He was now about a kilometer away from these animals. However, he realized that there was an empty space about 300 meters wide in this one kilometer. There was not a single rock in this empty space. It was completely empty.
In the universe, the appearance of a blank space was undoubtedly a very normal thing. However, in the asteroid belt, it was strange. This empty space was like a boundary, separating the two sides.
How could there be two completely different situations within such a short distance? His side was full of rocks, lifeless and lifeless. However, 300 meters away, the other side was full of life. There were not only plants, but also highly evolved animals.
Ye Chong did not know much about evolution, but he understood some basic principles. In a harsh environment like the asteroid belt, it would be understandable if there were microorganisms, mosses, or even bugs in there. However, Ye Chong found it hard to accept the presence of such large animals.
That could only mean one thing. The 300-meter gap between them was like two completely different worlds.
What could this 300-meter empty space hold?
Ye Chong observed the movements of the herbivores, and suddenly felt like he had grasped something. But what was it? Ye Chong could not explain it. The vague feeling only flashed through his mind for a moment.
Ye Chong did not panic. He continued to observe the movements of the herbivores. He knew that he must have seen something in them, and that was why he felt that way.
He calmed himself down and observed for a full 10 minutes. After that, Ye Chong finally understood what he had just discovered.
Ye Chong waved his hand lightly on the control panel. Han Jia picked up a small rock floating nearby and tossed it to the other side. Because it was hiding behind a huge rock, Han Jia threw it diagonally upwards this time.
The rock flew at a constant speed, but when it reached the empty space, its trajectory suddenly changed. It no longer flew upwards, but fell downwards, until it formed a parabola.
As expected, Ye Chong was even more certain of his guess.
Gravity. That was what Ye Chong found strange about. Starting from the blank space, there was actually gravity! No wonder he felt that the movements of the herbivores looked so strange. It turned out that it was the work of gravity.
He didn't feel any gravitational pull that could affect him at all from his current position.
It was unbelievable. Ye Chong found it hard to believe. He had never seen anything like this before.
However, the universe was vast, so what was impossible? He soon felt relieved. Mankind's understanding of the universe was always so little.
It was not his place to ponder over the mysteries within. Survival was the most important thing. Survival was always the first thought in Ye Chong's mind, no matter the situation. Moreover, the current situation left him with no extra time to switch to these exams.
Since there was gravity, why didn't these rocks fall down? Where did this gravity come from? …
There were too many problems! However, what does this have to do with me? The only thing he wanted was to survive. Now, even finding Mu Shang and the others had been placed second. If they couldn't even survive, how could they find Mu Shang?
As for whether Mu, Shang and the rest were still alive, Ye Chong did not dare to think about it.
No matter what, he had to survive! Ye Chong calmed himself down and gathered his energy.
After some thought, Ye Chong decided to act. It might be reckless, but he did not have many choices right now.
Ye Chong took a deep breath and waved his hands. Han Jia suddenly flew out from behind the rock. It flew forward as fast as it could. This time, Ye Chong did not think about conserving energy. The engines were on full blast.
With Han Jia's current speed, a kilometer could be covered in the blink of an eye with its engines on full blast.
Ye Chong felt his body sink, as if everything on him had become heavier.
Han Jia also began to drop, but Ye Chong was prepared for this. The auxiliary engines changed direction slightly, and Han Jia returned to its original flight path.
Just as Ye Chong reached the empty space, the herbivores looked up in alarm. Han Jia's appearance had obviously frightened them. They panicked and fled into the distance as fast as they could.
Ye Chong finally got a good look at the way they were moving. Their strong hind legs gave them sufficient leaping ability. They leaped from one rock to another, quick as the wind. In the blink of an eye, the herbivores disappeared from Ye Chong's sight. They were as fast as the average mech.
Ye Chong did not have time to be surprised by the speed of these seemingly weak animals, because he already had a bad feeling.
The gravity here was far stronger than the average planet inhabited by humans! The gravity here was beyond Ye Chong's imagination. The moment he entered the empty space, Ye Chong felt his body become heavy.
He felt like he was being pressed down on his seat, and his light hands became heavy. Ye Chong felt dizzy when he suddenly entered the gravitational zone from zero gravity. Fortunately, after so many years of training, Ye Chong's flying skills had become second nature to him. Even in this situation, Ye Chong did not lose control of the mech.
Han Jia accurately landed on a rock floating in midair. Even though Han Jia was so heavy, the rock didn't even tremble when it landed on it.
Ye Chong quickly recovered from the dizziness. His body felt like it was filled with lead, so heavy that it was difficult for him to even move a finger. Ye Chong quickly evaluated the gravity here, and came to a surprising conclusion. The gravity here was probably five times stronger than on trash planet.
Even with Ye Chong's strong body, it was difficult to move under such strong gravity. Ye Chong thought back to the speed of the herbivores just now, and was immediately embarrassed. If he were to run, he would never be able to reach the speed of the animals. It was easy to imagine how strong they were.
