I Really Didn’t Mean To Be The Saviour Of The World

Chapter 729: Chapter 445: On Cosmic Civilization【3700 Words】_2

Freddy suggested that traveling ten thousand miles was better than reading ten thousand books, and that going out and visiting these places in person would be more helpful in understanding things that were previously incomprehensible within the corresponding quantum starstorms.

So, over this century, Harrison Clark visited countless star systems with sub-level civilizations, as well as a large number of cosmic miracle galaxies that he intuitively judged to be useful for humanity.

Those who gained amplified enhancements were not only him but also Freddy.

Although Freddy’s knowledge and understanding were always deeper than Harrison Clark’s, who knew whether there was another level beneath that?

Just as humans once thought the smallest unit of matter was a molecule, and then discovered atoms, protons, neutrons, and electrons, humans have now discovered that pure string energy can still be divided and recombined, forming different characteristics.

Today, with the special ability of the Gelasians, Freddy’s communication with the quantum network was far deeper than that of ordinary people. The information collected by the instruments on Morrowind No.2 might not be as extensive as that collected by other human scientific research stations, but Harrison Clark felt they were likely on par in depth.

Therefore, while visiting these planets, he wanted to see if Freddy could use his special abilities to locate other treasures left by humanity.

There are more than a hundred billion stars within the 10,000-light-year-long Orion Arm, forming a long “light band”.

The Solar System is located on the inner side of the Orion Arm close to the Galactic Center, where the star density is relatively high.

Human activities mainly spread along the Orion Arm in both directions, encompassing more than six billion stars within the Empire’s territory.

Apart from humans, there are at least several hundred thousand sub-level civilizations that have been discovered. However, only humans, the thieving Gelasians, and a few “fortunate” civilizations, whose luck in being dragged onto the same boat by humanity was debatable, had interstellar travel capabilities and could be considered a higher-level civilization.

Harrison Clark had already known this information in a previous timeline.

In the entire Milky Way Galaxy, civilizations that had already or were about to gain interstellar travel capabilities would be wiped out by the Compound-Eyed Observer.

However, he knew of their existence before but had not expected so many other intelligent life forms to be within the small Orion Arm.

These sub-level civilizations have a vast range of development levels. Using the Kardashev Scale to rigidly divide them, the lowest level civilizations were only 0.0001, barely above human primitive society, while the highest were close to 0.5, like the Gelasians.

The development speeds of these civilizations were extremely slow. A weak civilization with a mere Kardashev level of 0.0001 might have possessed intelligence for at least ten million years, but after ten million years of reproduction and development, they had only managed to elevate their Kardashev Scale from 0.00001 to 0.0001.

According to human estimations, even if this weak civilization were to develop for another hundred million years, it would at most stagnate at a level of 0.01.

As for other civilizations that had developed to around a Kardashev Scale of 0.5, they had also entered a similar predicament and became trapped in technological stagnation, as if running headlong into an invisible wall.

The longest period of stagnation lasted for several hundred thousand years, while the shortest only took a few hundred years.

Scientists, having studied and come to understand these civilizations, and using logical calculations, drew their conclusions.

Without the Compound-Eyed Observer needing to take any action, these civilizations, unable to break free from their star systems due to the exhaustion of their available resources and energy, would face an irreversible decline and meet their end in despair.

There were as many as ten million existing civilization ruins within the Orion Arm, proving their existence but also their eventual disappearance lost to the annals of time.

On some planets with relatively favorable environments, there were even remnants spanning several dozen generations, each representing different civilizations that had once existed.

This meant that the stars and planets capable of nurturing life within their rules had been unable to cultivate a “spokesperson” who could represent their star systems in cosmic space after several tens of millions or even billions of years of effort.

According to mathematical analysis, scientists believed that the Orion Arm had birthed at least tens of millions of civilizations over these several billion years. However, these civilizations all returned to the dust from which they came, silently appearing and disappearing without a trace.

After one civilization was completely destroyed, the alterations they made to the planets and the life traces they left behind turned into fertile soil for the quiet germination of the next generation of completely different species.

Human scientists thoroughly analyzed these civilizations, summarizing the biggest probability.

The physiological structures of these civilizations could only support their exploration of the universe to this degree, and their wisdom was unable to comprehend a deeper level.

For example, the room-temperature superconductor technology, microwave power transmission technology, ultra-durable high-conversion-rate solar panel technology, controlled nuclear fusion, and low-loss medium engine technology that humans could easily master.

All these once-striving civilizations were forever barred from these by potential defects in their own conscious structures or invisible barriers in their external environment.

This Wall of Sighs was the “upper limit” for different physiological structures of intelligent life, representing a cruel rule of the universe.

Assuming that humanity failed to make a breakthrough in new energy sources, even exhausting Earth’s fossil fuel resources and without a stable, controllable, and sufficient supply of infinite energy to support the needs of the entire civilization, humanity would also be in danger.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

Even renewable energy sources such as wind, hydropower, and tidal power would be of no use. Once energy output could not keep up with societal needs, resources would inevitably be increasingly scarce, leading to brutal wars over resources, and most likely mutual destruction.

Humanity would likely not be able to escape the same fate as these extinct civilizations.

Humans had once believed that they were very lonely in the universe.

However, this now appeared to be a complete illusion born from ignorance, merely because they were previously unable to see or communicate with each other.

As the extreme idealist philosophy said, “What cannot be seen does not exist.”

Humanity’s sense of loneliness was established on an extremely idealist basis.

At a certain stage, this was the truth.

However, at another stage, it collapsed on itself.

Only when one has reached a certain height can they truly comprehend the vast and infinite mysteries of the universe.

There has always been competition in the universe, and it was extremely cruel and intense.

Each race that could break the shackles of interstellar distances and leave their homeworld was a fortunate child of the universe.

Of course, the destiny awaiting these fortunate ones was a tragic fate.

All races would inevitably fall under the Compound-Eyed Observer’s blade.

None were spared for millions of years.

In general, the Compound-Eyed Observer did not care about low-end, sub-level civilizations, just as humans did not care about an ant colony outside their door.

Whether the ant colony grew stronger or disappeared quietly after a disaster struck, no one cared.

But when those ants mutated, growing larger and increasing their toxicity – potentially harming humans – humanity would not hesitate to wield a flamethrower and give the colony a taste of destruction.

Aside from sub-level civilizations, there were also more than 20 million star systems with special cosmic rules that had some reference value on certain levels within the territory of the Morrowind Empire.

Humans had cracked many of these rules and studied many of these celestial bodies, but it could not be said that they had delved deep enough into even 10% of them.

Many of these lessons were compulsory studies during Harrison Clark’s century of hard reading.