Wandering Meteor-Chapter 144: Entropy Beast Appears

Somewhere in the Xianhe Nebula.

A mammoth beast emerged across the sky.

Because the beast appeared at the speed of light, it gave the illusion of instantaneous teleportation.

The beast looked serpentine, with black skin, a diameter of a colossal 5,000 kilometers, and a length of half an astronomical unit, about 75 million kilometers.

Such an enormous creature, with a diameter alone nearly half the size of Earth, added to its unprecedented length, its mass was preliminarily estimated to be at least 1,000 times that of Constant Star Mass.

As is well known, stars barely maintain their size by relying on nuclear fusion; otherwise, they would have collapsed into neutron stars long ago. How, then, does this beast maintain the mass of its body without collapsing?

At this moment, the beast was moving in cosmic space, and when the light from stars shone on its skin, it was directly reflected back without altering the black and cold hue of the beast.

Furthermore, when the beast passed by a Wu Yizi star, the millions of degrees of high temperature from the star caused no damage to its appearance. Not a single trace of impact was evident; instead, the Wu Yizi star was knocked away by the body of the beast and sent flying into the depths of the universe like a bumperball.

The beast’s eyes were about a kilometer in diameter, flickering with various colors, but these colors did not endow the beast with emotions; rather, they added to its cold and merciless nature. Coupled with its black and icy exterior and its meticulous advance, even after knocking away a Constant Star, it emphasized the beast’s focus and frigidness, as if it were a Mechanical Life form.

When the behemoth appeared at the Xianhe Nebula fusion site.

Nearby civilizations detected such an unusual monster immediately.

Initially, many civilizations were plundering celestial bodies ejected during the fusion of the Xianhe Nebula; some had even erupted into war over them, but at this moment, every civilization unanimously stopped and turned their attention to the suddenly appearing cosmic monster.

Whoosh!

Just then, a Constant Star Celestial Civilization saw the beast approaching at light speed and fired a Crown Hole Radiation beam, trying to repel the creature.

The beast was initially just moving in this direction; its actual target was not the star.

However, when the star actively launched Crown Hole Radiation, the beast’s icy eyes fixed on the star, and the color changed from blue to pale red.

The moment the eyes turned red.

The entire beast underwent a sudden and earth-shattering transformation, becoming filled with a murderous intent, and flew towards the star.

As for the Crown Hole Radiation emitted by the star, the beast entirely disregarded it. The beam directly hit the beast and did not create even the slightest spark; it was merely reflected back.

Seeing this, the star was extremely shocked, clearly not expecting its Crown Hole Radiation to be completely ineffective.

The star didn’t believe it and prepared to take another shot.

Yet, to its horror, it found the beast’s speed increased, from the speed of light to three times the speed of light. In an instant, the beast moved in front of the star, opened its titanic maw, and swallowed the entire star.

From a cosmic perspective, it was like a snake swallowing a luminous ball.

But the diameter of the beast was only 5,000 kilometers, whereas the diameter of that star was at least hundreds of thousands of kilometers. Against such disparity, unexpectedly, the star was still swallowed in one gulp by the beast.

Upon observing this scene, nearby civilizations vaguely understood why this giant beast appeared to have the shape of a serpent—it was known that snakes could swallow animals much larger than themselves.

Of course, this was not the most shocking part.

The most astonishing was the process of the behemoth swallowing a Constant Star and gulping it down into its belly.

At first, one could tell from the bulge in the beast’s body that the diameter of the Constant Star being swallowed did not change significantly. However, with every ten meters it descended into the belly, the size of the Constant Star would rapidly shrink, as the bulge on the beast lessened. When it reached the middle of the beast, the protrusion on the surface was gone completely.

This meant... it seemed that the Constant Star had been digested by the giant beast!

Many civilizations couldn’t believe it; even real snakes couldn’t digest at such a fast speed. How did this giant beast manage to digest a Constant Star in moments?

You see, even for a Constant Star to tear apart and absorb another through the Roche limit, it would take years, but this giant beast took only a few hours to digest a Constant Star?

Civilizations couldn’t help but feel that their worldview was beginning to collapse.

However, even more shocking events were yet to come. One civilization noticed that after digesting the Constant Star, the beast’s body had actually grown larger, its diameter reaching 5,500 kilometers and its length increasing by tens of thousands of kilometers!

This phenomenon caused a huge commotion within every civilization and sparked intense discussions!

Naturally, the Wandering Alliance nearby also noticed this, and Constant Star Lu Chen found it incredible, yet also felt that it somewhat resembled that ancient game of Snake!

Also, the creature would grow infinitely in size after devouring matter; isn’t this akin to a cosmic version of Snake?

"Green Star, what’s wrong?"

At this time, Wandering suddenly noticed that Green Star seemed particularly excited, as its Intention activity surpassed any previous level.

Lu Chen also noticed and hurriedly inquired: "Green Star, I remember you once said that you wanted to observe some extraordinary phenomena during the giant nebula collision. Do you know this giant beast?"

After a moment of silence, Green Star said: "This giant beast is called an Entropy Beast."

"Entropy Beast?" Lu Chen said: "From the name, does it have something to do with Entropy Value?"

Green Star said: "Yes, the Entropy Beast does not devour just any target. It only devours those that are undergoing entropy reduction."

Hearing this, Lu Chen recalled: "When the Entropy Beast encountered a Constant Star with Wu Yizi, it completely ignored it. But it suddenly attacked Celestial Civilization. It seems that the former was undergoing entropy increase while the latter was undergoing entropy reduction. Also, I noticed that the Entropy Beast’s eyes turned red when it acted; could it be that its eyes turn red when it detects a target undergoing entropy reduction?"

Lu Chen’s observational skills were astounding.

Even Green Star was surprised: "I didn’t expect you to notice so much. Yes, the redder the Entropy Beast’s eyes turn, the greater the entropy reduction of the target. However, if the entropy reduction is not greater than a certain threshold, it will not become the target of the Entropy Beast. There seems to be a lower limit to the selection of the Entropy Beast’s prey."

Lu Chen felt that this should be the case.

After all, everything in the Universe is either increasing or decreasing in entropy, and sometimes both can occur simultaneously. If it devoured any slight entropy reduction, then even Constant Star Celestial Bodies without Intention could become targets.

It seemed that the civilization that created the Entropy Beast had considered everything very thoroughly.

"Green Star, how do you know so much about the Entropy Beast? Do you know which civilization created it?" Wandering suddenly asked out of curiosity.