Chapter 321: Connected World

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

[15th year of the pioneering era, September. Exploration team.]

[Twenty-five years have passed since the discovery of the New World. During this period of time, the international government had no choice but to form a coalition government under increasing public pressure. At least in form, our planet has been unified.]

[So our species actually has such noble morals? They can give up all their previous views and differences for a longer-term goal and walk towards an alliance?]

[Perhaps it’s because they’ve had enough of endless internal strife.]

[All in all, the first exploration plan has been put on the agenda.]

[1 do not know if the other civilizations in this universe have encountered similar things. But if that’s the case, then we have undoubtedly fallen behind them for too long. And who is the civilization that created these countless wormholes?]

[Our detector can’t determine if the other side of the wormhole is a trap or a new world, but I’m willing to take a gamble. 1 have to consider if this is our only chance in this life.]

[If we succeed, it will be a promising future. If we fail, it will only be our lives.] “—Hey! Planetologist, your days of writing in the spaceship log are over. Give me the recorder.”

The planetologist’s record suddenly stopped, but he didn’t care. Instead, he said with a smile, “If you want it, come and get it yourself…”

This was something they often did when they were passing through the wormhole. During the boring interstellar space journey, human interaction was a rare seasoning.

Even if there was a recreation room on the spaceship, long-term loneliness was enough to cause mental problems.

The estimated time spent on this wormhole travel was one year, and their mother planet was still researching how to shorten this time.

It was said that sharpening a knife would not delay the cutting of firewood, but the world on the other side of the wormhole still made them too curious. Even when wormhole travel technology was developed, it took ten years to cross the wormhole, there was a group of people who could not resist the desire to explore. They were even willing to travel for 20 years.

But in the end, under the strong dissuasion of more scientists, this group of people barely managed to wait until the current one-year journey and became the first batch of vanguards. Planetologists were among them.

According to the time, their wormhole journey was about to come to an end. A total of eight scientists with their own directors returned to their posts at this time and seriously checked the various values of the instruments in front of them.

After a period of time, with the abnormal bumping of the spaceship, everyone realized that they had arrived at their destination. The instruments that could not work normally in the wormhole started working again and quickly provided first-hand data.

“…The background data of the universe hasn’t changed much. We can basically confirm that it’s still in this galaxy.”

“The state of the wormhole is also normal. We can get the drones to go back and report.”

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Every scientist reported their results. Only one person had a strange expression on his face because he had discovered something.

“…Strange, here… The detection wave 1 just shot out has an unbelievable faster-than-light phenomenon when passing by a certain place…”

Before everyone could be surprised by this, the instrument on the spaceship suddenly showed a disturbance. Even the lights inside the spaceship flickered as if something was interfering with the normal operation of the spaceship.

Although this abnormality quickly disappeared, it still made everyone on the spaceship suspicious.

The planetologist’s expression was also solemn. He believed that this was done by an advanced civilization, and they had trespassed into their territory.

“… As expected, the universe is still dark… It’s a pity that we can’t blow up the wormhole passage. Our civilization will not have any light in the future…”

At this moment, his heart was a little gloomy. The hope that was ignited by the wormhole channel was extinguished.

Although he was a staunch member of the Dark Forest faction, and this hypothesis was also proposed by him, he had always yearned for a charismatic interstellar space stage. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have personally participated in this advanced journey.

Now, it seemed that everything was over. They would be destroyed by this advanced civilization, and their civilization would be found. Slavery was already a good ending. At worst, everyone would become food for the alien civilization or hunt for entertainment.

Just as they were feeling hopeless, a communication request popped up uncontrollably on the central screen of the spaceship control room.

This civilization had deciphered their systems and their words. To be able to complete all of this in such a short period of time, it was obvious that the other party was much stronger than them.

However, such an advanced civilization still requested to connect to them and showed them enough respect.

Puzzled, the planetologist picked up the call and realized that the other party was an alien, but he seemed to be very happy about their arrival.

“Friends, did you also come from the other side of the Heavenly Chasm? 1 believe you’ve been restricted by that damned speed of light for a long time, right? It doesn’t matter! After coming here, everything will cease to exist!”

“I’m a member of the Alliance of Joint Pursuers. At the same time, I’m also one of the Ancient River People. I’m in charge of receiving all the civilizations from there. I know you must have a lot of questions, but listen to me slowly.”

“When the wormhole first appeared, many civilizations that we don’t know came here and discovered the existence of the hyperspace channel here.”

“We quickly encountered each other through this magical space. At first, we still had the idea of being on the other side and were hostile to each other until we discovered a galaxy. It recorded the suffering of us, our ancestors, and our ancestors.”

“We know the truth. We know there’s a civilization here who takes pleasure in fooling us.”

“Rage ignited us, and we began to unite, vowing to destroy the civilization that had caused all this.”

“Now that we’ve done it, we understand that we’re actually all victims. There’s still a civilization in the distant universe that’s watching us. It’s the culprit.”

“In order not to repeat the mistakes of the darkness, we formed an alliance and tried to seek the help of every civilization, whether it was to fight potential threats or to preserve ourselves.”

“Are you… willing to move forward with us for this ideal?”

At this point, the negotiator of the Alliance extended his hand and looked at everyone expectantly.

The other scientists looked at each other, not knowing what to do.

Only the planetologist strode forward and came to the central screen.

At this moment, his eyes were no longer filled with doubt and fear, as if everything around him could harm him. Instead, they were filled with hope. It could even be said that his eyes were filled with tears.

He was the most opposed to all of this, but he also hoped for all of this the most. Conflicting emotions were hidden in his heart. In the past, he would admit the darkness for the sake of civilization, but now he felt that he had already seen the day of his dream.

Hence, when he touched the screen, he held the alien’s hand. Even though his fingertips were touching a cold electronic screen, he felt a heart-wrenching heat.

The Dark Forest was already a thing of the past. Now, this place was a connected world..