Chapter 3: The Suicide of Ultraman
What kind of fantasy scene is this?
Lu Yu turned on the magnification mirror to the maximum, and looked at the projection in front of him again and again, before he had to admit that this thing really looked like Ultraman.
However, it is much larger than Ultraman, and it is nearly 200 meters from the image analysis alone.
The humanoid apparently grabbed the fixed valve on the rocket with its hands, and broke through to low Earth orbit from a planet eight times the mass of the Earth.
Raising to the planet's first cosmic velocity alone would have caused the structure of a human body to collapse, and this thing was still hanging from a rocket.
If it really is a living thing, how strong is its body structure?
I won't actually get to the M78 Nebula, will I?
In Lu Yu's surprising observation, the rocket had come to low earth orbit, and at the same time was ready to move to a higher orbit by continuous acceleration.
At this time, Lu Yu also took his attention away from the too strange humanoid creature and looked at the rocket that had been providing amazing thrust all along!
It is obviously not a chemical fuel, and the fact that it can break through such a large planetary gravity under the impetus of electric energy proves that the level of science and technology will not be lower than that of a second-level civilization.
But because of this more traditional way, even if there is a civilization on the super-earth, it will not surpass the planetary civilization, right?
Thinkers
And in the initial exploration of Seven, there was not even life on this super earth, not to mention technology.
The situation that is completely inconsistent with the observed facts makes Lu Yu understand that there must be something wrong with it.
Fortunately, with the armor of the Silver Star, Lu Yu didn't have to worry about his own safety at all, so he simply observed the interesting phenomenon in front of him with No. 7 as if watching a play.
As the rocket moved higher into orbit, the humanoid creature that looked like it was riding on the rocket was stretching its body, and it didn't look like it had any defenses in space.
This once made Lu Yu suspect that this was just a humanoid mecha that looked like Ultraman, and the reason for their appearance was of course the Silver Star, a UFO that suddenly appeared on the planetary ring.
Isn't it just a little casual?
When approaching the area where Lu Yu was, the humanoid object suddenly kicked on the rocket and directly pounced on the asteroid hundreds of kilometers away from the Silver Star.
But because of this, he stopped, and dug frantically on that asteroid, which seemed to be what he was looking forward to more than the Silver Star.
Lu Yu suddenly asked Seven, "If I'm not mistaken, there is a large amount of uranium ore on that asteroid, right?" ”
"Yes!"
A message flashed on Qiha's red boy: "Asteroid number T82793, according to the discovery two days ago, there is a large amount of uranium ore on this asteroid......"
This is one of the reasons why Lu Yu chose to stay in this planetary ring, which requires that the temperature of the space in which the planet itself is located should be low enough to be able to retain a large amount of particulate matter from the primitive period of star formation, and secondly, the mass of the planet should be large enough that the space controlled by the planet's Losey limit extends far enough.
Obviously, terrestrial planets do not have such conditions, so they do not have such a ring, and the only ones with rings can be Jupiter-like planets with a large mass and a distance from the sun, which is why the rings of planets only exist around Jupiter-likes, but this reason is only a basic reason for the formation of planetary rings.
Jupiter due to its large mass and the amount of heat generated during the gravitational contraction, which expelled more of the original residual material around the star, formed a narrower and stony ring, and according to the observation data in recent years, Saturn's ring may not have been formed spontaneously, but a large satellite collided and broke and disintegrated, but the fragments fell within the Losey limit and could no longer form a satellite, as for the large satellite itself, It could be a celestial object it had previously captured.
The super-Earth in front of me is a kind of terrestrial planet, it should not have been able to give birth to planetary rings, but there are indeed planetary rings, and the most reliable speculation is that the planet's moon collided with a comet to form it.
And the material of that satellite has also become a mining area suspended outside the planet, and a large amount of material that is difficult to mine in the earth's crust is now distributed on the vast planetary ring, which also attracts Lu Yu to stay.
