Swallowing the Stars: Starting with the Steel of the Heart

In the cloudless desert

Xiang Bei stood alone beside a large lake in a desert oasis.

This is Xiang Bei's third time visiting this large lake.

The first time, they escaped from an underground cave, only to be attacked head-on by a Carcharodontosaurus.

It was during this life-or-death battle that Xiang Bei briefly entered a state of water-like enlightenment, opening a door for him to comprehend the essence of water in the future.

The second time he came, he took the carcass of the Sharktooth Dragon, thus being certified as a high-level war god.

After being certified, Xiang Bei left the elite training camp and returned to his home in Kyoto base city.

The third time is now.

It is now mid-July, and more than a month has passed since Xiang Bei broke through to the planetary level.

Over the past month, Xiang Bei has reduced the number of times he goes out and spent more time with Pei Pei's family.

After he enters the universe, the time he can spend with his family each year will only become shorter and shorter.

After he reached the planetary level, although the boost from Heart Steel remained stable, the boost from ordinary lord-level monsters was negligible for Xiang Bei, who was at the planetary level.

The king-level monsters had vanished without a trace. Xiang Bei searched for a long time but only found two lone king-level monsters, making him almost reluctant to kill them.

Therefore, he needs a more powerful creature as an opponent!

A more advanced stage is needed, and the current Earth is clearly not suitable.

So, after spending some time with his family, Xiang Bei returned here.

He leaped into the water, and once Xiang Bei reached the planetary level, his abilities in the water surpassed even those of sea monsters.

With a flash, he rushed into the underground river from before and then sped away into the depths.

In less than a minute, Xiang Bei's figure had already passed through the obstruction of the underground water veins and appeared inside the underground cave from before.

"They're back."

Xiang Bei looked at the silver-white spaceship and couldn't help but let out a soft sigh.

They then headed directly towards the entrance of the spaceship.

He remembered that he had collected a lot of weapons scattered by the alien race in the room at the entrance.

At the entrance of the spaceship, Xiang Bei saw his old friend once again.

Two-tailed scorpion

Unfortunately, these two-tailed scorpions were all recently born, and they must have hatched from the insect eggs that Xiang Bei had seen before.

Their strength is still very weak; the strongest one is only at the level of a low-level beast general.

Xiang Bei didn't stand on ceremony and cleaned them all up one by one.

Then they entered the spaceship.

This time, Xiang Bei skillfully went to the spaceship's energy storage room, took out an energy crystal, and then went to the energy room to replace one of the empty energy crystals.

For safety reasons, Xiang Bei did not fill all the energy crystals.

As soon as Xiang Bei replaced the energy crystal, all the lights on the spaceship instantly turned on.

The lights were on all at once.

Xiang Bei looked around and breathed a sigh of relief when he realized there was no danger approaching.

Then he walked quickly toward the door that hadn't been opened before.

Compared to the dim light when we first arrived, the spaceship is now brightly lit, and the main gate seems to have changed as well.

Xiang Bei took out the special card that he had first obtained at the spaceship's hatch from his pocket and inserted it directly into the slot on the door.

"Card"

As the card was inserted, the previously silent mechanical door gradually opened, revealing the scene behind it.

This is a control room about half the size of a basketball court, where a one-horned humanoid corpse, about three meters tall, sits in a chair in front of the control panel.

Meanwhile, in the corner of the control panel, there was also a humanoid corpse with a single horn lying on its side.

As the control room door opened, a gust of air rose up, and instantly the two corpses turned to ashes.

Even the clothes turned into fragments at the same time.

Judging from the situation in the control room, the sitting corpse should be the captain of the spaceship, while the one lying in the corner is most likely one of the spaceship's controllers.

Similarly, the alien lying at the gate was most likely a spaceship controller, otherwise he wouldn't have had a spaceship control card.

With a nervous heart, Xiang Bei walked slowly into the control room.

At this moment, with the replenishment of the spacecraft's energy, the spacecraft's control system has been automatically activated.

However, it seems to require a password or something similar to a computer on Earth to be officially started.

Xiang Bei thought for a moment, then walked directly to the captain's seat and quickly found a card with a more intricate pattern, inserting it into the card slot directly in front of him.

"#*%@#&$€"

A light, electronic female voice rang out, speaking in no language on Earth.

However, in the past few months, Xiang Bei used his privileges and his relationship with Thor and others to obtain translations of all the alien languages.

Xiang Bei understood the meaning of those words.

"Welcome, dear Captain Cabinka. The Silver Star is pleased to serve you."

"Phew!" Xiang Bei let out a soft breath, then smiled slightly. "It seems that the intelligent program of this spaceship is quite rigid."

Xiang Bei's biggest worry was that the spaceship's intelligent program was extremely powerful, and after discovering that Xiang Bei was not the spaceship's controller, it would self-destruct without warning.

Or perhaps the intelligent program controlled the spaceship to directly refuse to serve Xiang Bei.

However, it now appears that this spaceship does not seem to have any self-destruct mechanism or similar procedures.

It can be operated with just an access card, and even the driver couldn't recognize it.

Unlike the spaceship at the bottom of Bermuda, which self-destructs at the drop of a hat, this one has a powerful intelligent defense program.

Even intelligent life forms like Babata nearly stumbled.

However, upon closer inspection, it becomes clear that the spaceship beneath Bermuda is actually a warship, a spaceship built specifically for combat.

It's perfectly reasonable for a smart system to have stronger protective capabilities.

It would be a joke if the enemy could easily hack into the intelligent system and seize control.

But what is the spaceship under Xiang Bei's feet? It's just a low-level passenger spaceship.

It's like a long-distance bus in space. What kind of self-destruct system does this thing have? What kind of top-level intelligence does it need?

Who would put a self-destruct function on a bus for fun?

Isn't this just a case of having nothing better to do than eat a lot?

The same applies to intelligent programs. Why equip a bus with such advanced intelligent programs? As long as it can drive smoothly, that's enough.

After thinking for a moment, Xiang Bei tentatively said in the universal language of space, which was pronounced fairly well, "Silver Star, report the current status of the ship."

"Currently, the spaceship has 22.7% energy remaining."

The spacecraft's outer hull was damaged...

Engine damaged…

The energy room was damaged…

...

The spacecraft's external second hatch is obstructed by a foreign object and cannot close properly. Manual removal is recommended…