Malrick acknowledged the fighting spirit of the World Consciousness of the Resident Evil Universe.
As the saying went, nothing ventured, nothing gained.
From their first encounter, Malrick had already realized that this World Consciousness was bold, reckless, and overly fond of taking risks. It was the kind of entity that preferred action over caution.
So he was not surprised when it once again dragged in a massive external world.
What surprised him even less was that this newly drawn world was far larger than the current Biochemical World.
Given that, it was only natural for Malrick to swat the World Consciousness aside as it cried for help yet again.
"After everything that happened last time, you still do not know how to slow down your pulling of other Universes," Malrick said coldly.
The neighboring Universe that had been forcefully dragged in was none other than the vast Three-Body Universe.
Merging a world of this scale was never a simple matter.
Under normal circumstances, a true world merger could only occur once the macro and micro rules of both Universes were fully synchronized. Otherwise, contact between two fundamentally different Universes would result in catastrophic destruction.
Previously, when the Biochemical World merged with the Wandering Earth Universe, it had been effortless, like a drop of water dissolving into the ocean. The difference in scale made the process harmless.
This time, however, both worlds were enormous.
Worse still, the World Consciousness was acting like a rabid beast with no sense of restraint.
As a result, the two Universes were rapidly approaching each other, heading toward a full collision.
Faced with the incoming Three-Body Universe, Malrick abandoned the idea of a direct merger.
Coincidentally, during that period, he had mastered the rules governing the creation of parallel worlds while traveling through the Type-Moon Universe.
Instead of merging them outright, he chose to convert the Three-Body Universe into a parallel world of the Biohazard Universe.
The first step was synchronizing the overlapping rules shared by both Universes.
This was not difficult.
Although different Universes could vary greatly in laws and power systems, most shared fundamental physical principles.
For example, both followed the conservation of mass, and both obeyed interaction laws governing forces.
Using these shared principles as anchor points, Malrick forced the rapidly colliding Three-Body Universe into a stable orbit around the Biohazard Universe.
As the orbit continued, the Three-Body Universe gradually transformed into the parallel world Malrick intended.
The Biohazard Universe narrowly avoided disaster once again.
At the same time, due to the large-scale interaction between worlds, Malrick's Rejedo main body stationed within the Biochemical World continued to grow stronger.
For a long time, everything progressed smoothly.
Decades passed.
Just as the Three-Body Universe was nearing complete assimilation, something went wrong.
"What is happening? Have the physical rules of the Three-Body Universe changed?"
Malrick quickly realized that large regions of the Three-Body World were experiencing fundamental alterations to their physical laws.
Water no longer released heat when freezing into ice, instead it absorbed heat.
Objects collided without properly transferring momentum.
And these were only the most obvious abnormalities.
Countless other changes spread throughout the Universe.
There was no need for deep analysis. Malrick immediately understood that internal chaos had overtaken the Three-Body Universe.
He extended his consciousness inward to investigate.
The first thing he witnessed was a terrifying scene.
Stars, Planets, and even Black Holes were collapsing uncontrollably due to drastic shifts in the gravitational constant. Planetary debris and clouds of cosmic gas drifted aimlessly through space.
Light emitted from Stars twisted into strange clusters, then curved through the void like flowing water.
The Universe stood on the brink of total collapse.
Everywhere, physical law failure led to destruction.
Fortunately, the Three-Body Universe possessed a unique trait.
High-dimensional fragments existed throughout its structure.
Malrick did not even need to suppress universal laws or reverse time.
By observing a nearby four-dimensional fragment, he immediately uncovered the truth.
"The Return-to-Zeroers Civilization and several other advanced civilizations detected abnormal changes in universal rules. They observed anti-entropy growth within the Universe's energy system…"
"They concluded that an external Universe had locked onto their location. Fearing that the Dark Forest Law extended beyond a single Universe, they chose to disrupt their own physical laws to avoid detection."
Malrick fell silent.
This overwhelming sense of darkness and tragedy truly embodied a civilization shaped entirely by the Dark Forest Law.
To avoid invasion, they were willing to destroy themselves.
Yet, when he considered it carefully, this was hardly new behavior.
The civilizations of the Three-Body Universe had chosen self-destruction more than once throughout their history.
At the birth of the Universe, this world had once been an eleven-dimensional realm.
At that time, Light Speed was so fast that it could traverse the Universe instantaneously.
It had been a true Garden of Eden.
However, this Universe possessed a fatal flaw.
High-dimensional space was inherently unstable, easily influenced by low-dimensional fragments, causing spontaneous dimensional collapse.
As a result, dimensional weapons became the preferred tools of war among advanced civilizations.
These weapons required little effort to create. All that was needed was a low-dimensional fragment sealed through technological means.
Once deployed, they compressed entire civilizations into lower dimensions.
But such weapons were a double-edged sword.
In high-dimensional space, once a region collapsed into a lower dimension, the surrounding space followed, falling like dominoes until the entire structure degraded.
The process could take millions or even billions of years due to the vastness of the Universe.
Still, that delay never stopped civilizations from using dimensional weapons repeatedly.
In the face of survival, no cost was too high.
Thus, after endless wars, the once eleven-dimensional Universe had fallen into its current three-dimensional state.
Even now, civilizations such as the Singer continued to use dimensional reduction attacks, slowly pushing the Universe toward a two-dimensional collapse.
Understanding this, Malrick could comprehend the desperation driving their actions.
They had only disrupted physical and mathematical laws. They had not yet reduced the entire Universe into two dimensions.
By their standards, this was restraint.
But comprehension did not mean acceptance.
This Three-Body Universe now belonged to him.
He would not allow these civilizations to tear it apart.
Malrick's main body ended its cultivation within the countless Heavens and descended into the Three-Body Universe.
He traveled faster than Light Speed.
Wherever he passed, distorted physical laws were corrected.
Extinguished suns reignited, shattered Planets reassembled, gravitational chaos was undone.
Under his control, the Universe slowly returned to stability.
Then, he was ambushed.
As Malrick passed through the Rose Nebula, the space spanning several Light Years around him underwent sudden dimensional reduction.
Simultaneously, mathematical laws within the region were forcibly altered.
Light Speed dropped to a mere one centimeter per second.
The gravitational constant between particles increased tens of thousands of times.
With Light nearly frozen, everything within the region slowed to a standstill.
Photons halted, cosmic dust ceased drifting.
Yet while time appeared frozen, dimensional collapse continued.
The entire star field was moments away from being flattened into a two-dimensional plane.
It was unmistakable.
This was a coordinated ambush by one or more advanced civilizations.
And its target was Malrick himself.
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