Astral Ants

In order to eat Wang Baizi as soon as possible, Bai Wei counted the time and stayed in Huangtaoshan.

……

[Time: 78th Era-140 Yuan-959 Years]

Xianglan Mountain Territory.

Bai Wei and Huang Tao have been guarding under the king cypress tree for half a year.

They also brought over a large number of ordinary Watase Little Flame Spiders, tens of thousands of them, crawling all over the ground.

Accompanied by junipers, cedars, white willows, and sugarcane trees, everyone was slowly cutting raw meat for the little spiders to feed, while chatting away.

Early summer dusk,
Watching the setting sun set, Jue Bai stood up and was about to invite everyone to go to the lakeside to have something to eat. Da Wang Bai, who was in silence, suddenly unfolded his energy field and said leisurely:

"The fruit is about to ripen."

"..."

"Hurrah!"

"Great!"

"Thank you for your hard work, Wang Bai!"

Bai Wei waved her front feet excitedly.

Wang Baizi from the third and a half star realm.

The long 111-year wait is finally here.

Another long night of waiting...

At dawn the next day,

Facing the faint morning light, the top of the king cypress tree and the lateral cypress leaves on the fruit branches turned yellow and withered, and the original energy fluctuations of the king cypress hanging on the branches completely disappeared.

"President Bai Wei, it's okay!" Da Wang Bai reminded.

"Oh--"

Bai Wei had already activated the hydra tentacles and was ready. After receiving the order, with a thought, the tentacles rolled up and directly pulled Wang Baizi into her mouth, and her figure disappeared on the spot.

Da Wang Bai: "..."

Huang Tao: "..."

Huang Tao shook his tentacles helplessly, tilted his head and said, "Xuan Lang, please help greet the spiders. It's time to go back to the mountain."

"Let me help you send it back."

The forefoot of the fruit tree taps the ground at high frequency: Go home~go home~
The Watase Little Flame Spiders that were active in the nearby forest received the message and came closer.

Xinglang activated his earth element ability, and the earth rose up, turning into an earth and stone centipede, carrying the spider group and setting off.

...

Eight days later,
Bai Wei woke up from her deep sleep, made simple repairs, and began to try imitation transformation at the soul level, starting with getting familiar with the flame spider.

...

Three years later,
Hong Tao and Du Bean returned from traveling as merchants, while Bai Wei returned to the Chamber of Commerce and set off with the caravan.

One advantage of being an interstellar merchant is that you spend most of your time traveling.

Intelligent brain system control, automatic path finding and driving.

Therefore, on the way, you can sleep and meditate, and you can also comprehend some non-destructive abilities.

When the Star Spider reaches the target star system, it needs to travel for several days, followed by another long journey.

...

During the traveling businessman's journey,

It only took Bai Wei four years to successfully simulate the souls of fellow flame spiders such as Poisonous Bean, Nandi, Styloma, Heliotrope, and Cicada.

Eleven years later,

It reaches the level of imitating the souls of other Zerg warriors at will.

You're done,

Bai Wei began to try to deduce the soul of the simulated 'artist'.

...

Azure 1 Star Spider cabin.

Bai Wei, who had been lying dormant for a year, stood up slowly, and her eight eyes lit up one by one. Then the ninth, tenth, and eleventh pupils on her forehead appeared and shone in turn.

Abnormal space energy fluctuations.

Hearts and Poison Beans were awakened at the same time.

Dudou glanced at it with his mental power, and his thoughts changed rapidly. He communicated with his brain to check the star map, controlled the star spider to pause, and got out of the star network.

The hatch opens.

"President Bai Wei?"

"Are you cracking the technological star core?"

"Get it outside?"

Dudou carefully reminded: "My most respected elder, please don't damage the Star Spider..."

"..."

"It's done!"

Bai Wei was annoyed and said angrily: "Sooner or later I will be pissed off by you!"

"Yes--"

Dudou slowly turned around and looked at Hong Tao.

Hong Tao asked: "President Bai Wei, how are you doing?"

"Let me try!"

