Chapter 118: Human-shaped Spaceship

“What! You said thirty years have already passed?” Lin Lei asked in surprise, his volume rising involuntarily.

That was right, Lin Lei had spent a full thirty years fusing with the System! Every year, Lenna had supplied energy for Lin Lei’s body, doing so a total of thirty times.

Lenna looked at Lin Lei and said, “Young successor, from now on, you must change your concept of time. For a Pan-dimensional Creature, time is no longer the enemy of life, but a partner that can accompany us forever!”

As she spoke, Lenna extended her left hand into the Void, and when it reappeared, a silver-white string was already in her hand.

“This is the dimension of time. It is a unidirectional string, extending from the beginning of the Universe to its extinction.”

Lenna flicked her slender hand gently, plucking the silver string at a strange frequency, and a strange wave spread out slowly.

When the wave reached Lin Lei’s surroundings, it hit an invisible barrier; this was Lenna’s protection for Lin Lei.

She took out a seed and placed it in this temporal wave. The seed immediately took root, sprouted, grew, blossomed, bore fruit, and finally withered at a very fast speed. The entire process, in Lin Lei’s view, took no more than a second.

“So, Lin Lei, seeing this, are you still surprised by the thirty years? These thirty years are only relative to the Universe you are in. As for me, I have transcended it, and only a second has passed.”

“Then if I return to the Galaxy, time has still only passed a second?” Lin Lei had to sigh at the power of the Pan-dimension.

Lenna laughed and said gently, “No, that second is only for me. I do not like waiting. For the entire Galaxy, for the entire Universe, roughly thirty years have indeed passed.”

Thirty years was enough time for a new generation on Earth to grow up and become the pillars of society.

Lin Lei was anxious to return; he was eager to know the current situation on Earth.

How could his thoughts escape Lenna’s eyes? A trace of loneliness appeared on the face of this World Tree. She had been alone for tens of millions of years. Finally, she had someone to communicate with, but she was about to lose him in the blink of an eye. It was hard for her not to feel sentimental.

The Universe was vast and boundless. Even with the great power of a Pan-dimensional Creature, it was impossible to traverse the entire Universe.

But given the vastness of the Universe, the number of Pan-dimensional Creatures within it was pitifully small. Even for the World Tree, the number of companions she had encountered over tens of millions of years was less than one hundred.

This was also one of the reasons she was willing to help the Dark Saint and help Lin Lei. Pan-dimensional Creatures were simply too few. Especially after the rise of intelligent beings, the individually powerful Pan-dimensional Creatures became even rarer.

At least in the Galaxy, no new Pan-dimensional Creature had appeared for over ten million years.

“Lin Lei, you need to make some preparations to return to Earth. The Watcher Civilization is not easy to deal with. Before you have sufficient self-protection ability, it is better to conceal your identity.”

“I will, Lenna. Thank you for your selfless help to me.”

Without the World Tree’s information injection, Lin Lei would have already become a puppet of the System by now.

“It is nothing, merely a lift of a finger. Compared to the cruel and selfish Dark Saint, or the absolutely rational and emotionless Digital Life, what I want to see more is you becoming a Pan-dimensional Creature.”

“At least until now, you still have not lost your composure due to suddenly gaining power. The Watcher Civilization’s judgment was not wrong; you indeed have the potential to become an eternal life.”

With such a being, it was better to make friends than to make enemies. This was the tolerant great wisdom of the World Tree.

Even if the Dark Saint were still here, he would have nothing to say about the World Tree’s actions, because Lenna had given him an opportunity too; it was just that he had not seized it himself.

In this Forbidden Domain, Lenna possessed supreme authority. She made a casual stroke with her hand, opening a space passage the height of a person. On the other side of the passage, twinkling starlight could be faintly seen.

“You are now a Star Life and can completely survive in the space of the Universe. In order not to attract the attention of the Watcher Civilization, I have set the exit in a remote star region. Presumably, with the knowledge you now possess, you should not get lost.”

Lin Lei bowed deeply to the ground to the World Tree, and then walked into the space passage.

The World Tree, Lennadesrya, watched Lin Lei’s disappearing figure and the slowly closing space passage, and let out a long sigh.

Subsequently, this avatar of Will in the form of a woman in green dissolved into the main body of the World Tree, and this Forbidden Domain completely returned to silence.

……

Lin Lei’s journey through the space passage this time was not like before, where his vision would blur, his head would spin, and everything would pass in a haze.

This time, he clearly “saw” the transformation process between dimensions. The fundamental Laws of the Universe’s operation silently transformed the properties of the matter composing Lin Lei’s body, making them conform to the Rules of the Four-dimensional Universe.

It seemed that opening a stable space passage was also a profound science. If any error occurred in this transformation process, it would be enough to kill someone without a trace.

By the time Lin Lei completely arrived in the four-dimensional Galaxy, the spin properties of all the particles composing his body had also finished converting, and he did not feel any discomfort whatsoever.

Lin Lei determined his location based on several coordinate stars he saw. Now, in terms of specific calculations and inquiries, he completely relied on the functions of the System he had newly mastered.

