Chapter 478: Positive and Negative Coupling
The Antimatter Domain was terrifyingly deadly, instantly annihilating over three hundred Battle Stars of the Wandering Alliance.
This inflicted massive casualties on the Wandering Alliance, yet what was truly frightening was that this was merely a part, another type of attack weapon used by the Anti-molecule Star Fleet was even more terrifying, named by the Antimatter Civilization as "Positive and Negative Coupling", it was also one of the ultimate weapons researched by the Antimatter Civilization.
To understand "Positive and Negative Coupling", one must first understand what is coupling?
Coupling refers to the process of energy being transferred from one medium to another.
Applied to information theory, it refers to the process where the amount of information in the Information Sea transitions or transforms, scientists of the Antimatter Civilization discovered through coupling theory that it's possible to couple information particles of different characteristics, which is called Information Coupling, and Positive and Negative Coupling is an ultimate weapon based on this technology, primarily utilizing information coupling technology to combine the information quantities of antimatter and positive matter.
However, as is well-known, positive matter and antimatter are completely opposing existences in the Universe, annihilating each other upon contact, and this phenomenon is not just because the properties like the spin of particles are completely opposite, but also the very basic motion laws of information particles are completely opposite. When annihilation happens superficially, information particles will also annihilate each other, nullifying their respective vibration frequency bands. Positive and Negative Coupling utilizes information coupling technology to avoid Information Annihilation, thereby enabling opposing positive and negative information particles to exist simultaneously and form an energetic information body as a coupled entity. In the coupled state, the opposing positive and negative information particles do not cancel each other's frequencies out but coexist in a certain vibrational mode. The Antimatter Civilization could control the coupled entity through Information Resonance and Information Control Technologies, whether to initiate an Information Annihilation attack or to form new matter in the Universe is as easy as flipping one's hand.
In other words, Positive and Negative Coupling is actually a two-way weapon of life and death, which can annihilate information particles through Information Annihilation or create entirely new matter in the Universe through Information Coupling. It is fundamentally an ultimate weapon that fuses destruction and creation into one, exceptionally horrifying.
The Antimatter Civilization is indeed worthy of being a Level 5 Civilization, having developed such a unique weapon.
And this also shows the terrifying aspect of Level 5 Civilizations, which have a qualitative difference from Level 4 Civilizations. Level 5 Civilizations are the most top-tier civilizations in the Universe, effortlessly capable of destruction and creation, akin to deities, an achievement impossible for ten thousand Level 4 Civilizations.
It is possible that even now, some might not comprehend Positive and Negative Coupling, so here's a simple analogy: Positive and Negative Coupling is akin to an active womb that can both allow a man and a woman to tear each other apart and also remake and recreate these two individuals into a brand new hermaphrodite.
The emergence of such a weapon, aside from mastering the most profound Information Theory in the Universe, is also deeply related to the characteristics of the Antimatter Civilization. The Antimatter Civilization exists in a Universe predominantly made of positive matter, naturally having to constantly think about how to survive in an environment where annihilation could occur at any moment. Thus, with the passing of time and advancement of science, this coupling technology capable of integrating positive and negative matter was naturally brought into existence.
This also represents a tendency for the Antimatter Civilization's technological development, as well as being one of its distinctive characteristics.
After all, any civilization will be influenced by its own growth environment, resulting in certain tendencies, which is determined by history and geographic environment, without choice for the civilization itself.
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At this very moment.
One of the two groups of anti-molecule star fleets launched a [Positive and Negative Coupling] attack against the charging Wandering Alliance Battle Stars.
The Positive and Negative Coupling appeared as a ring of black energy waves that were completely invisible in the dark cosmos, detectable only by information detection devices. The coupling waves propagated silently, like waves in a soundless world, ominously hushed.
The very reason the coupling waves went undetected, and the lack of intelligence or experience about them from the Wandering Alliance, led to the carelessness of many Battle Stars. They were swept by the coupling waves, experiencing horrific Information Annihilation on the Information Sea layer. As the underlying Information Energy vanished, the charging Battle Stars instantly disappeared from the starry sky without any forewarning, taking the Wandering Alliance completely by surprise.
Among them, Lu Chen's Black Hole Avatar, controlling the Black Hole Nebula, followed behind the charging Battle Stars, using Gravity Gold Waves in conjunction with the offensive. However, the Black Hole Avatar had not anticipated that the Antimatter Civilization would possess such an unprecedented weapon as Positive and Negative Coupling. Caught off guard, the Black Hole Avatar and the entire vast Black Hole Nebula vanished from the universe in an instant. At first, Constant Star Lu Chen thought the Black Hole Nebula had simply been cloaked, but upon closer sensing, he couldn't even feel his own Black Hole Avatar, which meant it, along with the Black Hole Nebula, had been eradicated by the Antimatter Civilization's dreadful weapon.
Realizing this, Constant Star Lu Chen felt both stunned and horrified, and so did the rest of the Wandering Alliance members, unable to believe it.
Considering that such a huge nebula as the Black Hole Nebula could not be destroyed in one hit by the Wandering Alliance, it was inconceivable that the Antimatter Civilization had obliterated it so effortlessly. It seemed that the gulf between the Wandering Alliance and the Antimatter Civilization was immense—even if just one anti-molecule unit from the Antimatter Civilization was enough to overpower the Wandering Alliance.
In that moment, the same thought struck everyone unconsciously—they probably stood no chance of winning!
Constant Star Lu Chen inevitably had this thought, and it was the first time it had crossed his mind. Even when ambushed by the Titan Civilization, Constant Star Lu Chen had never entertained such a thought; he had always been confident that the Wandering Alliance could survive. However, this time, he truly sensed an insurmountable vast disparity, one that made him feel helpless, even if he took action personally.
The reason Constant Star Lu Chen and the Wandering Alliance harbored such thoughts was not unfounded. Just the attack combining the Antimatter Domain and Positive and Negative Coupling resulted in the Wandering Alliance losing over ninety percent of their combat strength. A large number of Battle Stars, including those of the Metal Civilization that had joined the Wandering Alliance, as well as those created by the Alliance itself—Earth Battle Star, Science and Martial Battle Star, Information Battle Star, Dark Gold Battle Star, White Dwarf Battle Star, Neutron Battle Star, and even Lu Chen's Black Hole Avatar and Black Hole Nebula—had sadly been annihilated.
Now, the Wandering Alliance was left with only nine Battle Stars: Constant Star Lu Chen, Wandering, Earth, Green Star, Eternal Life Star, Mushroom Star, Metal Star, Bose Star, and Fermi Star—each a Mother Star of different civilizations. They had been stationed in the rear at the start of the war, observing and ready to command and support at a moment's notice, which is why they were not immediately struck by the Antimatter Civilization's ultimate weapons, or else the outcome would likely have been the same.
Among them, Wandering stood somewhat apart.
Wandering had dispatched a multitude of avatars to participate in the battle from the very start, and these avatars were, of course, all sacrificed under the Antimatter Civilization's weapons. While Wandering survived, it lost ninety-five percent of its mass, significantly reducing its size.
The course of the war had reached a point the Wandering Alliance had never anticipated.
With thousands of Battle Stars and not inconsiderable combat strength, they could not have anticipated that the anti-molecule unit would obliterate their living forces with just two strikes—and even if the initial attack that marked the start of the hostilities is included, that's at most three strikes. The situation remained dire.
Now, the Wandering Alliance was left with only the lone survivors from various civilizations' Mother Stars and had lost all capability for war.
Just as the Wandering Alliance thought their voyages were coming to an end, a startling change suddenly occurred in the starry heavens!