Wandering chose the tal Ball over its original, rudintary form after comparing the two.
After all, not only does the tal Ball look better, but it's also much safer and more stable, a significant upgrade from the crude iron machinery of the past.
Of course, now that Wandering possesses the ability to change Covalent Bonds, it can revert back or transform into any shape at will.
"Wandering, how did you know I recharged you?"
Lu Chen, looking at Wandering, which had turned into a two-ter diater Dark Gold tal Ball, asked curiously.
"Because all the information I observed along the way is stored on the Hard Disk, which for constitutes mories. I know you've been protecting all along!"
Wandering communicated while getting accustod to its new form.
It can now produce single nozzles on the surface of the tal Ball to change directions while flying.
Whoosh!
Wandering excitedly zigzagged through space, sotis leaving a golden tail due to its high speed!
Seeing Wandering have so much fun like a little kid, Lu Chen also felt cheerful and laughed: "Iron Base people's Wandering is truly magical, able to change its body by altering Covalent Bonds!"
"I should thank you for sharing these amazing Consciousness Particles with ; without them, I couldn't have developed autonomous consciousness!" said Wandering gratefully.
Lu Chen chuckled: "It's my first ti using Consciousness Particles this way, I didn't know they had this effect. For now, let's not talk about anything else, you just call 'big brother' to see how it sounds!"
"Big brother!"
Wandering obediently called out.
Perhaps it was the earlier mories that gave it an inexplicable sense of closeness to Lu Chen.
Lu Chen couldn't help but laugh and said: "Haha, good, from now on I've got your back. Stick with and you won't miss out!"
Lu Chen paused, then continued, "The elents you absorbed earlier seed to only work on tal Elents. Now, go and try absorbing the remains of that battleship!"
Wandering imdiately flew to the wreckage of the battleship and slowly began to change its shape with the elents, gradually absorbing it bit by bit.
Lu Chen attentively observed Wandering's absorption process and after a while, Wandering had cleaned out the tal Elents of the battleship wreckage and grown to a diater of three hundred ters.
Yet, in front of a small Planet that was a hundred thousand ters in size, it still looked like a cute tal Ball underling.
"Woohoo~~"
Having grown in size, Wandering excitedly flew around Lu Chen.
Now, it was much faster than before because, while absorbing the battleship wreckage, it had also taken in nuclear fusion engines. Using nuclear fusion as a power source made it significantly more potent than before.
Lu Chen could not help feeling a bit envious of Wandering's fortune in finding an engine, thinking how great it was to have a powerful big brother; whereas he would need to reach the stature of a Constant Star before achieving the necessary conditions for nuclear fusion!
Lu Chen asked, "Why did you voluntarily enter the Consciousness Particles just now?"
"I don't know; I just felt a kind of absorbing force. Besides, I didn't have self-consciousness at the ti and didn't think much about it. It was after entering the Consciousness Particles that I started to have active thoughts," Wandering explained truthfully.
Lu Chen, recalling the consciousness of the dying Captain, murmured: "So far it seems that Consciousness Particles might have a mysterious attraction to consciousness, although the specific reasons are still unknown."
Lu Chen continued, "And the reason you now have active thoughts, I guess, is the difference between two dinsions and three dinsions. A Hard Disk uses a two-dinsional plane to store information, which ans you could only think linearly. Consciousness Particles, on the other hand, belong to three-dinsional space, which adds a height dinsion on top of the plane, allowing your consciousness to jump vertically in arc."
"Big brother, you're really knowledgeable, seems even smarter than the humans who created !" said Wandering earnestly.
Upon hearing this, Lu Chen asked, "You rember humans created you, so do you recall when you were launched?"
He wanted to deduce Earth's tiline of losing contact and any clues about Earth now based on Wandering's launch ti.
Wandering replied, "I was launched around the 21st century, but I stayed in the Heliosphere for an unknown length of ti, so I'm not sure what ti it is now."
Sigh, Lu Chen was also a man of the 21st century, and he didn't know how long he had been unconscious in space.
Wandering continued, "Before, whenever I sent back information, I would receive commands from humans, but after waking up this ti, I haven't received any commands from them, so I guess they may no longer be in their original location. I think I've been abandoned by them."
"Do you hate them?"
Lu Chen didn't intend to inform Wandering, yet Wandering ca to that conclusion on its own.
Wandering asserted, "I believe they must have had special reasons for doing so. Even if they're no longer around, I will still explore the Universe. It's my mission, the reason for my existence!"
"Good, from now on, we brothers will wander the Universe together!"
Lu Chen didn't expect that Wandering would still adhere to its original mission after gaining self-consciousness, which couldn't help but be admirable. After all, the courage to roam the vast loneliness of the Universe is substantial.
Since Wandering gained consciousness, Lu Chen had a companion to chat with, making ti pass by much quicker.
Although he still didn't know how much ti had elapsed, at least ti didn't feel as unbearable any longer.
During the long wandering journey, Lu Chen continued to absorb interstellar material, from dust to teorites, rejecting none, collecting both coarse and fine.
Gradually, his size grew to two hundred thousand ters.
That was after compression; had he not actively compressed himself, his size would have easily exceeded five hundred thousand ters.
His current Gravity Strength radially spanned fifty thousand ters, and if he concentrated the gravity in one spot, he could increase it to a gravity strength of 1000.
The temperature at Earth's Core had reached one thousand five hundred degrees, and both the crust and the mantle had doubled in thickness, substantially increasing his impact resistance at least twice over!
However, the Planet's surface was still covered with large and small craters, with forr craters long filled by later accretions of interstellar material - recent impacts that had served as a testant to the omnipresent dangers of the Universe!
Wandering envied Lu Chen's rapid growth.
How he wished he could absorb all interstellar material, but because of the presence of elents, he could only absorb tal Elents, only growing a few ters in this period. In comparison to his big brother, it was enough to make him want to bleed inside.
It must be said, a boss is a boss, indeed!
Boom!
Suddenly, a spectacular nebula exploded a light-year away, ejecting nurous particles of nebula material.
Noticing this, Lu Chen imdiately took Wandering and rushed towards it. Nebula explosions were uncommon, and both spheres were eager to witness one.
From afar, the concentric nebula looked like a cat's eye, seemingly the Cat's Eye Nebula previously observed by humans, located within the Milky Way, stunningly beautiful but inexplicably erupting!
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