The way the System stored information was very wondrous. On the surface, there didn’t seem to be much content, but as long as the appropriate trigger information was given, he could instantly convert the information inside. It had quite a “what you see is what you get” flavor.

Just like now, Lin Lei simply input the coordinates of several coordinate stars. Immediately, the System fed back his current precise location.

This was as if Lin Lei was carrying an incredibly vast database with him, capable of querying almost all information about this Universe.

The location Lenna transmitted to was indeed remote enough, so remote that Lin Lei was incredibly depressed.

In this place, there were only countless massively large stars burning furiously. The nearest civilized gathering place was a mining star 1/30 of a Light Year away, which was also Lin Lei’s destination.

This was a large star cluster, composed of over a hundred massive stars with mutual gravitational connections. And Lin Lei was situated on the periphery of this cluster.

The light emitted by these stars was all blue, showing how high their temperatures were. Moreover, various cosmic rays in this star region were incredibly intense, with various charged particle stream storms blowing through from time to time.

If it were before, he would have been done for in less than a few seconds. But this environment was a paradise for the current Lin Lei; he was like a fish swimming in a sea of energy, free and at ease.

Here, due to the presence of many massive stars, there were many depressions of varying depths in space.

Lin Lei could feel that he was slowly sliding towards a certain massive star, his speed getting faster and faster, feeling a bit like sitting on a slide.

Fortunately, Lenna had considered this situation. The place where Lin Lei appeared was not a complete vacuum, but was traversed by a large asteroid belt tens of light years long.

Each asteroid was not very big; the largest had a diameter of only a few kilometers and could not generate enough gravity to bind Lin Lei’s body.

But with the leverage of these asteroids, Lin Lei could maneuver among the various massive stars and perform continuous gravitational acceleration.

As long as his speed reached a certain level and he calculated the travel path well, then the gravity of these stars could not restrain him from moving forward.

Lin Lei continuously leaped for leverage among the asteroids. With his current calculation instinct and body control ability, it was enough to minimize the mechanical energy loss during the leaping process, almost completely like elastic collisions.

And in this vacuum, there would basically be no loss of speed. With every bounce, Lin Lei’s speed was rising at a rate of one hundred meters per second.

Until after borrowing force over a hundred times, even with his newly mastered knowledge and reshaped body, he could not withstand another leverage attempt. By this time, Lin Lei’s speed had already reached 10 kilometers per second.

He had already calculated the direction of travel beforehand. In the subsequent flight process, he would follow a meteorite weighing several tons, passing through several balance points of stellar gravity together, and finally rush out of the gravitational binding of this large star cluster.

Alright, as for why he wanted to carry such a meteorite and fly with it, this was entirely to deal with sudden situations.

At critical moments, Lin Lei could still discard this meteorite, relying on the conservation of momentum to obtain a reverse escape velocity. Of course, it was also an excellent shield, able to withstand the impact of some cosmic substances.

However, Lin Lei’s luck was good. The path calculated beforehand was completely correct, and no sudden situations appeared. His speed became faster and faster after being accelerated by the gravity of the stars, until it reached a high speed of one hundred kilometers per second.

One month later, Lin Lei was captured by the gravity of a super star and was approaching this star in an elliptical trajectory.

If there were no changing factors, Lin Lei would become a planet of this star and orbit in an elliptical path forever.

This was naturally not what he wanted. According to the path he calculated earlier, Lin Lei would have an opportunity to escape in two days!

The companion star of this massive star would move to a position near Lin Lei. If there were no accidents, Lin Lei would be flung out of this large star cluster at a speed of thousands of kilometers per second under the interaction of the gravity of the two massive stars.

The factors that needed to be calculated in this were terrifyingly massive. If even a small accident happened, Lin Lei would rush directly towards a certain star, and then with a “poof,” be burned to ashes by the star.

The System’s database was not entirely correct. To accurately calculate the travel path, one also had to rely on Lin Lei’s eyes, which were like astronomical telescopes, for observation. At the same time, one had to consider the observation errors caused by various gravitational lenses distorting the light.

Only the real-time data after correction was what Lin Lei needed.

This was something only the current Lin Lei could do. With the help of the System, he raised the precision of his flight trajectory to within 0.1 meters. In other words, the error did not exceed 10 centimeters. It was simply insane.

Two days later, the distance between this companion star and Lin Lei reached the closest point. The companion star itself was also moving at high speed. Lin Lei only felt himself being pulled fiercely forward by the gravity of this companion star.

His speed immediately received a huge boost. The main star that had originally captured him was no longer able to restrain him.

This acceleration time was only half an hour, but it allowed Lin Lei’s speed to reach the level of 2000 kilometers per second, and he successfully flew out of this star cluster as he wished.

According to the path calculated earlier, Lin Lei needed to fly for five years to reach a colonial star of the nearest interstellar civilization.

In these five years, Lin Lei would begin to absorb and fuse any one of the eleven-dimensional elements of the Dark Saint.