just been sent, so he briefly described the contents of the document.

"Simply put, it means setting up a fixed, hidden observation station in a star system. Generally speaking, when high-tech civilizations wage war, they will not choose to enter a star system, because that would make it easy for the enemy to use the star's enormous energy to launch a high-energy attack. Hunters also generally do not attack a barren star system for no reason. Spacetime phenomena that destroy quantum entanglement, such as dark zones and dimensional reduction, are not easy to encounter."

"By utilizing this, we can deploy automated, covert observation stations in various star systems to further broaden our view of the Milky Way."

"Oh? That's great! When can we use it?" the person in charge asked.

"Well, we'll have to wait a few more years. As you know, the speed of light is the maximum speed limit..."

Just as the two were conversing via the atomic network, another atomic being interrupted them.

"Something's wrong! There's an anomaly in the gravitational wave signal!"

Instantly, the atomic being responsible for observation focused his scattered mind and, within seconds, analyzed some specific parameters by receiving the fuzzy signal.

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