Astral Ants

It would be best to find a naturally formed source star system similar to the 'Scarlet Light 45 Star System' in the th star field.

Build a life planet as a logistics supply base.

...

The Taber, carrying Longbai, Molan, Juniper, and Shan Lingyi, entered the 45th star field in less than three years.

Long Bai personally activated the Sunburn ability to collect light wave information, and with the assistance of his intelligent brain ability, he sorted out more than 2,000 stars of suitable size and with planets.

Through the artist, the information is imported into the Tupper database.

Taber performed calculations and analysis and selected the 200 star systems with the greatest possibility of having source points.

Move quickly and get closer to view them one by one.

A hundred years passed in a flash.

Unfortunately, the previous good luck was gone and no ideal source point overlapping with a star was found.

The main fleet arrived at 045 Pulsar.

Longbai also hurriedly drove the Taber to meet up.

At the meeting, the three chambers of commerce, Xianglan, Citi and Boshuwan, allocated search routes and began to take action.

If no suitable star system is found, we can only continue to transport supplies from the Feiguang 1 star system.

The speed of the cargo starships of Poison Bean and Poison Wheat was only 100 times the speed of light. It would take more than 5000 years to transport over a distance of more than 50 light years. Ant honey, frozen meat, dried fruits and other foods were difficult to preserve for such a long time, and the transport ships were not large enough to run over time, so they could not supply them. The team's food was temporarily changed to a single refined bead.

Longbai drove the Tubai, with Juniper; Molan drove a frigate similar to the Haimeng, with Sugi Lingyi; Hongfeng brought Jasper and drove another frigate equipped by the fleet.

Divide into three groups and act separately to continue to check the remaining 1800-plus "habitable" star systems.

The Tabor ran fast and took more than 800 years to quickly complete the survey of the assigned star systems.

Nothing gained.

Return to the mothership.

Another hundred years later, Red Maple and Jasper returned from their search.

Again nothing was found.

Long Bai did not participate in the command work. He was immersed in his thoughts, dormant in meditation, and the traces were integrated.

One day,
Good news:
[No. 072, Team 3, Group 1 soldier Pengsu, discovered the first-level source point]

Longbai collected the information, left the nest and rushed to mark it. After some praise and encouragement, he called all the insects back to the mothership to rest and prepare to move to the next stop.

The seventh generation Xiaozuo King Qianli Haruha came over and asked, "My king, where is the second king? I miss him."

As soon as these words were spoken, all the insects came to their senses and started talking about it.

"Yes!"

"Where is my most respected Second King?"

"Where is my beloved Second King?"

"Calculating the time, you should have come back a long time ago, right?"

"Are you in any danger?"

"What kind of danger can there be? The worst that can happen is that I will die and be resurrected."

"Right!"

"No! Sugi Reiichi is following the Second King!"

"Suginoichi doesn't have the ability to revive!"

"..."

The insects looked at the dragon cypress.

Long Bai: "..."

Long Bai: "First, there should be no other teams active in the 45th star field at this stage, and no bugs can threaten the Second King; second, some extreme celestial bodies may take the Second King's life, but Sugi Lingyi is smart and steady, and he will not follow him to die."

After Longbai finished speaking, he thought for a moment and said helplessly: "Baifan, Baishen, Hongmaple, Maoberry, Guifan, Xingyunbai, you lead the army and continue the search."

"Juniper, come with me. Bring back the Second King."

"My lord, how do I find it?"

The juniper was now majestically commanding a group of fir tree little warriors, and was very busy and not very happy to run around.

Long Bai said unhappily, "Didn't we plan a route for them? Search in the reverse direction!"

"Reverse?"

Juniper's logic was meticulous and clear. He analyzed and said, "King, the Second King has zero discipline and zero execution. It is very likely that it deviated from its course as soon as it went out, ran off the track, and got lost. It's a waste of time to look for it like this. Maybe, before you find it, the Second King has slipped back on his own."

"..."