But whatever the reason for staying, they need to pay attention to the strange humanoid object in front of them first.
After happily digging around the asteroid full of uranium ore, it dug something deep and swallowed it directly!
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"That's high-concentration uranium, right? It seems that it is really not a living thing, it should be some kind of technological creation? ”
Looking at this scene, Lu Yu analyzed and said: "It's just that such a flexible machine has been built, and the technological level of this hidden civilization shouldn't use such a rough collection method......
The reason for Lu Yu's analysis is also very simple, this is not as simple as frantically stealing sacrifices in front of the Silver Star, according to the observed data, it is a high concentration of uranium ore in space!
Compared to a creature that can evolve a nuclear reactor in its stomach, Lu Yu prefers it to be some kind of technological creation.
Even if you look like Ultraman, you can't evolve so crooked, right?
Then Lu Yu saw this huge humanoid creature churning in space with its stomach in its arms, as if a large amount of uranium ore that had just been eaten began to have some kind of reaction inside.
While fluttering, it still did not give up devouring uranium ore, until finally its body convulsed for a long time, and then lay motionless on the asteroid.
"Detect that the temperature inside it continues to rise!"
"Nuclear fission reaction is suspected!"
Although it is motionless, it has always changed inside, but now Lu Yu's observation methods are much weaker, and he can only use relatively primitive optical and thermal imaging, and a limited number of means of observation.
It's just that as time goes by, the observation data fed back by Seven-Seventh actually points to a strange conclusion.
"Judging from the feedback data, it has obvious biological characteristics, and it is more like a creature than a mechanical creation!"
I don't believe in light, so how did I really meet Ultraman?
Seeing such data, Lu Yu couldn't even help but turn on the cross-space communication of Base Zero again, how could he let him eat this melon alone?
And the experts at Base Zero were stunned to see such a strange creature.
"This is a complete violation of the laws of evolution!"
"Organisms that evolve in a planetary environment will never be able to adapt to the space environment. It's not about biological limitations, it's about the environment that determines the expression of genes from the very beginning! ”
"And on a super earth with eight times the mass, how could a natural race similar to 'Ultraman' be born? The terrible force of gravity can crush them, and it stands to reason that they can't stand up! ”
Biology experts use virtual reality to express their opinions on humanoids that are lying flat and no longer moving.
"Let's not talk about why this race exists."
Lu Yu asked the most crucial question in virtual reality: "Why did he come to space and devour these uranium ores, if this thing is the food that their race wants to ingest, then now it looks like he is dead?" ”
That's right, after No. 7 fed back from the data that this [Ultraman] was a living thing, Lu Yu thought left and right and came up with a strange judgment.
Co-authored it, this is suicide in the universe, right?
What kind of weird performance art is this?
Lu Yu, who prides himself on being well-informed, can only say for a while that he has really never seen this meeting.
So we can only let the experts at Base Zero come out and see what they can analyze from the sociology and biology of the universe that has been established!
The raw materials for these subjects are all from planetary schools, but the strange thing is that these materials belong to the spontaneous collection of students from various races.
At best, the Alliance of Conscious Beings provides a place of storage, so that the many disciplines that humanity has established and perfected are not lost.
"Cosmic Race No. 802, Fungal Race."
"In the asteroid belt where the civilization was born, a civilization was established on the basis of the heat radiated by minerals, but the scale is very small, and it cannot even enter the first-class civilization."
"Cosmic race No. 921, fungal race."
"On the moon where the race was born, relying on hundreds of millions of mutations, it evolved into a cluster of radiophage mineral bacteria, which had obvious neural reactions, but still failed to develop civilization."
"Cosmic Race ,...... No. 1243"
According to the feedback from the database, some of the races that naturally use radiation minerals are fungal races, and they have not even been able to establish a civilization.
And the [Ultraman] in front of him arrived at the planetary ring in a strange way by rocket, obviously surpassing those fungal races that have not even established civilization.
