When the critical civilization was born, it already had one foot on the limit of the depth of cosmic information.

The word critical refers to the possibility that the civilization has to break the boundaries and cross the boundaries of the universe between generations.

The mastermind behind the manipulation of the compound eyes is the first critical civilization known to mankind.

Now that scholars have clarified the concept of critical civilization, they have also included humans themselves.

Whether it is self-anesthetization or it is really so, all theoretical calculations are proving this point - humans must be the most special in the current cosmic era.

A lot of evidence can be found.

The most crucial thing is the top secret mastered by a very small number of core members of the Salvation Society - Chen Feng's ability to travel through time and space.

Except for the critical theory that can explain it a little, there is no more suitable theory.

Now humans have recognized the true essence of the enemy.

This is a war that spans generations of the universe.

The cards of both sides are gradually being revealed.

The Pisces were merely a probing move by the other side.

In the future, humans will inevitably face more unimaginable means.

In the past two or three decades since the end of the Voyager War, dozens of new means that humans have never seen before have appeared on the front line, including special biological arms, enhanced cannons, and covering field energy networks that directly shake the basic physical laws in the area.

Humans must come up with more means of the same level or higher than the fragmentation bomb, or create a super-giant fragmentation bomb that can truly destroy the universe, reset everything, and allow the universe to enter the next generation of destruction in advance, forcing the other side to be cautious.

This may at least give us a brief respite.

But new knowledge will still bring new anxieties.

When the concept of critical civilization was born, people could not help but imagine and speculate whether the current universe really only has the masterminds from the previous cosmic era. In

other areas that humans have not yet arrived, are there other critical civilizations from the previous cosmic era or other unknown areas?

No one can be sure.

After all, so far, humans have entered space for too short a time. In addition to self-exploration in the Orion Arm of the Milky Way, the rest of their understanding and knowledge of the universe basically comes from the Mi people, the compound eyes, and a small number of information carriers floating in the Orion Arm, such as rocky life planets.

The depth of human information has reached its capabilities, but the breadth of information is still limited to the Virgo Supercluster, and even the Laniakeia Supercluster has not been touched.

As early as the ape era, the human population memory was engraved with a strong vigilance against all unknowns.

And, as Einstein once said, "The more you know, the more you feel ignorant." Human vigilance against the unknown will never disappear with the improvement of the level of knowledge, but will only become stronger and stronger.

This is exactly the situation now.

The concept of critical civilization has expanded the imagination and thinking space of scholars, provided a new guiding direction for subsequent theoretical research, and at the same time caused great fear.

Only blind self-confidence can support the creativity of the entire civilization to continue to move forward in the boundless universe and the infinite years, and help the entire civilization become the next critical civilization in the true sense.

In 2713 AD,

at the intersection of the gravitational coverage line of the Hanjie Galaxy and the Witeng Galaxy,

a small fleet consisting of less than 50,000 ships is quietly moving forward at a slow speed of twice the speed of light.

The fleet has a total of 40,000 medium-sized multi-purpose main battle ships.

Each multi-purpose main battle ship is 37 kilometers long and has a geometric pyramid shape.

In addition, there are 5,000 large supply ships and 5,000 ships of various types, including ultra-small command ships and ultra-large spherical fortress ships.

The shape of these ships is basically pyramidal, with only a few ships being spherical.

A large number of scientific arguments and practical studies have shown that in curvature flight at 500 times the speed of light, the pyramidal curvature bubble with symmetry at the front and rear ends is the most stable, and is least likely to activate space turbulence when leaving the curvature state.

These pyramidal ships are the first batch of 500 times the speed of light cruisers of the Morning Breeze Empire. Their appearance marks that humans have officially caught up with the compound eyes in the technological level of manufacturing space flight vehicles.

The model level of pyramidal ships is uniformly named Cosmic Type II.

The material of the outer shell of the Universe II ship is different from that of the compound eye, which directly transported the bottom structure of the core of the Mi tribe. Instead, it was made by humans using the control force of real energy precision and re-kneading the triple unified force. It has the performance of stable low-energy tearing space, perfect fit with the curvature bubble, ultra-high energy resistance, ultra-high toughness, and ultra-fast self-repair.

