Volume 3 Chapter 292: The Star Trader's Trunk Stall
Compared with the huge Tianwai Tian, which was made with the entire universe as a sample, the star-sized space-traveling fortress is not even as big as a sesame seed.
When getting close enough to Tianwai Tian, even Lin Xu could not observe the whole picture of Tianwai Tian without the help of high-dimensional perception.
Of course, the screen in the hall can also display the entire picture of Tianwai Tian after mapping, but the icon representing the Universe Crossing Fortress is so small that it cannot be seen at all.
In the end, I had no choice but to keep zooming in on the screen until I finally found the universe-traveling fortress.
At this time, the universe-traveling fortress was already very close to the entrance to the sky.
A large number of ships from various universes crowded around, broke through the entrance and directly entered the world outside the Cultural Management Office.
As for these ships, Tianwaitian didn't even bother to check the cargo they were carrying.
It’s like no one would check every day whether there are any prohibited items on the pancake carts of street pancake vendors.
There is no need at all.
If we have to check, it should be to check whether those beyond civilizations carry things like chaotic energy as huge as a planet.
If so, its origin must be explained.
Whether it is obtained by destroying the universe on its own or through trade, it can be regarded as an enemy of civilization.
Unless it was looted in a war with the enemies of civilization, the chaos energy obtained in this way must be reported in advance.
However, basically, any transcendent civilization that stands in the camp of civilization defenders will not touch things like chaos energy. They may do small-scale research, but not large-scale storage.
Because to a transcendent civilization, chaos energy is inherently a poisonous thing. Unless it is a transcendent civilization that has chosen the wrong path from the beginning, there will basically be no transcendent civilization that will embark on the path of constantly absorbing chaos energy to replenish its high-dimensional energy.
In short, with Lin Xu's deliberate disguise and the fact that his clan did not seriously examine these civilizations beyond their own, the Universe Crossing Fortress easily entered the outer world.
Suddenly, all kinds of wonders of the universe came into view.
"This is the Tianwai Tian. Doesn't the universe here expand?" Nanzhu was the first to discover that although there were also countless stars twinkling in the Tianwai Tian universe, there was no redshift phenomenon here.
Doesn’t that mean that the universe outside the sky is not expanding?
"Of course it's not expanding. Have you forgotten that Tianwai Tian was made from a dying universe? Even if there is still some activity, it should be the contraction of the universe. How can it be expanding?" Lu Yao complained.
"Isn't that the same idea? Is there any difference whether it expands or contracts?" Nanzhu said speechlessly.
"The Tianwai Tian was created by using the dying universe to reshape and fix it as a whole, so it would naturally stop expanding or contracting, and this way it could exist for a long time. If it continued to shrink, it might return to the singularity one day. Then what's the point of creating the Tianwai Tian?" Mu Xiyue was even more speechless about the argument between the two.
"Of course I know. I just gave you a chance to tell me the correct answer. Congratulations on getting it right." Nanzhu said pretentiously.
At this time, a large number of ships that had just entered Tianwai Tian disappeared one after another beside the space-crossing fortress in the blink of an eye.
It looked like a space jump, but the information fed back by the radar calculation clearly showed that it was completely different from a space jump.
It was more like it entered some kind of accelerated orbit and then disappeared in the blink of an eye.
"How did they do it?" Nanzhu asked again.
"It's a space jump, but after they made the space jump, they didn't open the space channel, but directly entered some existing fixed channel, or fixed pipeline." Miss Qiu said while observing the data.
"An existing fixed pipeline? In space?" Nanzhu couldn't imagine it.
"Yes, you can imagine it as some kind of track with a fixed route and a fixed destination, but there is no physical entity like a railroad track on it. Instead, it is a pipeline constructed in space. In theory, it can even reach the other side of the universe beyond the universe." Miss Qiu replied.
"So the clan has built fixed space pipelines in Tianwai Tian. As long as we make a space jump, we can use these fixed pipelines to make the space jump faster? Even faster than the normal space jump speed?" Nanzhu thought for a while and said.
"It's possible. After all, ordinary races that are not transcendent civilizations, even if they are god-level civilizations, cannot cross the entire universe in a short time through space jumps, but they can use these space channels." Lu Yao nodded and said.
