Chapter 235 Zero Foil (Time Version)
As this news came in, almost at the same time, the originally “quiet” universe exploded almost in an instant.

It was just like a world channel where usually no one was talking, but suddenly a large number of old players flooded in.

The contact information originally used to broadcast the coordinates of those low-entropy civilizations instantly became a place for “alliance”.

As for worrying about hostility from other civilizations? Oh, now that the top civilizations are starting to clean up one by one, they should consider how to survive instead of choosing internal fighting.
To all civilizations: The world has suffered from being reduced to zero for a long time. Today, no matter who wants to fight against those who are reduced to zero, we will definitely lend a hand.

Of course, this is also because they themselves do not have much confidence in dealing with the Zeroer civilization.

Otherwise, they would have started working directly a long time ago. Why would they wait until the Zeroer issued a statement of return to the universe before taking any action?

In the “profile” of the Zero-Returner civilization by humans, to the Zero-Returner civilization, the universe is just a vegetable garden. Perhaps some Zero-Returners would use pesticides to eliminate some insects, but I have never heard of anyone using artillery shells.

As for those who are really unlucky and some chosen civilization appears, in just a short period of time for the universe to restart, or even the time for the universe to restart that they intentionally compressed, it has already developed to a point where they cannot easily destroy it.

That doesn’t matter. Since it cannot be eliminated, just invite the other party to join.

You must know that today’s Zero Returners are not a single race, but a collection of countless civilizations that have reached their level.

It can be said that no civilization has joined them for a long time.

“Still the same as before?” A civilization among the Zeroers sent a message.

“Still the same.”

It is difficult to say whether the current situation in the universe was caused by them intentionally.

After all, normally the time it takes for the universe to die of heat far exceeds the time it takes for the universe to return to zero.

One is a natural evolution, while the other is a human-caused consequence.

In this case, the extent to which a normally developing civilization can develop is really a “limited value”.

But just as they were about to start this round of “cleansing”, one of the civilizations sent out a message.

“It seems like our future has disappeared!”

“What do you mean?”

You know, they have studied abstract things like time, but how to say it?

The effect is not that great, but being able to observe the future to a certain extent and acquire future technology is basically the limit.

Some civilizations can have a certain impact on the past, such as transmitting certain information back to the past, or directly dealing a blow to the past of a civilization.

But even so, there has never been a case of the future disappearing directly.

You know, even after the world was reset to zero and returned to the pastoral era, there was no “disappearance”.

In an instant, they were certain that some civilization had done something, but they didn’t know whether it was outside the world or inside the world.

Yes, they can indeed escape from the world, but with their level of technology, it is somewhat difficult for them to find another world where they can survive in the void where there is no concept of space and time and everything does not exist.

After all, even if you find another world, so what?

Isn’t it the same as living your life as before?

Even another world may not be better than the world we live in today.

Even though this universe restarts from time to time, at least it can survive, right?

It’s not like there weren’t civilizations that just left, but, well, they haven’t come back yet.

“The most important thing now is to find out what happened!”

“No, it’s too late.”

“Just now it was only one month in the future, now it’s only one day, 12 hours, 6 hours, 1 hour, 1 second in the future.”

As soon as the words fell, in the dimension of time, one could clearly see that it was like a fuse being gradually lit, eroding away at the initial point step by step.

This is a weapon that devours time, a true technology of time.

All we can say is that by the time they observed it, it was already too late.

Perhaps they can transmit information to the past endlessly, but just as a spacecraft that has not reached the speed of light cannot escape the two-dimensional foil, they cannot escape this time weapon.

This may be a war between civilizations with very different technological levels.

Just like humans when facing the two-dimensional foil,

“Is this the power of time?” On another independent timeline, Luo Ji couldn’t help but say as he looked at the time that had turned into a “complex” photo.

Just now, well, it’s not wrong to say just now, because they have jumped out of the original timeline and entered a brand new timeline, a timeline they created themselves.

This is the result of humans’ research on time technology for so long. They have developed technology that is enough to separate themselves from the normal timeline and create a timeline in which only they exist.

Human beings today have truly chosen not to be human.

Because they have been forced to move from an ordinary four-dimensional civilization to a five-dimensional civilization.

That is, three-dimensional space plus two-dimensional time.

It’s not that we can’t become a civilization in the 11th dimension, but that we are more familiar with the third dimension than the 11th dimension, that’s all.

Just like when humans evolved to be able to survive without relying on air, food…

But being able to survive does not mean liking to survive this way.

Basically every scientist who studies genetics knows one thing: if you want to change genes, you should always add, never subtract.

Even if your genes are already a pile of shit, you have to “rim it with gold” instead of eradicating it all.

This is the basic principle to ensure that human beings remain “human”.

As for this weapon against time, it is not a masterpiece of mankind, but one from the end of the season.

After all, he had been preparing to give these civilizations a ruthless blow from the very beginning.

Now it can only be regarded as an inevitable result.

“Well, to be honest, this weapon should be called Zero Foil.” Ji Mo said.

“Zero foil, wouldn’t that be a black hole?”

“It’s different. This is the zero direction in time. On the scale of time, it’s just a point, a moment.” Ji Mo said, holding the photo in his hand.

It is called a photo, but if you really look at it, it looks like the overlap of countless lines, just like when taking time-lapse photos of the stars, the trajectory of the stars’ movement over a long period of time is captured in one photo.

Normally, photographing the stars only takes a few days, but what Ji Mo has in his hands compresses the present moment to the end of the past into a moment.

