CHAPTER 284: CHAPTER 283: TWO TIGERS CANNOT SHARE ONE MOUNTAIN

"Big brother, leave this ignorant Wandering Star to you. We will clean up the battlefield."

The Metal Planet Wandering was not surprised by the sudden appearance of Constant Star Lu Chen because it had been communicating with Lu Chen all along, and Lu Chen, through the perspective of the Wandering, was keeping an eye on everything happening at the scene. Therefore, it was only after seeing this arrogant Wandering Star that Constant Star Lu Chen asked Earth Civilization to open a Space Wormhole near the Wandering Star for his convenience to directly plunder and absorb it.

Previously, that third-level civilization with relatively sophisticated hidden technology actually detected the traces of a wormhole, worried that it might indicate the Wandering Alliance’s reinforcements were coming. That’s why they retreated – if they were only up against the fighting power of the Wandering and Eternal Life Battle Star, they would never have withdrawn. As for the second-level civilization among the four, they obviously couldn’t detect the wormhole’s fluctuations; their fear was genuine.

But the Wandering Star, as a Celestial Civilization, has always been quite confident.

At the same time, it did not form a life community with biological civilizations and couldn’t detect the fluctuations of wormholes. It was unaware that reinforcements from the Wandering Alliance were on their way, so it assumed that the Wandering Alliance only had the Wandering and Eternal Life Battle Star.

The cost of this mistake was death—the Constant Star Mass of the Wandering Star was only three thousand four hundred, which was nothing in front of the 86,600 Constant Star Mass of Lu Chen. Despite the Wandering Star’s struggles and pleas, it could not change Lu Chen’s decision. In a very short amount of time, Lu Chen devoured the Wandering Star completely, making it look as easy as child’s play.

After completely absorbing the mass of the Wandering Star, Lu Chen’s Constant Star Mass surged once more, officially breaking through the 90,000 mark!

This is a joyous and congratulatory piece of good news. A Constant Star Mass of ninety thousand is truly terrifying. For Constant Star Lu Chen to have grown from an initial small meteoroid to his current state was not an easy feat.

If we take the Sun’s mass of 1,250 Constant Star Mass as a unit, then Constant Star Lu Chen is now 72 times the Solar Mass; if we consider one Constant Star Mass equivalent to ten thousand Planet Masses, then Constant Star Lu Chen has now reached a staggering nine billion Planet Masses, which is heavier than the combined mass of the entire Asteroid belt before him.

It was precisely because of the sudden appearance of Constant Star Lu Chen that a distortion occurred in this area of space, accompanied by the spread of Gravity, causing all matter within this space to suddenly change its trajectory, all being influenced by the massive gravity of Lu Chen, contracting towards him and beginning to move slowly around this massive center of mass.

From a cosmic level, the moment Constant Star Lu Chen appeared, there was a massive change in the mass distribution of space; the nearly one-light-year-wide Asteroid belt suddenly trembled and then slowly began rotating around Constant Star Lu Chen, creating an immensely grand and shocking scene!

At the same time.

The Mushroom Civilization on Mushroom Star also detected a shift in Mushroom Star’s orbital trajectory almost immediately. And it was not just Mushroom Star; even the Constant Star System where Mushroom Star was located experienced a shift. What’s more, even the outer Asteroid belt that wrapped around the system shifted in its movement.

This was unimaginable for the Mushroom Civilization!

What the Mushroom Civilization never expected even more so was that the electromagnetic waves they emitted attracted so many powerful civilizations.

Especially the Wandering Alliance; they originally thought the Metal Planet Wandering was the leader. They had no idea that the true leader of the Wandering Alliance was actually a Medium-mass star with a whopping 90,000 Constant Star Mass, its combat power above all others, overlooking the entire scene with disdain!

Seeing Constant Star Lu Chen so cleanly and ruthlessly devour a Wandering Star, the Mushroom Civilization couldn’t help but worry about their own predicament and fate, their previously accumulated joy instantly dissipating. To address the current crisis, the Mushroom Civilization immediately convened an internal situation meeting.

At this moment, Earth Civilization and Light Synthesis Civilization jointly opened a wormhole.

Constant Star Lu Chen entered the wormhole with a host of Battle Stars, and the next moment, appeared in the central region of the Asteroid Belt.

When Constant Star Lu Chen appeared at the center of the Asteroid Belt, the entire vast Asteroid Belt once again began to shift and move, compressing inward under the gravity exerted by Lu Chen. To resolve this situation, Constant Star Lu Chen emitted strong Constant Star Winds, blowing out nearby smaller masses of interstellar material until he cleared a space that would allow the entire fleet of Wandering Alliance Battle Stars to orbit in an orderly fashion.

During this process, while Constant Star Lu Chen was emitting Constant Star Winds, he flew to the side of the star where the Mushroom Star was located within that Celestial System, beginning to plunder and absorb hydrogen mass from the star using the Roche limit.

This star, named Wu Yizi, had a mere 1600 units of Constant Star Mass, but it was torn and absorbed by the much larger Constant Star Lu Chen in just a moment, bringing Lu Chen’s Constant Star Mass to 91,600 units, making him the sole star in the center of the Asteroid Belt—after all, two tigers cannot share one mountain.

Meanwhile, Wandering had also finished clearing the battlefield with a swarm of Battle Stars.

After Wandering absorbed the metal elements from the scene, its planetary mass reached 2,500 units.

In addition, in the wreckage of the explosion, many giant shells were found. These giant shells were left behind after the deaths of Shell Clan Civilization members—their flesh was burned to ashes in the explosion, but the hard shells were relatively well preserved. This surprised the scientists of the Wandering Alliance, who decided to study these giant shells.

After a simple cutting and research, the scientists discovered that the giant shells of the Shell Clan Star People were natural artworks, shining with a layer of black metallic luster, actually made of genuine metal, primarily composed of Iron Disulfide and the somewhat magnetic mineral, sulfur iron ore. Of course, these giant shells were considered artwork not because they were made of metal, but because their structural hierarchy was extremely fine and orderly, even rivalling some of the high-tech metallic products of the Wandering Alliance.

According to the scientists’ research, the giant shells of the Shell Clan Star People were made up of three layers of structure.

The first layer consisted of a 250-micron-thick layer of aragonite, which was wrapped on the outside by a 150-micron-thick organic layer. This organic layer was very important to the Shell Clan Star People, providing excellent heat dissipation and playing a very beneficial regulatory role for those relying on giant shells for survival. The outermost and last layer was a 30-micron-thick metal outer layer. These three layers provided hardness, heat dissipation, and cushioning effects, making them perfect. The intricacy of the structure was even comparable to 1-nanometer technology bulletproof armor. This structural fineness was also the main reason why the giant shells were regarded as natural artworks.

Once everything was processed, all members of the Wandering Alliance reformed the Wandering Star System.

Now, the Wandering Star System is a Constant Star System with a diameter of 25 astronomical units. To allow their planets to orbit smoothly, Constant Star Lu Chen needed to push some of the excess material and planets to the outermost Asteroid Belt.

However, the Mushroom Star became a problem because it had a civilization on it; naturally, it couldn’t be dealt with as simply and crudely as planets without civilization. Therefore, after discussion, the Wandering Alliance decided to assimilate the Mushroom Civilization, which had left them with a good impression, to enhance their own diversity of civilizations and Battle Stars.

Of course, if the Mushroom Civilization refused to join, then they would have to destroy the potential enemy in advance according to the Entropy Reduction Law.