Xiao Yu's voyage has already covered about five-sixths of the way, and there is still a distance of about a thousand years ahead, and a distance of about 1.5 million light years.

This distance is a million light-years less than the distance from the Milky Way to the Andromeda Galaxy. At this distance, Xiao Yu's observation equipment can clearly distinguish the individual stars of the Maffei One Galaxy, and even see the planets orbiting the stars. It was at this location that Xiao Yu carried out a detailed observation of the Maffei Group of Galaxies.

With the naked eye alone, Maffei is still a faint speck of light, with no details visible. However, because the surrounding area is so empty, the Maffei Galaxy is still the brightest in the whole sky.

This is an empty cosmic vacuum, but the "temperature" here is unbelievably high. Xiao Yu's measurements show that the temperature here is as high as more than 100 million K. This may seem like a contradiction, but it is actually very plausible. Temperature is only a physical quantity that measures the activity of microscopic particles, and the microscopic particles here are very active, so the temperature is very high, and their density is too low, and the total energy is also very low, so it is very cold here.

The extreme cosmic environment is a perfect combination of very high temperature and feeling cold.

In such an extreme environment, Xiao Yu made a new discovery. With the faint light reflecting off the Maffei galaxy, Xiao Yu found something similar to a cold stone in front of him. In such an open place, any material found is unusual, and the discovery of an asteroid within a river system is just unusual. Finding something like this here could mean something special.

Xiao Yu sent his own detection spaceship and slowly approached these things. Under the light of the artificial sun, hundreds of thousands of kilometers in a radius are illuminated. Xiao Yu could finally view these strange things in the visible light band, which was the most convenient to observe.

presented in front of Xiao Yu. It's something with a very obvious geometry. The largest of these things is about thirty kilometers long, and is generally cylindrical, with some protruding or dented instrument-like things above its surface. It is also surrounded by a number of smaller, but also distinctly geometrical objects, about three hundred in total.

These things are clearly the creations of intelligent beings. Only the power of intelligent beings can transport these things to this empty place, and only the creation of intelligent beings. to have such a clear geometry.

"These are some ships, which have been destroyed, ships that have lost all their energy supply. Preliminary observations suggest that these spacecraft are at least two billion years old. Xiao Yu thought silently in his heart.

Two billion years ago. The earth is still in the ancient barbaric age. No, it was a time much older than the ancient Savage Age, when there was almost no life on Earth, let alone humans. However, at that time, there was an unknown civilization that drove its creation into this empty cosmic space. And here they lost all their energy supply and turned into cold stones.

Xiao Yu couldn't tell what it was like in his heart. Under Xiao Yu's manipulation. Several robots broke through the outer shells of the ships and entered the interior of the ships. What appeared in front of Xiao Yu was still pitch black. In the darkness, the light source in the robot's hand reflects the appearance of a long corridor. The corridor was still filled with a gas that, after the ship's outer shell was broken, flowed out in a surging outburst, bringing up dust in the sky, adding to the clutter of the already messy corridor.

After Xiao Yu manipulated the rest of the robots to repair the gaps in the spaceship's shell, the place fell silent. In this pitch darkness, Xiao Yu's robot began to slowly explore these spaceships.

Xiao Yu found something similar to the bones of intelligent creatures, but these things had long since lost all their organic structure, and now they were completely different from stones. Xiao Yu couldn't guess what these intelligent creatures looked like when they were alive and what kind of body structure they had. There were some rooms with the doors still open, and in these rooms, Xiao Yu also found something similar to a computer.

So Xiao Yu began to repair and analyze these things, trying to read the information recorded on them. Now Xiao Yu can already know that these spaceships are all at the level of science and technology of a fifth-level civilization. Under normal circumstances, it was only a simple matter for Xiao Yu to obtain information from their computer systems, but the current era was too long, so even with Xiao Yu's level 7 civilization's level of technology, it would still take some effort to restore that information.

Xiao Yu's efforts were not in vain, after Xiao Yu sent millions of robots to collect information storage devices, and carried out at least a week of information restoration work, Xiao Yu finally roughly restored the information and combined it into a piece of information with a basic logical structure.

From this information, Xiao Yu knew the ins and outs of this civilization and these spaceships.

"The protracted debate has finally come to an end, and the United Council of Civilizations has made a decision by voting. After millions of years of delay in this small river system, we have finally decided to leave. ”

"It's too small and there's too little material, which severely limits our development. We believe that there must be other intelligent beings in the universe, and we are extremely eager to communicate with the rest of the intelligent beings, but there is only ourselves here, and we are the only civilization. ”

"It took us millions of years to get to where we are now, and now we can't find the way forward. It's too small, it's too remote, and we can't afford to get any more opportunities to grow here. In fact, the technological progress of our civilization has been stagnant for nearly a million years, and for millions of years, we know every star in this river system so well that we are so bored that we have detailed numbering and exploration of each asteroid. We're fed up in this river system. ”

"If we can't get the opportunity for further development, we will only perish if we are greeted by civilization. In fact, our civilization is already showing signs of demise. With nothing to explore, our civilization can only focus on other places, on enjoyment, on war, on finding excitement. We are constantly divided, we are constantly unified, scientists have developed a large number of ways to stimulate the spirit, and the people are drunk and dreaming and living in chaos. ”

"We were well aware that we couldn't go on like this. However, the surrounding river system is so far away that the nearest one is more than 8 million light-years away, and that is not a distance we can cross. You know, the maximum speed we can reach now is only 30 times the speed of light. We need to sail for more than 200,000 years in the void of space, without any supply, to reach our destination. This means death for us, and we will die in the middle of the road, and quietly and silently. But we have nevertheless decided to set out and dedicate our civilization to a journey of rebirth, even if it is bound to fail, than to be destroyed in such a depression. ”

"The last war of division has taken a heavy toll on our civilization, and the number of intelligent beings in our civilization has been reduced by 90 percent, and at this moment, there are less than a billion people left in our civilization. We were already despairing of this river system, we were already despairing of our future, so we set out and embarked on a path that was bound to be death. ”

"We have as many supplies as we can, we have been preparing for tens of thousands of years, and many of us have exhausted their lives and died before we can finally prepare them. But they are happy because they have a goal to strive for, and they have given their lives to that goal. ”

"Eventually, we were ready and we were going. May our civilization be blessed with good luck ......"

"Hopefully, after we die, other civilizations will discover us and confirm our suspicions that there are other intelligent beings in the universe. By the way, if you find our ruins, if you can, please take our ruins with you to the nearest river system. This is the lifelong wish of our civilization, please, please. ”

The information came to an abrupt end here. This information has been preserved in the most special way, and all the rest of the information is too old and too badly damaged to be restored. In fact, Xiao Yu suspected that this information was deliberately preserved by this civilization, in the hope that even if they perished, this information could be preserved and detected by the rest of the civilizations that accidentally discovered them.

Their purpose was achieved, and Xiao Yu, who was passing by, happened to find their ruins and happened to be aware of this information.

"You're right." Xiao Yu thought silently, "In the universe, there are many, many intelligent beings. Your level of civilization is only level five, and there are many civilizations above you that you can't even imagine existing. ”

"I will grant your wishes and bring your relics to the Maffei One system." Xiao Yu thought silently, and received all these broken spaceships into the folded space inside his spaceship. (To be continued......)

PS: The second is a little later