wandering planet

"It's predators," Linney said, "creatures that specialize in plundering resources from other planets to satisfy their own survival."

"How do you know?" Ovid asked curiously.

"This ship with a rocky shell is great for concealment, whether in space or on a planet. The Marauder is inside the ship, do you see those tube-like things protruding from the rock? That's where the Marauder's small ships go in and out " Linney carefully observed the appearance of the other party, "This is designed to imitate the pipes formed by the saccharine excreting limestone on the shell of shellfish. These alien creatures may be aquatic organisms, or have a connection with water."

Pierre was a little nervous: "They live in Virgil?"

"No, the development of Virgil's ecosphere is very slow, and there is not enough to form such a large number of intelligent creatures. I suspect that there may be a planet with a large amount of liquid water outside the Sirius planetary belt. The level of civilization on that planet is the same as Marseilles are about the same." Linney continued, "These marauders will not only plunder planetary resources, but also attack other ships. They are omnivores and will eat anything."

Ovid couldn't bear it anymore, and asked again: "How do you know so much? Did you teach in the academy?"

"The textbook mentions predators, but the number of predators in the universe is very, very large... For the Griya worker bees and shrimps, the few of us are predators. It does not specifically refer to a group of people, but specifically refers to a group of a behavioral trait.”

"No, no, I'm not asking this." Ovid pointed to the huge ships moving slowly on the screen, "I mean, how do you know so much about these raiders and their ships?"

Lin Ni paused, pondered for a moment before slowly opening his mouth: "My brother told me. He...he even drew me the appearance of this ship."

He turned his head and looked at Ovid: "He also told me that we will encounter such predators in the Sirius planetary belt."

Ovid stared at Linney, and he could see that Linney was beginning to feel strange too.

It was the same on the Greia F. Cicero told Linney where the landing point should be, and where the nearest canyon was to the landing point, and even the position of the steel wire was clearly stated.

It's as if, Cicero knew from the start that Linney was bound to arrive at Gria F and meet the worker bees.He also seemed to know from the beginning that Linney would definitely encounter such a predator ship in the Sirius planetary belt.

"Don't get entangled in this issue." Jiang Che reminded him, "Since the other party has started to use the communication frequency to camouflage and search, it means that they may know that there are other ships here. There are no weapons on the lifeboat that can conduct wars between ships. Let's hide for a while."

Linney agreed to his proposal.

The lifeboat is still a day away from Virgil. Linney unfolded the three-dimensional star map and quickly identified a hiding spot.

"We are hiding behind Rust 007. With this barrier, the predators can't see us, and they can't use the communication frequency to test."

Rust 007 is one of the earliest discovered planets in the Rust series.Like the rest of the rust planets, because it is filled with a large amount of metal elements, the whole body presents a turbid and stagnant color.The black mist-like atmosphere firmly covered the star, and even if they turned on the best monitoring telescope on the lifeboat, they couldn't see anything rusty on the ground of 007.

Before the marauders spotted the lifeboat, they quickly started moving.

The closer you are to Rust 007, the more you can feel that the shape of this planet is completely fresh, it is still in the initial stage of finalization, and all substances are rotating around the center.

Perhaps tens of millions of years will pass, and the rotating matter will gradually descend and settle, becoming a new land.The atmosphere became clear and clean, and lightning began to roll and surge in the clouds.

It hit the ocean, splitting the water and creating new elements.

Microorganisms were born, they divided, they replicated, they multiplied, and new life began to emerge in the seas, skies, and land.

A fish, or something else, by chance, climbed onto land.

Bones, blood vessels, muscles, skin... New life forms began to form following the footsteps of this aquatic creature who visited land.

This is a process that every planet with life will go through. It is stronger than the Creator Jehovah and longer than seven days.

Jiang Che and Tang Mo lay on the porthole, staring at Rust 007 on the side of the lifeboat.

"It's so pretty..." Tang Mo whispered.

It was a dark, gray planet, and it wasn't really pretty at all.

But Jiang Che understood what Tang Mo meant.That's not a good look that the shade or shape can define.They had the good fortune to pass by this forming planet at this very moment, past the myriads of young and immature stars in the Sirius belt.That is the original form of the homeland, ambiguous but full of countless possibilities.

After the lifeboat entered the cover of Rust 007, the communication signal sent by the other party was cut off.

"They seem to have finished their plunder and are leaving the Sirius planetary belt." Linney observed the image on the three-dimensional star map, "That's right, Pierre? You are good at analyzing navigation routes."

"You're right." Pierre dragged his finger on the star map, and the three-dimensional image passed through his palm, "From Greia V to Greia H, they are just about to fly to Rust 022. This It's the route out of the Sirius belt."

It's safe for now.

But Linney dare not take it lightly.

"Change the plan," he said to everyone. "We'll get fresh water as fast as we can when we get to Virgil..."