After comprehensive evaluation, the comprehensive performance of the outer shell material of the Universe II ship reached 1.7 times that of the compound eye ridge ship.

It seems to be only 70% stronger, but in fact it has formed an overwhelming advantage.

In order to build this fleet, scientists and engineers drained the energy of hundreds of stars in a very short time, and consumed a large amount of rare and difficult-to-renew resources in the special planetary system.

The so-called difficult to regenerate means that the cost of artificial synthesis is too high and it takes too long.

It is not impossible to synthesize it bit by bit from the perspective of real energy level, but it will waste a lot of precious time.

More than 95% of the Type II spaceships currently manufactured by humans are all in this nameless and unnumbered fleet.

The fleet's commander-in-chief is Qin Guang, who emerged in the battle of the Voyager Galaxy.

With Qin Guang's current rank, he does not dispatch a large army on the main battle front, but leads such a small fleet to act quietly. Of course, it can only be because the mission that this fleet is about to perform is extremely important.

This is the first time in the long history of human resistance that an expedition fleet has been sent to the center of the Milky Way, preparing to go straight to the heart of the Compound Eye in the Milky Way.

The Unknown Fleet has many missions, such as destroying the remote command center of the Compound Eyes, eradicating the habitats established by the Compound Eyes in the galaxy, and liberating as many slaves of Ra who have been enslaved by the Compound Eyes for millions of years.

If possible, we should also try to obtain as many communication records between the compound eyes in the Milky Way and the compound eyes in the Virgo Local Group as possible to analyze the technological development route, military strength, social system and other aspects of the other party's mother star.

At the same time, humans also want to intercept the other party's intelligence to see more information about the Virgo Supercluster and larger space units.

Risks and opportunities always coexist. The compound eyes are both a genocidal sword hanging over the head of human civilization, and they may also become a stepping stone for humans to step into the universe.

If nothing unexpected happens, the Nameless Fleet will quietly cross the frontier with the help of the latest camouflage technology, avoid the route of the subsequent army of the Compound Eye, enter the second-level hypercurved flight from another channel, reach 500 times the speed of light, and finally arrive at the center of the Milky Way around 2980.

The shortest voyage time of the fleet is as long as 267 years.

Today, human body freezing technology is still imperfect and still cannot prevent the collapse of human brain thinking. The 120 million soldiers, 20 million scientific researchers and 30 million engineers in the fleet never considered returning to their homeland when they set out.

Even most of the people here are unlikely to live to the day they reach their destination.

But what does it matter?

Humans have become accustomed to this way of continuing to move forward in the universe by reproducing from generation to generation.

Even if the Folding Star Gate can infinitely accelerate the pace of human progress, there must be the first batch of people who are ahead of everyone else and always on the road to progress, right?

Otherwise, who will collect information, complete accurate parameter capture, and finally build the Star Gate step by step?

Tong Ling, who has grown up, is wearing a major general's uniform and standing in the communication room of one of the small special combat unit carriers of the Nameless Fleet.

She looked at the long-distance communicator with a smile.

The projection screen shows her parents far away on Ceres.

Her parents now live in the Ahuna Mountain Villa Complex on Ceres.

The family of three has not seen each other for 28 years.

Tong Ling is now a heroic young warrior, but crow's feet can be seen in the corners of her parents' eyes.

It seems that just 28 years have made the two of them look much older.

They are indeed over 110 years old.

The two elders seemed to be standing on the balcony of the villa, and the new sun could be seen from behind them.

The new sun is very far away from Ceres, and looks only the size of a sesame seed or mung bean. Its light is also very dim. Under the law of the radiation protection energy field, it looks like a red bean floating in the air.

But Tong Ling couldn't help but clench her fists.

Tong Ling smiled again and said, "Mom and Dad, I'm going to carry out a long-term mission, and may go to a very far place. For the sake of confidentiality, this is also our last quantum communication. In the future, both of you, remember to take care of your health. Dad should go to bed on time, and Mom, you should not work too hard."