CHAPTER 297: CHAPTER 296: FREAK

Constant Star Lu Chen, in order to avoid potential accidents, had immediately led the Wandering Star System through the Space Wormholes.

However, what Constant Star Lu Chen did not expect was that by the time they traversed the wormhole to the battlefield, the war had already concluded. Although they had travelled nearly twenty light-years in a very short time through the Space Wormhole, the Illusion Face Battle Star was far easier to defeat than anticipated.

What was even more unexpected for Constant Star Lu Chen was that No.2 Illusion Face Battle Star had actually surrendered to them. As he personally led the Wandering Star System out of the Space Wormhole, he had just received a message from the Science and Martial Battle Star.

Following this, Constant Star Lu Chen promptly organized a meeting within Wandering to discuss the situation and instructed all Battle Stars to stay vigilant of their surroundings.

There were of course many voices and opinions within the Wandering Alliance regarding the surrender of No.2 Illusion Face, such as feigned surrender, stalling for time, setting traps, and so on.

After wise deliberations by everyone, the consensus was reached to meet with the representative from the No.2 Illusion Face Battle Star. The purposes were threefold: one, to understand the state of the Double-faced Civilization; two, to verify the authenticity of the surrender; and three, because Constant Star Lu Chen also needed some time to assimilate the Constant Star of the Lutu Civilization’s Constant Star System.

Naturally, Lu Chen wouldn’t miss the opportunity to encounter a Constant Star with no intent, Wu Yizi.

The Constant Star in the Lutu Civilization’s Constant Star System had a mass of 2100 Constant Star Mass, slightly larger than the Sun’s mass, and also a bit older than the Sun, having undergone nuclear fusion for at least seven billion years, approaching the late stages of a star’s life.

However, for Lu Chen with a mass of 91600 Constant Star Mass, such mass was trivial. Even if mosquitos are small, they still amount to something, after all; accumulation is how abundance is achieved – especially for Constant Star Lu Chen who evolved from a mere meteorite, his understanding of the hardships experienced along his growth solidified accumulating little by little into a good habit.

After making a decision, Lu Chen immediately controlled his gravity, locking onto the star with 2100 Constant Star Mass.

Subsequently, Lu Chen, through gravitational control and adjusting the position of the Wandering Star System, pulled the star from beneath the Wandering Star System into its orbit, drawing it directly below himself, thereby circumventing the Heliosphere on the outskirts of the system. Finally, by utilizing the Roche limit, he plundered and absorbed Hydrogen from the surface of the star.

From a cosmic perspective, it seemed as though the star made a parabolic motion downward, moving from outside the Wandering Star System into its inner orbit, arriving precisely below Constant Star Lu Chen. However, because this Wu Yizi Constant Star carried inertia speed, it didn’t remain stationary below Lu Chen but instead orbited within the bounds of Lu Chen’s Roche limit. Its orbit was ellipsoidal and perpendicular to the planetary orbits within the Wandering Star System. If ships like Wandering and planets like Earth were transiting horizontally, then this star was revolving vertically.

This scene was as if Constant Star Lu Chen suddenly had an additional companion star.

Indeed, in some special star systems, a larger star would be accompanied by a smaller companion star due to some anomalies during its formation.

Watching Constant Star Lu Chen plunder the Hydrogen from another star shocked the inhabitants of No.2 Illusion Face Battle Star deeply!

Although they had speculated that the Science and Martial No.1 Battle Star must have backup, they couldn’t have imagined that the backing power behind it was so formidable— a gigantic star system about 0.7 light-years in diameter, containing many Planet Battle Stars, and even a Constant Star Celestial Civilization with over 90,000 Constant Star Mass.

Realizing this, they couldn’t help feeling that their surrender was an incredibly wise decision.

Thus, when they received the message from the Wandering Alliance for them to send their leaders to Earth to conduct surrender negotiations.

The No.2 Illusion Face Star Captain personally led a team, boarding a spaceship to the coordinates provided by the Wandering Alliance — Earth!

Boom!

Just as the spaceship carrying No.2 Star Leader arrived at Earth’s Space Port, they all witnessed a minor explosion in the direction of Constant Star Lu Chen from within the Space Port.

Of course, "minor" was relative only compared to the immense size and mass of Constant Star Lu Chen, but it was actually a terrifyingly huge explosion, accompanied by intense radiation activity.

The bewildered No.2 Star Leader couldn’t help but make inquiries, only to discover that it was not as he had imagined. The explosion wasn’t due to any mishap with Constant Star Lu Chen or any violent activity in the corona layer; instead, it was the 2100 Constant Star Mass star that had been dispersed.

It turned out that during No.2 Star Leader’s journey towards Earth, Constant Star Lu Chen had already stripped the elderly star of its surface Hydrogen, leaving behind only other heavier elements, which were of no use to Lu Chen. Considering that the core of the elderly star was at least at the level of a White Dwarf Star, directly placing it within the Heliosphere might severely damage its structure. Therefore, Constant Star Lu Chen had Earth Civilization shatter the star core, then through a series of Constant Star Winds, dispersed these fine particles throughout the Heliosphere.

After absorbing the Hydrogen from the surface of the elderly star, Constant Star Lu Chen’s Constant Star Mass grew to 92600!

In other words, Lu Chen had plundered a total of 1000 Constant Star Mass from the surface of the elderly star, and by acquiring this Hydrogen mass, all aspects of Constant Star Lu Chen’s data saw a slight increase.

On the other hand, after learning the truth, the heart of the No.2 Star Leader trembled.

He suddenly realized that facing this civilization alliance as an enemy would likely be a profoundly unpleasant experience, and it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to call it the end of a civilization.

Glancing again at the full view of Earth below the Space Port, he suddenly felt the planet with its blue hue was filled with a mysterious atmosphere. Moreover, upon encountering the Earth People, he discovered that Double-faced Star People were quite similar to Earth People, the only difference being their two faces. For a moment, he became even more curious about Earth Civilization and the Wandering Alliance.

However, due to cultural and historical influences, the encounter between the two groups resulted in an interesting psychological scenario.

The Double-faced Star People found the Earth People, who only had one face, to be ugly, considering them as a kind of under-evolved deformity, while Earth People found the Double-faced Star People both horrifying and ugly, exuding an innately eerie air, resembling freakish creatures from some novels.

This difference in perception led to distinct aesthetic standards, enduring all the way to the formal surrender negotiations.

The negotiations took place within an office at the Space Port since the Wandering Alliance, of course, wasn’t going to blindly allow Double-faced Star People to enter the inner Earth before fully understanding the Double-faced Civilization. The reason for having the leaders come in person for negotiations was twofold: to prevent any underhanded tactics and to potentially detain the leaders if necessary.