Snapped!Snapped!
Longbai waved his tentacles, swung two whips on Juniper's head, and called out, "Forget it, Qianli Chunyu, come with me."

"Ok!"

Juniper agreed in a sonorous voice.

"I know, Your Majesty!"

Qianli Haruha agreed.

...

Simply pack up and go.

Starting from the end star system of the planned path, Tabor ran all the way, scanning and detecting while sending electromagnetic and gravitational wave signals.

Juniper was right.
Time flies, and the route has been extended for 130 years. Half of the planned route has been passed, but there is no trace of Molan and Shan Lingyi.

Longbai was feeling depressed.
Finally one day,
Taber reported: "Longbai, gravitational waves from the frigate Thorny Bean No. 35341 have been detected! Sugi Lingyi is calling for help, the signal is coming from the super giant diffuse nebula numbered ."

The cockpit light dimmed and a holographic projection fell.

A colorful nebula dominated by gaseous matter, about 15 light-years long and 1.3 light-years wide.

Zoom in to see,

The nebula is filled with a large amount of dust, meteorites, planets, stars, as well as extreme celestial bodies such as black holes, neutron stars, white dwarfs, and red supergiants.

Star Region 45 is a semi-chaotic zone that has not yet fully stabilized.

"Spiny Bean No. 1 is at this location."

Taber prompted, a green dot flashing to indicate the location.

"..."

Longbai looked overwhelmed.

Molan drove the Thorny Bean No. 1 into the depths of the nebula.

Gimbal compass reconnaissance showed that there was a white dwarf with considerable mass there.

"Taber, what's going on?"

"No explanation. Only a distress signal from Thorny Bean One was received."

"Go over and have a look!"

"Roger that!"

The Tubber changed direction and jumped off.

The distance is not far, only 24 light years, and it takes four days to get close to the nebula.

Long Bai put away the Taber, controlled the Half-Ant Artist, and carried Qianli Chunyu, teleporting into the nebula.

Arrived quickly.

Sugi Lingyi sensed the movement and teleported out of the starship.

"Your Majesty!"

"Qianli Haruyu?"

Shan Lingyi raised his claws and pointed at the bright white star in the distance, saying, "The situation is like this. The Second King took me to survey the star system along the way. When passing by here, the Second King suddenly had an idea and said that Taber's calculation data was wrong. The probability of a third-level source point here is very high, so we must come and take a look..."

"The Second King said that there was something wrong with the white dwarf and he wanted to go in and take a look. Then he never came out. The light was too strong and I couldn't see the Second King. I'm not sure if he was... gone or if he encountered other problems. I was afraid that the Second King wouldn't be able to find me when he came back, so I didn't dare to leave easily."

Long Bai said: "The Second King is still here."

The dual powers of the Sun and the Moon sensed and confirmed that Molan was on the white dwarf.

Longbai asked, "How long have you been here?"

"14 years and 7 months."

Sugi Lingyi answered and asked, "King, then, is the Second King trapped in the gravitational field of the white dwarf?"

"impossible."

"The Second King has the ability to move with light, so a gravitational field of this intensity cannot trap him."

Long Bai stared and watched carefully.

When a relatively small star dies, it becomes a white dwarf.

The gravitational field of the white dwarf devours the matter in the surrounding space, forming a huge black void. There are also star rings formed by matter rotating around it, which means that the formation time is not particularly long.

This white dwarf is still in an extremely high temperature state, and its surface is covered by an intense incandescent halo, making it impossible to see the internal situation clearly.

——Could it be that we have discovered the remains of the old universe again?

Long Bai couldn't figure out what was going on with Mo Lan, and he was worried, so he ordered:
"Shan Lingyi, Qianli Chunyu, you stay here and don't act rashly. I'll go over and take a look. If you don't come back for more than three years, you go back to the Lingxiao star system and find Yu Teng. Its spatial ability is specifically designed to restrain this kind of strong gravitational field."

"Oh--"

"understood--"

Sugi Reiichi and Chisato Haruha agreed.

