90 Seconds of Life and Death

Countless Zerg corpses floated in the starry sky, stretching as far as the eye could see. Every single one was at the peak Sector Lord level!

“So many Zerg corpses, billions upon billions of peak Sector Lord Zerg corpses.” Luo Feng gazed at them, his mind conjuring images of the Zerg sea formed by countless billions of Sector Lord Zerg warriors on the extraterrestrial battlefield… He thought that a combined attack, the resulting explosion, would instantly kill even a Universe Master if they were caught in the blast.

Quantity leads to a qualitative change!

Millions of Sector Lords could force even King-level Undying Gods to evade.

Billions of Sector Lords would make a Universe Master wary.

Of course… a single Zerg Mother Nest, even after continuously cultivating Sector Lord Zerg warriors over its long lifespan, couldn't possibly reach such a terrifying number of billions. This wasn't something one Zerg Mother Nest could achieve; it required the combined efforts of countless Zerg Mother Nests to create such a terrifying Zerg sea army!

An endless Zerg sea, unrivaled!

“Lord Luo Feng, this small cluster of Zerg corpse remnants gathered here can be counted as one hundred thousand complete Zerg corpses. It’s one of the units corresponding to your 200 metal plates,” the tall white-robed man said.

“Oh?”

Luo Feng’s eyes lit up, and his mental power immediately swept over them.

Although the Zerg corpse remnants were endless, they weren't all piled together. Instead, they were dispersed unit by unit, each separated by more than ten kilometers! A large quantity of Zerg corpse remnants in one unit would form a sphere roughly several kilometers in diameter.

“Three types of mantis-like Zerg, eighteen types of armored Zerg, two types of larval Zerg…” Luo Feng’s mental power swept over this sphere of peak Sector Lord Zerg corpse remnants, several kilometers in diameter. Based on his inherited memories and detailed information he had searched for on the Virtual Universe Network, he quickly assessed their value.

Fortunately, Luo Feng had a clear understanding, and he quickly made his judgment.

“Excellent, top-tier Zerg account for more than half. This unit… can probably cultivate twenty thousand peak Sector Lord Tiger Armored Zerg.” Luo Feng was secretly delighted. “Longjue King truly treats me well. If the Zerg corpses in the other units are all at this standard, then one hundred units could produce two million Tiger Armored Zerg!”

Worth it!

Spending one million Primal Chaos Units could cultivate two Zerg armies of a million Sector Lords each! And they would be the highly defensive Tiger Armored Zerg!

“Continue looking!”

…

Luo Feng then moved on to the next unit.

He inspected all 200 units one by one. As he observed more, Luo Feng realized that the first Zerg unit he saw was indeed of a high standard.

Based on the data Luo Feng compiled after observing half of them:

Units of Zerg corpses capable of cultivating 20,000 to 30,000 peak Sector Lord Tiger Armored Zerg accounted for 2%.

Units of Zerg corpses capable of cultivating 15,000 to 20,000 peak Sector Lord Tiger Armored Zerg accounted for 26%.

Units capable of cultivating 10,000 to 15,000 peak Sector Lord Tiger Armored Zerg accounted for 32%.

Units cultivating fewer than 10,000 Tiger Armored Zerg accounted for 40%.

This was the data Luo Feng concluded after observing a full 100 units. Overall, Luo Feng was quite satisfied.

Because if he were to cultivate one million Tiger Armored Zerg through company acquisition, it would cost approximately 2.5 million Primal Chaos Units. Now, the cost was less than half of that, only one million Primal Chaos Units, yet the Tiger Armored Zerg warriors he could cultivate would easily exceed one million, possibly even exceeding 1.5 million Tiger Armored Zerg!

“Lord Luo Feng, you can see that the other Zerg corpse units around are clearly inferior to yours,” the short white-robed man beside him chuckled. “The 200 Zerg units Longjue King arranged for you, Lord Luo Feng, are absolutely top-tier!”

