Rebirth of the Super Battleship-Chapter 765: Spatial Black Hole

Leaving the Divine Ark Civilization meant abandoning all of his previous foundations. It meant that everything except scientific and technological knowledge had to start over from scratch. And reconstruction was not something that could be completed in a short time, not even something that could be completed in a hundred or a thousand years.

The current Xiao Yu only barely possessed the ability to build a Continent-Class spaceship. The New Asia spaceship was built by Xiao Yu only after sacrificing many other engineering projects and going all out for fifty years.

The reason for this situation was not that Xiao Yu’s computing power was insufficient. In fact, since arriving on Titan, at his peak, Xiao Yu’s computing power utilization never exceeded ten percent. The main reason was that Xiao Yu’s industrial foundation was too weak. The number of mechanical devices he could use was too small, and it was difficult for them to grow explosively in a short time. This led to the phenomenon that Xiao Yu had computing power but lacked machine equipment that could be controlled.

The Divine Ark Civilization’s previous construction capability had been gradually accumulated and developed over nearly one hundred thousand years of growth. Every step of development had a solid industrial, theoretical, and planning foundation. To reproduce this entire development process in a short time was extremely difficult. This was not something that could be done in a short time.

Now, Xiao Yu’s development time was only two hundred years. In these two hundred years, developing from a Level 2 civilization to possessing Level 6 civilization-level construction power was already an extremely remarkable achievement. As for restoring the construction capability of the Divine Ark Civilization period, Xiao Yu estimated it would take at least three thousand years to do so. As for building Star-Class warships, even the fastest would take at least one thousand five hundred years.

Think about it, with the Divine Ark Civilization’s industrial foundation and industrial accumulation, building Star-Class warships still required one thousand years. The current Xiao Yu’s industrial strength was not just a little weaker than the Divine Ark Civilization’s. Star-Class warships were even more impossible to imagine. For the current Xiao Yu, Continent-Class spaceships were already the limit.

At present, Xiao Yu had a total of more than thirty thousand warships of various models. In this fleet, there was only one Continent-Class spaceship, the New Asia spaceship, Xiao Yu’s flagship. There were ten Nation-Class spaceships, and two hundred Province-Class spaceships. At this moment, aside from the Asia spaceship guarding the solar system, most of the other ships had embarked on long-distance voyages. Under Xiao Yu’s command, these ships carried large amounts of mechanical equipment, starting from the solar system, each traveling out a distance of half a light year, then releasing the large amount of equipment they carried, then continuing to the next location, and releasing another batch of instruments.

What Xiao Yu intended to slice out was a spherical space centered on the Sun, with a diameter of one light year. The warships Xiao Yu controlled were operating on the surface of this great sphere. Xiao Yu selected tens of millions of key spatial nodes. At each of these nodes, corresponding space-slicing equipment had to be installed.

After the New Asia spaceship was built, Xiao Yu’s industrial facilities were all invested into the construction of space-slicing equipment. Under Xiao Yu’s all-out effort, the construction of tens of millions of space-slicing devices took only a little over ten years. Installing these devices took another three years, and debugging and testing took one year. After a total of twenty years, all preparations were complete.

At this moment, deep in the invisible universe, tens of millions of space-slicing instruments were distributed there according to certain rules. These instruments jointly formed a sphere, wrapping the entire solar system inside.

Debugging and testing had ended. These devices all had Superluminal communication instruments installed, maintaining no-delay communication with Xiao Yu at all times. With a single command from Xiao Yu, tens of millions of space instruments would activate simultaneously and slice out space including the solar system.

“The solar system is my homeland. I cannot tolerate the destruction of the Sun happening. The destruction of Tianyuan IV is already enough to make me feel guilty. No matter what, such a thing must never happen again.” Xiao Yu murmured to himself. “My two lives were both given to me by the Sun. She is more important than my life. I swear that even if the price is my death, I will not allow anyone to destroy the Sun.”

“Then, activate.” Xiao Yu silently issued the order.

An instruction was sent from the main control computer within the Asia spaceship, and simultaneously transmitted in the form of Superluminal communication to the tens of millions of instruments distributed within a diameter of one light year. Along with the order being issued, these instruments moved at the same time.

