Starting as a Mechanical Hunter

Chapter 968: Chapter 74: Death Monument

Dark Girl Ye the Big Lolita rolled her eyes hard.

As a current high-ranking member of the Legion, she is very aware of the source of this batch of funding for her camp.

Can this man in front of her be any more shameless?

[Your Personality -10 points]

Eh?

Gao Gong looked at the prompt with surprise, not expecting his independence to be praised by the system, quite rare indeed!

”I’m going back to do experiments; just letting you know, the development of the S-Level chips has made progress. Soon I’ll need you to allocate more funds for us.”

S-Level chips, huh.

Gao Gong touched his chin; biological chips are one of the special products of his camp, but previously, the research on the biological side was always focused on ’species spores’, so resources in other directions were somewhat insufficient.

Now, after a significant resource replenishment in the Black Market, it was unexpected that development in this direction would progress so quickly.

But it makes sense, in the Interstellar Black Market, population, cells, and organs are definitely major commodities; S-Level biological cells on a planet are very rare, but in the Black Market, there are many sellers.

After all, selling cells and organs is completely different from selling a complete S-Level Radiation Beast.

The former doesn’t even require combat, just targeted collection in the activity areas of several space species.

And with so many biological resources, speeding up the development of biological chips is only natural.

But the speed is still a bit surprising to Gao Gong.

...

Ye the Big Lolita soon arrived at the biological laboratory, her ’Apocalypse Superpower’ paired with the Little Woman’s ’Brain-in-a-Vat’ ability, making it very suitable for biological chip development.

Especially the latter, which can quickly program the algorithms of a biological brain.

And standing beside the Little Woman at this moment are mother gorillas named ’Oak Leaf’ and ’Water Drop’, or rather, Orgrimmar people.

Little Woman watched the slowly forming chip template in the biological cultivation dish and said with satisfaction to the gorillas:

”The suggestions you made earlier were very effective, keep it up.”

”Of course, Ms. Huang,” the two mother gorillas said respectfully.

Huang Yuanli marveled at them, ”Your brains are interesting, able to perform mental linkage; one brain can act like two. If you didn’t lack the aura I’m familiar with, I would suspect you are my kind.”

”Compared to your vast spiritual power, we are still far behind and need to continue learning.”

”I didn’t expect you aliens to be so smart.”

”No, compared to you members of an Advanced Civilization, we absolutely cannot compare.”

In each other’s eyes, their images have subtly different nuances from the normal Interstellar Society.

In Huang Yuanli’s view, an alien, or rather, a Level 1 Civilization’s scientific researcher participating in S-Level biological chip research is only natural.

From the Orgrimmar people’s perspective, an interstellar elder with vast spiritual power undertaking top-tier biological research in a Level 3 Civilization lab is also quite normal.

In fact, both parties have a slightly asymmetrical understanding of each other.

This kind of difference is attributed to the ’alien’ lens.

The same discrepancies appear in the Legion’s mecha lab, implantation weapon lab, and force field development room.

...

Gao Gong hadn’t thought about this, or even if he had, he wouldn’t care.

He was playing with a fist-sized ’diamond’.

This diamond is peculiar; its surface emits a terrifying energy force field, seeming to be ready to devour everything at any moment. Scrutinizing it closely, its physical shell seems to disappear, replaced by boundless light and heat.

This is a Primitive Ore, a high-density mineral crystal, a super resource that can only be found on a Resource Planet.

Level 3 Civilizations cannot study it, and Ascension Civilizations find it hard to mass-produce.

However, its appearance in the Robert Star System is not particularly rare; after all, the inability to artificially manufacture it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist in the vast cosmos.

Star body collapse, antimatter storms, quasar evolution, black hole disintegration...

There are certain individuals or forces that specifically explore these high-risk cosmic environments, seeking these kinds of interstellar treasures and then selling them in the Black Market.

Such treasures are immensely valuable but somewhat inconvenient; otherwise, they wouldn’t end up in the Black Market.

