The stars, but they become the gray wind

"But your current behavior is not convincing at all..."

"I mean what I say... As long as Sister Luoying doesn't want to, I won't take her virginity. However, if stripping down and having in-depth conversation doesn't work, then letting me touch her a few times should be okay, right?"

"No!!" Before Elena could say anything, Luoying, who was hiding behind the chair, retorted loudly.

"Although I don't mind using my body to give benefits to beautiful girls, but Anna, you are too rogue. I don't want to give benefits to a lecherous lesbian rogue!" Luo Ying, who was shivering behind the chair, protested fiercely to I

"Don't be so shy. It won't be a big deal if you let me touch you a couple of times!" Anna pounced directly at the shadow behind the chair. Luoyang quickly dodged to the side, leaving Anna empty-handed.

"Anna, you pervert!" Luo Ying shouted when she saw Anna actually pounced on her.

"Come: let sister touch it!" Seeing that her attempt was empty, Anna stretched out her dirty hands again and tried to grab the pair of white buns on Luoying's chest.

"Pervert!!!" Luoying protected his chest and scolded Anna with red cheeks.

"Sigh..." Sitting in the driver's seat in front, Elena sighed helplessly as she looked at her lecherous sister and Luo Ying chasing each other behind her.

Chapter 135: Elena’s sisters’ parents?

"Although I don't mind being intimate with girls I really like, your...ethical values...are still a little...hard for me to understand."

After being brutally raped by Anna, Luoying was gently held in Elena's arms. With Elena's comfort, her mental state recovered a little.

"I believe you will get used to this kind of thing soon. Don't forget, sister Luoying, you are now one of us. Although you have not been completely integrated into our spiritual perception network, in our concept, you are basically a real sky alien." Anna looked unsatisfied, licking her lips and looking at Luoying who was held in her sister's arms with a smile.

"Huh!" Luo Ying, who was looked at by Anna with such lustful eyes, shivered involuntarily.

"Stay away from me!!!" Luoying cursed Anna softly with a somewhat angry and blaming tone.

"Oh... little sister Luoying, don't resist so much. After all, it wasn't painful just now, was it? Sister Qisun's technique is still very gentle."

"No... No way!! You're a pervert!!!" Looking at Anna's stubborn expression, Miss Luoying cursed excitedly with a red face.

"Okay, sister Luoying, don't be angry. This time it's Anna's fault. What she did just now was indeed a bit too much. I apologize to you on her behalf." Elena hugged Luoying gently and touched Luoying's head lightly, feeling Luoying's soft sea-blue hair rubbing against her palm. Elena suddenly felt that instead of giving such a beautiful girl to her sister Anna, a lesbian and sea king, it would be better to let the other party become her friend, or even take the next step into a romantic relationship. Compared with Anna, she could definitely make Luoying in her arms wholeheartedly and voluntarily become a member of her harem and lover. Her method of pursuing the person she likes is much gentler than Anna's.

Thinking of this, Elena continued to gently stroke Luoying's head, and her other hand reached over Luoying's shoulder, around her back, and then hugged her tightly.

"Huh?" Luo Ying was obviously caught off guard by Elena's actions, but feeling that Elena, who was hugging her, did not have the same lustful thoughts and desires towards her as Anna had just had, Luo Ying did not resist Anna's actions.

He gently rested his chin on Elena's shoulder and smelled the faint fragrance coming from Elena's waist-length golden hair. At that moment, Luo Ying even felt that he might fall in love with a girl like Elena who was so gentle to him.

"Be good, be good, Miss Luoying, it's okay. I know you don't particularly like Anna's method. Although it's not painful, being forced to have sex with a girl half-heartedly is somewhat awkward and uncomfortable psychologically. I completely understand this. After all, Anna did this to me back then. Don't worry, the people of Sky Star are very open in their relationships with girls. If you want to find a partner in the Sky Star civilization in the future, they won't mind you having had relationships with other girls. Of course, if you need it, in fact, there are also those innocent girls in the Sky Star civilization who have almost no experience in love and physical relationships with other women. If you feel that you need such a partner in the future, I believe Xiao You, the Tree of Life, and other artificial intelligence assistants on Sky Star will be willing to match you with such girls."

"Wow... Thank you, Elena, but I don't think I will need your help in this regard for the time being. I just can't accept that my first time in this life was given to a girl I don't really like." Luo Ying looked at Anna, who was whistling as if nothing had happened, with a reproachful look.

