Chapter 588: Attack Methods Outside the Light Cone

The moment the fleets entered the warp speed, the Awakeners also started to move, but they did not move in unison like the Reapers, but more like scattered soldiers. One or several warships formed a small team and entered the warp state one after another.

There were only 1.7 billion Awakeners in the starry sky, but they were not afraid of the Reapers with a scale of 100 billion. After detecting the Reapers' movement, they all went head-on.

At a distance of ten light years, it would take about seven days for the two sides to collide head-on, but at this moment, the battle between the two obviously did not need a real warship collision, let alone a face-to-face boarding. The two sides continued to close the distance, just to make their powerful weapons better hit each other.

As for what kind of weapons, both sides quickly told each other with facts.

First, a strange phenomenon appeared in the starry sky. The space in front of the Reaper fleet suddenly twisted, just like a black hole appeared. If you use detection methods other than the light cone to detect, you can obviously see that this starry sky suddenly collapsed, and the three spatial dimensions of length, width and height around it were suddenly pulled to a certain point.

Black hole bombs, also called gravity bombs.

The Reaper fleet first threw gravity bombs above the starry sky. They did this not to kill the awakeners, but more like a battlefield arrangement.

Probably because gravity bombs are not the most effective killing method for level 6 civilizations.

Sure enough, after an artificial black hole appeared, there were strange particle flows that could not be detected by conventional means, bypassing these artificial black holes. These strange particle flows were not accelerated by the gravitational field of the artificial black hole, because their own speed was faster than the speed of light.

Belonging to the category of weapons outside the light cone, artificial black holes are just to cover the emission end of these particle flows and become more concealed.

This strange particle flow attack method seems to be a prelude to the war between level 6 civilizations. The Reapers are using it, and the Awakeners are also using such attack methods.

It’s just that these attack methods are completely invisible in the visible universe, because they don’t have any effect on light at all. This leads to the fact that when the two sides started fighting, nothing seemed to happen. They just saw the fleets of both sides enter the warp state, and then a group of artificial black holes that disturbed the space appeared, and the starry sky suddenly felt quiet.

From a conventional perspective, you can't see anything when you look at the means of attack beyond the speed of light. But in fact, the two sides have already fought in the world outside the light cone.

The shield of a Reaper warship suddenly lit up, and then it could not maintain the warp state and was forced to exit the warp. What I want to say here is that the so-called shield lighting up is not "bright" in the traditional sense, because no photons appear at all.

The shield of this Reaper warship is not a traditional shield, and the same is true when the shield lights up. Its shield is not visible in the visible universe. Similarly, its shield does not react with photons, let alone participate in the electromagnetic force.

Therefore, from the perspective of the time of the visible universe, it seems that nothing has happened and it has exited the warp state by itself, but this is not the case.

Its shield blocked the attack from outside the light cone. Obviously, it was lucky that it just exited the warp state and was not destroyed.

The other black battleship in its battleship squadron was not so lucky, because it received more attacks. In the invisible world, its shield that did not participate in the electromagnetic force had been broken, and the shield generator was burned due to overload.

Then it was directly hit by a superluminal particle stream.

This attack method outside the light cone told the world for the first time its power. From a conventional perspective, this attack method has nothing, no gorgeous energy light column, no faint light path formed by photon escape, and no earth-shaking movement.

Even the space through which this particle flow passed did not react at all, everything was normal, as if nothing happened.

But only the target that was hit knew that this was not the case.

The black battleship Reaper was hit on the left string. At the moment of being hit, the color of its left string position first faded a little, and the pure black exterior turned into black and gray, and then its color changed rapidly, which may be dozens of Planck times or hundreds of Planck times. The black color of its left string position became lighter and lighter, and then became transparent.

Well, transparency is just a term from a conventional perspective. In fact, it is not transparent, but it has become another form of existence. If the armor of this black battleship in normal state is called visible universe matter, then after being hit by this attack outside the light cone, it becomes another form of existence, perhaps called space matter.

The place hit disappeared in the visible universe. Because the change time is extremely short, it looks like this black battleship has just been pushed out of the warp state, and then it is like someone used video editing to cut off everything from the left string position to the tail of the battleship.

You can see that the cross section is very smooth, as if a complete battleship suddenly lost half, leaving only the head there, just like using special effects in the video to cut off some layers that originally belonged to something.

The part hit by this attack outside the light cone disappeared completely, as if it had received a blow from nothingness.

But the magical thing is that no photons were produced in the place where it disappeared, only some faint meson-like particles drifted out from there, proving to the visible universe that something terrible had just happened here.

The appearance of meson-like particles is also the last evidence of the existence of the tail half of this battleship in this visible universe.

Because half of it was missing suddenly, the battleship was left with only half, and it was immediately completely scrapped under a lightning spark failure.

The encounter of this battleship is just a microcosm of the vast battlefield. After both sides started the warp state and moved quickly, battleships without heads or tails appeared one after another in this starry sky. Some battleships also had a big hole in the middle, as if the abdomen was hollowed out, and the starry sky on the back could be seen from the bottom.

There were some lucky battleships, but there were some gaps around them, just like a bite of a cookie. These battleships that were not seriously damaged slowly healed under the work of the repair system, which was considered lucky enough.

More battleships were directly destroyed by a wave and disappeared in the universe.

Of course, up to now, all the destroyed battleships are the Reaper's battleships.

Such a battle is very magical. There is no sound in the universe, and now there is even no light. The fighting between the two sides is silent and quiet. Only the faint diffuse meson-like particles are trying to prove to those civilizations that can only observe things in the visible universe that things here are indeed not as calm as they seem on the surface.