The dark starry sky searched and tracked, and the reef trembled and rose from the ground.

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Silent space.

This is a vacuum zone between the orbit of the dome star and the outer belt of ice crush, already in the world of the outer star system.

Even the stars of this star system are only faint specks of light here. The nearest dome, the gas giant covered with magnificent bands, is barely discerning.

It's an empty, dead world.

A strange reflection appeared here.

With a long jet trail, an unmanned spacecraft flew from the interior of the star system. It didn't fly fast, it was just barely able to maintain the speed of its orbit. In order to find a target, after setting off from the base of the Celestial Death, it has maintained this speed and flew far, far away in space......

It's a new-concept ship, not the primitive structure of the planet-makers that relied purely on brute force, nor the Nova, which has high-precision technology but is limited by materials to maximize its power.

The flat hull is made of high-tech production processes, and in places such as the main power furnace and the shell, a special protective film composed of signal blocks is covered. These protective films, or supports, allow the ship to output power almost insanely without falling apart or being extremely vulnerable to outside impacts.

Even the central main system of the spacecraft is directly controlled by electronic control system sub-signal sub-signals, and the efficiency of quantum communication is far from comparable to that of ordinary automatic systems.

And this spaceship is the spacecraft that is equipped with the strongest detection system in the new generation of spacecraft and is dedicated to reconnaissance and search.

Its name is...... Trackers.

……

Feed! Don't you think there's something wrong?

…… You don't have to worry about the details~

All in all, the tracker has been looking for it until now.

Finally, in this empty and dead space, it found what it was looking for.

The propulsion system at the front automatically reverses, the braking engine starts to kick in, and the ship slows down as it slowly changes orbit......

In front of this unmanned spaceship, tattered metal wreckage floated silently......

Got it.

The attitude adjustment system on the hull slowly spews out a stream of fine particles, correcting the ship's attitude until it travels side by side with the wreckage at almost the same speed.

This is the wreckage of a spaceship.

The cratered alloy shell is a mess, and several huge holes that completely expose the interior compartments are a silent reminder of what has happened to the ship, and how lucky it has survived.

In a vacuum, the metal is not eroded and can last almost forever.

In this open area, there are no huge planets, no scattered rubble, and the wreckage will not be destroyed.

It has been floating quietly for hundreds of millions of years.

The cosmic visitor who came earlier than Xiao Cheng, the unmanned exploration ship that first survived the space riot caused by the chaotic jump, and then burned all the circuits by Xinglan while reading the data.

Lines of data flash through the chaser's data processor......

[Memory Comparison...... Target confirmation. 】

[The wreckage is intact, and the recovery mission is confirmed.] 】

【Capture device operation ......】

Click-click......

With a burst of mechanical turns, the hatch under the chaser's flat hull opened, and several large mechanical claws stretched out, slowly reaching for the wreckage......

The tracker slowly stretched out his claws against the corpse!

……

Feed! Strange things are coming up again!

Ahem, all in all, the mechanical claws carefully grasped the relatively solid parts of the wreckage, slowly dragging the wreckage without harming any equipment, and then fastened the wreckage to several rows of connecting racks beneath the hull.

[Recycling completed.] 】

Signalns poured out of the tracker's hull, enveloping the ship's wreckage, ensuring it didn't fall apart during acceleration.

The tracker slowly turned the ship's hull, and the bright blue tail flame ignited again......

【Return Command Execution ......】

[Destination: Qing Death.] 】

Once again, the space fell into an eternal silence......

……

In the ocean of Lan Xing, Xing Lan subconsciously looked up......

Hmm, got it...... That ancient spaceship~

Although the spaceship has been completely scrapped, and even none of the circuits are intact, it is still of great value.

The Jump Engine.

Although it was only an unmanned space exploration ship, Xing Lan could be sure that the level of civilization and technology that launched this spacecraft was definitely much higher than Xiao Cheng's civilization!

Xiao Cheng's civilization has just developed short-range jump technology and extreme sub-light speed flight technology, and even needs a dormant pod to assist navigation, but this exploration ship from unknown sources is already equipped with a perfect space jump system.

Not to mention the chaotic jumps.

The so-called chaotic transition does not mean that chaos can be generated during the transition process, but is a unique pattern of probabilistic random transfer. Able to actively enter the chaotic transition state...... Even if it is a life of death, this is not something that a civilization that has just developed the technology of leapfrogging can do.

Even the wreckage is incalculably valuable for the technical value of these hardware devices. If you could break down that jump engine......

But they were still alone.

A faint sense of sadness suddenly welled up in Xing Lan's heart, whether it was Xiao Cheng's civilization or the unknown civilization that launched the exploration ship, they had not discovered an intelligent race other than themselves...... Unless you count the unknown invaders who destroyed Xiao Cheng's home planet.

