Chapter 758 - 475: A Long and Lonely Voyage

Chapter 758: Chapter 475: A Long and Lonely Voyage

The flames enveloped Wang Ye’s body, but the raging flames made not a sound.

Normally, flames cannot burn in outer space because combustion requires the presence of oxygen.

But the flames on Wang Ye’s body are essentially the same thing as the "flames" around the Sun.

They are all high-temperature plasma, so they are not affected by the environment.

The flames on the Sun’s surface are generally referred to by humans as solar prominences, and to the naked eye, they look almost identical to flames, all burning upwards, and occasionally emitting small explosions.

But in reality, these are merely flame shapes outlined by the Sun’s surface gases, and are almost entirely different from actual flames.

And the "Samadhi True Fire" released by Wang Ye not only produces extremely high temperatures and destructive power but can also transform into a shield to protect himself.

This flame acts like a barrier that can block any harm from reaching him, and when combined with the Biological Force Field effect, it is enough for him to survive normally in the cosmos without any protective measures.

Gradually, Wang Ye adapted to the extreme and harsh environment of space, his frequently occurring injuries rapidly decreased, and eventually stabilized completely, standing in the cosmos as if standing on the surface of Earth.

And several tens to nearly a hundred kilometers ahead, the rocket carrying three astronauts continued its journey along the predetermined orbit.

After reaching space, although there was almost no resistance, due to a certain distance still being there from Earth, Earth’s gravity would still have a slight effect on the rocket, and space is not completely vacuum either. There exist plenty of cosmic dust and micro-meteoroids, all of which produce friction and decelerate the rocket, so even after entering space, they still need to consume a certain amount of propellant and oxidizer as boosters. However, since the friction in space is much smaller than on Earth, and traveling through space takes about three days, the amount of propellant used is very minimal. Most of the time, they still glide relying on inertia.

Naturally, Wang Ye is the same. After coming into space, the energy required to maintain a speed of Mach 30 while flying was noticeably reduced,

He feels that if he were to fly at full speed now, he should likely reach around Mach 100. At this speed flying in a straight line, he would need only about three hours to reach the Moon.

But if he wanted to reach Mercury, it would take over forty days. Bear in mind, Mercury is the closest planet to Earth. From this distance scale alone, you can realize how vast the cosmos truly is.

If in the future one wants to go to even farther planets or stars, a mere one hundred times the speed of sound is certainly not enough.

At least a thousand times the speed of sound, or even ten thousand times the speed of sound would be needed to barely move freely within the Solar System.

And even at ten thousand times the speed of sound, it would still take over a month to traverse the Solar System using Pluto’s orbit as the boundary.

If using the Oort Cloud as a boundary, it would take two hundred years of voyage, because the diameter of the Solar System with the Oort Cloud as a boundary is full two light-years. Yet, the Solar System is just a tiny galaxy in the cosmos. Know that the Milky Way Galaxy has a diameter of one hundred thousand light-years, fifty thousand times that of the Solar System’s diameter, containing hundreds of billions of fixed stars; and the observable cosmos has a diameter of about ninety-three billion light-years, ninety-three times that of the Milky Way Galaxy, containing approximately two trillion galaxies.

And beyond the observable cosmos, there lies an even broader universe.

At Wang Ye’s current speed, even if in the never-ending years of immortality hereafter, he constantly soared at his fastest speed, he could never touch the edge of the cosmos, this is the immensity of the Universe.

Before the vastness of the Cosmos as his eyes beheld, Wang Ye couldn’t help but silently shake his head, realizing that his power was still too weak before the Cosmos. Though he already had the power to toy with Earth at his fingertips, before the entire cosmos, he still seemed as small as an ant.

He dismissed the thoughts from his mind, looking back in Earth’s direction. His microscopic vision instantaneously crossed thousands of kilometers, while like a remote sensing satellite, he saw the continents’ surface with great clarity, to the extent that he could see the fluttering hem of a woman’s skirt walking on the sidewalk.

After a minute of searching, he finally found a structure that appeared to be a rocket launch pad somewhere in the United States.

As he expected, they were indeed preparing for a rocket launch at the moment, and it seemed to be setting off today.

"The fish has taken the bait." Wang Ye displayed a slight smile.

He hastened his speed suddenly, and after about half an hour, he arrived tens of kilometers away from the rocket.

Inside the rocket’s manned capsule, three people had already left their seats,

beginning their check on the spacecraft’s various systems and the status of the fuel, and continuously communicating with the ground control center to confirm the current status and report the stage of the voyage.

The ground technical team was also constantly checking data on the telemetry systems to ensure the spacecraft was navigating normally.

After a series of follow-up tasks, the three finally found some leisure, looking out at the vast night sky and the blue planet behind them, a hint of shock flowing in their eyes.

For about the next three days, they would maintain in this state until they reached the Moon and began their mission.

"Wu Chen, where do you think Wang Ye is right now?" Chen Xin asked. Due to the cramped space in the capsule, much like a narrow corridor, they could almost only sit and chat in a tight little room. Typically, the space in such a rocket’s manned capsule has been compressed to the utmost, unlike space stations where one can float around and live normally, in these manned capsules, they can barely maintain vital signs.