Chapter 322 - Chapter 322: SOS Signal

Chapter 322: SOS Signal

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

Time passed in a flash, and in the blink of an eye, more than 20 years had passed.

This number was not even a second in the interstellar space. It was just a short rest for immortal life.

However, for a civilization that was changing, it was enough to cause a world-shaking change.

The Skywalker Empire, which had lasted for more than a million years, was destroyed and became a pile of yellow soil in history.

Many civilizations from the lower three spiral arms stepped on the corpses of the Skywalker Empire and began their new life.

In the process of destroying their enemies, these civilizations found that their enemies seemed to be a little too weak.

Although the other party’s technological level was superior to theirs, the warships they pulled out were all old antiques. Even conventional missiles could cause effective damage. This made them think that the Skywalker Empire was just a declining civilization that was born with geographical advantages that could make fun of them.

However, when the Skywalker Empire was about to be destroyed, many scientists in these civilizations still discovered something abnormal.

Their enemies did have a large number of spaceports, but they were paralyzed after destruction, and there were many traces of recent war. It was obvious that a civilization had once fought with the Skywalker Empire and defeated the Skywalker Empire, and they were the later beneficiaries.

In the end, they recalled something that they had forgotten because they were too busy with the war. Who was the person who opened the wormhole near their mother planet?

Everything pointed to the mysterious civilization that defeated the Skywalker Empire, but no one could figure out why they were brought to the upper three spiral arms.

Only the Ancient River People had some guesses. They remembered the civilization that did not shy away from scanning their mother planet. All their means of resistance were easily dealt with by the other party.

However, just as they thought that civilization was about to be destroyed, the other party suddenly left just like that, using superluminal methods that were difficult for them to analyze. It took them a long time to recover from the panic of the alien invasion.

The appearance of the wormhole travel gave them a brand-new method of interstellar space travel, but the Ancient River People were still consciously collecting information about that mysterious civilization. The only thing they knew was that after that civilization moved faster than light, they would leave behind a temporary broken space-time structure.

Even if it only lasted for less than a minute and was quickly repaired by the universe, they could still find that the space-time structure there had weakened a little.

With this, the Ancient River People finally discovered a large number of these weakened space-time structures in a galaxy filled with the remains of the Skywalker Empire’s battleships. This made them think that this was done by the mysterious civilization.

As for the reason…

“It can’t be that they can’t stand what the Skywalker Empire is doing and decided to clean up the trash for the universe, right?”

In the Skywalker Empire’s historical research institute, an Ancient River People archaeology specialist was studying the documents here while answering the planetologist’s question.

“When civilizations communicate, how can they make decisions based on their likes and dislikes of good and evil? It’s all about benefits. There are no eternal friends or eternal enemies. This is a principle that we comprehended when we were still trapped on the planet…”

The planetologist did not comment on this. His civilization had already joined the Alliance of Joint Pursuers, and as a scholar of alien civilizations, he participated in the work of sorting out the history of the Skywalker Empire.

He felt that this galaxy was advancing in an unprecedented direction. In the future, they might have eternal friends.

“Recently, I heard that the joint research institute has found many good things in the database of the Skywalker Empire. One of them is related to a wormhole, but what makes them a little puzzled is that there seems to be a lot of technology inside that shouldn’t be researched by the Skywalker Empire… Eh? This is…”

The Ancient River Scholar chatted about the recent events in the Alliance, but he suddenly found something in the information and let out a puzzled voice.

“This seems to be a manuscript left behind by a poet. He used to work in a deep-space surveillance station for many years. He was in charge of listening to all cosmic signals and recording useful information.”

“Before he passed away, he left behind an extraterrestrial mystery. He said he received a distress signal from about five million light-years away. There seems to be a galaxy being devoured by something terrifying.”

“However, this matter was ultimately determined to be a miscalculation. This is because the galaxy here is about 500,000 light-years away, 2,000,000 light-years away, and 10,000,000 light-years away. There is only one galaxy that is 5,000,000 light-years away.”

“However, this poet insisted that everything existed and asked the civilized government to be prepared because similar incidents might happen to them. He was also dismissed because he was believed to be mentally ill.”

“From then on, this poet changed his poetry style and carried out a doomsday theory. He believed that the universe would be like that galaxy and be destroyed as it shrank…”

“What a terrifying apocalypse. The current mainstream theory is that the universe is expanding endlessly, but what he said is not impossible. There are also theories that the universe will begin to shrink after expanding to the limit and return to the singular point state…”

The Ancient River Scholar sighed and continued indifferently,

“However, this unsolved mystery probably has nothing to do with us. We haven’t even settled the matters of our galaxy, so how can we talk about matters outside the galaxy?”

Hearing his words, the planetologist felt uneasy because he felt that this seemed to be the direction of the future.

He subconsciously looked at the sky, where countless stars were shining.

On one of the planets, there was a glowing ball doing something similar.

He was Li Wenyuan, working hard to resolve the pending matter of the shrinking world.

He had already built the Piloting Lighthouse and the Pseudo-Eavesdropping Outpost to contact the other world, but he didn’t hear any abnormalities.

Not only that, but from his observation station, he didn’t find any galaxy within five million light-years. This seemed to mean that the Elliptical Galaxy Beta from five million years ago had disappeared.

Fortunately, after detecting the gravitational anomaly, he still discovered a galaxy-level mass of celestial bodies. However, the light might have been blocked by the interstellar space dust, so he could not directly observe them.

However, Li Wenyuan still suspected that the Elliptical Galaxy Beta had been destroyed because he couldn’t detect any abnormalities. After all, so much time had passed. This possibility was not impossible.

Therefore, he decided to wait a little longer. If he still couldn’t get in touch with the other side, he could only regretfully announce that the pending matter of the shrinking world couldn’t be resolved.

The heavens did not disappoint those who worked hard. Twenty years after Li Wenyuan started monitoring, he finally heard a weak distress signal from the Elliptical Galaxy Beta.

[This is the survival organization of the Lightchaser Civilization. Our world is on the verge of extinction. Now, we will broadcast our history together. I hope that the fated person… At the very least, it will prevent us from completely disappearing from the universe….]