The stars, but they become the gray wind

"Well, it's actually not that bad... Although Cabot does occasionally come up with some 'surprises' like the one just now, overall it's not too tiring. We usually have it pretty easy."

"Speaking of which, Sister Carlisle, how far did you come from this time?"

"About 20,000 light years. Oh, right. Ultimately, it's all because we encountered the probe you launched and built, and because of Cabot's reminder and request, we came here to meet this 'sister' of yours whom we've never met."

"Twenty thousand light years...it's actually that far? You guys must have worked so hard."

"And the fact that the probe actually flew so far away and is still operating is really unexpected."

"An ancient detector that we had long given up hope on... It was actually discovered by you sisters, that is, you, by chance after such a long time... It can be considered a kind of fate. From this incident, maybe we do have some kind of connection as sisters, right?" Lina said, holding Calisi's delicate hands affectionately.

"Well... I think you should ask... why our biological mother chose to bring us to the planet where the probe would crash. From this point of view, our irresponsible biological mother had planned it in advance." Carlisle glanced at Cabot behind her with a gloomy face.

"No matter what, meeting is fate... What's more... we are all intelligent beings born from the same creator or mother. Both I and the other Sky Star girls would welcome having a few more lovely sisters."

"After all, in this 930 billion light-year-sized universe, we can meet and get to know each other on such a huge scale.

The Milky Way, with a diameter exceeding 100,000 light years, separates us, yet compared to the entire universe, we appear to be tightly integrated, like a single point. This sisterly reunion across such an astronomical distance is a wonderful fate for us, sharing the same mother, isn't it?

"Under such a vast starry sky, we are so far apart but miraculously have the same mother. Even the cold void between the stars cannot stop us from gathering together. The universe may be cold, but as our mother said in her declaration, perhaps we can bring our warmth to this cold universe..." Lina said in a kind tone like a sister.

Chapter 146 Miss Luoying, who I haven't seen for seven years

"By the way, there is something I want to tell you..." Iris, who had been standing next to Lina since the beginning, suddenly said thoughtfully.

"what's up?"

"About seven years ago... a... uh... according to your terminology, should we call it a 'traveler'?" suddenly appeared in our civilization.

"Ah?" After hearing this, Carlisle was stunned on the spot.

"That time traveler...Miss? She looks like this." As she spoke, Iris pulled up Luoying's facial photo and related identity information in front of Calisi.

"Huh? This looks like... isn't it Lamia?"

"She calls herself Luoying. Her awareness of the child suddenly emerged within an inactive bionic body. After examining her memory and cognition, we determined she wasn't from our civilization. However, at the level of consciousness and brain, for unknown reasons, her awareness is almost perfectly compatible with our mental perception network."

"Oh, I see... Wait! What did you say her name was?"

"Luoying...what's wrong?"

"What?!!" Calisi was stunned. She had a hunch that this time traveler who called himself Luoying was most likely a group member she knew well before she traveled through time. Then, after Calisi came to her senses from the shock, the first person she thought of was not Luoying, but Cabot who was standing behind her, carrying her on his back and doing something unknown.

"Cabot!"

"Don't be impatient... I guess you must want to ask, besides the four of you, whether I brought other people here, right?"

"At that time, besides the four of you, there was actually another one, the unlucky yet lucky Miss Luoying... It's just... I made his weakness slightly different from the others..."

"Are you sure it's just... a little off?"

"correct."

"You call 20,000 light years a little off?"

"Yeah, isn't it 'a little'?"

"How can this be called just one point? It should be 'billions of points', right?" Carlisle complained with a sullen face.

"It's indeed a little for me, a mere 20,000 light years. The Zelli spacecraft I placed in the hangar on your ship can make a short jump of more than 20,000 light years. What's more, if you look at it from the perspective of the entire universe, the distance between you can be considered to be close together on this star map of the universe, isn't it?" Cabot argued shamelessly.

"You...is this some kind of sophistry?"

"And if this is really the Luo Ying we're familiar with, does that mean we've left her alone, without any relatives or friends, in a strange civilization for seven years? Damn it!"

"Don't worry... Although Miss Luoying is an outsider, since she's perfectly compatible with our civilization's spiritual perception network, she's one of us. As a representative of the entire Sky Star civilization, I can guarantee that Miss Luoying has suffered absolutely no unfair treatment during the seven years she's lived alone on Sky Star. We've always treated her like a compatriot and sister."

