Astral Ant Tribe

Xianglan Star.

The lake in the northern 1001 area, capable of freezing the lake surface.

The Taber docked.

All the insects gathered in the conference hall inside the starship.

Holographic projection,

The disk composed of bright stars rotates slowly, and the light flows.

A relatively complete star map of the Amber Galaxy.

The diameter exceeds 150,000 light years, and the thickness at the thickest point exceeds 6,000 light years.

Longbai communicated with the artist with his mind.

The artist manipulated the starship, controlling the galaxy to slowly enlarge, and the character markings gradually became clear.

The light and shadow flickered gently, and large groups of star fields turned into dim black and gray-black colors, with white characters marking.

The Amber Chamber of Commerce has occupied 176 third-level source points, which have been numbered and officially named according to the common rules. With the third-level source point as the center, the corresponding 176 star fields have been divided.

Including Longbai, all the insects present are looking forward to finding the third-level source point from the bottom of their hearts. The chance is great, and there is no reason not to try.

There is no need to search for the 176 star fields marked on the star map, so just block them.

In addition, there are a large number of star fields that the Amber Chamber of Commerce has explored but has not found the third-level source points. They are marked in gray and will not be considered for the time being.

After excluding them, there are not many "clean" star fields that have never been involved...

"The computing power of the Taber is barely enough..."

Long Bai thought about it, spoke, and said leisurely: "However, the galaxy data currently available is not comprehensive enough. The Taber cannot accurately calculate which star fields will definitely give birth to the third-level source points."

As he spoke, the holographic projection flashed again, and the eye-catching bright red color marked the star fields one by one.

The purple-black font is simply marked as 01 to 10.

Long Bai raised his claws, and a ray of purple light shot out, pointing directly at the No. 01 star field.

"Taber combined the data provided by the Lord of Manchi and the data collected by astronomical observations in the past sixty years to calculate an integer of 10 star fields that may derive third-level source points, and numbered them according to the probability."

"Among them, the probability of the existence of a third-level source point in star field No. 01 is more than 90%! This will be the first target star field for the Xianglan Chamber of Commerce to search for source points, and all forces will be concentrated to investigate!"

Long Bai said, and in the holographic projection, star field No. 01 slowly enlarged, and the material-rich area rendered in red also meant that there must be a large number of source points derived.

The entire area is very irregular in shape. Overall, it is 6,000 light years long, 3,000 light years wide, and nearly 3,000 light years thick.

It is not yet completely stable.

There are bright silver characters marking a large number of red giants, white dwarfs, neutron stars, black holes and other massive celestial bodies.

Longbai waved his antennae, and a beam of purple light shot out, hitting a huge dim red spot, and said: "Our group's main goal is to find the third-level source point, starting from the central area. Here! This is a red hypergiant with a diameter of more than 15 billion kilometers. It is very rare. Let's go and see it together."

"Wow~"

"Okay!"

Molan shook his antennae vigorously and urged: "My king, please tell me the key points!"

"There is no key point."

Longbai said: "All insects, with Taber as the center, are divided into 4 groups and arranged in 4 lines. Since the third-level source point is the main goal, then we can make the gap larger and keep 25 billion between each other. kilometers apart."

"Xianglan Chamber of Commerce insects, Zuo Wang is in the first group, under my direct command. Hongfeng leads 35 soldiers to form the second group. Maomei leads 35 soldiers to form the third group."

"Second King, you and Sang, Ganlang, Hongshen, Zisanye, Luxin, Bailiu form the fourth group. Huaqishan and Baiwei Chamber of Commerce soldiers, as well as Captain Ang Tianlian, you are also included in the fourth group, but you don't have to listen to Molan's command, just follow along. If you find the source, you can handle it yourself, just remember to notify everyone."

"Okay!"

"Got it!"

"Listen to the king's command!"

"Let's go quickly."

"..."

The insects agreed in a sonorous voice, impatient.

Longbai shook his antennae gently and said, "I will officially announce the reward rules for Xianglan Chamber of Commerce warriors to harvest source points."

"Discovering a zero-level source point will directly increase the Chamber of Commerce's rank by 1 level, and reward 300 billion original crystals. With additional permissions, you can buy a law fruit from the Chamber of Commerce."

