Chapter 120: Return to Earth

This mineral planet belonged to the Seventh-grade Civilization, Daga Star. There were not many true intelligent individuals here, no more than a hundred. In an interstellar civilization like this, the work of mining was basically handed over to Intelligent Robots.

The people of Daga Star did not go to work on mineral planets with very harsh environments. They generally lived in bases on the mineral planet’s satellite, remotely monitoring the operation of various mines on the mineral planet.

Lin Lei had long ago found the location of the Daga people’s base on the satellite. In order not to attract their attention, he carefully hid himself in a crater of a meteorite and chose a landing spot thousands of kilometers away from the base.

When passing the gravitational balance point of the two stars, Lin Lei’s speed had dropped to a very low level, not exceeding 1 kilometer per second.

Here, Lin Lei threw a meteorite he was carrying toward the mineral planet, letting himself fly toward the satellite at a very low initial speed.

He was planning to land, so naturally, the lower the speed, the better; otherwise, it would be quite a spectacle.

The diameter of this satellite was not large, only one thousand kilometers, and its gravity was not extreme. Its gravitational balance point was very close to the satellite, only about ten thousand kilometers away.

In other words, over these ten thousand kilometers, Lin Lei would continue to accelerate, rushing toward the satellite like a meteorite. Even though the satellite’s gravity was weak, his speed would accumulate to an astonishing level.

Lin Lei absolutely could not withstand such an impact, so he prepared a meteorite to act as a final buffer.

His speed was constantly increasing, and the satellite took up more and more of Lin Lei’s field of vision. The meteorite Lin Lei was carrying weighed about ten tons. During the descent, he spread the power of Disintegration into a sheet, cutting the meteorite into pieces like a knife, and then threw them with all his might toward the satellite to use the reaction force to reduce his speed.

Each piece of the meteorite weighed one ton. Every time, Lin Lei used all his strength to throw it toward the satellite’s ground with the power of level 65 energy, waiting for his body’s energy to recover before throwing the next piece.

The effect of doing this was significant; it was equivalent to using Lin Lei’s own strength to offset the gravitational potential energy of the satellite.

Lin Lei’s own mass was not high, only 100 kilograms. When he reached a height of two hundred meters from the satellite, he threw the last one-ton meteorite piece in his hand out.

The meteorite immediately bombarded the ground at a terrifying speed. Lin Lei also gained the reaction force of the final deceleration, lowering his speed to 100 meters per second.

Given the gravitational acceleration on the satellite’s surface of less than 1 meter per square second, a height of 200 meters only added less than 2 meters per second to Lin Lei’s speed.

In the end, Lin Lei landed safely at a speed of just over 101 meters per second.

The radius of this satellite was 500 kilometers, and the gravitational acceleration was only 1.0. It was easy to calculate that the orbital speed was only 700 meters per second. This speed could basically be achieved by the muzzle velocity of bullets from powerful guns, which really made Lin Lei sweat a bit.

Even with Lin Lei’s current physical fitness, in this vacuum environment, if he ran with all his strength, he could accelerate to this extent and become a human-shaped satellite of this planet.

The landing site was 1000 kilometers away from the Daga people’s base. Now it seemed that this distance was quite close. Lin Lei hurried on his way by jumping and skipping, and it took him less than an hour to reach the vicinity of the base.

Here, Lin Lei could not travel too ostentatiously either. On the desolate surface of this planet, any moving object was abnormally conspicuous.

Fortunately, the current Lin Lei was not completely without a way to hide himself. He had comprehended the Disintegration Dimension and could completely arrange a layer of Disintegration field on the surface of his body, making him immune to all electromagnetic wave observation of him.

Lin Lei just walked swaggeringly to the outside of the base. Then, he pressed his hand on the base’s gate and observed the specific conditions inside the base by sensing the abnormalities in the atomic vibration frequency.

This move was learned from the System; being able to understand everything by touching one point was very useful.

The specific situation inside the entire base began to slowly outline in Lin Lei’s mind. The energy distribution of the base, the personnel situation, and even the docking site of the spaceship all appeared one by one.

In less than five minutes, Lin Lei knew this place better than any Daga person in the base. He quietly sent an entry request with full authorization to the base’s central intelligence.

The central intelligence did not suspect anything and immediately opened one of the most inconspicuous entrances in the base. Lin Lei, maintaining the Disintegration field around his body, walked in swaggeringly like an invisible man.

