In the faint and obscure erect snake pupils, the colors of the entire universe are reflected.

The dark and dead universe, the brilliant nebulae, the countless stars...... Everything was reflected on the surface of the large, smooth pupil, as if the whole universe were in its pupil. In front of the ocean that was too large, the small spaceship not far from the pupil was not even dust.

"Emergency Procedures...... Flee...... Passengers are requested to prepare for emergencies......"

No matter how surprised the middle-aged man is at the moment, the highly intelligent spaceship AI has already judged the danger, and the sub-light engine with a maximum speed of 1/2 light speed is starting at the highest speed, trying to get away from this space monster that is dangerous at first sight.

In just a breath, the spacecraft has been far away for millions of kilometers, but this distance is not to mention the solar system with a gravitational range of more than 2 light years, and it is like an ant crawling in front of this behemoth that does not know hundreds of thousands of kilometers.

While humans have discovered a network of subspace lanes that allow for disguised faster-than-light travel, attempts to navigate through subspace are limited by a number of conditions.

The huge gravitational pull caused by the star is like a well on the plane of space, dragging everything in the vicinity into it, and in the vicinity of such a huge gravity well, it is impossible for this viewing spacecraft to break free from the shackles of space and escape through subspace.

However, the serpent didn't seem to notice them, and slowly stretched out its body in space. The huge and long snake body unfolded, and then the long tail of tens of thousands of miles swayed gently, as if it was swimming in the vast space, flying towards the sun not far away.

"It'...... Didn't seem to notice us. ”

The young man stared at the behemoth closely, fear and nervousness making its mental fluctuations even more unstable, and this unstable mental fluctuations were also present in the other companions. Almost instantly, the high psychic tremors in the crowd were detected by the spaceship AI.

"Psionic Protector...... Psidiapam aerosol release ......"

Inside the ship, a fragrant mist is released, soothing psionic instability.

One of the negative effects of psionics is this.

Too keen perception of the mind makes psionics easily influenced by the emotions of others. So for the problem of uncontrolled psionic energy, almost this millennium, the entire human world has been studying this.

The psionic tranquilizer that works through skin-to-skin contact is indeed very effective, and the young man, who was originally mentally unstable because of staring at the giant snake, quickly calmed down, and the fear in his heart faded, but then he focused on another matter.

At the sight of the giant snake, everyone's emotions were highly unstable, but among them, the most disturbing was the middle-aged man.

When he saw the giant snake breaking out of the shell of that planet, his emotions were not only fear, but also a certain kind of wonder and surprise, and his reaction was extremely strong. It's as if something he thought impossible had happened.

"Why are you so surprised? Do you know anything?"

The young man asked hurriedly.

With the help of the mist, the middle-aged man's mood calmed down a little, and then his expression was a little complicated.

"I ...... I was interested in pre-galactic history, so I looked up a lot of stuff about it, including some very obscure ancient relics. On a stone tablet on the Star of Hope, a man who claims to be a descendant of an ancient organization writes some very grotesque stories. ”

He said that his ancestors were once part of a mysterious organization that has existed since the time of the ancient earth, an ancient organization that existed in 3,500 years before the galactic calendar, when humans were still using iron tools and even thermal weapons had not yet appeared. This organization has kept a secret for generations, known as the Hermit Order by insiders, and the Hermitage was also destroyed in the middle of the way, but it was also rebuilt, and it was not until the interstellar age that this ancient organization gradually died out. His ancestors also only knew some of the things themselves. It has been passed down to future generations as a story. ”

"Many of the things on the stele are bizarre, but there is one thing that stands out to me. The stele says that the original planet of origin of mankind was actually a large serpent entrenched, and the serpent fell asleep, and the dust on its body turned into the earth, and the water became the sea, and the mist formed the sky, and then life flourished...... The people of the monastic believe in this and have kept it a secret for generations. And the ruler of the overlord is the leader of the hermitage, and the reason why he bombarded the important territory of his power is also to destroy this great serpent......"

The mental fluctuations stagnated slightly, and the middle-aged man stared at the giant snake swimming in space, his face showing incredulity.

"I don't have any impression of the other bizarre stories on the stele, but I am very impressed by this story, because it is unexpectedly linked to the mystery of the destruction of the earth that interests me. ”

"And when I saw this big snake, I instantly remembered this story...... Will an imaginary story become a reality?"

The middle-aged man shook his head, as if he still didn't want to believe what he was seeing.

"Whether it's an illusory story or not, now that the giant snake has woken up, we should figure out how to get out of it now. ”

The young man comforted, and at the same time, he looked at the spaceship AI.

"How long will it take for us to get to the subspace jump border?!"

At the bow of the ship, the built-in ship AI flashes with light, and according to the regulations handed down after the AI lost control of the war, the AI must always show its status to prevent logical errors. And in front of the young people, the flickering light proves that the ship's AI is operating efficiently.

"3672 seconds. ”

The AI replied.

At this moment, the AI system of the entire spaceship has been mobilized, strictly monitoring the traces of the space monster. However, the 1/2 light-speed engine loaded by the spacecraft is not born for war, but for interstellar travel, perhaps some military spaceships can forcibly subspace jump to escape even in gravity wells, but this spacecraft can't, it must be in an area with little gravitational influence, smooth and stable space-time structure to make subspace jumps.

Even if it is moving at maximum speed, it is very difficult for this ship to get out of danger.

"A Whole Galactic Time ......"

The young man gritted his teeth.

