My empire of stars

Hiss. Accompanied by everyone's gasps and horrified eyes, the soldier who touched the transparent organism suddenly changed from a three-dimensional person into a two-dimensional image floating in the air.

A soldier carefully moved his steps to the side of the soldier who turned into a flat image. As his angle moved, the shape of the soldier who turned into a flat image began to narrow until he finally disappeared.

"Has this become a two-dimensional existence?" Li Mingze also carefully walked aside from behind the soldier. Sure enough, the figure floating in the air only had length and width, but no thickness! From the side, there isn't even a line!

"I'm very sorry. This is our self-defense mechanism during the descent." At this moment, the transparent humanoid creature that was standing still suddenly spoke.

Everyone was frightened by the sudden movement of the transparent humanoid creature and backed away. No one wanted to become a two-dimensional image like the unlucky soldier.

"Where did you come from? As far as we know, there should be no civilization in this universe that can cross the galaxy." The transparent humanoid creature took a step forward and used its transparent but as deep as a black hole. He looked at Li Mingze and others.

"We are just travelers passing by." Li Mingze paused and thought of an explanation that would not anger this person.

"Oh? Traveler, let me take a look." After saying that, the transparent humanoid creature closed its eyes.

In Li Mingze's puzzled gaze, the scenery around the people suddenly changed into a bird's-eye view of the sky. Under their feet, two hover cars flew out of the city upside down, and the cities began to sink into the ground.

The viaducts in the forest also began to disappear underground. Their forward camp in the jungle also began to quickly retreat from a intact camp. The wood on the wooden house turned into big trees and grew back into the land.

Soon, the original location of the camp returned to a dense forest, and the changes stopped at this time.

Suddenly, a white space-time gate appeared in the clearing of the forest, and several imperial soldiers walked out of the space-time gate carrying metal boxes.

The picture paused here, causing Li Mingze, who had witnessed the entire process, to shrink his pupils.

"Yes, it seems that you are really travelers, but travelers from other time and space." The tone of the transparent humanoid creature had no ups and downs, and Li Mingze could not hear any emotion from it.

"What on earth are you!" Li Mingze was shocked. He never thought that there is a race that has the ability to see through time. No, this planet must be under surveillance at all times. What they just saw was just a replay of the video. !

"We. We are just a group of poor people." The transparent figure sighed softly, and his thoughts began to drift to hundreds of millions of years ago.

"Our race was born 520 million years ago, and our civilization has developed from primitive tribes to being able to navigate the universe."

"As our technology becomes more and more advanced and we control more and more territories, the materials we obtain become more and more abundant. At this time, we begin to set our sights on the ethereal road to immortality." As he said, Li Mingze felt that the surrounding scenery changed again, and he came to a planet covered by tens of thousands of meters high skyscrapers.

"We first studied biotechnology with the intention of making our bodies biologically immortal. However, we found that all living things have an upper limit on their lifespan. Even if we allow the cells in the body to divide, we will eventually die after a certain period of time. It will turn into a pool of yellow water." As he explained, a humanoid creature with a body that was not yet transparent appeared in Li Mingze's sight. This creature suddenly turned into a pool of yellow water, and the surrounding people were surrounded by it. Ten scientists and medical staff immediately surrounded him.

"Then we began to study electronic technology. We hope to upload our consciousness to electronic devices to achieve true immortality. By then, as long as the hardware can be updated, we will be able to survive forever." The picture changed this time It has become a laboratory full of technology. In the laboratory, an old man is lying on the operating table, and a robot is placed beside him.

"However, we found that people who upload their consciousness into the robot are extremely vulnerable to computer viruses. These viruses can easily turn these people into a pile of scrap metal." The picture turned into a dilapidated warehouse, with a Garbage trucks dumped countless robots into the warehouse. If nothing happened to Li Mingze, these would have been immortals infected with the virus.

"Finally! Three hundred and ninety million years ago, a scientist in our civilization discovered a way for us to truly gain immortality! That is to evolve the race into higher-dimensional creatures that are not affected by time!" Then! Listening to the man's voice, a huge square appeared on the screen. An old man was explaining something vividly on the big screen in the square, while the people in the square let out bursts of cheers.

"From that day on, we shrunk the colonies of our civilization back to our home system, and we began to focus all our energy on research to upgrade our race to four-dimensional life."

"As tens of millions and hundreds of millions of years passed, research on sublimated races began to slowly progress, and some experiments began to be carried out in secret." The transparent humanoid sighed. In his memory, his It was at this moment that civilization changed.

"A device called dimensional lifting was created, because lifting an object from two dimensions to three dimensions requires an extremely large amount of energy, and the same goes for lifting three-dimensional creatures to four dimensions."

"In order to obtain such huge energy, we set our sights on this huge universe. We began to extract the energy of the universe, converting everything in the universe into two dimensions to release huge energy for the dimension-enhancing machine, but..."

"In the end, we failed. The energy released by reducing the matter in the universe to two dimensions was far from enough for us to ascend to the four-dimensional world. Our dimension-enhancement plan had to be stopped halfway through. We were stuck in the three-dimensional to four-dimensional world. The intermediate stage of transition.”

"We have gained eternal life." The transparent humanoid creature said with a wry smile.

"The price for our immortality is that we are forever bound to our galaxy. At the same time, light, which represents the upper limit of speed in three-dimensional space, has become our enemy. Too intense a beam is too strong for us. deadly!"

"We have lost our light." The transparent humanoid sighed heavily.