Chapter 138: Two-Dimensional Foil has arrived, Cheng xin flees in a spaceship, the myriad worlds are utterly enraged!

Naruto World, Universe Wisdom Wave secret chamber.

Ban's Samsara Eye stopped rotating.

He stared at the white light of the strong laser that vaporized Wei De on the sky curtain, and his purple pupils reflected no emotional fluctuation.

Two times.

The first time, she didn't dare press the button, deterrence collapsed, and humanity descended into livestock.

The second time, she stopped Wei De, the light-speed spaceship plan was terminated, and humanity's final escape route was welded shut.

I once used Infinite Moon Reading to let all humanity sleep in dreams. Many people called me a madman.

Ban's mouth corner twitched.

But at least in my Moon Eye Plan, humanity is still alive.

That woman did what I couldn't even do; she made humanity lose even the qualification to dream.

Light Star.

Zuo fei crossed his arms over his chest.

His eyes held only order, law, and the universe's operating principles.

The Swordsman System itself has no problem.

Zuo fei's voice was as steady as stellar gravity,

Mutually assured destruction is an effective deterrence framework; the problem lies in the selection criteria for the enforcers.

He paused for a moment.

Humanity used a universal referendum to choose the person who would wield the Sword of Destruction.

The basis for voting was not deterrence assessment, not psychological pressure resistance test, but likability.

They chose someone who made themselves feel at ease, not someone who made the enemy feel fear.

Remember this lesson.

When the guardians of order are no longer determined by ability but by public sentiment's emotions, order itself is already dead.

Marvel Universe.

Tuo ni·Shi ta ke pulled the holographic projection to his face, his fingers flying through the air to flip the sky curtain's data playback.

Jia wei si, organize a set of the parameters of Wei De's light-speed spaceship for me.

Sir, that is another universe's technology...

I know. I'll just take a look.

Tuo ni leaned back on the sofa, propping his chin with one hand.

An ordinary person, without iron armor, without an ark reactor, without Jia wei si, spent seven years under government ban to develop a light-speed engine.

Then he was sent to the execution ground by a single sentence from a holy mother.

He picked up the coffee on the table, took a sip, and put it down again.

Do you know who this reminds me of? Myself.

I'm just a bit luckier; no one can sentence me to death.

He paused, his gaze falling on Cheng xin's tearful apologetic face on the sky curtain.

If Pepper one day takes the two words 'humanity' to stop me from making something that could save all humanity,

He didn't finish.

But Jia wei si took over for him:

Sir, given your personality, you would change the lock and then continue building.

That's right.

Tuo ni stood up,

So I am still alive.

In a corner of the Myriad Worlds Chat Group that hardly anyone notices,

A bullet screen slowly rose from the bottom.

The font was gray, almost blending with the background. No signed civilization, no personal identifier.

Only one line of text.

【Overreacting.】

The bullet screen torrent on the public screen seemed to be diverted at this moment.

Someone noticed this gray text.

【Just the demise of two small civilizations. In the 13.7-billion-year history of the universe, this happens all the time.】

【You all gather here arguing good and evil, right and wrong, heroes and cowards, like a bunch of ants circling a fallen leaf discussing the meaning of autumn.】

The public screen fell silent for a moment.

The third line of text surfaced.

【The universe fell from eleven dimensions to three; each dimensional collapse swallowed countless civilizations numbering in the tens of trillions.】

【Only one thing is truly meaningful: letting the universe return to the pastoral era.】

【Eleven dimensions.】

【Infinite mass.】

【Infinite energy.】

【Before that, all struggles were merely noise.】

【This is the mission of us Return-to-Zeroers.】

In the depths of the universe,

Return-to-Zero beings do not understand the myriad worlds' reaction to the survival or demise of two tiny civilizations.

They are devoted to restarting the universe and have no interest in anything else.

As long as the universe remains and can be restarted, everything is fine.

The sky-screen lights up again.

Golden subtitles emerge from the darkness.

【Shelter Era.】

【After the Trisolaran civilization perished, humanity, having learned its lesson, devised a new survival plan: the Shelter Project.】

【The scene unfolds.】

【On the far sides of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, dozens of space cities are embedded like honeycombs in the rock and ice.】

【Humanity believed that when the Dark Forest strike arrived, the massive bodies of the gas giants could serve as shields, blocking the light particles for the space cities behind them.】

The sky-screen subtitles appear coldly.

【Humanity guessed half correctly.】

【The strike indeed came.】

【But the weapon was not light particles.】

The scene suddenly changes.

The edge of the solar system.

An insignificant speck drifts into the monitoring range.

Thinner than a sheet of paper.

Two-dimensional foil.

The sky-screen uses a holographic animation to demonstrate the principle of the two-dimensional foil.

The moment the encapsulating field disappears.

An infinitely thin two-dimensional plane unfolds from that speck.

Everything three-dimensional it touches—atoms, molecules, planets, stars—gets flattened.

Compressed into an infinitely extending two-dimensional scroll.

Irreversible.

Irresistible.

Inescapable.

Unless your speed reaches the speed of light.

In the scene,

the boundary of the two-dimensionalization spreads inward through the solar system at the speed of light.

