Once upon a time, the silent starry sky made human beings proudly put forward the theory of the first civilization in the universe.

But even on the cosmic time scale that humans can predict, 13.8 billion years have passed.

With such a span of timeline, coupled with the spatial scope of the universe measured in light years, it is not surprising that strange civilizations were born and strange things appeared.

The first theory of civilization, after Lu Yu opened a window for mankind to look at the universe, countless evidences show that this is nothing more than an arrogant inference.

The holy mountain in front of you...... In other words, the civilization that created this folding space reached the ninth level civilization as early as a billion years ago, and perhaps they are qualified to be called the first civilizations.

Continue to climb the unremarkable path of the sacred mountain, and you will find that the surrounding scenery begins to blur. Further on, there is a starry sky, a staircase made of pure light that emits a soft glow, nearly a kilometer wide, and winds its way up to the depths of the starry sky.

The scene in front of him is gorgeous, revealing a trace of weirdness.

In this staircase of light, which looks like a work of art, lies a terrifying technology. That is, the light of nothingness is not only condensed into a physical entity, but also has certain physical characteristics, allowing creatures to walk on the stairs and through this starry sky, and finally reach the end point of this path, the top of the sacred mountain.

It is not in a folded space, but it connects itself to it with spatial technology.

The top of this so-called holy mountain turned out to be in a supermassive black hole in the center of a galaxy!

It is the indisputable absolute core of the entire galaxy, around which all stars, whether planets or stars, or star clusters, or gas clouds, revolve in fact, and the so-called fourth cosmic velocity is based on theoretical data specially born from it.

It's like the king of a vast empire, and any powerful star, whether it's the rest of the black holes or the rest of the dense objects like neutron stars, is nothing compared to it. All matter within its gravitational reach is its subject, and all are subject to it, revolving around it.

Even a stellar civilization can't get too close to it.

Its gravitational pull is so strong that if you get too close to it, even the technology created using the Grand Unification Theory will be rendered ineffective by this extreme gravitational pull and terrible space-time distortion.

When you get here, you suddenly have a starry sky as a reference, and it is full of aging giant stars, neutron stars, white dwarfs and other dense objects, and all kinds of interstellar dust clusters are also very common here.

A large mass of interstellar dust and gas with a total mass of dozens of times the mass of the sun, if it is located elsewhere, under certain conditions, will form a star that shines like the universe.

But the position it is in has forever deprived it of such an opportunity.

This cloud of gas was like a layer of mist of various colors rendered on it, enveloping the giant black hole, which was accelerated by the black hole's terrifying gravitational pull and fell into the black hole in constant rotation.

Extremely high velocities mean violent collisions, in which they gain so much energy that they can escape the gravitational field of the black hole, resulting in a spectacular jet that stretches for hundreds of light-years.

Everything here is extreme.

Even on the light scale, you can feel the distortion that is getting closer and closer to the black hole, and the amazing thing is that you can cross a distance of light years with each step forward on the staircase.

This path with light as a ladder is itself a stable spatial passage. Its final point is near the black hole's event horizon, where a one-dimensional horizontal line exists in an eerie equilibrium at this extreme.

It has no width, no height, that is, it does not occupy space at all, has no volume, has no surface area, has no mass, has nothing, and has only one point in three dimensions that expresses its way of being.

Such a state of existence is no different from non-existence.

But it doesn't seem appropriate to say that it doesn't exist. It is literally across the horizon of the black hole, and if a civilization that has mastered space technology looks closely for tens of thousands of years, it may be able to sense its spatial fluctuations that are almost in line with the black hole.

This thin line is actually a world, it is a one-dimensional world, and it is the limit of what a ninth-level civilization that has mastered space technology can do.

Three-dimensional space has three dimensions, which are length, width, and height. The two-dimensional world has two dimensions, length and width, but no height. The body of a space creature is one such form of existence. The one-dimensional world has only one dimension of length.

If you want to go further, it is the zero dimension, which has already involved the technology of cosmic-level civilization.

The one-dimensional world in front of us exists in an extreme environment, as if the alliance of conscious life forms collects microscopic particles hidden below the length of Planck in an extreme environment such as magnetar, in order to break through to the universe and civilization.

