Chapter 316: Devouring the Starry Sky
The posture of the interstellar giant beast swimming is very graceful, like an electric eel in the deep sea, so gentle and silent, without any energy fluctuations. If Zhang Qifan hadn't been chasing the other party with his mind, it would have been easy to lose the trace of the other party in the endless dark void.
If this interstellar behemoth had always lived in this way, wandering the outer reaches of the galaxy and occasionally reaching the edge of the galaxy to devour a star or two, it would be normal for no living beings to notice its existence.
Even in the current interstellar age, it is difficult for humans to track down a particular creature in the Earth's deep seas. What's more, it is the space outside the river, which is hundreds of millions of times wider than the sea.
Thinking of Zhang Qifan's mind just before he invested in the giant beast, the other party was in a dormant state, and in that state, the consumption of energy would be minimized, so that perhaps tens of millions of years later, this giant beast would only need to eat once, which greatly reduced the probability of being discovered.
Even the oldest star crystal queen in the galaxy hasn't been around as long as this giant beast has been dormant once.
In the vast space beyond the river, it is almost impossible to find an object that is dormant and does not emit active fluctuations, unless the Star Crystal Queen is too idle to scan the star field where the giant beast is located.
But even then, it's no easier than finding a special piece of sand in the desert.
Zhang Qifan purely got the specific location of the Protoss, and swept all the way along this coordinate, only then did he discover the existence of the giant beast.
Now the problem is, this guardian beast of the Protoss guards the territory of the Protoss. And because of its lack of wisdom, it does not know how to report. If you want to enter the territory of the Protoss, you must break through.
Zhang Qifan stayed in this star field for three months. In the past three months, he has been constantly testing and communicating with the interstellar behemoths, but he has never been able to find a way to enter the Protoss territory safely.
As soon as Zhang Qifan showed his intention to enter the territory of the Protoss, the interstellar behemoth immediately showed a strong attack** and sent out the intention of intimidation.
However, if Zhang Qifan did not show his intention to enter, this interstellar giant would have become very friendly and harmless to humans and animals. It even played a game of passing and receiving the ball with Zhang Qifan.
The specific game method is that Zhang Qifan uses space jumping to throw a meteorite towards the area where the interstellar giant beast is located, and then the giant beast will catch up with the meteorite at the fastest speed and throw the meteorite towards Zhang Qifan's location in the same way.
In this way, they played passing and receiving the ball for a month from a distance of tens of thousands of light years. Then the interstellar beast was hungry, and it performed a space jump, jumping near Zhang Qifan again. Then swallowed a nearby galaxy.
Zhang Qifan's eyes lit up, and he found the weakness of the interstellar beast.
The interstellar behemoths feed by devouring stars, and the way they eat is appalling, but in reality. The way stars are energized is very low-level, a type of nuclear energy.
Not to mention dark matter, even the energy density of antimatter. It's not as good as that.
To maintain such a large body, the energy expended by the interstellar behemoth is also staggering. With nuclear energy, a low-density energy source, even a whole star can swallow it. It can only maintain high-intensity activity for a month.
If it swallows antimatter or dark matter the size of a star, it certainly won't be hungry so quickly.
If stars are the main source of energy for the interstellar behemoths, then their weakness is undoubtedly energy. Without energy, even a giant star-like beast is just a mass of dead things.
Realizing this, Zhang Qifan's heart suddenly had a way to deal with it for tens of thousands of years.
The interstellar giant beast that was swallowing the second star suddenly sensed the spatial fluctuations coming from Zhang Qifan's position, and when it looked back, it saw that Zhang Qifan was ready to jump in space, and the jumping point was located in the area of about 10,000 light years of space outside the river, where it had entered the scope of the Protoss territory.
Before he could digest the star he had just swallowed, the interstellar beast opened its mouth and let out an angry roar at Zhang Qifan, and its mind immediately locked on Zhang Qifan's jumping point, and there were spatial fluctuations on its body.
Zhang Qifan had the advantage of being the first mover, and entered the space jump one step ahead, and when he jumped out of the area 10,000 light-years away, he immediately pulled out his legs and ran, and at fifty-five times the speed of light, he quickly escaped from the position of the jump point.
The next moment, the void cracked open a crack with a width of 700,000 kilometers, and a huge head drilled out of it, opening its mouth full of spatial rifts, and was about to bite Zhang Qifan.
It's a pity that in just a few seconds, Zhang Qifan has already escaped from the range that the big mouth of the interstellar giant beast can envelop, and is looming in the void, drawing a dotted line and rushing forward.
After pulling the distance, it would be wishful thinking for the interstellar behemoth to catch up with Zhang Qifan in positive space, and the speed difference between them in positive space was too far.
Seeing that it couldn't catch up, the body of the interstellar giant beast had not completely come out of the previous rift, and the fluctuation of the second jump began to brew on its body. And the jumping point naturally fell on the position between Zhang Qifan and the territory of the Protoss, trying to block Zhang Qifan's advance.
Zhang Qifan, who was in the middle of his arms, paused, and his mind crossed the second jump point of the interstellar giant beast, and pulled away to ten thousand light years away.
If the interstellar giant beast continues to jump for the second time, then after it jumps out, Zhang Qifan will also enter the jump and jump directly behind it, so that the second jump will become futile, but will be thrown farther away by Zhang Qifan.
The interstellar giant had no choice but to cancel the second jump and chase Zhang Qifan after the jump point, which also extended to 10,000 light-years away.
But in this way, it was a beat behind, and when it jumped out at the second jump point, the situation seemed to be a copy of the previous scene, and Zhang Qifan drove his fifty-five times the speed of light, and ran away.
Chasing can't catch up, and because the gestation period of jumping is too long, it's easy for Zhang Qifan to catch the loophole, if it's a creature with high intelligence, you should know how to change your strategy at this moment, but the interstellar monster won't.
It will only chase after it in vain under the lure of Zhang Qifan, constantly trying to close the distance with jumps. Movement in positive space is already very energy-intensive, let alone space jumping.
To jump a body the size of a star to 10,000 light-years away, it would take enough energy for the entire Human Federation to spend a year or two. After six jumps, the interstellar behemoth was unsurprisingly hungry.
Replenishing energy and protecting the territory are both the first priority choices, and when the two conflict, what choice will the interstellar behemoth make?
It didn't choose either, but opened its big mouth and sucked hard at Zhang Qifan in the distance, just like a whale in the sea will swallow a large amount of seawater when it devours it, but the giant beast replaced the seawater with space.
A large area of space was pulled into the mouth of the giant beast, and Zhang Qifan, who was in this space, found that no matter how he accelerated, the distance between him and the giant beast was rapidly shrinking.
Devouring the stars? Is this the Behemoth's trick? (To be continued......)
PS: Thank you for your sudden look, Dong Dingyi, a big superstar, and a small reward.