Chapter 108: Faster than Light
The day after returning to Strait City, Xin Lin set about dealing with his own things.
The first thing is to get rid of this apartment.
Because he didn't inform the landlord a month in advance that he was going to quit the apartment, Xin Lin had to pay a liquidated damages, but he didn't care about this money.
His most important possession on earth was the maglev motorcycle, which he used to cherish very much, and spent almost all his savings for it, but now he abandoned it and put it on the website at the price of a used car, and was happily bought by a motorcycle enthusiast in less than half a day.
The rest didn't have much left, mostly clothes, Xin Lin only left a few newer sets, and threw away all the old ones.
For the next few days, Xin Silence spent most of his time practicing at home, waiting for the departure of the spaceship bound for Elite Star.
During this period, he took the time to visit Lian's house and had dinner with them, which was regarded as a farewell. I haven't seen her for almost half a year, and Lian Sufei's boxing skills have improved a lot, which makes Xin Xiao feel very relieved, after all, she is half of her apprentice. Lian Chengbi is also at home, and since the closure of the Europa branch, she has remained on Earth to help her father, Lian Xiulin, manage the company.
That night, Lian Chengbi quietly came out, and the two went to a luxury hotel in Strait City to relive their old dreams and spend a crazy and wonderful night.
Xin Lin was also very enjoyable, but in the casual conversation afterwards, I learned that Lian Chengbi recently got a new girlfriend, and they were in love, and their relationship quickly heated up.
This made him speechless, he was inexplicably a third party, so he secretly decided that he couldn't mess with her again in the future.
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it is February 1st.
Xin Lin got up as usual, washed, exercised for two hours, and then finished breakfast, carrying the backpack that had been with him for many years, and all his luggage was in it.
Before leaving the door, Xin Lin glanced back at the apartment where he had lived for seven years.
He spent most of his adult life here, and there are so many memories here, meditating on martial arts to improve his strength, inviting friends to parties, and taking his girlfriend home for the first time to taste the forbidden fruit...... One of the most memorable is that he started telepathy here, which changed his life forever!
Telepathically scanned every detail of the entire apartment, remembering it deeply, Xin Lonely no longer had a trace of nostalgia, and turned around and went out.
Before closing the door, the smart home system said one last time: "Goodbye, Mr. Xinxi." ”
Xin Shi's body paused slightly, and he replied in a low voice, "Goodbye." ”
Two hours later, Xin Lin arrived at Earth's One spaceport and quickly found the spaceship arranged for the trainees by the Kryptonite Hand Training Camp.
This is a dark gold spaceship, the whole front is thin and thick like an elongated water droplet, the length is nearly 400 meters, the surface is covered with layers of armor, the ravines are vertical and horizontal, neither like the general civilian spaceship, but also far from the military starship, the hull is printed with logos in many conspicuous places, it is a dark gold metal glove.
Xin Lin recognized this as the symbol of the Kryptonite Hand.
"It turns out that this semi-armed spaceship belongs to the Kryptonite Hand Training Camp, and it is indeed a wealthy local tyrant training camp, and it actually has an exclusively designed spaceship."
Xin Lin approached the entrance of the spaceship and saw that hundreds of people were already lining up.
These were all young people under the age of twenty-five, and Xin Lin swept them with telepathy, and found that a small half of them were Force warriors, and their cultivation was good, and their faces were full of confidence. Most of the remaining people are ordinary people, these people carry a lot of luggage, three or four large bags and small bags, and they are quite well-dressed, which shows that they are not rich or noble, and they are by no means ordinary citizens.
These people were faintly divided into two groups, each holding together to draw a clear line, although no one spoke provocatively, but occasionally looked at each other very coldly.
When Xin Lin saw this scene, he couldn't help but shake his head secretly, thinking: "This hasn't arrived at the training camp yet, no one knows anyone, and the rookie faction and the self-funded faction have begun to fight." ”
This year, the Krypton Hand Training Camp enrolled more than 3,000 people, and this batch of students came from three different sources.
Among them, more than 600 people are potential rising stars from the school team of the Federal University, all of them are Force warriors, they have strong strength, they go to the training camp to improve their training, and they will participate in the draft in the future, and the registration fee is discounted, the higher the potential, the lower the discount, and they are valued by the training camp, called rookie students, and their group is the rookie faction.
