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Volume 1 Chapter 237 Edge Star Territory

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    Chapter 237: Edge Star Territory

    How big is the universe?  It is probably difficult for anyone to give an accurate number. Different scientists and different disciplines have their own definitions of the universe, which have never been unified for thousands of years.

    Some people estimate that the size of the universe that humans can observe is 30 billion to 50 billion light years, which is already an astronomical number; others say that the universe is a super three-dimensional space, and no matter which direction you move in, you will eventually return to  origin.  Human beings have been debating endlessly about the propositions of the universe.  These concepts are meaningless to most people and are more likely to be found in astrophysics laboratories.  Ordinary people may care more about the world in which they live.

    After thousands of years of interstellar expansion, human beings¡¯ living space has expanded outward by about 1,400 light-years. Many people regard this as a symbol of human beings¡¯ conquest of the universe.  However, is this really the case?

    The vast empire established by mankind is located on an arm of the Milky Way, about 26,000 light years away from the center of the Milky Way.  There are about 120 billion stars and a large number of star clusters and nebulae in the Milky Way. Its diameter is 100,000 light-years. For the entire Milky Way, 1,400 light-years is just a drop in the ocean, and for the entire universe  , the Milky Way is just a tiny grain of sand.  For this universe, humans and the civilization created by humans are too small.

    Yi Lexiang woke up from his dizziness. This was the first time since the change in the spiritual sea that he entered the sea of ??consciousness universe without traveling in subspace.  The outer steel armor of the starship's interstellar porthole is still open. The nebula creature (if it can be called a creature) in the core of the Herbie Nebula makes people have no time to pay attention to these minor details. What is displayed in front of everyone through the porthole  It's a completely different universe.  The colorful starry sky of the past can't be seen here, only a few stars are shining alone, and the pale and weak starlight seems to tell that their nearly eternal life is gradually coming to an end.  This is a pitch-black starry sky, and it is also a lifeless starry sky. Only the space door like a water curtain emits a faint light.  This is not the starry sky that everyone is familiar with.

    Yi Lexiang shook his head, which was still a little dizzy. The scene outside the porthole quickly diluted the dizziness in his head.  He soon realized he was in big trouble this time.  The lack of stars in the starry sky can only mean one problem. The star field they are in is located in a certain edge area.

    "Detect the starship immediately, and the radar officer will reposition our position."

    A flurry of footsteps immediately sounded in the command cabin, and the officers who were still at their posts began to perform routine operations.

    Ten minutes passed, and Yi Lexiang walked up to the radar officer who was sweating profusely, "You still haven't been able to locate our position?"

    The radar officer's fingers kept flying over the complicated buttons, "Report to the general, there are too few coordinates around. Our scanner did not find any cognitive stars within a light-year range. I'm afraid we are in space."  Lost." The young radar officer said, wiping the sweat dripping from his forehead with his hand.

    "Lost in space" may be one of the most common disasters in interstellar navigation.  Such disasters occur almost every moment in the star field controlled by humans. Civilian exploration ships, interstellar wanderers, and countless interstellar explorers who dream of getting rich overnight are unable to locate their positions in the starry sky map.  Lost in space, most of them can only wander in the vast universe and eventually die of old age on the starship.  But for such a thing to happen to a well-equipped interstellar fleet, it can only mean one thing: they went too far this time.

    Dozens of small reconnaissance ships are surrounding the space gate that emits faint light. Detectors are launched from the reconnaissance ships and disappear into the starry sky through the "water curtain". Several detection beams are projected on the starry sky of the space gate.  The image keeps moving.  If the starship cannot be located, then this space gate is the only way for the fleet to return.

    Several strong maintenance soldiers pushed an engineering vehicle filled with various electronic components and barely squeezed through the distorted electronic sensor door of the command bridge. Although the nebula monster did not cause devastating damage to the starship,  However, various precision instruments were seriously damaged.  In such a strange environment, an intact starship undoubtedly makes people feel safer.

    Yi Lexiang walked to the porthole. Nearly a thousand starships were parked in disorder near the space door. The outer decks of many starships were flashing with white light. It was the intelligent engineering robots performing maintenance work on the outer decks.  Yi Lexiang was slightly relieved. Although it was not clear for a while whether all the starships had passed through the space gate safely, the casualties should not be large.  There were hurried footsteps behind him, and Chen Yatian walked towards him with a thick stack of paper documents in his hand.  The flagship's external communication radar was damaged in the collision just now, and the maintenance soldiers are operating intelligent engineering robots for intensive repairs. For the time being, each starship can only report their damage status to the flagship through light signals.

      ¡°How is the situation?¡±

    "Basically, it's not bad. Except for a few starships that were seriously damaged, most of the starships are intact."

