Actually, it needed to be even bigger.

The Pan-Plan itself was for “capital preservation,” so naturally, the bigger, the better.

But one couldn't be overly ambitious; it was already quite time-consuming for Human Civilization to explore its current vast Stellar System.

Especially since it was impossible for such a large Stellar System not to contain other Civilizations.

With hundreds of millions of Stellar Systems, life was not uncommon.

“But even so, the Stellar System controlled by our Civilization Federation is large enough.”

Feide Huayin actually wanted to include the virtual world as well.

The population living in trillions of virtual worlds was equally enormous.

In fact, when many Star Cities counted their populations, the virtual world's population was also included.

Generally, the virtual world's population accounted for 60% to 65% of a Star City's total population, with some variations, but averaging within this range.

Fewer people actually lived in the real world.

However, if attacked by enemy forces, the virtual world's databases and other assets were primary targets, and these people would have no way to escape, leading to even more severe losses.

Aside from direct confrontations between Civilizations, battlefields in Star Country regions often involved cultivating internal spies to destroy these assets first.

While there were also internal spies between Civilizations, in a war of this scale, virtual world databases became irrelevant; the main targets for destruction were the Host, Machine God, and other large weapons.

The content provided by Yan Xia described the vastness of the current Civilization Federation from multiple perspectives.

Especially some of the energy figures, which were simply dazzling.

“According to our definition of Civilization, Human Civilization's energy level seems to have already reached 2.8, but why don't we feel much?”

Lan Duo'ou focused on people's livelihoods; every 0.1 level increase was a tenfold improvement.

But it seemed that in society, a tenfold change had not yet manifested much.

“It's the Four-Dimensional side.”

Without Yan Xia needing to speak, others who had seen the data replied.

Ya'erfeiniede was very sensitive to these numbers; he had been looking at these things from early on.

“The Dimension Channel to the Four-Dimensional has opened, but it's still very difficult for us to reach the Four-Dimensional; we need to build a Dimension Silk Bridge.”

“The current Dimension Silk Bridge is more stable and consumes more energy.”

“It also mentioned wormholes connecting to the Dimension Silk Bridge, entering the Four-Dimensional from other, more remote Dimension Channels, which would consume even more energy.”

“The Federation now spends at least 70% of its energy here.”

A terrifying consumption.

But in reality, it wasn't that much.

This was a trick Yan Xia played, primarily to cover for Ella.

Although Yan Xia had stepped forward, Ella remained in the shadows.

These people didn't need to know of Ella's existence.

Ella herself was also constantly improving, and her own energy consumption accounted for 15% of the entire Human Civilization's, and in times of war, with surging computing demand, it could even reach 17% to 18%.

This was also terrifying.

Equivalent to the total energy production of a 2.72-level Civilization.

“Hiss… if it could be shut down, then…”

Just as Lan Duo'ou was about to fantasize, Andrea directly rejected his idea.

“Impossible.”

“We must establish a firm foothold in the Four-Dimensional.”

“Not to mention the Pan-Plan, even if we truly want to secure a place in this Dimension War, we need to study the dimension.”

Ya'erfeiniede added, “A Level 3 Civilization is inherently a Civilization that transcends dimensions, so if we want to become stronger, we still need to study the dimension.”

“This is a rare opportunity; a purely 2.9-level Civilization would take countless years to study the dimension.”

“Those top Civilizations in the Silver Heart must have spent tens of millions of years, but still found nothing.”

“The entire Milky Way, as far as we know, only has three eras, spanning over 2 billion years; the standard for each era is actually the birth of a Level 3 Civilization, which shows how difficult it is to achieve Level 3 Civilization.”

To be precise, it was 2.9 billion years.

The Zhu Zhen Civilization became a Level 3 Civilization 2.8 billion years ago.

The Zhu Zhen Civilization was born 2.9 billion years ago and took nearly 100 million years to become Level 3.

Among the three eras, the era of the Zhu Zhen Civilization is now called the “Ancient Era,” and the Zhu Zhen Civilization was born in it.

After that was the “New Era,” which saw the birth of another Civilization called the Gill Civilization.

It was actually a randomly chosen name; Nuopeidan had never encountered that Civilization, which was very exclusive and indeed powerful, becoming a Level 3 Civilization in less than 40 million years.

Named for its warships resembling fish gills, its true name is unknown; that Civilization was like a fleeting moment, disappearing directly after becoming a Level 3 Civilization.