There are also more than 2,400 ordinary people, who have paid the full amount of the sky-high registration fee, which is several times more expensive than ordinary training camps, and they are all coming for the fame of the hand of kryptonite, with only one purpose, that is, to become Force warriors. People who can come up with such a large sum of money usually have a good family background and are called self-financed students and self-funded students.
In the major training camps, there are two camps of rookie and self-financed, and it is generally difficult for rookie students and self-funded students to get together, the relationship is extremely poor, and they don't like each other.
In their eyes, self-financed students are a group of pampered and commanding waste, who are useless except for good backgrounds and money.
The self-financed students have a high social status and have more resources, even if they can't become Force Warriors, they still have a very prosperous life after leaving the training camp, taking over the power from the family elders and becoming the boss or the upper echelon.
In their opinion, the rookie cadets should have enough respect for themselves, even if they become Star Wars warriors in the future, they are just high-paying part-time workers.
These two factions are close to class contradictions and are irreconcilable.
In public training camps, there is also a very small third-party group, that is, publicly-funded trainees who enter the camp for free through various channels, such as training places for the bereaved families of martyrs, or soldiers who have made great contributions to the war, and the federal government's awards for special personnel.
This kind of publicly-funded students generally have neither strength nor money, but they are the most important group of people in the training camp, and they spend money on training at any cost, and the treatment is so high, whether it is a rookie student or a self-funded student, they are very jealous, envious and jealous.
Therefore, publicly-funded students are not popular on either side, and they have always remained neutral, only cultivating on their own, and never participating in open and secret battles between the two sides.
This year, there are more than a hundred publicly-funded students in the Krypton Hand, and basically all of them are ordinary people, and Xin Lin is the only exception.
However, Xin Lin didn't have the heart to pay attention to these things, he went to training to improve his strength, and the rest had nothing to do with him.
He thought about it for a while, and then lined up at the back of the group of rookie students, because there were few people here.
The other students saw Xin Lin and looked at him, the aura of the Force Warrior was unmistakable, and the rookie students in front of him turned around and smiled kindly, while the self-funded students on the other side watched coldly.
Xin Lin didn't speak, just lined up silently.
His attention was at the front of the line, at the entrance of the ship, and the two training camp staff were in charge of verifying their identities, holding scanners, confirming the identities of the trainees one by one, and only after passing could they get on board.
There was also a silent middle-aged man beside him, who seemed to be an important figure in the hand of krypton, he was tall and powerful, but he did have strong strength.
Through telepathic exploration, Xin Lin knew that this middle-aged man's Force cultivation was very strong, and he should be a high-level rigid body warrior, and the Force nodes had all been cultivated to the limit, and he could attack the general.
He has always been unsmiling, and his whole body exudes a strong aura, which makes people feel very dangerous. Whenever the students were subject to identity verification, his eyes locked on, as if he was staring at the prey, causing a lot of psychological pressure on the students, trembling in front of him, and he didn't even dare to come out.
Ten minutes later, it was Xin Lone's turn.
A staff member stepped forward to scan it, and the holographic screen quickly displayed Xin Lonely's information, including photos, age, registration channels, etc., and the staff carefully checked the information to confirm the identity.
The middle-aged man was also looking at Xin Lone, but Xin Lone seemed to be unconscious, and his demeanor was free.
In Xin Lone's eyes, the strength of the middle-aged man is about the same as Xin Ye, and it may even be weaker, even Xin Ye was defeated by himself, how can there be any pressure?
The middle-aged man saw Xin Lone's face as usual, nodded secretly, he looked at the screen of the scanner, read the information on it, and couldn't help but have a little surprise in his eyes.
"Are you Xin Lone?" The middle-aged man asked.
"Yes."
There was some commotion among the students at the back of the line, and their eyes gathered, and they thought that there was a problem with Xin Lian's identity review, so the middle-aged man asked out in person.
