Astral Ant Tribe

The source point is an infinitely small point, which continuously releases the Force, radiates and diffuses in the three-dimensional space, and its concentration decreases exponentially as the distance increases.

The Force radiation radius of the source point ranges from only hundreds of millions of kilometers to tens of billions of kilometers.

This range, in the universe with light years as the distance unit, is a tiny and imperceptible point.

There are roughly three ways for professional teams to find the source point:

The first is that a large-scale starship, carrying thousands of small zero-level or first-level starships, arrives at the designated star field, and is driven by Zerg warriors, sailing at sub-light speed, dispersing regularly, and searching.

The disadvantage of this method is that the cost of insect power is high.

The advantage is that Zerg warriors have keen Force perception, can see through Force fluctuations at a long distance, and have a wide detection range.

The second method is to make full use of technological creations, and the starship carries a large number of detectors. After arriving at a specific star field, they are released and fly at sub-light speed for detection.

The advantage of this method is that it saves the expenses of Zerg warriors and can form a team and coordinate actions.

The disadvantage is that the detection equipment needs to enter the source point force area to produce a reaction, so a large number is required to produce an effect, and the cost is not low.

The third search method is all kinds of strange wild ways.

…

The seventh and eighth level chambers of commerce organizations, all adventure teams engaged in source point search have cooperation with each other. After each exploration, the explored star field will be reported and numbered.

Information is exchanged and compiled into the star navigation map, so that duplication can be avoided and efficiency can be improved.

Star maps are easy to get. They can be bought everywhere in any source point star system business district. The knowledge compass carries information and is sold for 5,000 original crystals.

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Silverback vine star system.

A zero-level source star system with a force concentration of only 0.5.

Special geographical location, star network navigation, the first stop from the white crystal star system to the Quarem constellation, a transportation fortress.

Yellow back vine star, South 1001 area.

Rainbow Ying Star Spider is parked in the woods outside the square.

Star Spider Dimension Space,

Pitch black.

The holographic projection function is turned on, and the stars are bright and dense, with various characters and numbers.

——The complete star map of the Kwaramu star field.

The light purple lines are connected, representing the distribution of the star network.

The dark red fog is densely distributed, indicating that this area has been explored by an adventure team.

The five insects, Molan, Hongfeng, Zi, Luxin, and Caigang, looked up and watched silently, and activated their intelligence brain abilities to browse, analyze, and screen.

"What do you think of this star field?"

Hongfeng reacted the fastest, gently waving his antennae, and a wisp of white mist sprayed out, condensing without dispersing, marking an area on the three-dimensional star map.

"Not good!"

"No!"

"Edge area?"

"It looks hopeless."

"The surrounding matter is too thin. Even if we find it, the cost of building a star system is extremely high."

The four insects immediately rejected it.

Zi immediately shot out a ball of white mist, "Here! Believe me! There will definitely be gains!"

"Not good!"

"This is even worse."

"It's too far from the star network."

"All the time is wasted on the road."

"The abundance of matter is too high."

"There are extreme celestial bodies nearby, and the space may be unstable."

Molan, Hongfeng, Luxin, and Caigang directly denied it.

There are too many uncertainties in this matter, and there is no accurate answer. It doesn't matter which one you choose.

The five insects denied each other, and no one was convinced. They discussed the area they chose after a long time.

Star Spider set off.

In the nearest source star system, they exchanged and purchased the original crystal spot and food necessary for the adventure.

Officially embarked on the road of adventure and exploration.

…

Star Spider drilled out of the star network and hovered in space.

The star spots on Molan's forehead shone, and he put it into Shanglu space.

Tens of millions of crystal beads of different sizes flew out like a tide, rotating into the 'Glorious Throne'.

The insects flashed and landed on the throne, and set off in space jump.

Molan and his group did not have a starship, but the ability granted by the technological star core could replace the function of a starship.

The speed of a single ship was slightly slower, only 8 times the speed of light.

Molan carried everyone on the voyage.

After one jump,

Molan put away the throne of glory.

Red Maple then released his own "Ying Beast", which turned into a six-legged unicorn wolf with a hollow belly, carrying everyone on the jump.

Then he changed to Green Heart.

Three consecutive jumps.

Molan, Red Maple, and Green Heart stored energy together.

In this way, due to the load, the consumption of space energy increased, and the energy storage time increased. All calculated, the speed of a single ship slowed down to about 7 times the speed of light, and the total speed reached 21 times the speed of light after three times superposition.

174 light-year voyage,

It took only more than 8 years to reach the predetermined target area.

Molan took out the Rainbow Ying, and everyone entered the dimensional world space carried by the Star Spider to eat, rest, and restore the original force.

"We still have to put safety first."

"Next, Zi and Caigang will be in my group. Green Heart and Red Maple will be in the same group. The two groups will be side by side, sailing at sub-light speed. There is light on the Throne of Glory. Red Maple, Green Heart, you can observe at any time to determine my position and just stay parallel to me."

