Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1426 A Low Grave
With the Star Guardians backing them up, the civilizations could finally relax. Although they knew they could succeed elsewhere, they were all civilizations that had been stuck at the sixth level for countless years and knew how difficult it was to advance. So who wouldn't want to move to a more suitable position?

And so, the remaining civilizations continued their journey. Those that received the news sailed with peace of mind, while those that did not receive the news also got some information through various channels, and no civilization ever left the group again.

And so, nearly a million years passed quietly.

On this day, human civilization received a call from the defenders of the stars: "We're almost there! Wake up, all of you, wake up and get to work!"

"The interference has decreased?" the officer on duty asked.

Starry Sky Defender: "It's almost there. This change is gradual and subtle. I can only tell you that it's almost there!"

"Okay, thank you!"

After expressing their gratitude, the officers went to the command center and, following procedure, notified all departments to prepare to wake the sleeping people.

At the same time, the message was also sent to other civilizations.

This is not the very center of the Great Hollow, but the idea of ​​the center of the Boötes Great Hollow has a certain range. Since the Star Defender mentioned it, then it is correct.

Sending the message to other civilizations also serves to prepare them.

The awakening of the entire Great Voyage Organization signifies, for human civilization, that this great voyage, which began in the Milky Way, has finally reached its destination.

This moment will be recorded in the history of various civilizations.

Human civilization's record begins in the Milky Way galaxy, while civilizations born in other galaxies begin in their own birthplace.

"How many years have passed? We've finally arrived!" Upon waking up again, Yue Yuan habitually went to the porthole and gazed at the deep void. There was nothing in front of him, but this was his destination, the deepest part of the abyss.

Unless a civilization successfully advances to a cosmic-level civilization, all civilizations that come here will perish here. This place is the destination of countless civilizations' great voyages over the years, and also their burial ground.

They overcame countless difficulties, traveled hundreds of millions or even billions of light-years, and spent a long time to get here, with only one ultimate goal: to master the zero-point energy of the vacuum.

Every civilization that can come here is a leader in the cosmos, including galactic overlords, powerful civilizations that have dominated for tens of millions of years, and top-tier civilizations that have reigned supreme for generations. However, without mastering zero-point vacuum energy, none of them can leave this region.

Yue Yuan knew that countless civilizations must have staged many moving stories in this deep darkness countless years ago. They had tried their best here, and perhaps they succeeded, but they certainly failed more often than not.

There must be many tombs of civilizations here.

Those tombs must record the lives of their owners, the process of a civilization from its birth to its demise. Their stories may still exist, or they may have faded away with time.

However, Yue Yuan also understood that these graves must be very small and difficult to find.

Because this is the central region of the Great Hollow of Boötes, every civilization that comes here aims to study vacuum zero-point energy. They wouldn't have many resources to build themselves a massive cosmic tomb, nor would any civilization waste resources building one upon arrival. Therefore, those so-called civilization tombs are mostly obscure, remnants of what they were after exhausting their resources, rather than the vast ruins of civilizations encountered in other star systems.

Whether it was luck or something else, just as Yue Yuan was lost in thought, a message from the detector pulled him out of his reverie. At first glance, it turned out that, coincidentally, a detector that had been sent out had discovered a building floating in the void.

However, when clear photos were sent back, Yue Yuan discovered that what appeared to be a building was more like a dilapidated spaceship. Judging from its size, it was likely a starship, its surface covered with the marks of time.

The most likely explanation for the discovery of a shattered spaceship in such a place is that it is the final resting place of a defunct civilization.

After sending additional probes to explore the area, the condition of the dilapidated spaceship gradually became clear. Indeed, it was a spaceship carrying the last hope of a certain civilization. Although the spaceship was small, only the size of a starship, it possessed a complete set of functional structures.

It contains life support equipment, living areas, industrial production areas, research bases, and various functional buildings that may be used to maintain a certain kind of life form population. These things are like inlaid modules on the spaceship, as if the entire spaceship is a microcosm of a civilization.

It is indeed a microcosm of a civilization, and also the final destination of that unknown civilization.

Careful exploration revealed that this stellar-class spaceship had been dormant for countless billions of years. Its energy system had long since ceased functioning, and the barely discernible fuel tanks were completely empty. The miniature robots deployed by the probe discovered some what appeared to be hibernation pods in the habitation area, containing traces of decaying individual life forms.

Judging from the traces, it should be a carbon-based life form, a life form that this civilization sealed away after exhausting its last energy in its final stage. Unfortunately, their sleep became the eternal slumber of the entire civilization.

Time has taken everything from this unknown civilization.

The probe scanned almost the entire starship but found no decipherable information. The ship's information storage devices had long since failed due to its age, and even some markings that might have been text on the internal partitions had been smoothed over by time.

Even some materials on the spaceship have decayed due to their half-life and are no longer the original materials.

This small detail reveals the truth: behind this dilapidated stellar-class spaceship once lay a powerful civilization, one that must have possessed a vast fleet. But now, only one spaceship remains—a spaceship that can barely be identified as such, with nothing else left behind.

Time has obscured all information.

As everyone knows, this is a failed ending. One possible ending is what Yue Yuan will say next.

Yue Yuan also sighed for a moment, but as the leader of a civilization, his thoughts returned to reality the next moment, and he opened a communication channel and said: "Have the logistics department dispatch two sub-civilization-class transport ships and pack it up and take it away!"

This is another outcome of failure: becoming fuel for other civilizations.

It was dark and empty here, with nothing in sight. So, we made the most of everything we could see. This tomb of civilization left no information, so it could only be used as fuel to burn.

If Yue Yuan were a saint, he would surely have human civilization provide resources to erect a monument for this unknown civilization, thus singing the praises of civilization.

But he clearly wasn't.

(End of this chapter)