Wandering Meteor-Chapter 155 - 154: Escaping at the Speed of Light

The Pirate Civilization’s Planet Flying Device suddenly lost power, not because it was attacked.

It was just that the six energy control devices on the Planet Flying Device were overloaded and shut down at the same time, causing a temporary power outage on the device.

This is because when the Pirate Civilization previously used space acceleration technology, the target was only the Planet Flying Device, whether in energy level, material mass, or technical proficiency, it was all at this level.

Now, suddenly having to use space acceleration technology to speed up the Wandering Star System with a diameter of four astronomical units, the difficulty has undoubtedly increased immensely. In order to ensure the greatest chance of success, the Pirate Civilization had no choice but to pour all the energy from the Planet Flying Device into the attempt.

This led to the overloading of the six energy control devices.

Witnessing this situation, Constant Star Lu Chen also made a rough guess.

Right away, he used Gravity to pull the Pirate Civilization’s Planet Flying Device into the Wandering Star System, bringing it forward in flight, otherwise leaving it in space would make it an easy target for Entropy Beasts.

Due to the sudden power cutoff, the Gravity Field that enveloped the Planet Flying Device disappeared, and its speed was also rapidly reduced, which allowed it to be locked by Constant Star Lu Chen’s Gravity, and the reason Lu Chen saved the Pirate Civilization was not out of gratitude for earlier life-saving favors, but simply because it was a strategic necessity.

Because Lu Chen was very clear, the Pirate Civilization had no good intentions in saving him, they did it only because the scientific delegations of eight civilizations were all on Earth negotiating from all sides, which is one of the greatest hopes for eliminating the Entropy Beasts. For their own survival route, the Pirate Civilization had to save the entire Wandering Star System.

In fact, this was also the plan that Constant Star Lu Chen had been strategizing before.

Ever since the Entropy Alliance confirmed the rule of "destroying whomever is devoured first," Lu Chen consciously elevated his own status and importance within the alliance to avoid becoming cannon fodder.

After all, in an alliance dominated by interests, it’s invariably the most insignificant that are sacrificed first.

Therefore, Lu Chen leveraged other civilizations’ apprehensions towards the Pirate Civilization and proposed that the scientific delegations of the eight civilizations hold negotiations on Earth, and now it’s just the manifestation of a successful plan.

The reason Lu Chen saved the Pirate Civilization is simply that the Entropy Beast hasn’t been removed, and he might still need the strength of the Pirate Civilization.

One could say that in this alliance, every civilization is very pragmatic, always prioritizing their own survival and interests as the first principle in crafting their actions.

If saving the enemy could ensure their own survival, they would not hesitate to act; beneath the facade of unity within the alliance, there is actually a turbulent undercurrent.

Now, Constant Star Lu Chen has also grown a lot compared to before.

After the Planet Flying Device was pulled into the Wandering Star System, the Pirate Civilization also quickly repaired the overloaded devices, and the entire Planet Flying Device’s power was restored to normal.

The Pirate Civilization also resumed communication with other civilizations.

However, neither Constant Star Lu Chen nor the Pirate Civilization made much mention of this mutual rescue.

Because they both understood the real motives of each other, and could not truly feel gratitude, not to mention after each side had saved the other once, they were even.

And of course, the other civilizations also understood that in the current plan, the eight scientific delegations on Earth and Constant Star Lu Chen are the two most critical components; unless it’s a moment of complete helplessness, they would prioritize preserving the Wandering Star System. Hence the remaining five civilizations all understood the actions of the Pirate Civilization.

Now, the Pirate Civilization’s Planet Flying Device has been restored to normal and is planning to depart from the Wandering Star System.

However, Constant Star Lu Chen proposed that, given their consecutive losses in dispersed combat, they might as well unite for a combined effort; all civilizations should temporarily enter the Wandering Star System, form a whole, and then have the Pirate Civilization provide light-speed escape for the Wandering Star System.

By doing so, they can minimize casualties to the greatest extent and also unite all forces to confront the Entropy Beasts.

