Iron Star

Entering the galaxy, Ge Wei encounters new problems.

"The difference in the flow rate of time is starting to be difficult to grasp. ”

Time is a difficult concept to grasp. People sometimes feel that time passes very slowly, or very quickly. Sometimes when you look up, you will find that a long time has passed. People do not have a certain perception of time, and people's "feeling" of time is actually more of an inference, judging the progress of time by observing the surrounding things.

When the environment is very different, Ge Wei can easily deduce how much time has passed. For example, the process from the birth of a star to its extinction is measured in billions of years. This change is evident on a cosmic scale. But when we look at the subtleties, such as the blossoming and falling of flowers, the passage of spring to winter, this change is insignificant on a cosmic scale. After entering the galaxy, Ge Wei noticeably noticed that time had slowed down again. The slower time becomes, the harder it is to measure the flow of time on a cosmic scale. This caused him a lot of trouble in judging the direction.

There's also the problem that the Milky Way is a spiral galaxy!

As the name suggests, spiral galaxies are constantly rotating and moving. When the arm is turned, you can't tell which one is which. Ge Weiming knows the position of the Sun on the fixed star chart. But when I arrived at the scene, I couldn't bear to face the entire galaxy in complex motion.

What's more, this is still the early Milky Way, which is a bit different from the later.

In the end, Ge Wei could only adopt a stupid method, taking the center of the galaxy as the origin, and constantly radiating in all directions around. Mainly with the help of divine sense.

There is a saying that the fastest speed in the universe is not the speed of light, but the speed of thought. That's right.

Ge Wei's current divine consciousness speed is much faster than his own flying speed. It doesn't take more than a minute for the Divine Consciousness to travel around the galaxy.

But it's worth mentioning. Temporal anomalies that occur throughout the universe also affect the divine consciousness. In other words. The temporal anomaly acted on the nascent universe itself, whether it was Ge Wei himself. Or release the divine sense to investigate, and everything you can see is the same.

Not long after Ge Wei probed his divine sense, he made a discovery.

"Hey, interesting. ”

At the center of the Milky Way, not long after his divine consciousness was released, he discovered a very special galaxy nearby.

It is a star system consisting of a massive middle-aged blue star and the only planet that has formed.

When the Milky Way was first formed, the center of the galaxy gathered more primordial energy. It is also the place where stars were originally born. The stars at the center of the Milky Way are generally older, and the most central part of the supermassive stars are nearing the end of their lives and are about to evolve into the darkest objects in the universe, black holes. In the vicinity of this area, all the first stars were formed, and with the advancement of time and the full formation of conditions, the first life forms in the universe were finally born!

In this 1+1 star system that is common in the middle of the universe. The only planet is the most interesting star Gove has ever seen. More than 80% of the composition of the entire planet body is actually iron.

From the planet's inner core to the mantle to the surface, iron is everywhere. Iron quantities have reached the point where iron elementality appears. A veritable "Iron Star".

When Ge Wei's divine sense discovered this "iron star", he found that a life form had appeared on it. One is very fragile. A simple worm-like life with a single cell.

These single-celled worms, which appear to be carbon-based, are perfectly normal. Ge Wei had listened to Dr. Li. The vast majority of the first ancient life forms that appeared in the universe were carbon-based. Because carbon-based compounds are the most likely to appear. Carbon-based bonds are also the most stable. The first life in the universe was generally expressed in carbon-based form, which is the most normal.

What makes Ge Wei interesting is that these carbon-based single-celled worms. They metabolize in a way that has nothing to do with carbon. They rely on iron as a core element for the metabolism of life. That is, they eat iron.

Looking at the environment in which they were born, it is not difficult to understand why this is the case. On a planet full of iron, a kind of life born is not bad if it does not appear in iron-based life forms, and it is still in line with the basic laws of chemistry. And they can only survive on iron. All life activities revolve around the element iron.

"Feeding on iron, well, a little familiar......"

Ge Wei brought his consciousness closer, and when he looked again, he found that these worms had evolved into a kind of reptilian creature, a complex life form.

"Dizzy! Damn temporal anomaly. ”

By the time he got closer, the creatures had already taken on a rudimentary social form.

"With the speed of time here, it won't be long before these iron-eating creatures can evolve into intelligent creatures. This is probably one of the oldest civilizations in the universe. ”

Ge Wei decided not to interfere, and he was not interested in continuing to watch, so he changed directions, and his divine consciousness moved in the opposite direction. Continue the search for the solar system.

The solar system is located near the edge of the Milky Way, Orion's spiral arm. According to the current speed of time in the Milky Way, it is possible that eighty percent of the solar system has not yet formed at this time, and it is a question of whether the sun is born or not.

Ge Wei could only take one step at a time. It's getting harder and harder to keep track of the flow of time. Identifying the direction depends on observation and luck.

Whenever he decided on a direction, Ge Wei would quickly fly to that location, and then release his divine sense again to test the surroundings. He couldn't aim in one direction accurately, because under this terrifying time anomaly, even the speed of the Milky Way was tens of millions of times faster!

In this way, Ge Wei seems to be using the galaxy as a chessboard and playing a game of checkers. Step by step, in the right direction.

And as he gets closer to the solar system, time has slowed down significantly compared to when he first entered the center of the galaxy.

"Very good, keep looking, the direction is right, you can find it!"

The Orion Spiral Arm has finally arrived at the Orion Spiral Arm. It took Ge Wei more than half a month to travel from the center of the Milky Way to a young stellar cluster near the edge of the Milky Way.

The center of the galaxy is very old at the moment. At the relatively young edge of the Milky Way, most of the stars in Orion's spiral arms are "young" stars with a small mass and no more than a billion years old.

By this time the sun should have been born. Ge Wei completely let go of his divine sense, scanning all the star systems of the entire spiral arm. One-to-one correspondence. As long as it is similar to the structure of the solar system in your impression, fly over and check it out for yourself.

Ge Wei has found more than a dozen star systems similar in size to the solar system in his impression. It's just that, after field investigations, none of these systems are the solar system. There are always a few planets in these star systems that don't match the solar system he knows. Ignoring all the wrong locations, Ge Wei finally locked onto a primitive star system that had just formed.

"Here, it seems, has a lot of potential!"

When he arrived at the periphery of the primordial star system, he saw a medium-sized orange star, exuding infinite vitality! Around it were circles of accretion disks, which were planets that had not yet formed.

These planets are fairly close to forming! With so much to find, this nascent star system is one of the few candidates for the event.

As Ge Wei approached, one planet after another was born at a speed visible to the naked eye! One planet, two planets, three planets, four ......

Ge Wei was about to get excited, thinking that he had finally found it, but suddenly felt that something was wrong.

"Hmm, what's the extra planet, isn't this the solar system?" (To be continued.) )