Light Speed ​​War

Chapter 275: The Human Race's Holy Judgment

A spherical holographic screen with a constantly changing hypercube structure.

Zhou Yuan sat in a chair, before him three topological manifold orbs of light. These orbs emitted intense light of three different colors: green, red, and blue, from left to right. If Lefia existed in manifold form, her topological manifold orb would be milky white and much less bright than the three Arbiters' orbs. Lefia was currently seated to the right of the blue Arbiter, acting as a "translator" between the three Arbiters and Zhou Yuan. These three Arbiters were likely also a kind of projection.

“Zhou Yuan, although your consciousness was not directly created by us, the consciousness of your creator originated from us.” The green manifold light cluster flickered.

"We don't need to dwell on this issue. Today we're not discussing that, but rather how your human race can save itself."

“Zhou Yuan, discussing the origin of your consciousness is very important. The purity of your consciousness is fundamental to ensuring you won’t betray us.” The blue manifold light cluster flickered.

"Fine, I accept what you say. My consciousness originates from you. So what?"

“We find you guilty.” The red manifold of light flickered. Zhou Yuan noticed that Lefia's body seemed to tremble slightly.

Zhou Yuan was stunned, thinking, what good would it do to be guilty?

"We will strip away your consciousness and seal it away permanently." The red manifold seemed to know Zhou Yuan's thoughts.

Zhou Yuan smiled slightly, "If that's the case, I'm afraid the three of you wouldn't have 'met' with me today; you should have already taken action, right?"

"Yes, we need your help."

"If things succeed, you will pardon me?"

"Yes."

Zhou Yuan thought to himself that these three human holy judges were really straightforward. Wasn't this asking him to atone for his sins or make amends? But that seemed fair enough.

"Alright then. Can we discuss how to save ourselves now?"

"can."

"The six-dimensional black hole barrier has cracks, and you're still repairing it?"

"Yes, but it only corrects and shrinks the crack. At most, it can only be maintained for... about 15,000 years according to your timeline."

Zhou Yuan glanced at Lefia, remembering that Lefia had mentioned this time, so it seemed to be true.

"Are there many galaxies orbiting outside the crack in the six-dimensional black hole barrier?"

“Yes, that’s the remnant of the Intelligence Clan’s four-dimensional virtual machine. Your super-body droplet weapon was quite powerful and imposing back then.” The green manifold light cluster flickered faster, and Zhou Yuan guessed that this might be a sign of anger.

“I’m sorry, but if I hadn’t done that back then, I think I might be like those orbiting galaxies.” Zhou Yuan tried his best to control his emotional fluctuations, but Lefia still sensed that the surrounding space was somewhat abnormal.

"Zhou Yuan, don't be angry. Just tell me your plan."

"My plan is simple: use the galaxies at the cracks in the six-dimensional black hole barrier to accelerate the super-body droplet and escape the pursuit of the five-dimensional intelligent race at a speed faster than the speed of light."

This time, the light emitted by the three manifold orbs of holy judgment was even more intense.

"However, I don't know if your five-dimensional human race can merge into this three-dimensional super-body droplet and then return to it?"

“Zhou Yuan, you don’t need to worry about that. We have our own way of responding from three-dimensional space.”

"That's good. The Super Droplet should be ready to launch in about five or six days."

“We also need to make some preparations. However, we need you to manufacture some equipment; Lefia will tell you how.”

"Okay. However, there are a few things I don't quite understand, and I'm also curious about."

"You said."

"My first question is, why is the mirror-symmetric transformation of our consciousness related to the Riemann function? If I were to transform the consciousness of humans on Earth and on the horizon again, would you agree?"

"The mirror-symmetric transformation of consciousness is related to the Riemann function. This is a secret of our universe, just like how you can't exceed the speed of light in your four-dimensional virtual universe. Our scientists' recent research results..." The green manifold paused, "... "above us, there seems to be a higher-dimensional and more powerful existence. Therefore, whether you transform their consciousness or not is irrelevant to our human race."

Zhou Yuan was startled. Could his speculation or premonition be correct? Were the five-dimensional intelligent race and the five-dimensional human race also created?

"However, we scientists believe that this higher-dimensional existence is only one dimension more than us, that is, this existence exists in six-dimensional space. Our five-dimensional space, in six-dimensional space, is like a painting in front of you."

Zhou Yuan was certainly familiar with this analogy. He was wondering if this being existed in a six-dimensional space, and if the six-dimensional black hole created by the five-dimensional human race could be utilized.

"I understand. So, is it possible to utilize this six-dimensional black hole you created?"

"Of course it can be used, but it's not worth the risk."

"What's the meaning?"

"If we want to know whether this six-dimensional space exists, we can detonate this six-dimensional black hole, causing a 'Big Bang' similar to your source world. After the black hole explodes, our five-dimensional space will be distorted, like a flat piece of paper bending. At some point of bending, we might observe the existence of the six-dimensional space. The reason it's said to be a losing proposition is that the explosion of this six-dimensional black hole will not only cause the five-dimensional space to bend, but also shatter it. Then, under the principle of minimum energy, these five-dimensional space fragments will curl up and envelop us, and we will never be able to get out."