Bai Wei immersed herself in the inner thoughts, checked repeatedly, and said: "My star core is strong enough and still dominates, and I haven't noticed any other abnormalities or discomforts."

Hong Tao solemnly said: "President Bai Wei, it involves the soul, so you must not neglect it. You can activate your super brain and take a closer look."

Bai Wei followed her words and did some introspection.

"No problem~!"

finished,

The eleventh-fold pupils lit up again.

Concentrate your mind, communicate with the technology star core, and check your ability.

"All five spatial abilities are activated!"

"The dimensional space is consistent with what Hongying described. It is a black and white crystal barrier, spherical, about 800 meters in diameter."

"Then the abilities of universal compass and gravity must be similar."

"The focus is on the jump..."

After Bai Wei finished speaking, her figure flashed away from the Star Spider, suspended in the dark sky, spinning slowly, looking around in a circle.

"Dou Dou, where is the next stop?"

"The Sheephorn star system."

"there?"

"Yes."

"Okay! Test the jump distance first..."

Bai Wei ducked back to the Azure No. 1 cabin, calmed her mind, activated the technological star core, and began to convert the accumulated space energy.

After 22 days, the energy storage is completed.

According to the rule that each jump consumes up to two-thirds of the original space energy and retains one-third for emergencies, the energy storage time is less than 15 days.

Bai Wei broke away from the Star Spider, teleported in space, stayed away from the Star Network, positioned herself with the universal compass, activated her ability, tore apart the dimensional channel, and disappeared into it.

Dudou simultaneously drove Tianqing 1 and set off along the star network.

Hongtao senses Baiwei's position through the 'sun and moon' ability.

The third-level star spider with 250 times the speed of light arrived quickly.

Heart urgently shouted stop.

Poisonous Bean drives the Star Spider out of the star web.

Bai Wei sensed the position of Hong Tao at the same time and teleported forward.

"Danger beans, distance."

"President Bai Wei, the distance has not changed. It is consistent with Hong Ying. It is also 14000 trillion kilometers and 0.15 light years."

"Forehead--"

Bai Wei activates super brain power calculation.

3.65 times the speed of light.

The average speed of the same ordinary technological star core is twice that of Hongying.

Theoretically speaking, all Traveling Flame Spiders with awakened space talents should be able to reach this speed. Those with better space talents can even be faster.

Bai Wei was in a good mood, raised her paw, briefly tested her gravity ability, waved her paw to say hello, and returned to the Azure No. 1 cabin.

"I'll try to integrate 'crystal space' into Phytolacca space again."

Bai Wei gave a brief explanation, calmed down, shifted her consciousness, communicated with the technological star core, distinguished the 'marks' given to the 'crystal space', and tried to combine the Phytolacca star marks.

Eleven pupils brightened.

"It works!"

"And it's easy!"

"Dou Dou, please open the hatch."

"..."

"President Bai Wei is a genius~"

"But there are so many things~"

Dangerous Beans grumbled and did as he was told.

Bai Wei and Hong Tao stepped out of the cabin.

When the red peach tentacles are connected, a large mass of water is generated, which rises and turns into an air current. It can be controlled and compressed into a high-pressure air mass.

Bai Wei stepped forward, her eleven pupils shining brightly on her forehead, and she quickly emptied the Merchant Space cargo.

Then he curled up his eight legs, floated directly into space, gathered his mind, deflected his consciousness, and communicated with the technological star core again.

Poisonous Bean and Hongtao worked together to activate the dual-system Feng Shui abilities to protect the goods, while expanding the range, permeating the air, and shrouding Bai Wei.

Dudou: "Wouldn't it delay the transaction?"

Heart: "It doesn't matter if it's a year and a half later."

Dudou: "Bai Wei is too impulsive. It's unlucky for me to have such an elder in the stall."

Hong Tao: "Bai Wei is just silently comprehending the power, her soul is still conscious."

Dangerous Beans: "..."

Heart: "..."

In the dark, empty space, everything seems to have been pressed on the pause button.

Only the eleventh pupil on Bai Wei's forehead shone like a pulsar at extremely fast speed.

