Astral Cockroach

Banbu traveled light, accompanied by two mantis princesses, taking a shortcut directly through the Brown Bee Kingdom's territory, and successfully arrived at the Orchid Mountains in just 11 days.

The Knife Mantis Kingdom is located in the south, with cold winds, but the temperature is slightly higher, and there is no snowfall.

It was drizzling.

The warriors guarding the wreckage were exceptionally strict, and Banbu and Princess Yuanbai were stopped outside. Outsiders were one thing, but they wouldn't even give face to a princess of their own kind.

Princess Jinqiu went into the wreckage first, and after reporting, led a Mantis King from the Knife Mantis tribe out.

Princess Yuanbai lowered her spiritual sense and reminded, "Mountain Lord Banbu, this is a direct elder of my lineage, Mantis King Qinggou. He is currently responsible for all external affairs, mainly dealing with foreign races, and also responsible for market management, the sale of gene fluid and Yuanli food, as well as the defense of the wreckage."

"Understood, thank you." Banbu thanked her in a low voice, raised his spiritual sense, and said, "Greetings, Mantis King Qinggou!"

"Mountain Lord Banbu of Lizhu Peak, I have heard your name more than once from the caravan! Now, looking at the entire Fire Roach Kingdom, apart from Princess Changsheng, you are the richest, right? Haha…"

Among different insect races, the best way to praise each other is to praise the noble and beautiful color of their carapace, or to praise the wealth of their territory.

Wealth largely determines the future height of growth, which corresponds to the prestige and status in the group, and is the best praise.

Mantis King Qinggou flapped his wing membranes, landed lightly in front of Banbu, tilted his triangular head, glanced slightly, and joked, "At first glance, I almost mistook you for a warrior of the Dark Night Gold Mantis tribe, haha…"

Mantis King Qinggou laughed again.

Banbu also laughed and said, "When I passed through the Brown Bee Kingdom, I pretended to be a warrior of the Dark Night Gold Mantis, so they didn't dare to make things difficult for me, hehe…"

"The Brown Bee Kingdom once had disputes with Changsheng County over the purchase rights of Changsheng Peaches and hates all Roach warriors in Changsheng County, and even the entire Fire Roach Kingdom. It's best not to pass through their kingdom," Mantis King Qinggou briefly pointed out, and then beckoned:

"Mountain Lord Banbu, come, I will take you to visit the wreckage first, familiarize yourself with the environment, and explain the rules to you by the way."

"Rules?" Banbu asked. He walked side by side with Princess Jinqiu, following Mantis King Qinggou towards the wreckage.

Mantis King Qinggou explained, "We have also invited more than a dozen insect kings with powerful awakened metal abilities, such as King Hao of the Star Spotted Tiger Beetle tribe and King Danan of the Mad Scorpion tribe, to help."

"Uh…" Banbu now felt that things might not be as simple as they said!

Princess Jinqiu explained, "Currently, the most important thing is to concentrate our strength to open that particularly difficult door."

Banbu asked, "What door?"

Princess Jinqiu replied, "A very thick, very strong door, behind which is a very large nest room, using extremely special metal that cannot be shaken at all."

Mantis King Qinggou asked, "Mountain Lord Banbu, are you tired from the journey? Do you want to rest and eat first? Or go take a look directly?"

Obviously, Mantis King Qinggou hoped that Banbu could go and take a look first.

"Let's take a look first." Banbu agreed, with a little guess in his heart: These idiots wouldn't be thinking of opening the door of the energy cabin, would they?

…

The Knife Mantis tribe used earth and stone abilities to specially build a flat road leading directly to the entrance of the spaceship wreckage.

Mantis King Qinggou led the way, entering the wreckage.

Passing by the original spaceship's No. 4 and No. 5 canteens, the tables and chairs in the canteens had long been removed, making them very spacious. Many warriors were lying in the canteen, most of them from the Knife Mantis and Gold Mantis kingdoms, and a small number of princess-level warriors from tribes such as the Tiger Beetle and Mad Scorpion. It was evening at this time, and they were chatting and eating in twos and threes.

"Eating in the canteen? They really know how to pick a place!" Banbu slandered in his heart, and continued walking.

Passing through the dormitory area, Banbu keenly sensed several powerful auras. Not surprisingly, those insect king-level bosses were all shrinking in the cabins to rest.

Princess Jinqiu said that Mantis Kings Yunshan and Jinlian had invited him, but in reality, they had no intention of taking Banbu to meet them. These two were the most influential and highest-ranking Mantis Kings in the Knife Mantis Kingdom and Gold Mantis Kingdom, respectively, and they certainly didn't have the leisure to pay attention to small warriors at the mountain lord level like Banbu.

Banbu understood that inviting him over was mostly Mantis King Qinggou's idea, and it had the meaning of being at a loss and grasping at straws.

