Chapter 47: Sub-Civilization

At this moment, the brightness of this star suddenly increased hundreds of times. Not only in the visible band, but in the rest of the bands, its various radiation is also enhanced by hundreds of times.

Hundreds of years later, civilizations in the surrounding star fields will also sigh at the calamities of this star. It has just lost so much mass that it has started to enter the red giant phase in advance, and now it is starting to show high-frequency flashes again.

A sudden flash of light is an astonishing change for a supposedly stable star, and it is often a prelude to a stellar cataclysm.

As a result of the collision between the Silver Star and the mysterious weapon, the pitch-black core cracked and burst into an astonishing flash, causing a chain reaction with the hapless star.

Observing through a highly filtered optical instrument, Lu Yu saw on the holographic projection that a catastrophic scene like a landslide and earth crack had occurred on the surface of the star.

As if the sea was churning due to an earthquake, countless flaming peaks tens of thousands of kilometers high suddenly surged up on the surface of this star, and the material at the top of the peak had even reached the escape speed of this star, and they were thrown out of the star and scattered into the star system.

After the first few seconds, the radiation intensity increased further, rapidly climbing to tens of thousands of times the star's usual radiation, and it continues to rise.

From the place where the Silver Star penetrated, the material of the star was thrown more violently, and a greater amount of stellar material was thrown into the universe, and from the observation of the optical instruments, it was as if two scorching trees of flame appeared with this star as the midpoint.

As a by-product of this scene, the radiation from this star is unprecedentedly intense, and under such intense radiation, if the blue star were in this star system, all the electronic instruments on the planet would probably be scrapped in an instant.

But under the armor protection of the Silver Star, Lu Yu in the living area can still see the scene after the collision safely.

But in fact, even if the Silver Star coped with the impact of the ninth-level civilization creation, it was by no means unscathed.

At the moment of the collision of huge kinetic energy, the outermost armor of the Silver Star, the strong interaction force material, had actually been destroyed.

Even the black technology armor that came out of the mouth for a while was made of material in the end, and the terrible collision made the absolute structure of this layer of armor also shock.

The situation that had appeared in the one-dimensional world in the past was once again repeated, and the material that could not be restrained by the strong force peeled off little by little, and then the second blurred armor of the Silver Star was revealed.

But that's about it.

Within a millionth of a second of shattering, the first layer of armor quickly turned intact like a flashback refresh.

This quick repair is a very short time that Lu Yu's current observation instrument can hardly capture, let alone in a violent collision distance environment?

Therefore, because such a quick repair made it difficult for Lu Yu to discover, the first layer of armor of the Silver Star was not as strong as imagined after it rose to collide with a higher civilization.

But ........ it doesn't matter.

Because the Silver Star has four layers of armor, the first layer of armor does not affect Lu Yu in the living area.

But this mysterious weapon in front of him does not have such an enviable armor layer, and such a primitive and direct collision makes it instantly damaged.

However, it couldn't help the Silver Star, so the mysterious weapon exploded, along with the hapless star.

In the chaotic surging plasma, a triangular spaceship rushed out like a wild horse, it couldn't even grasp its kinetic energy, and it took nearly 0.5 astronomical distances to stop the car and approach the quietly suspended Silver Star.

"The star has expanded again, and it has irreversibly entered the red giant stage."

"But the remnants of this ninth-level civilization have also disappeared, just like the materials that evaporated before."

While sending a message to the approaching triangular spacecraft, Lu Yu was also transmitting the data recorded on the changes of the stars back to Blue Star.

The stage that the sun is going to face may be a good reference for the blue star.

"Our civilization seems to have fallen into a trap here?"

"Just why? If there is a ninth-level civilization with such technology, it would be easy for us to destroy us who only had a seventh-level civilization at the beginning, but they used this awkward way to solve us? ”

"It's obviously ....... counterintuitive."

It turns out that this is not the special custom of your star field!

I thought your alien civilization here always liked this kind of bells and whistles.

The question of the triangular spaceship is also Lu Yu's question, they carefully probed the star, and concluded that after the wreckage had indeed disappeared, they could only return to its original place.

"I have found the wreckage of the fleets of 131 civilizations in Inner Space, and their civilization levels are different, ranging from stellar-level civilizations to river-level civilizations."

"It's just that the information has been eliminated, and there is no information left worth referring to."

"So what the hell is going on with this wreckage, whether the wreckage research institute found anything in it before....... now all the clues are broken."

The Triangle Spaceship continued as if regretfully: "Originally, none of this was about the Horn Clan's civilization, because we let you get involved. ”

"The star map you want, we think we might be able to find a way to bypass the system for you, but space technology ...... There's really no way. ”

These members of the Huan Clan civilization seemed to want to thank Lu Yu for saving his life, and made a decision that violated the rules of civilization.

For Lu Yu, the star map is also one of the most needed things at the moment, and naturally he will not refuse the benefits of being sent to his door like this.

Once again, a spatial door appeared.

The triangular spacecraft had already used up a lot of its energy reserves in the inner space, and it would certainly not use those poor frozen stars again.

Now...... There's an obvious source of power!

This poor star, again and again, had to be robbed of a lot of mass by the triangular spacecraft, and finally sent all the plague gods away completely.

But there will be no chance of a civilization in this star system, and the hot solar matter that begins to permeate the star system will take many years to cool, and the star may have reached the end of its stellar evolution ahead of time.

"In the development of a civilization, members sometimes have diametrically opposed directions of development."

"Some people may think that editing genetic engineering is the future, and some people think that integration with machinery is the general direction of science and technology."

"Each has its own foundation, its own group of supporters, and there will be a division of civilizations before each other."