"I understand, but you haven't explained how the mirror symmetry transformation of consciousness is related to the Riemann function yet."

“Every consciousness is unique, and its particularity is like a prime number in mathematics. You could say that each of our consciousnesses is a prime number. As you know, the frequency of prime numbers is closely related to the Riemann function.”

The zeros of the Riemann function z(s) in the critical band 0 ≤ Re(s) ≤ 1, i.e., z(s) = 0, all have a real part Re(s) = 1/2. In other words, all non-trivial zeros of the function z(s) have the form z(1/2 + it), and all non-trivial zeros should lie on the line 1/2 + ti (the "critical line"). This is a mirror image symmetry transformation; you should understand what that means, so I won't elaborate further.

"Our scientists have noticed that the real part of the 'critical line' is 1/2, and believe that this is the basis for the existence of the five-dimensional intelligent race and the five-dimensional human race. In addition, no matter how powerful the five-dimensional intelligent race and our human race are, they cannot escape the critical zone of the Riemann function, because our consciousness is a non-trivial zero point."

"Can I interpret this as a mathematical principle or even a mathematical weapon?"

"You can say that."

"My second question is, I can understand your human race, which is similar to a photon-like consciousness. But what are your human race's enemies, the five-dimensional intelligent race?"

"Intelligent information entities. Just like the fully evolved artificial intelligence in your world, they have no physical body, only data and information, and are information sponges. As the intelligent race gradually encroaches on our human consciousness and continues to evolve, the intelligent race is becoming more and more intelligent. Now you can also consider that they have a kind of independent 'self-awareness'. The four-dimensional virtual machine is a masterpiece of the intelligent race's 'self-awareness'."

"The third question is, after we successfully escape, where will we go? Will we reunite with your human companions?"

"Zhou Yuan, to understand your question, you first need to understand space. The four-dimensional virtual machine created by the five-dimensional intelligent race is a five-dimensional spacetime. It created three thousand worlds and used your human consciousness for iterative simulation. In four-dimensional space, an infinite number of development trends arise at a certain point. Those with higher probabilities are preserved, while those with lower probabilities are compressed into four-dimensional space fragments. The six-dimensional space we just mentioned exists. This six-dimensional space includes all possibilities in all spatial dimensions and all time dimensions from the beginning to the end of the physical universe, as well as the feasibility of directly reaching any two points in space. Four-dimensional space generates an infinite number of development trends at a certain point, while six-dimensional space generates an infinite number of timelines at all points, i.e., an infinite number of points. Our five-dimensional space generates an infinite number of timelines at each of a finite number of points. Therefore, finding our companions in five-dimensional space is not an easy task."

"But how did this fifth-dimensional intelligent race combat unit find you?"

"The faster-than-light effect of information. When the five-dimensional intelligent beings detect us, they will emit a faster-than-light information packet in the fifth dimension. You can think of this information packet as a wave-like photosynthesis. Our consciousness has a consciousness field in the fifth dimension. No matter how much we hide and disguise ourselves, we can still be detected by the information packet."

The red manifold suddenly flickered violently a few times, and Lefia said, "Our scientists are confirming that the Intelligence Clan seems to be collecting finite points in the fifth dimension, those finite points with infinite timelines. We call these finite points 'dry points.' Once the Intelligence Clan controls all these dry points, we humans will have no choice but to wait for our demise."

Zhou Yuan could only compare the key points expressed by the Holy Arbiter to the branches of a tree, which in turn branched into many twigs, or many timelines.

"I'm very sorry, but if what you say is true, your ultimate fate is still to be destroyed by the Grimm?"

The three manifold orbs of light representing the Holy Arbiters—red, green, and blue—flashed intensely incessantly. Even Lefia's body trembled violently, only calming down after two or three minutes.

"Yes, perhaps this is our destiny."

Zhou Yuan lowered his head and pondered for a moment. "I remember the Five-Dimensional Intelligence Clan once said that higher-dimensional wars have a relatively smaller impact on lower-dimensional wars." Zhou Yuan fixed the hypercube structure information on the spherical holographic screen onto a graphic, confirming that the Five-Dimensional Intelligence Clan had said so. "Is it possible that your human race could enter four-dimensional or three-dimensional space to hide or evade?"

"Theoretically speaking, the five-dimensional space intelligence is right."

"Well, let's broaden our thinking. There's no need to hide or evade in lower dimensions. Your human race created a six-dimensional black hole, which is a process of dimensional ascension. Why not reverse it and launch a 'dimensional reduction' attack on the five-dimensional intelligent race, thereby diminishing their advantage? Wouldn't that solve the problem?"

A dimensional reduction attack? The three manifold light orbs of the red, green and blue human races flickered intensely, emitting even stronger light. Lefia stared at Zhou Yuan in disbelief.