Astral Ants

"what is this?"

"Metal plate?"

"You're talking nonsense."

"What is this metal plate? Why is there Force seeping out? Where does the Force come from?"

"It must be a relic of a civilization from the old universe."

"Cai Gang, please stop talking. What you are saying is nonsense."

"Everyone, look carefully, does this thing look like a 'door' built by humans?"

"Portal?"

"I didn't feel the power of space~"

"Could it be that there is a dimensional world inside?"

"There is no source nearby, so where does the Force come from?"

"..."

Molan activated her metal ability to test it out and said, "It's quite heavy!"

Red maple, purple, green heart, and colorful steel directly put their claws on and tried to move.

"So heavy!"

“It’s heavy!”

"Ten thousand times heavier than the Rainbow Star Spider!"

"what is the material?"

"Zi, you have a lot of experience, take a closer look."

"OK--"

"I'm sorry. My knowledge of metal materials is limited. I can't recognize it."

"Red maple?"

"Second King, I am just a simple-minded fighting bug."

Not to mention Cai Gang and Lu Xin.

It's all garbage~
"..."

Molan pondered and continued to ask, "Where did the energy body come from?"

——This is a simple question!
Red Maple, Purple, Green Heart, and Color Gang all raised their claws and pointed at the metal plate.

The insects all retreated in unison.

While absorbing the Force and restoring the energy consumed in the battle, he quietly observed and waited.

A star-shaped spot flashed on Red Maple's forehead. He took out a timing instrument and adjusted the timing mode to the second.

2 minutes later,
On the front of the metal plate, a metallic energy body emerged from the complex energy patterns with the force.

It was as if a switch was turned on, and tens of thousands of energy bodies gushed out in large numbers.

Molan raised his claws and tree-shaped lightning burst out, killing them all.

"The first wave, a total of 12417."

Molan reported the number.

continue waiting,

Another 32 minutes later,
In the second wave, 10911 metal-type energy entities surged out from the front of the metal plate.

Another 32 minutes later,
The third wave...

Continue to observe, still 32 minutes,

The fourth wave breaks out.

That confirms that the interval between bursts is 32 minutes.

...

Mo Lan was suspended above the metal plate, observing carefully, locking her eyes on the snowflake-shaped civilization symbol, and then she dodged and landed on it.

Tentacle touch sensing.

The brain is working rapidly.

A colorful water ball floated out from the forehead, expanded and enlarged, and turned into a "turtle" with tentacles growing on its back shell, constantly fine-tuning and changing.

Hongfeng understood Molan's meaning immediately. After thinking for a while, he decided not to show off in front of the Second King and waited in silence.

Purple, Caigang and Green Heart are on high alert.

The fifth wave, the metal energy body infiltrates.

Molan only needed a thought and used a simple lightning ability to clear them all.

The sixth wave...

The seventh wave...

One day, two days, three days...

Time passes in silence.

at last,

Three years later,
Suddenly, the snowflake-shaped civilization symbol lit up with a hazy white light.

Adapting to the evolutionary imitation, metal energy similar to the metal energy body is continuously injected, and the white light quickly diffuses along the energy veins of the metal plate.

Soon, the entire metal plate was filled with soft white light.

"careful!"

"Get away!"

"This is teleportation power!"

Molan suddenly became alert and was the first to dodge.

"..."

Red Maple, Purple, Colorful Gang and Green Heart were so frightened that they fled hundreds of kilometers away in one breath. When they saw that there was no danger, they turned around and went back.

"Second King?"

Red Maple asked cautiously.

Molan said: "This is a two-way space transmission device! For unknown reasons, the other side is in an open state. Since the Force and the energy body are in an energy state with a mass infinitely close to zero, they can be easily transmitted..."

Molan said: "Because the distance is too far, the transmission capacity is limited..."

The turtle that Molan controlled the beast to transform into was still lying on the metal plate, and was continuously injecting metal energy. However, since it was a material entity composed of "water" and "gold", it exceeded the transmission carrying limit and could not be teleported away.

Molan didn't explain much, but gently waved her tentacles to point out.

The insects looked at each other.

Zi raised his claws and said, "I understand! This should be the 'entrance portal' used for teleportation on a doomsday survival mothership built by a certain civilization in order to survive the cosmic catastrophe. It fell off for unknown reasons, drifted, and floated here."

"If it is teleportation, the other side should be inside the survival mothership!"

"The survival mothership is also drifting towards the main universe and happened to land on a source point?"

"Because the life forms in the Domination Realm could not survive the long period of Force dormancy, they died. With the help of the Source Force, their corpses continued to generate metal-type energy bodies."

"And due to unknown reasons, the portal inside the mothership was opened, and the overflowing energy bodies were continuously transmitted out through the portal."

Zi added: "In any case, there is definitely no intelligent life that has survived to this day. If there is, there will definitely not be any metal-based energy bodies derived from it."

"That's right!"

"First, eliminate the possibility that intelligent life has survived until now! This is crucial!"

Mo Lan's eyes sparkled, and she praised loudly, saying, "That means there is no danger!"

