The stars, but they become the gray wind

"So that's it!!!" Dorothy, who was sitting opposite Charlotte, suddenly clapped her hands and suddenly realized what was going on after hearing that the chamber of commerce was a company that dealt in stage and theater design.

"Anti-gravity bombs are quite eye-catching in themselves."

“So it was transported and stored as a large stage prop.”

"That is to say... as long as we can find out the theater in London where this show is being performed... maybe we can find the whereabouts of the anti-gravity bomb." Charlotte said with a hint of joy.

Angel and Dorothy looked at each other and nodded.

Chapter 50: The Smoky Steam World: I am thinking about and improving some settings, and will update later.

I am still thinking about some details of the subsequent plot and settings. The update will be later. The things I am thinking about are as follows

On how to slow down a probe traveling at a speed close to 0.999c

To be reasonable, you can only stack them up, slow down through 42 planetary systems, plunge into the solar atmosphere, and then slow down through the earth's atmosphere.

It's said that this thing has been precisely calculated and used 42 planetary systems to slow down.

You can plunge into the solar atmosphere to slow down, so that you can set it to enter the solar system at a speed of several hundred third cosmic velocities.

The protective material is almost worn out by plunging into the sun, so the heat on Earth will cause it to explode.

The first star we came into contact with was blown up by it.

I mean, this thing can't blow up stars.

But pulling out half the star's matter should be no problem.

Each sun was hit by a wave. The first sun was pulled out of half of its material because of its high speed when it made contact.

42 star systems. The inspiration for the stellar matter that can be pulled out is the solar jet of Diaz's Mercury hitting the sun.

For example, it was originally launched towards the open space, but was slightly distorted by the micro black hole in the middle, and then went towards the Orion Arm.

Continue to stack, is there any nebula within a few hundred light years of the solar system?

First, it was slowed down from 99.9 of the speed of light to 32 by dozens of nebulae of different sizes, and then slowed down to 10 by the stars.

0.999c is an object moving at a speed that is enough to disturb the fate of a star region. It flew into the nebula, and the stars that were originally expected to be born were wiped out, and stars that were originally not born were born.

50 nebulae of various sizes, 42 planetary systems of various sizes, and the atmospheres of hundreds of planets.

It keeps slowing down, and finally falls onto the small earth like a feather.

Chapter 51: The Smoky Steam World: Some ideas and settings for the following plot (under planning and improvement)

Superluminal speed, sufficient resources, civilization paradise ending, and single civilization researchers everywhere.

Not faster than the speed of light, enough resources, euthanasia ending.

Superluminal speed, insufficient resources, and the war between civilizations ends in the destruction of the great world.

If the speed of light is not exceeded and resources are insufficient, this may be the real ending. Drifting ending: The civilization is trapped in the mother planet system and makes a last gamble. The spacecraft carries the last resources and either goes to the next galaxy or dies on the way.

If you can't exceed the speed of light, you can only improve the engine efficiency (conventional propulsion to 0.5C), or reduce the age (generation spacecraft, people on board will not live to reach the destination)

Chapter 52 A sudden solar flare???

The Bering Strait, a strait close to the Arctic Circle, is a narrow channel connecting the Arctic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean between the northeastern end of the Asian continent and the northwestern end of the North American continent.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the two sides of the Bering Strait were still very desolate and the Arctic route had not yet been opened. The famous explorer Amundsen, who was the first to lead an expedition team to cross the Arctic route by ship, was still planning his Arctic adventure in the next few years. Except for some warships of Tsarist Russia, few ships would pass through this narrow strait at this inconspicuous time in 1902.

And now, the tranquility of the Bering Strait was broken by a black giant rushing underwater. The huge hull of the Alicorn, which was nearly 500 meters long, cut through the icy waters of the Bering Strait at high speed. The magnetohydrodynamic water jets on both sides of the hull accelerated the Alicorn to an ultra-high speed of nearly 50 knots. The radar and sonar systems distributed on the hull were running at full power. If a warship carrying an active sonar detection device turned on the sonar on board here at this time, it would hear the huge noise generated by the Alicorn's 50-knot underwater speed.

But there are no ifs in history. The world's first true sonar was still far from being created. The first sonar with real practical value would not be produced until several years later in 1906, when a naval officer named Lewis Nixon created it. Therefore, at this time, the Alicorn could be said to have kept all of its active detection systems in an unscrupulous state. Above the water, dozens of optically invisible spherical anti-gravity drones were patrolling and scanning the surrounding sea area, transmitting the collected data to the Alicorn's unmanned CIC below the surface.