Dudou was interested in trading. After a while, he opened his Xingwang account, looked at the time, and waited anxiously.
Finally, two months later,
Bai Wei's curled-up eight legs straightened, the eleventh pupil on her forehead continued to shine, and the black and white technological star core phantom rose.

The weird state lasted for a while,
The technological star core that had been integrated into the eleventh pupil star core was actually peeled off, suspended above Bai Wei's head, and rotated.

The speed of rotation is getting faster and faster, like threads peeling off a cocoon, the black and white particles turn into strands of fine threads and peel off, floating and blending into Bai Wei's forehead.

Corresponding,
The size of the technological star core is shrinking circle by circle.

"???"

An unexpected turn of events.

Dudou and Hongtao were stunned.

"what's the situation?"

"don't know."

"It seems that the core of the technological star has decomposed?"

"It's obvious."

Hong Tao asked back: "Dou Dou, don't you have space talent? You should know the situation at hand better than me."

Dangerous Beans: "..."

Dudou said solemnly: "It seems that Bai Wei's eleventh pupil star core is swallowing the technological star core!"

"Ok?"

Heart sent a doubtful mental thought.

Dudou: "It's not fusion, it's devouring. After fusion, the technological star core still exists. But swallowing... the technological star core disintegrated and turned into part of the eleventh pupil, and it no longer exists."

"The main reason is that the pokeweed divine pattern is at work! It should be the reason why Bai Wei's pokeweed space possesses the characteristics of 'Huan' in advance, and then the two laws of ancestral divine power and adaptability to evolution are superimposed, plus a little guidance from Bai Wei ...The divine patterns of law are domineering, and the technological star core is a foreign object and is swallowed directly.”

"It looks like the material of the technological star core has been reconstructed and turned into Bai Wei's double pupil~"

Hong Tao tapped her tentacles, roughly understanding the situation, and asked no more questions.

The technological star core is slowly shrinking...

Correspondingly, on top of Bai Wei's head, a round eyeball with black background and white stripes was solidifying little by little.

...

After a while, Dudou looked at the time.

Twenty-three days later,
The last bit of technological star core disintegrated.

Corresponding,

Above Bai Wei's eight eyes, at the top of her head, there is an additional eye with white lines on a black background.

lifelike.

Nine spiders with real eyes.

It looks very weird. "My most respected elder Bai Wei? Are you okay?"

Dangerous Bean called carefully.

"President Bai Wei, what's going on? Is there no problem?"

Hong Tao's tone was deep.

"well enough?"

Bai Wei explained: "I tried to peel off the 'marks' given to the crystal space by the technological star core, and when the combination was integrated into the Phytolacca star trace, I unexpectedly discovered that the space power of the Phytolacca star trace can actually decompose the technological star core and absorb it into itself. . So, I kept going..."

Bai Wei raised her paw, gently stroked the ninth eyeball from her forehead, and briefly concluded: "It's good now, the technological star core is gone, and my eleventh pupil is no longer an ability, but a real eye." '..."

"The ninth and tenth pupils are still missing two."

Bai Wei muttered, activated her super brain power, sensed it, and said: "The five abilities given by the technological star core have directly transformed into my own five spatial abilities."

"No, there are only four left: teleportation, jump, gravity, and universal compass. The crystal space is gone and merged with Phytolacca space."

"My Phytolacca space has taken a big step forward and turned into a perfect sphere. Its current diameter is about 1200 meters. I predict that in the star realm, it can completely transform into 'Huan'."

"call--"

Bai Wei opened the valve, took a long breath, and said: "Perfect transformation!"

"Congratulations to President Bai Wei!"

"As expected of my most respected elder Bai Wei!"

Dudou raised his paw and asked: "President Bai Wei, what about the leap ability? Has it changed? Does it need to be retested?"

"Yes--"

Bai Wei asked: "How long have I been delayed?"

Dousou: "Two days to three months."

"There's no rush. Thank you for your hard work, Hong Tao. Let's go back to the Azure to rest. Let's take a test."

Bai Wei said, waving her paw, the mist dispersed. In an instant, the space suddenly shrank, and a large number of scattered and floating goods disappeared.

...

...

