Wandering Meteor
Chapter 77 Time is Urgent

Chapter 77: Chapter 77 Time is Urgent

Boundless Universe.

Two incomparably massive giant nebulae are swiftly approaching one another.

These two giant nebulae are none other than the Galaxy Nebula and the Andromeda Nebula; the former has a diameter reaching 160,000 light-years, while the latter is 220,000 light-years across. Despite these figures seemingly being colossal, they are no more than the size of two pizzas in the perspective of the endless Universe.

Yet from a cosmic viewpoint, one could clearly discern the features of both nebulae.

The Galaxy Nebula is a barred spiral nebula, with a luminosity at its center that is exceedingly intense, especially the massive glowing bar composed of billions of old stars - it is even more magnificent and spectacular than the Sky Tower from the novels!

The Andromeda Nebula, however, is a spiral nebula with a gigantic glowing vortex at its center, formed by the accumulation of countless old stars. In both luminosity and diameter, it far exceeds the Galaxy Nebula; after all, the Andromeda Nebula spans 220,000 light-years in diameter, with a mass roughly twice that of the Galaxy Nebula!

These two titans of the cosmos, pulled toward each other by their mutual gravitational forces, have been slowly closing in after a prolonged flight through time.

However, these two giant nebulae are not situated on the same horizontal plane. When viewed from space, the Andromeda Nebula’s position in the cosmos is a few hundred light-years lower in altitude compared to the Galaxy Nebula.

Yet, this slight difference in height is inconsequential to these two behemoths, each with a thickness exceeding 10,000 light-years. Under the influence of their powerful gravity, the Galaxy Nebula begins to move downward at a very small angle, while the Andromeda Nebula shifts upward at an equally modest angle.

Eventually, the gravitational force of the giant nebulae will pull them together, leading to a grand nebular collision.

This collision will precipitate a terrifying disaster of the century, destroying nearly all forms of life.

But after this destruction, the two giant nebulae will gradually merge under the forces of gravity, ultimately forming an even more massive super-nebula!

Of course, we aren’t quite there yet.

But now, the distance between the Galaxy Nebula and the Andromeda Nebula is indeed less than 100,000 light-years. In comparison to their diameters of a hundred or two hundred thousand light-years, this distance is negligible.

Within such a short distance, the stellar winds and radiation emitted by the two great nebulae have started to clash, creating an almost 100,000 light-year-long, narrow, and dazzling shockwave zone. This marks the grand overture for this universal scale nebular crash, and lays the foundation for an incredibly grand scale.

Against such a backdrop, time grows increasingly urgent, and the intense escape maneuvers become more and more heated!

In the Galaxy Nebula, the Perseus Arm.

Lu Chen and the Wandering are moving toward the North of Perseus, following the clues provided by the Quasi-star to find Earth.

After traveling for some time, they encountered a deep green interstellar cloud discharged from a supernova. The cloud is rhombus-shaped, about 0.5 astronomical units in length and 0.1 astronomical units in width, not particularly dense. Judging from the color of the cloud, the majority of it seems to be hydrogen.

And it is liquid hydrogen at that!

Lu Chen and the Wandering discussed for a while and decided to let the Wandering go ahead in search of Earth’s clues, while Lu Chen would take some time to absorb this cloud.

The previous battle with the Quasi-star made Lu Chen realize that his constant star mass was still not sufficient.

He must continue to increase his mass to have more assurance in roaming the Wandering Universe, protecting the Wandering and Earth.

However, in order not to delay the search for Earth, Lu Chen had just asked the Wandering to continue ahead while he could see everything through the perspective of the Wandering. This way, after he finished absorbing the hydrogen, he would not need to spend time exploring the vicinity and could rush forward with all his might.

"Big brother, I’m going now, do you have anything to say to me?"

"Wandering, you are now a Metal Planet, you must learn to be strong and face everything. I believe you can definitely find out what happened to Earth!"

Seeing Wandering might be a bit nervous, Lu Chen comforted it like a big brother, to tell the truth, he didn’t want this situation either, but this was the best compromise at the moment!

Whether it’s a living being or a celestial body, they always have to face the hardships in reality.

Next, Wandering divided its metallic body evenly into twenty parts, each equal to one Planet mass, then flew out in a fan shape towards the front to start a wide-range search for Earth’s whereabouts.

Since the Three-leaf Nebula, they had always been searching for Earth, but unfortunately, the long search yielded not even the slightest clue.

Not sure how much time they had left, Lu Chen and Wandering began to grow anxious, so after discussing, they decided to take the risk by using the method of dispersed searching.

Before, they were worried that Wandering’s avatars might encounter danger, so Lu Chen and Wandering had always acted together.

This time, Wandering directly split into twenty parts, this was to ensure that each avatar had at least one Planet’s mass, so if danger was encountered, there would be at least a little self-protection ability.

Such a sudden change could only be attributed to the fact that plans could not keep up with changes!

After the twenty avatars of Wandering left, Lu Chen immediately began to absorb the Hydrogen Cloud ahead.

A massive amount of hydrogen was absorbed, continuously infused into Lu Chen’s Constant Star body.

These originally liquid hydrogen turned into gaseous form upon reaching the surface of the Constant Star due to the terrifying high temperatures, and when they entered the Constant Star’s atmosphere, the gaseous hydrogen atoms, under the influence of the high temperature, had a portion of electrons gain energy and break free from the atomic nuclei, becoming free electrons, while the hydrogen atoms, losing electrons, turned into hydrogen ions.

This was the whole process of absorption, and in the end, Lu Chen successfully absorbed the Hydrogen Nebula, increasing the Constant Star Mass to 75.

That is to say, this Hydrogen Nebula had a whopping 31 Constant Star Masses.

It might seem like a lot, but this is actually very small in the Universe. Even if this Hydrogen Nebula happened to give birth to a Constant Star by chance, it would only be a Small Constant Star with less than ten Constant Star Masses, not at all comparable to those giant stars that are born with tens of thousands of Constant Star Masses.

After all, their "parents" are not on the same level.

Celestial bodies, like living beings, emphasize birth origins. Some people and spheres are born with a golden spoon in their mouths, possessing trillions of wealth!

Lu Chen, however, was more unfortunate, having no wealthy parents whether as a human or as a sphere, only relying on himself.

As a human, he worked hard from an ordinary university student to become an astronaut; now, as a sphere, he believed he could also reach the pinnacle of a sphere’s life!

After absorbing the Hydrogen Cloud, Lu Chen immediately chased after Wandering, but on the way, he accidentally spotted a Quadruple Star system.

A Quadruple Star has one more Constant Star than the triple star encountered before, being a special Constant Star System made up of two sets of Twin Stars, with a bit more stability than a triple star.

The Quadruple Star seemed to have life, intertwining with each other while flying out of the Galaxy Nebula at hyperspeed, clearly aware of the impending collision between two giant nebulae, swiftly escaping the Galaxy Nebula!

"Big brother, where are you now? I’ve found something!"

Just as Lu Chen saw the Quadruple Star flying past in the distance, he suddenly received a message from Wandering.

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