The Wallfacer: Everyone wants to break through my wall.

Diana nodded and said seriously, "It can only be this possibility. The mass of the black hole, the tearing of spacetime, and the disappearance of the entire interstellar battlefield all point to the only answer. Although I haven't figured out how that civilization was able to accumulate such a high energy level in such a short time, while the Penrose sphere can surpass the energy level of a supernova explosion, raising the energy level takes time and requires photons to constantly pass by the edge of the black hole."

"Let's just assume we're seeing a tear in spacetime. We should always be prepared for the worst. Hoping for the best is just playing with our own survival."

As Davis spoke, the virtual entity turned its gaze to the others, and no one objected.

Lin Feng pondered for a moment, then asked Davis, "...What's the public reaction?"

The clash between two faster-than-light forces in the Milky Way has been closely watched by the unified entity from top to bottom. Now that the galactic overlord civilization from Andromeda has won, Lin Feng is somewhat worried about what kind of trouble might arise in public opinion.

“A bunch of people are cheering that the dominant civilization from Andromeda has protected the Milky Way,” Davis replied.

"No one's taking any further radical steps, right?" Lin Feng asked.

Davis's virtual form shook its head. "I haven't seen it yet."

Lin Feng said seriously, "Keep a close watch. I don't care what methods you use, you must prevent any idiots from popping up and destroying the information of the unified entity."

Davis hesitated for a moment, then asked, "What should we do with the person we catch?"

Lin Feng said matter-of-factly, "Is that even a question? Respect their personal wishes. If they want to live, let them voluntarily join AHSMC. If they don't want to live, format their hosts and send them to their deaths. Understand?"

"Clear."

Lin Feng's gaze returned to Diana, and he asked the question that he was most concerned about.

"Can the photon beings escape the ravages of spacetime?"

The photonic beings could escape the universe using wormholes that are ubiquitous on the Planck scale and are constantly emerging and collapsing.

It's entirely possible to travel from one end of the universe to the other in an instant, provided you're lucky enough to find such a Planck wormhole.

Therefore, Lin Feng placed extremely high hopes on the Photon People, believing that they could live safely in the universe until the reboot came.

But now, the dominant civilization in the Milky Way has pulled off a spacetime tear, which makes Lin Feng start to doubt the photon people's ability to survive in the universe.

Diana explained, "It depends on whether we can get the information early. If we discover it early, we can escape through a wormhole before spacetime is torn apart. That's an escape, but I think it's very difficult. At least if the distance is close, we may not be able to escape. From an observational perspective, the speed of spacetime tearing and the expansion of the universe are of the same nature and are not limited by the speed of light."

"If..." Lin Feng paused, hesitated for a moment, and then asked, "If the Photon Man is trapped in a torn-off spacetime, would he still have a chance to escape?"

Theoretically speaking, it seems impossible to escape, since spacetime has been cut off and the two spaces are no longer connected. So how can the Photon Man escape the spacetime fragment through the Planck wormhole?

Some might say, since we can't escape the spacetime fragment, why not just stay in it forever?

Unfortunately, the mass and scale of matter within a spacetime fragment are limited, and it will soon reach heat death.

The attack method of tearing apart spacetime to banish the opponent is actually using the heat death rule to destroy the opponent.

However, this method is dirtier than the two-dimensional foil. The two-dimensional foil only reduces the dimension of matter. The amount of matter in the universe before is the same as the amount after. It can be used to exile enemies by tearing spacetime, which means that the matter in that spacetime disappears from the universe. If every civilization uses this technology to deal with enemies, the universe will eventually be unable to restart due to the loss of mass, and will change from closed to open, and continue to expand eternally.

“That’s difficult. You have to understand that the spacetime torn from the universe has a closed causal loop. The matter in it is practically non-existent relative to the universe. Even with a wormhole on the Planck scale, the probability of the Photon Man escaping that spacetime is infinitely close to zero,” Diana replied.

Lin Feng asked, "Is it possible to re-establish the causal connection with the universe's spacetime by creating a black hole within a spacetime fragment?"

Diana gave a wry smile and replied, "I don't know. The concept of spacetime tearing has always been just a theoretical explanation. Whether spacetime tearing exists in the universe has been a highly controversial issue until we learned about what happened in the Milky Way."

Lin Feng nodded in understanding, "I understand, I understand. It's really inappropriate to draw conclusions without scientific data as a basis."

Lin Feng shifted his gaze from Diana to Davis and said earnestly, "I hope that all the available research resources of the Taylor system will be directed towards the research on 'spacetime rifts'. After the successful development of the Photon Humans, all research resources will continue to be directed in this direction. I have a feeling that the phenomenon of 'spacetime rifts' is of great significance to the continuation of civilization."

