Time flies, and more than 20 years have passed in the blink of an eye.

That's not even a second on an interstellar scale, and it's just a short break for an eternal life.

But for a civilization that is undergoing a transformation, it is enough to make a sea change.

The "Tianxing Empire", which lasted for more than a million years, was destroyed and became a handful of loess in history.

And a large number of civilizations from the "lower three spiral arms" stepped on the corpse of the "Celestial Empire" and began their life in the "new world".

In the process of destroying their "enemies", these civilizations find that their enemies seem to be a little too weak.

Although the opponent's technological level has the upper hand compared to them, the warships pulled out are all old-fashioned antiques, and even the missiles with conventional charges can deal effective damage, which makes them think that the "Skywalker Empire" is nothing more than a twilight decliner, and it is just a natural geographical advantage that this civilization can amuse them.

However, when the "Celestial Empire" was about to be destroyed, many scientists in these civilizations still discovered anomalies.

That is, their enemies do have a large number of space starports, but they are basically in a state of paralysis after destruction, and they all bear a lot of traces of new melee fire, it is clear that there was a civilization that once had a war with the "Skywalker Empire" and defeated the "Skywalker Empire", and they were the later vested interests.

Eventually, one thing they had forgotten because they were busy with the war was recalled, and that was the person who opened the wormhole near their home planet?

Everything points to the mysterious civilization that defeated the "Celestial Empire", but no one can come up with a reason, and they don't understand why the other party brought them to the "upper three spiral arms".

The people of Furukawa were the only ones who had some kind of conjecture, and they remembered the civilization that had not shied away from scanning their home planet, and all their means of resistance were easily resolved by the other party.

But just when they thought civilization was going to die, the other party left suddenly, using their incomprehensible faster-than-light means, and it took them a long time to recover from the panic of the "alien invasion".

The advent of wormhole navigation has given them a whole new way to travel the stars, but the people of Furukawa are still consciously gathering information about that mysterious civilization. The only thing that is known is that when the civilization moves faster than the speed of light, it will leave a brief fragmented space-time structure in place.

Even if it only lasts for a subtle amount and will soon be repaired by the universe, their efforts to detect that the space-time structure there has weakened a little.

In doing so, the Furukawa eventually discovered a large number of these weakened space-time structures in a galaxy strewn with the remains of the Celestial Empire's warships, leading them to believe that the mysterious civilization did all this.

As for the reason......

“…… It can't be that he can't get used to what the 'Skywalker Empire' is doing and decide to sweep away a piece of garbage for the universe, right? ”

In the historical research institute of the "Celestial Empire", an expert on the archaeology of the ancient river people is studying the documents here, and at the same time answering questions from the scholars of the bewildering stars.

"Where in the communication between civilizations, decisions are made solely on the basis of likes and dislikes? It's all interests, there are no eternal friends, and there are no eternal enemies, this is the truth that we realized when we were still trapped on the planet......"

The Confuser is noncommittal, his civilization has joined the United Seekers Alliance, and he has participated in the work of sorting out the history of the "Skywalker Empire" as a scholar of extraterrestrial civilizations.

He feels that the current galaxy is moving in an unprecedented direction, and there may really be "eternal friends" in the future.

"Recently, I heard that the Joint Research Institute found a lot of good things in the database of the 'Skywalker Empire', one of which is related to wormholes, but what makes them a little puzzled is that there seem to be a lot of technology in it that should not be researched by the 'Skywalker Empire'...... Hey? It's ......"

The scholars of the Furukawa people chatted about the recent events within the Alliance, but suddenly found something in the materials and let out a voice of confusion.

"This seems to be a manuscript left by a poet who worked for many years at the Deep Space Listening Station, listening to all cosmic signals and recording useful information in them."

"Before he died, he left behind an 'extraterrestrial mystery' where he said he received a distress call from about five million light-years away, and that there was a galaxy that seemed to be being eaten away by something terrifying."

"However, this incident was eventually determined to be a miscalculation, because there are about 500,000 light-years away, 2 million light-years, and 10 million light-years away galaxies, but there are no galaxies that are 5 million light-years away."

"It's just that the poet insisted that it all existed, and asked the civilized government to be prepared for it, because similar incidents were likely to happen to them, and he himself was dismissed for being considered mentally ill."

"Since then, the poet has changed his poetic style, and has practiced doomsdayism, believing that the universe will be destroyed in contraction, like that galaxy......"

“…… What a terrifying eschatology, the current mainstream theory is that the universe is expanding endlessly, but it is not impossible for him to say that the universe will expand to the limit and begin to retract and return to the singularity state......"

The scholar of the Furukawa people sighed, and then continued indifferently:

"But this unsolved mystery probably has nothing to do with us, we haven't even dealt with the affairs of our own galaxy, how can we talk about things outside the galaxy?"

Listening to his words, the Puzzled Star Scholar felt a little uneasy in his heart, because he always felt that this seemed to be some kind of future direction.

He unconsciously looked at the sky, where countless stars were shining.

And on one of the planets, there is such a large glowing ball doing something similar.

He is Li Wenyuan, who is working hard to solve the outstanding issue of the "shrinking world".

He'd built the "Beacon of Pilot" and the "Pseudo-Listening Outpost" to connect with that world, but he hadn't heard anything out of the ordinary.

Not only that, but from his observation from an optical observatory, he did not find any galaxies on a scale of 5 million light years, which seems to indicate that the "elliptical galaxy beta" disappeared 5 million years ago.

However, fortunately, by detecting the "gravitational anomaly", he still found that there was a large group of massive celestial bodies at the level of a galaxy, but it may have been blocked by interstellar dust, so it could not be directly "observed".

But the fact that he couldn't hear anything abnormal still made Li Wenyuan wonder if the "Elliptical Galaxy Beta" had been destroyed, after all, after so much time had passed, this possibility was not impossible.

So he decided to wait a little longer, and if he still couldn't get in touch with that side, he could only regretfully declare that the pending matter of the "shrinking world" could not be resolved.

And the emperor lived up to his wishes, and it was also in the twentieth year after Li Wenyuan began to monitor the work, that he finally heard a faint distress signal from the beta of the elliptical galaxy.

[This is the "chasing light" civilization survival institution, our world is on the verge of extinction, and now we will broadcast our history together, hoping to have a fate...... At the very least, it will keep us from disappearing from the universe completely......]

(End of chapter)