Hundreds of spaceships from Ji Feng's two fleets gathered into a massive spherical defense array. Viewed from the Laurel, which is nearly 10,000 kilometers away, the location of the combined fleet is just a flash of light.
There were many ships coming, and the Laurel was inconspicuous among the gold diggers. Zhang Tianzhao added some keywords to the Trojans hidden in the two smart brain hosts, and stayed in front of the smart brains to process the information packets sent by the Trojans. Haifeng Qiu pretended to be ill and took a rest, helping to search for information in the college library. He put the Trojan horse into the school's smart brain host. The surveillance no longer worked for him. It was now very convenient for him to enter and exit the gang territory to move things.
Bai Zhi analyzed the battle information and economic changes before and after the battle provided by Haifengqiu for two days, and believed that the metals obtained by the Beihai Agency last time might be associated metals from high-quality natural energy crystal mines. She showed the excerpted information to them, "I think the Fengji family will use civilian spaceships to explore the way as cannon fodder. Let's make some preparations and go in. Mi'an has always wanted his own space fortress, whether it is energy or energy. We all need metal.”
Yun Lai smiled and touched his chin, "I like picking up money the most."
Bai Zhi nodded vigorously with a bright smile, "Let's go clear the warehouse first."
Ever since Gu Tianbai decided that the agricultural products in Angelica Space were not allowed to produce acorns, Angelica had only left a small piece of land to grow food and vegetables. Most of the land was planted with slow-growing medicinal plants and mulberry oak trees, and it was also expanded Wood rice forest.
Standing on the mountainside of the transfer point and looking down, the plain and the surrounding snow-capped mountains below the snow line are full of green trees and flowers and fruits of various colors. The hills in the middle are not so pretty, and the sparsely planted flowers, plants and trees are less than the total area. of five percent.
Bai Zhi walked to the small square at the foot of the mountain. The NPC rolled over from the bushes and popped up the warehouse panel.
If you enter the undercurrent area, you may not necessarily have the conditions to frequently enter and exit the gang territory. You must have fruits, vegetables and food ready. Bai Zhi first started the processing machine, peeling the shells, grinding the powder, and slicing. Then she cleaned the backpack and warehouse, put the survival materials into the space bag to hide it, and put the temporarily unused bits and pieces into the large container. Put in warehouse. In the end, she cleared three pages of empty warehouse space for backup, and cleared two-thirds of the space in her backpack, and came out with survival supplies.
Yun Lai had come out a long time ago, and there was a space folder on the table. When he saw Bai Zhi, he pointed to the bag and said, "The emergency survival kit prepared by Haifengqiu."
Bai Zhi put away the space folder and gave him a pile of folders filled with food, and gave another pile to Zhang Tianzhao.
The Feng Ji United Fleet did not keep everyone waiting for too long. They successfully recovered the detector sixty hours after releasing it. They generously announced that the undercurrent area is now basically safe for small and medium-sized spacecraft with a length of less than 400 meters. The Feng Ji family will purchase it at a high price. The mineral resources brought out by the small spaceship from the undercurrent area are also provided with mineral information packages for gold prospectors to download.
In the dark space, the lights of the spaceships are as bright as stars, some are stationary, and some are moving towards the undercurrent area. Only the light ball of the Feng Ji fleet remains motionless and dazzling.
Zhang Tianzhao controlled the spacecraft to follow an old prospecting ship in front and flew slowly to the undercurrent area. At the same time, he checked the data and found and isolated the positioning program hidden in the file.
The more than one hundred ores listed in the data have no names but numbers, and there is nothing except text descriptions and test data.
Bai Zhi put her hand on Zhang Tianzhao's shoulders and led him into the world of perception. The little Laurel kept adjusting its direction, avoiding the undercurrents of energy in a low-key and flexible manner, and headed towards the nearest galaxy.
Yunlai sat in the passenger seat and made notes about the live broadcast of the undercurrent area for friends who were not present.
"There were two small spaceships in front of us trying to get through. They were both entangled in the undercurrent and rolled away."
"Hey, the radar shows that there is a small group of spaceships fighting one hundred thousand kilometers away. One spacecraft fired a cannon at another spacecraft. The explosion caused a chain reaction. That area of tens of thousands square kilometers is now a sea of fire."