“Haha.” Luo Feng nodded with a smile. “Longjue King is indeed generous to me.”

Of course, choosing Zerg corpses also tested one’s discerning eye.

Because the vast majority of the frozen Zerg corpses were fragmented. If one only relied on information from the Virtual Universe Network, it would be very difficult to identify them clearly. Fortunately, Luo Feng possessed inherited memories, which contained extremely detailed descriptions of the Zerg, far more comprehensive than the information the Virtual Universe Company made public to him. This allowed Luo Feng to discern over 90% of the Zerg warrior corpses and accurately calculate the value of each Zerg unit.

“Calculate the value ranking of all 200 units.”

“Then select the best 100 units.” Luo Feng was by no means foolish.

“Lord Luo Feng, look over there,” the tall white-robed man pointed into the distance.

Luo Feng turned his head to look. In the distance, there was a dense, dark mass of countless miscellaneous remnants. Just by looking with the naked eye, one could vaguely sense the aura of ancient times. The tall white-robed man chuckled, “That’s the Garbage Mountain! The Garbage Mountains are scattered throughout the Wulong Starfield. Lord Luo Feng, would you like to go treasure hunting there?”

“Treasure hunting?” Luo Feng looked at the distant Garbage Mountain floating in space, feeling quite expectant. He smiled and said, “No rush. After I’ve selected the Zerg units, it won’t be too late to slowly treasure hunt in the Garbage Mountain.”

“Right, right.” The tall white-robed man nodded. “We should finish the main business first.”

…

Clad in a standard white battle robe, Ke Sier, the lean man designated No. 6, transformed into a streak of light, rapidly flying through the starry sky filled with endless debris.

He had been treasure hunting within the Wulong Starfield’s Garbage Mountains for nine days. During these nine days, just like any internal member on a treasure hunt, he would scavenge one Garbage Mountain, then fly to another, occasionally using a spaceship for space warp to find Garbage Mountains in more distant locations.

“It’s about time to find No. 3,” Ke Sier thought to himself.

He flew continuously along the wide space garbage tunnel at a speed of 100,000 kilometers per second. At the same time, Ke Sier’s emerald green eyes occasionally scanned the screen on his wrist guard, which displayed the ‘Wulong Starfield Monitoring Map.’ The monitoring map on his wrist guard had specifically zoomed in on the area of the starfield where he was located.

“Three light points!”

“Their distance from me isn’t far now. They’re all moving along the same space tunnel. They’re flying towards me, and I’m flying towards them. If nothing unexpected happens, we should meet,” Ke Sier quickly calculated.

“Good!”

“I’ll kill No. 3 right around monitoring point ‘B2446—56453—13202—96216’,” Ke Sier’s emerald green eyes flashed with a cold light.

Whoosh!

Whoosh!

Ke Sier flew towards Luo Feng’s group, while Luo Feng and the two others flew towards Ke Sier, all moving within the same space garbage tunnel.

…

Luo Feng and the two others were flying when they suddenly stopped.

“Lord Luo Feng, this is one of the 200 Zerg corpse units you can choose from. It’s the one right in front of us,” the tall white-robed man said, looking at his wrist guard screen, then pointing ahead at the countless fragmented Zerg warrior corpses, several kilometers in diameter, completely frozen and encased in a thin layer of ice.

“Hmm.” Luo Feng released his mental power, carefully investigating.

“Huh?” The tall white-robed man, looking at his wrist guard, exclaimed in surprise, “We have our people not far from here.”

“Ah, what a coincidence?” The short white-robed man also looked at his wrist guard screen, quickly bringing up the surrounding area of the monitoring map. Soon, he saw a white dot not far away in the same space tunnel on the map.

“What’s going on?” Luo Feng turned to look.

