Astral Ants

The coffin lid slid closed.

The pressure from the laws of the Domination Realm disappeared.

Three streams of light flashed by,

Hongfeng, Caigang and Zi, who had been standing at the door looking for a long time, teleported over.

"Cymbidium?"

"Second King!"

"what is this?"

"This smell is familiar, right?"

“Is it the Law Stone?”

Three new questions about insects.

Molan introduced quickly:

"The scepter made of the Metal Law Divine Stone is called the 'Palen Scepter' and is endowed with an 'intelligent device' of the 'intelligent system'."

"This mothership is called 'Pedinan Luo Ao Xing Shen'."

"The Metal Law Divine Stone gave birth to the innate god 'Ao'. Ao joined a force called 'Star God Alliance', which is composed of many innate gods..."

Molan described the situation in detail, and the hydra tentacles placed the scepter above the coffin, and finally said:
"The Palen Scepter is fused with a complete metal-based divine stone, and has the property of granting metal abilities..."

After that, he introduced: "Luo, this is Hongfeng. This is Zi. This is Caigang. Activate the energy field again to help them comprehend that metal-based perception ability."

"OK--"

Luo agreed.

The scepter stood upright from the coffin, and a special metal energy field quickly unfolded, covering the four insects.

Luo took the initiative to introduce: "The Paren Scepter can grant a total of six metal abilities, namely Metal Rhythm, Infinite Decay, High Energy Aggregation, Metal Boundary, Metal Frenzy, and the special ability 'Arcane' that only Austenite can comprehend."

"The first four are mainly used for the construction and maintenance of metal veins. 'Metal Frenzy' is a combat ability and can also be used for mineral mining."

Molan tilted her head and asked, "Are there any limitations on talent and understanding?"

Luo: "Must have metal talent. All are basic abilities, no comprehension requirements."

Molan asked: "Then what is the ability of 'Okin'..."

Luo: “Specialty metals.”

Special metal? Mo Lan's eyes lit up when she heard this.

Metallic energy materials are divided into two categories: one is conventional materials, which means simple operations, building mineral veins, and after a certain period of gestation, they can be transformed into designated types of energy metals.

For example, gold, aluminum, and palladium are melted in proportion to form an alloy, crushed into particles, mixed with nickel ore, and buried in the limestone, dolomite, serpentinite or carbonate veins of the third-level source planet. After hundreds of millions of years of evolution, the third-level energy material "Gold 014" can be formed.

This is the primordial metal material that can be naturally derived from many source star systems in the natural state under the laws of the universe. Constructing a mineral vein is actually to imitate and construct an environment that can produce a specified type of primordial metal.

The second largest category is specialty metals.

It is not derived naturally and cannot be bred naturally.

It is necessary to use designated metal capabilities to "empower and transform" specific metal materials, and then construct mineral veins. After a certain period of time, "special metals" will be produced.

For example, cubic iron and titanium sand.

The biggest advantage of special metals is that it takes a short time to gestate, usually only tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands or even millions of years.

Some special metals also have special energy properties and play magical roles.

Of course, because it requires specific metal capabilities for ‘enabling transformation’ and cannot be promoted on a large scale, the production capacity of specialty metals is destined to be limited.

As for the price,

Cubic iron is a primary energy metal without any outstanding properties, so its price is naturally the same as other conventional primary energy metals.

Titanium sand has bio-affinity properties and can be used for "biological weapon transformation". Its price far exceeds that of conventional third-level energy metals.

...

——Okin

Molan's mind worked quickly, and a series of nouns popped out: [Special Ability Certification, Red Robin Star, World Gem, Natural True God Tree-Shaped Avatar, Silver Oak God Tree, White Crystal God Tree]

"Luo! What level of energy material is Orkin?"

"Level ."

"Forehead--"

"What about the properties of matter and energy?"

"Biological metals with growth potential can be used to cultivate austenite and make materials for Star God armor. They can also be used in various metal intelligent machines."

"Oh--"

Molan asked in confusion: "What does the so-called 'growth potential' mean?"

Luo replied: "Austenite is the life of the Force and can evolve and grow; Arcanite can be re-energized and re-constructed into mineral veins, further upgrading to a secondary energy metal."

Molan asked, "Can we go further?"

Luo: "Ao has been trying. It needs to be optimized from the capability level... but failed."

"Understood..."

Molan: "Let me try!"

...

The Scepter of Palen is similar to the Scepter of the God of the Sea, and it directly grants the most basic abilities without any "marks".

Everyone is at the Star Realm level and has similar abilities, so it is easy for them to comprehend them, one at a time.

quickly,

Molan was the first to complete the comprehension of five abilities, and did not feel the existence of the sixth "Okin" ability.

"Luo, I can't comprehend the sixth ability?"

"No."

"Can't you control the scepter and grant it directly?"

"I can't do it. 'Aojin' is Ao's law ability, it is innate. You are a carbon-based life form, and Ao is a metal life form. The difference is too big."

"All right--"

Molan started to think of a solution.