"I know... I trust you, as our sister's moral standards. I'm worried about something else. In our perception, Luoying is a homebody with little social experience. All the oral sex she and I usually do is just driving, at most just talk. We both have zero actual experience. What I'm worried about is... Luoying has been with a group of beautiful girls for seven years... for a long time. Will she... be taken advantage of?"

"Uh..." Thinking of the rumor that Anna, the carnivorous lesbian who was famous in the entire Sky Star, was with Luo Ying, Iris suddenly felt that something serious was going on. Although as a researcher, she often paid attention to the affairs of the alien lady Luo Ying, and knew that Miss Luo Ying had been living with Anna and her sisters, Iris was not worried about what her law-abiding sister Elena would do to Luo Ying. On the contrary, Anna was the most famous lesbian in the entire Sky Star. According to the rumors she heard from Elena, her own sister often made advances towards the alien lady. If it weren't for her protection, the unlucky alien lady would have been eaten up by Anna, the big scumbag. However, even with Elena's protection, Miss Luo Ying could not avoid being taken advantage of by Anna in various ways in daily life.

"Um... this is a rather complicated matter... Anyway, your friend, or our sister Luoying... in the past seven years... at least... has not lost her virginity in that regard..."

"What? After being surrounded by a group of girls for seven years, Luoying is still single, right? Or is he married to a group of women? This is too much!"

"Even if she's just good at talking, has nothing really happened in these seven years?"

"It's not like nothing happened... At least he gets along well with a pair of sisters from the Sky Star elf clan. It's said that over the past seven years, she and the younger sister have developed a potential romantic relationship."

"Potential? Are you sure?" Carisi recalled her past memories of Luoying. In her memory, Luoying was just a simple lesbian otaku with no experience at all, and even the fact that they met online was purely a coincidence.

"In my impression... it's good enough for Luoying, a nerdy girl, to hold a girl's hand? Potential romantic relationship... For a nerdy girl like Luoying, I can't even think about it." Aze on the side also had his gossip spirit ignited.

"Um, actually, there's one thing I forgot to tell you..." Iris on the opposite side said with a strange expression.

"The scene we first encountered was actually broadcast live to all the Sky Star people, which means..." Having said that, Iris was very embarrassed and did not dare to continue.

"That is to say, she, who is watching the live broadcast, has seen and heard everything we are gossiping about Miss Luoying." Lina added the second half of Iris's unspoken sentence.

“Oh… Only shit!”

"Oh no... I was talking bad about others behind their backs, and everyone heard it all. Uh... Luoying! You can see it, right? Can you please pretend you didn't hear what I just said?" Carisi shouted to the people around.

…………

Luoying stared at the screen angrily, then turned and asked Elena beside him.

"Elena, can I connect to the venue's loudspeaker equipment or something like that?"

"Sure... If it's you, the Tree of Life should agree. Wait a moment... It'll take me a few seconds."

As she spoke, Elena closed her eyes and sent a request to the Tree of Life. Soon, she received a response.

"Okay, the connection has been established. The device in your hand is now directly connected to the video and audio equipment on site. You can speak directly to the data tablet in your hand, and the space station will be able to hear what you say."

"Thank you... I do have a lot of things I want to talk about with my old friends..." Luo Ying turned his gaze back to the screen with a kind face.

.........

At the same time, on the space station where the first contact was taking place, Carisi looked around nervously, fearing that Luoying would emerge from some corner.

"Luoying shouldn't be in this space station, right? I don't want to be caught talking bad about someone behind someone's back."

"You're lucky, Sister Kalisi. Sister Luoying is definitely not on the space station...but..."

"But what?"

"But Sister Luoying's communication signal has already reached the space station's video and audio equipment. I don't think she's very happy right now..."

"what?"

Just as Iris finished her words, a burst of cursing came from various audio devices in the surrounding walls and ceiling.

"Well, you, Carlisle...you're saying bad things about me behind my back, aren't you?"

"You are a guy who only knows how to talk and drive, and you still have the qualifications to criticize me?"

"Not only have I held a girl's hand before, I even have a girlfriend. Although it's a bit weird that girls always take advantage of me, I do have a girlfriend now. Isn't that much better than you, a guy who hasn't even held a girl's hand?"

"You're a single guy, you have no right to criticize me!"

