Wandering Meteor-Chapter 5: Asteroid·Lu Chen

Flying out of the Solar System.

Lu Chen continues to crazily absorb the interstellar material along the way.

Whether it's meteorites, dust, gases, ice, or elemental particles, he accepted them all without exception.

His size also gradually increased during the long wandering journey, from 10,000 meters to 20,000 meters, 30,000 meters...

Whenever he found his size too inflated, he would control the gravity to retract into the Star Stone and proceed with the Gravity Increment. Under the pressure of multiplied gravity, his inflated size compressed, becoming more solid and significantly improving his impact resistance.

In this continuous process of compression and absorption, his body became increasingly robust and hard, with his diameter growing to 100,000 meters, and the influence range of his own gravity reaching as high as 200,000 meters. The quantity of Consciousness Particles had increased by five times from the beginning!

And, once his size broke through the 100,000 meters mark, Lu Chen found that his body had undergone some changes again.

In terms of body structure, a three-layer structure of the crust, mantle, and Earth's Core was gradually forming, which is a further sign of planetization.

However.

The current Lu Chen could not yet be called a Planet.

He was merely transitioning from a Star Stone to a small asteroid.

Because the temperature of his Earth's Core was only around 1000 degrees, and the mass was only 0.5 times that of a Planet, these did not meet the standards of a Planet.

Most importantly, for celestial bodies larger than planets, there's an important requirement to achieve hydrostatic equilibrium, which is the balance between the pressure produced by Planet Gravity and the opposite pressure gradient formed by the pressure gradient.

In simple terms, it means that pressure gradient and pressure intensity gradient form a delicate balance!

Besides the changes in his body, entering the asteroid phase also enhanced the asteroid magnetic field, which could now convert all ray particles into Consciousness Particles!

This was indeed great news.

From now on, the growth of Lu Chen's consciousness would definitely accelerate even more!

"Ha ha, Wandering, your big brother has upgraded again, I am now an asteroid! Please call me Asteroid Lu Chen!"

Lu Chen couldn't help but share the good news with Wandering, it's just a pity that Wandering still couldn't understand, inevitably making it a bit regrettable.

However, although Wandering couldn't grasp the meaning from Lu Chen, it still made some changes.

Originally, Lu Chen had to continuously guide with gravity for Wandering to follow him.

However, after a long time, even without Lu Chen's guidance, Wandering would still silently follow the leading asteroid.

The mindless Wandering seemed to have gradually understood that following the leading asteroid could avoid many dangers, and when it runs out of power, the other would even help recharge it.

This represents a kind of recognition between objects without any mental involvement.

Lu Chen felt very reassured about this.

It seems that after entering the mysterious universe, even the machine-like Wandering had undergone some incredible changes!

Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh!

At this moment, a cluster of asteroids appeared in the distant horizon.

The range of the asteroid cluster was extremely vast, spanning over 500,000 meters, its sight blocking the sun and truly resembling an asteroid catastrophe.

Moreover, the speed of the asteroid cluster was extremely fast. Initially, it appeared very distant, but in no time, it had already flown close. This speed definitely exceeded the third cosmic velocity, and the accumulated potential energy was terribly formidable!

Lu Chen wanted to avoid this large cluster of asteroids, but it was not possible anymore, so he had to brace himself and charge through it.

Bam bam bam...

In an instant, an endless rain of asteroids fell batch by batch onto the asteroid, creating densely packed asteroid craters, with debris sky-rocketing and dust filling the sky.

Under the relentless onslaught of the asteroid rain, even Lu Chen's flying speed was reduced by half.

However, fortunately now that he was an asteroid, his size, density, and hardness had all become stronger, and he was not damaged in his joints or bones by these not-so-large asteroids!

Although Lu Chen was unharmed, the Wandering behind him fell into danger.

Whoosh!

In such dense meteor showers, there would always be one or two meteors headed towards the Wandering.

Every time this happened, Lu Chen frantically enhanced the gravity to bind the meteor, forcing it to drift in a wide curve and crash on the asteroid.

Of course, some meteors had too much kinetic energy and broke free from the gravity's restraint.

At that point, Lu Chen could only control gravity to help the Wandering change position, narrowly avoiding a collision.

In this way, like a competent elder brother, Lu Chen protected the Wandering while bracing against the impacts of the meteor shower as they moved forward.

The Wandering, on the other hand, seemed to have no sense of danger, found the meteor swarm interesting, and carelessly snapped a few more photos to send back.

The meteor shower lasted for a very long time.

Lu Chen felt that it was at least over a month before the meteor shower gradually decreased.

Just as he thought the meteor shower was about to end, a gigantic meteor of more than 10,000 meters ahead made his heart skip a beat!

This meteor was one-tenth the size of Lu Chen, its speed even surpassing the third cosmic velocity. If it really hit him, it would certainly smash him into pieces - no joke!

The giant meteors in the universe also originated this way, launched by supernova explosions, which after a long journey, smash smaller asteroids or planets, creating more giant meteors. These meteors, with their initial kinetic energy, continue to disperse into the universe, shattering more planets, forming even more meteors.

If Lu Chen couldn't resolve the current crisis, that would be his fate.

"Wandering, whether or not we can continue to roam depends on this very moment!"

At this moment, it was too late for Lu Chen to evade; he could only think of a way to slow down the meteor's flight speed or reduce the size of the meteor, thus lessening the impact force.

Unfortunately, as a small asteroid, Lu Chen had no means of remote attack.

However, at that moment, he saw the flames spewing from the Wandering's thrusters and was greatly inspired!

Yes!

Although he was a sphere, he was not entirely devoid of remote attack methods!

On Earth, there are many volcanic eruptions, which are clearly a method of ejecting high-temperature molten magma from the Earth's Core.

Only because of gravity, the magma eventually falls back to Earth. If there were no gravity restraint, wouldn't the magma be able to blast into space, rapidly solidifying in the cold environment to become a solid rock weapon?

With this thought, Lu Chen immediately began to boldly experiment.

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He controlled the high-temperature molten magma within the Earth's Core to surge towards the surface, melting the rocky layers along the way, and finally, formed a massive volcano with a diameter of a hundred meters on the surface of the asteroid!

He aimed the volcano at the giant meteor ahead, then madly surged the Earth's Core molten magma, causing waves of geological movement. These waves quickly transmitted from the Earth's core to the surface, accumulating terrifying kinetic energy, which caused an asteroid earthquake and ejected countless molten magma out of the volcano!

Boom!

A loud explosion, a bright light pierced the darkness, fiery red magma soared into the sky, followed by billowing white smoke!

Lu Chen had already eliminated the gravity in that direction, allowing the fiery red magma to shoot straight into space!

Sizzling!

The red magma swiftly absorbed the low-temperature interstellar material, emitting puffs of black smoke, and soon the red magma turned into black Rock Iron. From afar, it looked like a giant ancient spear of a hundred meters in the cosmos, carrying a momentum that split heaven and earth, fiercely stabbing into the giant meteor!

"Great, it really worked!"

Although this spear did not shatter the giant meteor, it at least slowed down its speed.

Encouraged by this, Lu Chen repeated the process, transforming the magma into giant spears, stabbing them one after another into the meteor.

Finally, on the seventh spear, the 10,000-meter meteor was finally shattered into three pieces, and its speed also slowed to the first cosmic velocity. Lu Chen immediately controlled gravity to absorb and incorporated all three fragments into his body!

However, the elated Lu Chen did not notice that behind him, at a distance of 0.5 astronomical units, a kilometer-long giant ship was quickly catching up!