Astral Cockroach

Spotted Ant was walking, holding the compass with its forelimbs, calculating the direction in its brain.

Rat King and Bai Zhu carried backpacks, squeezed side by side on Spotted Ant's carapace.

Half a day later, they arrived at the location of the spaceship wreckage.

Familiar with the route, they climbed to the top of the wreckage, squeezed into the passage, and arrived at the door of Cabin No. 1.

Spotted Ant waved its antennae, signaling Rat King and Bai Zhu to stay away, and sprayed a mouthful of flames on the door, dispelling some of the thick iridescent mist. Its antennae also ignited with flames, and it began to sense and explore the mechanical structure inside the door, searching for the trick to open it.

The two doors slide open and close to the left and right.

The closed position has metal buckles, a total of 9, which firmly lock the two doors. It is a very troublesome and laborious mechanism.

The second mechanism is that there are mechanical gears rotating at the top, driving the door to slide left and right. Further in, the sensing becomes unclear. There should be a motor, and the mechanism is stuck. This is easy to solve, just use metal ability to disconnect the gear bearing.

After figuring out the trick, the metal ability burst out directly.

About two minutes later, a gear bearing about 1 millimeter in length was transformed into ordinary metal by the metal conversion ability. The metal manipulation ability was activated, and the ordinary metal flowed, disconnecting the bearing.

Another two minutes later, the bearing of the other door was forcibly disconnected.

Then there were the buckles that locked the two doors. The metal ability was used to turn the lock core reeds into ordinary metal one by one, and then destroy them. This process was relatively cumbersome, took a lot of time, and consumed a huge amount of Origin Power.

Finally, the metal manipulation ability was activated, and a gap cracked in the door.

The iridescent miasma rushed into the door first.

Spotted Ant waved its antennae to signal.

Rat King and Bai Zhu immediately ran forward to help, one on the left and one on the right, exerting force to forcibly pull the door open.

Spotted Ant jumped in.

Bai Zhu and Rat King also flashed into the passage.

Loosening their claws, the two doors began to close automatically again. Due to the damage to the door lock, there was still a gap left at the end, unable to close perfectly, and the iridescent miasma kept seeping in.

Spotted Ant had expected this.

Bai Zhu took off the backpack behind him.

The backpack contained a spider silk bag, and the spider silk bag contained metal gravel prepared in advance.

Spotted Ant's metal ability was activated, and the gravel jumped up, stuck to the door, quickly melted, seeped into the gap, and sealed the door.

Opening the first door.

There are two more ahead.

Currently in a narrow space channel 6 meters long and 3 meters wide.

Very consciously, Rat King and Bai Zhu each shrank into a corner of the wall.

Spotted Ant's body jumped with clusters of high-temperature flames, beginning to burn the iridescent miasma that had previously poured in.

"It's so hot!" Bai Zhu half-opened his mouth.

Without the obstruction of the miasma, mental power communication can finally be used.

"Shut up!" Rat King scolded.

Spotted Ant was too lazy to pay attention to these two guys, turned his head to look around and check the surrounding situation.

The real defense of the passage to the cabin is not the door, but the defensive weapons of the passage. Those below the Realm Lord level will be directly killed if they break in rashly. As expected, the backup energy is exhausted, and the defense system in the passage is paralyzed.

Then check and open the next door.

Then the third door.

The triple defense doors were successfully opened.

"Wow!"

"Ooh!"

"Squeak!"

Without the iridescent mist obstructing their vision, looking around and looking up, Rat King and Bai Zhu exclaimed.

A cuboid cabin 800 meters high and 800 meters on each side.

In front of them was the trunk of a withered Origin Power plant, with a diameter of more than 300 meters. The trunk had turned carbonized and had no vitality.

Below was a circular nutrient base with a radius of 300 meters, with the root system entrenched inside.

The four walls were also inlaid with large storage cabinets, all of which were open. Scanning with mental power, the contents inside were missing.

A Realm Lord-level Origin Power plant has a plant height of far more than 800 meters. Before transportation, it can condense all its life force to form a tree heart, and the plant is in a dormant state. Then, humans cut off most of the branches, leaves, and roots, and store them separately in these cabinets.

When they arrive at their destination, humans will use technological means to reconnect the cut branches, leaves, and roots. The Origin Power plant will be slightly damaged, but human technology has the ability to help it recover without leaving hidden dangers.

"The branches have been gnawed clean. The escorting soldiers didn't dare to eat the trunk... It's a pity, it's still dead." Spotted Ant scanned around with mental power, extremely disappointed.

"Spotted Ant, something's wrong!" Bai Zhu suddenly called out in horror, then covered his mouth with both claws.

