Astral Cockroach

The Zerg "Gods" modified this planet using roughly the same plant species in both the northern and southern hemispheres. Due to climate differences, some genetic variations appeared over long periods.

The Red Ironwood is a solitary species, with only one original type, unique and unparalleled. It is a high-quality tree, second only to top-tier species like Dragon Bamboo, Longevity Peach, Cave Crown Pear, Big Yellow Longan, and Silver Fir. According to inherited memories, the tallest tree is the Eucalyptus amygdalina, followed by the Eucalyptus regnans, and then the Red Ironwood, which is generally the third tallest species in terms of group height.

In the northern hemisphere, the Red Ironwood is a rare and endangered weak species. However, the situation is completely different in the southern hemisphere. Earlier, on the way south, Banbu saw extensive Red Ironwood forests, all of which were high-quality species. Whether due to management by insect tribes in the past or natural evolution, he discovered five derivative species that looked quite promising.

Unfortunately, the season wasn't right, and the fruits were far from ripe, so he couldn't collect them.

While there was still time, Banbu made a special trip, following the route he remembered, and collected a large bag of seeds to give to the Red Iron Roach Queen. She would definitely like them.

For the past few decades, the Red Iron Roach Queen had been leading the team, shuttling back and forth between Li Bamboo Peak and Red Crow Mountain, transporting wreckage during treasure hunts on the Dragon Bamboo Continent. He should help out with things like this whenever he could.

After collecting the seeds, Banbu didn't rush back to the base but continued searching in the subtropical region.

He discovered many high-quality tree species and collected some of each. Unfortunately, he didn't see any bamboo along the way.

If he could find a few high-quality derivative bamboo species growing on this continent and bring them back to Li Bamboo Peak, it would mean there was hope of obtaining more God-given Seeds.

…

Banbu's agreement with Youcha was that the exploration would require 3 to 4 months of departure time. Calculating the time, he returned to the base after three and a half months.

"Banbu!"

Youcha was clearly waiting, and had been waiting for a long time. As soon as Banbu landed, she leaped out.

"What's wrong? Did you make an important discovery?" Banbu asked, surprised. It was the first time he'd seen Youcha so agitated.

"Banbu, primal force!" Youcha paused for a second and said, "Very thin primal force, and a God-given Seed! It might be a primal stone mine."

A primal stone mine!

Banbu jumped up upon hearing this.

When exploring the abandoned continent, he initially had the idea of searching for remaining mines. Later, he found too many "divine-grade" God-given Seeds and was too busy excavating and transporting them. There were still plenty of high-quality tree species waiting to be found in the jungle, so he had long forgotten about this.

Banbu's thoughts turned, and he started to feel a headache: This is the southern hemisphere! Primal stones are heavy, and transporting them across the sea back to Li Bamboo Peak would be too costly and not very meaningful!

"God-given Seed? Divine-grade? What tree species?"

"Not divine-grade," Youcha replied definitively, then said with difficulty, "As for the tree species, you haven't taught me, so I don't know…"

She was indeed a complete dunce. She hadn't studied well herself and was blaming the teacher.

Banbu quickly packed up his things and said, "Let's go, lead the way, let's go take a look."

Without another word, Youcha ran down the mountain, running along the edge of the iridescent maze.

They headed north, intermittently, traveling for 11 days before stopping. They turned west, crossed mountains and ridges, and entered the jungle.

This was a subtropical area with many mountains, rain, rivers, and ravines, with dense ancient trees, making travel quite difficult. Banbu switched to carrying Youcha while flying.

"Youcha, why did you run so far? Very few wrecks can survive in this kind of place."

"Intuition. I felt like I could find something here, so I came over."

"That works too…"

Banbu was speechless.

Not only Youcha, but also the caracal warrior Shuocao was like this. They were naturally good at tracking and finding, with keen and bizarre intuition. It had been proven long ago that their innate intuition never failed.

After crossing mountains and ridges, four days later, Banbu's soul, flying at low altitude, suddenly throbbed slightly. The primal force sensing ability enhanced by Youzhu bamboo rice captured the faint aura of primal force, which was extremely weak, close to nothing.

"Banbu, over there," Youcha wagged her tail, indicating the direction.

In fact, without Youcha's reminder, Banbu could also feel it. The primal force was distributed in a radiating and dissipating state.

Just track back along the direction of radiation dissipation.

As they approached the center, the primal force became more and more concentrated.

One day later, they arrived in front of a canyon that looked quite abnormal.

The primal force was seeping out from the bottom of the canyon, which was also an abnormal phenomenon.