Thousands of kilometers away on a North Pacific island, Renlong, who was in the newly built data center underground on Taylor Island, remotely controlled the Alicorn, which had already reached the Bering Strait, and checked the information transmitted by the Alicorn. Renlong pulled out an optical cable from the server beside him, and held the cable to the back of his neck, controlling the nanomechanical transformation and function at the back of his head, forming a brain-computer interface on the back of his neck. Renlong held the optical cable with his right hand and inserted the interface at one end of the cable directly into the brain-computer interface at the back of his head. As Renlong turned his wrist to tighten the optical cable interface, a huge amount of information generated by the facilities on Taylor Island flowed into Renlong's head along the optical cable.

"Hiss...it turns out I still need to get used to it...it feels like such a large amount of information is flooding into my brain all at once." Renlong muttered as he shook his head lightly.

"Let me see what the situation is like everywhere now... Um... The deuterium-deuterium fusion hydropower platform in the south of the island is operating well, and the reaction product helium-3 collection device currently has a reserve of 5%. The main energy consumption on the island is currently in the underground factory, and Stonehenge is operating in a low-energy consumption state." Renlong extended his thoughts along the data center to various parts of the island, observing the operation and construction status of infrastructure everywhere on the island. After confirming that there were no abnormalities anywhere on the island, Renlong, out of curiosity, extended his thinking perception ability to the combat command system of the Hundred-Armed Giant Formation located above the British Isles.

"Well... it does look spectacular." Looking at the spectacular scene of P1112 and the thousands of fighter jets escorting it cutting through the clouds at high altitude through the panoramic sensor of a fighter jet flying alongside the Hundred-Armed Giant formation, Renlong sighed slightly and used the camera function of the panoramic sensor to record the scene in front of him.

"Besides, it seems that Carlisle, Yuuki and the others are having a lot of fun down there... Woo... I also want to make friends with the beautiful girl spy... Hmm???" Renlong's muttered complaint was suddenly interrupted by a series of warning messages.

"Huh? Is this...communication and energy transmission interference?"

"Strange... Where in this era can something that can interfere with our energy transmission and communication come from? Confirm the source of the interference for me." Ren Long said while giving orders to the detection equipment and systems across the island.

"Hmm? Abnormal levels of electromagnetic radiation and X-rays detected in the atmosphere? The source of the interference is... the sun?"

"Could this be... a solar flare?" Analyzing the data he had collected, Renlong rubbed his temples.

"It seems that we need to build a large radio telescope that can observe solar flares." Renlong issued new orders to the underground factory, and by the way, used the thought network to contact Aze who was still on the surface.

"Aze, how was it over there just now?" Renlong, with a brain-computer interface optical cable still connected to the back of his head, asked Aze on the communication channel of the four-dimensional network.

"Are you saying that the sudden communication and energy transmission just now was a kind of interference?"

"Hmm... I suspect it might be a solar flare. I've had the factory temporarily build a large radio telescope. Since you're on the surface, you can use it to observe the current state of the sun."

"Oh ok... huh???"

"What's wrong, Aze?"

"Miss Cabot just came over unexpectedly. She told us not to worry too much about the solar flare and to just protect our energy and communication facilities. This solar flare isn't a big deal."

"Uh... why do I feel like there must be a big problem behind the fact that made her come to me in person?" Ren Long suddenly had an ominous premonition in his heart.

"Renlong, wait a moment, she has something else to say... Oh... Are you sure this is really okay? Um... Really? No way... I was so scared, and this is the result?" Renlong listened to what Aze was communicating with Cabot over there while waiting patiently.

"Uh... Renlong, Cabot told us not to worry, she was the one who caused this solar flare. She said she had a sudden urge to get a little bit of stellar material as a vacation souvenir, so she sent one of her spacecraft to the vicinity of the sun to extract some stellar material. In the process, she accidentally caused a disturbance in the star, which triggered this solar flare."

"Uh, did she really say that?"

"Well, she assured me confidently that the solar flare was indeed caused by her accidentally handling stellar material."

"Fuck... I was so scared. I thought it must be a big deal that she would come to our house in person and tell us not to get involved. Turns out she just wanted to get some travel souvenirs?" Renlong complained speechlessly on the thought network.

"Forget it, forget it... Tell her I'll remember to add extra protection to all kinds of equipment, and by the way, tell her not to do anything scary just because he's fine. She doesn't care, but we do!"

"Uh... I understand. I'll tell her." Aze on the other end also looked at Cabot who suddenly came to him with a speechless expression.

"Well, my dear Miss Cabot, could you not make such a sudden and frightening move? You almost made us think something serious had happened."