Spotted Ant was a little annoyed and scolded, "Shut up, this is because there is no oxygen, it won't suffocate you to death for a while."

"No!" This time Rat King didn't oppose Bai Zhu, staring at the withered tree trunk, and said, "Spotted Ant, there is Origin Power fluctuation, very weak, it is the Origin Power fluctuation released by a living being."

"Hmm?!" Spotted Ant stepped forward to check with mental power, but couldn't sense it.

The trunk is completely withered, even carbonized, but it can still effectively shield mental power, making it impossible to detect the inside.

Check again carefully.

The nutrient base below the trunk is made of metal material, with a thickness of 20 centimeters. The root system is hidden below. It was originally sealed, but it was cut open with a weapon.

Going forward to check, the nutrient solution inside the base had long been exhausted, leaving only a layer of clear water at the bottom.

Spreading out his mental power, scanning, he also found many human martial artist skeletons.

The weakest strength is at the Star Domain level, and the bones are relatively well preserved. Counting them, there are exactly 10 skulls.

"It's very weak, it's about to die, hidden in the middle of the roots." Rat King walked up to Spotted Ant, stretched out his claws, pointed to the roots below, and asked, "Spotted Ant, do you want to dig it out?"

Spotted Ant did not answer directly, but walked to the trunk and cut with his forelimbs.

Very hard, harder than steel.

"The trunk and roots are all treasures, don't waste them, collect them all and take them away as much as possible."

"Bai Zhu, don't be lazy either, you and Rat King take turns digging to get things out."

"Understood," Bai Zhu replied.

"Okay!" Rat King was simply neat and started to act directly.

After a brief moment of fear, Bai Zhu calmed down, his eyes rolled around, and he found the armor and weapons piled in the corner of the cabin. He ran forward, aimed at a battle knife, and picked it up.

The long knife was unsheathed, the silvery brilliance, the cold light shining, the murderous aura awe-inspiring.

"Spotted Ant!" Bai Zhu called out in surprise.

Spotted Ant said, "Those are Silver Edge weapons. There should be two such battle knives and 4 Silver Edge daggers in total. The daggers are coated with a coating, which is no different from ordinary military daggers. Check carefully, pack them all up, and take them back."

Bai Zhu glanced over, dropped the dagger on his waist, picked up two daggers, replaced them, and accurately found the other two, put them in his backpack, and tied the two Silver Edge battle knives together with spider silk and tied them to his backpack.

"Spotted Ant, armor... take it away?" Bai Zhu asked.

Sensing with metal ability, he was very sure that two of the armors were of extremely high quality, and were also the "Silver Edge" weapons that Spotted Ant mentioned.

There are a total of 10 sets of armor, which should correspond to the two special operations teams guarding cabins 1 and 2, 10 warriors. Silver Edge weapons and Silver Edge armor belong to the team leader.

Among them, 8 sets of ordinary armor showed signs of combat damage, and the other set of Silver Edge armor was severely damaged, leaving only one set intact.

"Too heavy, don't move it," Spotted Ant said, pacing around to check.

Metal splint, a row of vigorous knife-carved words: Galaxy Federation, Thunder Expeditionary Corps, Thunder Dragon Special Operations Team, No. 6011 Detachment, Captain Ferdinand Hunter, fought to the last moment to protect the World Tree Tata, lived up to his responsibilities, and did not disgrace his mission!

The name of this Realm Lord-level Origin Power plant being transported is "Tata".

The team members responsible for escorting, in order to survive, must have wanted to eat the Origin Power plant to continue their lives, so a conflict broke out.

Captain Ferdinand Hunter killed the other team members and threw the corpses into the nutrient base to continue the life of the World Tree.

There are exactly 10 skeletons in the base. It is conceivable that he himself could not hold on in the end, committed suicide, jumped in, and sacrificed himself to continue the life of the World Tree.

There are very few traces of combat damage in the cabin. It can be inferred that Ferdinand Hunter's strength far exceeded the other 9 team members, and the conflict was suppressed by him in a bloody manner the moment it broke out.

"Lived up to his responsibilities, and did not disgrace his mission!"

"Hero!"

"Good person!"

Spotted Ant sent a hero card and a good person card to Ferdinand in a row.

For some reason, the emotions were not sad at all.

And a little happy.

It is precisely because of Ferdinand's resolute protection and decisive sacrifice that this Realm Lord-level Origin Power plant was lucky enough to retain a glimmer of life.

In the end, he failed to wait for the rescue of the human race warship, but it was cheaper for himself!

The World Tree's vitality is strong enough, if it doesn't die, it can live.