National Star Sea Era...

Chapter 315 [Floating Land Origin Core Stealing Device]

Among countless possible outcomes, he happened to encounter the one he least wanted to see. One can imagine how Song Chi felt at the moment.

However, he still tried his best to control his emotions and shifted his attention to this damaged special device.

According to some high-ranking members of the Shouyuan tribe on the Shouyuan mothership, this special device was named "Origin Core Hunting Device" by them. It was a technological product that was gradually developed by the Shouyuan Council through the accidental discovery of the wreckage of an alien warship tens of thousands of years ago.

Just as he had thought before, this "Origin Core Hunting Device" can indeed extract the origin core of a floating land in the starry sea by itself. This is why there are so many barren floating lands in the territory of the Hunting Source Civilization.

However, this device also has significant limitations. First of all, it takes a long time to extract the origin core of each piece of Star Sea Floating Land.

Secondly, extracting the origin core of the level 3 floating land seems to be the limit of this device. Although they have not tried to extract the level 4 floating land, the high-ranking members of the parliament of the Shouyuan civilization are not fools and they all have a scale in their hearts.

In addition to these, Song Chi learned something else.

The Shouyuan civilization is a technological civilization, and what they developed to increase their lifespan is a special gene optimization drug.

The key is that the raw materials of this potion are surprisingly related to the floating land origin core. This is why they have not been able to cultivate a level 4 life floating land after tens of thousands of years and with the assistance of the origin core hunting device.

It's not just because they are located in a remote star field, with a territory stretching for tens of thousands of light years but without a single level 4 floating land, but also because of the infinite greed of the individuals within the tribe.

Is the future potential of civilization important in the face of individual life?
Perhaps in the hearts of a small group of visionaries the answer would be yes, but under the rolling torrent of endless selfishness, their power is not even as strong as a mantis trying to stop a chariot.

After understanding all this, Song Chi couldn't help but sigh.

I remember there was such a passage in the basic knowledge I learned in the past.

The Broken Star Sea is vast and boundless, and it has nurtured countless civilizations. In this vast civilization as numerous as the grains of sand in the Ganges, a small decision and every little detail within the ethnic group will affect the future direction of the entire civilization, and a slight mistake may lead to destruction.

This sentence is obviously very appropriate to use in the Shuyuan civilization at present.

With a good start, if the Shouyuan tribe could be less selfish, or if the leader was more capable, after tens of thousands of years, they might be able to cultivate even a level 5 floating land, and then use this floating land as a foundation to master the space star gate technology and continue to expand to the surrounding star fields.

In this way, after tens of thousands of years, there might be a completely different ending.

Another example is the Xinhuo human civilization. If a few warships had monopolized the initial source of Xinhuo after obtaining it, and only focused on developing themselves instead of using it on the entire ethnic group below, would the Xinhuo human civilization have grown rapidly over the past 300,000 years and occupied the entire Xinhuo human galaxy community today?

Maybe at some point in time it has already encountered an irresistible crisis and was annihilated in the long river of time!
With a sigh, Song Chi quickly collected his confused thoughts. He divided dozens of Void Shadow Killer Clan terracotta warriors into three groups and sent them out. They rushed to the level 3 floating land below as quickly as possible and quickly plundered all the high-level resources on this floating land.

After all, it is a level 3 floating land, it cannot be completely worthless.

Without the interference of the Shouyuan mothership, the only fourth-level combat unit, the pseudo-fifth-level Void Shadow Killing Clan soldiers naturally had no obstacles on a level 3 floating land, and they cleared all the middle and high-level resources on this star sea floating land at the fastest speed.

As for those low-level resources, they cannot be collected in a short period of time, so Song Chi is not very interested in them.

Later on, we can ask the development team in the vein to come over, or bring over Soul Ya and Soul Er who are still in the asteroid belt.

Speaking of Soul One and Soul Two, it is indeed no longer suitable for them to stay in the asteroid belt. After completing the exploration of the ancient starry sky battlefield, the family also sent a large development team to develop the asteroid belt with a diameter of 21 light years.

Moreover, since it was he who took the initiative to report the resource point, Song Chi would also get a share of the resources obtained in the subsequent large-scale development, so there was no need for Soul One and Soul Two to stay there any longer.

A few hours later, Song Chi's expression no longer had the previous expectation.

