Hearing Xiao Liu's words, Zhang Weihua was stupid all of a sudden, you must know that they are more than 30,000 light years away from the Ming Empire, and if they want to return to the Ming Empire, even if his caravan sails at full speed, it will take more than a thousand years to return to the Ming Empire, and even if it is through a wormhole, it will take hundreds of years to return to the Ming Empire.

After all, not all wormholes lead directly to the Ming Empire, and this wormhole does not directly lead to the Ming Empire, according to the various star maps obtained by the Ming Empire from other civilizations, it takes more than ten wormholes to reach the Protoss civilization after passing through this wormhole.

In other words, Zhang Weihua and their ships will not be able to return to the Ming Empire for at least a few hundred years, and the most troublesome thing now is that Zhang Weihua's spaceship simply does not have enough energy to allow them to return to the Ming Empire.

After all, even if he flies non-stop in the universe, it will take hundreds of years to reach the Ming Empire, and as a cosmic merchant, his spaceship will not carry so much energy at all, after all, his original route is only from the Ming Empire to the Protoss civilization, and the back and forth is only a few thousand light years, but now there are tens of thousands of light years between here and the Ming Empire.

What's more, the universe has never been a safe place, even such a short journey from the Ming Empire to the Protoss civilization has countless dangers, not to mention that it takes hundreds of years of flight from here to the Ming Empire, space pirates, starry sky storms, and so on, all of which can destroy their fleet.

After all, the scale of their fleet is too small, except for a real space battleship, the other two are transport ships, and it is too risky to reach the Ming Empire safely, but fortunately, although their fleet only has one space battleship and two transport ships, there are still a lot of good things on the transport bed.

"Xiao Liu, how far is it from our nearest star, because the time we have reached the Ming Empire is too far away, so we must find a way to replenish the energy, otherwise we can't reach the Ming Empire with the energy in our spaceship, and we can't even go half the way, after all, this is more than 30,000 light-years away from the Ming Empire, even if our spaceship has enough energy, we can't get there, not to mention that due to this conflict, the energy on our spaceship is less than 1/3, If we don't think about it, we may never reach the Ming Empire. ”

"Boss, the nearest star to us is about six light-years, although this is not a famous barren star field in the Milky Way, after all, the size of the barren star field is thousands of light years, but the density of stars here is not denser than that of the barren star field, and even the distance between stars and stars is larger than that around our solar system, but the overall range of this star field is only a few hundred light years, and the barren star field where our solar system is located is not comparable at all."

"Okay, I see, let's set off like the nearest galaxy and see if we have the energy we need."

Then, Zhang Weihua and the others flew towards a star system about six light-years ahead.

The distance of five or six light years is not far for Zhang Weihua and his fleet, after all, the speed of the spaceship produced by the Ming Empire is not ordinary fast, and it can even be comparable to the sixth-level civilization, when sailing at warp speed, it can reach 40 times the speed of light, even the speed of civilian merchant ships of the Ming Empire can reach 30 times the speed of light, so the distance of five or six light years does not take long to reach.

However, at this time, Zhang Weihua's heart was a little unconfident, although there was a star five or six light years ahead, but through the observation of various instruments, he did not find that there were planets around this star or the existence of planets, and this perseverance is likely to have passed his middle age and entered the old age of the star.

And the technology of the Ming Empire has not reached the level where it can directly mine energy on stars, so if there are no planets in this galaxy, then Zhang Weihua will not be able to rush energy at all, although there may be some asteroids in this galaxy, but even if there are asteroids, the energy that can be provided is very small.

So Zhang Weihua and they must now find a galaxy with planets, and it is not enough to just have planets, but also to build a planet that can be transformed with their power, or a planet of life, only then can they use the equipment on the spacecraft to collect people.

In fact, Zhang Weihua hopes that there is a living planet near this star, and that there is an intelligent civilization on this mysterious planet, and it is also a high-level intelligent civilization, so things are much simpler.

But Zhang Weihua looked at the star in front of him, he shook his head secretly, and reason told him that it was impossible to give birth to life near such a star, and even the possibility of the existence of a planet was very small, and even the radar in the spacecraft showed that there were no planets around this star at all, let alone a living planet.

However, Zhang Weihua still has a fluke mentality, after all, he was five or six light-years away from the star before, and even the radar was inaccurate, so he still had to go and see it in person.

But after arriving at this star system, the reality is still very disappointed, as the previous radar shows, this star system has no stars at all, and there is not only one star in this star system, this is a binary star system with two stars, and because the distance between the two stars is very close, the previous radar detection has been greatly affected, so there can be no planets in this star system, let alone life, in the entire star system, Only at the edge of this galaxy can a few meteorites, not even larger ones, be found.

Although Zhang Weihua is very disappointed in this situation, in fact, he has been prepared in his heart, after all, not every star system in the universe will give birth to a traveling star, let alone every star system will give birth to intelligent life with high intelligence, although disappointed, Zhang Weihua still conducted some investigations on the two stars in this star system.

Although Zhang Weihua is a cosmic person of the Ming Empire, he still has to make some records of some special places in the universe if he has the ability to conduct some analysis, and then these are all handed over to the Universe Research Institute of the Ming Empire, although the Ming Empire currently has a territory of three or four hundred light years, but although it is not uncommon to have a star system with two stars like this, it is not many, not to mention that the two stars are so close to each other. Such a situation is not even the Ocean of Light controlled by the Ming Empire.