Merit Book·Xinghai

In addition to the invention of the quantum computer, another indispensable condition for the Milky Way to enter the era of the Grand Alliance is the breakthrough technological progress of the space jump point.

The universe is like a dark and boundless ocean, and the stars are little pearls all over it.Looking from a distance, I only feel that the stars are bright and lively, but when I get close, I realize that the distance between the stars is desperately far away.Human beings are just invisible microorganisms living on pearls. They entertain themselves and live comfortably on their own pearls, but if they suddenly want to climb to another pearl, it often takes a lifetime It can't be done either.

Therefore, a stable space jump point is needed, that is, a wormhole.

The Milky Way has almost the same number of black holes as its stars. Some of the black holes connect two spaces that are far apart. When an object enters from one end of the wormhole, it will be thrown from the other end at the same time. There is almost no time gap. This is a wormhole.But most wormholes are very small, and can disappear suddenly and reappear from extremely distant places with little regularity.Even if the size of the wormhole is large enough and stable, it is extremely dangerous to travel through the wormhole. Many people who were inadvertently sucked into the wormhole a long time ago were either scorched by ultra-high-frequency rays or pulled by strong gravity. Thin strips, or decomposed into elementary particles at the moment of being sprayed out.Only a very small number of lucky ones survived the time-space replacement.

Needless to say, how painstakingly and exhaustively the Star Alliance has been in the study of wormholes. After spending unimaginable time, money and countless sacrifices, they finally found a way to expand, stabilize and reduce the risk of traversing wormholes. , and then established a huge network of interstellar air routes. The Star Alliance was established on this interstellar air route built by countless wormholes. Its radiation covers only about one tenth of the Milky Way, so only this tenth One of the Milky Ways is clearly explored by the Alliance, and the habitable stars in this area have basically joined the Interstellar Alliance.There will naturally be many habitable stars in the remaining nine-tenths of the star field, and a large part may have developed splendid civilizations (such as Rongyuan’s hometown Earth), but because it is too far away from the wormhole route, it is difficult to Detected, communicated and established a solid and close connection, therefore not included in the Star Federation.

In the current Interstellar Alliance, "discovering new wormholes" is still a mission that will never be revoked. Not only many countries will send professionals and troops to explore, but many free mercenaries, star thieves, businessmen, etc. will pay attention to this aspect. Information, if a stable wormhole can be found, the ensuing world-renowned fame and astronomical benefits are enough to last a lifetime.

However, it is disappointing that although the Star Alliance already has many wormholes, these wormholes can only perform space jumps. There is no shadow of the legendary space-time wormhole, only some specious legends.Moreover, all these wormholes are only connected to two spaces in the Milky Way, and none of the wormholes leads to extragalactic galaxies.

The span of the Milky Way is 16 light-years, and the nearest extragalactic galaxy to the Milky Way is a full 250 million light-years!

Not to mention more than 200 million light-years, it is only ten light-years. If you only rely on spaceships to travel, even the fastest spaceship in the Star Alliance will take more than half of a person's life to reach it. 250 million light-years, that is simply an insurmountable moat!

Therefore, if you want to reach the extragalactic galaxy, you must first discover the wormhole leading to the extragalactic galaxy!

People named the wormhole that should exist in this imagination, which is "Star Bridge".

In the vast Milky Way, there is only one place where everyone is sure that there must be a Starbridge, and that is the Pillars of Creation.

The place filled with nebula is not only the cradle of birth and growth of stars, but also contains countless treasures - strange creatures, rare ores, ungrown star cores and so on.Therefore, although the nebula is dangerous, there are many gold diggers wandering around all year round.Then, some people discovered that near the Pillars of Creation, occasionally they could pick up some wonderful items that were not owned by the Milky Way and could show traces of civilization.

For example, Rong Yuan once got a secret storage box, which looks like a black marble on the surface, but inside it has a vast and independent space, even a starship can accommodate it without any change in quality, even You can also use your thoughts as the key to unlock it.This kind of thing is completely different from the Milky Way of pure technological civilization. It is no wonder that people who have been in contact with it think that it must come from an extragalactic galaxy, and some even think that it may come from another dimension.

