Chapter 479: Space Castle and the Beautiful Female Devil

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The endless black starry sky is like an eternal curtain, frozen in all areas within the sight of small creatures.

Except for the occasional flash of starlight that briefly illuminates the desolate star field.

Most of the time there is only loneliness and coldness here.

The tentacles at the tail of the cuttlefish boat twisted and rotated quickly like a propeller. The sudden burst of thrust, coupled with the "jumps" that seemed to be stuck, but were actually very rhythmic, continued to push the cuttlefish boat towards the area where the coordinates were located. .

More than an hour later.

Matthew then saw a large number of starships and astral creatures docked near a star reef through the huge convex mirror and telescope——

Groups of giant astral hermit crabs surround the bottom of the star reef. The anchors dropped from their tails tightly wrap around the star reef, and are connected to each other by some tough steel cables.

The upper end of the hermit crab shell is carved out with layers of decks and towers.

There are many astral fishmen sailors on it who are busy carrying something.

Except for the astral murlocs and the hermit crab fleet.

Matthew also observed several squid ships!

The squid ship was obviously much more heavily guarded than the hermit crab fleet. Matthew accidentally saw a fully armed squid alchemist walking menacingly across the deck, and all the sailors and soldiers fell silent.

The alchemist lay on the edge of the deck and cursed at the hermit crab fleet for a while.

The actions of the astral murlocs suddenly became more compact.

Obviously.

This is a star transfer station similar to an isolated island in the sea.

Stuluk Industries established a small base on this isolated star reef.

And these squid ships are replenishing together with the fleet of astral hermit crabs they are responsible for escorting.

Matthew figured it wouldn't be long.

They will set off again.

"There are almost no firepower facilities on the giant hermit crab, even for a merchant ship, which is a bit unreasonable."

"The only explanation is that this group of astral fishmen have become vassals of Stuluk Industries. They only need to be responsible for commercial transportation, and safety is fully handed over to the squid fleet under Stuluk Industries..."

Matthew secretly speculated in his mind.

But at the same time, many doubts arose deep in his heart——

After the Blood Moon Strike.

It stands to reason that the Squid Alchemist was completely wiped out.

So where did these squid ships come from?

After a big tear.

Melinda, who works at Stuluk Industries, also sent information to Matthew twice.

However, due to the serious separation between the material world and the astral world, the two sides gradually lost contact.

Although Matthew is interested in gathering intelligence on Stuluk Industries.

But since that shot.

The Necrons are even more low-key than they were after the Blood Moon strike.

They have almost no presence in the physical world.

But Matthew knows very well that this does not mean that Stuluk Industries has lost its ideas about the material world, they are just hiding their capabilities and biding their time.

Keeping a low profile is just to hibernate and recover better.

And based on the scrap information he collected.

Stuluk Industries' activities in the star realm are actually still very frequent, they have just reduced their presence in the material realm.

In the astral realm.

They are still a super force slightly inferior to the Starry Night God——

And the latter's reputation is watery.

Not so with Stuluk Industries.

"As expected, they have not stopped recruiting the forces from the star realm."

"I wonder what Melinda's situation is now?"

Matthew looked at those astral murlocs in a daze.

Then he asked Xiao Di Lei:

"If they're heading to the planet Stuluk, can we follow them?"

Xiao Lei responded:

"It's hard."

"They are all medium and large starships. They travel extremely fast in the astral ocean currents, and their jump frequency is far higher than that of our cuttlefish boats."

"The only way is to take a ride, but this has certain risks..."

Matthew thought for a while:

"Try it?"

Xiao Li immediately inserted two additional cables under the console of the cuttlefish boat, followed by a puff of bright yellow sparks.

The cuttlefish boat quickly activated stealth mode.

Nimble and swift, it approached the underside of a giant hermit crab.

Immediately.

The tail tentacles of the cuttlefish boat were like suckers tightly sucking under the hermit crab's belly.

The invisibility aura is turned on.

It's like they don't exist.

Matthew chose this hermit crab.

He had just observed through the telescope that the hermit crab had completed its cargo transportation work, and the sailors had left the deck and ran to the cabin to rest.

Moreover, this hermit crab is also relatively low in the number of the fish-men fleet, so it is relatively difficult to find.

Sure enough.

Ten minutes later.

The squid ship set off first.