Reality is not fiction, the kind of "after stepping out of one's home galaxy, you find that advanced civilizations are almost everywhere." The unfolding of "is simply impossible. In the vast universe, except for super civilizations that don't know whether they exist, everyone is just a watchman on an isolated island.

Xinglan knew that multiple intelligent races definitely existed, and she had even received a lot of information from different civilizations, but that was accumulated over billions of years of stardom, not to mention that when that information arrived at the speed of light, the civilization that emitted it might have been destroyed long ago.

The universe is too big, it's all just a needle in a haystack.

Well, why did you start thinking about these unsolvable philosophical questions again...... Xinglan controlled the body of the horseshoe crab and shook its head, and the key question now was ......

What the hell is this? Xinglan silently looked down, and the passing ocean floor showed that she was rising in the water......

Now, that's what happened before......

After leaving the battlefield of the boomerang and the porous tube worm, Xinglan continued to manipulate the body of the tide horseshoe crab to crawl towards the deep sea.

I don't know how long it was, but a bright color suddenly appeared on the bottom of the sea.

Huh? This is...... Xinglan looked at the huge colored object in front of her and muttered to herself...... Coral reef?

Xinglan suddenly became excited, as we all know, coral reefs are not only beautiful in appearance, but also a very important marine ecosystem, inhabited by countless strange life!

Although this is not a genuine coral reef in front of you, the function is estimated to be similar!

Suddenly, Xinglan saw several unknown fish scurrying through the cracks in the coral reef, and her guess was even stronger.

The tide horseshoe crab gently paddles the water and slowly approaches the ...... 3…… 2…… 1…… Catch!

Call......

Grabbing a prominent coral reef, Xinglan praised herself without hesitation in her heart, and the claws were used perfectly!

…… Huh? Anyway, what am I going to do with my claws and using my skills......

Xinglan, who was once again caught in self-complaining, suddenly felt a vibration in her body, and hurriedly lay on the coral reef steadily, only to find that the entire coral reef was constantly shaking......

Miscellaneous...... What's the situation? Undersea earthquakes?

Rumble!

With a loud bang, huge cracks appeared between the reef and the rocks on the seabed......

Is it really an undersea earthquake? After all, she had taken a bath in the stars, and Xinglan was not afraid at all, but looked curiously at everything that was happening.

Hmm, what a wonderful earthquake. Xinglan looked at the rocks in the distance, and instead of expanding, the cracks were getting smaller and smaller......

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Aha? Getting smaller?

No, ahhh There's definitely something wrong with that!

Realizing that the situation was not what she thought, Xing Lan quickly straightened up and looked down in surprise......

It's the rocks that are far away...... Wrong! It's me who is rising!

…… No, it's the whole reef rising!

Xinglan watched as the small hole at the bottom of the reef spewed water downward, propelling the entire reef into the air (relative to the bottom of the ocean......

Huh? This is simply against the sky, is there wood?

Almost in a stiff motion, Xinglan watched as the reef rose to a certain height and began to move in parallel to the front......

The unknown little fish happily swam around the colorful coral reef, completely unoblivious to what was happening.

It turns out that this whole coral reef can be moved like this......

Xinglan watched the sea water pour in through the small holes in the side, and then spewed out, pushing the behemoth all the way forward, and her reaction was that in this case, it couldn't be called a coral reef, and it had to be called a different name.

Well, you'll be on the reef, it's up to you!

……

Youjiao is not a behemoth. This is the conclusion that Xinglan has come to after some careful observation, and its composition pattern is actually very similar to that of a coral reef, which is also composed of countless tiny organisms, but these tiny creatures can unite like a bee colony or an ant colony, and exert such a spectacular macroscopic effect through the superposition of forces.

Because of the uneven distribution of nutrients in the primordial oceans of Lanxing, did this migration-like pattern be adopted...... With a rich memory bank and super computing power, Xinglan quickly analyzed the approximate reason.

Perhaps it's time to map out the various resource distribution drawings of the entire Lanxing.

But even though all this has been analyzed, I still feel that Lanxing's creatures are so powerful! Xing Lan doesn't particularly care about this extraordinary evolution model, and even has an indescribable sense of pride, but she also has something to worry about, now Lan Xing's biological evolution process seems to be very different from Xiao Cheng's home planet, so will Xiao Cheng's hidden human genes set in the engineering fungus be successfully unlocked?

After the evolutionary tree is crooked, can it really evolve that kind of human being on Lanxing?

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Well, it's been so long, don't think about it now.

Xinglan lazily lay on the top of the reef, watching the water flow by her, narrowing her eyes slightly in comfort......

Hmph~ It's really the most comfortable to be lazy or something~

This is considered to be a ride on SF Express...... Ahem, hitchhiker?