"And... you bastard Carlisle... I've had a very comfortable life these past seven years... I get to see girls every day, it's so much better than a guy like you who can only talk nonsense!!!"

"You seem to be completely lacking in confidence. Why are you competing with me?" Carlisle replied embarrassedly.

"I've been having intimate contact with girls every day for the past seven years. Why don't you tell me what you've been doing in the past seven years?"

"Uh... on Earth in a parallel universe... rubbing wonders?"

"Ah?" This time it was Luoying's turn to be dumbfounded.

"Don't you know? There's also a parallel Earth in this universe that bears some resemblance to ours... but this parallel Earth is still in 1909, at this point in time."

"During these seven years... besides creating wonders on Earth in that parallel universe, we also prevented several wars, strangling the devastating First World War in its cradle, accelerating the disintegration of this world's British Empire, and overthrowing a small island nation and Russia, giving both sides a good beating, so that they dared not to engage in any further military expansion or aggression. Incidentally, we also built several space elevators and mass projectors on Earth..."

"Well... I think... we need to meet and have a good talk about what has happened in the past seven years?" Luo Ying, who felt that his three views were once again challenged, held his forehead and temporarily stopped what he wanted to say about Carissa.

"I also think we really need to meet and talk in person. Seven years is enough time for a lot to happen. In the seven years we've been on Earth alone, we've done countless things that could affect the future of this parallel Earth. I'm also quite curious, how have you been spending these seven years?"

"How else can I live? I just play with Elena and her sisters every day. But come to think of it, I haven't been out of Elena's sight for the past seven years. I've almost always stayed at Elena's house, watching that scumbag Anna bring different girls home every day to cuddle with her. Sometimes those girls would have some thoughts about me. But how could a pure person like me throw away my virginity so easily? My virginity was reserved for Elena!"

"It seems... you've been living a pretty comfortable life in the past seven years?" Listening to the energetic voice coming from the audio system, Carisi scratched his head.

"Hehe... Although I'm happy to have a potential girlfriend like Elena, it's just that Anna who's been plotting against me every day. When I first came here, I almost lost my virginity to that scumbag Anna. Luckily, I have Elena. I don't want my virginity to be taken away by a scumbag for no reason." Luoyang's frightened voice came from the radio.

"Forget it, let's talk about it when we meet. I'm heading to your space station now. It'll be there in about 20 minutes..."

"Well... I have something to ask Miss Cabot before you come..."

20 minutes later, Elena's long shuttle-shaped spaceship entered the airtight shield of the space station. After the spaceship stopped, the hatch had just opened when a figure jumped out of the hatch at lightning speed and pounced on the waiting Carlisle and others.

"Sister Yuuki, I miss you so much!!!" Yuuki, who was standing in the front, was suddenly knocked to the ground by the figure.

"Do you know how I've been spending the past seven years?"

"You're always hanging out with girls?" Looking at Yuki who was knocked to the ground by Luoying, Carlisle, who was standing behind, commented speechlessly.

"No way? Can't you see I haven't lost my virginity yet? My relationship with Elena is actually progressing quite slowly. I want to take it slow, but Elena's sister Anna is such a hassle. She's always trying to get her hands on me. She's seen me naked more than once... I almost lost my virginity in her hands... Let's not talk about that... I want to hear about your experiences over the past seven years."

"This is a long story... Sister Lina, is there a suitable place for us to sit down and talk? I want to have a good talk with my friend about what happened in the past seven years." For the sisters of the Sky Star civilization who were also born from the hands of Cabot, Calisi can call them sisters without any shyness.

"There's a restaurant 500 meters away. Do you need some privacy?"

"Thank you very much. I'll trouble you sisters now..." Jiecheng stood up from the ground, patted the hem of his skirt, and thanked Iris and others.

"You're welcome... It's just a restaurant. Besides, we're sisters born from the same mother. If you have any other needs, we'll do our best to meet them."

…………

A few hours later, after a long conversation and exchange, with occasional exclamations, Kalisi picked up the cup in front of her and took a sip of the warm water in the cup.

"This is the history of most of what has happened to us in the past seven years..."

"You really gave those two princesses a happy ending... But the story of that spy team is also quite sad..."

"And...you said Ange and Charlotte were on your ship?"

"That's right... When we get down, we'll have them wait on the boat for us. They won't know what's going on yet. To prevent Charlotte and the others from worrying too much about us, I've put a lot of relaxing entertainment equipment on the boat."

