Abnormal crossing

Chapter 145 Arrival at the Aurora Labyrinth
Outside the porthole window.

The dark universe is like an endless curtain, dotted with countless cold stars.

The light from the celestial bodies was stretched into thin filaments by the rapidly sailing Flutter, like silver meteors streaking across the field of vision, and then disappearing into the endless darkness in an instant.

"."

At this moment.

Inside the main control room.

Gu Wei held a drink in one hand and sat quietly beside the starry sky, watching the outside scene with interest.

Milo and Jin sat in a corner of the main console, keeping an eye on the various parameters on the screen.

As for Chestnut and Kay?
Although they did not enter the war room to prepare as early as they did on Costa Star, and their expressions and behaviors were relatively relaxed, their states were enough to explain certain things.

To know.

As usual.

At this time, they should be playing ranked games in "Mech Overlord" or taking Nono to the kitchen to cook.

The reason why Milo and others are so serious
Of course it was because of the Aurora Labyrinth that we were about to arrive at.

After a while.

When I noticed that the low-frequency hum of the engine had decreased slightly.

Gu Wei raised his head and looked at the thread of Meimei at the side: "Meimei, how far are we from the Aurora Labyrinth now?"

"Soon," Mee Mee changed her skin to a dinosaur knight today, and the mount's head still looked exactly like Gu Wei's:
"The Aurora Labyrinth is not too small, but not too big either. We have been away from the jump point for a while, and it should only take a few minutes to reach the tombstone belt of the labyrinth."

Gu Wei glanced at Mee Mee's mount subtly and said nothing: "."

Ever since the key incident, MeeMee has been like a pure love warrior who has caught a yellow-haired beast, always finding different ways to express his displeasure with Gu Wei's minotaur behavior - Gu Wei can see a mount with his head almost every day, and the key is that his meows are never the same.
Sometimes it was a horse, sometimes it was a dragon, sometimes it was a mecha, and a few days ago Gu Wei even saw a cockroach
If this level of combination was put in Ace Ultraman, MeeMee would only be able to play the role of a Yabo person.

"Ahem." Gu Wei then coughed lightly to dispel the subtle feeling in his heart, and asked Meimei, "Meimei, what is the tombstone belt you are talking about?"

"One of the outer structures of the Aurora Labyrinth," Mee Mee rode around Gu Wei and unfolded a transparent map.
"The radius of the Aurora Labyrinth is about 6 light years, the thickness of the central area is 2000 light years, and the edge area is about 1400 light years. The overall structure is a flat disk, about the same size as an ordinary galaxy."

"The entire Aurora Labyrinth is divided into three parts: the core area, the inner layer of the labyrinth, the tombstone area, and the curtain area."

"We are now in the Curtain Zone, which is the gateway and dividing point of the Labyrinth Zone. This means that after passing this point, we will enter the inner part. The spacecraft can do some replenishment in the Curtain Zone. Further in is the Tombstone Zone."

"The Tombstone Belt is a belt of celestial debris shattered by gravitational ripples. Its radius is about 0.1 light years. The density of matter is quite low, but the kinetic energy of individual fragments is extremely high - some can even reach times the speed of light."

"These debris will automatically attack spacecraft with high kinetic energy under certain effects, so this area is also well-known in the starry sea as a frequent accident area for spacecraft. On average, there are 3.5 accidents for every ships. This is also the origin of the word tombstone."

Gu Wei was stunned.

Good guy.
On average, 3.5 accidents occur for every ships?
Isn’t this ratio too high?

Then he stroked his chin and got some ideas according to MeeMee's explanation: "MeeMee, according to what you said, the core area should be the location of the four neutron stars? What about the civilizations in the maze belt? Where are they distributed?"

"Well, that's about right," MeeMee nodded and pointed to the bright spot in the center of the map.
"The core area is the four-body pulsar array. That is, the area where the four neutron stars are located. The average diameter of the four neutron stars is 12 kilometers, and they will have 1200 orbital resonance frequencies per second."

"The actual radius of the core area is only three million kilometers, the smallest of the four areas, but its radiation range covers the entire Aurora Labyrinth Belt and accounts for more than 43% of the total mass of the Labyrinth Belt."

"As for the civilizations within the maze, most of them are distributed in the inner layer of the maze. Currently, there is one fourth-order civilization, eleven third-order civilizations, and a total of one hundred and eighty-five first- and second-order civilizations."

Gu Wei was silent.

