Xiu'er's tone was very calm, but the content he said was terrifying, since he came to this world, Xiuer talked about related topics several times, and the shadow chasers had a certain amount of psychological preparation, however, when they heard this, everyone's hearts still trembled heavily.

Everyone hoped that Shul was joking, but everyone was already familiar with Shure, until he would never talk nonsense on such an issue, it seems that the future of Pavadiga is not optimistic, no wonder Shur would rather take great risks to bring everyone into this world.

"Mr. Ryan, please continue. Shure made a solemn gesture to Ryan, "I'll talk about it when you're done here." ”

"Heh, in fact, you can guess what happened later. Ryan said with a wry smile, "After the failure of the expedition and the almost total annihilation of the expeditionary force, our government finally understands that the opponent is not something we can fight against, and it is only a matter of time before our homeland is swallowed up by the source of disaster." However, it is not the habit of our brown star civilization to sit back and wait, and it is impossible for the hundreds of billions of people in the planetary system to let them die in vain, so while constantly sending expeditionary troops to try to delay the expansion of the source of disaster, the entire brown star civilization has completely mobilized, concentrated all forces, and began to build giant spaceships. ”

"It is still difficult for the Brown Star civilization to build a spaceship of this city scale, after all, one requires a lot of resources, and it also occupies most of the industrial facilities, which is difficult to implement under normal circumstances. Fortunately, under the mortal threat, different parties and nationalities are united, and the entire circle of civilizations is completely integrated, and everyone abandons unnecessary needs and desires, leaving everything to make way for the giant spaceship. ”

"It took us three hundred years to build two thousand urban warships for the Exile operation, and according to the original plan, we should have built more, theoretically four thousand to barely meet the demand, but unfortunately, it is too late, the crisis is almost twenty light years away. Although the edge of the source of disaster has not yet expanded to our Silverfish, those invisible shadows have begun to appear on the edge of Silverfish, causing many warriors at the checkpoint to lose their lives inexplicably. ”

"Everyone knows that there is no time to prepare, and they must leave immediately, otherwise everyone will have to be buried for their hometown. In the last moments of the record, everyone showed remarkable unity, and many took the initiative to give up the opportunity to board the ship to more important candidates. Scholars, artists, skilled craftsmen, young elites from all walks of life were gathered together to send them to the spaceship, and at the last moment they left their homeland, it is said that when the fleet left the constellation Silverfish, almost everyone saw it, and the overwhelming shadows poured over the colonized planets within the galaxy, and then, a huge darkness swallowed the entire constellation, stars, planets, moons, everything in Silverfish, without even making a sound, was assimilated by the darkness and turned into nothingness. ”

"This is one of the most painful memories of that generation, and they have recorded this history and asked every generation of exiles to remember it and never forget this horrific catastrophe. Ryan smiled self-deprecatingly, shook his head and said, "Actually, it's impossible to forget, even if you really forget, as long as you look back and look at the scene behind you, you will remember everything." ”

"After leaving their homeland, the leaders of the fleet did initially intend to flee to a distant corner of the universe and rebuild our civilization, but the cruel truth dealt us a heavy blow, well, it was simply delusional, because the source of disaster did not spare us at all. ”

"The source of disaster has been expanding, engulfing more and more widely, and the speed of expansion is getting faster and faster, in the first period of time, the speed of our spacecraft can indeed throw the source of disaster far away, after fifty years of sailing at full speed, the probe can no longer detect the sign reading of the source of disaster. Everyone was naïve enough to think that we had escaped the catastrophe and could settle down again, and for a few days the fleet was bustling like a holiday, after all, the exiles had not been so happy for decades. ”

"Fortunately, the leaders of the fleet were not carried away, they maintained the most basic caution, did not start a new landing plan, but chose to let everyone stay on the ship and wait and see the situation for the time being. Thankfully, they made this decision, because a month later, the sign reading of the source of disaster appeared again, and it caught up again, and if the fleet had landed before, it would probably have been too late to get everyone and equipment back on board. ”

"So the fleet immediately got back on its way, and began the long road of exile, never stopping for a long time, and as the source of calamity expanded faster and faster, the fleet could no longer shake it off, no, to be exact, the distance between the two sides was even getting closer, and at some point it would catch up and kill it. ”

"Fortunately, our civilization has not stood still, even on the spaceship, we are constantly researching deep space navigation technology, and almost all scientific research forces are concentrated on this point, and many breakthroughs have been made. As a result, this strange scene has been formed, we are constantly updating our technology and increasing the speed of the ship, and the expansion speed of the source of disaster is also accelerating, we dare not stop, it will not stop, the two sides are racing in the universe, and the battle situation remains a subtle stalemate. ”