"The spaceships that came in behind were scary. They flew in all kinds of shapes, and some even turned around and went back."
Three hours later, Zhang Tianzhao, sweating profusely, transferred the driving rights to the co-pilot. Bai Zhi put her other hand on Yun Lai's shoulder, pulling Yun Lai into her world of perception, and Zhang Tianzhao exited on his own.
The two drove alternately for several days, and finally landed safely on an asteroid with a diameter of only more than a thousand kilometers. The spacecraft that came in ahead of them was still moving at the lowest speed, and the other spacecraft couldn't move much faster.
The Laurel discovered a famous ore in a rift valley. Zhang Tianzhao and Lin Yunlai used modified large-scale mining machinery to go more than ten kilometers underground along the veins and found the veins and several other metal ores associated with them. After getting the samples, Haifengqiu and Yue Dongting checked a lot of information and finally determined that one of them was the memory metal they had purchased from the Academy of Sciences. Hai Fengqiu used his metallic power to refine a ball of memory metal weighing five kilograms in the gang's territory, which was exactly the same as the small ball of memory metal they bought for fifty yuan a gram.
Yue Dongting wrote a note: If you dig more, you can still sell it for a lot of money even if you can't build a mecha.
When Zhang Tianzhao and Lin Yunlai were mining on this asteroid, Bai Zhi, apart from cooking three meals a day, was sitting in the warehouse processing memory metal. When the Laurel left the asteroid, there were more than 500 tons of processed memory metal in the gang warehouse alone, as well as several large containers of raw ore.
The second planet was a gaseous planet, and Laurel released a probe. The probe broke down not long after it entered the planet's atmosphere.
"We can't get in because of the strong acid gas. Let's take the next one." Zhang Tianzhao saved the data of the planet and took a nap while Lin Yunlai and Bai Zhi were piloting the spacecraft.
Off-site support Hai Fengqiu successfully put the Trojan horse into the military's science and technology research department, and finally figured out the details of these numbered ores. He also produced a list of precious metal materials needed to make space fortresses. Zhang Tianzhao completely put aside the information about Feng Ji's family and started to collect materials for his own space fortress according to the list. When the first batch of gold diggers arrived at the asteroid containing memory metal, the Laurel had already dug through three galaxies and picked out the most delicious part of the cake.
Two years later, in the Laurel's warehouse.
Bai Zhi put the processed metal ingots into the container, put it into her backpack, and sat down against the wall.
Yun Lai came over yawning and lifted the exhausted Bai Zhi onto the sofa in the living area. He climbed onto another sofa, fell down and fell asleep. Zhang Tianzhao shuffled and sat down next to Bai Zhi, yawning as well, and said, "There is money all over the floor. It hurts if you don't pick it up, and your hands hurt when you pick it up."
"Yes." Bai Zhi moved her position and let Zhang Tianzhao lie down with her. "We have accumulated enough materials for the space fortress for several sets. Why haven't we found the energy mine yet? Am I wrong in my judgment?"
"Anyway, we made a profit this time. If we look for a few more months, we will go back if we can't find it. Mi'an is still waiting for us to build a space fortress." Zhang Tianzhao put his arms around Bai Zhi, "You go to bed first, I'll wait. Yun Lai wakes up and goes back to sleep."
Bai Zhi responded softly and got into the warm and comfortable embrace of senior sister. In less than a few seconds, the beeping alarm suddenly sounded. Bai Zhi and Zhang Tianzhao jumped up at the same time. Zhang Tianzhao flashed into the driver's seat, and Bai Zhi put her arm around his shoulders and pulled him into the world of perception.
At the same time, they saw a long fleet of fleets flying towards another adjacent planet while wiping several energy flows. Between that planet and the planet they were on was an energy vortex where multiple energy flows converged. No matter whose fleet wanted to get there, it would take a long time. Zhang Tianzhao breathed a sigh of relief and exited the world of perception first.
It took a long time for Bai Zhi to withdraw from perception. She fell limply on the passenger seat and said, "It's the Feng family's joint fleet. There is only Yuan in the flagship conference room. I have never seen those people before. They all feel weird."
"Ask what's going on with the Dongting Feng family recently?"
