Chapter 403 The Worst Situation
Amid the war clouds and the roar of artillery fire in the solar system, Alpha Centauri, the Xiaguang Galaxy, the Yunguang Galaxy, etc., research on the laws and nature of dark matter and dark energy is being carried out closely next to the neutron star numbered RXJ185635-3754.
Time passed slowly, and several years passed in the blink of an eye. During these years, this interstellar war that enveloped several star systems, spanned thousands of light years, and affected seven civilizations was still going on half-dead.
Human civilization has indeed encountered extremely strong war pressure, and full mobilization has been ongoing. Every day, countless warships and soldiers rush to the front line.
In space, at least hundreds of thousands of warships are mobilized every day, and hundreds of large aerospace motherships travel back and forth between various galaxies.
The huge amount of material consumption has never stopped for a minute or a second.
In the war that lasted for more than ten years, 126,000 warships on the human side were destroyed, and the number of dead soldiers reached more than 10 million.
Correspondingly, the coalition forces of the five major civilizations also had about 80,000 warships destroyed, and the estimated number of dead soldiers was also in the tens of millions.
The battle situation cannot be said to be not fierce. But... compared to the overall situation at the moment, it still seems too quiet.
You should know that the number of warships participating in the battle on both sides is more than 4 million, and the number of participating soldiers is more than one billion. After fighting for so long, there are only so few casualties, just like two people fighting and just scratching a little skin.
A certain trend has become more and more obvious.
Under this circumstance, next to the neutron star, when Han Yang had just established a preliminary neutron star internal convection model and had not had time to conduct further research, a fleet suddenly appeared around this star field with extremely strong radiation.
From the construction style alone, it can be determined that these warships are definitely not human creations.
They are not large in scale, with only about 1,000 warships. The smallest aerospace mothership is responsible for transporting them.
After leaving the berth and completing the assembly, the aerospace mothership did not leave, but still waited here. The 1,000 or so warships immediately began to accelerate and rushed towards the scientific research facilities built by Han Yang.
The scientific research, logistics, and engineering personnel, as if they were real people, fell into despair and fear under Han Yang's manipulation.
Under the pressure of the army, they used radio communication equipment to continuously send signals to the attacking enemy: "We are a scientific research fleet, not a military force, and there is no threat.
According to Article 332 of Article 76 of the Silver Alliance Treaty, non-military forces such as scientific research, civilian, and commercial forces enjoy war immunity in non-battlefield environments and non-combat conditions, and are not sufficient to cause any impact on the war situation. No fleet or civilization has the power to attack them.
This is not a battlefield, and we will not have any impact on the battlefield situation!"
This message was broadcast repeatedly. But obviously, it did not bring any effect. That fleet was still accelerating rapidly, and at a distance of about 10 million kilometers, it directly used gravity cannons to start firing.
Under its own acceleration mechanism and the gravity acceleration of the neutron star, up to tens of millions of gravity cannon projectiles roared in like a rainstorm, and violently collided with the scientific research base and the spacecraft.
Gravity multi-layer shields, quark confinement shields, etc., were easily shattered like eggshells. In an instant, a large number of scientific research bases exploded, and even flames erupted inside.
A large number of broken limbs and debris flew everywhere, and many small lifeboats ran around. The communication channel was full of desperate shouts.
Han Yang only deployed 20 warships here as escort forces. At this moment, under the attack of this fleet, the entire scientific research fleet had almost no power to fight back.
In just a few hours, all facilities and spacecraft were destroyed. All humans were killed.
Only a piece of debris was left above the orbit around the neutron star. Some debris even lost their orbital maintenance speed due to the attack, and were pulled directly towards the planet under the huge gravity of the neutron star.
Before reaching the surface of the neutron star, tens of thousands of tons of mass were directly pulled into long strips by gravity due to tidal effects, and then violently bombarded the neutron star.
The speed of up to half the speed of light gave them unimaginable ultra-high kinetic energy. At this moment, the kinetic energy was converted into energy, which was equivalent to the energy of at least trillions of tons of TNT explosives exploding simultaneously and directly exploding on the surface of the neutron star.
