The Awakener Civilization's success came very suddenly, but the scene was not melodramatic. At the very least, they had not succeeded at the very last moment before crashing into the region of Cosmic Disaster.
If the success of the Awakeners was the beginning, then the research results of the Divine Matrix Civilization universalized the former's research and laid out a path that every civilization could follow.
Now, the eighty-four civilizations were going to continue down this path until they succeeded.
Having reached this point, it could already be said that everyone's advancement to Cosmic Civilization lacked only a sudden flash of inspiration, or else they would keep exhausting every possibility until they found the right answer.
But inspiration was something no one knew when would appear, and with brute-force enumeration, no one knew how deeply the answer was hidden.
Under such circumstances, the only method available to every civilization was to keep moving forward, to use the greatest ability they possessed to explore the mysteries of this universe.
The road ahead was unknown. So-called exploration of the unknown was now precisely the process of exploring the unknown.
On the basis of the theoretical framework proposed by the Divine Matrix Civilization, every civilization continued forward, continued experimenting, until they found patterns in all kinds of experimental data, then summarized those patterns, obtained universally applicable formulas, and finally turned all of their research results into reality—that was, technological creations. Only then would it count as true success.
Every civilization was working hard, and Human Civilization was unwilling to fall behind.
But the barrier to Cosmic Civilization was simply too thick and solid. Even with this or that foundation, even with eighty-four Level Six Civilizations working together with one heart, research progress remained slow.
In the blink of an eye, more than ten