Lin Lei now had no intention of staying here any longer. As soon as he entered the base, he took the shortest route to the spaceship docking site.

Here, there were three spaceships, shaped like the classic disc shape, considered authentic UFOs.

Lin Lei was planning to sneak back to Earth quietly, so of course, he could not just steal a spaceship and leave. Deceiving the artificial intelligence was no problem, but the Daga people would definitely discover the anomaly, and once they investigated, it would be a lot of trouble again.

Therefore, Lin Lei’s plan was to sneak onto the spaceship and hitch a ride, waiting until they reached a dense area of interstellar civilization to plot his return to Earth.

Lin Lei was very cautious and did not hesitate to estimate the Watcher Civilization with his greatest ability. He tried his best not to use various illegal means to obtain temporary convenience, because that would only expose him to the eyes of the Watcher Civilization.

Thirty-five years ago, Lin Lei was just a slightly stronger warrior, and the Star Alliance could not tolerate him, let alone now that he had begun to enter the realm of Pan-dimension!

Lin Lei chose the spaceship with the best performance and sneaked in. Then, he found a place to hide in the engine area that Carbon-based Life would not patrol. After restraining all his aura, he began to wait.

He had already checked the voyage records of the spaceship before. Every month, these Daga people living in the base would take the spaceship back to Daga Star for a routine shift change.

Twenty-three days had passed since the last personnel change, and in a week, the spaceship Lin Lei was on would take off.

Since Lin Lei comprehended the Disintegration Dimension, the strength of his Will had become even stronger. Now, if he wanted to comprehend the remaining Dimensions, he would no longer react slowly to changes in the outside world due to fully immersing his main consciousness in it.

He specifically differentiated a consciousness body to control his daily behaviors, while his main consciousness began to comprehend the remaining Dimensions without stopping for a moment.

The comprehension of these Dimensions, even without the support of experimental data, could eventually succeed, just at a much slower speed.

At the same time, in order to better integrate into the future Earth Civilization, Lin Lei changed his appearance, height, and body shape.

He modified his resolute face, which looked like it was carved by a knife, softening the lines on his face. His eyebrows, chin, and mouth shape were no longer full of a sense of power; they all softened, revealing a refined air.

As for his eyes, they were really difficult to change, because they reflected a person’s Will.

No matter how Lin Lei changed other parts of his body, as long as it was someone familiar with him, once they saw his eyes, they would be able to discover the unique light in them and produce a sense of familiarity.

Lin Lei had no choice but to let his eyelashes grow a little longer and decided to keep his eyes slightly squinted in the future to try his best to cover it up.

In the end, Lin Lei successfully transformed himself from the image of a War God to a scholar.

After Lin Lei went to great lengths to complete his transformation, the time also came for the Daga people to start the spaceship.

The most obvious feature of these Daga people was their skin, which shone with a steel-gray metallic luster, just like robots.

But they were genuine Carbon-based Life; the color of their skin was just a mutation caused by the continuous effect of a rare element on their home star.

These people talked and laughed as they boarded the spaceship, their faces filled with an eager expression. Anyone who left a comfortable home star to stay on such a desolate, dead planet for a month would be eager to go home.

They knew nothing of the existence of the uninvited guest, Lin Lei, on the spaceship. They just started the spaceship according to normal procedures, began self-checking the specific operation status of the spaceship, and then drove the spaceship out of the base.

A Seventh-grade Civilization had already mastered the three-dimensional energy strings and could construct Subspace, but they were still one step away from Space Jump.

To implement Space Jump, at least four-dimensional energy strings were needed. Only then could the constructed Subspace displace in a high-dimensional energy field, thereby realizing the jump in space.

These saucer-shaped spaceships could only perform Warp Flight, but the Curvature was much higher than that of Fifth-grade and Level Six Civilizations, and they could also construct force fields that defended against more dimensional attacks.

According to Lin Lei’s perception, the flight Curvature of these base spaceships reached 2000, and the maximum flight speed was nearly 2000 times the speed of light. It would only take one day to return to his Daga home star.

This route passed through star domains controlled by the Daga people, so naturally, the journey was uneventful.

A day later, when these Daga people returned to their home star in high spirits, Lin Lei also quietly left the spaceship and disappeared into the sea of people on Daga Star.