"Why?" It was probably because Lin Tuo's answer was so decisive that several people present were a little stunned. Hathaway spread her short arms and leaned forward, staring at him.

"Are you surprised?" Lin Tuo smiled.

Hathaway choked, waved her hand and said:

"No... I mean, aren't you even curious when I think about you?

It’s not just a matter of saving time. Don’t you wonder what happened? Maybe there are benefits to be gained in the past.”

Lin Tuo sighed softly and said: "First, saving time is of course important, but compared to the possible dangers, a moderate detour is acceptable."

"Second, of course I am curious, but I know better when to be curious and when not to be curious."

"Okay," Hathaway spread her hands, an upward arc suddenly appeared on her delicate face, and said happily: "Actually, I would like to persuade you to take a detour even if you don't tell me. I'm timid."

"I didn't see it." Lin Tuo rolled his eyes.

Immediately, it was clearly noticed that the search ship began to adjust its direction.

In a certain area on the glass curtain wall used to display the "star map", the small dots representing battleships also deviated from the original straight line and tried to draw across the edge of the ripples.

"By the way, you just said that a battleship can sail in the real universe. How fast? Can it reach the speed of light?" Looking back from the star map, Lin Tuo suddenly thought of this question.

"How is it possible? It's very slow anyway," Hathaway explained. "In the spiritual world, the battleship can slowly draw energy from the surroundings and accelerate with the help of natural disturbances in the surrounding environment.

But once it enters the material world, its speed is similar to the thrust of Earth's existing rockets, and it is not designed to fly in the material world.

The consumption of energy will be extremely intense. What I thought before was that if you insist on entering the material world and moving forward in a straight line, then I will try to use a gravitational slingshot to accelerate."

Gravity slingshot... Lin Tuo was slightly startled, remembering the meaning of this term.

To put it simply, aircraft in the universe are limited in size and cannot carry too much fuel, so they often use the gravity of the planet in their path to accelerate themselves twice.

This is the case for the probes sent by humans to the outer solar system.

Because you have to explore in a direction away from the sun, you will be continuously pulled by the sun, and your own speed will continue to decrease. Therefore, if you want to gain acceleration, you need to try to cut into the orbit of the planet when approaching some large celestial bodies, and

Ignite at the highest point of speed to achieve accelerated breakaway.

When Lin Tuo watched the movie "Wandering on the Earth", he once wondered why the Earth had to pass by Jupiter... It would not hide away, but it was actually just to use Jupiter to accelerate itself.

"In other words, the technology of the Imperial people is also biased. They have lit up the technology tree of spiritual world jump. In terms of real space navigation capabilities, they are still at a stage similar to that of the Earth?" Lin Tuo concluded with eyes.

He vaguely felt that this was very important information.

"It's hard to put it that way, maybe this battleship is a bit biased." Hua Xi thought for a while and said.

Lin Tuo shook his head and said:

"It doesn't make sense. A search ship carrying out a long-distance exploration mission would never leave such an obvious shortcoming."

As he spoke, he shook his head and laughed at himself: "This is not even on their territory yet, and I'm starting to analyze it randomly."

Next to her, the black-haired and dark-eyed Sinaishan stood quietly, watching the conversation between Lin Tuo and others with great interest. Through this half-month contact, her attitude towards Lin Tuo and others had changed from awe to closeness.

As he spoke, the battleship had already circled to the side of the planet where the disaster occurred.

It is also the most recent point.

Hathaway suddenly said: "Do you want to satisfy your curiosity?"

"What do you mean?" Lin Tuo asked.

She said: "The battleship actually has a detection function. It can briefly spy on the material world without leaving the spiritual world. It is very safe.

Well, at least the system records are safe.

The original team of this ship often used this function. Before, it was too far away to see clearly. Now, although it is still far away, it can be seen at least."

Is this still possible? Lin Tuo thought for a while and said, "You can try it. If there is any danger, stop it immediately."

"Okay~"

The next second, in the center of the silver-white battleship that was traveling through the spiritual world, the antenna swayed slightly, and on the side of the battleship, two small antennas like snail tentacles poked out.

In the dark spiritual world, a small hole suddenly opened.

On the glass curtain wall, a picture also appeared:

In a strange but equally silent real universe, among the sea of ​​stars, a pale planet is slowly rotating according to the established rules.

