In Fire Camp.
Seeing Mingmou open his eyes and finish the deduction process, Lin Li quickly poured a glass of water for him:
"Here, Teacher Mingmou, have a sip of water first."
Then he turned to his assistant Zhang Guanghua:
"Xiaozhang, go and get a towel, Teacher Mingmou's pants... ahem, his pants are wet again!"
Mingmou politely thanked Lin, took the water cup he handed over, and gulped a big sip.
Lin Li waited for about another ten seconds.
Seeing that Mingmou's complexion had returned to normal, he then asked:
"Teacher Mingmou, what was the result of your deduction this ti?"
Upon hearing this, Mingmou first looked down at his still slightly trembling hands, and a look of lingering fear appeared on his face as he said:
"Captain Lin, I did deduce so information this ti, and I'm afraid it's a bit frightening..."
Lin Li keenly noticed the word 'so', vaguely feeling that Mingmou might be about to reveal so big news, so he asked:
"Oh? What is the content of the information? Can you share it?"
Lin Li asked the last question separately, after all, doesn't traditional fortune-telling have those sayings about the ineffable secrets of heaven?
However, to his relief, Mingmou waved his hand, then pointed to the stone slab beside him and said:
"Captain Lin, let first talk about the deduction of the stone slab.
Do you rember the process I introduced before?
That is, when I enter the deduction state, my consciousness enters a closed space filled with gray fog.
In the space, there are so fragnts related to the event I am deducing that fly by. If I can capture the fragnts, I can explore the information within them."
Lin Li nodded; he still rembered this process, sowhat like skeet shooting in a sports event, you have to hit the objects flying towards you to score.
Previously, Zeng Gu Cheng also judged that this space might be a eting point of so sort of cosmic information.
Then Mingmou continued:
"In this deduction, I saw many scattered fragnts flying by quickly in the space, I estimated there were no fewer than twenty pieces."
"Wait, hold on a second."
Because Mingmou's deduction is a unique case, Lin Li was very concerned about various snippets of information. After interrupting, he asked:
"Teacher Mingmou, there were twenty fragnts this ti, so how many were there when deducing Wu Fan?"
Upon hearing this, Mingmou shook his head and said:
"When deducing Wu Fan, no fragnts appeared in the space. I judged his life or death through another thod called 'calculation'—although the mode of 'calculation' and capturing fragnts is different, the accuracy is actually not far off; Wu Fan must be dead.
However, although there were many fragnts this ti, perhaps because of my insufficient cultivation, I only managed to capture two of them."
"I see... What are the contents of the two fragnts?"
Hearing Lin Li's question, a trace of fear and shock suddenly appeared in Mingmou's eyes.
He swallowed a mouthful of spit gently, and continued:
"The first fragnt is a video record, I saw a huge star, obviously a red supergiant, collapsing in layers, and a black curtain descending upon the world...
So black cubes, similar to rubik's cubes about seven or eight ters high, fell from the void, engulfed by the flas of the collapsing star.
Several vermilion coffins drifted out of a neighboring planet, wandering aimlessly in the galaxy.
In the void, several invisible chains emitted a decaying, piercing friction sound, as if trying to confine the entire universe, but there was not a single living being in the entire video..."
Mingmou's tone was extrely slow, his literary cultivation allowing him to describe what he saw and heard with extre conciseness in a short ti:
A bizarre stardust fall.
Then Mingmou paused and continued:
"As for the content of the second fragnt, it is very simple, there is only one syllable in the whole passage."
"What syllable?"
"It was a sharp female voice, neither in Chinese nor Damo language, I couldn't understand its aning, but the pronunciation was roughly..... 'kasu'."
Lin Li raised his eyebrows, repeating the word:
"Kasu?"
Mingmou nodded heavily, and said:
"Although I don't understand what this word ans, I could clearly feel intense resentnt and murderous intent in the voice, almost like a sharp knife slicing through my head. The sweat you see was just from that mont... and why are my pants wet again?"
Lin Li gestured for Zhang Guanghua to hand the towel to Mingmou, then pondered for a mont, and said:
"Teacher Mingmou, were there any details in the stone slab's deduction fragnts that made a deep impression on you?"
Upon hearing this question, a trace of hesitation suddenly appeared on Mingmou's face, his lips quivering slightly as he said:
"Captain Lin, I did see sothing, but I'm not sure if I was mistaken or not…"
Lin Li waved his hand, smiling:
"Teacher Mingmou, feel free to speak, this is not a formal eting, just speak your mind."
Mingmou thought for a while, then said:
"Alright, I'll say it—as the planet was collapsing... I didn't see an iron core in the planet's core, not a hint."
Upon hearing this, Lin Li, due to his professional background, hadn't reacted yet, but Zeng Gu Cheng rushed over to Mingmou:
"What? No iron core in the planet's core? Teacher Mingmou, are you sure?"
Mingmou hesitated for a while, and eventually nodded:
"Yes, I indeed didn't see an iron core."
As a science fiction writer, how could he not know what his words ant?
Zeng Gu Cheng opened his mouth after hearing this, then bitterly smiled and showed his arm to Lin Li:
"Old Lin, look."
Lin Li followed his gaze.
Only to see a row of goosebumps suddenly appear densely packed on Zeng Gu Cheng's arm!
The iron core at the star's core, what does this an?
This brings us to the issue of stellar evolution.
Take our Sun as an example.
Like all other stars, the Sun was born in a nebula.
The main component of the nebula is hydrogen, and under its gravity, these hydrogen atoms and ions compress towards the center of the nebula.
As more and more hydrogen is pressed towards the center, the temperature at the center of the nebula rises, and the pressure becos greater.
When a certain threshold is reached, the first fusion reaction begins.
As the first pair of hydrogen nuclei fuse into helium, the enormous energy released from this reaction becos the seed of the fusion chain reaction, causing more surrounding hydrogen to participate in fusion, forming a star.
This is how the Sun was born.
Stars in the stable phase of life have two interacting forces.
One is the repulsive force exerted outward by the energy produced by fusion, and the other is the collapsing force inwards due to its own mass.
One is trying to push outwards, and the other is trying to push inwards.
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