Energy crystals, hearing this word, Li Mingze couldn't help but think of the shell composed of the layer of pure energy crystals that he had embodied for Shenzhou before he was reborn.

If this is really the thing, then the empire will make a lot of money, and it is a shell that encloses the small half of the star galaxy and the size of the star cluster.

Spread out to definitely exceed the cross-sectional area of a star system, so many energy crystals are enough for the empire to grow to the point where it can condense this level of energy on its own!

"This matter is too serious, I must report this matter to the Imperial Command Center!" Li Mingze stood up and left the interrogation room.

"How's it going, Captain?" Charolo and the others gathered around the door of the interrogation room and asked expectantly.

"We must bring him back to the Empire, the technology he has is very important!" Li Mingze walked through the crowd with a serious expression and walked towards the communication room.

Due to the need to prevent the coordinates from being exposed, the Pioneer ships were not able to communicate with the Empire at all times.

Encrypted information stations should be used for communication only in very important cases.

"Captain, wait!" Chu Lin suddenly stretched out his hand to stop Li Mingze.

"What's wrong?" Li Mingze stopped and looked at Chu Lin in confusion.

"Captain, we can't send his existence back to the empire through the communicator, we should send him back quietly, otherwise if the Zerg can intercept our communication, his existence will be exposed to the eyes of the Zerg."

"The Zerg will definitely do their best to erase him from this universe!" Chu Lin persuaded Li Mingze.

"Makes sense!"

"Set the return route for the spaceship, and let's go back to Shenzhou!" Li Mingze nodded.

The Nautilus, which was heading towards the wormhole, suddenly turned its bow and began to fly out of the star system, and the chrono engine began to recharge.

At this moment, thousands of Zerg warships of different sizes on several surrounding planets took off from the ground and flew towards the Nautilus.

The Zerg had already locked on to the Nautilus with a creature tracker while they were on the ground.

A ball of black flesh was caught in the gap in the Nautilus's elevator and carried into space.

According to the signal fed back by this creature tracker, the Zerg has been locking on to the Nautilus in stealth.

Originally, they wanted to introduce the Nautilus into the wormhole, but they never expected it to turn around.

Therefore, these Zerg ships can only reluctantly expose themselves, hoping to force the Nautilus back into the wormhole again.

"What are these Zerg ships trying to do, could it be that they are trying to force us into a wormhole?"

"What's on the other side of the wormhole?" Li Mingze looked puzzled at the Zerg battleship that was gradually surrounding their spaceship.

There is only one opening in the entire encirclement, and that is the direction that leads to the wormhole.

"Captain, we can only rush in, that scientist is still on our ship, we can't risk his life!" Charolo nervously persuaded Li Mingze.

"I know!"

"How long will it take for the hyperspace engine to be recharged? How long does it take for the opponent's ship to be safe? What are the odds that if we are at war with each other, we will survive enough to start the hyperspace engine? Li Mingze asked a series of questions one after another to everyone.

"Report to the captain, it will take a full forty minutes for our hyperspace engine to be recharged, and the opponent's warship will be able to enter our safe range in another ten minutes, if we engage the opponent, although the Nautilus is far more flexible than the opponent's warship, but we only have a seventeen percent chance of surviving to activate the hyperspace device in the end!" Everyone sighed.

"Then rush me into the wormhole!" Li Mingze made a decisive decision.

"Understood!" The twins, who received the command, directly adjusted the speed of the ship to the maximum.

The thrusters behind the Nautilus turned on again, and the ship's stealth devices were turned off one after another.

In a fierce blast from the jet, the Nautilus rushed like a sharp sword into a wormhole not far away.

After entering the wormhole, Li Mingze found that those Zerg warships really didn't follow!

"There's definitely some conspiracy waiting for us on the other side of the wormhole!" Li Mingze frowned and said uneasily.

But now no matter what you do, it is useless, the spaceship has entered the wormhole, and it is impossible to leave this naturally formed wormhole, so you can only obediently fly to the exit of the wormhole.

A few days later, a red glow suddenly lit up outside the ship's bridge, and this light directly made everyone unable to see.

"The spacecraft has left the wormhole, but our probe has completely failed!" Charolo looked at the holographic screen and shouted at Li Mingze.

"Activate the filtering device in the ship's windows! This light is so dazzling! Li Mingze yelled at the players.

"Sir, our filtration device has been activated automatically, but nothing has worked!" Chu Lin replied loudly, not knowing why they felt tinnitus begin to appear in their ears, and the sound of tinnitus had seriously affected their hearing.

"Turn off the outer armor!" With Li Mingze's order, the alloy armor outside the floor-to-ceiling windows of the spaceship bridge began to rise, but when they were halfway up, the light outside suddenly disappeared.

Because the detector failed, he could only rely on the window to know the situation outside, so Li Mingze lowered the armor again.

When all the armor fell under the floor, the sight outside the window made everyone gasp.

Directly opposite the spaceship, a huge creature with a length of at least a thousand kilometers is floating in the universe.

And the creature's dozens of pairs of compound eyes, and a huge eyeball surrounded by these dozens of compound eyes, were staring at them, and these eyes were also emitting a red glow.

Obviously, the light that had just made everyone almost collapse was coming from the monster's eyeballs.

At this moment, dozens of tentacles on the monster's face suddenly stretched out, wrapping the Pioneer in the middle.

"Hurry, hurry! Hide that scientist for me! Li Mingze thought of something and suddenly shouted at Charlotte.

Charolo was excited, directly unfastened the seat belt on his body, and ran towards the rear cabin.

After arriving at the scientist's room, Charololo handed him a suit of heavy power armor.

"Hurry up and put it on, there is enough nutrient solution in the power armor for you to live for a month, store your information in the power armor and follow me!" Charolo waited until the scientist put on the power armor and pulled him directly towards the spacecraft's hyperspace engine room.

When they arrived in the engine room, Charolo opened a secret door, and behind the secret door was a one-man tall airtight door.

Behind the airtight doors is dark blue engine coolant.

"You hide in it, don't come out until the nutrient solution is consumed, we can only help you get here, I hope we will be fine!" Charolo pushed the scientist into the cooling pool and closed the airtight door, then closed the hatch of the chamber.

(The next chapter is high-energy, and those with fragile hearts and livers avoid ~~~~hahaha~~)