Chapter 691: Fold Crystal

Far away from the Macross Frontier, there is a fortress abandoned by the Zenith.

A large number of Vajra larvae live in this fortress, which drove the Zenith people from this field more than 100,000 years ago and then occupied the fortress as a lair.

Although the Zenith tried to regain control of the fortress on several occasions, Vajra was so strong that several battles ended in failure.

Seeing that victory was hopeless, these Zenith starmen gradually left here and went to other distant star fields in search of the most important resource, the fold crystal.

As a unique resource in the world of Macross Fortress, the Fold Crystal can be used to make convenient and quick space-time jumps regardless of long distances in space. Almost all races capable of chrono travel require the power of the Fold Crystal to move quickly between galaxies.

Of course, because the ability of the fold crystal is so powerful, that the humans in this world have not discovered a technology such as the curvature engine to travel faster than light with the help of the planet's gravitational lines.

Jumping and speeding faster than light have their own advantages and disadvantages. For Yunqi, the folding jumping technique is a significant addition to him.

Although he also has the space bridge technology that can span tens of light-years in an instant, he can build a bridge between two places far away, so that they can communicate and exchange quickly. But it all happened to the fact that their own legions were able to transport the space bridge to the distant other side of the galaxy.

If it is a navigation within a galaxy, faster-than-light navigation can still solve most of the problems. But if you're traveling from the solar system to the depths of the Milky Way, relying on curvature is more time-consuming and laborious.

Curvature navigation is a faster-than-light mode of travel. The difference is only in energy consumption and speed. The energy consumption increases exponentially with each doubling of the beam, although theoretically this faster-than-light travel can even travel through the entire universe in an instant, as long as the energy supply is unlimited.

But in reality, three hundred times the beam is already the limit that the legion can currently reach. Even in order to find a faster way to move, Yunqi also quietly consulted the Infinity Card. As a result, the limit value of curvature navigation can indeed be increased indefinitely in theory, but in fact 999.99 times the speed of light is the actual limit value.

This value can only be approached, not reached. The closer you get to this upper limit, the more terrifying the energy consumed by curvature navigation becomes, and it may not be enough to really reach the upper limit, even if the entire universe is converted into energy. Of course, if you can make up the energy beyond a universe, then the upper limit of faster-than-light travel can indeed continue to accumulate, but this is obviously unlikely.

The Fold Crystal Jump is a completely different approach.

This special crystal is like a divine authority, and can instantly transfer any object to a distance of tens of light-years at will. If it weren't for the existence of strange spatial faults everywhere in the universe, a fold jump might have come to the end of the universe.

Therefore, this kind of technology is very important for Yunqi, but the planets rich in fold crystals are also very rare. Any planet that contains a large number of fold crystals will attract the peeps of major interstellar civilizations. Everyone is eager to take this planet and take it for themselves!

And now this abandoned Zenith Star Fortress is a super-large gathering base.

Not far from this fortress is a fragmented planet that once contained a large number of fold crystals. However, under the violent mining of the Zenith, the minerals that could have supported thousands of years were forcibly dug through!

In the end, the Zenith, who was still not satisfied, directly blasted the entire planet directly, and dug out all the fold crystals contained in the planet at one time. Of course, it is impossible to transport all of them at once, so the Zenith built a moon fortress almost the size of the moon here, which is responsible for collecting the crystal ore, and then refining and storing it.

What they didn't expect, though, was that Vajra sensed the huge fold crystal fluctuations generated by the planet's explosion. As a result, the fold crystal mine that he worked so hard to mine became someone else's wedding dress.

After hundreds of thousands of reproductions, it has become a brood of Vajra, controlled by a growing queen. It is estimated that after hundreds of thousands of years, the new queen will become independent and turn this place into an independent Vajra territory. Until then, though, she still has to obey the orders of the Grand Queen of Vajra, who controls the nearby territory of nearly a thousand light-years.

But now, in the little queen's territory, all the Vajra have undergone some subtle mutations, and their original bright red outer biological armor has been transformed into a pitch-black dark color, and even a hint of violence is reflected in their eyes.

And in the deepest part of this ruin, in an extremely secret space, a huge branch-type creature with a length of more than thirty meters was respectfully prostrate in front of a low figure.

This pitch-black figure exudes a terrifying aura like an abyss and a sea, obviously compared to this huge insect, he is simply an inconspicuous little bit, but in terms of momentum, this huge insect has fallen behind.

The mysterious man in a long black robe walked up to the insect and gently touched its head!

"Hiss!"

As if taking a stimulant in an instant, the huge insect was suddenly excited, and its size increased again at a speed that was almost visible to the naked eye.

"Vajra, what a strange creature, it can actually absorb the energy of the abyss to grow!"

Seeing the insect trembling excitedly in front of him, the mysterious man couldn't help but muttered to himself.

In order to control this growing Vajra queen, he has sent it pure abyssal energy more than ten times in a row, making it a complete abyssal creature.

However, to his regret, although he has successfully transformed all the Vajra in this lair, he still cannot break through the spiritual blockade of the Vajra Queen in this territory. Otherwise, the Abyssal Pollution will follow Vajra's psychic network and turn the entire galaxy into his subordinates at breakneck speed.

Thinking of this, the mysterious man said with some unhappiness: "I didn't expect that the mature Queen Vajra could actually resist the abyss pollution, this is indeed beyond my expectations, even the true god will involuntarily fall when he comes into contact with the abyss energy, I didn't expect that just a bug, obviously it is just a mortal, but the purity of the spiritual power exceeds that of the true god, it is incredible!"

"Forget it, it seems that some little bugs are helping me pry open the Queen's spiritual network, it seems that I need to give them more rewards as motivation!

"The final time is coming, my old friend, even if you come into this world, it is impossible to stop me. When that day comes, I'll treat you well, Yun Qi!"

With that, the mysterious man disappeared into a thick fog once more, leaving a directive for the little queen of Vajra.

The little queen of Vajra, who had already regarded this mysterious person as her master, immediately commanded a large number of black Vajra alien insects to start flying out of the nest in groups according to the orders of the mysterious person.

Through the direction of the little queen, these Vajra insect clusters passed through the fold jump gate one by one, and rushed towards an unknown star field!