Chapter 601: Asking Jiang Yu to Come Out of Retirement_1

Jiang Shiliu said, "Currently, the nominal leader of the Five-dimensional World is Jiao Zuo, who is very adept at war, but many people have different opinions on his strategies for governing the Five-dimensional World.

"Among them, Weide believes that our population in the Fifth Dimension is too small, and we should organize the strength of the Five-dimensional Humanity to the greatest possible extent with a highly centralized approach.

"However, Jiao Zuo feels that high centralization can easily lead to some extreme policies and that we should widely listen to everyone's opinions.

"As for scientific research, I believe that humanity should enter the Six-Dimensional as soon as possible. From the Six-Dimensional, we will have a decisive advantage over the Fifth Dimension, and we could quickly end the current war.

"But Jiao Zuo thinks that our current investment in scientific research is already significant, and if all these resources were devoted to the war, it would have been over by now."

At this point, Jiang Shiliu shook his head, clearly disagreeing with this idea.

Jiang Yu also understood; whether it was Weide, Jiang Shiliu, Thirty-Six, or even Number Three, as well as many others who joined the Fifth Dimension, they all used to be influential figures in the Solar System State.

Although Jiao Zuo accomplished the great feat of overthrowing the old forces, his prestige was still insufficient to suppress this group of people.

As for the strategic disputes, those were just superficial conflicts.

Jiang Shiliu continued, "The people of the Fifth Dimension are generally restless, which is a side effect of humanity having attained immortality.

"Their extended lifespans make them very afraid of class solidification, so they are full of wariness and distrust towards those in power.

"At the same time, suddenly possessing unlimited time, they don't know how to manage it.

"Some people were diligent when they were in the Three-dimensional World, but as soon as they reached the Fifth Dimension, they became lazy, always feeling that there is plenty of time and things can be put off until tomorrow."

Jiang Yu furrowed his brow: "I didn't expect the situation in the Fifth Dimension to be so slack."

"That's why I've come to you today," Jiang Shiliu said. "You must have noticed, the fundamental problem of the Fifth Dimension is the lack of a strong, widely accepted leader."

Jiang Yu was startled, "You want me to go to the Fifth Dimension?"

"That's what many people think!" said Jiang Shiliu seriously. "If our development in the Fifth Dimension fails, it will be an unprecedented failure for humanity, and it's likely that humanity will never again muster the courage to enter higher dimensions."

Jiang Yu heaved a sigh, well aware that humanity's entry into the higher dimensions is an extremely clever path of civilization, which might be the key to humanity's ability to "ascend to godhood" in the future.

This was something that could not be allowed to fail!

At this thought, Jiang Yu gave a wry smile, "I really do have a hard lot in life!"

Jiang Shiliu said, "Is that not good? Together, let's take humanity to the highest dimension, to the very peak of the mountain!

"This journey will allow us to see sights never before seen, feel the glory of a thousand generations.

"Did you know? I've heard that in the Six-Dimensional, time is actually a visible dimension! This is a sight that people from the Three-dimensional, Four-dimensional, Fifth Dimension will never see in their lifetimes.

"If the conditions are right, I want to be the first to enter the Six-Dimensional. I want to keep moving forward, to find the 'Information Convergence Point' of my dreams.

"I want to understand the true face of the universe, to find answers to all my questions, I want to..."

Jiang Yu gestured with his hand, "Okay, I get it, I'll consider it.

"But not now!"

He needed to stay in the Three-dimensional, to oversee the battle against the Singer civilization. It was a risky move, and he was very uneasy about leaving it to Wallfacers like Wei Xiang who had never experienced a large-scale interstellar war.

Receiving this reply from Jiang Yu, Jiang Shiliu was pleased. He believed that the troubling issues that were currently giving him a headache would certainly be resolved with ease and pleasure by Jiang Yu.

This was the faith that Jiang Yu had always given to Jiang Shiliu, to many people.

After ending the call with Jiang Shiliu, Jiang Yu fell into deep thought. Suddenly, he conceived a tremendous plan and began to outline it in his mind.

As the details gradually enriched, Jiang Yu smiled faintly, having not felt such exciting ideas in a long time.

In the past, he had looked forward to vacations, but now, finding that the fifth dimension needed him, Jiang Yu felt not only no resistance, but also a faint sense of anticipation.

He mockingly said to himself, "A life of toil, a life of toil indeed."

Once the situation in the Solar System State had stabilized, Jiang Yu immediately issued a directive, ordering all regions to inquire whether the dying or seriously ill wished to enter the fifth dimension.

Many noticed that Jiang Yu used the term "order" rather than "request."

In other words, to ignore the Wallfacer's directive was to invite punishment.

This was followed by an explosion in the population of five-dimensional humanity. At this rate, in just over a decade or so, the population of the fifth dimension would surge.

Jiang Yu then made contact with Jiang Shiliu, Weide, Jiao Zuo, and others in the fifth dimension for an in-depth communication.

If Number Three were still around, even without knowing the content of the conversations Jiang Yu and the others were having, he would have guessed that Jiang Yu was brewing some major action.

...

In Milky Way 1988, the Second Corps, tasked with reconnaissance, had already positioned their most advanced outposts 24,000 light-years from Earth.

Now, with the Solar System State's vessels reaching speeds of 300 times the speed of light, even so, such a vast distance would take 80 years to travel.

Though this place was far from the Solar System State, the material transportation system was well established.

Supplies from the rear only took a few hours to reach the front lines.

At the same time, not a single human was present on the front lines; warriors were in the rear, controlling the battle remotely through a real-time communication system.

The Second Corps's reconnaissance units were roughly divided into five thousand squads.

Most squads were searching for the Singer civilization, but looking for a civilization in the universe was like searching for a needle in a haystack.

Jiang Yu also knew that actively searching for a civilization that might be more advanced than humanity's was a dangerous move.

But the Solar System State had to do it, because humanity had roughly pinpointed the location of the Singer civilization, and they believed the Singers had likely done the same.

According to the Dark Forest Law, whoever found the other first would gain a tremendous advantage.

Only a hundred squads were exploring an ancient battlefield that was over 24,000 light-years away and dated back over a thousand years.

They had hoped to discover traces of the Singer civilization there, but what remained of that battlefield was nothing; only shattered space filled with preset spatial traps, black holes, and Dark Domains, with all planets and stars utterly destroyed.

There was nothing left; there was nothing in this space at all.

Just as the interstellar probes were about to return to the mothership to leave this dead zone, the mothership detected something wrong with the status of one probe.

The central computer on the mothership immediately instructed that probe not to return to the mothership and to promptly report the incident.

Back in the Solar System State, within the reconnaissance encampment of the Second Corps, soldier Reed received the mothership's report: "Hmm? The weight of a probe suddenly increased by around fifty kilograms?"

Reed was encountering this for the first time: "Check the probe's intelligence systems, could it be a misreport?"

How could it gain so much weight just by executing a mission?

The mothership reported, "It has been checked; the intelligent systems are functioning normally."

A red light suddenly illuminated on the communicator, and the mothership announced, "Emergency report, emergency report! An unidentified object is obstructing the camera of that probe!"

The mothership transmitted the camera feed from the probe to Reed, who saw a piece of cloth with a circular pattern slowly covering the probe.

Reed was stunned for a moment before he suddenly exclaimed, "Sound the alarm!"