A Colossus rushes in at the start

Chapter 92 The Fate of Civilization is Too Tumultuous

The young man from Wusu looked at Old Guan sadly and asked, "How can I let go of this?"

Old Guan calmly replied, "See yourself clearly, then see the universe clearly."

As he spoke, Lao Guan led the younger generation outside the observation station.

Mount Makadir is very high, reaching an altitude of over 10,000 meters, which even Mount Everest on Earth cannot compare to. Lao Guan and his group stood on the summit.

Physically speaking, they were the two people who stood the tallest in the entire Ussuri civilization.

The temperature outside the observation station was much lower than inside, and even the young Usu residents, wrapped in thick foam fiber clothing, could feel the biting cold.

There was nothing to see outside Mount Makadirs except an endless sea of ​​clouds that stretched to the distant horizon. But the two people standing on the mountain knew exactly what a vibrant scene lay beneath the clouds.

Old Guan raised his hand, pointing towards the horizon at the end of the sea of ​​clouds, and then said, "Our civilization has been recorded since the time of 30,000 years ago. During that time, we traversed mountains, dense forests, swamps, lakes, oceans, grasslands, and other places, gradually spreading our footprints throughout the entire Karana, becoming the apex of the food chain on this planet. Then we developed city-states of settlements, and city-states built up countries, and then we continued to develop until the present day..."

"But this amount of time is nothing compared to the universe. Even for Karana beneath our feet, the existence of the Ussuris is just a fleeting moment."

"One hundred million years before the Ussuri people appeared, the white scorpion stood at the top of the food chain. These pale giants were suitable for living in both the ocean and on land, but they were destroyed by a supervolcano. The remnants of the supervolcano formed the present-day Makadir Mountains."

"Going back 500 million years, flying mantises roamed the skies. These enormous sky creatures migrated from one continent to another. Their diet was the most extensive of all creatures except for the Usu people. There were even some indications that they might have developed an early civilization. But what happened? A supernova explosion of 57 kilo-years completely changed the atmospheric structure of Karana, wiping out the entire race."

As he spoke, Old Guan pointed to the sky again. The young Usu man followed his hand, looked up at the sky, and saw countless stars, countless worlds just like Karana's.

Old Guan continued, "Whether it's civilization or race, destruction is just a matter of a moment. When that day truly comes, an individual can do nothing but face it head-on. That's what makes an incompetent individual."

"Give up those pointless thoughts. No matter how much you struggle, you can't live until the end of the universe. For an individual, it's enough to live peacefully until you die of old age."

The young man from Wusu understood what Lao Guan meant.

From a civilizational perspective, only groups have meaning for civilization, and only groups can create history. Individuals have no meaning; even if someone is exceptionally intelligent and seizes power early on, it has little impact on civilization.

"That's too negative," the young Usu man shook his head.

"Negative? Let's just call it negative."

Old Guan smiled indifferently. He didn't care at all what others thought of him, because he knew that life was always his own, and other people's likes and dislikes were irrelevant.

After finding a place to sit down, Lao Guan looked up at the starry sky he had been gazing at for a long time. Ever since the founding of the Alliance of Equal Democracy, he had been assigned to observe astronomy on Mount Makadir.

He said to the young man beside him, "I have witnessed the decline of the old government and the establishment of the Alliance of Equal Democracies. I have witnessed its rise amidst powerful enemies, step by step becoming a pivotal political entity in Karana. Now I watch it decline step by step and am powerless to stop it. In the end, I will witness its downfall."

"Throughout history, it's just another dynasty falling into decline. Individuals cannot stop the change of an era, especially those who are not in a position of decision-making."

I disagree with that.

Upon hearing the junior's answer, Lao Guan was clearly taken aback, and he shifted his gaze from the constellation of stars to the junior beside him.

He saw the young man looking at him intently, and the emotion in his eyes reminded Lao Guan of his own youth.

The young Ussuri man said, "Even we can change everything. At least the Alliance of Equal Democracies has not yet disintegrated. We are no different from those decision-makers."

Sensing the unspoken meaning in the other person's words, Lao Guan asked with some suspicion, "Dre, what do you want to do?"

Dre said, "Radio waves originating from Karana can only reach a distance of 1 light-year before being submerged in the cosmic background due to decreasing distance. However, if amplified by gravity, they can reach much more distant places. I plan to use the Gambi black hole and the strong gravity near it to amplify the radio wave signal..."

Old Guan shook his head and denied it, saying, "The Gambi black hole is 2 light kilometers away from us. Our high-power signals can't reach there at all."

Dre countered, "No, we can. We can first use Rasu's gravity to amplify the radio's propagation distance, and then use the Gambi black hole's gravity to further amplify the propagation distance, as long as we can seize the opportunity and have a little bit of luck."

Lasu is the name of the mother star of the Usu people. In their traditional mythology, Lasu is the supreme deity. After the light of science was lit, the name Lasu has been used ever since because it has been deeply rooted in people's hearts.

According to Drey's method of amplifying gravitational signals, the Kalana, Rasu, and Gambi black holes need to be in a straight line. At this point, the release of vertically oriented radio waves has a certain probability of propagating beyond the vicinity of Kalana.

However, this is only theoretically true; it's mainly a matter of probability because radio waves can spread, and there's a lot of interference in space.

If there's an interstellar dust cloud between Lasu and the Gambi black hole, radio waves won't be able to reach the Gambi black hole.

Even so, Lao Guan had to admit that it was a brilliant idea, given how outdated their existing technology was.

"...Okay, theoretically speaking, this would indeed allow the radio waves to travel further, but what do you plan to use it for? To contact extraterrestrial civilizations? To request their armed intervention in the internal affairs of the Ussuri people?" Old Guan asked half-jokingly. He didn't believe at all that extraterrestrial civilizations could exist outside of Ussuri.

"I just wanted to leave a trace of the Ussuri people in this universe," Dre said with a wry smile.

If one day the Wusu civilization becomes extinct, at least their actions will leave traces of its existence in the universe.

……

In the boundless universe, relying on faster-than-light travel, planetary life forms have deployed billions of atomic organisms at intervals of one light-year.

Atomic organisms disguise themselves as ordinary interstellar dust, receiving radio waves from the universe.

During this expansion, some interesting things occasionally happened, such as receiving three radio signals from the same star system, all originating from different civilizations.

"The Wusu civilization? The Sacred Scorpion civilization? The Mantis civilization?" the atomic being asked curiously.

Judging from the direction of radio transmission, they all came from the same place. Furthermore, based on the location of the receiver, it can be determined that the interval between radio message transmissions was extremely long.

Finally, based on the language system and the content of the records, it can be basically determined that three civilizations arose in the same place.

The most subtle thing is that the content is almost identical, all of them saying things like, "I want to leave my mark on the universe on behalf of my civilization."

(End of this chapter)