Molan asked: "Zi, are you sure it's a 'doomsday survival mothership'?"

"Can not be sure……"

Zi: "Pure reasoning and speculation..."

Hong Feng hesitated and said, "I think Zi's guess is correct to a certain extent..."

The red maple waved its tentacles, emitting a large cloud of water mist, which turned into countless ice crystals, emitting a faint white light, forming a slowly rotating 'galaxy model'.

"Second King, look, this is the White Crystal Galaxy."

The red maple waved its tentacles again, emitting a small cloud of water mist, which also turned into countless ice crystals and formed a small mass of matter.

"This is the Kwara-re wood seat."

"Quaremu Constellation is located outside the White Crystal Galaxy, far away from the center of the universe."

"And our current location is at the edge of the constellation of Kwaraim, far away from the center of the universe, towards the edge of the universe."

"If there is a civilization's 'doomsday survival mothership', it should be similar to the One-Horned Wolf Ruins, hovering above a 'source point' far away from the main universe."

"It could even be said that the existence of the 'Doomsday Survival Mothership' induced the origin."

"And this 'door panel' that fell off the 'mothership' and drifted over...since it was able to float to this position and stop, it means that its initial kinetic energy was not too great, and the distance from the 'mothership' was not too far."

Red Maple paused, then continued, "This is a short-distance teleportation device. We need to find a way to shorten the distance. It can guide us in the direction."

"There are still 2810 years until the Daylight Sea Arena Battle begins. There is still plenty of time. We can make a space jump and sail in the general direction for 1000 years..."

Red Maple said, "Second King, let's do the old way. You, me, and Green Heart will take turns carrying everyone. At triple speed, we can travel more than 1000 light years in years. I think this metal plate can't float that far, right? It's more than enough."

"Um--"

"Red Maple's analysis also makes sense."

Molan thought about it, and then he moved his antennae seriously and asked, "Zi, Caigang, Luxin, what about you? Do you have any other ideas or suggestions?"

"no!"

The three insects shook their antennae left and right.

Molan waved his claws, retracted the beast, and connected his tentacles. Metal energy burst out and fell onto the stone slab, forming a seal.

The energy burst out from his body, and the star spots on his forehead flashed violently, projecting white light that enveloped the metal plate and moved it into the Shanglu space.

Molan called for departure.

...

...One hundred and fifty years later,
Molan and his party left the range of Kwaremu.

Release the metal plate and inject energy for testing.

It can be activated, but still cannot be teleported due to the distance.

Through continuous observation, the time interval for the leakage of metallic energy bodies was reduced from 32 minutes to 24 minutes.

Intuitively speaking, the distance between the metal plate and the speculated "doomsday survival mothership" has been greatly shortened.

The interval between bursts is reduced by 8 minutes, and the voyage lasts 150 years.

There is no big problem with the orientation.

At present, the distance between the two should be less than 450 years of travel and no more than 1 light years.

The insects became more energetic and continued on their way.

Every 10 years, stop testing.

Hong Feng calculated the voyage time to the precision of 'day', and the time for the metal plate to seep out of the metal energy body to the precision of 'second'.

Continuously calculate and adjust the course.

After many attempts, a basically accurate direction was locked.

After sailing for 550 years,

The metal plate was taken out again, and the metal energy body seeped out continuously.

"Report!"

"Second King, we are very close to the ruins! But the distance is still measured in light years, and the exact direction cannot be determined."

"Okay! Get ready for battle! I'll teleport over and take a look at the situation."

"Don't!"

"Second King, this is inappropriate!"

"Molan, no!"

Zi, Hongfeng and Cai Gang hurried to stop them.

"Captain Molan! Calm down~"

While trying to dissuade them, Green Heart released his abilities to eliminate the metal energy bodies that were being teleported over.

Zi analyzed and said, "The other side of the teleportation portal must be filled with countless energy entities! If you teleport over there rashly, and get stuck in a confined space and can't teleport back, wouldn't you be trapped in a dead end?"

Hong Feng said: "The speed at which the energy body is transmitted through the metal plate is definitely much faster than the speed at which the energy body is derived from the remains of the Overmind. Let's take turns guarding and quickly clear it out."

"The Second King and Green Heart are in one group, Purple and Cai Gang are in another group, and the two groups take turns. I'll be on guard the whole time, assisting from the sidelines, and counting at the same time, calculating by the day, counting the number of original energy bodies that have been transmitted, and calculating the changes."

Among the five insects in a row, the red maple one has the most flexible brain and the most ideas.

It is worthy of being the insect that I raised with my own hands.

Mo Lan nodded with satisfaction and said, "Hong Feng's method is very reasonable. To be safe, let's use the metal plates to destroy some of the energy bodies. When the density of the energy bodies in the ruins is diluted to a certain level, we can teleport over and check the situation."

"it is good!"

"Then Caigang and I will take a break."

"Molan, Luxin, you move your claws first."

...

...

Red Maple's mental power unfolds, and his intelligent brain automatically operates to count the numbers.

On the first day, within 24 hours, a total of 8740 million energy bodies were transmitted.