"Okay, no need to guess, we will know if we try it ourselves." Lin Xu said with a wave of his hand.
As a result, the universe-traveling fortress also began to make space jumps, and the destination of the jump was randomly chosen hundreds of light years ahead.
However, just as the Universe Crossing Fortress was about to complete the jump, a ray of light appeared before its eyes, and in an instant, various colorful pipes appeared in front of the Universe Crossing Fortress.
These pipes are built in space and appear clearly in front of everyone.
At the same time, the jump that was originally planned to be carried out by the universe crossing fortress was forcibly stopped.
It’s as if this universe does not allow free jumps, and the only way to move is through space pipes.
Therefore, the current universe-traveling fortress can only choose to enter a certain space pipeline or stop the space jump.
"Wow, why is the space here so densely packed with pipes? I didn't see it before." Nanzhu exclaimed.
"These pipes will only emerge if the space is broken, so which one should we enter?" Mu Xiyue, who was operating the universe-crossing fortress jump system, looked at Lin Xu, waiting for his decision.
"Follow the majority and see where others are going. We will follow them." Lin Xu said as he looked at the large number of ships around him, which were pouring into a space tube.
So, the space-travel fortress followed behind those ships and entered a pipeline built in space.
Several people had no idea where this pipeline would lead to.
And the moment it entered the space pipe, the entire space-travel fortress seemed to have entered a fantasy world.
The pipe is filled with colorful lights from top to bottom, left to right, and these lights extend forward continuously as if there is no boundary.
The universe-traveling fortress also moved forward along these colorful lights.
In just a blink of an eye, the universe-traveling fortress seemed to have reached the end of the colorful light, and was then thrown directly out of the space pipe.
Looking around, a large number of various ships were also thrown out by the space tube, and they had obviously arrived at their destination.
Afterwards, those ships, some the size of stars and some the size of planets, flew towards a galaxy not far away.
The space-traveling fortress immediately followed.
At the same time, the radar was running at full speed and quickly determined the current location.
"Positioning has been completed. Calculated based on the speed of light in the mother universe, the current location is 1.3 billion light years away from the starting point." Yinghuo's voice sounded.
"1.3 billion light years? That's not a close distance." Nanzhu said in surprise.
Such a distance can naturally be easily reached by the Space Crossing Fortress in one jump, but for those ships that enter the outer world together with the Space Crossing Fortress, traveling 1.3 billion light years in one jump is an impossible number.
So for them, using the space pipes within Tianwai Tian is indeed a relatively convenient way of traveling.
However, soon, everyone's attention was attracted by the galaxy they were about to arrive at, and no one paid attention to the space pipeline anymore.
Because the galaxy in front of us is so weird.
At the center of a galaxy that is larger than the solar system is a blazing star with more than a dozen planets orbiting the star. Everything here is no different from a normal galaxy.
However, as the distance got closer, and combined with the data calculated from Mars, abnormal things began to appear.
These stars and planets are actually stationary.
Yes, the stars and planets are absolutely stationary.
Not only do the planets not move around the stars, but the stars themselves and the planets themselves do not rotate.
The stars just burn there motionlessly, quietly releasing light and heat.
The planets remain motionless in their orbits, neither revolving nor rotating.
"Why is it still?" Nanzhu lay on the screen in the hall, close to the screen and stared with wide eyes, but stillness is stillness, and it will not move just because of her observation.
"To completely fix the form of the entire universe, does it mean that not only the expansion and contraction of the universe are fixed, but even the movement of the planets are fixed?" Lu Yao said in disbelief.
"But the stars are still undergoing fusion reactions, so it just cancels the movement of celestial bodies?" Mu Xiyue asked puzzledly.
"It seems like this. Yinghuo just randomly checked some nearby galaxies and found that the movement of celestial bodies in all galaxies has been stopped. All celestial bodies are in a static state." Lu Yao said after quickly checking Yinghuo's latest inspection data.
"I have only heard of relative stillness and absolute motion, but I never thought that one day I would be able to see a universe of absolute stillness." Mu Xiyue also sighed.
"In this case, wouldn't the stationary planet always have only one side facing the star? Won't it be burned?" Nanzhu stared at the planet in the distance.
