In 4609 AD,
Chen Qingdu and her fleet had arrived at the Andromeda Galaxy, but they did not develop rapidly and with great fanfare. Instead, they penetrated the core of the Andromeda Galaxy like a virus lurking in the human body, and quietly took root on a planet with a harsh environment in a seemingly inconspicuous binary system in the central area. While rapidly cultivating the population, they continued to secretly spy on the nearby civilization.
The Andromeda Galaxy has a diameter of 160,000 light years and has at least 400 billion stars, which is much larger than the Milky Way.
This is a fertile ground for the birth of civilization.
However, the compound eyes did not make much arrangements here. They only placed a small number of core ships shaped like octopuses, and instead put a lot of energy into enslaving and controlling a large number of secondary civilizations.
After thousands of years of development, there are now hundreds of level 3 civilizations in the Andromeda Galaxy.
Some civilizations have already touched the edge of level 4 civilization, but there is no sign of breakthrough.
In addition, no traces of surge cannons and ultra-long-distance giant stargates were found in the center of the Andromeda Galaxy.
Technical analysis results show that the central black hole of the Andromeda Galaxy is so different from the center of the Milky Way that its stability is not enough to support the transformation of ultra-long-distance stargates.
The results have already been obtained in previous human research.
In the universe, there are no two identical galaxy gravitational source cores. The central black hole or gravitational source of each galaxy has differences, big or small. These differences determine its characteristics. When manufacturing ultra-long-range stargates that often span tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of light years, there is no room for error.
In the huge Laniakaia Supercluster, there are only less than ten galaxy-level cores suitable for transformation into ultra-long-range stargates. One is the distant Great Mast, and the other is the center of the Milky Way. As for the others, there is no point in transformation, as they are even farther away from the Milky Way. This is a blessing for mankind, and it is also another source of 40,000 years of peace.
The octopus ships stationed in the Andromeda Galaxy did not withdraw, but they did not foolishly rush to the Milky Way to give away their lives and technology. Instead, they opened the shackles imposed on countless slaves, trying to imitate the technological explosion of humans and create more slaves with war capabilities.
This is of course a risky move. Giving these slave civilizations more technology will naturally make them more likely to be betrayed, but at this time, the Compound Eyes obviously can no longer care about so much. They are frantically squeezing the resources of the galaxy, accumulating strength, and trying to form a new oppression on the humans in the Milky Way not far away.
However, the disparity in power between the enemy and us has been reversed. Before developing superior forces, the Compound Eyes will not let these slaves act in advance to give away resources for free.
However, when Chen Qingdu's fleet arrived first, the Compound Eyes' conspiracy failed.
Chen Qingdu's fleet left a large number of coordinates along the way, and a small-scale engineering team was left near each coordinate.
Other escape ships and spark ships flying from the Milky Way to the Andromeda Galaxy no longer headed forward, but stopped at different coordinates according to their respective itinerary progress.
These coordinates are connected in series to form a string of "tanghulu" leading from the Milky Way to the Andromeda Galaxy.
Hanging on each string of tanghulu are long-distance star gates under construction.
This string of star gates will become the star chain ladder for humans to break out of the Milky Way and head straight for the Andromeda Galaxy, that is, the cosmic ladder.
The human army will brazenly reach the Andromeda Galaxy within a thousand years.
For the civilization in the Andromeda Galaxy, humans, who have been taught a new rule of survival by the universe, will only give two choices: prosperity or destruction.
Humans have only one goal in war - complete domination.
To this day, people whose genetic awakening is constantly approaching 100% have almost unlimited learning and absorption capabilities.
Regardless of the form of civilization, physical, biological, semi-mechanical, energy, elements formed only by basic quantum laws (such as giant rock life), and all kinds of partial knowledge of all species, humans can understand and integrate them into their own scientific system.
The amount of knowledge and information that humans have mastered is expanding rapidly like a supernova explosion.
In order to thoroughly absorb this increasingly differentiated knowledge, human civilization, which has been sublimated from Earth humans to Galaxy humans and then to cosmic humans, has to go in different directions when the genetic awakening reaches its peak.
Carbon-based life forms want to understand the thinking of silicon-based life forms, but there will always be a layer of veil between them and they cannot touch the essence, just like fish cannot understand what life without water is like even if they have mastered human language.
Humans have a long history of transforming from carbon-based life to another form of life.
There was the colonial transformation in ancient times, and then there was Chen Feng's resurrection after merging into the universe, and then there was Fredes' incarnation of a black hole on the road of no return.
Today, facing the temptation of cosmic knowledge and the mission of exploring the endless mysteries of the universe, human beings have chosen to take the last step of civilization evolution, the alienation of life.
To understand all the mysteries in the universe, the simplest and most practical way is to maintain human will and assimilate oneself with one mystery after another.
The defeat of the Void Race is both a blessing for mankind and a warning bell that will always hang over mankind's head.
If we want to reach the end of the universe and go to the next world, we cannot place all our hopes on the shoulders of a leader alone. The entire race needs to do everything possible to move forward courageously.
More and more people, with a desire for knowledge and a vision of a distant and invisible future, bid farewell to their relatives, friends, and everything in the past, and transform themselves into solid, metal, elemental, energy, light, antimatter, virtual, and real energy micro-particle alien life.
Even though they know that the road ahead will be dangerous and they can never turn back, and they may be annihilated at any time, there will always be one person after another in the huge human population of one billion people, like a stream, rushing to the gaps needed by civilization, filling one blank after another. This
is the river of civilization, which will always fill the cracks in the river sand.