And a moment contains all the experiences in the Three-Body Universe excluding humans. It is a two-dimensional space-time in the true sense, two-dimensional space plus 0-dimensional time.

This is the zero-direction foil in time. As for the one-direction foil in time, well, in other season endings, it is called the convergence timeline. But in a sense, it can be said to be the most useless.

After all, if you have the power to converge all parallel universes into one line, why would you do that?
Are you worried that similar lives will appear in other timelines?

But since you can do it, it means that you can master all the timelines.

Isn’t this the contradiction that arises?

“I still can’t understand. If we have already picked out the time, then what will happen to the Trisolarans and that planet?” Luo Ji asked rarely.

“Well, it’s fine as it is!”

“?” Luo Ji asked a question.

“Since even space and time can be tampered with, what about things above time?”

As someone said at the end of one season, space can be a coordinate system, from 0 dimensions to 11 dimensions. Then what is the 0 dimension to 11 dimension of time, and what is the new “coordinate system” that transcends time?

These are huge questions.

It’s just that he hasn’t figured out the time coordinate system yet. At most, he can be a shameless two-dimensional creature in the time coordinate system, bullying those creatures that can only go downstream on the one-dimensional timeline. In this case, he should not think too much about the higher levels.

“Higher up? What’s that?”

“Who knows, maybe it’s logic?” Ji Mo said.

“what?”

At the end of the season, the performance of the higher-level coordinate system is a logical chain to some extent.

Just like apples falling from a tree, this is an absolute logical chain.

So is it possible that the apple flies up to the sky from the tree, but instead of falling down from the tree, it collapses directly into a black hole?

Or if humans can directly obtain knowledge of the future, then what is the process in between?

Is it because they spent a lot of time researching to reach the final conclusion, or is it because they reached the final conclusion by observing the future.

This logical problem will still be a dark cloud over human technology, at least in the short term.

However, for a developing civilization, there are never too many dark clouds hanging over science.

After all, no matter how many dark clouds there are, they will eventually dissipate.

Apart from anything else, just looking at the current situation, with the past of all the Zero-Returners, humans have directly made up for a large part of their own shortcomings, eliminated large tracts of dark clouds in one breath, and to some extent achieved a qualitative leap.

……………

Although there are no more threats from Zero Sinks and the universe restarting, humans still need to develop. After all, they are not facing a future with a foreseeable end.

Whether it is about logical progress or something else, it is of utmost importance. Since changes in the spatial coordinate system can affect time to a certain extent, and even affect “logic”, causing certain changes in mathematics, then what about the time coordinate system?
In a timeline observation station somewhere, an ordinary staff member, Li Hua, said:
“Give me a piece of zero foil (time) for processing.”

“Has there been a timeline that is worth compressing, or a timeline that may pose a threat to humanity?”

There are only two situations in which the timeline is compressed. One is that the future will jump out of the normal timeline and become an enemy of mankind.

But if that is the case, then by the time they observed it, the other party had already turned into an independent timeline.

In this case, there is nothing wrong with using zero foil.

As for the former, some technologies have emerged that are worthy of human research and commemoration.

Normally, some unreasonable developments occur.

For example, a civilization with three dimensions in space directly mastered the technology to contact the fourth dimension and step into time in the Middle Ages.

Or maybe some races that are innately divine, like the neutrino birds…

Of course, normally speaking, all humans do is observe, just like watching a video. The people in the video won’t jump out and hit them, and they don’t need to do anything to the video itself.

“No, this timeline…how should I put it? See for yourself!”

As he spoke, he copied a small area on that timeline and specially marked the Earth during that period of time.

“This, this is…”

Hua Ye (crossed out) Dr. Luo Ji was seen holding a dark xxx computer powered by a Nanx battery and saying something to the Trisolarans: “I am speaking to the Trisolaran world.”

It’s a pity that the Trisolarans had long x-cars, which were extremely ferocious and invincible, and arrived on Earth early.

When he said that this person was Luo Ji, he was guessing it “based on the context”. After all, it was really difficult for him to connect the other party with Dr. Luo Ji.

Their Dr. Luo Ji, although technology has developed to the point where he can remain young forever, and even change into some strange appearance, he always looks like an old man.

But this one… well, he’s just a scumbag!

“What a magical timeline”

Infinite parallel time and space, theoretically nothing can be surprising, as for why there is no end of season, well, in the eyes of most humans, that person must have concluded his own existence, leaving only the end of season on their timeline.

“Here!” After sighing, I confirmed that this was indeed a timeline worth remembering. After all, under such circumstances, humans could actually develop to this point. It must be said that this is a topic that is very worthy of research.

Then, a zero foil was immediately given
“Why did you give it to me so readily this time?”

“It’s not something expensive.”

“But if we continue to use it like this, it will always…”

“Other observatories are using it.”

“Yes, they are all being used, but one day, maybe our timeline will be the only one left in this world.”

“Don’t worry, parallel time and space are infinite. Even if they are all turned into 0 dimensions, we can still create a new timeline.”

At the end of the season, he has once again gone to the gray fog space.

As soon as I entered here, I confirmed at the end of the season that the time here had definitely been adjusted.

If normal time develops at a constant speed towards the future, then the time here is a completely chaotic system.

There may have been some regularity at the beginning, but now, it is really arranged according to the order and number of times of entering here at the end of countless seasons.

Who knows how many years have passed in his place, while in other worlds it may have only been a few days.

“But, are there new people here?” The Three-Body Season End looked in an empty direction.

And the next moment, two figures suddenly appeared there.

(End of this chapter)