"If there is an emergency, activate the 'gravity' ability to transmit information. Every 30 days, the 'gravity' ability will send a signal to confirm that you are safe."

"Understood!"

"Got it!"

Red Maple and Green Heart agreed.

A simple agreement was made to pack up and take back the Star Spider.

The Throne of Glory and the six-legged unicorn wolf moved forward in unison.

Original energy manipulation, continuous acceleration.

Until the speed reaches 0.1 times the speed of light, convergence ability, inertia uniform speed navigation.

The two sides slowly moved sideways to distance, until they were 300 billion kilometers apart before stopping and moving forward in parallel.

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The star field with extremely scarce materials, infinitely close to the vacuum space environment.

The Glorious Throne is like a firefly in the night sky, moving slowly.

The darkness and emptiness that depressed the insects.

Molan, Zi, and Cai just exchanged a few words, observed for a while and then hibernated, retaining only a little consciousness, always alert.

There is no star network connection, and it is impossible to check the time through the star network account. A technological creation called "cosmic clock" is used for timekeeping.

Periodically,

Hongfeng reports safety through "gravity ability".

Molan wakes up once, confirms the position and distance of both parties, and uses the original crystal to replenish the original force once.

…

While hibernating,

Molan suddenly wakes up, stands up his antennae and concentrates on sensing.

"..."

"!!!"

"Molan?"

"Did you find anything?"

Zi and Cai just woke up.

"There is a force fluctuation!"

"But it's not right, not the source?"

Molan was confused and alert, and activated her gravity ability to transmit a short danger warning message, while controlling the Glorious Throne to slow down.

300 billion kilometers away,

In the belly of the 'six-legged unicorn' transformed by the Yu beast, the dormant Hongfeng and Luxin woke up at the same time.

"Is the Second King warning?"

"Danger signal!"

"Where is the danger in such a place?"

"Could it be that we ran into other adventure teams?"

"It's impossible to be so lucky in such a large space?"

"Don't be careless! Meet up with the Second King first!"

Hongfeng and Luxin became nervous, worked together to control the deceleration, locked the position of the Glorious Throne, accumulated energy, and jumped closer.

Hongfeng took back the Yu beast and stepped onto the Glorious Throne.

"The Second King?"

"Did we run into other Zerg warriors?"

Hongfeng and Luxin asked at the same time.

"Like... and not like..."

Molan was holding up his tentacles, sensing and analyzing with his brain.

"Alien metal energy fluctuations!"

"..."

"Is it a starship?"

"Absolutely not!"

Molan said unhappily, "Can't I tell a starship apart?"

As he spoke, he put down his tentacles and ordered, "The distance should not exceed 500 billion kilometers. I will jump closer through space. Be prepared for battle. If an accident occurs, I will face the enemy alone. Purple and Caigang will form a group, and Red Maple and Green Heart will form a group. The two groups will support each other."

"Okay."

"Understood."

The four insects agreed and activated their abilities to strengthen their defense.

Molan manipulated the Throne of Glory and cautiously jumped forward 100 billion kilometers.

After stopping the sensing, the energy fluctuations became much clearer.

Molan suddenly realized.

"I know!"

"The remains of a master-level strongman with a metal system as the main body! A torrent of will! A metal-based energy body!"

But he changed his mind and denied his guess.

"No! No! Still no!"

"If it is a torrent of will, the energy body should move at a speed close to the speed of light! But they are not moving."

"But it is even less likely to be the 'source of disaster' that derives the energy body. If it is the source, it should have both the 'remains of the master realm' and the 'source point'. I did not sense the force fluctuations at the source point."

"..."

Red Maple asked: "Second King, could it be that the metal energy body moves slowly, or that it drifted from an unknown distance and moved here and was exhausted and could not float?"

"No!"

Zi immediately denied it and explained: "As far as I know, once the torrent of will breaks out, the energy body will continue to move at a speed infinitely close to the speed of light until all the energy is exhausted and it collapses and dies."

Green Heart: "There are always special circumstances."

Cai Gang: "There is no need to guess randomly, just get closer and observe."

"Cai Gang makes the most sense!"

Molan controls the throne of glory and jumps forward another 100 billion kilometers.

This time the sense is clearer.

It is certain that it is familiar, the Force fluctuations of the energy body.

There are a large number of them, and they are still, confirming that they are not the torrent of will.

There is no source of Force fluctuations, so it is definitely not the source.

"It should not be dangerous."

"But everyone should be careful."

"I will go directly."

Molan reminded, controlling the Glorious Throne to jump, crossing nearly 300 billion kilometers at a time.

The distance was directly shortened to within 1 billion kilometers.

Red Maple, Purple, Cai Gang, and Green Heart also clearly sensed the strange and alien metal energy fluctuations.

"The energy body of the star realm! The energy is full, not floating from somewhere else..."

Molan carefully sensed it, and his heart became more confused.

The super-sensitive intuition did not feel any danger or threat.

Without much hesitation, he manipulated the Glorious Throne and teleported continuously, shortening it to 10,000 kilometers.