Goat beetle star system, palace pink star, tree flower shop.

The first floor hall,
Bai Zian woke up from hibernation, looked up, and stood up.

"President Bai Wei! Hearts! Dangerous beans! You are finally back!"

"finally?"

Bai Wei was confused for a moment, and then reacted.

The departure and return times for each long-distance business trip are fixed and consistent with those of Heliotrope and Cicada.

This time I was delayed for three months, so I came back three months late.

"I just ate Wang Baizi, and my ability to comprehend has been delayed."

Bai Wei explained briefly.

"Oh--"

Bai Qian's eyes stared straight at Bai Wei's head.

Bai Wei continued to explain: "Something happened. When I successfully cracked the technological star core and planned to merge the trace combination corresponding to the crystal space into the Phytocontinent space..."

Explanation completed.

Tsubasa who was dormant on the second floor of the store was awakened and rushed down.

"President Bai Wei, you are finally back!"

Without waiting for Bai Wei to explain, Zhuban followed up and said: "Led by Queen Bee of Youlian, a large group of bees came from the Qiming star system. They said they were your friends. A large group of ants also came, said to be Longbai ants. Relatives of the king..."

Bai Zhu echoed, "Yes. Yes. There are more than a hundred bee queens and ant kings alone. Including the assistant kings, there are six or seven hundred. All of them have broken through to the half-star realm. The Longbai Ant King and Molan Chief are not here. We are afraid that we can't control them, so we dare not receive them."

Zhuban: "We figured that it would be time for you, President Bai Wei, to come back, so we arranged for them to temporarily settle in vacant shops in the commercial district."

Bai Qian: "We didn't expect that President Bai Wei would be unexpectedly delayed for three months. Counting it all together, we have been waiting for more than half a year..."

"Most of a year?"

"You two..."

Bai Wei was very anxious when she heard this.

——The people here are all high-quality business resources and labor force~
——You guys have been hanging out on the street for more than half a year?
——What should I do if I’m offended?
——How big a loss?

——How do you two do things?
"go!"

Bai Wei scolded: "Zuban, you are still stunned! Lead the way!"

...

...

Vacant streets in remote business districts.

A dense colony of ants and bees, with the queen ant and queen bee at the center, were scattered in front of the shop.

"Youlian Queen Bee!"

"One-fruit queen bee! Two-fruit queen bee! Three-fruit queen bee!"

"Wow!"

"You are finally here! I have been worried."

"King of sansho ants!"

"The King of Thousand Qu Ants..."

Bai Wei greeted her warmly and explained: "Hongtao and I drive the Star Spider, an interstellar travel merchant. It takes six years to go back and forth, and there may be delays in the middle."

"Leader Long Bai and Chief Molan are busy developing the zero-level source point, leaving only a few logistic bugs who can't do anything to guard the territory."

A large number of queen bees, ant queens, and kings came closer one after another, all focused on Bai Wei's head.

A queen bee raised her paw, pointed lightly, and asked with difficulty: "President Bai Wei, what is your... ability? An extra eye? It's not like a celestial eye or a compound eye."

Bai Wei said vaguely: "It can be regarded as an ability derived from the star core."

Yiguo Queen Bee asked: "Aura sensing, space ability?"

Bai Wei: "Yes."

Yiguo Queen Bee asked politely: "President Bai Wei has extremely high spatial talent. How many spatial abilities have you mastered?"

Bai Wei: "Five, maybe."

As soon as this word comes out,
Tsubasa who was following behind him became excited and straightened his eight legs.

Shameless talk.

Can you say this? Do you believe it yourself?
Looking at the queen bees and ant queens around them, they all raised their tentacles and stood there in shock.

Zhuban Ning choked: These queen bees and ant queens actually believed it, and they were all stunned.

Those present, who have been trading with Bai Wei for tens of thousands of years in Qiming Star System, all know that Bai Wei never lies.

The main thing is that there is absolutely no need to lie about this kind of question.

If you lie, you should conceal your ability.

Half-star realm, five space abilities?

What is this concept?
As everyone knows, spatial abilities are extremely difficult to grasp.

