Zerg Lord of the Devouring Stars

On the same day, at 6:45 PM.

"Master," Hill's voice echoed in Jiang Chen's mind, "Master's Black Dragon spaceship is fully repaired except for one auxiliary power system. It can reach, and even achieve, sub-light speed travel."

Piloting the Black Dragon spaceship at near-light speed, it would only take one hour to reach Mars.

"Very good." Jiang Chen smiled and nodded.

After saying goodbye to his father and the others, Jiang Chen left home in the evening.

High in the sky, Jiang Chen soared into the sky and flew until he stopped at an altitude of 8000 meters above the ground.

"Hill, release the Black Dragon Mountain spaceship and activate its stealth. I don't want to be monitored," Jiang Chen said.

"Yes, Master, rest assured. The spaceships in Black Dragon Mountain are technologically advanced beyond what Earth's technology can detect," Hill's voice rang out.

Before he finished speaking, a huge black saucer-shaped spaceship with a diameter of about 100 meters appeared out of thin air next to Jiang Chen, with a winged dragon printed on its hull.

This is the Adventurer spaceship X81 from Heilongshan, belonging to the C5 class.

The standards for spaceships are easy to distinguish: Class A corresponds to planetary level, Class B to eternal level, Class C to cosmic level, Class D to domain lord level, Class E to world lord level, and Class F to immortality.

Therefore, the C5-class Black Dragon Mountain spaceship is so valuable that it is difficult to be destroyed at the cosmic level, and because it is not an alloy spaceship, it is a luxury item.

Jiang Chen grinned and nodded, saying, "Let's go!"

"Yes." Hill's voice rang out as he began to take control of the spaceship.

The control room of the Black Dragon spacecraft.

"Master, Hill is at your service!" A crisp voice echoed throughout the control room, and Hill's image appeared on the screen of the control console in front.

She was a little girl with an elven-like appearance, probably just an adult according to Earthling standards. She was very similar to an Earthling in appearance, but she had pointed ears and dreamy purple eyes, like purple crystals.

"The spaceship is starting up and taking off," Hill said with a smile.

"The Black Dragon Mountain spaceship is very comfortable; even during takeoff, there wasn't much vibration." Master, you can activate the outdoor simulation, 10-100%. Hill said.

"Start 100% simulation," Jiang Chen instructed.

"Yes, it's already activated." As soon as Hill finished speaking, Jiang Chen witnessed a miraculous scene.

The original control consoles, seats, and floor of the entire control room have all disappeared.

As the spaceship ascended, Jiang Chen saw the boundless starry sky outside, and looking back, he saw a blue planet that resembled a jewel.

"So beautiful," Jiang Chen thought to himself.

In the starry sky, the sun, the earth, and other planets, meteorites, and asteroids are all clearly visible—this is a 100% simulation.

After watching for a while, Jiang Chen asked Hill to turn off the 100% simulation, leaving only 10% simulation. The Earth and the Sun behind them could still be seen, but they became very faint and blurry. The Black Dragon Mountain spaceship continued to move forward, flying towards Mars.

"The spaceship is about to reach Mars and is beginning to decelerate," Hill's voice rang out.

Jiang Chen could see the red planet at a glance; it looked lifeless and barren.

boom!

The spacecraft quickly penetrated the thin atmosphere of Mars and landed.

The cabin door opened, and Jiang Chen, completely clad in the Black God Suit, slowly stepped out of the spaceship.

The moment I landed, I felt the difference in gravity between Mars and Earth; the gravity was much weaker, and the miniature planet inside my body quickly adapted.

"Pyramids!" Jiang Chen glanced around and easily spotted the magnificent structure in front of him.

On the vast and barren land, towering pyramid-like buildings stand tall.

Beneath these nine pyramids lie cities, but they have existed for so long that only their outlines can be vaguely seen.

Jiang Chen knew that this star field belonged to the territory of the Silver Blue Empire before it was ruled by its master.

Earth, as a life-bearing planet, and a planet of the early civilization of the Silver Blue Empire, was originally used as a pastoral planet, mainly for raising some powerful monsters, then taming them and selling them for profit.

Mars is a mining planet, containing abundant deposits of basalt.

The Silver Blue Empire once stationed a star fleet here, partly to guard the pastoral planet.

On the other hand, interstellar transport ships are used to transport a large number of mining equipment and miners to some mineral planets around Earth for mining.

However, later, the interstellar fleet was wiped out in one move by Huyanbo, the master of Babata. The Silver Blue Empire did not dare to offend an immortal, so it was abandoned.

Without interstellar transport ships, the miners on Mars had no supplies, and even if they saved every penny, they couldn't keep up for long, so in the end they all perished.

The universe is so naked; if you are weak, even if hundreds of millions or tens of millions of people die, no one will give you a second glance, or even avoid you like the plague.

"Master, these pyramids are energy towers," Hill explained. "These energy towers are a rudimentary method by which humans imitated the machine race to produce energy, and they are extremely cost-effective."

"Hmm." Jiang Chen nodded and continued flying forward, with the Black Dragon Mountain spaceship following closely behind.

"Hill, initiate mineral exploration. Locate the mineral deposits."

"These people don't have time to transport the ore, so they will likely hide the black iron ore in a warehouse."

