Those who face the wall, but are in the Nascent Soul stage.

Chapter 415 The Vast Galaxy (3k)

It is 1,400 light-years away from the solar system.

The first spiral arm ends at the Orion support arm.

A star map of the Milky Way with atomic-level precision appeared before Lan.

This star chart, composed of approximately four hundred billion golden points of light and one trillion blue points of light, with the former representing stars and the latter planets, reflects the colors of the universe itself. This interplay of gold and blue then mirrors these colors in Xiao Qing's pupils, reflecting the blue-gold Milky Way within.

"What is this?" Xiao Qing asked.

“A star map of the Milky Way,” Lan explained.

The star map is real-time and dynamic. Every star, planet, and even large meteorite, and any celestial body that can produce a weak gravitational lensing effect, will be detected by the mass ring and then marked on the star map, simulating the motion of the entire Milky Way at an atomic scale.

Xiao Qing clung to the table, staring blankly at the ever-changing little Milky Way.

Unlike the clueless Xiao Qing, the blue intelligent field locked onto the central region of the star map. The intelligent field radiated a deep blue like the ocean, and it was thinking.

On a star map, it is clearly visible that the overall structure of the Milky Way can be divided into five main parts from the inside out: the galactic center, the galactic bulge, the galactic disk, the galactic halo, and the galactic corona, forming an overall oblate spheroid.

Among them, the Nuclear Sphere is the main civilization area of ​​the Carbon-Based Federation.

The lifespan of stars in the bulge region is generally around one million galactic years (100 billion years). Old stars make up the majority, almost the same age as the Milky Way. There are very few mature planets similar to the Sun. The major advanced civilizations that make up the carbon-based federation mostly live in the ancient bulge region.

However, this does not mean that the vast galactic disk region outside the galactic sphere, including the solar system, is unimportant. The galactic disk region outside the galactic sphere is the main distribution area of ​​mature stars and interstellar matter, and is also the main territory of the carbon-based federation.

Only by completely expelling the remnants of the silicon-based empire from the galactic disk can we declare the complete restoration of our nation from the joint invasion war between the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Andromeda Galaxy that has plagued us since the time of God.

The silicon-based empire is nothing more than the remnants of the last galactic war.

As for the outermost regions of the [Galactic Halo] and [Galactic Corona], they are the outer gravitational framework dominated by dark matter, and also the outer buffer zone of the Carbon-based Federation. The antimatter cloud wall that stretches for 100,000 light-years is deployed in the [Galactic Corona] defense zone, guarding against invasions from the Andromeda Galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.

The galactic center, bulge, disk, halo, and corona together form a well-defined, gravitationally bound standard disk galaxy.

This is the Milky Way, a beautiful disk-shaped galaxy of moderate size and exquisite design in the universe, with a diameter of about 18 light-years and a central thickness of about 1.2 light-years.

In the four-dimensional universe, the Milky Way was a spherical galaxy with a convex center, less than three thousand light-years in size (referring to the three-dimensional speed of light, the same below). In the five-dimensional universe, the Milky Way was a hypersphere cell with a diameter of less than two light-years.

Going back in time, the history of the Milky Way can be traced back to the early stages of the Big Bang, where it slowly formed over a long period of tens of hours in an eleven-dimensional universe.

At that time, the Milky Way was nothing more than a bunch of degenerate quarks, no bigger than a fist.

Lan looked at the star map, recalling the past of the Milky Way.

However, the four-dimensional universe era and the higher-dimensional universe era seem to be things from a very long time ago, so long that Lan seems to have forgotten them, so long that they seem to exist only in the Federation's historical records.

After the four-dimensional universe era, which lasted for less than 100 million years, ended, this weighty three-dimensional universe history, which lasted for 13.7 billion years, became all that remained of its memory.

"Why are there thirteen colored dots inside?"

Xiao Qing stretched out her finger and pointed to the colorful dots in the star map that were different from the gold and blue dots.

“This is a god of the Milky Way, and also our friend,” Lan explained.

"And what about these six purple dots?"

Xiao Qing's finger swept across hundreds of thousands of light-years, pointing to another corner of the Milky Way, towards the end of the first spiral arm.

“That is the god of the silicon-based empire.” Blue’s intelligent field flickered slightly.

"Then what is this big white dot?" Xiaoqing's finger swept across 1,400 light-years and pointed to another location.

"I don't want your Luo Qing."

Xiao Qing's lips trembled, and tears began to well up in her eyes.

Seeing this, Lan offered some words of comfort: "Including Luo Qingshen, there are now twenty gods in the Milky Way."

"Do other star systems also have so many gods?" Xiaoqing asked again, still confused.

“No, the number of galaxies far exceeds the number of gods. There are almost no gods in other galaxies within a million light-years. The Andromeda Galaxy does have one goddess, but only one. Apart from that, only our place has such a high concentration of gods.” Lan said this with a hint of helplessness that was clearly visible.

If it could, it would prefer that there weren't so many gods in the Milky Way.

There is a reason why the Milky Way galaxy has nearly twenty gods.

Thanks to the efforts of the Carbon-Based Federation to realize the ideal of "Light Oceanism", the beautiful Milky Way has become the galaxy with the highest proportion of civilizations that believe in Light Oceanism in the universe, which is nothing short of a spectacle in the context of the entire Dark Forest universe.