The primal force concentration was still very low, only about 0.2 to 0.3, which is the common natural primal force concentration in the universe.

"Banbu, over there, a God-given Seed," Youcha wagged her tail.

Banbu flew in the direction she indicated and soon saw a tree taller than the other plants standing proudly on the cliff. It was spring in the southern hemisphere, and it was in full bloom.

It was undoubtedly a wild God-given Seed. Warriors had managed it in the past, but later, due to insufficient primal force, the warriors became extinct, and this God-given Seed struggled to survive.

Landing, he observed the nearby plants, and there were signs of management. Comparing the tree species, he quickly determined that it was a Cuneate Cherry God-given Seed. No wonder Youcha didn't recognize it. In the northern hemisphere, the "cherry" tree species was extremely rare, and the outstanding "Cuneate Cherry" had long been extinct.

Banbu landed under the tree and quietly sensed the primal force aura released by the plant. It should have completed three transformations and growths, and it was of supreme quality, with enhanced flame element abilities.

Supreme quality, not divine-grade, purely wild, and the tree spirit would not awaken.

The tree height was not good, only about a hundred meters high, but the crown was dense and large, belonging to the "short and fat" type of tree. The trunk diameter exceeded 10 meters. Having experienced vicissitudes of life, and with insufficient primal force for many years, the bark was wrinkled and had many withered dead shells.

Its condition was not good, and it might be dying soon.

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Youcha wagged her tail and pointed to the cliff canyon not far away, saying, "Banbu, there are traces of insect warriors living there. I searched nearby, and there are no other God-given Seeds, nor any wrecks."

"Okay, I'll go take a look," Banbu flapped his wings, swooped down into the canyon, and walked around to investigate.

The canyon depth ranged from 100 to 300 meters, the widest point was about 100 meters wide, and the length was about 4.5 kilometers. It was inconsistent with the original intention of the "Gods" to modify the planet and should have been formed by crustal changes and land fissures.

The primal force was seeping out from the bottom of the canyon, which was also an abnormal phenomenon.

A primal stone mine? Unlikely.

Cosmic primal force is constantly consumed and constantly generated, but it will never appear in this mode. What's more, this planet is in a closed space isolated from the great universe. The possibility of naturally generating primal force is zero.

What's going on?

Banbu immediately thought that the "Gods" should have hidden the primal force deep underground in the form of compressed storage with some kind of equipment. When the scheduled time came, it would be activated, and the primal force would be released, seeping out from the ground. Perhaps the equipment malfunctioned, and the stored primal force could not be released all at once, but became a slow, gradual release…

"This kind of thing can also malfunction? The Zerg 'Gods' aren't very reliable!" Banbu slandered in his heart.

…

Youcha, after several turns, came to the canyon.

Banbu chose the widest part of the canyon, waved his antennae, and said, "Youcha, dig down!"

"Okay," Youcha tried a few claws, dug through the topsoil, and found a hard rock layer underneath. She suggested, "Banbu, you should bring Mouse King and Baizhu and them over. Bamboo rat warriors are good at digging."

"You dig first," Banbu said, "I'll go pack up and move everything over. It's not easy to travel back and forth across the sea. Let's figure out why there's primal force here first."

Youcha reluctantly agreed, "Okay then."

Banbu identified the direction and flew straight back to the southern base, carrying various goods on his back, and ran on the ground to return to the canyon.

After nearly twenty days of busy work, he came back and saw that Youcha had only dug a shallow pit with a diameter of 10 meters and a depth of less than 3 meters. She dug away the topsoil, and when she hit the rock layer, she refused to work hard.

It happened to be raining, and the pit was full of water. Youcha simply went on strike, lazily lying under the Cuneate Cherry God-given Seed, basking in the sun.

Banbu's teeth ached when he saw it. He chose a new location to dig, and asked Youcha to help carry the dug-out stones. As a result, just as he dug about 4 meters deep, another heavy rain came, and the pit filled with water, making it impossible to continue working.

It was no good not to get serious!

Annoyed, Banbu consumed the primal force stored in the first heart position and directly converted the soil and stone into metal, creating a water pump and a complete set of drainage equipment in one go.

It needed electricity to run.

Banbu and Youcha acted separately.

Youcha went to get an electric box from the ship to power the water pump. Banbu consumed nearly 4 million primal stones of primal force to manufacture the water pump, so he crossed the iridescent maze to the opposite continent to replenish the lost primal force.

This place was subtropical. He would head straight east and take a look to confirm whether the subtropical region of the opposite continent was also ruled by termites.