Crossing the Sea of Stars

It's normal not to have heard of them, since most people only know about these so-called Cosmic Civilizations from the Silver Heart Alliance Broadcast, and even then, it's just their names.

The words "Awakeners" were spoken in Chinese through a loudspeaker. This means that, without anyone's knowledge, the Awakeners had taken control of the Lyra's systems, and humanity was completely unaware.

I don't know what technology was used to achieve this, but what humanity is most concerned about right now is not that, but rather what we are about to face.

Thinking this through, Yue Yuan stopped worrying about whether he had heard it before and quickly asked, "Awakeners, where are you taking us?"

The Awakeners seemed to have already dealt with the matter of the 'track' mentioned earlier, so as soon as Yue Yuan finished speaking, its response came without any delay, just as if the two were talking face to face.

"We weren't going anywhere. We just happened to run into you and gave you a ride. You're the first civilization we've encountered since arriving in the Milky Way Galaxy, so it was just a convenient option."

???

The short sentence contained a huge amount of information, and the crew on the bridge of the Lyra were almost caught off guard.

In a daze, Yue Yuan subconsciously asked, "After arriving in the Milky Way Galaxy? What do you mean by that?"

"Literal meaning," the Awakeners replied.

Upon hearing this answer, everyone on the bridge was stunned.

This Awakeners is not a civilization within the Milky Way Galaxy, and judging from what they're saying, they haven't been in the Milky Way Galaxy for very long.

It's unbelievable.

The closest Extragalactic Civilization to the Milky Way Galaxy are the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud, also known as the Magellanic Clouds. These two are Satellite Galaxy of the Milky Way Galaxy, located approximately 160,000 and 190,000 light-years Milky Way Galaxy, respectively.

Even the nearest Nebula, the Large Magellanic Cloud, is 160,000 light-years away. Although the Magellanic Clouds are constantly moving closer to the Milky Way Galaxy due to its Milky Way Galaxy Gravity, a collision is still billions of years away.

There is practically nothing in the space between the two now.

It's hard to imagine how the Awakeners could traverse such a vast distance. Could it be that the Awakeners's level has reached a point where it no longer depends on matter?

People noticed that the Awakeners referred to itself as "we" instead of "I" as it had said before, indicating that it was not just this one warship, or rather, that there were many individual lives within this Golden Ratio Rectangular Prism.

The Awakeners's short sentence immediately conjured up a magnificent scene in everyone's minds.

The feat of crossing 160,000 light-years deeply shocked everyone. However, not everyone was immersed in the shock. As the leader of a civilization, Yue Yuan knew that this was not the time to be in a daze, so he forced himself to remain calm and asked, "Excuse me, are you... um, you came from the Large Magellanic Nebula?"

"The Large Magellanic Nebula?" The Awakeners seemed a little puzzled, paused for a moment, and then continued, "Oh, you mean that Satellite Galaxy of your Milky Way Galaxy? Speaking of which, you little guys are really interesting. In your words, you have an extremely strong imagination!"

"What?"

"What an incredible ability to fill in the blanks!" Yue Yuan was taken aback, clearly not understanding what the Awakeners meant. However, the Awakeners's next words turned his 'stunned' state into genuine shock.

"I never said I came from the Large Magellanic Nebula, nor from the Small Magellanic Nebula. Haha, with your imaginations, you little rascals are probably thinking right now, 'If it's not the Large or Small Magellanic Nebula, then it must be the Andromeda Galaxy.'"

The Awakeners didn't seem to speak in the mysterious and profound way that humans imagined an advanced civilization to be, and this kind of response made humans feel as if they were facing another human being.

There was nothing we could do; the conversation was coming from a loudspeaker, and it was in Chinese.

Of course, the Golden Ratio Rectangular Prism actually displayed on the big screen told them that the one speaking now was the Awakeners.

"Uh..." Yue Yuan's lips twitched. For a brief moment, he had actually thought of the Andromeda Galaxy.

"It's not the Andromeda Galaxy either. Ah, with your imaginations, you're probably thinking it must come from a more distant, unknown galaxy." The Awakeners's tone was exactly like someone who had discovered something interesting. "Actually, it's not. We come from the Golden Galaxy, which is what you call the Triangulum Galaxy. We crossed the sea of Triangulum Galaxy!"

The Triangulum Galaxy!!! Yue Yuan's eyes widened in shock. He was truly stunned. Many scientists on the bridge also wore expressions of disbelief, with only a few looking blank, clearly unaware of the Triangulum Galaxy's location.

The Triangulum Galaxy is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Triangulum in the northern sky, approximately three million light-years from the Milky Way Galaxy. It is the third largest galaxy in the Local Group, after the Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way Galaxy.

Compared to the Milky Way Galaxy, the Triangulum Galaxy is actually closer to the Andromeda Galaxy, and due to the immense Gravity influence of the Andromeda Galaxy, a 'Hydrogen Bridge' has formed between Andromeda Galaxy over a long period of time.

Logically speaking, if the Awakeners are a civilization from the Triangulum Galaxy, then going to the Andromeda Galaxy would actually be closer and more convenient for them than coming to the Milky Way Galaxy.

Three million light-years! Humans have been traveling for over a thousand years and have only covered a little over two hundred light-years. Even traveling at a hundred times the speed of light, it would still take three hundred thousand years to cover three million light-years.

Suddenly, you could hear a pin drop on the bridge of the Lyra.

Scientists don't know what level of civilization this Awakeners is, or how advanced their travel technology is, but that doesn't stop them from looking up at the astronomical scale of three million light-years and their despair at wanting to cross that scale.

They never imagined that a civilization could actually cross the vast void and travel from an Extragalactic Civilization to the Milky Way Galaxy.

What advanced civilization would it take to accomplish that? There's nothing in the space between two galaxies!

Yue Yuan took a deep breath to calm his excited and nervous heart, then faced the loudspeaker and respectfully asked, "May I ask why you came to the Milky Way Galaxy? Also, are you an individual or part of a group?"

"Little ones, you seem to have many questions. It's the same when we were weak and faced this situation, we would have had the same questions." The Awakeners seemed to be carefully considering human language. After a slight pause, the voice continued, "However, we must address the questions one by one. First, I must tell you that I am, of course, an individual. Our Awakener Civilization, like you little ones, is composed of individual lives, and I am just one of those Awakener Civilization lives. If I say that, you should be able to understand."

"Yes, we understand," Yue Yuan replied, then added, "You are the leader of the Awakener Civilization."