This proposal was swiftly agreed upon by three other civilizations besides the Pirate Civilization.

Because they were flying alone out there, witnessing the annihilation of one civilization after another was truly nerve-wracking.

If they could form an entire galaxy as one entity, it would be much safer. After all, if something did happen, they would perish together.

At this time, all civilizations increasingly realized the superiority and importance of being a life community.

The reason why Constant Star Lu Chen proposed this plan was not to allow the Pirate Civilization any room to hide; as a third-level civilization, they were the most technologically advanced, and might deliberately withhold some core technologies.

Furthermore, Constant Star Lu Chen’s plan would completely invalidate the rules previously set by the Pirate Civilization—that whoever got devoured first would be the first to be destroyed. This would significantly weaken the Pirate Civilization’s status within the alliance, thereby strengthening his own leadership position.

In the end, Constant Star Lu Chen emerged victorious in this covert struggle for power.

The Pirate Civilization, with no other option, had to agree to this plan, and all civilizations moved together into the Wandering Star System, temporarily forming a larger galactic force.

However, the Pirate Civilization stated that with their technology and Energy Level, providing a momentary Space Acceleration for the just-mentioned Wandering Star System was already at its limit, which has caused the Planet Flying Device to be cut off from energy supply for a duration. Now, with the added mass of three other civilizations, it completely exceeded the Energy Level of the equipment on the Planet Flying Device. If they were to force it, they feared severe damage would occur to the Planet Flying Device.

Constant Star Lu Chen was not foolish, of course, he didn’t take the Pirate Civilization’s one-sided words at face value.

Although their argument seemed quite plausible, and there was a certain correlation with the phenomena just observed, there is an old saying that "what’s in the heart cannot be seen from the outside", especially between two different civilizations.

So, Lu Chen simply came up with a better suggestion.

That was to allow the Pirate Civilization to provide technical support, enabling him to use Gravity Waves to warp space and accelerate.

This method had caught Lu Chen’s attention ever since he observed the Gravity Warping Space inadvertently providing acceleration to Constant Star when two Black Holes merged. He had immediately instructed the science team of Earth Civilization to study it, but regretfully, there hadn’t been much progress.

Now, since the Pirate Civilization had made this excuse, he could take the opportunity to directly ask for this technology, which, of course, was much better than relying on the Pirate Civilization for acceleration.

After all, final control was in his own hands, and he could also gain a technology for free.

It wasn’t until now that the high-level officials of the Pirate Civilization realized that they seemed to have been stepping into the trap set by Constant Star Lu Chen, step by step.

However, given the situation, they didn’t have many choices left. In order to destroy the Entropy Beast, they could only provide this technical support.

The Pirate Civilization was shrewd, though.

They did not provide the core technology of space energy but only some technological theories of the Curvature Engine.

Moreover, they had always used space energy to distort space, which was unlike Lu Chen’s use of Gravity to warp. This detail also required Lu Chen to explore more on his own; they could only supply some data.

As for this, Lu Chen was not worried.

He was already experienced in using Gravity Waves to distort space. He only lacked the technological principles of Space Distortion curvature and how to use these curvatures to accelerate. Now that the Pirate Civilization was offering technical support, he believed he would soon master the technical methods of the Curvature Engine.

And sure enough.

Once Lu Chen received the technological principles from the Pirate Civilization, after a dozen trials, along with eight other civilizations’ science teams’ analysis and calculations, he quickly mastered the technology to accelerate by using Gravity Waves to warp space.

Now, Constant Star Lu Chen’s Constant Star Mass amounted to 1290 units, much higher than the Energy Level of the Pirate Civilization’s Planet Flying Device; this was one of the advantages of a Celestial Civilization.

Therefore, when Lu Chen controlled Gravity Wave Space Distortion for acceleration, the immense mass generated a strong gravitational force that directly twisted space, allowing the current Wandering Star System to reach light-speed escape with relative ease.freewёbn૦νeɭ.com