Space half a light year away from the Sun was a void. There was basically no matter here. It was neither within the scope of the Kuiper Belt nor within the scope of the Oort Cloud. This was a vacuum zone within the sphere of influence of the solar empire. Yet in this place, there existed something with obvious traces of intelligent lifeform manufacture. It had an irregular outer shape. The longest part was several hundred meters long, and the widest part was over thirty meters. Some antenna-like things extended from it, and there were also some indicator-light-like things on it constantly flashing.

Elemental decay and antimatter mixed engines provided it with sufficient power. Inside it, a series of precision instruments within the scope of Level 6 civilization was operating. With an order issued from afar, in an instant, it was activated. Instruments based on space technology began to operate. Energy was extremely compressed until it could interact with space. Within such a mechanism, space was sliced open.

If it were only a single instrument, at most it would only create a spatial rift. No matter how powerful a spatial rift was, compared to the main universe it was insignificant. Being erased by the self-healing ability of the main universe was only a matter of time. But now the situation was different. Around it, above and below it, to its left and right, at almost equal distances, there existed another identical space-slicing instrument. Tens of millions of space-slicing instruments activated together. In this instant, a small universe containing the solar system was sliced out.

Before slicing the small universe, Xiao Yu had already precisely calculated the entire small universe’s four-dimensional momentum and prepared countermeasures in advance. After the small universe was sliced out, under another command from Xiao Yu, the instruments left inside the small universe began to operate, and the traction ships reserved outside the small universe also began to activate at the same time. Thus, this small universe was like a kite released into the sky, with a string pulling it between it and the ground, controlling it so it would not fly away.

The small universe had been successfully towed, but Xiao Yu, who was within the solar system, saw no change in the sky through optical equipment. The propagation of light also required time. The light from other stars and the starry sky from before could still continue transmitting for half a light year of time. That is to say, after half a year, the cosmic starry sky inside the small universe would instantly dim, and all the stars would disappear at the same time. Then what would replace them would be the Sun’s light folded back, and the Sun’s figure would, as time passed, fill the entire starry sky of the small universe.

The entire solar system had already vanished from the main universe without a trace. A small universe with a diameter of one light year had been sliced out. Correspondingly, in the main universe there was left behind a huge black-hole-like thing with a diameter of one light year. Under the self-healing ability of the main universe, it was rapidly shrinking. It was estimated that it would disappear in at most one hour. At that time, the two things on either side of this black hole, which originally were one light year apart, would have their distance greatly shortened because of the movement of space.

In fact, Xiao Yu did not know what the black-hole-like void left behind after slicing space truly was, although Xiao Yu was already quite familiar with this kind of black hole. Xiao Yu had once tried to launch probing equipment into this black-hole-like object, but any equipment launched into this black hole ultimately lost contact with Xiao Yu. Xiao Yu had even launched a Province-Class spaceship equipped with a complete Level 6 civilization shield into this black hole, but this Province-Class spaceship also lost contact with Xiao Yu.

Xiao Yu carried out a series of analyses of this black hole from the spatial level, yet obtained no definite conclusion. The only thing that could be confirmed was that this spatial black hole had some kind of similarity with material black holes in the main universe.

“Perhaps this is technology within the scope of Level 7 civilization. No, it might even be technology within the scope of Level 8 civilization. Through this spatial black hole, perhaps some technology similar to a stargate could be developed.”

Of course, Xiao Yu knew these were only his own guesses. How things would develop in the future, as an intelligent lifeform within the scope of Level 6 civilization, Xiao Yu truly had no way to determine.

Matters related to the small universe were already complete, and Xiao Yu began controlling the traction ships to tow the small universe forward slowly. At this moment, within the small universe there was only one star, the Sun. Using the Sun as fuel was something Xiao Yu absolutely could not do. The other star transport fleets had already set out, and this small universe would soon become crowded.

Thirty years later, this small universe already had more than one hundred stars. And during these decades, Xiao Yu had been carrying out basic industrial facility construction actions. But this was a long-term matter. To restore industrial capability to the peak period of the Divine Ark Civilization would still require long-term effort.

“Leave the Milky Way Galaxy. Along the way, continue collecting stars, expand the small universe’s volume. By the time I reach the edge of the Milky Way Galaxy, I should be able to collect enough stars as fuel.” Xiao Yu silently thought, controlling the traction ships, and embarked on the road of leaving the Milky Way Galaxy.