Chapter 342 Enemy Traces
In fact, even on the outskirts of the Death Nebula, there were many beings that Mu Chen couldn't afford to offend.
For example, he once encountered a meat ball that was larger than the earth and seemed to be covered with downy hair. Mu Chen, who was driving the Phantom at the time, originally wanted to observe it from a distance, but he did not expect that a meteorite would rub against the Phantom. As the ship flew by, a tentacle tens of kilometers thick suddenly extended to tens of thousands of kilometers away, curling towards the meteorite and the Phantom.
If Mu Chen hadn't been on high alert, the Phantom might have been swept away along with the meteorite.
Muchen managed to block the blow with his psychic shield, but it obviously completely alarmed the giant beast.
Then he only saw that the fur on the giant beast suddenly grew longer, as if countless tentacles rose up, completely covering the entire starry sky. Even the void storm in this area seemed to be dispersed by these tentacles.
Seeing this scene, Muchen was so frightened that he turned around and ran away.
Fortunately, the Phantom was fast enough, and the giant beast seemed unwilling to move. Mu Chen was able to escape with the Phantom.
Muchen estimated that using annihilation energy, he should be able to kill one of the giant beast's tentacles with one blow, but did it have more than a million tentacles?
The combat power of the two sides is not proportional at all, so it is better to stay away.
After wandering for some more days, just when Mu Chen suspected that he might have almost reached the exit on the other side of the Death Nebula, his efforts finally paid off.
He actually found traces of the giant locust beast in a storm zone.
Mu Chen swore that this time no matter what, he would not be so mean as to kill the giant king of locust beasts.
Keep a line in everything so that we can meet again in the future.
If he had understood this truth last time, he wouldn't have had to wander in the Death Nebula for more than a year this time.
Looking at the giant locust beasts desperately devouring rubbish and meteorite fragments in the starry sky, Mu Chen felt very close to them.
Of course, you still have to kill, but this time you have to pay attention to strategy and methods.
This group of giant locust beasts was more numerous than the last time Mu Chen encountered them, and they were also larger, generally reaching over 100 meters.
This shows that the quality of the secondary soul crystals they produce will be better.
Mu Chen hid the Phantom outside the storm zone, and then carefully hunted the giant locust beast little by little.
A month has passed, and his control of strength has improved a lot.
There is no way, the strength of these ordinary giant locust beasts is much worse than the real giant beasts of the void. If one is not careful, they will be beaten to ashes by Mu Chen's upgraded energy, and not even a hair will be left.
So he must control his energy accurately.
Muchen carefully controlled the speed of hunting, killing only about two hundred animals a day and then stopped immediately.
This month, he collected a total of nearly 6,000 secondary soul crystals of the giant locust beast, without causing the giant locust beast king to notice.
After careful observation during this period, Mu Chen discovered that the giant locust beasts he hunted would be replenished every ten days or so.
Maybe we can kill more every day?
According to his plan, he can only stay here for another two months at most. If he kills so slowly, the secondary soul crystals obtained may not be enough.
This place is really far away from the Federation, and there is an extremely dangerous core area of nebula in the middle. Even if everything goes well on the way back, it will take at least half a year.
Including the time spent before, this is two years.
Moreover, he has lost contact with the Federation for several months now. If he doesn't tighten his grip, Xiaoqing will probably become anxious.
However, increasing the number of daily kills would very likely lead to the Giant Locust Beast King, which Mu Chen had to consider.
He was not afraid that the giant locust king would bring him any trouble. He was only afraid that he would accidentally kill it, or kill it too much and scare it away, but that would be really troublesome.
After all, water flows slowly and slowly. Otherwise, if the Death Nebula is so big, where will he find a new source of secondary soul crystals next time?
Just when Mu Chen was still hesitating whether to increase the number of hunts, a huge fleet was slowly appearing outside the Death Nebula.
This fleet consists of sixty dark purple spaceships that are no smaller than the Federation Stellar-class main ship, guarding a starry sky fortress with a diameter of more than 5,000 kilometers, which is like a small planet.
They only paused for a moment, then broke into the Death Nebula and quickly headed towards the core.
The particularity of the Death Nebula determines that no matter what kind of spaceship it is, it can only fly in normal space, and this huge fleet is certainly no exception.
But this fleet moved forward very fast, rushing all the way.
The behemoths of the void that were occasionally encountered on the road were turned into ashes under their intensive artillery fire, leaving only soul crystals, which were recovered by the intelligent robots sent by the fleet. Everything went on in an orderly manner, as if the fleet had long been used to it. performed this operation.
"There are so many giant void beasts living here. Did you mention it in the intelligence you intercepted before?" In the command hall of the Starry Sky Fortress, the commander of this fleet, Ma, one of the four great dukes of the Amethyst Empire, Duke Nuo asked.
His face was expressionless, showing no emotion or anger at all.
"Reporting back to the Duke, the information only mentioned that through this nebula, one can reach a brand new star field where there are many living planets. It did not mention the specific situation of this nebula.
This place is very far away from the Amethyst Empire, and our retreat was a bit hasty this time, so I haven't had time to send people to detect the situation in the nebula. Please forgive me, the Duke. Duke Mano's intelligence officer lowered his head and replied tremblingly.
The appearance and body shape of the Amethyst people are very similar to those on Earth, except that there is a finger-sized crystal growing in the middle of their foreheads, which looks very strange.
Amethyst people rely on the color of this crystal to determine their identity and strength. For example, the crystal on Duke Mano's forehead is dark purple, while his intelligence officer is light red.
After listening to the intelligence officer's words, Duke Mano did not get angry, but said calmly: "Having a giant void beast is not a bad thing. Before, I was worried about leaving the Amethyst Empire and staying away from the Black Gorge Abyss. The supplies for the soldiers There will be problems, and now with the existence of this nebula, this problem has been solved.
Besides, even that trash from Leiden can lead people through it. It can be seen that the danger here is far less than that of the Black Gorge Abyss, so there is no need to worry at all. "
"The Duke is invincible. Naturally, he is not comparable to the exiled prince of Leiden." The intelligence officer said flatteringly from the side.
"Invincible? Haha, if we were really invincible, how could we be here?" Duke Mano said mockingly to himself.
The intelligence officer saw that his flattery seemed to have been slapped on the horse's leg, and he did not dare to say anything anymore.