Deep Space Wandering Fleet
Chapter 592 - 588: Too Renowned

Chapter 592: Chapter 588: Too Renowned

"...Has anyone ever brought up in the meeting the idea of going back to have a look?" Lin Xuanyuan leaned against Zhang Yuan while watching TV, and suddenly asked.

"Go back? Go back for what?"

"Hasn’t anyone suggested it? There should be quite a few first-generation people in the meetings."

Zhang Yuan thought for a moment and said, "...It doesn’t seem necessary. After all, it takes time to fly back. Even with warp speed, it would take eight hundred to a thousand years... As for how exactly human beings from our origin have fared, I think, well, we can’t manage too much. We even gave them clues about curvature technology... Isn’t that worth some Amoeba Points at least?"

"The progress of society is not just about technological advancement. If there are difficulties, they should be overcome by themselves."

"If they’ve really become a Sinking Civilization, they might have been swallowed up by Virtual World Technology... Even less reason to go back..."

Lin Xuanyuan fell silent for a while. Giving the original human civilization Virtual World Technology was a very big double-edged sword! They might have gained tremendous development from it, or they could have been harmed by it, falling into the same dilemma as the "Radiant Galaxy human branch."

She could only silently wish that the distant Earth Civilization and other branches could be lucky.

...

A month later, the two had already logged onto the immense Titan Level "Qicheng" spaceship above them and found their own residence.

Inside this large flying disc-shaped spaceship, the living environment was very complex, turning this way and that like a giant maze. However, with the help of the auxiliary brain, remembering these functional areas was not a big problem. It was because of this complex three-dimensional structure that it could accommodate the daily lives of fifty million people.

Before everyone officially began their hibernation, a group of old friends gathered together for one last drink.

Reflecting on the tough journey they had all taken, everyone couldn’t help but sigh. Who would have known, back in the Earth Era, that after spending three thousand years adrift to reach their destination, there would come a day when humans could become a true Fourth-level Civilization?

Back then, a three-thousand-year journey, now, takes just... 10 years!

"Truly unimaginable."

The most show-offish Li Zhendong was the first to start boasting about his team’s achievements. They had invented a way to use fuzzy signals during superluminal travel, which was quite important during curvature navigation.

"All the small spaceships will be mounted on the side of the big spaceship, and taken along. And the six big spaceships will be arranged in a diagonal line..."

"Diagonal line, you guys know."

"Our Qicheng Titan Level will be at the very front, issuing commands to the ships diagonally behind us: stop, accelerate, decelerate, obstacles ahead, and so on."

"Because of the Light Barrier, ships behind can only receive commands from the ships ahead, but can’t issue commands to them. It’s essentially one-way communication."

"So, if a ship in the back has an emergency, it can accelerate to overtake and then send a signal. That’s why the entire fleet will not travel at top speed. At most, it would be 2.5 times the speed of light."

"Hard work, but a great plan!" Zhang Yuan deeply knew how valuable this work was, so Li Zhendong’s boastfulness wasn’t unjustified.

"Cheers to you!"

"Clank," their glasses touched.

Suddenly, some scientists who researched subatomic particles felt a bit annoyed. Li Zhendong only worked on communication, but curvature technology is the real deal!

Even though they only have three times the speed of light now, and planet-level large curvature hasn’t been conquered, their accomplishments shouldn’t be erased!

Zhang Yuan hastily said, "Cheers to you too!"

Zhao Qingfeng there, sniffing and twisting his nose, thought the quark energy chamber was also very important. Without the huge energy from this thing, curvature would be nothing! Wasn’t quark energy also their doing?

"Cheers to you!"

A few experts in the Virtual World were also dissatisfied. Even someone like Yamamoto Ichiro, who was a total shut-in, was rolling his eyes. If it wasn’t for Virtual World Technology, you guys would have died thousands of years ago, and you wouldn’t have the chance to brag here!

Dead, with not even ashes left!

Throw ’em into the Constant Star!

Zhang Yuan immediately understood... this group of people was teaming up to pull one over on him!

Because Old Zhang’s reputation was too grand, overshadowing all the other scientists by more than a little, his fame even reached other civilizations!

In recent times, communication with the Tos Civilization has been through curvature spaceships, not through electromagnetic waves.

The Tos People’s words were full of gratitude for Zhang Yuan; half of the conversation was filled with praise and admiration for "optical perception," then by association praising Zhang Yuan, it would be best to lure him over. If Zhang Yuan could join the Tos Civilization, that would be even better!

The other half of the conversation was about official business...

So these guys were a bit peeved.

"You all are cool or am I cool, huh!" Thinking this, Zhang Yuan slapped the table quite unabashedly.

Everyone burst into laughter.

Speaking of the old friend, the Tos Civilization, it was a shame that they couldn’t act together. But with the future full of countless possibilities, there would always be a time for a reunion.

Suddenly, one scientist waxed philosophical: "Actually, every civilization is quite difficult... Humanity has experienced turmoil in these few hundred years. But who knows what hardships the Tos Civilization has gone through in tens of thousands of years?"

"Without eyes, perhaps on a practical level, they have it much harder than we imagine."

"Yeah." Zhang Yuan nodded in agreement.

"Now that we have gone through so much hardship and finally become a Fourth-level Civilization, how should we reach a Level 5 Civilization?"

"So far, there’s no good way... we can only dabble," Zhang Yuan shook his head. "We still lack a lot. First of all, have you seen a Level 4 Civilization with an average lifespan of six to seven hundred years?"

"That’s pitifully low! A Level 4 Civilization, at least in the Milky Way with decent development, only having six or seven hundred years to live, it’s embarrassing!"

Now the scientists are exhausting all sorts of ideas to extend human life to seven hundred years, but this lifespan still seems too short.

Moreover, even in a society with Deep Blue’s ideology, it’s not possible to instantly match the increasing lifespan—there’s a limit to how much a regular person’s lifespan can increase.

On the other hand, a Transcendent’s lifespan could become higher because Transcendents are better at managing their emotions, have a firmer will, and are more adept at thinking. But without the support of technology, there’s no way to proceed.