However, the middle-aged man's next move was completely unexpected by the students, only to see a smile on the middle-aged man's face, he stepped forward and stretched out towards Xin Lone, and introduced himself: "I'm Herman Vernon, the deputy director of the equipment department of the training camp, welcome to the Kryptonite Hand Training Camp." ”
Xin Lin was also a little surprised, shook hands with the other party, and said, "I'm Xin Lone, please take care of me." ”
"You're welcome." Herman smiled, and his attitude towards the other students was almost like two people before, and he said casually: "Come on board, the cabin has been prepared for you." ”
"Thank you." Xin Lin nodded and entered the spaceship.
He thought to himself that the training camp must have studied his own information internally, and knew that his talent and strength were far beyond those of ordinary students, which was why Herman showed such a different attitude.
The students who were still queuing up were all surprised, and kept talking to each other, secretly guessing Xin Lian's identity. When Xin Lone's figure disappeared at the entrance of the spaceship, Herman turned around, the smile on his face immediately retracted, and he stared at the next student who was subject to identity verification with an expressionless face, and everyone suddenly fell silent again.
Inside the spaceship, as soon as Xin Lin stepped in, a light curtain unfolded in front of him, which was the intelligent system of the spaceship.
Xin Lin opened the internal map of the spaceship, roughly browsed it, and couldn't help but sigh that the Kryptonite Hand Training Camp was really rich, the internal space of this spaceship was very large, divided into multiple areas according to different functions, enough for two or three thousand people to live for a long time, like a miniature mobile city.
"Take me to the lodging area." Xin Lin gave the order.
"Please follow the directions." The intelligent system prompts.
A yellow arrow appeared at Xin Lone's feet, and he followed the arrow through the interior of the ship, and after a few minutes, came to his cabin. The training camp arranges an independent cabin for each student, with an area of 30 square meters, bedrooms, study rooms, bathrooms, as well as Internet and TV, the conditions are like a hotel, which is precious on a spaceship with limited space.
Xin Lin sat down to rest, and for more than half a month, he had to spend more than half a month in this cabin.
At twelve o'clock in the afternoon, the spacecraft set sail on time.
Xin Lin learned from the internal network of the spaceship that of the more than 3,000 students enrolled in the Krypton Hand Training Camp this year, of which 400 were from the solar system, and all of them were on the ship on time.
The training camp sent five ships to pick up the trainees from all over the Federation, each with a different route, and multiple embarkation points along the way to pick up all the trainees as much as possible. If some of the trainees are too remote to catch up with the spaceship, they will have to take their own flight to the training camp, but the training camp will reimburse the ferry ticket.
The spacecraft's departure point is Earth, and after that, it will dock at the spaceports of the two planets for half a day, pick up two other batches of trainees, and finally fly to the Evering Star, where the training camp is located.
Xin Silence turns on the hologram and observes the movement of the spaceship.
The spacecraft broke away from the spaceport, the tail engine spewed out a 100-meter-long blue plasma flame, the head was aimed in the direction of Taurus, and accelerated towards the outer solar system with all its might, and the Earth behind it gradually shrank until it became a star.
In the cold, dark space of space, the spacecraft is getting faster and faster, passing through the orbit of Mars and then through the asteroid belt in less than three hours. Because there is no need to think about deceleration, the spacecraft is much faster than a short-distance flight in the solar system, reaching the orbit of Jupiter in just seven hours, and is still accelerating, and then crossing the orbit of Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in five hours.
During this period, except for Saturn, which happened to pass by tens of millions of kilometers away, and vaguely saw the gorgeous rings of Saturn, the rest of the planets were hundreds of millions of kilometers away and could not be seen.
Fifteen hours later, the spacecraft crossed Pluto's orbit and headed for the Kuiper belt.
Twenty hours later, the spacecraft had already crossed the Kuiper Belt, 60 astronomical units, or 7.5 billion kilometers, from the Sun, which was a dim dot just a few dozen light-years away. However, the ship continued to accelerate, as it had not yet reached the sub-light speed required for warping voyages.
Finally, after a continuous acceleration of one day and one night, nearly thirty hours, the speed of the spacecraft reached sub-light speed, which is 90% of the speed of light - 270,000 kilometers per second, at this time the spacecraft is 13 billion kilometers away from the sun, which is exactly out of the effective range of the sun's gravity, and can begin to warp the voyage.
