Just like that,
everyone had truly arrived at the Kuiper Belt Platform Area.
But many of them were not particularly excited, because they all understood just how oppressive the atmosphere was now.
Yet amidst the crowd,
a distant starlight rushing toward him made Su Wen instinctively raise the back of his hand.
It was starlight gradually breaking apart at the edge of gravity.
At this moment,
compared to the sun humans could see when looking up from Earth, it was perhaps no more than a slightly brighter speck on a star chart.
Xihe's radiance had long since been shattered after crossing vast Astronomical Units.
And on the monitor Su Wen carried inside his Spacesuit, it merely slowly transformed into a drifting waterfall of spectra.
The gravimeter showed that the sun's tidal force had weakened here to the order of 10^-14 N. Even the trajectories of ice-crystal fragments had begun to exhibit faint probabilistic cloud-like properties.
Watching all of this unfold beside him,
Su Wen merely said slowly,
"The former boundary of human civilization's knowledge."
The iceberg-like girl standing beside him also nodded gently.
"If we exclude boundaries beyond imagination such as the Lost Sea,
perhaps,
even Gabriele Veneziano, the founder of string theory, would have believed that
humanity first had to reach the Kuiper Belt,
then wander through the Oort Cloud,
before finally heading into the true galaxy and beginning an interstellar voyage belonging to civilization—belonging to us."
But hearing her sigh,
Su Wen smiled gently.
"Then it seems the Origin Era accelerated that process a little too quickly.
Phyllis, is the recording equipment ready?"
"Mm-hmm."
Watcher Miss nodded seriously.
"Though there was some signal lag just now, I have already fine-tuned the parameters. It can be used normally now."
Immediately afterward,
Phyllis raised the deep-space camera in her hand