Voyage of the Stars

Yue Yuan then asked Zheng Jiuyuan about relevant matters. Yi Kai was also listening, occasionally missing a sentence or two. The three of them talked like this for more than an hour before each went back to handle their own work.

After the two left, Yue Yuan called Man Yuemei and asked her to arrange the Covenant's rotation patrol. Then he discussed the future course of mankind with the headquarters think tank and officials from various ministries, and finally reached the conclusion It is to look for possible natural wormholes.

In this regard, humans definitely don’t know the direction, so the so-called search is just wandering around. Of course, we should try our best to do what we can, such as increasing the number and intensity of the spacecraft dispatched, and every once in a while. Just let the fleet exit the warp state, and then let the survey telescope array observe the starry sky.

In short, humans will use all the methods they can think of. After all, the top priority now is to find a natural wormhole.

This is actually very difficult, because in the current human cosmological theory, the natural wormhole may behave differently from a black hole. It may not show an extremely strong gravitational effect like a black hole, so it is very difficult to find it. , humans don’t even know where to start.

Of course, there are also some scientists who believe that the current human cosmological theory is wrong. They believe that the external appearance of natural wormholes may not be much different from black holes. The way humans find them should not be so blind, but use Searching by means of gravitational lensing observation,

That is to say, look for black holes, and then go there for on-site inspection. Maybe a celestial body that humans think is a black hole is itself a natural wormhole.

The two opinions are mutually exclusive among scientists, but there is too little data support for the second argument, so many of their voices are not so confident.

And human beings as a whole cannot change their direction just because of a different point of view, so now and even for a long time to come, human beings will still follow the first method to find it.

So time passed like this with the stop-and-go fleet. One year, two years, three years, thirty years, and half a century passed. The Covenant fleet led by humans was already very far away from the Deep Blue Star. Far away, but the original search policy still failed to find anything.

Apart from the noise of various types of pulsars, there is no sound in the universe. It is so quiet that humans have discovered nothing.

Scientists' expectations have turned into disappointment time after time. The human survey telescope array scans the starry sky every once in a while, and then many scientists from many departments analyze its observation and scanning results, trying to find possibilities. strange phenomena in the universe.

As soon as some unexpected observations are discovered, the Covenant fleet led by humans immediately sets sail to explore star fields where strange universes may exist.

But even so, human beings are still disappointed in their expectations again and again. In recent years, human beings have discovered possible strange cosmic phenomena, but when they arrived, they found that they were not. Either the observation data is wrong, or there is nothing special about that place at all.

In this way, human beings are moving further and further away, or it can no longer be described as far away, because human beings have no fixed place of residence at all, and hundreds of years have passed by in such a hurry.

Human beings have found that they have reached the upper end of the flat disk of the Milky Way. At the same time, this position is also located in the middle and rear section of the Perseus spiral arm. There are no stars as it goes up. It is definitely impossible to go up. The remaining options are to either continue to the end of the Perseus Arm or to the center of the Milky Way.

Humans are not that bold, so they choose to move forward towards the end of the cantilever.

So after humans replenished some resources in one of the star systems, they continued their voyage. This time, the human route strategy was not to sail at warp speed for hundreds of light years before stopping to replenish and then continue on, but to sail at warp speed for hundreds of light years. Light years, then exit the warp speed, and then accelerate with conventional power, allowing the entire fleet to reach a certain speed and float at a constant speed.

And try to maintain this regular constant speed route for as long as possible.

The purpose of this is obvious, which is to allow humans to observe the starry sky longer and more accurately. After all, if the fleet is sailing at warp speed, the survey telescope array will not be able to observe the starry sky, because it will be distorted by the distortion of the warp speed bubble.

Having said that, human civilization can also stay in a certain star system, develop resources and build Dyson clouds, and observe the starry sky at the same time. In fact, humans had done this before, but every time they stayed in the star system for a period of time, Yue Yuan always felt uneasy and felt that he would be in trouble if he stayed in the star system for too long. , I always feel that in the star system, there is a feeling of darkness and darkness, just like under the sun. I always feel that one day I will suddenly detect a fleet from the depths of the universe and come to meet me at my docking place.

As a result, human civilization changed its strategy after that, and shifted the state of observation to a state of uniform wandering among the stars. Now Yue Yuan felt much more comfortable, and no longer had that feeling.

In fact, it was not that Yue Yuan had any telepathy, he was just worrying about it. He just thought too much and experienced such a thing again. Then he often thought of the scene of the encounter with Kuntai civilization, and became unconsciously like this. Thinking one way is a type of persecution paranoia.

However, his persecution paranoia unknowingly saved mankind once, but no one knew it, and he didn't know it either.

About 300 light years after humans left the star system where they were docked, this star welcomed its second guest since its birth, three level 5 civilization exploration ships, which looked exactly like the exploration ship that humans destroyed before.

It was obviously the level 5 civilization of the Perseus Trade Federation. After the three ships explored this star system, they found traces of humans staying here.

It was not that humans dropped a screw, but that they found traces of the rocky planets outside the star system that had been developed. Of course, they only knew that a civilization had been here, and they could roughly judge the approximate technological level of the civilization that developed the resources, but they didn't know which civilization it was.

It is not difficult to judge the technological level. It can be seen from the situation of the resource mining site. In a word, a civilization with a certain technological level will make corresponding noises.

Just like a level 4 civilization, they are likely to use star destroyers to destroy asteroids in the process of resource mining to facilitate the acquisition of various minerals, but a level 3 civilization does not have this ability. Therefore, if such a situation is found, it can be judged that the other party is a level 4 civilization.