"Hey, Eric, how did you choose such a place to stay? Why not find a suitable planet and build another base? Tang Feng asked with a smile after hugging Eric. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The place where Tang Feng and Eric met was in another star system about a hundred light-years away from the solar system, and if Eric hadn't given the coordinates directly, even Tang Feng would not have been able to find this place even if he drove the "Nautilus".

If you don't go out of the solar system, you can't appreciate the vastness and depth of the universe at all.

If the diameter of the solar system is determined according to the gravitational range of the main star of the solar system, that is, the sun, then the diameter of the solar system is about 4,000 astronomical units, that is, about 600 billion kilometers; According to the boundary distance that the solar wind can reach, the diameter of the solar system is about 1,400 astronomical units, that is, about 210 billion kilometers; However, according to the usual definition of the boundaries of the solar system, that is, the orbit of Pluto, the diameter of the solar system is only about 12 billion kilometers.

But even in the farthest definition, that is, the farthest limit that the sun's gravitational pull can reach, the diameter of the solar system is only 0.6 light-years. The Voyager 1 unmanned probe, launched as early as 1977, has only flown 19 billion kilometers after 44 years of flight, and even the boundaries that the solar wind can reach are far from reaching.

One can imagine how big the solar system is.

But such a large solar system, not to mention relative to the entire universe, even relative to the Milky Way, is just a drop in the ocean.

At present, earthlings can only view the stars outside the solar system through some complex optical or radio telescopes, and even many stars in the solar system, which have not yet been fully understood by human beings. Therefore, although human beings have now stepped out of the earth, they are still "sitting in a well and watching the sky" relative to the entire galaxy.

And Eric, who walks hundreds of thousands of light years at every turn, a hundred light years is just a nap for Eric who pilots the super spaceship "Grand Duke Caesar", and for the earth civilization, this is an insurmountable moat now. It can be seen how big the technological gap between the Earth civilization and the Star Alliance is.

And although Tang Feng drove the "Nautilus" faster than the "Grand Duke Caesar", but in the same way, the "Nautilus" is also the technology of the Star Alliance......

"Brother Tang, it's not that I deliberately want to stay away from you and your home planet, it's because when we came to the Milky Way, we found a few rocky planets with suitable conditions around the solar system, especially this planet, I think it's particularly suitable for condensing star cores, so we came over to stare at it. Hehe, you also know how important a star core is to our Doug family......"

Tang Feng shrugged his shoulders noncommittally and said, "Eric, you don't need to remind you of this, since I promised you, then I will definitely be able to do it, if you are not at ease, I will immediately condense a star core for you to confirm it." ”

Eric's face was overjoyed, and he smiled and nodded wildly.

In fact, for the condensation star core, although Tang Feng had not really operated it before, he had already been familiar with this process by heart. Therefore, in Tang Feng's opinion, the condensation of the star core is not a complicated thing, and the unique dark energy of the stellar star core is combined with the kind of awkward special formula, and it only takes a few days to condense a star core.

However, the condensation of the star core is not a simple matter, because if you want to condense a star core, you must first find a rocky planet that meets the conditions. In the vast universe, although there are a lot of rocky planets, it is really difficult to find rocky planets with intelligent creatures on them, and it is definitely not an exaggeration to describe the difficulty of finding a needle in a haystack.

Therefore, the condensation of the star core is both a simple and extremely difficult thing. As long as you can find a rocky planet that meets the requirements, then condensing a star core is a matter of hand.

According to the definition of the so-called "intelligent creature" in the information left by the old man Andro, that is, the so-called "intelligent creature" must have a brain, body and self-consciousness, of course, the main criterion is whether this "intelligent creature" can use simple tools.

Only creatures that meet the above conditions can be called "intelligent creatures".

Just like more than 10 million years ago, when Andro was thrown to the earth by a supernova explosion, at that time, the earth did not yet have humans or even gorillas, but there were already apes such as modern apes and chimpanzees, which already possessed a sense of self and were able to use simple tools, such as the hard shell of a nut with a stone, to obtain the fruit inside.

Although it was only the simplest tool to use, it also used something other than itself to help itself, so the apes at that time were already qualified as "intelligent creatures". It is precisely because of this that Old Man Andro was able to condense that magical star core on the earth.

And the overall green planet under his feet is actually similar to the earth more than 10 million years ago, and there are already intelligent creatures similar to apes on it, but this kind of creature is too individual, and in Tang Feng's aesthetic concept, there are only four words to describe the appearance of this intelligent creature - miserable.

It's true, like this, there are eight arms and legs on the body, and I can't tell which one is the arm and which is the leg, the head is extremely big, and the body is even thicker than the wine barrel, which is really not in line with the aesthetic concept of the earthlings. Tang Feng even thought maliciously that if the ugly guy born to the alien queen in the American blockbuster "Alien 4" came to this planet beauty pageant, he would definitely be at the level of Miss Global or Mr. Global......

"Eric, are you sure this planet qualifies for a condensed core?" Tang Feng asked with some uncertainty.

Eric laughed and said, "My dear Brother Tang, if I can't be sure about this, how can I waste the precious energy of the Grand Duke Caesar to run to such a place?" Rest assured, according to our observations, although these creatures growing on this planet are extremely ugly, we have determined that these ugly creatures meet the definition of intelligent beings. ”

Tang Feng nodded, he knew that although Eric did not have a stellar star core, he was also a member of the Star Alliance, and I am afraid that the conditions for condensing the star core had already been known.

"Okay, since you can be sure, I won't waste time, let's condense a star core for you first, and then we'll talk about the next thing." (To be continued.) )