Astral Ants

Midway seat.

As the Silver Shark No. 1 starship approached, an interstellar gate opened and Molan came out with the fish and insects.

Molan raised his claws and created a wall of air that directly stopped the high-speed gliding starship.

"..."

Long Bai led Jian Jian out of the cabin.

"Long Bai?"

"This person is... could it be..."

Long Bai introduced briefly: "This is the Jianjian Overlord recommended by the Ten-Colored Mantis Emperor. I went to the Pengtohai Prison and fished it out."

"This is Leader Molan of the Xianglan Chamber of Commerce."

"This is the innate chaos god Yu Chong."

"Hello, Chief Molan."

"Hello, Chief Fishworm~"

The antennae gradually waving, a polite greeting.

Secretly sensing, he felt that Molan's divine power was like a black hole that swallowed everything, and like a vast sea of ​​smoke that seemed to be there and not there.

Look at the fish worms that are bigger than starships...

My head was buzzing and I was muttering to myself: This Xianglan Chamber of Commerce is so powerful!

"..."

Molan and Yuchong were speechless.

Yu Chong said unhappily, "My lord, do you believe what the ten-colored old mantis said?"

Molan asked, "You took so long, didn't you just bring this beetle with those sneaky eyes here?"

Yu Chong: "Even if we want to bring it here, can't we just kill it first and then revive it when we get there?"

Molan: "What did the God of Nature say? You didn't bring it here?"

Long Bai: "..."

Long Bai asked back: "Molan, Yuchong, why are you here? Has the expedition star road been opened up?"

"All right!"

Yuchong answered quickly, "We have tracked the traces of the Divine King's Seraphim Fleet again! It has crossed the True Nine Shield Leaf Wall and entered the True Nine Rainbow Trout Line."

Mo Lan said: "The True Nine Shield Leaf Wall originates from the True Seven Rainbow Trout Line, but it is not directly connected to the True Nine Rainbow Trout Line. There is a sub-vacuum star field of more than 70 million light years in between."

Yu Chong: "I took the Second King to search there, but we didn't find the source this time, and there was no supply along the way. The Divine King Chi Ying adopted the method of abandoning energy ships while walking and crossed the sub-vacuum star field."

Molan: "We can't afford to throw it away, and our technology doesn't support crossing a sub-vacuum star field of more than 26 million light years at a time. We can only choose to orbit. Preliminary observations and calculations show that the total distance of the orbit is about billion light years."

Fishworm: "Shan Lingyi said that the Divine King Chi is likely to settle down and develop in the True Nine Rainbow Trout Line. He ordered to temporarily give up the pursuit and retreat the team. We will discuss countermeasures after the King comes."

"……Understood."

"Very good! As long as we confirm the approximate direction of the God King Chi's escape!"

Long Bai touched his antennae and said, "The matter of Divine King Chi can be put aside for now..."

The space was rippling, and insects such as white cypress, red peach, juniper, green cypress, and silver cypress came across the space.

During the brief conversation, the Lord of Samsara, the Lord of Manchi, the Ten-Colored Mantis King and other insects who had noticed the commotion turned into streams of light and rushed over.

"Boss Jianjian!"

The Ten-Colored Mantis King greeted warmly, tentacles flying, "Haha, I rescued you! Welcome to join our archaeological team!"

"Thank you."

Jianjian answered indifferently.

Longbai once mentioned the ten colors to Jianjian, but after a long while of reminding him, he finally remembered that there was such a bug in the past...

In Pontohai, Jianjian is a respected elder who is engaged in high-IQ crimes and is capable of doing big things.

What I despise most are idiots like Shi Se who rob caravans on the road.

"Tapered?"

"Captain Longbai, did you really get it out?"

"What about the God of Nature?"

"What does the God of Nature say?"

"..."

The Lord of Samsara, the Lord of Manchi, and other insects including Baiwei, Hongtao, and Giant Cypress were all a little confused.

——You wouldn’t say that after wasting so much time, you only ended up getting a thief bug?

"Now we can confirm that this ruin is the main temple above the six major temples of the Eternal Star Civilization!"

Long Bai spoke briefly, and the divine power of the universe swirled lightly, activating the writing ability to write the relevant information into the soul consciousness of all the insects present.

Wait two seconds,

Long Bai said: "I have obtained the magic cube key corresponding to the Temple of Life Sciences. Let's go and give it a try!"

...

...

Derris opens the door,
Led by Long Bai, the insects entered the four-dimensional space again and landed at the center of one side of the metal cube.

The tip of the blade gradually fell to the ground, and its tentacles touched the metal ground, groping and sensing.

"God-level material without a doubt!"

"God-level survival base!"