Long Bai didn't say much. He put away the half-ant artist, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he concentrated all his consciousness and will. His carapace cracked and he shed his dark green shell. His body length shrank to about 1 meter, his six legs and antennae shortened and thickened, and the new shell hardened quickly, with a silvery-white and shiny metallic texture.

To adapt and evolve, it transformed into a form with the lightest mass, the hardest shell, and six short and powerful legs.

The system's energy exploded, and a white energy halo rose.

His body turned into a stream of silver-white light, which cut diagonally into the gravitational field of the white dwarf, flew in a circle, constantly slowing down and lowering its orbit. At the same time, he released his abilities to fight against the extremely strong gravity from below, aimed at Molan's location, and landed with a bang.

The gravity is one hundred thousand times that of a regular planet in the natural god system, the star is extremely dense, the ground is as smooth as a mirror, and a layer of thick incandescent plasma rises from the surface.

In such an extreme environment, any ordinary Sujing warrior who landed would surely die.

Long Bai, who possessed ancestral divine power, ancestral divine body, adaptive evolution and many other divine abilities to strengthen the physique, could only hold on with difficulty.

In extreme environments, mental power is suppressed within a thousand meters.

Molan's approximate location can only be sensed through the abilities of the sun and the moon.

I approached with difficulty, looking for...

"Long Bai?"

"Why are you here?"

Molan's surprised mental power and thoughts came from deep underground.

Long Bai was stunned and asked, "Second King, what are you doing?"

"There is treasure!"

"under!"

Molan said: "The environment is extremely bad. My ability to burrow underground cannot be fully utilized. I am drilling deeper and deeper."

"The deeper we go, the higher the density and strength of the material, making it harder to dig. King, don't just stand there, come down and help?"

"Forehead……"

Long Bai concentrated his mind and felt nothing. He asked, "Treasure? What treasure? Relics of the old universe civilization? If it can be preserved in this environment, it must be at least the pinnacle of the third-level civilization, right?"

"do not know……"

Molan said in confusion: "It's very strange, unfamiliar, and very obscure and weak force fluctuations."

Molan changed her approach and asked, "Longbai, are you able to come down and help?"

"no!"

Longbai tried to gather the energy in his front paw, stabbed it into the ground, and tried to cut off a piece while releasing the energy at the same time to prevent the fusion of matter.

With lightning speed, he successfully cut off a piece, picked it up with great force, and threw it aside.

Under the extremely strong gravity, the excavated material instantly melted into the ground, and at the same time, the small holes dug out quickly "healed" and became smooth.

"Move quickly!"

Molan patiently taught: "Use the energy of destruction or annihilation to quickly destroy matter. First, make a big pit, quickly jump in to occupy the pit, and then use your ability to grind down bit by bit..."

Long Bai: "..."

Long Bai asked, "Second King, how far are you from the treasure?"

Molan: "It's a bit far, I think it's more than 2000 meters."

Molan has only gone down less than 500 meters now, and the further down she goes, the higher the density of the material becomes, and the more difficult it becomes.

Longbai roughly estimated that it would take at least 100 years.

"Second King, do you remember that Fishvine has an ability called 'Order Time and Space'?"

"ah!"

"Have it?"

"I don't remember~"

Molan was suddenly startled and became angry. "Why didn't you tell me earlier? Then hurry back to the Lingxiao star system and catch Yu Teng to help! Quick! Quick! Hurry up! I'm so mad!"

"..."

"Ok."

"goodbye!"

Long Bai didn't waste any time. He gathered his strength, kicked his legs, and jumped up. His light speed ability was activated, and he turned into an incandescent stream of light and rushed out of the white dwarf.

"Your Majesty?"

"Where is the second king?"

Sugi Reiichi and Chisato Haruha came forward.

"The Second King sensed strange energy fluctuations inside the white dwarf. It is probably a treasure left by an old cosmic civilization."

"The second king is stupid. He used brute force to dig down... Now, it's hard for him to dig back, and even harder to dig down. He's neither up nor down. He's a little stuck. But he won't die. Just leave him alone."

