Since that incident, another hundred years have passed.

Zhou Heng experienced two awakening periods.

During this period, although successive captains tried their best to bring the relationship between the two civilizations closer, the other party's attitude towards them still gradually became dull.

And the prices offered for resource sharing are getting higher and higher.

The reason they gave is that they have invested a lot of money in these technologies, and now they are selling them at a bargain price.

They also claim to be helping their brothers to become civilized.

Zhou Heng and the others did not comment on this, but silently put a price tag on the technology they independently developed, and used it to exchange technology with the other party.

In addition, people-to-people exchanges are gradually decreasing with the passage of time.

More than a hundred years have passed, and a group of people who still have contact with the crew have grown old, and many have passed away.

Although the crystal life transformation plan and other related life extension technologies have made progress to varying degrees, this technology is controlled by high-level officials. By using them, this group of people quickly earned a lot of resources.

People at the bottom have begun to grow old because they cannot afford expensive renovation plans.

Although it is not yet obvious, Kepler human civilization has begun to gradually move towards polarization.

Not only that, as far as Zhou Heng knew, they were planning to adjust the basic 200-year life span modification surgery some time ago.

From the beginning, it was free for everyone, and it was changed to paid.

Although it's not much, just an ordinary minor surgery, there is huge profit behind it.

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After seeing these reports, everyone understands that Kepler human civilization has embarked on another path.

The crew of the wandering fleet experienced initial confusion, resentment and regret, and then looked away as their relatives and friends gradually grew older.

They are already two civilizations.

No matter what path the other party takes, it is their own problem, whether it is good or bad has nothing to do with them.

It's just that when I'm resting, I still look at the stars, look in the direction of Kepler, and express my pity for the people at the bottom.

Although they can already look at Kepler's actions of human civilization calmly, they have become keenly interested in the process and reasons for such changes.

A large number of economics, sociology, humanities and other researchers began to study Kepler's history of human civilization.

Try to discover the reasons for their changes.

Discussions on this issue have always been at the top of the list of hot spots on the fleet intranet.

Only news about the replacement of captains in previous generations will be temporarily suppressed, and then the popularity will reach the top again.

"I think it's still a question of resources."

"Judging from the data, there are not many resources that can be mined by Kepler, and they cannot support the development needs of a second-level civilization."

"This leads them to expand outward."

"The Kepler galaxy has twelve planets with high and low resources, and the gap between rich and poor will soon appear."

"I have built a model. According to my calculations, in a short time, within a hundred years, the gap between the rich and the poor in Kepler human civilization will widen to a point that is unacceptable to the people at the bottom."

"They will eventually split when the time comes."

Someone retorted: "I don't quite agree with your view."

"At Kepler's level of science and technology of human civilization, resources cannot be the reason for their classification."

"According to the report, it can be seen that the upper echelons of their civilization still control the population very strictly. So far, the population has not exceeded 2.5 billion."

"With such a small population, the resources in the Kepler galaxy are enough for everyone to live a life without worries about food and clothing."

"Without the oppression in life, it is difficult for the people at the bottom to have the desire to rebel, as long as their top leaders provide guidance through public opinion."

"The entire society will inevitably be stable."

"So I think that although the gap between their rich and poor will further widen and be stretched to an incredible level, the civilization will not be divided."

"They will form a pyramid-like civilization, just like the Doman Empire. After all, for the people at the bottom, the cost of escaping from the Keppler Galaxy is too high."

"I estimate that before a cheap spacecraft for interstellar voyages is developed, most people will be trapped and die in the Kepler galaxy."

"It's just that I'm worried about whether their technology can really develop to this level."

"Oh, it's such a pity. If they could have paid attention to the problem as soon as they discovered it, this problem would not have arisen."

The reason why this researcher came to such a conclusion is related to the technological level of Kepler's human civilization.

Because the problem that Zhou Heng was most worried about finally appeared.

Massive utilization of dark matter energy.

The dark matter energy in the initial micro-measuring unit was not taken seriously at the first time, resulting in a loss of energy over time.

The utilization of dark matter energy begins to gradually increase.

It was not until later that the regulations prohibiting the private use of dark matter energy that Zhou Heng had set were abolished.

So much so that nowadays, although the scientific and technological level of Kepler human civilization has improved rapidly, judging from the scientific and technological data sent recently, there are more and more related to dark matter energy, but they cannot explain it clearly.

technology appeared.

Zhou Heng and the others are very familiar with this situation.

After waking up again, Zhou Heng browsed the discussion about Kepler's human civilization on the intranet and shook his head.

Most of the posts on the intranet are discussing the formation and causes of Kepler's changes in human civilization, and only a few posts are discussing the extension of this matter.

One of them aroused Zhou Heng's interest.

"Maybe this is the truth about the galaxy?"

"The existence of dark matter energy has led to a large number of civilizations being blocked at different levels of civilization."

"I have read basic information about ancient blue stars and galactic civilizations."

"The Blue Star civilization was blocked by the dark matter energy of the alien civilization, which caused the technology tree to be distorted. If it weren't for Captain Zhou, human civilization might have disappeared into the vast universe."

"It's just that we all thought at the time that mankind had broken free from the prison of blocked technology, but judging from Kepler's human civilization, it seems that this is not the case."

"Even if we are very vigilant, dark matter energy still invades Kepler human civilization in a very covert way."

"It puts them once again into a cage where technology is blocked."

Regarding his point of view, Zhou Heng saw that many people expressed doubts: "The blockade of ancient Blue Star technology was caused by the Sal civilization, but as for the Kepler civilization, they have not been invaded by any civilization."
Chapter completed!