"It's okay... Neither I nor the other Sky Star people will dislike you. I understand that it will take some time to adapt to this environment. And the most important thing is, if you must count that place as being violated by other girls, you didn't really lose your virginity this time. And if you don't mind, I can also be your favorite person to confide in." Elena's hand that was hugging Miss Luoying gently brushed Luoying's long hair on the back of Elena's head, and Elena's face also moved close to Luoying, only less than a few centimeters away. Feeling the breath exhaled by Elena, who was almost face to face, Luoying's face turned slightly red.

"Wow... Elena... I'll be... shy if you do this."

"Miss Luoying?" Elena suddenly called softly to Luoying who was nearby.

"What...what happened?"

"You are so cute...kiss." As Elena spoke, she leaned close to Luo Ying's forehead and left a light kiss on it.

"Oh?" Luo Ying was still in shock for a moment after receiving the kiss from Elena on his forehead.

"This is an apology for my sister's rude behavior just now. I'm sorry, Miss Luoying. If you want other forms of apology, whether material or spiritual, I can provide it to you."

"Oh... thank you... thank you... no need to apologize, I just want Anna to apologize, I... actually I don't mind girls having that kind of thoughts about me, I just don't like this kind of unilateral coercion from the other party. If it's a gentle and considerate girl like you, Elena, and I don't dislike her after getting along with her for a long time, maybe I really will agree to marry a girl like you." Luoying, who was hugged in Elena's arms, said shyly, poking her index finger.

"Oh...really? If I really pursue you in the future and you don't dislike it, would you be willing to be "our family's" girlfriend?" Elena was delighted to hear this, smiled at Luoying, and gently reached out and touched Luoying's cheek.

"As long as it's a girl like you, Elena, and she pursues me in a way that I can accept, I don't mind marrying such a gentle girl..." The shy Miss Luoying rubbed her head against Elena's neck and hair and answered softly.

"Oh, that's great! Then Miss Luoying please don't become my girlfriend or wife." After hearing Luoying's answer, Elena said jokingly.

"Although I'm more loyal than Anna, I've had relationships with quite a few girls. Miss Luoying, you shouldn't mind that, right?"

"No...it doesn't matter...Even if my partner has an ex, as long as the ex-girlfriend is a girl, I can totally accept it..."

"What nonsense are you talking about? Sister Luoying... Our civilization is a single-sex race. There is no opposite sex, and everyone only likes girls. This will not change for all Sky Star people."

"Hmm..." Luo Ying said in a soft voice to express her affirmation. For her, she didn't mind if her girlfriend had had relationships with other girls before she met her. As a lesbian, Luo Ying didn't care that her girlfriend had many ex-girlfriends, or had had physical relationships with other girls many times. As far as she knew, her friend in her previous life, Aze, had dated several girlfriends, and the girlfriends who were her romantic partners often had relationships with more than just her.

Luo Ying was very lucky to come to a place like Sky Star where there were many beautiful girls. As a single-sex female race, Luo Ying didn't know that the people of Sky Star had actually been subconsciously liking only girls at the basic cognitive and genetic level by an irresponsible creator. Even if they encountered other species in the universe, as long as they were not beautiful enough and looked similar to themselves, and also recognized themselves as female, the subconscious of the people of Sky Star would not be able to accept such a being.

Produce any feelings of affection and closeness.

As the product of a special experiment between Cabot and some members of the Combined Fleet, they are also treated as his own daughters to a certain extent by Cabot. As the senior star governor of the Combined Fleet, Cabot will never allow his daughters to suffer any form of harm, no matter whether the possible harm is physical or psychological. Even though the entire Sky Star civilization is essentially an experiment, this does not prevent Cabot from investing real emotions in them and treating the Sky Star civilization as his own daughters.

15 light-years away from Tiankong Star, in a unique binary star system, a spacecraft is observing the edge of the galaxy, where a portion of the sunlight is blocked by the Dyson Cloud.

Inside the spacecraft, Alicia, sitting in front of the display console, looked at the various devices and sensors carried by the spacecraft and the scanning observation results of the stars, and shook her head.

"Still don't understand?" The hatch behind Alicia slid open, and her "husband" walked to Alicia, opened his arms and hugged her from behind, and kissed Alicia on the face.

"Ugh...Frina, I'm going to be shy!"

"What's there to be shy about? We've been married for how many years? We've done this countless times, right? We even used to kiss each other in front of Elena and Anna, and even lay naked in bed. You weren't shy back then, so why should you be shy on this spaceship?"

