Chapter 916: Extreme Stellar Body Civilization |
At this moment, the distance between Xiao Yu and this quasar had already exceeded the limit of 0.8 light year, and this distance was still continuing to increase. This meant that the dawn of hope had already appeared quite strongly. The reason it still could not yet be said that this was absolute success was because further verification was still required.
Those transport instruments were still operating, carrying this violent monster farther and farther away from Xiao Yu. The facts proved that Xiao Yu had still underestimated the violence of this quasar somewhat. Before it reached the planned target of two light years, when it had only been transported 1.6 light years away from him, all of the reserve transport instruments had already been used up. This meant that if any more transport instruments were damaged, Xiao Yu would no longer have any reserves to replace them with. And the nearly one hundred billion transport instruments formed an integrated whole, so any accident at any single point might cause overall disorder.
So Xiao Yu had no choice but to release this quasar from curvature space now. Under Xiao Yu’s command, the nearly one hundred billion transport instruments simultaneously stopped supplying energy. Thus, in that instant, this enormous quasar abruptly appeared in the visible universe.
And in the very instant that this quasar left curvature space and appeared in the visible universe, at least more than eighty percent of those nearly one hundred billion transport instruments suddenly exploded apart, turning entirely into piles of scrap metal. Having lost the support of stable propulsion, under the quasar’s immense gravity, they began falling toward this quasar at extremely high speed. Their fate would also be to be swallowed by this enormous black hole, never to emerge again.
This meant that the results Xiao Yu had spent several hundred years creating had, in that instant, been almost completely destroyed. But they had already fulfilled their duty and purpose. Xiao Yu was not particularly pained over those things.
In the instant that this quasar was released from curvature space into the visible universe, Xiao Yu’s entire mind tensed up. Because Xiao Yu was very worried about one thing, namely that in the instant this quasar reappeared in the visible universe, he would once again be suddenly flipped around by that damned rule designated by the Logic Weapon. But fortunately, this situation did not ultimately occur.
At this moment, this quasar was 1.6 light years away from Xiao Yu. Its immense radiation, light, and gravity required 1.6 years to reach Xiao Yu. So even though it had already been released, in terms of conventional detection methods, Xiao Yu still could not sense it. The cosmic space before Xiao Yu was still peaceful and calm, not affected in the slightest by the appearance of an enormous quasar 1.6 light years away. However, in terms of Faster-Than-Light detection, Xiao Yu could still observe every change in this enormous quasar in real time.
It took Xiao Yu a little more than six days to transport this quasar forward by 1.6 light years. And in just those six or so days, the star stream formed from matter from the companion galaxy had already delivered more than the mass of ten stars here. Most of that mass was concentrated interstellar dust and gas, and within it were countless asteroids, large and small. The small ones were approximately dust-sized, while the largest were about half the size of the moon. Because they had lost the influence of the quasar’s gravity, in these short six days, they had already become bound by their own mutual gravity and had begun condensing into a simple celestial group.
There were no stars in this simple celestial group. The largest body was that dwarf planet half the size of the moon. Inside it there was abundant interstellar dust and meteor fragments, and they had already gathered into a simple cluster, occupying a region of space about two light-days across.
But Xiao Yu knew that this miniature matter cluster could not last. In 1.6 years, the quasar’s violent radiation energy, intense light, and powerful gravity would all arrive here. Under the effect of gravity, this tiny matter cluster would have no power to resist. It would be ruthlessly torn apart, and then once more begin the hopeless journey toward the quasar, ultimately vanishing into that powerful black hole.
Xiao Yu sighed faintly and began directing his fleet to travel away from this quasar. Xiao Yu did not know whether he had truly succeeded. During the journey away from this quasar, he still might be constrained by that reversal rule and, without realizing it, have his heading flipped again so that he moved back toward the quasar. But now he had, after all, already broken through the distance limit of 0.8 light year. This was a very good sign. In terms of probability, Xiao Yu’s chance of successfully escaping here had already exceeded eighty percent.
