Chapter Eighty-Nine: The Slaughterhouse
The lunar spacecraft passed through a long ring of asteroids, a barrier of dust and material in front of it, and countless shattered planets lingered in place like unwilling souls, and they were intertwined to form an indescribably huge tabernacle that would have been impossible to cross without a detailed star map.
However, this is not difficult for the lighthouse, it piloted the supership straight towards the asteroid belt, countless small asteroid debris hidden in the nebula material, they are all small but deadly space hunters, as long as the slightest disbelief in the collision, they will cause extremely great damage, these asteroids rich in metal can easily tear the outer shell of the spaceship, so the alliance rarely fortified this position, they think that no enemy will choose to break through from this place.
Only this time they encountered an opponent they had never expected, the lighthouse quickly combined hundreds of basic modules into the form they needed, it became a strangely shaped collector, and a strange instrument composed of blocks swept over the moon, collecting a large amount of rapidly collected lunar dust into the internal crystalline device, which was quickly disassembled into the most basic atoms, and then combined into special volatile substances by high-speed particle probes.
After completing these tasks, the collector was quickly converted into an electromagnetic **, when the lunar spacecraft was just about to rush into the asteroid belt, it exploded in front of the moon first, and a large number of volatile oil film substances were scattered by the electromagnetic shock wave to all corners of the asteroid belt, and the lighthouse only needs to see the reflection of the oil film material to know the surrounding environment, which is more detailed than the star map, and the continuous spread of the ionized oil film will continue to update the dust on the road ahead. Make sure you can find the safest one of the paths.
Electromagnetic** returns to the spacecraft after releasing its own energy, the components of the spacecraft are non-renewable, the lighthouse must be saved as much as possible, and the released material is collected on the surface of the moon, except for energy, the spacecraft does not have any loss.
Sun Tan once tentatively asked the lighthouse what kind of energy these modules are powered by, they are nano-scale when they are shrunk to the minimum, and they can even swim in the capillaries of people, but the energy they contain is so powerful that it can support the spacecraft to operate for billions of years. The lighthouse's answer was secretive, and he never answered them directly, Sun Tan didn't know if it was hiding something, or if it didn't know what the nature of endless energy was, of course, the former was more likely.
The ship quickly passed through the entire asteroid belt, delicately avoiding every stone block hidden in the shadows, the shell of the supership is very strong, an asteroid of this level can destroy the best human spaceship without causing any damage to it, even then the lighthouse is very cautious, or perhaps, as an artificial intelligence, this caution is its innate nature.
Occasionally, a few small meteorites hit the outer shell of the moon's surface, but they still passed through the barrier smoothly, and the earth had already been transferred to it by the hijackers, and then Mark saw an amazing scene that he could not imagine, and for a long time after that, he would remember the shock he felt at that time from time to time, and this feeling would always be with him, and every time Mark looked at the starry sky in the future, he would wonder how many shocking secrets were hidden under this dark void......
Mark's gaze looked beyond the vast nebula material, and at a glance he saw something that was obviously not a product of nature, and humans like to call the products of civilization man-made, but it was so spectacular that Mark could not imagine what kind of civilization could create such a grand spectacle.
Humans have never found a star in this location, and now it has appeared in a way that humans would never have imagined.
It was a Dyson ball.
A huge energy harvesting system envelops the entire star, and humans cannot see it on Earth, nor can they collect spectral and electromagnetic signals from it, and the scarce stellar radiation escapes, but it is almost impossible to analyze it through the isolated nebula. Therefore, human beings have never known that there is a star in this position, it is not a yellow dwarf star as young and strong as the sun, nor is it a huge blue giant star like Sirius's main sequence star, but a red dwarf star that has aged to the end of its life, it has experienced at least two more expansions and collapses, and the fusion material inside it has exploded strongly and cooled rapidly in the aging of the inner core, and its energy has been weakening day by day, but the energy collected by the peripheral Dyson sphere is still very terrifying.
You must know that the earth receives only two hundredths of the solar radiation energy, most of which is blocked by the atmosphere, and the rest is absorbed by the ocean, used by plants for photosynthesis, after a layer of screening, human beings can get a little insignificant favor, even so, it still benefits us immensely, the worship of the sun by ancient human beings is not unreasonable, it is too great, too magnificent, without it, there will be no human beings, there will be no life, because of this, human beings will continue to ask for the sun, A little more, a little more.
There is so little stellar energy leaking into our hands, it's not enough, it's too little, the residual solar energy is enough to warm our bodies, enough for us to dry straw and grow food, but not enough for us to drive machinery, not enough for us to ignite the roaring internal combustion engine, not enough to support us to go to the stars, so we split trees, we plunder solar energy from plants, we chisel through the ground, we keep extracting the heat left by the sun from fossil corpses hundreds of millions of years ago, we do everything we can to spread solar panels wherever we can, which is something that all near-star civilizations do.
The process of civilization development is the process of plundering the energy of the stars, until one day, we will control all the energy of the stars, and tend to absorb 100% of the energy emitted by it.
What Mark sees now is the final form of the development of humanity, and all near-star civilizations.
"On the surface of that huge sphere...... There are a large number of industrial facilities and energy networks, man-made mountains and rivers, and at least 100 billion life forms live on them, and their energy utilization rate is much higher than that of you humans, but the energy consumption is still hundreds of millions of times higher than yours, and there must be more than one sphere like this. "Before the ship was close to the surface of the Dyson sphere, the lighthouse had already had a thorough picture of the enemy.
"What do they want so much energy for......" Mark didn't disappoint him, and asked a very unqualified question, he knew that for a civilization, energy can never be too much, but he really couldn't think of what they were going to do with such a huge amount of energy, this level of energy is already a disaster, once not used correctly, it will cause unpredictable and terrible disasters.
"Used to slaughter planets, you see, there's a planet ahead of your little blue planet."