As long as there is eternal unity, as long as those who go out always remember that they come from that inconspicuous blue planet at the edge of the Milky Way, the river of humanity will flow endlessly to every corner of the universe, exploring every mystery of the laws of the universe.
...
In 5730 AD, the mighty legion used hundreds of linked star gates as a springboard, crossed a distance of two million light years, and appeared at the edge of the Andromeda Galaxy.
Endless fleets spread out, turning into a sharp knife hundreds of light years away, stabbing straight to the center of the Andromeda Galaxy.
The Andromeda War broke out.
Chen Feng went to the front line and became a pioneer.
Tang Tianxin sat in the center of the army and planned the strategy.
Lin Bu, who had been frozen in the dust for two thousand years, finally showed his sharp edge, like a mad demon, invincible.
Chen Qingdu launched a special operation in the heart of Andromeda, integrating the Andromeda rebel slaves into a powerful force, and cooperating with the human army rushing in from the outside.
This war lasted for nearly two thousand years until 7650 AD, when humans finally wiped out all resistance forces in the Andromeda Galaxy and expanded the multi-civilization structure of the multiverse from the Milky Way to include the Andromeda Galaxy.
The total number of civilizations in the multiverse has increased nearly tenfold.
In these two thousand years, Chen Feng has seen off many people.
Some died on the battlefield.
But for more people, even with the help of physiological freezing, they could not defeat time and had to face the aging and collapse of the thought quantum storm.
At this time, the differences brought about by the degree of genetic awakening gradually emerged.
The higher the degree of awakening, the better the structural stability of the thought quantum storm when the person is in physiological freezing, and the longer it can be maintained.
For example, Tang Tianxin, Qingdu, Linbu, Lu Xianfeng, Na Weilun, Kalenji and others, with the help of physiological cryogenics, have gradually surpassed 75% of the people in terms of gene awakening, and it seems that they still have many years to live.
As for those who only barely surpass 55%, they can only helplessly fall slowly under the blade of time.
...
War, never-ending.
Before the Andromeda War ended, humans had already established a large number of production bases in this galaxy, and at the same time, they had built long-range star gates like a ladder to heaven, one step at a time in all directions.
The cosmic ladder of mankind, like the roots of a tree, goes to various galaxies in the local galaxy group.
In the journey of millions of light years, humans need to cross a long distance.
Moreover, unlike in galaxies, there are not always a large number of stars on both sides of the journey to provide light and heat. Even black holes and dark energy groups have become sparse.
These places are inevitable void areas in the universe. For example, the famous Bootes Supervoid. Its diameter reaches 330 million light years. In the Bootes Supervoid, the average distance between galaxies reaches 10 million light years.
This means that at such a long distance, there are no stars or planets, at most only a small amount of dark energy groups and sparsely dense real energy particles.
The resources in these places will become extremely scarce, and it will become extremely difficult for humans to collect energy.
The road ahead is dangerous and unpredictable beyond imagination.
The real danger is no longer things like radio bursts, supernova explosions, and cosmic life, but desolation and loneliness.
Endless desolation can wear down people's will, wear down the history of human civilization, and cause individuals of advanced civilizations who have mastered advanced technology to die of energy "poverty" over a long period of time.
However, this does not pose a problem for humans.
A new type of super-giant real energy particle absorbing Dyson membrane, which was born from the Dyson membrane of ancient stars, has been developed.
The light wings of the giant Dyson membrane spread out, reaching tens or hundreds of light years.
Each Dyson membrane of a hundred light years can enrich the energy of more than a million stars by simply absorbing the ubiquitous low-concentration real energy particles in the universe.
Humans began to expand outward in groups.
Every 100,000 light years, humans built a settlement around several giant Dyson membranes and bred a huge community.
The purpose of the existence of these communities is to guard and build the "steps" that make up the cosmic ladder transportation network - ultra-long-range stargates of 100,000 light years.
Relying on these steps, humans will spread the war to the entire Local Group of Stars and even the Virgo Supercluster.
No one knows when this war will end.
But everyone knows that it will end.
Maybe you won't see that day.
But that day is destined to exist.
...
In 30210 AD, Chen Feng sat next to an old wooden chair.
On the white bed next to him lay his daughter.
"Father, I heard the call of the universe. I'm leaving."
Chen Feng smiled and raised his hand, stroking his daughter's old face.
The awakening degree still cannot bring her eternal life.
Her life is ultimately limited.
However, in the past 30,000 years, she has accomplished so many things. She is
the adventurer, warrior, commander, scientist who has traveled the farthest, participated in the most wars, opened up the most galaxies, left the most coordinates, and executed and completed the most special operations missions in the history of mankind...
She has so many titles.
I can see her struggles.
I remember them firmly.
Chen Feng nodded, "In fact, the universe's call is my call. Go ahead, and we will meet again at the end of the universe."
"Really? Father."
"Of course, you all live in my memory."
The daughter smiled, "Well, then, the war will end, right?"
Chen Feng nodded, "Of course."
...
"You ignited the flames of war.
I saw your eyes clearly in the firelight.
I remember your eyes.
I will let this war burn forever until your civilization is burned out."
Even if the enemy is himself, or a generation from the previous universe,
Chen Feng doesn't care.
Perhaps, as the supreme leader of the Void Clan, the only thing Chen Feng miscalculated was that he didn't anticipate his own betrayal.
But...
the continuation of humanity is, in a sense, also a permanent mark left by the Void Clan in the universe.