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For advanced beings, time is a controllable variable that is only used to measure the movement and change of the smallest unit of matter. The speed of this process, reflected in the worldview, is the speed at which time passes.
Long interstellar travel, traveling through the starry sky spanning millions of light-years, advanced beings with long lives and controllable material movement, are never worried about time, but the astronomical materials needed for long-distance voyages, especially in the void. Among the dark areas of an object, it stands out the most.
When we reached the edge of the Triangular Galaxy, from the most advanced Drow cubes in the entire fleet to the broken ships that had been dismantled into resources in the old Cold Star fleet, they were all as miserable as if they had just escaped from the dark, stormy and raging sea. , even dying.
All the supplies were completely consumed. If we hadn't encountered an extremely thin but vast nebula-like belt at the edge of the galaxy, spanning several light-years, and barely collected some materials, would the entire ship have been able to sustain the sight of it? The first peripheral star of the Triangular Galaxy is still unknown.
This star is not huge. It is an ordinary red dwarf star. Its luminosity and volume are far less than that of the Earth's sun. It is only about one percent of the sun. Compared with the prosperous star world in the center of the Triangular Galaxy, it looks like Wandering orphans wandering around the edges of human cities are homeless and may be taken away by the gravitational "group" of the nearby Andromeda Galaxy at any time.
The only thing it can be proud of is probably that it can live as long as the rest of the world in the future, and can grow old together with the mother of the universe.
But it is not the biological son or grandson of the mother of the universe, like the first or second generation. Those rich, handsome stars, not to mention in the universe, even in the small galaxy like the Triangle Galaxy, red dwarfs like it are also There are too many to count, grandma doesn’t kiss and parents don’t love her.
The saddest thing is that its predecessors, parents and ancestors, exploded again and again and then shrunk. Collapse, then explode... The legacy left to it over the course of the ages, those heavy elements that have been repeatedly accumulated under the polymerization reaction year after year, day after day - treasures that can even form planets, are unknown to them. Lost. It was still snatched away by other giant stars. In short, now it has nothing around it except itself. Already a pauper, abandoned by the extended family of the Triangular Galaxy on the edge of the desert, no one cares about him, no one cares about him.
It has obviously been accustomed to this kind of life, and has spent it for a long, long time, maybe hundreds of millions of years, maybe more than a billion years. It has been living so lonely, inferior and wandering, without even the smallest meteorite. Ken came here to say hello.
in its long and ordinary life. The only "friend" I saw was a supernova explosion from the Andromeda Galaxy 60 million years ago. The gorgeous and luxurious lineup of radiation and torrent of interstellar matter were like beauties driving expensive sports cars. Hundreds of stars came from it. Light-years away, it hurriedly passed by. At that time, it was caught off guard and panicked and didn't even have time to say hello to them. It had never seen anything big in the world since it was born. It was like a country bumpkin, far away on the edge. The ground looked stupidly.
I watched this for many years until one day. It unknowingly approached the path they were flying on, and finally plucked up the courage to use its pitiful gravity to save one of them and live with it in the cold stars on the edge. Until we grow old together with the universe.
However, they only glanced at it with disdain, and then quickly fell into the arms of a super blue giant that had jumped from the Triangle Galaxy family to the Andromeda Galaxy and passed by it more than ten light years away. Its mass was thousands of times that of it. It was huge. The gravity almost knocked it over. Kill.
When it was in a state of embarrassment and stumbled out of the "luxurious wind" blown by someone passing by, it could only watch his and their backs from a distance, and it was even further away from its hometown in the Triangular Galaxy, and life changed accordingly. It also became darker, lonely and more difficult.
It is ashamed and inferior at the same time, but also extremely envious. Its quality determines that it will never have such a big explosion in its life, and it is even more destined to never become a strong person after the explosion that no one dares to mess with in the universe. Or - black hole or neutron star, and this is the brilliant future life of the super blue giant star!
For 60 million years, it has continued to wander sadly, while silently licking the wounds of that wind, hoping to make up for the lost quality. Unfortunately, there is nothing here, and time is like a silent flowing water, and the days are passing by. Gradually, I returned to the plain loneliness that was lost in the vast starry sky, leaving only the deep wound of material loss.
For a long time, it has been looking forward to the visit of interstellar meteorites, looking forward to encountering a star similar to itself, but it has never expected to get a planet of its own, let alone encounter it by chance, or even own this universe. The greatest miracle - life!
It is something that only the lucky few in the most eccentric universe can possess. The vast starry sky, countless stars, trillions of stars, is something that only a few tiny stars can possess.
But today, pulled by the gravitational gangsters of the Andromeda Galaxy, it was suddenly caught off guard once again in front of the nebula group it was about to cross, and encountered the second "brilliance" in its "star birth" - countless various kinds of things. This kind of life is actually ecstatic, scrambling, swarming like crazy, rushing towards this little red dwarf star that has been wandering and abandoned for countless years.
At that moment, the matter scattered on the surface of its star seemed to be trembling in fear, as if it was trying to hide in shame.
However, the sudden happiness came magically like this. No matter how inferior it was in hiding under the huge gravitational pull of the Andromeda Galaxy, these beings were chasing it and surrounding it as if they were seeing a treasure. It is the most beautiful and precious star in the universe, not the most common and inconspicuous red dwarf star.