Xiao Yu carefully moved away from this place. The distance between Xiao Yu and this quasar rapidly widened, from 1.6 light years rapidly to 2 light years, then from 2 light years rapidly to 10 light years. Everything remained steady and normal. This situation did not change even when the distance widened to 100 light years, then 1,000 light years.
Only now did Xiao Yu feel somewhat relieved as he thought, “Perhaps I really have escaped the range of this quasar.”
The quasar’s gravity, light, and radiation were once more spreading outward through the universe at the speed of light. Xiao Yu’s travel speed, however, was more than 1,500 times the speed of light, which meant that if Xiao Yu maintained his motion, the influence of this quasar would never again reach him.
“A full several hundred years… and I’ve finally escaped this nightmare of a place.” Xiao Yu thought with some emotion. “In the end, although the solution was very simple in theory, it occupied a blind spot in thinking. If that music civilization had not come to remind me, I do not know how much more time I would have wasted here.”
“But this also gave me a great deal of inspiration. It too was a Logic Weapon. This time I encountered the third kind of Logic Weapon, while what the Guardian Civilization possesses is the first kind of Logic Weapon. Since I can break the third kind of Logic Weapon through the level of logic, can I also break the first kind of Logic Weapon through the level of logic, and thereby defeat the Guardian Civilization?”
“This is something very worth thinking about. Perhaps the real meaning of the music civilization coming to rescue me, and of this whole incident I encountered, was to let me know one thing: Logic Weapons must be broken from the logical level. No matter what, this is always worth attempting. When facing the Guardian Civilization, I will then have a greater degree of confidence.”
Silently thinking over these matters in his mind, Xiao Yu set out on the journey toward the companion galaxy of this quasar. Xiao Yu had not forgotten that the music civilization had once said they would wait for him in this companion galaxy for one thousand years. And in the earlier incident, that music civilization had already shown sufficient goodwill. Likewise, Xiao Yu still had many questions in his heart that he wanted answered. From whatever angle, Xiao Yu ought to hurry to this companion galaxy.
This companion galaxy was 800,000 light years away from the quasar. For Xiao Yu, a distance of 800,000 light years required less than 600 years to reach. Xiao Yu’s immense fleet once again entered the vast, empty expanse of outer space, racing forward through it.
After staying around the quasar for several hundred years, even though he had never gone too close to it, the quasar had simply been too powerful. And during that earlier period, Xiao Yu had been constantly occupied with construction and had truly had neither the energy nor the time to repair his fleet. So at this moment, Xiao Yu’s warship reserves had declined greatly compared to before arriving at the quasar.
Before arriving at the quasar, Xiao Yu had possessed about 80 billion warships. Now that number had fallen to less than 30 billion. More than 50 billion warships had either been abandoned by Xiao Yu because they were too badly damaged, or had disappeared because Xiao Yu dismantled them to supply parts for other warships.
“Losses like this are even greater than fighting an enormous war.” Xiao Yu sighed inwardly. “A quasar truly deserves to be called the most powerful celestial body in the universe. Even though I have integrated the technologies of several types of Level 7 Civilization, when facing such a violent thing, I still cannot really handle it.”
On this journey, Xiao Yu still had more than 500 years. During these more than 500 years, Xiao Yu began extensive repair work. However, because his material reserves had already dropped to a dangerous level, Xiao Yu did not begin building new warships. Instead, he simply repaired his original warships. Once he reached the companion galaxy and obtained material replenishment, then he would speak of building new warships.
Several hundred years passed quickly, and Xiao Yu finally approached yet another galaxy in the universe.
“I wonder what news the music civilization will bring me this time.” Xiao Yu thought as he slowed the advance speed of his fleet and moved forward slowly, feeling somewhat emotional inside. But suddenly, that emotion turned into surprise. “Oh heavens, what is that? A Neutron War Star? There is actually an advanced civilization of the extreme stellar body direction stationed in this galaxy? They seem to be in the middle of a war?”