Star Gate travel was different from what many imagined. It was not a matter of entering from one side and emerging from the other at the same instant; it required a process. Traveling through a Star Gate felt somewhat like driving on an expressway—an interstellar highway.
Perhaps because the distance was simply too great, none of the twenty-one civilizations in The Great Voyage Organization knew anything for now.
No one knew how long the passage was, no one knew where the "highway" exit lay, and no one knew whether dangers awaited ahead. All they could do was wait for the light at the end of the "tunnel."
Every civilization had prepared for a long voyage, and they had experience with such things.
Yet, to the surprise of every civilization, less than five years into their journey through the Star Gate, the civilization at the very front of the formation sent word through the quantum entanglement communication system: they had seen the exit.
After several years of traveling within the Star Gate, The Great Voyage Organization had learned to distinguish between the entrance and exit positions and the stages of tunnel travel. Thus, the moment the probes detected a change, the civilization at the front of the formation immediately made the correct judgment.
They had indeed reached the exit.
We reached the exit in just five years. It seems the other end of this Star Gate isn't too far away. We need to prepare for Void travel. Yue Yuan pondered as he read the message.
He had always believed in the dual-black-hole-driven Star Gate model, but five years was simply too short. Thus, he felt they could not rule out the possibility that the exit lay somewhere in the Void.
Of course, it was also possible that it was in some