Chapter 563: Sandworm

The spaceship slowly fell toward a planet that was closest.

This planet is similar to the Earth after the apocalypse. The whole world is a sea of sand. The sunlight shines on the sea of sand, reflecting bursts of golden brilliance.

After the spaceship landed completely, Ye Nan ordered the Intellect to open the cabin door. "Superman Clark, come out with me. Hancock and The Flash stay in the spaceship."

"Why do I have to stay in the spaceship?" Hancock asked dissatisfiedly.

"Very simple, because the spaceship needs someone to defend it." Ye Nan explained slowly. In reality, it is not only because of this reason, but also because of the environment on this planet.

A planet without plants naturally cannot judge whether it has oxygen, whether the oxygen content can allow humans to survive, plus the spaceship needs someone to guard it, so he left The Flash here. Who told The Flash that he couldn't survive here like them without air?

As for Hancock, it was just Ye Nan hoping that this guy who likes to find trouble would stay here and not cause trouble. God knows what kind of monsters will pop out in this strange environment, although the Intellect's scanning result is that there are no living creatures on this planet, which does not match Ye Nan's premonition.

Hearing Ye Nan say this, Hancock immediately smiled cunningly. "There is The Flash."

"The air here is not good, the oxygen content might not be high, The Flash is afraid that he is not suitable for fighting here." Although Ye Nan's original intention was to say that The Flash's combat ability was insufficient, he still found an excuse for The Flash.

"Then Superman Clark can stay." Hancock pointed to Superman Clark and said: "I have been moldy here, I urgently want to move my hands and feet."

"It is precisely because I am afraid that you will move your hands and feet that I didn't take you." Ye Nan secretly said in his heart, and said on the surface: "In reality, it is not impossible if you want to go, provided that you can defeat Superman Clark."

"Why do I have to defeat Clark." Hancock looked at Superman Clark's muscles, looked at the smile that was not a smile on Superman Clark's face, and his head drooped. "I am not his opponent."

Competing with Superman Clark several times, but every time he lost, he had already given up on this.

"Since you can't beat Clark, just stay here honestly." After saying that, he didn't give Hancock a chance to speak, and turned and left.

Looking at the departing Ye Nan, Superman Clark shrugged helplessly.

"Damn it." Watching the two gradually walk away, Hancock cursed under his breath, then closed the hatch and stayed inside with the Flash to watch a movie.

"Why let them stay inside?" Superman Clark trotted to catch up, looked at Ye Nan and said, "The smart brain has scanned it; there are no living organisms on this planet, so there is no need to worry about the spaceship being taken away by anyone."

"The smart brain scanned the surface, not the underground." Ye Nan shook his head, "My intuition tells me that this planet has life. Although these life forms may not necessarily pose a threat to us, we still need to be on guard."

"The spaceship is our means of transportation. Once it is destroyed, we will be stuck here for the rest of our lives. You wouldn't want to face this rolling yellow sand forever, would you?"

"It is too fragile."

His feet stepped on the gravel, emitting a rustling sound. Ye Nan did not hide his figure, allowing himself to be exposed in the rolling sea of sand.

"I always feel you are a bit overly cautious." Superman Clark shook his head, following behind Ye Nan at a steady pace like a loyal guard. His gaze was fixed on the distance, and at the same time, his ears were pricked up, listening to all directions.

As superheroes, their duty was to protect Ye Nan, to protect Ye Nan with their own lives; this was a command deeply rooted in their memories.

As Ye Nan was walking, he suddenly felt a sense of danger. From beneath his feet, a massive creature resembling a snake lunged out from under the sand, opening its blood-red maw to swallow Ye Nan along with the air around him in one gulp.

However, Ye Nan did not make a move, but instead examined this snake-like creature with interest. Perhaps because it had stayed under the sand for too long, this snake-like creature had the color of sand.

Ye Nan not making a move did not mean Superman Clark would not. As a guard, the moment this snake-like life form lunged out, Superman Clark had already acted. Red super heat vision shot from his eyes, sweeping across the life form, and in an instant, the snake-like creature was cut into three pieces.

"Clark, stop." Ye Nan called out to Superman Clark, who was about to rush over. Under his gaze, the creature struggled twice and then died.

