Chapter Forty-Eight: The First Stop, Here

About a day later, the fleet re-entered that invisible world.

There was a strange light flickering all around, countless lights overlapping and intertwining, as if they were about to swallow the fleet.

In this day, a lot of information was gathered.

In fact, there is a star system 0.6 light-years away from the fleet, which is the closest star to Hope, which is why it is called Star 2.

It's just that the star has become a grumpy red giant, and its red giant life is coming to an end, and its size is gradually shrinking, but this star is not willing to die.

When its contracted core reaches a high temperature of 100 million degrees, the helium nuclei in its core area begin to fuse into carbon nuclei, and every 3 helium nuclei become 1 carbon nucleus, and the restless carbon nuclei are not satisfied, and they begin to kidnap other helium nuclei to form oxygen nuclei.

These reactions are extremely fast, so they are called helium flashes. However, in such a violent reaction, the grumpy star constantly adjusted its structure, and the resulting heat ignited the adjacent hydrogen layer, causing its life to shine again and become an asymptotic red giant.

This was the second time the star had expanded, but it was also the most irritable, spewing flames frantically to eat the remaining remnants and expanding in all directions, looking for new food.

After observation, the star is about to swallow up a poor planet and become its own nourishment, which, of course, is not enough to stuff the teeth.

As a result, the star's mass is decreasing, the planet's orbit is shifting outward, and one can still see its three poor planets, two of which are gaseous.

Perhaps a few planets have already been swallowed up by this greedy fellow, and they can't even scream.

Li Luao and Tian Bin had proposed the idea of going to the star, believing that the place, although dangerous, could block the observation of extraterrestrial civilizations.

Although this star system is very close to the Noodle Star, it is not easy for the other civilization to think that the Noodle Man civilization is hiding here.

It's just that this idea was vetoed by Liu Wei by one vote.

The reason is simple, it is too close distance.

Tian Bin and Li Luao thought that each other was too simple, this civilization was likely to have fought thousands of interstellar wars, and its experience was by no means comparable to that of humans who had just entered the starry sky.

Moreover, the other party's technology is too advanced, and it is difficult to guarantee that it will not be able to find its own traces, so as to wipe out the noodle people and humans.

So it's better to be on the safe side and sail according to the original plan.

However, out of curiosity about this star, Liu Wei agreed to launch a satellite to investigate and collect information up close.

The fleet continued to sail and began its journey year after year, exiting the curvature again and again, abandoning the scrapped ships again and again, and everyone was familiar with this kind of life.

There is no big news enough to move in the small world, it is nothing more than to talk about the fleet and the future after dinner.

The speed of light is not fast for a vast universe, and the distance between star systems is enough to make people desperate, not to mention that fleets have to cross countless star systems.

In the process of traveling, facing the dim, distorted starry sky, people often dream of that wonderful paradise, but how many habitable planets will there be in this river system?

There will be many, many people think so, and it will not be difficult to find a habitable planet.

Gradually, the thirteenth year on the fleet passed, and the transit point was about to arrive.

The thirteenth exit from the curvature voyage was a big deal, which meant that the fleet only needed to cross another 0.39 light-years to reach the first stop.

Practice makes perfect for withdrawing from the curvature fleet, and many times of practice have given the researchers more experience, so this operation to withdraw from the curvature sailing is also easy to complete.

From here, the starry sky is still so wonderful, with countless stars twinkling and jumping, and their graceful posture attracts countless people to go there happily.

Even here, star 11 is just a slightly brighter point of light, no different from any other star.

However, ordinary optical telescopes can already clearly capture its panorama, and star 11 fills the astronomical telescope like a millstone, causing researchers to surprise.

After all, it's a rare opportunity to see other stars up close.

Star 11 is a yellow dwarf star with data similar to that of the Sun, but it has a companion star, the poor brown dwarf.

This companion star is a typical failed star, which is not 75 times more massive than Jupiter, and its core temperature is not enough to sustain the nuclear fusion reaction of hydrogen, so it withered in early childhood. It will slowly shrink and cool, and will survive only on the faint glow of its host star.

The main star is also quite lonely, with only one planet, but this planet is a large one, five times the mass of Jupiter, and only 500 million kilometers away from the star.

It is conceivable that if the star enters old age and becomes a grumpy red giant, the raging stellar winds will turn the poor planet into a hot Jupiter, and the planet can only helplessly lose its angular momentum, slowly move closer to the star, and become a huge "comet".

By then, its comet tail could be hundreds of millions of kilometers.

Of course, anyway, it's safe now, and it's about to receive a large fleet.

After the meeting, the government decided to let the fleet again go into curvature sailing. It was not until it was 0.001 light-years away from the star that the fleet sailed away from curvature and approached the planet using conventional navigation.

The first stop is coming soon.

Probably too hasty, the fleet soon entered the curvature sail again, and all the noodle people were looking forward to the arrival of the bright sunshine, which was truly natural sunlight, far from being comparable to artificial sunlight.

After about four months, the fleet finally withdrew from the curvature voyage.

Here, the light of star 11 has been overwhelmingly obscured, obscuring all the stars, which is what all intelligent life dreams of, and with it, there is everything.

Noodle people have already started to celebrate. Since joining the fleet, due to the huge population and the mountain-like resources it needs, the government has very strict control over the currency, and the wages of the noodle people are generally very low, probably only maintaining about 300 noodle coins a month. Even if it is Tian Bin, he only has 500 noodle coins a month, and the basic life is definitely no problem, but if you want to enjoy it, it will be difficult.

Even so, the sun-hungry noodle people pulled out their savings and threw many large parties that were even larger than the New Year's Day celebrations.

Stellar, what a thing that ignites the passion of reason! In the dark universe, only this glowing thing can give people comfort.

There is already a strong stellar wind here, and its high-speed charged particles have been successfully received by the fleet. The remaining 8.96 billion kilometers are of course nothing for a fleet sailing at 30 percent of the speed of light, which can be crossed in about 27.6 hours.

So, at the beginning of many large celebrations, the fleet had already reached its destination.

The first stop, Galaxy-11, has arrived!