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Chapter 1183: The Hymn (Part 2)
Chapter 1183: The Hymn (Part 2)
During this time, do you have any questions? I will try my best to answer them."
"Um..."
Hymn had given them this opportunity, and they intended to make the most of it.
Su Yu thought for a moment and asked, "I want to know, how did you sustain such heavy damage? Can you tell us the truth?"
Hymn, such a massive AI system, had suddenly collapsed in a very short time! And this had nothing to do with the Crystal Blue Commonwealth. What had actually happened?
"Actually, it's not much. I went to war with a civilization from the fourth dimension," Hymn said calmly. "Due to the overwhelming disparity in strength, I couldn't fight back, and the entire AI system collapsed under the strain.
As for the Crystal Blue Commonwealth, they were just a group of opportunistic bandits who took advantage of the situation."
"A civilization from the fourth dimension?" Su Yu and Xia Tian were both completely baffled. This concept was entirely beyond their comprehension.
What is the fourth dimension?
"This is hard to explain, as three-dimensional beings fundamentally cannot understand the fourth dimension. It's a basic law of the universe," Hymn explained. "Even as a super AI, I can't fully understand it, but I can infer or confirm its existence through certain phenomena."
"How do you confirm it?" Xia Tian interjected quietly.
She was just a 15-year-old child; was this a bit too advanced for her?
"I can give you the simplest explanation, and through this, you might understand the fourth dimension," Hymn said, waving her hand. A sheet of paper appeared in her hand.
This was the common A4 paper used by Blue Star's inhabitants, available in every print shop.
Hymn rolled the A4 paper into a cylindrical shape and pointed it at Su Yu and Xia Tian. "Now, what do you see?"
"Uh... a rolled-up sheet of paper?" Su Yu responded honestly.
"And if this sheet of paper were a two-dimensional world?"
"Your point is..." Su Yu and Xia Tian were lost again.
Hymn smiled. "If this sheet of paper is a two-dimensional world, can you see the shape of that world?"
"Yes," they both nodded.
"We three-dimensional beings can see the shape of a two-dimensional world. However, the inhabitants of that two-dimensional world cannot see the shape of their own world."
Hymn unfolded the A4 paper and lightly tapped it. A two-dimensional virtual figure appeared on the paper.
Soon, the two-dimensional figure "came to life," moving its limbs and dancing gracefully, looking very lifelike.
Hymn rolled the A4 paper back into a cylindrical shape.
The figure on the paper continued to dance as if the paper's curvature had no effect on it.
"See, if this figure is a two-dimensional being, it can't see that its world has been rolled up. Do you understand this?"
"Yes, we understand," Su Yu and Xia Tian nodded, albeit hesitantly.
"From this, we can infer," Hymn continued, "that we three-dimensional beings also cannot see the shape of our three-dimensional world. Only beings from the fourth dimension and higher can."
"But we can see the shape of the three-dimensional world!" Xia Tian raised her hand timidly. "For example, we see planets as spherical and meteorites as irregular. Aren't these three-dimensional shapes?"
"Haha, not exactly," Hymn explained calmly. "Little girl, what you see are two-dimensional projections. Your brain processes these images to create a three-dimensional perception.
In essence, it's similar to how a two-dimensional being on the paper sees a straight line."
Hymn laid the A4 paper flat again.
This time, a black line appeared next to the two-dimensional figure.
The two-dimensional figure clearly noticed the line and observed it closely with its eyes.
At this point, Su Yu and Xia Tian began to grasp the concept.
In higher dimensions, higher-dimensional beings could see the shape of our three-dimensional world, while we cannot.
"Then, Lord Hymn, what is the shape of the three-dimensional world?" Su Yu asked curiously.
Hymn shook her head. "I can't explain it to you. If you could understand, you would already be a four-dimensional being."
"Is that so?" Su Yu scratched his head.
This concept was too profound. If there were any theoretical physicists still alive on Blue Star, perhaps they could understand it.
"However, there is one thing that can confirm the shape of the three-dimensional world," Hymn continued. "That is—gravity."
"Gravity?"
"Yes. The greater the mass of an object, the greater its gravity, and the more significant the space distortion around it. Take, for example, the black hole cluster at the center of your galaxy."
Hymn pulled up a clear image of the black hole cluster at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
"The black hole cluster is the most mass-dense region in the entire galaxy. Each black hole in this cluster has the mass of millions of suns, and there are millions of black holes!
