Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1634 Cosmic Civilization

After the matter was agreed upon by the humans, Yue Yuan immediately informed the Awakener Huan of the result, who was overjoyed.

The Awakener, Huan, had lived for a very long time and rarely experienced any intense mental fluctuations. However, upon hearing that humans had secretly mastered quantum macro-tunneling technology and had even approached her to offer to build her a device, she was deeply moved.

This made her both excited and moved, because it was a quantum macro-tunneling!

The Awakener couldn't help but think of the time when the leader of the Awakener civilization led the entire Awakener civilization to fight the Reapers one-on-one. The Awakener "You" died in that war, and the leader of the Awakener civilization also died there.

If the Awakener civilization had possessed quantum macro-tunneling technology back then, although they couldn't defeat the electronic warships, they could at least have remained invincible.

"Thank you very much. According to your human understanding, we don't actually belong to the same race. So what made you make this decision?"

The Awakener Huan, who was talking to Yue Yuan, pulled herself back from her past memories and looked at Yue Yuan, who was still in the same form as her and her sister.

After a pause, the Awakener Huan Yanran smiled and said jokingly, "Could it be that you're captivated by my form? Well, after all, this form was specially created according to your human aesthetics!"

Yue Yuan didn't respond to that, but instead said earnestly, "When we humans were still weak, didn't you help us? A drop of kindness should be repaid with a spring of gratitude. We humans still retain some ancient qualities, and now our two civilizations have come together. Helping you is also helping ourselves. The road ahead requires us to unite and walk together. This universe is truly..."

Hearing Yue Yuan say this, the Awakener Huan once again sighed that he hadn't made a mistake back then, and was also glad that he had stopped some of his clansmen from forcibly abducting humans.

The matter was settled, but that didn't mean construction could begin immediately. Everyone was still at sea; to undertake such a large project, we had to stop first.

Furthermore, humans also need to refine various technical details.

Thus, after discussing the details of creating quantum macrotunneling with the Awakener, the matter was made public to other civilizations by humanity and the Awakener civilization together.

The research on quantum macrotunneling was conducted by each civilization independently, and other civilizations were naturally unaware of it. Now that humanity and the Awakener civilization want to halt their mega-project, they must provide a reasonable explanation to the member civilizations within their organization.

This matter couldn't be kept secret anytime soon.

As for stopping the super project, the Star Guardians and the four-dimensional life forms said they didn't care. The Daya civilization unconditionally supported humanity's decision. Only the leader of the Galactic Heart civilization muttered a few words.

They are envious of humanity's mastery of quantum macrotunneling technology.

With all civilizations in agreement, the Great Voyage Organization directly chose a star system along the voyage route to dock, intending to carry out this grand project there.

In fact, given the capabilities of a cosmic-level civilization, it would be entirely possible to extract energy from the void and then use energy-mass conversion technology to obtain matter, but instead, they chose to develop within galaxies.

The reason is that the stars in the galaxy are readily available, and we are now a cosmic-level civilization. Although we can extract energy from the void, we do not want the universe to be destroyed too quickly as a result. Therefore, we try to avoid large-scale extraction of vacuum zero-point energy as much as possible.

That can be considered a way to cut costs.

The galaxy chosen by the Great Voyage Organization was the first galaxy they stopped at after embarking on their 20 billion light-year journey. It was like a service area for a long-distance bus trip, hence human civilization simply named this galaxy the Service Area Galaxy.

Putting aside other factors, the service area galaxy has a rather large diameter, with a disk spanning 15 light-years in length. Its size is between that of the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy, making it a barred spiral galaxy.

It is the largest galaxy in this star field and the gravitational center of the region. It has three satellite galaxies similar to the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. Apart from these, there are no other galaxies within a radius of seven million light-years.

For a Type 6 civilization, such a distance is an insurmountable chasm, making even the start of a long voyage a problem, many times more difficult than humanity's journey from the Milky Way to the Andromeda Galaxy.

Because a Type 6 civilization does not possess the ability to modify the laws of physics, it is completely unable to enjoy the benefits brought by the Rebooters' stable universe.

However, for a cosmic-level civilization, such a distance can be traversed in just seven years.

What is a cosmic-level civilization? This is a true cosmic-level civilization. It's on a completely different level from a Level 6 civilization. One is like a fish or shrimp in a cage, while the other is like an eagle soaring through the sky.

Leaving aside the other civilizations, human civilization has now truly reached the pinnacle of cosmic-level civilizations. Perhaps it is not as advanced as older cosmic-level civilizations in some applications, but its combat power is absolutely top-notch.

Having completed the exploration of pixel space, human civilization has also made a qualitative leap in the modification of rules. The direct effect of this leap is the improvement in the attack range and teleportation distance of the Dream Lyra.

Initially, the Lyra's microscopic high-dimensional jumps could only jump 500 light-years at a time. Later, with the advancement of technology, it gradually increased to 800 to 1,000 light-years. Now, it has directly reached the level of the Degenerate Civilization, where a single jump can traverse 1616 light-years.

Its attack range is terrifyingly strong. Once the weapons of the Dream Lyra are fully charged, they can cover an area the size of a galaxy, and even larger if the program is overloaded.

Destroying an entire galaxy with a single shot is no problem.

Of course, if it were just about destructive power, it wouldn't be considered a remarkable advancement. Nowadays, in addition to powerful offensive capabilities, humanity has also begun to possess some ability to repair rules.

Human scientists have discovered the physical rules corresponding to many string combinations and have completed some simple rule-fixing experiments.

This is an application based on the principle of plucking strings.

Repairing is far more difficult than destroying, and the very reason humanity studies it is because it is more difficult. Its greater difficulty means that once mastered, humanity's precision in manipulating the laws of physics will absolutely surpass that of other civilizations.

Moreover, many scientists have realized the immense potential of this technology; if it is truly developed to its fullest potential, it might even be used to repair this broken universe.

Although humanity is still a cosmic-level civilization, there are some things we still need to prepare for in advance, just in case we succeed!

Humanity is currently unaware that the path they are on leads to the very "Nuwa" that the Returners and Restarters are searching for.

(End of this chapter)