Three-body: The Most Competent Wallfacer in History

Black holes shivered at its sight,

The brutal supernovae became docile in its presence.

The radiance of the stars couldn't penetrate there,

My warmth couldn't reach there,

My beloved,

Have you ever stood watch there like I have…

Once a Singer that roamed the Orion Arm clearing it, fond of singing ancient ballads, had now become an Elder of the Singer civilization.

He often gazed into the distance at the two-dimensional space, singing the ballads he had composed.

He had always opposed entering low-dimensional space, abandoning everything high-dimensional.

Though he knew it was the ultimate destiny of a civilization, he still couldn't let go of life in three dimensions.

Many Singers shared his view; the Singer civilization had been split since the "End-of-Everything War."

The so-called "End-of-Everything War" was an attempt by the Singer civilization to send the "Dwarf Planet civilization" onto the battlefield to end the interstellar wars with the edge worlds and the expeditionary civilizations.

According to the ancient records, the Dwarf Planet civilization could unleash formidable combat strength in war.

The ancients hadn't deceived them, it's just that the "Dwarf Planet Civilization's" combat power was simply too strong; not only did it end the war, but had the Singers not fled quickly, their civilization would have ended too.

After the escape, some Singers, terrified, hid in two-dimensional space.

While some Singers stayed in three dimensions, realizing their own weakness; they created a refuge within the Dark Domain; they worked diligently; they harbored hope to one day conquer the edge worlds and the Dwarf Planet civilization.

After more than two hundred time particles of development, the Singer civilization had now reached its golden age.

But they still couldn't break through the barriers composed of the Dark Domain, and these times had also allowed the edge worlds to regain strength.

They had to wait a little longer, to act only when there was certainty of victory.

They wanted to prove to those hidden Singers and seeds that hiding was not the only path.

Just as the Singer, no, it should be the Singer Elder, was indulging in his thoughts, a seed reported to him, "Elder, it seems that there is a breach in our Dark Domain barrier."

Singer Elder: "Direct me to the coordinates!"

He adjusted his large eyes, indeed spotting what seemed like swirling vortices in the Dark Domain; then the vortices dissipated, streaks of light flashed by: "This is bad! We're under enemy attack!"

Had the edge worlds attacked so soon?

As the Singer civilization began to respond, the streams of light formed several massive hexagons.

The space within the hexagons suddenly became viscous, and then, a vast fleet emerged from the thickened space.

"Is this, spatial transmission technology?" the Singer Elder wondered oddly, "In this span of time particles, the edge world's spatial technology has progressed so much!"

Then he noticed something was off: "The outer shape of the edge world's ships, why has it changed?

"No, no, this is not the edge world!"

The Singer Elder hurriedly searched the archives and finally found a clue in the Orion Arm.

That was written over four hundred time particles ago, by his own hand.

The Singer Elder grew anxious: "At that time it would have been best to send The Destroyer to clean up; now, a new edge world has emerged!"

...

Jiang Yu, in his pre-war mobilization, spoke: "Two thousand years ago! The Singer civilization launched a two-dimensional strike against us.

"Back then we were so weak that all we could do was to try to escape!

"Those of you born in modern times could hardly understand, humanity was almost abased to the dust!

"Now it's different! Humanity has grown strong!

"According to the intelligence we've gathered over the years, we now have the capability to fight the Singer civilization!

"We are not an edge world! From the outset of the war, we've had the upper hand!

"We are the Avengers; we shall eradicate every intelligent being of the Singer civilization.

"The Dark Forest is ugly, unjust, and unreasonable; we only have our own hands, our own selves, to struggle against these lofty civilizations.

"Only when we are strong enough, can we feel justice, can we reason with them!

"Your ancestors, even my ancestors, the forebears of the Ancient Eastern Old Country, they all fought for what we have!

"If we want this universe to be less vile, we must first become magnificent ourselves!

"Attack! Advance! As long as you are fearless, victory is ahead!"

At that moment, human morale soared!

Humanity had been planning this battle for over thirty years, beginning over twenty years prior with probes systematically exploring the Singer civilization hiding behind the Dark Domain.

Now the entire human society had entered a state of war, every human being was obligated to serve in this interstellar war.

Although the Singer civilization had returned to its zenith, one side had plotted for a long time, and the other was forced into a rushed response, so at the beginning of the first skirmish, human warships triumphed with an absolute advantage in numbers.

The Singer civilization responded quickly as well, immediately abandoning several colonies to focus their forces for a decisive battle with humanity.

Without a declaration of war, without forewarning, in the universe two civilizations met only to fight desperately!

Human reinforcements continued to rush tirelessly to the front, all twelve human corps participated in the battle, deploying hundreds of thousands of ships at once.

And in the rear, newly constructed warships were swiftly heading to the front lines for support.