The Caigang race's talent is metal, and then he completed the comprehension of five abilities.

Purple and red maple followed closely behind.

Luo retracted the energy field and quickly absorbed the Force to recover.

"..."

"Molan? I have a question."

"what is the problem?"

"Is there no legendary treasure house in this mothership?"

"No."

"So what we gained from this trip..."

"It's still possible to rebuild this mothership! Let's go back first and ask Longbai to come and take a look."

Mo Lan flicked her tentacles, picked up the metal scepter, and said, "The Metal Law Divine Stone! It grants five abilities, equivalent to five zero-level divine seeds, and it's a systematic set. Once you learn it well, you can go to the mining planet to work and gain an extra set of skills to make a living. We can hold the scepter and sell the abilities everywhere. 50 original crystals per set is reasonable, right?"

"Ok!"

"Oh~"

"Correct!"

"Get rich!"

"Doesn't that mean an infinite amount of original crystals?"

"Carry a crystal mine with you!"

"We will do business wherever we go, and we will never be short of raw crystals!"

"This scepter is of infinite value!"

Red Maple, Purple, and Cai Gang cheered and echoed.

Luo: "..."

Luo reminded: "The Scepter of Palen consumes the original divine power of the Law Divine Stone and guides the understanding of specific abilities. After the divine power is consumed, it takes a long time to recover."

The four insects were stunned.

Is there such a thing?

Mo Lan asked: "Then, how long will it take to recover after the original divine power is exhausted?"

Luo: "It depends on the Force environment. Under suitable conditions, according to the time unit of your Divine Tree Clan, it may take only a hundred years. Under unsuitable conditions, it may take thousands or even tens of thousands of years."

Mo Lan asked: "When the original divine power is perfect, how many force warriors can be supported to comprehend the full set of five abilities at a time?"

Luo: "Different Force life forms have different consumption. Those with high talent and quick comprehension have low consumption, while those with low talent have high consumption. Your Divine Tree Clan is the lowest consumption group I have ever seen, breaking the database record. Based on your consumption, you can at least continuously give two thousand warriors full capabilities."

That’s 10 billion?
The insects were ecstatic.

Molan continued to ask: "Then the suitable environment is... a level three source point?"

Luo: "Level 3 source point, metal mining star."

Molan asked: "Then what is the unsuitable environment..."

Luo: "The environment here couldn't be worse."

A zero-level source point where the Force concentration is less than 0.5.

It really couldn't be worse.

"I won't stay any longer!"

Molan waved her claws, "Retreat!"

...

Return to the main passage and exit through the portal. Join the Green Heart.

After briefly explaining the situation, we set off for the return trip.

After a 550-year journey by leaps and bounds, they merged into the star network and boarded the Rainbow Ying Star Spider, traveling at a thousand times the speed of light.

...

...

Ocean blue star system.

The number of specialized blue ants has exceeded 70 million.

The role of the blue ant is to 'refine' and store food.

There was nothing for them to refine, and not much food to store.

These guys don't like to move. They just lie motionless in the nest all day long. Occasionally, when they are in a bad mood, they will go out of the nest and walk around.

This definitely won't work.

Zuo Wang, a subordinate of the Longbai Organization, spent a lot of effort to disperse the specialized blue ants living in the "city" and arranged the troops to be stationed next to the central reservoirs in various districts of Molan Star and Longbai Star.

They were arranged to manage the planting of plants such as black lotus, azure tree, and sea blue tree by the lake.

There is a lack of command and supervision from the ant king and his assistants.

At least nine out of ten are lazy, but there is always one diligent one.

It has some effect.

With such a huge number, it can barely be managed.

Harvest a Black Lotus God-given seed.

Long Bai was in a very good mood. He made a special trip back to Xianglan Mountain and brought back royal honey worth 100 million raw crystals. He organized the little soldiers, the ant king, the queen bee, and many assistant kings to have a dinner together by the lake to celebrate.

The Rainbow Ying emerged from the star network, docked at the plaza, and opened the hatch.

Molan swept her mental power and immediately became very angry.

I'm out there risking my life, and you're hiding back here eating and drinking and having fun?
At the same time, Long Bai noticed something strange and came over in a flash.

——You’ve just been out for more than a thousand years, why are you coming back again?
--No money?

——Two billion crystals! It's impossible that they were all squandered so quickly, right?
Long Bai was calm and asked with concern: "Second King, what happened to you?"

Molan asked, "What are you doing?"

Longbai: "I harvested a black lotus seed bestowed by God. Let's celebrate it briefly."

"A black lotus seed is enough to celebrate?"

"It's worthless!"

Mo Lan waved his paw proudly and shouted, "Green Heart, take out the things and open the eyes of the Dragon Cypress Ant King!"

"Oh--"

Star spots shone on Green Heart's forehead, and a thick metal plate more than ten meters long and five or six meters wide appeared and slowly fell to the ground.

Molan raised his antennae and said, "Captain Longbai, look, what is this?"

