Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1285 Where is Immortality
The interstellar government has temporarily suppressed the conflict, but this social conflict will never disappear until the fundamental problem is resolved.

If this contradiction existed in the settled era, human civilization would inevitably face a greater risk of division. Of course, it still exists now, but everyone knows the status of human civilization in the Great Voyage Organization. If it splits away, it will be impossible to continue the voyage, because the interstellar government still firmly supports the Great Voyage.

Moreover, if they stay, those humans with talent will definitely not stay with them, which means that the human civilization that stays in a certain galaxy to develop can only exist as an ordinary sixth-level civilization from then on.

In the context of today's universe, whether it is the disaster sweeping the universe or the various long-distance navigation organizations, this human civilization is at risk of extinction. So although those people are making trouble, they are not brainless, and no one dares to say anything about splitting away.

On the other hand, due to the issue of end of life, the originally thriving special scientific and technological research has also been greatly affected. Many top scientists who have been at the forefront of scientific research have reached the age of death, and they can no longer continue to fight on the front line by uploading their consciousness or reviving their memories through cloning.

As a result, the research on new mobility methods with special technologies, which was originally scheduled to be completed, almost came to a standstill. Only the second-line scientists were still quite capable, which prevented the scientific research projects from regressing.

It is certainly impossible for human civilization not to cultivate a new generation of scientists. They are also on the front line, and it is precisely because of this that humanity has not encountered any problems in this wave of internal troubles.

Three million three hundred thousand years have passed, and many people Yue Yuan was familiar with have become names in history.

Su Song, the mathematician who lived from the Callisto era to the interstellar era, died 100,000 years ago. That was the first natural death funeral that Yue Yuan attended after he set foot in the starry sky.

After Su Song's body was cremated according to his wishes, it was scattered in an unknown galaxy. That galaxy therefore had a name, and humans called it the Su Song Galaxy.

Astronomer Gander also died. He was the second old man to die after Su Song. Perhaps because of Su Song’s example, Gander also told the interstellar government before his death that he wanted to be cremated and his body scattered into the starry sky.

The interstellar government did so, but unfortunately the Great Long-distance Fleet was not in any galaxy at the time, so Gand was scattered in a void space. Later, humans named the void between the two galaxies on the interstellar map as the Gand Star Region.

Later, quantum computer research expert Li Zenglu also died. He used to be a man of outspoken character, and he had not changed this habit until his death. He declared that he would watch human beings move forward in a certain quantum world.

Then came Zhao Youqin, Xu Zhenyi, Chen Haiyu, Yi Kai, Shi Lifen, and finally Liu Miyan also died.

None of them are willing to seal their memories. Everyone feels that whether it is uploading consciousness or reviving memories, it is not their original selves, because they have always been proud of their talented selves.

Yue Yuan's old lover Man Yuemei also died, and his old subordinate Zhu Pite was no exception. As a warrior, Man Yuemei and Zhu Pite would not allow themselves to lose the third-person driving mode, so they also did not retain their memories without exception.

A number of scientists and senior officials with excellent conditions and abundant resources did not survive, not to mention the original old residents. In those 100,000 years, almost all old humans reached the end of their lifespans, and they either died without regrets or used the second chance granted by the law to live another 500,000 years in another way.

The reason why I say "almost" is that there is still a very small number of people who, for some unknown reason, have not shown any signs of decline in the anti-entropy factor. They are still young after their peers have passed away.

For this reason, the School of Life Sciences does not know the reason either, but some scientists believe that it may be the result of individual specialization. They will continue to study these people and strive to find out the reason as soon as possible for the benefit of all mankind.

These people naturally cooperated with the research. Yue Yuan was a special case. His situation seemed to be related to the red gas he inhaled on Callisto. Over the long years, the Human Life Sciences Academy had confirmed that the red gas was definitely an anti-entropy factor, and there was no mistake.

In fact, Yue Yuan also used the anti-entropy factor obtained from the Tiannv civilization. He originally thought that he would die within those 100,000 years, and he was prepared, but the result was that he was still young and energetic.

In response to this, the Academy of Life Sciences re-evaluated the red gas from that year and concluded that it was either the creation of a level seven civilization or a civilization with unique technology in anti-entropy.

It’s incredible to think about it. You have to know that the spacecraft that crashed on Callisto was just a level 4 civilization spacecraft. It actually possessed such a powerful thing, and no one knew where it got it from. The Milky Way may be hiding a history that humans are unknown to.

Perhaps there really are some remains of a level seven civilization, but unfortunately humans have no way of exploring them now.

In this way, human civilization is undergoing a transition from the old to the new in a way that was once imagined after setting foot on the starry sky.

The passage of time and the death of many old friends successfully turned Yue Yuan into a lonely young man.

Yue Yuan once proposed to resign from the leadership position at the Human Interstellar Government Conference. He really felt tired. It was mental fatigue, the fatigue that came after feeling that life seemed boring. Unfortunately, he was unanimously opposed by a group of new senior executives.

The reason is simple, they all believe that Yue Yuan should continue to serve as the leader of human civilization, because as long as Yue Yuan is there, no one will dare to jump out to oppose the great voyage, so even if Yue Yuan does not want to take care of things, he must exist as a spiritual leader.

Yue Yuan's continued tenure as leader can ensure that the interstellar government will not change the goals of the great voyages it has been implementing after a change of leadership, nor will it cancel the science-first policies it has formulated in the past. This is policy stability. Human civilization in the midst of a great voyage requires internal stability and unity.

Yue Yuan also knew that he was being pretentious and emotional. He should continue to be the spiritual pillar and lead human civilization to continue moving towards the Bootes Void. They were only 200 million light years away, so how could he give up!

But even though he knew this was the right choice, Yue Yuan still remained unemployed for tens of thousands of years.

During those tens of thousands of years, Yue Yuan was like a young philosopher. He was thinking about many philosophical questions. Questions like the meaning of life were naturally frequent in his mind, such as the continuation of civilization, the immortality of life, the end of death, and even the meaning of the universe.
After tens of thousands of years, Yue Yuan seemed to have become a philosopher, a philosopher who could not answer any philosophical questions in his mind.

But Yue Yuan was also lucky, because after many old friends left him, he still had an old friend who was always there for him.

It is Huan, the Awakener. The peculiarity of the Awakener civilization prevents them from growing old and dying like humans, so Huan is always there.

Huan, who originally thought that Yue Yuan had died long ago, actually became Yue Yuan's old friend during this long period of time.

(End of this chapter)