Space Survival: My Teammates Are All Top-Tier

Over the next few days, the yellow ant spent its days exploring Tiancheng.

I go back to my little house when it gets dark, close the door, and go to sleep.

It was exactly the same as before, but he always felt like something was following him, something that pricked him.

Every time I turned around, I couldn't see anyone. This happened for three days, then six.

It took half a month, a full half month, for that feeling of being spied on to disappear.

"Sister Ai, have you lost your eyes?"

"Let's wait another day and see."

"All right……"

The next day, the yellow ant wandered around all day, deliberately taking a route it had never taken before, deliberately stopping at an intersection for three minutes, and deliberately turning around in a dead end.

No one followed.

They took an even more secluded route, walking from the west side of the city to the east, passing through seven alleys and making nine turns. No one followed them.

This time he didn't go back to that little house.

They went directly to a small house in a corner of the east side of the city.

He had found that small house half a month ago; it was even more remote. He pushed open the door, went in, and closed it.

The blue light came on, and Jiang Shi was the first to walk out, followed by Guo Wanxing, with Bai Yubing coming out last.

The three people stood in the house, looking at the giant yellow ant.

"Boss, sister-in-law, Sister Bai. I've been playing dead for the past two weeks," the yellow ant said, sounding suppressed and aggrieved.

"Every time I go out, I feel like someone is watching me, like someone wants to kill me."

"Come on," Jiang Shi pulled out a chair and sat down, teasing, "All you do is eat and sleep, sleep and eat... what have you been up to?"

Giant Yellow Ant: "..."

He opened his mouth, wanting to refute, but couldn't find the words.

For the past two weeks, I've really just been eating and sleeping, occasionally going shopping, and when I see Jiang Shi's face, I swallow all the words I'm about to say.

"Alright. Bring the bag."

"Oh!" The yellow ant took out the bag and put it on the table.

Jiang Shi untied the bag and poured the contents onto the table.

Fifteen deformable protonuclei, fifteen colors.

Red, blue, gold, silver, white, black—all sorts of lights shone together.

Jiang Shi reached out and picked up the transformed primordial core of the Sky Pillar. Spatial attribute. Top-tier primordial core.

Putting everything else aside, this one alone is enough to make it worthwhile.

Jiang Shi held it in his hand, glanced at it, and then put it into his personal space.

"Xiao Ai, check the quality of the remaining fourteen metamorphic protocores."

"Okay!" Xiao Ai flew up from the yellow ant's shoulder and landed above the table, hovering in mid-air.

Her body was small, but her shadow was huge. She flew around the primordial core, landed, and stood on the edge of the table with her little hands on her hips.

"Fourteen pieces, four of which are legendary."

Xiao Ai reached out and tapped each of the four primordial cores. "Light primordial core, extreme fire primordial core, ice core, gold core. The remaining ten are all epic-level."

Bai Yubing immediately spoke up, her voice quick as if afraid someone would snatch it away, "I want the gold core. And these three epic-level ones too."

He reached out and swiped across the table, bringing the gold core and three epic-level primal cores in front of him.

"Okay." Jiang Shi nodded.

Guo Wanxing reached out and picked up the ice core. "I want the ice core. You can have the rest."

She stored the ice core in her own space.

Jiang Shi glanced at the remaining primordial cores on the table, took one light primordial core, and three epic-grade cores. He then pushed the rest to Guo Wanxing.

"Wanxing, the rest is yours."

Guo Wanxing paused, glancing at the osmotic core on the table, then at Jiang Shi. "Isn't this a bad idea?"

"Take it."

Guo Wanxing looked at him, reached out, and pulled the remaining four original cores in front of her before storing them in her spatial storage.

Bai Yubing sat opposite, watching this scene, and rolled her eyes.

She was speechless; even dividing a protocore could make her feel like she was being fed dog food (a Chinese slang term for witnessing public displays of affection).

He stood up, carefully put away the four protocores, walked to the window, and looked out at the courtyard, ignoring the two people.

Jiang Shi stored the light-based primal core and the three epic-level primal cores into his spatial storage, and reminded them:

"We have the top-tier protocore, but don't rush to fuse it. Let's see if there's anything better later."

Compared to the spatial core, he wanted the time core even more; if it were Qing Xiaozhu's spacetime core, that would be the best.

Spacetime attributes, time plus space, there might only be one of them on the entire mechanical planet.

But those are our own people, we can't touch them, and we won't touch them.

We had to settle for second best; a Time Core would do. And if we had to take a step back, with this Space Core as a backup, we wouldn't be empty-handed.

There is no best, only better.

The pronucleus has been divided.

The three of them didn't have much to do on the mechanical planet.

Since Qing Xiaozhu wasn't coming out, their identities prevented them from going out freely.

Jiang Shi stood up, patted his pants, and turned to walk into the portal.

Guo Wanxing followed behind. Bai Yubing went in last.