"This kind of dynamic and static management economy is not accessible to Dongting." Bai Zhi thought for a moment and said, "I guess they want to build a base on that planet. The atmospheric environment of that planet is quite good, and it can be inhabited after modification. "
Zhang Tianzhao smiled, "Whatever, we've got all the good stuff. You go on and get some sleep, okay?"
Bai Zhi nodded, leaned on the back of the chair and huddled up to sleep.
A video is being played on the large screen in the conference room, and the screen is constantly switching. The theme is a mine that has been mined.
"Can you tell who did it?" Yuan's brows furrowed more and more tightly, and the faces of several other people also looked bad.
"All mines only mine the most valuable part. Either they have a very experienced team of engineers, or they have high-level metal or earth power users. The size of this group will not be small." The speaker's lips It was very thick and had a long beard, which looked weird.
"The total amount of ore produced by these mines is tens of millions of tons. Yu, tell me how a large team transported these ores out of the undercurrent area?" Yuan kept sneering.
Yu's beard was twitching automatically, "Master Yuan suspects that we are also cooperating with other families?"
Yuan sneered and said: "You said that only you can bring the fleet in. Without the fleet, what are these mines that have been mined out?"
"It's your grave!" A weird smile appeared on Yu's face, "Feng Yuan, I've tolerated you for a long time." Two black elytra with bone spurs suddenly popped out from behind him, followed by four pairs of distinctly veined wings. The transparent wings were stretched out, shiny and wet.
The physical examination before boarding the ship clearly showed that he was a most normal human being, but the mutant adult actually retained the IQ of a human. Cold sweat broke out on Yuan's forehead. He retracted his hand into the pocket of his sleeve, pulled out the alarm, and pressed the sound.
"It must be fun to eat you and then look like you." Yu chuckled.
The remaining people in the conference room stepped aside with grins.
Yuan took out another shield-shaped yellow crystal. Several sudden earth walls separated him from the other people in the conference room. In the next second, he dived into the ground a thousand meters deep, digging desperately into the rock formations. With a little room for movement, take out the respirator mask from the clip bag and fasten it to your face.
The alarms on every spaceship sounded, and the video of Yu transforming into an insect man appeared on all the screens. The guards of the Feng family began to gather for action. In every cockpit there is someone transforming into a bug-man.
Bai Zhi woke up from her light sleep and exclaimed: "Haoyu is here?"
"Yesterday, Hao Xing said he went to someone's fiefdom to get a smart computer host. Even though he came here, he didn't get here so quickly." Zhang Tianzhao raised his hand and patted her, "Dream, go to sleep."
"No, it's the energy fluctuations of Earth Shield and Earth Release." Bai Zhi frowned and thought for a while, "Yuan and Qi Haoyu are playing well. It's very possible that the naughty kid secretly gave him one or two things to save his life. Let me see what's wrong with Yuan?"
There are fifty-one spaceships parked on the flat sand. Each one has energy fluctuations unique to the insect-men, and there are no humans.
Bai Zhi followed the traces of energy fluctuations left in the air to find Yuan. Finally, she found Yuan nearly a kilometer underground. Yuan was wearing a breathing mask and protective clothing in a narrow cave. Every time he moved, some gravel fell from his head.
Bai Zhi extracted the energy from the rock formation to prop up a fragile cover for him. In the dim light of the emergency lights, Yuan noticed the rocks hovering above his head. He immediately put the protective suit into the space bag with quick movements, took out another one, and quickly put it on.
Bai Zhi quickly withdrew from the sensory world and said to Zhang Tianzhao: "Something really happened. The Feng family's fleet is now full of bugs. Yuan used earth escape to hide in the rock formations thousands of meters underground."
"If the bugs breed here for two months, they can turn the entire undercurrent area into a bug nest! Rescue him first and ask him for details." Zhang Tianzhao activated the signal transmitter left on the planet and sent a communication request to Yuan.
Yuan hesitated for a moment in panic, and then connected the communication with the determination to die. On the other side of the video screen, Zhang Tianzhao was sitting in the driver's seat with a tired smile. This handsome face looked extremely cute to Yuan.
"Yuan. Long time no see." Zhang Tianzhao smiled at him and turned the camera to show him Bai Zhi sitting in the passenger seat.