"Well, after all, you have to bring back some souvenirs when you're on vacation, right? Anti-gravity ore is too worthless to me. When you think about it, the only thing that has some commemorative value to me is probably stellar matter or something like that." Cabot said nonchalantly.

"I know that the senior governors of your combined fleet are all very powerful, but as your subordinates, we would be terrified."

"Haha, you will get used to it slowly in the future. Don't worry, as a senior star governor, I am very competent in protecting the safety of my subordinates." Cabot said with a relaxed look on his chest.

"Uh... okay, after all, Miss Cabot, you are the boss, and the power we have now is also given by you. It is not convenient for me to say anything. But next time you do something like this, can you please tell us in advance?" Aze clasped his hands together and begged Cabot in front of him.

"Don't worry, you are my subordinates. I will never treat you unfairly." Cabot put a hand affectionately on Aze's shoulder and assured him.

"And we'll give each of you a souvenir as a meaningful gift. This is a one-of-a-kind solar souvenir specially made by Senior Star Governor Cabot."

"Let me ask you first, you're not going to just give each of us a nuclear fusion fireball that could explode at any time, are you?" Aze asked with sweat on his forehead.

"Don't worry, how could I not consider your ability to bear it? Of course I will put it in a multidimensional space container for you to wear as an ornament around your neck."

"How about it? Wouldn't it be cool to wear a piece of burning star matter around your neck as an ornament? It can even be used as a temporary battery in an emergency."

"Thank you very much. I appreciate your kindness, but I'd like to think carefully about hanging a bunch of nuclear fusion material around my neck." Aze looked at his weird boss who was in high spirits and put his arm around his shoulders, intending to give him a bunch of stellar material as a benefit, with an extremely speechless expression on his face.

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"Huh... I managed to fool them both, but... this situation... is really quite interesting..." Cabot said with a sigh of relief in a hidden corner of the island away from the sight of Renlong and Aze.

Cabot waved his right hand, and a holographic image appeared before him. It depicted a star over a thousand light-years from the solar system—or, more accurately, half a star. The image showed a red giant star, over a thousand light-years from the Sun, with over half its matter seemingly ripped out by some immense force. Half the star's matter was flung into the surrounding space in irregular streaks. As the star spun, this ejected matter spiraled around the giant, forming a rather bizarre stellar ring. The date displayed in the upper right corner of the holographic projection indicated that the observations were over a thousand years old, meaning the events depicted took place over a thousand years ago.

"Interesting... that probe they launched? It's a bit surprising, though, that it's still functioning after all this time."

"And this deceleration method... is really crude and simplistic. I have to admit, I really underestimated their desire to explore."

"Even I almost forgot they launched that probe, but it actually flew so close."

"But... now is not the time. The next time the probe flies past the sun and slows down will be at least several years away."

"Sigh... Seriously, in order to help cover up the traces of that probe, I had to create a solar flare to distract my men."

"But... before long, that probe, having slowed down from near light speed to only the third cosmic velocity, will attempt to maneuver and dock into Earth's orbit, right? If my guess is correct, this probe is probably the cause of 'that incident' in this world?"

"It looks like my men will have a lot to do then!"

"Well...but maybe it would be nice to let them have their first contact with each other?"

Miss Cabot pondered this with amusement.

Chapter 53: A Small Follow-up to the Solar Flare and the Story of the Dragon and the Knight

"Hiss... this Cabot guy... is so scary." Yuki rubbed his temples and sighed at his unreliable boss. His tense body suddenly relaxed and he collapsed on the sofa.

"Huh... I thought something was wrong with the sun. A solar flare of this intensity is indeed a bit scary." Calisi, who was sitting opposite, also breathed a sigh of relief.

"Judging from Cabot's behavior, this kind of thing will probably happen again in the future. I can't stand it if he scares me like this every time." Yuki complained with his eyes closed, looking up at the ceiling.

"Um...but...Miss Cabot said that she would give each of us a piece of the excavated stellar material as a souvenir, right?" said Carlisle with a hesitant expression.

"What? Judging from your expression, you want it?"

"Uh...anyway, this should at least be considered the first job gift and benefit Miss Cabot gave us."

Kaleese replied, rubbing her hands together in anticipation.)

"That thing is just a small ball of nuclear fusion fire after all. There is no essential difference between it and the fusion material running in our fusion reactor on the island, right? Is it really necessary to look forward to it so much?" Yuki looked at Calisi who was looking forward to it and poured a basin of cold water on her mercilessly.

"Well... but no matter what, it is also a very commemorative thing. After all, this is stellar material taken from the star itself." Carissa did not lower her expectations because of the cold water poured by Yuki.