The blue light receded, and the giant yellow ant tucked the water mirror into its bosom.

A world reflected in water, a white space.

The three people sat on chairs in the white space.

Guo Wanxing sat next to Jiang Shi, and Bai Yubing sat opposite him. They were quiet for a while.

"Jiang Shi, I want to go back to the starship. Can you use your teleportation array to send me there?" Bai Yubing said.

Jiang Shi crossed his arms and joked, "Captain, are you confused? Aren't you afraid I'll just take control of you?"

Bai Yubing looked at him, speechless, and said, "You've already said it, why would you still do it?"

Jiang Shi paused for a moment, then laughed, "Hahaha...that's true."

"Then let Wanxing take you back."

"OK."

Bai Yubing stood up, and Guo Wanxing also stood up.

The two walked to the teleportation array. Their figures blurred and disappeared in the light.

The white space fell silent.

Jiang Shi sat alone in a chair, while Huan and Zhu lay on the water in the distance, one gold and one silver, curled up together and sleeping.

He stood up and went into the bedroom of the No. 7 fighter jet.

He kicked off his shoes, lay down on the bed, and buried his face in the pillow.

After a while, she turned over, staring at the ceiling, then turned over again, lying on her side, looking at the wall.

My eyes closed, then opened again.

Bored, he raised his hand and made a gesture in the air, and a semi-transparent light screen panel floated in front of him.

Open the chat interface and look at the top three profile pictures; to be precise, they are his major clients.

Just as I was thinking about it, a mechanical voice spoke in my head, without any build-up, very quickly.

"Major rule update. First, treasure chests have disappeared; there will be no more treasure chests spawning."

"Second, you have fully adapted. All forms of rewards will be discontinued, the blueprint crafting function will be disabled, and the leaderboard will disappear."

"Thirdly, I wish you success in rebuilding your civilization in the vast universe. Goodbye. No, I will never appear again."

The sound disappeared.

Three, very short, very fast, and also the three most ruthless.

This means there will be no more system assistance in the future. Treasure chests are gone, rewards are gone, the blueprint synthesis function is gone, the leaderboard is gone, and even the system itself is gone.

Let them go completely and fend for themselves.

Jiang Shi paused for two seconds, his lips twitched slightly, but he wasn't in a hurry at all. It seemed that most people were getting anxious...

In the past month, he hasn't seen a single treasure chest; it makes little difference whether it's there or not.

And his talent only gets better as time goes on.

Even without the system, rewards, or blueprints, he could still survive.

He wasn't panicking, but just because he wasn't panicking didn't mean others weren't.

He clicked into the discussion area, and posts flooded in like a tidal wave, with dozens refreshing every second, making it impossible to read them all.

The top post was made an hour ago, and the title is just one word—"grass".

When you click on it, there's nothing inside, just that one word.

The replies below are hundreds of lines, each one filled with curses—cursing the system, the rules, and even God.

The second post had a longer title: "The treasure chest is gone, the rewards are gone, the leaderboard is gone, what do we do?" Most of the replies were from people who didn't know.

Jiang Shi scrolled down, scrolling through several posts.

After flipping through several pages, the style of the illustrations changed.

There are fewer curses and complaints, and more serious discussions about how to survive.

Someone posted that the four major job-hunting areas are hiring in large numbers, asking which job-hunting area has the best conditions.

Below, some people replied that the Kyushu Huaxia community has good benefits, some replied that the Meiao Space community has a high degree of freedom, some replied that the Xiongou community has abundant resources, and some replied that the Lunying community is safe.

Everyone says something different; everyone is trying to recruit people for their own community.

Jiang Shi read a few posts, closed them, reopened them, and closed them again.

Anyone who has survived from a net worth of 10 billion to where they are now must have some skills.

They may yell fiercely, but they all know in their hearts that yelling is useless; only living is useful.

After complaining, go back to what you were doing.

Two hundred million people, no more, no less. If you say it's a lot, then scattered across the vast universe, it's like a handful of sand thrown into the ocean.

It's enough to build several cities, enough to last for several generations.

Sticking together is the best way to survive. One person can't survive, but a hundred people can.

If ten thousand people pool their resources, they can build a city.

If 100 million people pooled together, they could build a country.

In the near future, long queues will surely form at the entrances of the four major gathering places, with the Kyushu Huaxia area being the most crowded, and the Meiao Space area also having quite a few.

Regardless of the reason, the goal is the same—to survive.

Jiang Shi leaned back against the headboard, the mental control panel still lit up.

A new message popped up; it was from Long Huali.

"Xiao Jiang, would you like to join us? We'll keep your spot open."

Jiang Shi looked at the message and smiled.

They sold him plenty of transforming cores, fighter jets, and weapons, and tried to win him over whenever they had the chance.

This wasn't the first time. Although they hadn't agreed, the other party just kept doing it, and Jiang Shi wasn't annoyed at all.

Identity is one thing, but big clients are what really matter.