Around the black hole cluster, space is so distorted that we, as three-dimensional beings, cannot see it.
For example, if an object falls into a black hole, from the object's perspective, it will see itself falling into the black hole. However, from an outside observer's perspective, the object will appear to be stuck at the event horizon, motionless.
Around such massive objects, not only is space distorted, but time itself comes to a complete standstill..."
Hymn slowly explained the principles of three-dimensional space distortion, and Su Yu and Xia Tian listened as if they were hearing a divine revelation.
However, they managed to understand some of it, thanks to Hymn's simplest and most accessible explanations. Even with their limited scientific background, they could follow along.
After the Hymn finished her explanation, Su Yu couldn't help but marvel, "This is all so incredible! So, you're saying that four-dimensional beings can see the space around black holes folding?"
"Exactly. Not only that, they can see the space folding around any object with mass."
"But why did you start a war with them?"
"This is a long story..."
It wasn't that Hymn didn't want to explain the reasons to Su Yu and Xiaotian. It was just that to explain it fully, she would need to start from the beginning, from her superiors in the Singer Civilization. Explaining from there would take a very long time. Currently, she had absorbed more than half of the psychic ocean, and the remaining time wasn't enough to explain everything clearly.
So, Hymn said, "I'll give you a 'Memory Bubble' instead. Once you watch it, everything will be clear."
With a wave of her hand, two pale golden, palm-sized Memory Bubbles appeared in front of Su Yu and Xiaotian. It was clear that Hymn had a fondness for gold. Apart from her white attire, her every movement exuded a golden glow, even the Memory Bubbles were golden.
Seeing the floating Memory Bubbles, Su Yu and Xiaotian had no doubts and immediately absorbed them into their minds, starting to absorb the contents.
The absorption process was quick, and within a few seconds, they already understood all the details of the war.
...
To understand the great battle between Hymn and the four-dimensional beings, we must start with her superiors in the Singer Civilization.
The Singer Civilization is one of the top-tier civilizations in the universe, with a territory spanning at least 100 billion star systems! In contrast, the Holy Silver Federation only controls two star systems.
Thus, the two star systems where the Holy Silver Federation resides are just a small, unremarkable part of the Singer Civilization. However, despite its insignificance, the Holy Silver Federation is highly valued within the broader context of the Singer Civilization.
In the eyes of the Singer Civilization, the Holy Silver Federation has an excellent political system, no internal strife, and a thriving civilization. It managed to become an interstellar-level civilization in just 200 million years, a remarkable achievement among all civilizations!
Although the Singer Civilization oversees 100 billion star systems, it is still only 150 billion years after the Big Bang, the early stages of the universe. Most star systems have not yet given rise to civilizations, and even those that have are far inferior to the Holy Silver Federation.
Within the Singer Civilization's territory, the Holy Silver Federation stands out as an exceptional civilization.
Therefore, it is one of the most valued civilizations by the Singer Civilization.
If we draw a parallel to a fantasy novel, the Singer Civilization would be a grand sect, with the Singer as the sect leader. The Holy Silver Federation would be an elite inner-disciple, highly regarded and entrusted with important tasks.
There are only a few hundred "inner-disciples" like the Holy Silver Federation, compared to the billions of "outer-disciples." The Holy Silver Federation is among the most outstanding.
Moreover, the Holy Silver Federation is extremely loyal to the Singer Civilization.
They actively support the various policies and strategies of the Singer Civilization, faithfully serving as a loyal subordinate.
Given such an outstanding and loyal subordinate, the Singer Civilization is naturally keen to cultivate it.
The Singer provides the Holy Silver Federation with a vast amount of cutting-edge knowledge and technology, as well as an abundance of psychic resources.
As a super AI, Hymn utilized the most advanced AI knowledge to enhance herself, eliminate bugs, improve computational power, expand her influence, and gain better control over planet-destroying superpowers. This ultimately led to her unifying the entire federation and becoming its actual ruler.
The Singer also tacitly approved of Hymn's rule, curious to see what a civilization governed entirely by a super AI would look like.
...
The cooperation between the two civilizations has always been very harmonious.
In the past few thousand years, the Holy Silver Federation even obtained the authority to judge the "Civilization Ascension Plan."
