Li Chen stood in the command room of the huge space refuge.
Watching one after another, keep going away.
In the blink of an eye, it was accelerated by the space curvature engine and disappeared at the end of everyone's sight.
When they accelerate to a certain speed, beyond the speed of light.
It will directly open the wormhole jump and sail closer to the target at a faster speed.
"There are so many stars..."
Li Chen looked out of the porthole at the bright and dark stars, and couldn't help admiring them.
At this moment, he can see it.
Just the number of stars within one viewing angle is already countless.
And this perspective is just a small area of the vast and vast sixth star field.
Each point of light in the line of sight basically represents a star system.
And most of them are multi-star systems.
Densely packed, hundreds of millions.
This is only visible.
Those due to the distance is too far, coupled with the existence of black hole gravity and so on.
Even the light of a star.
In places that cannot be conveyed, there are countless stars and light spots.
There is the real vast sea of stars.
All of a sudden, I looked at these star systems one after another.
Li Chen thought of a question.
"Noah, you said..."
"If we continue to mine like this, even if there are 50 billion star systems in the sixth star field, they will be exhausted sooner or later, right?"
"Once such a situation occurs, wouldn't this star field be completely dimmed?"
Li Chen suddenly thought of such a question.
It doesn't seem to be particularly serious, but it is actually horrifying.
This is probably not a problem that can be ignored.
At this moment, after hearing his inquiry, Noah also immediately gave an answer.
And Noah's answer was very direct.
Not at all reserved.
[Yes host, what you said is absolutely correct. 】
[When all the star resources in a star field have been exploited, they will fall into eternal darkness and loneliness...]
Noah's answer made Li Chen's heart tremble slightly.
Countless thoughts flashed through his head.
One of the most intense and clear thoughts.
It was when he broke through the evolutionary level.
I have seen those mysterious and weird pictures many times...
At that time, Li Chen saw the whole picture of the universe.
Each supercluster of galaxies, large and small, is combined like a neural network.
And outside of this whole neural network.
It is a wider and boundless, vast and infinite dark area.
Li Chen has been curious and thinking before.
A clearer picture of why those areas could not be observed.
Why is it always dark there?
Now, as the earth civilization begins to have more and more powerful capabilities to mine and utilize star energy.
He finally vaguely realized a possibility!
A very frightening possibility!
"If a star field is completely mined, there will be no stars and planets, and it will fall into absolute darkness."
"Then what happened to them?"
Li Chen's heart was filled with deep fear and doubt.
The scalp is also tight.
Followed by a slight itching sensation.
He looked down to see that goosebumps had formed on the surface of his skin.
At this time, Noah also gave an answer.
[Those star fields that are fully mined will fall into eternal darkness at first, and will eventually begin to collapse automatically because of the loss of gravity and other interaction forces between planets and planets...]
[They have the potential to form a supermassive black hole, pulling nearby galaxies into it, or they could explore becoming a singularity. 】
[How it will develop depends on the specific situation. The situation of each star field is different, host. 】
[To put it simply, the larger the star field, the more likely it is that it will collapse into a super giant black hole when all the star resources are completely mined and plunged into absolute emptiness and darkness! 】
Noah added another explanation.
After listening to his answer, now Li Chen completely understood.
The idea in his heart is getting stronger and stronger.
It's getting more and more numb.
There was a chill in the back.
Beyond the entire observable universe, those more vast and huge dark spaces...
Isn't it, the powerful civilizations of the past.
After fully mining all star resources.
The dark areas of absolute emptiness and vacuum that remain?
If so, then these civilizations have mined such a huge range of star field resources.
How terrible are their levels?
Li Chen once again felt chills all over his body.
Even at this moment, he shivered involuntarily.
At this time, Noah's voice sounded again.
[Host, you should now understand why the higher the level of civilization, the more they like to find ways to plunder the resources of other star domains, right? 】
[Because they are clearly aware of the exact same problem as you are thinking at this moment. 】
[No matter how vast it is, how many star fields there are in the star system, the energy resources inside will always be exhausted one day. 】
[On that day, if they can't find alternative energy resources, it will be time for a civilization to go from prosperity to extinction...]
Noah continued to explain to Li Chen.
According to him.
Whether it is Gaia civilization, Pulitzer civilization, Noah civilization or Valoran civilization, Prome civilization.
They have been clearly aware of this serious problem hundreds of thousands of years ago.
So in order to avoid such terrible consequences in his own star field.
They have only carried out limited development of their own star field.
And more keen on, trying to find ways to plunder and plunder their resources from other civilizations.
And those high-level civilizations.
The scale of its own civilization has grown to such a large size that it almost covers half of the star field.
Establish a powerful empire-level civilization group.
It is also to prevent serious consequences caused by indiscriminate exploitation of resources.
Such as the Noah civilization.
According to Noah himself.
The area where their main civilization is located.
It is a circular area with a radius of about 450 light-years.
This is the core area designated by the Noah civilization.
Anyone is prohibited from mining the stellar resources in this star field.
Otherwise, it is challenging the Noah civilization.
Only after extending out to a certain range outside the core area of Noah civilization.
All the way to the border area.
The stellar resources there can only be mined in some areas that are allowed to be mined.
Not just the Noah civilization.
Several other third-level cosmic civilizations are also stipulated in this way.