Starting With Contract Pets
chapter-227

Chapter 227: War Fortress, Survival

A five-person group was dealing with a bunch of monsters.

These monsters had black bodies, shaped like ants, and had jet-black metal scales. They also had long tails and sharp mouthparts. Their length was generally more than one hundred meters, and the larger one was thousands of meters.

Although they were indeed space bugs, given their size, they were all giants compared to humans.

Su Bai checked their information. These insects were called Black Scale Ants and went around in a swarm. The black scales on their bodies were actually a special type of metal, which had varying degrees of immunity to spiritual attacks.

The most valuable parts of these space bugs were their crystal nuclei and scales. Their crystal nuclei were also black metal, different from the crystal nuclei of other monsters. It felt like these monsters were some metal living from Cybertron, the home planet of Transformers.

Needless to say, the target of these people must be the large amount of black metal in the Black Scale Ants’ nest on the meteorite.

However, what Su Bai did not understand was which daredevil was taking the lead. Did they not know that Black Scale Ants could merge?

A single Black Scale Ant might not be their opponent, but a swarm of them could fuse into a Black Scale Ant Emperor. That kind of behemoth was a few kilometers in diameter, and even the emperors dared not provoke it easily.

If the Black Scale Ants had enough cardinal numbers, they could reach the sovereign grade or even higher levels by merging.

This was a social species, and the cardinal number was very important to these space bugs.

In addition, they were immune to spiritual attacks and must be killed in close combat. Ants were invincible in close combat, however.

Just look at how ordinary ants on Blue Planet could pick up things dozens or hundreds of times heavier than themselves, and one would understand how terrifying this type of monster was.

In fact, most insects were killing machines, but they were too small, so people were used to ignoring them. Once they became bigger, they were really difficult to deal with.

This had long been verified.

Su Bai estimated that this group of humans absolutely did not know this, or else they would never do such a stupid act.

“Planet Eye, is there any information that Black Scale Ants can fuse in the Alliance Illustrated Book?” he asked spiritually.

“There’s no information about that; Black Scale Ants seldom appear, so there’s not much record of them,” responded Planet Eye.

“This is its new information; you can record it.”

Su Bai repeated Black Scale Ant’s information and made Planet Eye update its database.

Aren’t they looking for death like this? What should we do?

After updating the database, Planet Eye immediately understood the seriousness of the matter and knew why Su Bai had such a serious expression.

“Of course, we watch. What can we do otherwise? We can’t beat them if they are integrated.”

It was impossible to risk his life to help, and there was no way to pass the message at such a distance, for the other party had not released any Electromagnetic Satellite Monster.

They might even think that he was coveting the special metal in the Black Scale Ants’ nest.

In fact, he was coveting the metal in the Black Scale Ants’ nest. The best way to deal with these space bugs was to eliminate them as soon as possible before they could merge.

Pipi, move over slowly and hide well. We’ll take action any time, Su Bai said through his spiritual voice. He was ready to take action when the time was right and to rob the Black Scale Ants’ nest before escaping.

The Black Scale Ants were powerful when together, but their individual strength was not particularly strong. In their group, it was even difficult for a single Black Scale Ant to break through to the emperor grade.

This was also why the five-person group dared to do this. Chances were that this colony of Black Scale Ants did not have an emperor-grade existence, and there were not many monarch ants, so it was not considered difficult for Pet Tamers.

As the number of Black Scale Ants hunted by these five people increased, the Black Scale Ant Queen finally became angry and mobilized a large number of ants to merge. Not long after, a terrifying black monster with a length of seven or eight kilometers appeared.

It was shaped like an ant, had nine tails, and was so big that it blotted out the surroundings. It opened its mouth and jet-black energy spurted out. Two pets at the side were swept by this black energy and evaporated instantly, causing one death and one serious injury.

“F*ck! What kind of monster is this? Run!”

The five people were shocked to see this unprecedented form of the combined Black Scale Ants. Their expressions froze for a while as their hearts became filled with fear.

However, they were Pet Tamers who had experienced many battles, after all, so they would not stand still like ordinary people when frightened.

They quickly retrieved their pets, took out lifesaving pets used for escaping, and fled in five directions without a second word.

However, the Black Scale Ants had already been angered, and their resentment was overwhelming. Even if the Pet Tamers split up and escaped, the merged Black Scale Ant Emperor chased after them. To these bugs’ opinion, this matter would only take a few minutes to be settled. The starry space was so big; could someone possibly steal their house while they were away?

In the universe, this probability was too small, not to mention that even if someone stole their home, the Black Scale Ant Queen could quickly return.

Their nest was a black meteorite with a diameter of nearly twenty kilometers. Who could steal it all at once?

“Pipi Kraken, it’s up to you now.”

Catching the right time, Su Bai gestured to the Starry Omnivore Kraken below his feet. Now that most of the Black Scale Ants had left their nest, this was a good time to steal it.

“Onom!”

With a low roar, the kraken hidden in the dark backdrop moved. It unleashed a dark wave, and a layer of black streamer appeared on its body. With a flick of its tail, it shot out like a sharp sword and opened its blood basin mouth to bite on the Black Scale Ants’ nest.

