The Wallfacer: Everyone wants to break through my wall.

Photons can carry information, but like other particles, they need to interact with each other to acquire information, which involves the issue of information contact surfaces.

Photons can be said to have no volume, only frequency and wavelength, which means that the interaction between photons can only be observed one photon at a time.

What the hell can you possibly see from this? Not everyone is a fax machine.

Therefore, the photonics will select a neutrino nearby to modify, and with some effort, use the natural rise and fall of quantum tides in the quantum sea to transform atoms in the vacuum into atomic computers.

Manipulating a large number of atomic computers to interfere on a macroscopic scale, selecting a planet as a gravitational anchor point, allowing protons to be expanded into two dimensions and processed into sophons.

Let the sophon observe the cosmic background and collect star coordinate data.

Chapter 376 Graviton Civilization

After seventy years, all the initial information was collected and a preliminary celestial framework for the three-dimensional star map was completed. The truth behind the mystery of the universe was presented to everyone in the unified entity for the first time.

The universe is like a battlefield, with wars raging everywhere. Entropy is constantly accelerating due to the wars between civilizations, and this is true for every galaxy.

Civilizations born under the same laws of life share the same biological characteristics. Whether they are carbon-based, silicon-based, or simply electronic or plasma life forms, they will all stop at nothing to survive.

As civilizations advance with technology, their demand for resources will become highly consistent. Within the same periodic table, nature uses the same resources, and none is more special than the others; the only difference lies in the efficiency of their utilization of these substances.

Thus, civilizations of different life forms still face sharp resource conflicts.

The only way to break this high degree of consistency is to use a dimensional reduction attack, to reshuffle a region by 'dimensional reduction' and overturn the periodic table.

Generally speaking, only the weaker side among space civilizations would consider a dimensional reduction attack. After all, given a choice, no one would want to live in a dimensionally reduced environment. Dimensional reduction is the ultimate trump card for weaker civilizations in the universe to resist stronger ones.

Of course, not the entire universe is a war zone; there are still many peaceful areas in the universe.

These regions are all inhabited by powerful civilizations. These civilizations are not necessarily benevolent, nor do they necessarily actively seek to maintain order. However, their mere existence has a tremendous stabilizing effect, like a pillar of stability. Any Black Forest Hunters who are particularly aggressive in their vicinity are swiftly eliminated without exception.

This leads to low-tech civilizations near these powerful civilizations simply hiding themselves instead of actively eliminating others, because civilizations that actively eliminate others will soon perish.

Once no one is shooting from the shadows in the Dark Forest, there's basically no darkness left.

According to the observational data of the unified entity, there are more than 500,000 civilizations in the universe that possess faster-than-light technology, such as the Hui Civilization and the Kuroshio Civilization.

If we also include those civilizations hiding outside the universe, like the Black Tide, that are thinking of plundering cosmic matter, avoiding a reboot, and becoming new cosmic gods, the number of more than 500,000 would probably double again.

In short, there are just too many big shots in the universe, so many that it's enough to make your scalp tingle.

In the universe, besides ambitious individuals like Kuroshio who want to create a new universe, there are also characters like Cheng Xin and Guan Yifan from the original work who attempt to continue their civilization in a new universe by escaping the universe reboot.

After several rounds of screening, the Unified Body finally selected several civilizations that were unable to detect the Photon People but had the technology to create miniature universes, and secretly dispatched the Photon People to infiltrate the miniature universes that these civilizations were building.

Everyone in the unified entity enjoyed unprecedented 'freedom'. This sense of freedom came from their ability to travel freely in the universe without being threatened by anyone. This was something that never happened in the original work. Humanity truly lived up to its name in the universe.

The most excited people were none other than the hibernators. Who among them had ever imagined that humanity could reach this point?

When faced with the threat of the Trisolarans, their greatest wish was to resolve it. The idea of ​​atomizing or photonicizing humans was simply a fantastical fairy tale to them at that time.

Lin Feng's reputation reached an unprecedented height, just like the infamy he had once borne. Lin Feng himself didn't react to this, because he understood people's hearts all too well. Don't be fooled by the praise he receives now; if any problems arise in the future, the praise will immediately turn into insults, because that's just how people are.

Compared to the relaxation of others after photonification, Lin Feng was actually still somewhat uneasy.

The reason is that Lin Feng's initial belief that microscopic existence is common in the universe seems to be wrong. Despite the expansion of the unified entity in the universe to this point, it has not discovered a single microscopic civilization.

Previously, when the galaxy was atomized, Lin Feng thought he might encounter other atomized civilizations, but he didn't see or come into contact with a single atomized civilization until the entire galaxy was decimated by two galactic overlord civilizations.

Thus, such a question arose in Lin Feng's mind.

Could it be that the micro-leveling of civilizations has some obvious drawbacks, so much so that many civilizations immediately abandon this option without even considering it when thinking about survival in a micro-level manner?

