Rebirth of the Super Battleship-Chapter 722: Space Energy Formula

Now Xiao Yu had the feeling of standing on the shoulders of giants. Because Xiao Yu knew he was not fighting alone. It was not only himself, or the Divine Ark Civilization alone, confronting the Sweepers Civilization.

The Taihao Alliance would directly participate in the war and help Xiao Yu confront the Sweepers Civilization. The already dead half four-dimensional Taihao had left Xiao Yu the four-dimensional shield to counter the Sweepers Civilization’s soul attacks. The Guardian Civilization had handed Xiao Yu high-dimensional technological data for him to use in resisting the Sweepers Civilization’s high-dimensional attacks. The three Alien Beast Civilizations had all perished, and all of their bodily materials were used by Xiao Yu to build warships with even more outstanding performance. The already dead Micron civilization had left behind its corpse, allowing Xiao Yu to oppose the Neutron War Star. In addition, the spatial lifeform had left Xiao Yu the two-dimensional shield and the two-dimensional weapon.

Together with Xiao Yu and the Specter companions, there were a total of eleven powerful existences. Eleven powerful existences gathered here with Xiao Yu at the center to jointly confront the Sweepers Civilization.

This was absolutely the strongest group that could be organized within the scope of the Milky Way. If with such strength it was still impossible to defeat the Sweepers Civilization, then within the Milky Way the Sweepers Civilization would truly be invincible.

Xiao Yu felt that his strength had reached a peak. Yet Xiao Yu still did not know what role the arrangements made by Luka Two and Xu Junpo would play.

“Perhaps these arrangements are really, as they said, merely a helpless move made under duress, meant for my escape. But now that I have methods to counter all of the Sweepers Civilization’s attacks, how could I possibly fail?” Xiao Yu thought silently. “A full eleven powerful existences… and adding the microscopic civilization that once gave me Level 7 technological data, that makes twelve.”

From the moment he received the Guardian Civilization’s technological data, Xiao Yu had already begun to analyze it. Xiao Yu discovered that the Guardian Civilization had indeed carried out remarkably effective research on high-dimensional space. They had even constrained the space energy formula within a certain range.

Just like the mass energy formula, this formula unified space and energy, thus opening the door to a new realm. The mass energy formula had opened the door to nuclear energy and driven humanity into a Level 2 Civilization. Now, between a Level 6 and a Level 7 civilization, there was also such a formula.

The space energy formula. The formula for the mutual conversion between space and energy. This formula would tell Xiao Yu how much energy a certain unit of space could be converted into, and how much space a certain unit of energy could be converted into. Once this formula was mastered, the door to a Level 7 civilization would truly be opened.

Of course, this was only opening the door. Just as when humanity first mastered the mass energy formula, it did not immediately enter the nuclear age. That required a process.

However, it could be said that once the mass energy formula was mastered, entry into the nuclear age was a foregone conclusion; once the space energy formula was mastered, entry into a Level 7 civilization was also a foregone conclusion. It was only a matter of time.

“It seems the Guardian Civilization was likewise troubled by the Level 7 barrier, which is why they could not fully master the space energy formula and only constrained it within a certain range. This is already a remarkable achievement. Hm, that Level 7 microscopic civilization only told me some Level 7 technological data, some applied technologies rather than foundational theory. However, if I combine the Guardian Civilization’s research data with the Level 7 microscopic civilization’s research data, perhaps I will make some other discoveries.”

Xiao Yu swiftly gathered the relevant scientists and launched research in this area.

Xiao Yu had already determined the direction of this research. Since lowering the dimensionality of space would release energy, then a simple inference followed, injecting energy into space could cause space to ascend in dimensionality. What Xiao Yu was doing now was to truly create a region of four-dimensional space through his own means. After sufficiently understanding the various properties of four-dimensional space, Xiao Yu would be able to find a way to block the Neutron War Star’s four-dimensional attacks.

But Xiao Yu’s research quickly met with difficulties, and the reason was still the Level 7 barrier. Xiao Yu had already determined that injecting energy could cause space to ascend in dimensionality, but because he had not mastered the space energy formula, he could not determine the amount of energy required. If it were only this, it would not matter. Through many repeated experiments, Xiao Yu could always find the correct quantity and even work backward to derive the space energy formula. Unfortunately, this approach was not feasible.

Because of the Level 7 barrier, Xiao Yu still observed uncertainty phenomena in this experiment. All the experimental data Xiao Yu observed possessed certain random characteristics and were completely non-reproducible, which meant the data had no value.

