Rebirth of the Super Battleship-Chapter 552: Two-Dimensional Lifeform

All of a sudden, Xiao Yu remembered everything. All of a sudden, he understood. He understood what this necktie ultimately signified, and who had sent this necktie.

Xiao Yu understood these things, but from within them even more doubts could be inferred.

“You are still alive, are you still alive?” Xiao Yu murmured, as he controlled his vast fleet and various instruments to begin a slow movement, finally arranging them into a colossal array telescope aimed at that dim speck of light two million two hundred thousand light-years away.

There lay the Andromeda Galaxy, the Milky Way’s neighbor, the nearest vast galaxy to the Milky Way.

Xiao Yu’s technology was already advanced enough, advanced even to the point of distinguishing, at a distance of several million light-years, a dim red dwarf star far away. Thus Xiao Yu silently observed everything within the Andromeda Galaxy, watching its planets move, watching its stars burn or explode.

That was another world. In that world there were also many stories, whether splendid or tragic, but the vast distance filtered out all that information. Xiao Yu could not perceive the mysteries within that faraway galaxy. Precisely because of this, it made him yearn for it even more, because Xiao Yu knew that a certain person was very likely there.

Yes, a person. The ‘person’ mentioned here was not a general term for intelligent beings, but an actual person, a human.

That human’s name was Chen Mo.

Xiao Yu finally understood. Because was not the first time Xiao Yu had seen this necktie. Back in the Earth era, Xiao Yu had seen it once. At that time, it was either the second or third year after Chen Mo entered Xiao Yu’s research institute, although Xiao Yu could no longer remember the exact time. These memories were the original memories carried upon Xiao Yu’s soul. These memories could not, like what Xiao Yu saw and heard after fusing with the computer, be stored in a data storage device. Precisely because of this, when Xiao Yu first set eyes on this necktie, he did not recall what it was.

Xiao Yu remembered that day was his own birthday. But as a workaholic, Xiao Yu naturally ignored this matter. Xiao Yu believed that rather than wasting time on it, it would be better to go look at various data in the laboratory. But it seemed Chen Mo had not forgotten. During the noon break, Chen Mo knocked on Xiao Yu’s door.

Xiao Yu could no longer clearly recall Chen Mo’s expression at that time. He only remembered that Chen Mo was very ill at ease, very nervous back then. With slightly trembling hands she held out that item and said in a voice as low as a mosquito’s buzz, “Director Xiao, today is your birthday. Happy birthday. This is my gift to you.”

That gift was this necktie.

Xiao Yu remembered that at the time he was vexed because a certain experiment’s progress was not going smoothly. And Xiao Yu had never been a person of particularly good temper. So Xiao Yu did not pay much attention to Chen Mo. He merely said faintly, “Thanks, leave it here. I still need to think. If there is nothing else, please go out first.”

It was only a small matter, and Xiao Yu quickly forgot it. As for the ultimate fate of that necktie, Xiao Yu also could not quite remember. It seemed, as far as Xiao Yu recalled, that when he went out the door he casually tossed it into the trash can.

That was the entire course of events.

“You are still alive, are you still alive? How did you end up in the Andromeda Galaxy…” Xiao Yu murmured, his longing and questions welling up together.

Xiao Yu had suspected that this event might be like the last time with his future self, merely a deception, but after what the spatial lifeform said about helping him eliminate a civilization that posed a great threat to him, and since it put forward no demands upon him, that suspicion more or less dissipated.

“What kind of mode of existence are you now? What is your situation? I, I care about you very much.” Xiao Yu murmured. “Even after going to the Andromeda Galaxy, you still did not forget me, who is situated in the Milky Way. Thank you, thank you. This necktie is the best gift I have received in my life. I will keep it safe. Even if I die I will not allow the slightest mishap to befall it.”

At this moment Xiao Yu truly had too many doubts. If this necktie really had been given to him by Chen Mo, then where was Chen Mo now? In the Andromeda Galaxy? But how did she reach the Andromeda Galaxy? What was her current mode of existence? What was her situation?

“I will definitely go to the Andromeda Galaxy to find you, definitely. Chen Mo, you must wait for me, you must.”

Never before had there been such a moment that made Xiao Yu so urgently wish to leave the Milky Way and go to another galaxy. Because Xiao Yu knew that the person most important to him was very likely waiting for him there.

“Have you understood?” the spatial lifeform asked.

