This was already close to the center of perihelion — if the Black Sun still had such a structure.
With Sandora's explanation, I roughly understood the structure of the Black Sun. Its overall structure was still the same as an ordinary star, with corona, prominence, heliocenter, solar crust, and so on. However, most of these structures had mutated because it was transformed into a Black Sun due to the destruction of the laws during the battle of the Gods. Although the process was too short and the star didn't completely collapse, most of its structure had suffered considerable damage. Just a moment ago, one of our spaceships reported that they had encountered a large mass of matter with extremely high "density". It should have been formed due to the high pressure in the core of the Sun, but it had appeared here.
Of course, the aforementioned "density" was just a concept. It was a virtual number that we had calculated using special methods. The current Black Sun was equivalent to an illusion that could interact with the real world. Although it could cause various phenomena, it no longer had a physical body.
The Empire's fleet moved forward in the endless darkness and chaos. Everything here made it impossible for anyone to associate it with a brilliant star. A large number of probes and patrol ships were released to fully explore the entire heliocentric region, but the so-called revelation still hadn't appeared. Zeratul took the initiative to take the risk. He intended to temporarily remove his honorary citizen status of the Xiling Empire and use the soul of a Proteus to feel if the power of "revelation" permeated this place. However, this request was rejected by Tawil as madness. The fate of a fragile life in a lawless zone was obvious. Even if his physical fitness was a hundred million times stronger than a Schilling Emperor, he would still be torn apart in an instant. This had nothing to do with the so-called power, but a problem on a different level.
It was just like how no matter how powerful a fortress was, it couldn't resist the destruction from a four-dimensional space.
Of course, there was a chance for a moment of peace in the ultimate chaos, but that little bit of peace couldn't even accommodate a single cell. Zeratul's request was very brave, but in Tawil's eyes, it was almost foolish. Of course, the serious female scientist expressed sincere admiration for Uncle Z's courage.
"In front of us is the core area of the Black Sun. Not a single remnant of the Protoss War can be salvaged." Tawil's projection reported beside us. Since we realized that there weren't too many secrets about the Divine Realm (Information about the Divine Realm has power, and some special things require a specific ritual to be revealed. Before that, mortals who heard even a single word of this information could be attacked by the laws of nature. That was why we allowed Uncle Z to leave temporarily), Zeratul was allowed to return to the observation platform. He showed great curiosity about our topic, but wisely chose to remain silent. The Dark Templar who had experienced countless things knew that there were many things in this world that were destined to be secrets. No matter how strong one's curiosity and desire to explore, it would not close the distance between oneself and those secrets.
It saved us a lot of trouble.
At this time, Zeratul only hated himself for not being a scientist. If he could bring a group of Protoss researchers to the Black Sun, maybe … No, it should be certain that the Protoss civilization, which had not developed for hundreds of years, would definitely usher in an era of technological explosion that was almost out of reach for them. Every inch of space here contained the most essential secrets of the world. It could allow the Protoss race, which had gradually fallen into a rigid state, to usher in the dawn of evolution and development. But unfortunately …
The barrier of the natural order was too strong. If there was no ultimate civilization like the Xiling Empire as a mentor, perhaps the Protoss civilization would not be able to touch that domain until the end of the universe. Due to the offense of Tadalim and the group of idiots, the chance of the Protoss civilization receiving such guidance was close to zero.
We could roughly guess the thoughts of Zeratul, or rather, his compatriots. Shakuras' fervent attitude towards the Empire could not be born out of thin air. Even the noble Protoss "Protoss" of Protoss would have the urge to seek guidance in confusion. However, the attitude one should adopt towards a civilization was a very serious question. Until now, whether to guide the Protoss civilization, which seemed to have quite a lot of potential, was still not decided by Sandora and I. They were already developed enough. Perhaps after coming into contact with some guidance, they would not fall into self-chaos or even perish like the fragile human civilization. However, this involved too much uncertainty. Even the All-Conquering Empire that had once enveloped countless worlds had guided a limited number of civilizations. Thinking back to the unsuccessful guidance of Schilling, it was likely that Shakuras was also conflicted with a "quasi-mentor" like Schilling.
"The spaceship has left the pseudo-existence zone. The constants of the universe are disappearing. The natural order is about to become chaotic. Please prepare to resist the impact."
The mechanical broadcast sounded again. The shield above the platform once again exploded with a golden glare. That was a necessary anti-impact measure when passing through the boundary between Order and non-Order. Just like what was mentioned before, what we inherited from Schilling's legacy was only immunity to the "chaos" of the natural order, but not immunity to the natural order itself. Passing through the barrier of Order required a solid layer of shield. The psionic energy with void properties was a good choice. Even though the main thing protecting the entire Empire fleet was the precious property left behind by our ancestors.