The Flame Spider Tribe has two major realms, the Mark Realm and the Star Realm, and six major levels. If you can understand one space ability, you are qualified. If you can understand two, you are a genius spider.

In the past, all the big forces were vying to win over spiders who could comprehend more than two spatial abilities in Sujing, and were willing to provide resources.

Five spatial abilities?

It’s only half a star state.

What kind of spatial talent is this?
When your flame spider ancestor, the master of time and space, comes, he has to lie down and call his ancestor, right?

"..."

Bai Wei also suddenly realized that her words had gone too far, and corrected her: "If you don't count the spatial abilities given by the 'Phytolacca Divine Pattern', there are only four."

He waved his paw again and said lightly: "They are all worthless little abilities. Don't worry about them."

Bai Wei greeted: "Let's talk about business..."

Yiguo Queen Bee carefully asked: "President Bai Wei, how big is your business? You have already taken root in the secondary source point and opened a shop."

The Erguo Queen Bee followed and asked: "I heard that you are two star roads, two third-level star spiders running together?"

"General...general..."

Bai Wei was modest and said distressedly: "After entering the White Crystal Galaxy, trading of divine fruits cannot be done. Now we can only trade some royal honey and genetic agents. There are many insects, the market is big, and the trading scale is large, but the profit is very low. It's pitiful. I just earn a few hard bucks by running around in the sky.

The ants and bees didn't seem to mind at all after waiting in the open street for more than half a year.

Queen Bee of Youlian was displeased, "President Bai Wei, there is no need to be so hypocritical, right? Not to mention, two level three Star Spiders are worth tens of billions? What? Are you afraid that we will drag you down?"

"No...don't get me wrong..."

Bai Wei: "I bought the Star Spider after I borrowed money from a large tribe with whom I had good connections, and then asked Qiye for a loan."

Bai Wei asked back: "Youlian Queen Bee, do you know the Seven-leafed guy? You must remember Caowu Old Spider, right?"

Youlian Queen Bee: "...of course!"

Bai Wei: "Qiye is so powerful now. It has become the management of the Luoluo Chamber of Commerce. It is responsible for the star spider and starship trade in the entire Phoenix Eye Star Territory. It is really a very powerful position."

"Nabaha?"

"A spider from your northern hemisphere?"

"It sounds like the position is very high."

"No wonder. With the support of the big chamber of commerce and the high-level spiders, it is difficult for President Bai Wei not to make a fortune!"

"President Bai Wei, I heard that you can find something to do when you reach the White Crystal Galaxy..."

"Don't mention work for now. President Bai Wei, the land rent in the Sheep's Hoof star system is a bit expensive. Is there a source star system with strong Force power and low price?"

"Yes! Yes! Yes! Find a place to take root. President Bai Wei, you are familiar with the environment. Please give me some advice."

……

Numerous ant queens and bee queens surrounded Bai Wei on three levels inside and three outside.

When they first entered the White Crystal Galaxy, everyone was most concerned about the territorial issue, anxious to take root in their lives.

"The level 1.9 source point is the Citrus star system. The force concentration is only 0.2 times worse than that of the Sheep's Hoof star system, but the ground rent is only one-third of that here."

"However, the occupancy rate of the Xianghao star system has exceeded 80%. The tropical and subtropical areas are already full, and the rest are temperate and cold-temperature areas. If you are interested, you can go and have a look."

"The second is the Huomuli star system. The force concentration is 1.7, which is not much worse than the Sheepfoot star system. The rent is only one-fifth of that here. It is absolutely no problem to take root and develop to star level. However, the occupancy rate has also reached %, there are not many good places left.”

"The next one is the Fire Cord star system, a level 1.5 source point with excellent Force concentration and low rent, but its location is remote, sandwiched between the Sheep's Hoof star system and the Xiang Huo star system, and the transportation is not very convenient..."

Bai Wei had been prepared for a long time. She had examined all the situations clearly, understood them clearly, and did not hide anything. She would talk about them one by one and make objective comments one by one.

finished speaking,

After a pause,
Bai Wei then said: "The universe is vast, and if you want to do big things, you must have more insects to do it. Queen bees and ant queens, we are all familiar with each other and trust each other. I suggest that it is best not to be too scattered, and everyone gets together. ”

A queen bee immediately raised her paw and asked: "President Bai Wei, are there any good jobs that make money? Can you help introduce them?"

