Ready to get started? Pruning

"Life never waits for you."

Ludon asked,

"Do I need to pack my things?"

"Not very much... Right?"

Arnold looked around with a strange expression.

He wanted to say that your poor man's fortune was not enough to set the ship's engine on fire...

Of course, the Eternals laughed at Ludon's lack of money, and Arnold still couldn't do it. Pruning

Money, or any symbol of wealth, means nothing to them.

Time is the value that stands for it.

To be more accurate, only the time of the moment is valuable.

Ludon cleaned up briefly, and the ship was already parked outside the house.

The ship is very classical, like the earliest cars.

From the outside, the space was not large, and Ludon sat in, only to find that there was a cave.

It was as if he had returned to his house, no, it was bigger than his house. Pruning

Luton looked around, but didn't show much surprise.

Arnold was a little disappointed, and he was ready to rely on technology to give Ludon a little shock.

"If I'm not mistaken, the space is still the size of a car, no different from a regular SUV."

Ludon wandered around the car and said casually,

"The scenery I see is partly real, and the space that extends is all virtual imaging. But if I want to get here from here... The virtual scene will instantly become real, and the place where I used to be will become virtual at the same time?"

"That's right."

Arnold nodded, pouting

"We didn't have many breakthroughs in physics, and these two edifices were far more solid than we thought."

It looks like a high-tech thing, but the principle is extremely simple, as long as you can figure out the operation logic, everything becomes clear and clear.

Again, use the simplest and most reliable things to build a world that seems to be extremely technologically advanced.

That's all you can do.

Ludon smiled,

"In other words, wherever I go, I'm actually spinning in circles, or more precisely, in the car."

Such a thing, in Luden's day, was called a treadmill. Pruning

Arnold had nothing to hide.

He made a simple operation at the operator station and set the goal and route.

Ludon noticed that their route was interesting, as the ship would jump to a coordinate point first, but not the end, but it was still dozens of light-years away from its destination.

Space jumping, which Ludon has not experienced much, is one of the Nebula Empire's faster-than-light travel methods.

The advantage is that it is fast and cheap.

The downside is obvious: each jump must be more than 10 light-years apart.

Luden has two questions, pouting

"Why don't you just jump to the finish line? Can we walk these dozens of light-years in seven days?"

If you still have to make space jumps during this seven-day journey, why not just do it in one step?

Of course, it can't be for cost savings.

Arnold did not answer the question directly, but suddenly brought up another topic,

"There's an anti-common sense thing in your favorite work 'Dune', where high-tech societies use cold weapons to fight."

"Of course I remember that."

Ludon recalled, pouting

"Their shielding field can withstand all attacks, especially for high-speed attacks, and the defense effect is particularly good, so they choose cold weapons to fight, but they will be ignored by the shield because they are too slow... To be honest, it's a strange setting, but as a science fiction work, there's no need to be too demanding."

Ludon quickly understood what Arnold meant.

The other party is not trying to discuss a work with him, but to explain why.

"You are

It is said that the speed of light and faster-than-light navigation itself will pose a threat to civilization, just like an attack, and in order to defend itself, the civilization star field will establish a corresponding "shielding field" to block faster-than-light travel?"

"That's right."

Arnold nodded,

"Most civilizations do this, otherwise it's too dangerous. Of course, although the number of civilization star fields is large, it can only be regarded as a drop in the ocean compared to the entire universe. Pruning

They've blocked some of the spaces so we can't get to the finish line as fast as we can, and we'll have to clear some of the locked-down areas at sub-light speed."

In other words, the route planned by Arnold is already the fastest way.

Naturally, Ludon has no opinion.

The ship shook slightly, and Ludon knew that they were on their way.

To be precise, with the level of technology in this era, the spacecraft can be started without vibration.

This vibration is a negative optimization, and it takes a lot of effort to make a function, partly to remind passengers that the ship has begun to operate, and partly to cater to Luden's habits.

In this kind of detail, Arnold did a good job. Pruning

He is a competent steward.

The scene changes to Ludon and Arnold sitting on the couch, each with a drink in front of them.

In fact, they don't like to drink so much, but two big men sit together and chat, if there is nothing on the table, it always feels a little boring and embarrassing.

Ludon took a sip of tea and said with emotion,

"I thought that after telling the truth, I would experience some unpleasantness, you know, like being treated as mentally ill."

For this day, Ludon even lived in an insane asylum for a while!

I simulated it in advance and belonged to yes. Pruning

Arnold shook his head with a smile and explained,

"You're kidding, there's no need for that."

If the whole world really had a script, if there really was a mastermind behind it, maybe they would do it, put Ludon in a mental hospital, say he was crazy, and then torture him day and night.

But

Not necessarily.

Everyone is an actor on the same stage, if you really want to be like what Lutdon said, then everyone is almost a clown-like existence, no one is more noble than others, and there is no need to toss Lutdon.

They accept the truth and take Ludon with them on a journey to find the deeper truth. Pruning

In a sense, it is the unity of the past and the present.

Again, they fought side by side.

"You may need a little bit of preparation."

Arnold spoke,

"We're going to start the space jump right away, and after the jump, we'll be near the X coordinates, and the first blockade we need to pass through is the Möbius field."

Morbius?

Immediately a circular note popped up in Luden's mind, with only one side on both the front and back. Pruning

Arnold introduced like a tour guide,

"The civilization of the Mobius Star Domain believes that they have mastered the time travel technology, of course, this technology is only in the hands of a very small number of people, for them, the past, the present and the future are all at the same moment, when they master the time travel technology, this torture begins, and it will never end."

Ludon frowned, "Is there still such a civilization under the Nebula Empire?"

From the perspective of the Nebula Empire, the Mobius Star Domain seems to be a little behind.

"Of course, the Nebula Empire is very tolerant, as long as it doesn't violate the Nebula Constitution, everything can be allowed."

As Arnold spoke, the ship vibrated slightly, reminding the passengers that the space jump had been completed.

A window appeared in front of Luden, and in the window, a reddish planet was suspended in the infinite universe. Pruning

"This is your first stop, Morbius."