Chapter 772 - 482: Arrival on Venus

Chapter 772: Chapter 482: Arrival on Venus

Gregorian Calendar April 13, 2025, on Earth.

In the long and lonely dark space between Earth and Venus.

Wang Ye soared alone at a speed of Mach 170.

Logically speaking, since there is no atmosphere in the cosmos,

high-speed flying in space

would not create a flaming tail like a meteor landing.

But at this moment, Wang Ye looked like a high-speed moving fireball.

Deadly plasma flames burned around him, with a core temperature exceeding fifty thousand degrees Celsius, like a small Sun.

At such temperatures and speeds, any asteroid approaching him would almost instantly be shattered and burned into powder.

So his flying trajectory was always a straight line, without taking any turns, consistently flying along his pre-determined route.

The cosmos is filled with many small celestial bodies, and Wang Ye also encountered thousands of massive rock-like asteroids during his flight.

If it were a spacecraft, these asteroids would essentially be deadly. Therefore, before launching a rocket, scientists conduct extensive calculations and plan precise routes for months to eliminate any potential factors that could harm the spacecraft. Moreover, astronauts must adjust their course in space based on the situations they encounter.

Though asteroids are deadly, the complex systems developed by humans to detect and predict asteroid trajectories can continuously monitor space objects and predict potential dangerous approaches in advance. If an asteroid appeared within a hundred kilometers radius, humans could immediately detect it, which is why spacecraft rarely collide with asteroids.

However, historically, there have been incidents of satellites colliding with asteroids, because there are simply too many asteroids. Despite humans’ best efforts to predict, they still can’t completely prevent these accidents.

Perhaps few know that almost every day, five tons of meteors enter the atmosphere. Meteor showers, for instance, are actually incidents of countless asteroids colliding with Earth, but these meteors do not pose any threat to Earth because their size is too small. Upon entering the atmosphere, they quickly heat up and disappear due to atmospheric friction.

Hence, asteroid impacts on Earth are much more frequent than most people imagine.

This also indicates that there are indeed many asteroids wandering through space. Especially between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, there is an asteroid belt.

This asteroid belt contains at least a million asteroids,

and if Wang Ye were lucky enough to go there, he would feel as if he were standing in an ocean composed of giant rocks.

Asteroids floated and moved in all directions.

Wang Ye could even randomly pick an asteroid to leisurely lie on, like lying on a surfboard on the sea.

But the current situation did not allow him such leisure.

In fact, even before leaving Earth, he predicted that during his departure, other nations would certainly set out to explore the secrets deep within the Mariana Trench.

In this month-long interstellar journey, Wang Ye did not think they couldn’t find a way to bypass the obstacles he had set. Humanity excels at progress, or cognitive evolution, and under absolute pressure, humans always find a reasonable solution to break through.

Right now, Earth probably has countless countries forming alliances, discussing how to kill the Megalodon deep within the Mariana Trench.

As for why Wang Ye predicted this move from other countries and still decided to head towards Mercury,

it was because he wasn’t worried about the progress humanity could achieve after acquiring the Extraterrestrial Crystal Cluster deep within the Mariana Trench.

To put it simply, that Extraterrestrial Crystal Cluster is a high-energy substance,

capable of causing biological evolution,

but at a very slow rate.

Although given enough time, using the Crystal Cluster could indeed evolve humans to Wang Ye’s level, the time frame could be no less than a million years.

At present, rather than using it for biological evolution, it would be more convenient to employ it for mecha production.

But with the current technological level of humanity, they cannot fully utilize the energy contained in the Extraterrestrial Crystal Cluster. Given that they cannot use it to the fullest, Wang Ye wasn’t worried.

The most crucial point is that with humanity’s methods, at most they can only extract a small part of the Crystal Cluster, which doesn’t affect him in any way.

Moreover, Wang Ye could almost foresee the consequences for the ocean when humans forcibly mine this extremely hard Extraterrestrial Crystal Cluster Vein.

The massive integration of Crystal Cluster debris into seawater will lead to an excessive concentration of high-energy substances in the sea, inevitably causing large-scale evolution of marine life.

Some sea monsters that only existed in legends would appear in reality.

A single Megalodon already troubles humanity, if hundreds or thousands of such Sea Monsters appeared, Earth might be plunged into crisis or even an apocalypse.

When humanity falls into crisis, Wang Ye reappears like a savior, surely everyone would worship him as Divine.

In this way, a lot of trouble can be avoided.

The disaster is of your own making, I’m just a passing savior.

Shaking off the thoughts in his mind, Wang Ye continued adjusting his trajectory, flying towards the direction between Venus and Mercury.

Since there are no concepts of up, down, left, or right in space, planning routes is more laborious than on Earth.