There are civilizations in the Black Forest universe that uphold the laws of the Light Ocean, but they either deteriorate due to the chain of suspicion or are destroyed in the attack of the Dark Forest at a higher level. In the context of the Black Forest, only the Carbon-based Federation has truly grown into the galactic overlord.

In the vast universe, the Milky Way is like the last candle in a pitch-black world, a gathering place for a group of newly emerging idealists.

Among them, even the strongest carbon-based federation is at most a child in this dark world, yet this child is doing everything in its power to protect the candlelight.

The gods of light, standing atop the Dark Forest, were astonished when they saw this bold and dazzling candle in the cosmic forest.

It is precisely because of this that the Milky Way has attracted many god-like civilizations that have reached the level of a luminous ocean society to visit. Rather than visiting, it is more like "taking a group photo" or "checking in".

Although most gods only came to check in and take the opportunity to mock the Carbon-Based Federation's unrealistic ideal of "universal ascension," over time, a few gods eventually stayed.

Therefore, over a long period of time, the Milky Way has produced wonders that no other galaxy has ever seen:
As an ordinary advanced civilization, the Carbon-Based Federation surprisingly attracted several gods of the ocean to support it, among whom the Three Gods of Art were one.

The three artistic gods here are [Poet Li Bai], [Low Temperature Artist], and [Stellar Performer]. Although the three gods do not directly participate in the Dark Forest War, their existence directly saved the Carbon-Based Federation from being directly attacked by the Dark Forest gods.

Those with nothing better to do, who cower in the face of gods of the same level, and who, when faced with a powerful attack from an advanced civilization, are all pseudo-Dark Forest gods, will pretend to be passing by and walk away after seeing the phantom images of the gods of the Carbon-Based Federation.

(Note: Dark Forest God: refers to a god who attacks all gods or civilizations indiscriminately. Under normal circumstances, he does not form alliances, unite, or surrender. He is an enemy of the world and attacks anyone he encounters. Representative: Star God Civilization)

(Note 2: Pseudo-Dark Forest God: Maintains peace with gods of the same level, and indiscriminately attacks non-god civilizations. Pseudo-Dark Forest Gods account for a much larger proportion of the universe than Dark Forest Gods.)
The three gods of art chose to settle in the Milky Way for a common reason: art needs enough life to appreciate it, and the Milky Way, which has eliminated the Dark Forest Wars, is the galaxy with the highest density of life and the highest average level of civilization.

For example, the god of music's biggest worry is that there aren't enough listeners in the universe, but the audience in the Milky Way can barely meet its performance needs.

The sheer number of advanced civilizations forming a carbon-based federation is rare in other star systems. Under the Dark Forest Theory, there can only be one distinct advanced civilization within a single star system.

There are seventy-four carbon-based federations.

These three deities became the most crucial pillars of the Carbon-Based Federation, preventing any pseudo-Dark Forest God from launching any Dark Forest attack on the Milky Way.

As for why the Galactic God Civilization before the Carbon-Based Federation did not suffer attacks from the pseudo-Dark Forest Gods, the reason is simple: all the pseudo-Dark Forest Gods who attempted to purge the Galactic God Civilization were dealt with one by one by the Gods.

This God-like civilization, disguised as an advanced civilization, is simply a selfish god who doesn't want to abandon the majority of individuals.

The fact that the Carbon-Based Federation was able to grow and possess such a brilliant number of advanced civilizations is also inseparable from the protection and nurturing during the God Civilization era. This virtuous cycle gave birth to the miracle of a glimmer of light in the Dark Forest Universe.

At the end of the God civilization, the God civilization split, with one group choosing to become gods to pursue the unknown beyond the universe, and the other group choosing to die naturally and retire.

Those gods who became gods did not completely abandon the Milky Way. One god remained, wandering among the various civilizations in the Milky Way, living in seclusion in the Milky Way to prevent the Milky Way civilization from being attacked by idle gods.

This reclusive God is the carbon-based federation's biggest trump card, which it never used even when it lost nearly half of the galaxy to a surprise attack from the silicon-based empire.

Besides, the three gods of art on the surface are already enough.

Moreover, in addition to the three gods of art, there are nine other wandering gods, including [Absolute Rigid Body], [Entropy Flat Amber], [Ideal Black Body], [Regular Pentahedron], [Quantum Foam], [Confined Quark], [Super Electromagnetic Body], [Insulator], and [Fiber Optic Fiber].

(Note: The total number of ideal blackbody sensors is as high as 3 million, but they are still considered as 'one' god.)

If you include that new god who calls himself a [Nascent Soul cultivator], then there are even more.

Although divine creations or weak gods like Light Amber lack combat power, they are still a source of support. For example, those 300 million sensors participated in the war to annihilate the silicon-based empire and are also quasi-allies of the carbon-based federation.

The formidable reputation of the God civilization, the background of some gods being promoted to deities, the endorsement of three art gods, and the 'tourist check-in' by many wandering gods who came to admire it—these soft power from the Milky Way ultimately enabled the Carbon-based Federation to achieve a 'multi-civilization federation' system that was almost impossible in the universe.

Under the joint governance of seventy-four advanced carbon-based civilizations, the Light Oceanism has basically covered the entire Milky Way galaxy, making the Dark Forest War virtually extinct in regions such as the Galactic Center, the Core Sphere, and the Galactic Disk.

Only in suburban areas similar to the solar system do rural gang fights still occur from time to time.

(End of this chapter)