Wandering Meteor-Chapter 345 - 344: Crisis and Opportunity Coexist

"Demons Star, we were quite lucky this time, encountering a newly formed nebula. However, surviving in the Universe still requires caution!" Just as Lu Chen was feeling extremely happy, he suddenly received a conscious message from Green Star.

Lu Chen said, "Of course, I won’t forget that. Whether it’s biological civilization or celestial civilization, there exist entities far stronger than us in this vast universe. Just among the hundreds of millions of Constant Star Bodies observed by scientists, there are many giants with tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of Constant Star Masses. I am still far from their mass, with a long way to go!"

Lu Chen continued: "Actually, since I departed from the Solar System, having grown to 720,000 Constant Star Masses took quite some time, not exactly fast. After all, as Constant Star Mass increases, the speed of plundering should also increase exponentially, but we encountered too many wars and hardships during our wandering journey, which slowed down my growth. However, we have also forged exceptional willpower through these hardships, which is invaluable. And I believe, as the Wandering Alliance moves deeper into the Cosmic Center and encounters more materials, both my mass and the mass of the Wandering Star System will reach a period of explosion!"

Green Star rationally said: "The explosion period is indeed approaching, but it’s not only us that are at this juncture, almost all civilizations are at this juncture, and thus, this explosion period inevitably brings huge dangers. In the context of the Universe’s halted expansion, the battle among civilizations for resources will only become more intense. If we cannot grow, we will perish. It can be said that this is an era of simultaneously existing crisis and opportunity, and also the period of the greatest cosmic changes in ten billion years!"

"Green Star, thank you for your reminder. After Wandering departs, you are the only one who can still communicate directly with me!" Lu Chen remarked sentimentally.

Green Star said, "Apart from external conditions, your own condition is also constantly changing. Increasing mass is good, but it comes with risks. As mass increases, the gravitational collapse inside the star will also become stronger, greatly accelerating the rate of nuclear fusion reactions, resulting in an explosive increase of energy output by tenfold or even a hundredfold. You have to be very careful in controlling this, as even a small solar activity could be catastrophic for biological civilizations. Moreover, with the increased rate of hydrogen consumption, your Constant Star lifespan is also rapidly decreasing. This means you will need more hydrogen replenishment, otherwise, you will enter the death phase of a Constant Star."

"I am well aware of the internal risks, but this is an inevitable process of celestial life evolution!" Lu Chen said.

Just as he finished speaking, Lu Chen suddenly said, "By the way, Green Star, your unwillingness to absorb material for growth, could it be because of these reasons?"

"Previously, there were indeed some reasons in this regard, but after allowing the Light Synthesis Civilization to reside on a planet, I realized the power of technology. Without technology, perhaps I would have absorbed material under your influence, but since there is technology now, I don’t need to absorb material anymore. As Earth Civilization says: ’All roads lead to Rome,’ I agree with this philosophy and would like to see the outcomes of different paths," Green Star stated indifferently. freewēbnoveℓ.com

While Lu Chen and Green Star were conversing, the scientists at the Wandering Base detected some astonishing changes in the universe using the Superluminal Detector.

First, their position in the Wandering Alliance.

The location of the Wandering Alliance is roughly at the anterior abdomen position of the Jupeng Constellation’s nebula group. The original hourglass nebula in this location was just a tiny glimmering hourglass on the map of the Jupeng Constellation’s nebula group, but after being devoured by the Wandering Star System, this tiny hourglass disappeared from the map, replaced by an even brighter, brilliant light point, as if the Jupeng Constellation, this cosmic giant peng, had evolved a Supreme Golden Core!

In addition to changes in the anterior abdomen, many other positions in the vast Jupeng Constellation nebula group also underwent changes, as previously scattered small light points one by one disappeared from the map, replaced by brighter large light points. It seems these positions are undergoing similar changes to the hourglass nebula, and this also means, with the impending crisis of the Universe’s halted expansion, the cosmic atmosphere is undergoing a silent transformation, forcing civilizations to accelerate their plundering of resources!

Based on the scientists’ estimations, in about several tens of millions of years, this age-old Jupeng Constellation nebula group will disappear from the cosmic map.

Of course, that’s a story for later; there is still plenty of time before that.

The Wandering Alliance needs to continuously improve its combat power to ensure survival in various cosmic crises.

And the Wandering Alliance has been doing just that—during those thirty years when Lu Chen absorbed six Constant Stars, the third phase of the Wandering Alliance’s New Stars Program was also progressing vigorously.

To this day, it can be said that the Wandering Alliance’s third phase of the New Star Program has been quite successful.

Situated outside the Star-making Factory Zone at the edge of the Heliosphere, quietly floating were ten black planets each with the mass of a hundred planets!

These ten black planets are precisely the first batch of Dark Gold Battle Stars produced by the third phase of the New Star Program. Previously, due to technological limitations, the Wandering Alliance could only produce one Planet Battle Star in about a hundred years, and there was only one production line back then. However, after the Wandering Alliance became a Level 4 Civilization, various technologies matured, and with Wandering Alliance designers continuously innovating production levels, the efficiency of producing Planet Battle Stars increased significantly.

Previously, it took a hundred years to produce one Planet Battle Star, but now it only takes twenty-five to thirty years, increasing efficiency by three to four times.

Moreover, to increase production speed and rapidly boost the combat power of the Wandering Alliance, the Alliance has boldly increased the number of production lines to ten, and those ten Dark Gold Battle Stars are the first batch produced by these ten production lines.

And at this rate of production, it will take at most three hundred years to complete the hundred Battle Stars planned for the third phase of the New Star Program.

However, strictly speaking, these ten Dark Gold Battle Stars are actually not finished products but semi-finished products, because while the external shape of the Dark Gold is complete, the internal structure is still unfinished.

The reason for this is that the Dark Gold designed by the Wandering Alliance is a transformable close-combat Battle Star, which means these metal battle stars are not suitable for habitation and survival. Therefore, controlling these Dark Gold Battle Stars became a problem, for which scientists proposed two methods.

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