Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 768 Time Smooths Everything

The human probe continued to explore deeper into the tomb, but found nothing else useful. There were indeed various things in this civilization tomb, but none of them were useful for humans to translate the text wall on the distant ship.

At first, humans were thinking about whether there were any intact equipment inside, but the result made everyone silent. Various small detectors entered the tomb of civilization and wandered around, entering any cracks or holes, but all they saw were pieces of broken pieces that collapsed at the touch of a finger.

The warships have all decayed, the spaceships have all rotted, and each ship is full of holes. The metal materials on them have undergone natural molecular diffusion due to their age. The various structures of the ship that originally had distinct materials have been stuck together at the joints. This phenomenon is because the different structural materials have been stuck together for too long, causing molecular diffusion to occur.

Everything inside the ship was unrecognizable and had become a blur of ruins.

Old, devastated, stale, decrepit, full of holes, and dilapidated, with a smell of decay overwhelming the air.

The instruments and equipment could only roughly distinguish the shape, and no equipment could keep running. In such a huge tomb of civilization, humans could not even detect the location of an electric potential difference.

All its energy facilities have shut down, all instruments and equipment are no longer working, and as for the life forms inside the ship, it is impossible to even tell whether they are living beings or not. They have all returned to dust.

Time seems to be using this ruin to prove its power to mankind.

Time will eventually bring everything to silence, everything will be smoothed out in the increase of entropy, and everything will die.

A civilization that could easily cross the stars perished with reluctance and helplessness. The information they left behind with all their efforts also gradually disappeared under the power of time.

If humans had not come here, it is estimated that no civilization would know that such a civilization had been here and tried hard to leave its own information in the universe at the last moment of its demise.

Unfortunately, things did not go as planned. Humans were unable to read the text that was arranged by countless warships like a QR code. It was already very powerful for humans to be able to recognize that it was some kind of text. In other words, this fourth-level civilization failed to leave its name after its final effort.

Apart from the fact that humans know that there is such an unknown civilization trapped and died in the Pioneer microcosm, they did not leave any information about how they were born, which star field their civilization came from, what the environment of their home star was like, what their experience was like in developing from a low-level civilization to a star-level civilization, what form their individual lives took, what technologies they were good at, what interesting things they experienced during their growth, what astronomical phenomena they discovered, and how they came to this microcosm.
No one knows all the experiences of this civilization, the love, hate, and vengeance of individual lives within it, and any information about its interactions with other civilizations.

Whether they were once a powerful civilization or an unknown civilization, whether they were a benevolent civilization or a malicious civilization, everything has been transformed in the long river of time.

Sad, deplorable!
Humans searched several times but found nothing else to help decipher the ship's text wall. Human linguists also tried every possible way to decipher the patterns made up of ships that looked like QR codes, but ultimately failed to understand their meaning.

In the end, humans could only quietly preserve the images as a souvenir.

"We don't know what civilization you are, nor can we understand the meaning of the message you left behind, but we just know that you have come to this universe. Rest in peace, unfortunate unknown civilization."

Humans silently offer belated prayers to this unknown in their hearts, which is of course just a form of mourning. There is no god or master in this universe, and perhaps such mourning is just self-comfort and self-warning in the hearts of humans. Because now no one dares to guarantee that they will not follow in the footsteps of the unlucky unknown.

With countless emotions, everyone on the Lyra gradually turned their eyes away from the picture. Only the language experts had not given up. They were still trying to understand the patterns of the ships that were already difficult to distinguish, hoping to read something from them that would be useful for humans to find the Pioneer legacy.

In fact, this unfortunate unknown civilization not only left behind this distorted ship text, but also told humans the approximate era in which they lived.

Of course, they did not really tell humans this, but humans learned about it through their own technical means, after detecting and dating the remains of unknown civilizations.

This fleet of unknown civilization should have arrived here 2 to 2.2 billion years ago. For such ancient archaeology, an error of 200 million years is actually very accurate. Just like human archaeology of the ancient era of the earth, an error of one million years is normal, especially in geological surveys.

Two billion years! Compared with the history of the earth, such a long time must be the same era as blue algae.

After obtaining this archaeological information, some experts came up with an argument that was only a guess but no evidence, namely: this unfortunate unknown civilization may not belong to the category of the new generation of civilization defined by the pioneers, so even if they could get in, they would not find anything.

This certainly does not stand up to scrutiny. Not to mention that there was a billion-year gap between the time when the pioneers embarked on their great voyage and the time when this Level-IV civilization came in, even if time is used to determine whether it is a Cenozoic civilization, then this Level-IV civilization should not even be able to obtain the key to the microcosm.

Unless it is true as conspiracy theorists say: the pioneers created this situation just to destroy the new generation of civilization.

This is obviously impossible. Perhaps the pioneers just wanted to tell the inherited civilization about the dangers of the universe.

Unable to find more clues from the ruins, humans are helpless and can only send out more detectors to continue searching.

This time, they were not searching aimlessly, but exploring each large rhombus crystal one by one. As for the empty space, there was nothing to find, but humans were observing the various monochromatic lights in space in another way.

The purpose is still the same as before, hoping to find clues from it.

Time passed year after year, and humans tried every possible means but still failed to find any clues. However, they received an unexpected fleet.

When human detectors discovered them, the fleet also discovered that they had been detected.

Humans are very familiar with the affiliation of this fleet. It is undoubtedly the Orange Star Civilization Fleet. However, they don’t even know when they broke through the maze and arrived in the microcosm.

(End of this chapter)