In the entire starry sky, countless races and civilizations, and all intelligent beings have an ancient story in their mouths.

One has a legend about the greatness of yesteryear.

In the not-so-distant past, those who used to be the rulers of the universe wantonly controlled everything in the world, they controlled all things with their spiritual powers, ruled over thousands of people, and the Migration Engine allowed them to control the power across time and space, turning the long distance that light could not cross into an easy leap at the head of the bed.

It was the most desperate day of many civilizations among the stars - under the rule and mutual attack of the most powerful ancient pioneers, the wars between the galaxies were endless, and the extinct races were as numerous and meaningless as stardust, but because of this, many super technologies and powerful individuals that seem like miracles today have emerged in an endless stream and bloomed brightly in that era.

But it was all over, all the glory, all the pride, whether it was the sad cry of the slaves or even the animal race, or the arrogant sneer of the inhabitants of the shining world, everything was lost in time, like tears in the rain.

The 'Age of Silence' has arrived.

Since thousands of years ago, the power of psionic energy has been gradually weakening, which while bringing panic, it is also considered to be the periodic ups and downs of psionic energy, and the subsequent return of psionic energy to strength also proves this, although a small number of intelligent beings are worried, but the vast majority of non-top civilization members do not care much about such details.

But from a certain moment thousands of years ago, at that moment, all the remaining psionic users were horrified to find that all psionic communication was silent, and the originally noisy and ostentatious stars instantly became dead and silent, and the many planets that were originally connected to each other and used the supertemporal passage as a highway became independent of each other in an instant, and could no longer deliver to each other to trade and contact.

Psionic energy, severed.

Psionic energy, in this universe, is common sense, the essence of the existence of some substances, some phenomena, and its disappearance will knock all the civilizations related to it into dust.

The huge interstellar empire is falling apart, the behemoth of the corporate alliance is torn apart and even reduced to dust, and the cosmic hive that occupies a corner of the galaxy can only choose to sleep and return to the underground of the home planet after losing the mental unity brought by the psychic energy...... All the powerful, ancient civilizations in turn no longer spoke, and even some of the home planets of huge kingdoms were completely transformed into planetary cities, so that after losing the resources of other colonies, all the inhabitants could only starve to death in the tragic famine and plague.

More than tens of millions of genocides have completely wiped out the original interstellar map.

The universe fell silent as a result.

And this is the 'Age of Silence'.

Age of Silence, 1023.

'The Age of Recovery'

Somewhere in the third spiral arm of the Milky Way, a strange trapezoidal spaceship is slowly navigating through the darkness of space.

Kotaron embedded himself in the command bay of the third-generation expeditionary ship, four mechanized claw limbs fixed to the driver's seat, while the mechanical modification of his nerves connected to his body was perfectly integrated into the ship's command system, and the explorer captain waited patiently for a reply from psionic communications.

It is a strange creature that looks very much like a crab, with four claws for walking, and two powerful tentacles on either side of its body, which are supposed to be evolved from tentacles, and has a keen sense of touch, and a considerable degree of flexibility and agility. This strange creature has undergone a very high degree of mechanization, and has a large number of electronic interfaces on its back that are used to inlay itself in the ship's command module.

Soon, with a slight hum of psionic energy, it seemed as if the sound of a message from far away reached Kotaron's head.

[Traveler 12, the Council of Elders is listening.] 】

In response, the captain immediately reported: "Not long ago, we received a distress signal in the direction of the edge of the third arm, but the time point recorded in the signal is very old, and it is judged that it should be a signal from the civil war era of the 'Thousand Stars Trade Community', the predecessor of the Enterprise Alliance, before the 'Silent Age'. ”

Hearing this, even the Elders on the other side of the psionic communication were surprised, and there was undisguised surprise coming from the psionic signal—but Tarun wasn't lying, they all knew it.

[According to the history we have unearthed from the 'Pioneer Ruins', this period of time is at least 170,000 and 2,000 years from now......]

They can't help but be surprised, the 'Tallinn Presbyterians' is a new civilization that emerged around the time of the Silent Age, 170,000 years ago, their race was still raising algae in the lakes and oceans of Tallinn, and the entire planet was an observation point for a certain higher civilization to observe primitive creatures - in fact, if they hadn't picked up a lot of the remains of that high civilization observation point, the Tallinn people would still be fighting on one planet now.

