Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1636 Lolt Civilization

The construction of the stargate will be much faster than that of the quantum macro tunneling device. Although the former is much larger in scale, the latter is more technologically advanced for the four current technological civilizations.

Many years have passed, and the basic framework of the former has been established, while the latter is still in the preparation stage.

From this perspective, it seems that human technology is inferior to that of the pioneers of that time. After all, the pioneers were able to leave behind ten sets of equipment. However, this is not the case. The equipment that humans are building now is much larger than that of the pioneers, and the warships required to match it are also larger. Moreover, the ten sets of equipment left behind by the pioneers took them a very long time, possibly tens of millions of years, while the estimated time for humans to build larger and more complex equipment now is only 20,000 years.

In this respect alone, humanity has already surpassed the pioneers in quantum macro-tunneling technology, although the two may have taken different technical approaches.

Time passed slowly as everyone busied themselves.

Ten years, a hundred years, a thousand years, ten thousand years.

The Awakeners' stargate is already complete; they've even gone to nearby galaxies to build interconnected stargates, but humanity's project is only half finished.

It was at this moment that a fleet that had been lingering nearby for a long time finally mustered up the courage to step into the central black hole region where the Great Voyage Organization was located.

That was a fleet from a Level 6 civilization in this galaxy. A thousand years ago, the various civilizations of the Great Voyage Organization discovered them wandering in the nearby star system.

As for the reason for their lingering, everyone knows that it must be because they discovered the large-scale project that the Great Voyage Organization was carrying out here. After all, this time they did not hide their tracks, and the construction of the stargate has caused quite a stir.

After all, it involves installing a matter decompression device and directly extracting resources from individual stars.

Over the years, the Great Voyage Organization has destroyed countless stars. This disappearance of stars naturally attracted the attention of the local top civilizations, so they came.

In fact, the civilization that discovered the disappearance of the star was not the only one that has come to visit. Several other Type VI civilizations in the area also came, but they were blocked by the current civilization during the process.

A small-scale war also took place during this period.

The civilization that won the war lingered here for hundreds of years, during which time it continuously sent tachyon broadcast messages into the black hole region in an attempt to communicate.

But the Great Voyage Organization ignored them, which may be why they have never dared to get close.

It's likely that they deduced from the speed of some ships and the activity of the two projects that the civilization ignoring their existence was a more advanced one.

However, after persisting for hundreds of years, they finally mustered the courage to storm into the star system where the Great Voyage Organization was located, and it seemed that they were not ordinary fleets.

Because the Great Voyage Organization could clearly see from the images transmitted back by the probes that there was a special warship in its fleet. The other warships surrounded it like stars around the moon, protecting it in the center of the fleet. Based on past experience, that warship should be the flagship of this civilization.

Surprisingly, the previously defeated civilizations did not leave. They secretly dispatched their fleets to lurk in a more distant area. Upon discovering the movement of this civilization's fleet, they immediately entered maximum warp speed and advanced towards the central black hole region.

Yue Yuan, who had noticed them long ago, checked the detector footage and discovered that there were four Level 6 civilizations in total.

"This is interesting!" After watching for a while, Yue Yuan muttered to himself, stroking his chin.

The first mate of the Dream Lyra next to him chimed in, "These native civilizations must have discovered the existence of a more advanced civilization. They're probably all trying to contact us right now!" The first mate was right. When the Great Voyage Organization arrived at the service area galaxy, they discovered that the level six civilizations in this galaxy were not at peace with each other and often fought each other. However, since the discovery of the advanced civilization in the central black hole region, their wars have decreased significantly.

Although it did not cease, large-scale wars ceased, with only occasional small fleet skirmishes remaining.

It seems they discovered there are always higher levels and more capable people out there, and reached some kind of agreement.

As for the previous war, it was probably because the strongest civilization wanted to be the first to make contact with a more advanced civilization.

Because of the travel speed issue, these civilizations would have to travel for over a hundred years to arrive, so Yue Yuan wasn't in a hurry.

He wasn't in a hurry, but the civilization at the forefront was.

"Great Leader, the fleets of those civilizations behind us have spotted our advance and are charging forward. Should we try to stop them?"

A message was transmitted from one of the fleet's warships to the flagship.

The message received a response very quickly.

"No need. This area is now close to the location of that unknown advanced civilization. We should not resort to force rashly, lest we leave a bad impression on that unknown advanced civilization."

Upon hearing their leader's words, another voice chimed in, "The leader is right. According to our latest observations, that unknown advanced civilization is likely undertaking some major project in the central black hole region. If we were to engage in war with other civilizations' fleets here, it could affect their project. After all, they are an advanced civilization, so we should be cautious."

This statement seemed to ignite the atmosphere within the channel, with other beings in this civilization also expressing their own opinions.

"Yes, that's an unprecedentedly advanced civilization. We had speculated that this universe might have even more advanced civilizations, and we never expected it to be true. Of course, that's not the point. The point is that I really want to ask them now: is our theory of the Great Voyage true? If it is, why can't we cross the nearest galaxy to us? Is it really like the cage theory suggests, that we are being kept in an isolated island in a galaxy by an advanced civilization?"

At this point, the atmosphere in the communication channel within this civilization became somewhat heavy.

"Who knows? The answer our Lolt civilization has been searching for for countless years may be right before our eyes. But the closer we get to this point, the more anxious and uncertain I become. I hope not! Alas, our Lolt civilization has made many attempts to cross galaxies, but the fleets we sent out all seemed to sink without a trace. Whenever I gaze at the distant galaxies, I wonder if the civilizations on the other side also see our galaxy as a prison, just like our own?"

"Try to look on the bright side. Maybe the fleet we sent out back then has succeeded. Maybe they're in that galaxy right now trying to build an even bigger fleet and come back to let us know!"

That's what they say, but even the alien who said it didn't believe it, because he knew very well how long ago those large long-range fleets were sent out.

If they succeed, it will be enough for them to turn back and inform everyone.

But so many years have passed, and there is still no news.

In fact, they all knew that those once highly anticipated long-distance voyage fleets were probably all gone, killed by the long passage of time and the insurmountable distance.

The repeated failures led the Lolt civilization to consider giving up, because with each failed long voyage, the opposition within the civilization grew stronger. Those opposing Lolts believed that the Lolt civilization was already the most advanced civilization in the universe, and that no more advanced civilization existed.

(End of this chapter)