Astral Cockroach

"Ban Bu, you guys were in there for eight days before coming out! Did you get lost?" Upon seeing Ban Bu's appearance, Great Leaf Princess finally felt somewhat relieved.

"Didn't get lost. Found something good, spent a few extra days searching," Ban Bu went straight into the earthen nest chamber.

Bai Zhu, with a backpack on his back and carrying silk bags in both claws, jumped down to the ground with some difficulty.

After landing, he immediately started digging a hole.

Great Leaf Princess followed him in. Seeing the situation, her gaze immediately locked onto the silk bags, and she lowered her mental power to inquire, "Something good?"

"Mm!" Ban Bu said, "A complete box of Origin Force Crystals."

Great Leaf Princess's antennae trembled, and she stammered, "A-are we rich again?!"

"Hehe, a small fortune," Ban Bu opened his backpack and said, "Also, 12 scattered Origin Force Crystals."

As he spoke, he took out a neutron gun and two magazines.

The gun couldn't be used.

The energy within the magazines was inexplicably exhausted.

Bai Zhu finished digging the hole and asked, "Ban Bu, should we just hide it?"

"Hide it!"

Ban Bu was slightly frustrated.

Currently, there was a neutron gun that could be used, but without magazines, there was no way to open the box.

It was strange; the surfaces of the magazines were intact. Theoretically, the energy inside should be preserved for tens of thousands of years. Why would the energy be almost completely depleted?

Bai Zhu took the box out of the silk bag, placed it in the pit, and then took the 12 Origin Force Crystals out of the backpack. He tore off an outer garment, wrapped them up, and placed them in as well, burying them underground.

After hiding everything, Bai Zhu felt relieved and finally released his excitement, his fur standing on end as he shouted, "Ban Bu, we've struck it rich!"

"Keep it down, this is just a small fortune! No ambition!" Ban Bu scolded, then said wearily, "Let's eat something, rest for two days, and then we'll continue!"

… …

The luck wasn't so good after that.

For a whole month, they only found things of little value.

The best they found was 14 boxes of Origin Force food, one cabinet of which, a full 9 boxes, enhanced water element abilities, with an overall rating of F. On this planet, F-grade Origin Force food wasn't even as valuable as the boxes themselves.

There were also 4 boxes of C-grade Origin Force food that enhanced earth and stone abilities, and 1 box of B-grade Origin Force food that enhanced fire abilities.

They hoarded everything.

Because a large number of Origin Force Crystals were buried underground, warriors from other races often came to visit. To cover their tracks, Ban Bu painstakingly brought back all sorts of worthless junk and piled it up in the nest chamber.

… …

After entering the Illusionary Rainbow Maze time and time again, traveling back and forth across the plains between the two mountain ranges, they gradually became familiar with the environment and their actions became more skilled.

To improve efficiency, they adjusted their schedule, no longer going out early and returning late, but usually searching for three to five consecutive days before coming out for a meal, rest, and recovery, and then going back in.

… …

"Squeak, squeak!" Bai Zhu sharpened his teeth as a reminder, tapping Ban Bu's carapace to indicate the direction.

A crater, a piece of spaceship hull fragment of considerable size.

"Squeak, squeak!" Bai Zhu continued to sharpen his teeth, tapping his carapace to indicate that there was more ahead.

Ban Bu hesitated for a moment before moving forward.

A very small fragment that failed to create a decent crater.

"Squeak, squeak!" Bai Zhu kept sharpening his teeth, indicating that there was more nearby.

Ban Bu did not proceed according to Bai Zhu's instructions, but instead returned to the original point and went straight east.

Along the way, Bai Zhu was able to make discoveries from time to time, but without exception, they were all fragments. They encountered two boxes, but they were filled with useless metal materials.

This was a dense impact area, making it very likely that they would find a large number of valuable things at once!

Ban Bu was in no hurry. He went east, turned west, then turned east again… plowing the field, so to speak, checking an area back and forth in sequence.

… …

"Squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak…" Bai Zhu sharpened his teeth vigorously, but did not tap his carapace.

What did this mean?

Ban Bu stopped, his eyes only able to see a distance of about 3 meters ahead. Beyond 2 meters, the vision was still a blurry, iridescent color.

Somewhat annoyed, he didn't know what to do, waiting for Bai Zhu to provide more detailed information.

Bai Zhu became anxious, scratching his ears and cheeks. He jumped off Ban Bu's carapace, took out a silk rope, tied one end around his waist and the other end around Ban Bu's forelimb, and led Ban Bu forward.

