"Elder Chief, are you alright?" Yan Xue asked with concern.
"You won't die. Why didn't you care about me just now? You knew that rescuing the Demon Scorpion Civilization would cause me a lot of damage, yet you kept making me go. You heartless brat."
"We didn't ask you to save me like this. Taking over the central black hole of the galaxy is a much better thing."
"What a load of rubbish! Once you become Galactic Consciousness, you'll be trapped in the Milky Way forever. Laozi still want to travel the universe, I'm definitely not going to do something so stupid." At this moment, Zu seemed to be in a much better mood and started bickering with his two juniors, Yan Xue and Chen Xue. He didn't seem to be discouraged at all by losing the Consciousness Field Energy of the Secondary Universe.
The energy of the Secondary Universe's Consciousness Field Energy enters the black hole and replenishes its Black Hole Consciousness field. This energy is quickly assimilated, given new rules, and becomes the source of consciousness energy for the galactic black hole.
With the injection of energy from the Secondary Universe Consciousness Field Energy, even Daozi looked much more energetic. Then, this energy was released from the black hole. Ordinary energy would almost never be able to escape from a black hole, but this was Consciousness Field Energy, which is not bound by gravity.
The released energy entered the minds of the people of the Demon Scorpion Civilization, and they slowly awoke one by one. The Demon Scorpion leader saw his people awakening in batches through the images and finally felt relieved. The Demon Scorpion leader turned around and bowed deeply to the elusive ancestor, a courtesy that everyone had learned from humans.
" Chi Xue, thank you, thank you! You saved countless lives of the Demon Scorpion Civilization. No words can express my gratitude. I, the Demon Scorpion, hereby promise that whenever the Demon Scorpion Civilization is of any use, we will go through fire and water without hesitation!"
"You're exaggerating. Actually, this is a relief for me too. I've finally found a reason to be a true Snow Tribe. I no longer have to live like a ghost or a monster. I can enjoy all the wonderful things that an ordinary creature can enjoy."
" Mr. Daozi, since the Galactic Consciousness controls the rules, why not use those rules to restrict the Fish Horse Star Civilization?"
"Do you think the Galactic Consciousness is omnipotent? In a sense, the Galactic Consciousness is also a life form, albeit a rather special one. The rules it grasps are extremely limited, and given its current Galactic Consciousness, it's absolutely impossible for it to use the rules to stop the Fish Horse Star Civilization."
"Oh, I see. The Galactic Consciousness should be much better now, right?"
"Do you think the energy of a Secondary Universe's Consciousness Field Energy can change much? If that were the case, I would have restored the Galactic Consciousness long ago. I think the Galactic Consciousness may never be restored because of my existence. However, even if I were to abandon this mode of existence now, self-awareness would not return. The Galactic Consciousness may forever lack self-awareness and only exist like a plant."
"By the way, Mr. Daozi, when you went to Sextans A, weren't you supposed to be investigating the NGC 319 galaxy? Any results?"
"It's strange. I also found a large amount of matter that didn't originally belong to the NGC 3109 system, but I don't know the specific reason. I asked the old man, and he said that it seems that an epic war suddenly broke out in NGC 3109, but the war came and went quickly, just like an advanced civilization suddenly attacking a Stellar-Level Civilization. The war ended in an instant, so quickly that even the old man couldn't get any information."
"We analyzed the warship wreckage brought back from the NGC 3109 system and confirmed that the wreckage belonged to the native civilization of NGC 3109. Even for a Galactic-Level Civilization, it would be difficult to wipe out all civilizations in an entire galaxy in such a short time. Not even a single plant in NGC 3109 survived, yet the enemy left no trace."
"Perhaps. NGC 3109 is still some distance from Sextans A, and the old fogey can't reach it. He might not have investigated it thoroughly enough. As for that young man surnamed Zeng, tell him to calm down for now. You guys re-investigate the increase in matter in the Eagle Nebula. Perhaps there are common factors involved in both."
" Academician Zeng is still in the Secondary Universe; I'll notify him to come over immediately."
"Sigh, so much trouble. I hope nothing else goes wrong. I really can't take it anymore. You younger generation are never going to make Laozi proud. We've dragged on with the Fish Horse Star Civilization for so long and still haven't killed it."
"This..." Hu Yu was a little embarrassed.
Suddenly, everyone saw the distant galaxy moving rapidly into the distance, as if it had been split in two. The two halves were speeding in opposite directions, as if an invisible giant hand had broken the Milky Way in two like a loaf of bread and thrown them in different directions.
Except for a few extreme celestial bodies such as the central black hole that remain in place, all other celestial bodies have uncontrollably flown into the distance. To be precise, it's not that the celestial bodies are flying, but rather that the entire space is moving. Now, the Milky Way galaxy is divided into two sides with more and less. The side with less is the side attacked by the Fish Horse Star Civilization, while the side with more is the side adjacent to the Andromeda Galaxy.
"Oh no, how could I not have thought of that?"
What exactly is going on?
" The Secondary Universe is about to merge with the macrocosm," Daozi replied.
" The Secondary Universe and the macrocosm are merging? Why?"
"The reason why the Secondary Universe has existed independently for countless years is because of the existence of rules. Now that the Consciousness Field of the Secondary Universe has completely dissipated and returned to the Galactic Consciousness, the space of the Secondary Universe will naturally return to the greater universe. Now that's great, a huge space of hundreds of thousands of light-years is about to be integrated into the greater universe, and the Secondary Universe just happens to be close to the Milky Way, so this situation has occurred."
"Now that's bad. The time advantage of the Secondary Universe is gone, making things even worse for dealing with the Fish Horse Star Civilization." Hu Yu was really angry but had nowhere to vent his frustration. How could this unreliable old man be so incompetent?
Originally, by taking advantage of the time in the Secondary Universe, mass-producing fleets might have given them a chance to fight the Fish Horse Star Civilization. Now that the Secondary Universe has returned to the main universe, the time advantage is definitely gone. The construction of the Expeller is extremely time-consuming. Hu Yu originally wanted to build a billion or eight hundred million Expeller, but with this, even ten or twenty thousand will be difficult.
Even worse off is the Milky Way. Already in ruins, it's now being cleaved in two, the entire galaxy is falling apart, no longer a galaxy at all. Hu Yu had already foreseen what was to come; these celestial bodies were sensing the change in gravity.
"You can't blame me. I'm not a researcher, how could I know so much? Besides, I have no experience in this kind of situation. Who knew something like this would happen?" The old man looked completely innocent.
"Well, thankfully the Fish Horse Star Civilization was also affected, gaining tens of thousands of light-years of additional distance and several hundred years of additional time. We still have hope."