“I have understood.” Xiao Yu replied.

“Very well, I will go first. I have observed that civilization which poses a great threat to you for nearly a century. It is time to make a move. I will destroy it and clear away the obstacle on your road forward. This is also what my commissioner instructed me to do.”

“The civilization you speak of that poses a great threat to me, which civilization is it?” Xiao Yu asked. “Is it the Sweeper Civilization, or the Guardian Civilization? Or the Taihao Civilization, the Alien Beast Civilization?”

“I am not clear about the classifications of civilizations within your Milky Way,” the spatial lifeform answered. “I only know that this civilization possesses a terrifying war fortress, which was made by transforming a neutron star.”

“Then it is the Sweeper Civilization.” Xiao Yu said. “You are not within the scope of a Level 7 Civilization. In fact, I have little confidence in your confronting a Neutron War Star. Some time ago, there was a civilization from the Large Magellanic Cloud whose mode of existence was similar to yours and it attempted to oppose a Neutron War Star, but it met with failure.”

“Oh? A civilization with a mode of existence similar to mine?” the spatial lifeform asked with great interest. “What was its mode of existence like?”

Xiao Yu pondered a moment and answered, “It had a half Four-Dimensional structure. Its body could extend into Four-Dimensional space but could not move within the Four-Dimensional space. Its body had no substance either, and it seemed that it too used space as its body.”

“If I am not mistaken, that fellow’s origin should have been an Alien Beast Civilization.” the spatial lifeform said, its tone turning a bit mocking. “It chose space as its breakthrough direction, but how could the marvels of space possibly be fully grasped by a foolish alien beast. What is most astonishing is that it actually achieved something in this respect. But since it was wrong from the very beginning, any achievements thereafter were only the last radiance before final destruction. My mode of existence is not the same as its own. From the moment I was born, I used space as my body. I am a pure spatial lifeform.” 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

“You may be very puzzled why you cannot detect my body. In truth, I do not exist within this three-dimensional world, or rather, I exist within the two-dimensional space of this three-dimensional world.”

As the spatial lifeform spoke, all of a sudden a light screen appeared before Xiao Yu. This light screen was huge, at least ten thousand kilometers in length and width. Strangely, it had no thickness. That is to say, its thickness was zero. It was like a sheet of paper and yet not a sheet of paper, because no matter how thin a sheet of paper is made, it still has thickness.

A thickness of zero would signify nonexistence. Yet it truly existed. It had width and length.

This was a mode of existence that completely exceeded the limits of Xiao Yu’s imagination. Xiao Yu had always believed that a two-dimensional world might exist and that in a two-dimensional world two-dimensional lifeforms might also exist. But a two-dimensional world itself being a lifeform was somewhat beyond imagination.

“There are many wondrous things in the universe, many existences you cannot imagine.” the spatial lifeform said. “As far as I know, there also exist three-dimensional lifeforms in this universe, and even one-dimensional and zero-dimensional lifeforms. But I have not encountered lifeforms exceeding three dimensions. I believe that lifeforms beyond three dimensions, such as four-dimensional lifeforms, are not suited to this universe. Superfluous dimensions are meaningless.”

“So it is.” Xiao Yu said. “Perhaps the evolutionary direction of the half Four-Dimensional Taihao was wrong from the very start. However, can you truly not tell me anything about that commissioner?”

“Regrettably, I cannot tell you.” the spatial lifeform said. “Very well, I have completed this task and should go complete the next one. Goodbye.”

“Wait a moment.” Xiao Yu immediately sent a message. “Then did that commissioner have any words for you to pass on to me?”

“No,” the spatial lifeform said. “It only said that upon seeing this, mm, upon seeing this necktie, you would understand. As for the rest, I know nothing. Even if I did know, I could not tell you.”

“Very well.” Xiao Yu said somewhat helplessly. “In that case, I still must thank you. By the way, you must be cautious when confronting the Sweeper Civilization. The Sweeper Civilization is too powerful. I still do not believe you can achieve victory in a war against the Sweeper Civilization.”

“That is not something you need to be concerned about.” the spatial lifeform replied. “Whether it succeeds or not has nothing to do with you. I merely accepted the commissioner’s commission to come here and complete a task.”

Having said this, the spatial lifeform would not linger any longer and turned to leave directly. Watching the spatial fluctuation that represented the spatial lifeform gradually recede, Xiao Yu actually felt a touch of melancholy and sense of loss in his heart.