Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1546: Every Failure Makes You Smarter

In terms of detection technology, the Galactic Center Civilization far surpasses other civilizations of the same level. The various stored information of a Level 6 civilization is practically undefended to them.

Although the Shell Empire was vast, it was extremely easy for the Silver Heart Civilization to obtain information about them. In fact, they couldn't even detect the Silver Heart Civilization's spying.

During the process of reading the data of the Shell Empire, the Galactic Heart Civilization did not find any record of the emergence of any cosmic-level civilization.

Over the long past, perhaps cosmic-level civilizations like the four civilizations of the Great Voyage Organization have visited this place. They may have even spied on the Shell Civilization, like the Galactic Heart Civilization, but the Shell Empire has no record of it. This suggests that those civilizations chose to remain hidden.

When the Silverheart Civilization synchronized information from the Shell Empire's database with the Human, Daya, and Awakener Civilizations, the high-ranking officials of all three civilizations felt that there was no need to guide such a civilization.

According to the information gleaned, while the Shell Empire is ambitious, their ambition is not to venture beyond the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall for a grand voyage, but rather to conquer the entire Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall and turn it into their own imperial territory.

"What a reassuring empire!" Yue Yuan exclaimed as he browsed the shared detection information from the Galactic Heart civilization. The more empires like this there were, the less likely they were to advance to a cosmic-level civilization, regardless of their territorial size.

Based on this, Yue Yuan even suspected that in ancient times, some civilizations deliberately built stargates in the Hercules-Corona Borealis Interstellar Wall, since the emergence of this Shell Empire is inextricably linked to the stargates that exist in every galaxy.

“It’s certainly reassuring; it might even be a resort built by some cosmic-level civilization,” a scholar said, pointing to the holographic screen and zooming in on it before speaking to Yue Yuan.

Yue Yuan shook his head at this, not believing it to be a resort, but rather a coincidence left over from ancient times.

After a long silence, Yue Yuan did not respond to the scholar's words, but turned to another staff member and said, "Try to urge the Silverheart Civilization. It's been so long, why haven't they found the Shell Empire's central database yet?"

"Okay!" The staff member immediately sent a message to Yin Xinwen to urge them to hurry up.

Although the Shell Empire's territory was vast, Yue Yuan had little interest in them, nor in letting human civilization show off in front of them. He simply wanted the Silver Heart Civilization to find their Imperial Data Center as soon as possible, to search through it, and see if there was any information about related civilization relics or the like.

The Star Guardians were such a jerk; they only told the four civilizations that the Dayan Civilization had left something behind, but they didn't provide any location information. So everyone had to start by searching through the local civilizations.

I originally thought I would encounter a cosmic civilization in the area, but I didn't expect to encounter a vast interstellar empire instead. Unfortunately, it was only a level 6 civilization, so there was almost no need for communication.

After all, given the capabilities of the Galactic Heart civilization, it can already achieve one-way information transparency, so there's really no need for it.

Thinking about his decision, Yue Yuan suddenly felt that perhaps this was one of the reasons why various civilizations had never seen a cosmic-level civilization in the past.

They disdain communication.

Of course, the probability of this situation existing in the Milky Way is not high. After all, if there really is a cosmic-level civilization in the Milky Way, then the Reapers' electronic warships would definitely be their target, rather than the Great Voyage Organization having no interest in the Shell Empire as it does now.

The Shell Empire lacked ambition, but it wasn't decadent either; they simply didn't have the desire for long voyages, so the Awakeners had no interest in them.

So, in reality, this encounter was more about adding a folder called "Shell Empire" to the databases of the four civilizations. This folder naturally contained information that the Galactic Heart civilization had copied from the others' databases. It contained the development history of the Shell Empire, enough for sociologists to study for quite some time.

Surprisingly, the database of the crustacean civilization actually contains information about the ruins of the civilization. It says that in ancient times, a strange spatial phenomenon appeared in the middle of the Hercules-Corona Borealis Interstellar Wall, which is suspected to be something that an ancient civilization was doing there.

This single message was stored in the Shell Empire's most confidential database.

According to the records of the Shell Empire, this information was obtained from another extinct civilization during their expansion of the empire's territory. It is over a billion years old and extremely ancient.

Generally speaking, while ancient information may be severely distorted, it is not entirely baseless.

Based on this, all four civilizations of the Great Voyage Organization considered this an important clue.

Upon receiving the news, the four civilizations embarked on another voyage, intending to explore the central area of ​​the Interstellar Wall to see if they could find any clues about the "ruins".

That star field was already outside the territory of the Shell Empire, but it was unclear whether it was intentional on the part of that unknown cosmic civilization. Such a vast and boundless star field still had stargates.

The Great Voyage Organization, which is currently traversing through stargates, even believes that such stargates are scattered throughout the entire Hercules-Corona Borealis Interstellar Great Wall.

The Great Voyage Organization arrived at the Great Wall of Hercules and Corona Borealis, encountered the Shell Empire, obtained possible information about the ruins under the condition of unilateral information transparency, and finally left its imperial territory.

The Shell Empire remained completely unaware of the entire process; to them, the Great Voyage Organization simply did not exist. Both existed in the same universe, yet they were like beings from two parallel worlds.

If the Great Voyage Organization were still a Level 6 civilization, it might have brought the Great Voyage message to the Shell Empire, telling them that only by leaving the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall and resolutely and fearlessly venturing into the dark abyss of the universe could they possibly become a cosmic civilization.

But now I don't have that thought anymore, even if it's just a small favor.

The Shell Empire wasn't without opportunities for great voyages; they simply chose to conceal the existence of the Stargate. They chose a different path, so let them continue on their way. Why disrupt their civilization's progress?

Moreover, the form of the Shell Empire might be intentional on the part of the civilization that built the stargate here. There's no need for us to change it, otherwise we might end up like the Daya civilization when it tried to destroy that galactic-level microscopic demon, only to bring trouble upon ourselves.

If the civilization that orchestrates these plans is truly exposed, the Great Voyage Organization is not afraid and is confident in defeating it. However, if it cries out for help like the Triangular Civilization, that would be a troublesome matter.

After defeating them, they might do what the Triangle Civilization did back then: blow up the stargate. There would be no reasoning with them then, and they would only waste their time on voyages.

Rather than doing that, it's better to keep a low profile and act quietly.

learn from mistakes.

(End of this chapter)