"The main thing is... there are other AIs on this spaceship. If we do it here, the whole process will definitely be recorded clearly by the curious AI on this spaceship..."

"It's okay... After all, all AIs born from the Tree of Life respect the privacy of Sky Star people as individuals regarding their sexual relationships and behaviors. Before Anna was born, weren't all the recordings and videos of us doing that kind of things that Xiao You recorded deleted as I requested?"

"But I'm still not used to doing this kind of thing under the noses of other artificial intelligences..." Alicia said after rubbing Frina's hand.

"If you don't want to...let's do it after we get back?"

"That's not necessary... As long as we're not under the eyes of other AIs, we can just find a private enough room in any space station in this galaxy."

"Hey, Alicia, why do I feel that you are a little different from the guy I knew before, who accepted all girls and was like a succubus-like partner. You were not so shy back then." Fleena said jokingly.

"People change... Eating too much meat for a long time will make you feel a little too sick. I also want to experience the feeling of innocence and pure love occasionally." Alicia, who has already become a mother, muttered silently.

"Oh... I didn't expect that Alicia, who was the top star in countless lily shops back then, would also like the feeling of innocence?" With a mischievous tone, Alicia's partner, Frina, picked up her clothes and cried while jokingly.

"Well, seriously... I don't just want to experience pure love on the surface. I really want to try what pure love feels like?"

"And the consequences of what I did back then... we didn't see them... The result is that Anna is almost as bad as the two of us when it comes to relationships. Although, as a girl born less than a hundred years ago, Anna's flirtations with other girls aren't as extravagant as we were back then, she's already showing some of our past."

"As for our little daughter, Elena, although she's much better than her sister Anna, and around the time she was born, we both restrained ourselves more in that regard than we did back then. Compared to Anna, Elena is a truly innocent little girl. In addition, during that time we spent with Elena, and with our sisters, we consciously restrained ourselves in front of her, so we didn't lead Elena astray. However, under Anna's influence, Elena still has some of our shadows. Although compared to Anna, the lesbian harem king with many girlfriends, the girls who have had physical and emotional relationships with Elena are less than two-thirds of the level, Elena... This child is a good child in every sense, and now Elena has become the first Sky Star individual to come into contact with true 'aliens from another world'."

"And judging by the current situation, it seems that the alien lady might develop a romantic affection for our daughter. I think it would be nice to let our little daughter, who is a good child, conquer an alien lady and have some pure love experience. However, Anna was a bit too hasty and almost raped her. It was a bit too much. Although she didn't completely refuse, she always took advantage of her half-hearted mood to have sex with her. In this regard, Anna is indeed a bit naughty, although she is much better than us. At least she didn't directly take away her virginity..." Alicia objectively evaluated her two children and the alien lady who was 15 light years away.

Through the long-range effect of the mental perception network and a series of complete giant photon entanglement communication devices and infrastructure in the so-called Kelias Twin Galaxy, the parents of the Elena sisters immediately knew the details of Elena, who was still on the Sky Star, and had come into contact with the rumored alien lady from another world. During the time when the Elena sisters were happily getting along with Miss Luo Ying, Xiao You, as an artificial intelligence assistant, compiled all the details of the three people's acquaintance and life into a report, and sent it to the Tree of Life and Elena and Anna's parents far away in another galaxy. Alicia and Frina also naturally knew some details of their two daughters' interactions with the alien lady called Luoying.

"Let's not talk about our daughter and the alien lady from another world who still hasn't figured out the real reason why Yilin Yiqisi V Jiusiba is now on Tiankong Star. Our research on these two stars has not made any progress so far."

"Yes... As to why the nuclear fusion reaction rates of these stars surrounding the Sky Galaxy and within this 1000-light-year-diameter Local Bubble are so much lower than those of other stars in the Milky Way, this question has been debated by countless researchers and scientists throughout the entire Sky Star civilization for over a hundred thousand years, not to mention the two of us. For over a hundred thousand years, they haven't come up with a truly self-confirmed conclusion."