It is speculated that it left Three-Dimensional space-time and went to the edge of the universe.

And the third era, the “Current Era,” or “Modern Era,” has not yet produced a Level 3 Civilization, but it is generally believed that after the Dimension War ends, a Level 3 Civilization will be born.

In other words, under normal circumstances, the Milky Way can only produce one Level 3 Civilization approximately every billion years.

And because the Milky Way itself is relatively remote, all Level 3 Civilizations born there have, without exception, left.

In fact, the Milky Way is still relatively rich compared to other dwarf galaxies, but there is the Andromeda Galaxy nearby, which is 40% more massive than the Milky Way.

This is actually just small stuff; many black holes in the universe can contend with the Milky Way in mass, all being tens of billions of solar masses.

Not to mention things like the Giant Attractor, which are no longer measured in Stars but in galaxies.

Some Giant Attractors reach 100,000 or even 1 million Milky Way masses; in front of such things, what is the Milky Way? A remote corner?

Moreover, the Milky Way itself is located in an area where matter abundance is not too high; although its own volume is large enough, the surroundings are too empty, and the Local Group only has the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy as large galaxies, with all others being dwarf galaxies.

If you go 1 billion light-years away, the average density of galaxies is 1.5 times or more than here.

In summary, this place is very remote, with few Level 3 Civilizations, and even if a Level 3 Civilization emerges, the time intervals are very long, making it difficult for any technological information to remain; everything must be achieved through one's own efforts.

Now is this opportunity; should Human Civilization really give up this opportunity?

If they left the Milky Way, the Andromeda Galaxy definitely has Level 3 Civilizations, so they certainly couldn't go there; a better place would be tens of millions of light-years away, and the entire Civilization couldn't open wormholes for migration, and even spatial jumps would be very difficult.

Energy must be conserved during the journey.

Therefore, without seizing this opportunity to push forward, Human Civilization, after leaving the Milky Way, would most likely be in a wandering state for tens of millions of years, and when they reached other galaxies, they might encounter enemies or even Level 3 Civilizations.

Most likely, they would be destroyed, and there's also a chance that they would wander for hundreds of millions of years, with severe internal consumption, declining instead of advancing.

This is highly possible.

Currently, in the Civilization Federation, a single Host consumes 15% of the energy.

If they left, Ella would have to shut down at least 90% of her computing units to save energy.

But this would still consume a lot.

Slowly, tens of millions of years would pass, and Ella's ultimate computing power might not even retain one hundred millionth of what it is today, transforming into a Machine God, and if even the Machine God's energy couldn't be supplied, then it could only serve as the Host of a warship.

Ella believed that staying by Yan Xia's side was enough.

Yan Xia, however, knew that this would be extremely cruel to Ella, who had already developed some “human” emotions.

In such a situation, not just Ella, but humans would also be like that.

If there wasn't enough energy to supply so many warships, then the number of warships would have to be reduced.

For a wandering Civilization, warships were like land; if the land decreased, the population would naturally have to decrease.

Tens of millions of years!

How long has Human Civilization existed?

Leaving the Milky Way would simply be a slow death.

This is also why so many Civilizations that left the Milky Way still chose to stay in the surrounding dwarf galaxies.

After all, the universe seems so vast.

But just like the ocean, life cannot survive with only the sea; land creatures need to find islands, and marine creatures need to find coral reefs.

It can be said that every planet is an isolated island.

“Fortunately, relying on technological innovation, we have always been growing, and the overall energy growth can still support technological growth.”

“As long as we keep investing for long enough, we will definitely achieve results.”

“Previously, the Flying Civilization didn't study black holes because of the Dream Civilization, but the Flying Civilization belonged to the Destiny Ring Star, and the Stellar System of the Destiny Ring Star is much larger than our Human Civilization's, with at least five or more Dimension Channels inside.”

“Why didn't they study it? It's actually because there was no more room for growth; energy tended to be saturated, and they simply couldn't spare the energy to explore the Four-Dimensional, eventually having to leave the Milky Way.”

“Since we have this opportunity, of course, we cannot give it up.”

Ya'erfeiniede had always felt that others didn't pay enough attention to the Four-Dimensional, so he spoke at length, advising everyone not to sacrifice the Four-Dimensional.

The others were indeed persuaded and began discussing other matters.

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