But... after the explosion, the neutron star is still a neutron star. There are no scars, pits or depressions on it. It still maintains its original color and shape, and its appearance is still close to an absolute sphere.
This complex alloy with super performance, which consumed a lot of resources of human civilization to create, is now directly integrated into the neutron star and becomes a part of the neutron star.
For the neutron star, there is no difference between gold, silver, copper and iron.
There is no element on it. Any element that reaches it will have its atomic structure destroyed, and the electrons will be pressed into the nucleus and combined with protons to form neutrons.
There are only neutrons on it.
The attacking fleet watched all this coldly. After confirming that all facilities were destroyed and everyone was killed, the fleet started reverse acceleration, broke free from the gravitational field of the neutron star, returned to the aerospace mothership, and then disappeared.
Han Yang immediately noticed everything that happened here.
If Han Yang had not used a dummy to conduct scientific research, tens of thousands of lives would have been lost in the starry sea.
Although meaningless casualties were avoided, the trend was more clearly presented to Han Yang and the ruling committee members.
In the short term, it is impossible for the party to make a breakthrough in the research of dark force theory, and it is even more impossible to bring any combat power improvement due to this breakthrough. Under the premise that the scientific research activities next to the neutron star do not pose any threat to the current war and the alliance of the five major civilizations.
No matter how you look at it, they have no need and reason to cross hundreds of light years to annihilate it.
Then why did they go there on purpose to destroy the scientific research fleet?
Combined with the current situation, Han Yang can only think...
Not allowing human civilization to be promoted to level 5 civilization is the bottom line of the civilization behind the scenes. In this way, any attempt by human civilization to conduct research on the theory of dark force, even if it is only preliminary research, even if it is only very preliminary research at this moment, must be resolutely stopped and resolutely destroyed.
This speculation, which means the worst situation for human civilization, can almost be said to have been confirmed at this moment.
Han Yang sighed secretly in his heart.
He originally planned to repeat the scene when human civilization impacted the fourth-level civilization stage.
That is, relying on his own special form of existence, under the premise of withstanding the attack of the coalition forces of the five major civilizations, he delayed time while secretly developing technology and accumulating strength.
When human civilization is promoted to the fifth-level civilization, it can launch a Jedi counterattack. After completely destroying the five fourth-level civilizations, it can even launch an attack on the Blue Mountain civilization, pull out this nail, and truly intervene in the struggle between the behind-the-scenes creator civilizations.
However, if the promotion of one's own side touches the bottom line of the malicious creator civilization, then promotion is absolutely impossible.
Although there is a well-intentioned creator civilization behind us, even if we are promoted, the struggle between the two sides will inevitably break the original tacit understanding and rules.
Only a thief can be a thief for a thousand days, how can we guard against thieves for a thousand days. It is impossible for the well-intentioned creator civilization to always look after us. If we are not careful, we will be destroyed.
The probability of extinction is as high as 100%.
At this moment, although we still have spare strength, if we exert our full strength, we can even destroy the 2 million warships of the coalition of the five major civilizations.
But Han Yang can't do that.
Doing so will only lead to more severe suppression, and it is better to maintain the current stalemate.
It is also not feasible to secretly sail to an unnoticed remote planet in the Milky Way with your own special form of existence and rely on your own strength to develop to the fifth-level civilization stage.
Not to mention that you can break through on your own without the human scientific community and the wisdom of billions of brains. Even if you can do it, how can you really transform technology into combat power?
You know, once you use the technology of the fifth-level civilization, the malicious creator civilization will judge that you have broken through to the fifth level. Even if they don't know how you broke through, their first reaction must be that the situation is out of control and you must use unconventional means to directly destroy you.
Not to mention, without the wisdom of human scientists, it is almost impossible for you to master the theory of dark force on your own.
The theory of dark force is too huge, and it is too difficult to study it clearly.