Such a process will inevitably lead to a period of weakness of civilization, but it will also maintain the purity of civilization. In this way, the civilization that is divided into two still continues the name of the civilization that occupies the part that once occupied the majority of the members of the civilization, and the civilization that splits out is the sub-civilization. ”

"It can't be said how to split sub-civilizations, in the evolution of civilizations we observe, some sub-civilizations adhere to the right direction of development, they may be promoted to the civilization level before the main civilization, and some sub-civilizations realize their own development mistakes and return to the main civilization."

"But after most of the sub-civilizations split out, they relied on the technology they took with them when they left, and established a new civilization, which is the normal state of civilization evolution in the universe."

"The destination of the Space Gate is the civilization that once split from the Ring Clan, they left before the Ring Clan was promoted to the seventh level civilization, although they missed the opportunity to master space technology, they also have their own opportunities."

During the time of passing through the space gate, the triangular spaceship explained to Lu Yu how to get a star map for them.

A sub-civilization that split off from the main civilization?

That's interesting.

Starting from stellar civilizations, such civilizational fission behavior has become a very common behavior.

Because of the progress of learning methods and personal laptops, the members of civilizations and civilization teams have extremely similar technology and weapons, and if a civil war breaks out because of the route, the entire civilization may be destroyed.

But the universe is so vast, and stars and matter are not scarce resources for a stellar civilization.

They don't want to see each other, but if a big fight will make both sides unhappy, then simply everyone will develop separately.

Space and time can let each other know who is really on the right path for the development of civilization.

Lu Yu can't evaluate this way of fission civilization, but there are indeed civilizations that have thrown off the burden of various shackles and promoted all the way to a higher civilization in the big bang of science and technology.

Now listening to the triangle ship explanation, it seems that the Ring civilization is also one of the beneficiaries of this mechanism?

However, since it has reached the point of splitting at the beginning, and time has proved that the Ring Clan on the side of the triangle spaceship is on the right path.

So why is the triangle spacecraft still obsessed with this sub-civilization? Can you even grasp the whereabouts of the other party until now?

However, Lu Yu was not interested in this kind of civilization ethics story, he was now thinking about the disappeared remnants of the ninth-level civilization, and at the same time thinking about getting the star map quickly.

That wonderful space trap and mysterious weapon, with the clues that are in hand now, it is really confusing, but the ninth-level civilization that arranged these must be planning something.

Now that you've taken over the task, you have to find a way to get points for repairing the Silver Star!

As the passage through the spatial gate was nearing the end, Lu Yu temporarily handed over this headache to the external brains of Base Zero.

When passing through the space passage, Lu Yu could actually observe the situation of the destination.

In that new star field, the most noticeable thing is the white dwarf that can be observed a little.

White dwarf.

For Lu Yu, who has already experienced extreme environments such as black holes, neutron stars, and supernova explosions, it is not even nothing.

In fact, the gravity on a white dwarf is extremely strong, and roughly calculated, a standard white dwarf is about 10 million times that of the Earth. In such an environment, there is no structure known to humans that can be preserved. Even the matter that makes up the white dwarf can no longer be viewed in the eyes of ordinary matter.

Atoms are made up of nuclei and electrons, and there is a large gap between the nucleus and the electrons. If an atom is compared to a grand theater, the nucleus is the size of a basketball. Electrons are moving freely in this gap.

However, in white dwarf matter, the distance between electrons and atoms is greatly compressed. Under such pressure, the electrons really become "clouds", and the nuclei are immersed in the electron cloud.

If the white dwarf has a mass of more than 1.5 times that of the Sun, the electron degeneracy pressure will no longer be able to resist its gravity, and the white dwarf will collapse into a neutron star after the explosion of a type Ia supernova, relying on the neutron degeneracy pressure to continue to support its structure.

Extreme stars such as white dwarfs and neutron stars have a certain counterintuitive law, for example, white dwarfs and neutron stars are inversely proportional to their mass and volume, that is, the larger their volume, the smaller their mass. The smaller the volume, the greater their mass.

Lu Yu doesn't pay attention to it, but it doesn't mean that the white dwarf itself is not terrible.

White dwarfs themselves are one of the more common extreme stars in the universe.

If a stellar-class spacecraft is a certain distance away from a white dwarf, the spacecraft will first be pulled into a long strip and hit the white dwarf in a spiral form under the tidal gravity caused by the gravitational imbalance. In this process, any molecular structure is destroyed and matter is reduced to its most basic state, which is a single atom.

For such an environment, stellar civilization will not easily set foot in it.

For a civilization of this level, the place where the stars shine is where their energy and material supplies are. Except for special missions, no one will come to this environment to carry out activities.

But as the Silver Star flew out of the space passage, Lu Yu couldn't help but be surprised by the sight of several astronomical units away for a moment.

Densely packed spacecraft travel to and from this space, and several astronomical distances are still within the gravitational range of white dwarfs, so there shouldn't be so many spaceships here.

But in front of me, the spherical, triangular, diamond-shaped huge spaceship came and went, and in the center was the white dwarf!

"That's Base 23932."

"The instrument can't feel any gravitational effect, I'm afraid it's blocked by the base."

The image that No. 7 sent to Lu Yu to observe, the white dwarf seemed to be wrapped in a translucent cube, a huge spaceship disappeared into the universe through the translucent cube, and another spaceship flew out from the other side of the cube and then left here.

"Is it a creature of the Spiral Clan?"

"No wonder it looks quite familiar at first glance."

"But why does it look so much like a dock wrapped around a white dwarf?"

While Lu Yu was complaining, a message came from the triangular spaceship that flew out of the space gate after the silver star that followed.

"Welcome to the White Dwarf Exchange."

"The civilization that mastered this exchange was once a sub-civilization split from our Ring Clan!"

"We can get the star map from them as a way to thank the Horn civilization."

(End of chapter)