Chapter 663: Wandering Stars
(One of the data in the first few chapters was wrong, the Big Magellanic Galaxy is about 160,000 light-years away from the Milky Way, not 100,000 light-years, I misremembered.) )
Xiao Yu has completely left the galaxy and embarked on a journey to the Big Magellanic system. During this long journey, Xiao Yu will not receive any additional replenishment except for collecting a small amount of gas dust from Magellan's Stream.
At a distance of 160,000 light years, Xiao Yu needs to increase his speed to the fastest and sail for about 1,600 years before he can reach his goal. If there were still human beings, Xiao Yu's feat might go down in history and become a great man, but unfortunately, at least within the scope of Xiao Yu's knowledge, in the universe, only Xiao Yu was left.
When the last star of the Milky Way also disappeared from the optical instrument made by Xiao Yu to imitate the standard of human vision, Xiao Yu knew that the Milky Way was quite far away from him. In Xiao Yu's eyes at this moment, the Milky Way has become a large blurred halo, and it is necessary to use optical telescopes to distinguish the individual stars in it.
At this moment, Xiao Yu is eight thousand light-years away from the Milky Way. In the void universe, Xiao Yu has been sailing for eighty years.
Because of the more advanced energy utilization methods, Xiao Yu only consumed 3.7 standard star masses in the past 80 years. And with the current mass of the small universe, and then calculated using the previous energy consumption rate, this number should be five .three, not three .seven.
In other words, in just eighty years of sailing, nearly four sun-sized stars have been consumed by Xiao Yu.
Xiao Yu's journey once again verified this sentence, in the universe, the place where meteorites fly around is not the most dangerous place. In the void of the universe, where there is nothing, is the most dangerous place. Xiao Yu has stored as many stars as possible in the small universe, but the more stars they have, the greater the mass, and the greater the energy required to travel over a unit distance. If he advanced some distance and reached the cosmic void farther away from the galaxy, some accident occurred that caused Xiao Yu to lose most of his material reserves, and Xiao Yu would be abandoned here forever. Even if Xiao Yu's battleship can return smoothly, the small universe will be reluctantly thrown away by Xiao Yu.
In order to save energy, Xiao Yu kept his warship in the visible universe except for those that had to be left behind. It's all put into the small universe. In the visible universe, Xiao Yu only left a spaceship about the size of a provincial warship equipped with instruments to tow the small universe, as well as some necessary positioning and observation instruments.
In this long voyage, in the small universe, there is a large-scale construction operation that does not stop all the time. During the time he sailed out of the galaxy, Xiao Yu had already raised his warship reserve to the order of 150 million. But Xiao Yu believes that this number is still not enough, at least 500 million warships are enough.
After a breakthrough in material science. Xiao Yu can already use conventional materials to build planetary-class warships. So planetary-class battleships also need a lot of reserves. The more the better, and it's best to stock up on a few thousand ships. After all, Xiao Yu was ignorant of the distribution of forces and civilization levels in the Great Magellanic Nebula, and he was an outsider who was easily besieged by the native civilization of the Great Magellanic Galaxy.
Although the semi-four-dimensional Taihao said that it can be rampant in the Great Magellanic Nebula. But Xiao Yu didn't dare to fully believe this sentence. Regardless, it's always good to be on the safe side. In case of an unexpectedly powerful presence in the Great Magellanic Nebula, these warships that you have in reserve can come in handy.
Time continues to pass slowly, right now. Xiao Yu has been sailing for five hundred years, and he is 50,000 light-years away from the Milky Way. At this distance, an optical instrument equivalent to the strength of an ordinary person's naked eye can only see a slightly flattened spherical shape when facing the direction of the Milky Way, and Xiao Yu knows that the reason for this situation is because of his own observation angle. The Milky Way that Xiao Yu saw was about the size of the moon, and a faint white light emanated from it.
And by this time, the brightness of the Great Magellanic Galaxy has increased to the intensity of Venus. Xiao Yu is still 110,000 light-years away, and at this distance, optical telescopes with naked eye intensity cannot see any details of the Big Magellanic Galaxy. The 10 billion stars it has inside are all condensed into this single point, and the light of all the stars is condensed into one point.
