"You've said a lot, but you haven't actually revealed anything of substance," Han Yu said calmly.

Zhao Chenguang shook his head. "I can only say this much. As for the rest, you'll have to explore it yourself."

Han Yu stared thoughtfully at the meteorite. Continuing from her previous question, she posed a new one: "I've always had doubts, because I've never been close to a meteorite, nor do I understand its physical properties. So, I'd like to ask you to explain, what exactly is a meteorite?"

Hearing Han Yu's question, the expression on Zhao Chenguang's face suddenly became uncertain. He glanced at the meteorite and said to Han Yu, "For humans, a meteorite is just a piece of outer space material whose properties have not been explored. Humans will never know the truth about this alien substance.

But in fact, what you call a meteorite was born in a star system civilization outside the observable universe of mankind. The ruins of that civilization are now in the universe 50 billion light-years away from Earth. The expansion speed of the universe there is very fast, exceeding the speed of light, so humans can never observe the situation there.

Moreover, the movement of celestial bodies there seems completely irregular to humans on Earth, unlike in the Milky Way, where the various celestial bodies can maintain a relatively stable movement.

I can't explain to you in detail to what extent the civilization of that star system has developed, nor can I explain the level of scientific development there.

Just like what I said just now, like the question of not being able to explain the truth of physics, the frames of reference are different, or rather, you simply cannot imagine what the universe is like there.

Therefore, everything is out of the question.

Earth civilization is insignificant compared to the civilization from which the meteorite originated.

Earth was born 4.6 billion years ago, but at that time, the star system civilization where the meteorite was located had reached its peak.

Because that civilization was on the edge of the expanding universe, star systems pulled at each other, space expanded and pulled, and the escape velocity became closer and closer to the speed of light.

The star system is rapidly deviating from the center of the universe, so in a few years, the escape velocity of that star system will definitely exceed the speed of light. Even light cannot catch up with their escape speed, so the outside world cannot observe it at all. By then, everything there will eventually be swallowed by darkness.

No light means the destruction of a civilization.

Therefore, before the star system's movement speed exceeded the speed of light, the people of that star system civilization went through hundreds of years of discussion and finally passed a 'Civilization Seed' plan.

The content of this plan is to raise funds and implement it for hundreds of millions of years from the date of its inception, without stopping midway, until it is completed.

The ultimate result of the plan is to preserve the civilization of the star system and operate in the opposite direction of the expansion of the universe, break through the speed of light limit, reach the center of the expansion of the universe, and re-conceive the civilization of the star system.

The 'seed' was finally completed after breakthroughs in science and overcoming technical barriers one after another.

One hundred million years is an astronomical figure for the evolution of a civilization. There are too many risks and uncertainties in it. Fortunately, although there were episodes, everything was successfully completed. The 'seed' was born.

Human civilization is only ten thousand years old.

If humans were to make a decision, would they spend the time it took for ten thousand human civilizations to be born to do something that is likely to fail?

I don't think so.

But then again.

The civilization of that star system solved the most critical step, solved the key problem of the 'seed' plan, cracked the secret of the expansion of the universe, and thus mastered the method of operating beyond the speed of light.

Only by exceeding the speed of light can the 'seed' be preserved at the constantly expanding edge of the universe.

In the final stage, that star system civilization poured all the energy in the star system into the 'seed'.

Finally, before the long night came, the 'seed', carrying the civilization and hope of the star system, escaped the eternal night smoothly by means of exceeding the speed of light.

You call the 'seed' a meteorite. In fact, from a human perspective, there is no problem, and the description is quite appropriate. After all, this is something from outer space and is shaped like a stone.

But in the eyes of that civilization, this is the seed that symbolizes the continuation of their civilization, their hope and accumulation. This is a seed that condenses all the culture, science, knowledge, and energy of that civilization.

Find the expansion center of the universe, find a breeding hotbed, plant it, and let it germinate."

Zhao Chenguang actually told the secret of the meteorite frankly, which made Han Yu and the others quite surprised.

The amount of information was too large. For others, these contents were a bit difficult to digest, but Han Yu quickly grasped the key points of what Zhao Chenguang said.

Han Yu grabbed a key point and asked: "A civilization often rejects another civilization. Your 'seed' has come to Earth for so many years, but it has neither exterminated human civilization nor sown its own civilization seed for reproduction. Why is that?"