"What a rotten civilization. Even the few remaining Level 3 floating lands have had their resources mined out. Even the core of the floating lands is only maintained at the lowest state of balance..."

Song Chi was complaining crazily in his heart, even a little bit unbelievable. He didn't understand why they could be so short-sighted even though they had grown to an intermediate civilization.

After a search by the Void Shadow Killing Clan's soldiers, he was shocked to find that even though the core of the Level 3 Star Sea Floating Land below had not been extracted, all the usable resources on it had been seized to an indescribable extent.

Even the slight increase in volume of the Floating Land's origin core every year by absorbing free energy from the external starry sea will be accurately extracted by the Hunting Source Civilization, leaving no chance for the Floating Land itself to improve. All of this is for the purpose of further extending the lifespan of the old antiques in the Supreme Council of the Hunting Source Civilization.

The Shouyuan civilization really has no idea what circular development is, and everything they do is almost completely without regard for the consequences.

Song Chi frowned and thought that if he was born in such a civilization, he would be in despair.

Buzz!
Since it has been determined that there is not much value, Song Chi naturally will not stay any longer. He activates the space jump device and rushes to the second level 3 star sea floating land where the Shouyuan mothership is stationed.

Ten days later, he successfully solved the second target.

However, he learned his lesson this time and did not sink the Shouyuan mothership. Instead, he made it completely lose its ability to resist and then took over the other party.

Under this premise, the "Origin Core Hunting Device" in this Hunting Source Mothership finally remained intact, but the bad news was that this hunting device was not a rare item either.

Since it is not a rare item and cannot be disassembled from the Shouyuan mothership, if one wants to use this special device for one's own use, one must pack up the Shouyuan mothership and bring it along. In addition, a group of Shouyuan people who are familiar with operating this mothership must also be brought along.

The Shouyuan tribe is not a big problem. They can be directly imprisoned in the cage in the cabin of the Sky, or placed in the secret realm of the market.

Of course, the cultivation secret realm is not included. It is currently undergoing secret realm acceleration. Hundreds and thousands of years have passed, and perhaps by the time they return, they will have changed several generations. Without a corresponding education system, these newly born Shuyuan people will be in a dark when facing the Shuyuan mothership.

The difficulty lies in the Shouyuan mothership itself, which is a giant with a length of 20,000 meters.

Thinking about it, Song Chi instinctively thought of the component [Proportional Zoomer]. Now with its enhanced level 40, it can not only be effective on the Shouyuan mothership, which is also a fourth-order unit, but the maximum zoom ratio has also reached 200 times.

Soon, the Shouyuan mothership was transformed from a 20,000-meter behemoth into a small warship with a length of 100 meters, and was easily taken into the cabin of the Cangkong.

Song Chi was very happy to see that he had successfully taken the other party into the cabin. This meant that he could actively use the other party to extract the core of the floating land's origin in the future, which would definitely bring him considerable profits.

But despite his joy, he was not quite satisfied.

After all, the upper limit of this "origin core hunting device" is there. It has value, but it has not reached an exaggerated level. After all, it takes no less time to extract the origin core of a floating land than a fourth-level creature to do it himself. Therefore, in Song Chi's heart, he still longs for a corresponding device that can be converted into a ship-borne component.

After dealing with the second Shouyuan mothership, Song Chi's subsequent actions were the same as before. He began to search the level 3 floating land not far away, but the result was still not much different.

Just like the previous floating land, the value of this level 3 floating land was almost completely exploited, and he didn't get many truly valuable resources from it.

Helplessly, Song Chi could only rush to the last floating land.

This Level 001 floating land named Shouyuan 3 is the fundamental floating land of the Shouyuan civilization. It was originally a peak Level 3 floating land, just one step away from Level 4. However, under the long-term exploitation of the Shouyuan tribe, it has now degenerated back to the ordinary Level 3 level.

However, as the fundamental floating land of civilization, the last two hunting source motherships were both stationed near this floating land.

For a cruiser of that strength, this might be a big problem, but for Song Chi, the difference between one or two is really not big.

The Flame Giant simply showed up and easily intimidated the two of them, and was then quickly taken over by Song Chi one after another.

After searching the third Shouyuan mothership, Song Chi's brows were still furrowed.