With the optical instrument of naked eye intensity, if you observe the sky from the position where Xiao Yu is now, the sky will appear unusually empty, there are basically not a few stars, and most of the stars are extremely dim, and it needs to be carefully distinguished to distinguish it from the dark cosmic background. Because these "stars" are too far away from Xiao Yu, the distance between them and Xiao Yu is often calculated in millions, tens of millions of light years. At the same time, Xiao Yu also knew that the stars he saw were not actually stars, they were huge galaxies like the Milky Way. Every star that seems extremely faint to Xiao Yu may actually be bigger than the Milky Way. Within them, there may also be many powerful civilizations, and even seventh-level or higher civilizations, between these civilizations, or within civilizations, there will be many heroic or tragic stories, there are countless intelligent beings who are carrying out their joys and sorrows there, but all this, Xiao Yu can't see, what Xiao Yu sees is just a faint star.
And even if it is such a faint star, at an angle of three hundred and sixty degrees, Xiao Yu can only see a few dozen. Here, the stars are the most precious things, and nothingness is the most indispensable thing.
Among the few dozens of faint stars, Xiao Yu focused his attention on a slightly brighter star. At this moment, in Xiao Yu's opinion, its brightness is just looking up at the night sky above the earth, the kind of star that can only be seen with a little effort. But Xiao Yu knew that it was not a faint star either, it was a huge river system, larger than the Milky Way, and it also had a beautiful name, the Andromeda Galaxy.
The Andromeda Galaxy, the largest river system in this group, is so large that even the Milky Way can only be relegated to the second place. It is also Xiao Yu's first target after he has the ability to sail in the real river system.
Nine hundred years have passed, and Xiao Yu is still about 70,000 light-years away from his final goal. Above this distance, the mass stored in Xiao Yu's small universe was finally reduced to half of the mass when he left the galaxy. There are more than 70 stars, and now there are only 30 left. The more than thirty stars that disappeared were all swallowed by Xiao Yu's instruments.
In the process, the planets in the small universe have undergone several large-scale adjustments. A star that is being devoured by Xiao Yu is obviously not suitable for planetary orbit. Therefore, whenever a star is scheduled by Xiao Yu to become the next object of consumption, all the planets orbiting this star will be removed by Xiao Yu and transferred to the rest of the stars. The intelligent creatures living in the Shenzhou civilization have long been accustomed to this kind of large-scale migration activity after such a long time.
Above this distance, the brightness of the Great Magellanic Galaxy is equal to that of the Milky Way for the first time. The brightness of both sides at the moment is like a crescent moon in the dim weather. Xiao Yu knew that if he continued to move forward, the brightness of the Big Magellanic Galaxy would continue to increase, brighter and brighter.
At this time, Xiao Yu made a very unexpected and surprising discovery. Xiao Yu actually found a star here, and it was the kind of star that was very healthy and in the prime of life.
The star is a little smaller than the Sun, so it has a longer lifespan than the Sun. In Xiao Yu's observations, it has probably existed for about five billion years. This discovery intrigued Xiao Yu, and Xiao Yu immediately sent a relevant fleet and used the curvature instrument to carry it in front of him.
Originally, the star was rushing towards the Milky Way with the Magellanic stream at a speed of about 800 kilometers per second. It has probably been running for more than 25 million years, and nearly 35 million years of journey awaits it. When the Earth was still in the Tertiary period, and the Earth was still covered by angiosperms, the star left the Big Magellanic Galaxy and began to run wildly, until now, 25 million years later, when humanity is extinct, and it is still running wild.
Xiao Yu knew that this was a typical wandering star. Yes, there is not necessarily nothing between the river systems, and there may be some such lonely wandering stars that shuttle here. However, the number of such stars is so rare that they can be largely ignored.
In their original river system, perhaps due to the gravitational battle between several star clusters, they gain extremely high acceleration to break free from the gravitational shackles of the river system, and then leave the river system and embark on a long wandering journey. The rivers were so empty that they had gone through their long lives before they even reached their new home, ending their lives with a supernova explosion, but the corpses they left behind would continue their journey.
Behind every wandering star, there is a magnificent cosmic epic and a wonderful story. (To be continued......)
PS: Today's two shifts are over, and it seems that the double monthly pass is still going on, do you still have a monthly pass? The gap of one vote now will require two votes to win back in the future...... So please, everyone, if you have a ticket, don't hide it