Opposite the pale planet, there is an exceptionally bright star, like a burning fireball.

Just a few seconds after everyone saw the planet, Lin Tuo suddenly felt alarm bells ringing in his heart!

"Close!" he shouted.

"Pa-ta." The screen went out instantly, and the torn hole was healed again.

There was silence in the lounge.

No one spoke.

The Yue Clan people in the maintenance team looked at each other, not knowing what was going on. Hua Xi raised his eyebrows and subconsciously pressed his heart that was beating rapidly.

A drop of cold sweat fell from Mount Sinai's forehead.

Just at that moment, she vaguely felt that the pale planet seemed to be "alive" and looked towards them.

"This is……"

"Don't worry about it. Keep going." Lin Tuo said expressionlessly. Hathaway snorted, and the battleships on the star map quickly moved away.

"Look!" Suddenly, Mount Sinai pointed to the left front of the glass curtain wall.

I saw that in the spiritual world, there was an illusory sea.

Yes!

ocean!

A rootless duckweed-like blue ocean with a radius of about a kilometer floats in the void. On the sea surface, a huge and strange figure is making a gesture of rushing on its way.

It seems to be moving towards the position of the planet, but due to the ripples, its moving speed is comparable to a snail.

Its upper body is similar to a humanoid, with blue and black skin and long flowing hair. It is indistinguishable from male to female. Its lower body is made up of tentacles like octopuses. In the ocean, it imitates a wheel and takes turns to paddle forward...

And around it, there are still some low-level spiritual beings swimming in the sea water.

This scene is weird and funny.

As the battleship flew towards it, it suddenly stopped flapping and turned to look over. Two short steel forks appeared in its hands.

Appearing extremely vigilant.

"Lord of the spirit world..." Hua Xi exclaimed, "Is it heading for that planet?"

"It seems so," Lin Tuo said with a strange expression, thinking of the one-eyed giant in his mind... I remember that that guy discovered the abnormal disturbance of the prayer candle.

So I hurriedly rushed all the way to the No. 2 sandbox to give away experience... The guy in front of me was probably the same.

"What should we do? It's targeting us!" Hathaway said while reducing her speed.

Lin Tuo thought for a while and said: "Drive normally, be ready for battle, I'll go out and take a look."

As he spoke, he closed his eyes and sank into the sea of ​​consciousness.

Leaving the battleship with the help of the "Gate to the Spirit World".

Passing through the energy shield in the form of a soul, he guided the battleship to fly. At the same time, he looked at the "Eight Claw Lord" and used his mental power to convey a message:

"Are you going to devour spirituality?"

In the spiritual world, the distance that spiritual power can transmit sound is extremely long.

Opposite, the lord who was soaking in the sea water saw Lin Tuo appearing, his eyes moved, he looked a little confused, and became more vigilant, saying: "You want to fight with me?"

Lin Tuo denied: "I was just passing by. You should be able to tell that if I wanted to go there, I wouldn't come in this direction."

The "Eight Claw Lord" looked at the direction he was coming from and seemed to agree with this statement. The hostility in his eyes was slightly reduced, but he still said warily:

"You go your way, and I'll go mine."

"That's what I meant," Lin Tuo smiled, then his eyes flashed and he said, "But I want to remind you that that planet is very dangerous."

"Eight Claw Lord" frowned, as if he was not used to Lin Tuo's kindness: "When I arrive, there will be no danger."

It means that when it passes, the forbidden item that destroyed civilization will completely lose its ether and will be unable to display its abilities, just like a tiger with its teeth pulled out.

Lin Tuo immediately understood what the one-eyed giant had said.

However, he still said seriously:

"What I mean is that even if the ether is lost, it may still be dangerous. We just tried to peek outside from a distance, and I felt very uneasy."

The "Eight Claw Lord" frowned even more tightly, as if he was a little unsure of the intentions of the powerful lord-level man in front of him who was mixed up with advanced civilization.

After thinking for a while, it said slowly: "Thanks for reminding me, I will pay attention to it."

Tsk... Good words can't persuade a ghost who wants to die... Lin Tuo was helpless. He really felt that something was wrong with that planet, but since everyone said so, he didn't bother to talk nonsense and nodded:

"good."

Then he pretended to be casual and asked: "Brother, let me ask you something, have you encountered any other aircraft recently? Similar to the one behind me?"
To be continued...