Red sun glowing interstellar springboard, cascading membrane wing clouds in the woods.

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Five light-years away, a huge red fireball burned in the dark starry sky.

It's an old red giant, it's in the twilight of its star, it's burning the nuclear fuel in its body like crazy, and it's swelling far more than ever. At its core, a space channel propped up and maintained by signal protrusions resembles a black hole, engulfing the boundless expanse of hot plasma around it and sending it into the distance on a high-dimensional framework.

The life of this red giant star is running out, and it has not many lives left...... This is relative to the life of a star, and in fact, even if there is a space channel that continues to extract its life force, it can still remain in the form of a red giant star for about two billion years before it shrinks and dims and becomes a white dwarf.

Two billion years, this period of time is almost eternal for ordinary life, and even enough to evolve from a single cell to a civilization.

It used to have three medium-sized solid planets, however, after it became a red giant and began to expand in size, the closest planet was completely swallowed up and reduced to ashes, the middle planet was melted by a hot storm from the star at close range, almost orbiting the star, and sooner or later it would be swallowed up by the red giant, and the farthest planet was also transformed from a frozen world into a magma-flowing purgatory, a situation that would not change until the red giant shrank into a white dwarf...... Theoretically, this is true, but the boiling sea of lava on the surface of the planet has solidified once again.

From the cosmic space, it can be clearly seen that there are hundreds of bright spots on the dark brown surface of the planet that are emitting dazzling light, and long jets of particles are ejecting tens of thousands of kilometers from the surface of the planet, leaving a long trail...... These are star engines made up of signal protons.

Pushing the planet requires more than just brute force, it's a complex technical task. Even if it does not involve the calculation of the exact orbit change, the force alone is very important: too much force will cause the planet's ground to collapse and dent, and too little force will not cause significant changes to it.

Naturally, these star engines transformed by planet makers did not fly five light years from the galaxy where Lan Xing was located, although this distance is not too far, but the spacecraft composed of pure signal pros will still encounter a lot of trouble, and even if they can reach their destination in the end, it is not cost-effective, so these planet makers were born directly from this red giant star, and they were made of local materials.

"It's a huge saving to be able to find natural planets directly. trouble, and the time it takes to push it is nothing compared to that. "Xinglan is doing this with a serious attitude, the signals that invaded this star have already spread here like a plague, "The closest star system to Lan, here is a very important thing to transform a planet as a springboard. ”

A springboard for astronautics, of course, this is not something that Xinglan needs to use, but a surprise that she specially prepared for the intelligent life that may be born on Lan's star in the future. What a convenience it would be for a nascent civilization to discover that the closest star to them had the right environment for them to live in.

"I feel like I'm really worried about too much......" has been complaining to himself in his heart, Xinglan still carefully planned the standard distance that can allow the planet to have liquid water, and at the same time controlled the signal in the star to slowly change the cycle of the red giant's internal reaction activities, trying to make it a little milder within the scope of his ability, "I still can't completely complete the transformation in a short time......

It's not impossible to use a starship to send cells from Arashi here, but because Xinglan has no intention of giving this planet a chance to evolve complex life...... It only needs to have the gravitational strength, temperature, pressure, and gas content that Lan Xing's life can survive, so the amount of work is much smaller, and after Xing Lan arranges the plan, she hands over these heavy tasks to the subconscious, and the main consciousness returns to the Qing Death Base again.

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At this moment, a somewhat difficult choice appeared in front of Xinglan: should I take Xiao Mystery Xin on an interstellar trip with me?

In all fairness, Xing Lan didn't want to involve Xiao Mystery Xin in this kind of dangerous exploration, which was basically a life and death, even if the new spaceship had been greatly strengthened compared to the previous one, and basically reached the standard of being able to conduct a cosmic war, but in the vast universe is full of unknown risks, no one dares to guarantee that it will be foolproof, just like jumping directly to the vicinity of the black hole in chaos like last time, no matter how good the spaceship is, it will be in vain.

But what if you don't bring the little mystery Xin? It will take at least hundreds of years for Lan Xing to re-evolve into a life machine, and it may take tens of millions of years to re-form a complete ecosystem, Xing Lan doesn't want Xiao Mi Xin to be confined to the base wrapped in alloy walls for the rest of his life, but sending it back to Lan Xing will obviously push it into an even more terrifying hell.

As for frozen hibernation? Xinglan doesn't have a sleeping pod that can be used by Xiao Mystery, so in comparison, there is only one way.

Take Xiao Mystery Xin to make a space jump together, use the disturbance of the long-distance jump to the timeline to quickly get through the long ecological recovery time of Lanxing, and then use Lanxing's signal as a positioning beacon to return to the starting point.