170,000 years, except for the advanced civilizations that settled in the shining sector in the past, it is enough to make a civilization rise and fall a dozen times, and all the minds of the Elders of Tallinn know very well that they are just civilizations that have developed slowly before and after the Silent Age, because they are too primitive, so they have avoided the huge impact of the severance of psionic energy.

And now, a signal from such a long time ago came......

[Show the coordinates of the star map.] 】

The Elders give orders, but Tarun sends the star map.

[Wait, isn't this the forbidden area marked in the ancient star map?] 】

But because of this, doubts followed: [And it is also one of the oldest 'Black Domain Forbidden Zone'! 】

Because of the long voyage in deep space, Taryn's body has been transformed into a full-sense body, and all other parts are mechanized except for the neuroma used for thinking, so it is basically unaffected by any emotion.

The Elders' doubts, he didn't, he just called up the information of the Black Domain Forbidden Zone in the memory bank.

800,000 years ago, the pioneers of the oldest civilization in this galaxy appeared, but when a large number of civilizations began to flood the entire river system, it was still 500,000 years ago.

The 'Black Domain Forbidden Zone' is a black zone that has appeared in all corners of the galaxy one after another since 430,000 years ago, unable to navigate, unable to communicate, and impossible to detect. All civilizations, including the oldest Pioneer Civilization Exploration Ships, will disappear completely, without even the signal of being destroyed.

This is like the result of straying into a black hole, so that all civilizations at that time called those areas where traffic is forbidden to pass 'Black Domain Forbidden Zone'.

Of course, from the perspective of the current post-silent era, those forbidden areas are just naturally formed high-risk cosmic spaces, naturally shielding the conduction of psionic energy, and after the psionic energy of the silent era is cut off, these forbidden areas have become no longer mysterious, showing their own essence.

But now, in the forbidden area, which should have disappeared with the Silent Age, a signal originating from more than 100,000 years ago has suddenly been issued, and it is almost like a ghost has reappeared...... Who can understand this?

[Parse it.] 】

After receiving the full text of Kotaron's signal, the Elders decided to parse the unencrypted psionic signal as much as possible - it was transmitted over a long distance, and the signal was somewhat distorted and needed to be restored to understand it clearly.

However, a few days later, the information obtained after the analysis made all the Tallinn high-level people tremble and their tentacles jump.

[Level Ω super psionic civilization?! Hundreds of thousands of years ago? Is it this kind of giant-level pioneer civilization hidden in this forbidden area? 】

[Level Ω, according to the classification level before the Silent Age, there are multiple lords in it who can destroy planets with individual power...... Plurality of psionic lords who destroy planets? 】

[With such a powerful existence, it is not surprising that the spiritual energy that has lasted for thousands of years has been cut off...... Some time ago, didn't the old shining region (the central region of the river system, where the stars are extremely dense and unstable, and the civilizations that settled here have a very high level of technology, all of which later migrated here) said that a revived cosmic beast was discovered? It awoke from a gas giant and destroyed the Zepoer colony ......]

[But before the colony was destroyed, the Zepols had obtained part of the body of the behemoth - now their biology and materials science have simply advanced by leaps and bounds, and the behemoth is now in the recovery period, and it is estimated that there will be no movement for hundreds of years (convenient to watch, the whole universe is uniformly measured). 】

Tallinn is essentially a civilization that began by analyzing the ruins of the Pioneers - after all, it is difficult for a nascent civilization not to encounter the traces left by its ancient rulers in this once-glorious wreckage of the galaxy.

However, it is precisely because of this that the essence of their civilization is inclined to be bold and dare to explore.

What's more, only the unknown is terrifying, and now, knowing that the other party is a Ω-level super psionic civilization...... Even if it's a little bit of a relationship with the other party, that's a good thing!

[This is the Council of Elders, Far Traveler 12, you are the closest exploration ship to the signal source, we hope you will use it to explore the signal source point and find a way to figure out why the 170,000-year-old spaceship suddenly released psionic signals. 】

"Understood, guaranteed to complete the task." Calmly replying and using the ship's internal signal to notify the rest of the crew, Tarun began to prepare to change course and reset the target.

