What is time?

A relatively abstract basic physical quantity in physics, which expresses the arrangement of life and death of objects, is the expression of the continuity and sequence of the movement and change of matter. In fact, people cannot separate time, space, and matter and explain them independently.

Therefore, when they are separated from the original universe, in this barren and unknown void, time seems to have changed faces for Yuan Haochen and General Volcano Ball. When they were awakened by the intelligent system again, it was already 300,000 years later.

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"Are you alright?" This time, it was Hara Haochen who was the first to wake up and regain his mobility, and he was standing in front of the Volcano Ball General's dormant pod, checking his physical health parameters.

Before that, they had never experienced a deep dormancy of up to 300,000 years. It's not as simple as closing your eyes and opening them like a dream. Therefore, whether it is General Volcano Ball or Yuan Haochen, there are some problems of varying degrees in terms of physical and mental conditions.

[Eh...... It's not bad. General Volcano replied a little confused, "This time, we have been dormant for 300,000 years, it's unimaginable......]

Yuan Haochen smiled and slowly helped the Volcano Ball General to sit up: "Do you know why we were awakened? ”

[Anyway, it's not because of the Alliance's rescue fleet.] 】

The Volcanic Ball Admiral, of course, knew that the Union fleet that saved them did not appear.

"Disappointed, huh?" Yuan Haochen asked.

[No, this is all expected.] As long as you don't expect too much, there won't be too many disappointments. The gate of time and space almost collapsed in the Great War, how could it be repaired so easily. Besides, it will be very difficult for the Alliance fleet to find us......]

Volcano Ball said slowly, and Yuan Haochen listened quietly.

……

Through the observation of the small universe for hundreds of thousands of years by the monitoring system, Yuan Haochen and the Volcanic Ball General obtained the rate change function of the annihilation and decay of the small universe. The actual results were far worse than they had anticipated.

Monitoring data shows that the closer to the final moment of fate, the more drastic the change in the rate of annihilation of the small universe. As a result, the remaining 1.1 million years of the last expected small universe have been greatly reduced to less than 550,000 years.

This means that this universe, which once had a glorious past and was once incomparably grand, will only have the last 250,000 years left from now on.

Theoretically, Yuan Haochen and General Volcano Ball can continue to sleep deeply in this small universe for a long time, but the reason why the intelligent system woke them up early was due to safety considerations.

"About 30,000 years ago, the monitoring system discovered anomalies in the small universe."

On a detection ship that wanders the edge of a small space, Hara and General Volcano are investigating the actual situation of the small universe together. Today's small universe has decayed to 56.1% of its original size, and as for the decay of the total mass, the situation will be slightly better due to human intervention, but it is only 82.3% of the original remaining.

[The rate of dark matter and dark energy escaping is rising rapidly (interstellar matter is basically fully utilized by them.] General Volcano Sphere is very worried about what he has actually detected.

"Not only that, but the space of the small universe has also begun to distort." Hara added cautiously, "As time goes on, the whole small space will become more and more unstable......

[This is the reason why the intelligent system wakes us up in advance.] General Volcano Ball whispered.

"Yes, for security reasons, this small universe is no longer suitable for us to use as a shelter base."

[In other words, we are about to start wandering in the endless void again......]

Thinking of this, the Volcano Ball General looked helpless.

It's small, but it's a real space, and once you leave, the absolute nothingness of the environment makes you feel palpitations and extreme unease.

"The only thing I don't want to give up is the five-dimensional space in that asteroid and the story behind it."

As he spoke, Yuan Haochen ordered the detection ship to turn around and fly towards the five-dimensional entity asteroid. The detection ship soon approached the perimeter of the asteroid and slowly circled around it.

[Shall we just give it up?] 】

Volcano Sphere stared at the asteroid floating in the dark deep sky and sighed with a complicated expression.

"We've done our best...... Mr. Yuan said.

[If only the Alliance's fleet could arrive in time, maybe there is still a glimmer of hope. General Volcano Ball is very unwilling.

In this regard, Yuan Haochen was silent, just staring.

Well, that's just the way it is. 】

The Volcano Ball General knew that this was an outcome that they could not control, and he could only comfort himself in this way.

Xu stared at it for too long, and then Yuan Haochen spoke: "I don't know if there is a small universe like this in this endless void......

[There must be!] General Volcano Ball said with some certainty.

"It's just that those small universes may not have precious memories left by their owners." Yuan Haochen sighed.

……

A few years later, a huge fleet was assembled and flew out of this small universe that had been there for hundreds of thousands of years.

The fleet is centered on a moderately sized mothership, with a total of about 120,000 warships of various types and 20,000 resource-carrying spaceships. These were all gradually accumulated over the past long years, and for this reason, Yuan Haochen and General Volcano Ball had almost exhausted the interstellar matter of the entire small universe.

[If you can take it away, try to take it away, and if you can't take it away, you can only stay.] Volcano Ball General said.

"It can't be taken away, and it shouldn't be taken away by us." Yuan Haochen was referring to the five-dimensional entity asteroid, "It carries the glorious past of their entire universe in the past, imprinted with countless proud and precious years, and perhaps flowing with endless unwillingness and humiliation, but in the near future, it will finally disappear with the destruction of the mother universe." ”

At this moment, Yuan Haochen's mood had already recovered calmly, not demanding, nor sighing. He believes that as long as he persists and does not give up, there will be a chance to get the answer to his question, and there will always be a chance to return to the universe he was born into.

After the fleet had accelerated and re-entered the low-consumption state, the Volcanic Ball General said gloomily, "Then, let's continue to sleep. 】

The reason why he was in such a hurry to enter deep dormancy was, firstly, out of awe of the endless void beyond the universe, and secondly, he also knew very well that his life had long been unable to withstand consumption.

"Okay." Yuan Haochen nodded and said, "In the next period of time, we will keep a safe distance from this small universe and continue to monitor her follow-up situation." When we wake up next time, it will be time for us to say our final goodbyes. ”

As Yuan Haochen said, in addition to various unexpected situations, the wake-up conditions they set for the dormant system this time also added one item: to witness the final moment of the end of the fate of the small universe.

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