Wandering Meteor
Chapter 342 - 341: Meteorite Catastrophe

Chapter 342: Chapter 341: Meteorite Catastrophe

At this moment, in the desolate, silent, and vast Sky Zone Universe, a sudden escape turbulence arose.

Many Advanced Civilization’s Detection Battle Stars abandoned their detection missions when they detected signs of the rebounding expansion wave, fleeing toward the direction of the Cosmic Center.

Although the speed of the rebounding expansion wave exceeds light speed, it still lags behind the Advanced Civilizations’ Superluminal Engines and Space Wormholes, among other technologies. However, those lower civilizations born at the edge of the desolate Sky Zone didn’t have such technologies and were completely unaware of the crisis caused by the halt in the universe’s expansion. For example, primitive life on a certain Planet was engaging in a fierce Cold Weapons war, but when the rebounding expansion wave passed by, these lives, including the Planet they resided on, vanished silently and without a trace!

From a cosmic perspective, one could see the rebounding expansion wave mercilessly destroying all civilizations and materials along its path, while those civilizations capable of escaping were frantically fleeing ahead of the wave, resembling fish being chased by a surging tsunami.

Furthermore, as the rebounding expansion wave gradually invaded inward, it encountered more civilizations. Although many civilizations perished under the wave, quite a few civilizations preemptively piloted their Cosmic Battleships or Planet Battle Stars in a frenzied dash inward, resulting in continuously expanding and increasing escape fleets—from a few "fish" at the beginning, gradually becoming a school of "fish"!

This also meant that the escape turbulence was escalating, threatening to sweep across the entire universe.

However, with the increasing size of the escape fleets, a very beautiful and spectacular scene appeared. From a cosmic level, one could see countless Light Points fleeing in the same or similar directions. These small Light Points in the dark background slowly converged into a stream of light, chased by the far-distant rebounding expansion wave. Since everything in the path of the wave vanished, there was no light behind it, but the fleeing Light Points became even more numerous ahead, forming a stark contrast.

This also created an unprecedented grand spectacle in the universe!

Of course, the scene witnessed today is still far from reaching its climax; it’s just beginning to take shape.

After all, despite the rebounding expansion wave’s superluminal speed, it crawls at a snail’s pace in the vastness of the universe. Despite the wave sweeping inward for so long, it actually has not yet covered one-fifth of the Sky Zone Universe, and there are still over ten trillion light-years to the Star Zone.

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Despite the distance being still great, the Star Zone Universe is already in a state of tension and turmoil.

Every civilization that has managed to grow to this point has faced numerous hardships and is certain to maintain a high degree of crisis awareness. Thus, although the real disaster has not yet arrived, the survival contest among Cosmic Civilizations has long begun, and some civilizations immersed in "lovely dreams" have already been ruthlessly eliminated by others.

Moreover, for a civilization that has mastered Eternal Life Technology, tens of thousands to billions of years is truly not a long time so every forward-thinking civilization understands the need to compete early.

The Wandering Alliance had also long joined the teams plundering cosmic materials.

Though they lost quite a bit of material in the Liutai War, fortunately, they quickly replenished it afterward.

And through the relentless efforts of the Wandering Alliance themselves, they finally became a true Level 4 Civilization.

Becoming a Level 4 Civilization also enhanced the fighting capability of the Wandering Alliance, boosting their confidence in swallowing interstellar materials from surrounding regions.

At this very moment, Constant Star Lu Chen was leading the 1.2 light-year diameter Wandering Star System through the universe at high speed. During the flight, Constant Star Lu Chen fully unleashed his Gravity and even enhanced it with the Unified Force Field, frenzically absorbing interstellar materials several light-years away.

Of course, this absorption range targeted only the space directly ahead of the Wandering Star System. Because of the Wandering Star System’s rapid speed, merely using Gravity to pull interstellar material surely couldn’t keep up with the Wandering Star System’s pace; therefore, materials that are far behind or to the sides are not directly absorbed. The Wandering Star System typically absorbs material clusters pulled in by Gravity directly in front, unless there is an abundantly material-rich Star System on the sides, in which case the Wandering Alliance would pause to absorb it.

Since the ultimate goal of the Wandering Alliance is to head toward the Cosmic Center, they must strike a balance between traveling and plundering materials.

"Not good..."

At this moment, Constant Star Lu Chen suddenly received an urgent message from the scientists at the Wandering Base. After inquiring, Constant Star Lu Chen learned that scientists had observed a massive meteor shower about sixty light-years ahead on the travel route of the Wandering Star System.

According to observations, this massive meteor shower was approximately two light-years wide and three light-years long, with a not very dense composition, but its total mass was extremely large, roughly about ten million planets. Moreover, the speed of this meteor cluster was incredibly fast, reaching the third cosmic speed, but what’s most frightening was that this was not the final velocity of the meteor shower. Due to the ongoing acceleration caused by the Gravity pull of Constant Star Lu Chen, the speed of the meteor cluster kept increasing. However, even maintaining only the third cosmic speed, the magnitude of catastrophe caused by such a massive meteor shower was unimaginable.

At the same time, this was also the largest meteor shower encountered by the Wandering Alliance since their wandering began.

If not handled properly, it’s possible that the entire Wandering Star System could disintegrate under the impact of the meteor shower, which would be truly terrifying!

Upon learning this news, Constant Star Lu Chen first retracted the Gravity, then convened a response meeting within the Wandering Alliance, where everyone discussed how to deal with this massive meteor shower disaster.

After some deliberation, the Wandering Alliance finally reached a conclusion.

They decided to initially dispatch a batch of Battle Stars, use a Space Wormhole to position themselves fifty-nine light-years ahead, a spot only less than one light-year from the meteor cluster yet far from the Wandering Star System; an ideal location for an explosion, meticulously calculated by the scientists. When reaching the designated location, ten Science and Martial Battle Stars strategically launched one Cosmic Bomb each at fixed coordinates.

Boom boom boom!