"At most there is a little more magma, which is not suitable for survival. How can it be burned? And theoretically, this universe has been dead for a long time, and there is no native civilization. What does it matter?" Lu Yao shrugged indifferently.
"Well, the universe is dead, and since it is waste utilization, it doesn't matter whether it is suitable for survival or not. So, is this galaxy a trading center?" Nanzhu also shrugged and said.
"Rather than calling it a trading center, it's more like a place where small vendors set up their stalls. The clansmen just don't pursue it." Lu Yao added.
"Then let's go visit these small vendors and see what they are selling." Nanzhu immediately became interested. After all, she loved shopping the most.
Then, the universe-traveling fortress soon arrived in the galaxy and saw huge ships as big as stars and planets arranged along the galaxy.
These ships are like street stalls, circling around the stars in the galaxy. Fortunately, the planets here do not revolve, otherwise a collision would probably occur accidentally.
So, after the universe passed through the fortress and entered the galaxy, you can see that from the inside to the outside of the galaxy, there are circles of ships. The ships are unfolded in various ways to display and sell the goods on them.
It's just like the vendors lined up in a night market and selling goods from the trunks of their cars, except that what are opened here are star ships and planetary ships.
At the same time, the goods above are also more interstellar.
Such as various combat robots, fully automatic mining machines, planetary environment transformation devices, one-button Dyson sphere full coverage equipment and so on.
There are even various hawking sounds echoing throughout the universe.
It's just that the sound is transmitted in the form of quantum waves.
When Lin Xu turned on the quantum wave receiver in the hall, he could hear Chinese speakers with various accents from all over the world ordering various devices.
That’s right, it’s Chinese.
Although everyone has their own language, when they arrived at the clan's territory, in order to facilitate communication using a unified language, they naturally chose to communicate in Chinese.
Also, because different races speak differently, they have different accents, which even sounded weird to Lin Xu's ears.
But fortunately, I can still communicate and understand.
"So this is how the stall is set up. It always feels different from what I imagined." Nanzhu felt a little depressed.
After all, flying all the way in a space-traveling fortress like this was quite different from the shopping she had imagined at the beginning.
"It's not necessarily completely different. Look below." Lin Xu said, pointing to the scene at a stall.
So Nanzhu looked down and saw that on an unfolded planetary battleship, the items for sale were not star destroyers or private planet DIY devices, but ready-made large cities, with even all kinds of residents living and working in those large cities.
And in these cities, there are many streets like the ones Nanzhu wants to go shopping.
"What is this? SimCity?" Nanzhu asked puzzled.
"No, according to the manual, a certain civilization sold its cities and people to the civilization this ship belongs to in exchange for its survival. Now this ship is just being resold." Mu Xiyue glanced at the text version of the cargo description received by the quantum wave receiver.
"This, this kind of direct buying and selling of civilization, isn't considered the enemy of civilization?" Nanzhu said in surprise.
"It's different. The enemy of civilization refers to those who surpass the civilization and are willing to deprive other civilizations of their hope to strive for progress in order to ascend to a higher dimension. And for lower civilizations, attacks and fighting between civilizations are very common. How can they be defined as enemies of civilization? Just like the civilizations in the feudal era, there were even slaves. Are all civilizations in the feudal era enemies of civilization? That is just a necessary stage in the development of civilization." Arisa shook her head and said.
"I understand. In other words, unless you surpass civilization, you are not even qualified to be the enemy of civilization." Lu Yao saw it more clearly and said with a shrug.
"Do you want to buy these cities? Including the residents in them?" Mu Xiyue looked at Nanzhu.
"Forget it, I'm kind-hearted and can't bear to see anyone suffer." Nanzhu shook his head and said.
"Yes, yes, the master is kind-hearted and can't stand the poor, so he drives all the poor away, right?" Lu Yao said immediately.
"Hey, are you looking for trouble?" Nanzhu glared at Lu Yao.
At this time, Lu Yao had already handed another written description of the goods on the quantum wave receiver to Lin Xu.
"Here, here is a map of the space pipelines in the Cultural Management Office. It indicates the directions of each space pipeline and marks that some areas belong to the clan's territory, and some areas are embassy areas beyond civilization. Should we buy it and go to the clan's territory to take a look?"
"Buy it and let's go take a look." Lin Xu said with his eyes lighting up.