Bai Wei took a look and said: "Before the planetary realm, it was difficult. When we arrived in the White Crystal Galaxy, everyone first saved money, bid for source material gems, and upgraded their god-given seeds. Then they accumulated resources and evolved into the planetary realm. Planetary realm You can do a lot of things.”

"The White Crystal Galaxy is currently in a period of large-scale development and construction. To develop a source point, there are three steps: collecting materials; moving stars and planets; and reclaiming planets. Among them, collecting materials has the lowest technical requirements, and even an insect can do it. , it’s just more difficult.”

"Of course, such a large project requires a lot of insects, tens of thousands. It also requires a lot of investment, in units of trillions of raw crystals."

Bai Wei: "Our Baiwei Chamber of Commerce plans to focus on royal honey and genetic agents in the early stages of development."

"In the middle stage of development, after accumulating a certain amount of resources, we plan to purchase a batch of Star Spiders and run some transportation business. At the same time, we are organizing reliable Zerg warriors to jointly operate the zero-level source point."

"After accumulating a certain amount of worm connections and capital, I plan to purchase a third-level mothership, organize a team, and contract the source point construction project."

"In the future, we will need more support from everyone."

The queen ants and queen bees suddenly fell silent.

——Damn profiteer!

——Black-hearted spider!

——It’s clear that he plans to recruit everyone to work as coolies for it~
Yiguo Queen Bee asked: "President Bai Wei, how is the salary?"

Bai Wei: "It doesn't matter about wages. Everyone gets more for their hard work. For example, I contracted a project to build five planets. I will first split it into five major parts, and then split it into collecting earth, stone, metal, and gas. , collecting fresh water and other classification tasks are subcontracted to other teams.”

"For another example, you can, based on your abilities, if you are good at the wind element, undertake the task of collecting gas; if you are good at the water element, you can undertake the task of collecting fresh water; if you are good at the earth or metal element, you can undertake the task of collecting earth and stone. That's probably what it means."

"I will price each task according to the situation. If it is completed as required, I will pay the corresponding reward."

"For space operations, the indispensable survival mothership, as well as the star spiders and starships for transportation are all provided by me. These are tens of billions, hundreds of billions, trillions of investments."

——Trillion?
Immediately, another queen bee asked:

"President Bai Wei, how much raw crystal does a third-level mothership cost?"

"After asking, the cheapest one costs one trillion."

"So, how much do you earn per year now? President Bai Wei, don't mind, I'm just curious, in what year and month can you save so much?"

Bai Wei said confidently: "Within a hundred thousand years!"

Bai Wei: "That's a long time ago. Now, let's accumulate capital first and develop our own God-given seeds. We are either dormant or exercising our abilities, tempering the star core, and evolving into the planetary realm."

"Follow-up, if you are interested, you can cooperate with me and run the zero-level source point together..."

The queen bee of Yiguo raised her claws and asked: "Cooperatively operate the zero-level source point?"

The Sanshou Ant King then asked: "Is the Longbai Ant King already cultivating and operating a zero-level source point?"

"Yes. That was rented by Longbai Ant King and the others, and has nothing to do with me."

Bai Wei explained: "The cooperation I'm talking about is like this. Everyone contributes money together. For example, a source point has a rent of 600 billion for ten thousand years. I contribute 100 billion. Other interested insects can invest in shares according to their individual strength... "

Bai Wei recounted her business plan.

The insects were silent.

Bai Wei knew that everyone was new here and very poor, so they couldn't think so far ahead. She paused for a few seconds and then said:

"There is also a small business that does not require investment and can make a small amount of money. That is to cooperate with me and trade ant king honey and genetic agents."

"Everyone will settle in the first-level source star system designated by me. We will jointly rent a shop in the commercial street. We will send clever Zerg warriors or Zuo Wang to guard it. We will sell ant king honey and gene agents, and purchase God-given force food... "

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