Light Speed ​​War

Chapter 170: Badu Super Brain

Many of the elves who were watching trembled as if they had been electrocuted when they saw the elves and mantises displayed on the huge holographic screen.

At this moment, a commotion arose among the elves. "The chieftain is here! Make way!" The crowd automatically parted to make way, and an elder elf with a white beard, accompanied by seven or eight young elves, walked toward the place where Zhou Yuan and the others were sitting cross-legged in mid-air.

When the white-bearded old elf saw the giant holographic screen, he suddenly stumbled and almost fell, but fortunately, his companion caught him in time.

Zhou Yuan stood up and also rose into the air to meet the old elf and the others.

Zhou Yuan landed slowly and greeted the old elven man in Elvish, "Hello."

The old elf's eyesight was probably poor; he stared wide-eyed, trying to see Zhou Yuan clearly. Zhou Yuan stepped forward, and the old elf's guards tried to stop him, but they seemed to be blocked by a wall. Zhou Yuan supported the old elf, then covered his eyes with his right hand. Three minutes later, the old elf, who had been walking unsteadily, straightened up and became much more energetic; his cloudy eyes also became clear.

When the other elves saw this miraculous feat, they, like the old elf, prostrated themselves in worship.

Zhou Yuan quickly helped the old man up, and the other elves all felt a force supporting them as they were being lifted up.

Zhou Yuan released the old elf, took three steps back, and greeted him again, "Monte Carlo, hello, I am Zhou Yuan, commander of the Earth Empire's human civilization fleet."

The old elf quickly bowed again, "This humble one, Monte Carlo, greets Your Excellency."

"Don't be shy, take a look ahead first." Zhou Yuan pointed to the huge holographic display screen behind him, which was formed by four elves representing Earth's humans.

All the elves were focused and attentive.

The holographic screen switched, and two small suns appeared on either side of a semi-transparent cage shaped like a peanut. Suddenly, two groups of metal monsters "broke out" from both ends of the cage. The two groups of metal monsters were sucked into a dark tunnel, where they were greeted by light. In front of the two groups of metal monsters was a gray-green planet and a sun.

The holographic screen accelerated, and a minute later, a group of metallic monsters rose into the air from the gray-green planet. The "Ship of Light" disappeared into the sky above the gray-green planet.

The scene sped up again, and suddenly, a "sword of light" cleaved through mountains and valleys. Huge metal pipes rose into the air everywhere, spewing pale blue flames from their tails. Then, a giant city was razed to the ground. The massive shockwave was devastating, and the elves running through the city streets were torn to shreds and vanished in an instant.

On the gray-green planet, cities around the world have been destroyed. In the sky, giant metal monsters are fighting each other, and one by one, the metal monsters turn into huge fireballs and fall into the gray-green planet.

All the elves present crouched down in fear, except for the old elf who remained standing, though his body was trembling slightly.

Earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions have left the gray-green planet devastated, a scene of chaos and misery.

The scene sped up again, and after a series of dramatic changes, the planet's forest coverage expanded. Some unknown beasts appeared in the desert, which was once the home of the elves. The elves, who had been hiding in the deep mountains and ruins, came to the surface and began a large-scale migration. One by one, the migrants fell, and only a small number survived to reach their destination. After three hundred years of reproduction, the number of elves increased slightly.

Finally, the holographic screen showed Zhou Yuan meeting the old elven man, and disappeared after one minute. The four human elves slowly descended to the ground and sat cross-legged in mid-air.

Led by Zhou Yuan, the old elf came to the human world. A flash of light appeared in the sky, and two chairs appeared on the ground. Zhou Yuan gestured for the old elf to sit down, and then sat down himself, facing the old elf.

“Your Excellency, the paintings you just painted are quite similar to what I experienced, heard, and read about in the sacred books when I was a child.”

"Carlo, how old are you this year?"

"Your Excellency, I am 352 years old this year."

Zhou Yuan nodded. "Carlo, we are the gods described in your holy book."

Zhou Yuan's earth-shattering words caused a stir among the elves, who whispered among themselves.

The old elf Monte Carlo was clearly stunned, remaining motionless as if in a trance for a moment, only staring wide-eyed at Zhou Yuan.

It took Carlo a while to wake up, his face displaying a complex expression—a mixture of awe and doubt. Zhou Yuan simply watched him with a smile.

"Gods above, please accept my three bows." The elderly Carlo rose from his chair and moved forward, and Zhou Yuan quickly stood up as well.

Carlo lowered his head, bent his waist, and knelt down, preparing to kowtow, but felt as if something was supporting him in his arms, preventing him from kneeling. The other elves who were about to kneel also encountered a similar situation.

“Carlo, you don’t need to go to such lengths.”

Helpless, Carlo could only bow three times to Zhou Yuan, and the other elves did the same.

Zhou Yuan waved to the four human elves from Earth, and the four came to Carlo. "Carlo, these four are our human elf race. They will guide you and improve your living conditions."

"Thank you for your divine favor." Carlo bowed again to Zhou Yuan and the four human elves. The four elves returned the bow.

Zhou Yuan communicated with the four people through telepathy, and the four nodded frequently.