But in fact, this one-dimensional world does not have any external ingestion of matter, but is desperately trying to control its own spatial fluctuations.

Among the civilizations...... It's more like an animal desperately trying to hide itself in a cave in the wilderness where fierce beasts are rampant. But they are already a ninth-level civilization, and there are almost no normal means in the universe to destroy them.

But this one-dimensional world is just stuck at the critical point of the black hole horizon, only the passage that extends from the folded space, and if it is constantly stretched from the high-dimensional perspective, it will be found that it is like a line straight into the one-dimensional world.

And in this one-dimensional world, it is like a huge computer room on the scale of the world.

The interior of the one-dimensional world is almost filled with all kinds of computing devices, and here and there, there are some large computer devices like Optimus Pillar, and countless lines are spread together here.

Huge computing power through these millions of data channels, the information carried by these computers is rolling back and forth in the space bubble, the terminal of these computers.

"What? Space No. 253 was actually killed by a created creation? ”

"Unbelievable ......"

"Aren't we weapons of control, shouldn't there be a spatial barrier? Four-dimensional space barrier, that's a technology that can only be mastered by river-level civilizations, right? ”

"What the hell is the Council of Elders doing??"

These space bubbles, despite their constant criticism, can only be incompetent and furious on the computer terminal.

It's more like they're fixed in place, like the one-dimensional world outside, and they can't move for half a minute.

Lu Yu couldn't figure out how to figure it out before, a normal functioning advanced civilization, even if the folding space was just a zoo-like entertainment venue, should not be invaded by a stellar civilization, and even be left by the plundered space.

Truly..... Normal high-level civilizations really shouldn't let such a thing happen, and one of their reconnaissance ships might be able to crush the entire fleet of stellar civilizations!

But it's a pity that this ninth-level civilization dwells in a one-dimensional world...... It's really not in a normal state.

They call themselves the Wo tribe, and they reached the ninth level civilization a billion years ago.

And the Wo people soon discovered two facts in front of them.

First, the universe is so desolate that there is no one who can communicate equally from the galaxy where it was born and looks at the big universe.

Second, the super-civilization that exists above the ninth-level civilization.

The first point can be known from observing the universe for a long time, and the second point is verified by the spiral super-creations that are all over the universe.

So they began to expand beyond the galaxy and began to develop into a cosmic-level civilization.

Millions of light-years away from the galaxy, the Wo clan was finally fortunate to encounter two other ninth-level civilizations, and the technology of the three civilization races had reached the peak of the ninth-level, and they were also beginning to develop towards cosmic-level civilizations.

Millions of light-years, or even tens of millions of light-years, of matter are left to their disposal, and naturally an interstellar war will not break out due to resource problems.

And because they were on the road to a higher civilization together, they naturally formed an alliance.

With the efforts of their own race, they were promoted to a ninth-level civilization, so naturally there was no need to doubt their scientific research ability.

Even so, it would take nearly 10 million years for the three races to work together like a fusion to bypass the first hurdle of the reboots.

And just as the three races were celebrating their breakthrough achievement, the reboots' warnings were soon in.

At first, such a fluttering warning was just alarmist for the three races that had already seen the dawn of a cosmic-level civilization.

It is thought that it is nothing more than an intimidating suppression of these latecomers by the first-mover civilization.

So, instead of stopping, they picked up the pace.

I plan to complete the breakthrough of civilization before the arrival of the hidden cosmic-level civilization!

Then came the second warning from the rebooters - the race-specific logic locks!

The basic sciences about cosmic-level civilizations are all locked up from the level of thinking, and cognitively the three races will never be aware of all theories about cosmic-level civilizations again.

It's like a fountain pen is clearly placed in front of your eyes, but even if you have seen it with your own eyes, touched it casually, and even when reminded by others, you will not realize that there is a fountain pen in front of you.

Such a logical lock is almost equivalent to locking the hope of a civilization breaking through to a cosmic civilization.