The hermit crab fleet also set off, and the murlocs controlled the shells of each hermit crab and drifted towards the astral ocean current on the other side of the star reef.

Until he successfully caught a ride on the astral ocean current.

No one noticed that there was an uninvited guest under a certain hermit crab.

Hoo ho ho!

Slight fluid disturbances impact the front convex mirror of the cuttlefish boat.

But besides that.

There was no other movement in the astral ocean currents.

Only the faint lights coming from the squid ships and other hermit crabs can still give people a sense of still being in the world.

The ocean current routes opened by squid ships are very fast.

In less than an hour.

They had successfully approached the vicinity of the planet Stuluk.

Stuluk is a plane.

In the multiverse, the carriers of planes are diverse -

There are single planes and relatively complex curved surfaces, which are the existence forms of most secondary planes;

There are also complex structures with a large number of curved surfaces nested and folded each other, which are often seen in the abyss, purgatory or evil spirit world;

The most special one is the planet.

Iendor itself is a planet carrying many curved planes, among which the super curved surface directly built on the core of the star is the main material world.

Therefore, in the study of planes.

All planes with planetary forms are considered to have the possibility of becoming the main material world.

Stuluk is one.

The new world that the God of Light and Knowledge and the Squid Alchemist tried to build on the Arcturus Reef is also one.

The difference is.

The new world on the Arcturus Reef is younger and has more potential.

If that planet was still slowly ascending when Iandor was torn apart, it might have a chance to replace Iandor as the new main material world.

Unfortunately, the blood moon destroyed everything.

Relatively speaking.

The potential of the planet Stuluk is much weaker.

This is also because it was formed at the wrong time.

When the Stuluk plane formed a planet, it was the heyday of Iandor.

Theoretically, there can be multiple main material worlds in the multiverse.

But the premise is that they are far enough apart.

The planet Stuluk obviously does not meet this condition.

However, this does not prevent this planet from being one of the most stable astral planes besides Iandor.

Because it has not been affected by the fall of Tianlun Palace too much.

The life on the planet Stuluk may have faced less survival pressure than Iandor in the past six months!

When Matthew approached the planet Stuluk infinitely.

This conjecture was confirmed.

"What a stable plane structure!"

"Why do I feel that the order here is much better than that of Iandor!"

Even in the astral world.

Matthew's super perception has also been far away on the planet that appeared at the end of the convex mirror.

According to his original plan.

It was to mix in with the hermit crab fleet to enter the planet Stuluk, and then look for the whereabouts of the butterfly.

However, variables soon appeared.

He found that the star caravan he mixed in was not going directly to the planet Stuluk.

In fact.

Those squid ships had no direct connection with the psychic communication intercepted by the little mine.

They were not qualified to participate in the capture of the ether core!

This led to them being told by a group of space necrons that the nearby star field had been blocked as soon as they approached the planet Stuluk, and the caravan must immediately change its route to a nearby port area.

Matthew also thought about leaving the main force on his own initiative.

Using the camouflage ability of the cuttlefish boat to quietly land on the planet Stuluk.

But the little mine told him.

The cuttlefish boat could not enter Stuluk without being noticed by the space necron.

In desperation.

They could only go with the flow, following the clumsy giant hermit crabs to bypass the front of the planet Stuluk and come to a zone on the back where three super-giant meteorites were suspended.

Here.

It is the three satellites of the planet Stuluk - Hume 1, 2, and 3 - and the gathering place of a large number of astral creatures enslaved by Stuluk Industries.

One and a half hours later.

Hume 3.

Space fortress.

After hosting the disguised squid boat at a private star dock outside.

Matthew disguised himself and mixed into the gathering place of astral creatures alone.

He used the real transformation to stabilize a dragon mage.

The reason for choosing dragons.

Because dragons are not rare in the astral world, but after Matthew's undead disaster, the space where dragons are active has gradually spread from the sampan plane to the outside world.

According to the information provided by Xiao Dilei.

More and more dragons tend to join Stuluk Industries in exchange for a stable job.

It is reasonable that the dragon mage played by Matthew appears here and seeks to enter the planet of Stuluk.

Dadada!

The dragon mage's boots make a pleasant rhythmic sound on the neat and heavy stone slabs.

Matthew walked in the area called Space Fortress in Hume III, but his feelings were a little subtle.

