All Parties Move

Humans cannot foresee their ultimate fate; their birth, growth, hopes and fears, love and faith are merely the accidental pairings of atoms. Fire, heroism, and intense thoughts or feelings cannot live forever. All labor, dedication, inspiration, and the brilliance of human genius are destined to vanish in the extinction of the Solar System; all human achievements will be buried in the fragments and ruins of the universe—all these, though far from being free from debate, are so almost certain that no philosophy opposing them can hope to stand. Only within the framework of these facts, only on the solid foundation of utter despair, can the home of the soul be safely built.

This is a passage written by Russell in 1923. Limited by the technology of his time, he had already acquired sufficient knowledge about stellar evolution, and he came to this conclusion when he realized that the Solar System would evolve into Red Giant.

Indeed, without Controlled Nuclear Fusion, Russell's words will become a reality.

Extending Russell's "utter despair" of the death of the Solar System to the death of the universe reveals the utter despair of a civilization that knows the end of the universe.

Just as the Rhomboid Crystal said at the time, the Precursor spent a billion years just to prove that it was impossible to break through the shackles of Cosmic Civilization in the Milky Way Galaxy, and the final the Great Voyage was a struggle in despair.

Humanity is in the same boat now. Thousands of years of wandering and ups and downs, thousands of years of arduous struggle and thousands of years of painstaking research have all failed. All the methods that people could think of to find the Grand Unified Theory formula have failed. The only thing that can be grasped is this project that will take more than a thousand years to complete, even with the power of the entire civilization.

Humanity is also uncertain whether it can master the Great Voyage Unified Formula once it is built, just as the Precursor were uncertain whether they could master the ability to break through the shackles of Cosmic Civilization the Great Voyage they reached their destination.

That was the only possible path in despair, and humanity burst forth with boundless enthusiasm.

Apart from truly degenerate civilizations, every civilization in the universe is striving to reach higher levels. Even though the hope is slim, no civilization has given up. It's just that each civilization has different ways of making efforts and different principles of conduct.

Human morality regarding good and evil is not applicable to all civilizations. The same applies to the moral standards of other civilizations; they are merely concepts of good and evil formed from the perspective of their own race and have nothing to do with the universe.

Some might think that Yue Yuan's attitude toward people like the Kuntai People, Nair People, Dog-Headed People, and the Crimson Flame Civilization is evil, but from Yue Yuan's perspective, he doesn't think so. On the contrary, sometimes he even thinks he is too merciful.

He didn't think his attitude towards these civilizations was wrong, nor did he think his attitude towards advanced civilizations was problematic. This is the Great Universe, not a world bound by the same racial moral framework; equal dialogue requires equal strength.

Or we'll wait until humanity has the ability to establish moral standards for civilizations in the Milky Way Galaxy.

As the years go by, humanity's New Particle Collider is gradually taking shape, much like bees building a nest. Its prototype, like a space marvel, is slowly taking shape in people's minds.

Meanwhile, somewhere on the edge of the Milky Way Galaxy, where stars are sparse and dim, the center of the Galactic Disk is clearly visible as a flat structure, bright in the middle and dim on both sides, like fluorescent embellishments in the dark starry sky. At this moment, the Galaxy truly looks like a long river shimmering with brilliant light, dividing the dark cosmic background in two, with patches of light of various spectra scattered around it, a truly spectacular sight.

To the Observer, the dazzling Galactic Center is a scene from 60,000 years ago, but for the photons that traveled from the Galactic Center to this place, their journey from the Galactic Center to this place did not take any time; they arrived as soon as they set out.

Time is never absolute.

Obviously, this location is far from the Galactic Center, but it is still within the eye region of the Galactic Center Galactic Disk, which is about a thousand light-years thick. Otherwise, the Milky Way Galaxy would not appear as a flat galaxy from this unknown location.

However, the shape of the Milky Way Galaxy at this moment is different from what humans usually observe. It is brighter but smaller. If measured, it would be found that the width of the Galactic Disk is less than 100,000 light-years.

It's not that the Milky Way Galaxy has changed, but rather that the perspective is different. The Milky Way Galaxy is a Barred Spiral Galaxy, and this perspective is clearly from the distant ends of Barred Spiral Galaxy, rather than from the perspective of humans observing the Milky Way Galaxy among its stars.

This star field is completely empty; even the nearest star is thousands of light-years away. Beyond that, there is only the vast Void with nothing in it.

Normally, no civilization would visit such a place, and even Gravitational Wave caused by planets colliding within the Milky Way Galaxy would be very weak here. But now, spacetime ripples caused by Warp Speed Travel are clearly visible here.

A dozen or so Warp Engine, which didn't even resemble warships or spaceships, streaked across the Void at 213 times the speed of light. After arriving in this star system, they emerged from the Warp Bubble that enveloped them, like fish swimming in water, and then hovered silently in the void.

Just as a sudden stop leaves tire tracks and a speedboat makes ripples, these Warp Engine- like creations also leave traces in the invisible space as they speed along. Their sudden stops also generate Gravitational Wave. For the first time in countless years, this spacetime, which has been calm, has been greeted by such obvious, unnaturally formed Gravitational Wave.

"The Remnants!"

After the dozen or so Warp Engine stopped, a surge of metal appeared, and then the original Warp Engine shapes disappeared, replaced by various objects of different shapes.

Some looked like a piece of equipment, some transformed into a massive warship, and others took on the shape of some kind of weapon. After these things appeared, a spatial Gravitational Wave with a clear identification signal rippled through the Void not far from them.

It seems that Level Six Civilization in the Milky Way Galaxy are aware of each other's recognizable signal formats, and this signal is exactly the same as the signal formats broadcast by the Silver Heart Alliance before.

"The opportunity to eliminate the Harvesters has arrived. A civilization from Extragalactic Civilization has come to our Milky Way Galaxy. The Harvesters have already begun their operations. The Silver Heart Alliance has persuaded a Level 6 Zerg civilization, a true Gaia Consciousness, and the Perseus Commonwealth. With you and us joining us, this time we will surely be able to completely annihilate the Harvesters and restore Bright World to the Milky Way Galaxy."

Gravitational Wave signals propagate through spacetime.

Clearly, the one who arrived here was the Silicon-Based Collective that had met with the Silver Heart Alliance back then; there is no other Milky Way Galaxy with such shapeshifting technology.