They won the Holy Grail War, but this turned out to be the Virtual Tree Universe.

Chapter 76 The Memories of the Swarm

Fifteen years have passed since the Biyou Village incident.

After Dan Lei took Ma Xianhong and Chen Duo away from Biyou Village, he settled them in a safe area and ignored Chen Duo's pitiful eyes before paying them any more attention.

Anyway, given Ma Xianhong's personality and Qu Tong's abilities, it wouldn't be difficult for her to change her identity and live a normal life.

Subsequently, using the Devouring Sac to take away the massive puppet, Dan Lei stealthily made his way to the border, and then headed straight for Australia from Southeast Asia.

There was no other way. Once Chen Duo's affair was exposed, he couldn't stay in China anymore. Whether he chose to cooperate or confront her, it would be very easy to attract the attention of a certain unspeakable powerful figure.

Moreover, Dan Lei's main purpose in coming to this world was to build a puppet army. He wanted to do this in China and even wanted to do it alone, which meant he didn't want to cause himself any more trouble.

As for cooperation, just imagine what would happen if you traveled back to Star Iron and took all the puppets with you. That's not how you court death.

Therefore, Australia, a country with weak national strength, where the military, government, and large families check and balance each other, and with its vast land, sparse population, and abundant metal mineral resources, became Dan Lei's target.

Since there weren't any powerful supernatural beings or magicians in this place, Dan Lei easily controlled several agents to help him collect high-grade metals.

Dan Lei has kept a very low profile for the past ten years or so, because he knows that China is looking for him.

So, Danlei found a large ley line node in Australia, dug a hole, crawled inside, and stayed there for fifteen years.

However, Dan Lei didn't just stay at home for the past fifteen years. After studying the Divine Machine Hundred Refinements, his efficiency in creating puppets skyrocketed.

After eliminating unnecessary complex functions, Danlei designed the mass-produced puppets to be two meters tall in order to deal with the insects. The main attack methods are the imaginary energy emitters on the arms and the anti-aircraft cannons on the back. They are also ape-shaped puppets with self-destruction capabilities.

Over the course of fifteen years, Dan Lei produced 100,000 of these puppets. Although limited by Earth's resources, these things are probably only about on par with the secondary hibernating insects.

However, once the sheer number of insects formed a barrage of comments, Danlei felt that dealing with tens of thousands of small, hibernating insects wouldn't be a problem.

Of course, the premise is that only low-level insects like the gnat bug are attacked; high-level insects are obviously beyond the capabilities of puppets made from Earth's materials.

Fortunately, in these fifteen years, Dan Lei has mastered all the martial arts techniques he had acquired, except for Feng Hou Qi Men.

Feng Hou Qimen Danlei was really at a loss. He was a complete novice when it came to the study of Qimen formations and didn't want to spend a lot of time trying to master it. He figured he would have to wait until he returned to Luofu and consult the diviners of the Taibu Temple before he could even begin to understand it.

However, whether or not Feng Hou Qi Men is present is not important to Dan Lei; what is more important is the Reverse Life Triple.

This thing isn't actually that hard to learn; the difficulty lies in reversing one's own Qi (magic) transformation.

It should be noted that Danlei is a Vidyadhara. No matter how much power of the immortal dragon remains in the Vidyadhara bloodline, the Vidyadhara race is, after all, a race that has been blessed by the immortals in the past.

In a general sense, the path to immortality is no longer possible, because like the path to order, it is no longer accessible to anyone except through special inheritance or refinement.

It can only be said that even the fate of a deceased Star God varies. Compared to the still abundant breeding insects in the universe, the continued pioneering efforts of the Nameless Ones, and the Pure Knights who are still active today, the ancient paths of Immortality and Order are truly tragic.

However, relying on the body of a race that once received the blessing of immortality is overestimating the Reverse Rebirth Triple Realm.

Therefore, strictly speaking, Dan Lei has not even reached the first level of the Reverse Life Triple Cultivation.

However, the triple reversal of life clearly stimulated Dan Lei's enlightened body. Although it failed to transform the meridian qi (magic power), it forced out a high concentration of white life energy from within the cells.

Moreover, once activated, this energy would immediately cover Dan Lei's body, forming an energy armor and giving him a pair of misty white dragon horns, making it seem as if Dan Lei had performed a dragon transformation technique.

However, Dan Lei only has dragon horns and no dragon tail, so his transformation is even less complete than Dan Heng's.

Moreover, this energy doesn't provide much defense; its effect on itself is to significantly increase the efficiency of communicating with external energy.

This includes the imaginary energy of destiny. To be precise, the main ability of this mutated reverse life triple is to enhance the communication of imaginary energy, which can instantly increase Dan Lei's efficiency in running the power of destiny by more than three times.