"The system is in a state of complete silence similar to that of a starship..."

Jian Jian suddenly looked up and asked, "It has been in operation all the time? Did you supply it with the Force? Or has its Force never been completely exhausted?"

--What?
——Operational status?
The insects were horrified when they heard the words, and they turned into streams of light and dispersed in an instant, gathering strength and becoming alert.

"Don't panic yet!"

Lord Manchi said hurriedly: "When we were testing, we injected a proper amount of Force with a total amount of about 10 billion original crystals. It may be that it was accidentally activated..."

"..."

All the insects looked at the Lord Manchi, then at Jianjian, and finally at Longbai.

Long Bai calmed down and asked, "Master Jianjian, are there any devices equipped with defense systems, offensive weapons, etc.?"

Jianjian: "Four-dimensional space-time is the strongest defense, and it is currently in a silent energy-saving state. As for offensive weapons, none have been found yet."

Long Bai turned around and said, "Yu Teng, open the gate wider. All warriors below the Domination Realm should go out first and notify the starships outside to accumulate energy and prepare for the jump and evacuation. Warriors above the Domination Realm should maintain a safe distance of 300 million kilometers to observe."

"Master of Jianjian, you go up and operate it."

After he finished speaking, the space ahead rippled, and the Rubik's Cube key corresponding to the Temple of Life Sciences appeared, floating in front of Jianjian.

Led by Longbai, the insects retreated in an orderly manner.

Gradually sharp: "..."

Jianjian raised his claws to take the Rubik's Cube, controlling it to twist it rapidly. He observed and stared at it, lowered his head, and swept his tentacles across the ground to explore.

"Not this side!"

"The six sides of the cube base have a fixed correspondence with the six temples of Gubu!"

Jianjian said this, activating his spatial ability and teleporting to the other side of the Rubik's Cube, and then performing another round of operations.

"Still wrong."

Gradually become sharp and then teleport to change sides.

Use distractions for two purposes.

The Rubik's Cube was suspended above his head, twisting rapidly while sticking close to the ground. It was slowly wandering in a roughly central area, its tentacles constantly sweeping left and right for sensing.

"found it!"

"This side is the entrance to the life science field of the Gubu Lord Temple!"

"I'll try……"

Jianjian vibrated his mental power to report the situation. At the same time, his body floated upwards, slightly away, and hovered a thousand meters above the metal ground. He stretched out his front legs and tentacles, controlled the Rubik's Cube key to float between his tentacles and front legs, and twisted it rapidly for sensing and analysis.

There are trillions of combinations of Rubik's Cube keys, but there are certain patterns. It is obvious that the gradual tip is trying them in a regular pattern...

A long cracking process.

A year later, Derris could no longer hold on.

Longbai asked the unimportant insects to go out first, and Yu Teng took a rest to recover his strength.

Two years later,

The impatient insects such as Molan, Baiwei and Shise couldn't stand it anymore and quietly withdrew.

Two hundred years later,
Only Longbai and Manchi Lord were left in the field, with Yu Teng floating on the side, waiting to help open the portal.

Finally one day, the rapidly spinning Rubik's Cube key suddenly stopped.

After standing still with its front legs and tentacles stretched out for more than two hundred years, the eel slowly retracted its front legs, drooped its tentacles, and buried its head as if in deep thought.

The Rubik's Cube twisted gently twice.

The metal ground below reacted, a spot of emerald green light bloomed, and turned into green lines that moved and spread, forming a square with a side length of forty to fifty kilometers.

The green lines flow quickly, forming complicated and intricate patterns within the grid.

The original energy flows accordingly.

A square groove appeared in the center of the grid, and the Rubik's Cube key fell and embedded in it under the traction.

Instantly, a bright green light rose up, forming a square screen...

"opened……"

Jianjian teleported to Longbai's side and reported: "I didn't sense any attack device being activated. This base itself probably doesn't have the ability to attack."

Yu Teng, who was dormant in meditation, woke up with a start, was stunned for a moment, turned around quickly, activated his ability, opened the entrance and exit, and looked back, and was surprised to find that there were super huge white characters appearing on the green screen.

A long dense list:

【1001 micro cubic crystal compressor 1000 million cubic crystals/unit】

[1002 small cubic crystal compressor 3000 million cubic crystals/unit]

[1003 medium-sized cubic crystal compressor 8000 million cubic crystals/unit]

[1004 Large-scale Cubic Crystal Compressor 1.5 million cubic crystals/unit]

[1005 heavy-duty cubic crystal compressor 3.5 million cubic crystals/unit]

[2001 Micro Energy Transmission Ship 100 billion cubic crystals/ship]

[2002 Small Energy Transmission Ship 300 billion cubic crystals/ship]

……[2006 Ultra-giant energy transmission ship 6000 billion cubic crystals/ship]

Below the white characters, there is a string of bright and eye-catching red characters that specifically states:

[1 Chaos Crystal = 1 Square Crystals = 1 Million Crystals]

"!!!"

