Global Era of Star trekking

Chapter 631: Chapter 332: Qiongtian Mechanical Civilization

The rendezvous with Ansewei took place ten minutes after the Cang Qiong departed from Sky Rush Valley, with the prearranged meeting point set in the starry space just outside the Chenxing Yang Continent.

In the main control room of White Rose, as communication between the two warships was officially connected, Ansewei, her condition fully recuperated over the past half month, once again radiated a beaming smile.

Her eyes fixed on Song Chi in the projection screen, she softly asked,

“Are you all set?”

After receiving Song Chi’s nod in response, she did not immediately activate the warship’s merging device but instead repeated the information about the civilization relics she had shared months earlier.

The civilization relic she had discovered belonged to a mechanical civilization known as Qiongtian, which was filled with a large array of mechanical creations. To conduct an in-depth exploration, the protective abilities of the warship itself had to be substantial.

Ansewei was unclear about the quality of the energy shield and warship armor installed on Song Chi’s Cang Qiong, and it was not appropriate to ask bluntly, so she could only confirm with Song Chi again in this manner.

Song Chi did not elaborate and simply nodded once again.

He had absolute confidence in the defense capabilities of the Cangqiong.

However, he soon inquired about another matter.

“What about your brother?”

As previously discussed, this exploration of the civilization remnants was supposed to be undertaken by the three of them, including the Fourth Prince Seyn Chenxing.

Speaking of her own brother, Ansewei said irritably,

“Don’t get me started. He just entered the family’s Primordial Secret Realm to comprehend the Laws, and it will be more than ten years before he emerges…”

To this, Song Chi did not continue to inquire. He felt no strong reaction; it was unavoidable after all. Clearly, Seyn Chenxing had entered the family’s Primordial Secret Realm without giving prior notice to Ansewei, resulting in a conflict with the plans of the three of them.

Once everything was ready, Ansewei activated a purple merging device aboard the White Rose.

As the two cruisers completely merged, the charge deployment by Alien Star Domain officially ended. Feeling the intense spatial fluctuations outside the ship, Song Chi also followed suit and initiated the deployment before being totally enveloped by the sensation of weightlessness.

…

Above a gigantic Starry Sea Floating Land with a diameter exceeding 0.5 light-years, two kilometer-long cruisers materialized out of nowhere.

Turning around at the first opportunity, Song Chi began to scrutinize the surrounding environment.

Soon, he had his answer.

“Is this a Level 4 Resource-type Starry Sea Floating Land?”

As he muttered, Ansewei had already withdrawn the merging light band, and her explanatory voice came through the warship’s magnetic wave group communication.

“Yes, but it was already riddled with holes when I found it, every resource on it having been mined clean by an unknown civilization.”

Song Chi nodded, his gaze following the forward-facing warship projection screen to the Starry Sea Floating Land below.

Just as Ansewei had said, that Level 4 Resource Floating Land was littered with mining pits of varying sizes, its various resources exhausted long before their unknown past.

Of course, with the passage of who knows how much time since then, due to the continuous ingestion and nurturing of external free-floating energies by the Floating Land’s Origin Core, this Level 4 Floating Land had started to gestate new mineral resources. However, it seemed that this process had just begun, and a long period of waiting would still be required.

In just a few seconds, Song Chi made various judgements, but before he could think further, Ansewei’s voice pulled his thoughts back to reality:

“Where do you think that civilization ruins could be? There’s a prize for guessing correctly, you know.”

Ignoring Ansewei’s tone, Song Chi pondered for a moment then said,

“Mechanical civilization, perhaps a special enclosed folding space?”

“Wrong!”

As the two conversed, White Rose had already powered up its engines and started to descend below, with Cang Qiong naturally following closely behind.

Distracted in maneuvering the Cang Qiong, Song Chi continued to speak without pause.

“A secret realm?”

Seeing Ansewei still shaking her head, he instinctively frowned, and the next second, his gaze swiftly turned to look at the Level 4 Floating Land below.

“Could it be under this Floating Land?”

Finally, he received Ansewei’s affirmative response. Immediately, Cang Qiong received a beam transmitted from the White Rose.

Before Song Chi could ponder further, the Abnormal Status Purifier component already sent out a prompt.

[An unknown status buff has been detected on the warship. Confirm whether to purify?]

Ansewei’s explanation followed soon after.

“This is a Shield Enhancement Aura that can increase the warship’s energy shield by 50% of its shield value, but it only lasts for 1 hour!”

Hearing this, Song Chi instinctively accessed the attributes of the Immortal Realm Five Elements Celestial Energy Shield and seeing that the shield value had indeed increased by 50%, he immediately sent a rejection command to the Abnormal Status Purifier component.

The Abnormal Status Purifier component is convenient in that it does not indiscriminately purify any abnormal status, marks, etc., received by the warship, but first seeks the captain’s approval. Only if the captain does not respond immediately does it purify on its own.

“We’ve arrived!”

Suddenly, the White Rose in the lead halted its descent, and Song Chi could clearly sense a change in Ansewei’s tone from the earlier veiled levity to solemnity.

In response, Song Chi also became more seriously focused, his spirit entirely concentrated.

Past a stretch of barren hills, through a layer meant to conceal, he could see a hidden crevice on the ground leading straight down into a pitch-dark abyss.