"As our generation of exiles grows up, we finally recognize the hopeless truth that there is no hope for our path into exile. We finally understand that the expansion of the source of calamity will not stop at all, it is devouring our universe in large chunks, and we can run away now, but it is likely that one day, we will have no way to escape but to allow ourselves to be swallowed by the source of calamity. ”

"That's why you're asking me, does the void have a boundary?" said Shure thoughtfully, "Indeed, as long as the void eventually has a boundary, sooner or later you will be overtaken. ”

"Yes, that's what we want to know. Ryan said astringently, "In the era of the Brown Star civilization, scholars have been saying that the universe has no beginning and no end, boundless, and is an infinite space, and now we hope that their theory is correct, but everyone understands in their hearts that there is no such concept as truly boundless in the world, and no matter how vast the universe is, there will be an end, even if as you said, we can't understand the concept of the end of the universe, but it does exist after all, which means that our escape is just a lingering breath." ”

"It was an extremely dark time, some people lost hope and silently chose death, some people gave up on themselves, used drugs to anesthetize themselves, and some people even went completely crazy and frantically tried to destroy the spaceship, so that everyone on board died with them, oh, you may not know, 2,000 spaceships, in that ten years, nearly a hundred were lost. ”

"Huh?" Shul raised an eyebrow, "The ship was destroyed?"

"No, not to be destroyed yet, but the power systems of those ships have been damaged and their speed has dropped dramatically. Ryan smiled bleakly, "We haven't heard from them since they fell behind, and we don't want to think about their fate. ”

The shadowchasers were silent, in this life-and-death pursuit, there was obviously only one result of slowing down, and there was no chance of luck.

"So, the Sleep Project has begun. Shuer tapped his thigh lightly, and said thoughtfully, "It's not okay if you don't start it, and sleeping can indeed avoid too many accidents." However, don't you worry that the watchmen will also be affected by despair and do something uncontrollable?"

"Afraid, so the watchmen must choose those who are willing to pay for civilization, and only have second-level clearance. Ryan explained, "The first level of authority is jointly held by all the watchmen of the Combined Fleet, and the central computer of the spaceship will assess the mental state of the watchers at any time, and once it is found that the watchmen's spirit has entered the danger range, it will submit a report to the United Fleet, and the Combined Fleet will jointly decide whether the person can continue to stay in office, fortunately, I have checked the records, and in the past thousand years, no watchman has been impeached, which shows that everyone's feelings for civilization are still difficult to part." ”

"That's our story. Ryan looked back in the direction of the brown star again, although he couldn't see anything from the outer wall, he still sighed deeply, "For more than a thousand years, we have never shaken off the threat of the source of disaster, and we have never found hope, knowing that when you appeared, we thought that your world was our hope, no matter what price we had to pay, as long as we were allowed to escape from this nightmare, we were willing to accept it, but, alas, in the end, it was also empty." I don't doubt your reason for rejecting us, because what you said is very reasonable, and it is indeed just a delusion to want to enter another universe. ”

"I'm sorry. Shul can feel a deep sadness and regret from Ryan and Nina, not despair, their relationship has gone beyond the scope of despair, only sadness full of powerlessness. Even people like Shur couldn't help but be infected by their emotions, and said in a slightly depressed voice, "We really can't help, to be honest, if possible, I'd love to bring Delia back, but even such a simple thing, we can't do it." ”

"You don't have to be sorry, Mr. Shull, it's not your fault. Instead, the two old men began to comfort the shadow chasers, "At least the spark of our civilization is still there, as long as people are alive, there is still hope, compared to the civilization you just mentioned that became its victim, we are still lucky." ”

"Heh, indeed, but I'm afraid this kind of fugitive life is not so safe. Shure shook his head and said, "The people in the dream realm below have mentioned that several floating cities have lost contact with each other for decades, and they say that they have been captured by machines, but I don't think it's that simple. ”

"Alas, you guessed it right, although we have been maintaining the normal operation of the ship, accidents are always inevitable, every once in a while, one or two ships will not be able to continue sailing, if we are lucky, we will find a problem during the rest period, and we can transfer the passengers on the ship to other ships in time, but if we are unlucky, there is a problem on the way to escape, and we can only watch them disappear into the depths of the universe. Ryan sighed, "So we envy your world, where you can live a stable life and don't need to run away like us all day long." ”

"Our world isn't as good as you think. Shur pursed his lips and said in a low voice, "The source of calamity in your mouth is called the Great Void Rift to us, and it ...... But we're old friends from that world. ”