Davis paused for a moment, then replied with a troubled expression, "...Mr. Taylor, the Taylor Department cannot support this kind of high-energy research."

Lin Feng replied, "Even if you can't support me, you still have to support me. Besides, I didn't urge you to produce research results immediately. If you can't make any progress in a hundred or two hundred years, you can spend a thousand, ten thousand, or even a hundred thousand years to research and overcome it. On a cosmic scale, that's a very short time."

"The reason you feel you can't hold on right now is simply because the integrated body has too few resources to allocate. Once the Photon Humans' research is successful, the Taylor series will be able to appear in every corner of the universe. At that time, the material resources currently controlled by the integrated body will be nothing more than a drop in the ocean, so you don't need to feel any psychological pressure at all," Lin Feng said, waving his hand.

Chapter 364 The Nature of Discarding a Donkey After It Has Served It

"The Perseus Arm of the Milky Way, about 30,000 light-years from the galactic center, the forces involved on both sides are unknown, the casualties are unknown, the war's impact range is 473 light-years, and the mass of a total of 53259 stars disappeared from the universe..."

AI reported the battlefield data after the battle between the two faster-than-light forces in the Milky Way. After the AI ​​finished reporting all the data, the Earth government representative spoke up, "The civilization from Andromeda in the Milky Way is more powerful than we imagined. What's worse is that they are aware of our existence and possess faster-than-light technology. If that civilization ever wants to search for the hidden unified entity, we will have no way to stop them or escape them."

“Maple Taylor needs to take full responsibility for this. He was the one who ordered the attack on the Taurus civilization, and he should be held accountable.”

Davis was the first to speak, “What responsibility? If we hadn’t attacked the Taurus civilization, would we know now that there’s a galactic overlord civilization from Andromeda in the Milky Way? Mr. Taylor’s initial judgment was correct.”

Davis glanced at the representatives of several human governments, and he knew what they were up to.

It's simply that the battle between faster-than-light forces in the Milky Way has ended, and the victor is still the dominant civilization that came from Andromeda to actively combat the Dark Forest in the Milky Way, and they're thinking of making contact and currying favor with them.

If that galactic overlord civilization asks about the Taurus civilization, just push all the blame onto Feng Taylor. If sacrificing Feng Taylor can bring in the powerful backer of a galactic overlord civilization, then it's a win-win situation no matter how you look at it.

Although Davis knew perfectly well that a politician who wasn't corrupt wouldn't be a politician, he still felt a surge of anger rising within him.

The Martian government representative countered, "So, if that's the case, shouldn't we ignore the fact that there's no strategy and actively try to make contact with that galactic overlord civilization?"

“Don’t misunderstand me, that’s childish,” Davis said.

“But we don’t understand what you mean, representative of the Taylor Group. Please translate what you just said,” said the representative of the Space City Federation.

Just then, the Trisolaran representative interrupted their argument.

"That's enough. It's true that the galactic overlord civilization is powerful, but whether it can discover us is still unknown. Moreover, we don't know that civilization's attitude towards us. If it harbors ill intentions, the higher the technology of that galactic overlord civilization, the more dangerous it will be for the unified entity. Making contact with them rashly is more risky than beneficial to us."

Another Trisolaran representative said, "We still don't know if the battle between the two faster-than-light forces in the Milky Way has ended. It's too early to discuss taking sides."

A representative of the Martian government stated, "Those black things, along with spacetime itself, were torn from the universe. Faster than light speed does not equate to ignoring barriers and traversing spacetime."

Diana clearly understood the arrangement of the spacetime tear. Many scholars in the Unified Body immediately recognized the spacetime tear as existing in the physical and mathematical solution when they saw the video.

The Trisolarans were certainly aware of the spacetime rift, even earlier than the humans, and knew that once trapped in a spacetime fragment, it would be extremely difficult to escape.

Heat death will destroy everything in the spacetime fragment.

But then another problem arises: who can guarantee that the fragments of spacetime contain all the power of those dark things?

"But who can guarantee that all those black things are in the torn-off spacetime fragments?" the Trisolaran representative retorted.

Liang Gong pulled up the data from the Milky Way battlefield and then said, "These black, unknown things are clearly not created by the uw66970hm star civilization, nor are they their original materials. This is likely just a disguise, and the uw66970hm star civilization is just used to deceive the galactic overlord civilization that came from Andromeda in the Milky Way."

None of the representatives objected, because it was too obvious; it was easy to see that this was an action taken to deceive the dominant civilization in the Milky Way.

As for why they didn't use a more covert method, such as atomizing their way into the Milky Way, the unified entity didn't quite understand, but there must be some compelling reason why the other side did it this way.