Jiang Shi: Elder Long, I don't have any plans at the moment. But don't worry, I will try my best to fulfill your request.

The other end replied quickly, "Okay. Do you still have any transforming cores for sale? You can also send a few fighter jets."

Jiang Shi smiled. Fighter jets? There are more than a dozen parked on the Blade & Shield starship, all used by Sen Tailong and his men for patrols; they can't be sold.

He is not currently producing anything, no, but the original kernel.

Nuclear materials are more valuable than fighter jets.

Jiang Shi: Hahaha, I just happen to have an epic-level transformation core on me right now. Elder Long…

Long Huali: I'll offer ten million Tier 5 Origin Stones.

There was a pause on the other end, probably while they were doing some calculations, and a few breaths later another message popped up.

Long Huali: No, fifty million.

"Okay!" Jiang Shi replied with a single word.

He took out three epic-level primal cores from his spatial storage and placed them in his palm.

I took out the water element, picked up the one in the worst condition and glanced at it, then put the remaining two away.

The one in the worst condition was given to Long Huali for trading.

The transaction interface popped up, and the other party had already transferred the money into the intermediary's account.

Fifty million Tier 5 raw stones, followed by a string of zeros. I counted them, and there were seven zeros.

Jiang Shi put the water elemental core into the trade window and clicked confirm.

The light screen flashed, the original core disappeared, and the fifty million was credited to the account.

Jiang Shi glanced at the long string of numbers in the fifth-tier primordial stone column of the space list and a slight smile appeared on his lips.

Long Huali's message came again: "You brat, where did you get so many shapeshifting primordial cores? This old man's heart is already tempted."

Jiang Shi: Longlong, don't worry about it. I was just lucky.

……

After ending the chat, Jiang Shi closed the chat interface and opened the trading area.

The trading area now has everything: food, clothing, daily necessities, weapons, armor, vehicles, raw stones, elemental crystals, and precious stones.

It's all about the quantity and the amount of money involved; it all depends on your ability.

Raw stones are the unified currency, with first, second, third, fourth, and fifth tiers, and even higher tiers like sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth, but those are generally not used for spending.

Yuanjing can also be used as a unified currency, but it is not the mainstream.

Elemental crystals don't exist in nature; they have to be hunted. Most people collect them for their own use, and sell any that are plentiful.

Therefore, it ranks second in terms of currency, but the popularity of crystals is higher than that of raw stones.

One can enhance strength, while the other is merely energy.

Immediately afterwards, Jiang Shi began to collect various kinds of refined stones, including time, space, spirit, life, destruction, and the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth.

The rarest of these are time and space, which are also the most valuable, especially time.

Spiritual items are also expensive. For example, Illusionary Essence Stones are more expensive than Time Essence Stones. It's not that Illusionary Essence Stones are rarer than Time Essence Stones, but rather that they are much rarer.

Jiang Shi typed "space essence stone" into the search bar and clicked it.

A pop-up page appeared, displaying a list from top to bottom. One superior space stone, priced at 100 billion first-tier raw stones.

He looked at the long string of zeros and blinked.

One hundred billion, converted into fifth-tier primordial stones, is only 0.1%.

So... he bought them all.

He clicked on the quantity field, selected "maximum", and confirmed the transaction.

The screen flashed, and the number in his account decreased slightly; one hundred space stones appeared in his space.

He then searched for Time Essence Stones, a top-grade one priced at ten quadrillion first-tier raw stones, many times more expensive than the space itself.

I bought ten coins, and the number in my account decreased a little more.

The Five Elements Essence Stones were even cheaper; I bought countless of each of the five elements: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth.

The total cost was less than 15,000 Tier 1 Origin Stones.

Fifty million Tier 5 raw stones were spent for less than ten thousand.

Jiang Shi looked at his account balance; his purchasing power for high-quality raw stones was ridiculously strong.

In the past, first-tier raw stones were used like life itself, and one stone would be broken into two pieces.

Now that I have 50 million Tier 5 ore stones in my hands, the amount I've spent is nothing compared to what I've already spent.

Moreover, he still had eight low-level Entanglement Bonds and 4,000 ninth-tier primal stones. Jiang Shi said he couldn't possibly spend them all, he simply couldn't.

"That's awesome, with money you don't lack anything."

He turned off the mind control panel, took out a Yuan Crystal from his spatial storage, and held it in his palm.

Nebula-level.

He's been stuck on this threshold for a while now.

It's not that there's not enough energy, it's that there's a gap.

The energy from the Yuanjing surged into the body from the palm, flowing along every pathway until it stopped at the core.

It's not working anymore.

Jiang Shi opened his eyes and knew that it wasn't Yuan Jing's problem, nor was it his problem.

Little Golden Dragon Illusion and Little Silver Dragon Candle are also stuck. They're stuck at the peak of the Nebula level and can't move.

We don't lack elemental crystals, we just lack the right opportunity...