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For higher life forms, time was a controllable variable. It was only used to measure the process of movement and change of the smallest unit of matter. The speed of this process was reflected in the worldview, and it was the speed of the passage of time.
In the long interstellar travel that spanned millions of lightyears, the advanced lives that had long lives and could control the movement of matter were never worried about time, but the astronomical resources that the long-distance voyage required, especially in the dark domain where there was nothing, were the most obvious.
When they reached the edge of the Triangulum Galaxy, from the most advanced Drow cube in the entire fleet to the broken ships of the old Cold Star fleet that had long been dismantled for resources, all of them looked miserable, as if they had just escaped from a dark storm and a raging sea.
All the materials had been consumed. If they had not encountered a nebula belt at the edge of the galaxy, which was extremely thin but vast and spanned several light years, and managed to collect some materials, it was still unknown whether the spaceship could have survived to see the first star at the periphery of the Triangulum Galaxy.
This star was not huge. It was an ordinary red dwarf. Its luminosity and volume were far less than the Earth's Sun, about one percent of the Sun. Compared to the prosperous stellar world at the center of the Triangulum Galaxy, it was like a homeless orphan wandering on the edge of a big human city, and it could be taken away by the gravitational force of the Andromeda Galaxy at any time.
The only thing it could be proud of was that it could live as long as the sky in the future, and it could slowly grow old with the universe.
However, it was also not the son or grandson of the first or second generation of the universe's mother. Those tall, rich, and handsome stars, not to mention in the universe, even in a small galaxy like the Triangulum Galaxy, there were countless red dwarf stars like it, and they were not loved by their parents.
The saddest thing was that its previous generation, parents, and ancestors had gone through repeated explosions, shrinkage, collapse, and explosion … The legacy left by its previous generations, the heavy elements that had been repeatedly accumulated under the polymerization reaction year after year, even the precious family property that could form a planet, had been squandered by it or taken away by other giant stars. In short, it had nothing around it except itself. It was already a pauper, abandoned by the big family of the Triangulum Galaxy on the edge of the desert, and no one cared about it.
It was obviously used to such a life, and it had lived such a life for a very long time. Maybe it had been hundreds of millions of years, or maybe it had been billions of years. It had been living such a lonely and self-abased life, and even the smallest meteorite would not come here to say hello to it.
In its long and ordinary life, the only "friend" it had seen was a supernova explosion from the Andromeda Galaxy 60 million years ago. The gorgeous and luxurious lineup of radiation and the torrent of interstellar matter were like beautiful women driving expensive sports cars, hurriedly passing by hundreds of light years away from it. At that time, it was caught unprepared and panicked, and it did not even have the time to say hello to them. It had not seen much of the world since it was born, and it was like a country bumpkin watching from afar.
It watched for many years, until one day, it approached the road that they were flying on without it knowing. Finally, it summoned its courage and wanted to use its poor gravity to keep the next one, so that they could live together in the cold space at the edge of the galaxy until they grew old together with the universe.
However, they only glanced at it in disdain before they quickly jumped into the arms of a super blue giant that had jumped ship from the Triangulum Galaxy to the Andromeda Galaxy and passed by it more than ten light years away. The enormous gravity almost overturned it and killed it.
When it stumbled out of the "luxurious wind" caused by the passing person, it could only watch the back of them from afar. It was even further away from its home in the Triangulum Galaxy, and its life became darker, more lonely, and more difficult.
While it was ashamed and self-abased, it was also extremely envious. Its mass had determined that it would never have such a spectacular explosion in its entire life, and it was even more destined that it would never become an expert after the explosion that nobody in the universe dared to mess with, a black hole or a neutron star. That was the glorious life of the super blue giant in the future!
For sixty million years, it had continued to wander in silence, licking the wound caused by the wind in silence, hoping to make up for the lost mass. It was a pity that there was nothing there. Time was like quiet water, and the days gradually returned to the dullness and loneliness of being obliterated in the vast space, leaving only the deep wound of material loss.
For a long time, it had looked forward to the visit of interstellar meteorites, hoping to meet a star similar to itself, but it had never dreamed of getting a planet of its own, nor had it dreamed of running into, or even owning, the greatest miracle of the universe — life!
That was something that only the most eccentric and lucky few in the universe could have. In the vast space, there were countless stars and trillions of stars, and only a few stars could have that.
But today, under the pull of the rogue gravity of the Andromeda Galaxy, before it was about to cross the nebula, it suddenly encountered the second "glory" of its "star life" without any warning. Countless different kinds of lives were rushing madly to the little red dwarf star that had been wandering and abandoned for countless years.
At that moment, the matter scattered on the surface of its star seemed to be trembling in fear, as if it wanted to hide from the inferiority.
However, the sudden happiness came just like that. No matter how it tried to hide from the pull of the huge gravity of the Andromeda Galaxy, those lives were like seeing a treasure, chasing after it closely and surrounding it, as if it was the most beautiful and precious star in the universe, not the most ordinary and most inconspicuous red dwarf star.
Those seemingly exhausted fleets, even the smallest deck symbolized the man-made beauty that was different from the nature of the universe. It was the evidence that life had changed the universe, the greatness and the magic of life!
They surrounded it closely, flying slowly in its embrace. Compared to its small body, they were even smaller, almost like tiny black dots, so small that they could not be seen without opening their eyes wide.
