BXBX NOVEL Chapter 61 - 61: Circular World
In today’s Milky Way, due to the widespread use of hyperspace engines, most civilizations could not enter places without hyperspace channels.
This newly discovered special galaxy was one such case.
There was no hyperspace region around it or a hyperspace channel. Although it was in the Milky Way, it seemed entirely out of touch with the Milky Way.
Even though it was possible to sail to this place with thrusters, it would take thousands of years of preparation.
A normal civilization would not waste time on such a thankless task. In a sense, this place seemed to be specially prepared for the lost empire.
Li Wenyuan’s research spaceship had teleported here with Gray Wind, so he didn’t have to travel long in interstellar space.
As the galaxy coordinates excavated from Earth’s ruins, he had reason to believe that humans left it behind.
“…No matter how 1 look at it, this huge building is enough to be called a miracle…” Gray Wind’s sigh could be heard. Li Wenyuan looked at the huge building in the galaxy with a shocked expression.
At first glance, the vast space of the galaxy seemed very empty. The planets that should have made up part of the galaxy had disappeared without a trace. All the planets, asteroids, meteorites, and even space junk were gone. Only the star in the center was still shining.
But in this very “clean” space, a conspicuous giant building replaced those planets.
It was a huge ring-shaped structure built in the star’s gravitational well, close to the star.
The planets were only a small part of the ring compared to it. The side facing the star was a huge area as large as three million Earth’s surface areas.
Even though many places on that side were not built for living, it was not difficult for the remaining parts to accommodate tens of trillions of people.
The side facing away from the star was a huge protective layer wrapped in unknown materials. Mechanical light was shining in it, and something resembling a cannon muzzle could be seen. It seemed to be built to destroy nearby meteorites and space junk.
Li Wenyuan also saw the record of this “miracle” in the database.
[Circular World]
[Introduction: This is a great project. It has a large enough habitable area to accommodate an unimaginable population. Even though some people think this is an unrealistic project, it won’t matter whether it is realistic or not when the level of technology reaches a certain level. Maybe one day in the future, a creature will need this place.]
With the record’s completion, the Level 7 technology on his technology tree “galaxy miracle” instantly increased by a large amount.
Evidently, this circular world before him was a complete, undamaged megastructure, and the data it provided was enough to support the foundation of the “galaxy miracle”.
The technology that originally needed hundreds of years to be successfully developed had been shortened to only a few years. Perhaps soon, Li Wenyuan could also try to build such a “face project”.
“…So, did humans create this thing out of boredom?”
This circular world was so big that it could be called a terrifying place. If it weren’t for the fact that the buildings on Earth, which had almost integrated with the planet itself, couldn’t be moved, he would have thought of moving his entire family to this circular world.
Most of the planets that disappeared were also dismantled. Whether it was to maintain the circular world’s stability or to gather enough materials to build the circular world, they were all cleared out of the galaxy, leaving only a star that provided energy and a huge ring structure.
It was also at this moment that the signal constantly released by the circular world detected Li Wenyuan’s arrival and delivered some news that surprised him.
[Lost circular world detected]
[Establishing connection…]
“This place is actually within reconnection too?” A similar system message reminded Li Wenyuan of a mining station he had encountered on a giant gas planet.
At that time, he had wondered if many lost buildings by humans still existed in the Milky Way. Now it seemed that this circular world was one of them.
However, the next piece of news that he received stunned him slightly.
[Connection failed. Reason for error: The circular world’s control center has been destroyed.]
[Please manually repair the circular world’s control center.]
“Destroyed?” The unexpected failure made Li Wenyuan frown, and the surprise in his eyes when he looked at the circular world became wariness.
This was the first time he had seen something “destroyed”, and it was no small matter.
The mining station they had encountered before was only “undetectable control center” and not directly determined as “destroyed”.
However, the circular world was preserved quite well from the outside, and there were no signs of damage.
“In other words…Something appeared inside the circular world and destroyed the control center?”
This was a possible guess because the circular world was a huge habitable world.
If humans had once placed indigenous creatures on it, it was not impossible for some “insensible” creature to destroy the control center of the circular world.
“This won’t do…We can’t let the circular world be ruined.”
Thinking of this, Li Wenyuan looked at a piece of technology on the technology tree.
[Integrated Land Combat Units]
[Technology level: 4]
[Introduction: Even though space warfare takes up 99% of interstellar space, we still need some cutting-edge weapons suitable for fighting inside the planet to completely gain control of the planet without damaging the facilities and population. Perhaps in the near future, we will have a more efficient way to clean up the resisters.]
[Possible technology: Giant War Body (99.9%); Mechanical War Body (99.9%); Nano War Body (99.9%)]
This was the so-called “Army Technology”. Although it was referred to as Army, it was not quite the same as the conventional army.
For example, the Mechanical War Body was a floating fortress, not a Gundam.
Although it was much smaller than the battleships used for space combat, it was equipped with more combat components suitable for accurate strikes on the ground.
However, in interstellar space, the army’s position was a little awkward.
The space battle was the most important thing. As long as they won the space battle, the scales of victory were infinitely in their favor.
In the face of the space force, describing the army unit as fragile was considered a good description. They were basically unable to withstand a blow.
Therefore, most civilizations would not deliberately develop an army. It was common to see some interstellar civilizations with fleets that were powerful enough to kill all over the world in space, but their land units remained stagnant as when they first entered space.
Although Li Wenyuan had studied the technology for land combat, he had yet to produce those combat units.
However, after seeing the “Nano War Body”, he looked at Gray Wind, who was looking at the circular world with curiosity.
The technology behind the Nano War Body came from one of Gray Wind’s transformations.
So he said, “Gray Wind, do you want to play around the circular world?”
“Can 1? Then what image should I use to land?”
“Do as you like. But I must remind you in advance that there may be some land threats in the circular world. I’ve already started producing a suitable land unit, so you must be careful.”
“Don’t worry,” Gray Wind said as she transformed into a Gundam that emitted a dark green light.
Although her combat strength on land would increase significantly if she transformed into a nanorobotic storm, she seemed to have a special liking for these giant robots in human form.
“How is it? What do you think of my ‘Gray Wind War Body’?”
“.. It’s quite cool, and it fits my past imagination of the future war.”
Li Wenyuan exclaimed in admiration. Then, he controlled the research spaceship and followed Gray Wind to approach the circular world.
The special projection facilities in the circular world created a black curtain for some places here to simulate the alternation of day and night.
In the area that represented night, city lights were scattered all over the circular world..