Hao Ren felt that he should not have expected Raven 12345 to arrange a reliable interstellar journey for him. However, Wuyue and Y 'zaks did not care about these details. The great demon and the siren lady quickly picked their rooms and threw their luggage in the room. They then came up to Hao Ren and asked about the next arrangement. Y' zaks suggested playing Landlord, which he had just learned...
Hao Ren really did not want to spend his first interstellar journey playing Landlord, and neither did Wuyue. They stared at the MDT and asked, "What's there to do now?"
The MDT connected itself to the data interface of the cabin and a holographic projection popped up. "Before entering FTL mode, you can see the outside of the spacecraft. We haven't left the asteroid belt yet. Once we pass this area, the spacecraft will turn into an open area, and then there'll be nothing but darkness."
Hao Ren found that the holographic projection showed the outside of the spacecraft. The viewing angle was probably from a monitor somewhere on the hull of the spacecraft. He could see a large, steel-like alloy armor plate spread out in his field of vision. The Fourth Dock and the space station facilities outside were rapidly retreating from the edge of the steel-like land. Two huge beams of light were emitted from the spire at the top of the Fourth Dock and extended parallel to both sides of the spacecraft. The MDT told him that it was the navigation beam used to guide the spacecraft.
"... I thought the asteroid belt would be very dense," Hao Ren looked at the empty, dark area at the edge of the image. "How come there's not a single meteorite cluster outside the space station?"
"The universe is empty. The so-called dense asteroid belt is only relative to the emptiness of the entire universe," the MDT explained. "Under normal circumstances, the distance between two asteroids will be between tens of thousands of kilometers to hundreds of thousands of kilometers. Unless you're flying in the debris of a large celestial body, otherwise you'll never see the scene you see in sci-fi movies where you're flying in space combat jets and posing among asteroids. Kuiper Station happened to be built in the debris of a large celestial body. That's why you see a lot of meteorites in the space station as building bases. But outside the space station, it must be empty. Even if there are asteroids floating in from the outside, they must be cleaned up. Spacecrafts come and go so frequently, what if one of them hits a hole? "
Hao Ren knew that this was knowledge that he would need to use in the future, so he nodded as he listened. Wuyue, on the other hand, looked at the scenery outside curiously and asked, "Why didn't I feel anything when I accelerated?"
The MDT was particularly patient this time. "Every spaceship that can enter the hyperluminal state in a short time must have a supporting space-constancy technology. It is used to stabilize the space inside the spaceship into a system independent of the external coordinates, or use other methods to offset inertia. Simply put, it is to keep your position relative to the spaceship and isolate the relative movement of everything in the universe. This way, when you accelerate, you will not be smashed into a pile of mosaics. Think about it, this thing accelerates to the speed of light …"
Nangong Wuyue nodded happily. "Oh, I don't understand."
What the hell are you so happy about?
Just then, Hao Ren suddenly saw another bright light at the edge of the spaceship's exterior scene. The entire monitoring screen immediately turned to that. He saw another wedge-shaped spaceship floating out from another nearby port. The heat dissipation grid around the spaceship was slowly turning red, and it was about to enter the state of acceleration.
Before Hao Ren had time to marvel at the frequent flow of passengers in the space station, he heard the voice of the 883 captain in the cabin. "Boys and girls on board, and passengers in the VIP cabin, please transfer to the C-15 exterior observation line. You are looking at the high-speed cargo ship KN-03 from the Fairy Void Consortium. It has been our strong competitor on this route for the past seven years. Now, KN-03 has turned on the heat dissipation grid and entered the engine charging state. Obviously, it wants to do a beautiful short-range acceleration and then use the hyperluminal engine to leave us in the dust. Please listen to the broadcast and hold your children. Yes, we are serious!"
"… Holy sh * t!" Hao Ren exclaimed.
As soon as Hao Ren's voice trailed off, the entire cabin trembled violently. It was not the kind of inertial tremor during acceleration, but an earthquake-like tremor. Apparently, the main structure of the spacecraft was shaking. Hao Ren did not even dare to imagine what the 883 captain, who was as strong as the governor of California, had activated. The holographic projection in front of him burst into several bright lights in an instant, and the modified cooling grids hidden under the hull of the spacecraft suddenly burst into white flames. The high-speed cargo ship KN-03 in the distance quickly retreated in the image. The cabin trembled more and more violently, and the blazing flames on the screen slowly blurred under the intense shaking of the hull. Soon, the distant starlight was stretched into a strange long strip. The starlight at the upper end of the image began to show obvious signs of red and blue light at the lower end. The spacecraft was rapidly approaching the speed of light, so much so that the observed starlight had shown obvious signs of red and blue shift.
Finally, with a rumbling sound from the entire spaceship, the illegal acceleration came to an end. The exterior observation screen turned pitch black, and the spaceship's curvature engine took over the work of the acceleration engine. The entire spaceship entered an enclosed space bubble and began to move at superluminal speed. The next time it left the space bubble, it should reach its destination.
The voice of the 883 captain rang again. "Boys and girls, and passengers in the VIP cabin, the acceleration has been successfully completed. We have proved the outstanding performance of the 883 ship. Now, the command of the ship is temporarily transferred to the onboard mainframe. I wish you all a smooth voyage. Now, I have to spend the next 24 hours in the confinement room and apply for a penalty from the Imperial Channel Management Group. Goodbye, everyone."
Hao Ren, Y 'zaks, and Nangong Wuyue looked at each other. After ten seconds of silence, they began to laugh dryly. The MDT said faintly, "Why haven't I met a normal person since I met you?"
Hao Ren was speechless. He had no choice but to follow Nangong Wuyue to study the strange equipment in the cabin.
But after a while, he found it boring: the advanced technology tended to simplify the operation. Just like his amazing MDT, which was so simple that even Lily could operate it with her mind. Everything in the cabin was designed with extreme intelligence and simplicity. Most of the equipment supported telepathy. The MDT could explain the few things that he did not know how to use, which greatly reduced the fun of exploring.
"This is a civilian cabin, after all," Y 'zaks said as if he had been through it. "I heard that there are countless intelligent races in every universe, and there are endless worlds in the void. Every intelligent race has different ways of understanding and degree of civilization. So, the experts who study living equipment are thinking of ways to make things easier to use. Some equipment will even teach their users how to turn it on. It's not a manual, but a step-by-step teaching. Some civilian equipment even has advanced intelligence that will directly ask you what you want to do, and then it will operate itself."
The MDT immediately jumped out to make its presence known. "Yes, yes, I'm like that. But this is limited to the civilian field and the downgraded military products. Things of a higher level are not so simple. "
The group had nothing to do in the cabin. Nangong Wuyue suggested that they go out for a walk and see what the alien spaceship captain looked like. However, she was politely sent back within 30 minutes. It was not that passengers were forbidden to leave the cabin, but the maiden got lost the moment she stepped out. The spaceship's corridors were intricate and complicated, and there were all kinds of strange markings at the corners. If it were not for the guards at the key points, the siren maiden would have walked into the cooling ducts and turned into dried fish in minutes.
Should this be the talent of the traveler?
So, Hao Ren's first interstellar journey unfolded in a way that was pleasing to the eye. Under Y 'zaks's second suggestion, the three of them started playing Landlord …
Until the spaceship stopped over a terrestrial planet.
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