In short, Dan Lei now feels that if he were to encounter his younger self, who had just arrived in the world of "Under One Person," and who could potentially kill him within a minute, Li Tongchen would no longer be a match for him.

Of course, in the Star Iron Universe, this level of strength is only considered a slightly larger Karami, not reaching the level of a Star-Breaking Star (purely technological Star-Breaking Stars don't count), and is still a level below in the Star Iron Universe.

Even so, Dan Lei is preparing to return to the Star Iron Universe.

Because of the continuous purchase of metals over the past fifteen years, many countries and organizations have discovered that Australia has problems, and if they stay any longer, they may be exposed.

Therefore, after the Holy Grail was fully charged with energy, Dan Lei chose to return to the Star Iron Universe.

In the blink of an eye, Danlei was back in his magic workshop in Ejihazo.

Just like the last time he traveled through time, time did not pass on the Star Iron.

Upon returning to the Holy Grail space, I found that all the gains from this journey were still there.

Dan Lei's time travel in Under One Person was so uneventful that he didn't form any bonds with other people or have any major conflicts with important characters in the plot that he didn't get a single light cone.

Fortunately, Li Tongcheng's Spirit Origin Backup was brought back, and all the items were also brought back as Concept Craft Essences.

Moreover, the Holy Grail, which has already developed some self-awareness, has thoughtfully transformed the 100,000 ape-type puppets into a conceptual Mystic Code, named 100,000 Ape Puppet.

After seeing Danlei's consciousness enter, the Holy Grail even showed a desire for praise.

After gently stroking and praising the Holy Grail, Danlei withdrew from its inner space.

Before planning the Zerg ruins, Danlei still needs to do one more thing.

That is to activate the dual-wielding blue hand through the memory of destiny, and collect the remaining memories in the insect remains.

The reason for doing this is simple: Danlei's understanding of that ruin was, to say the least, superficial.

Now that I have the means to read the memories of those who have lost their memories, I will naturally use it.

So Danlei began to look through the broken insect shells and see the memories that remained on them.

It can only be said that Black Tower's assessment of breeding in its development logs was not wrong.

When it comes to breeding insects, the characteristics of the entire race are the same from top to bottom; their minds are empty except for reproduction.

In this era where the God of Procreation is dead, and the path of procreation must be drawn entirely from one's own efforts.

Since most of the breeding insects cannot obtain the life force to self-replicate, they have chosen the most primitive method of reproduction.

The memories Dan Lei saw through the insect's remains were mostly insect fragments, aside from the scene of him being blown up. There was nothing of value in them.

Until Dan Lei began to read the memories of the real worm. The real worm was even more ancient than Dan Lei had imagined. Although it was not large in size, this thing was actually a remnant of the global locust plague.

Yes, Danlei almost went insane after reading the memories, because the most vivid scene in this guy's memory was a giant hammer smashing into the unknown deep space, and over there, based on the insect's emotions at the time, it should be Taizyuros.

Moreover, this short scene contains a wealth of information.

Dan Lei clearly saw that there were seven or eight queen insects, each larger than a planet, near this true hibernating insect.

Its leader is much smaller than the mother insect, and is entirely blue, almost identical to the Starbreaker King Insect Skarakabaz (simulated) that Ruan Mei resurrected in the game.

Moreover, when Dan Lei saw this memory, he always felt that the Star Shattering King Insect had glanced at him.

However, the remains of this true cricket could not provide any further memories.

Dan Lei, who had exited the memory reading process, fell silent.

I originally thought that since it was just a breeding site, after so many years, even if there were insects inside, there wouldn't be any creatures like Commanders or Near-Commanders that I couldn't handle at all.

It now seems best to estimate their strength based on the fact that there are insect envoys in this ruin.

Because the True Stinger that Dan Lei defeated was really weak, although it is unknown how it survived the battle at the Star God level and was sealed in the Quantum Sea Ruins.

However, Danlei had to consider that if it survived, the mother insects and the leading messenger insects in its memory would also survive and be waiting in the ruins for it to open the gate again.

Dan Lei didn't even want to think about the Envoy-level insects at this moment. Even if a female insect came, he couldn't handle it alone in his current state.

With a mere 100,000 puppets, once the mother insect is released, the entire Ejihazo will become its prey within a few hours, giving birth to countless insects.

His own puppets were not even enough to protect themselves.

However, fortune favors the bold, and after seeing this memory, Dan Lei's ruthlessness from when he fought the Holy Grail War was rekindled.

I can capture and command spirits, and the almost non-existent complexity of an insect's soul makes it perfect for me to capture and use as a spirit.