“Is this… a price list?”

Yu Teng was the Flame Spider Merchant after all, and he was the first to react. He exclaimed, "There is an intelligent life form controlling the main temple, and the other party is requesting a trade!"

The insects' brains worked rapidly and they soon understood the situation.

"The Gubu tribe is not extinct? Are they trapped in the main temple universe?"

"Or are there any intelligent remnants of the Eternal Stars civilization?"

"Don't panic! Don't panic! They can't get out!"

"'Cube crystals' should be their common currency."

"A crystal with a higher energy density than the original crystal?"

"Then the 'Cube Crystal Compressor' should be the device that collects the Force and makes 'Cube Crystals'."

"So, the 'energy transmission ship'... as the name suggests, is it a device that transmits 'cubic crystals'?"

"Give it a try?"

"..."

The Lord Manchi was impatient and was the first to transform into a stream of light, shining and approaching.

Longbai and Jianjian followed closely behind, traveling through space and teleporting over.

"Communicate with the Rubik's Cube key with mental power." Jianjian reminded.

Manchi Lord used his mental power to try, then shook his tentacles and said, "No."

"The Eternal Stars only have the authority to summon the Temple of the Ancient Lord. Could it be because they have merged with the Heart of Eternity?"

Long Bai immediately thought of the reason, and while speaking, he used his mental power to contact the Rubik's Cube and immediately sensed something.

Looking up,

【1001 micro cubic crystal compressor 1000 million cubic crystals/unit】

The ratio of square crystal to chaos stone is 1 to 1
1000 million cubic crystals are equal to 1000 Chaos Stones.

Long Bai's mind turned, and a space channel opened in front of him. He retrieved 1000 chaos stones from the universe and stacked them neatly in the green grid.

At the same time, lock the selected [Micro Cube Compressor] with your mind

Green light shines.

The Chaos Stone teleported away.

White light shines.

At the location where the original stone disappeared, a spherical instrument with a diameter of more than 300 meters and painted entirely black was teleported out and hovered close to the metal ground.

——Micro cubic crystal compressor?

——It’s quite big!
Long Bai controlled the object with his mind. The instrument flew across and came in front of him. He controlled it to rotate slowly and examined it.

There is a silver-gray nameplate on one side of the instrument, with universal characters describing the device parameters.

[Applicable to source points with Force concentrations from 0.099 to 0.399]

[Force utilization efficiency 85% to 90%]

【Energy purity 0.999】

【Number of warehouses: 3】

[Ultimate compression power 0.1 cubic crystal/second]

……

It is indeed the equipment used to manufacture "cubic crystals".

Jianjian explained, "Level 3 Force equipment, with a lot of unfamiliar energy materials. It looks brand new, but it was actually manufactured a very long time ago. It should be old stock from the old universe era, the Eternal Star Civilization."

"I don't understand science, so I can't understand how it works. But the general idea is that it is placed on the source point, absorbs the source point's force, and compresses it into a crystal block similar to the 'original crystal', that is, the 'cubic crystal'."

"It is installed on the zero-level source point with a Force concentration of 0.399. The equipment operates at maximum power, which means it can produce 0.1 cubic crystals per second, or 10 crystal every 1 seconds. If you calculate carefully, the number is not small, 315.4 million crystals can be produced in a year. The equipment is sold for 3 million yuan, and it will pay for itself in years. The rest is all profit. It is the most cost-effective deal in the universe."

"The other party's intention is obvious. They want us to take the equipment, manufacture 'cubic crystals', and then use them as currency to trade with them."

"It is conceivable that even if the universe's energy inside the main temple has not been exhausted, it is not much left and needs to be replenished urgently. If they take the initiative to trade with us, I am afraid they are in a life-and-death situation."

Jianjian asked, "Are you sure they can't get out? We're afraid that after they regain their strength, they'll suddenly jump out and attack us."

"..."

Long Bai focused and moved his tentacles, then waved them lightly, and the device moved sideways and landed in front of the Lord of Manchi.

Manchi dominates the inspection.

Long Bai approached the green screen, and with another thought, he opened a space channel connecting to the universe. 3000 Chaos Crystals moved across the green grid ground.

Mind communication selection [1002 small square crystal compressor]

Green light shines,

The Chaos Stone teleported away.

White light shines,

A black spherical device with a diameter of just over 450 meters was teleported out.