"Hi. I just felt it... Our Tianyu gave it to you, right? What happened?" Bai Zhi smiled. She looked pale and tired, and her words were weak.
"It was given to me by Tianyu. Something big happened, there are insect people! Are you on this planet too? Go quickly, go as far as you can." Big drops of sweat oozed from Yuan's forehead again, "Hurry up Go back and report to Ze, saying that the original family are all bug people, and they can switch between normal humans and bug people. Let the Feng family seal off the undercurrent area and withdraw from the chaotic star belt, quickly!"
"The energy flow outside is too chaotic. Our signal can't be sent out. Let's pick you up first." Bai Zhi thought for a while and said, "We are a little far away from your place. It may take about six hours. Can you hold on? .”
"I can hold on for a few months! It's too dangerous here, you leave first!" Yuan firmly asked them to leave. He was not important, but sending the news was important.
"We have dealt with the insect people." Bai Zhi smiled at him, "I set up to automatically send you a communication request every three minutes, and you can get through if necessary. Crossing the turbulent area requires concentration, and we can't do it all the time. Turn on comms."
Zhang Tianzhao turned off the communication and started the engine. The Laurel instantly entered its highest speed, cut into the middle of the two energy belts, and flew towards the abyss in a nearly straight line.
The Laurel stopped at a place less than 500 kilometers away from the Yuan or the Insect Man. The hole dug by Yuan was too small. Zhang Tianzhao estimated that only Bai Zhi could squeeze in. Bai Zhi used the earth shield crystal in Yuan's hand as a coordinate to teleport out and grab Yuan's arm, taking him back to the Laurel. As soon as Yuan appeared, Zhang Tianzhao knocked him out with a punch, took off his protective clothing, gave him an injection of sleeping pills, stuffed him into the life-saving cabin and locked him up.
What they are going to do next will reveal their trump card, and Yuan, who is ignorant of personnel, will save their saliva.
The Laurel swaggered to a halt on the edge of the sand. Zhang Tianzhao opened the defensive cover to protect the Laurel. The three of them came out in spacesuits. Lin Yunlai walked at the front. Zhang Tianzhao walked two meters behind him, holding a long gun. Gu Baizhi was a few meters behind them, holding a spear in his hand. Armed with black scimitars, the three of them walked in a triangular position towards the nearest spaceship.
Gu Baizhi swung a purple light ball with a diameter of more than one meter and hit the door of the spacecraft. The air wave from the explosion distorted and blurred the picture in the helmet's eyepiece. After the picture became clear again, hundreds of purple light balls released by Bai Zhi hit the bugs accurately. The crackling explosions and the stench of burning armor turned the sand into a nightmare for the bugs.
Swarms of bugmen emerged from the hatch armed with weapons. The temperature suddenly dropped, and the moisture in the air solidified into needle-like ice crystals within a radius of several square kilometers. Countless ice crystals fell on the insect man. The insect man's body was stiff and his movements were slow, making him the best target for the thunderball.
Amidst the continuous explosions, a battleship rose into the sky, followed by a second and a third...On the flat sand, only the farthest spaceships were left. The spacecraft that took off did not leave. Each battleship aimed its black gun muzzle at the three humans surrounded by bugs.
What's more terrifying than the hordes of bugs are the bugs that can fly battleships. Unfortunately, the energy flow in the turbulent zone completely overwhelms the battleship.
Bai Zhi entered the world of perception, quickly pulled out a stream of energy from a turbulent flow, and guided the energy flow to entangle a spaceship. The spaceship seemed to be electrocuted and suspended motionless at an altitude of 10,000 meters. In the next few breaths, every energy flow entangled a spacecraft. The hulls of these spacecrafts were covered with silver light explosions, and the instruments in the spacecraft kept exploding. The newborn bug-men fled in panic in the metal jar, not obeying the adult bug-men's orders at all.
Bai Zhi, who had controlled almost all the spaceships, was now struggling not with escaping, but whether she should blow up these dozens of warships, or clean and recycle them one by one. She wrote a note asking everyone for their opinions.
Hai Fengqiu's opinion was overwhelming. While Yue Dongting agreed to blow it up, he was saddened that the huge Feng family wealth had turned into fireworks. He knew very well how much these spaceships cost.
