Collective Civilization Will

United Star.

Grand Marshal's office.

After Chen Yu had formulated the basic strategy for the "Galactic Grand Expedition," he handed over all related plans to the Federal officials at every level below to execute.

The entire operational system of the Federation, combined with its sheer scale, would drive their civilization forward like an unstoppable war machine, crushing everything in its path.

The rest didn't require much of Chen Yu's attention.

He was currently devoting more of his energy to matters of greater urgency, such as designing and overseeing the construction of the "Sky Burning Divine Weapons" and setting up the "Aether Phase Engine."

At present, the Federation had five newly built Sky Burning Divine Weapons under its command, which Chen Yu had designated as the "Return to Void Class."

Fully installing the Aether Phase Engine required an immense investment of dark matter resources.

The purpose of these Sky Burning Divine Weapons was to mine enough dark matter for its construction.

Chen Yu didn't need to worry about where to mine the dark matter either; the officials of the Armed Forces Department would handle that problem.

For now, the Aether Phase Engine had only a rudimentary framework in place.

But even just a framework was enough to stir the soul.

Standing in his office at this moment, Chen Yu gazed through the projection equipment at the engineering marvel that towered like a divine miracle, sinking into a kind of contemplation.

Gray Wind stayed by his side, her silver-white hair as soft as moonlight, cascading gently over her shoulders, the strands light and ethereal, as if carrying a dreamlike texture.

Her eyes were clear and bright, like the most brilliant stars in the night sky, revealing a spark of liveliness and innocence that seemed beyond what a mechanical lifeform should possess.

"Boss."

The light, crisp call pulled Chen Yu's mind back to reality.

"What's wrong, Boss? You seem a little weighed down..."

A delicate, lovely face came into view.

Looking at Gray Wind, who was gently shaking his arm, Chen Yu smiled faintly, shook his head, and patted her little head, saying casually:

"Nothing... Just in a daze, it felt like I saw humanity's future."

"Future?" Gray Wind tilted her head, a little puzzled.

"Yes—an unparalleled future."

Chen Yu spoke softly, a ripple of golden light shimmering in his eyes.

Within it, there seemed to reflect the vicissitudes left behind after countless millennia of erosion.

Ever since the Aether Phase Engine began to be set up, an indescribable tremor had surged within his heart.

This tremor let him glimpse, in a flash, the origin of human civilization and a vague, hazy vision of the future.

Starting from the first sprout of life beneath the water...

Humanity's ancestors set out from primitive, uncivilized savage tribes, step by step evolving, developing civilization, advancing technology, until they left their own planet, and then gradually reached where they were today.

The hardships and difficulties endured along the way were a true reflection of the entire race's turbulent fate.

As the Grand Marshal of the Human Federation, what rested on his shoulders was the future destiny of the entire race.

Every grain of dust from the age, when it falls on a single individual, becomes a mountain.

But right now, Chen Yu felt as if the weight of the entire era was pressing down almost entirely on him alone, making it hard for him to breathe.

While holding the position of the Federation's supreme commander, Chen Yu also bore many other identities.

Such as the most distinguished honorary scientist for contributions to the Human Federation, the Federation's finest ship designer, the most decorated warship commander, and so on...

Beyond that, he was also the most powerful psionic in the history of the Human Federation!

The psionic index Chen Yu commanded had long since transformed him, elevating him beyond the mortal realm.

He possessed a truly eternal and undying might, like a walking Void God in the mortal world.

Ever since he completed the great awakening of "Psionic Ascension" for all citizens of the Federation, Chen Yu had truly felt a certain change within himself.

He discovered that some unspeakable secrets had emerged within him.

For example, he could project his subjective will onto any Federal Citizen at will, thereby exercising a kind of meticulous mental control over that individual, no matter where that citizen existed.

This control felt as effortless as controlling a cell or an organ in his own body.

He seemed to have grasped some kind of authority!

Through this authority, he could make his will influence the will of countless Federal citizens!

But conversely, the will of countless Federal citizens also influenced him at every moment.

It was like "He who would wear the crown must bear its weight"!

The civilizational will of the Human Federation had chosen him, and he had gained the power to wield that will.

This matter was profoundly mysterious, yet undeniably real.

Many times, Chen Yu felt that he was not merely himself; rather, he was more like the vessel of the entire civilization's collective will!

His own flesh was merely a container for that vessel, an irreplaceable and crucial anchor point.

His existence was never meant for the continuation of the self, but rather to more conveniently enact the will of civilization and sustain that vast collective of civilization.

Ever since he clearly recognized this point, Chen Yu had grown accustomed to acting in accordance with the will of civilization.

Because doing so allowed him to achieve the state where "my heart and my deeds are as clear as a mirror, and all that I do is justice."

And the facts bore this out.

The various events of history had proven the correctness of Chen Yu's way of acting.

For instance, when the collective Federal Citizens developed extreme emotions such as disgust, hatred, or rejection toward a certain alien race.

As long as it could secure sufficient benefits for the Human Federation behind him, Chen Yu would promptly issue an extermination order against that race, slaughtering them all.

He himself would not feel the slightest ripple of emotion toward those slaughtered races, because in his view, doing so was entirely without issue.

And when such collective hatred of civilization was fully released, the cohesion of Federal Citizens would notably increase.

This, in turn, would cause the will of civilization of the Federation to grow even stronger.

The stronger the will of civilization, the stronger their civilization.

This would also indirectly affect all psionicists within the Federation, allowing them to benefit, granting them a certain blessing, making the spirit medium power each psionicist wielded even more formidable.

It sounded unbelievable, but the power of idealism was precisely that unbelievable.

There were many such incidents.

Yet the current situation was different.

The inexplicable palpitation that now appeared in Chen Yu was a novel experience he had never felt before.

At this very moment.

The vast collective will of civilization representing all citizens of the Human Federation seemed to feel uneasy about the Federation's ongoing installation of the Aether Phase Engine.

Countless indistinct voices were issuing a plea to Chen Yu, almost like an entreaty—

"Wait a little longer, wait a little longer, please wait a little longer..."

These voices were faint yet omnipresent, clamorous and chaotic.

If Chen Yu's personal will were not strong enough and firm enough, he would likely have been driven mad by these voices directly.

Wait?

Wait for what?

What was there in this universe that required them to wait?

Was there anything worth the Federation delaying the progress of installing the Aether Phase Engine?

Chen Yu felt a trace of confusion, and a hint of unprecedented bewilderment appeared in his eyes.

The reason he was so eager to install the Aether Phase Engine was twofold.

The first major reason was to prevent the occurrence of certain accidents.

Now that the Federation had crossed over into the Super God Universe, this universe had no threat of the "Void God."

This most likely meant that the Void God who had once signed a fifty-year contract with the Federation could not come knocking to demand repayment of the debt.

With good luck, that was probably the case.

But Chen Yu had never dared to gamble the Federation's future on so-called "good luck."

Even if the threat of the Void God was temporarily gone, his top priority was still to install the Aether Phase Engine at the fastest possible speed and complete the engine to its final stage!

At that point, even if there was no need to immediately activate the engine and bring the entire universe to its end.

Chen Yu still had to ensure that the Human Federation possessed the ability to press the engine's button at any time.

Certain sacrifices had to be made.

Otherwise, when the contract's deadline arrived and they had not yet installed the Aether Phase Engine.

And if that creditor happened to find them through a method similar to their own "crossing over," then the situation at that time would no longer be under their control!

Having a gun but not using it, and not having a gun at all, were two different things. Chen Yu had to ensure the Human Federation was the former.