Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1407 Sinking to the Bottom
The human civilization personnel who discovered this phenomenon silently recorded it in their logbook. Their purpose was obvious: to inform the personnel who would take over their duties and to remind them to pay attention to these civilizations.

Pay attention to what?
Of course, it's to prevent them from resorting to desperate measures.

Today is different from the past!

When we were fighting against the second type of boundary breakers together before, we were all in the same boat, a community of shared interests. But now, facing an extremely long voyage with unknown life and death, none of us know if we can even reach our destination, so things are different.

Clearly, after only two million years, those civilizations' equipment has started to malfunction, prompting them to activate production lines—an extremely energy-intensive process. This means these civilizations are very likely the first to run out of resources. Who knows if, unable to sustain themselves, they might launch attacks on other civilizations, plundering their resources?

They also wanted to reach their destination. How could they be willing to die halfway and watch other civilizations rush past?

Humanity is not afraid of these civilizations attacking them, but it does not want to cause turmoil in the Great Voyage Organization, nor does it want to see real conflict between the civilizations. After all, war means a huge waste of resources, which would seriously affect the already uncertain fate of the Great Voyage.

Therefore, humanity will continue to pay attention to those civilizations.

In the three millionth year since the start of the voyage, Yue Yuan awoke for the third time.

This year also marks the time when human civilization maintains its unique technological creations. The Awakener's warship also needs maintenance, as it is equipped with human civilization's unique technological creations.

So, as promised, Huan also woke up from his hibernation that year.

After waking up, he had a conversation with Yue Yuan, which consisted of casual chatting and introducing the navigation status of their respective civilizations.

The Awakener civilization is basically in a similar state to humans, and has not had any major problems for three million years. Other civilizations with the technology of the Pudorad civilization are also in a similar situation.

Overall, everyone seemed very quiet.

However, some civilizations are already brightly lit, and several civilizations under the Abyss Grand Expedition have even begun dismantling transport ships. The star systems where their civilizations reside are visibly bright, a testament to the work being done by engineering and factory-type spacecraft.

"It seems this trip won't be peaceful!" Yue Yuan sighed silently in his heart upon seeing this scene.

Next, Yue Yuan brought up the holographic screen, which displayed the status of 12 civilizations, including the Divine Ju Civilization, the Flying Feather Civilization, the Daya Civilization, the Yalan Civilization, and the Silver Heart Civilization. None of them were moving; they were all quiet, like black-clad figures lurking in the darkness.

It's good that there's no movement. No movement means that everyone hasn't reached the point of needing to make major changes to various equipment and parts.

Yue Yuan awoke and lived for several hundred years before entering a state of hibernation once more. And this hibernation lasted for another million years.

A million years is the length of an ordinary person's life. Such a long period of time cannot be traversed without damage, even with long-term dormancy technology. This relates to the continuity of human thought and memory, requiring periodic awakenings to activate the mind.

Just as machines malfunction if they remain dormant for too long, humans cannot remain dormant indefinitely. They need to wake up midway through their hibernation period to undergo various forms of mental training in order to continue their dormancy.

However, the Awakeners don't seem to have this concern. Their unique technology seems to keep their minds active, and even in a dormant state, they can keep their minds updated by adjusting some of their dreams.

Long-distance voyages are incredibly boring, and this boredom only intensifies over time because every time people wake up, all they see in the universe is endless darkness.

Because the space was so vast and expansive, the voyage of the three great expeditionary fleets seemed to come to a standstill, like a lone boat on a boundless ocean. The deeper they ventured into the Great Void, the stronger this sense of loneliness became. Sometimes, when Yue Yuan awoke, he even felt that he, human civilization, and the entire Great Expeditionary Organization were already dead—dead the moment they entered the Great Void. Everything in the universe had nothing to do with him anymore—no resource disputes between galaxies, no unique technologies, no world-shaking power.
Everything, everything, was gone as the great fleet entered the Great Void.

Anything that happens in the outside world has nothing to do with them. Everything that all civilizations do here, whether it is war or peace, is unknown to others. The outside world will no longer receive any information about them.

Entering the Great Hollow was like stepping into another world, into a hell isolated from reality. The feeling of drifting in endless darkness, of having no shore, was especially pronounced when checking the navigation status using information received from the super-large telescope array.

The vastness of the universe was deeply imprinted in the minds of every intelligent being at that moment.

Faced with such darkness and nothingness, they felt lonely, they sighed, they fell silent, and the bold words and passion they had at the start of their voyage remained buried deep in their hearts—seeds of hope that would sprout again when they reached the new star system.

However, things didn't seem to go as smoothly as everyone had hoped.

Seven million years of voyage finally enabled twelve civilizations, including the human civilization, the divine civilization, and the awakener civilization, to start production lines for various parts and equipment. The fully loaded supplies gradually showed a trend of accelerated consumption, but overall it was still acceptable.

When the ten millionth year of the voyage arrived, many civilizations had already entered the stage of dismantling transport ships, but they were still not at their wits' end. In addition, each organization had its leaders watching over them, so no civilization dared to take the risk of troubling other civilizations.

On the 1430 millionth year since their departure, although they were still 300 million light-years away from their destination, the civilizations could now roughly see the size of the target galaxy.

Based on a preliminary assessment of various observational data, that galaxy should have a diameter of about 2 to 3 light-years.

This scene is indeed encouraging for the three major long-distance voyage organizations. After all, none of the 515 Level VI civilizations have gone extinct due to resource problems. It seems that everyone is still holding on. Even though the fleet size of many civilizations has been halved, the destination is only 300 million light-years away. It seems that arriving safely is not a problem.

However, just as everyone was happily continuing to drift for another million years, an unexpected situation occurred.

Oh no, it's not that we never expected it, it's just that no one expected it to happen at this particular time of year.

At this moment, the three major voyage organizations were only 2 million light-years away from their destination. They would arrive in another 2 million years. But just then, a message from a reconnaissance ship at the front of the fleet sent the hearts of all the civilization leaders sinking to the bottom.

This news seemed to freeze everyone's hearts in the cold universe.

The target galaxy's brilliance weakened from an optical perspective. This weakening was very obvious and not gradual, but rather a sharp, precipitous drop!
If it were just a matter of the light dimming, it wouldn't be a big deal. The key issue is that the cluster of probe ships at the front of the fleet lost its signal after discovering the disappearance of the target galaxy, and then vanished from the detection range of the ships behind.

Cosmic catastrophe!!!

Upon seeing the feedback and the phenomena observed, all civilizations were abruptly awakened from their solitary voyages. These were civilizations that had journeyed long distances; they knew what this phenomenon meant.

The light from that target star system couldn't have plummeted so abruptly for no reason; there, or rather, in front of the three major expeditionary organizations, some kind of cosmic catastrophe had most likely occurred.

After all, the probe fleet ahead had all perished, and the cosmic catastrophe might have already spread to the main fleet. The target galaxy had also disappeared millions of years ago, though some of its imagery was still visible to everyone.

The three major expeditionary organizations had only just stepped into the cone of light that had already destroyed the event.

(End of this chapter)