Lin Feng couldn't get an answer to this question, since he couldn't just go up to those ancient civilizations that had been born from the ten-dimensional universe and had survived to the present day since shortly after the Big Bang and ask them for an explanation.

Lin Feng harbored this question until the unified entity received a warning, at which point the question was dispelled.

The warning is a gravitational wave originating from a lifeless star.

The incident originated within the Unified Body, where some photon people had a sudden inspiration: since photons can be used to photonize, can gravitons also be used to gravitate?

Like photons, gravitons are virtual particles, meaning they are bosons without volume.

These people then randomly selected a star to conduct the experiment, and received the warning at that star.

The warning was a string of numbers, which, after being interpreted by a computer, the system deciphered as roughly meaning "don't come any closer".

The photon civilization that was conducting graviton experiments didn't take it too seriously. Whether it was a god or a ghost, they continued the experiments. Because of this, the photon civilization received increasingly severe warnings. After many twists and turns, the photon civilization finally realized that they had encountered a graviton civilization.

This discovery shocked everyone in the unified entity. After a resolution by the council, a special envoy was sent to make tentative contact with this unknown gravitonian civilization.

As a result, no matter what form of friendly signal was sent, the other party ignored it and only issued a warning about the Photon Man's research on gravitonization.

Seemingly realizing that the warnings were useless, after issuing seven warnings, the graviton civilization abruptly collapsed its star and began a supernova explosion. The planets, satellites, and asteroids within the star system all collapsed into tiny black holes of the same volume.

Not only these macroscopic substances, but even interstellar dust collapsed into miniature black holes of equal mass.

Caught off guard, all the photon beings participating in the experiment within the star system lost all the entangled photons within the star system without exception.

Chapter 377 Lin Feng's Worries

Although the attack launched by the graviton civilization did not cause any serious damage to the unified entity, the act of attack itself caused great panic within the unified entity.

Imagine two people facing each other, and one of them slaps the other. The slap may not cause much harm, but it is extremely insulting.

The situation between the two civilizations is naturally more complicated. Even if no one cares about the initial 'slap', some people are worried that the graviton civilization might take further action against the unified entity.

"This is a blatant declaration of war! We should retaliate!"

At the meeting, the Space Force representative called on all delegates to put the integration into a state of combat readiness.

The Earth government representative countered, "We know absolutely nothing about that civilization. How can we fight them? What method can we use to destroy gravity?"

The Earth government representative inquired about the objective problems facing the Council of Ten.

If you're going to fight, at least you should know how to fight, right? Punching the air won't kill anyone; it's just a waste of energy.

Unfortunately, the unified entity's understanding of graviton civilizations is practically zero; they cannot even comprehend the form in which graviton civilizations exist.

If the opponent directly uses a single graviton as a carrier of thought, then the technology embodied in the integration form has no ability to harm the opponent.

As for 'people' like photon people, composed of multiple photons, the unified entity also doesn't understand how they maintain the connection between gravitons. Surely it's not through quantum entanglement, is it?

So far, the consortium has not discovered that gravitons possess the physical property of quantum entanglement, and whether graviton civilizations employ quantum entanglement remains a question mark.

The Martian government representative objected, saying, "It is inappropriate to start a war so easily. Escalating the conflict will not benefit the unified entity. It is understandable that the civilization does not want us to study gravitonization. After all, as the research deepens, the information barrier between the unified entity and that civilization will inevitably be broken. Once this information barrier is broken, the two civilizations will have to face the choice of eliminating each other or merging and unifying with each other. We should not explore gravitonization further. It is enough for us to know of their existence now."

A representative from the Space City Federation stated, "I disagree. How can the exploration of civilizations stagnate? There are so many competitors in the universe. If we stagnate now, other civilizations will surpass us in the future, posing a huge threat to the future integration."

The virtual representation of the Martian government looked at the representative of the Space City Federation with disdain and questioned, "Foolish competitive thinking! Why did we start miniaturizing our civilization? Wasn't it to avoid cosmic competition? If the unified entity takes competition as its core of thinking, what we should be doing now is to seize a piece of land in the universe for the development of civilization, instead of hiding like this, having to be careful even when we speak."

Lin Feng, who was attending the meeting, immediately became the focus of attention for all the virtual representatives.

The meeting was held in the online world. Although the virtual entities had biological appearances, they were not biological beings and did not possess any biological characteristics; they were simply a mass of data on the surface.

The role of virtual entities is similar to the ID above each player's head in a game, giving meeting participants a common goal for communication.

Even without these virtual entities, meeting participants can still 'see,' 'speak,' and 'listen' on the meeting's social platform. However, this can feel awkward during the meeting because there are no direct communication partners, since everyone involved has lived on a macro scale.

The fact that all the representatives are now focusing their attention on Lin Feng is a subtle hint to him.

Now that the topic has fallen to you, you have to express your opinion and say which side you support, right?

Unfortunately, those representatives who wanted to get Lin Feng on their side were disappointed. Lin Feng just yawned and didn't react in any other way.