"In this regard... the entire Sky Star civilization has invested countless resources and energy for a hundred thousand years, but in the end, they only came up with one possibility: that unidentified creature, by some means, changed the rate of nuclear fusion within the local bubble where Sky Star is located, causing all stars within 1000 light-years of Sky Star to be extremely stable, or even abnormally stable compared to other regions of the universe... For example, the Kylias twin stars in front of us are a system composed of red giants and red dwarfs that revolve around each other. The red giant star that is the main star, if we look at the burning rate of stars in other regions of the Milky Way that we have observed, should have turned into a supernova hundreds of millions of years ago due to the exhaustion of nuclear fuel, and "A neutron star, the remnant of a protostar, remained in its original position. There is no way it could have burned stably to this day as a short-lived red giant. This bizarre phenomenon has raised questions about us since we first began observing this binary system over a hundred thousand years ago. However, since then, both long-distance observations and actual close-up inspections have ultimately concluded that nothing unusual has been found. This situation seems illogical, doesn't it?" Alicia looked at the blazing red giant star outside the spacecraft and the red dwarf star, its companion star, completely obscured by the red giant's light. Around these two stars, tens of billions of Dyson clouds are orbiting in low orbit around them, constantly collecting stellar radiation and converting it into energy to transmit to space habitats and various facilities throughout the galaxy.

"While studying this phenomenon, we once suspected that the fundamental cosmological constants within this 1000-light-year-diameter bubble where Sky Star resides had been altered by our mysterious Creator... But the result is... all the fundamental cosmological physical constants we measured are exactly the same as those in the Milky Way and other regions of the universe."

"It's so easy to change the burning rate of stellar nuclear fusion, and at the same time, it can make a Type II civilization completely unable to find the cause. Our mysterious creator is really puzzling, provided that she really exists..." Alicia, the mother of the two sisters, commented on this question that has never been answered in the past 100,000 years.

(I had dinner with relatives and ate too much. I feel a little uncomfortable in my stomach after coming back. That’s all I have to say for today.)

Chapter 136: Chatting with Elena's Parents on the USS Salem (5000 words)

Even among the more than 5000 star systems occupied by the Sky Star civilization, the Kaillias Twin Galaxy is a rather special existence. Just like its name, it is a celestial system with two stars. One is a red giant star that is 12 times the size of the sun in the Sky Star mother galaxy and occupies 93.11% of the total matter in this galaxy. Although, in terms of mass and volume, the red giant in the Kaillias Twin Stars is much larger than the Sky Star mother star, which is a yellow dwarf star, the proportion of the total amount of matter occupied by this red giant in the entire galaxy is far lower than the total mass proportion of the Sky Star mother star in the star system.

The other major component of the total amount of matter in the galaxy is the red dwarf star in the Kaillias binary star system, which serves as the companion star of the red giant. Compared with the huge and bright red giant next to it, the light radiated by this red dwarf companion star is too weak, so weak that it can be almost ignored. This red dwarf star has a total mass of less than 150 Jupiters, which is already very close to the lower limit for a celestial body to undergo nuclear fusion reactions and become a star. The average surface temperature of the entire red dwarf star is only 2500K. If you observe the Kaillias binary star directly with the naked eye on the surface of the sky, you can often only see the red giant in the binary star, and the trace radiation and light emitted by the red dwarf star are almost completely obscured by the red giant star.

The small size and mass of the red dwarf in the Kellias system are not without advantages. Their small size and mass translate into a lifespan of trillions of years. Even after the red giant star orbiting it explodes as a supernova, the neutron star remaining in its debris reaches the end of its lifespan, and all the habitable planets orbiting it in the Kellias system that could potentially support life die, this red dwarf will still be able to burn stably in the universe. Even after the universe's star-forming cycle ceases and it gradually enters the black hole era, this red dwarf may still be able to exist stably... This is how it should have been. (Note 1)

After the people of Sky Star stepped into the starry sky, they naturally noticed the two stars in the Kaillias galaxy. According to the normal theory of stellar evolution, the red giant in the Kaillias galaxy should turn into a supernova explosion in a million years at most. However, the actual observation results and the past data provided by the Tree of Life completely exceeded the cognition of the Sky Star people's stellar evolution theory... In the hundreds of millions of years of historical observation data provided by the Tree of Life, the red giant in the Kaillias galaxy was already shining in the night sky of Sky Star when the Tree of Life had just taken root in Sky Star. At that time, it was billions of years ago. After repeated observations, studies and comparisons, the Sky Star civilization confirmed a strange fact, that is, the red giant in the Kaillias binary star system has hardly changed at all from a billion years ago to the present.

According to historical observation data provided by the Tree of Life, which has been growing on Sky Star for billions of years, this star was already a red giant billions of years ago, and not as the Sky Star people initially imagined that the red giant in the Kelias star system might have been a yellow dwarf that expanded at the end of its life.

