My sampan can be upgraded

When Shi Yuan successfully became a full-time official, Ling Qi not only celebrated grandly, but also used a jade finger to help her accept the inheritance of the skills, which just allowed her to use the next period of time to consolidate her foundation and wait until she reaches the cosmic sea to hit the meteor realm.

Next, I resumed my regular and fulfilling life day after day.

With Dong Ni discussing it together, Ling Qi's research on the matrix made rapid progress. Many times when we are stuck in a stagnation, what we lack is actually a collision of ideas. Someone puts forward opinions from different angles, which can often bring enlightenment.

In the process, Ling Qi accidentally learned that Dong Ni's father was Dong Zhongtian, the head of the branch. More than ten years ago, Dong Zhongtian personally led a team to explore the cosmic sea. He once discovered traces of worms on one of the huge floating islands, and later successfully found mother worm mucus crystals in a cave. However, before it could be developed, a tsunami occurred in the area where the floating island was located, and it was thrown millions of kilometers into space by huge waves. Then, under the gravity and the inertia of falling back, it sank into the sea and was swept away to an unknown location. A small number of them managed to escape, but all the remaining explorers who landed were killed.

"Not only in the branch, but also in the entire star gate, mother insect mucus crystals are in short supply. Because the amount is too large, high-level crystals are directly used to strengthen the matrix structure, while mid-level and low-level crystals are catalysts for strengthening the hull materials, strengthening the A super battleship requires at least dozens of tons of crystals! The quota distributed by the headquarters can no longer meet the needs of the branches, so this exploration was organized." Dong Ni said to Ling Qi.

After hearing this, Ling Qi felt heavy in his heart. It seemed that the universe sea was more dangerous than he imagined.

Seeing his solemn look, Dong Ni comforted him: "Normally, if the floating island is big enough, as long as it does not capsize during the tossing and falling process, it will not be so dangerous. After all, even if it is sunk into the sea by inertia, there will be a relatively long one." The process often takes more than ten days, which is enough to do a lot of things. But once it capsizes, it is equivalent to sinking directly into the sea, and everything will be difficult to do!"

"I'm so scared that I want to drink a glass of Sprite from 1982!" Ling Qi patted her heart and decided to be more careful.

"What is the Sprite from 1982?" Dong Ni looked curious.

Ling Qi casually said: "That's a powerful tranquilizer from my hometown. Drink a glass of it, and Mount Tai will... the planet collapses before your eyes and the color remains unchanged, and the beauty sitting in your arms remains calm!"

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Half a year passed by in a flash. One day, the fleet collectively reduced the power output of the curvature engines and the speed began to decrease. When the speed broke away from the speed of light, a dark shadow came towards them, and then their eyes cleared and they returned to the original dimension of the universe. The familiar starry scene makes people feel cordial and at ease.

Far ahead, there is an irregular ring-shaped blue outline, with a vast area of ​​darkness in the middle, as if filled with giant beasts throughout the universe. That is the cosmic sea, which is still more than a hundred billion kilometers away.

This place is far away from the stars and lacks enough reflected light. The fleet is shrouded in the shadow of the cosmic sea, and the future is dark.

Guan Tong's voice came from the formation channel: "The team paused and circled the central angle of the cosmic sea for thirty degrees before spiraling in. The monitoring system team paid attention to oblique observations of the cosmic sea and collected data."

The fleet's direction changed and it flew in a thirty-degree circle around the central angle of the cosmic sea at super-light speed.

Because the front is in the shadow area of ​​the cosmic sea, there is not enough reflected light to observe the environment in the forward direction. Even if there is a starry sky monster coming towards them, they will not be able to detect it.

Taking their current position as the orbit of the cosmic sea, moving thirty degrees in a circle to any angle is the best slope they can observe. Spiral cutting can also maintain the field of view in the forward direction and grasp a wider range of spatial data.

Judging from the scenes observed before, there is nothing abnormal about the slope. Of course, based on the speed of background star light, what they observed before was actually what they observed a few days ago. Even so, it is better than staying in the frontal blind spot or approaching vertically.

More than an hour later, the fleet broke away from super-light speed and appeared at a central angle of thirty degrees from its original position. At this time, looking at the original direction of travel, you can observe the space scene between the cosmic sea.

After confirming that the space on the slope in front was still normal, the fleet began to spiral in, flew forward for a certain distance at an angle close to the cosmic sea, came out from the super-light speed to observe again, and then adjusted the angle and flew forward for a certain distance. This kind of cautious operation can avoid running into unpredictable dangers.

After a day like this, except for a few spacecrafts responsible for space monitoring, which were dispersed tens of millions of kilometers away for oblique synchronous monitoring, the main body of the fleet was close to the space sea 2 million kilometers away.

Compared with the cosmic sea, which is wider than the star system, this distance is already very close.

There is no calm in the cosmic sea. Under the action of its own gravity and temperature difference, the waves are so huge that when a tsunami occurs, it can easily reach a height of millions of kilometers. In such an environment, no matter how large the floating island is, it will face overturning or disintegration at any time, making it impossible for people to live there.

The fleet's anti-gravity energy matrix was activated to offset the gravity of the cosmic sea, and it flew horizontally within two million kilometers to search for any traces of floating islands.

On the maintenance spaceship, Ling Qi took a look at the super radar image, which showed only the surrounding spaceships and battleships. The sea surface under the starry sky showed deep darkness and did not reflect any radar waves.

"If a huge starry sky beast suddenly emerged from the sea, it wouldn't be... Damn it, it would be a great auspicious city!" Ling Qi stopped such nonsensical thoughts. If such a huge beast really comes out, there will definitely be chaos in the gravitational field, and the spacecraft will naturally be able to give an early warning.

During the exploration phase, the fleet naturally can no longer advance at faster than light speed. In fact, their forward speed is extremely slow, only twice as fast as the normal speed of ordinary spaceships.

One day later, they discovered that a floating island with a diameter of more than 10,000 kilometers was undulating with the waves, with an amplitude of ups and downs of tens of thousands of kilometers. Such a large floating island is close to a small habitable star. From space, it looks like a super huge continental plate floating on the sea.

These continent-like floating islands will not sink into the center of the cosmic sea. Ignoring the sea water, all floating islands are asteroid belts in space, with gravitational effects on each other. With their ups and downs and displacements, the irregularly changing gravitational field and temperature differences cause the movement of sea water in the cosmic sea to be very strong, which in turn pushes all the floating islands out of the sea, aggravating the displacement. The seawater binds them through the adsorption force formed by its huge volume and the mutual gravity between the floating islands, forming a strange balance with itself as the medium.

At this time, neither the fleet itself nor the spacecraft responsible for monitoring the slope in the distance found large enough wave movements, proving that at least for now, this sea area is relatively calm. The fleet began to land and flew 100,000 meters above the floating island. Under the influence of its gravity and the spacecraft's own anti-gravity energy matrix force field, it followed the ups and downs of the island to maintain relative stability.

There are six spacecrafts separated by tens of kilometers, each extending six mechanical arms, with artificial suns with a diameter of more than ten meters installed on the top, distributed in a plum blossom shape around the spacecraft. When the sun lights up, it will superimpose in a plum blossom shape to form a larger light source, illuminating the land below.