"Discovering a first-level source point will directly increase the Chamber of Commerce's rank by 2 levels, and reward 500 billion original crystals. With additional permissions, you can buy 2 law fruits from the Chamber of Commerce."

"Discovering a second-level source point will directly increase the Chamber of Commerce's rank by 3 levels, and reward 1 trillion original crystals. Similarly, you can buy 3 law fruits from the Chamber of Commerce."

"As for the third-level source point, you will be directly promoted to the 19th-level core senior management of the Chamber of Commerce. As long as the Chamber of Commerce can collect or exchange the resources needed for evolution and growth, they will be supplied without limit and given priority."

"Okay!"

"The king is wise!"

"I want to find 100 third-level source points!"

"All the third-level source points are ours!"

"Stop discussing, let's just charge!"

"Go~"

"Go! Go! Go!"

"..."

The insects in Xianglan Mountain shouted.

The first batch of soldiers who followed were all elite soldiers from the Ministry of War. They were all above level 15 in the Chamber of Commerce and at the level of evolution. They had eaten at least one Law Fruit, and many soldiers had eaten two.

Their core abilities were already strong enough, and eating more would only strengthen them.

As for the original crystal rewards, everyone's life seed income, combined with salary, bonus, and Chamber of Commerce dividends, were enough for evolution and growth.

Everyone present was not short of resources.

Not to mention Zuo Wang, who had eaten at least two Law Fruits, and was not rare.

These rewards were not very tempting to the first batch of Chamber of Commerce elites who came with them. Everyone was more looking forward to finding a third-level source point by themselves to improve their status and reputation in the Chamber of Commerce.

Longbai changed his tone to a stern one, and finally emphasized: "All insects, after discovering the source point, promptly transmit information with gravity ability to notify everyone that the team should stop and assemble. After the marking is done, continue. Xianglan Chamber of Commerce insects, you are not allowed to mark the source point without authorization. I will mark it myself and include it in the Chamber of Commerce assets later."

"Understand."

"Understood."

"My king, let's go quickly."

The insects urged.

"..."

Longbai: "The last question, we need to leave a few Zuo Wang to protect the territory and take care of the life species."

After this, the Zuo Wangs shrank back and rushed out of the conference hall.

Longbai looked at Jubai.

Jubai took the initiative to say: "My king, I will stay!"

Longbai scolded: "Double-color sunflower, double-color yarrow, double-color thistle, double-color Feilian, the four of you get back here! You stay with Jubai and stay in the territory, waiting for good news from me and the second king..."

"..."

…

The meeting ended.

Longbai and his party explained to the leader Zhao Yebai, said goodbye, and set off in the Taber.

…

27,000 light-years away,

sailed at full speed for 13 years, entered the No. 01 star field, and headed straight for the central star area.

The Taber docked on an irregular meteorite with a length of more than a kilometer.

The insects left the cabin,

and activated the sunburn ability to wait and see.

In fact, without the ability, you can clearly see directly that there is a particularly large dark red light spot in the dark deep space.

"Come here! Come here!"

"Longbai! Juniper! Silver cypress! Red maple, look at me!"

Molan shook his mental power and shouted, collecting the light wave information in front, and converging to form a holographic projection with a length of three kilometers.

A supergiant star with a gloomy atmosphere and brown spots on its surface, looking like it could die at any time.

——Red hypergiant!

Observed and calculated from a close distance, its diameter is about 16.7 billion kilometers.

Huge, magnificent,

Shocked the insect heart.

In fact, there are many such stars, but they have short lives. From birth to death, it may be hundreds of thousands or millions of years.

On the cosmic time scale, it is just a blink of an eye. And they are mainly born in the early chaos. When the matter of a galaxy tends to be calm, red hypergiants become rare or even extinct.

It was the first time to come into close contact with such a large cosmic body.

The insects watched quietly for a long time.

Molan put away his ability, released the throne of glory, and asked: "King, shall we set off in formation?"

"Okay!"

"Go back to the starship first!"

Longbai waved his claws to greet him.

The insects teleported back to the starship conference hall.

The Taber set sail again, accelerating continuously until it reached 0.2 times the speed of light, and moved forward by inertia.