"Yes," Hill said, activating the detection devices on the Black Dragon Mountain spaceship to locate the black iron ore deposit.

On Earth, most metals are very ordinary and unremarkable. So-called "gold" is an A3 grade metal, while the "blue gold" metal discovered by Earthlings on the moon is an A6 grade metal.

Xuan Tie, an A8 grade metal, is extremely hard and is highly sought after in the universe.

Furthermore, because there are many deposits of Xuan Iron ore, and Xuan Iron Essence and Xuan Iron Mother are both grade A8, then Xuan Iron Essence is grade B8, and the rarest 'Xuan Iron Mother' is grade C8.

On the Martian surface, there was a huge cave that looked like it had collapsed naturally, with a diameter of several hundred meters. Jiang Chen swooped directly into the cave and continued to go deeper into the ground.

Jiang Chen used a black metal robot to push open the door in front of him and went inside.

"Whoosh!" As soon as the door was pushed open, a series of dazzling white lights shot out. Seven or eight dazzling lasers hit the metal robot, sending it flying.

"Hill, give the order. I'll cut off the energy supply to the energy tower and explore further," Jiang Chen instructed.

"Yes, Master, this way," Hill's voice began to direct Jiang Chen forward.

Under Hill's command, Jiang Chen swiftly traversed the passageway, reaching the energy transmission point. Using his telekinetic weapons, he severed the thick pipes and pyramid-shaped energy towers, cutting off the energy transmission route. Only then did Jiang Chen breathe a sigh of relief.

"All done. Hill, let's continue exploring and see where these black iron ores are hidden."

"yes."

Jiang Chen began searching for black iron ore deposits beneath the warehouse building.

Mars, an underground city of black iron.

The streets and buildings of this underground city are covered with writing, a universal language.

After a while, Jiang Chen easily found the key location of the entire steel city—the warehouse where the raw materials for the black iron were stored—through the text.

The warehouse base in front of Jiang Chen was filled with a huge amount of black iron, like a small mountain.

Here, black iron is the cheapest commodity, and it's everywhere. Steel cities are built entirely of black iron.

On Earth, black iron is considered a divine weapon. After all, the highest grade metal on Earth is only A6, while the most common black iron here is already A8 grade.

"Collect!" Jiang Chen's mind stirred, and a large pile of black iron disappeared in front of him.

"Hill, you have more storage space, help me collect it." Jiang Chen called out. "Yes," Hill replied, and more Xuan Iron began to disappear.

The mountains of black iron that were visible to the naked eye disappeared one after another in a short while. In just a moment, all the black iron piled up outside the warehouse, including the huge courtyard, was stored in the storage space.

Jiang Chen then continued his work in the warehouses, having Hill collect large quantities of Xuan Iron.

Some warehouses contain a small pile of dark red Xuan Iron, which is B8 grade metal, Xuan Iron Essence!

Jiang Chen directly stored the Xuan Tie Jing in his own storage space.

Jiang Chen continued to plunder the Xuan Iron Essence, while Hill collected a large amount of Xuan Iron.

After putting away a large door made of Xuan Tie Jing (a type of refined iron), they saw a large amount of Xuan Tie Jing piled up into a small mountain. Inside, there was a very small amount of blood-red metal, which was C8 grade metal and extremely precious Xuan Tie Mother!

This single warehouse alone contains approximately 12300 tons of B8 grade Xuan Tie (a type of iron alloy) and approximately 360 kilograms of C8 grade Xuan Tie mother metal.

There used to be about 3.2 million miners here. After they were unable to leave, they formed various factions. This place, which stores so much Xuan Iron Essence and even Xuan Iron Mother, should be the location of the largest faction. However, nothing lasts forever. No matter how powerful a faction or how capable a person is, they can only decay with time.

Jiang Chen searched a total of 12 locations. Eight of them were miners' hideouts, completely empty. The other four...

The harvest was much larger than the warehouse.

Throughout the entire underground steel city, Jiang Chen looted almost all the Xuan Iron Essence and Xuan Iron Mother.

Among them, the amount of refined black iron reached about 33600 tons, while the amount of mother black iron was about 234 tons.

After Jiang Chen had completely emptied the underground steel city on Mars, he ordered, "Hill, continue collecting. Collect the entire steel city."

The entire steel city was built with A8-grade black iron, and the quantity was enormous!

These are all raw materials for Xuan Iron, not alloy remnants. These raw materials can be used to make tools, weapons, and so on, so they are quite valuable.

Moreover, Earth is too poor to even have decent weapons, which makes martial arts weapons extremely expensive. These mysterious iron pieces can also help our fellow human beings on Earth.

"Hill, I'll disassemble it. You're in charge of putting the Xuan Iron inside," Jiang Chen said directly.

"Yes," Hill replied immediately.

With Jiang Chen's dismantling and Hill's storage space working in tandem, the efficiency became extremely high. Hill collected a large quantity of Xuan Iron raw materials.

More than eight hours later, the entire steel city disappeared, leaving only some decaying remains that were simply abandoned.

"Going home." A Black Dragon Mountain spaceship flew over, and Jiang Chen boarded the spaceship, leaving Mars and returning to Earth at 4:30 AM.