"Not every creature possesses super-strong regenerative abilities; sometimes they are just moving by physical instinct," Ye Nan said softly, grabbing the life form still beneath the sand and pulling it out entirely.

This was a life form several dozen feet long. To say they resembled snakes was not quite appropriate, because they had no snake head; what they had was just a super-large mouth, and just now, it had opened its big mouth in an attempt to devour Ye Nan.

From the tactile sensation, Ye Nan judged that the surface of this life form was soft, but because of constant friction with the sand, its skin was very tough, and it was covered with some sand, which doubled its defensive power.

"A very massive kind of creature, but unfortunately, too weak." Ye Nan defined this life form instantly, "Since it lives in the desert, let's call it a sand worm. Wait, sand worm? This name is very familiar."

Ye Nan named this worm himself, and only after naming it did he realize something was wrong, because this life form was very similar to a life form in his memory, and coincidentally, that creature was also called a sand worm.

"Could it be Dune?" A thought flashed through Ye Nan's mind, and he then examined the surrounding environment, "Even if it is Dune, it is of no use to me."

The planet in Dune, apart from providing special spices, had no other use.

In reality, things like spices are very useful for low-level civilizations, but for high-level civilizations, they really have no use.

This is because the function of spice is to alleviate the fatigue experienced by astronauts during long space voyages. Because of this, it is highly sought after. However, for high-level civilizations with space-jump technology, no matter how far the distance is, it is only a few hours of travel in their eyes, provided there are coordinates.

And the Spacetime Empire's subspace network is much more convenient and faster than space jumping, so this kind of spice has no great value to Ye Nan's Spacetime Empire; perhaps this spice could supplement the types of perfume in the Spacetime Empire, and that is all.

"But for creatures like sand worms, where is their food source?" A question mark appeared over Ye Nan's head, because his impression of the movie "Dune" was too weak, to the point that he couldn't even remember the characters in it, only the general plot. Fortunately, this planet was not a planet worth noting, so he didn't put much thought into it.

"Since there are sand worms below, there must be corresponding food. However, the smart brain did not scan any living organisms on the surface of this planet; they might be underground. You need to be careful, Clark," Ye Nan cautioned.

"Understood." Superman Clark didn't say anything; his attitude, which had become a bit lax after killing the sand worm, also became solemn.

And while Ye Nan and Clark were walking in the desert, a kind of insect suddenly appeared in the distant outer space.

This nameless insect was long and flat, looking just like a space battleship. The insect stopped outside the planet and suddenly exploded. Countless spores flew out from the exploding insect, were pulled down by the planet's gravity, and soon scattered to every part of the planet; almost every location had a spore present.

Ye Nan and Superman Clark, who were walking on the desert, suddenly stopped. Both of them looked toward the horizon together, and Ye Nan even reached out his hand to catch a spore falling from the sky.

"These things have life." Ye Nan looked at these spores with a solemn expression; these spores gave him a bad feeling.

"Warning, a large number of unknown organisms have invaded the planet." The smart brain's warning sound rang out at the right time, telling Ye Nan and Superman Clark that it had discovered unknown organisms.

"Smart brain, scan the entire surface of the planet and collect the behavior of these spores. I need to know what they are doing by landing." Crushing a spore with one hand, Ye Nan took the lead, turned into a phantom, and disappeared in front of Superman Clark.

"This is truly troublesome." Superman Clark shook his head and sighed, also disappearing from the spot like a phantom.

Rushing back from the outside, Ye Nan broke directly into the spaceship and said, "Smart brain, pull up the footage for me to see."

When the footage appeared, it was somewhat beyond Ye Nan's expectations, because the smart brain's footage included not only the hatching of the spores but also how the spores came to this planet.

Watching the black hole that suddenly appeared above the planet, and then an inexplicable insect flying out from it, exploding in space, and countless spores falling, no matter how one looked at it, it seemed like a long-premeditated performance.

"Insects, black holes, spores; it seems to be the Zerg. Only the Zerg would have such a grand gesture, but what are the insects doing here?" Ye Nan guessed in his heart. Suddenly remembering the two brain bugs still on Earth, Ye Nan immediately had the smart brain contact them.

"I hope these two brain bugs can give me an answer." (To be continued.)