"There's no way...... Xing Lan seemed to sigh helplessly, looking at Xiao Mi Xin running around the base, "Then let's take you out this long way together, but in this case, the departure date will have to be postponed, and the design drawings must be changed and the life support equipment must be assembled." ”

The signal subnetwork quickly began to be fully calculated, and the virtual spaceship model was quickly transformed, so that it could produce enough temperature and a suitable gas environment inside, and artificial gravity or something was a bit reluctant, so Xinglan did not force it, and in addition, this spaceship also needed a name, so ......

"In the period of transition from the Fifth Age to the Sixth Age, well, it's so happily decided!" After pondering for a while, Xinglan wrote on the virtual nail-shaped spaceship's shell the name that she had decided on a whim, "Your name is ...... Five-five! ”

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"Even if it's all true......"

The gigantic trees that had survived for hundreds of years were now reduced to wreckage and fell on the desolate and dead earth, and the flames that had not yet been completely burned were crumbling in the dim sky, just like the planet's ecosystem.

"But I still have to admit that every time she appears, she brings a lot of trouble......"

Thundered...... The low roar of thunder echoed in the sky, and the sulphur-smelling air meant that there had been another violent volcanic eruption in the recent past, a rare occurrence that had begun to occur frequently around the world due to the drastic changes in the earth's crust, adding to the already difficult situation of the creatures.

"Contact is disconnected, and it is inferred that she will not be in a hurry to re-establish the information channel......"

Buzz Buzz...... The wings spin rapidly under the force of the powerful muscles, pushing the air downward like a propeller, creating lift and propulsion that allows the small figure to fly through the air.

"I have successfully escaped the first wave of shock, and it is estimated that there is no danger to survival, but there are some things worth caring about, so it is better to confirm them in person......

Gyrocopters, tiny flying insects that are only a few centimeters long think about a lot of thoughts that shouldn't belong to them through additional connecting channels, while easily dodging the tiny sparks that are still falling in the air, allowing them to fall to the ground and slowly extinguish.

"It's starting again, when will the aftershocks here subside?"

The earth roared with rage, and the surface of a huge rock peak hundreds of meters high was covered with cracks, and as these cracks widened, the hill, which may have been formed over tens of millions of years, finally collapsed when it was tilted to the limit!

The rocks rolled down, and the dust poured down like a flood made the rotorcraft have to raise its flight altitude, and although its rotor structure, which is similar to the shape of a helicopter wing, can maintain good flight stability and agility, it cannot fly quickly in a straight line, and a pair of slender balance wings spread out under its slender body are flapping and balancing with all their might.

There was a wail in the air in the distance, it was a hungry Ye Yi Dragon, because of the burning of the forest it had to flee its former residence, homeless and hungry and cold, even if it was temporarily leaning against a cliff to rest for a while because of weakness, there was an unpredictable landslide.

The rotor flew over the head of the leafy dragon, which was being buried by the mudslide, and it began to suffer from hunger, but it couldn't stop here, and what was behind the mountains had to be confirmed for itself......

Suddenly, there was a loud bang, and the gyrocopter's vision went dark.

It was devoured, a small, odd-looking pterosaur with wings like a two-winged aircraft, but more structurally complex. The dense and innumerable cell tissue forms special wings like mille-feuille, which can better control the direction of air flow and adjust the flight attitude, which is very suitable for flying in complex forests.

Perhaps we should call it ...... Layer pterosaur.

In normal times, the pterosaur would not have caught a small insect that could only be stuffed between its teeth, but apparently this pterosaur was so hungry that it hardly let go of anything in front of it.

Is the trip over? No.

Even when you're at your hungriest, you can't eat everything. The pterosaur proved this point with his own personal experience, and shortly after it swallowed the rotorary, the pterosaur suddenly trembled and began to descend, rolling on the ground several times in a row, before completely losing consciousness.

After about five minutes, the pterodactyl, as if it had completely died, suddenly moved, then stood up again, ran a few quick steps, and then jumped and spread its wings and took off.

It's just that its consciousness no longer belongs to itself.

"This time the luck is not bad, the host body is simply sent to the door by itself." Wind Passing muttered, unceremoniously controlling the stratosaur and starting to its destination, this time it was obviously much faster than the rotor's flight, flying over the mountain range in front of it in just ten minutes.

The earth was still roaring, and the exhausted pterosaur flew in one direction without hesitation, and finally, completely exhausted, it fell weakly on a majestic mountain that plunged straight into the lightning clouds, but at the last moment, the wind passed and exhaled easily: "Fortunately, it is still ......"

In the thick clouds, dazzling electric light fell from the sky, illuminating the strange forest with a faint purple glow, and vines with an eerie metallic sheen grew in a twist and crisscross on the ground.