Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1626 Purple Fish

The Great Voyage Organization did indeed leave; after all, they were just passing through when they happened to encounter a "golden record" in the two-dimensional world, which led them to the Calabash Man.

Furthermore, the various civilizations of the Great Voyage Organization have already obtained what they needed here. Although they haven't yet directly mastered quantum macro-tunneling technology, everyone has created a two-dimensional biosphere, providing a continuous supply of materials for research. Therefore, there's no need for them to stay here any longer, as the road ahead is still very long.

Just as Ike wrote in his memoir, after the gods crossed this two-dimensional world, they had to go to the unknown depths of the universe.

Of course, the Great Voyage Organization did not stop its research on quantum macro-tunneling after leaving. It continued its research as it traveled, while also exploring whether there were any two-dimensional civilizations near its route.

Unfortunately, no second two-dimensional life form was discovered until the Great Voyage Organization ventured out of the two-dimensional world.

From this perspective, the two-dimensional gourd people are lucky. They encountered the Great Voyage Organization. Otherwise, during their growth process, they would probably have always believed that they were the only civilization in the entire universe, and that the entire universe was just this two-dimensional world.

Following this logic, those who see themselves as lonely, two-dimensional gourd-like beings may embark on a different path.

Perhaps in the near future, they will have the ability to step out of their own star system and explore the "entire universe," catch up with the "golden record" they launched, continue exploring the universe, and eventually discover that there is no other civilization in the universe besides themselves.

In this scenario, with the advancement of technology, they might embark on a space opera, seeding their race onto various two-dimensional planets. Over time, these races would evolve into numerous sub-races, eventually reaching a critical point where countless sub-races would divide into countless empires of two-dimensional worlds.

Whether they are at war or at peace, their focus may remain forever on the various empires. After all, in their worldview, the two-dimensional world is already vast and boundless, and they may not be able to explore it even in their entire lives or with the full power of an interstellar empire.

In this way, people's attention will naturally focus on the present.

Lacking the vision of grand voyages, they will forever remain confined to their own little corner of the world, where many legendary events will inevitably unfold, such as a two-dimensional version of Star Trek, or a two-dimensional version of saving the universe. Of course, their most likely scenario is the rise and fall of interstellar empires, repeating this cycle endlessly.

Of course, there is also a certain probability that the gourd people will discover the outside world on their own.

However, all of this was changed by the Great Voyage Organization.

The Great Voyage Organization arrived, imparting a great deal of knowledge. Most importantly, it planted the seeds of the Great Voyage ideology. Under the influence of this ideology, the Calabash People will undoubtedly continue to follow this path, barring any unforeseen circumstances.

They will be just like the kobolds back then, or even more insane, after all, their living environment is much harsher than that of the kobolds.

The harsher the environment, the greater the ambition that sometimes emerges.

Therefore, no matter how turbulent the process may be, the gourd people who know about the universe will do everything they can to explore the universe and break free from the shackles of their own destiny.

In fact, the gourd people were once ashamed of their low-dimensional existence, but after hearing the story of "The Mountain", their feelings of inferiority turned into "We should strive to be strong".

The story of "The Mountain" was, of course, told to them by Yue Yuan. It was a short science fiction story from the Earth era. Yue Yuan didn't tell the original story; instead, he changed the protagonist to a civilization born deep within the Earth and embellished it. It was said that there was a species called the Purple Fish, born in the ocean beneath a thick layer of ice. Due to their environment, they lacked light-sensitive organs like eyes, but possessed innate quantum information interaction abilities. Because of their environment, they initially believed that the water beneath the ice was the entire universe. Their universe had no stars or light, only an endless dark world of water, with a thick layer of ice at the top.

They use the decay of some natural elements and some underwater volcanoes as energy sources, and regard the occasional bubbles in the water as an undetectable vacuum.

Until one day, a pioneering explorer was born from the purple fish.

By observing the most common bubbles in water, the explorer first successfully created a container to create a vacuum by pumping water into a vacuum. Then, step by step, he discovered that there was something called "fire" in this universe.

Finally, the purple fish followed in the footsteps of the explorers, eventually reaching the bottom of the ice layer by launching "spacecraft" from the water. After countless years of effort, they developed land-based machinery, and generation after generation of purple fish continued to carve out a hole in the ice.

The purple fish finally arrived at what they considered to be the real "universe," and their concept of "sky" changed from ice to the blue sky and white clouds above the planet.

And so the purple fish began to believe that the entire planet was the whole universe, until one day, a great purple fish created a device that could convert light signals into quantum signals that they could recognize, and then used this special "telescope" to look up at the stars.

The purple fish saw the vastness of the stars and the profound universe. The curiosity hidden in the hearts of the purple fish finally burst forth, for at this moment their hearts had raised the sails of curiosity and were heading towards the vast universe.

Finally, they overcame numerous difficulties and successfully left their home planet, heading towards the vast galaxy, embarking on their own great voyage.

This story is, of course, fictional. At least so far, the Great Voyage Organization has not encountered such a civilization, but that does not mean that such a civilization does not exist.

Yue Yuan told this story to the two-dimensional gourd people mainly to spread the idea of ​​the Great Voyage to them.

This story was also written in detail by Ike in his memoirs, and he even took it upon himself to translate the purple fish in the story as the Purple Fish Civilization.

What God said must be true, so there really is a civilization in this universe called the Purple Fish Civilization.

What Yue Yuan didn't know was that the two-dimensional gourd people not only listened to the story of the purple fish, but also regarded the purple fish civilization as their idol. In the distant future, after they successfully stepped out of the two-dimensional world, they searched all over the world for the purple fish civilization.

The two-dimensional gourd people believe that the purple fish civilization must have a spiritual connection with them.

Yue Yuan never expected that an inspirational story would be regarded as a guiding principle by the two-dimensional gourd people, who even regarded the civilization in the story as a real existence.

At this moment, he and the Dream Lyre had already crossed the two-dimensional world.

(End of this chapter)