Even if you capture just one female insect, and its strength is reduced to less than one-tenth, it will still greatly enhance your combat power.

Of course, a direct confrontation is unlikely to succeed; one must leverage external forces in this battle.

As for whose help to rely on, it's naturally the Immortal Boat Alliance and the Interstellar Peace Company.

Needless to say, the Immortal Ship Alliance only needs to let Jing Yuan know that there is a Zerg ruin here containing even a Queen Zerg or a Commander-level Zerg. After reporting this, even if Luo Fu doesn't send troops, other Immortal Ships' armies will come.

After all, insects are excellent targets for those who carry out the hunting mission. As the main agent of the hunting mission, the Immortal Boat Alliance could not possibly know that there was an insect nest here and turn a blind eye.

After all, even if the real insect envoy is present, the Immortal Ship Alliance is not afraid.

Then there's the Interstellar Peace Corporation. Dan Lei wants to leverage their strength, but he'll need some skill.

Interstellar Peace Corporation is the kind of company that won't act without a profit motive; to get them to go all out, you have to throw out a sufficiently large bait.

Moreover, this bait cannot be poured directly into the river like a baiting fairy to win by sheer quantity; it must be given enough twists and turns to make the Interstellar Peace Company take it seriously.

After all, if the Interstellar Peace Corporation underestimates the Zerg's fighting strength and only sends some weaklings, the Immortal Alliance will suffer a great loss.

As a "native" who has lived in Xianzhou for nearly two hundred years, Dan Lei still has some affection for it.

Therefore, if possible, Dan Lei wants to use the Interstellar Peace Company as cannon fodder to reduce the losses of the Immortal Boat Alliance.

So, Dan Lei looked at the scholars from the Bo Shi Society outside, who were facing the giant crater where the real insect had self-destructed, and revealed a sinister smile.

Christopher Columbus, a scholar from the Institute of Confucianism, is someone that Dan Lei would definitely take a second look at if he heard about him.

However, this is simply a case of two people sharing the same name.

At this moment, Christopher was in a huge sandpit, rummaging through the sand inch by inch.

Christopher always believed that he must have been out of his mind to have gone to such lengths to join the Faculty of Knowledge.

Since joining the Academy of Broad Knowledge, he has gained a deep understanding of what personal connections and academic barriers are.

In short, his superiors never assign him good tasks, but he always gets the chance to handle troublesome tasks that no one else can take on.

At this moment, Christopher Columbus, who could only repeat the action of poking at the sand, cried out in his heart, "This is not the life I should have lived! I should have been an anonymous person!"

As if the heavens and earth were responding to Christopher's inner cry, the sand beneath his feet suddenly collapsed.

A large sand pit in the desert suddenly collapses, which is extremely dangerous.

The sand is loose and highly mobile; during a collapse, a large amount of sand can quickly bury the trapped person, causing chest compression and preventing breathing. Because the sand is dense and difficult to excavate, the trapped person could suffocate within minutes.

Although Christopher is a scholar of the Academy of Knowledge, he is just an ordinary person. Even with an energy shield, it can only allow him to survive in the sand for a few more minutes.

If the ground security personnel and staff don't dig him out in time, he's doomed.

Fortunately, the people sent by the Interstellar Peace Corporation to protect Christopher were quite competent.

Seeing Christopher suddenly swallowed by quicksand, they immediately confirmed his coordinates using the locator on Christopher's body, and then used a sand dredging machine to pull him up.

Normally, Christopher, who had narrowly escaped death, would be depressed for a long time even if he didn't complain.

But at this moment, he looked excited.

Because he wasn't the only one being sucked out of the sand; he saw a piece of shell that didn't belong to the desert being sucked out of the sand pump along with him.

At this moment, he no longer cared that he was still hanging in the air, and immediately shouted loudly to the others below.
"Stop inhaling! Stop inhaling! Put me down! A treasure just came up with me, that red and black shell, give it to me, pick it up and bring it over!"

Since Christopher had said so, the operator of the sand suction machine had no choice but to lower him down, risking that he would fall in and get stuck in the sand again.

Then, the operator saw Christopher, after eating a mouthful of sand in a dog-like fashion, scramble and crawl towards the red and black carapace still half-buried in the sand, completely unrefined. It was as if this thing was his goddess, his hope for a future promotion and raise.

　The concept of "star-level explosion" in Star Iron is actually quite vague.

　　Many of the special abilities of those on the path of destiny are not necessarily manifested in destructive power. Therefore, star explosion is only a reference. If you can defeat a star-exploding powerhouse with your own special ability, even if you yourself cannot explode a star, you are still on the same level.

　　I should be able to update tomorrow morning; I was discharged from the hospital today.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)