Chapter 186: Deep in the Nebula
In warped space, the warship advances at 8128 times the speed of light.
The news that the destination of this mission was in the Orion Nebula spread throughout the ship, and there were also contents suspected to be the ruins of super civilization. The mercenaries were silent for a moment, and then all cheered. Although it was extremely dangerous to enter the hinterland of the Steel Berry Empire, for the sake of a ruins of super civilization, no matter how great the danger was, it could be overcome.
Wealth and honor are in danger!
For billions of wealth, let alone the hinterland of the Steel Berry Empire, even the Galaxy Empire has to make a breakthrough!
In Xin Ji's room, he sat there speechless for a long time, shocked by the remains of super civilization, and worried about his own safety.
He is not a mercenary and does not regard money as more important than life. He can only sigh that he has boarded the pirate ship.
During telepathy, Zhuang Xiaolin had left the bridge and returned to his luxurious suite on the top of the battleship. Even if there was no one around, Zhuang Xiaolin still had a serious expression. When he was not practicing, he often fell into deep thought and didn't know what was thinking about in his mind.
While practicing, Xin Ji monitored Zhuang Xiaolin continuously for twenty-four hours.
Most of the time, Zhuang Xiaolin stayed in the bridge, always paying attention to the navigation status of the warships, and no flaws were revealed, making Xin Ji unable to confirm whether he was the "butcher" with the bloody handprints.
A few days later, the warship left the Federation, crossed the front line of the two tribes, and entered the territory of the Steel Berry Empire.
The atmosphere on the warship is very solemn. From this day on, everyone is in great danger. Once the warship has problems, it is very likely to be exposed. There is no need to say much about the ending. Even if the warship sails smoothly, it will leave warped tracks in space, and the chance of being discovered by the Steel Berry Empire is not low.
Another week passed in a state of concern, and the warships were still sailing at high speed, and no accidents occurred.
Everyone on the ship breathed a sigh of relief. In the star field bordering the Steel Berry Empire and the Federation, the two sides confronted each other. Billions of reconnaissance satellites were spread throughout the interstellar space. Now the most dangerous area has passed. After that, it has entered the hinterland of the Steel Berry Empire, and its security has been greatly improved.
The next one is a long journey.
The Orion Nebula is 1,600 light-years away from the Earth, but it only takes more than 1,200 light-years to set off from the Giant Star. The warship is advancing at a first-class warp speed, which takes about two months to arrive.
Most of the people on the warship, including Xin Ji, left the federal territory for the first time and headed to such a distant starry sky.
The warships are in warped sailing, but they do not affect people's activities. Apart from being unable to go out, everyone's daily routine is not much different from usual.
Zhuang Xiaolin also seemed a little relaxed and no longer stayed in the bridge like before, but Xin Ji never gave up on his spying on him.
Half a month later, a phone call interrupted Zhuang Xiaolin's practice.
Xin Ji, who was monitoring through telepathy, suddenly felt excited. This was the first time that Zhuang Xiaolin's phone rang since the warship entered the warp sailing. The warp sailing did not affect the operation of the quantum repeater on the warship, and could still contact the outside world. However, only Zhuang Xiaolin has this authority, and his phone can be used as usual.
Zhuang Xiaolin calmly answered the phone, and a woman's figure projected out and shouted: "Boss Tu."
She has a very outstanding appearance and a beautiful temperament. She wears a tight leather jacket to highlight her enchanting figure. She looks only in her thirties and does not have a trace of wrinkles on her face, but she has a bit of time in her eyes, which makes people know that her real age is at least over 100 years old.
This call of boss Tu immediately made Xin Ji confirm that Zhuang Xiaolin was the butcher!
Zhuang Xiaolin nodded and asked, "Fiona, what's going on with Yi Lingxing?"
"There is still no progress." The woman named Fiona said dejectedly and said depressedly: "I almost flipped Yi Lingxing three times. After scattering more than a dozen people, I just couldn't find the whereabouts of Xin Ji. It seemed that this person disappeared directly from the Federation, and there was no trace of him, whether it was reality or the Internet."
When Xin Ji heard his name speak out from the woman's mouth, he couldn't help but hop off and realized that this woman must be the killer of the Blood Handprints, and had been searching for him on Yiling Star for the past few months.
His telepathy was scanned on the holographic image and carefully recorded her appearance characteristics.
