“…… Heartland galaxies? ”

The leader of the "Chasing the Light" thought for a moment, and then replied truthfully:

"There are no galaxies near the center at the moment...... It is the 'last home' that only the victor can occupy, and in order to avoid irritating each other, we and the other civilization have chosen to avoid that area. ”

"Although in the end, only one civilization can make it to the end, but now is not the time for us to go to war, and it is only in this matter that we have shown an unprecedented tacit understanding......

“……”

From the mouth of the leader of the "chasing light", Li Wenyuan probably knew the situation.

There have also been some civilizations that were born in the heart of elliptical galaxies, where the density of celestial bodies is much higher than that of the periphery, and the cosmic environment is much harsher, which is theoretically not suitable for the birth of life.

But civilization was born here, and with the beginning of the "Cosmic Battle Royale", it became the first civilization group to be targeted.

The collapse of ethics and morality and the collapse of the interstellar social order have enveloped everyone with extreme emotions.

Everyone knows that the looming darkness is approaching the center of the sphere, and the closer you get there, the more time civilization will have, and the more likely it is to block everyone's retreat.

Even though these civilizations were initially seen as saviors by all civilizations because they had the most time to study solutions, as one method after another failed and the living space was forced to shrink, what was once trust turned into suspicion.

Have they already figured out how to isolate us? Or are they ready to leave and are just trying to hide the news because they don't have enough resources to support everyone to leave?

Eventually, the civilizations closest to the center became the target of public criticism, and were eliminated first, even if no one found the threat from their sources afterwards, but they could not stop.

After that, the galaxy fell into cruel chaos as if it had been cursed by the unwilling souls of these civilizations.

Today, only two of the 460 civilizations that once flourished have been left in the end.

One is the "Chasing the Light", they used to be called the "Chasing the Light", an archaeological civilization dedicated to extraterrestrial exploration, but they were ruined in the Battle Royale, and now they are just a "civilization survival institution".

Another civilization that has reached the end of the battle royale is the "Fire Chaser", a lost empire in the "cradle" galaxy, and the name of the Light Chaser is modeled after this lost empire.

Ironically, however, these two civilizations, with very similar names, ended up being mortal enemies that had to cross each other.

The "Fire Chaser" has fought so far with their profound heritage, while the "Light Chaser" has survived to the present day by relying on their deepest understanding of "Lost Technology".

This is the status quo of the "cradle", or "alpha galaxy beta", where the last two civilizations are locked in a confrontation, testing each other, never moving inward until darkness approaches, and trying to maintain restraint in war.

Because they understand that the next war will be the final battle between life and death.

The situation of the central galaxy is naturally unknown, and the civilization data that was originally near the central galaxy has long been lost in the long escape war, and only by personally searching the central galaxy can we confirm whether there are traces of the "observation terminal".

The reason why Li Wenyuan asked this question was very simple, and when the leader of "Chasing the Light" mentioned the extremely strong noun of "civilization battle royale", he immediately came up with an idea:

Could this be some kind of experimental ground for the "recorders"?

Judging by what they did in Spiral Galaxy Alpha, it is not impossible that the disgusting civilization created such an experiment for the purpose of some kind of sociological research, in order to study "how the collective civilization would react in a shrinking world".

According to the premise that "every galaxy has an 'observation terminal' that they have built", if there is also an "observation terminal" in the "cradle", then this monitor will inevitably react to the shrinking world.

If the experiment had nothing to do with them, the "recorders" would have tried to stop the phenomenon in order not to interrupt the recording, leaving a trail in their wake.

If they were to record the data for the experiment, the "observation terminal" would have been in the center of the galaxy, where the end of the experiment could be observed in the looming darkness.

Searching for the "observation terminal" allows Li Wenyuan to confirm whether this is a "natural disaster" or a "man-made disaster."

However, it is obvious that he has no way of knowing the answer to this matter at present, because from the conversation with the leader of the "Chasing Light", Li Wenyuan found that this remnant civilization has fallen into a state of extreme lack of resources.

In the battle royale of civilization, fixed factories are not needed.

They have developed a new way of interstellar existence, and everything of civilization is housed in countless giant ships, retreating into the inner circle as darkness looms, and gathering all available resources.

But the "Wanderers" are ultimately less productive than the "Settlers", not to mention the fact that they have lost too much of their savings in the Battle Royale.

In the "four-in-two" war, their opponents destroyed their production fleet in a desperate fight, which had an almost devastating effect.

Although they survived the enemy in the end, now they are also in a resource crisis due to the collapse of the production line, and the production that was once able to be done by the ship itself now requires them to send people everywhere to collect it.

Not only that, but they also need to be on guard against the attacks of the "fire chasers", which adds to their already poor living environment.

The current "chasing light" is even on the verge of collapse due to lack of food, and the dignified interstellar civilization will actually starve to death? This made the desperate "light-chasing" leader send out a distress signal again after many years, and the purpose was not to ask for help, but to leave a last word.

Only this time there was really a civilized response to the distress signal.

After learning about the situation over there, Li Wenyuan immediately decided to let some unmanned spacecraft jump over to find clues to the "recorder", and by the way, provide a little help to the "chasing light" civilization.

However, when he wanted to provide a string of coordinates detailed enough to make the jump, he received something that shook his heart.

"It's ......"

The data content does provide extremely detailed coordinates that are sufficient for the jumps, but there are several anomalous parameters.

Li Wenyuan, who is very familiar with the transition, knows that it means that the space-time structure there is extremely weak, and it is "as thin as paper" to describe it vividly.

(End of chapter)