Wandering Meteor-Chapter 225 - 224: Celestial Body-like Organisms’ Lives

The Star Realm Tunnel had a diameter of one light-year and transected the Star Realm Ball, which was over ten thousand light-years thick.

This was in no way comparable to some mountain tunnels on Earth, neither in terms of width and diameter nor length. The technical difficulties involved were incomparable.

It could be said that this was a magnificent and spectacular interstellar project.

When the Wandering Star System seized the chaos to rush into the Star Realm Tunnel, they finally experienced the vastness of the one-light-year-long Star Realm Tunnel.

Constant Star Lu Chen felt like he was an ant entering a tunnel, surrounded by seemingly endless space, which made him profoundly aware of his own insignificance.

Moreover, Green Star and Wandering, both in terms of size and mass, were much less than Constant Star Lu Chen, even being just one in several millions of his size. In the Star Realm Tunnel, they were like specks of dust and not worth mentioning.

However, several members within the Wandering Alliance didn’t have too much sentimentality.

After all, they entered the Star Realm Tunnel amidst chaos. The Earth Core Alliance and Huang Xing were still outside; they needed to widen the gap quickly to ensure safety. Moreover, as the neutron star that became a black hole continued to expand, even this area would become dangerous—it was not a place to linger.

Immediately, Constant Star Lu Chen utilized Gravity Wave to twist the space ahead, using Space Acceleration to propel the Wandering Star System forward at full speed.

At a high velocity of three times the speed of light, the entrance of the Star Realm Tunnel was quickly left behind, stretching a substantial distance in the blink of an eye.

As the distance grew further, the originally vast entrance began to narrow down.

At that time, scientists in the Wandering Base observed that a massive clutter of matter had also entered the Star Realm Tunnel; it was Huang Xing leading over two thousand Planet Battle Stars in pursuit.

Upon receiving this information, Metal Planet Wandering couldn’t help but say, "Damn, does the Earth Core Alliance have that many Planet Battle Stars? We absolutely cannot let them catch up to or surround us; otherwise, we’ll definitely be beaten to death without mercy."

Green Star said, "It’s quite normal for them to have such reserves of combat strength. After all, the Earth Core Alliance regards themselves as the guardians of the Star Realm Ball. Although the combat power of a single Planet Battle Star is almost equivalent to that of millions of Cosmic Battleships, the area that the Earth Core Alliance needs to govern is astoundingly vast. They certainly need more Battle Stars and combat reserves."

Constant Star Lu Chen said, "Don’t forget, this is just the combat strength of the Earth Core Civilization; there are also the vassal civilizations that Earth Core Civilization has subjugated!"

Green Star said, "According to current intelligence, we only know of one Parasitic Civilization and are unaware if there are other civilizations. If the Earth Core Civilization had managed to capture the Ant Queen of the Ant-man Civilization at the time, we would probably have to count the Ant-man Civilization as well."

Wandering said, "In that case, our decision at the time was correct. We absolutely cannot let the tiger return to the mountain."

Green Star asked, "How fast is the Earth Core Alliance chasing from behind and how far are they from us now?"

Scientists from Wandering Base sent a message: "Currently, the distance between us is about 48 light-hours, and their speed is also three times the speed of light. Assuming nothing unexpected happens, this distance should not shorten."

A light-hour is also a unit of length, primarily referring to the distance light travels in a vacuum in one hour.

Thus, 48 light-hours meant that even light would need to fly for 48 hours to cover this distance.

Although this distance seemed quite long, at a speed of three times the speed of light, it still wasn’t safe enough. Therefore, after discussion, the members of the Wandering Alliance decided that they needed to find a way to further increase the distance.

However, since three times the speed of light was the limit of their current technology, they couldn’t increase the distance through acceleration; they could only think of ways to slow down the Earth Core Alliance’s speed in pursuit to widen the gap.

After calculations, the Wandering Alliance came up with two methods to slow down the chase.

The first method involved the Earth Battle Star and Green Star Battle Star deploying Space Shock because of their positional relationship, they didn’t worry about speed issues, and the Space Shock was certain to affect the Earth Core Alliance following behind;

The second was to set up spatial roadblocks, which were quite different from the roadblocks on Earth during the star age. The specific method was to use equipment to pull larger meteor material from the edge of the Star Realm Tunnel into the channel, and then destroy meteorites with high-energy weapons such as the Singularity Bomb or the Space Energy Cannon to create a massive exploding shockwave.

Moreover, with the calculation and coordination of artificial intelligence, the Wandering Alliance would strictly control the timing and power of each explosion, ensuring that 99.99% of the time, the exploding roadblocks would serve to delay the competition.

Eventually, with the meticulous preparation of the Wandering Alliance, the pursuing Earth Core Alliance was continuously bogged down by Space Shock and exploding roadblocks, leaving Huang Xing incredibly annoyed. Over time, the gap between the two parties slowly widened from 48 light-hours to 72 light-hours...

However, the Wandering Alliance did not relax its vigilance because of this.

Because Constant Star Lu Chen was very aware that they still knew too little about the Earth Core Alliance. If they had to confront each other head-on in the future, their lack of intelligence would put them at a great disadvantage.

Fortunately, Constant Star Lu Chen had realized this early on, and during the previous encounters with Earth Core Civilization’s Planet Flying Devices, Lu Chen had the Earth Civilization or Light Synthesis Civilization collect some corpses or wreckage of equipment, hoping to extract some crucial intelligence about the Earth Core Alliance.

For instance, every member of the Wandering Alliance who had once suffered the poison of the Parasitic Civilization was very curious: Why, after subduing the Parasitic Civilization, was the Earth Core Civilization not afraid of being covertly parasitized and replaced by the Parasitic Civilization?

This question was finally decrypted recently.

Because the scientific project team responsible for the investigation related to the Earth Core Alliance had made new progress.

Initially, Earth Civilization had acquired several well-preserved corpses of Earth Core People from a Planet Flying Device.

However, these corpses of Earth Core People were very strange; upon death, they turned into a gray-white solid form, with some being a gray-black solid state.

At first, the scientists in charge tried to understand them in the way Earth People would, believing that the Earth Core People must have been gray-white solid life forms when alive, that is, their shape after death wouldn’t change much from how they were alive. They took this as their direction of research, but as the research deepened, they found that the actual results did not match their theory at all. If it were as their theory suggested, these life forms wouldn’t have had sufficient energy to carry out various activities while alive.

Thus, the scientists changed their line of research.

After meticulous dissections, they finally discovered the secret of the life of Earth Core People and understood why Earth Core People dared to employ the rapidly proliferating Parasitic Civilization without fearing the latent threat of the Parasitic Civilization—it turned out that the states of life of the two civilizations were fundamentally different.

This was the first time members of the Wandering Alliance had encountered celestial body-like biological life.