Pluto, Neptune, Uranus, one after another, are 'drawn' into that planar scroll.

The space cities painstakingly built in the Shelter Project, together with their billions of inhabitants, are stretched at the moment of contact with the boundary into a pattern of atomic thickness.

The sky-screen subtitles appear.

【The two-dimensionalization of the two-dimensional foil is irreversible.】

【The only tool capable of escaping the two-dimensionalization is a light-speed ship.】

【It is the light-speed ship developed by Weide.】

【And Weide, who developed the light-speed ship, has already been executed.】

Cybertron,

Megatron's metallic fist smashes through the control panel before him.

The entire alloy panel is dented into a V shape.

"Do you know now?!"

His electronic voice makes the base walls buzz,

""Do you now know that the light-speed ship can save lives?!""

""Weide built the ship for you! You followed that holy mother Cheng Xin and smashed the ship, burning the shipbuilders to ashes!""

""Now that the two-dimensional foil has come, you want to run?""

""With what will you run? With your kindness?""

""With your morality? With Cheng Xin's tears?!""

Dragon Ball world, Kaiō's planet.

Piccolo closes his eyes, word by word:

"They killed the only person who could save them."

"Now no one can save them."

"Cause and effect are settled."

Goku squats on the ground, silent for a while.

"This time I can't say anything."

Land of Light.

Sevin's ice axe is driven into the floor again.

Cracks spread from the point of impact to the wall's base.

""Weide hadn't finished his cigar when he was executed.""

""Humans of this universe, you have made too many mistakes!""

The flagship of the Stellar Peoples' Union.

Sidney Grand Marshal threw the coffee cup directly onto the ground.

Serves him right.

I feel no psychological burden saying these two words.

Serves him right.

Warhammer 40K.

Terra Imperial Palace

Jiliman shook his head.

Weide is a warrior.

Warriors die on the execution ground, not because of the enemy, but because of their own people.

This is the ugliest way to die in all wars.

The sky curtain continued to advance.

The scene cut to the ring city behind Jupiter.

The two-dimensionalization border is approaching.

Ring City.

The base where Weide once developed light-speed spacecraft.

After the Federation took over.

The light-speed spacecraft project was permanently terminated.

But Weide had a backup plan.

A prototype that had already been built,

Ring

Quietly moored in the dock deep within Ring City.

It is the only spacecraft in the entire solar system capable of light-speed flight.

In the scene.

Cheng Xin and Ai AA stood before the hatch of the Ring.

Cheng Xin looked back at the starry sky being consumed by two-dimensionalization.

She boarded the spacecraft.

The Ring activated its warp drive.

Light speed.

It vanished within the solar system.

Subtitles appeared on the sky curtain.

【Cheng Xin personally strangled the plan to mass-produce light-speed spacecraft.】

【She executed the developers of the light-speed spacecraft.】

【Then, when the doomsday arrived,】

【She boarded the sole ship left by the person she had caused to die, and escaped.】

【And the remaining humanity, in the solar system, was turned by the two-dimensional foil into an eternal scroll.】

After seeing this scene.

The myriad-worlds public screen,

blew up.

completely blew up

The flagship of the Stellar Peoples Union.

Sidney Grand Marshal's face had already twisted.

She punched the command console, denting the metal surface with a fist imprint.

I have fought the aliens for countless years in the Human Federation!

I've seen deserters, traitors, and wastes who wet their pants on the battlefield!

But I have never, never seen someone like this!

Her voice echoed throughout the bridge.

She sentenced Weide to death!

She personally destroyed the light-speed spacecraft project!

She deprived billions of people of the chance to escape!

Then she herself boarded the ship that Weide built and fled!

Sidney's teeth clenched, making a creaking sound.

She ran trampling on Weide's corpse!

She ran trampling on the corpses of billions!

Such a person, in the Human Federation, would only have two words written on a military court's verdict: execution by firing squad!

No, that's too lenient for her! Strip all military honors, public execution, scatter her ashes into a star to burn!

Warhammer 40K universe.

Jiliman raised his Sword of Justice with one hand.

The sword's tip pointed at the scene on the sky curtain of Cheng Xin boarding the Ring.

Emperor above.

His voice welled up from deep within his chest.

Every syllable carries the awe of the Polaris Strike Legion gene prototype.

"This woman, she let the sword-maker die, melted all the swords into scrap iron, and told everyone, 'We don't need swords.'"

"Then when the enemy's blade came at her, she picked up the last sword left by that dead person and ran away herself."

"Leave all those without swords behind to wait for death."

Jiliman slowly lowered the Justice Sword.

"In Marklag, in any star sector of the Empire, this kind of behavior has only one name."

"Treason."

Cybertron.

Weizhen Tian didn't smash anything.

He didn't even stand up.

He just sat on the Iron Throne, his crimson optical sensors fixed on the heavens, motionless.

The entire Decepticon base was so quiet that the sound of coolant flowing through the pipes could be heard.

Thirty seconds later, he spoke.

His voice was not loud.

But each syllable sounded as if it were wrung out by a magnetic storm coil.

"Weide."