At this moment, I once again sighed at how pitiful it was for the things Schilling had lost. Just a single racial talent had given us the power to travel through the black sun. Even though this power might be as simple as eating and drinking in the eyes of an existence like Jingle, it was more than enough for normal civilizations to spend their entire lives trying to decipher it.
Based on my previous experience, the "anti-impact" measures in the spaceship's broadcast were actually for the ship's equipment. The real impact had already been completely dealt with by them, and the passengers on the spaceship would not feel anything at all. That was why I didn't pay much attention to it. Only Shallow Shallow was curiously studying the glare effect of the shield above her head. However, I noticed that Sandora was still furrowing her eyebrows, as if she couldn't understand something.
"What's wrong?" I asked with concern, even though I had every reason to believe that it was impossible for me to understand something that even Sandora couldn't understand.
"The pseudo-existence zone formed by the battlefield of the gods is only this small?" Sandora said as if she was talking to herself. "The thickness of that zone is less than the diameter of the Earth. With the gods' power, this area wouldn't even be enough for them to sneeze, and the weapons they use will never be worn down by time and chaos. So why are we passing through this battlefield now? The zone of chaos appeared too quickly. "
"Perhaps the center of the sun just happened to be on a small blank spot on the battlefield." I tried to use conventional thinking to imagine the battlefield of the gods. "This place wasn't affected by the power of their laws, so the pseudo-existence zone turned back into a zone of chaos …"
Even I didn't believe this far-fetched explanation, because the probes had already shown that the pseudo-existence zone was a huge spherical wall. It was a thin layer, and its thickness was less than the diameter of the Earth. Fighting a war of laws on the outer shell of a spherical space, while the inside of the space was as calm as water. Were the gods playing with the eye of a typhoon?
Just as Sandora and I couldn't understand this problem, a tremor suddenly came from beneath our feet. Even the golden glare shield above us seemed to tremble for a moment.
"… Uh, do we really need to resist the impact?"
I muttered. Then, an even more intense tremor came, and I almost lost my footing.
"Stabilize your position! Increase the psionic output, and start radiating Void energy to the surroundings! "
Sandora quickly took over the highest command link of the battleship and quickly issued a series of orders. Soon, the tremors of the battleship calmed down, and waves of unsettling energy spread throughout the Empire's fleet, temporarily suppressing some external threat: it was Void energy. The mothership had switched its energy output mode, and directly released the unattenuated Void energy from the edge of the psionic well here. This was a rather risky move, and the slightest mistake could endanger the world. But now that we were inside the Black Sun, everything that happened here had nothing to do with the outside world.
Under the corrosion of the Void energy, the space around us temporarily stabilized, and then the various departments began to get busy, calculating the damage of each ship and the source of the attack. After a few seconds, the information was sent to the head of the battle technician, Tawil, and the domineering woman who had always been calm suddenly had a slightly panicked expression on her face. "Your Majesty! The Black Sun has just been completely destroyed! It's collapsing!! "
"Collapsing?" Sandora quickly looked up at the sky. There were only chaotic shadows, but the golden halos that appeared in Sandora's eyes indicated that she could see something. "… Activate all the fleet's thrusters, prepare to leave the Black Sun … Wait!"
Just as he was about to pass on Sandora's order, the latter suddenly stopped and exclaimed in disbelief, "This isn't collapsing!"
"This isn't collapsing!"
Just as Sandora's voice trailed off, Shallow Shallow beside me also repeated.
"What's going on?" I looked at Shallow Shallow in surprise. She had a rare serious expression on her face, and I almost thought that she had just been transmigrated.
"Ah Jun, I don't really understand, but … the timeline here is reversing!"
The … timeline of the Black Sun?
The Black Sun didn't have a stable Law of Time at all!
"But it did just now," Sandora immediately said in response to my question. "Just a few seconds ago, the Black Sun suddenly produced a self-consistent Law of Time, and this Law of Order shrouded the entire star … The only difference between it and the normal timeline is that time here is flowing in reverse!"
"In other words, the entire Black Sun's time is flowing in reverse?" I understood Sandora's words. "What does that mean? That this star is gradually returning to its former glory? "
"No, the existence of darkness is unable to restore itself in a self-consistent situation, just like how the Chaos Code itself is unable to correctly interpret itself. The time here is only stable for the chaotic Black Sun. Outside the boundary, the Black Sun doesn't change at all, and this reversed time can only last until the moment the Black Sun is born, which is the moment the War of the Gods ends … I understand now!"
… I say, Sandora, did you just transform into Detective Sherlock X, Detective Cole X, Goldfield X? What's with that "I got it" that made people lose sight of him!?
Sandora's expression turned serious, which was rare for her. She said, "This is a trap!"
