Rebirth of the Super Battleship

After receiving this message, Xiao Yu immediately felt a surge of energy. "So it has come, then? Our conjecture was correct after all?"

As soon as he received the message, Xiao Yu keenly sensed that everything in his field of vision began to distort. Xiao Yu knew this was the scene created when space itself was bent.

"Is this the process of entering the New World? Spatial teleportation… as expected of a Level 6 Civilization…"

Within the warped space, Xiao Yu vaguely saw a ship ahead of him gradually blur and then disappear. As that ship vanished, more and more vessels began to fade and slip out of sight. The forty Home-class ships disappeared, countless Village-Class small ships vanished, then the Town-Class and County-Class medium ships, the Nation-Class large ships…

"Have they entered the New World?" Xiao Yu pondered in silence, watching as this distortion gradually spread toward his flagship, the China. Amid this bizarre spectacle, Xiao Yu chose to remain motionless. According to his calculations, whatever the Trolor Civilization really was, it would not strike at him at this moment.

Gradually, the China was swallowed into this distortion as well. Xiao Yu's vision became even more blurred, but within this haze, he saw a sight he had hoped not to see.

That Level 4 Alien Beast again.

"That creature intends to follow us in as well?" Xiao Yu thought to himself. "Fine, so be it. Once I acquire the weapon called Fractured Space, I won't have to hunt you down all over, right here in this so-called New World, I'll destroy you."

The distortion of space lasted for about three seconds before returning to normal. But once it cleared, the scene before Xiao Yu was entirely different.

Xiao Yu stared wide-eyed at everything, murmuring to himself, "This is the New World? This is the New World? It truly is a new world."

It was as if, in that instant, Xiao Yu had traveled billions of light years, departing the universe he had known so well and arriving in another universe altogether.

Indeed, Xiao Yu could be absolutely certain that he was no longer in the original universe. Because… such a scene could never appear in the universe.

What unfolded before Xiao Yu's eyes was an astonishing sight.

Xiao Yu could see, about ten billion kilometers away, a star. But this star was no ordinary star, it was only planetary in scale, with a volume roughly 1.5 times that of Earth, yet its mass reached about 0.3 times that of the Sun. This implied an unimaginably high density.

It radiated a faint white light, quietly suspended in space, and a moon-sized body was orbiting around it.

This was a stellar system. The primary star was a low-mass white dwarf, the planet was a minor planet. And here in this so-called New World, this miniature stellar system spun and revolved day after day.

Yet this stellar system was not the only thing in the New World. In fact, the New World was filled with celestial bodies, so many that they could only be described as a sky full of stars. They were densely arranged across the black cosmic backdrop, growing fainter as the distance increased. But after a brief observation, Xiao Yu noticed a shocking fact.

All of these celestial bodies were identical. Their volumes, masses, spectra, densities, including their planets, the planets' volumes, masses, and densities, everything was exactly the same, completely uniform.

Endless stars, as though they had all been cast from a single mold.

Such a scene, how could it possibly exist in the real universe? The moment Xiao Yu saw this, he immediately confirmed one belief: there was no way this place was in the real universe.

Then… where was he? There was no doubt that he was inside the Trolor Civilization's most powerful defensive weapon, the New World, but where exactly was the New World?

A bad premonition rose in Xiao Yu's heart.

"Did you see this? Did you see it?" Xiao Yu quickly summoned the relevant scientists and transmitted all the data to them.

"Ugh… How could it be like this?" Every scientist who saw this scene was stunned, including Luka Three and Luka Four. This sight was simply too astonishing, they could not maintain their composure.

"Seizing stars and grasping moons, toying with celestial bodies in the palm…" Xiao Yu muttered to himself, once again shaken by the might of the Trolor Civilization.

