The existence of the first ice island opened up a new situation for Shen Cong in his journey of searching for resources in ice hockey. No more running around like a headless fly, just digging holes in the ice.
The volume of the ice ball is indeed one or two thousand times larger than the earth, but most of the volume is the gaseous part. The real ice layer and rock core are not as huge as imagined.
This reduces his workload.
He devoured all the fragments of fire unearthed from the first ice island and strengthened his own fire on the way to explore. At this time, Shen Cong is no longer the cosmic fire who first entered the dwarf star.
In Phantom Wing's memory, there is knowledge about dwarf stars.
It can be roughly divided into five stages from dwarf to stellar.
The fire has just entered the dwarf star from planetary internal combustion. The fire at this time can be called the initial temperature state. The temperature inside the fire is not high, and the intensity of the mimetic nuclear reaction has not yet reached its limit.
After the initial warm state, there is a high temperature state. Mimic nuclear reactions create a large amount of energy, so that the temperature inside the fire can reach hundreds of trillions, or even billions of trillions. Once such a fire explodes, it will be absolutely terrifying and can even blow up a small planet.
Regardless of whether it is the initial temperature state or the high temperature state, it is the imitation of a star within the fire, but it does not release energy to the outside world, and all energy only supplies its own needs.
Before coming to ice hockey, Shen Cong was still in his early stages of warming up.
Now that the ice continent's fire seed resources have been swallowed up, the internal combustion has accelerated, and it has successfully entered a high temperature state. Of course, there is no obvious boundary between the initial temperature state and the high temperature state, it is just an artificial division.
Only after the high temperature state does the fire have new changes in properties.
This stage can be called a degenerate state, and the accurate description should be a pseudo-electron degenerate state. At this stage, the pressure inside the fire will change. After a series of quantum effect changes, it will finally be compressed into a low-energy sealed state, which is equivalent to the electron degenerate state in physics.
After reaching this stage, the fire will have the basic conditions for a supernova explosion.
The degenerate state is the most basic state from dwarf star to stellar star.
After the degenerate state, there is the neutrino state. The fire at this stage is on the edge of a supernova explosion at any time. The fire begins to further collapse and shrink inward, and at the same time ejects neutrinos outward. Neutrinos are leptons that can pass freely through most matter. They are very tiny particles that are nearly invisible.
The fire in the neutrino state carries huge radiation and is very unstable.
This is also the most critical stage of the dwarf-star cosmic fire. If not fully prepared at this stage, a supernova explosion may occur in advance at any time, thus falling short of the effort and leading to the failure of evolving the star class.
After the neutrino state, there is a real evolutionary breakthrough stage, which is called a supernova explosion.
A supernova explosion is a supernova explosion that mimics a star, but it is relatively mild and does not yet have completely mimicry properties. In fact, if the star-level cosmic fire wants to evolve, it must undergo another form of mimicry, a real supernova explosion. Therefore, a breakthrough at a dwarf star level is an explosion, and a breakthrough at a star level is an explosion.
Whether it is an explosion or an explosion, it is a process of fragmentation and reorganization of fire.
The struggle is over, and it will last forever.
If you can’t survive the struggle, let’s pass on the legacy.
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After reaching the high temperature state, Shen Cong's body became larger and larger. Fortunately, although the ice ball did not have much metal elements, it could still be deprived of metal substances from ice continent hammerhead snakes and mushroom insects.
"Metals are obviously not carried by hammerhead snakes and mushroom bugs themselves, and no metal elements have been detected in the ice. Obviously metal elements are hidden in the core of the rock. There should be metal mines here... Unfortunately, the pressure in the core of the rock is too great, and I cannot go deep. Once you are trapped in it, you are likely to die."
Shen Cong is indeed getting stronger and stronger, but the gravity and pressure at the core of a planet are absolutely unimaginable, and killing him is not impossible.
He would not take such a big risk just for a little bit of metal ore.
Caution is in his nature.
Boom!
The drill bit broke through the ice, and another ice island appeared in sight.
"Um?"
Shen Cong quickly sensed that there was a powerful source of active radiation in the unknown space in the distance. And the source of active radiation is still moving, moving very quickly.
Judging from the radiation, this is a metal life form, and its talent has reached over ten.
"Super talented, powerful life form, what could it be?" Shen Cong quickly rushed towards the source of active radiation. The surface of this ice continent was slightly bumpy and there were few geysers. As he flew by, he didn't see a single geyser, nor did he feel the high concentration of fire energy.
Only a faint trace of fire energy escaped in the air.
There is something strange in my heart.
This did not prevent Shen Cong from catching up with the moving source of active radiation a day later. It turned out to be a metallic life form, like some kind of multi-tentacled starfish.
The huge body is unforgettable at first glance.
In the center surrounded by tentacles is a large, sharp head, which looks like a large octopus, but without eyes and other organs. There are spiral grooves on the surface of the skin. If you simply cut off one of them, it looks like a thread, which is quite similar to the drill bit that Shen Cong deformed before.
Shen Cong, who was hiding, quietly approached this huge monster.
He did not alert the other party first, and began to observe the monster just as he had observed the mushroom bug before. The monster seemed to be vaguely aware of Shen Cong's approach. Its huge flat body and many tentacles suddenly shrank inward and twisted together, turning into a pencil-like snake-shaped body.
Then, the monster plunged into the rocky surface and lay dormant quietly.
"Pencil octopus? Pencil starfish? Tentacle pencil? Tentacle rag..." Shen Cong remained invisible, observed quietly, and named the name quite leisurely, "Not very elegant, but it is still called drill octopus, with many tentacles, big head, It can burrow into the ground, or it can burrow into the ground while rotating, so it fits the name very well.”
The drill octopus stayed under the surface for a few minutes, then suddenly burst out of the rock, seemingly unaware of the danger, and transformed into its original multi-tentacled flat body.
The tentacles clasped the ground and crawled at top speed.
Shen Cong followed closely, one behind the other, walking in an unknown direction. After walking about three miles, a geyser was in sight. Shen Cong's eyes lit up and he saw the drill octopus rushing towards the geyser. Its body turned into a drill shape and it burrowed into the spring. After a while, it rushed out again and continued walking.
At this time, the geyser had been destroyed, and under the strong squeezing force on the surface, it slowly healed, leaving a pit area.
The activity, which is stronger than the surroundings, is slowly diluted.
"It turns out that it's not that there are no geysers or fire fragments in this ice island. It's that the geysers were all destroyed by the drill octopus and swallowed up the fire fragments." Shen Cong waited for the drill octopus to move away and quickly opened the original location of the geyser. , dug around, but found no tinder fragments.
But the remaining activity and fire energy prove that there were indeed fire fragments here before.
The conclusion is obvious, the fire fragments were snatched away by the drill octopus.
"The way the drill octopus survives is very interesting. Why not use it to remove all the fire fragments from the ice continent, and then I will snatch the fire fragments from its hands."
Thinking of this, Shen Cong made a decision.
He was not afraid that the fire fragments would fall into the hands of the drill octopus. After all, the fire fragments were not something that a living being that had not yet grown into cosmic fire could quickly swallow.
It doesn't matter even if it is swallowed. After killing, the fire particles can still be recovered.
"Free labor, no need for it."