At this time, the insects teleported out again.

Zuo Wang first used the Taber as the origin, moved horizontally to the left and right, and opened up the distance to form a long line with a length of more than 110 billion kilometers.

Hong Feng led the second group of soldiers to move "upward", and opened up a distance of 25 billion kilometers with the first group, and kept a distance of 25 billion kilometers from each other in the left and right directions.

Mao Mei led the third group of soldiers to move "downward".

Mo Lan also led the fourth group of soldiers to move "downward".

Each soldier is a detection point for the sensing force machine, which spreads out to form a large net with a length of more than 100 billion kilometers and a width of 100 billion kilometers.

Towards the direction of the red hypergiant star, inertia moves forward,

All soldiers regularly send information and report their positions with the gravity ability given by the technological star core.

Long Bai sits in the Taber cockpit, paying attention to the movements of each point.

Periodically, Taber will also use gravity ability to transmit its own position information in the form of gravitational waves.

…

The planned search distance is 100 light years,

500 years passed in a flash.

Nothing was found.

Molan manipulated the throne of glory to carry the insects and landed on the surface of the red hypergiant.

The violent and scorching air currents.

The endless and violently jumping sea of ​​fire, the waves of 10,000 meters high were ups and downs, and sometimes due to the internal energy explosion, huge waves of hundreds of thousands of meters high were set off.

The scale is huge, but in fact the gravity on the surface of the planet is not strong, and the temperature is not high.

The insects left the throne one after another and flew close to the waves of fire.

It took a month to circle around the red hypergiant.

Dive into the depths of the star to check it out.

It seems that there is nothing special.

It is the same as the common red giant, with a large volume, low material density, and just puffy.

The sightseeing tour is over.

Plan the route, re-form the array, take the red hypergiant as the origin, and sweep the star field within a radius of 100 light years.

…

Soon, another 500 years passed.

Still nothing was found.

Not even a zero-level source point was found.

This job was pure hard labor, and extremely empty and boring.

The insects were tired.

After eating, resting, and sleeping, they changed their direction and angle and headed towards the red hypergiant star again.

In the cockpit of the Taber,

Longbai was simply lazy, dormant to comprehend the fusion of traces and traces...

In the silent deep space, time was flowing silently, and before they knew it, another five hundred years were about to pass.

Suddenly one day,

Taber sounded a hurried call: "Longbai! Longbai!"

"???"

Long Bai woke up with a start.

Tabor: "Xingyun Zhi sent back the news and found the source!"

"!!!"

Long Bai: "Tuba, give the order and the team will stop advancing."

Tabor: "Roger that!"

Long Bai: "Teleport! I'll go over and have a look!"

Tabor: "Roger that!"

Long Bai teleported away from the starship, the artist transformed into a half-ant artist, locked the position through induction, and jumped directly to the space.

A group of Zuowang and Zerg warriors received the message at the same time and rushed there one after another.

In the empty dark space, strong force burst out from a point in front and spread...

Zero level source point...

"Your Majesty!"

"Second King, Yuandian!"

Xingyun Zhi waved his tentacles vigorously, "King, Second King, I found it!"

The force radiation range of the zero-level source point is only hundreds of millions or billions of kilometers.

Did this hit you?

Xingyun Zhi's soul changed when he was born, and he is particularly sensitive to fluctuations in the force. He has some advantages in finding the source!

"very good!"

"Xingyun Zhi, you did a great job!"

"Xingyun Zhi is amazing!"

"Wow!"

"Okay~"

"We also have our own origin point!"

"Calm down! This is the second source point."

"Didn't Lord Manchi give the Pandan Chamber of Commerce a second-level source point with an excellent location?"

"It counts as a gift. We discovered this ourselves, so it's of great significance!"

"It's just a zero-level source point, what's so important about it?"

"Then you can also find one?"

"..."

"Quiet!"

"Twin Dragon Birch! Twin Dragon Birch! If you two are so angry! If you are a spoiler, I will beat you to death!"

Mo Lan showed off his power and scolded sternly. He held up his capture foot to intimidate, and waved his tentacles up and down to signal for silence, "Your Majesty, don't be stunned. Move quickly and mark first!"

The insects were instantly quiet, and all looked at Long Bai.

