Chapter 600: Springboard before the mission

About 310 light-years away from the starting star where Hogu was located, a large group of organisms traveled at sub-light speeds, and a small amount of ghostly light burst out in front of it, which was the light energy released by the annihilation of positive and antimatter by interstellar particles after hitting the antimatter shield.

This makes them extremely conspicuous in the universe, but at the same time, extremely hidden.

They will not be visible from the side, because the speed is so fast, the wave frequency of the light is compressed, and the naked eye of ordinary people can see a flash of light, just like the flash of a camera, which is fleeting, and people with more nerves may not even notice that something is passing by.

Traces can only be faintly detected at angles in front of and behind them, with a bright blue shift visible in front and a thin and blurred red shift in the rear.

"It's a deceleration signal! Speed down! ”

Receiving feedback signals from the destination star, the leader of the cluster gave the order, and they unified the steps, and the antimatter shield in front of them began to introduce a large amount of hydrogen gas mass, which was slowed down by the annihilation of a large amount of positive and antimatter.

Even at a distance of several astronomical units, the light is no less bright than a star.

They travel through the Kuiper Belt at one-twentieth the speed of light and into the star system.

The cluster leader then begins to assign their respective tasks.

"You part of the gaseous planet and extract more hydrogen."

"Understood!"

"This part of you is going to the solid planet, don't be in a hurry to land first, and survey the environment on the surface of the planet clearly."

"Understood!"

"Follow the rest, let's go to the satellite and mine the resources there."

"Okay!"

Divide into small groups and rush to different celestial bodies within the star system to try to exploit the material resources of these celestial bodies.

A new round of stellar system colonization has kicked off, and there are a lot of 'small' bugs between planets, which are like long queues of ants from a macro point of view.

In addition to the intense colonization, there is another thing that the gatherers are very concerned about.

The individual in charge of the observation will point the direction of the received signal straight to a star in the background of the universe, which is the destination they will inevitably go to in the future, and now this colonized star is just a springboard.

"We're only four light-years away from the destination star of the rescue mission, when are we going to go there and bring back the female Serenes who are the seeds of civilization?"

The observing individual asks the cluster leader within the channel, to which they answer.

"Don't worry, that star system is related to the Hui civilization, and there may be any danger, not to mention that the cluster of stars has traveled a distance of 57 light years, and the antimatter consumption is very serious, and it needs to be replenished."

Because of the involvement of the Hui civilization, the leader of the cluster took into account the increased risk, and in order to be fully prepared to respond to all changes, it set the destination of this voyage in the star system of four light-years adjacent to the mission.

If anything, they can also get the support of the tribe.

"Are there any radio signals observed from the target star system?" The cluster leader asked.

"Nope."

The individual in charge of the observation asks in confusion.

"What's the point of doing that?"

"If there is a habitable planet in that star system, and the Serens who are the seeds spread out on that habitable planet and establish a new civilization, they should be no less than the technological level of the empire after such a long time."

"I'm worried that this will add some difficulty to our task."

The Gatherers have taken a long time to travel across the stars, and if the seeds of the Empire had branched out upon arrival in the star system, it is likely that they would have reached the level of the first contact between the Race and the Empire.

If that's the case, the gatherers' task will be more difficult, because the number of Serens to be taken will increase, and it will be a waste of material resources to transport them back, and the other party may not be able to cooperate with the gatherers' mission, if they refuse to go back, the gatherers will need to consider using force to bring them back by force in order to complete the task.

It would have been easy to kill them, but if you brought them back to the starting star intact, I'm afraid the difficulty would have to be several notches higher.

The individual in charge of the observation stated that this consideration was nothing more than unfounded for no other reason than that the probability was too slim.

"You're worrying too much, the 'habitable planet' we have demarcated and the 'habitable planet' demarcated by the people of Seren are two concepts, they are so fragile, even if it is a planet with a complex ecosystem, it does not mean 'habitable' for the people of Serene, air, air pressure, planetary gravity, light, climate, seasons and other factors will affect the people of Selene."

The Serens are too fragile to consider the death of the female Serene in the seed when they encounter a small meteorite, as the seed does not have an antimatter shield against the erosion of interstellar atoms like the gatherers.

The cluster leader who thought of this also felt that he was thinking too much.

"You're right."

……

It took eight years to build, which is not a long time in the universe, and the stars were dismantled, and the 'clouds' formed by the antimatter giants enveloped the stars, reducing the brightness of the stars by a percentage point.

"The star orbit is starting to change coordinates!"

The ringed megastructure began to move, stretching from the star's near-orbit to the orbit of the Kuiper Belt, pointing directly at the star system that could be four light-years away from them.

"Check the armed reserves!"

"What about the black hole bomb? Are they all ready? ”

Thousands of leapfrogging creatures replied, "Each leaping creature carries one!" Armed at all points! ”

"What about antimatter reserves? What about ammunition? ”

Thousands of leaping creatures replied, "It's all ready!" Always be ready to go! ”

"Excellent! Let's go! ”

With the order of the leader of the swarm, the star orbit began to operate in accordance with the command, and the rings of the giant structure were charging, forming a strong electric field that could be used as the driving force for the leaping biota.

"Charge Starts ......"

"Proofreading confirmed, ready to be launched......"

After the ring-mounted megastructures have been warmed up collectively, they begin to do one last laser proofreading to ensure that there are no errors in the emission.

Lasers with gamma-ray frequency bands can reduce the volatility of light, so as to ensure that each ring of the giant is in the same straight line.

"Countdown... 3… 2… 1…”

"Launch!"

The megastructure began to speed up the thousands of leaping creatures, and each of them could clearly feel a pull and drag themselves forward, constantly feeling the reaction force, but this force was not enough to shut down their minds, and they could see how they were accelerated to sub-light speeds.

From their point of view, it's a wonderful picture.

Everything was reversing rapidly, swept behind them like a marquee on the verge of death, and just as the reaction was about to wear off, a bright and dazzling rainbow vision appeared directly in front of them.

This is the world at sub-light speeds.