"Mountain Lord Banbu, this thing is very magical, don't be afraid."

As Mantis King Qinggou spoke, he pressed the button of the elevator in front of him.

This was the freight elevator behind the kitchen. If he guessed correctly, it should lead directly to the cold storage room for storing food on the lower level.

"…" Banbu was speechless and said, "I'm not afraid."

The elevator door opened.

"Mountain Lord Banbu, please!" Mantis King Qinggou crawled backwards into the elevator, with the intention of demonstrating.

"Di! Di! Di!"

"Enemy attack alarm! Enemy attack alarm! Enemy attack alarm…"

Red and yellow lights flashed, and the warning sound was sharp and loud.

The spaceship's defense alarm system was miraculously still running, and fortunately, this was only a living area, without a defense weapon system deployed.

A freight elevator that could still operate! Wide enough for human bodies, but for insect races, it could barely accommodate Banbu and Qinggou.

Banbu still put in some effort to squeeze in backwards, side by side with Mantis King Qinggou, just occupying the entire space of the elevator.

What was deadly was that Princess Jinqiu actually squeezed in with them. She didn't dare to step on Mantis King Qinggou, so she focused on stepping on Banbu to squeeze up.

"Okay." Princess Jinqiu finished tossing and simultaneously instructed, "Mountain Lord Banbu, don't put your antennae and forelimbs outside the door, otherwise this door won't close, and this thing won't move."

"Uh…"

Being ridden on by an insect, Banbu had already started cursing in his heart, stretched out his forelimbs, and retracted his antennae.

Seeing that preparations were complete, Mantis King Qinggou pressed the button marked 1L.

The elevator went down.

The elevator door opened.

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Ahead was a small cabin.

There were wide passages on the left, right, and front sides of the cabin.

Banbu, as a third-class soldier on the spaceship, was not qualified to enter the kitchen's important area. There were no clear road signs in the passage, so he was not sure where they led.

Princess Jinqiu pointed, "Mountain Lord Banbu, this way please."

"Jinqiu, when we go back, you go in first." Mantis King Qinggou was very upset: A dignified Mantis King, being stepped on the head by a princess, how could this be allowed?

"Okay, okay." Princess Jinqiu was embarrassed for a moment and briefly introduced to Banbu, "Mountain Lord Banbu, the gene fluid and various strange foods sold in the market are found from here."

Mantis King Qinggou added, "The temperature in those nest rooms is very low, colder than winter. Some nest rooms can even freeze water into ice. We forcibly opened the door, but it did not affect the operation of that unknown thing, it is still very cold now."

Nonsense, would it be called a cold storage if it wasn't cold? Banbu despised in his heart, pretending to be surprised, and said, "Wow, that's really amazing!"

Mantis King Qinggou was very satisfied with Banbu's reaction, and said triumphantly, "I'll take you to see it later, it's really very cold, just like the cold winter in the north!"

Crossing the passage, they passed a small cabin where the cafeteria staff lived.

Mantis King Qinggou suddenly thought of something and opened the cabin door.

Banbu scanned with his spiritual sense and was surprised to find that it was actually a sweeping robot. As expected of military manufacturing, it used high-end materials. After countless years, it was still able to operate normally.

"Mountain Lord Banbu, it is not a natural life, it is completely constructed of metal. Look, its legs are very special, it can walk by itself, and it doesn't need to eat anything, isn't it amazing?" After Princess Jinqiu finished introducing, she brewed for two seconds, opened her mouth, and with a "poof" sound, spat a mouthful of saliva on the ground.

The sweeping robot immediately rolled forward and cleaned the stain on the ground.

This kind of robot can only be regarded as primary artificial intelligence, not in the ranks of electronic life, only knowing simple ground cleaning work. It is usually in standby mode, and will only start and clean when it detects stains on the ground within the area set by the program.

It was probably this energy-saving mode that allowed it to survive to this day.

"Many of these things were found in the wreckage, and we haven't figured out the specific way to use them yet." Princess Jinqiu said, "Mountain Lord Banbu, I am specifically responsible for studying this type of thing. If you are interested, you can join us, and everyone can figure out how to use it together."

"…" Banbu said speechlessly, "Okay."

Continuing forward, they walked into an open cabin. Banbu looked around. Most of the instruments and equipment had been paralyzed. It looked like it was the core cabin of the water circulation system.

There were also several insect warriors with metal abilities surrounding the mechanical equipment to study it.

"Mountain Lord Banbu, over there." Mantis King Qinggou pointed the direction.

At the indicated position, an elliptical hole with a major axis of more than 2 meters had been forcibly opened in the cabin floor, leading directly to the lower level.

Banbu stepped forward and looked down along the hole. The corresponding area below was also a cabin. Some smart warriors had used metal to make a ladder for easy climbing.

Mantis King Qinggou took the lead and climbed down the ladder.

PS: I have something to do today, so I'll post it earlier.