Along the way.

He saw many exotic buildings and landscapes-

Spiral houses built towards Stuluk, probably to adapt to the more unstable gravity field in space;

From time to time, mantis people with light blue jet backpacks, bright searchlights, folding mechanical pickaxes or magic drills flew over his head.

Those were local mantis miners mining rare minerals in the core area of ​​Hume III, mainly astral white crystals and some special magic metals;

Near the Starry Sky Pier.

Countless metal cables spread like spider webs to various areas of Hume III.

Cable cars carrying humanoids or mineral resources followed specific traffic rules, quickly completing rounds of intersections and overtaking;

And above the space fortress.

Countless brass cables wrapped around the heart of a giant wriggling star beast, which would emit a large amount of green juice every time it beat.

Under the heart, a giant wash basin was suspended.

The blue flames coming out of the wash basin evaporated and diluted the obviously poisonous juice, and finally disappeared.

At the end of the brass wire.

There were space poles.

Under the transmission of these poles, a huge amount of electricity was sent to every corner of Hume III.

Wherever Matthew went.

Every ten meters or so, there was an incandescent lamp that was either erected, embedded, or suspended.

The lights filled the entire space fortress and the Hume III satellite.

This made this satellite belt that was isolated outside the planet Stuluk look as bright as an artificial moon.

Even though Matthew was hostile to Stuluk Industry.

He had to admit that the space necromancers built the planet Stuluk in a decent manner.

In terms of order.

At least the security of the space fortress was as good as that of Rolling Stone City.

Matthew traveled between the busy main roads and the deserted alleys, encountered various star races, but never witnessed the birth of a crime.

As for the patrol strength of law enforcement officers?

Actually, it was just so-so.

After most of the day.

He encountered two space necrons wrapped in tin cans, and a squid alchemist carrying a huge liquid metal tube.

Most of the intelligent life in the fortress was very relaxed.

Even if they returned from the outside, they were not less armed, but once they entered the space fortress, all life would consciously abide by certain unwritten rules.

Matthew was secretly amazed by these scenes.

"Stuluk Industries has done a lot of bad things, but their technology, management and system are indeed desirable..."

After most of the day.

The dragon mage played by Matthew has also initially integrated into the space fortress, a wonderful community full of star creatures.

He learned.

Stuluk Industries does not directly intervene in the governance and management of the Space City and the gathering places on the other two satellites.

There are about three forces that dominate the development, security, taxation and management of this area.

They are -

The Star Mantis Force headed by the wealthy businessman Christopher;

The Giza Force headed by the god-level fortune teller Pierce;

There are also four space giants who are highly regarded by Stuluk Industries, and the Giant Brotherhood they established.

At the same time.

Matthew also found out.

In the past, the Space City had a portal to the planet Stuluk. As long as you have a good relationship with one of the three major forces, you will have the opportunity to enter the Stuluk mainland through the portal.

But due to some recent events, the portal has been temporarily closed.

Now the residents of the Space City are also very curious about when the portal between the two places will be opened.

In order to further inquire about the news.

Matthew came to an "Explorer Tavern" opened by the Mantis.

He came to the counter, ordered a few drinks, and then pretended to ask the mantis bartender about the recent interesting things in the space city.

Seeing that Matthew was generous, the bartender answered without hesitation:

"There are many interesting things, but there are only two that are most talked about."

Matthew raised his eyebrows:

"You say."

The bartender said while mixing the drinks:

"The first thing is that Mr. Christopher is about to hold another "Treasure Conference". As long as you can win the Treasure Conference, you will become a person in charge of Mr. Christopher's Chamber of Commerce, or get the opportunity to join the Stuluk Industrial Business Department."

Matthew smiled:

"It sounds good."

The bartender agreed:

"Of course, everyone wants to join Stuluk, but unfortunately I don't have any treasures, otherwise I would also go to the Treasure Conference."

"The second thing..."

"I heard that a female demon king who kills without blood came to the next city and has caused several tragedies recently. "

"The Mantis Law Enforcement Team has been dispatched."

"They are frantically searching for the female demon king throughout the territory..."

Matthew raised his eyebrows:

"Is this interesting?"

The bartender said mysteriously:

"It is said that the female demon king is very beautiful and comes from the Blood Flag Family in Purgatory..."

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