Longbai raised his claws and grabbed the front of him, controlling the rotation, and found the nameplate to check.

[Recommended for use at source points with a force concentration of 0.399 to 0.699]

……

[Ultimate compression power 0.3 cubic crystal/second]

Jianjian: "It's the same equipment, just bigger in size."

"Please check carefully."

Longbai waved his tentacles lightly, controlling the drift to the tip.

After a brief pause, he looked up at the [2001 Micro Energy Transmission Ship]

100 billion cubic crystals/ship

That requires 100 million Chaos Gems.

A bit expensive!

Long Bai hesitated slightly, then opened the channel to the universe again, separating out 1 million chaos stones into piles of 100 each and placing them neatly in the green grid.

Communication through thoughts, select [2001 Micro Energy Transmission Ship]

Next second,
Green light shines,

The Chaos Stone teleported away.

White light shines,

An oval-shaped starship with a flat belly, a bulging back, a sharp front, side wings and a tail fin, and a length of just over 300 meters, with an overall smooth and streamlined shape, was teleported out.

Longbai raised his claws, grabbed the object in front of him, and gently turned it over to search.

No nameplate describing the starship's parameters was found.

"Captain Longbai, there is an entrance and exit hatch..."

Jianjian raised his claws and pointed, while using his mental power to control it.

On the left side of the starship, four cracks appeared on the tightly fitted hull.

A hatch slowly dropped down, forming a staircase.

The interior is a spacious cabin that is more than 80 meters long and about 30 meters wide.

The two circular platforms slightly above the ground are obviously transmission devices.

There is also a double hatch leading to the head of the starship, which is about 4 meters high and 6 meters wide.

Jianjian flashed in and the hatch opened automatically.

It should be the cockpit, but it was empty.

Jianjian was indeed the 'God of Thieves'. He turned around in place, glanced around briefly, accurately locked onto the dome of the cabin, and infused his mental power into it.

Immediately, the curved metal wall in front emitted a bright white light, forming a flat screen with a long text introduction.

"Captain Longbai, the blank starship requires us to write our own intelligent system to control it."

"There is a brief introduction to the general parameters of the starship. The maximum transmission distance is 1 light years, and it is limited to 'cubic crystals' with a clarity of 0.995 or above. The maximum speed is 3000 times the speed of light..."

"3000 times the speed of light?"

Jian Jian was stunned for a moment, then jumped up and down in excitement, "3000 times the speed of light! This is a god-level starship!"

"God-level starship!"

Manchi Lord was even more excited than Jianjian, his whole body glowing red, the whole insect almost exploded, he said in disbelief: "God-level starship? It's not made of god-level materials!"

That's right! Jianjian calmed down quickly, and carefully sensed with his vertical tentacles, explaining: "It's mainly third-level energy materials, and the kinetic energy system is mixed with a small amount of god-level materials! This is a technology I have never seen before..."

Manchi Lord calmed down, his eyes flashed red light rapidly, his brain was working rapidly, and he asked:

“What’s the maximum range?”

"Forehead……"

"The endurance is not good. Only 10 light years? This is a starship for intra-galactic activities, not suitable for inter-galactic navigation."

"Forehead……"

"The power strength is not good enough, and the carrying capacity is very poor..."

The gradually pointed tentacles drooped and touched the cabin floor. After another sensation, he said, "These guys are very stingy! They are all third-level energy materials. Only the kinetic energy system is suspected to have used a small amount of god-level materials."

"really!"

Manchi Lord said: "The key is the cultivation technology of god-level materials and the technology of using god-level materials."

Lord Manchi looked at Longbai and asked, "God-level knowledge cannot be transmitted from the main temple universe?"

Long Bai: "According to the True God of Nature, this is exactly what was set up when the Temple of the Ancient God was built. Any life form that enters it cannot come out again. Accordingly, all divine knowledge cannot be transmitted in any form. This is the law of the True God, which is almost impossible to tamper with and cannot be avoided."

"It is not difficult to deduce that the general mode of operation of the Eternal Stars civilization should be to use all the source points and materials in the ruling galaxy with super high efficiency to collect Force energy and primary minerals. The Eternal Stars summon the temple, and the six learned masters open the temple. Force energy and minerals are sent in, and ready-made god-level artifacts are sent out. If it is a super-large creation, it can be disassembled into components and sent out."

The ecstatic mood of the Manchi Lord fell to the bottom.

Long Bai said nothing and left the cabin.

Invest another 100 million Chaos Gems to purchase another [2001 Micro Energy Transmission Ship]

He called on Manchi Zhuzu and Jianjian to pack up and leave first, and then go back to discuss with the other insects. (End of this chapter)