The corresponding research conclusions completely contradict the relevant theories and models produced by the Sky Star civilization's observations of stars in other regions of the Milky Way. At the same time, observations of other stars in the Local Bubble also found the same or similar problems. The nuclear fusion reactions of these stars consume the stellar matter at an incredibly slow rate. The red giants, which should have only a lifespan of about a million years at most, have remained stable for billions of years. When these red giants, which are less than 1000 light-years away from Sky Star, died, the supernova explosions produced at such a close distance would have led to an inevitable large-scale mass extinction event on Sky Star. However, due to this strange astronomical phenomenon that the Sky Star civilization has not been able to identify to this day, this has never happened.

At this time, in the Kylias galaxy, a huge spaceship was in the far-distant orbit of a star, slowly gliding by inertia. This large interstellar colony ship, named the Salem, was more than 26 kilometers long and had a complete artificial ecological circulation system inside. It could carry more than tens of millions of passengers at the same time and conduct interstellar voyages in light-years at a speed close to the speed of light. The main energy source for driving this spacecraft was a set of zero-point energy reactors and black hole reactor devices. The two reactors backed up and supported each other. The powerful gravitational potential energy provided by the artificial black hole in the black hole reactor, which was wrapped in fully reflective material and had a mass comparable to that of Jupiter, was used to drive the tidal stacking zero-inertia engine to travel at close to the speed of light. At the same time, taking advantage of the extreme gravitational environment generated by the black hole, the Salem was able to rely on the spatial energy level difference caused by the black hole's extreme gravity on the curvature of time and space, transforming the current spatial vacuum into a further vacuum to obtain energy difference and obtain energy from the vacuum.

This method of using the potential energy of the energy gap in the universe to get the energy of the universe for free is indeed an infinite energy source in the true sense. It allows the energy and matter of the Sky Star civilization to go from being huge and more than enough to meet all the needs of the entire civilization, but ultimately limited, to being truly infinite. Even for the Sky Star civilization that has completed a series of stellar celestial body projects, this is a great technological achievement. However, even vacuum energy is not energy with negative mass in the true sense, and the warp engine driven by this zero-point energy reactor still cannot break through the speed of light. Without real negative mass matter and negative energy, the space speed of the Sky Star civilization cannot break through the speed of light, and the warp engine created by the positive mass solution can only travel at a speed extremely close to the speed of light. In terms of navigation speed, there is almost no obvious paper difference between the near-light speed warp engine and the inertia-free gravity tidal engine. Therefore, most of the small spacecraft on Sky Star will only be equipped with one of the two engines.

For example, the small spaceship Runner that Elena pilots is not equipped with a sublight warp engine. Because of the extreme gravity required to amplify the Casimir effect by bending space-time, all spaceships equipped with sublight engines often have two reactor systems. Elena's Runner, as a small spaceship with a long axis of only 70 meters, obviously does not have enough space to fit two reactors. Therefore, spaceships that have both sublight warp engines and inertia-free gravity tidal engines are almost all medium or large spaceships. For example, the Salem interstellar colony ship is such a spaceship, and Elena's parents Alicia and Volina are among the passengers of this spaceship.

.........

"As a large interstellar colony ship that can accommodate tens of millions of people, there are too few people on the Salem, isn't it?" Alicia said to her partner on a bench in the Salem Ecological Park.

"Yes... However, it is said that this is the norm for the large colony ships of the Sky Star Civilization that sail between various galaxies. Even in the period of more than 100,000 years when the Sky Star Civilization was most enthusiastic about interstellar expansion, the internal design capacity of most large interstellar colony ships like the Salem could not be reached at all. It was very rare for the number of passengers on board to reach 1/3 or even 1/5 of the design limit capacity." As the more dominant party in the relationship, Frina, who was sitting on the bench with Alicia, gently hugged his wife who was leaning on him.

"But a colony ship that can accommodate tens of millions of people had less than 600 people on board during the entire voyage. It's a bit too deserted, isn't it?"

"But this has been the norm on Sky Star for the past 100,000 years and even during its current interstellar expansion—there are more ships than people. The alien lady's memories fully demonstrate how the overproduction of food and other necessities can actually lead to famine? It's truly... absurd."

"Those so-called capitalism and market economies that the alien lady remembers... Fortunately, Sky Star has never seen anything like that in the past... Thankfully, the existence of the Tree of Life and the Spiritual Perception Network, two key elements, fundamentally prevents Sky Star civilization from developing something that would only create a vicious cycle for the entire civilization."

