Wandering Meteor-Chapter 164 - 163: 1.5 Times the Speed of Light

Having spoken thus, Constant Star Lu Chen made it clear to Pirate Civilization that there was no room for negotiation, so without further ado, they directly controlled their 500,000-kilometer Planet Flying Device and flew towards the site of the Entropy Beast explosion.

Prior to this, after a brief consultation, Pirate Civilization made the decisive decision to abandon the scientific team of Pirate Civilization detained on Earth. It wasn’t that Pirate Civilization didn’t want to rescue them, but in the current situation, it was basically impossible to do so.

Because Pirate Civilization does not have any leverage over the Wandering Star System, if a battle ensued, the Wandering Star System would undoubtedly take the scientific team as hostages.

But with Pirate Civilization’s style, they certainly didn’t want to be constrained in this way. Therefore, the Wandering Star System might tear up the ticket at any time, and the end result would not change. Pirate Civilization also didn’t want to waste time on this, so they headed directly for the remnants of the Entropy Beast explosion.

Pirate Civilization planned to seize the black sphere first, then escape.

This decision of Pirate Civilization was very wise, because during the process of eliminating the Entropy Beast, Constant Star Lu Chen had grown a lot and became powerful enough to pose a threat to a third-level civilization. Hence, without much confidence in this battle, Pirate Civilization decided to grab the black sphere first and then retreat to a safe place for slow research.

Actually, things had moved beyond Pirate Civilization’s expectations.

Originally when Pirate Civilization proposed the alliance, they genuinely wanted only to join forces with other civilizations to eliminate the Entropy Beast, without ever considering aiding the enemy, Constant Star Lu Chen, in upgrading his Constant Star Mass. However, Pirate Civilization didn’t foresee that Lu Chen would slowly take back the initiative.

Since then, things started slipping out of Pirate Civilization’s control.

Also, eliminating the Entropy Beast turned out to be more difficult than imagined, so out of necessity, to eliminate the Entropy Beast first, Pirate Civilization could only retreat and compromise on the alliance’s decisions.

Little did they know, sometimes compromise can be addictive. After taking the first step back, Pirate Civilization began to retreat a second and third step, unconsciously reaching the current situation where Constant Star Lu Chen had grown to pose a serious threat to Pirate Civilization’s existence.

When he saw Pirate Civilization’s actions, Constant Star Lu Chen immediately understood the other party’s intentions, and so he promptly notified the Cosmic Battleship at the site of the Entropy Beast explosion to be careful.

At the same time, he controlled the Wandering Star System to chase at the speed of light.

Only, the Wandering Star System was about two astronomical units away from the site of the Entropy Beast explosion, which would still require about sixteen minutes even at the speed of light.

Constant Star Lu Chen originally thought that Pirate Civilization’s Space Acceleration technology was similar to his own, where the speed of light was the limit.

However, at this moment, Lu Chen was shocked to discover that Pirate Civilization’s Planet Flying Device was moving at 1.5 times the speed of light, which was 0.5 times faster than the intelligence he had previously collected.

Could it be that Pirate Civilization had always been hiding their true strength?

Thinking this, Lu Chen immediately notified Earth Civilization, instructing them to question the scientific team of Pirate Civilization.

In the end, after some interrogation, they obtained the truthful information. Pirate Civilization’s technological limit was indeed the speed of light, at least until their scientific team entered Earth.

Now, it had been raised to 1.5 times the speed of light, which indicates that Pirate Civilization had also been preparing in secret during this period, secretly improving their Space Technology once more.

Having learned this intelligence, Constant Star Lu Chen finally began to understand why Pirate Civilization chose the plan to snatch the black sphere. It was because they were far enough from the site of the explosion to utilize their speed advantage to the greatest extent, and after obtaining the black sphere, Pirate Civilization could also use their speed advantage to escape far from the Wandering Star System.

It has to be said, Pirate Civilization’s strategic decisions were very wise and intelligent.

But this was not good news for the Wandering Star System. Watching the gap being gradually widened by Pirate Civilization, Constant Star Lu Chen attempted to fire a neutrino superbeam.

"Boom!"

Although the neutrino superbeam had an energy level ten thousand kilometers across, its speed was only that of light, and the distance was still being slowly increased by Pirate Civilization moving at 1.5 times the speed of light. If it continued like this, it would be impossible to catch up to the Planet Flying Device of Pirate Civilization.

Therefore, Lu Chen immediately decided to upgrade the flight speed of the Wandering Star System.

At present, the Wandering Star System had reached the speed of light under Space Acceleration. If they wanted to increase speed, they would have to increase the curvature of Space Distortion, enhancing the sliding rate, and only then the flight speed of the Wandering Star System would increase.

Lu Chen was clear on this point, and he also knew that this was what the scientists were best at, so he left this task to the scientific team at the Wandering Base.

These scientific teams were elites from various civilizations, and they had undergone the Entropy War, so they were experienced and quickly calculated the conditions required to accelerate the Wandering Star System to 1.5 times the speed of light.

Among these conditions, the most important one was Gravity Strength.

Only with sufficient Gravity Strength could space be distorted to the required degree. Fortunately, this condition was not a problem for Lu Chen, as he now had a Constant Star Mass of 2390, and the Gravity Strength could be increased to one hundred thousand, completely meeting this requirement.

Thus, based on the data provided by the scientific team, after ten attempts, Lu Chen gradually found the knack and successfully increased the curvature of Space Distortion, which in turn enhanced the flight speed of the Wandering Star System to 1.5 times the speed of light.

An interesting event occurred at this time.

When the Wandering Star System’s speed reached 1.5 times the speed of light, it directly overtook the neutrino superbeam Lu Chen had launched. The people on Earth could also see with the naked eye the blue Milky Way in space rapidly receding, like a dreamlike illusion.

"How is this possible?"

At this moment, Pirate Civilization’s Planet Flying Device had just arrived at the site of the Entropy Beast explosion, but to their astonishment, they discovered that the Wandering Star System behind them had also increased its speed to 1.5 times the speed of light.

This made everyone in Pirate Civilization feel incredibly unbelievable.

You must know, they were inspired by the Entropy Beast and had researched Space Technology early on to raise their speed to this level. They did not expect that Constant Star Lu Chen would also increase his speed to 1.5 times the speed of light in such a short time, which was simply terrifying!

As the flight speed of the Wandering Star System increased, Pirate Civilization had less time invisibly, so they immediately fired upon the Cosmic Battleship of Earth Civilization at the explosion site.

Boom, boom, boom!

Being only a second-level civilization, Earth Civilization’s Cosmic Battleship with its weaponry and technical configuration couldn’t match that of Pirate Civilization, and it was destroyed in a brief moment by Pirate Civilization; then, Pirate Civilization dragged the debris of the Silver Star Civilization’s warship into their Planet Flying Device, and finally controlled the Planet Flying Device to escape far away at 1.5 times the speed of light.

Behind, Lu Chen controlled the enormous Wandering Star System in relentless pursuit. Whether it was the black sphere left by the Entropy Beast or the grudges between them, he would not let Pirate Civilization get away!