Chapter 969 - 75: Botched Project

Chapter 969: Chapter 75: Botched Project

"Oh, it’s a Death Monument."

On the Great Curved Saber, several light-years away, Gao Gong was standing on the deck, talking to himself.

At this moment, Gao Gong had completely transformed into another appearance. On the surface of his skin, one by one, pale worms emerged and fell off. Especially around his eyes, like tears, white insect eggs kept seeping out. These eggs allowed his visual system to transcend time and space, entering an indescribable state. In this state, he ’personally witnessed’ the ’giant structure project’ enveloping half of the Red Giant Star.

The Memory Worms shedding from his body merged with the Great Curved Saber.

And the Great Curved Saber, the main body of Du Zhaodi, now resembled a ship-shaped insect nest, with countless worms secreting, proliferating, and devouring inside.

They constantly combined, evolving a multitude of memories, neural currents, personality ants, and logic fragments.

This is the Information Mother, or in other words, a slumbering Tier 5 Information Monster, a true Civilization Celestial Calamity!

Gao Gong quickly canceled this mode because he had already seen what he wanted to see.

’Death Monument, not a Life Monument, so this Longevity Species is about to die?’

Generally speaking, the ’Immortality Project’ is the final step for Longevity Species.

To step beyond is to become a true Cosmic Nobility.

To fail is to cool off; Longevity Species just have long lifespans, not immortality.

Therefore, the monuments for the ’Immortality Project’ are divided into two types: ’Death Monument’ and ’Life Monument.’

The specific principles are unknown to Gao Gong, but in general, a ’Death Monument’ targets Longevity Species nearing the end of their life span, who need to rely on a similarly dying star body to step into the domain of immortality.

A ’Life Monument,’ on the other hand, targets those Longevity Species with a long life ahead. This type of Immortality Project needs to leverage a newly born ’star body,’ using the star’s birth to take a step into immortality.

The gestation speed of the latter is much slower than the former.

For example, an initial fixed star, evolving from the proto-nebula stage to the main sequence star stage, reaching maturity, takes at least 10 billion years.

Compared to a ’Death Monument’ that only takes tens of thousands of years to complete, the time required for the former is unbelievably long.

However, correspondingly, the success rate of this ’Life Monument’ is much higher than the former.

Engaging in a ’Death Monument’ Immortality Project has a failure rate of up to 90%.

This isn’t an official number, but a data summary made by players involved in the ’Immortality Project’ task in the previous life.

So according to this data, the head of this Eternal Financial Group is most likely doomed.

But that’s normal.

The birth speed and efficiency of Cosmic Nobility, or rather, Immortal Species, are far lower than the evolution of civilization.

In the previous life, from the early to the late game, there were only about two hundred Cosmic Nobility, even fewer than Advanced Civilizations. It’s not so easy to increase or decrease. 𝑓𝑟ℯℴ𝓂

If not forced, why would a matter of life and death in the ’Immortality Project’ involve an outsider like Du Zhaodi?

Even if Director Du is a natural grunt work saint, it’s not so easy to participate in such a high-level engineering project.

This project is most likely going to be an unfinished endeavor!

As an experienced hand, Gao Gong made such a judgment based on rich experience.

So, in this process, what benefits could he gain?

As everyone knows, the wealth of a Quasi-Cosmic Noble is measured in civilization units.

Abandoned properties, stubborn homeowners, wealth from demolitions...

For a moment, countless sneaky operations flashed through Gao Gong’s mind.

Gao Gong is not lacking in virtue; he is only lacking money now.

No rush, no rush now.

Let Director Du, this natural grunt work powerhouse, do the grunt work for now, and build up some rapport before speaking further.

Participating in such a high-level engineering project is of great benefit to Director Du.

Gao Gong now believes that choosing the ’Mechanician Civilization’ route was indeed a wise decision.

Because the Mechanician Civilization itself has countless blueprints to ’enhance infrastructure’ that can be worked on.

He believes that the Longevity Species would certainly be interested.

...

Currently, in the Gao Gong Camp, only the Star Destroyer can achieve superluminal flight among the spaceships.

So during the process of picking up people, only this spaceship, the Great Curved Saber as the main body of Du Zhaodi, was placed in the ’Civilization Evolver’ by Gao Gong, covered with Memory Worms for protection.

And once entering superluminal mode, there is a major advantage: it does not require going through the ’Interstellar High-speed Channel’ and can freely choose a route.

Moreover, this route is not simply the shortest straight line between two points; it involves more advanced space technology, similar to the best tailor who, through superb craftsmanship, cuts, folds, and recuts a straight line, shortening it by hundreds or thousands of times in the end.

Of course, this process is not as safe as following the interstellar route, where unexpected incidents can occur at any time.

Like the current situation.

The Star Destroyer descended dimensionally, from superluminal, to light-speed, and then to a standstill. This process didn’t even let those aboard feel a slightest ripple.

"What is this?"

"So many electric lights!"

"Whoa, a lot of space debris!"

"Is this a battlefield wreckage?"

In the eyes of the players, this was indeed a space battlefield, with a quantity of wreckage no less than the previous Meteorite Belt, including interceptor wreckage, engine fragments, and half-destroyed shuttles among the air combat weapons, and even Gao Gong saw a few Star Armors, though they were shattered beyond recognition.

If a space junk hall was here, they’d already be overjoyed, and quite a few junkmen among the players were eager to have a go, too.

But Gao Gong didn’t indulge them.

What stopped the Star Destroyer wasn’t this physical junk but a strong electromagnetic field formed by the confluence of these electronic debris, with electronic lights covering the horizon in front.

Countless currents of light had already begun to impact the space parameters.

Gao Gong patted the railing, and soon the hull began to transform. Countless light spots rose densely from both sides, and the next moment, like a meteor rain, brilliance engulfed the space junkyard, leaving behind nothing but a wisp of smoke wherever electronic debris had once been.

10km, 100km, 500km...

Soon, after breaking a hole in the electromagnetic field formed by this space junk, the Star Destroyer disappeared once more, entering superluminal mode again.

"So many treasures, why doesn’t the boss pick them up?"

"I even saw a Tier 3 Electronic Ramjet Cannon!"

"Come on, have you no conscience? Is collecting trash more important or rescuing our fellow players more important?"

"Nonsense, collecting trash is more important!" many players echoed in unison.

...

Not only were the players discussing, but even the NPCs were.

In the captain’s room where Gao Gong was, Gao Yuanyuan materialized her form, speaking enthusiastically:

"Brother, in that electronic field just now, I seemed to feel a life fluctuation."

"That’s normal. In such an ecosystem, Virtual Life forms similar to Electronic Ghosts can easily be born. Otherwise, where do you think so many information entities in the cosmos come from? They’re all generated in such environments."

Gao Gong remained calm; he hadn’t seen a thousand such cosmic environments but at least eight hundred, with no emotional fluctuation.

"Some space battlefield ruins can even give birth to Relic Technology."

"Relic Technology, what is that?" Gao Yuanyuan asked curiously.

"A new Technology Branch created by the collision of different civilizations’ Military Technologies."