It launched its special Darkness skill, directly wrapping the lair and hiding it. The kraken then dragged the nest away.

The remaining Black Scale Ants in the nest felt the crisis and rushed out to attack desperately.

At this time, the Blood Dragon and the other pets took action.

“Roar!”

The dragon flew out of his wrist, grew rapidly to one kilometer in size, and fell on the meteorite as a peerless dragon. Its Sea of Blood with a diameter of six or seven kilometers spread directly, drowning countless space bugs.

As it overturned the river several times, these Black Scale Ants were killed directly.

At the same time, the dino and the cub descended into the bugs’ nest. Having turned into Limitless Beauty, Purple Jade unleashed an oasis within one kilometer, where countless vines quickly cleared the Black Scale Ants inside.

Mewling Fox and the dino cooperated in eliminating some monarch ants. Little Tyrant transformed into a complete body and unleashed its Lava Purgatory, showing its true auxiliary ability as it aided the fox. On this meteorite, it killed all that stood in its way, completely unstoppable.

Su Bai stood on Planet Eye as it condensed many electromagnetic cannon tubes, seemingly intending to issue an endless plasma bombardment, which fully embodied the famous standard of its range.

In lower than five minutes, the Black Scale Ants’ nest had changed owners. The space bugs were almost all wiped out or wounded. Facing off against Su Bai’s abnormal pets, they had only one dead end.

“1314, start collecting treasures such as black metals, and use your powerful magnetic field to quickly divide this Black Scale Ants’ nest,” he said.

Okay, Ah Bai.

Planet Eye quickly rotated. Its body burst forth with the metal attribute’s sharp properties and powerful magnetic field as it began cutting and searching the space bugs’ nest. Meanwhile, Purple Jade and the Blood Dragon disposed of the remaining Black Scale Ants while they collected useful treasures.

They were all civilized pets, which knew how to use an illustration machines, and were also little masters when looking for treasures.

Regarding some of their small actions to fill their own pockets, Su Bai closed one eye and ignored this.

On another end, facing the emperor Black Scale Ant Queen, even though the five Pet Tamers escaped separately, two were killed in a short time.

When the third person saw the ants approaching and thought that he was bound to die, something changed suddenly.

“Hiss!”

The Black Scale Ants suddenly let out screeches, turned around, and rushed to their nest. They ignored the Pet Tamer in front.

“What happened?”

This person looked dumbfounded. He was let go of just like that?

“Impossible! Has its home been stolen?” This person thought of a possibility, but he shook his head and decided not to probe into this. Turning around, he fled as far as possible.

Black Scale Ant Queen returned to its nest and froze. Where was its nest? Why were there only a bunch of broken meteorites left?

The Black Scale Ants and eggs in the nest had all disappeared?

“Hiss!”

It uttered a silent screech, its mouthparts widening to an extremely hideous degree. A wave of power erupted from its body, but everything was useless.

Although the probability of this kind of home being stolen was extremely small, it had encountered an unreasonable human.

In fact, Su Bai was not far at the moment, but the Darkness skill of the Starry Omnivore Kraken kept them hidden.

“Come and drink this.”

He fed a bottle of high-concentration spiritual potion to Mewling Fox.

“Hing~” Thank you, Ah Bai. The fox let out a weak cry, then opened its mouth, and directly sucked dry the spiritual potion.

After drinking it, a spiritual vortex surrounded its body. As it slowly compressed, a stream of light burst out. Its body seemed to have become smoother, and its fur seemed to have been softer as well. Its pair of bright eyes seemed to contain more aura as they brimmed with seduction.

It had broken through to the mid-level commander, and its strength was gradually catching up to the pets of the first echelon.

“Hing~” Thank you, Ah Bai.

Mewling Fox licked his palm happily.

“Haha! Good job. Sure enough, this place is more suitable for you to breakthrough. I think I’ve made the right decision by coming.” He caressed its head and chuckled.

“Roar!” I feel that I’m one step away from evolving. If there’s a fire environment, I can definitely complete the evolution soon. Little Tyrant patted its chest.

Regarding this, Su Bai did not deny that, if the ice environment on the surface of Heavenly Abyss had not hindered its evolution, it should have evolved by now.

However, after coming to the Abyss Star Territory, he could obviously perceive that the aura of his pets had become much stronger.

Purple Jade also seemed able to promote to the monarch grade. He was going to advance in this direction for the time being and use his abundant resources to improve their strengths.

“Howl!” Ah Bai, what should I do with these things!

The elf pointed to a few treasures.

Most of them were Black Scale Ant larvae, as well as a white egg.

The second most abundant treasure was the special kind of black metal. Almost the entire Black Scale Ants’ nest was made of it.

Some other treasures were discovered, such as the veins of spirit crystals collected by Black Scale Ants, source crystals, various spirit plants, monster bones left after being eaten, and so on.

The most valuable thing was a special black-purple crystal-like metal in the center of the nest.

This was the golden marrow of the Black Scale Ants, which was transformed by the combined crystal nuclei after the deaths of the previous generations of queens. It had some extremely special functions.