"That carbon-based lifeform. He spent seven years building a lightspeed engine."

"When he was sentenced to death, he begged for no mercy and did not flee."

"He kept his promise to Cheng Xin and laid down his weapons."

"He died cleanly."

"Then that woman boarded the ship he had bought with his life and left without looking back."

"Seven billion people behind her were turned into a painting."

Weizhen Tian stood up.

He walked to the base's main screen.

He raised his metal palm and covered the frame on the heavens showing Cheng Xin boarding the ship.

"I, Weizhen Tian, have waged war all my life, my hands stained with the blood of countless races."

"If you say I am a tyrant, I admit it."

"But I have never killed those who made weapons for me, then stolen their weapons to flee."

"I couldn't even do something like that."

Just as the myriad realms erupted in fury,

the final light of the heavens.

fell upon another person.

Pluto.

Human Civilization Museum.

A massive cavern built beneath Pluto.

Inside lay all the cultural heritage accumulated by human civilization over thousands of years.

Paintings, sculptures, music, writings, scientific data.

The final guardian.

stood at the museum's entrance.

white hair.

an old coat.

a slightly bowed back.

Luo Ji.

The two-dimensionalization boundary was approaching from afar.

The sky had already begun to warp.

Stars at the edge of the field of view were stretched into thin lines of light.

He did not leave.

The Star Ring had long since vanished at the limits of lightspeed.

There was no second ship.

He didn't need one either.

He stood there.

Facing that expanse of collapsing starry sky.

Behind him was the last memory of human civilization.

Although he was over two hundred years old, his heart still beat.

The two-dimensionalization boundary reached Pluto.

At the moment Luo Ji's body touched the boundary, it was unfolded into a painting.

In the picture,

an old man stood beneath the starry sky, behind him a corridor piled with books and artworks.

His expression was calm.

As if he were guarding a library that no one would ever come to again.

Heavenly curtain subtitles appeared.

【Swordsman Luo Ji.】

【At the final moment of human civilization, he chose to stay on Pluto, and together with humanity's heritage was flattened into two dimensions.】

【He guarded the sword for fifty-four years.】

【Finally, he guarded humanity's final tomb.】

All realms fell silent.

True silence.

Not the silence from an overload of bullet comments that can't be shown.

It is the silence of everyone not knowing what to say.

Land of Light.

Taro trembled.

He could not speak.

Seven stood beside him, a hand placed on Taro's shoulder, and he himself also remained silent.

Dragon Ball world.

Goku stood on the grass of King Kai's planet, head raised.

His lips twitched.

Finally he managed only four words: 'Well done, old man.'

Cybertron.

Optimus Prime turned off all display terminals.

The base grew dark.

The blue optical sensor glowed for a long time, then gradually dimmed for a moment.

"He deserves the word 'hero'." Pause. "No. That word does not deserve him."

"Luo Ji, he is humanity's gentlest guardian, devoting himself to human civilization until his death."

One Piece world.

Zoro picked up the three swords from his lap, slowly sheathing them.

The sound of the hilts returning to place was clear and solemn.

He did not speak. Robin spoke for him:

"The last warrior, perishing together with the city."

Warhammer 40K.

Guilliman knelt on one knee.

On the Golden Throne, the Emperor's psychic light trembled for the second time.

On the public screen, the bullet comments finally began to appear.

The speed was very slow.

Each one felt heavy.

【Cybertron—Megatron】: Luo Ji. I saved your footage in the core database. Permanently preserved. As long as Cybertron exists, someone will remember you.

【Naruto world—Uchiha Sasuke】: He could have boarded that ship. But he didn't. He chose to die alongside those who had abandoned him. I don't understand. But I respect him.

【Dragon Ball world—Piccolo】: He is a warrior. From the first day to the last.

【Land of Light—Ultraman Father】: May you finally rest in the scroll of another dimension.

【Stellar Peoples League—Grand Marshal Sidney】: All rise. Salute.

【Super Beast Armament—Tian Yu】: One person's heartbeat guarded a civilization for fifty-four years. The final person's silence saw off the entire civilization.

【Armor Hero—Bei Miao】: I apologize for my previous recklessness. Luo Ji is the true wallfacer, the true hero, from beginning to end.

【Wandering Earth—Liu Peiqiang】: Old soldiers never die; he is humanity's tomb keeper.

【One Piece—Luffy】: Grandfather…… goodbye.

【Naruto world—Uchiha Madara】: Luo Ji does not need Infinite Tsukuyomi. Every day he lived was heavier than a dream. And he bore it to the end.

Three-Body Universe,

PIA outer street.

Cheng Xin watched the bullet comments on the heavenly curtain's myriad-realms public screen, her face flushing white then red.

Each bullet comment felt like a slap across her face.

Her lips trembled for a few seconds, then she finally spoke.

"I... I had no choice!"

Her voice grew sharp.

"The flattening is coming; if I don't leave I will die! By fleeing I can at least keep humanity's spark! It's certainly better than everyone being flattened, right?"

She took a deep breath, trying to steady her tone.

"The universe is so vast; perhaps I can yet restart human civilization. As long as someone lives, there is still hope!"

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