Chapter 1031 - Boundary Pearl
While Chen Fei was in conversation with "Atlantis," the "Cooperative Ship 2-1" stretching a kilometer long had officially entered the atmosphere of the Antalu Planet.
The horizon was clearly tilted, filling the entire external view of the ship, and the surrounding environment was becoming increasingly bright.
As the distance to the ground decreased, the temperature outside the airship was rising visibly fast. However, it didn't matter, as the protective barrier covering the ship's surface could isolate the heat outside, so there was no need for temperature-resistant coating. Even without the protective barrier, the armor on the ship's surface could easily withstand the heat, and the heat that penetrated could be converted into crystal energy, recycled and stored.
After orbiting the Antalu Planet at extreme speed, the airship finally returned nearby "Atlantis," requiring sufficient deceleration distance due to its full-loaded mass. If it were to crash down recklessly, it might not stop, and actually crash, which wouldn't matter to Chen Xiao'er, but the S-Class superpower user might not survive, and the biological space mothership's living samples collected with great effort would go to waste. This was a special "gift" for McKenny the "Seed Nest".
The airship, having safely entered the atmosphere of the Antalu Planet, did not return directly to "Atlantis," but instead landed at the vertical entrance of "Seed Nest" a hundred kilometers away, throwing down a long chain of fully loaded biological containers.
The needs of industrial civilization are minerals and petrochemical resources, but biological civilization requires... various active substances, especially cellular ones.
Chen Xiao'er's operation was similar to feeding, directly throwing down a long string of fresh canned meat or considering them as tin sausages.
As the large amounts of biological tissues passed through underground caves filled with various native creatures, it seemed they could sense a great amount of food, causing the beasts to collectively emit frenzied screeches, almost crawling all over the silicon carbide "skylight" passage, even fighting each other, with secreted digestive fluids and tissues making the passage exterior all sticky.
If not for concerns over the integrity of the passage connecting vertically to the underground little world, Chen Fei would have liked to drop a thermobaric bomb down there, turning the entire cave into a lava inferno, cleaning all the filth thoroughly.
The little train carrying the biological space mothership's flesh rumbled into McKenny's underground small world and crashed spectacularly.
Regardless of how it falls, it doesn't really matter. The "Seed Nest" isn't picky; like a human stomach, it makes no difference whether what comes in is chunky, strip-like, or minced.
"What is it? Ah? This is..."
A wave of spiritual power surged from underground directly to the surface, as the airship lacked a magic array to isolate spiritual power, Chen Fei seemed to hear McKenny speaking with a furrowed brow.
He bluntly said, "Have you, this old fossil, been separated from the current 'Sagali' civilization for too long, with some genetic information now discontinued?"
The information capacity recorded in the base pairs of DNA sequences is enormous; in a sense, it's a special kind of encrypted compressed format. These pieces of information are fully decoded and grow into various forms, possessing different abilities, and even influencing spiritual activities only when cells continuously divide and form groups.
Even memory can be compressed into DNA, something Blue Star Humans refer to as instinct, subconscious, or memory inheritance.
"They come from a giant entity capable of surviving and functioning in space!"
Truly deserving to be the primal "Seed Nest", McKenny swiftly decoded the secrets of the genetic material and their real form in reality after receiving those fleshy remnants.
"We call them the biological space mothership, capable of carrying a large number of combat sub-bodies, quite the formidable opponent."
After throwing all the flesh collected from the Seventh Planet's orbit into the underground little world, Chen Fei followed down.
S-Class Space Ability User Heseman Brown took him and unleashed a psi skill, directly appearing on McKenny's turf.
The meat train from the skylight hole was still clattering down, causing the ground in the underground little world to tremble slightly. The crash site was a scene of flesh flying everywhere, with a thick stench of blood quickly pervading, meat piling up like a mountain in a horrendous manner, but it didn't affect the decoding of genetic information much.
Moreover, to cultivate a large number of energy crystals, the current underground little world no longer appeared prosperous but showed signs of decay everywhere. The sudden appearance of these butchered bodies was a major boost.
"How goes the battle?"
Air currents surged, as information was no longer shared through spiritual power, McKenny used the underground little world's sound, tone, and pitch that remained consistent as before.
Countless tendrils stretched out from every direction towards the mountain of flesh. He didn't refuse Chen Fei's "feeding." In fact, the underground little world that had lost a lot of material badly needed these nurturant substances.
If Chen Fei hadn't brought these materials, He might have turned to all living beings within a hundred kilometers for sustenance. The native creatures, usually subsisting on the occasionally leaked material resources, would almost certainly be settling their debts.
