Rebirth of the Super Battleship-Chapter 688: Space Bridge and Space Jump

With developments reaching this point, the situation within the Milky Way Galaxy had become entirely clear. The Sweepers Civilization remained pressed upon Xiao Yu’s heart like a great mountain. Although the Sweepers Civilization had not taken action, for Xiao Yu it was always the greatest threat. The Sweepers Civilization, the Taihao Alliance, Xiao Yu, the Guardian Civilization, these many forces checked and contested one another, and in the end the present course of events was reached.

The Guardian Civilization wanted to flee, to leave the Milky Way Galaxy, but Xiao Yu could not allow such a thing to happen. Under the current situation, the Guardian Civilization occupied a rather tragic position. The Guardian Civilization had already been reserved by the Sweepers Civilization and the Taihao Alliance as Xiao Yu’s nourishment. It was nothing more than a sacrificial victim.

Yet Xiao Yu still had to accord considerable importance to the Guardian Civilization. In any case, the title of number one in conventional technology within the Milky Way Galaxy was enough to make Xiao Yu inwardly vigilant. Especially being able to contend against the Sweepers Civilization for tens of millions of years further proved the Guardian Civilization’s formidableness.

Therefore, only after Xiao Yu had made thorough preparations could he go to trouble the Guardian Civilization. Cracking four-dimensional jump and space fold technology was one aspect. Massively stockpiling warships and constructing Star-Class warships was one more aspect. Gaining control over the corpse of the Micron Civilization was another aspect. Now, only the final matter remained. Once the technology for invading the small universe obtained from the Taihao Alliance was fully analyzed, he could go deal with the Guardian Civilization.

Having the small universe and having stockpiled a large number of stars and planets within the small universe, whether or not he developed within a stellar system no longer mattered to Xiao Yu. No matter where he was, matter was sufficient. Yet during this period Xiao Yu did not stay quietly in one place, but continued to wander through the universe.

While analyzing the technology for invading the small universe, Xiao Yu also stockpiled large quantities of resources such as stars. For Xiao Yu had a premonition that facing the Guardian Civilization would be a protracted war, absolutely impossible to conclude in a short time. The Guardian Civilization was by no means so simple. To take down the Guardian Civilization, he would very likely pay a tremendous price.

Under the leadership of Luka Three, Number Five, Xu Junpo, and Xiao Yu, a rapid research group of several hundred thousand scientists took over the task of analyzing the technology for invading the small universe. With detailed technological data as a foundation, mastering this technology was not a very difficult matter.

After obtaining the relevant specific data for this technology, Xiao Yu was first shocked by the unique scientific thinking contained within it, and an involuntary feeling arose in his heart that those who know, find nothing difficult, those who do not know, find nothing but difficulty.

The small and main universes were not connected on the three-dimensional level. As three-dimensional beings, breaking through the higher-dimensional barrier was undoubtedly extremely difficult. Although the Loya Round Cup and Klein bottle methods could realize interconnection between the two, such interconnection had to be established on a state of complete mastery of the small and main universes, because this was a highly precise technology. It required detailed gravitational data, gravitational distribution, mass magnitudes and other data between the small and main universes as parameters. For a small universe one had built oneself it was fine, but when facing an unfamiliar small universe, to grasp its detailed data was basically impossible. Therefore, to attack other small universes was truly an extremely difficult matter.

Yet in the technical data handed to Xiao Yu by the Taihao Civilization, a very ingenious method was used to solve this problem. This line of thought was so simple it could be summarized in a single sentence, but if he had not known this sentence in advance, Xiao Yu might have needed to spend several thousand more years before grasping this point.

The sentence was very simple. It was Space Bridge.

Two universes could be regarded as two pieces of land, separated by a dangerous, unknown expanse of ocean. How to get from one piece of land to the other? Very simple, build a bridge. Then what to use as the material to build the bridge? Also very simple, use space, and specifically use three-dimensional space.

The specific idea was this. Using space technology, one could incompletely slice off a piece of space from the three-dimensional main universe. The ‘incompletely slice,’ meant that in a certain direction, this sliced space would still be connected to the main universe. Then bend and extend its sliced portion so that it linked to the small universe. Thus, a Space Bridge would be built.

