Chapter 41: To the crash site

Looking at the thickening red mist behind him, Yang Meng nodded,

"How far away is the ship's crash?"

"Probably ......"

The distance unit of the Rutan civilization is different from that of humans,

But after Xiaoguang's explanation and Xiaoyi's translation,

Yang Meng understood that the crash site was about 150 kilometers away from here.

Hearing such a distance,

He breathed a sigh of relief silently,

After all, the improvised pneumatic skateboard under his feet is an emergency device, and it can only fly a distance of 200 kilometers near the ground.

"Can the speed of the light be a little faster?"

"Of course, if you can keep up!"

As soon as Yang Meng's words fell,

The point of light leading the way in front suddenly accelerates,

Seeing this, Yang Meng also let Xiao Yi increase the power of the pneumatic skateboard.

In the case of fast flight,

The scenery on both sides kept flashing before his eyes,

Soon he and Xiaoguang left the resource recovery point of the maintenance center.

The surrounding is finally not a regular city building,

Instead, there are some terrains and landforms that are unique to this planet.

However, compared to the underground world, you can also see some special vegetation,

On the ground there are only desolate views:

The bare rocks, the dry waterways, and the dark red world made him think of the desolate planet of Mars,

Mars has also had rivers, oceans,

But because of the loss of protection from the magnetic field,

The surface water of Mars was electrolyzed over a long period of time.

Only some traces of the impact of the water flow remained,

For example, the Martian Mariner Canyon is still one of the ten natural wonders of the solar system.

"As it stands, there may be some problems with the surface water here!"

Yang Meng glanced back at the frozen city behind him,

Looking at the desolate scene around him, a strange feeling came over him.

"How far is Xiao Yi from the crash site?"

"There are 119 kilometers to go!"

Hearing such a distance,

Yang Meng stopped the thought in his heart,

Follow the point of light in front of you to continue the previous journey,

The speed of pneumatic skateboards is getting faster and faster,

Without the protection of a spacesuit,

With such a fast speed, coupled with the resistance of the air, I am afraid that the human body will have some conditions.

Compared with Yang Meng's speed,

The small light in front is faster,

Soon, Yang Meng couldn't keep up with Xiaoguang in terms of speed.

Seeing this, Xiaoguang didn't leave Yang Meng behind,

Instead, adjust the speed and lead the way for Yang Meng in front at the right speed.

Looking at the small light that looks like a relaxed face,

Yang Meng was a little curious, what is the maximum movement speed of this point of light:

"Point of Light......

If you don't have the restriction of living beings, and you can move with energy alone,

I'm afraid it can reach an extremely terrifying speed! ”

"Maybe it's close to the speed of light,

After all, the mass of the energy body itself can be infinitely close to zero,

This means that the energy body can easily accelerate to a very fast speed! ”

But thinking of this question, Yang Meng was a little puzzled in his heart:

"If the speed of the energy body is very fast,

It stands to reason that they should have the ability to leave Rutan!

But why are you still trapped on this planet! ”

Yang Meng, who was a little curious, couldn't help but ask Xiaoguang this question,

Hearing this question,

Xiaoguang, who led the way in front, also gave a positive answer to Yang Meng's guess:

"Your idea is indeed the idea of our people!"

"Because the planet is extremely short of heavy element resources,

I don't have enough power to physically leave this planet,

So some of my people thought of another way, and that was energy delivery! ”

"Consciousness into an energy state body, there is indeed the possibility of leaving this planet,

But our people ignore a problem,

It's so close to our star! ”

Xiaoguang's words faintly revealed a kind of helplessness,

Yang Meng seemed to see a strange figure looking up at the sky from the point of light in front of him:

"It's too close to the stars!"

Yang Meng looked up at the sky at this time,

The red sun, which could have been visible, had disappeared by this time, leaving only a red hazy cloud.

Looking at this red sky,

Yang Meng also reacted to something,

As a red dwarf, Rutan is only 0.26 times the mass of the Sun.

This means that the habitable zone of Rutan is very close to the star.

Human beings take the average distance between the sun and the earth as an astronomical unit,

The habitable zone of the solar system, which is about an astronomical unit from the sun,

And the habitable zone of the Rutan star,

The distance from the star is about 0.1 astronomical units.

The average distance between his planet and Rutan is about 0.09 AU.

Such a distance is an incredible distance in the solar system.

It is important to know that Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, also has an average distance of 0.38 AU from the Sun.

If Rutanb were placed in the solar system, it would almost reach the position of the corona.

And in the Rutan system, Rutan B is not the closest planet to Rutan.

Humans have discovered a total of seven planets in the Rutan system,

Rutan A is the closest to Rutan, and the planet is only 0.03 AU from the star.

It can be said that the entire Rutan galaxy is a miniature version of the solar system.

"But even if it's so close to the star, the surface temperature on this planet is still very low!"

A thought flashed through Yang Meng's mind, and he returned to the previous question,

"Why is the proximity to the stars a factor that restricts your energy bodies from leaving this planet?"

Xiaoguang did not answer directly, but asked a question:

"What do you think is the largest energy body in a galaxy?"

"A star in a galaxy, of course!"

"Do you think there's wind in the universe?"

"Of course it's windy!"

Although Yang Meng didn't know Xiaoguang's purpose for asking this question,

But Yang Meng gave a positive answer to this question,

There is wind in the solar system,

But this wind is not the kind of air movement on Earth that occurs because of the difference in air pressure.

It's an ionic wind produced by solar fusion,

Humans discovered this ionic wind very early,

Before the breakthrough of nuclear fusion,

Researchers have conceived a way to propel solar sails by ionic winds.

Using this sail, it is possible for humans to sail through the universe,

Unfortunately, because of the breakthrough of controlled nuclear fusion, this strange idea did not come to fruition in the end.

"Could it be that the Rutan Star Civilization has also tried this method!"

"Wait!"

Yang Meng suddenly thought of something, and his eyes were full of weirdness when he looked at the light spot in front of him:

"This civilization is too unlucky!"

"If they were born on Barnard Star,

It is even said that among the 128 stars of Ross, these two galaxies are about the same size as Rutan.

The idea of a solar sail may be realized,

After all, stellar winds released by red dwarfs like Barnard's Star

Humans on Earth can also detect

But in Rutan, it can only be said that the conditions of civilization here are too bad! ”