The soul-fixing ability sensed the highly dense, rounded shadow of the broken soul.

At a close distance, one can vaguely feel that there are strands of weak Force overflowing from the metal energy body cluster.

"Could it be a weak source point with a Force concentration below 0.1? There are too many energy bodies, which obstruct the overflow of the Force?"

"But how can such a weak Force derive the energy bodies of the star system?"

"And there are such a large number of them."

"It's beyond my ken."

"Strange!"

"We travel the universe, what strange things have we not seen? Even if we haven't seen them, at least we have heard of them, right?"

"The stranger the better. When we go back, we'll have something new to talk about with other bugs."

"The price of the metal master's remains is not low, right?"

"What's the price? Don't you have a talent for metal?"

"Make it into a requiem box and keep it for your own use!"

The bugs chattered, all activating their intelligence brains, running at high speed, analyzing, measuring, and estimating.

The diameter of the round ball formed by the gathering of metal energy bodies is about 100 kilometers, and the number is 40 to 50 billion.

The shapes are highly uniform, all with elliptical hemispherical bodies, four legs, and turtle-like shells, and the shells are covered with slender tentacles.

"Forget it. No need to guess. I'll get closer and take a look!"

"Everyone, be careful!"

Molan looked more serious than ever before, and warned: "The master of the ultimate metal evolution path! I'm afraid he is a warrior who practices wholeheartedly and has a willpower that normal life forms can hardly reach."

"Faintly, there is also soul power..."

The more powerful the master's fighting power was during his lifetime, the more ferocious the energy body derived from his remains after his death.

Hongfeng, Zi, Caigang, and Luxin were on high alert.

Molan thought about it, put away the glorious throne, and ordered: "I'll get closer and take a look. Hongfeng, prepare your soul-related mental attack abilities!"

The four insects focused and moved their tentacles.

The mantis star spots on Molan's forehead burst into nine-color light, the energy flowed, and the true body ability was activated. The body turned into a stream of light, quickly turned into a light spot, and disappeared into the darkness.

The next moment,

In the silent space, in the depths of darkness, a red light suddenly lit up, and the majestic and vast lightning power burst out, and the lightning flashed continuously.

Red Maple, Purple, Colored Steel, and Green Heart looked at each other.

"It's just an energy body. Molan can definitely handle it. Let's not act rashly!"

Red Maple raised his claws to signal.

The restless Purple thought carefully and calmed down.

In the distance, the red lightning approached rapidly, and Molan in the form of lightning and fire turned into an electric current and returned.

The shadowy and densely packed energy bodies followed closely and surrounded them from all directions.

"Metal and soul dual-system energy bodies! Mental attacks don't work!"

"Everyone use lightning and fire abilities!"

"Move your claws together! Kill! Kill them all!"

Molan shook her mental power and shouted.

"Quick!"

"Help!"

"Kill!"

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

Red Maple, Green Heart, Purple, and Colored Steel, two by two, flashed forward, formed a triangle formation with Molan, and each launched their abilities to bombard.

After many attempts, the broken souls of these energy bodies are extremely special and can almost ignore mental attacks.

It can be speculated that it is the remains of a master who is proficient in the laws of metal and has some powerful soul abilities.

However, the thunder and fire abilities are just restrained, especially the thunder ability, which collapses at the touch of a button.

Molan attracted countless billions of energy bodies in one breath. These "dead things" without self-awareness will not release their abilities. Instinctively, they are attracted by the life energy and alien force and attack madly.

The fierce battle continued until the five insects' energy was about to run out.

Molan released the Glorious Throne, waved his claws, and carried the insects away in space.

Released the Rainbow Ying and entered the dimensional world to recover.

"Molan, do you see what's going on?"

"No! There are too many and too dense energy bodies, blocking my mental power, so I can't see the specific situation in the center."

"Then let's..."

"These metal energy bodies are not difficult to deal with."

"Clear them all after a few times, and the situation inside is clear."

"Hurry up and recover!"

...

After recovering, I simply packed up and came to a position 10,000 kilometers away from the energy body again.

Molan was still the one who attracted them.

The insects lined up and killed them with thunder and fire.

There were five insects in a row. Red Maple and Purple were both top fighters who could enter the seventh floor of the Black Thorn Tower. Cai Gang and Green Heart could also enter the sixth floor. They were the elites among the elites of the Zerg warriors.

The energy body is nothing more than a collection of unconscious energy and residual will. It is not difficult to deal with it.

After repeating it ten times, only the last small group was left, tightly clustered into a group.

The five insects went straight over together.

After a fierce bombardment of thunder and fire, the area was swept clean, and the insects finally saw the situation clearly.

A gray-black "metal plate" that is just over 10 meters long, about 6 meters wide, and about half a meter thick.

One side is smooth, which should be the back.

On the other side, the front of the metal plate is covered with complex energy patterns, and a snowflake-shaped pattern is raised in the upper middle part, which should be the logo of a civilization or ethnic group.

Waves of force overflow from the energy patterns on the surface of the metal plate. (End of this chapter)