Only I Walk Alone

Chapter 69 - The Desolate Mars



In the hundredth year of the four-dimensional world exploration, the first four-dimensional warship was created. This warship was manufactured using the body structure of a Four-Dimensional Decomposer.

This type of four-dimensional warship possesses extreme stealth capabilities. When they detach from the three-dimensional world, no instrument from that world can detect them. When they plan to attack enemies from the three-dimensional world, their cannons always emerge from unexpected positions, delivering fatal strikes to their enemies.

The individuals capable of piloting these warships must have reached the Enlightened realm; otherwise, they would be lost in the overwhelming glare and chaotic sounds. Currently, only about thirty people on Earth have achieved the Enlightened realm. Thus, although four-dimensional warships can be mass-produced, there are few who can pilot them.

An artificial intelligence personality, named Four-dimensional Xiao Chao, was specifically created to study the four-dimensional world and can assist to some extent in piloting the warships, but it cannot pilot them itself, as the computational requirements of an additional dimension are too massive.

This highlights the advantage of mental power, which can disregard the chaotic information and directly locate the origin.

The constructed four-dimensional warship was named War God. Usually, it is docked in four-dimensional space near the divine temple and occasionally receives worship from the followers of the faith. Over the past three hundred years, only thirty-nine individuals have officially been recognized as Enlightened realm powerhouses among the Earth civilization.

Why could Wu Ge reach the Enlightened realm in just over twenty years, while the Earth civilization has produced so few over three hundred years? Wu Ge believes there are two reasons: they have been too complacent, originally burdened with the heavy responsibility of saving humanity, Wu Ge made rapid progress, whereas the Earth civilization has never experienced any significant wars, leading to a lack of motivation; the second reason is the genetic predisposition, as humans have been cultivating mental power for thousands, if not tens of thousands, of years, making Wu Ge genetically suitable for cultivating mental power, whereas the Earth civilization still lacks some essential qualities.

Official statistics do not account for some hidden mental power powerhouses among the common folk, who may become stronger under high pressure.

Now, in this relatively peaceful period, Wu Ge does not plan to conscript these hidden masters, but he will recruit them to serve him during wartime.

Because the pseudo-strong of the faith are cultivated through the power of belief, so far, not a single person has reached the Breaking Delusion realm. However, these individuals are not intended for combat but to govern the Earth civilization, so Wu Ge does not mind their lack of potential.

However, because they are pseudo-strong, it takes at least thirty Enlightened realm masters from the temples to pilot a four-dimensional warship, but its power is formidable indeed. A four-dimensional warship can appear directly inside a three-dimensional warship and launch an attack, destroying the ship and then escaping back to the four-dimensional world.

Unfortunately, these four-dimensional warships cannot be mass-produced, otherwise, Wu Ge feels he could dominate the three-dimensional world with them.

Facing Wu Ge’s arrogant attitude, Xiao Chao warned, “In theentire universe, we may not be the only one in possession of four-dimensional technology, please do not take it lightly, Wu Ge.”

Wu Ge is aware of this, and their warships have one fatal flaw: they are too slow.

A three-dimensional warship takes over twenty hours to travel from Earth to Mars, but a four-dimensional warship needs over three thousand days. The additional dimension means the travel distance increases geometrically. With the speed of their four-dimensional warships, they can hardly sweep the universe; by the time they arrive at the battlefield, the opportunity has likely passed.

Thus, apart from guarding Earth and capturing a few Four-Dimensional Decomposers, the War God, the four-dimensional warship essentially serves no other purpose.

The good news is, inspired by the intersection of science and cultivation, Xiao Luo and the scientists have started researching the unified field theory from a four-dimensional perspective.

The unified field theory aims to clarify the relationships between the four fundamental forces—gravity, electromagnetism, strong nuclear force, and weak nuclear force—and manipulate other forces by controlling electromagnetic forces, such as altering gravity.

As is well-known, gravity can bend space, and if space is bent, it can shorten the distance from point A to B. Thus, without changing speed, we can shorten the travel time across the universe by bending space. Since surpassing the speed of light is not possible, compressing space to shorten the journey from tens of light-years to just hundreds of thousands of kilometers allows us to cross these vast distances in a very short time, even without reaching light speed.

This technology also has applications in the cultivation methods of immortality, such as the classic techniques of Shrinking Earth into Inches, A Step Across the World, and the Great Shift of Heaven and Earth. These involve using mental power to bend space, enabling the practitioner to cross tens of thousands of kilometers in a single step.

Therefore, if this unified field theory could be fully developed, it would greatly enhance the strength of Wu Ge and his peers.

Numerous Xiao Chaos began their work, investigating the four-dimensional world and the unified field theory, and also using a four-dimensional perspective to examine planets like the Moon, Mars, and Venus.

From a four-dimensional perspective, they could directly obtain data from both inside and outside of these planets. In front of the four-dimensional view, the planets are like a young lady under a CT scanner at security, with everything inside and out fully visible.

Thus, Xiao Chao created a planetary four-dimensional scanner. However, due to the vast distance from Earth to Mars in the four-dimensional world, by the time the planetary four-dimensional scanner reached its destination, a new scanner could have been built on Mars itself.

Given this situation, Xiao Chao directly constructed a huge space station in Mars’ orbit and a four-dimensional shipyard in the four-dimensional space surrounding Mars, because this area required individuals who could freely operate in the four-dimensional world to guard it. Thus, Wu Ge went there alone.

When Wu Ge first arrived in Mars’ orbit, he initially thought Mars was just an orange-red barren planet. However, after living there for a while, he discovered that Mars was a fascinating planet as well.

Especially the Olympus Mons, which is incredibly large; the highest peak on Earth is only eight kilometers, whereas the highest peak on Mars is 27 kilometers high and is also a massive dormant volcano. The vast volcanic crater looks like an eye socket that has been hollowed out.

Thus, looking at this volcanic crater, Wu Ge could feel a sense of decay and desolation.

The construction of the planetary four-dimensional scanner has begun, with completion expected in seven months. At that time, they would be able to thoroughly explore the ins and outs of the area.

Does Mars have underground rivers, is there an underground civilization? All of these questions will be answered then.


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