At that time, Rongyuan's Feiyan team could be said to be one of the best among the free mercenaries. Not many people had seen them, but their legends were widely circulated in the alliance.As the Feiyan team became more famous and more capable, the task of finding them became easier and easier.Escorting Selinda was a rare and dangerous task, but that was because they were fighting against national forces and regular troops, or the most elite ones in the galaxy, and they succeeded in the end!Everyone in the Feiyan team is bored with this kind of life that lacks challenges. They are not interested in the star field that the alliance has explored clearly, and a lot of information can be found on the star network. There is no star field to explore. Because of the lack of the shortcut channel of wormholes and the distance is too far away, Yuyu was unwilling to spend the rest of his life on the road, so everyone turned their attention to the Pillar of Creation.

They are all homeless and careless people, even if they go to an extragalactic galaxy and cannot return to their hometown for the rest of their lives, there is no pity.

Even though the members of Feiyan team are all arrogant and arrogant, they think that there are no difficulties that can stump them, but no one thinks that such a thing as exploring Xingqiao can be successful once.In fact, if you don't fail ten times or eight times first, you will be ashamed to say that you have entered the Pillar of Creation.Therefore, the first two explorations were suspended due to accidents, and everyone was not depressed, and soon regrouped and started the third exploration.Except for Emerida and Parry who went to a nearby habitable planet for repairs because the small spaceship used for landing was severely damaged, the others drove the main spaceship into the Pillar of Creation from the periphery.

For the first part of the journey, they followed the previously proven route twice, and the atmosphere in the team was relatively relaxed and happy. On the communication channel, Fengyin was chatting about interesting things they saw on StarNet, and Tata and Reina were joking. Dunke was worried about whether Isli could successfully chase the princess, and Barabi wanted Rong Yuan and others to catch a small creature in the nebula to see how it tasted.

Then, there was that accident.

The supernova explosion was quite close to where they were at that time from the macroscopic distance of the universe, but actually it was very far away from the distance scale of human beings.The exploding star was hidden in the depths of the Eagle Nebula, and the dense clouds and dust blocked all sight. When the explosion happened, neither Rong Yuan and the others nor the various organizations in the Interstellar Alliance were aware of it.

Until the fiery white light and jets piercing the darkness and tearing apart the nebula with astonishing speed appeared in front of them.

The energy ejected within a few seconds of a supernova explosion even exceeds the sum of the energy released by a star like the sun in its lifetime!

"Fuck!"

"Captain, save—"

"what?"

"Do not--"

Everyone only had time to let out a short exclamation, and most of them didn't even react at all. When the white light shone in their eyes, the terrifying jet had already engulfed them.

Perhaps it was the reason of dying, at that moment, Rong Yuan felt that the time seemed to be stretched, everything happened extremely quickly, but also seemed to be very slow.

He saw that the powerful energy and shock waves even tore apart the space. Black holes of all sizes were like foam floating on the waves of high tide. In several sections, an unsuspecting figure flung out from the gap, and before he had time to identify who it was, he was already sieved by the neutrino flow, and he couldn't even see a drop of blood.

Although the spaceship was destroyed in the blink of an eye, the stress defense system built into the ship was still intact, and the broken defense cover was deployed instantly, buying them less than a second of time.

In such a short period of time, they could neither escape nor have the ability to fight back. Rong Yuan didn't even have time to take out the "Book of Merit and Deeds". The last candle blows away, and the only end seems to be death.

However, the plot didn't develop like that.

In less than a second, the six mechas that originally flew behind Rong Yuan in the shape of a herringbone made exactly the same reaction—flying at the fastest speed to line up behind Rong Yuan, unfolding the last With a strong defense, it faced the torrent that broke through the defensive cover head-on.

Rong Yuan's eyes are shattered!

The six mechs were also destroyed in an instant, and the next second, Rong Yuan felt that his body had been melted in the light.

The white light receded, the flame shrank, and the last mecha once again turned into a ball of flames.

The pointer showing the time suddenly jumped back one notch.

——Time went back silently for a second!

Wan Dou jumped out of Rong Yuan's arms, opened her arms, and turned into thousands of threads, wrapping Rong Yuan like a cocoon.

The jet stream was turbulent, and the vast soup destroyed all the objects encountered along the way, only a small cocoon floated and sank suddenly, like a small leaf in the waves, being pushed far away along the waves .