Ready to go-

Using a mechanized sound organ to create a slight hum, the captain observed the entire universe at 360 degrees through the visual signal that he and the spacecraft were integrated, and a 'smile' appeared in his heart.

With a slight sound, the trapezoidal spaceship slowly turned and launched towards the misty and brilliant stars in the distance.

Then, it's time to go.

Earth Calendar, 2017, May 24.

Ge Ninglan, United International Headquarters, Conference Hall.

“…… Therefore, we have reason to believe that the fairy gods were actually very aware of the existence of aliens, and they could definitely listen to the aliens' communications, and they could understand them. ”

At this moment, a private meeting that is not open to the public is being held.

"So why don't they give any feedback at all? Immortals are arrogant, but they shouldn't be autistic. ”

In response to Su Day's analysis, a Dongying researcher asked a strange question: "Communication is the nature of civilization......

In this regard, as one of the representatives of Zhengguo, Su Yan patiently explained: "Think about it carefully, if you are an immortal god, you live in the suburbs of the river system, and there are dozens or hundreds of natural habitable worlds around you, connected by a space-time channel and your home planet, rich in resources and living comfortably...... Do you have any desire to explore the stars? Why should you care about the signals of a bunch of inconsequential people? The skills of the immortals are not bad, they can teleport across the world! ”

Thinking about it carefully, if he had this condition, he probably wouldn't be too lazy to go out, so this Dongying researcher sat down convincingly and didn't ask any more questions.

And Su Sun continued to explain, he shrugged his shoulders and said: "As for why the immortals seem to be particularly autistic, it is probably because they have blocked other people's free microphones, and they have also turned off their own free microphones. ”

"Everyone, now is not the time to discuss what happened to the immortals in the first place, what we should think about now is how to deal with the aliens who may come - although the spaceship signal of the Xiuge military-industrial complex is to warn others not to come, but as we all know, it's okay not to speak, once someone warns not to approach, then someone will definitely deliberately approach, which is the essence of life."

"We're not immortals, we don't have overwhelming force against the aliens, what if they drive hundreds of thousands of expeditionary fleets to level us? What if a superweapon blasted our entire galaxy out a dozen light-years apart? What if ......"

Although Su Sun's alarmist words sounded like nonsense, the people present did not say 'this is impossible', but all pondered with serious faces, how to deal with this situation.

Even in the last two months of practice, countries have successively sent lunar rockets and begun to conduct reverse cracking research on spacecraft materials and the various engines they carry, but even if it is completely cracked, it is very difficult to establish a spacecraft production line and experiment with spacecraft suitable for earthlings, and it takes a long time to plan.

As a result of the meeting, the four permanent members shared some information with each other, but there was no other progress.

In this regard, Su Yan, who left United International and got on the plane back to Jeongkook, felt a sense of urgency while understanding.

"Without cosmic power, in the face of aliens, the earth civilization that can only shrink on the earth is just meat on the board."

"But even if you have the drawings and the technology, if you want to build a spaceship, it won't take a while......

Thinking of this, Su Yan could only sigh: "Extraordinary power is not as popular as science and technology for a civilization, benefiting the vast majority of ordinary people, as well as ordinary people who have no talent, but extraordinary power is a good way to raise the combat effectiveness of a civilization in a short period of time." ”

"If you don't become a fairy god for a day, you will have no power to fight back in the face of aliens...... Well, I should also develop the 'Cosmic Battle Form' of my real body! ”

Secretly clenched his fists, and the young man made up his mind.

"Speaking of which, it's time to go to Yara's world and see what inspiration we can draw on – even if we don't, it's good to practice for a while!"

- An alien traveler is about to sail away.

-- The earth is about to enter a new era.

After the end of the ancient great ***, the many tiny sparks that were once again ignited on the black curtain were shining at this moment, waiting for the moment when they would make the galaxy boil again.

And the originally silent civilization has also faded away its heavy shell, and is ready with apprehension and anticipation to make its own voice to this vast universe.

A new chapter is about to begin.

——tobecontinued……