Lin Xiaohe had finally managed to recruit some outside help, and her attitude was very respectful: “May I ask what I should call you?”
The other party rubbed his chin and said rather casually, “I have many names. The Breath of the Returning Void, The Crown of Mount Sumeru, The Everlasting Evergreen, and so on. Humans always like to name other creatures, but they don’t realize that this kind of behavior is completely meaningless.”
Lin Xiaohe really wanted to retort, if names are meaningless, if I called you ‘my dear son,’ would you answer?
But this person was a big shot, so Lin Xiaohe just gave a polite, inoffensive smile and said, “Okay then, Evergreen.”
Evergreen was very interested in the future of Kyushu Star that Lin Xiaohe had described. He somehow pulled out two seeds, each the size of a fist, and stuffed them into Lin Xiaohe’s arms.
“This black seed is called the Cage Wood. When it matures, it will grow into a prison. Inside that prison, all things come to a standstill.”
Lin Xiaohe gasped, her eyes instantly lighting up.
But then, Evergreen promptly poured cold water on her excitement. “It’s a one-time-use item. Its mature stage only lasts about three years. After three years, it will dissipate on its own.”
“As for the other seed, you can consider it my great-great-great… well, many greats grandchild. Plant it on Kyushu Star, and there will be a surprise.”
Lin Xiaohe thanked Evergreen again and hurriedly carried the two seeds back into space.
The seed of the Cage Wood was dark and pitch-black, almost blending in completely with the dark void of space.
“Meimei, I’m going to use the Cage Wood to trap Kyushu Star and Taiyin. Can you move them to the planned location?”
Lin Meimei let out a long, relieved breath and guaranteed, “No problem!”
There was no time to lose. They decided to act immediately.
Lin Xiaohe threw the Cage Wood seed above Kyushu Star, then withdrew the mental energy covering it.
In an instant, Lin Xiaohe keenly sensed that the mysterious energy, widespread throughout the universe, was being frantically absorbed by the Cage Wood seed.
It was like a piece of cotton compressed in a vacuum. Once unsealed and exposed to this mysterious energy, it expanded wildly.
The seed sprouted and grew rapidly. Eight pitch-black leaves, capable of absorbing almost all light, slowly unfurled, following their predetermined growth path, and firmly enveloped Kyushu Star and Taiyin Star within a cage.
Inside that cage, there was no time, no light. It was like a primordial chaos.
With the two planets packaged up, the next step was all up to the Great Voice Whales.
The Great Voice Whales could manipulate gravitational waves like magic.
They used gravitational waves to weave a shape like a net bag, which they used to hold the Cage Wood.
Thirty adult Great Voice Whales worked together to pull the net bag, controlling their speed as they swam towards Fuguang Star.
The distance between Kyushu Star and Fuguang Star was 13 light-years.
The reason the [Hummingbird] ship could shuttle between them in such a short time was because there was a miniature wormhole near Kyushu Star.
Maybe it was because of the Cage Wood, but this wormhole had become extremely unstable, showing signs of collapse.
With the wormhole unusable, the Great Voice Whales, in order to complete Lin Xiaohe’s task, still managed to do it in just three years.
Lin Xiaohe followed them the entire way, which allowed her to witness firsthand how the Great Voice Whales broke the law that “matter, energy, and information cannot travel faster than light in a vacuum.”
When the Federation and the Empire made long-distance voyages, they usually relied on discovered wormholes to make the travel distance shorter than the light-travel distance.
However, keeping the throat of a wormhole open requires providing negative energy matter, and the whole process creates a huge amount of stellar dust pollution.
The Great Voice Whales’ method of travel was different. They used their songs and bubbles to create a warp bubble.
Inside the warp bubble, time can be relatively still, but the warp bubble itself can move faster than light.
This effect is very similar to the warp drive that humans have always been trying to develop.
What human technology couldn’t achieve, the Great Voice Whales accomplished with their own bodies.
Lin Xiaohe’s way of moving through space was completely different from both of these methods.
She seemed to be the miniature wormhole itself. With every step she took, space folded, similar to the ancient concept of “shrinking the earth into inches.”
It’s just that, limited by her body and mental strength, this ability had major limitations. The folding distance wasn’t far enough, and the energy consumption was very high.
Watching the Great Voice Whales’ leisurely and effortless appearance in the dark space, Lin Xiaohe felt an even greater desire for power, for becoming stronger.
“Chieftain! You’re here!”
Everyone had finally been waiting for Lin Xiaohe. Cheers of joy erupted from the communication channel.
During these three years, people like Wesley hadn’t been idle.
They had great confidence in Lin Xiaohe and had been constantly preparing for Kyushu Star’s arrival.
Wesley handed over the planet transformation plan, created through the collective efforts of the group, to Lin Xiaohe.
“Relying solely on Fuguang Star’s heat, it will be very difficult to melt Kyushu Star’s thick ice layer. According to preliminary surveys of Kyushu Star, there are a large number of volcanoes inside the planet. We suggest using external forces to trigger volcanic eruptions, letting the hot magma melt the glaciers.”
The feasibility of this plan was 89%.
As for what kind of external force to use, the group favored using small meteorites.
As long as there were enough meteorites, it should trigger crustal movement.
After careful consideration, Lin Xiaohe agreed to this plan.
The baby Great Voice Whales volunteered eagerly, strongly requesting to take on the meteor shower task.
When the Cage Wood arrived at the planned location, it was just about the three-year deadline.
Then, blue electric light crackled. The Cage Wood, like an eggshell, was struck by lightning, creating countless tiny, fine cracks.
With a final flash of lightning, nearly half the size of Kyushu Star itself, the entire time-freezing cage instantly turned to ashes.
Dust billowed, creating a scene like the end of the world.
“Begin!”
The baby Great Voice Whales had already gathered many small meteorites and couldn’t wait to throw them down onto Kyushu Star!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Countless craters, large and small, were blasted into the thick ice layer.
After a round of the meteor shower, Kyushu Star’s crust couldn’t withstand the impact. The frozen volcanoes erupted all at once.
Scorching hot magma broke through the ice obstacles, shot high into the air, and then fell back down.
The collision of ice and fire stirred up waves of steam.
This would be a long wait, waiting for the volcanic eruptions, waiting for the glaciers to melt.
When everything had stabilized, Lin Xiaohe would plant the other seed given by Evergreen on Kyushu Star.
That seed would grow rapidly into a giant tree, absorbing toxic gases like methane and sulfur dioxide from the air and releasing oxygen, making Kyushu Star habitable.
Lin Xiaohe stood in the void, watching this white planet break free from its dark prison, gradually seeing more and more little blue dots appear on it.
At that moment, she suddenly remembered the Chinese legend of creation.
“In the beginning, a cosmic egg contained the entire universe. Inside the egg was chaos, pitch black, without heaven and earth, sun, moon, or stars. Until Pangu split heaven and earth apart with a single swing of his axe…”
If you changed the perspective to that of Kyushu Star, wasn’t everything it just experienced incredibly similar to this legend?
Lin Xiaohe felt a creepy feeling in her heart. It seemed she could sense the “fate” that Evergreen always talked about.
“Chieftain! Kyushu Star has one super, super huge continent!” Wesley was very excited. This discovery meant they wouldn’t need to reclaim land from the sea.
“How about you give the continent a name?”
Lin Xiaohe blurted out without thinking, “Pangu! Let’s call it the Pangu Continent.”
