Chapter 443

Because of your tiny Crystal Core, the huge amount of data made Xiao Jiu spit all over the ground; turns out Ship Girls can also spit like that.

But this isn't a big problem; you optimized the Crystal Core's data flow and easily solved the issue.

But a bigger problem came up: to go pick up trash in space, he first needs a space station capable of instant jumps, and also several Ship Lives to help him work.

Xiao Jiu's description is spot on: your behavior is like using a golden shovel to scoop feces, but you find it interesting, after all, making money is just a small matter for you.

As a veteran scavenger, picking up trash has become an essential behavior for you; you have no grand dreams, the thrill of scavenging and the possibility of surprise are your biggest motivation for seeking surprise.

If we put it more grandly, you're a treasure hunter who loves Taobao! Those floating in space and those on the scrap star are your best Treasure Chests!

Moreover, this star system also has a scrap star, but unlike those scrap stars where cities were deliberately built to recycle resources, this system's scrap star is a planet unsuitable for life.

You put the sorted genuine junk on Xiao Jiu's main warship, and after taking over the scrap processing station, you now need to handle this junk yourself.

Then I'm off, human!

Remember to buy me something tasty to reward me!

Xiao Jiu hung a piece of scrap twice her size and slowly disappeared into the sky.

She needs to bring this scrap to dump on the scrap star, and of course she has to do it herself.

The biggest cost of opening a scrap station is hiring a warship to transport the goods to another orbit nearby.

Maybe Xiao Jiu will curiously go explore that planet, after all, this little Ship Girl's interest in scavenging is no less than Zhang Jie's.

She has already been turned into a scavenger Ship Girl by Zhang Jie.

Hmm.....

Zhang Jie watched Xiao Jiu's disappearing figure, fell into thought for a moment, and lately he hasn't had anything to study or research.

It's not that it's temporarily unavailable, but rather too profound; I wonder if the frontline situation of the Intelligent Machine Star Alliance is available on this network—Zhang Jie is very interested in it and basically watches it every day.

So as to ensure that when he goes to pick up trash in space later, he won't lack a target.

Compared to weak civilizations, these great civilizations are indeed better.

Zhang Jie sighed; since his birth, he has faced a calamity only once, which is enough to prove how safe civilizations under the Star Alliance's protection are.

No wonder everyone wants to flee to the great civilizations.

Zhang Jie saw the miserable state of civilizations near the front line and couldn't help shaking his head.

The ever-advancing frontier of the Star Alliance constantly encounters many civilizations devastated by calamities, and these civilizations basically have no living forces left.

It's like... how to put it.

When a civilization emerges from a planet dominated by a single calamity and sets out with hope and fervor to explore the stars, it faces a calamity that already occupies most of the universe.

Perhaps there once was a civilization there, but it has long vanished, leaving only star systems occupied by calamities.

Huh? Calamity Index? What is that?

Zhang Jie finally noticed the small print at the bottom of the holographic screen: Calamity Index.

And this number clearly represents some serious problems.

Currently its value has reached 70.16%, which doesn't look very safe anymore.

What does this data represent....

Is this the index of how much of the universe is occupied by calamity?!

Seventy percent?!

That means seventy percent of the universe's positions have been completely occupied by calamity?

What the hell are we even playing for!

The Iron Law Star Alliance has completely cleared the calamity in the T-Number Nebula, and the Calamity Index has simultaneously dropped by 0.007%; the road to clearing calamities is long and arduous.

Well, it's good that there's a civilization like the Iron Law Star Alliance fighting hard against the calamity.

Afterward, not only the Iron Law Star Alliance, but several other major Star Alliances are also simultaneously clearing calamities.

Although it's unclear whether the situation is really as good as imagined, Zhang Jie knows that over the past several thousand years, the Calamity Index has fallen from ninety percent to seventy percent, so there is still hope.

It's just that over the past few hundred years, the speed of this index's decline has slowed considerably.

Maybe it's related to the conflict between humans.

Zhang Jie closed the holographic screen, and suddenly he recalled his earlier research on the Blood Disaster, hiss.....

That wonderful feeling remains unforgettable to him to this day.

Maybe.... I can get some calamity remnants here?

A dangerous thought sprouts in your mind: researching calamities is something that every self‑considered genius scholar finds extremely hard to resist.

And figuring out where to obtain those so‑called calamity remnants is itself a difficult task.

You have fixed your gaze on the most bizarre calamity: Nightmare, the only one capable of descending from the world of consciousness into reality as a bizarre calamity.

Its destructive power may not be the strongest, but its penetrative ability is absolutely the strongest.

Civilizations that break free from planets and enter space will experience a technological leap; likewise, calamities do the same—every calamity that ends its entanglement with a civilization will gain a second life in the universe.

Here there is no Nightmare King who could wipe out all calamities in one breath; their threat remains, like hunters ready to pounce, eyes fixed on the Star Alliance.

If you see a pure white star or planet in space, don't hesitate—that's where Nightmare has completely transformed the territory.

I'm back, human!

Just as Zhang Jie was thinking how to lure the Nightmare, Xiao Jiu's voice pulled his attention back, and his Small Ship Girl finally returned.

Just as Zhang Jie expected, Xiao Jiu indeed went to that junk star and explored it.

At this moment, she was like presenting a treasure, offering Zhang Jie a strange huge cabin.

Hurry, hurry, hurry! Humans!

Look what I found, a wonderful thing!

This is....

Ancient memories surged forth; the white cabin before his eyes gradually overlapped with the one that previously held Xiao Jiu, and Zhang Jie suddenly began to breathe rapidly.

It's like the chance of humans being killed by cockroaches is very low, but it's absolutely not zero.

The chance of picking up a Ship Life is small, but it's absolutely not zero!

"This is....."

"No way......"