Survival of the Stars: Rise of the Fourth Scourge

"Did you see it? The front seems to be..."

"Bright light? Blue... is it my eyesight?"

"That's not the color of a searchlight, and the searchlight can't shine that far..."

As he was walking, there was a sudden burst of whispering in front of him.

This made Pine frowned slightly, and scolded: "Report if you have any questions, what a shame it is to mutter."

The yelling from Pine stopped the whispering in front of him.

"Yes, report to the captain, there is no bright light ahead..."

No light?

The report from the soldiers made Li Meng look forward quickly.

At the end of the metal tunnel ahead, a piece of blue fluorescent light emerged from the darkness.

This discovery made Li Meng nervous.

If there is a light source, it means...

Without hesitation, Li Meng hastily ordered: "Everyone silence, step forward..."

Come on, whatever it is, have to find out.

The order from the regent made the soldiers walk forward in silence.

closer, closer...

After walking about 50 meters, Li Meng finally saw the light source.

It was a metal gate.

The gate was melted away with a huge hole.

The blue fluorescence is emanating from the hole.

Li Meng stepped forward quickly and came to the front of the team.

Stretching out his right hand, Li Meng made a silent movement towards the soldiers behind him.

The footsteps of the soldiers became lighter...

Moving forward, Li Meng quietly came to the gate.

With a trace of expectation and curiosity in his heart, Li Meng looked into the space inside the cave.

The blue fluorescence was reflected on Li Meng's body, dyeing the front of Li Meng blue.

Seeing this, Li Meng was stunned, with a look of novelty on his face.

"what is that?"

Behind the gate is also a metal passage.

But compared to the nothingness outside, there is something growing in the metal channel inside.

Kind of like a mushroom, a living mushroom that resembles a spore-forming organism.

The blue fluorescence is emitted from their fat bodies.

This makes them look like light bulbs in the dark.

There are a lot of them, all over the ground and walls, densely packed.

There are big and small, and their shapes are also various.

Some grow on the ground, and some grow on the wall.

Some are only the size of a palm, and some are comparable to a car.

There are mushroom-like ones, and more flower-like ones...

Except for the blue light source in the body, there is nothing in common elsewhere, it is a mess.

[Mission completion progress: 50%]

[Activate the personal mission "The Recovery of the Blue Devils", destroy the Blue Devils in the S-01888 star system, reward for completing the mission: +100 million trade coins, mission failure: -10 trade coins, task time limit: 10 years]

[Activate the "Children of the Stars" random feature, reward for completing the task: +5 million trade coins, mission failure: -20 billion trade coins]

Blue demon?

The prompt subtitles from "Zero" made Li Meng frown slightly.

Five hundred times the reward, two thousand times the punishment, it's really random...

The exploration mission is not complete, as there is another anomaly to be explored.

But the new mission gave Li Meng a bad feeling.

That is a reward of 100 million trade coins.

The higher the reward, the greater the difficulty.

Also, what exactly is the Blue Devil?
Could it be the spore creatures inside?

but……

Are those little things really threatening?
"Pine, what do you think those things could be?"

Pine was right next to Li Meng. Like Li Meng, he was observing the metal passage on the other side.

Of course, those little blue things Pine also saw.

"Prince Regent, there are all kinds of strange creatures in the universe. There is nothing surprising about them. However, it is surprising that they can survive in such a harsh environment. I am afraid they are not good creatures and must be handled with care."

Speaking of which, Pyne looked at the servo-skull floating above the Regent.

"The Regent can ask 001 to investigate. 001 has scanning arrays on his body, and maybe he can get something useful from them."

Ask 001 to investigate inside?
With a pensive look on his face, Li Meng thought quickly in his mind.

After hesitating again and again, Li Meng gave up.

In the face of unknown creatures, it is better to be careful.

His current strength is limited, there are only five thousand star soldiers, and he doesn't even have decent heavy weapons.

In case they are woken up, once they are lost, it will be a bit bad.

The task time limit is ten years, there is no need to rush for a while.

Thinking of this, Li Meng whispered: "Go, let's get out of here, don't disturb them."

Pyne knew that the regent had already made his choice.

This is undoubtedly a very wise decision.

Yuanxing has just arrived, and its military strength is not enough to fight an interstellar war.

They may be weak, they may be strong, it doesn't matter.

What matters is your own strength.

Only when one's own strength becomes stronger can all potential threats be eliminated.

Come in a hurry, go in a hurry.

Without disturbing the little things inside, Li Meng led the soldiers and left quietly.

Compared with being cautious when coming, the speed when going back is much faster.

After a while, Li Meng saw the sunlight at the entrance of the cave in the darkness ahead.

Stepping out of the cave, Li Meng walked straight to the direction of No. [-] boat.

"Pyne, go to the No. 2 boat, go to the north and south poles, and report to me immediately if you find anything."

"Yes!"

"Everyone returns to the transport boat, it's time to go home..."

Instead of following Li Meng, Pine turned around and ran towards the direction of No. 2 boat.

A few minutes later, the roar of the engine roared at the bottom of the valley again.

In the billowing wind and sand, two transport boats took off one after another, soaring into the sky, straight into the sky...

After a few minutes...

When the sky is no longer the sky, but a dark starry sky, the transport ship successfully enters the orbit of the planet.

In the planet's low-Earth orbit, the team splits in two.

One flew towards the direction of Yuanxing, and the other continued to perform its mission and flew towards the North Pole.

It took less than five hours from leaving Yuanxing to returning.

The task is only half completed, as for the other half...

Li Meng has no interest in traveling long distances and spending more than ten days to reach the second planet.

Back to the maintenance room again...

"call……"

After taking off the force feedback power armor on his body, Li Meng took a deep breath.

"Prince Regent, will the trip to the No. [-] star go smoothly?"

After taking the clothes from Donald's mechanical arm, Li Meng put them on.

While wearing it, Li Meng said, "It went well, but I encountered a strange alien creature."

Strange alien?

"There should be no life on the No. [-] star. I don't know what kind of alien?"

Buttoning the button in front of him, Li Meng said to 001: "001, show him the video."

001 stepped forward in response, and a blue light shot out from the electronic eyes.

In front of Donald, a holographic screen suddenly appeared.

What is displayed on the screen is what Li Meng saw in the pyramid.