Take this ’Primitive Ore’, for instance, its stored energy is equivalent to ten industrial planets’ annual power production.

But a Level 3 Civilization’s subordinate manufacturing Star Domain contains thousands of industrial planets.

There are even ’Dyson Sphere Federations’ that exceed the energy output of industrial planets a thousandfold.

Level 3 Civilizations acquire it primarily to research planet-level energy storage methods using its physical structure, not to use it as combat resources.

Thus, it could end up in the Black Market.

Which is why Gao Gong could pay a high price to acquire it.

The Collector once said that what circulates in the Black Market is only what Level 3 Civilizations allow to circulate; what is not permitted will never appear in the Black Market.

But for the Star Destroyer, it indeed arrived at the right moment.

Gao Gong doesn’t own a Dyson Sphere or a Stellar Generator, making it difficult to recharge the Star Destroyer.

For regular consumption, the Star Destroyer’s onboard reactor can automatically replenish.

However, the energy burst required by a ’Star-Destroying Cannon’ exceeds what the Star Destroyer can automatically replenish.

This restriction might be a deliberate imposition by the Purple Giant Star to prevent Gao Gong from causing trouble everywhere with the Star Destroyer.

Thus, purchasing Cosmic Super Energy became a necessary path for Gao Gong.

’Can I absorb this thing myself?’

Gao Gong suddenly had a moment of inspiration, thinking of a risky idea.

But his Reason quickly made him abandon this thought.

This is merely the surplus devouring desire brought by biological instinct; succumbing to it would be courting disaster.

’Then how about another approach, placing it into the reactor?’

Apparently, the current camp technology isn’t advanced enough for that.

Level 3 Civilizations might manage it, like the Mirta Federation, this Mecha Civilization, but he certainly couldn’t.

’Forget it, better play it safe and place it into the Star Destroyer’s reactor; although it has a stable nature, its explosion could be as devastating as a Star-Destroying Cannon.’

At this stage, Gao Gong completely abandoned this notion.

Perhaps, when Director Du returns in triumph, they could use it for industrial power generation.

...

Meanwhile, Director Du is on a superluminal spaceship, with unknown destination, unknown route.

However, she isn’t worried about her safety.

Her original form is the Great Curved Saber.

In the Gao Family Ancestral Hall, her ’Spiritual Tablet’ position is second only to Gao Gong, the Gao Family patriarch.

Faced with a life-and-death situation, she could resort to a last move, although she rather detests the Memory Worm—it’s neither aligned with industrial aesthetics nor her own tastes.

Although, if necessary, she could undergo Insectification.

”You seem calm,” a high-ranking member of the Eternal Financial Group curiously remarked.

”I’m just here for work; curiosity won’t increase my salary.”

”Uh...”

Just as this high-ranking individual was about to speak further, the spaceship suddenly jolted, disengaging from Superluminal Mode.

Simultaneously, the view outside shook, revealing the true scene.

Endless red covered the surrounding horizon, with the abruptly raised temperature causing the spaceship’s alarms to rise wave after wave.

”This is... the Red Giant Star!”

Du Zhaodi quickly moved to the window, looking at this gigantic entity—not just gigantic, but colossal—and her pupil contracted.

It’s hard to describe the area of such a star body, since even from the species’ scale, satellites and planets are incredibly large.

Fixed stars are larger, one sun is a million times the size of the Mechanical Split Star.

But there are star bodies even larger than the fixed stars, like fixed stars at a late stage in life, the Red Giant Stars.

Its volume is at least a hundred times that of the sun!

This super unstable and super scorching star body is now nearly half encased by machinery, and flames capable of devouring satellites occasionally spew from mechanical cracks.

”Dyson Sphere!?”

Du Zhaodi had encountered Dyson Sphere component blueprints, casually set aside after someone gambled them away, but she had seriously studied them.

”A Dyson Sphere cannot enclose a Death Star.”

A hoarse voice slowly emerged.

”You may call it the Death Monument!”