"Time in the universe is like a river. When we scoop up a ladle of water and pour it back in, the water will still flow back into the river. But this time, we've poured the water into a small pit next to it. Now we need to dig a channel between the pit and the river so that the water in the pit can flow back into the river."
"If we could catch up with the timeline of the greater universe, wouldn't we be able to stay here longer, using past matter to build warships? The spatial data within the black hole is enough to allow us to upgrade to Small Star Sector Advanced Civilization. Once we've built a sufficiently advanced fleet, we can then catch up with the timeline of the greater universe and return to a meaningful state."
"Theoretically, that's possible. We don't know exactly how far back in time the universe has progressed, but it's been at least tens of thousands of years."
Past stars, past planets, past matter, past energy—but our thinking has already extended to the future. Captain Xie Jinqiao transmitted a wealth of spatial data from the black hole, and with this data, the academicians' understanding of space has reached new heights.
The fleet began traversing the galaxy, but strangely, the entire galaxy became unusually quiet. Not to mention advanced civilizations, not even a Planetary-Level Civilization or a life-bearing planet could be found. Luo Zhigao directly steered the fleet into the Insect Zone, where everything was as quiet as if nothing had happened.
The fleet settled in a planetary system. Fortunately, matter and energy were still usable and the laws of physics remained unchanged. Since there was no interference from other civilizations, there was no need to worry about the safety of the civilization. Luo Zhigao began to order the fleet to carry out destructive development at a frenzied pace. Only the purest and richest parts of a planet were mined, and the rest were simply discarded and replaced with a new planet. After all, there were more planets than they could use.
Ten thousand years, twenty thousand years... a full fifty thousand years have passed, and the fleet has reached 100 billion ships. Although these years have been in a meaningless flow of time, they have been a golden time for the fleet's development. Academician Gao Zhengyang and Jiang Moyan have long since found a way to merge into the timeline of the universe.
Now that the fleet is large enough, there is no point in staying on the meaningless timeline any longer, so Luo Zhigao prepares to return to the normal universe timeline.
The key to returning is still the black hole, but this time there's no need to enter it. The fleet has found a black hole that connects the past and the future. Any matter that enters the black hole will be torn apart. The fleet didn't dare to venture deep into the black hole before, and it still doesn't dare now, but now the fleet has the space technology of Small Star Sector Advanced Civilization.
According to the research results of Academician Gao Zhengyang and Jiang Moyan, the fleet only needs to enter the outer infinite redshift surface of the black hole and then come out again to return to the normal timeline of the universe.
The infinite redshift plane points to a singularity or a ring of oddities. In the infinite redshift plane, the curvature of space becomes infinitely large. However, from the edge of the event horizon to the singularity, the infinite redshift plane does not increase the curvature of space abruptly. Ordinary matter cannot escape the black hole, not even light.
However, the current fleet can barely manage. Outside the infinite redshift plane, the curvature of space has not yet reached infinity, and the curvature here is not as chaotic as on the battlefield. The warships can still barely navigate here. In addition, the advanced fleets in the Small Star Region can utilize various fields to allow the warships to resist the powerful tidal forces of the black hole.
Time is also distorted within the infinite redshift plane, but this doesn't matter to the fleet. As long as they escape the black hole again, the black hole will bring the fleet back to the normal timeline of the larger universe, making them a meaningful existence.
The black hole is full of energy, and the fleet can receive a continuous supply of energy even if it is exhausted. In order to return to the normal timeline, Luo Zhigao gave the order, and the fleet once again rushed into the black hole's accretion disk and headed into the black hole.
Inside the black hole, Luo Zhigao's fleet received countless pieces of information. It only absorbed information without releasing it; all the information in the entire galaxy was stored inside the black hole. However, the fleet was not yet capable of obtaining this information. Even the information it received was incomplete and could not be analyzed to find anything useful.
Just as the fleet was laboriously and slowly utilizing the infinite redshift surface of the black hole to return to the accretion disk, Luo Zhigao received a clear, interpretable message: humanity had obtained the defense system in the Matter River. Just that one sentence, along with the coordinates of human territory.
Luo Zhigao realized something was wrong. Although Luo Zhigao didn't know what Matter River or a defense system was, he knew that such a blatant claim that humanity had obtained a defense system couldn't be for good, and there was a 90% chance that the coordinates belonged to Hu Yu.
Luo Zhigao rushed towards the coordinates without stopping. Just as he approached the coordinates, he saw a fleet of Small Star Sector Advanced Civilization hidden only a few dozen light-years away.
Luo Zhigao also concealed himself in the nearby airspace and dispatched his fleet to secretly check the coordinates. The hidden fleet was the fleet of the Hydra Civilization, so shortly after the Hydra Civilization intervened, Luo Zhigao's fleet also arrived.
After recounting everything, Luo Zhigao let out a long sigh of relief. This incredible experience left Hu Yu and the others wide-eyed, their jaws practically dropping to the floor.
"Minister, it turns out you were trapped by a black hole all this time because you didn't keep your appointment."
"Yes, thankfully we weren't inside the black hole for long, otherwise it might have been millions of years before we came out."
"General Hu Yu, what exactly is the Matter River defense system?" Gao Zhengyang asked curiously.
" Academician Zeng and his team were looking for this so-called defense system. Who knew that before they even found it, news spread throughout the entire galaxy that we had found the defense system. Then these Small Star Sector Civilization came to demand it, and we were forced to fight back. Fortunately, you came, otherwise I really don't know how we would have ended up like this."
"We obtained a lot of information about space from inside the black hole this time, Old Gao, transmit it to them later."
"What, Minister Luo, are you leaving again?"
"The leader's mission is not yet complete; we must continue the leader's mission until we become Great Star Region Civilization."
"Minister, you won't cut off the four-dimensional connection this time, will you?" Hu Yu asked with a smile.
"Haha, no, we're already a Small Star Sector Civilization. Plus, the situation in the galaxy is tense right now, we have to unite to effectively fight our enemies."
" Qin Yin, prepare our latest technology and hand it over to Academician Gao," Hu Yu said to Academician Qin Yin, who was sitting nearby.
"OK."