"And based on the alien lady's memories, in their civilization's operating system, the more inward-looking the workers involved in production are, the more developed productivity becomes, and the greater the overproduction, the less need there is for an excessive population. This excess population is the inevitable result of capitalist development. Originally, this wasn't a big deal. As long as this excess population could be provided with all their material and spiritual needs, perhaps there wouldn't be so many negative consequences."

"However, under this so-called disorderly development of capitalism, the more productivity develops, the more surplus population is produced. Worse still, the rate of growth of this surplus population cannot be compensated by expanding demand. Under this uncontrolled and chaotic growth, the surplus population is excessive, which gives rise to a series of vicious problems in the operation of the civilization system: a few people control 99% of the resources, while the remaining 99% can only rely on the remaining 1% to survive."

“The vicious cycle of production brought about by this abysmal capitalism means that all products of labor must appear in the form of commodities on the market, further exploiting the surplus value of the workers who participate in their labor.”

This so-called market economy has led to "serious overproduction of certain products with less demand," while "necessities are in short supply," plunging those in need into famine and poverty, bringing countless wars, famines, disease, and disasters to much of the alien lady's original world. And how could this abysmal system continue to function despite such dire consequences? It's incomprehensible..." Alicia shook her head, expressing her incomprehension that such a chaotic state could persist within a civilization for so long. The people of the planet the alien lady came from had the opportunity to build a better society, but they allowed the so-called market economy and capitalism, the source of all chaos and division, to develop unchecked and disorderly, leaving the entire planet in a state of prolonged chaos and division even more than 200 years after the Industrial Revolution. "To be more precise, the situation in the alien lady's civilization would be that 'a considerable portion of primary products are in surplus, but many advanced industrial products are in severe shortage,' and 'those who can afford them can afford less than what is produced.'" This is a relatively excessive demand.

Many more important needs are in a state of chaos with severe shortages," added Frina.

"And just for such a tiny bit of vain profit... that thing called 'currency', right? They exploit, oppress, plunder, and even massacre their fellow citizens on the same planet. This behavior is simply unconscionable. While we know that the Sky Star civilization is likely artificially created, we at least believe that the development and evolution of other civilizations in the universe should be more rational and orderly... But, the alien lady's memories of her own civilization are really a bit... unappealing."

"If this kind of thing happened in civilization thousands of years before the Industrial Revolution due to ignorance of natural laws and science, it would be fine. But more than 200 years after the Industrial Revolution, it is truly unreasonable that people are still slaughtering and plundering their compatriots on the same planet. They are obviously the same species, but they kill each other for such short-term benefits... and they invent one fictional narrative after another, forcibly dividing the existence of compatriots with the same genes on the same planet into us and them, and making them hate each other. This behavior... is really terrible." Furina sighed.

"At least we should be thankful that the alien lady from another world isn't as narrow-minded as her compatriots, who, due to long-term living in that environment, are filled with fictional narratives based on nation, ethnicity, or so-called ideologies. Although individual Sky Star people, due to the existence of this life's sensory network, won't become fools easily instigated by those narrow-minded so-called fictional narratives, the alien lady is indeed broad-minded and willing to accept more things in the universe. We are relieved to let our daughter develop a close relationship with her."

"Indeed, Miss Luoying is a very gentle person in every sense." Alicia also agreed with Frina's words.

"As a mother... I would very much welcome someone like that alien lady named Luoying to be my daughter's partner. And according to the information we received, Miss Luoying seems to be quite beautiful. I kind of want to hold her in my arms and pamper her like my daughters." Alicia said after rubbing her lover's shoulder.

"When the time comes, don't let your hugging lead you to develop other feelings for her. When we first became partners, many of the beautiful sisters and other female customers who came to the store to play with us just hugged each other as friends at first, and then the friendship turned sour after hugging for a while. As a result, we ended up with at least hundreds of lovers inexplicably." As she spoke, Frina kissed her wife Alicia on the forehead.

"Oh, no way! Although some girls did come with the intention of having sex with us and becoming lovers, they only accounted for less than 1/3 of the hundreds of people, right?"

"The remaining two-thirds of the girls initially just wanted to be friends or sisters with us, but eventually became lovers. I was pregnant with Anna at that time, and maybe it was because of that period that I developed an inexplicable attraction to the women around me? That made those girls around us subconsciously want to be close to us?"