In an area comparable to the Milky Way, there are less than 200 civilizations in total.
To know.

The Aurora Labyrinth is very different from the Earth that Gu Wei had visited before.

After all, it is part of the known territory of the Star Sea Civilization, and has more or less some exchanges with advanced civilizations, with technology and even population exchanged.

For example, Joe Koven.

He was admitted to Xinghai Academy with the help of a communication bracelet left behind by a lost spaceship, and thus walked out of the Aurora maze step by step.

But in this case.

The total number of civilizations in the Aurora Labyrinth is only 197, and there is only one fourth-level civilization.
This shows how unwelcome the Aurora Labyrinth is in the starry sea or how complex its environment is.

"Oh, right, Mee-mee," Gu Wei suddenly thought of something while looking at the map in front of him: "Since the radius of the tombstone belt is 40,000 light years and there is no jump point, how can we get through this thing and get to the inner layer of the maze?"

If he remembered correctly.

The maximum speed of the Flutter Flutter in deep space can reach 27% of the speed of light. After borrowing some parts from the board some time ago, it was increased to 35%.

But even if we travel at full speed, it will take at least 100,000 years to cross the Tombstone Belt. We can't just recite poetry to support ourselves, right?
Unexpectedly, MeeMee glanced at him strangely, with a naive expression on her face: "No. Who told you that there are no jump points in the tombstone belt?"

"???"

A question mark appeared on Gu Wei's face: "Didn't you say that the spacecraft can only be resupplied in the curtain area? Besides, if there is a jump point, can't we just teleport directly to the inner layer of the maze?"

"Oh, you're talking about this," Meow Meow said, and explained, "To put it bluntly, it's quite simple. It's nothing more than a cost issue."

"A jump point is actually a bit similar to a highway. Highways and country roads are very different in terms of traffic volume and construction costs. Setting up a jump point directly from the outside to the inner layer of the maze is equivalent to building a highway from a big city to a small village. It consumes a lot of polarization rift energy."

"But if we only extend the [highway] to the Veil District, and then build a smaller 'secondary highway' in the Tombstone Belt a little further ahead, the construction and maintenance costs will be much smaller."

"I see."

Gu Wei touched his chin thoughtfully: "But in this case, wouldn't it be more dangerous for the civilization in the maze to get out?"

If it is as Meow Meow said.

This split combination may reduce costs significantly, but it is not a good thing for the civilization within the labyrinth.

After they arrived at the jump point in the Tombstone Belt, they still had to sail normally for a long time before reaching the Curtain Zone. The risks during this period were undoubtedly terrifyingly high for low-level civilizations - even the Flutter Flutter had to take this "transit process" seriously.

"Well, it's very dangerous," MeeMee spread her hands after hearing this, "but there's nothing we can do. You can't ask those financial groups to pay more money just for the sake of being kind, right?"

Gu Wei also sighed.

As soon as he asked the question, he had guessed Meow Meow's answer.

The jump distance spans tens of thousands of light years. It is no exaggeration to say that some smaller galaxies are only this big.

In the eyes of those builders, the civilization within the maze is obviously not worth the construction cost.
"Drip-drip-"

And just when Gu Wei was feeling complicated.

Suddenly, a prompt sounded in the main control room, followed by the voice of the main thread of Meow Meow: "Entered the tombstone belt, the target jump point coordinates X: 234.6, Y: 535.7, Z: 421.4, the estimated flight time is hours"

"The spontaneous decoherence field radar has been activated, the abnormal phase purification module has been activated, the annealing algorithm has been activated, and the decoding medium window has been activated."

Meow Meow's main thread reported a series of terms that Gu Wei could understand and could not understand.

Followed by.

The interior of the spacecraft shook slightly.

The image outside the star curtain suddenly became blurred.

However, although the naked eye cannot see the situation outside the boat, Mee Mee was still considerate enough to give Gu Wei a small window after slowing down.

Visible through the small window.

The starry sky in the distance suddenly shattered into countless prism-like blocks of color, as if someone had stuffed the entire universe into a kaleidoscope.

Gu Wei narrowed his eyes and saw a piece of metal wreckage suddenly appearing in a certain direction in the distance.

This piece of metal wreckage did not disintegrate as a whole like the battle-damaged stuff he had seen in the Blue Bridge Galaxy. Instead, it presented strange geometric cut surfaces, like a metal specimen that had been precisely cut open by some sharp blade.