Zhang Tianzhao also agreed to blow it up. These ships are really useful. But it took too long to clean up the flowers, and he was afraid that Bai Zhi wouldn't be able to hold on.
Yun Lai had been blocking Bai Zhi's side to prevent the insect from getting close. He couldn't spare the time to write notes.
Bai Zhi pulled the energy flow, and the spaceships spread out. The energy capsules of the two spaceships collided together, and the explosion triggered a riot in the energy flow. The swarms of insects struggling crazily in the sea of fire turned red and darkened, and together with the huge fragments of the spacecraft, they melted as quickly as thin ice thrown into boiling water. One spaceship after another was thrown into the sea of fire by invisible hands, like dry wood thrown into a bonfire.
The few battleships left on the ground slid against the surface and escaped dozens of kilometers and rose into the sky. They climbed to an altitude of several thousand meters and got into the net woven by Angelica dahurica with energy flow. A small bundle of dry wood was thrown into the bonfire. The scope of the sea of fire expanded by one tenth.
There was a thick layer of ice on the ground, and the bugs moved slowly on the ice, being called out one by one by the thunderballs coming from the cloud.
This was a one-sided massacre. When the flames went out, there was nothing left on the battlefield except three people in space suits.
Bai Zhi, who couldn't remember how many times she had been empty, fainted from the pain. Lin Yunlai carried Bai Zhi and supported Zhang Tianzhao, and the three of them teleported back to the Laurel. The high temperature of the explosion and combustion triggered strong convection changes in the atmosphere. Heavy rain poured down, and hail struck the outer shell of the spacecraft, like thousands of iron hooves trampling overhead.
The pain accumulated by Kong Lan many times was huge. This was the most desperate time for Bai Zhi. Bai Zhi, who had taken off her space suit, had her eyes closed tightly, her breathing was rapid, and her whole body was cold. The shaky Zhang Tianzhao was not much better.
Yun Lai sighed and went to the bathroom to put a tank of hot water, opened a bottle of meteorite extract liquid and poured it in, then threw the two of them in for a bath. He went back to the bedroom and took a shower. Seeing that Yuan was still sleeping soundly in the life-support cabin, he went to sleep for two hours with peace of mind.
The first one to recover was still Angelica dahurica. She was fine after soaking for an hour, and Zhang Tianzhao slept an hour longer than her.
Yuan must go back and report as soon as possible that the Yuan family can switch back and forth between humans and bugs. Bai Zhi thinks it is a waste of time to check every planet to see if there are no bugs hiding there. She simply made a large stone pot, planted a purple mushroom, poured some of their bath water, and then placed the large bonsai, which was over six meters tall, outside the Laurel.
Two hours later, the purple mushroom attracted two women from the original family who looked just like normal humans. Lin Yunlai took a video of them transforming into insect-men and being killed during the battle. Zhang Tianzhao also found their hiding place, a temporary cave dozens of kilometers away. In the cave there were a large number of insect eggs waiting to be hatched and several male insect-man corpses wrapped in white silk.
In order to verify whether Zizhi Zhi was indeed effective on the insect-men, Zhang Tianzhao left a dozen eggs to hatch. When the newly-born insect-men saw that Zizhi was crazy, Zhang Tianzhao was so frightened that he burned them all with a fire.
A copy of the video screen was first given to Haifengqiu and Yue Dongting. Haifengqiu edited two versions, one for Yuan Heze to see, and one for other nobles to see.
Hai Fengqiu and Zhang Tianzhao discussed the future situation and believed that the main conflict in the empire for a long time to come was no longer the independence of the nobles, but the survival war between humans and bugs. Zizhi is very useful against bugs. It is definitely not as good as relying on them and Qi Haoyu to promote its use with the help of the Feng family.
Bringing Zizhi back to the Feng family was sincere enough. Zizhi squeezed the insect people out of human society, and Gu Tianbai and Qi Haoyu's survival in the chaotic star belt was more secure. After all, the Feng family's monitoring actually no longer works. They want to keep secrets or leave at any time.
After leaving the undercurrent area, Yuegui quietly reunited with Silent Hill for a week. Bai Zhi wished she could leave everything to the children. When they parted, she grabbed the hands of Mian Ning and Mian An and was reluctant to let go.
