The method of "cocooning" was finally confirmed.

The original gene from the "Fire Chaser" has been eliminated, isolated and inhaled from the mechanical cocoon, sealed into a storage facility, and destroyed only when the time is right.

The "reborn" people did not appear to be unusual, their memories were very clear, and they also passed the "self-awareness" test designed by psychologists.

Even when hypnotized, they are able to firmly believe that they are themselves, almost the same as they were before they entered the mechanical cocoon.

Only the body has undergone some changes, because the aging cells have disappeared, and the "components" of the body are all "new", and people who have completed the "cocooning" seem to have returned to the youngest and healthiest time.

Even an old man, who was about to die before, became a handsome young man with a strong body after "turning into a cocoon", which surprised his wife, who was about the same age as him.

Since then, the collective "evolution" called "cocooning" has officially begun.

The people of the entire "light-chasing" civilization are divided into several batches, and they will gradually complete the transformation of the entire civilization species through multiple "cocoons".

This is a long process, and in order to maintain the normal operation of civilization during the "cocooning", the number of people who perform the "cocooning" at a time will not be too large.

According to scientists' estimates, it could take nearly fifty years.

To do this, they need to move some more distance into the galaxy to avoid the steadily shrinking darkness.

In the end, the "Chasing Light" civilization selected a black hole galaxy called "Burning Ember" to be used as the core galaxy of the current civilization.

Although it is a black hole galaxy, the celestial environment here is quite stable, with only one frozen planet surrounding the extreme edge of the galaxy except for the black hole.

This is a black hole formed before the start of the battle royale, and its age is quite large, according to scientists, the black hole here has been swallowed up by the material in the galaxy tens of millions of years ago, and only the last lone planet is still orbiting the black hole.

Therefore, the black hole that is "swallowable" no longer has an accretion disk and has completely become a non-luminous celestial body, which is also the origin of its "burning ember" name, which means that this is a galaxy that has "burned out".

And the "chasing light" civilization will also experience the transformation of the entire civilization here.

As batch after batch of people entered the "nests" built on various homeland ships, more and more people were reborn.

It stands to reason that the "gap" between species should lead to a certain degree of estrangement at this stage, but not in "chasing the light".

Each group of people who enter the cocoon will be checked for their social relations, and the group that enters the cocoon will be determined by the distance of their social relations.

Although the people are renewed, their relationship is not renewed, and the moment they enter the mechanical cocoon, their relationship is frozen, and it is not activated again until the "cocoon" is over.

This also makes people who have "cocooned" not feel any social discomfort, and they will not even know that their neighbors are actually "cocooned" with them if they don't take the initiative to ask.

And the benefit they can get from "turning into a cocoon", in addition to "reliving again", the biggest is the relaxation of the mind.

The original genes of the "Fire Chaser" have brought them many benefits, but they have also brought countless scars and stress.

Although this is actually an illusion brought about by the innovation of body parts, they all subconsciously attribute it to some kind of "idealistic" feeling.

There are still "invisible darknesss" shrinking outside the galaxy, but many people have felt that the "mark" has been removed, and the universe itself seems to have stopped paying attention to them.

The "Shrinking Space Observatory", which has never stopped observing the fringe galaxies, also received gratifying news, that is, they confirmed that the speed of "contraction" has slowed down, which is probably related to the elimination of the "primitive gene" in their body.

This incident has invigorated the "light-chasing" civilization, and they feel that a bright future is so close to them like never before.

It was also when their "cocooning" was in the final stage that the fleet of the "Fire Chaser" also came here.

They had already known about the Flame Chaster's approach to the Ember system, and although it had initially attracted their attention, they had gradually become aware of it as more and more test results came in.

- The "fire chaser" is self-killing.

It is different from their suicide in the philosophical sense of "cocooning", but the real self-destruction of erasing all traces of the existence of their own civilization.

The universe's blockade of the "Fire Chaser" is more conceptual, with no genes or material entities.

This is a kind of causal theory, the "fire chasers" were originally born and developed in the previous era, they were destroyed with the big bang of the universe, they were originally "dead souls", and now they are only waiting for their "belated demise".

And this extinction is also the premise that "chasing the light" can be preserved, and only when they completely disappear, the law of "cosmic contraction" that surrounds the entire "cradle" galaxy will disappear.

"Is it finally this day...... "Chasing the Light" leader slowly got up in the office and looked out the window at the sky of the homeship.

At this time, more and more plant ships are arriving in the "Burning Ash" system, which have defeated countless opponents, and the flames of war have left countless traces on their organic shells.

But now, the plants that were once full of life have been dead for a long time, and they are about to meet their last "burn".

Along with the plant ship, there is also a planet covered in a large number of translucent plants and ruins of buildings.

It was the home planet of the Flame Chaser, a "living planet" that moved with an unknown power, but the plants on it were no longer active, and even the fluorescence that would have been emitted had been extinguished.

They came from the other side of the galaxy, far away from the home ship of the "Light Chaser", and all of them headed for their destination, the black hole in the center.

And at the end of this "death" fleet is the "Dawn Star" homeland ship covered with vegetation.

It seems that it is the "fire chasers" on this homeland ship that have gathered all the "fire chasers" so that his compatriots will not die in silence.

The first plant spacecraft entered the gravitational range of the black hole and was quickly torn apart by tidal forces, and the wreckage swirled around the black hole and shattered more and more as the distance approached, until a small accretion disk was formed.

More and more spacecraft are joining the bandwagon, invariably approaching the black hole, and then being shattered and torn apart, like moths chasing fire, knowing the end of the road, but still not looking back.

The accretion disk also grew larger and larger as the material accumulated, until it reached its peak when the home star of the "Fire Chaser" was also torn apart.

The high-speed friction between the substances heats up, and soon begins to release a large amount of energy outward.

Although the black hole itself does not emit light, its accretion disk will, at this moment, the black hole act like a star, spreading light and heat into the universe.

The glaciers on the farthest frozen planet in the Ember system are also showing signs of melting as more and more energy arrives.

The water began to flow, revealing plant seeds that had been frozen beneath the glacier for thousands of years, and they seemed to represent new life and the future.

There were fewer and fewer plant ships, and the accretion disks were getting brighter and brighter, and soon only the Dawn Star was left as a home ship.

In the Homeship, the "Solar Engineer" disguised as the "Fire Chaser" is still sitting on the bud, as if the posture of the last time has never changed.

The spaceship was about to be put into the act of "putting out the fire", but at this time, the "solar engineer", as if talking to himself, said to the empty tower observation deck:

“…… I'm sorry, but you'...... You don't have to ...... with us."

The voice was apologetic, as if another life was speaking.

However, the Solar Engineer suddenly laughed, as if he had changed again.

"But can't it be helped? Who's to say that I'm the one who just needs to be missing...... But it doesn't matter, I'm a nobody, and I feel honored to have this opportunity to leave my name in history. ”

With that, he stood up and looked into the distance.

The accretion disk is getting closer and closer to the ship, and the light that is shining into the ship is getting brighter and brighter.

It's like the sunrise at dawn.

And the figure of the solar engineer also faded with the light.

Before he was completely enveloped, he remembered something, and then said with a smile:

"I almost forgot, I came to repair the sun."

The brilliance erupted, and the last "fire chaser" also burned in the accretion disk, and the darkness that shrouded the "cradle" slowly dissipated at this moment.

(End of chapter)