“In-depth research into gravitationalization is not the same as competition. Comparing our relationship with photons, I believe that graviton civilizations and gravitons are in a similar situation. The universe is so vast that the existence of graviton civilizations in this region does not mean that such civilizations exist elsewhere. We can continue our research into gravitationalization in another region where there are no graviton civilizations,” argued the representative of the Space City Federation.

"What if the entire universe were filled with graviton civilizations?" asked the Earth government representative.

The representative of the Space City Federation did not directly answer this unanswerable question, but instead asked in return, "Then why can't the universe be filled with photonic civilizations? I believe the universe is vast enough, otherwise why haven't we encountered a civilization that has chosen photonics like us until now?"

Upon hearing these words from the representative of the Space City Federation, all the representatives fell into thought, while a barely perceptible trace of worry flashed in Lin Feng's eyes.

Lin Feng interrupted everyone's thoughts and said, "The situation is very complicated, and there is too little information. How much of what you're guessing can you possibly get right? The only certainty we have right now is that the graviton civilization can create black holes at will, posing a certain threat to us photon-based beings."

All the representatives turned their attention back to Lin Feng. Everyone knew that once Lin Feng made a choice, the decision was basically set in stone. What they had just said was actually meant for Lin Feng.

The representative of the Space City Federation, whose views were endorsed by Lin Feng, smiled warmly at the Earth government representative.

Lin Feng still retains strong power to interfere with the direction of parliamentary decisions. Civilizations that joined the Unified Body later, such as the Lizardman Civilization, did not have representatives from other civilizations in the Council of Ten. As Lin Feng had initially expected, the Council did not bring in representatives from other civilizations to weaken his power to interfere with parliamentary decisions.

Both the Trisolarans and humanity tacitly prevented representatives of these civilizations from entering the power center of the unified entity.

Lin Feng pondered this matter carefully. The mentality of the Trisolarans and humans was probably similar to that of the former permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. They could fight among themselves, but they could not allow more people to join the circle. At most, they could only be on the periphery, unless the civilizations that joined had enough say, such as the Radiant Civilization or the Black Tide, which were galactic hegemons.

Lin Feng explained his reasons for making this choice to everyone: "Everyone, no matter when, survival is the eternal core. Since the graviton civilization was able to detect that we were researching gravitonization and even used black hole attacks that could destroy the entanglement of photons, it means that they have glimpsed the true nature of the unified entity to some extent, just as we have realized that they are composed of gravitons."

Chapter 378 No Progress, No Destruction

Lin Feng continued, "Like the question some people asked earlier, they are gravitons, how do we destroy gravity?" He paused for a moment, then asked decisively, "Have you all thought about why we encounter this problem? It's because we don't understand them, we don't know where their weaknesses are, so we don't know how to destroy them. If we knew, this problem wouldn't exist."

The representatives nodded in understanding. The application of the principles of offense and defense, in general, was reflected in the inability to strike the gravitational sub-civilization because the conditions for attack could not be met at the information level.

How large would a graviton civilization be?

Where are the weaknesses?

What resources of the universe are primarily being utilized?

In what form does it exist?

……

These are all problems that the unified entity needs to solve before it can strike the gravitational civilization. If these problems cannot be solved, it will be impossible to destroy the gravitational civilization. And if it is determined that one side cannot destroy the other side in the war, the outcome of the war is basically already determined.

"The worst situation between civilizations is this: one side doesn't understand the other, while the other side understands the other completely. If the unified entity and that graviton civilization evolve into this situation, it's only a matter of time before our unified entity becomes the next Aries civilization."

Many years have passed since the battle between the Taurus and Aries civilizations, but Lin Feng still remembers it vividly. That battle left a far greater impression on him than the later war between the Radiant Civilization and the Black Tide, a river system overlord civilization.

The battle between Taurus and Aries made Lin Feng realize what it meant for civilizational information to be leaked to the other side during war.

The other party can gather this information to create a "poison" for civilization. This "poison" can also follow the trajectory of civilization and quickly wipe out the entire civilization. The Aries civilization is such an example.

Lin Feng was unsure whether there were other civilizations in the universe that had discovered the Unified Body long ago but were still observing it from the shadows. However, the Graviton Civilization clearly possessed the ability to observe the Unified Body's Photon People to a certain extent. Otherwise, how would the Graviton Civilization know that the Unified Body was conducting gravitationalization research?

What if there are other civilizations besides the graviton civilization secretly spying on the unified entity?

What should the unified entity do then?

Therefore, the integration must not stop or be complacent. As long as it keeps moving forward, there will always be an 'unknown' that will be created. This 'unknown' may play a role in preserving the flame of civilization at certain times.

"Regardless of whether that graviton civilization has occupied the entire universe, our research on gravitationalization cannot stop. Unless that graviton civilization is willing to respond to our desire to communicate, this chain of suspicion cannot be broken," Lin Feng said to everyone in an unquestionable tone.