Chen Jue had no idea what was happening on the Moon. His perception could currently cover only a few hundred kilometers, not the entire Earth-Moon orbit.
At that moment, he was riding the spherical craft, speeding toward Mars.
After entering space, without the air resistance of Earth's atmosphere or the influence of its gravity, the spherical craft Chen Jue piloted grew faster and faster.
Its speed rose another three orders of magnitude from over a hundred Mach, surging straight to around Mach 100,000.
The craft was now traveling at over 34 kilometers per second, already reaching 10% of the speed of light, but it had yet to reach Chen Jue's limit.
And this speed was not particularly fast!
After all, humanity's fastest spacecraft at present, Juno, launched by Eagle Country in 2011, had used Jupiter's immense gravity in 2016 to accelerate to a world-record speed of 73.6 kilometers per second.
"Let's test my acceleration limit!"
Chen Jue gave it everything he had, using the gravitational fields between Earth and Mars to keep accelerating the spherical craft.
Mach 100,000, 200,000, 300,000-as it climbed all the way to Mach 500,000, the entire craft began to buckle under the terrifying speed and tremble violently.
"Space dust?" A thought stirred in Chen Jue's mind. He slapped the craft's metal inner wall, increasing the infusion of plasma energy.
Although space appeared to be an almost perfect vacuum, vast quantities of cosmic dust actually floated within it.
This dust consisted of a mixture of rock particles, metal particles, and gas particles. Its distribution was extremely uneven, and the proportion it occupied in any given cubic meter was close to zero.
But once a spacecraft accelerated to a certain speed, it was like driving in the rain. The amount of cosmic dust striking it head-on began to