Chapter 317: The Legacy of Chasing Fire
The history of the "Fire Chaser" has come to an end, but the history of "Chasing the Light" has just begun.
As the "end" of this cosmic battle royale, the death of the "Fire Chaser" completely interrupted the contraction of the "cradle" galaxy.
When the "Dawn Star" homeship also turned into a dazzling light, the darkness that had been threatening the entire "cradle" stopped shrinking.
It may be because this contraction is mainly aimed at the "fire chasers", and until the last group of "light chasers" have completed the "cocooning", the "shrinking space observation ships" on the border have not detected any signs of darkness approaching.
They don't know if their device isn't sensitive enough to detect subtle "shrinkage" marks.
In short, until everyone was given a new life, the "Shrinking Space Observation Ship" located on the border was not recalled.
They may become a monument to the sad history of the galaxy, standing like an everlasting torch on the edge of the galaxy, a constant reminder of the suffering that came after them.
It took a few more weeks for the "light-chasing" civilization to recover from the current situation of "the end of the crisis".
The beast that chased them all the time was gone, and they no longer had to live under the same pressure as they once did.
But people who have become accustomed to this life are still a little confused, until the government introduces the "Planetary Recovery Plan".
In order to stop the approach of darkness, all the stars in the "cradle" galaxy were converted into black holes, which caused the entire galaxy to become non-luminous objects.
Without the light and heat of the stars, the first to suffer is the Gaia planet.
Although Planet Gaia has a strong ability to adapt to the environment, it can't withstand the low temperature of more than minus 200 degrees.
Even if the planet Gaia uses the greenhouse effect to keep warm in the first place, it will be difficult to resist the natural forces of the universe, and it may be okay to do so in a short time, but what about tens of millions of years?
The possibility of sustaining life before a complete "heat death" may only be possible on some kind of truly "living" planet Gaia.
Of course, the reason for this is that the planet Gaia's own ability to regulate has not been able to keep up with the changes in the environment of the universe.
As long as an external force intervenes, artificially provides energy to the planet Gaia, and designs an ecosystem, then the planet can maintain normal operation even if there are no stars.
In the past, due to the influence of the "shrinking universe", few civilizations would spend a lot of effort to colonize completely frozen planets, because planets always have to be abandoned, and permanently frozen environments are difficult to develop.
Over time, almost all civilizations have simply used things like homeships, and planets have become places to gather resources.
But now, after the "shrinking world" crisis is completely resolved, a sufficiently intact settlement is still much better than a homeland ship, both in terms of population carrying capacity and industrial processing environment, much better than a moving spaceship.
As a result, under the banner of "recovering their homeland", the "chasing light" civilization began a huge "planetary recovery plan", vowing to turn those frozen planets into their homes again.
And this plan starts with the frozen planet in the "Burning Ash" galaxy.
The light and heat emitted by the black hole's accretion disk melted some of the glaciers, and some of the higher elevations have even been exposed, making them natural landing sites.
On this day, the leader of the civilization who "chased the light" was the first to set foot on this thawed land.
He was one of the middle in the "cocoon" program, and decades of waiting did not make him old, but became much younger because of the new life, and he even felt that he could be a leader for hundreds of years longer.
In good health, as the supreme leader of civilization, he decided to personally participate in this "planetary recovery plan" to inspire people.
After stepping on the land of the planet for a long time, most of the dark brown soil and a few ice and snow that have not yet melted, although there is a dead silence, the leader knows that this place will be the beginning of new life in the future.
He was followed by his assistant, with a document from the council in his hand, and after hurrying to the leader's side, the assistant whispered:
“…… The parliament thinks that after the crisis is resolved, can it change the name of civilization and try to be auspicious. ”
"Look, these are a few of the names they mentioned......"
The leader took the document and looked at it, and the expression on his face quickly turned bad.
"What is the name of this, what is the 'Light-Chaser Science Society', what is the 'Light-Chaser Cosmic Revival Agency'......"
He threw the file back to his assistant, but he already had an idea in mind.
"We are the last survivors here, and we carry not only ourselves on our shoulders, but also the more than 400 civilizations that have passed away, including the 'Fire Chasers' who brought everything."
"The name of 'Chasing the Light' is very good, but we can really change it, we don't need to change it more, just call it - the Light Chaser."
"We will always chase the light until the end of our lives."
"Fire Chaser" and "Light Chaser", two civilizations with very similar names, seem to have taken over the torch of civilization at this moment and continue to move forward in this "cosmic race".
The Fire Chasers perished, but their history will be preserved by the Light Chasers, who will march with this nascent civilization until they die.
The story of the "cradle" seems to be over here, but the story of the universe continues.
A spaceship carrying the primordial genes stripped from the Lightchaser approached the "Burning Ember Black Hole", and due to the danger of the accretion disk that was still emitting energy, the ship should have thrown those primordial genes into the black hole to destroy them after approaching a certain distance.
However, when the box of classified objects containing the original genes had flown towards the black hole and was completely torn apart by the black hole's gravity in the monitor, the ship still showed no signs of leaving, as if it had been controlled by something.
Needless to say, this matter must have been done by Li Wenyuan.
It would have been time for him to shift his focus from this distant "cradle" galaxy after the "shrinking world" was completely over.
However, after the "Fire Chaser" actively threw itself into the black hole and was torn apart by gravity, he detected a very special signal through the "listening terminal", which continued to shoot out of the accretion disk.
There was a lot of noise in the universe, not to mention that it was five million light-years away, and if he hadn't completely locked on the entire "cradle" galaxy, he wouldn't have noticed this string of signals at all.
The reason why this string of signals is special is that he found that this signal contains some kind of strange law, like some hidden information.
And after his careful matching and attempted decryption, he found that this kind of signal can indeed be deciphered if it is decrypted against the "fire chaser"!
At this moment, "whether this is a 'swan song' tailored for himself by the 'fire chaser'" has become Li Wenyuan's subconscious doubt.
But after gradually completing the interpretation of the information, Li Wenyuan locked his eyes on the black hole itself, a seemingly inconspicuous but permeable celestial body.