If you enter warped space within the effective range of the sun's gravity, it will be a terrible disaster, ranging from deviating from course and losing your direction, or distorting space and losing control, and destroying your ship.
"The spacecraft is about to start the warp engine and enter the superluminal voyage, please pay attention to all passengers and take precautions......"
At this time, Xin Xiao was practicing, and when he heard the radio prompt from the spaceship, he stopped.
When the spacecraft enters the warped space, ordinary people with poor physical fitness will have some adverse reactions, loss of spatial direction, dizziness, nausea and vomiting, etc., if it is too serious, it will even take the help of tranquilizers to recover.
However, it has no effect on the Force Warriors.
After a few minutes, the broadcast ended.
The main pilot of the spacecraft started the warp engine, and the repeated compression between the two polar disks installed in the bow and stern of the ship created a magnetic field line field, which excluded all the neutrons and quarks in it, forming an absolute vacuum bubble to contain the entire spacecraft, and then the huge energy began to distort this absolute vacuum bubble, and then, the curvature of space reached the first critical point, and in an instant, the spacecraft lost its trace in space.
Xin Silent sat there, telepathy covering his surroundings, and instantly noticed that the space around him seemed to be extremely distorted.
At this time, the speed of the spacecraft had already exceeded the speed of light, reaching a first-order warping speed, which is 8128 times the speed of light.
The Federation once obtained some information about warp navigation from the Galactic Empire, and learned that there are many levels of warp speed, and the multiplier increases between each level, with the first warp speed equal to 8128 times the speed of light, the second warp speed equal to 65535 times the speed of light, and the third warp speed equal to 142857 times the speed of light.
As for what the fourth level of warp is, even the Galactic Empire does not know, and there is no corresponding technology.
With the Earth Federation's warp engine technology, it can only reach the first level of warp speed, but it is enough. In fact, the vast majority of civilizations in the galaxy have mastered only one level of warp speed, which is worthy of entering the threshold of faster-than-light flight.
Since the speed of the ships in warped space is faster than light, they have little effect or reaction to this universe, but they do not disappear into the universe, they just cannot be observed by any means. At this time, when you look out from the spacecraft, you can only see long white lines, those are the images of starlight in the distorted space, and it will make people dizzy if you look at it for a few more minutes.
Warped voyages do not cause the problem of time dilation in the theory of relativity, but they leave a wave trail in the space traversed, which cannot be erased, and is generally called a curvature track.
The higher the warp speed level, the longer the duration of the curvature track, ranging from more than ten years to tens of thousands of years, which is a very important clue to search for the enemy in war.
If you don't want to leave a curvature trail, you can only choose other faster-than-light sailing techniques.
Among the major cosmic civilizations, there are three mainstream faster-than-light navigation technologies, namely warping navigation, leaping navigation and hyperspace navigation.
Among them, warped navigation is the slowest, takes the longest, and has the lowest technical difficulty, and the vast majority of civilizations have only mastered warped navigation; The jump sailing speed is the fastest, by finding natural wormholes to establish a stargate, jumping a very long distance in an instant, but natural wormholes are scarce, and the location is fixed, the maintenance and defense of the stargate are a big problem in the universe; Hyperspace navigation is very fast, flexible and stealthy, but the technical difficulty is extremely high, and there are some uncertainties and risks, because there are too many hidden dangers in the universe, and once there is a problem in hyperspace navigation, it is a terrible disaster.
In the galaxy that is 100,000 light-years wide, there are tens of thousands of civilized races, and no civilization has mastered hyperspace navigation, even if it is a leap voyage, there are very few, and there are few stargates, almost all of which are under the control of the Galactic Empire.
The Earth Federation has been developed for less than a thousand years, and has only mastered warp navigation, while the other two have only been heard of and know nothing about the related technologies.
It was the first time he had left the solar system, so it was also the first time he had been in warped space.
His telepathy has always been turned on, and he found that even if he was flying faster than light, the space he was in was filled with vacuum energy, and the density did not change at all, he could still practice the Force.
This made him marvel in his heart, vacuum energy is really the primordial power of the universe, and it is really everywhere!