Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1411 Light of Hope
Back in Earth's time, Yue Yuan once gazed at the starry sky when he was still a child.

Yue Yuan still remembers those nights when the stars were exceptionally bright. On many nights with sparse moonlight, he would lie on the cool grass and gaze at the twinkling stars above the clouds.

At that time, he thought that it would be great if those twinkling stars in the sky could fall down and he could pick them up. They were so bright and beautiful. The way they fell must be what adults call shooting stars!
As he grew older, he realized how naive his previous thoughts had been, and he also understood that the stars in the sky were planets, planets like the sun. When he learned this, Yue Yuan was still very shocked. He couldn't imagine why there would be so many planets like the sun in the sky.

It wasn't until he started school that the knowledge in books taught him some basic common sense about the universe. He learned about gravity, gravitational lensing, and the vague concepts and mysteries of the universe. Because of that knowledge, things became much clearer.

But after gaining this knowledge, every time he looked up at the starry sky, he no longer had the naive fantasies of before, but only felt himself and the insignificance of his own world. Whenever the bright stars of the night came into view, he wondered if people like him lived near those "suns," if they also looked up at the starry sky like him, and if behind each star there were also touching stories.

As Yue Yuan grew older, he began to come into contact with modern science and technology. When he learned that it would take four or five thousand years to reach the nearest star, Proxima Centauri, his fantasies were shattered once again. The vastness of the starry sky brought him a huge shock.

Finally, with the development of technology, he finally realized his childhood dream, and those beautifully imagined stars became desolate and lonely planets.

As he accumulated knowledge, Yue Yuan rationally accepted reality.

However, the reality of the universe is indeed cruel; there is no fairytale world there, because the sun and even Proxima Centauri were bombed by aliens.

After the success of humanity's first great voyage, he was filled with confidence in the power of human technology. It was during that thousand-year journey that he overcame his fear of deep space and, together with a group of humans, truly arrived at the other side of the stars.

Since then, humanity has been hiding in the stars, and has thus entered the grand stage of the cosmos.

On that grand stage, humanity encountered all sorts of civilizations and all kinds of wondrous life forms, including the insidious Silver Mist, the friendly Niel civilization, the Crimson Flame civilization (tools of an unknown civilization), the Kuntai civilization (fellow sufferers), the Booker race (divided and enslaved by other civilizations), the cunning Animated Graph civilization, the pirate-style Orange Star civilization, the loyal kobolds, and many more. They also encountered numerous new life-bearing planets and strange life forms.

Such as the special life form Adli and the infant Nebula life form.

There are also many powerful civilizations, such as the Celestial Civilization that destroyed the Sun and the Centaurus Triad system, the Awakener Civilization that helped humanity, the Galactic Overlords, the Reapers, the insidious and vicious Galactic Heart Civilization, and other civilizations and alliances that are still famous today, such as the Perseus Community, the Silicon-based Consortium, Gaia Life, the Remnants, and the Divine Matrix Civilization.
Later, humanity defeated the electronic warships and embarked on a long voyage, encountering many other civilizations. Some joined the long voyage organization and became partners with the same goal, while others perished due to various factors.

Having traversed countless vicissitudes and finally overcome numerous difficulties to enter the Great Void, this is undoubtedly a magnificent journey and a symbol of intelligent life conquering the universe.

But once inside the Great Void, all the lofty ambitions are extinguished by the vastness of the universe and the relentless passage of time. All civilizations become silent and lifeless. No matter how powerful your unique technology is, no matter if you are a galactic overlord or the leader of a great voyage organization, no matter how authoritative and domineering you are, once you enter the Great Void, everyone is the same.

Yue Yuan stared blankly at the void and darkness outside the porthole. He felt as if he had returned to the time when he first looked up at the starry sky as a child, except that before he saw twinkling stars, but now he saw nothing but void and darkness.

Facing the vast sky, Yue Yuan felt that despite possessing Level 6 civilization knowledge, he was still that naive young man.

"Universe, how many secrets do you still hold, how many unknowns do you still possess?" After an unknown amount of time, Yue Yuan slowly closed his eyes again and entered a long slumber once more. When he awoke again, a million years had passed.

Time and again, one falls asleep and wakes up, only to be faced with endless nothingness and darkness. If one is not resolute in spirit and strong in soul, reality and illusion will be confused, past life and present life will be disordered, and people will fall into madness and nightmares.

But people's curiosity about the universe overcame the fear brought by the void and darkness. When they first looked up at the starry sky, the sails of curiosity were already raised deep in their hearts, and so did millions of people.

People are still persevering, civilization is still progressing, and the desire for knowledge remains. How can Yue Yuan fall alone?

Hundreds of years, thousands of years, tens of thousands of years, hundreds of thousands of years, millions of years.
The loneliness of time erodes everyone, threatening to swallow people's reason countless times, but a lamp always shines in people's hearts, a lamp representing hope and exploration. Although it is like a candle flickering in the wind, it can still dispel the darkness and guide wisdom on the way forward.

Time flies.

People have lost count of how long they have been in darkness, and have almost forgotten what the light of the stars looks like. But darkness has not completely extinguished the beacon of hope. When the light from the stars returns to their sight, the photoreceptor cells that have slumbered for billions of years awaken once more. They use their billions of years of evolutionary experience to tell their masters that it is the light of hope.

Light is imbued with hope.

Rays of hope shone upon the dark curtain that had stood silent for millennia. Endless photons joyfully bestowed their energy upon the lifeless dust. The dust, sensing the light of hope, came alive. It swirled and formed twilight, which then gradually faded away under the urging of the light of hope.

The silver light finally pierced the darkness, and a gleaming silver fleet gradually emerged from the smoke and twilight.

We've arrived! We've finally arrived!
The clouds have parted to reveal the sunrise!
One by one, spaceships emerged from the darkness, heading towards the cluster of light representing negative entropy.

look!

That's a star, a great star! A beautiful star! A selfless star!

They've been burning there for billions of years, they've been waiting for us!
No, they are not waiting for us, they are not waiting for any civilization. They are just there, shining and radiating heat according to the laws of the universe. Whether or not a civilization arrives, they will burn there until they are extinguished.

They are both warm and indifferent.

Just like the universe.

(End of this chapter)