Long Bai did his duty and activated the 'mark' ability inherited from the Zerg race. The original energy and soul power were combined to form a spherical 'mark' with a diameter of five or six centimeters, which slowly floated to the origin and hovered.

The mark overlaps with the space where the source point is located, resulting in a strange reaction. The power carrying the soul information penetrates the space barrier and is actively absorbed by the source point in the hidden dimensional space. It becomes weak and disappears.

Simple, mark completed.

Long Bai concentrates on sensing, and a bond is formed between the soul and the source point. Within a certain spatial distance, the general direction of the source point can be sensed through the soul.

Not much else.

The 'mark' ability given to the Zerg warriors by the true god of nature is used to divide the ownership of the source point.

The ownership of the source point is unique.

Unless the marked warrior dies or takes the initiative to remove the mark, other insects cannot be marked again, which also means that they cannot obtain the ownership rights recognized by the public.

To put it more bluntly, the 'mark' ability is designed to reduce the internal fighting among Zerg warriors for the source point.

"alright!"

"Xingyun Zhi, you have done a great job. Your Majesty will remember you for your first contribution. In the future, when it is developed into a star system, I will leave it to you to manage it."

Long Bai was in a good mood and raised his tentacles. A ray of white light was released from the tip of the tentacles, converging to form a three-dimensional star map projection with the red supergiant star as the center.

Long Bai paused for a moment, put on a solemn expression, and said in a heavy tone:

"Now, we are faced with two problems: First, since the source point has been discovered here, according to the law, the possibility of a third-level source point within the nearby 100 light-year range will be reduced by 70 to 80%."

"The second question is that the red supergiant star may collapse and supernova at any time. The distance between the source point and it is only about 17 light-years, and it may be destroyed by the violent energy impact. Also, the zero-level source point is not stable enough, maybe because Huge changes in material distribution, exhaustion of the Force, and disappearance of the source.”

"..."

"Yes!"

"this……"

"what to do?"

"Leave a group of insects to guard the place?"

"Then who stays?"

"Whoever finds it~"

"Isn't it still right?"

"If this red supergiant star doesn't explode, this source point cannot be developed, right?"

"Can't we just send insects to guard it all the time? What if it doesn't explode in a million years? How can we still guard it for a million years?"

"After the explosion, what will happen if the source point is exhausted?"

"Yes~"

The insects spoke to each other and suddenly fell silent.

——Fifteen hundred years! How much effort did it take to find such a source?

——Happiness for nothing?

Long Bai Youyou said: "It's not impossible. It can be like this. About 11 light-years away from the red supergiant, there is a mass of solid matter distributed. Isn't there a solid planet with a diameter of nearly 10,000 kilometers in it?"

"Don't underestimate this planet. The red supergiant star has reached the edge of explosion, and a delicate and fragile balance is maintained inside. Perhaps, just this little external force can break the balance, accelerate the collapse of internal material, break the limit of gravity, and release Gravitational potential energy.”

"Let's work together to accelerate this planet and try to hit it?"

"!!!"

When the insects heard this, their tentacles stood straight up and their energy doubled.

Actively detonating a red supergiant star?

It sounds very challenging!

How terrifying is the supernova explosion of a red supergiant star?

The electromagnetic radiation produced is enough to illuminate the entire amber galaxy!

How spectacular a sight is that?

Light energy information spans the universe and reaches the white crystal galaxy 220,000 years later. Perhaps, you can also tell the little warrior: Look, that exploding red supergiant was what I did when I was young!

It’s fun to think about!

Moreover, at close range, ordinary master-level experts cannot withstand that kind of destructive energy shock wave, right?

The risk factor and excitement level are full!

"Listen to the king's command!"

Mo Lan raised her paws in the air and cheered in agreement.

"I agree too."

"Sounds like fun, I agree!"

"I just like doing this kind of work where you will die if you don't run fast enough. Count me in."

"When entering the universe, everyone has always passively witnessed the magnificent landscape of great changes in the stars in the universe. Today, we also take the initiative to create a major event that affects a galaxy!"

"The distance is not too far. How about we accelerate it to 0.5 times the speed of light and hit it?"

"Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!"

"It's exciting just thinking about it!"

"..."