“Before breaking through the Level 7 barrier, such research seems meaningless.” After experiencing countless failures, Xiao Yu confirmed this result. He thus disbanded the scientists who had been organized specifically to study this technology.

Of course Xiao Yu did not intend to give up research in this area. Because this was the only method to counter the Sweepers Civilization’s high-dimensional attacks. Xiao Yu’s plan was to increase the success rate through an enormous number of trials.

Suppose the probability of successfully creating a four-dimensional space in a single experiment was only one in ten billion, then what Xiao Yu needed to do now was to conduct ten billion or more such experiments. With ten billion experiments, even if the success rate was only one in ten billion, according to probability there should be at least one success.

Thus, in the time that followed, Xiao Yu prepared countless experimental sites and used his vast computation power to operate many experimental devices simultaneously, all beginning trials to create four-dimensional space. Xiao Yu no longer hoped to master the space energy formula at this stage. As long as he could enjoy some technological fruits, that would be enough.

In these countless experimental sites, failure played out every day. Many times, Xiao Yu had already succeeded in creating four-dimensional space through massive energy injection, yet failed when expanding the volume of the four-dimensional space. That cursed instability flared again and again, continually blowing apart the four-dimensional space Xiao Yu had created.

It was like a vast wheat field. Xiao Yu had planted many stalks of wheat in this field. As long as one stalk finally bore grain, it would be enough. Xiao Yu carefully cultivated these plants, but instability was like the most detestable insect, killing the wheat as soon as the seed sprouted, or even before it sprouted. Xiao Yu was never able to obtain a single mature ear of wheat. 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

Xiao Yu did not lose heart, but continued conducting these experiments. In this way, one hundred years slowly passed. Less than four hundred years now remained before the Sweepers Civilization’s arrival.

Large-scale construction advanced further and would be fully completed fifty years before the Sweepers Civilization’s arrival. The war game was progressing smoothly. The current war game had fully entered the fleet era. Every day, players commanded large fleets to battle under the virtual starry sky. All sorts of stratagems and tactics played out within it. But no matter how the game evolved, first and second place were always occupied by Jianqi and Rose.

The two had even organized two guilds in the game, which had become the two largest organizations in the entire server. Of course, these two guilds were hostile to each other. All players in the game knew that as long as Jianqi Guild’s fleet and Rose Guild’s fleet met, a great war would inevitably erupt.

Amid endless warfare, they both grew rapidly. Xiao Yu had even begun to consider whether to let Yang Jianqi, Rose, and some other standouts take command of real warships in interstellar warfare ahead of schedule.

Time continued to flow. Long-term effort finally received a return. Amid countless failures, Xiao Yu at last successfully cultivated a region of four-dimensional space. It was a four-dimensional hyperbody whose length, width, height, and the length of the fourth dimension were all ten kilometers. The mysteries of four-dimensional space were finally revealed to Xiao Yu for the first time. To create this four-dimensional hyperbody and make the micro-scale four-dimensional structures curled within the main universe manifest, Xiao Yu had paid the price of at least ten stars.

The existence of this four-dimensional hyperbody was unstable. It was slowly losing its fourth dimension under the erosion of the three-dimensional main universe. So Xiao Yu’s research had to be done quickly. Xiao Yu specially developed a large number of spaceships and instruments, sent them into the four-dimensional hyperbody, and studied how to conduct ship defense and attack in a four-dimensional environment.

“The main universe has a three-dimensional structure. All of its four-dimensional structures are curled into the microscopic and unwilling to reveal their true faces. Within the three-dimensional main universe, four-dimensional navigation is impossible. Then the only method is to temporarily open a four-dimensional passage and use this four-dimensional passage to achieve the purpose of a four-dimensional attack. I believe the Guardian Civilization’s four-dimensional jump and the Sweepers Civilization’s high-dimensional attacks are based on this principle, only with different directions of development. With this principle as support, it is then easy to find a countermeasure…”

Xiao Yu finally found this method. Xiao Yu’s countermeasures were divided into two types. The first was to construct a truly four-dimensional closed space to wrap around one’s own ships, sealing off the route that entered the interior of the ships from the four-dimensional direction. It was like drawing a circle in a two-dimensional world, or building a sealed iron sphere in a three-dimensional world. Only this method also had a flaw, namely that a sealed space could be forcibly broken open. Faced with the Neutron War Star’s formidable combat strength, this method was not very reliable.

Thus, Xiao Yu found a second method.