Swallowing the Stars: Starting with the Steel of the Heart

"It's time to set off!"

For the past two weeks, Xiang Bei has been preparing to set foot in the universe; he has prepared everything he could.

Now it's time to take the first step.

As a passenger spaceship, the Silver Star had several travel routes, and recorded information on more than 500 inhabited planets.

However, most of these planets are located within the Silver Blue Empire, or more precisely, in one region of the Milky Way galaxy.

After all, the previous owner of this spaceship was just an ordinary passenger transport company on Silverhorn Star.

They mainly operate only a few routes.

As for places like Qiulong Star, which Luo Feng and his group visited in the original novel, there are no planetary coordinates at all.

Firstly, the distance is too far, already outside the territory of the Silver Blue Empire. Even with a single A-class passenger spaceship, it would take at least two or three months to reach the destination.

Secondly, those who choose to be customers of their kind of spaceship likely don't have the resources to venture to Qiulong Star.

After all, Qiulong Star is known as one of the most prosperous trading planets in the Black Dragon Mountain Empire.

Ordinary people might not even be able to meet their most basic living needs on Qiulong Star.

Getting back to the main point, Xiang Bei pondered for a long time on the star map aboard the Silver Star before finally identifying a planet.

This is a planet within the Silver Blue Empire, located in an administrative region called Guhe in the Milky Way. It is a relatively well-known commercial planet in that region, named Judong Star.

There are essentially two reasons why Xiang Bei chose this planet.

The first reason is its proximity. Even at the speed of an A-class spaceship entering the dark universe, it would only take less than ten days to reach it, making it a relatively close planet to Earth.

Secondly, this is a commercial planet, and the nearby shipping lanes are relatively safe, so there's no need to worry about being plundered by space pirates.

Furthermore, the Silver Blue Empire's army is stationed on this planet to maintain the commercial order of Torch East Star, which can ensure Xiang Bei's safety on this planet to a certain extent.

Thirdly, it is also related to trade. Xiang Bei continues to need to sell some things in the universe to exchange for the currency in the universe. He also needs to buy some resources, which is naturally more convenient on a trading planet.

Therefore, Xiang Bei chose this Ju Dong Star as his first stop in the universe.

Because the spaceship's speed is also slow, it takes 10 days to travel to Judong Star, plus the time spent staying on Judong Star and the return trip.

It will take about a month.

Therefore, Xiang Bei could only tell his family that he was about to break through and needed to go into seclusion for a long time without being disturbed by the outside world, which allowed him to escape smoothly.

In the control room, with the assistance of the Silver Star, Xiang Bei successfully started the spaceship.

With the official activation of the spacecraft's propulsion system, this behemoth, which had been trapped underground for hundreds of thousands of years, finally broke free from the constraints of the ground once again. It leaped up from beneath the endless yellow sand and rose into the air almost instantly, then rapidly ascended until it left the atmosphere and officially set foot in space.

"That's quite a commotion!" Xiang Bei watched the spaceship take off through the large screen in the control room.

The Silver Star's emergence from the ground was quite a commotion, but fortunately, it was also equipped with an optical stealth system and signal jamming devices.

With the current level of technology on Earth, we should only be able to see a cloud of yellow sand rolling in the desert, and we won't be able to detect anything else.

After all, it's a spaceship traveling in space, so safety considerations are necessary.

Although it doesn't have any powerful offensive weapons as a passenger spaceship, it has excellent stealth capabilities and can effectively avoid detection and locking when encountering danger.

Of course, this is only applicable to A-class spaceships.

"This is the first time I've seen Earth from outer space."

Although I have seen the Earth's appearance countless times in textbooks and videos, this is the first time I have seen its appearance so directly.

I must say, this is a beautiful planet!

"Let's go, Silver Star, departure target set: East Star."

After gazing at the beautiful blue planet for a while, he gave the order to advance.

"Target confirmed: Torch East Star. The spacecraft is about to enter acceleration mode. Crew, please prepare to enter dark space!"

After the mission objective was determined, the Silver Star's intelligent system issued a voice prompt.

Since the Silver Star is only an A3 class spaceship, its performance is certainly inferior to those of B and C classes, let alone those warships specifically prepared for war.

Therefore, once the Silver Star enters acceleration mode, it must enter the safe house to avoid risks; otherwise, the acceleration of the spaceship will kill ordinary passengers.

Of course, the control room is definitely safe.

Secondly, there is the accelerated time required to enter the dark universe.

The Black Dragon Mountain warship, like the No. 12 ruins, accelerated into the dark universe in just a few dozen seconds.

However, the Silver Star takes a full half hour.

This is the difference between spaceships, but there's nothing that can be done since Xiang Bei lacks the ability to deal with the Black Dragon Mountain spaceship at the bottom of the sea.

As the spaceship accelerated, Xiang Bei could clearly see through the control room that the blue planet outside was gradually moving away from him.

"Buzzing"

"Prepare yourself for the upcoming dark universe."

As the spacecraft was retrieved, it issued a notification when a certain critical point was reached.

One minute later

In the vast starry sky, a silver-white spaceship that had become blurred suddenly rippled slightly in space.

The spaceship miraculously disappeared into space!

It's not that it disappeared because it reached the speed of light and was invisible to the naked eye, but that it truly disappeared into the universe!

boom!

Xiang Bei felt the spaceship begin to shake violently, as if the entire ship was surrounded by a dozen giant fascia machines, and the whole spaceship was trembling incessantly.

The tremor lasted for more than a minute, during which time the surroundings were completely dark, before it subsided.

"Space travel successful, we have entered the 'dark universe'," the Silver Star's intelligent system reported on the screen.

"Phew." After the spaceship stopped violently shaking, Xiang Bei also let out a soft breath.

Even Xiang Bei's body felt slightly uncomfortable from such violent shaking.

"I remember it wasn't described like this in the original story!"

Xiang Bei sighed helplessly, "When I'm rich, I'll definitely buy a higher-end spaceship. The performance of an A-class spaceship is still too poor."

However, after complaining, Xiang Bei was still curious about what the dark universe looked like, but unfortunately this spaceship did not have the function of simulating the exterior.

Moreover, you can't capture much of the outside world from the dark universe.

This left Xiang Bei slightly disappointed.

However, I quickly adjusted my mood.

Due to limitations in the spacecraft's performance, the Silver Star could not maintain its optimal speed at the speed of light indefinitely.

Therefore, the extreme propulsion mode is only used during the process of entering the dark universe, allowing the spaceship to briefly reach the speed of light and thus reach the dark universe plane.

However, once the extreme propulsion mode ends and the spaceship enters the dark universe, its speed will gradually decrease, eventually stopping at 0.52 times the speed of light before continuing its journey.