The insects unanimously agreed.

After a brief discussion and preparation,

The insects packed up and set off, landed on the planet, worked together to control the movement of the planet, continuously activated their abilities, applied thrust, and accelerated it.

…

Planets containing a large amount of metallic materials are not large in size but have a large mass.

Continue to activate the ability, and the original energy is exhausted. Take the Tubo, return to the zero-level source point to replenish it, return to the planet, and continue to exert thrust...

Very strenuous,

After going back and forth for more than seventy years, we finally got close to the red supergiant star.

At this time, the planet's inertial speed also reached the terrifying 0.3 times the speed of light.

but,

An asteroid with a diameter of 10,000 kilometers is as small as gravel in front of the king of stars in the universe with a diameter of 16.7 billion kilometers.

At super high speed, he was submerged into the boundless sea of ​​fire in a flash, without even splashing too big a wave, and was gone in an instant.

"..."

Mo Lan controlled the Glory Throne and suspended it 100 million kilometers away.

The insects' eyes were bright, their spirits were tense, and they waited with bated breath.

Ten seconds, twenty seconds, thirty seconds...

One minute, two minutes, three minutes...

"King?"

"Second King?"

"No response~"

"this……"

"Is the planet too small?"

"Not aiming?"

"Impossible! Aim, hit the bullseye."

"Then why is there no response at all?"

"Yingye? Zichan? You are the most accomplished in the field of natural sciences. Look at this..."

"It shouldn't be! With such terrifying kinetic energy, if it hits the inner core of a red supergiant, even if it cannot detonate, it should still cause violent energy fluctuations."

"It's impossible that you didn't aim, right?"

"There is no question of whether to aim or not, the gravity of the star core will automatically capture it."

"Then the current situation is..."

"Abnormal! Abnormal! I can't understand it."

"..."

Just as he was talking, Mo Lan suddenly jumped up, instinctively spread his wings and flapped them.

"Wow!"

"Run for your life!"

exclaimed,

The Glory Throne continuously spans space, widening the distance.

The insects looked back,

I saw that the red supergiant star was like a cosmic beast waking up from a deep sleep, stretching its body and expanding rapidly.

With one slight movement, the surrounding star field space became unstable.

Don't dare to look more,

The Throne of Glory charges up and makes a short-distance jump, first opening a distance of 0.5 light years.

Looking back again,

Half a year later, the light and shadow information was transmitted, and Sunshine's ability was collected to form a holographic projection.

The expanding red supergiant erupted with unspeakable intense laser light, and the darkness was dispelled, leaving everything filled with dark blue. The space expanded and shattered, reflecting thousands of purple-red and white brilliance.

The great change continued for half an hour before it ended, and the entire holographic projection turned white again.

No need to wait and see with sunburn ability.

Looking around, the destructive blue light in the direction of the explosion is rolling in, carrying high-energy gamma ray bursts that evaporate everything.

There is a more deadly particle shock wave behind, which makes the soul of the insect tremble, and it is chasing after the expansion of space at super-light speed.

"Escape~wow!"

Mo Lan exclaimed with joy, and once again manipulated the Glory Throne to make a short-distance space jump, opening a distance of 0.5 light years.

Stop, look back, and continue to watch.

"King! Second king~"

Xingyun Zhi raised his paw, signaling that he had something to report.

Mo Lan was confused and asked solemnly: "Xingyun Zhi, did you sense the force energy just now?"

"yes!"

Xing Yunyou's tentacles twitched and said: "I just want to say, why is there a vague fluctuation of Force energy?"

——Force energy fluctuations?

——I have already sneaked into the interior of the red supergiant to check, and it is not above the source point~

——Where does the Force energy come from?

When the insects heard the words, they were confused and looked at each other.

Mo Lan and Xing Yun Zhi have undergone changes in their souls and are particularly sensitive to fluctuations in the force. If they both say so, it is definitely true.

Long Bai guessed: "Approximately, there is a zero-level source point with a force concentration lower than 0.5 at the center of the red supergiant. In our previous inspection, we only focused on the third-level and second-level source points. carefulness."

A barely passable explanation.

Mo Lan greeted: "Look! Look! The destructive energy impact is coming soon." (End of Chapter)