Long Bai looked solemn and looked at it carefully, then bent his tentacles and tried to inject a few strands of the Force.

"A creation of technological civilization. A teleportation device for entering and exiting confined spaces? There are bloodline boundaries, and a certain type of metal energy is required to activate it."

"Non-human technology."

"A relic of an old technological civilization in the universe."

Longbai asked in a stern tone, "Red Maple! Where did you go? Where did you pick up the things? Or did you buy them?"

"Hey!"

"Okay."

"How did you recognize it so quickly?"

"As expected of my great leader~"

Molan raised his claws and pressed down the red maple. He appeared to be full of admiration, but was secretly unhappy in his heart. A light flashed on his forehead, and a metal scepter more than three meters long appeared and floated in front of him.

A metal pole with alternating gray and white and red and gold colors, like a wire binding, is topped with a roughly axe-shaped metal block.

The atmosphere is restrained, simple and unsophisticated.

"Second King!"

"Red maple! Green heart!"

"Why are you back?"

"what is this?"

"A relic of an old cosmic civilization?"

The black grape, black leaf, rainbow vine, rainbow tea and other insects noticed something was wrong and rushed over across space.

"Quiet!"

"Quiet!"

Molan waved his tentacles vigorously, raised his claws and pointed at the scepter floating in front of him, and said, "Come, come here, help your king see what this is."

Hongying swung his antennae left and right and sniffed. He was puzzled and asked hesitantly, "Why is there a familiar smell?"

Hongcha: "The Scepter of the God of the Ocean!"

Hongying: "Similar objects!"

Hongcha: "The production process is more... complicated?"

Hongying: "Second King, Red Maple, did you pick it up?"

Hongcha: "It's impossible that Huayuan Jing bought it?"

"..."

"Pick it up?"

"Can you pick one up for me?"

Molan was angry, waved her tentacles threateningly, and asked, "What else?"

--besides?
Hongying and Hongcha tactfully waved their tentacles.

"Nothing."

"Too abstruse."

"can't read."

“I don’t know what this artifact is.”

"We're stupid."

"Second King, please speak directly."

……

As soon as Long Bai thought of it, the artist came across the space, and a tentacle above his head rolled towards the metal scepter floating in front of Mo Lan.

"Don't touch~"

Molan quickly stopped him and said, "Captain Longbai, can you take a closer look?"

"I was just about to take a closer look, wasn't I?"

Long Bai understood and said, "If there was any danger, you wouldn't put it out like this. You don't allow people to touch it? That means you can read important information after touching it."

"At first glance, this thing looks crudely made, but if you look closely, you can see that the details are extremely delicate and precise. It is clearly a product of a high-tech civilization."

"The unique aura of the Law Divine Stone cannot be concealed, and anyone who has come into contact with it can easily recognize it. It is impossible for you to have gotten away with it, and it was not purchased with the original crystal."

"That is……"

"You five bastards went on an adventure to a dangerous star region? By some strange coincidence, you actually found the remains of a technological civilization from the old universe era?"

"A civilization with metal talents, good metal abilities, and specialized metal technology?"

"It's probably a super-sturdy 'survival carrier'? Or a 'space fortress' used in war?"

"This metal plate should be a set of two, placed inside and outside the mothership, used for teleporting in and out of the mothership or the fortress. Why is there only one? Where is the other one? Can't it be removed?"

"The portals used for transmission are all made of third-grade metal materials. As you can imagine, the quality of other places cannot be low."

"Could it be that the things are not scrapped yet?"

"It should not be completely scrapped."

"You only brought back these two things? Then, this scepter-shaped object is most likely the 'key' to control the mothership or the fortress."

"..."

Red Maple, Purple, Caigang and Luxin, who were all in high spirits, were dumbfounded when they heard this.

It's really boring~
Molan hung her head and shouted: "Chief Longbai is so smart~"

The red maple tree was perceptive and immediately gathered the information, activating the power of the tree flower heart realm and directly writing it into the soul consciousness of the insects.

"!!!"

Long Bai read the review information quickly, and his emotions changed from surprise to shock and solemnity, and then he gradually calmed down.

The artist rolled up his tentacles and raised his scepter.

Luo: "...Meet the great leader Longbai!"

Without any warning, the space energy in the artist's body exploded, and 133 tentacles activated, locking onto the Palen Scepter. His body instantly teleported to a height of ten thousand meters, and in a flash he left the planet in an instant, entered space, and disappeared with the Scepter.

Long Bai tilted his head and locked onto the metal plate on the ground. His tentacles swung, and the flat metal plate stood up. Azure water swept over it, freezing it. The soul energy flowed and sealed it.

"???"

Molan was stunned for a moment, then came to her senses and asked, "Captain Longbai, what are you doing?"

Long Bai said indifferently: "That is not the intelligent brain system 'Luo' at all, it is the digitized Star God Ao."

Longbai swung his tentacles and hit Hongfeng's head hard, angrily scolding: "Second King has no brains, don't you have any brains too? Can't you see the flaws that are so obvious?" (End of this chapter)