Zhuang Xiaolin's expression was not very good either, and he said in a deep voice: "With the power and means of the Lu family, it is too simple to hide a person. How could you find it easily? According to my judgment, Xin Ji should have been no longer on Yiling Star."
Fiona suddenly clapped her hands and said hatefully: "It's all my fault that Xielang is not enough to make trouble. He told him not to impulse and wait until we get there before taking action together. He just refused to listen and wanted to give a reward of 100 billion yuan. As a result, he died, and he was over. He didn't even know who died in his hands. He even alarmed the snake and scared Xin Ji away."
"What's the use of blaming the evil wolf now?" Zhuang Xiaolin raised his hand to stop Fiona's complaints, thought for a while, and said, "You have to change the method to catch Xin Ji, such as starting with his parents..."
"I have sent someone to Mars, but it ended up empty. His parents were taken to Earth by the Lu family to protect them."
Fiona looked helpless and sighed: "Boss Tu, you also know that the earth has always been our forbidden zone. I won't say how terrifying the defense power on the Lu family's house is. I have no idea how hard it is. Maybe Xin Ji himself is also hiding it."
Zhuang Xiaolin disagreed and said seriously: "He is the number one warrior in the Federation, famous and arrogant. How could he swallow this and stay under the Lu family's wings? I have studied his life information. This man seems to have a moderate personality, but in fact he is more arrogant than anyone else. If what I expected, he should be looking for us everywhere to seek revenge."
"Boss Tu is too arrogant, right?" Fiona sneered and said with disdain, "Even if he is the number one samurai in the Federation, he is only a high-level samurai. Still want to seek revenge on us? So what if he finds him? If he dares to appear in front of me, I will crush him with one finger!"
Zhuang Xiaolin glanced at her and shook his head, "Don't say such things too much. If Xin Ji really found you, it might not be who would crush anyone to death."
Fiona immediately stared at her eyes wide and said dissatisfiedly: "Boss Tu, what do you mean? With him, a high-level warrior, can you kill me?"
"Do you think you are sure to kill him when you fight with the evil wolf?" Zhuang Xiaolin asked back.
"This..." Fiona didn't know why Zhuang Xiaolin asked this suddenly, but she still thought about it for a few seconds and said truthfully: "Xielang and I are both intermediate generals. Although he is a little nervous, he has to say that his strength is really strong. In most cases, we will tie the game and the chance of killing him is less than 10%.
"But Xin Ji killed the evil wolf." Zhuang Xiaolin said immediately.
Fiona almost jumped up like a cat with her tail stepped on. The holographic image shook. She looked disbelief and shouted: "Is this true? Don't lie to me. How is this possible for a high-level warrior to kill an intermediate general?"
"What's the point of lying to you?" Zhuang Xiaolin said coldly: "Before I left Yiling Star, I found the place where the evil wolf died on Gasmanda Island. There were still traces of the fight left nearby. It is not difficult to see that the evil wolf was killed by a man wearing power armor. He went to ambush Xinji, but met a man wearing power armor. I think you should be able to guess the reason."
"Subspace of the Blue Sky Tree species!"
Fiona immediately reacted, and she couldn't help but be very envious. Sub-space and power armor are really a perfect match, and the combat power has been improved too much. But she still felt incredible. The strength gap between high-level warriors and intermediate generals is too big, and it is definitely not something that can be smoothed out with a pair of power armor.
"He is the No. 1 Warrior of the Federation, known as the first genius in human history. If he wears a powerful set of power armor and kills the evil wolf with the cultivation of a high-level warrior, it is not impossible to understand." Zhuang Xiaolin explained calmly.
"The First Warrior of the Federation..."
Fiona murmured to herself, suddenly her body shook slightly, and her face showed a look of worry. She looked at Zhuang Xiaolin and said, "Boss Tu, with Xin Ji's cultivation speed, she may be promoted to a general in less than a few years. In addition, she carries power armor with her, her strength will be too terrible by then. Should we be prepared?"
Zhuang Xiaolin nodded slightly and said solemnly: "So you can't stop searching for his traces. You must kill him before he was promoted to general, otherwise it will be his turn to chase us in the future."
"I understand." Fiona suddenly realized that she was not as safe as she imagined. She let out a long sigh and sighed: "Boss Tu, why did you take this reward at that time?"
"If we don't connect the bloody handprints, there are naturally other organizations that will follow them." Zhuang Xiaolin's eyes flashed and he asked back, "Whether it's the 100 billion reward or the sub-space equipment, aren't you moved?"