The injury-free attribute was only one of its functions. The most important thing was its split wisdom attribute. This attribute allowed the metal life, which had merged with it, to split into clones that had singular intelligence.

Su Bai was caught off guard by this thing, but it was an unexpected joy.

“Planet Eye, these black metals and the Black Scale Ant golden marrow are for you to merge with. I’m looking forward to your changes,” he looked at Planet Eye and said.

Okay, Ah Bai.

Planet Eye had been longing for it for a long time. Upon hearing this, it swallowed and absorbed the metal eagerly.

“Pipi, you can swallow these Black Scale Ants’ corpses.”

He gave Starry Omnivore Kraken some more food.

He then walked to the three spirit crystal veins scoured from the nest and took out the attribute light balls of the gold veins. He merged them with the Blood Dragon and the fire veins’ light balls into Little Tyrant. Lastly, the wood veins’ light balls were given to Purple Jade.

He also gave two water-attribute mineral veins to Starry Omnivore Kraken, but the dark veins were useless, so he threw them for it to swallow.

After a while, the pets’ basic skills greatly improved, and their power also increased exponentially.

Only Mewling Fox did not receive anything. There were too few special mind power spirit crystals produced by the spirit-attribute mineral veins, and they were too difficult to extract.

As for his pet Planet Eye, he did not try to find out what kind of attribute light balls it needed. He was going to find some thunder-attribute light balls to give it a shot. The fire- and dark-attributes had proven to be useless previously.

Black Scale Ant Queen was about to go crazy in the sky, but its nest had already completely ceased to exist.

After being swallowed by Planet Eye, the pet’s appearance changed.

The first change was that its size had increased from the original 500-meter diameter to the current one-kilometer diameter.

It still looked like an original golden liquid metal ball, but the pupils in the silver eye sockets had turned into three colors of gold, black, and silver, which looked quite weird.

Its level had also been promoted from the original low-level commander to the mid-level commander.

[NameRace]: Planet EyeMonster

[Gender]: None

[Level]: Middle-level commander

[Attribute]: Electricity, metal

[FeaturesPassive]: Electromagnetic Transmission (It can be transmitted along electromagnetic waves—that is, it can reach wherever electromagnetic waves can reach.)

Instantaneous Transmission (It can transmit information of indirect electromagnetic satellites or electromagnetic equipment instantly.)

Deformation (It can change into any shape, but the shape is still metal. This cannot be changed.)

Planet Control (The nuclear characteristics of the planet. This is a nuclear fusion variant of a planet with advanced intelligence; it can grow into a living planet or it can be integrated with other planets to control the planet.)

Metal Fusion (The nuclear property of the planet. It can obtain the properties of the metal by fusing with it.)

Split (An additional feature. It is the feature obtained by the Planet Eye after swallowing special metals. It will let Planet Eye split into intelligent clones.)

Immunity (It has 20% immunity to spiritual attacks.)

[Skills]: Powerful Geomagnetic Storm, Plasma Cannon, Metal Break, Electric Shock, Magnetic Field Control.

[Restrained]: Water attribute, wood attribute

[Weakness]: Fire attribute

[Introduction]: This is a rare and unique metal life that has undergone multiple fusions.

It possesses a powerful magnetic field. The communication between Planet Eye and the equipment or electromagnetic satellites marked by it is not limited by space and can be established almost instantaneously.

This is a very loyal monster. It has high computing power, equivalent to a computer, and can provide a lot of help to the owner.

It can become a planet or a base, and its splitting characteristics allow it to divide itself and do many different things at the same time…

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Su Bai was already developing the current Planet Eye as his own base. Because of its special metal nature, it was very suitable, and as it merged with more special metals, its base would also become more terrifying.

It was very suitable, be it as a war fortress when dealing with monsters or a survival base when they were traveling in the starry space.

If necessary, he could integrate it into a living planet and take the planet to wander in the starry sky. Of course, it did not have this strength yet.

However, it had already taken shape by itself.

Planet Eye, in any case, had obtained a cloning ability from the piece of metal it had absorbed this time.

After initially grasping this feature in 1314, he directly divided one-third of its body and turned it into a thousand small electromagnetic satellite clones to explore all directions. This greatly reduced the possibility of encountering danger and also increased the possibility of finding more treasures.

“Can you only split 1,000 clones at the moment?” he asked curiously.

No, I feel that I can split up to 10,000 clones without combat power, but I haven’t gotten used to the feeling of multiple clones. The information they send back is quite confusing. It’ll be fine after a period of practice.

In terms of combat-effective clones, probably ten can be separated from me at present, but it’ll affect my combat effectiveness.

The ethereal mechanical sound of Planet Eye sounded in his mind.

“That’s good.” He nodded and looked at the broken planet which was still far away. “It’s almost time to rest; let’s continue moving forward. With the Planet Eye’s detection ability, we can speed up our progress a little.”

“Howl!” We should have accelerated long ago! the elf also exclaimed.

For safety reasons, they had been traveling at a very slow speed.

Now, they could finally speed up and hurry forward. With the vast, starry space around them, they only felt anxious when they did not move quickly.