Chapter 242: Familiar Star Gate
The Peace Messenger, having adopted the same construction material as the T2 Punisher and paired with the same hybrid power engine group, was not much inferior in speed.
Several days later, at an ultra-fast speed of 12% speed of light, along with the Young Dragon spaceship escort fleet, it arrived at the Star Gate located 500 million kilometers from the central star.
Fan Ren sat in the command cabin, gazing at the grand and massive rectangular structure before him, momentarily lost in thought.
The material used at the edge of this Star Gate appeared to distort the surrounding outer space.
“This is the extremely rare super-eating ore in the universe. It is also the essential material for constructing Star Gates.”
“Similarly, it is also the top-tier material essential for constructing all space technology and gravitational wave technology. The current price on the stellar market is 100W star coins per ton.”
The Fox and Mai Er’s explanations sounded one after another in Fan Ren’s ears.
Bringing them along was Fan Ren’s decision.
Through a period of contact, he discovered that these two were extremely fearful of death.
This surprised him greatly while also putting his mind somewhat at ease regarding security issues for this voyage.
After all, even they, who were so afraid of death, were completely indifferent about this voyage, which indirectly proved the authenticity of their words.
Micro chips capable of exploding in an instant had been implanted in their minds.
And the control was in the hands of Dan Wu, who was in the nano buffer cabin at the rear with his eyes slightly closed.
A year ago, when the Human Civilization Committee was established and his sister successfully got recommended as the Intelligence Department minister, a clear trace of satisfaction appeared on Dan Wu’s face.
Fan Ren saw all this in his eyes and found it quite novel.
As the spaceship slowly approached the Star Gate, Fan Ren turned his head to glance at the Fox beside him. The other’s eyes were very calm, as if already accustomed to the act of passing through Star Gates.
Turning his head back, in Fan Ren’s view, the space within the Star Gate area was clearly different from the space channel constructed by the Conqueror.
It was as if no substance existed here at all, allowing a completely transparent view of the universe and countless stars behind the frame.
At this moment, the Peace Messenger’s speed had slowed to about 100 meters per second.
Fan Ren withdrew his gaze and stopped staring at this magnificent structure.
“Fleet, enter like this!”
After he gave the order in a deep voice, with the Peace Messenger he was on leading, they slowly moved forward and plunged headlong into the Star Gate.
As the Peace Messenger’s ship hull disappeared like plunging into rippling water, a silver light flashed and vanished behind the Star Gate, and the Peace Messenger completely disappeared.
Behind, the ten Young Dragon spaceships did not panic. They entered the Star Gate one by one in orderly fashion, ultimately disappearing one after another in this scorching starry sky just like the Peace Messenger had.
In Fan Ren’s view, the originally pitch-black outer space suddenly changed, with the entire view instantly occupied by dark gray cloud clusters.
Immediately after, he saw these cloud clusters rapidly flashing past behind them.
“These cloud clusters each represent a star system. In the Star Gate space, our position should be high-dimensional space, of course this is just my guess.”
The Fox spoke up to explain.
As his words fell, the cloud clusters instantly vanished completely.
Before Fan Ren’s eyes, a vast and boundless universe reappeared.
“We’re here. This is the Star Gate corresponding to Ross 154 in the Alpha Centauri star system.
It is 2 billion kilometers from the star system’s material point. Keep flying.”
The Fox’s helpless voice rang out.
Fan Ren glanced at him, equally somewhat helpless.
These beings who had long roamed in the Galactic Alliance were already accustomed to using warp drive to move quickly within star systems.
And up to now, humanity had no clue at all about this gravitational wave technology for high-speed movement within star systems.
Now, they could only rely on the hybrid power engine group to crawl slowly within the star system.
But this time it was still okay; the distance was not as far as imagined, only 2 billion kilometers.
It would ‘merely’ take 16 hours.
Around the Peace Messenger, the ten Young Dragon ships appeared one after another.
“Form a spherical formation and advance at full speed toward the predetermined coordinates.”
Fan Ren did not berate the Fox and calmly gave the order, then slightly closed his eyes and sank into the depths of his mind.
Beside him, the Fox and Mai Er simultaneously exchanged helpless glances.
Having just gone through a several-day voyage, they were already feeling extremely uncomfortable all over. Now facing another 16 hours of voyage, they were even more restless.
“Hmph.”
In their ears, a cold snort that made their souls tremble suddenly rang out.
A slight smile tugged at the corners of Fan Ren’s mouth.
This was Dan Wu’s warning. The Fox and Mai Er clearly took it to heart, both turning their heads and forcing themselves to close their eyes, falling silent.
Gravitational wave technology is very difficult!
But it is not unobtainable. Fan Ren’s smile deepened, and on the Seed of Civilization data panel in his mind, it was clearly not far from the next breakthrough window.
The fleet channel fell into silence.
Sixteen hours later, the fleet in spherical formation, with the Young Dragon ships surrounding the Peace Messenger at the center, slowly arrived at the material point central region within the Alpha Centauri star system.
This was a super-large star system composed of a three-star system.
Among them, the binary star system of stars A and B orbited each other in circular three-dimensional motion, while star C moved alone in circular three-dimensional motion.
The maximum distance of movement between these two star systems reached a terrifying 19.448 billion kilometers.
The junction area of these two circular three-dimensional motions was the material point.
And this area was the absolutely stable region, also the place where Star Gates could be established.
Ahead, a Star Gate completely different from the one in the Ross 154 star system appeared before the fleet.
This Star Gate emanated an aura thick with ancient flavor.
The whole thing gave Fan Ren a sense of heaviness.
However, Fan Ren felt a strange sense of familiarity from this Star Gate.
“Fox, do you have any special feelings about Star Gates?”
Fan Ren slightly furrowed his brows and asked the Fox beside him, whose expression was not great.
“Ah? What feelings? It’s just a gate. If I have to say, it’s just a relic of our civilization, but obviously, in this extremely desolate star domain, our Star Gate brings me no revenue.”
The Fox shrugged, his eyes carrying some reminiscence but mostly dimness.
After all, his civilization had long vanished into the river of history.
Fan Ren ignored him. As the fleet gradually approached, this sense of familiarity grew stronger.
His heart unconsciously began to beat faster.
At this moment, an extremely bold thought rose in his mind.
This Star Gate might be a product built by the pre-human civilization!
Fan Ren’s gaze fixed tightly on the Star Gate’s frame, on the super-eating ore construction material.
These frames had texture structures similar to those on the Conqueror’s internal space jump equipment!
