Rebirth of the Super Battleship-Chapter 553: A World Like a Painting
Xiao Yu was thinking that if it really was Chen Mo who entrusted this spatial lifeform to come into the Milky Way, then the following conclusions could be drawn.
First, Chen Mo must have had some kind of fortunate encounter, then obtained a certain status within some system. Otherwise, she could not possibly have been able to direct this spatial lifeform that claimed to be two-dimensional. This spatial lifeform was very powerful. At the very first moment of contact, Xiao Yu sensed this. Although Xiao Yu did not know its specific strength, judging by intuition, Xiao Yu believed it would be no weaker than the half Four-Dimensional Taihao he had once encountered.
Second, Chen Mo still remembered him. Although for some reason unknown to Xiao Yu, Chen Mo could not show herself, she had already made her intentions very clear by means of this method. Xiao Yu could even faintly sense Chen Mo’s state of mind at this moment.
After all, in the Earth era, he had failed Chen Mo’s feelings. Everything that followed was easy to explain. First use this necktie to test Xiao Yu and see whether Xiao Yu still remembered her, just as the spatial lifeform said, “When you see this item, you will understand everything. If you do not understand, then please return it to me. I will immediately leave the Milky Way and return to the Andromeda Galaxy.”
Implied in these words was that if you still remember me, I will help you. If you have already forgotten me, then let it be as if I never appeared.
Indeed, if that commissioner really was Chen Mo, Xiao Yu could even understand Chen Mo’s frame of mind when instructing the spatial lifeform to tease him a little. It was nothing more than, “You rejected me so many times. Now I will play a small prank and toy with you a bit.”
This fit Chen Mo’s personality very well.
“If this really is you, if it really is you, then you truly have not changed. Still so playful. Is playing pranks so amusing? Why do you not come out to see me?”
“I still remember you. How could I forget you? I think of you every day.” Xiao Yu let out a gentle sigh, and in his heart there was no telling what flavor of feeling it was.
At this moment, Xiao Yu unexpectedly received another message.
“Perhaps you can come to this star system to take a look. I left some traces here concerning my strength and my mode of attack. This will answer many of your doubts.” After this message, there was also an attached coordinate.
This message was undoubtedly sent by that spatial lifeform. The implication within the message seemed to be that in a star system near Xiao Yu it had left some traces, and these traces could answer some of Xiao Yu’s doubts.
Xiao Yu sent that coordinate into his mind and immediately calculated its position. It was a star system very close to him, only about 1.9 light-years away.
Xiao Yu aimed his detection instruments at that star system. What entered Xiao Yu’s sight was a very ordinary stellar system. A medium-sized star was quietly operating there. Two planets orbited it.
Everything was steady and normal, without any unusual change.
“Once you see this, you will have an intuitive understanding of my strength. Very well. I am going to confront the Sweepers you mentioned. Goodbye.”
Xiao Yu knew that what he was seeing of this star at the moment was actually an image from 1.9 years ago. Because the light emitted by this star now was still on its way and would not reach him for another 1.9 years.
“This fellow seems rather conceited.” Xiao Yu thought to himself. “Is it deliberately showing off its strength because I doubted it was a match for the Sweepers? What traces would it have left there? Hm, I should send a few probes to take an on-site look.”
Naturally, Xiao Yu hoped the spatial lifeform’s strength would be as formidable as possible. After all, the Sweepers were always a major threat to him. If he continued to grow, he would inevitably encounter them in the end. Now that someone could clear obstacles in advance for him, it was naturally a good thing.
However, the concept that the Neutron War Star was invincible had, through repeated attempts by powerful existences and repeated failures, already taken deep root in Xiao Yu’s mind. Upon hearing the spatial lifeform say it would deal with the Sweepers, Xiao Yu almost instinctively concluded that the spatial lifeform would not be a match for them.
“Two-dimensional lifeform, two-dimensional lifeform, just what special methods does it have…” Xiao Yu thought as he dispatched several Town-Class and Village-Class spaceships carrying some detection instruments, heading toward that star system at thirty-five times the speed of light.
Xiao Yu was only 1.9 light-years from that star system. At a cruising speed of thirty-five times light speed, it took only half a month for those few Town and Village-Class spaceships to arrive at their destination. After exiting curvature space, the scene before Xiao Yu caused a shock from the depths of his soul.