Long Bai briefly described the situation and made arrangements: "Shan Lingyi and Qianli Chunyu stay and continue to guard. I will return to the Lingxiao star system as quickly as possible to pick up Yu Teng."

...

The straight-line distance is about 3.3 light years. The Tabor travels at 2200 times the speed of light. It only takes 15 years. There is no need to die and go back.

...

This guy, Derris, basically doesn't participate in labor.

Most of the time is spent in dormant meditation, practicing abilities, and evolving and growing.

Evolution is very slow.

It took 28 years.

After the starship arrived at the Amber Galaxy, it finally achieved a breakthrough and evolved into the Star Shining Realm.

The space system is absolutely dominant, and its core ability is a combination of two simple abilities: Stargate and Order Spacetime...

In order to protest against being assigned the ability to transport materials by the engineering team, Yu Teng named it "Coolie Gate".

After that, Bai Wei didn't assign it any work.

Hundreds of thousands of years.
I have been resting until now.

Under the laws of the universe, world gems of the space system will not be derived.

Without the assistance of world gems, condensing the "trace" would be time-consuming and laborious.

Yu Teng comprehended the laws of space in the Baiwei Star Territory and condensed the "trace".

...

Long Bai made a rare trip back to the Lingxiao star system. He greeted the leader of the Amber Chamber of Commerce, Zhao Yebai, and summoned the presidents of Xianglanshan, Huaqishan, and Baiwei Chambers of Commerce, to briefly describe the gains on the front line and the ongoing search work.

I greeted the Baijing Chamber of Commerce and the newly arrived seventh and eighth level chambers of commerce and got to know them briefly.

Longbai set off with Yu Teng.

...

...

Come to the white dwarf again.

Molan still managed to get out of the white dwarf.

Using the abilities of the Sun and Moon stars, they detected it immediately and rushed out of the starship.

"Ant, why are you so slow?"

Molan questioned, and then looked at Yu Teng and asked, "Yu Teng, take a look at the situation. Can you handle this gravity strength?"

Derris: “Simple.”

"That's good!"

Mo Lan was impatient and urged, "Shan Lingyi and Qianli Haruyu stay. Longbai will follow to help. Let's go! Let's go! Dig for treasure! Hurry up!"

"..."

Derris led the way, turning into a stream of light and rushing towards the white dwarf.

Molan and Longbai followed closely behind.

Closer.

Derris slowed down, and the star spots on his forehead shone.

The surrounding space distorts and gravity disappears.

Yu Teng hovered and asked, "Captain Molan, what kind of existence do you think the treasure is? A starship? Or an artifact? What shape? Is it big? How long? How wide?"

"In the induction, a very small point..."

Molan was not very sure and said: "It is impossible to sense carefully in this harsh environment. I can't be sure of what you asked."

Yu Teng said: "The gravity of the planet binds and compresses matter. Once the space is distorted and the super-strong gravity is released, the compressed matter will explode instantly. We can use this characteristic to open a hole first and check it out."

"Chief Molan, I need to point out an exact location."

Molan thought for a moment, accelerated his landing on the planet, selected a location, and tapped his tentacles.

The fish vine distorted the surrounding space, quickly approached the planet, hovered in the air 30 kilometers away, and waved its claws to signal.

Molan retreated and stayed away.

Yu Teng calmed himself, took aim, and activated his spatial ability.

On the surface of the white dwarf, there is a hole with a diameter of one meter, and a beam of light shoots out vertically.

The high-pressure material releases and absorbs heat energy, and the surrounding ultra-high temperature incandescent plasma is instantly frozen.

Molan was startled and instinctively activated her light ability, turning into a beam of white light to escape. She also jumped out of the planet's gravitational field and hid in the distance to watch.

The gas column continues to erupt and explode, while being pulled and slowed down by the white dwarf's super-strong gravity. When it reaches a certain height, it is captured again and rotates around the white dwarf at ultra-high speed to form a bright star disk.