Those tired-looking fleets, even the smallest deck, symbolize the artificial beauty that is different from the nature of the universe. That is the evidence that life changes the universe, and it is the greatness and magic of life!
They surround it tightly and fly slowly in its gravitational embrace. Compared with its small body, they are even smaller. They are almost just small black dots, so small that they can't even be seen without opening their eyes. not see.
However, this is the first time it has life. Even if it is a life that is encountered by chance, they do not dislike it. Instead, they regard it as a treasure, making its star core tremble carefully, for fear that it will not be a peaceful cohesion. The reaction harms these lives. Carefully protecting them in his own faint light that is not hot, trying hard to emit a little more heat to warm this group of poor beings who seem to have escaped from the cold world.
It hurriedly gives the dying stars the star material they urgently need, for fear that they will die.
in the universe. Matter is always the most precious and scarce thing, especially stars. Matter is their life. Within the galaxy, all stars are engaged in endless interstellar wars for matter. And between galaxies, offensive wars have been going on since the birth of the universe.
But it is not stingy at all at this time, working hard to give these lives the few materials its small star has, communicating with them beautifully with light and radiation, listening to their beating sounds, and feeling the miracle of life. .
At this time, it is very happy, happier than it has ever been before, and is even afraid that these beings will leave soon, if it has a planet, even one. Maybe we can keep them, it is too poor, too shabby, and has nothing but its own quality.
But they did not leave quickly, greedily absorbing light and matter in its gravitational embrace. Its body was "bleeding" and losing mass, but it didn't care and only hoped to stay longer.
However, happiness is always short-lived. That's why people pursue happiness tirelessly. Soon after this group of beings who regard it as a treasure of the universe arrived, the Andromeda galaxy opposite seemed to know it in advance, and a huge torrent of radiation passed through the long and vast nebula at the speed of light. . Coming right in its direction.
From the first particle impacting its stellar wind circle, it recognized who it was. The super blue giant star 60 million years ago made it miserable, overturned it, and even almost killed it. The star that jumped ship to the Andromeda Galaxy. It exploded on the opposite side!
The majestic interstellar material flow and intense radiation will sweep everything here, and soon after, a black hole, or a neutron star with terrifying mass and density, will appear not far away, and the irresistible gravitational pull will " "Collect" all nearby matter, destroy all nearby stars, and these poor lives.
Only then did it sadly know that the Andromeda Galaxy, that extremely powerful, glorious and prosperous family of stars, the happy and beautiful country that all the stars in the Triangular Galaxy yearn for, was trying to lure it over, not to give it happiness. Say goodbye to the helpless wandering life, but give this super blue star as "food".
It also knows that its lifespan may no longer be as long as the sky. It will not be long before it is pulled into a black hole or falls into a neutron star, becoming one of its masses.
It cannot resist such a fate. The universe will always be a cold predator of the weak. The strong will always be strong, and the weak will always be weak. Its quality determines that no matter how hard it struggles, its fate is already doomed. The mother of the universe only loves those strong ones with huge mass. , will never protect weak stars like them.
It is even less likely to take revenge. At such a close distance, it would be the best outcome for the super blue giant to take away all of its mass. Otherwise, it might be blown away by the strong radiation torrent formed by the super explosion.
This is reality, determined by its quality, but it still struggles, desperately struggles!
It seems because, behind it, there is this universe, the only ones who have seen it, the only ones who cherish it and regard it as a treasure!
The huge torrent of radiation, mixed with the endless material flow, impacts everything in this direction. It struggles to support, twisting its weak body, and uses its own gravity to resist the more violent explosions that are coming quickly.
And that group of beings were hiding behind it, using the time it bought with their lives to create something crazily.
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When the violent torrent of radiation and interstellar matter hit it, it was already on the verge of collapse, but it clearly felt that the terrifying star formed after the explosion was approaching here every second, as if someone was controlling it, with exact precision.
That group of beings were still desperately trying to create something, but time seemed to be running out. From the diffuse star cluster, a new overlord of the universe born after the Big Bang emerged—a neutron star that was still collapsing itself. And those lives that rush towards us in cold blood.
It sadly discovered that if it rushed forward at this time, not only would it not be able to make up for anything, but its little mass might also help it break through that little critical point, possibly making it a more terrifying black hole than a neutron star!
Not only does it take revenge, it also helps the enemy become stronger.
But it still rushed over. Under the gravitational war, it rushed towards the newborn neutron star, the former super blue giant.
It looked back at those lives for the last time, and loosened its gravitational embrace. The dismembered star, like tears, left traces of brilliance in the universe for the last time, crossing its ordinary and humble life.
The neutron star had long since forgotten who it was, without even looking at it. It was just like it had absorbed all other mass food before, and it was flying through the nebula as if it were the only one on its own.
However, just as it was about to disappear into the sharp knife of gravity, the things created by that group of beings crazily erupted in dazzling waves in the darkness. The huge and turbulent repulsion was like a sharp sword, shockingly slashing the sky from the top of the universe. Cut it off and tremble in time and space.
At that moment, before it died, it smiled happily, as it had never laughed before. It was as if it had seen the neutron star that dominated it, and under the "sharp swords" created crazily by those beings, Trembling slightly!
This is the most amazing thing about life in the universe. It has what they seem to be missing from the designed physical life - infinite possibilities.
^(To be continued.)