"The ruins of the battle of the gods are definitely much larger than that thin spherical shell. The core of the black sun must have been covered by the battlefield, but there are no weapon remains here, and there are no pseudo-existential zones formed by the power of the laws of the gods. There is only one explanation: some kind of unprecedented energy has wiped out everything, and even the laws of the gods have been distorted into a chaotic zone!"
"There's such a power?"
I was shocked by Sandora's sensational deduction. What kind of power would be able to destroy even the Order of the Origin of Law?
"Of course there's such a power," Sandora said word by word. "For example, the self-destruction of the Gods — that power is enough to turn all Laws into ashes! We're not outside the battlefield now, on the contrary, we're at the place where the battle was the most intense! This place has already been destroyed by the Gods' self-destruction!! "
"Then if the timeline continues rewinding …" Shallow Shallow seemed to have thought of something and immediately said in panic.
"Very soon, the scene of that time will be replayed here … Yup, it might not be possible to extrapolate all the way to the moment when the Gods fought, but even if we just adjust the timeline to the aftermath of the great explosion, it would be enough to destroy the entire Empire fleet — at that time, an entire Protoss fleet was wiped out by the self-destruction!"
"Full fleet assault team! Retreat! "
Bubble's voice immediately followed. "No, my child's father! The navigation system has been blocked, I can't find the coordinates outside the sun, I can't set a course! "
Big Sis blurted out, "Can't we just go back the way we came?"
"That's impossible." Sandora's voice was still calm. "There's no direction in the black sun, the Law of Space doesn't work here, without a special navigation system, no matter which direction we go, it's the same as not moving at all!"
So are we just going to wait for death here?
The situation was unprecedentedly dangerous, we had actually unknowingly fallen into the enemy's trap, this black sun is basically a graveyard prepared for the Empire fleet!
But we don't even know what the enemy looks like!
"How much time do we have?" I asked the air. Although time was still rewinding quickly from Shallow Shallow's words, it was still a chaotic darkness before me, I still couldn't see the changes in the black sun.
"Twelve hours," Bubble finished the calculation in an instant. "Based on the speed of the black sun's collapse, this timeline will come to an end in twelve hours, after which the black sun will return to the state when we first came in."
But by then, the Empire fleet would already be gone.
"Asida, Asidora!" I urgently called the Space Gemini who were on standby in the battleship, the latter appeared before me almost in a second. "Can you locate the coordinates outside?"
"Sorry, Your Majesty," the two sisters said at the same time. "The black sun is a self-contained, non-open data system, and now this world is completely closed …"
"Alright, what about the coordinates inside the black sun?"
"Inside?" Asida was stunned, while Asidora quickly nodded. "The internal coordinates can barely be located, but we can't do a space jump, at most we can do sub-light speed navigation, and the navigation isn't accurate, with an error of nearly ten thousand kilometers, which is already the limit of the lawless state."
That's enough.
"Shallow Shallow, do you still remember where the timeline started to stabilize?"
Although she didn't know what I was planning, Shallow Shallow nodded obediently, closed her eyes and began to analyze. The way the world of time existed was very different from the real world, she needed to temporarily forget about the theory of three-dimensional space, and began to sort out the 'direction' of the torrent of time.
After a while, Shallow Shallow opened her eyes and said, "I have a general direction, but I can't mark it in three-dimensional space," Shallow Shallow said.
I got Shallow Shallow to share the direction that couldn't be described in three-dimensional space with the Gemini sisters, and then ordered the entire fleet to move in that direction.
If all of this was a trap, then it must have a source that triggered everything, and the only thing that could trigger the final destruction was the reversal of time, so to stop all of this, the only way was to destroy that source of time.
It wasn't that I didn't think of getting Shallow Shallow to use her ability to reverse the flow of time in the black sun, but it was too dangerous. There were no stable laws here, and the setting of time needed to be constantly changed. If Shallow Shallow was careless in any way, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Shadora understood my plan. Even she had to admit that this was the only thing she could do right now. However, she still reminded me, "Ah Jun, it's highly likely that the enemy is something at the level of natural laws. Normal fleets can only be of limited use. Only motherships that can gather large amounts of psionic or even void energy will have the power to resist natural laws …"
"I know. I never intended to send our normal fleets to their deaths." I smiled mysteriously. "But we should at least know what the enemy looks like, right?"
Sandora had nothing to say either. The current situation didn't allow for much thought, and it might be better if we could contact Jingle, but …
Even the Chief Priestess Liliana had lost contact with the World Tree, and the strongest foreign aid was banned before she could even enter the field.
Under the guidance of the Gemini sisters, the Empire fleet that had just stopped moving once again, the ripples from the phase engine expanding layer by layer behind the fleet. Although I couldn't see the changes around me, I knew that the entire fleet was moving towards a certain source …
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