Using a two-dimensional world as an analogy, imagine two sheets of paper separated by one centimeter, then tear off a strip of paper from one of the sheets. It is obvious that this strip would have four edges, but what we need to do now is only to separate three of its edges from the original sheet, still retaining one edge connected to the original sheet. Then fold it over so that it touches the other sheet. In this way, a Space Bridge would be completed, and ants living on the sheets could conveniently cross this bridge to go from one sheet to the other.

This was the basic principle of the Space Bridge. It sounded simple, and for Xiao Yu now, implementing it was not very difficult. But within such technology, the most precious thing was the scientific thinking that solved the problem. Such scientific thinking might be something that an entire group of scientists could not conceive even after racking their brains for tens of thousands of years, yet it might also be something that a scientist could hit upon with a sudden flash of inspiration after a meal. These were things that could not be predicted.

“I am very sorry. I did not complete my task. The problem-solving idea was simple, yet I spent more than one thousand years without thinking of it, wasting all that time.” Luka Three and Number Five said to Xiao Yu with some shame.

“Do not say that.” Xiao Yu controlled his avatar to shake his head and said, “There is no need to feel self-reproach. This was not your fault, because I, and Xu Junpo, and the many scientists, none of us thought that the final solution would be this. It exceeded all our expectations. You are still outstanding scientists. There is no need to belittle yourselves.”

“Perhaps it really is so, but lately I always feel that my thinking seems to have stiffened a bit, somewhat unable to keep up with the new situation.” Luka Three said tiredly. Suddenly, Luka Three paused slightly, then said, “I have a new idea, regarding space fold technology.”

“Space fold technology?” Xiao Yu asked. “What idea?”

Space fold technology was a unique technology of the Guardian Civilization, and even Xiao Yu had not mastered it. However, during this period, Xiao Yu had already conducted much research on this technology. Although he still had not mastered it, he had gained much more understanding of it.

“It is like this.” Luka Three frowned, thinking while speaking slowly, “We all know the principle of space fold technology. It bends space, then hides itself within the fold to achieve concealment. This principle, does it not feel very familiar to you? It is, it is”

Here Luka Three paused, as if organizing language to articulate the idea in his heart. Yet before it could find suitable words, Xiao Yu already felt a slight shock in his mind, and a term involuntarily slipped out, “Space jump. Yes, space jump.”

As soon as Xiao Yu finished speaking, Luka Three showed a look of sudden realization. “Yes, space jump. Or space leap, instantaneous movement, these are all the same thing.”

So-called space jump had always been a form of travel existing only in imagination, more advanced than curvature flight. Its principle was also very simple. Take a sheet of white paper and draw points A and B upon it. The distance between A and B is one decimeter. How should an ant go from point A to point B? Crawl slowly over? No, not necessary. Just fold the paper so that point A and point B coincide, and then the ant essentially does not need to move to complete its travel.

This was the so-called space jump. The movement described above was space jump in a two-dimensional world. Space jump in a three-dimensional world would be far more complex, but the basic principles were the same.

And one very obvious point was that when a sheet of paper’s points A and B were made to coincide, that sheet of paper would inevitably exhibit a fold. How similar this was to the Guardian Civilization’s space fold technology. It was highly likely that space fold technology was the foundation of space jump technology.

Once the term space jump was brought up, it immediately sparked a heated discussion.

“Theoretically speaking, the travel speed of space jump technology has no upper limit. If mastered to the utmost, a spaceship could completely traverse from one side of the universe to the other in an instant.” Luka Three said.

“This is probably not a technology that a Level 6 civilization can master. I think it would take a Level 7 civilization in the space direction to master it.” Number Five said.

“It is obvious that the longer the jump distance, the larger the portion of cosmic space that must be bent, and the greater the influence exerted upon the universe. We cannot bend the entire universe, not even a straight line within the entire universe. Moreover, during the bending process, all matter lying on the straight line between points A and B would be affected. This is also a problem we need to resolve.”

“Perhaps this technology requires constructing some kind of relay instrument between points A and B to realize it. That is to say, we must first open the route in advance and then adopt this technology. Unrestricted, arbitrary space jumps, I believe, are unlikely to be achievable.”

“…”

“No matter what, the prospects of space jump technology are too enticing. We must first obtain the Guardian Civilization’s space fold technology, only then might we, on that basis, develop space jump technology. Is the technology for invading the small universe already fully analyzed? Very well, then set out to seek the Guardian Civilization and obtain their technology.”