Chapter 317 The Legacy of Chasing Fire

Author: Explosive Corpse

Chapter 317 The Legacy of Chasing Fire

The history of "fire chasers" has come to an end, but the history of "light chasers" has just begun.

As the "end" of this cosmic battle royale, the passing of "Fire Chaser" completely interrupted the contraction of the "Cradle" galaxy.

When the "Dawn Star" home ship also turned into a dazzling light, the darkness that had been threatening the entire "Cradle" stopped shrinking.

It may be that this contraction was mainly aimed at targeting the "Fire Chasers". Until the last batch of "Light Chasers" people completed their "cocoons", the "Shrink Space Observation Ship" on the border did not detect any sign of darkness approaching.

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They don't know if their equipment isn't sensitive enough to detect subtle signs of "shrinkage."

In short, until everyone was reborn, the "Shrinking Space Observation Ship" located at the border was not recalled.

They may become monuments to the sad history of this galaxy, standing like everlasting torches at the edge of the galaxy, constantly reminding those who come after them of the suffering they have experienced here.

And several weeks passed before the "Light-Chasing" civilization recovered from the "crisis ended" status quo.

The beast that was chasing them all the time has disappeared, and they no longer have to live with the heavy pressure they once had.

But people who have become accustomed to this kind of life are still a little confused until the government launches the "Planet Recovery Plan".

In order to prevent the approaching darkness, all the stars in the "Cradle" galaxy were converted into black holes, which caused the entire galaxy to become a non-luminous celestial body.

Without the light and heat of stars, the first ones to suffer are the Gaia planets.

Although the planet Gaia has a strong ability to adapt to the environment, it cannot withstand the low temperature of more than 200 degrees below zero.

Even if the planet Gaia uses the greenhouse effect to keep it warm right away, it will still be difficult to withstand the natural force of the universe. This may be okay for a short time, but what about if it lasts for tens of millions of years?

The possibility of maintaining life before complete "heat death" may only be achieved by some kind of truly "living" Gaia planet.

Of course, the reason for this situation is that the Gaia planet's own adjustment ability can no longer keep up with the environmental changes in the universe.

As long as external forces intervene to artificially provide energy for the Gaia planet and design an ecosystem, the Gaia planet can maintain normal operations even without stars.

In the past, due to the impact of the "shrinking universe", few civilizations would spend great efforts to colonize completely frozen planets, because planets would always be abandoned, and it would be difficult to develop in a permanently frozen environment.

Over time, almost all civilizations simply used things like "home ships", and the planets became places for collecting resources.

But now, after the "shrinking world" crisis has been completely resolved, a sufficiently intact settlement is still much better than a home ship. Both in terms of population carrying capacity and industrial processing environment, it is much better than a mobile spaceship.

So the "Light-Chasing" civilization started a massive "Planet Recovery Plan" under the banner of "recovering their homeland", vowing to turn those frozen planets into their homeland again.

And this plan first starts from the icy planet in the "Burning Ember" galaxy.

The light and heat emitted by the black hole's accretion disk has melted some of the glaciers, and some higher-altitude areas have even been exposed, serving as natural landing sites.

On this day, the leader of the "Light-Chasing" civilization was the first to set foot on this thawed land.

He was among the middle group in the "cocoon" plan. Decades of waiting did not make him older. Instead, he became much younger because of his new life. He even felt that he could be a leader for hundreds more years.

In good health, as the supreme leader of a civilization, he decided to personally participate in this "Planet Recovery Plan" to inspire people.

It has been a long time since I stepped on the planet's soil. What I saw was mostly dark brown soil and a few unmelted ice and snow. Although it was deathly silent, the leader understood that this place would become the starting point of new life in the future.

Behind him followed his assistant, holding a document from the parliament in his hand. After hurriedly walking to the leader's side, the assistant whispered:

"...The parliament feels that after the crisis is resolved, can it change the name of the civilization for good luck?"

"Look, these are the names they mentioned..."

When the leader took the document and looked at it, the expression on his face quickly turned unpleasant.

"What kind of names are these, the 'Light-Chasing Science Society', the 'Light-Chasing Universe Revival Agency'..."

He threw the document to his assistant again, but he already had an idea in his mind.

"We are the last survivors here. We carry not only ourselves, but also the more than four hundred civilizations that have passed away, including the 'Fire Chasers' who brought everything."

"The name 'Chasing the Light' is quite good, but we can really change it. We don't have to change it too much, just call it - Chaser of the Light."

"We will always chase the light until the end of our lives."

"Fire Chaser" and "Light Chaser", these two civilizations with very similar names, seem to have taken over the torch of civilization at this moment and continue to advance in this "cosmic long-distance race".

Although the "Fire Chasers" have perished, their history will be preserved by the "Light Chasers" and they will move forward with this new civilization until death.

The story of the "Cradle" seems to have ended here, but the story of the universe continues.

A spacecraft carrying the original genes stripped from the body of the "Light Chaser" approached the "burning black hole". Because the accretion disk that was still emitting energy was too dangerous, the spacecraft should approach it after reaching a certain distance.

Those original genes were thrown into a black hole and destroyed.

However, when the box of confidential objects that preserved the original genes had flown towards the black hole and was completely torn apart by the black hole's gravity on the monitor, the spacecraft still showed no sign of leaving, as if it was controlled by something.

Needless to say, this matter must have been done by Li Wenyuan.

Originally, after the "Shrinking World" to-do list was completely over, he should shift his focus and no longer focus his main attention on this distant "cradle" galaxy.

However, after the "Fire Chaser" actively threw himself into the black hole and was torn apart by gravity, he detected a very special signal through the "listening terminal", which was continuously emitted from the accretion disk.

There is a lot of noise in the universe, not to mention that it is five million light years away. If he had not completely locked the entire "Cradle" galaxy, he would not have noticed this series of signals at all.

The reason why this series of signals is special is that he found that this signal contains some strange patterns, like there is some hidden information.

After careful matching and trying to decrypt it, he found that if this signal was decrypted using the "Fire Chaser" decryption method, the message could indeed be deciphered!

At this moment, "Whether this is the 'swan song' tailor-made for himself by the 'Fire Chaser'" became Li Wenyuan's subconscious doubt.

But after gradually interpreting the information, Li Wenyuan set his sights on the black hole itself, a celestial body that seemed inconspicuous but yet permeated throughout.
Chapter completed!