Ye Chong was secretly glad that he was not too rash. Otherwise, those little animals would have been enough to make him flustered.
Ye Chong did not advance immediately, but stopped to examine his surroundings first. Under five times the gravity, Han Jia's combat ability was greatly reduced. Han Jia's design did not consider fighting in such a high gravity environment. Under five times the gravity, the energy consumption was much higher than usual, and Han Jia could not reach its maximum speed. More importantly, in this environment, Ye Chong felt like he was carrying four of himself on his back, and his hands were five times heavier than usual. As a result, Ye Chong's hand speed decreased, and his combat time was greatly reduced.
If he were to do a High-Speed Thomas in such an environment, Ye Chong did not need to calculate to know that the movement would cause him to vomit blood. With five times the gravity, it was not easy to just sit there.
Ye Chong had no choice but to advance cautiously, and retreat at the first sign of danger.
The results of the examination made Ye Chong very happy. There was air here, air that could be breathed by humans, and the air quality was up to standard, even reaching the highest level. Ye Chong did not have high standards for air quality, as long as it was breathable, it was good enough. On trash planet, the air was very polluted. Staying outdoors for long periods of time would cause serious damage to the respiratory tract and lungs.
However, Ye Chong understood that the better the air quality, the better the ecological environment of the area, and the more suitable it was for human life. Correspondingly, it was also suitable for most animals.
Ye Chong heaved a sigh of relief when he found that there was air here. The mech's internal air circulation system could not be used indefinitely, and it also consumed raw materials. Since there was air here, it was at least suitable for human life.
With air, living things, and the mech's water dispenser, it was a basic survival condition.
Even though there was air outside, Ye Chong did not plan to come out of the mech. In this unfamiliar and unknown environment, it was safer to stay in the mech.
Countless rocks floating in the void seemed to be supported by something. Even in such a high gravity environment, they did not fall. Ye Chong could not understand it. Not only that, Han Jia was standing on a rock, and the rock did not move at all.
What was going on? Ye Chong racked his brains but could not think of a single explanation that could explain this phenomenon with his current knowledge.
"There are many unknowns in this world," he thought to himself, and quickly put the unsolvable question to the back of his mind.
Ye Chong piloted Han Jia carefully, avoiding the rocks in the air, and slowly flew forward.
The further he flew, the more Ye Chong found. There were more and more rocks in the air, and he could not tell where they ended. Other than the purple plants that Ye Chong found earlier, the rocks were also covered with brown plants that looked like moss.
In this dark space, countless rocks were wrapped in pale blue starlight, floating in the air irregularly. These rocks wrapped in blue light brought some life to the darkness.
Countless rocks floated in an irregular pattern. Ye Chong soon found that flying here was not a wise choice. With the presence of gravity, it was much more difficult to avoid flying.
Fortunately, Ye Chong was not a stubborn person, and quickly found a good solution - jumping, mimicking the movement of the herbivores. Han Jia jumped from one rock to another, and the rocks were not far from each other, which was suitable for this method. The only problem was that Han Jia was much larger than the herbivores, and in this space with floating rocks, it was not a good thing to be big.
Besides, Ye Chong found that the floating rocks in the air could not move in the direction of gravity, which was up and down, as if they were made of cast iron. On the other hand, they could move freely in the horizontal direction, which was also surprising to Ye Chong.
Ever since he entered the Red Mist, he had encountered too many unbelievable things. Until now, he had not found the answer to any of his questions. Now that he saw the unbelievable things again, he accepted them calmly. After all, everything about this place was strange, and different from what he knew.
Ye Chong did not try to figure out the reason, but he still observed his surroundings carefully. In an unfamiliar environment, having a good understanding of your surroundings would greatly increase your chances of survival.
As Ye Chong went deeper, the rocks grew denser, making it harder for Han Jia to move forward. Ye Chong had no choice but to fly upwards.
He flew for three days. While Han Jia did not move fast due to avoiding the rocks, it was still a long distance to cover. Besides, Ye Chong felt uneasy, as he had used up as much energy in the past three days as he had in the past two weeks. If he continued flying like this, he would soon run out of energy, and that would mean that Ye Chong would lose his most effective means of self-protection.
In the three days of flying, Ye Chong encountered a few more herbivores.
The only good news was that he had finally reached the top of the pile of rubble. This was because he found an even wider empty space here.
This empty space was more than 3000 kilometers wide.
3000 kilometers was Han Jia's limit. Ye Chong could not help but sigh in amazement that there was such a strange place in this asteroid belt. It was easy to imagine the vastness of this asteroid belt.
Ye Chong was surprised to see Han Jia's holographic image. Han Jia was already flying forward.
Since it was already at the highest layer, there were no rocks in the air to obstruct it, and Han Jia moved much faster.
The rocks in front of him grew denser, and the rocks beneath Han Jia increased in number. Gradually, the stones under Han Jia's feet connected into one, like a road paved with stones. As he flew forward, Han Jia no longer stood on rocks, but flat ground.
Through Han Jia's holographic scanning system, he could see that it was a continent from afar.
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