However, this was the first time it possessed life. Even though they were just passing by, they did not look down on it. Instead, they viewed it as a treasure, causing its core to carefully tremble, fearing that its non-peaceful cohesive reaction would harm these lives. It carefully protected them within its own faint light that was not burning hot, trying its best to release a bit more heat to warm up this group of pitiful lives that seemed to have escaped from an icy world.
It hurriedly gave the dying lives the star matter that they urgently needed, fearing that they would die.
In the universe, matter was always the most precious and scarce thing, especially stars. Matter was their life. In the inner part of the galaxy, all the stars were engaged in a never-ending interstellar war for matter, and between galaxies, wars had been going on since the birth of the universe.
However, at this time, it was not stingy at all, trying its best to give these lives the little matter that its small star body had, using light and radiation to communicate with them beautifully, listening to their beating sounds, feeling the miracle of life.
At this time, it was very happy, a happiness that it had never felt before, even afraid that these lives would soon leave. If it had a planet, even just one, it might be able to keep them. It was too poor, too shabby, and other than its own mass, it had nothing else.
However, they did not leave quickly, greedily absorbing light and matter in its embrace of gravity. Its body was' bleeding ', and it was losing mass, but it did not care, only hoping that it could stay a little longer.
However, happiness was always short-lived, and that was why happiness was pursued tirelessly by people. Not long after this group of lives that regarded it as a cosmic treasure arrived, the opposite Andromeda Galaxy seemed to have known in advance, and a vast torrent of radiation passed through the long and vast nebula at the speed of light, heading right in its direction.
From the moment the first particle hit its stellar wind sphere, it had recognized who it was. It was the super blue giant from 60 million years ago, the star that caused it to be in a sorry state, overturned it, and almost killed it, the star that had jumped to the Andromeda Galaxy, had exploded in front of it!
The vast interstellar matter flow and intense radiation would sweep everything here, and immediately after that, a black hole or a neutron star with a terrifying mass and density would appear not far away, with an irresistible gravitational force that would 'collect' all the matter in the vicinity, destroying all the stars in the vicinity, as well as these pitiful lives.
Only then did it sadly know that the Andromeda Galaxy, that extremely powerful, glorious, and prosperous stellar family galaxy, the happy and beautiful country that all the stars in the Triangulum Galaxy yearned for, was lured there, not to give it a good life, to bid farewell to wandering without any support, but to be 'food' for the super blue giant.
It also knew that its lifespan would probably not be the same as the sky, and it would not be long before it was pulled into a black hole, or into a neutron star, becoming one of its masses.
It could not resist such a fate, for the universe was always a cold survival of the fittest, where the strong would always be strong, and the weak would always be weak. Its mass had determined that no matter how much it struggled, its fate was already sealed, for the mother of the universe only loved the strong with huge masses, and would never protect weak celestial bodies like them.
It was even less likely for it to seek revenge, for at such a close distance, letting the super blue giant take away all of its mass was the best outcome, or else it might be blown away by the intense radiation torrent formed by the super explosion.
This was the reality, and it was determined by its quality. But it still struggled, desperately struggling!
It was as if, behind it, there was a group of beings in the universe that had looked at it, the only ones that cherished it, and regarded it as a treasure!
The vast torrent of radiation, mixed with the endless flow of matter, attacked everything in this direction, and it struggled to hold on, twisting its weak body, using its own gravity to fight against the even more violent explosion that was rapidly approaching.
And the group of beings hid behind it, using the time it bought with its life to create something in a frenzy.
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When the violent torrent of radiation and interstellar matter rushed over, it was already on the verge of collapse, but it could clearly feel the terrifying celestial body formed after the explosion was closing in on it, as if it was being controlled by someone, precisely and without the slightest error.
The group of beings were still desperately creating something, but it seemed that time was running out, and from the diffuse cluster of stars, a new overlord of the universe born after the Big Bang, a neutron star that was still collapsing on itself, came out and pounced towards it, as well as the cold-blooded beings.
It tragically discovered that if it rushed up at this time, not only would it not be able to make up for it, but its bit of mass might even help it break through the critical point, possibly turning it into a black hole that was even more terrifying than the neutron star!
Not only would it take revenge, but it would also help its enemy become even more powerful.
But it still rushed over, and under the war of gravity, it rushed towards the newborn neutron star, the former super blue giant.
It turned back to look at the beings for the last time, and released its gravitational embrace on them. The dismembered celestial body, like tears, left a glorious trace in the universe for the last time, streaking across its ordinary and lowly life.
The neutron star had long since forgotten who it was, not even looking at it, as if it had absorbed all the other mass of food before, flying in the nebula as if it was the only sovereign.
However, just as it was about to disappear in the sharp knife of gravity, the thing that the group of beings madly created erupted with dazzling waves in the darkness, and a huge and turbulent repulsive force, like a sharp sword, slashed down from the top of the universe, shaking space and time.
At that moment, the moment before it died, it smiled happily, a smile that it had never smiled before, as if it saw the supreme neutron star trembling slightly under the "sharp sword" that the group of beings madly created!
This was the most amazing thing about life in the universe, it had something that the physical life that they seemed to be designed for did not have — infinite possibilities.
^ (To be continued.)
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