After Many Twists and Turns

The universe is in turmoil, Awakeners, the Silicon-Based Collective, Harvesters are all busy with the content being broadcast everywhere by the Silver Heart Alliance.

In fact, it wasn't just them; some ordinary Level Six Civilization that detected the broadcast were also secretly observing the starry sky, either coming out to investigate or sensing that something big might happen soon, so they simply hid in their own Small Universe.

In that dark starry sky, countless civilizations traverse, but those civilizations are too advanced for humankind to detect.

Therefore, the starry sky that humans see remains quiet and peaceful.

Humanity has now given up searching for Alien Civilization relics. After receiving news from the Crimson Flame Civilization that there might be Alien Civilization relics in this star system, humanity has been searching diligently, but unfortunately, a thousand years have passed and nothing has been found.

Perseverance is a good virtue, but humanity cannot waste all its time searching for relics. There are many important things to do, such as the New Particle Collider project, the Sky Survey Telescope Array project, and the upgrade project of the military version of the Little Grey, as well as a series of large-scale projects of civilization level.

Due to communication delays, humanity certainly cannot divide its civilization into many parts and disperse them to search for Alien Civilization. It would be better to have each Strong Artificial Intelligence lead an exploration fleet, but creating Strong Artificial Intelligence is very costly—time-consuming and technologically Strong Artificial Intelligence in various Star System for future New Particle Collider projects! One is a tangible experimental project that can be seen and at least verified, the other is Alien Civilization whose existence is uncertain. Humanity understands which is more important.

Of course, it wouldn't be a bad idea to send out one or two unmanned Exploration Team led by Strong Artificial Intelligence. In fact, Human Civilization had already made this arrangement when it decided to start a New Particle Collider project in a star-dense region.

However, Strong Artificial Intelligence is not life after all. Although it surpasses humans in many aspects of capability, it is not omnipotent. Putting it into exploration is far less effective than engineering, manufacturing, and production.

Better than nothing, so before heading to a suitable star system, humanity left a Strong Artificial Intelligence Exploration Team here to continue the search. In any case, it would take a long time for humanity to build New Particle Collider, so the Strong Artificial Intelligence could slowly search star by star, and who knows, there might be some surprises.

And so, while the various Level Six Civilization were busy with their own affairs, humanity peacefully entered a deep hibernation, embarking on its journey to its Predetermined Star Region.

The Predetermined Star Region is about 200 light-years away from where humanity set sail. If we only consider the distance, it would take about 300 to 400 years. However, interstellar travel is not simply a matter of dividing the distance by the speed and adding the time dilation effect; we also need to take into account the time for resupply along the way.

The navigation technology of Level 3 Civilization has not yet reached that level. Of course, it can sail for hundreds of years without any problem. It can stop more often for maintenance and replenishment of resources. Without human intervention, there is no problem with navigation safety.

Generally, when undertaking such long-distance voyages, New Government would initiate a major Hibernation Plan. However, this time was different. The New Government simply issued a notice of the voyage schedule and opened hibernation permits to ordinary people.

Whether ordinary people need to hibernate during the voyage is entirely voluntary.

Human lifespan has increased significantly, to the point that the question of whether or not to hibernate for hundreds of years is no longer the main focus of attention.

Furthermore, if you are the only one hibernating while others are not, you may face Social Adaptation Syndrome after waking up from hibernation. This is why, even after the New Government allowed hibernation after the fleet set sail, many people did not hibernate but chose to remain awake.

Perhaps this will become the norm for human navigation in the future.

This is both a good thing and a bad thing.

On the positive side, humans can continue to develop during voyages instead of stagnating in technological progress as before; on the negative side, the task of resupplying during voyages becomes more demanding.

With billions of people, plus the massive number of individuals from the Crimson Flame Civilization, as well as the Dog-Headed People Legion and the Kuntai People Legion, the total exceeds hundreds of billions. Providing such a vast number of Sentient Life forms with living resources is an astronomical figure, and the logistical pressure is greater than during previous voyages.

As a result, humans had to replenish their supplies step by step, slowly making their way to their destination.

Of course, the humans did not waste this time of travel. Most of them stayed awake, and Yue Yuan and the scientists naturally had no reason to hibernate, since they still had very important things to do.

As Yu Nanfeng said when the New Particle Collider was first proposed, in order to turn such a high-energy Particle Collider with a length reaching the Astronomical Unit level into reality, in addition to the biggest difficulty of manufacturing the required resources, there are many other problems that need to be overcome in the design and theoretical stages.

Since the decision has been made to build it, these things definitely need to be resolved in advance. Otherwise, if construction is about to begin but the blueprints haven't been completed yet, that would be a huge mistake.

The New Particle Collider is crucial to humanity's search for Grand Unified Theory and advancement to Level 4 Civilization, making it a top priority in the preliminary preparations. Almost all relevant scientists worldwide participated in the project. Of course, not only human scientists, but also the scientific team from the Crimson Flame Civilization were included in the project.

Humanity will package the scientific challenges encountered in the project and assign them to the Crimson Flame Civilization, allowing their scientific teams to participate in the project in an 'outsourcing' manner.

Let's work together to build New Particle Collider.

In fact, the scientific team of the Crimson Flame Civilization was stunned when they learned that humans were going to build such a long collider. They did not expect that humans would be so crazy as to actually undertake such a breathtaking project.

Of course, there's also the excitement of exploring the unknown.

The Crimson Flame Civilization was also Level 3 Civilization. As scientists of the Crimson Flame Civilization, they had thought of many ways to master the Grand Unified Theory, but after thousands of years of effort, countless methods, and numerous experiments, they still could not find a trace of the possibility of unifying the Strong Force.

And now, humanity has embarked on this seemingly feasible yet insane plan.

It must be said that such a project would be completely impossible to promote in the Crimson Flame Civilization. Only Human Civilization with mature and powerful artificial intelligence technology would have the capability and information to complete such a massive project.

Upon learning that humanity was going to undertake this project, the Crimson Flame Civilization scientific team felt that compared to the New Collider project, all other projects, such as the Sky Survey Telescope Array and the Little Grey Military Version Upgrade Project, were minor.