Chapter 2717 - 14: Man-made Star Core
Jia Yan flew directly towards an incredibly frozen planet.
On this frozen planet, there were massive blocks of ice.
Of course, these ice blocks weren’t all water; they might also be something like ether.
In any case, these liquids were all in a frozen state at the moment.
Jia Yan’s gigantic mosquito body landed on this planet.
There were strong winds on this planet, although there wasn’t much temperature, some temperature variations caused these winds to appear.
"Compared to outer space, the temperature here is quite higher, around minus ninety degrees, which is already quite high."
Compared to the external temperature, this place was about minus ninety-something degrees, which was considered high.
The wind howled as Jia Yan flew forward, observing below.
"The whole planet is a frozen landscape. If one were to mine here, it would likely be quite challenging. At least at this temperature, even those at the Respect Level would find it unbearable."
Jia Yan understood why mining farther than usual stellar planets was not valuable.
First is the temperature; the ground temperature is very low, making it difficult for regular organisms to stay for long. Even with scientific devices, it’s a huge expense, not worth the loss.
Additionally, it’s too far. The distance from generally inhabited planets is such that even those near the Central Region of the Milky Way are reluctant to make large investments here.
Furthermore, generally on frozen planets, it’s all ice and snow. The surface ice water is generally useless. To mine minerals, one must break the ice, which is also troublesome.
These are the reasons most technologically advanced starfields do not make large expenses to mine on remote planets.
However, if it’s in resource-poor starfields or highly developed starfields, naturally they wouldn’t mind so much and would definitely come to such bodies to mine resources.
The problem is that in this gray area starfield, there’s no such issue; the chaos within has left many planets untapped, so normal planets and asteroid belts remain unmined. Who, being idle and full, would come to such a remote place to mine a planet?
"Maybe, my gain here will be bigger than I imagined?"
Jia Yan strolled on the celestial body.
At the very least, this planet has a star core. If Jia Yan really wants to find a way and puts in some effort to tinker, perhaps he can get the star core out.
Though it might not have a star core, most planets generally have one.
An ownerless planet, no one cares. If he messes around, it shouldn’t cause any major issues.
As for minerals, Jia Yan didn’t expect to find anything he really wanted.
The celestial body’s diameter was about two thousand kilometers, much larger than the Moon.
After flying for a while, Jia Yan stopped looking so much.
His own size was nearly over thirty kilometers, for a two-thousand-kilometer diameter body, he could fly around it in just a little while.
No major discoveries were made.
In terms of his current strength, he could already effortlessly sense whether there was significant energy on the celestial body.
This was also why Jia Yan did not think he would hit the jackpot on many remote celestial bodies.
Because most celestial bodies, even if caravans or mining teams had not come here, powerful individuals passing through would easily scan to see if there was mining value. If there was, they would have long arranged a team to mine.
Not to mention how small the odds are; powerful beings have developed the Milky Way for millions of years. In all those years, which planet hasn’t had a powerful being pass by at least once?
"No need to look further. Even if there are minerals, it’s not worth me mining them myself as there’s no value in it."
Jia Yan shook his head.
Then, his gigantic mosquito body suddenly plunged beneath the ground.
Crash.
An earth-shattering sound resonated far and wide across this frozen planet.
A shockwave even burst out across the planet.
Understand that a huge creature burrowing into a planet creates a terrifying sonic boom, like two planets colliding. Even without exerting force, the mere instant of contact would cause incredibly horrifying earthquakes across the planet’s surface.
The frozen planet’s entire surface cracked open.
Boom boom boom boom boom.
The enormous creature burrowed rapidly inward.
"It really is very cold; on the whole, this planet’s core doesn’t have a high temperature."
Jia Yan drilled downward, ignoring the earth-shattering scene above, focusing entirely on the planet’s interior.
The surrounding temperature still wasn’t high, at least not as high as Jia Yan had imagined.
Due to the planet’s rotation, even if there isn’t much stellar heat, the energy brought by rotation increases the interior density and temperature. Otherwise, Earth and Moon wouldn’t have such high internal temperatures.
But on this planet, Jia Yan hadn’t seen any molten magma after drilling about a hundred kilometers.
In this situation, Jia Yan was somewhat worried about whether this planet would have a liquid star core.
The star core, frankly, is just the core body at the very center of a celestial body, with relatively high density. However, because it started in liquid form, at least a liquid environment is essential for such a condition.
If there’s no liquid interior, Jia Yan felt that the star core he wanted might not form.