Starting as a Mechanical Hunter

Chapter 1001: Chapter 107: Fruit 2

For the superluminal spaceship, the measure of its navigation capability is not speed, but endurance.

Some high-level superluminal spaceships can continue to travel the distance of a star system, or even a star system cluster, before jumping out from the dimensions.

A spaceship with such endurance is the top-level superluminal spaceship, because you can hardly hit its main body, after all, it is wrapped in a three-tiered barrier of space storms, dimensional barriers, and cosmic tunnels.

Although the Star Destroyer is also a kind of superluminal spaceship, its main technology tree points are focused on ’large energy cannon launch’, and in the ’superluminal travel’ technology points, it is the weakest model.

According to the navigation status in these past few months, for every half journey of a stellar vortex, which is roughly the distance of a ’stellar system’, it has to stop to release a space storm.

This lasts for three days.

As the Star Destroyer gradually embeds into reality, the surrounding environment begins to blur, and some small surrounding celestial bodies start to disintegrate.

Coincidentally, the position where the Star Destroyer appears is precisely at the center of a ’meteor shower’, a large cloud of debris covering everyone’s view, overwhelming, from all directions, all-encompassing.

This is not a coincidence, in fact, in the past few months, every time the ship ’stops’, more or less, it encounters such cosmic anomalies, either small-scale energy storms or random collisions with planetary fragments; according to the onboard star body environment detection system, several light-years away, a supernova exploded, and heavy elements mixed with various star materials created a small-scale cosmic disaster within several stellar vortex ranges.

For space species, such cosmic disasters have no effect, it’s just a rain—cosmic rain.

But for the current players, such a level of cosmic disaster can instantly kill them all, its power intensity is roughly equivalent to an endless baptism of energy beams causing over ten thousand damage.

And the appearance of the space storm, just coincidentally in the ’cosmic rain’, created a large vacuum area, the decomposition of space not only decomposed the surrounding celestial bodies but also decomposed the surrounding energy beams.

The spaceship was surrounded by players, and for such a range of cosmic anomalies, they marveled, expressing how eye-opening it was.

”If this thing fell on our planet, it would probably be gone.”

”The planet wouldn’t necessarily be gone, but the life on the planet’s surface would be cooled down entirely.”

”That may not be the case, if the planet had space defense technology, like coating the atmosphere with an energy membrane, it could be blocked.”

”This is not a technology a Level 1 civilization could develop; it would be at least a Level 2.5 civilization that could have this technology.”

”Speaking of which, what is a Level 2.5 civilization, does it really have decimals?”

”Level 2.5 civilization, according to interstellar society, is a star system civilization entering its maturity period. Its standard is the civilization trio, ’planet surface development engineering’, ’large celestial body energy storage technology’, ’celestial body defense circle’; a Level 2 civilization that can do these three things can transform a non-habitable planet into a habitable one, and succeeding in this represents the civilization entering the interstellar migration stage.”

A Mechanical Split Star player flaunted the ’knowledge’ he heard from the black market.

”In interstellar society, ’habitability’ is the standard for measuring a planet’s environment. Generally speaking, a planet with over 50% habitability is suitable for more than 90% of planetary species, and to achieve over 50% habitability, the ’planet surface development engineering’ must be lit, and having this technology means even if cosmic disasters occur, recovery can be swift.”

”Moreover, if there is the ’celestial body defense circle’ technology, for instance by installing a defense shield on the atmosphere, it can block such level of beam attacks. With this technology, the title of a naked planet is removed...”

The veteran players rambled on, while the new players listened with great interest.

This is new version content, something unheard of in the planet version.

In the intertwining of space storms and cosmic rain, the Star Destroyer silently hovered in cosmic solitude, the space storm’s range gradually reducing, and when the space storm completely disappeared, it signifies the next ’superluminal travel’ begins, and during this exploration of three planets, this pausing is the most time-consuming.

There is a saying in space that 90% of outer space risks are born during such travel pauses.

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In the cosmos, numerous cosmic-level anomalies exist, often projecting from thousands of light-years away.

For instance, the ’Pillar of Creation’ is a column-shaped dust cloud thousands of light-years away, with tens of thousands of fixed stars within its covered range.

Another example is the ’Ghost Nebula’, which is a dark matter condensation phenomenon in the dark matter realm, and each expansion of the ’Ghost Nebula’ can engulf several star systems.

Some ’planetary nebulae’, although only one or two light-years in diameter, and not as explosive as a ’supernova explosion’, appear from afar as colorful voids in the cosmos, gorgeous yet mysterious.

Such ’cosmic anomalies’ in the ancient civilization eras of many intelligent species were worshiped as ’religious symbols’ or ’deities’ in hope of gaining strength.

As civilization progressed, more and more ’cosmic anomalies’ were dissected, and the so-called star map worship naturally disappeared.

These are just pure cosmic marvels, not some indescribable existences.

However, with the development of civilization, especially with technological evolution, as it increasingly adheres to rules, advanced civilization members were stunned to discover that behind these marvels hides a very secret energy, a combination of dimensions, space, matter, and special giant structures, which the cosmos takes billions of years to give birth to a unique form. If one could harness the power of ’cosmic marvels’, one would have various incredible divine powers.

If one can artificially create ’marvels’, it could even help step into the circle of top-level civilizations.

Although the power of ’cosmic marvels’ is controllable only by a few top-level civilizations, it is also the last level among the giant structure, relic, and marvel mysteries.

But a few methods can still borrow a tiny amount of ’cosmic marvel’ energy, and even a sliver of it is vast for an individual.

The ’Carbon-Based Fruit’ is one of them.

At the source of the supernova burst, light-speed and light rain began to fuse and evolve, transforming into a branch spanning the stellar vortex, from one stellar vortex to another, from one star zone to another.

This is a branch of the universe tree crossing two star zones, growing towards the Star Destroyer with the power of the supernova explosion.

The end of the branch trembled slightly, like the first drop of dew on a misty morning.

The dew contained a vast amount of genetic chains, intertwining and stimulating each other as it fell, thereby absorbing the immense energy in the cosmic vacuum, transforming into a powerful energy entity, and after completely detaching from the marvel branch, it grew into a bald giant.

The giant’s gaze seemed to penetrate the void, falling on the Star Destroyer, where he saw a power of the same origin—another Carbon-Based Fruit.

And at the same time, ’Zombie 0’ also opened its eyes.

”Oh no, I’ve been caught.”