Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 766 A Grave of Civilization
It has to be said that the pioneers really like to set up tests. After humans entered the real microcosm, they still did not discover what they left behind. The scene detected by the detector was just like the previous maze, full of diamond crystals.

There are differences, but it seems that the diamond-shaped crystals are just enlarged, and each diamond-shaped crystal contains a red dwarf star.

After getting such detection results, Yue Yuan even suspected that it was still a maze, and a bigger one. Because as time went on, humans got more and more information about this small universe, and they also learned the approximate size of the small universe.

Its diameter is approximately 937 light-years.

It is too big. With the third-generation warp speed technology that humans have mastered today, it would take at least 25 years to travel from one end to the other. Compared with the hundreds of years of sailing in the past, it is short, but it is very long for humans with limited resources.

And trying to find something left behind by the pioneers in such a huge microcosm seems to be like looking for a needle in a haystack. Just thinking about it makes one feel so desperate.

At this moment, many people have the urge to curse.

Just give the thing if you want to. If you don't give it directly, you really won't be able to solve the mystery and find the thing, and you'll probably end up ruining yourself.

If Yue Yuan had known that this was such a pitfall, he would never have come back no matter what he said. But now that things have come to this, time cannot be reversed, so he can only bite the bullet and go on.

But where to start?
The leadership and relevant scientists on the Humanity's First Fleet, the Lyra, held several rounds of meetings and ultimately decided to start the analysis from the monochromatic light refracted by each large diamond-shaped crystal, because before the meeting, humans had already tried several large diamond-shaped crystals, all of which were solid.

Therefore, most experts believe that the secret should be hidden in the spectra of different types of monochromatic light. Therefore, they plan to repeat the old trick, let the detector collect spectral information, and then use the computer to summarize and analyze it to see if there are any clues.

Humans feel that the pioneers have already been tested once, and if this test is again, it may not be the same as last time, otherwise it would be meaningless.

Therefore, some people believe that there is actually no test at all. Perhaps it won’t be long before the intelligent system left by the pioneers will come to them on its own. After all, humans have passed the test and entered the microcosm, and they are already qualified successors.

I have to say that this statement does make some sense, but in the eyes of most people it is just a flat statement.

However, just as humans were still struggling to explore all possible information, the probe sent back a piece of information, or an image, that shocked everyone.

It is a place about sixty-four light years away from where the human first fleet is now, specifically next to a large diamond-shaped crystal.

At first, the detector only found that the light emitted by the large diamond-shaped crystal was a little abnormal, but when it took a closer look, it found that this place was very different from other places.

There, the probe captured a pile of ruins, or more precisely, a pair of ruins formed by dilapidated spaceships, warships and various space junk.

When they saw the warship for the first time, Yue Yuan and his companions were shocked. They thought they had encountered a dynamic picture civilization or an Orange Star civilization. After zooming in on the video, they found that it was actually a ruin.

As the probe got closer and closer, subsequent probes also came here from all directions to conduct exploration, and humans gradually saw the appearance of this ruin. Looking at the overall situation, it is probably composed of a fleet of 180 million ships of various types. Judging from the initial alien structure of the ships, 40 million of them may be warships, and the other 140 million should be a collection of various types of spacecraft.

They all have one thing in common, that is, all the spaceships are planetary battleships.

Although their ships were much smaller than human warships, only about three-quarters of their size, they were undoubtedly planetary warships. In other words, this was a fleet of a Level 4 civilization, no. Judging from the number, it might even be an entire Level 4 civilization.

The entire fleet orbits around the large translucent diamond-shaped crystal, very close yet in a stable orbit. The ruins of all the warships and other creations are like countless floating leaves, moving in an orbit as large as a star.

Probably because it’s too old, the original appearance of many things can no longer be seen in the picture. Of course, the shapes of creations like battleships and spaceships can still be discerned.

Based on this, after collecting enough data, humans began to use advanced computer technology to restore the image. This object restoration is not a random restoration, but a quasi-restoration in time based on various detailed information of the current object.

Of course, it is not a true restoration, but a computer simulation based on strong artificial intelligence.

As the screen refreshed several times, humans saw a glimpse of the passing scene of this level 4 civilization fleet. However, the more they looked, the more frightened they became.

Because everyone saw a series of shocking and horrifying scenes.

This fleet seemed to have experienced the experience that humans had casually mentioned not long ago. All 180 million ships were gathered on a large diamond lattice, and then deployed solar panels there. These solar panels were very familiar to humans. They were exactly the same as the solar panels developed in the 21st century, but here they were used in space.

The light-receiving surfaces of all solar panels face the rhombus crystals, using the poor photoelectric effect to obtain energy.

In the images partially restored based on detailed information, humans saw that all the ships in this fleet had stopped moving, their warp engines had been extinguished for who knows how many years, and no antimatter annihilation scenes were seen.

They are like pieces of Dyson clouds, rotating around the diamond-shaped crystals, discovered by humans from the ancient past to the present.

Due to the lack of detailed exploration, humans currently do not know how many years this ruin has been around, but judging from the appearance of the ships that have been completely changed, it is probably more than tens of millions of years old.

As the probes observed deeper and deeper, humans gradually formed their own judgment on this area of ​​ruins.

They seemed to be a level 4 civilization that entered this small universe many years ago, and then they had been here for many years before an energy crisis finally occurred. As a result, the entire civilization gathered around the diamond-shaped crystal that sealed the red dwarf star for warmth, as if they wanted to survive the most difficult time.
This civilization must have come in to look for the legacy of the pioneers, but they ultimately failed. They were trapped in this vast small universe and could only hug the nearby stars for warmth. Then, for some unknown reason, they perished.

"A grave of civilization" someone murmured when seeing this.

(End of this chapter)