I really don't want to hang up

Chapter 442 First Station, Mobius Star

are you ready?
"Life never waits for you to prepare."

Luden asked,

"Do I need to pack something?"

"It's not necessary, is it?"

Arnold looked around with a strange expression on his face.

He really wanted to say, with your poor man's wealth, it's not enough to ignite the engine of the spaceship once.
Of course, Arnold still couldn't do things like the immortals mocking Luden for lack of money.

Money, or any symbol of wealth, means nothing to them.

Time can represent value.

A more accurate description is that only the present time is valuable.

Luden cleaned up briefly, and the spaceship had already parked outside the house.

The spaceship has a very classic style, just like the earliest cars.

From the outside, the space is not very big, and Lu Deng sat in, only to find that there is something wrong with it.

He seems to have returned to his own house, no, the area here is bigger than his house.

Luden looked around, but didn't show much surprise.

Arnold was a little disappointed, and he planned to use technology to give Luden a little shock.

"If I'm not mistaken, the space is still the size of a car, no different from an ordinary SUV."

Luden wandered around in the car and said casually,

"Part of the scenery I see is real, and the extended space is all virtual imaging. But if I want to walk from here to here, the virtual scenery will instantly become real, and the place I was before will also be transformed into virtual?"

"Yes."

Arnold nodded,
"We haven't made many breakthroughs in physics, and these two buildings are far stronger than we thought."

The principle of something that looks high-tech is extremely simple. As long as you can think clearly about the logic of operation, everything will become clear.

Again, use the simplest and most reliable things to build a world that seems to be extremely technologically advanced.

Can only do so.

Luden laughed,

"That is to say, no matter where I go, I'm actually spinning in circles, more precisely, in the car."

Such a thing, in Luden's time, was called a treadmill.

Arnold had nothing to hide.

He did some simple operations on the console and set the target and route.

Luden noticed that their route was very interesting. The spaceship would jump to a coordinate point first, but it was not the end point, and it was tens of light years away from the destination.

Luden has not experienced space jumping many times, and it is one of the means of traveling faster than the speed of light of the Nebula Empire.

The advantage is that it is fast and cheap.

The disadvantage is obvious, the distance between each jump must be more than 10 light-years.

Luden has two questions,
"Why not just jump to the finish line? Can we cover dozens of light-years in seven days?"

If you still need to jump in space during the seven-day journey, why not just do it in one step?
Of course, it is impossible to save costs.

Arnold did not answer this question directly, but suddenly brought up another topic,
"In your favorite work "Dune", there is a thing that goes against common sense, but the high-tech society fights with cold weapons."

"Of course I remember this setting."

Luden recalled,
"Their shielding field can withstand all attacks, especially for high-speed attacks, and the defense effect is particularly good. Therefore, if you choose cold weapons to fight, you will be ignored by the shield because the speed is too slow. To be honest, this setting is very strange, but as a This is a sci-fi work, there is no need to be too demanding.”

Luden quickly understood what Arnold meant.

The other party didn't want to discuss a work with him, but to explain the reason.

"You mean, the speed of light and faster-than-light travel itself will pose a threat to civilization, just like an attack. For self-defense, the civilization star field will establish a corresponding 'shielding field' to prevent faster-than-light travel?"

"Yes."

Arnold nodded,
"Most civilized star domains do this, otherwise it would be too dangerous. Of course, although there are many civilized star domains, they can only be regarded as a drop in the ocean compared with the entire universe.

They have blocked some spaces, preventing us from reaching the end point directly at the fastest speed. We must pass through some blocked areas at sublight speed. "

In other words, the route planned by Arnold is already the fastest route.

Luden naturally had no objection.

The spaceship vibrated slightly, and Luden knew that they were on their way.

To be precise, with the technological level of this era, the launch of the spacecraft can be done without vibration.

This kind of vibration is actually a negative optimization, a function that took a lot of effort to make. On the one hand, it is to remind passengers that the spaceship has started to operate, and on the other hand, it is to cater to Luden's habits.

In this kind of detail, Arnold has done a good job.

He is a competent housekeeper.

The scene changed, and Luden and Arnold were sitting on the sofa, with a drink in front of each of them.

In fact, they don't like drinking that much, but two big men sitting together and chatting, if there is nothing on the table, it always feels a little boring and awkward.

Lu Deng took a sip of tea and said with emotion,
"I thought that after telling the truth, I would experience some unpleasantness, you know, like being treated as a mental patient or something."

For this day, Luden even lived in a lunatic asylum for a period of time!

Simulated ahead of time belongs to yes.

Arnold smiled and shook his head, explaining,

"You are joking, there is absolutely no need for this."

If the whole world really had a script, and there really was a mastermind behind it, maybe they would do this, put Luden in a mental hospital, say he was crazy, and torture him day and night.

but,

No need.

We are all actors on the same stage. If we really want to be like what Luden said, then we are almost like clowns. No one is more noble than the other, and there is no need to torment Luden.

They accepted the truth frankly, and then took Luden on the road to find a deeper truth.

In a sense, this is the unity of past and present.

They fought side by side again.

"You may need to prepare a little."

Arnold spoke,
"We will start a space jump immediately. After the jump, we will appear near the X coordinate. The first blockade area we need to pass through is the Mobius star field."

Mobius?

A circular note immediately popped up in Luden's mind, with only one front and back.

Arnold introduced like a tour guide,

"The civilizations in the Mobius star field believe that they have mastered the time-travel technology. Of course, this technology is only in the hands of a very small number of people. For them, the past, present and future are at the same moment. When they master the time-space travel technology After that, the torment begins without end.”

Lu Deng frowned, "Is there such a civilization under the Nebula Empire?"

From the perspective of the Nebula Empire, the Mobius Star Field seems to be a bit behind.

"Of course, the Nebula Empire is very tolerant. As long as it does not violate the Nebula Constitution, everything is allowed."

While Arnold was speaking, the spaceship vibrated slightly again, reminding the passengers that the space jump had been completed.

A window appeared in front of Luden, and in the window, a planet glowing with reddish light was suspended in the boundless universe.

"This is your first stop, Mobius Star."

(End of this chapter)