100: Chapter 100 A New Journey! The Goal is the Starting Point of the Vast Universe.

"luan niao no. 4 to No. 9 have arrived at the designated coordinates! The 'Moon Gate' wreckage is just two hundred kilometers ahead!"

The signalman's voice on the control console was loud, but if one listened closely, the suppressed tension behind that loudness could be heard.

Lin Yun stood on the bridge of "luan niao no. 4"—codenamed "Nüwa"—and through that curved porthole wider than a football field, he saw the true face of the far side of the moon with his own eyes for the first time.

It was a dead, gray wasteland covered in countless craters. Without the refraction of an atmosphere, sunlight hit the lunar surface in a way that was pure to the extreme, creating an intense contrast: half blindingly bright, half as dark as an abyss.

And in the center of that wasteland, a towering—no, there are no clouds on the moon—a giant stone gate structure towering into the void, stood quietly like an ancient temple abandoned in the universe.

That was the "Moon Gate."

Although it had suffered severe energy backlash when the deep-sea portal was destroyed, from the outside, the massive doorframe constructed of some unknown dark metal remained intact. Only the grooves on the surface of the doorframe, where purple energy once flowed, were mostly dim now, like a giant slowly receiving a blood transfusion.

But Lin Yun noticed that at the bottom of the doorframe, there were seven smaller, circularly arranged grooves, three of which were flickering with faint, differently colored lights.

One was ice blue. One was dark red. The third... was gold.

Those were the interfaces for the seven channels Katerina had mentioned.

"Nüwa, perform a full scan of the 'Moon Gate.' I want data on every single atom."

"Red Queen, analyze the energy signatures of those three semi-activated channels at maximum speed and determine where their endpoints connect."

Two commands were issued simultaneously, and the two AIs began a period of unprecedentedly efficient cooperation.

Lin Yun's six "Luan Bird" motherships slowly approached the "Moon Gate" in a fan-shaped formation. Every mothership's plasma main cannon was fully charged, and shield output was set to maximum.

The atmosphere on the bridge was tense to the extreme.

General Li Yunlong personally led three thousand super soldiers and one thousand "Dragon Whale" special forces members, already on standby in the deployment bays of each ship. They wore newly improved "Dragon Scale Type II" space combat suits—these suits integrated miniature anti-gravity thrusters, space environment adaptation systems, and more powerful plasma weapons—each person was an independent combat unit.

"Report! Nüwa's full scan is complete!" "Red Queen's analysis is also finished!"

Xiao Zhang quickly pulled up two reports.

Nüwa's report came out first.

"Reporting to the Commander: the physical structure of the 'Moon Gate' is composed of an unknown material designated as 'Dark Matter Alloy γ-7.' The density of this material is ten thousand times that of osmium, and its hardness exceeds the measurement limits of all our currently known materials." "The energy conduction network inside the doorframe is extremely sophisticated; with my current technical reserves, I can only interpret about three percent of its functions." "But what can be confirmed is—this 'gate' was not built by the Observers civilization."

"What?" Lin Yun's brow furrowed sharply.

"Its manufacturing precision and material grade exceed the technology level of the Observers civilization by at least... three to four orders of magnitude."

"The 'Moon Gate' is more like an ancient relic that was found by the Observers civilization, who then performed secondary development using its remaining functions."

Not built by the "Observers"?

Then who built it?

Before Lin Yun could finish digesting this information, the Red Queen's analysis also came out.

"Energy signature analysis of the three semi-activated channels is complete." "Channel One (Ice Blue): The connection coordinates are located at the edge of the Orion Arm, approximately 1,500 light-years from Earth. Near these coordinates, there is a habitable planet highly similar to Earth's environment, and a... signaling carbon-based civilization that is currently dying." "Channel Two (Dark Red): The connection coordinates are located toward the center of the Milky Way, approximately 26,000 light-years from Earth. The energy density near these coordinates is extremely high, with a suspected artificial Dyson Sphere structure orbiting a supermassive black hole." "Channel Three (Gold): Connection coordinates..."

The Red Queen's voice paused for the first time.

"Unable to locate." "The energy signature of this channel does not belong to any known spatial coordinate system." "The endpoint it connects to might not be within our universe."

Not within this universe?

On the bridge, everyone was as if frozen by a binding spell, motionless.

Lin Yun's brain was working at high speed.

Three channels, three completely different destinations.

One is a dying civilization—possibly another "pasture" of the "Observers," where poor souls are about to be "harvested."

One is a Dyson Sphere at the center of the Milky Way—that is a civilization potentially even more powerful than the "Observers."

The third... is not in this universe.

What would be there?

"Commander." Just then, Nüwa's voice suddenly carried a hint of... hesitation?

"How so?"

"During the deep scan of Channel Three (Gold), I detected an extremely faint set of signals within its energy fluctuations."

"The encoding method of that signal... is completely identical to the data format on your system panel."

Lin Yun's heart skipped a beat.