The next day, the number was still as high as over 80 million.

On the third day, the same thing happened.

This continued until the 137th day, when the number fell below million.

Another 115 days later, the number fell below million.

After another 97 days, the number fell below million.

A year later, the number fell below 50 million.

The number of metal energy bodies transmitted through the metal plates every day is decreasing rapidly.

Another year later, they were transmitted out sparsely.

"Red maple? Is that about right?"

Molan couldn't bear it anymore.

"It should be, almost done."

Hong Feng said: "I estimate that now, the crowded energy bodies on the other side have been evacuated. The number of energy bodies transmitted every day is roughly equal to the number of Overmind debris derivatives, and it is basically maintained in a state of balance."

Hong Feng: "But it is certain that there are still a large number of energy bodies on the other side. Once they are teleported over, they will inevitably be attacked instantly."

"Second King, I suggest that I spend some more time using my bionic ability to imitate that turtle-shaped life form. Then, you, me, Zi, and Cai Gang will teleport over together. If we encounter danger, you can fight while I activate the teleportation or find a way out."

Red Maple: "The carrying capacity of this portal is too small. We need to clear out unnecessary items in the dimensional space. For example, the Rainbow Star Spider and excess original crystals. We can transfer the Star Spider dimensional world. Leave the Star Spider behind and let Green Heart take care of it."

"it is good!"

"Row!"

"can!"

"Follow the command of Commander Red Maple."

"Red Maple, hurry up!"

The four Molan insects agreed and couldn't wait.

Hong Feng said nothing more, and released the beast, which transformed into a 'turtle' with tentacles on its back. Using its intelligent brain capabilities, it began to try to imitate and crack the code.

...

"Second King, it's done!"

The red maple was obviously inferior to the black orchid. Based on the success of the black orchid, it took another seventeen years to finally crack it.

Continuously inject the alien metal energy and activate the metal plate.

"I go first!"

Molan dodged and landed on the metal plate, disappearing.

Zi and Cai Gang followed closely behind.

Red Maple was the last to teleport away.

Greenheart stayed alert.

...

When Red Maple arrived by teleportation, he was almost blinded by the fierce flashing red and bright silver lightning.

The rampant and extremely powerful lightning attack lasted for a full three seconds before it ended.

Look closely,

Ahead was a wide, straight black metal wall passage that was five or six meters wide and ten meters high. The blazing lightning continued to burn, leaving dense, regular lightning-shaped scorch marks on the wall.

On both sides of the channel, fork passages are distributed regularly.

Behind him was an identical 'metal plate', with a white halo still flowing around it.

I am very sure that, just as guessed, everyone has entered a "doomsday survival mothership" and this is the "entrance" to enter and exit the mothership.

A mental scan revealed that the metal walls had lost their original energy properties and turned into ordinary alloys.

The strong pressure from the metal and soul-related energy that contained the laws of the Domination Realm made the insect feel uncomfortable all over.

Due to the suppression of the super-strong soul energy, mental detection was severely interfered with, and the effective detection distance did not exceed two hundred meters.

The soul-fixing ability has little impact.

By sensing the soul-fixing ability and the distribution of metal energy bodies, one can roughly infer the layout of the mothership.

The whole is spherical, with a diameter of about 15 kilometers...

Hong Feng said firmly: "This is not a civilized survival mothership that escapes the cosmic catastrophe!"

Zi echoed, "Our Zerg civilization uses spherical motherships to build star systems and collect materials. The smallest model is 10 kilometers. This starship is so small, it's more like a mothership for privateers to travel the universe."

Cai Gang: "It could also be a fleet flagship or command ship used in war."

Hong Feng followed up by tapping his antenna and said, "It's more likely that this is a private starship owned by a wealthy and powerful ruler. It's small in size, but it's built solidly and fast enough to escape into the void and successfully avoid the space collapse when the universe is destroyed."

Red Maple: "But in the end, he died because of exhaustion of the Force."

"About that..."

Molan raised her paw and gently tapped the metal base under her feet. With a little force, the thick metal plate was pierced.

In a force vacuum environment, over a long period of time, energy materials below level three will inevitably become scrapped.

Mo Lan flicked his tentacles, and silver lightning flowed along the bottom plate, killing the metal energy body that was floating over. He waved his tentacles and called out:

"Let's go! First find the remains of the Overmind and seal them up."

"Wait!"

"That's wrong!"

Cai Gang exclaimed, and asked: "The mothership should be scrapped, right? It's so small, but why does it have gravity?"

--Yes!

——The gravity inside the starship is more than twice that of the Zerg life planet.

The Mo Lan, Red Maple, and Purple insects were horrified and simultaneously activated their soul-fixing and intelligent brain abilities to sense and analyze carefully.

They are all primordial energy bodies.

No complete soul was retrieved.

Confirmed to be devoid of life.

"It's probably similar to the teleportation device at the back. The source point replenishes the Force, and the starship's gravity device automatically activates."

Molan waved her paw again, reminding: "One, two, one, Hongfeng walks behind. Be careful, don't leave the team and don't touch unfamiliar objects!" (End of this chapter)