“This, this is the spatial lifeform’s mode of attack? This is the handiwork of a spatial lifeform? This is too unbelievable, far too unbelievable.”
Staring at the scene before him, Xiao Yu was shocked beyond himself.
Presented before Xiao Yu was still an ordinary stellar system with a star, planets, asteroids, comets, interstellar dust. They all orbited the star. Everything seemed quite normal. There was only a single abnormal point, and it was precisely that single abnormal point that shocked Xiao Yu. 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮
That single abnormal point was that everything was two-dimensional. That was correct. Although the star still emitted light, it had become two-dimensional. It had lost its third dimension. All the planets, asteroids, comets, and interstellar dust revolving around it had all become two-dimensional.
It was like a painting. These celestial bodies were like things within a picture. But they could move, and not only move, they could emit light. Moreover, Xiao Yu could still detect the presence of gravity. However, the mass of the celestial bodies calculated from gravity was much smaller than reasonable celestial masses. The gravitational strength of this two-dimensional star observed from the three-dimensional world was roughly similar to Earth’s gravitational strength.
“I already know that falling from a higher dimension to a lower dimension releases a large amount of energy. The four-dimensional shield’s explosion having such immense power is for this reason. It can be asserted that in the process by which these three-dimensional celestial bodies fell into two-dimensional celestial bodies, they certainly released tremendous energy. Energy is mass, so the gravity of these celestial bodies, observed from the three-dimensional world, has decreased considerably.”
“However, the physical laws of a two-dimensional world should differ in certain respects from those of a three-dimensional world, so within the two-dimensional world the orbital motions of these celestial bodies proceed as usual, without changing because of the decrease in three-dimensional mass.” Xiao Yu thought silently.
For four-dimensional space, three-dimensional space is completely visible and cannot be obstructed. Likewise, for three-dimensional space, two-dimensional space is the same. Thus Xiao Yu, who was situated in three-dimensional space, could see every detail of these two-dimensional objects with complete clarity, including those of the star and the planets. While seeing the star’s surface, Xiao Yu could see the star’s core, see the intense nuclear fusion reaction occurring there, see how light, at a speed like that of a snail, crawled arduously from the star’s interior toward its outer layer. Put simply, the image presented before Xiao Yu was like a cross-sectional view of a star, or like a picture drawn on paper. Only it could move, and that was all.
It was not only this star. For those planets, Xiao Yu could see their surfaces and simultaneously see their cores, see the dark red magma within them flowing continuously, see their varied and colorful geological structures, see the crisscrossing underground dark rivers, and so on. It should be noted that these were all things Xiao Yu could see at the same time.
Under normal circumstances, it is impossible to reach a celestial body’s core without passing through its outer layers. But now Xiao Yu could do so. No matter how hard the outer shell of these celestial bodies was, it could not block Xiao Yu from reaching their cores, because Xiao Yu was a being of three-dimensional space, while these celestial bodies before him existed within two-dimensional space.
This was the complete visibility of two-dimensional space with respect to three-dimensional space.
“So this is your mode of attack?” Xiao Yu murmured, gazing upon all of this filled with a sense of shock.
Without a doubt, the spatial lifeform had turned objects that originally belonged to three dimensions into two-dimensional, paper-like existences. Most important of all, Xiao Yu perceived that the three-dimensional space of the main universe was gradually eroding this two-dimensional stellar system, but this erosion was not assimilation. Once they had become two-dimensional objects, they could never return. When they had been eroded by the three-dimensional world to a certain extent, they would end their lives with a boom, in an explosion.
This universe is, after all, a three-dimensional space. Therefore, whether two-dimensional space or four-dimensional space, once they lose external energy support, they cannot stably exist within this universe. Their ultimate fate can only be destruction. This was already destined at the moment they fell into two-dimensional space.
By means of this ability that was like a miracle, the spatial lifeform proclaimed its power to Xiao Yu and proclaimed the capital by which it could oppose the Neutron War Star.
“This ability is very formidable. Perhaps this spatial lifeform really can defeat a Neutron War Star. To turn a Neutron War Star into an object within a two-dimensional world, such a feat is shocking just to think about…”
