Wandering Meteor-Chapter 344 - 343: Huge Harvest

The Wandering Alliance was extraordinarily fortunate.

Inside the hourglass nebula, there was no celestial civilization nor any biological civilization, allowing the Wandering Alliance to proceed according to Lu Chen’s plan and successfully capture the six constant stars within the nebula.

Perhaps this is what people mean by "Great blessings follow immense disasters."

Once the Wandering Alliance’s six battle stars successfully used the Celestial Body Capture Device to capture the six constant stars, Lu Chen could confidently control the gravity to absorb all the remaining gases and materials within the hourglass nebula.

At this moment, it was as if a hurricane had arisen within the hourglass nebula. After the six constant stars were captured, the gas clusters that had lost gravitational cohesion started to disperse. Suddenly, from nowhere, a wave arose, and an invisible force pulled these scattered gas clusters together. Due to the friction and collisions between the gas clusters, they slowly formed a space tornado. This tornado was of an immense scale, with a diameter of over thirty astronomical units and a length reaching several light-years.

Moreover, since the gas clusters were colorful, the space tornado was incredibly vibrant and diverse, resembling a colorful storm, or a colorful drama unfolding in the dark universe!

Under the gravitational pull of Lu Chen, the colorful tornado rapidly approached the Wandering Star System. From afar, it looked like a cosmic dragon fiercely impacting the heliosphere of the Wandering Star System.

When the tornado, carrying immense kinetic energy, struck, it disrupted the trajectories of some materials on the outer periphery of the heliosphere. Numerous meteorites crashed directly into the middle part of the heliosphere. The filling of the voids within the heliosphere by the gas clusters resulted in a significant increase in the density of the Wandering Star System after it fully absorbed the dispersed gas clusters of the hourglass nebula. Although the diameter of the heliosphere didn’t increase much, its density grew two to three times.

At this time, some fascinating changes began to emerge within the heliosphere.

Due to the increase in the density of materials in the heliosphere, and the influx of large amounts of gas into originally vacuumed areas, these gases absorbed various kinds of energy emitted from Lu Chen while orbiting. Many gases transformed into ions after absorbing energy. Combined with intense motion friction, these charged gas clusters, dust, and particles, thanks to static electricity, eventually formed several small discharge nebulae!

These discharge nebulae, while orbiting around Lu Chen, occasionally released flashes of lightning. Some had great energy, while others had less, and the colors of these lightnings were also diverse, twinkling in brief moments. Observing the Wandering Star System from the universe now, one would see that the central area of the system was brightly illuminated by the constant starlight, whereas the extensive outer heliosphere was no longer dark, occasionally flashing with dazzling lightning, like rays of hope shining through the deepest darkness of the night.

And these seemingly insignificant changes suddenly filled the entire Wandering Star System with vitality!

In the future, the regions that have produced the discharge nebulae may witness cosmic miracles, even miracles of life, provided of course that the overall structure of the heliosphere remains intact!

The process of the Wandering Star System absorbing the dispersed gases of the hourglass nebula seemed as swift as thunder, but in fact, on a microscopic level, a year had already passed in the timeline of a biological civilization. However, this year wasn’t considered long, given the vast expanse of the hourglass nebula. To absorb such a vast range of gas clusters within a year was already quite rapid.

However, at this moment, Lu Chen began to feel a discomfort.

This was because, with his constant star mass, maintaining the heliosphere was already somewhat strenuous. Now, after absorbing the dispersed gases within the hourglass nebula, this feeling of strain instantly intensified.

Thus, Lu Chen immediately instructed the six Battle Stars to bring the captured Constant Star within the range of his Roche limit. Initially, for safety reasons, Lu Chen only allowed the Wandering Alliance to deploy one star.

This Constant Star was extremely close to a massive Constant Star with a mass of ninety thousand Constant Star Masses. However, in front of Lu Chen who has 251500 Constant Star Masses, it was still incomparably small, its size approximately only one-eightieth of Lu Chen. As soon as it appeared, it was bound by Lu Chen’s strong gravity, forced to start orbiting around Lu Chen. At the same time, a large amount of high-temperature hydrogen ions on the star’s surface, under the influence of gravity, broke free from the Constant Star Body and sped towards the center, towards Lu Chen.

After absorbing for a while, Lu Chen felt increasingly more comfortable and thus instructed the Wandering Alliance to deploy the second star.

The mass of the second star was even more significant, truly a massive Constant Star with one hundred and ten thousand Constant Star Masses. Yet, it was still insignificant in front of Lu Chen. After being deployed, it obediently succumbed to Lu Chen’s gravity, revolving around Lu Chen. While it orbited, a massive column of hydrogen ions formed on its surface, surging and pouring onto Lu Chen.

Following the second star, Lu Chen then had the Wandering Alliance deploy the third star. However, the mass of this star wasn’t as large as the previous two, only fifty thousand Constant Star Masses. Since even its predecessors had to submit, it is conceivable that this star’s fate was also only to orbit around Lu Chen, having its hydrogen extensively plundered.

Thus, after step-by-step trials, Lu Chen found that his gravity strength could simultaneously plunder hydrogen from three stars, so, to save time, he took to plundering and absorbing from three stars together.

Given the significant masses of these three stars, the process of plundering and absorption by Lu Chen obviously took some time, and it was fifteen years later within the Wandering Alliance when Lu Chen had completely absorbed these three stars.

Next, it took about another fifteen years for Lu Chen to completely plunder and absorb another three stars. The total mass of these latter three stars was 220,000, and the total mass of the previous three stars was 250,000, which means that in these thirty years, Lu Chen’s star mass increased by 470,000, plus the original 251500, ultimately, Lu Chen’s mass reached 721500 Constant Star Masses!

This was an incredibly enormous gain.

Today, Lu Chen could not only smoothly control the Heliosphere’s movements, but he also did it with considerable ease!

At the same time, as Lu Chen’s mass reached 721500 Constant Star Masses, his diameter also grew to fifty million kilometers, the temperature in the Core Nuclear Fusion Area officially broke through one billion degrees, and the temperature in the corona layer increased to eighty million degrees, very close to the critical mark of one hundred million degrees.

As for the percentage of hydrogen in Lu Chen, it remained very high, approximately at 94%!

This was because the six absorbed stars contained a small amount of other elements, and since the amount wasn’t large, Lu Chen absorbed them all to save time.

Of course, with the dramatic increase in star mass, what improved the most was actually the gravity strength; now, Lu Chen’s gravity strength could increase to the level of five million, approximately equal to 16.66 times the speed of light!

The above are all visibly beneficial aspects, and there are many more that are invisible.

For example, with the increase in Lu Chen’s mass, it also invisibly enhanced the Wandering Alliance’s ability to survive in the Universe.

At this moment, everyone within the Wandering Alliance, looking at their Sun, which had almost tripled in mass, suddenly felt very secure, and their gazes towards the Sun were filled with admiration and belief!

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