The Wo tribe chose to give up, but the two races except the Wo tribe never gave up, and almost in an exhaustive way, with a posture that could almost calculate the ultimate answer to the universe, after evaporating the mass of one galaxy after another, it seems that these two races will soon find a way to bypass the logical lock.

And then...........

Then they were erased right before the eyes of the Vau.

All information, all existence, all technology, all erased clean.

The Wo can only deduce from those ruins, those blank and mutilated data in the central computer—there were once two ninth-level civilizations that seemed to be one.

This arrogant and unreasonable method directly scared the surviving Wo people out of their guts, which was crushed from the civilization level, just like a stellar-level civilization drove its planet-like main warship to the home planet of a planet-level civilization.

You don't need to do anything to make a planetary-level civilization collapse directly.

The power in the hands of the rebooter is so unreasonable for a ninth-level civilization.

Since then, the Wo tribe has not dared to take a step towards a cosmic-level civilization, and even because of the collective disappearance of their former allies, the entire race has a stress reaction.

After they turned from open to closed, and covered up the traces of their civilization's existence one by one, the entire race even hid at the critical point of the horizon of the black hole.

The greater the gravitational pull, the greater the time warp.

At the tipping point of the horizon, the flow of time here is outrageously slow for the outside world.

Maybe a second has passed here, and a thousand years have passed in the great universe.

Civilization exists here, and it's no different from locking up one's own technology and waiting for the cosmic end to destroy itself.

The seeds of another cosmic-level civilization have been mutilated to this point

Well, it can only be said that it is the worst crime of the reboot again!

However, such autistic suicide will naturally cause a backlash from members of the civilization over time, and there will always be people in a civilization who yearn for the stars and the sea, rather than stepping on the edge of the abyss with one foot.

Covering civilization with civilization, and covering civilization with civilization.

When a member of civilization shouts such a slogan, it is doomed to the division of the Wo people.

Even if the ninth-level civilization has evolved to a level that is difficult for human beings to understand, when faced with irreconcilable contradictions, this primitive and efficient method is still used when it is time to solve them by physical means.

The result, of course, was that the reformists were superior.

But it's a strange state of winning, but not completely winning.

The main body of the Vaugh is still hidden in the black hole, and the vigilance may put an end to the appearance of their reboots, while at the same time opening a window in the universe and generating some special lives as a cover.

These special beings generated by the ninth-level civilization will establish a civilization on the so-called home planet, and this civilization is only ..... to cover up the traces of another civilization's observation of the universe.

The folding space is not a zoo, but an observation window!

These special beings will inevitably have the Wo clan to control their lives, and when it comes to special beings like Capo, it is the position where the core is inserted!

However, in the past hundreds of millions of years, they have not had the slightest room for progress in basic science, and they have only made some progress in space application technology. The long period of self-isolation, the blockade of the theory of cosmic-level civilization by logical locks, and the civil strife that affected the entire civilization inevitably led to the decline of civilization.

And over time, this decline continues to plague the Wat, who even believe that this is the next round of attacks launched against them by the inexplicable reboots.

The more panicked the panicked, the more extreme the extreme.

The peculiar creatures in the observation window are becoming more and more unnatural and more and more resembling ...... A weapon that can directly exert its power by implanting it in the core of the Wa clan.

Now, a billion years later, they haven't seen the Reboot from beginning to end, but they've been pushed to such a point by the Rebooters.

Lu Yu's announcement to the whole universe, they naturally received it, but for the civilization that has been deeply hurt, can just a few words allow them to rekindle their pursuit of a cosmic-level civilization?

If such attachment was really hidden, it would have been erased along with the two brotherly civilizations!

It will not be the decline of civilization to the present, and even the technology that maintains the observation window cannot be reproduced.

He will not be afraid of the reboots, and even the invading stellar civilizations will not dare to pinch them to death with one hand, for fear that they will expose their traces in the great universe and let the rebooters notice themselves again.

Perhaps for civilization, the decline may not start with technology, but the collapse of ideas is the beginning of the decline and introversion of a civilization.

And now........ Capo is stepping on the stairs, will it ring the death knell of civilization, or will it wake up this civilization that has been sleeping for a billion?