Yang Duanmang's next words partly confirmed Wang Dong's suspicions.
"Judging by the sheer distance, the territories controlled by the two human civilizations were actually far apart. Several enormous Cosmic Void Belts, each spanning immense distances, lay between them.
It was only through a natural wormhole that an exploration ship from the Kindling Human Civilization Alliance accidentally discovered the Mechanical Human Civilization.
And before long, the Mechanical Human Civilization followed the trail of the Kindling Human Civilization's exploration ship and discovered the Kindling Human Civilization in turn!
At the time, both the Kindling Human Civilization and the Mechanical Human Civilization had already defeated numerous other civilizations, taken control of vast star regions, and become regional hegemonies.
At first, after discovering each other and making a few tentative probes to confirm each other's origins,
both the Kindling Human Civilization and the Mechanical Human Civilization showed tremendous enthusiasm.
After all, in the deep reaches of space, countless trillions of light-years from their homeworld, encountering fellow countrymen tens of thousands of years later was, in itself, an incredible miracle!
And both groups of fellow countrymen had achieved dazzling success."
Yang Duanmang's expression as he recalled it was full of emotion.
Wang Dong felt the same way.
Putting himself in their shoes, he figured anyone in a position of power within the Kindling Human Civilization would have been both delighted and astonished.
Still, Wang Dong had noticed something. Judging by the Mechanical God Cult's current treatment within the Kindling Human Civilization, and the fact that he had never heard the name "Mechanical Human Civilization" until now, it seemed the two civilizations hadn't maintained that initial excitement.
"During the first thousand years after the Kindling Human Civilization and the Mechanical Human Civilization established diplomatic relations, they were in an absolute honeymoon period.
Besides their regular exchanges