Fiona was stunned for a moment, and didn't say anything, and the answer was self-evident.
The two were silent for a while, and Zhuang Xiaolin said again: "I have more urgent matters to deal with. The task of offering a 100 billion reward will be handed over to you. I should be able to come back within half a year. I hope you can make some progress at that time."
"I can." Fiona agreed, but her tone was not as sure as before.
Zhuang Xiaolin hung up the phone, looked at the phone and was in a daze, with a thoughtful look on his face.
However, he would never dream of Xin Ji being on his warship, and monitoring him through dozens of cabins, eavesdropping on his and Fiona's phone calls without missing a word.
Xin Ji continued to observe Zhuang Xiaolin, but his heart was very uneasy.
He had to admit that Zhuang Xiaolin's inferences were very accurate. Whether it was killing the evil wolf or seeking blood handprints to take revenge, Zhuang Xiaolin guessed these things correctly.
This is a terrible enemy!
Xin Ji couldn't imagine that if he had no telepathy, he might not even know how to die, let alone seeking revenge on Zhuang Xiaolin and the bloody handprints behind him.
He originally wanted to find the mastermind behind the 100 billion reward, but he didn't want to be an enemy of Zhuang Xiaolin, but he dared to put his ideas on his parents and asked someone to continue searching for whereabouts to try to kill him. Then don't blame him for taking action first.
During the subsequent voyage, Xin Ji kept locking his telepathy on Zhuang Xiaolin, carefully observing his every move, and from the inside out, he grasped Zhuang Xiaolin's cultivation progress, martial arts realm, living habits and many subtleties in his hands.
Not long after, Zhuang Xiaolin had no secrets in front of Xin Ji, like a transparent person.
Xin Ji believed that one day soon, he would give Zhuang Xiaolin a big surprise.
Two months later, the warship smoothly crossed a long distance of more than 1,200 light-years, appeared in a piece of space, and left the warped state of navigation.
At this moment, everyone on the ship opened the holographic screen in front of him and pointed the lens at the front of the battleship. The first thing that caught his eye was boundless light. This was the radiation emitted by hundreds of stars was absorbed by the nebula dust, and then it was displayed in front of the world in the form of visible light.
After people's eyes adapted, the lens focal length was adjusted, and suddenly, an endless red starry sky filled the surroundings.
No matter which direction they look, the boundless red and purple lights are everywhere they see. The battleship is in it, like a little lost dust. If a wise race was born in this nebula, then they would think that this universe is red, not the dark void.
The Orion Nebula is like a firebird spreading its wings, so it is also called the Firebird Nebula.
In this nebula, hundreds of stars shine brightly. These stars, combined with gas dust within sixteen light years, have a total mass of 100,000 times that of the sun!
At this time, the warship was still outside the nebula and did not enter it at super light speed. This was similar to suicide.
In normal interstellar space, the average distance between stars is generally four to ten light years, but in nebula, the distance between stars is much smaller than one light year. When you reach the depths of the nebula, there are several stars within one light year. According to the standard of the universe, it is almost equivalent to being closely connected.
The dense stars make the gravitational field extremely chaotic and distorted. The spacecraft must find a safe route between the stellar cracks, conduct short-range superluminal navigation, and then frequently adjust the route to avoid the gravitational field of the star.
Of course, the safest way to sail in nebula is to not rely on superluminal speed, the spacecraft flies slowly by themselves. Many expedition ships use this method to find safe routes inside the nebula. However, the range of the Orion Nebula reaches sixteen light years, and it will take at least ten years for the spacecraft to reach the inside of the nebula without entering superluminal speed.
Zhuang Xiaolin can't wait for ten years, and he can't wait for a month.
Fortunately, the help information he received provided a safe route to enter the Orion Nebula. The warship adjusted its direction according to the data, accelerated again, and entered the warped space.
The warships continue to accelerate, slow down, enter warp, and escape warp, and sail over and over at short distances of super-light speed, passing through the gaps of one star after another. Many times, some newly generated small stars or the accretion disks of the original stars are less than 100 million kilometers away from the warship, almost passing by, making everyone on the warship terrified.
After nearly half a month, the warship finally passed through the chaotic gravitational field and dust turbulence, entering the densest area of stars inside the nebula.
Finally, the warship broke out from the warped space again, and the driver reported loudly in surprise: "Captain, we are here!"
Everyone on the ship was shocked and looked at the vast space in front of the battleship and was stunned.
Chapter completed!