“Carlo, you can rebuild your home here with the help of these four. We will also provide appropriate assistance. We need to leave here for now.”

"Thank you, God."

A soft beam of light was projected from the sky onto the ground. Zhou Yuan and the others quickly rose along the beam until it disappeared from sight.

The elves worshipped the sky.

Carlo, accompanied by four human elves, began his journey towards the center of the settlement, with the other elves following behind. The four human elves of the Earth Empire quickly restored the planet to its former glory.

Zhou Yuan returned to the command center. He felt regretful about the Mantis Clan, but could the reality already set in stone be changed? Although the Earth Empire did indeed possess a "super intelligent energy exchanger" that could locally increase the speed of light in space, allowing "time to flow backward" in that local space, this local space had certain limitations. Basically, it could make a star system "flow backward" in time, and the further back in time this "time flow" went, the greater the energy consumed, as the energy was used to increase the speed of light in the local space.

Zhou Yuan wondered if civilizations like Pandora and Balu possessed time-travel machines, and if so, to what extent they had achieved them.

Zhou Yuan immediately contacted Pan Na and Ba Du, and the two appeared shortly afterward.

Zhou Yuan told the two the story of the Mantis Clan and the Elf Clan, and the two looked regretful.

"Panna, Badu, we can achieve 'time reversal' within a galaxy, but the further back in time we rewind, the more difficult it becomes because it consumes enormous amounts of energy. I wonder if you have a 'time reversal' machine?"

"We at Pandora once achieved time travel in a supercluster, but we later abandoned the 'time travel' machine because even if time travel were possible, it would be temporary. As you said, it consumes a huge amount of energy, and that energy becomes unstable and will eventually return to the ground state or a stable state. At present, we cannot compete with the cosmic potential energy of the Big Bang."

Zhou Yuan asked in a low voice, "What about the master?"

“Master, we don’t know. We speculate that the area you’ve reversed time by is probably equivalent to dozens of Great Walls in the universe.”

Zhou Yuan was stunned for a moment, but the time reversal ability of these dozens of cosmic Great Walls was ultimately far inferior to the potential energy of the universe.

"Zhou Yuan, you mentioned 'time reversal' because you want to see what happened to the Mantis Clan during their interstellar voyage?"

"Yes, I want to know the truth."

"Unfortunately, my master is not here. Perhaps they could find out. However, the Triangulum Galaxy is now far from its original location, making 'time travel' observations more difficult."

"Then forget it, don't bother us."

“Zhou Yuan, although we don’t have a ‘time reversal’ machine or anything like that, you know that our Balu civilization’s supercomputer is very powerful. We can perform real-world simulations and calculations.”

"Oh, really?" Zhou Yuan's interest was piqued when he heard Ba Du say that.

"Yes, I am a supercomputer, I can help you."

"Thank you very much."

"I hope the simulation calculation range is as small as possible, the situation at the time is as detailed as possible, and the boundary constraints are as numerous as possible."

"Understood. We will compile all the information and materials and send them to you later."

"Ok."

"How long will it take to finish?"

"If the space is the size of a supercluster and the time span is a thousand years, it would take about an hour."

Zhou Yuan thought to himself, "This is incredible! The Earth Empire's super artificial intelligence might take a month, and even then, it's not necessarily reliable or accurate, because it needs various probe data to simulate evolution. But the Badu superbrain can perform calculations without any data, just by providing information and conditions. No wonder the Balu civilization's superbrain rebelled."

In less than ten minutes, the holographic screen in the command center displayed the Elf and Mantis races, the gray-green planet, and the surrounding situation. Badu quickly scanned all the information.

Balu sat in the chair, closed his eyes, and entered a state similar to "an old monk in deep meditation".

Panna and Zhou Yuan waited quietly, keeping silent so as not to disturb Badu.

An hour and ten minutes later, Badu opened his eyes, and Zhou Yuan and Panna looked at him curiously.

"Zhou Yuan, according to the super brain's simulation of evolution, after the Mantis Clan fleet left the gray-green planet and traveled in near-light-speed interstellar space for more than 150 years, although it was able to use the energy of four stars for energy replenishment and material creation, its internal organizational structure was severely differentiated."

"You mean the Mantis tribe has a civil war?"

"Yes. If an interstellar civilization travels at near-light speed for an extended period, its mindset will become unbalanced. If it is not addressed and treated in time, it will develop severe interstellar space syndrome, eventually leading to schizophrenia."

Zhou Yuan was aware of this situation. Back then, the Earth Empire's human fleet was still traveling through interstellar space and felt hopeless about the future. Later, he gave a morale-boosting speech, and everyone received psychological and drug treatment.

It is estimated that the Mantis Clan did not take interstellar space syndrome seriously, which led to problems in their overall mental state, resulting in organizational division and civil war.

A civilization that understood the greater good ultimately perished in the endless darkness of space.

The virtual civilization created by the "intelligent entity" of this universe, which is the dark force, is accelerating the destruction and devouring of the Great Wall of the cosmos in the edge world. Can all living beings and civilizations escape the dark calamity?

Darkness will eventually come.