The characteristics of life lie in the ceaseless cycle, where material resources flow repeatedly, spreading into the planet's ecosystem, and then flowing back to McKenny's "Seed Nest" little world.
"Interception failed, we're leaving, with at most one hour left."
Chen Fei paid attention to "Atlantis," the people of the satellite city had all returned. The whole city echoed with piercing air-raid alarms, as everyone gathered, preparing to board the airship while awaiting him to bring the star ring back to "Atlantis."
The retreat plan had been established from the start, not needing Chen Fei's involvement.
An odd-looking bird flew from a distance, three pairs of claws extending from its belly, tightly gripping something as it descended before Chen Fei.
"The thing you asked for is ready. Originally, we thought you might want it; hopefully, you won't need to use it in the future."
McKenny's voice came with the wind.
"Caw!"
The creature carrying the items emitted a strange cry and then collapsed into a pool of pus and blood on the spot.
All lifeforms in the underground little world, animals, plants, are all a part of McKenny. They form physical entities only out of necessity and revert back to their basic nutritional forms once their mission is completed, to be absorbed by the ground for storage or reused.
"Thank you, without your help, making this thing by myself would have been extremely difficult."
Chen Fei picked up the transparent bead, only the size of a ping-pong ball, and brought it close to his eyes for a careful examination. Inside, there seemed to be filaments flowing like clouds and mist.
Holding the bead with both hands, a massive amount of spiritual power surged in without reservation.
The Psychic Power Index plummeted as if a dam had burst, dropping in steep falls, 7679, 4023, 2515, 1022, 349, 122, 55!
It finally stopped at 55. Chen Fei's face had already turned pale as cold sweat, the size of soybeans, appeared continuously.
"You are still pushing yourself too hard!"
Just after McKenny's voice fell, a long, shrill scream came from afar.
"Ah.................."
A silhouette fell from the sky, landing with a heavy thud, crashing heavily to the ground before Chen Fei.
The ground rippled like jelly, displaying an unusual reaction not common to solid terrain.
"Am I dying again?"
The person trembled as they struggled to lift their head, their face covered in blood, indistinguishable from a ghost.
Although they didn't die from the fall, it wasn't a light blow either.
"Ha, Xiao Lin, you're still here!"
Chen Fei recognized the voice.
The son of the "Lord of the Sky", Lin Zixian.
Covered in blood, Lin Zixian said bitterly, "None of you treat me as human!"
These days, he had been in the underground little world augmenting the psychic power of the Ability Users in the "Wall of Sighs" action force.
There are many benefits to enhancing Psychic Power Index, and as a result, everyone came to take advantage of him, even military heads from ordinary backgrounds. Some even unexpectedly awakened abilities because of it.
"Just in time to replenish my spiritual power."
What Lin Zixian said was true. He indeed wasn't treated as a person, merely a living tool, with no one caring about his thoughts.
A powerful spiritual force surged into Lin Zixian's body, made a round, and then flowed into Chen Fei's body.
The Psychic Power Index, which had dropped to 55, quickly inflated like a balloon, surpassing ten thousand in an instant, setting a new high, with effects even more immediate than a magic potion.
With the underground little world as its body, McKenny's spiritual power, relative to humans, was almost as vast as the sea, inexhaustible regardless of usage. Even when serving as a "spiritual battery" for human Ability Users, the loss of spiritual power was negligible, unable to match its own recovery rate. Thus, it didn't mind providing other beings with spiritual power at extremely low efficiency. Just a small trickle was enough to fill a human's mind to the brim.
"'McKenny', are you coming with us?"
Chen Fei successfully imprinted his mark on the bead in his hand, making it unusable by others.
This bead was clearly an Alchemical Artifact, personally crafted by "Seed Nest" McKenny, thanks to the substantial yet practically meaningless Alchemy and Magic Array information Chen Fei provided.
Combined with McKenny's powerful spiritual power, the "Seed Nest" could achieve what was possible without relying on external tools like Alchemical Artifacts.
McKenny firmly said, "I am not going anywhere! Take good care of this 'Boundary Pearl', it's yours now."
Provided with Alchemical Materials by Chen Fei, McKenny personally crafted this special space series Alchemical Artifact containing time rules, housing a space with a diameter exceeding 10,000 kilometers and a height of 500 kilometers.
Most importantly, this Alchemical Artifact, named "Boundary Pearl", can house living beings, becoming an essential supplement for Chen Fei's "Spatial Branding" on his hand, which cannot house living entities. If used as a refuge, it could accommodate 5 billion humans for survival.
Should the Blue Star Civilization be unable to withstand the full-scale invasion of the "Sagali" civilization, relying on this "Boundary Pearl", at least half of humanity would have a chance to survive.