"I even moved the unreliable food printer from the restaurant of the Hundred-Handed Giant to the ship's lounge. Although it's unreliable and feels like the machine spirit is unhappy every time I use it, as a way to relax and relieve boredom, it works surprisingly well..."

"You said it was effective... You're not trying to vent your negative emotions by beating up the Machine Spirit, are you?"

"How could I be so bored? Besides, we're not in Warhammer 40k... there's no Machine Spirit in that machine."

"But... a parallel universe Earth filled with steampunk artifacts... is indeed a bit curious."

"Once you actually see it, you'll think you're just being hypocritical... Human society on this Earth isn't exactly great... When we first arrived on this Earth, the internal and external contradictions of the global colonial system established by the British Empire, based on oppressing colonies and exploiting the wealth of their indigenous inhabitants, were practically on the verge of exploding. Just a spark was needed to ignite this powder keg."

"If we hadn't intervened promptly and violently, the Earth in this parallel universe would have been plunged into a world war within ten years... no, even five years."

"We also prevented a certain island nation, caught up in a frenzy of militaristic aggression, from going to war with the corrupt white giant bear to the north. Incidentally, we also prevented the massacre of innocent people that would have resulted from this war. Neither side was a good person anyway, so we defeated them both and gave them a profound warning."

"On this point, I have to say you did a great job!" Luoying praised Carisi.

"You really should have seen the scene where Yuki fought his way into the residence of a leader of an island nation and easily took down a large group of guards. He then hit all of them by the neck and put the muzzle of a gun to their heads, forcing them to immediately stop all forms of foreign aggression. It was really exciting in every sense of the word. If they dared to refuse at that time, they would have had their necks twisted or been blown to pieces in the next second." Kalili described it vividly.

"What I hate most are these politicians who despise life and these aggressive militarists who wantonly slaughter innocent people. Giving them this small warning is a form of kindness on our part. The things we've left behind on Earth are enough to ensure long-term peace on that planet for the next few centuries, nipping in the bud any conflicts that could result in large-scale casualties of innocent people. With the technology we've left behind, I believe humanity in this world can move towards a more ideal society, rather than being confined to the endless chaos and division that plagued our original world."

"But... none of this matters anymore... what's more important now is..." Carlisle turned to Cabot, who was sitting on the side and drinking a drink leisurely.

"Since you plan to hand over the superluminal technology without a time protection mechanism to the Sky Star civilization, we, as your subordinates, have no objection. But... before that... there are some things I want to know about the current situation and past of the Sky Star civilization." Calisi said to Cabot with a serious look.

"My answer is - it depends on the question you want to ask and what kind of answer you want to hear..." Capote gently placed the drink in his hand on the table and looked at Carlisle with a smile.

Notes on the previous few images about the strange force wave communication and the induction beacon:

First, this discovery fills in the last missing piece of the puzzle for experimental verification of general relativity.

Second, this discovery opens a new window on observing the universe.

Third, this discovery helps to truly understand the physical processes at the initial moment of the Big Bang.

Fourth, this discovery means that the measurement of cosmic microwave background radiation will enter the next important milestone.

Gravitational wave astronomy represents a new window onto the horizon, following electromagnetic waves and neutrinos, and represents the last remaining gap in astronomical observations. The unique characteristics of gravitational waves allow them to provide information unattainable by other means. Gravitational waves are waves generated by mechanical motion, reflecting changes in mass distribution. Because gravity is the weakest of all interactions, gravitational waves are extremely difficult to generate and detect. However, this also gives them the strongest penetrating power, even stronger than neutrinos.

Chapter 147: Doubts Brought About by Superluminal Technology

The Runner's silver-white hull cut through the dark void, heading towards the orbital ring spaceport at its destination.

On the boat, Carlisle leaned back in her seat, closed her eyes, and recalled the conversation she had with Cabot not long ago.

.........

"Okay, first question: What you plan to give to the Sky Star civilization...is it truly superluminal technology that's unaffected by the temporal protection mechanism?"

"That's right... The reason your spacecraft didn't jump in time during its superluminal travel here is because I've installed a comprehensive timing protection mechanism on its two superluminal engines. This technology will soon be transferred to the Sky Star civilization. Before then, I'll disable the timing protection on the existing superluminal technology. Then, the Sky Star civilization will receive a complete set of superluminal engines and the corresponding technology system that can be used as a time machine."