"what!"

Mo Lan, who was hovering high in the sky, was surprised and her body turned into a stream of light again. In a flash, she caught a pale oval-shaped object in her claws and then moved quickly to escape the gravitational field of the white dwarf.

"Found it!"

"Found it!"

Molan shook her mental power and called out.

Long Bai's figure flashed over.

Fishvine terminates ability and quickly drifts to arrive.

Sugi Reiichi and Chisato Haruha, who were watching from a distance, also came over.

All eyes were focused on Molan's claws.

A white oval-shaped gem that is about the same size as the source gem?
The surface is covered with light, beige energy lines.

Obscure, peculiar, chaotic type energy fluctuations.

What's strange is that, vaguely, there seems to be a strange form of life energy inside.

Live!

It has a little bit of the flavor of the Law Stone, but it is definitely not the Law Stone.

"Second King, what is this?"

Qianli Haruha exclaimed, questioning.

Mo Lan said solemnly: "It can withstand the pressure of the central area of ​​a white dwarf. It is definitely a god-level item!"

That means you don’t know me.

Shan Lingyi simply said: "I am young and inexperienced, so I don't know him. My king, do you know him?"

Longbai looked serious and shook his antennae.

Shan Lingyi suggested: "The Taber has collected a large amount of miscellaneous anecdotes from the Zerg civilization and the Star Shen'ao records. Why don't we ask Taber?"

Yu Teng said faintly: "Perhaps, I happen to know this thing..."

"???"

All the insects turned their heads and looked at the fish vine.

Yu Teng said: "When I was in the library, I was bored and flipped through the contents of miscellaneous knowledge and oddities, and happened to see the relevant records..."

"In the early stages of the new universe, in the chaotic galaxy, some third-level source points that existed for a particularly short time may produce 'chaos eggs' under special environmental conditions."

"Similar to the existence of the Law Stone and the Innate God, a combination of the two."

"In most cases, due to the chaotic energy riots in the chaotic galaxy, the third-level source points are born and quickly die. The Chaos Egg cannot absorb enough Force energy to hatch and dies prematurely."

"There is also an extremely low probability that the third-level source point exists long enough for the Chaos Egg to absorb sufficient Force energy and successfully hatch, which is the innate Chaos God. It is born as a first-level cosmic life form, which is the Star Realm level. It masters at least one Chaos skill and can absorb the Force and Chaos energy to evolve and grow rapidly."

"Low intelligence, violent, powerful, and difficult to kill usually grow into a disaster for intelligent civilizations."

Yu Teng: "Obviously, this is a Chaos Egg that failed to hatch, but it is not a complete failure. The third-level source point that gave birth to it has only been destroyed for a short time, so it is not dead yet."

"!!!"

"Derris!"

"You know such unpopular knowledge?"

"You studied secretly!"

Molan and Qianli Chunyu glared with contempt.

"Derby! Tell the truth, are you playing dumb?"

"Just playing dumb! Being lazy and not working!"

Yu Teng quickly waved his paw and explained, "Don't get me wrong. I was just wandering around the library and accidentally came across the relevant information. I didn't take it seriously."

"Derris isn't stupid. Derris is dumb and won't be lazy. Don't talk nonsense."

Cymbidium:"……"

Qianli Chunyu: "..."

Long Bai: "..."

Shan Ling raised his paw and said, "There is a very serious problem..."

"My lord, if the third-level source point that gave birth to the Chaos Egg was destroyed not long ago, doesn't that mean that the third-level source point in Star Field No. 45... originally existed, but now, it's gone?"

Long Bai focused and moved his tentacles, saying, "In a star field, when a third-level source point is destroyed, it will usually lead to the destruction of more than half of the zero-level, first-level, and second-level source points. These destroyed source points will regenerate, and when they reach a certain number, the star field will regenerate third-level source points."

"It is very likely that the new third-level source point in Star Region 45 has not yet been born."

Longbai called out, "Let's go to the Taber, Taber analysis." (End of this chapter)