Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1439: We've Only Found the Way
Yes, how can you start a fire in water!

The reason everyone embarked on this long voyage was to avoid the influence of dark matter, since the galaxy is full of dark matter and all life forms live in dark matter. However, no one expected that the influence of dark matter would be so great.

I thought that once I reached the center of the large void, there would be no more dark matter influence, but who would have thought that even a little bit of dark matter could affect the answer.

"What kind of method could give such a large amount of dark matter this property?" Yue Yuan exclaimed.

All the people from all the civilizations remained silent. The Star Guardians had once told them that in a long time ago, the correct answer to the zero-point energy of the vacuum could also be found in the dark matter region. At least, there was no such limitation in the era of the Dayan Civilization.

It didn't exist before, but it does now.

There is only one explanation: either it is the result of some kind of cosmic catastrophe spreading, or it is the work of a god-like civilization.

"By the way, are you still able to contact the War Immortal Civilization?" Perhaps still unwilling to give up, the Starry Sky Defender asked.

“It’s been impossible for a long time!” the rhombus crystal answered crisply, then continued, “Actually, you already know the answer, don’t you? I do have quantum entanglement communication here, but my creator has been gone for too long, the distance is too great, and the communication has become distorted.”

"I hope they haven't perished!" the Star Guardian murmured.

He certainly knew about quantum entanglement communication, which in theory is real-time communication without distance limitations. But the universe is just too wondrous and full of disasters; even quantum bubbles in space can affect quantum entanglement communication.

Generally speaking, the quantum communication fidelity distance of a normal cosmic-level civilization is about 100 million light-years, while a specialized technological civilization like the Observer can achieve 300 million light-years.

The War Immortal Civilization left this place a billion years ago, long ago, and is now much further away.

Just then, the rhombus-shaped crystal continued, "Actually, before you arrived, some civilizations had come here. I've seen hundreds of groups, but they all failed."

"Oh?"

Upon hearing this, everyone became curious.

Human civilization has encountered a certain civilization graveyard before. Now it seems that in the billion years since the extinction of the pioneers, many civilizations have indeed completed great voyages. It's just unknown whether they also learned about the severe impact of dark matter.

“There are hundreds of large-scale expeditions, some of which are too far away for me to detect. My database only records those that the detectors scanned, and they all failed,” the rhombus crystal said. “If every large-scale expedition that entered the Boötes Great Void is recorded in my database, you should be the 337th. I hope you can succeed.”

"Hope." Yue Yuan caught the key word.

Hopefully, this means that the great tomb left behind by the War Immortal civilization did not record the formula for extracting zero-point energy from the vacuum.

Therefore, each civilization can only rely on itself.

It was a bit of a pity, but he was also content, since he already knew the key to the problem.

"Do they also know the reason for using their own dark matter, just like we do?" The leader of the Galactic Heart civilization still wasn't entirely at ease, so he interjected with a question. "Most don't know. A very small number of organizations found out in their final moments, but they didn't have enough resources to support their research, so they didn't succeed."

"You didn't tell them?"

“No, my creator had some settings when creating me. If you don’t have the things of the pioneers, I won’t be activated. I only know these things now because this is the first time I’ve been activated. You can understand it as: I didn’t exist before I was talking to you.”

Upon hearing what the rhombus crystal said, all the civilizations understood.

It was prepared for the pioneers and the descendants of the War Immortal civilization. Without the creations of these two civilizations, the system of this tomb would not have been activated, and the answer would not have been obtained so easily.

Although the answer seems simple once you know it, as the saying goes, those involved are often blinded by their own circumstances. Besides, who could have predicted that even a tiny amount of dark matter used in the engine or produced by the factory-type spaceship would have such an impact?

How much dark matter is there? And how much dark matter exists in each galaxy? The amount is incomparable.

Most importantly, even if you have this idea and try it, you may fail because you don't know the scope of the impact.

If that's the case, then it's truly doomed. Because for the civilization that tried it, having already tested it, and then concluding there was no effect without knowing it would have any, and unable to find the correct answer regarding vacuum zero-point energy, then that civilization's final path is blocked. They will conclude that the cause isn't the dark matter on the spaceship.

It's true that the Star Guardian can sense which area is the most suitable, but his perception isn't real; it's an answer he gives based on the parameter changes he extracts from the vacuum zero-point energy.

To put it bluntly, the Star Guardian can only perceive approximate areas. Moreover, after telling various civilizations the approximate size of the central area of ​​the Boötes Hollow, this guy just went to sleep, ostensibly to kill time.

"Speaking of which, that cosmic catastrophe of some bastard is going to spread here soon. Can you move this grave?" The Star Guardian, who had been silent for a long time, seemed to care about the grave, or rather, the intelligent system inside it.

"I cannot move, and I have no concept of living or dying."

The rhombus crystal did answer seriously, but the answer disappointed the Star Guardian. He realized that the rhombus crystal's intelligent system was really just an intelligent system and had no concept of "I" at all.

In the following time, the Star Guardians talked with the rhombus crystal for a while, while the various civilizations sent probes to continue observing the tomb, trying to gain some inspiration from it.

It was during this process that human civilization discovered that this rhomboid crystal looked like a creation of the pioneers, and its shape followed the habits of the pioneers, but it indeed had nothing to do with the pioneers' creations.

It was entirely a creation of the War Immortal Civilization. Its exterior was protected by a rule-based shield, just like the star gates that everyone used back then. It was completely indestructible. The reason it was made into a rhombus-shaped crystal was entirely because of the pioneers.

The rhombus crystal has been visited by many large-scale maritime expeditions, so many civilizations must have discovered it, but they all failed. Before their failure, they must have tried to utilize the rhombus crystal, and the result was obvious: the rhombus crystal remained undamaged.

Therefore, the gap between a cosmic-level civilization and a Type VI civilization is larger than people imagine.

(End of this chapter)