Identical to the system panel's data format?

Could it be—

That the source of his "Many Children, Many Blessings · Black Tech System" has some direct connection with the existence behind that golden channel?

"What is the content of that signal?"

"Only four words."

Nüwa slowly presented those four words in the air above the bridge via holographic projection.

It was an ancient script that wasn't any known human language, yet Lin Yun could instinctively understand its meaning.

Translated, it was just four simple words—

"Are you home yet?"

Lin Yun stared at those four words and remained silent for a long time.

Behind him, Katerina walked over.

"'Home'?" She looked at those four words, a complex light flashing in her ice-blue eyes, "For the prisoners of the 'Moon Gate,' that golden channel might be the true... exit."

"And the existence of the 'Observers' civilization is that of the... jailers watching over them."

Lin Yun suddenly turned his head to look at Katerina.

"You mean..."

"I mean, Lin Yun," Katerina's voice became more serious than ever, "your system, your children, everything you have, might not have been an accident from the very beginning."

"Someone chose you a long time ago."

"Chose you to do one thing."

"It wasn't to save Earth—that was just incidental."

"What you are truly meant to do is open that golden door and take these 'prisoners'—"

"Home."

Lin Yun looked at the silent "Moon Gate," looked at those three channel interfaces flickering with different lights, and remained silent for a long time.

Then, he smiled.

It was a pure, boyish smile that came from his very bones, untainted by any impurities.

"Nüwa, Red Queen."

"Present."

"Present."

The two AIs responded simultaneously.

"Record my command."

Lin Yun took a deep breath, and his voice reached the ears of every soldier on every warship in lunar orbit through the "Luan Bird" fleet's all-channel broadcast system. It also reached every human in every corner of the Earth through the space-based satellite network.

"I am Lin Yun."

"Chairman of the Supreme Committee of the Earth Civilization Community."

"Commander-in-Chief of the 'Luan Bird' fleet."

"And also... the father of nine children."

His gaze traveled from the gray lunar wasteland outside the porthole, across 380,000 kilometers of void, looking back at that azure home.

"In the past period of time, we have experienced so much. Starting from a single Lithography Machine, to Controlled Nuclear Fusion, to super soldiers, to the 'Luan Bird' aerospace motherships... every step was earned with our sweat, blood, and even our lives."

"We defeated the hegemony of the old era, repelled the monsters of the deep sea, crushed the conspiracies of the financial oligarchs, and established a new order belonging to all of humanity."

"But this is still far from enough."

"Because in the starry sky above our heads, there are countless civilizations like ours, currently imprisoned in the cages of the universe. They are waiting for a door to open, waiting for someone to take them... home."

"And that key is in my hands. In the hands of every one of us."

"So—"

Lin Yun turned around, facing those young faces with burning gazes on the bridge.

He also faced Old Chen, Shen Ruoxi, Su Man, Gu Qingyao, Princess Anna, Ye Linger, Zhao Qingxue, Lu Wanxing, Captain Long Ying, and Katerina, who were online via holographic projection, as well as those nine shining children who were sensing this moment in their own unique ways from various corners.

"I announce—"

"Construction of the 'Guanghan Palace' lunar base begins immediately!"

"The 'Hundred Sons Plan' is officially launched!"

"And our ultimate goal, from this day forward, is no longer limited to this small blue ball, nor to this big gray stone beneath our feet."

"Our goal—"

Lin Yun reached out his hand, pointing far off toward that deep, boundless... Milky Way, filled with countless known and unknown civilizations.

"Is the sea of stars!"

His voice fell.

The six "Luan Bird" aerospace motherships all sounded their horns.

That deep and long sound of the sirens could not travel through the vacuum of the moon, yet through the quantum communication network, it spread to every inch of the Earth.

Across the globe, eight billion people, at this moment, regardless of race, national borders, or faith, looked up at the starry sky simultaneously.

They knew that from this day on, the history of humanity had turned a brand new page.

It was not the finale.

It was the overture.

And while everyone was immersed in this stirring emotion, on Lin Yun's system panel, the encrypted data package hidden deep within the Red Queen's core, without any human operation...

Automatically decompressed by one percent.

The decompressed content was just a single line of text—

[Warning: The day the hundredth offspring is born will be the moment the "Chains" break. At that time, the "Observers" will come out in full force. Host, are you ready?]

Lin Yun looked at this line of text, and the corners of his mouth slowly curled up.

Ready?

He glanced down at Da Bao, who was building a Star Destroyer with blocks in his arms, and then at Jiu Bao Little Anna nearby, who was reading information from the air.

Nine already.

Still ninety-one to go.

"Ready?" Lin Yun whispered to himself, the curve of his mouth growing wider.

"No."

"I... can't wait."

On the lunar horizon, the first ray of sunlight belonging to the new era was slowly rising.

And behind that ray of sunlight, on that ancient "Moon Gate," the fourth groove...

Silently lit up.