After entering a faster-than-light curvature state, the Human Fleet did not head straight toward the Milky Way-Andromeda Intergalactic Bridge.
Instead, it adjusted its heading slightly and sped toward the Dead Silent Region.
It would retrace the escape route through the stars they had taken all those years ago.
Lü Yongchang had proposed the plan, and both the Academy of Sciences and Parliament had approved it.
The fleet's first stop was the relatively small black hole.
It was not only the place where Human Civilization had advanced to a level five civilization, but also the "homeworld" of the [Nus] civilization.
Of course, according to the voyage plan, the fleet would not stop there.
The next waypoints were the Gliese 555 and Ross 154 stellar systems, long since reduced to ashes in the war between the Cleaners and the Gardener Faction.
Finally.
The fleet would pause briefly near Proxima Centauri before heading to the birthplace of Human Civilization-the Solar System.
After the fleet set out, the bustle within the micro-universe slowly faded.
To conserve supplies, the humans aboard the Home fortress entered cryosleep one after another.
They would wake someday in the future and watch the documentary chronicling this escape route through the stars.
As the film's producer, Qi Mengshu did not enter cryosleep.
She accompanied the fleet, traveling the full route through one ravaged stellar system after another, some of which had vanished from the universe entirely.
At a cruising speed of 800c, the escape route humanity had spent over a thousand years traversing seemed extraordinarily short, but no one could deny the weight of history contained in that brief stretch of stars-or so Qi Mengshu recorded.
Three years later.
Earth Calendar year 4453.
A devastated stellar system quietly continued its course in a corner of the Milky Way