Chapter 456: No. 3 Civilization Ruin! Spaceship?

After one final search of the ruin base to confirm nothing of value had been left behind,

Xu Jingming and Leng Yuexi departed the site, heading back in the direction they came from.

September 4th, 6:34 PM.

Kanda Wilderness Zone, Redwood Forest Area.

The trees in this region were already dark red, and now, as the sun set, its light fell upon them.

Making these trees appear as if stained with fresh blood, combined with the occasional roars of ferocious beasts within the forest, rendered the place even more sinister and terrifying.

At that moment, two figures rushed toward them from afar, stopping at the edge of the Redwood Forest.

They were a man and a woman; the woman was tall and slender.

Dressed in a silver-white fitted combat suit that accentuated her curvaceous figure.

Especially her delicate face, which bore a hint of mixed-blood elegance, exquisitely beautiful.

The man standing beside her stood a head taller, his build towering and muscular.

His features were rugged and resolute, his wild long hair loosely tied behind him.

Merely standing there, he radiated a faint sense of pressure.

These two were precisely Leng Yuexi and Xu Jingming, who had left the ancient civilization ruin and raced here without pause.

"We've reached the Redwood Forest. The No. 3 Civilization Ruin should be nearby."

Xu Jingming swept his gaze across the surroundings, taking in every detail of the Redwood Forest area.

The crimson trees paired with the ferocious beast roars—admittedly, this was an ideal location for filming a horror movie.

Under the passive sensing of his Mind Net, he could sense the presence of ferocious beasts nearby.

But their levels were only third or fourth grade; fifth-grade beasts were rare.

On one hand, this was because, relative to the vast expanse of the Kanda Wilderness Zone, the Redwood Forest was an outer region.

It was normal for high-grade beasts to be scarce here.

On the other hand, the higher the beast's grade, the fewer its numbers—high-grade beasts were not found everywhere.

For instance, in the past dozen days since leaving the civilization ruin, they had encountered only four or five seventh-grade beasts total.

"Slaying one lower-tier seventh-grade beast grants three thousand ability points."

But unfortunately, their numbers were too few, and there was no way to exploit system bugs." Xu Jingming thought silently.

On the journey, he handled all the lower-tier seventh-grade beasts he encountered, while Leng Yuexi dealt with higher-grade ones.

He had once tried letting Leng Yuexi severely wound a beast first, then delivering the final blow himself to see if he could claim the ability points.

After testing, he found that ability points were indeed awarded—but less than one-tenth of the normal amount, pitifully small.

This immediately extinguished his idea of exploiting this to cheat the system.

"Sis Xi, you should head back. I'll stay here for now."

Withdrawing his gaze, Xu Jingming turned to look at Leng Yuexi.

Although the No. 3 Civilization Ruin opened in September, the exact date remained uncertain.

His administrator access pass had not yet shown any anomalies.

That meant the ruin's opening was still a few days away.

"It's almost nightfall. I can leave tomorrow—I might as well keep you company tonight."

After glancing at the sky, Leng Yuexi smiled lightly, "Besides, I haven't visited the No. 3 Ruin in a long time—I can go with you."

"Alright." Xu Jingming nodded.

According to the map, the No. 3 Civilization Ruin lay at the very center of the Redwood Forest.

Walking from here would take less than ten minutes to reach...

Before coming to Myanmar, Xu Jingming had consulted the Lei Ting Martial Arts Academy's database for information on the No. 3 Civilization Ruin.

He knew its shape resembled a spaceship.

But when he actually saw the No. 3 Civilization Ruin, he was still profoundly stunned.

There, at the center of the Redwood Forest, was a pit roughly four to five kilometers in diameter and seventy to eighty meters deep!

At the very bottom of the pit lay a spaceship, over two thousand meters long, six hundred meters wide, radiating a strong sci-fi aesthetic.

The ship was entirely black, slightly dilapidated, with much of it sunken deep into the earth.

Yet even the portion exposed above ground stood over fifty meters tall!

Like a Shi Qian behemoth, it stood firm within the pit.

"This isn't just like a spaceship—it is one!"

Gazing at the colossal object in the pit, Xu Jingming struggled to swallow.

He knew Earth's technological level was highly advanced, but he never imagined it had once possessed a spaceship this massive!

"Impressive, right?"

Leng Yuexi smiled over at him, "When I first saw the No. 3 Civilization Ruin, I was stunned too.

I never thought the Shi Qian civilization had the capability to build a vessel this large."

Leng Yuexi's melodious voice carried a tone of reflection.

Without the existence of the Shi Qian civilization, Earth's technological progress would never have reached its current state.

In fact,

Many artifacts unearthed from the previous era still cannot be replicated today.

Such as gravity chambers, top-tier artificial intelligences...

"Spaceship... come to think of it, online data about the stars seems scarce." Xu Jingming frowned in confusion.

Even in his past life, when technology was far less advanced, humanity had already built space stations in orbit.

The robots' footprints had even already reached other planets.

But Blue Star, where technology had developed to a higher degree and Ability Users existed, seemed never to have broken through the planet's limits.

Even its communication satellites were still near-Earth satellites, having never left the atmosphere at all.

Which meant base stations had to be built on the ground to receive signals.

And in places where base stations couldn't be built, like the wilderness zones, there was simply no way to carry out long-distance communication.

"The starry sky?"

Leng Yuexi raised her head, looking at the sky that had already begun to darken slightly with twinkling stars, her expression complicated as she said:

"That is an extremely mysterious place for us human Ability Users.

Way back in the early period of Yuan-energy Revival, after the great technological explosion, there was an attempt to launch satellites into outer space.

But without exception, every single one failed.

Later, after a peak ninth-tier Wu Sheng was born—

There was also an attempt to pierce through the atmosphere and enter space, but it likewise failed.

As for the specific reasons for the failure, they were kept tightly sealed; even my father's generation doesn't know.

Perhaps one has to wait until reaching ninth-tier before being qualified to learn this secret..."

"Even a peak ninth-tier Wu Sheng couldn't break through? Is it really that difficult?" Xu Jingming's expression froze for a moment.

Based on his previous life's experience, as long as speed reached a certain threshold, one could break free of the planet's own gravity and enter space.

Judging by the extraordinary strength of a peak ninth-tier Wu Sheng, achieving this shouldn't be overly difficult.

If even they couldn't do it, then the space environment Blue Star was situated in was definitely not quite the same as in the previous life.

"Who says it isn't?"

Leng Yuexi nodded as well, then said with a smile:

"But it does seem a bit impractical to talk about space when we haven't even dealt with Blue Star's local fierce beasts yet."

"True." Xu Jingming didn't object.

The fierce beasts on Blue Star were the existence that needed to be dealt with first and foremost.

Besides, only after becoming a Supreme Strong could one rely on individual strength to survive in space.

Right now, he was still far too distant from that goal...