To leave the Silver Alliance system, Han Yang can't leave alone. The entire civilization of hundreds of billions of people must be taken away.
This is both a realistic requirement and a decision that Han Yang will inevitably make emotionally.
If you abandon the entire civilization and escape alone, then what is the difference between you and a real AI?
However, it is so difficult for the entire civilization to leave the Silver Alliance...
Facing the silent ruling committee members, Liu Yuan's voice was low but powerful: "No matter how difficult it is, we have to do it.
To complete this matter, we need an opportunity. And this opportunity lies in the Luotu civilization.
Now we can only wait. When the Luotu civilization truly wakes up, our opportunity will come.
From today, let's strengthen business exchanges with the Luotu civilization."
The ruling committee members agreed silently.
There is always a question about the Luotu civilization lingering in the hearts of the ruling committee members, including Han Yang himself.
That is, a fifth-level civilization with some influence in the entire galaxy, is it really so short of silver coins? Why do they show such an urgent desire for silver coins?
The urgent desire for silver coins has even become a label for the Luotu civilization, and a feature that is completely different from other fifth-level civilizations.
In the extensive exchanges with other civilizations, whether it is business exchanges or engineering cooperation, as well as galaxy cleaning tasks, security tasks, transportation tasks, etc., human civilization has always been collecting intelligence about the Luotu civilization.
After a long period of collection, finally, a more credible speculation was presented to Han Yang.
The Luotu civilization is so eager to earn silver coins, the purpose is most likely to be promoted to the sixth-level civilization.
Whether it can be promoted to the sixth-level civilization seems to be only related to the scientific research potential of one's own civilization. But in the Silver Alliance, it is obviously not the case.
No matter how great your potential is, you must first conduct research to understand the scientific theory of the sixth-level civilization and then upgrade to a higher level.
If you want to study it, it will inevitably involve the mobilization of a large number of scientific research resources, the construction of countless large scientific facilities, and even some specific test sites.
Just like Han Yang directly pushed a planet into a black hole in order to study the theory of everything. In order to conduct preliminary research on the theory of dark force, it is necessary to find a neutron star and conduct research in its surrounding environment.
Although it is not known what kind of test environment is required for a level 5 civilization to be promoted to a level 6 civilization, it must be more demanding than the level 4 civilization to be promoted to level 5, that is, the suitable environment in the Milky Way will be more scarce.
So... is there a possibility that a level 6 civilization can block the possibility of the level 5 civilization being promoted to a level 6 civilization by blocking a suitable test environment or prohibiting the level 5 civilization from conducting certain tests or projects?
Han Yang believes this is very likely.
In this way, whether a level 5 civilization can become a level 6 civilization is not only related to its own scientific research strength, but also to whether it has obtained permission.
The intelligence collected by human civilization over a long period of time shows that the Luotu civilization desperately earns silver coins and shows an abnormal desire for silver coins. The purpose is most likely to exchange for a license quota of the founder civilization.
After reaching this conclusion, the first thought in the minds of the ruling committee members was absurdity.
The reason is very simple. Even if it is just a life of a first-level or second-level low-level civilization, as long as it has enough political wisdom, it can be seen that the so-called "saving enough silver coins can buy a license quota" or "achieving certain conditions can get a promotion license" is always just a blank check. It is a big pie drawn by the advanced civilization to make the low-level civilization serve it, and it is impossible to cash it.
The five sixth-level founder civilizations in the Milky Way occupy the top ecological niche of the Milky Way. Under this circumstance, letting any fifth-level civilization be promoted to a sixth-level civilization will cause the problem of increasing the number of people who share the cake and reducing the cake that one's own share.
Any rational sixth-level civilization will not retreat on this issue. On this issue, their interests are consistent and their attitudes must be consistent.
Even the beings of lower civilizations would not believe it, so why would the leaders of a fifth-level civilization believe it? And really, for this promise, they started a thousand-year-long operation, consuming civilization resources and desperately taking on tasks from lower civilizations to earn silver coins?