Was there a major discovery ahead?

Ban Bu suppressed the excitement in his heart, staring at the compass, calculating the walking distance and direction, so as not to get lost.

Passing a crater, Bai Zhu didn't even look at it.

Ban Bu glanced down and saw that it was a fragment, paying it no attention.

After taking two steps, he suddenly woke up: Something was wrong!

He tugged on the silk thread, forcibly pulling the eager Bai Zhu back.

Looking back, the fragment was not lying inside the crater.

There were signs of movement!

This place was already close to the mountain range on the Ten Thousand Nations Continent, so ant races from the Ten Thousand Nations Continent had been here.

Bai Zhu also realized that there might be danger, untied the silk rope, stretched out his claws, pointed in a direction, and jumped back onto Ban Bu's back.

Ban Bu locked onto the direction and continued forward.

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Along the way, there were stones everywhere, probably caused by a super-large wreck crashing down, impacting the ground, and the shockwave vibrating, causing hard stones to splash out.

After walking about 220 meters, there was a sloping crater ahead.

Too big to estimate the scale.

To smash such a large crater into the stone ground, which was harder than steel, the impact must have come from a relatively intact spaceship wreck.

Ban Bu spun around in place, using his forelimbs to draw a circle on the ground, and then carving an arrow inside the circle to mark the direction, converting the coordinates of this place into complex data information and storing it in his heart.

Hanging the dagger with the embedded compass on his leg, he confidently walked down the slope.

The crater must be circular. Even if he lost his way inside, he could slowly search along the edge, find the circle mark, and then use it as a starting point to locate the direction back.

The crater wasn't deep, and after walking a distance, he was stopped by a sloping metal "wall."

That's right, the material was judged to be the warship's outer shell, so he must have reached the wreckage site.

The effective viewing distance was too short to see its appearance clearly.

However, near the ground, there were many slender threads.

Not spider silk.

Ban Bu cut it with his forelimbs. The toughness wasn't very good. It looked like some kind of marker. His antennae lightly touched it, capturing the scent of a pheromone, a familiar aura. He then confirmed that it was released by ants.

There were many ant races whose larvae could spin silk. The most common was spinning silk to make cocoons for pupation and transformation.

Ban Bu immediately guessed the reason: the ant king of a certain ant race had moved the larvae from the ant nest out, and the larvae spun silk to pave the ground, gradually paving it to the wreckage site, forming a path for the ants to travel.

On the Ten Thousand Nations Continent, the scale of an ant army under a powerful ant king could exceed millions, and they were all brave and belligerent, not to be trifled with.

Ban Bu thought for a while and climbed up along the outer shell of the wreckage.

At a distance of about 300 meters, he found an orange line mark. Looking closely, it was the opening and closing gap of two metal doors.

Following the gap forward, climbing about 500 meters, he saw a red arc mark again.

Walking along the arc mark, after a large circle, he confirmed that it was a circular hatch with a diameter of 600 meters.

Ban Bu was very familiar with it. The Luan-K704 transport spaceship was designed with a total of 8 hatches of this style, specifically designed for loading and unloading Origin Force plants seized in war.

Walking back and forth within the red circle, searching carefully, he quickly found a row of red font numbers: ZO-202

Continuing to climb up to search.

He soon found another hatch: ZO-201

200 meters further up was the top, where the warship was torn apart.

Moving sideways along the break, the Z0-203 and ZO-204 hatches were also found, but unfortunately, they were torn and broken, with only half of them remaining.

At the top of the wreckage, walking around the edge, Ban Bu had a rough idea: this large piece of wreckage was the end of the ship, a special warehouse area, storing all Origin Force plants.

"Are there any living ones?"

"I remember that the No. 1 cabin carried an Origin Force plant at the World Lord level."

"The only World Lord-level Origin Force plant that was willing to surrender during the conquest of the Hephaestus Galaxy."

"What kind of enhancement effect was it? Endurance? Modify the three-cell energy structure, indirectly increasing the total cell energy storage…"

"At the World Lord level, its lifespan is long, almost endless, and its life is very tough. If the cabin is not damaged, it probably won't die, right?"

"I remember that there were also World Lord-level warriors accompanying it, responsible for guarding it… Falling like this without any movement, it should be dead, right?"

Ban Bu felt a little uneasy and entered the interior of the spaceship along the break to check the specific situation.