For now, it seems that it can only be seen whether fate is on their side.

"Look, what's that big snake doing?"

Suddenly, a companion's mental turmoil was heard, and the young man looked up and saw a scene that was enough to shock everyone......

On that huge star with a diameter of 1.4 million kilometers, many hundreds of thousands of miles of solar eruptions are erupting, and those solar materials with huge heat are forming violently. And a huge monster hundreds of thousands of miles long is crawling on the surface of the star, opening its mouth wide and devouring the energy derived from the star.

Even though it is hundreds of millions of kilometers away, it can still be clearly seen on the star.

Huge monsters swim around the stars as if they were swimming on them. From time to time, he opened his mouth wide, greedily devouring the sun that was in the midst of a violent eruption, almost the size of a planet, and devoured the material on the stars with a big gulp.

"Incredible...... Can a biological structure resist the heat of the stars?"

Among the companions, some people were shaking their heads unconsciously, clearly feeling the huge impact.

In the interstellar age, human beings have long had a profound understanding of the physical world, and at the temperature of the sun, no matter is known not to melt, not even the stars themselves.

A star is a nuclear fusion furnace that is constantly undergoing thermonuclear reactions, and there are no entities in it at all, but countless highly dense atoms, too dense and thick heat, forces, and particles. It is so dense that even photons cannot pass through it, and it would take 100,000 years for a photon to break through millions of kilometers of dense particles from the center of this fusion furnace to the outer part of the sun.

No matter can sustain itself on a star.

Even if interstellar humans can enter the interior of the star, it does not rely on pure matter as a shield, but relies on the force field, relying on the invisible and qualitative "force", and uses the invisible force field to resist the pressure and temperature inside the star.

It is simply impossible to rely on tangible and qualitative substances to resist such temperatures, let alone biological structures.

However, this scene in front of him broke the cognition of interstellar humans, relying on the seemingly primitive scales, the huge giant snake was actually actually wandering among the stars?

"No, it doesn't withstand the stellar temperature, look closely. ”

The young man decisively denied this, but reminded his companions.

In the young man's sight, he could clearly see that the scale armor of the huge serpent was rapidly melting under the heat of the star, but the problem was that the scales of the giant snake were regenerating rapidly, so it seemed as if it had no effect...... No, it's not just the scales that are regenerating!

In the information fed back by the prosthetic eye, the number of the giant snake's size, which was already unbelievably large, was still expanding rapidly!

800,000 km......

900,000 km ......

1,000,000 km......

2,000,000 km......

3,000,000 km......

......

The old scales melt below the stellar temperature, but the new ones are larger and denser, and their resistance to the star's temperature is rising. Eventually, when the serpent's body could coil around the entire star, the scales were unscathed in the hot plasma, and no matter how much the star scorched and impacted, it could only make the black scales shine more and more.

"Oh no! This star is going to explode!"

Suddenly, someone was stunned.

In the data of everyone's prosthetic eyes, they can clearly see the fluctuations in heat, just now, the intensity and heat changes of the star are rising sharply, and they are obviously in a high degree of instability.

A large amount of material has been plundered, so that the surface of this star cannot be maintained at all, the external pressure is weakened, and the huge pressure inside is about to be released.

Predictably, soon, the star, which is undergoing a highly thermonuclear reaction inside, will become unsustainable, and all the matter will burst out completely, like a dying red giant, nay, even more dangerous than that red giant.

Red giants are the ones where the pressure on the inside decreases and then the outside expands outward, which can last for tens of thousands of years, but right now, the star is detonating from the inside out.

It can be said that the sun at this moment has completely turned into a bomb, which is about to explode.

How powerful would this explosion be? No one is trying to calculate it, and the ship is unlikely to escape anyway.

"It's over......"

Desperate mental fluctuations spread.

But the serpent wrapped around the star moved.

The huge body, which had grown to millions of miles, hovered over the surface of the star, wandering and winding in circles, and the tight body forcibly clamped the star, even dimming the brightness of the entire galaxy, because the snake body was so tightly wound that there was no light to break free from.

Since it is because the external pressure has decreased, it is good to force it again.

"What is it doing?"

The young man was dazed.

He didn't understand what the huge monster in front of him was doing, as long as it loosened a little, the whole star would explode in an instant, and there was no other possibility. Is it going to haunt this star forever?

"It'...... It's eating. ”

This time, the middle-aged man spoke.

The excessive surprise even made him speak instead of using his mind fluctuations to transmit information.

His pupils were full of shock.

Middle-aged people are curious about the history of the pre-galactic era, and they also know a lot about the creatures of the pre-galactic era. In ancient Earth times, snakes liked to restrain their prey by strangulation and then swallow it into their stomachs.

But right now, what is bound by this giant snake is a huge star with a diameter of 1.4 million kilometers!

Above the scorching star, the massive serpent's body wrapped around the massive celestial body, as if to restrain its prey and prevent it from breaking free, its head raised, its erect pupils looking down at the star below.

The abyssal jaw, the star that shone with billions of brilliance and shone on everything in these few light years was suddenly bitten, and the star's surging brilliance before dying even surpassed what everyone could see, as if it was facing a ray burst from a neutron star.

Under the gaze of all the interstellar humans in the spaceship, in the vast universe, the giant snake that is thousands of miles long raised its head, and the sun was in its mouth.

The star burst into the mouth of the giant serpent with its last violent brilliance, faintly about to explode, but the light gradually faded downward, disappeared, and was silent. As a result, the star was swallowed completely.