"And fishing." Tang Mo interrupted.

"...Well, and fishing." Lin Ni coughed lightly, without any objection, "After the water and fish are obtained, don't care about the Black Sea garbage, we will head to the Black Sea at full speed. Now may be the season for predators to multiply and produce , They need a lot of food and resources, our lifeboat is drilling around in the planetary belt, it is very dangerous."

Everyone agrees.This is the first time they have passed an alien ship at such a close distance.

"Will they find the Black Sea?" Jiang Che asked, "If the predators move around."

"Definitely." Linney said, "The actions of the predators are periodic. The reason why the Black Sea Transit Station needs to set up a military base to protect the ships is because there are many predators nearby."

He paused and smiled badly: "The Black Sea garbage has lived in the Black Sea for five years, and there is nothing wrong with it. The weapons and equipment on the Black Sea should still be intact."

Tang Mo and Jiang Che stood at the door of the driver's cab. They hadn't looked at the [-]D star map very carefully. At this moment, they couldn't help staring at it, looking at it non-stop.

"What is this?" Tang Mo suddenly raised his finger and pointed to a point on the star map, "It is not in the planetary belt, nor does it move around Michelangelo. Am I wrong? Or is there something wrong with the star map."

"You read that right, the star map is not broken." Linney drew a circle on that point, "This is a wandering planet."

A wandering planet is a very special kind of planet in the universe. Although it has the mass and characteristics of a planet, it does not revolve around any star.

In the universe, the formation of each galaxy has gone through an extremely long time and complex power game.

During the formation stage of the galaxy, the rogue planet was originally in the galaxy.But then, it may be because the gravitational force of other galaxies or planets is too strong, it was forcibly pulled away from the original galaxies, but could not enter the new galaxies; Ejected its own home - in short, the planet can only wander without orbits in various galaxies and universes.

In the universe, there are very, very many such wandering planets.

The Alpha galaxy where Marseille is located is a relatively stable system, so no traces of wandering planets have been found around it.

But the Sirius planetary belt is different, it is still in the initial stage of the formation of the entire star belt, and 8 wandering planets have been discovered just around the planetary belt.

"I don't know what this one is called." Linney pointed to the planet and said, "Wandering planets are generally not named after them. They will soon disappear near the Sirius planetary belt. Where did they go? We do not know either."

Both Jiang Che and Tang Mo heard this concept for the first time, and their expressions were completely different.

"So lonely?" Jiang Che said, "Is there life on the planet?"

"Theoretically, there may be, because it has all the characteristics of a planet." Linney said, "But there is no fixed star to illuminate it, and the temperature and light are not enough. I don't know what kind of creatures will be produced."

Tang Mo looked a little excited: "It's really interesting."

She never thought that the wandering planet was alone.

"It's so free, it can go anywhere it wants." She asked Linney, "If it wanders around a galaxy with strong gravity, will it be captured?"

"Yes." It was Pierre who answered her, "There have been such cases. The wandering planet has become a new member of that galaxy."

"That's great, they will all find new homes." Tang Mo thought for a while, raised his hand, and pointed to the few people crowded in the cab, "Isn't the lifeship we're on also very similar to a wandering planet?"

Leaving the old home and moving on to a new abode.

Jiang Che suddenly realized that the "Great Retreat" 500 years ago was actually like a grand migration of countless "wandering planets".

Travel across the galaxy, across the universe.When I was exhausted, I finally arrived at the paradise.

"Tang Mo, you are so cute." Ovid couldn't help but said, "I really want to—cough cough."

He covered his mouth just in time.

Pierre and Linney stared at him with murderous eyes: "What do you really want?"

"I really want to buy you something delicious," Ovid said quickly.

Jiang Che reminded him: "Smart Captain Ovid, the communicator is on again."

Ovid hastily pressed the communication receiver, and tried to dilute the horror atmosphere caused by his unscrupulous words with complaints: "Why didn't the communicator ring when it was on? Is it broken?"

Song Junxing's big face appeared on the screen: "Why is the communication cut off again? Did Lin Ni do it?"

Linney turned and left the cab.

"Forget it." Song Junxing looked excited, "We're going to Virgil soon, right? I haven't reminded you that there are many, many other fish on Virgil besides double-edged fish. In addition to fish, there are shrimps, Don’t forget crabs and snails too. Have you ever eaten grilled scallops with garlic? It’s almost that kind. And crabs, you must catch crabs. Now is the time when Virgil’s big crabs are the fattest. Blue crabs are very fat, There is a green circle on the crab shell, which looks like a mosquito coil, and it is very fat, oh, the paste, oh, the meat, so tender that you don’t need to chew it, you can swallow it in one bite..."

Tang Mo watched Song Junxing speak with relish: "What the hell is he here for?"

"Here to order." Jiang Che said while copying out a small notebook and a pen, carefully writing down everything Song Junxing said.