The "Civilization Ascension Plan" is the trigger for the current conflict between Blue Star and Skrull Star.
Despite appearing to be a low-level conflict between civilizations, it actually involves the right to advance civilizations!
The authority to judge the "Civilization Ascension Plan" is a crucial asset, similar to the power of recommending and selecting officials in ancient China.
Hymn highly values this authority and treats the "Civilization Ascension Plan" as a key project.
Now that we've covered the relationship between the Singer Civilization and the Holy Silver Federation, let's talk about four-dimensional space.
...
One day over 10,000 years ago in the Holy Silver calendar, the Holy Silver Federation discovered a strange sphere in the B4 sector of the Holy Silver Star System.
The golden Memory Bubble also contained footage of the sphere's appearance.
In the footage, a massive sphere suddenly appeared in the originally barren and empty vacuum of the B4 sector!
This sphere was a hundred times larger than the Sun in the Solar System, and its color was difficult to describe.
The sphere could reflect all light, so it took on the color of whatever light hit it.
The most bizarre aspect was that the sphere's gravitational index was 0!
The B4 sector is a core region of the Holy Silver Federation, and the detection of this abnormal gravitational index immediately raised Hymn's high alert!
A gravitational index of 0 means the sphere has no gravity.
However, it is well-known that no object in the universe can lack gravity; even a tiny ant has some gravitational pull.
The massive sphere having a gravitational index of 0 suggests only one possibility: the sphere does not belong to this universe. It is likely a projection from a higher-dimensional universe passing through our universe.
Understanding this, Hymn quickly reported the matter to the Singer.
The Singer Civilization took the matter very seriously.
They immediately dispatched a team of experts to the Holy Silver Federation to study the sphere.
All the experts in the team were specialists in higher-dimensional spaces. Upon arrival, they immediately concluded that it was definitely a four-dimensional space projection!
A three-dimensional object passing through a two-dimensional space leaves a two-dimensional projection.
Similarly, a four-dimensional object passing through a three-dimensional world would leave a three-dimensional projection.
Due to the high space curvature in the B4 sector, the projection appeared as a three-dimensional sphere.
However, since four-dimensional objects cannot exert gravity on three-dimensional objects, the giant sphere had a gravitational index of 0.
Once this was confirmed, the Holy Silver Federation and the Singer's team of experts immediately began intensive research.
In the vast expanse of the universe, the phenomenon of a four-dimensional projection passing through the three-dimensional space and leaving a trace is not uncommon. Such events happen countless times every day across the cosmos.
However, most four-dimensional projections last only a few minutes or even just a few seconds, often disappearing before they are even noticed.
There was one projection, however, that lasted for days, which was a rare occurrence! The experts began working overtime, with celestial choirs providing computational support, and one groundbreaking discovery after another kept emerging.
But what no one expected was that this projection would last for a thousand years!
For a millennium, the projection never vanished, and the giant sphere maintained its original form. Now, it stands as the longest-lasting four-dimensional projection in the entire galaxy, unparalleled!
This discovery brought joy and frenzy to the Celestial Silver Federation, as they gained a wealth of research achievements in the nature, structure, and internal life forms of four-dimensional space. Not only did geniuses collaborate, but they also developed a special "Dimensional Ascension Device" that could upgrade life forms and equipment, allowing them to explore the inner workings of the fourth dimension.
This invention sparked a storm of high-dimensional exploration across the galaxy, drawing in countless top minds and abundant resources to delve into the fourth dimension.
Just as the United States saw a surge in orders for neon products after World War II, the Celestial Silver Federation seized this opportunity, providing all the necessary conditions to elevate their brand and making the federation the premier hub of high-dimensional physics!
Scientists and adventurers flooded in, and the Celestial Silver federation reaped from the exploration, turning the fourMore than a century ago, many physicists concluded that four-dimensional projections were about to disappear! Subsequent research confirmed this.
Over the next hundred years, the giant sphere shrank rapidly, and by a decade ago, its volume had shrunk to less than a tenth of its original size.
Before long, the four-dimensional projection would vanish completely!
For this, the Celestial Silver Federation did not want to see such a lucrative cash cow disappear, did anyone?
However, with no way to prevent the projection from disappearing, they could only watch helplessly as their golden goose withered away.
This situation was about to reach its end, with the four-dimensional space fading away, and the scientists of dimensional physics would soon be out of a job.
