Swallowing the Stars: Only in my later years did I come to the life-spending panel.

The hatch of the Black Dragon Mountain spaceship slid open silently, and Zhou Mu stepped inside.

"Master, the Black Dragon Mountain X81 spaceship is ready. Babata VII is happy to serve you."

The voice of the Babata sub-agent came from the control panel, crisp but emotionless, yet much more serious than Babata himself: "All systems are normal, ready for takeoff at any time."

Zhou Mu sat down in the main control position, his fingers touching the control panel. Blue light patterns spread from his fingertips, the screen lit up, and various data began to jump.

He began, "Destination set: Mars."

Mars.

As the first stop for Luo Feng after leaving Earth in the original work, there is a mining base there, which contains a lot of black iron and associated metals.

Zhou Mu then opened the communication terminal, swiped his finger across the screen a few times, and sent three messages at the same time to his three children.

The spaceship slowly rose, the blue light at its bottom grew brighter and brighter, the sea surface was pressed into a huge depression by the airflow, white waves surged in all directions, the reefs below grew smaller and smaller, becoming a small black dot, and finally disappeared from sight.

Zhou Mu turned off the terminal and leaned back in his chair.

"Number 7, activate outdoor scene simulation to 100%."

brush!

The original control consoles, seats, and floor of the entire control room have all disappeared.

The surrounding area was already a vast sea of ​​clouds, and the sky changed from blue to dark blue, and then from dark blue to pitch black.

He turned around, and the enormous blue planet that filled his entire field of vision was shrinking continuously, until it finally became a single blue dot of light, blending into the starry sky...

"Master, the spaceship has accelerated to 10 kilometers per second and will proceed to Mars at a constant speed. We expect to arrive at our destination in 7 hours."

......

Seven hours later.

"Master, we have arrived in Mars orbit."

Babata 7's voice rang out, "According to the database records, there is an abandoned mining base on Mars. The coordinates have been sent to the terminal."

Zhou Mu opened his eyes. The crimson planet outside the spaceship was slowly rotating. He stood up and stretched his neck.

"Number Seven, go down and take a look."

The spacecraft slowed down as it passed through Mars' thin atmosphere.

Through the outdoor simulation, Zhou Mu saw a crimson wasteland below, filled with rubble and dust. On the vast gravelly land, nine huge pyramid-shaped buildings stood in the distance, rusted and mostly buried by sand.

The wind was strong, raising clouds of dust.

"Moyun!"

With a thought, Zhou Mu's Moyun Vine leaves rapidly extended, and the blood-red vines covered his entire body like flowing water, transforming in the blink of an eye into a dark red battle armor that enveloped his entire body, clinging to every inch of his skin.

He has invested a lot of resources in this Cloud Vine he subdued on Mist Island over the past two years. It has now grown to the seventh tier of the Planetary level, transforming into armor with astonishing defensive capabilities and also providing combat support.

The hatch opened, and the gravity on Mars was only one-third that of Earth. Zhou Mu took a step out, and his whole body felt light as a feather.

He controlled the energy within his body to adjust gravity, stabilized his body, and transformed into a bolt of lightning, hurtling towards the mining base.

Zhou Mu hovered above the nine pyramids, his mental energy spreading underground like invisible seawater.

The power of the domain spread out, enveloping the massive pyramids whose exteriors had long since decayed.

Within the domain, lightning danced, and the rusted alloy structures could no longer hold on, collapsing with a roar and stirring up clouds of dust.

The mining base is hidden underground, with the entrance being a huge, dark cave.

Zhou Mu descended, his feet sinking into thick sand. Deep within the cave, a heavy alloy iron door blocked his path, its surface rusted beyond recognition.

He didn't stop; deep purple lightning surged from his body, and he transformed into a humanoid bolt of lightning, piercing directly through the iron door.

The acrid smell of molten metal filled the air, leaving a reddish, human-shaped hole in the alloy gate several meters away.

Behind the door lies a vast underground city.

A massive steel dome supports hundreds of millions of tons of sand and soil, and rows of industrial buildings are neatly arranged with crisscrossing passageways, resembling a giant spider web.

Zhou Mu's domain continued to extend downwards, enveloping the entire underground city. Every warehouse, every passage, and every hidden compartment was exposed to his perception.

found it!

Inside the deepest, sealed warehouse, large chunks of black iron essence were neatly stacked, along with a small batch of black iron mother. These were mined by the miners years ago but hadn't had time to be transported away.

Zhou Mu's mental power transformed into an invisible hand, loading a large quantity of ore into his spatial ring.

Thirty thousand tons of refined black iron.

Two tons, black iron mother.

According to the database of Babata VII, these ores, if sold, would be worth at least 200 million Black Dragon Coins. Although this is far from the hundreds of billions of starting capital that Luo Feng had in the original work, it would still be enough to enter the universe empty-handed.

Zhou Mu's gaze fell upon the miners' dormitories, warehouses, and repair workshops built of black iron. Every beam and every pillar here was made of A8 grade black iron, totaling at least several billion tons. Although the unit price was not high, it added up to a considerable income.

"What a pity."

Zhou Mu shook his head. His spatial ring had limited capacity, far less than Babata's storage space, which could fit the Meteorite Starship. These structures made of black iron could only be left to them.

Zhou Mu no longer lingered, turned around and transformed into lightning, passing through the still-smoking iron gate and returning to the ground.

The Heilongshan X81 spacecraft slowly ascended into the sky.

In the panoramic simulation, Mars shrinks smaller and smaller, from a reddish sphere full of ravines to a dark red dot, and finally is swallowed by darkness.

"Master, the destination has been set: Dragon Star."

Babata VII's voice rang out, "Entering the Dark Universe soon, countdown: ten, nine, eight..."

Zhou Mu looked at the outside world through the external simulation. The starry sky outside the spaceship began to distort, and the planets were stretched into streaks of white light that swept past his eyes. The light became denser and faster, and finally merged into one.

"3......2......1!"

In the vast starry sky, a black spaceship vanished in an instant, as if it had never existed.

"Transit successful. We have entered the Dark Universe. Current speed: 1.2 times the speed of light. Estimated arrival time at Qiulong Star: twelve days."

The panoramic simulation ended the moment we entered the dark universe, with only chaotic light filtering through the porthole.

Zhou Mu closed his eyes and began to comprehend the laws. The spaceship sailed smoothly in the dark universe, so quiet it was unsettling.

three days later.

"Warning! Unidentified flying object detected ahead! Approaching rapidly!"

Babata's avatar on the console screen flashed violently, and a piercing alarm sounded. Zhou Mu snapped out of his meditative state and opened his eyes abruptly.

A huge black shadow suddenly leaped out from the chaos of the dark universe ahead and crashed straight into his location.

It was a saucer-shaped spaceship, entirely silver-gray, and the distance between the two spaceships rapidly decreased...

"Emergency brakes! The spaceship has exited dark space..."

After a violent jolt, the chaotic stream of light outside the window disappeared, replaced by a dazzling starry sky.

The two spaceships exited the dark universe simultaneously, hovering in the pitch-black vacuum, separated by only a few thousand kilometers.