"Forget it, take what you want. But as for this stuff, when we build the Dyson cloud or even the Dyson sphere in the future, we can have as many as you want." He waved his hand and said indifferently about the stellar material souvenir that Cabot would give them later.

Meanwhile, on the other side, Ange and Charlotte, unaware of the magnificent astronomical spectacle that had just occurred overhead, were still planning to investigate the theater that might contain the anti-gravity bomb. From Ange's perspective, the violent solar flare, the details of which they didn't know, had only caused a brief power outage and a short period of radio communication interference in London and several surrounding cities. This small episode did not affect Ange and the others' plan to investigate the theater.

That night, Angel, Dorothy, and Chise, disguised as the princess' classmates, followed Charlotte to the door of the suspicious theater.

"What a strange creature!" Chise from Japan exclaimed in amazement at the lizard-like stone sculpture in front of the theater.

"That's a dinosaur. It lived a long time ago and is the ancestor of the Black Lizard People." Anjie told Qianshi a cold joke about the Black Lizard People with an expressionless face.

"Oh~ I see." Qianshi, who took Anjie's cold joke seriously, had a look of sudden enlightenment.

"Don't believe her, Miss Chise." Beata, who was standing by, looked at Chise who believed her and reminded her.

Just as a few people were chatting and passing by the dinosaur stone sculpture in front of the theater, an invisible drone followed the unaware people into the theater. When flying over the dinosaur stone sculpture, the drone floating in the air paused briefly for a second, and aimed the sensor on its body at the dinosaur stone sculpture next to it to take a photo.

.........

In a villa in central London, Carlisle looked at the photos of dinosaur stone sculptures taken by a drone with a playful expression on her face.

"Hehe...it's just like where we are. In the early 20th century, people still believed that dinosaurs were clumsy, hairless lizards that looked like crocodiles."

"After all, the name 'dinosaur' means a terrifying giant lizard. I don't think people of this era would have anticipated that the hairless giant lizards they knew actually had feathers... and certainly not that dinosaurs were actually more closely related to birds at the genetic level than lizards, perhaps even the ancestors of today's birds?"

"Most people of this era didn't realize that these ancient creatures they called dinosaurs actually ruled and occupied the Earth for 160 million years. They would never have imagined that these dominant creatures that ruled the Earth for 160 million years would be destroyed by a giant asteroid."

"People of this era were limited by technology, and their understanding of the Earth's age was still only 500 million years. It wasn't until 1953, nearly half a century later, that they truly realized that the Earth's age was actually 46 billion years." Carlisle sighed as she looked at the silver moon outside the window.

"At least the people in this world may not need to worry about being wiped out by an asteroid like the dinosaurs. The eight Stonehenge orbital cannons on Taylor Island will ensure that the civilization on this planet will not be threatened by space." Yuki sighed as he and Calisi looked up at the bright moon outside the window with a cup of hot milk.

"The civilization on this planet is very strange, but I still hope they can bring us more surprises." Yuki squinted his eyes at the bright moon in the night sky, raised the glass of milk in his hand and tasted it carefully.

.........

"Your Highness, welcome!" The theater director, who had received the news in advance, greeted Princess Charlotte in front of him politely and warmly.

"It was a sudden request, but you still helped me prepare a seat. Thank you so much." Charlotte smiled and expressed her gratitude to the theater director in front of her.

"No, no, it's just a small matter. Please come this way." The enthusiastic theater director took Charlotte and others to the VIP exclusive box on the second floor.

"As expected of a princess, the royal family's courage is truly extraordinary." Dorothy, who was following Charlotte, exclaimed to Ange beside her.

"Of course, even on the Black Lizard Star, the princess is very famous." Anjie praised her lover in a very tactful way.

"I'm talking about this country," Dorothy said with a smile, sensing the hidden meaning in Anjie's words.

"What a coincidence, that's what I said." Anjie once again silently praised her lover.

.........

On the stage, a mechanical dragon made of metal and steam pipes spewed flames from its mouth and bared its fangs and claws at the knight in front of it who was wearing armor and holding a sword and shield.

"O cursed steam dragon, I will pierce your abominable steel and iron, tear out your scorching entrails, and the blazing gas flames and sulfur you spew from your mouth will have no effect on me. The resplendent Hall of Valor awaits me."

"Manager, is that also a creature called a dinosaur?" Looking at the giant steam dragon spewing flames on the stage and the knight confronting it, Qianshi, who had never seen the image of a Western dragon, asked curiously to the theater manager behind him.

"No, it's called Dragon."