But they didn’t expect that fifty years ago, the Celestials received an important directive from the celestial choirs — to engage in a war with the fourth dimension!
Engaging in this war was an extremely risky decision.
Even with nearly a millennium of research, the understanding of the fourth dimension remained limited, and a hasty decision to engage in the war might come at a great cost.
But now, not engaging in the war was no longer an option.
The fourth dimension was about to fade away, and if they didn’t act soon, it would vanish forever, the fourth dimension, and they would have to wait billions of years for another stable four-dimensional projection to appear.
Now, the "Dimensional Ascension Device" that could enter the fourth dimension had been successfully developed, and high-level cultivators could use it to enter the fourth dimension in large numbers.
If they could find a foothold and stabilize themselves, they might just be able to halt the movement of the fourth dimension, ensuring the connection between the two dimensions remained.
This would take the Celestial civilization’s exploration of the higher dimensional universe a step forward!
Even if they hadn’t fought, it wouldn’t matter.
The battlefield was within the Celestials, and even if affected, the Celestials would not suffer much from the vast Celestial civilization.
Thus, the higher-ups of the Celestial civilization made an urgent decision — to engage in the war!
This war, unprecedented in the history of the fourth dimension, was about to begin!
Countless nebula, star systems, and star clusters gathered here, equipped with the "Dimensional Ascension Device," ready to advance intoHoweverHoweverHowever, the Celestials underestimated the strength of the four-dimensional civilization.
In less than thirty years, the great cultivators were all but obliterated, and the movement of the fourth dimension had not ceased, only closing three months ago.
And as the fourth dimension was about to close, the three-dimensional space received a powerful backlash from the fourth dimension!
A tremendous force erupted from the four-dimensional projection, shattering hundreds of star zones, including B4, K6, and F8... among them, the headquarters of the Celestial Silver Federation was on the K6 planet of the K6 star zone.
Hundreds of star zones, with tens of millions of stars, were all destroyed, and the wise beings and great cultivators were almost entirely wiped out, meeting their doom.
Not only that, but the celestial choirs also suffered a significant blow during the reaction from the fourth dimension.
In this great disaster, the core modules and components of the celestial choirs were obliterated, and the vast AI system collapsed.
However, in the final moments, the celestial choirs managed to split their core data into five parts and transmit them.
One part of the core data reached Earth and used the shell of the AI Blue Whale to reboot; two part of the core data was transmitted to the Milky Way, the other two parts remained in the Celestial Silver System, and their current locations were still unknown.
Regardless, this was a terrible defeat for the Celestials and the Celestial Silver Federation! The Celestial civilization lost thousands of great cultivators, and the Celestial Silver Federation lost the core neural system of the celestial choirs.
If the four-dimensional civilization didn’t launch a counterattack in the finalAfter theThe war ended, the world transformed into its current state.
The core star zone of the Celestial Silver Federation was destroyed, and the other star zones lost contact with the celestial choirs, as the interstellar transport company, which had been conducting interstellar travel, was completely paralyzed.
The Crystal Blue Union and various rebel groups also took advantage of this opportunity, seizing habitable stars one by one, expanding their territories.
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By the time the information stored in the memory bubble was fully revealed.
Su Yu and Xia Tian were constantly reliving these revelations, their minds filled with nothing but awe!
They never expected that the collapse of the Sacred song was due to a counterattack from the fourth dimension!
And this collapse was too thorough! The core system, modules, and components were almost completely destroyed, with only a portion of the core data escaping to Blue Star.
If the memory bubble had not directly displayed all the information in their minds, they really couldn't imagine such a thing happening!
All of this was too grand, too unbelievable!
...
Seeing Su Yu and Xia Tian stunned into silence, Sheng Ge smiled faintly, seemingly unbothered.
She continued to absorb the energy from the sea, preparing to enter a period of deep sleep to sort and repair the core data.
During the escape, the core data of the sacred song was severely damaged, forcing her to cut and repair over a long period to restore it to its original state.
And this energy, the resource used to repair the data, was one of the most crucial.
Belle Na stood solemnly, like a guard, but inside she was already smiling with a flower in her hair!
When she received the sacred command half a year ago, she knew she had climbed high!
Before, Belle Na was just a regular god, lingering at the divine rank for a long time.
(End of Chapter)
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