The strongest miner in the universe

Chapter 88 The Kuiper Belt
Driving the Xuanhuang Lotus Seat, Gao Jiuding got into the forest without hesitation.

There are many places in the Falkland Islands like the Gobi desert, but there are also forests like rainforests. The man-eating tree that the little fox found is in the forest.

Going into the forest, Gao Jiuding was a lot more careful. Although he said that it is impossible for a cultivator to appear here, there is nothing wrong with being careful.

"Is there really a man-eating tree in this world?" Although I don't believe it, but this kind of thing would rather be believed than not!
Not getting any response from the little fox, Gao Jiuding murmured to himself: "The world is so big and full of wonders!"

"It's right ahead, be careful!" After a while, the little fox reminded.

"Why does this look more and more like a pineapple?" Gao Jiuding was surprised when he found the man-eating tree.

In this place of Africa, there are really many strange things. In the woods, it looks like a pineapple, but this tree is a kind of man-eating tree.

It is shaped like a huge pineapple, about three meters high, with a cylindrical trunk and snake-like branches, so the locals call it "snake tree".

This tree is extremely sensitive, and when a bird lands on its branches, it quickly catches it and disappears!

Many local people have personally experienced the power of the snake tree. If one accidentally touches a branch with one hand, the hand will soon be entangled!

If you have a lot of strength, you can break free with a lot of effort, but the skin on the back of your hand will definitely be pulled off a large piece of flesh.

After a little experimentation, Gao Jiuding understood the characteristics of the snake tree.

This thing has been cultivated well, and it is definitely a good housekeeper. Therefore, after discovering it, Gao Jiuding ordered the little fox to put it away without hesitation.

After collecting this snake tree, Gao Jiuding didn't stay any longer, after all, there is nothing good here anymore!

Having made a decision, Gao Jiuding directly got into the spaceship and flew towards the outer space.

Now that people are watching this place, Gao Jiuding cannot be exposed to the open space. Therefore, he cannot enter the ocean, nor can he fly back to Ethiopia. The safest route is to go directly into space.

This time Gao Jiuding's speed was very fast, and just after arriving in outer space, he started the space jump.

After two consecutive jumps, Gao Jiuding has come to the outer solar system ten astronomical units away from the earth!

Gao Jiuding opened the astrolabe disk and carefully studied the star map in front of him. At this time, Gao Jiuding was most familiar with the giant Jupiter. After finding Jupiter, Gao Jiuding could infer the other planets in turn.

There are four so-called terrestrial planets in the inner solar system, Mars is the outermost planet, and beyond that is Jupiter, a superplanet made of gas and ice.

Therefore, Gao Jiu quickly locked his position at this time. He should be near Neptune now, with Saturn and Uranus behind him. If he continues to go outward, he will encounter Pluto, Haumea, and Makemake. The orbit, passing through these asteroids, is about to enter the Kuiper belt.

The sign of entering the Kuiper Belt should be Pluto, which is buried in a large group of asteroids and comets, made of ice and rock.

"Huh?" Gao Jiuding looked in surprise not far away, and there unexpectedly jumped out of a spaceship.

This is a typical crocodile-class mining ship, so Gao Jiuding didn't leave immediately, but looked at the spaceship to see why he came here.

The spaceship apparently also saw the Fox, but they ignored it and flew away directly towards the outer solar system.

"The universe is so big, but there is still a spaceship. Is it because there are too many spaceships?" Gao Jiuding shook his head when the spaceship flew away.

There are many asteroid groups outside Neptune, such as the Trojan group and the centaur group, so Gao Jiuding was a little surprised when a first-class mining ship suddenly came here.

This time, Gao Jiuding didn't intend to stay nearby, but wanted to go directly to the Kuiper belt.

Gao Jiuding has already obtained the second-level authority, but he didn't get any benefits, at most he got some information.

In order to fully obtain the benefits that the secondary authority should have, one must enter the Kuiper Belt base, and the base of the Loose Cultivation Alliance is hidden on the outskirts of the Kuiper Belt.

However, entering the Kuiper belt is not so easy!

At a distance of 40 to 50 astronomical units from the sun, it was always considered to be an empty space, the end of the solar system, but in fact, it is full of large and small frozen objects, which is extremely lively. This is the Kuiper belt.

The Kuiper belt stretches from about 30 AU to 55 AU, and contains many tiny stars, which are fragments of the protoplanetary disk surrounding the sun. They have not successfully combined into planets, thus forming smaller celestial bodies with the largest diameter All less than 3 km.

However, modern scientists estimate that in this area, there may be more than [-] asteroids with a diameter of more than [-] kilometers. How many asteroids with a diameter of more than one kilometer have Gao Jiuding seen in the inner solar system?