"If you dare to shed tears in front of the children, I'll beat you up. Be obedient and let go. The beef jerky made by our cook is delicious. I'll give it to you this time." Gu Tianbai coaxed and frightened him.
Bai Zhi let go obediently, and Mi'an hugged her mother, "Mom, I don't want the battle fortress anymore. My brother and I will go with you."
"You two must go to school. It would be nice to meet your mother once in a few years. We are still hostages." Xiaoshan pulled Mi An away by the neck, "Brother Yunlai, take my fifth sister and Brother-in-law, leave quickly."
Lin Yunlai took Zhang Tianzhao's arm, who was watching his children silently, and teleported them back to the Laurel.
"We haven't seen each other for a few years, and Mi'an is almost taller than me." Bai Zhi held back tears, "I'm not a good mother, and I don't care much about them."
"As a mother, you have tried your best." Zhang Tianzhao held Bai Zhi in his arms, "I know how much you love them."
Bai Zhi howled. Zhang Tianzhao silently hugged her and signaled Yun Lai to let her go. Lin Yun came and went to the warehouse to wake Yuan up. Yuan climbed up from the life-support cabin, still dazed, and asked, "Why am I here?"
"I don't know if you were infected by the bugs. I knocked you out and kept you under observation for a few days." Yun Lai handed him a glass of wine, "Drink it, then take a shower and change clothes. Let's go back to Feng's house."
"Insect Man! Oh my god, why are we still taking a bath? Contact the Feng family immediately." Yuan drank the glass of wine as he walked, "Where are we now?"
"A digitally numbered supply base. We were very lucky. The turbulence brought us out of the undercurrent area at once." Yun Lai took him to the cockpit, opened the communication channel and let him send communication requests himself, while playing the data they had prepared. Show it to Yuan, "These are the bug-men we met. Part of the female bug-man's body has been preserved and will be used as evidence for you along with the video screen."
"The matter of teleportation... I won't mention it when I get back. But you must tell me how you killed the insect people." Yuan looked up at Yun Lai, his eyes calm and calm, "Even if I am willing to cooperate with you in making up a story, at least I must Let me know. It's not just one or two, it's a fleet."
"Oh, don't you pretend to be a sunny boy anymore?" Yun Lai laughed.
"You pretend not to be serious when it comes to serious matters," Yuan shook his head, "I'd better go talk to Sister Bai Zhi, where is she?"
"In the kitchen, go find them. I'll fly the spaceship. Where is the Feng family's base?"
Yuan gave Yun Lai his address and strode through the living area, but stopped outside the kitchen door.
Bai Zhi was sobbing, and the heavy sadness made those who heard it breathless. Zhang Tianzhao comforted her softly: "If you don't want to give up, let's have another child."
Bai Zhi's face appeared in front of Yuan's eyes. When Bai Zhi teleported to his side, her face was extremely pale and tired. He slowly took a few steps back, returned to the living area and found a place to sit down, not to disturb the parents who had lost their children to save him. After a few minutes, Zhang Tianzhao half-carried and half-mopped Bai Zhi to sit on the sofa in the living area. The person who had refused to go to the kitchen for ten thousand years actually went into the kitchen to cook!
Bai Zhi's eyes were red and swollen, and she huddled on the sofa weakly, nodding to Yuan as a greeting.
"I brought a tube of candy, peach flavor." Yuan took out the candy from his space pocket and handed it to Bai Zhi.
"Thank you." Bai Zhi poured out a piece of sugar and returned the sugar tube to Yuan. She held the pink-white gummy candy with white powdered sugar in her hand but had no intention of eating it.
"I'm married." Yuan pulled out a small stereo projector from his neck and showed his wife to Bai Zhi. "My eldest daughter is six months old now. Sister Bai Zhi, please go back and be my eldest daughter's godmother." .”
"It's a great honor." Bai Zhi smiled.
In the cockpit, Lin Yunlai sent a text message to Zhang Tianzhao: Yuan wants to give his daughter to our Mian Ning?
Zhang Tianzhao replied: He surrendered. If he asks you what's wrong with Bai Zhi, don't mention a word, and don't mislead him. I will discuss with Hai Fengqiu how to get him to speak the same language.
