Chapter 529: Race Ascension
People hiss..... With the sound of inhalation and horrified gazes, the soldier who touched the transparent organism suddenly changed from a three-dimensional person to a two-dimensional image floating in the air.
A soldier cautiously moved to the side of the soldier who had become a flat image, and as he moved his angle, the soldier's form began to narrow until it finally disappeared.
"This is... Became a two-dimensional existence? Li Mingze also cautiously walked around from behind the soldier, and sure enough, the figure floating in the air only had length and width, and had no thickness! From its side, it doesn't even have a line!
"I'm so sorry, but this is our self-defense mechanism during the coming." At this moment, the transparent humanoid creature that had been standing still suddenly spoke.
Everyone was frightened by the sudden movement of the transparent humanoid creature and retreated, and no one wanted to be a two-dimensional image like the hapless soldier.
"Where did you come from, as far as we know, there should be no civilization in this universe that can cross galaxies." The transparent humanoid took a step forward and looked at Li Mingze and the others with its eyes that were transparent but as deep as a black hole.
"We... Just a passing traveler. Li Mingze paused, and thought of a statement that should not anger this person.
"Oh? Traveler, let me take a look. With that, the transparent humanoid closed its eyes.
Just as Li Mingze was puzzled, the scenery around several people suddenly changed to a top-down view in the sky, and under their feet, two hovercars flew out of the city upside down, and the cities began to sink into the ground.
The viaducts in the forest began to disappear into the ground, and their advance camp in the jungle began to retreat rapidly from an intact camp, and the timber on the wooden houses turned into trees and grew back into the land.
Soon, the location of the original camp was restored to a dense forest, and the changes stopped.
Suddenly, a white space-time gate appeared in the clearing of the forest, and several Imperial soldiers walked out of the space-time gate carrying metal boxes.
The picture paused here, making Li Mingze's pupils shrink when he saw all the process.
"That's right, it seems that you are really travelers, but travelers from other planes." The transparent humanoid creature's tone did not fluctuate, and Li Mingze could not hear any emotion from it.
"You ..... What is it! Li Mingze was shocked, he never thought that there was a race that could have the ability to see through time, no, it must be that this planet is under surveillance at all times, and what they saw just now was just a replay of the video!
"We ..... We're just a bunch of poor people. The transparent figure sighed softly, and his thoughts began to drift to hundreds of millions of years ago.....
"Our race was born 520 million years ago, and our civilization has evolved from primitive tribes to being able to navigate the universe."
"As our technology becomes more and more advanced, and the territory we control more and more, the material we obtain becomes more and more abundant, and at this time, our eyes begin to look at the ethereal path of immortality." As he spoke, Li Mingze felt that the surrounding scenery changed again, and he came to the sky above a planet covered by skyscrapers tens of thousands of meters high.
"We started by studying biotechnology with the intention of biologically immortalizing our bodies, but.... We have discovered that all living things have an upper limit of lifespan, and even if we let the cells in our body divide, we will eventually become a puddle of yellow water at a certain time. With his explanation, Li Mingze's sight appeared in the sight of a humanoid creature whose body was not yet transparent, and this creature suddenly turned into a place of yellow water, and dozens of scientists and medical staff around him immediately surrounded him......
"Then, we started working on electronic technology, and we wanted to upload our consciousness to electronic devices to achieve true immortality, and then, as long as we could update the hardware, we would be able to survive forever." This time, the scene is transformed into a laboratory full of technology, in which an elderly man is lying on an operating table, while a robot is placed next to it.
"But.... We found that people who upload their consciousness to bots are extremely vulnerable to computer viruses that can easily turn these people into a pile of scrap metal. The picture turned into a dilapidated warehouse, and garbage trucks dumped countless robots into the warehouse, if it weren't for Li Mingze's accident, these should be immortal people infected with the virus.
"Finally! 390 million years ago, a scientist in our civilization discovered a way to truly immortalize us! That is to evolve the race into a higher-dimensional creature that can not be affected by time! With the man's voice, a huge square appeared in the picture, and an old man was explaining something on the big screen in the square, and the people in the square let out bursts of cheers.
"Since that day, we have shrunk our civilization's colonies back into our home system, and we have begun to focus all of our efforts on the study of upgrading the race to four-dimensional life."
"As tens of millions of years passed, research on sublimation races began to progress, and some experiments began to be carried out in secret." The transparent humanoid sighed, and it was in his memory that his civilization had changed.
"A device called dimensional ascension was created because it takes an immense amount of energy to lift an object from two to three dimensions, and the same goes for lifting a three-dimensional creature to four dimensions."
"In order to obtain such a huge amount of energy, we set our sights on this huge universe, and we began to extract the energy of the universe and convert everything in the universe into two dimensions to release a huge amount of energy for the ascending machine, but ....."
"In the end, we failed, the energy released by the reduction of matter to two dimensions in the universe was far from enough for us to ascend to the fourth dimension, and our ascension plan had to be stopped halfway through, and we were stuck in the transition stage between three and four dimensions."
"We have eternal life." The transparent humanoid smiled wryly as he spoke.
"The price of our eternal life is that we are forever bound to our galaxy, and at the same time, the light that represents the upper limit of speed in three-dimensional space has become our enemy, and too strong a beam is deadly for us!"
"We have lost the light." The transparent humanoid sighed heavily.