103: Chapter 103 Borrowing Two Suns
The Trisolarans who joined the Xingyang Civilization were being subtly influenced.
Not only did individual consciousness begin to sprout, but artistic works were even produced.
They choreographed the first dance of the Trisolaran civilization, a God-Praying Dance used to praise the Xingyang God.
The two joint leaders, Qi Qi and Qi Wu, even approached Tu Kulei, expressing their desire to perform before the humans of Blue Star to demonstrate their devotion to the deity.
Tu Kulei naturally accepted with pleasure and arranged the venue in the spacious fifth deck hall of the divine might.
Many crew members also specially ran to the surroundings of the hall or the railings above to watch.
Sitting in the main seat, Chu Xingyang watched these Trisolarans, who looked like large black snakes; nearly a hundred of them swarmed in all at once.
He couldn't help but widen his eyes in confusion: "Is this a group dance?"
Tu Kulei bowed slightly: "Yes, it is a dance performed together by a total of ninety-nine Trisolarans."
As soon as he finished speaking, the performance began.
The ninety-nine Trisolarans began to twist their slender waists, coiling and entangling like a dense swarm of squirming snakes.
Some coiled their bodies into circles with strange expressions.
Others meandered through the "snake swarm," their necks intertwining with those of others.
Since they hadn't developed music yet, the entire dance was almost silent, save for the faint sound of their bodies rubbing against each other.
This eerie, snake-like scene was quite uncomfortable to watch.
The vice captain, Yu Lan, coughed lightly and shifted her gaze, looking around.
Among the grassroots crew, except for Luo Ningning who watched with great interest, everyone else was frowning.
The dance ended.
Chu Xingyang composed himself and praised: "It was a good dance; don't do it again next time."
Tu Kulei turned his face to express dissatisfaction to his superior: "Bishop, this is a dance by believers to praise the Xingyang God. You cannot fail the sincere hearts of your devout followers."
Qi Qi and Qi Wu also showed expressions full of grievance.
After a moment of hesitation, Chu Xingyang said: "It's just that this dance looks like a swarm of snakes mating. You know, that kind of... that kind of group gathering."
"If some outside civilizations saw it, they would think I... they would think the Xingyang God is a deity in charge of fertility and reproduction."
Knowing that the Bishop was the deity himself, Yu Lan secretly covered her mouth and laughed, while Wei Wei, who was beside her, hurriedly pinched her.
On the railing, Luo Ningning suddenly had an epiphany: "I was wondering why it looked so familiar. Several of my ex-boyfriends used to take me to these kinds of gatherings with a lot of people."
Several colleagues beside her stared at her with wide eyes.
She shrugged her shoulders and said: "I couldn't help it; I didn't want to make my boyfriend unhappy."
Seeing the exceptionally dejected Trisolarans, Chu Xingyang had to shift his sitting position: "Alright, then I'll have a few Music Persons on the ship compose a dance tune for you and re-choreograph it. It should be much better."
Only then did Qi Qi and Qi Wu show happy smiles and nod repeatedly: "Thank you for your personal guidance, Bishop."
The tension on half of Tu Kulei's face finally relaxed.
At this moment, Chu Xingyang looked at the Trisolarans and changed the subject: "I want to borrow something from you."
Qi Wu looked up and said loudly: "Please speak, Bishop. As long as we have it, we will surely offer it."
"Don't you have three suns? I want to borrow two."
The Trisolarans looked confused. Could stars be borrowed just like that?
But thinking that the Xingyang Civilization had a real god, they immediately felt relieved.
Qi Qi even played a trick: "We can lend them to you, but you must never return them."
After all, the Trisolarans had suffered greatly from the Chaotic Era. If they had two fewer suns, they would become a stable single-star system, which would mean an eternal Stable Era.
This was something their civilization had always dreamed of and never forgotten.
Chu Xingyang smiled: "Sure. Actually, I never intended to return them anyway."
The people of Blue Star thought the Bishop was being quite unreliable, but all the Trisolarans were immersed in the joy of their dream coming true.
The Wormhole Generator on Blue Star, besides random generation, could also generate at specific locations where a wormhole had been generated before.
However, targeted generation consumed more energy, and the Solar System now had three more planets: Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
After calculations, the scientists found that this one-way journey would require the energy of two stars.
Chu Xingyang naturally thought of the Alpha Centauri Triple Star System, which is closest to the Solar System.
A few days later, everything was ready.
He used Consciousness Projection to the Oort Cloud and first pulled over Proxima Centauri, which was only 4.25 light-years away.
Then he activated the skill Matter Conversion.
The massive sphere of Proxima Centauri began to grow energy beams like long tails, which were pulled longer and longer like dough.
They passed straight through the Oort Cloud, crossed the orbits of the five planets, reached Blue Star, and were then stuffed directly into the energy inlet of the Wormhole Generator on Blue Star.
Without Proxima Centauri, the Trisolaran planet began to cool down slowly.
Qi Wu trembled, wanting to cry but having no tears: "Didn't we agree to only borrow two stars? Why did you take the star we've been orbiting?"
"Are we going to wander in space like the people of Earth from now on?"
Hearing this, Qi Qi said impatiently: "How can you be so stupid? The people of Blue Star are not as cunning as the people of Earth. Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf with a very close Habitable Zone."
"The Xingyang Civilization must be leaving us Alpha Centauri A, which is about the same size as their sun. That Habitable Zone won't be tidally locked, and our planet's environment will be like Blue Star's in the future!"
Having always read and recited the xingyang divine canon, he firmly believed the great deity was merciful.
This was exactly Chu Xingyang's plan.
He converted the two stars, Proxima Centauri and Alpha Centauri B, into energy and placed all four planets of the entire star system into the orbit of Alpha Centauri A, which has a diameter of 1.7 million kilometers.
Filled with gratitude, the Trisolarans all prostrated themselves and thanked him loudly: "Xingyang God above, we Trisolarans will forever remember the great grace and virtue of the deity."
"The Trisolarans will bathe in divine grace for generations, and our descendants swear to be the faithful servants of the deity."
Their oaths were from the heart.
There would be no more Chaotic Era, only an eternal Stable Era. The nightmare that had haunted the Trisolaran civilization would no longer exist, and they would no longer have to worry about the threat of the three stars to their race.
Meanwhile, the people on both the Blue and White planets in the Solar System witnessed a marvel.
Two thick, dense energy beams sliced through the sky.
They lit up the night as bright as day, and during the day, it was so dazzling that one needed an umbrella to go outside.
It took several days for the Wormhole Generator to finish absorbing the two stars.
And now, the Solar System, which possessed eight planets, prepared for the return journey.
The wormhole entrance on Blue Star grew larger and larger.
After a moment of darkness, countless massive galaxy clusters in the night sky seemed to pass by the planet at extremely close range.
People in the Solar System knew this was the scene of traveling through a wormhole; everyone looked up with expressions of intoxication.
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