Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1436 The Tomb of the Pioneers

While different voices within human civilization were still discussing, the Star Defender in the void had already started running. Upon hearing that it had discovered a creation of the Pioneers, it immediately rushed towards its target at maximum warp speed without saying a word.

"Stop talking so much, I'll find out when I get there."

As the Star Guardian headed toward the rhombus-shaped crystal, he cursed into the public communication channel: "Those Pioneers and War Immortals are really trash! I thought those two would be wiped out by other civilizations along the way, but I didn't expect them to actually make it to the finish line. It looks like they've even successfully become a cosmic-level civilization. They've succeeded, but they're not coming back to pick me up. This is infuriating!"

"I have to go ask that bastard! And you guys from the Silverheart Civilization are no good either! What kind of garbage detector is this? We've been circling that crystal for so long and haven't gotten a single new piece of information. I have to go myself!"

"Those are small detectors, launched only once, and their functions are limited in order to save energy," the leader of the Galactic Heart civilization said stubbornly.

"Forget it, I'll let it go since you discovered the Pioneers' creations. I'm too lazy to bother with you." The Star Defender surprisingly didn't start arguing.

After saying that, he buried his head and continued on his way.

The probes from various civilizations also followed closely behind at full warp speed.

Thus, amidst the speculations of various civilizations, more than a hundred years quickly passed.

The Star Guardian arrived at his destination 7 light-years away, ahead of all other civilizations. His arrival also brought a new perspective to the various civilizations of the Galactic Expedition Organization for observing rhomboid crystals.

It must be said that the observation capabilities of the Star Guardian are far superior to those of a malfunctioning Galactic Heart probe.

From the perspective of the Star Guardians, the 84 civilizations quickly saw some details of the rhombus-shaped crystal.

"There are words on the rhomboid crystal!"

The presence of written text implies the presence of information, and it is highly likely that this information was intentionally left behind by the pioneers.

So when they discovered the writing, all the leaders of the civilizations were excited, especially those in the Galactic Great Voyage Organization. They knew that the pioneers liked to leave messages for those who came after them, and they had already stored the vacuum zero-point energy research data left by the pioneers in the imaginary rhomboid crystal.

As the Star Guardian drew closer, the text displayed on the rhombus crystal gradually became clearer until it was legible.

The first thing that catches the eye is several very large characters.

Perhaps to make these characters understandable to later generations, there are many smaller characters and various graphic representations beneath these large characters.

If you get close enough to scan and read them, you'll find that these images are actually instruction manuals, written to help an unknown civilization that has never encountered the script of the pioneers to understand it.

Many of its parameters are related to hydrogen atoms. For example, one set of parameters is the period of the electromagnetic wave emitted when a hydrogen atom changes from a single-spin to an opposite-spin.

There are also many physical and mathematical languages ​​on it. After deciphering this information, the unknown civilization can use it to decipher the language of the pioneers and then understand the text on the rhombus crystal.

However, human civilization and the defenders of the stars do not need to do this, because they have archives of the language and writing of the pioneers, which can directly interpret the meaning of the words on the rhombus crystals.

However, once the largest characters on it were identified, the Star Guardian seemed to be frozen in mid-air, halting his approach to the rhombus crystal and hovering motionless in the void, as if he had witnessed something incredible.

Inside the Tianqin command center, the high-ranking members of human civilization who simultaneously saw those words were also struck dumb, as if by lightning.

The Star Guardians transmitted back image information. After receiving the image information, the human civilization's system automatically translated the text on it, so now everyone who is using the diamond-shaped crystal can understand those few characters that have been translated into Chinese.

Looking at those words, no one could believe their eyes; their expressions were filled with disbelief. There were five large characters: Tomb of the Pioneers!
"This isn't true."

Everyone's hearts seemed frozen, unable to believe what they were seeing.

The previously noisy atmosphere in the Tianqin command center instantly cooled down, becoming so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

The distant Star Guardian also stopped his incessant chatter. Although he always said that the Pioneers and the War Immortal Civilization were two bastards, and often pretended to be relaxed by saying things like "the two bastards will probably perish on the way," he was clearly also unable to accept it when he actually saw this scene.

You can tell just by looking at his reaction now.

The Star Guardian originally looked like a colorful ball, but now it seemed to have turned black and white.

Ahead was a rhomboid crystal with a diameter of 7.7 million kilometers, and not far from the crystal was a five-kilometer-long colored sphere that seemed to have turned black and white. The two remained still, motionless in the void, with their background deep and dark.

"Human civilization, defenders of the stars, what's wrong with you? Say something! Or you can upload the translation program. What exactly is that text?" The two remained silent for so long that even the Awakener Huan couldn't help but shout in the public channel.

His words startled the Star Guardian, but the latter only muttered "bastard" under his breath before remaining silent.

The Star Defender possesses language data from various civilizations under the Galactic Great Voyage Organization, and he was originally supposed to translate the pioneers' text into the languages ​​of each civilization, but he doesn't seem to be in the mood for it now.

Awakened by the words of the awakener, Yue Yuan could only suppress his grief and let the supercomputer of human civilization translate the text displayed on the rhombus crystal into the languages ​​of various civilizations.

The Tomb of the Pioneers!
At this moment, all civilizations fell silent.

The leaders of the various civilizations, who were originally anxious to know the information, felt as if they had fallen into an ice cave after understanding the meaning.

Especially those civilizations that emerged from the Milky Way, their leaders seemed to be frozen in place, as if they had lost some kind of belief or faith, their eyes filled with disbelief.

Those were pioneers! They were pioneers who led everyone on a great voyage and left countless treasures for future civilizations! They've all reached the center of the Boötes Hollow, how could they possibly perish?

This is not true!
However, the translation was correct; those words were indeed: Tomb of the Pioneers.

All previous fantasies were extinguished. Even if it was hard to believe, the civilizations had no choice but to accept it, because that was reality: the Tomb of the Pioneers.

The pioneers are gone!

They perished in the Great Hollow of Bootes!
The pioneers weren't plagued by cosmic catastrophes back then, so they must have had plenty of time, yet they still perished.
So, can we succeed?
All civilizations were lost, and the light of hope that had sustained them through countless hardships since embarking on their great voyage seemed to have been extinguished.

It was because of that sliver of hope that everyone rushed headlong into the great abyss of the Boötes Great Void, the belief that sustained all civilizations on their great voyages. But now, that belief seems to be wavering.

The five large characters "Tomb of the Pioneers" strike deeply into the souls of all intelligent beings.

Now, everyone feels that this darkness and nothingness is even colder. It is dark and profound, lonely and helpless, empty and desolate. All civilizations seem to have been buried by the nothingness and darkness.

The words "Tomb of the Pioneers" exude an aura of despair.

(End of this chapter)