Chapter 688 - 440: Shrinking Inches
The birth of a neutron star results from a supernova explosion of a fixed star.
When the nuclear fuel within the star is exhausted and it can no longer maintain its stable state, collapse occurs.
During the collapse, the temperature and pressure within the star rise rapidly, triggering a series of nuclear reactions.
Ultimately, these nuclear reactions compress the star’s internal matter to the limit, forming a dense core.
This core is the precursor of a neutron star.
This dense core will continue to shrink under the influence of gravity, eventually forming what is known in astronomy as a neutron star.
As time goes by, the pressure inside the neutron star will gradually accumulate and increase, ultimately leading to another collapse. Some theories suggest that after the neutron star collapses, it forms an even denser celestial body—a black hole.
The density and gravity of a black hole are even more exaggerated than those of a neutron star; not even light can escape a black hole’s gravity. This makes it the densest celestial body known to humanity.
Wang Ye’s current density seems exaggerated, but the gravity resulting from his mass is only 0.00068% of Earth’s gravity, which is almost negligible.
Thus, he isn’t worried that his density would cause any harm to the Earth or the people around him.
However, there is a problem: once his body weight exceeds a thousand tons, he will lose the ability to fly,
although his telekinesis is strong, it’s still far from the level needed to casually control a thousand tons. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have struggled so hard against the meg shark,
if his telekinesis strength exceeded a thousand tons, he could easily lift or crush it with mere thought, thus avoiding a physical confrontation.
Against modern fighter jets and tanks, he’d be able to kill with a mere gesture.
That would truly be the domain of a divine being.
But though Wang Ye has not reached that domain, he has a telekinesis strength of tens to nearly hundreds of tons.
After leaving the warehouse.
Wang Ye jumped slightly.
His heavy body thundered against the ground, making a "rumbling" sound, and the ground sank deeply under his steps.
He channeled all his telekinesis to reduce his weight, managing to only barely decrease it by one hundred tons, leaving eight to nine hundred tons remaining.
Wang Ye then had to adjust his skeletal structure, increasing the surface area of his feet, while laying a thick biological force field beneath his feet to prevent the ground from collapsing easily.
Subsequently, he began walking on land, preparing to evolve in the nearby sea through Walking.
Since mastering Flying, it had been a long time since he last engaged in Running.
Land running not only creates a big disturbance, but also has much greater wind resistance than Flying. Although his strength has significantly increased, his Running speed still cannot compare to Flying, which is an inherent disadvantage.
And now, having devoured an entire warehouse of graphite ore, his weight has risen to around a thousand tons, making Running even more difficult.
Wang Ye attempted Running a few times. Although he could barely reach supersonic speeds, it was too exhausting. Running mere tens of kilometers left him drained, this familiar feeling reminded him of the fear from running marathons in the past.
However, in doing so, the skill level of the "Divine Speed" skill increased much faster.
Since Divine Speed evolved from Running and Walking, it can only be improved through Walking.
Since Wang Ye began Flying, the improvement of Divine Speed has considerably slowed, only occasionally improving by taking a few steps on land. But now, running with a weight of a thousand tons provided a potent boost to this skill. Additionally, since his Divine Attribute has significantly improved, his comprehension and logical analysis abilities have also advanced by several levels, naturally accelerating skill upgrades by many folds. Skills that were once as challenging as climbing the heavens now seem much simpler.
As a result, after about two hours of Running, his Divine Speed skill upgraded to level 3.
At the moment of upgrading, countless exceedingly complex techniques surfaced in Wang Ye’s mind, and Running suddenly became much easier.
He felt as though his thousand-ton weight had lessened many times over, and the original feeling of carrying Mount Tai on his head disappeared. The frequency of his leg movements increased remarkably.
Flipping through the newfound knowledge in his mind, Wang Ye exclaimed joyously, "Not bad, not bad, indeed it’s beneficial to strengthen and practice old skills when there’s time!"
The techniques provided by Divine Speed can also be applied in the domain of Flying, enhancing his Flying speed. The things given by the system are never useless. Looking at this trend, in the future, there’s a possibility for the Divine Speed skill to merge with the Flying skill, becoming a more profound fourth-stage Extraordinary Skill.
With a thousand tons of carbon atoms, Wang Ye reached the seaside to undergo an evolution. After evolving part of his trunk muscles and his left thigh muscle into high-elasticity muscle fibers, he ran back to the laboratory to continue his cloning experiments.
In the following days, he repeatedly cycled through experimenting, Running, evolving, then Running back to the laboratory to resume experiments.
Occasionally, he observed the situation over at the Mariana Trench.
Since the Megalodon had last destroyed dozens of submarines and several helicopters as well as many soldiers, there have been no other submarines from other countries for many days.
This relieved Wang Ye a bit, as long as the initial show of force was enough to delay them until his evolution was complete.
Once he evolves all his muscle fibers into high-elasticity muscle fibers and implants micro nuclear reactors within his body, he will try to return to the deepest parts of the Mariana Trench to attempt collecting those extraterrestrial crystal clusters.