Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1600 Remarkable Progress
"One hundred and four billion light-years!"

Humans, the Daya, the Galactic Heart, and the Awakener civilizations have all reached the same conclusion, based on observations made through optical telescopes.

For ultra-wide and ultra-long-distance cosmic observation, we still have to return to optical equipment.

The super stargate of the god-level civilization allowed everyone to travel more than 10 billion light-years in an instant. Although they had experienced it once before, everyone was still very shocked.

Yue Yuan was also looking at the cosmic environment outside the Dream Lyra through the panoramic display screen.

However, he could only describe it with one word: dark!
Total darkness.

To get a better feel for it, Yue Yuan raised his hand and swiped the screen in the air, switching the view to a telescope perspective that had been exposed for a long time.

And so he finally saw the magnificent and vast Milky Way.

"It's so far!" Yue Yuan exclaimed, silently watching the colorful optical images.

His eyes are now like those of birds, able to see colors that humans couldn't see before, and the scenes he sees are naturally rich and colorful.

In fact, it's not just Yue Yuan; everyone in human civilization is like this now. Technology has given everyone the ability to see more colors.

If you were to place a crow in front of these humans now, they would no longer see black, but a multicolored black.

Humans in the interstellar age are not only different from humans in the Earth age in terms of physical function, but also in their senses when looking at the same objects.

These changes are due to genetic modifications, not the use of additional devices.

The reason for modifying their bodies in this way is that when scientists chose the path of physical evolution, they believed that allowing the brain to receive more information that it could not receive before would be beneficial to brain evolution and thus promote the evolution of human life.

This type of modification has been preserved from that time.

This transformation has proven helpful for the advancement of collective human intelligence, although it still exists as the underlying form of the original physical form in the era of quantum life.

This is a technological continuation that operates on the original physical form as well as on the quantum life form.

It represents the advancements in individual life technologies achieved by human civilization in its exploration of pixel space. It is merely a microcosm of the technological progress of human civilization. However, compared to these technological advancements, the progress of human civilization as a whole is far more significant.

What's most exciting is the manipulation of physical rules.

Yes, it's not modification, it's operation.

Over the years, human civilization, with the help of the dreamlike Lyra, explored the pixel space, collecting various different manifestations of space and obtaining samples of various modifications to physical rules.

Of course, it's not just human civilization; the Galactic Heart, the Daya, the Awakeners, and even the Star Guardians and four-dimensional life forms all have a backup copy. After all, humanity made a promise that all information they discover will be shared.

However, although these civilizations obtained the same data as humans, they did not find a way to manipulate various physical rules like humans did. They could only modify the physical rules of the target area based on the sample space.

The reason is that they cannot learn human methods, at least not now; they do not have the same ability to pluck strings as humans.

Simply put, human civilization has mastered a method of weaving physical rules through the plucking of strings. Unlike modifications to physical rules that directly produce destructive effects, this method can precisely correct or repair some deviations in the rules. For example, the quantum entanglement mechanism for communication at a distance.

Before this, when humans encountered such an environment, they could only lament their helplessness because they could not restore the mechanisms that had failed. But now it is different.

If human civilization were to return to the Milky Way now, it could use its unique string-plucking technology, combined with manipulation of physical rules, to repair the entire Milky Way's quantum entanglement mechanism, thus restoring its ability for long-distance communication.

Although this operation is extremely time-consuming, humanity has already turned the impossible into possible, completing the process from 0 to 1. What remains is the problem of optimization.

This is a rule-fixing technique.

Based on a large number of heterogeneous physical rule regions, human civilization has accumulated a vast amount of data, and this capability is built upon that foundation.

This is the greatest progress humanity has made since completing the exploration of pixel space.

In fact, after mastering the ability to repair rules, human civilization realized how promising this technology was.

Many scientists believe that if we have enough samples and enough data to modify the physical rules, we might actually be able to restore various catastrophic zones to their original state as the universe was.

Of course, it is estimated that human civilization will need to fully comprehend all the physical laws of the universe before it can achieve this.

After all, to know how to repair something, you need to know what it originally looked like!

Unbeknownst to humanity, this ability was precisely the one the Void Returners and Restarters had been searching for—the one who mended the heavens. Since creating a massive hole in the universe, the Void Returners and Restarters had devised numerous methods to curb its spread, but ultimately, they were powerless to stop it.

So now, in addition to training them within their own organizations and trying to master them themselves, they are also searching the entire map for civilizations that possess this unique technology.

Coincidentally, not long after human civilization left the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall, a broadcast message appeared in the cosmic membrane there.

It was a civilization from the Rebooters organization. They used the same language and script as humans and broadcast their messages throughout the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall. When this civilization appeared, two cosmic-level individual life forms also appeared with them.

One is named Adley, and the other is named Nebula.

The main purpose of this civilization appearing here is clearly to promote the Rebooters' achievements in stabilizing the universe, since they are now a member of the Rebooters organization.

During the process of spreading the message, they hoped to receive a response in the same language, but unfortunately, after so many years, they still haven't received any of the messages they were hoping for.

Since being taken away by the Rebooters and joining their organization, they have repeatedly hoped to encounter human civilization again. Whenever the organization broadcasts a mission, they rush to take it, and the closer the target area is to the Milky Way, the more they want to go.

Their sole purpose was to find the human civilization that had inspired them and then tell the former God of Light: Look, your people have become a great cosmic civilization, ready to fight alongside you!

Unfortunately, they missed their target again.

"Hey, you little punks, is that God of Light you're talking about the same group of guys who used to run around inside my body doing weird things?" Seeing that there was no response from the broadcast, the single life form named Nebula asked curiously.

(P.S.: On October 18, 2025, the great physicist Chen-Ning Yang passed away. A moment of silence for him!)
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