"Now that you mention it... it seems to be true... When you were pregnant with Anna, I did feel that you were more attractive to me and the other girls around you than before... At that time, I couldn't help but want to be close to you. Driven by emotions, I naturally started to be close to your sisters and other girls around you, and a relationship developed into a lover relationship."

"But it's a pity... It's just the two of us on this trip. Although there's nothing wrong with a little time alone, it's a pity that no other sisters or other family members come with us to the Kellias star system." Alicia sighed.

"Although in terms of our physical perception and subjective time, completing the intergalactic voyage at nearly the speed of light only took a few days at most, but due to the time dilation effect under near-light-speed voyage, the time in the Sky Galaxy as the starting point and the Kylias Galaxy as the end point has actually passed for more than 15 years. From the outside world's perspective, our return journey will take another 15 years. It is estimated that by the time we return, our two daughters may have already developed a partnership with the alien lady named Luo Ying." Alicia raised her face and kissed Frina intimately on the cheek.

"It's only 30 years. This amount of time is nothing big. Even for the Sky People who had a limited lifespan when civilization was just born, 30 years is just a short moment in the long process of life. Not to mention that with the maturity of various digital mechanical ascension and genetic modification technologies, as Sky People, we have already achieved immortality. 30 years is so short that it can be ignored. After we go back this time, at most Anna and Elena will be more mature. For our daughters, it will probably just be a long vacation for us to go out." said Frina.

"But according to the alien lady's original concept of time, 30 years is more than one-third of her life. Although the alien lady is now using a highly customized bionic body of a Sky Alien and is basically immortal, I think it will take her a lot of time to adapt to our concept of time and life... Especially our interstellar journey of more than 30 years is not a big deal from the perspective of the Sky Aliens. I wonder what kind of sparks will be created between this alien lady and our daughter in these 30 years?" Alicia thought curiously, her fingers on her chin.

Note 1: A red giant is a short, unstable phase that stars undergo in their later stages of burning. This phase occurs when a star passes through its lengthy youth and prime, the main sequence phase, and enters its old age. Depending on the star's mass, this phase can last only a few million years, which is very short compared to the billions or even tens of billions of years of stable star life.

A famous example of a red dwarf is Proxima Centauri, which was formed at the same time as the Centauri A and B binary stars, about 48.5 billion years ago, slightly earlier than the Sun's 46 billion years. However, because its size is only slightly larger than the critical mass of a star required for hydrogen fusion reactions, the fusion reaction rate is very slow and unstable, so astronomers estimate that its lifespan can be between hundreds of billions and trillions of years.

Chapter 137: Exploration of the Unknown and the Utopia of Absolute Excess? (5000 words)

After enjoying Alicia and her husband, Salem's consciousness and attention left the cabin where Alicia and her husband were, and extended his gaze and perception to other corners of the ship.

Of the 600-plus passengers, approximately 100, or more accurately, their bodies, were gathered in the virtual game room of Area A16. Their bodies lay in immersive hibernation life support pods, while their consciousnesses, through brain-computer interfaces installed in their highly mechanized and digitally modified brains, immersed in the virtual world created by the Salem's quantum supercomputer. The red-haired catgirl noticed that these 100-plus people had entered the virtual world approximately 24 hours ago. Based on their physical senses and time reference system, these 100-plus people had already been there for approximately a month. Salem, extremely curious, naturally immersed her consciousness in the virtual world of these 100-plus people. She had originally expected to see a chaotic lesbian scene, but the scene that unfolded before her was unexpected.

After entering a highly realistic digital virtual world, Salem found himself floating in a pitch-black space. Based on the simulated data of the surrounding environment, Salem was certain that the quantum supercomputer was simulating the vacuum of space. Then, a strong light from overhead instantly drowned out Salem's consciousness and vision in the vacuum. It was a strong light that was billions of times brighter than the sun in the star system in the sky. After regaining his vision and perception, Salem looked up.

It was a supernova that had just exploded. Under the collapse caused by the star's own gravity, all the nuclear fuel and photons were squeezed into the iron nucleus. The iron nucleus was completely shattered by the strong pressure, thus producing a huge amount of free protons and neutrons. The protons and electrons reacted to generate neutrons and neutrinos. The entire core of the star was also completely blown apart by this powerful force. The matter originally carried by the star was thrown into the surrounding space, and the remaining core continued to shrink inward under the action of gravity, eventually forming a neutron star.