It seems to be affected by some kind of gravitational force.

After the metal wreckage appeared, it rushed straight towards the Flutter Flutter like a missile.

Before Gu Wei could even react, the metal debris rushed to the outside of the hull. Gu Wei even saw the metal surface refracting a rainbow-like halo under the blue light of the spacecraft shield.
next second.

boom!
The edges of the metal wreckage suddenly lit up in the blue light of the shield, and then vaporized silently from the tip to the end, turning into a ball of silver-gray plasma mist.

This was the first time that Gu Wei had seen the defensive effect of the spacecraft’s shield with his own eyes since he traveled through time.

Then he blinked rapidly and turned to look at Meow Meow's thread: "Meow Meow, how fast was that thing just now?"

"It?" Mee Mee still looked leisurely. "Not very fast, 0.0124 times the speed of light, with a mass of about tons. In the early years of Xinghai Literature Network, many protagonists of novels were blinded by this kind of thing and traveled through time. Some idiots who were unhappy with their lives even came here specifically to look for an opportunity to start over."

Gu Wei: “.”

Good guy.
0.0124 times the speed of light, and a mass of more than tons?

0.0124 times the speed of light is about 3700 kilometers per second. This speed has exceeded the movement limit of conventional natural celestial bodies, at least for celestial bodies in the solar system:

The speed of celestial bodies in the solar system is usually less than 100 km/s, and it is basically impossible to reach 0.0124 times the speed of light without external acceleration.

The main reason why those asteroids are so powerful is their mass - for example, the meteorite that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs had a mass of about 2 trillion tons.

If we don't consider the violent disintegration in the air.

When it falls on the earth, it will form a crater of at least hundreds of kilometers. The shock wave will instantly raze all buildings within a radius of thousands of kilometers to the ground. At the same time, the projectiles re-entering the atmosphere will cause global fires. The surface temperature may even exceed thousands of degrees for a short time.

Its actual power should be close to the mass extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous period, which is on the order of 5.5 million Hiroshima atomic bombs.

Of course.

As a rigorous scholar, Gu Wei actually has doubts about the latter.

The reason is simple.

After all, he had not witnessed the explosion of the Hiroshima atomic bomb with his own eyes, so he suggested that they do it again, preferably with a larger equivalent.

This impact, which was enough to cause the destruction of the earth, was easily resolved by the shield.

On the main console not far away, the total power representing the spontaneous decoherence field didn't even fluctuate.

This scene reminded Gu Wei of a video he had seen before he traveled through time. When a typhoon hit Shanghai, the Bund was deserted. A reporter weighing more than 200 pounds was strolling in the wind and rain, and the strong wind could not blow him away at all.
At the same time in the following time.

Gu Wei witnessed similar scenes again and again:
All kinds of strange things crashed into the Flutter Flutter, but were all destroyed into pieces by the spacecraft's defense system.

Of course.

There are a few special objects that can penetrate the shield and burn a few scorch marks on the hull of the spacecraft, but that's all.

What really makes the spacecraft feel a sense of crisis are some more microscopic physical phenomena.

For example, Gu Wei had seen a mass of gelatinous dark red substance that could directly penetrate the shield and attach to the surface of the hull like a living thing.

During the attachment period, the temperature of the contact area first rose to more than 200 million degrees, and then dropped sharply to minus degrees in one ten-thousandth of a second, instantly breaking through the hull coating. At the same time, certain properties carried inside the material also collapsed the metal atoms of the hull from an orderly arrangement into a chaotic amorphous state.

If Jin hadn't come up with a response plan immediately.

The Puleng Puleng ship would not be destroyed and people would not die, but Gu Wei estimated that he would have to ask Jin to fix it - the spot was right below his buttocks.
If Jin's reaction was a second slower, the situation would be almost like this:

Da-Mu-or2←Hibiscus (Operating Room)

Later, Gu Wei learned that this thing is called a disordered cluster, which can release a high-frequency alternating magnetic field and requires specific means to clear it out.

that's it.

Amidst the sweep of various objects, the Flutter Flutter safely sailed through the tombstone belt to the target jump point.

After a familiar flash.

The starry sky outside the spacecraft suddenly became quiet, and the speed dropped back to a low point.

at the same time.

A planet quietly appeared in Gu Wei's sight.

Note:
Many students have been asking the reader group, well, are considering whether to build a No. 7 Grilled Fish Restaurant
(End of this chapter)