Twenty minutes later, a burst of excited shouts suddenly came from the main control room of the Sky. Through the perspective of the Void Shadow Killer Clan's terracotta warriors, he saw a starry sea wonder emitting a charming orange light in the last Hunting Source mothership.

[Strange Item: Origin Core Hunting Device]

[Quality: Orange]

[Transformable: {Floating Land Origin Core Stealer}]

[Note: The special device created by the Shouyuan civilization from an unknown wrecked warship has evolved over 20,000 years and has become an orange wonder.]

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Floating Land Origin Core Stealer lv0
Quality: Orange

Features: Energy Stealer
Feature 2: Cooldown time reduced by 25%
Consumption: 10/s (psi energy points)

Charging time: 1 hour; buffer time: 7.5 years

Effect: Consume 10000 psionic energy points, and after a certain period of operation (varies according to the component enhancement level and the level of the floating land in effect), steal the floating land origin core of the designated Star Sea floating land that does not exceed the component enhancement level.

Required for upgrade: 10 strands of floating land origin (zero level), 1000 nether energy points

{Energy Stealing: The warship that reproduces this component will gain the special "energy stealing" feature, which can autonomously absorb the free energy from the outside world to bless the warship's energy supply components, increasing the energy supply efficiency of the energy supply components by 45%.}
After seeing the two properties of this strange object, Song Chi called it a top-grade product.

Not to mention the ability to steal the origin core of the floating land that he had coveted before, just the first characteristic "stealing energy" was enough to make Song Chi ecstatic.

Although the [Light Energy Aggregation Engine] on the Sky has been strengthened to level 59, with the increase in the strengthening levels of a number of gold, silver, red and other energy-consuming components, and the addition of a silver component in recent times, the energy supply of the Sky is about to become unbalanced again.

It should be noted that the [Mirage Dragon Pearl] component has only been enhanced to level 20. If it is to be enhanced to level or even level in the future, a complete imbalance in energy supply is inevitable.

Song Chi had been having a headache about this issue, but the emergence of this "energy stealing" feature undoubtedly solved this problem perfectly.

Although the components of the [Photonic Energy Aggregation Engine] will have to be replaced sooner or later, the blessing effect of this "energy stealing" feature will not change. Moreover, after the Sky is replaced with a higher quality engine, the blessing effect it can provide will become more amazing.

As for the most fundamental ability of this component to steal the core of the floating land's origin, it is not clear through this attribute panel at the moment. You can only know the full effect by trying it yourself later.

However, what is certain is that once it is subsequently strengthened to the fifth level, it will be able to extract the floating land origin core of the fifth-level star sea floating land.

"Level 5 Floating Land Origin Core, this is something comparable to a silver legendary item, but I don't know how long it will take to steal it..."

Murmuring, Song Chi turned and towed both of the Shouyuan motherships into the Cangkong in the same way.

One of them was also equipped with an ordinary "Origin Core Hunting Device", which would be great whether he kept it for himself or handed it over to his lineage or clan.

Inside the main control room of the Sky, several members of the Shouyuan tribe with pointy ears and four claws were crawling on the ground with looks of fear on their faces.

These four were the highest authorities in the Shouyuan Civilization Council, and were directly kidnapped by the Void Shadow Killing Clan’s terracotta warriors.

Song Chi’s purpose was also very simple.

"Are the remains of the alien warship from 20,000 years ago still there? Can you still manufacture this 'Origin Core Hunting Device' now?"

Since the technology of this origin core hunting device comes from the wreckage of that unknown alien warship, its value can be imagined. If we can obtain some technical information from the wreckage of the warship and then hand it over to the family research institute, it will surely be of high value.

If we can master the technology for mass production of the "Origin Core Hunting Device", it will surely become a new heritage for the family.

Imagination is indeed beautiful, but reality is extremely cruel.

The answer Song Chi got was that the wreckage of the alien warship had long been reduced to ashes in the scramble among all parties. As for this "Origin Core Hunting Device", it could still be manufactured.

But don't be happy too soon.

The core material of this device was originally obtained from the wreckage of the alien warship. Now there is very little left, only enough to manufacture five more of these "Origin Core Hunting Devices".

Song Chi also looked at it carefully, but did not recognize the origin of this material. It was not recorded in the Dinghai Song family's database.

(End of this chapter)