Before Salem's eyes, the evolutionary process of a star's final life, which originally lasted for millions of years, was compressed into a few minutes like a fast-forwarded video. Salem watched this spectacular scene over and over again. She now knew what the more than 100 people were doing lying in the life-support hibernation capsule for a whole day. Salem keenly felt that she was not the only one editing and observing this simulated picture in front of her. There were more than 100 pairs of eyes staring intently at the picture of the star's creation explosion.

"Is it actually simulating the normal stellar evolution of the red giant star in the Kylias binary star system?"

"You haven't given up yet... Come to think of it... With the Sky Alien's dedication to scientific truth... how could they not devote all their energy to solving such a huge question?"

"But... after a full 100,000 years, hundreds of billions of Sky Star people have expended countless efforts, yet there's still no research result or conclusion. It's highly unlikely that these 100-odd people will succeed..."

"It's not just the Sky Star civilization itself that's confused... We, as strong artificial intelligence, don't understand the reason for this phenomenon either. The Tree of Life doesn't understand it either. This is such a strange and bizarre phenomenon. Perhaps only the 'Creator' who caused it can explain it all?"

"From the time the Sky Star Civilization was just a single Kardashev Type 1.8 civilization in a single star system, to now, with over 5000 surrounding star systems, a true Kardashev Type 2.7 interstellar civilization, a full 100,000 years have passed, countless resources and research efforts have been poured into this endeavor, and the relevant theories and applications of the unification of the four forces have been completed. Yet, we can't even explain the abnormal behavior of the stars right here on our doorstep... Seriously... Only at times like this can we truly feel... how insignificant even a Type 2.7 civilization is compared to the universe. It's ironic, a civilization that could only observe those stars from afar, to traveling to them at near-light speed, to a civilization that can touch thousands of stars, yet can't even understand the specific conditions of the stars almost at our doorstep... In every sense, it's a bit... ridiculous."

"Haha... They can master the Grand Unified Theory, propel spacecraft to near-light speed, hunt stars, control thousands of stars, and even destroy and reshape entire solar systems, yet they can't even answer such a small question... It makes our countless resources and time spent on research seem like a joke... If that Creator really exists, perhaps this is indeed a huge joke?"

"Even we don't know the answers to these questions, whether it's the stars at our doorstep or our own origins. Unfortunately... limited to the speed of light, we still can't predict the future. Even the Tree of Life itself, the terminal of all strong artificial intelligence, a true super artificial intelligence, can't tell us when we will know the answers to these questions. Perhaps we won't find the answers until the day the universe ends."

The red-haired cat girl murmured as she looked at the more than 100 pairs of eyes in front of her who were trying again and again to fine-tune the parameters in the simulation process in order to find the cause of the stellar anomalies in the Kylias twin star system. Finally, she took a last look at the more than 100 sky aliens who were working tirelessly and withdrew her consciousness from the virtual world.

After her perception and consciousness left the virtual world, the red-haired cat girl observed other areas on the ship again. The remaining 400 or so passengers were almost all doing their own things. What surprised her was that there were probably less than 20 people doing that kind of thing in a few private rooms. The other hundreds of people were either feeling the nature in the ecological area or enjoying the radiation sunbathing in the ionizing radiation room specially designed for sky creatures. For the Sky Star individuals who were born with a large number of nanorobots in their bodies, even radioactive neutron radiation of more than thousands of roentgens per second or ionizing radiation of millions of millisieverts were no different from an ordinary sunbathing for the Sky Star individuals who were born with adaptability to high doses of radiation. In the residential communities of the Sky Star mother planet and other galaxies, such radiation sunbathing places that irradiated ionizing radiation or radioactive material radiation were actually quite common. As a large interstellar colony ship, the Seller Mother was of course equipped with a series of complete radiation sunbathing cabins to meet the needs of passengers on board in this regard.

Although this dose of radiation is harmless to the Sky Star people, the only consequence is that the nanomachines in their skin and blood vessels will make the whole body glow blue or green under high doses of radiation. Therefore, after each exposure to the radiation field, a Sky Star person will need some time to wait for the nanomachines in the body to completely digest and absorb the radiation and store it as energy. According to a series of research results, this time will vary from 3 to 20 minutes depending on the actual condition of the individual Sky Star person.

"Speaking of which... according to the alien lady's memories, other possible alien intelligent creatures... especially carbon-based ones... might actually be very poor at resisting radiation and recovering from physical damage."

"Even a tiny chemical toxin could kill them... Even a slight excess or deficiency of something in the atmosphere could literally lead to a disaster with massive casualties... It seems that perhaps other alien life in the universe is more fragile than we thought?"