Planetary evolution, how come you're Ultraman?

"However, your shield can withstand it completely, no problem, it'll last more than three hours. Also, when I was filtering the public channel just now, I found that a Star Lord took a picture of our light shield and posted it on the public channel."

Oh?

Lin Chen was stunned for a moment.

Ye Zi casually pulled up the short video. It was taken by a star lord hiding behind Iron Core Star, more than a thousand kilometers away. In the video, a pale golden light shield stood out in the churning purple radiation cloud, like a lamp in the darkness, blocking out the surrounding violent radiation. The contrast was particularly shocking.

Less than a minute after the video was posted, the comments section exploded.

"Holy crap! What is that? Is that a shield? It's so big? It can cover four planets?"

"Holy crap! Isn't that Ultraman's shield from before? I knew he was awesome! Even a level 5 shield almost couldn't stop the radiation surge, what kind of monster is this?"

"Damn it, I should have gone with him! Now I'm hiding on this crappy planet, and my shield is about to give way!"

"Were the Black Raven Alliance members around here before? Did they see them?"

Ye Zi nodded and pulled up the Black Crow Squad's signal.

"That's right. They're hiding from radiation on Iron Core in the west. They've also seen this video and marked our coordinates, as well as the coordinates of Iron Head's remaining subordinates. But they haven't moved. Right now, the radiation surge is at its peak, and nobody dares to make a move. Besides, they know they can't beat us."

Lin Chen nodded; this was within his expectations.

His strength was bound to be exposed sooner or later. As long as he could safely weather the radiation surge, he could deal with these lurking raiders later.

"It's alright, let them mark it. We'll have plenty of opportunities to deal with them once the radiation wave passes."

Lin Chen spoke up.

Ye Zi responded and continued processing the data. She was still filtering out unclaimed resource planets that hadn't been affected by the radiation wave. Once the radiation wave ended, they could go there to collect resources as soon as possible, and their development speed would definitely be much faster than those who had just recovered from the radiation wave.

Time passed slowly, the impact of the radiation surge grew more and more intense, the purple color outside the shield became more and more intense, and those miniature planets without sufficient shields crumbled one by one in the radiation. The cores of the planets were stolen by the raiders, and the screams of the planetary lords echoed in the public channel, and then slowly, the sounds became fewer and fewer.

Because many people are already dead.

Three hours is neither a long nor a short time.

As the first rays of starlight pierced through the thin purple clouds once more, the intensity of the radiation surge finally began to gradually weaken.

The pale purple radiation cloud receded slowly like a tide, revealing a devastated star field behind it. The star field map, which was originally densely covered with the signals of the star lords, was now more than half gone. The remaining ones were either powerful beings who had upgraded their shields sufficiently or lucky ones hiding in planets with thick crusts.

Lin Chen breathed a sigh of relief, withdrew his hand from the core, and the light energy within his body slowly calmed down.

On his personal panel, the number representing the planet's radius had jumped from 1000 meters to 1100 meters.

The residual energy from the radiation surge was completely absorbed by his light shield, which instead nourished his planet, increasing its radius by 100 meters and its light energy reserves by a little—a pleasant surprise.

"it's over?"

Su Qingyue watched the radiation cloud slowly recede outside, breathed a sigh of relief, and a relaxed smile appeared on her face.

"We're all okay, that's great."

"Of course! Don't they know whose team we are!"

Chu Yao flew back in the Broken Blade and shouted excitedly.

"Those kids who tried to piggyback on the shield are probably all dead by now, right? Serves them right! Who told them not to upgrade their shields sooner and try to take advantage of the situation!"

Ye Zi also pulled up the latest star map and nodded.

"That's right, the radiation wave is completely over. At least 70% of the independent star lords in this area are dead. The rest are all people with some strength. I've already selected three unclaimed resource stars that weren't affected by the radiation wave. We can go and collect them after we've packed up."

Lin Chen looked up at the starry sky outside, which had returned to calm. The pale golden shield slowly retracted, revealing the miniature planets of his three teammates behind him, as well as their spaceship.

Everyone was fine, without a single injury, and even the damage to the spaceship had been repaired.

He smiled and said softly.

"Yes, it's over."

They managed to weather the global radiation crisis that loomed over everyone.

However, Lin Chen knew very well that this was just one step in the journey to the Star Realm.

Next comes the time when they truly develop and establish themselves in this dog-eat-dog world of the stars.

The pale purple aftershocks of radiation had not completely dissipated when the starlight in the sky gradually brightened again. The star field map, which was originally densely covered with star lord signals, was now mostly sparse, with only scattered signals of powerful beings slowly lighting up in the ruins-like star field.

Lin Chen stood in front of the Dawn's command console, looking at the coordinates of the three unclaimed resource stars marked by Ye Zi on the screen, and nodded.

"Let's go take a look and seize these resources. We can take this opportunity to further enhance our strength."

Su Qingyue had already packed up the equipment on the medical ship, and nodded with a smile upon hearing this.

"I have repaired all the damage to the spaceship from the previous battle, and it is ready to depart at any time."

Chu Yao had already parked the Broken Edge next to the Dawn, excitedly rubbing her hands together.

"I can't wait any longer! Those resource planets that haven't been affected by the radiation surge must be hiding a lot of good stuff!"

Ye Zi adjusted his glasses and pulled up the detailed exploration data for the three resource stars.

"That's right, these three were all pre-selected by me. They weren't affected at all during the radiation wave. One is an iron core planet, one is a silicon crystal planet, and the other is a small energy planet. They can provide us with a lot of resources. Especially the iron core planet, with a radius of 1.2 kilometers and abundant core energy, which can help Lin Chen's planet break through the evolutionary threshold."

Oh?

Lin Chen was stunned for a moment. His planet's radius was 1.1 kilometers. After absorbing the residual energy of the radiation tide, it was almost at the upper limit of the early stage of the small planetary level. If he absorbed the core of this iron core star, he could break through to the middle stage.

"That's right."

Ye Zi nodded and pointed to the energy curve on the screen.

"Your planet has now reached the initial bottleneck. Once you absorb the core of this Iron Core Star, you will be able to break through to the mid-stage of the Minor Planet Star. At that time, you will also be able to unlock new facilities, which will also greatly improve your light energy conversion efficiency."