    "Where are the casualties?"

    "There are many injured people, mainly civilian personnel, and the number is still being counted. However, most of them are traumatic injuries such as fractures, which should be cured soon."

    Yi Lexiang nodded, "That's good! How is the detection of the space gate?"

    "The news is both good and bad! The good news is that this space door is not a one-way space door, and we can still go back; the bad news is that this space door is connected to several exits at the same time, and we were too hasty when we passed through, and we did not reserve the space door.  The frequency of fluctuations is so high that I can¡¯t find my way back for the time being!¡±

    "Oh?" Yi Lexiang glanced at Chen Yatian in surprise, "How many exits does this space door have?"

    The Guards¡¯ reconnaissance ship is produced under the supervision of the Anokhi Academy of Science. Its performance is more advanced than that of ordinary scientific research ships. Logically speaking, it should be easy to identify if there are only a few space door exits.

    "About seventeen!" Chen Yatian replied dejectedly.

    "Seventeen?" Yi Lexiang was surprised. As far as he knew, the most natural space gates connecting to the star field exits were five. That space gate was also the busiest space gate in the entire interstellar.  The more exits there are from space gates, the more possibilities there are for data accumulation. The calculation magnitude of seventeen space gates almost exceeds the computing limit of the starship main brain.

    "Have you confirmed it?" Yi Lexiang had some doubts. His mental library is completely capable of this level of calculation. The question is, does such a composite space gate really exist in the universe?

    "Just a little more!"

    Yi Lexiang turned around and hurried towards the starry sky chart. Several maintenance soldiers used laser cutters to cut open the metal baffle under the starry sky chart and were replacing parts.  Only then did Yi Lexiang remember that many of the precision instruments on the starship's command bridge had been damaged in the collision.  He stopped and asked, "How long will it take to complete the repairs?"

    "The starry sky instrument will be ready soon, and the rest will have to wait for a while." A maintenance soldier who was busy installing electronic components replied without looking up. His military uniform was soaked with sweat, and the sweat dripped along the corners of his clothes and onto the metal floor.  superior.  In order to ensure the energy supply of the starship, the constant temperature system temporarily stopped operating.

    Yi Lexiang frowned slightly. Such an environment would consume the soldiers' physical strength faster. He asked Chen Yatian, who had been following him: "Is there no celestial body nearby that can replenish energy?"

    "Except for a few stars that are unknown how far away, there is nothing in this ghost place. Just now, the 324th ship sent a message saying that they found a "black star" one hundred thousand kilometers away, but their detector was not powerful enough.  , we can only scan it again after we repair the detector."

    The so-called "black star" refers to a single planet that does not orbit a star. Since there are no luminous stars around it, such a star will not reflect starlight and cannot be observed with the naked eye.  The reason for their formation remains a mystery.

    ¡°Send an unmanned reconnaissance ship over to take a look!¡±

    "Okay, I'll make arrangements." Chen Yatian shrugged. There really wasn't much to do in this desolate star field.

    Turning our attention back to the Capital Star again, Yi Lexiang's safety affects all aspects.

    Several wise men were invited to the conference room of the headquarters building.

    Mi Zhiqing patiently listened to Wu Wei's description of "spiritual guidance" and lowered his head in silence.  This is an unheard of spiritual mysticism, and there has never been any similar record even in the vast database of the secret society.  But Mi Zhiqing's intuition told him that the principles of this kind of spiritual magic are completely feasible from a spiritual level.  But where did Yi Lexiang learn this spiritual magic?  Although Yi Lexiang himself has level nine authority and can access relevant information in the secret society's database, this does not include information related to spiritual mystics, which is only open to real secret society members.  Is it true that Yi Lexiang is the spokesperson of some unknown existence, as he guessed?

    "Old President? Old President?" Ye Haoran interrupted Mi Zhiqing's contemplation, "Old President, what do you mean by Wu Wei's feelings?"

    Mi Zhiqing smiled indifferently. No matter what the situation, the old man always had a calm expression, "President Ye, don't worry too much. Although I have never heard of similar secret techniques, this secret technique has its own principles.  It does make sense.¡±

    Wu Wei on the side suppressed the anxiety in his heart and curled his lips secretly.  Is not this nonsensical?  Two fleets with astonishing combat power are standing there alive. Who do you think the secret technique is true or false?

    "Then why does the connection become vague?"

    ¡°Any kind of secret technique is closely related to the person who performs it. According to Colonel Wu¡¯s description, the role of secret technique is empty.?should be infinite.  The problem should not lie with General Yi, but with the people who practice secret arts, the so-called "sub-body".  They are ordinary people with no foundation in spiritual practice. When the distance between the "mother body" and the "child body" exceeds a certain limit, the connection will become intermittent.  "
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