Voyage of the Stars

Everyone thought that the Fermi Paradox was caused by humans, but they did not expect it to be so 'man-made'. Before the window period hypothesis was confirmed by the rhombus crystal, there were two 'man-made' hypotheses that humans could artificially explain the Fermi Paradox, respectively. It’s the Zoo Hypothesis and the Dark Forest Hypothesis.

Unexpectedly, it was the Pioneer's Great Voyage that led to the emergence of a window of civilization in the Milky Way.

Everyone who got the answer was also filled with emotion.

"I would like to ask again, do you really not remember where the destination of the Great Voyage is? Is it to pursue the first ray of light in the universe?" At this time, Gander couldn't help but ask again. .

Even though the rhombus crystal said that the information about the destination of the Great Voyage has been lost, there are still some scientists who are unwilling to accept it. They really want to know why, and Gander is one of them.

In Gander's view, the Pioneers are much stronger than the Awakeners they encountered before, and are most likely a seventh-level civilization. And when the Awakeners said they came to the galaxy with the help of the relics of a seventh-level civilization, they might be the Pioneers. left.

After all, the Great Voyage. Although what the rhombus crystal said is not very detailed, everyone can still hear that the Great Voyage is not as simple as leaving the Milky Way and heading to a nearby river system.

And how can such a long voyage be without technologies such as space jump and star gate technology?

Everyone still remembers what the Awakener said at the time, that they found a star gate left by a seventh-level civilization and were able to successfully reach the Milky Way from the Triangulum Galaxy.

However, the rhombus crystal's answer was beyond everyone's expectations.

Everyone only heard an obvious sound of astonishment coming from the Tianqin command center, and then they remembered a burst of bitter laughter.

"Chasing the first ray of light in the universe? You really dare to think about it. It seems that it is not an accident that you can activate me, although I don't know the reason yet."

The rhombus crystal imitated the tone of human emotion and first said this sentence. Then amidst everyone's astonishment and surprise, it continued: "Thank you for having such confidence in us. This sentence sounds so romantic. Three billion years." We did have such romantic fantasies before, and we also had such a spirit of pursuing the truth of the universe. In this regard, our human civilization is very similar to us!"

"But reality is always very different from dreams. Although I don't want to discourage you, I also want to say that our civilization's great voyage three billion years ago was because of such a fascinating feat, but the facts are often frustrating."

"Reality!"

The diamond-shaped crystal seemed like an old man lamenting life. It said softly: "We are still far away from such a feat, far, far away. Although some of the information I saved about the Great Voyage has been lost, one thing is certain. , Our great voyage back then was definitely not a feat like 'pursuing the first ray of light in the universe'."

why?

Everyone present wanted to urge Rhomboid Crystal to speak quickly, but at the moment everyone was still immersed in shock at the gap in their impressions of the pioneers.

Of course, some people were ready to speak, but they felt the emotion in the rhombus crystal's words, so they chose to listen quietly.

Sure enough, the rhombus crystal just paused, and then continued: "We just saw despair, so we looked for hope. We were born in the Milky Way, but we found that the Milky Way is just a big cage. We left because we wanted to break through that There is an invisible yoke. We have seen that yoke. We are not willing to accept fate or perdition. We want to know more truths about the universe."

"However, in the Milky Way, we can't do it anyway. Our scientists have seen hope of breaking through the shackles, but we have spent a billion years in the Milky Way and still have no way to break through it.

Later, our scientists speculated that there may be two reasons. One is our own reasons, that is, our race has reached the upper limit of wisdom and cannot break through the shackles. The second is environmental factors, which we think are caused by the Milky Way. In the Milky Way, we can never break through the shackles.

You should understand the pain of seeing hope but not being able to reach it. This pain has plagued our civilization for a billion years. Finally, we decided to go out of the galaxy and go on the Great Voyage to find hope. "

The upper limit of wisdom is also the upper limit of wisdom.

Humans are no longer unfamiliar with this statement, because that is what the Awakeners told humans at the beginning. They left the Triangulum Galaxy and came to the Milky Way because they wanted to find a way to break through the upper limit of wisdom.

But now the pioneer civilization, which may be at a higher level, tells humans that they also left the galaxy because of the "limit of intelligence".

If so, then the galaxy is by no means the final destination of the Awakened. Where are they going?

"Can you tell us, what are the shackles in your mouth?" At this time, physicist Liu Miyan couldn't help but ask. The rhombus crystal was so confusing that he felt very itchy.

"Cosmic-level civilization!" the rhombus crystal replied.

A cosmic civilization? ! ! !

What's the meaning?

Could it be the shackles created by the seventh-level civilization?

Everyone looked confused.

Fortunately, the rhombus crystal then said: "Oh, maybe I didn't express it clearly enough. I should say it is the shackles of promotion to the universe-level civilization."

ah?

What? !

What? !

As soon as these words came out, the scientists, researchers, and scholars present, including Yue Yuan, were all stunned. Because in their impression, the Pioneer is a civilization that is more powerful than the Awakener and may be higher than the sixth-level civilization.

But now the rhombus crystal tells them that the shackles that the pioneers faced at the beginning are the shackles to advance to the cosmic level civilization, and they also say that they have spent billions of years without breaking through.

This cosmic-level civilization refers to civilizations above level six.

What is even more shocking is that the second possibility of the rhombus crystal theory is that it is impossible to break through the shackles in the Milky Way. This is not said casually, but is based on billions of years of research by pioneers.

"I would like to ask, what level of civilization was your civilization when it first embarked on the Great Voyage?" Perhaps a little excited, the scientist's voice was trembling.

"What level of civilization is it?"

Hearing this question, the diamond-shaped crystal was obviously stunned for a moment, and then saw some color changes on its crystal clear body, as if it was doing something by some means.

Humans quickly figured out what it did.

"Oh, you new generation civilizations have actually classified civilizations in this way. Using your classification method, we were considered to be the peak of the sixth-level civilization at that time. However, at that time, there was no such classification. We were more accustomed to being called interstellar civilizations. ”

It turns out that interstellar civilization was what it was called three billion years ago. No wonder there are two ways to classify it.

Just when everyone was still digesting this astonishing information, and still adjusting to the gap in perception of the pioneers, the voice of the rhombus crystal sounded again, and its next words shocked mankind beyond measure.