257: Chapter 257 The Cemetery in the Magnetic Field

The Star-Eating Beast had already been imprisoned by the magnetic field.

It was pierced directly by a powerful laser beam, revealing a large hole.

Gao Yuan looked at the hole, filled with doubt and confusion.

Why was the Star-Eating Beast here so weak?

The cells of a juvenile Star-Eating Beast encountered previously at the White Dwarf could elevate one's battleship by a massive margin.

But here, the Star-Eating Beast seemed... much weaker.

He dispatched a battleship to investigate further.

That Star-Eating Beast did not appear to pose any deterrent.

As the battleship flew alongside the Star-Eating Beast, it felt like a mosquito flying next to an elephant.

This was already humanity's largest battleship, yet compared to the Star-Eating Beast, it was still insignificant.

When the battleship transmitted its findings back,

Gao Yuan finally came to a realization...

The shell of this Star-Eating Beast... seemed to have already been stripped away by the powerful magnetic field,

revealing the soft body inside.

Moreover, at this moment, the Star-Eating Beast showed no signs of life.

Gao Yuan was horrified; this magnetic field didn't seem extremely dangerous to him.

He wasn't arrogant enough to believe that this Star-Eating Beast had been killed by humans.

Humanity currently lacked that capability...

Yet the Star-Eating Beast was dead.

The truth then was that this Star-Eating Beast had died before humans ever saw it.

Only its massive carcass remained here.

The Star-Eating Beast had been killed by the magnetic field.

Was this magnetic field truly that powerful?

Gao Yuan had the battleship collect some biological specimens and then began the return journey.

Humanity continued to move forward...

The Ideal Star constantly shifted its direction within the magnetic field as it advanced; the Star-Eating Beast grew further away, gradually turning into dust in the background behind them.

Along the way, Gao Yuan discovered more than one Star-Eating Beast, and even fragments of battleships from other civilizations...

This place seemed to be a graveyard.

Aside from humanity, no civilization could enter this place and remain unscathed...

They were all dead.

Whether they were civilizations or Star-Eating Beasts.

Gao Yuan was struck with horror!

What exactly was going on?

Why was it that a place not considered dangerous to humans was where so many beings that humans looked up to would die?

In Gao Yuan's view, civilizations capable of entering the Spiral Arms were far, far more powerful than humanity.

Humanity was just a lucky interloper.

Could it be that in the next moment, humanity would also die here?

Was there something lethal within this super-strong magnetic field?

Gao Yuan didn't know...

He recalled Cangming No. 1 saying that Three-Dimensional Civilizations were ghosts within the Spiral Arms.

Could it be the same here?

Was humanity safe for now only because they hadn't been attacked?

Gao Yuan didn't know...

But humanity continued to press onward...

An unknown amount of time passed as humanity encountered many remains on their path: spacecraft from various civilizations and many belonging to giant organisms! Gao Yuan even saw a massive mechanical planet, much like the Ideal Star, but it similarly lacked any signs of life...

Gao Yuan moved forward with his doubts...

By the time he knew it, the humans on the Ideal Star had already transitioned to a new generation.

One day, all the instruments in the control room suddenly began to flicker.

Gao Yuan immediately grew tense, fearing an attack was coming.

But to his surprise...

After the flickering, the sky suddenly opened up.

A swath of white light washed over them, and the Ideal Star began to grow warm.

Various instruments indicated that the surrounding magnetic field had vanished.

Gao Yuan was stunned...

Had humanity... broken through the super magnetic field?

Could this be the Galactic Center?

He immediately began to check the surroundings through the Ideal Star's orbital probes.

Countless massive stars emitted a soft glow; within just a one-light-year radius of the Ideal Star, dozens of stars stood leisurely in the sky...

And the Ideal Star seemed unaffected by any gravitational wave interference.

Even the light from those stars did not turn the surface of the Ideal Star into a sea of fire.

This...

Battleships took to the sky—these were already upgraded Galaxy-class Battleships.

The Galaxy-class Battleships began to scout the perimeter, and more and more information was transmitted back.

Gao Yuan was stunned...

There were countless stars here, and the sky was always as bright as day. The interstellar matter was extremely dense; after the stars' radiation penetrated this matter, its temperature became very low.

Furthermore, all the celestial bodies here had no gravity.

This subverted the laws of universal gravitation.

Gao Yuan was now absolutely certain that this was the Galactic Center.

It was the Galactic Center that all civilizations had always wanted to reach, yet no traces of artificial structures were detected here, nor were any abnormal radio waves received...

The resources here were too abundant; even just collecting interstellar matter from space would be inexhaustible!

It was so peaceful here.

Various stars constantly moved past, but there was no danger; even if a star were to collide, when the distance fell below 0.1 light-years, the star would generate a repulsive force to push the Ideal Star away.

Gao Yuan was shell-shocked.

This place... really is paradise.

If he had entered this place earlier, the Grand Unified Theory would have been broken through long ago.

There were even wild neutron stars here...

But the neutron stars also had no gravity.

A neutron star without gravity was a super material.

All the human scientists went wild...

In this situation, what more could one ask for?

By developing here, humanity could create more perfect planets, better battleships, and even forge a star of their own.

Manufacturing a star...

Just this point alone made the scientists ecstatic.

Continuously collecting protium, deuterium, and tritium, and then concentrating them together...

As long as there was enough, the interior would aggregate on its own, turning into a nebula.

Continuing to collect, as the pressure increased, the nebula's chance for metamorphosis would produce a new star.

Humanity entered an era of great construction...

...

Time flew by.

Gao Yuan and Gao Gan sat together playing chess. Life here was too boring; they had been here for many years, had built many planets, and had even constructed two stars!

The footprint of humanity had already spanned a ten-light-year area of the surroundings.

"Gao Gan... do you want to go home?"

"Which home? Do we still have a home anywhere else? For humanity, this is home!"

"I mean... outside the Orion Arm, whether it's the Solar System or the North Star System... I want to go back and take a look!"

"Isn't it good here?"

"It's good... it's too good!"

Gao Yuan said as he made a brilliant move.

"I can no longer integrate with the thoughts of others! You... are probably the same way!"

"That's normal. They are the new generation that appeared here. Since birth, this is how it's been—infinite resources. Even if humanity tries its best to expand, they've only occupied a tiny bit of space! For the sake of adventure, they even built a completely frozen planet... just to satisfy people's need for thrills!"

"For us, we would never actively seek out danger... so, Gao Qiu, I've decided!"

"What?"

"I'm going back! Taking a planet with a neutron star core, I'll leave the magnetic field... and head back upstream within the Spiral Arm! Back to Polaris. Actually, we still have one thing unfinished!"