"But how could this be? If the Trolor Civilization was truly so formidable that they could reshape so many stars to be exactly identical, how could they have been defeated by the Sweepers Civilization? All right, let's not think about that for the moment and just consider how we're supposed to obtain the Trolor Civilization's relics. But here, with so many stars, just with the detection equipment at our current power, the number of stars already exceeds one billion, and the relics of the Trolor Civilization, on which star are they located? They are all exactly the same in volume, mass, spectrum, density, everything is identical. How am I supposed to find them? Is the Trolor Civilization playing a trick on me?"

Xiao Yu felt extremely frustrated, with a strong urge to curse out loud.

"At present, do any of you have any suggestions?" Xiao Yu controlled his projected figure, turned his gaze to the assembled scientists, and asked with a hint of helplessness.

The scientists all looked at each other, unable to say a single word. This situation had completely surpassed the limits of their imagination. They could not offer even one explanation, however implausible, whether from the Psychosocial Sciences Division or the Science and Technology Division.

"First of all, we can make a general inference: Level 6 Civilizations are defined by their initial mastery of space technology. And the name 'New World' also seems to have some connection to space technology. Combined with our earlier speculation about its movement trajectory, we can tentatively confirm one point: this is not the vast universe we previously inhabited, but rather… a small universe, or perhaps, a fragment split from our greater universe."

After a long silence, Luka Three stood up and offered its opinion.

Xiao Yu looked at it with an encouraging gaze, signaling for it to continue.

"It's just like a two-dimensional world." As Luka Three spoke, it extended its palm and issued a command. A three-dimensional projection device above its hand projected the image of a sheet of paper. "Suppose this sheet represents a two-dimensional world."

All the scientists' attention was instantly drawn to it.

Luka Three grasped both ends of the virtual sheet of paper and made a tearing motion. Immediately, just like a real sheet of paper being ripped, with a ripping sound, the projection split into two pieces, one large, one small.

"Now, I've used space technology to tear this two-dimensional universe in half." Luka Three pointed to the larger piece and said, "This is our great universe." After a pause, Luka Three pointed to the smaller piece. "And this is where we are now."

"Space… space!" Xiao Yu's eyes brightened, and he suddenly understood.

Xiao Yu recalled something that had happened long ago. After leaving the Arrow Beast Planet, he had once received a message from the Guardian Civilization, transmitted via spatial broadcast technology. That message had said that an information storm was imminent and ordered all civilizations below Level 6 who lacked the ability to defend against an information storm to immediately contact them, promising that they would provide shelter points free of charge to these weaker civilizations.

Not until he encountered the Taihao Civilization did Xiao Yu finally learn what an information storm truly was. By relying on Taihao's semi Four-Dimensional body structure, he avoided that storm. At that time, Xiao Yu had already begun to ponder one question: why did Level 6 Civilizations possess the ability to defend against information storms, while Level 5 Civilizations could not?

Now, Xiao Yu knew the answer.

Because Level 6 Civilizations had mastered space technology, they possessed the ability to tear small universes from the greater universe. Just like Luka Three had demonstrated now. Luka Three had split a two-dimensional universe into two. A Level 6 Civilization could split the three-dimensional real universe in the same way. Once in separate universes, how could an information storm from the great universe possibly affect them?

Relying on Taihao's semi Four-Dimensional structure, Xiao Yu had escaped the information storm. That method was like a helicopter hovering above a flood on the ground, untouched by it. But escaping a spatial storm by tearing away an entire universe was like leaving the world altogether, naturally, the flood could not affect them.

At this moment, Xiao Yu fully understood it all.

"This is an entirely new world that never existed before! This world was created by the Trolor Civilization! A New World, truly worthy of being the ultimate defensive weapon! I suppose the so-called safe zones of the Guardian Civilization must be similar, creating new worlds to evade the Sweepers Civilization…"

"It seems that, in the end, the Trolor Civilization still fell short of the Guardian Civilization. The Guardians could make New Worlds available for foreign, weaker civilizations to inhabit, and with those New Worlds, they successfully escaped the Sweepers' pursuit. But the Trolor Civilization could only use such a tool to create a place to store their relics."

"But… but what is going on here? So many identical stars, I refuse to believe that a civilization inferior even to the Guardians would possess such formidable power!"