After everyone agreed, Suzumiya went on to explain some of her own speculations.

"Judging from the Taurus civilization's description of the size of that galactic hegemon civilization, this battle in the Milky Way may just be a small-scale preliminary battle."

This wasn't Liang Gong making baseless accusations for Lin Feng's sake. According to the intelligence left behind by the Taurus civilization, a river system overlord-level civilization possessed multiple river systems as its territory.

From this perspective, a battle within a single river system is indeed not a particularly large-scale war.

“Subjective conjectures cannot convince us, Ms. Suzumiya,” said the Earth government representative.

Liang Gong said, "I'm only considering the worst-case scenario. The most suitable thing to do right now is to wait for the Taylor system's photonization research to be completed, so that everyone can become light. That way, regardless of whether we have to make contact with this galactic overlord civilization from Andromeda, we will have a certain ability to protect ourselves."

The Martian government representative said, "The research on photonification is still a long way off. It's unrealistic to place all our hopes on that. If we make tentative contact with that galactic overlord civilization under a disguised guise, we can not only have the opportunity to obtain a lot of new technologies and knowledge, but also a lot of intelligence about the cosmic landscape."

"We've been blind for far too long. Even without a strategy, we're still actively encouraged to gather intelligence."

Besides wanting to curry favor with the dominant civilization in the galaxy, these representatives from the human government also wanted to understand what the situation was like on a macroscopic scale in the universe.

Are there even more dangerous hunters?

Or is there a cosmic society composed of civilizations?

Judging from the interaction between the Taurus civilization and the dominant civilization of the galaxy, the latter is more likely. If it is the latter, it means that the unified entity can finally get rid of the dark forest and transform from 'insects' into 'humans'.

Suzumiya glanced at the representatives of the human government a few times, sighed softly, and looked away.

"Don't assume that any civilization will necessarily be benevolent towards anyone, especially when the other party's technology far surpasses ours. Whether a little kid will walk a kilometer to pour boiling water on an ant nest depends on his mood at the time, not on any rational thinking. The lower the level of technology, the more insignificant and capricious the actions become."

"People's joys and sorrows are not shared."

Upon hearing this, the representatives of the human government all had strange expressions. They knew, of course, who said this, but they never imagined that the Trisolarans would use it.

Chapter 365 Olive Branch and Threat

Since the galactic overlord civilization demonstrated its spacetime tearing technology, the Unified Body has been focusing on observing the giant rings set up by the galactic overlord civilization in the Milky Way.

Today, observers at the Orion Arm end-of-the-plane observatory detected unusual neutrino signals in the vicinity.

What problem did you encounter?

The monitor replied, "I received a short neutrino message, the content of which contains our language."

"Our language? From what direction does the information come?"

"The direction of the giant ring 21 light-years away," the monitor replied.

"Let me see the contents of the message."

The monitors converted the neutrino information into digital information and transmitted it to the supervisor whose exact location was unknown.

The message was long, and the eavesdropper transmitted it over an atomic network over a week. However, the content of the message was short, mainly because it consisted of a single sentence expressed in different forms of language.

[Notice to all alien races in the H-tuy Star Sea: In the near future, this Star Sea will be destroyed by the Black Tide. The essence of the Black Tide is the plundering of matter. As races living in the H-tuy Star Sea, you have a responsibility to fight alongside us against these matter plunderers. After receiving this message, please trace it back to its source and contact us. Those who remain silent until the next Black Tide arrives will be considered hostile races and will be eliminated.]

After reviewing the information, it became clear that this was a threat from a galactic overlord civilization. The sheer volume of information sent chills down the spine of the monitoring supervisor, if he had a physical body at that moment.

The administrator recalled the spacetime tear that occurred in the Perseus Arm, and issuing this threatening message afterward was clearly a blatant display of force to all civilizations in the galaxy.

So what happens after that?

How would other hidden civilizations in the Milky Way react?

Will what follows be a galactic war that will engulf the entire galaxy?

And then there's the 'Kuroshio' mentioned in that message...

"What...what should we do?"

The monitor's words interrupted the supervisor's thoughts.

The supervisor said irritably, "What do you mean, 'what to do'? Can we make decisions on behalf of the consortium? You're in such a hurry to be reborn, but I'm not."

……

The information about the dominant civilization in the galaxy is something the unified entity must pay unprecedented attention to. This can be said to be another decision that will determine the future fate of the unified entity, and a direct one at that.

Upon entering the social media platform, the Martian government representative saw someone who was not at all surprising to him, appearing on the meeting's social media platform.

"Maple Taylor, it's you again?"

The Earth government representative said, "Mr. Taylor, you are not qualified to attend the meeting. Only ten representatives elected by all members of the Unified Body are allowed to participate."