Awakeners

Yue Yuan took a deep breath, trying to calm himself down as much as possible. Then he slowly stood up from his seat and looked around at everyone with Qingming eyes.

Finally, let's turn our attention back to the Golden Ratio Rectangular Prism on the big screen.

Once the fear is put aside, this cuboid, with every side conforming to the golden ratio, looks really beautiful. It has a pleasing aesthetic appeal and is the kind of object that grows on you the more you look at it.

Not only is it pleasing to the eye, but it is also very simple and unpretentious.

Its granite-like exterior exudes a strong retro style, yet its enormous size and strict Golden Ratio reveal a strong technological feel at all times.

To be honest, Yue Yuan had never seen anything that could combine antiquity and technology so perfectly. Yet, it was this 'beautiful' thing that made humanity dare not even entertain the slightest thought of resistance.

"It seems to be taking us somewhere," Yue Yuan murmured to himself, then turned to look at the people on the bridge and said, "Return to your posts!"

Yue Yuan was speaking to everyone on the bridge of the Lyra, and at the same time, he was also speaking to the Command Center of other warships through the fleet's internal system.

Their past prestige worked its magic; despite their lingering unease and low spirits, everyone returned to their posts.

After that, Yue Yuan sat back down and, as usual, spoke in a calm tone, "Connect to the full-band Electromagnetic Wave and Neutrino Communication, align with the Golden Ratio Rectangular Prism, and prepare to record."

Now that things have come to this point, let's ask what the Silver Heart Alliance is up to! Actually, Yue Yuan was also feeling uneasy, since the so-called communication request might very well be ignored.

But it's better than doing nothing at all.

"Yes, Commander Yue." The communications officer also perked up.

After hearing the communicator say they were ready, Yue Yuan, gazing at the golden ratio cube on the large screen that remained stationary with the human fleet, spoke, "Great civilization, greetings! I am Yue Yuan, leader of Human Civilization. May I ask, are you from the great Silver Heart Alliance? Could you tell us where you are taking us?"

Yue Yuan believed that since the Silver Heart Alliance had time to search this star field, the war must have ended, and it seemed to have been won. Otherwise, why would they have the leisure to search the star field?

"I didn't expect the Silver Heart Alliance to be so powerful. No wonder they dare to broadcast so recklessly," Yue Yuan said. "It's a pity that humans can't detect the specific situation two hundred light-years away, otherwise we should be able to know what's happening there."

After being found by this enormous cuboid, Yue Yuan was already well aware that humanity's future was bleak, but he still couldn't help but think about it.

At this moment, Yue Yuan's brief communication had been sent out, covering the entire Electromagnetic Wave spectrum, including neutrino signals.

It was very brief; it didn't even include the standard procedure for first-time users—the accompanying dictionary wasn't sent out.

Yue Yuan believed that the cuboid was the Silver Heart Alliance, and from the Silver Heart Alliance's broadcasts, he knew that they didn't need to translate to convert the signals into human-readable text. With such intelligent broadcasting technology, it made no difference whether or not they distributed dictionaries.

After the communication request was sent, the entire bridge fell silent as everyone waited quietly for a response.

But after a long time, the expected response did not appear.

If it's the Silver Heart Alliance, then it's impossible that they wouldn't receive messages from humans. So the most likely explanation is that they simply don't want to deal with humans.

But this is so uncomfortable.

Since they were already at the mercy of others, after a round of internal discussions, humanity decided to send the message again. They might as well go all in and at least understand why they were going to die.

During this period, humans also conducted a series of analyses on their own situation. More than 80% of scientists believe that humans are currently moving at high speeds, and it is very likely that they are experiencing the legendary Warp Speed Travel.

In other words, the human fleet is now being carried away by this Golden Ratio Rectangular Prism overhead.

As things stand, human probes are completely unable to detect anything beyond the distorted starry sky, and the Probe Spaceship that were sent out ahead of time for navigation purposes have all lost contact.

Humanity is currently likely to be packaged together with the fleet and the space in which the fleet is located.

This is a judgment made by scientists based on human scientific theories combined with observed phenomena. In the human scientific theoretical system, Warp Speed Travel is a spacetime distortion technology, that is, spacetime is distorted in front and stretched in the back, thus enabling the spacecraft to achieve faster-than-light motion without violating the theory of relativity.

One theory of Warp Bubble suggests that when a spacecraft enters Warp Speed Travel, a Warp Bubble forms around it, and the spacecraft is enveloped in the Warp Bubble to move through space.

If Warp Speed Travel is indeed the case, then the human fleet is currently encased within Warp Bubble created by a cuboid based on the golden ratio.

The second message still received no response, so after a while, the human sent another message.

Finally, the third message received a response, and it came incredibly quickly. The human had barely sent it out and hadn't even had time to process the situation before the response arrived.

However, this response was somewhat unusual.

Because it was neither received by a human Signal Receiver nor appeared on a screen in the form of text, but rather emanated from the built-in loudspeakers inside the bridge of the Lyra.

"Little ones, stop barking. We're just busy erasing our tracks, and you keep barking."

The voice was still an electronically synthesized voice programmed by humans, but it was genuine Chinese. If it weren't for the different content, everyone on the Lyra would have thought someone was playing a prank.

The sudden sound from the loudspeaker prompted technicians to check the equipment, but they found no system problems. The 'Tianhe Light' self-test also showed no issues.

"Ah?"

Upon hearing the voice, Yue Yuan instinctively looked towards the source of the sound and asked, "It's not the Silver Heart Alliance. Then may I ask if this cuboid is your body? Are you perhaps a Perseus Commonwealth?"

The Harvesters were first ruled out by Yue Yuan, followed by the Silicon-Based Collective, leaving only the Community among the civilizations mentioned in the broadcast.

However, as soon as he finished speaking, he slapped his forehead, feeling like he had lost his mind and had actually spoken into the loudspeaker inside the Lyra.

You should send a message via a communicator to reply!

However, just as Yue Yuan had this thought in his mind, the loudspeaker immediately responded, "Neither. I'm very curious how you could mistake a warship for 'my' true form. That's right, you seem to have little knowledge."

"Is this cuboid a warship?" Yue Yuan asked, regaining his senses. He noticed that the reason this being hadn't responded earlier seemed to be that it was trying to erase its tracks.

Judging from his tone now, he seems quite easy to talk to.

"Awakeners!" the voice replied.

The Awakeners? Yue Yuan was taken aback. Then, he quickly went through in his mind everything he had seen and heard about Alien Civilization civilizations since the solar disaster.

It started with the Unknown Civilization Spaceship that crashed on Callisto, followed by the Moke Star Civilization, the Nano Consciousness, the Milky Way Galaxy Axis Alliance, the Harvester Civilization, the Perseus Commonwealth, the Silicon-Based Collective, and finally the Kun-Tai Civilization and the Quell Civilization recorded in its database.

As for the Awakeners, I've never heard of it.