And the civilization has developed to this extent, the way this [Ultraman] eats is still too inefficient, this race is completely capable of mining the minerals in the planet, and even sending a spaceship to mine an asteroid rich in radiation minerals, and then transport it back to the planet.
Which of these ways is much more efficient than coming to the rings of the planets in person, right?
It can only be said that the universe is so big that there are no surprises.
After Lu Yu threw the subject to the experts at Base Zero, he simply observed this strange creature in the gradually crowded living area.
The living quarters are now full of newly built laboratories, and they recycle the materials that are simply processed from the outside into the living quarters, and complete the final assembly under the auspices of Seven!
This is also a helpless thing.
The space that once held an entire galaxy is now only a bubble of space.
"The temperature of the reaction in its body is starting to decrease?"
"Biological response drops quickly!"
Almost a day later, the strange creature that had swallowed at least tons of uranium ore seemed to have finally reached the end of its life.
In Seven's feedback data, its flame of life is being extinguished, and it will soon become an inconspicuous piece of garbage in space.
"Be sure to dissect it well! We'll be sure to watch the whole thing in virtual reality! ”
"This is a huge addition to cosmic biology, and I feel like I can find the key to the origin of super creatures from it!"
The experts have been gearing up for this [Ultraman] in virtual reality for a long time, just waiting for it to take its last breath.
In Lu Yu's previous cosmic travels, he had seen conscious life forms and thousands of strange races in the planetary school, but he was the only one who had never seen the so-called super species!
There have been similar roles in many science fiction works of mankind, the most famous of which is the once smash hit Superman series of movies.
Technology, technological creation, is not necessarily the only picture scroll in this universe that leads to the end.
The super-creatures of human fantasy have an unimaginable rate of evolution, and can achieve the power of a fleet or even a civilization by themselves.
But in fact, the database of races obtained from the planetary school shows that the Coalition of Conscious Life Beings has not encountered such races in ten trillion light-years of territory.
Space...... It is a forbidden area for life.
Unless it is a technological creation, there will be no life that evolves on a planet that can naturally adapt to the cosmic environment.
But the humanoid creature in front of him seems to shake this view, so the biological experts are eager to analyze the creature's strange behavior!
And when you're looking at the scenery, you're also embellishing the landscape.
Asteroids are also in motion in space, and they also have their own orbital and rotation periods. The same is true for planetary belts, which are macroscopic phenomena constructed by the four major forces.
[Ultraman], who is already dying, looks back on his short life.
It is indeed a living being, even by the standard of a super-creature in most human beings.
The body alone can grasp the rocket to break through the huge gravitational force, and the body structure alone can resist the space environment.
And also by the flesh alone, it clearly saw the silver star hundreds of kilometers away.
The ship's silver tears dripped like a god's onto an ordinary asteroid, and it was so beautiful in the light of the stars!
So it moved, even if its body was no longer as flexible as before, even if the space environment made it feel so unfamiliar, it still drove the internal body, which had begun to collapse because it could not adapt to nuclear energy, and ran towards the most beautiful thing.
That's right!
It's really running.
His massive body was stepping on an asteroid, relying on the reaction force to move forward in the planetary belt at great speed.
These asteroids are like steps, providing a final passage for this dying creature!
This change came so suddenly, the creature that was about to cool down completely one second actually burst out with unimaginable energy in the next second, and it even took only a minute to reach the Silver Star at a distance of hundreds of kilometers.
The massive kinetic impact even pushed the asteroid off course, and the humanoid creature jumped here still exhausted, kneeling in front of the Silver Star.
Its chest suddenly opened, revealing a ring with a radius of about two meters in the center.
It also tried to pick up the Silver Star and send it into the ring, but the sheer smooth surface and spatial anchoring were obstacles it couldn't crack.
And there is no more time for it.
This creature, who had been doing acts that Lu Yu couldn't understand at all since his appearance, seemed to have died in front of the Silver Star after a series of futile actions.