novelhk Chapter 27 Space Pirates, Stationary Travel
Chapter 27 Space Pirates, Stationary Travel
The spaceship is flying through the dark universe, but this tranquility will not last forever.
"Beep!" "Beep!" "Beep!" The piercing sound rang out in the control room.
"Warning! Warning! Unidentified spaceship detected approaching!"
On the large screen above the console in the central control room, an image of a black-haired girl appeared, accompanied by a clear, anxious voice.
"What?" The star-level guard who was monitoring the situation in the control room was startled.
Suk and the others, who were practicing, quickly arrived and looked at the screen in the control room.
An image appeared on the screen: a streamlined, dark blue triangular spaceship flying in the dark universe, chasing after us from behind.
"Is the target confirmed to be heading towards us?" Suk's expression turned grave.
The intelligent computer replied: "Confirmed. Since the detection, the other party's flight angle has not changed. Even when I tried to actively adjust the flight direction just now, the other party changed accordingly. Excluding other possibilities, there is a high probability that the other party's spaceship is heading towards us."
"This..." The others in the spaceship looked at each other, realizing that the visitor was up to no good.
Suk's expression was not good. The Dark Universe is so vast that encountering a spaceship is usually a low-probability event, but he just happened to run into one.
"What is the enemy ship's class? Location? Speed?" Suk asked.
"The other ship is a C9 class, 1200 million kilometers away from us, and its current detected speed is 1.8 light-years. This exceeds our maximum speed limit," the AI quickly replied.
"Damn it." Suk's face darkened further. "We must have encountered space pirates." Their spaceship was flying in the dark universe, where the environment was relatively calm, allowing them to avoid many of the natural disasters of the original universe. However, the energy consumption of such a long journey was staggering. The original plan was to traverse about two hundred star systems within the Jialan Empire, averaging a distance of over 2000 million light-years. Given the speed of Suk's spaceship, they didn't want to maintain maximum speed continuously due to the excessive energy consumption. They usually flew at around 1.3 light-years per minute, so it would take them two years to reach their destination.
Besides, even traveling in the dark universe isn't safe in certain special areas, as it can be vulnerable to space pirates and even raids by other races. However, these are rare occurrences; the dark universe is vast, and such an event is extremely uncommon.
"The enemy's spaceship is flying faster than our maximum speed. At this speed and distance, if we continue to fly in the dark universe, we will likely be caught up." Suk took a deep breath.
If the original universe reaches the speed of light, according to its operating laws, it will be directly transported to the dark universe. The dark universe has a lower limit for speed, but no upper limit; as long as your spaceship can handle it, you can continuously pursue the highest speed.
Civilian spaceships (Class E) can only reach speeds of a few times the speed of light in the dark universe, even at their best. The rumored mechanical race spaceships, even at their highest speeds in the dark universe, only approach 10 times the speed of light.
The C-class Jialan spaceship has a maximum speed of 1.6 times the speed of light in the dark universe, but the other party, also a C-class spaceship, can reach 1.8 times the speed of light.
The speed of light is 30 kilometers per second. Their maximum speed is 48 kilometers per second, while the other side travels at 54 kilometers per second. Based on this speed, the other side is 6 kilometers per second faster than them.
I estimate we can catch up in about 3 minutes.
Inside the spaceship, Zod and Sukai stood together, their expressions extremely serious. "A C9-class spaceship must be worth at least tens of billions, right? Just who is this guy?"
Suk shook his head. "I don't know, but since they dared to come after us, they must be confident enough to deal with us. They may even have a cosmic-level expert."
A cosmic-level powerhouse.
This term startled everyone present.
The strongest member of their spaceship is only at the ninth level of the Hengxing realm. If they were to encounter a cosmic-level powerhouse, they would definitely be doomed.
"Even if the person traveling on the C9-class spaceship is truly a cosmic-level powerhouse, they probably won't be too strong. But we can't gamble on that," Suk said in a deep voice.
Above Class C is Class D, and a single Class D1 spaceship costs hundreds of billions of Jialan coins. Cosmic-class spaceships are easily affordable, though there might be exceptionally poor Cosmic-class spaceships.
They are not poor, nor should they want to become bandits in the universe, or be unable to integrate into a cosmic civilization for some reason. After all, a cosmic-level powerhouse can obtain more than a dozen planets by joining a cosmic civilization. Although they are all ordinary life-bearing planets, they are worth nearly ten trillion.
所以宇宙级一阶奴僕的价格，一般在1000万——3000万宇宙币之间(一宇宙币相当于3300流云币左右，1流云币约等于1000嘉岚币)。相当于数十颗生命星球价格。
"We can't let it get close to us," Suk commanded. "Spaceship... slow down!"
Everyone present was stunned. Suk calmly said, "Since we can't keep up with their speed in the dark universe, and we'll definitely be caught up if we keep flying like this, let's slow down until we come to a stop and leave the dark universe."
Su Kai suddenly realized and said, "That's right. We can leave the dark universe in place. If they want to continue chasing us, they will also have to leave the dark universe."
However, slowing down doesn't mean you can immediately slow down to a standstill; it takes time to come to a complete stop.
Suk looked at the screen and let out a breath. "Luckily, the other party was still quite a distance away when they were discovered, so we still have time." If the other party had been too close, and they had slowed down, the other party would have been flying at high speed to catch up, which would have been tantamount to suicide.
The intelligent optical brain controlling the spaceship immediately executed the command.
The gray, saucer-shaped flying saucer began to decelerate, rapidly descending: 1.6 light-years... 1 light-year... 20 kilometers... 10 kilometers...
Meanwhile, the dark cyan triangular spaceship behind them was also steadily approaching Suk's location, 900 million kilometers... 800 million kilometers... 700 million kilometers...
It felt as if the breath of death was approaching.
The hearts of the people inside the spaceship seemed to stop beating with tension.
Suk felt the spaceship beneath his feet vibrate slightly for about ten seconds before everything calmed down.
Whoosh, slowed down to a complete stop! The spaceship then automatically shuttled back to its original universe!
"Space travel successful, back to the original universe," a melodious voice announced from the black-haired, animal-eared girl dressed in gothic maid attire on the screen.
Whoosh! Through the outdoor simulation, the vast starry sky around us suddenly appeared, with starlight twinkling in the distance.
"Choose a direction with sufficiently complex terrain. Accelerate the spaceship again, to near-light speed, and maintain that speed. Scout the surrounding area and report any findings immediately," Suk ordered again.
The original universe, once it reaches the speed of light, will inevitably enter the dark universe. Of course, it needs to accelerate to the speed of light. Even super-existent entities need time to do so, and spaceships are no exception.
This creates a problem: if you reach a speed infinitely close to the speed of light (sub-light speed) and maintain that speed, if the other party wants to chase you in the original universe, they can only maintain that speed. Once they exceed it, they will enter the dark universe.
At the same sub-light speed, it's almost impossible to catch up.
Traveling nearly 30 kilometers per second, unless one is extremely unlucky, it is impossible for the other party to catch them by traveling back through the dark universe.