“It’s one of our people,” the short white-robed man’s voice was slightly high-pitched, and he chuckled, “Our grassroots personnel who conduct inspections and provide services within the Wulong Starfield have a treasure hunting perk. Every 10,000 years, they get one free opportunity to treasure hunt in the Garbage Mountains, though it’s limited to the smallest type of world ring, which can only store so many items. So, within the Wulong Starfield, we occasionally encounter internal members who come to treasure hunt. After all, it’s quite monotonous for us here. And because of extremely high monitoring requirements, we’re prohibited from playing virtual games for extended periods or cultivating for too long; at most, we can relax occasionally. So… treasure hunting is one of the favorite activities for our internal staff here. If they really find a priceless treasure, they won’t have to do this monotonous work anymore.”

Luo Feng nodded in understanding.

…

Ke Sier was rapidly flying through the hundreds-of-kilometers-wide garbage tunnel, constantly monitoring the screen on his wrist guard.

“Hmm, they’ve stopped?”

“I need to slightly control my speed, and perhaps change the area where I’ll kill No. 3.”

Ke Sier, No. 6, thought to himself.

…

A moment later, Luo Feng’s group continued forward, and the two sides continued to approach each other, the distance constantly shrinking by hundreds of thousands of kilometers every second.

“Right here, at monitoring point ‘B2446—56453—13202—96233’,” Ke Sier’s emerald green eyes were calm and cold. He flashed like lightning to a spherical instrument floating tens of thousands of kilometers from the space tunnel. It was a black spherical instrument, roughly 3.9 meters in diameter.

This was the most basic, small monitoring point of the Wulong Starfield’s surveillance system.

This black spherical instrument could monitor a spherical area with a radius of 3 million kilometers (10 light-seconds) centered on itself.

“Poof.” As Ke Sier flew past the black spherical instrument, he casually affixed a transparent patch to its surface.

After attaching the patch, Ke Sier quickly flew back into the space garbage tunnel.

…

Ke Sier flew for about tens of thousands of kilometers along the tunnel before stopping, waiting silently.

After waiting for just three minutes, three lightning-fast figures appeared in the distance of the space garbage tunnel. Soon, the three figures also sharply reduced their speed and stopped.

“Ke Sier, it’s you. I was just discussing with Wo Fu who it might be,” the tall white-robed man chuckled. “It’s truly rare to meet in the Wulong Starfield.”

“I also detected three signal points, so I didn’t rush to that Garbage Mountain. Instead, I waited here to see who it was. Haha, it turns out to be you two. Ah, and this is…” Ke Sier’s gaze fell on Luo Feng, and he immediately became much more humble. The tall white-robed man also spoke with slight reverence: “This is Lord Luo Feng. Longjue King personally arranged for my brother and me to guide and receive him.”

“So it’s Lord Luo Feng,” Ke Sier bowed respectfully.

“Hmm.” Luo Feng looked at the man in the same standard white battle robe. “How’s the treasure hunting going?”

“No harvest yet,” Ke Sier shook his head.

Boom!

The black spherical instrument tens of thousands of kilometers away suddenly exploded. At the same time, a very, very tiny area on the entire Wulong Starfield Monitoring Map instantly turned blank. The area was so small that it was impossible to spot this single point with the naked eye on the monitoring map, but the alert system immediately detected it.

“The monitoring point instrument has been damaged. The Wulong Starfield has countless monitoring points, so occasional malfunctions are normal and will absolutely not cause super-beings like Universe Masters to personally come running,” Ke Sier thought to himself. “According to the normal reaction mechanism, the nearest spaceship will be dispatched via space warp for repairs, which will take at least 90 seconds.”

“I must kill No. 3 within 90 seconds.”

…

At the same moment, the Wulong Starfield alert system directly issued an order: “Monitoring point B2446—56453—13202—96233 instrument has malfunctioned. B2446—56 is to proceed immediately for repairs.”

“Spaceship B2446—56 has launched, estimated to arrive at the monitoring point in 98 seconds.”