But now, as long as Gao Jiuding reaches the Kuiper belt, it is possible to see countless!

Of course, in this ideal state, it is still relatively difficult to really find these asteroids hidden in the dark, because the area of ​​the Kuiper belt is really too large.

From Gao Jiuding's current position, to reach the Kuiper belt in a straight line, it still needs to cross [-] astronomical units.

In other words, at a distance of 40 to 50 astronomical units from the sun, that is where the Kuiper belt is located, but it revolves around the sun, so the orbit of the Kuiper belt is too large.

In principle, the asteroids in the Kuiper belt are all over the entire orbit of the Kuiper belt, so it is very difficult to find a small base in such a vast starry sky, and this is the test for obtaining a second-level authority .

The Kuiper belt is about [-] astronomical units away from the earth. In principle, Gao Jiuding can reach it by jumping eight times. However, this is the case without any obstacles. would exceed one astronomical unit.

The distance of one astronomical unit is almost 30 million kilometers, and the speed of light is [-] kilometers per second. It takes [-] seconds to cover one astronomical unit. How long is this?
Six hundred seconds is 10 minutes, that is to say, it takes eight or nine minutes for light to reach beyond one astronomical unit!
In this way, it doesn't seem to be a big deal, but Gao Jiuding doesn't have a lidar in his hand, and even if he has one, he needs to scan an astronomical unit 9 minutes faster!
Calculated in this way, the efficiency is really too slow, and it is still very dangerous to rely on such radars for space jumps, because asteroids in space are constantly moving.

For example, now, Gao Jiuding uses a laser rangefinder to detect in a straight line. If the laser does not encounter obstacles, then after eight or nine minutes, will it detect a safe route of an astronomical unit?

In principle, this is the case, but there is no celestial body on the straight line detected now, what about the next second?

In the next second, an asteroid may fly over this line, because this line is likely to be in the orbit of countless asteroids.

Of course, such a situation is not unavoidable, such as jumping immediately after the detection is over, so that even if the safe coordinates are in the orbit of an asteroid, it is impossible for the asteroid to fly over immediately.

Of course, there is also a dangerous time of eight or nine minutes. After all, it takes the same amount of time for the laser to return, so the shorter the distance of a jump, the safer it is. Therefore, it is also time-sensitive to use the laser to scan the safety coordinates.

Without laser radar navigation, Gao Jiuding can only use the laser rangefinder. On a straight line, as long as the laser does not change, it means that there are no obstacles on the straight line. In this way, any point on the straight line can be used as Safe coordinates, space jump.

"Mark the farthest safe coordinates, and be ready to jump at any time!" Gao Jiuding instructed the little fox to let him control the time of the space jump.

Gao Jiuding was also a decisive person. With his back to the sun, he chose a direction and activated the laser range finder.

Next, Gao Jiuding could only wait, waiting for the detection distance to exceed one astronomical unit, so that he could jump into space at any time.

1 minute, 2 minutes, 10 minutes, when Gao Jiuding was feeling bored, the siren on the spaceship turned on a red light.

"What's wrong? Did you find an obstacle?" Gao Jiuding was delighted when he saw it.

After the laser rangefinder was turned on for more than 1000 seconds, refraction actually occurred, which indicated that there was an obstacle in that place.

"More than 1000 seconds? [-] million kilometers?" Soon, Gao Jiuding confirmed the position on the star-pulling disk.

It took only [-] million kilometers to encounter an obstacle. How many asteroids are there in this starry sky?Is the probability of this high, or too small?
Re-operate the laser rangefinder and conduct detection again. The detection results just now have lost their timeliness, so he searched for safe coordinates again within himself.

It would be a waste of effort to not have a powerful radar that can scan in a wide range. For example, the asteroid he detected just now may have flown a long distance.

Therefore, even if the coordinates of the asteroid were discovered just now, it should be empty at this time, and there is nothing left.

After confirming the direction, Gao Jiuding's speed was fast. This time, he didn't wait too long, as long as it exceeded one astronomical unit, he jumped over!
In this way, it only takes two times to jump to the vicinity of the asteroid just discovered. As for whether there is a group of asteroids in the middle, Gao Jiuding doesn't care.

After a jump, Gao Jiuding looked at the starry sky outside, no matter how he looked, he couldn't find the formless light around him.

The stars are shining brightly in the distance, and the surroundings are dark. Even if there are asteroids, there is no aura.

After confirming the spatial coordinates again, the cooldown of the Daohong Furnace was over, and the spatial jump was performed immediately. Gao Jiuding immediately saw the colorful light when he jumped out this time.

"Haha, I said that luck can't be too bad, how many asteroids are these?" Looking at the surrounding situation, Gao Jiuding laughed out loud.

(End of this chapter)