Ant Lord in the Star Realm

Ink Orchid excitedly chimed in, "Yes! Yes! Yes! Art can only be sold at the price of raw materials. Technological products have higher value!"

Upright Lotus waved its claw, urging, "Come on! Let’s go down and check the second tier!"

Turning back to the second tier to look around, the same is true for art pieces, but unfortunately, the materials were all destroyed.

No need to look at the first tier.

There’s also a third treasury.

Traditional rules, Kansui and Giant Taro escort Dragon Cypress, Ink Orchid retreats, maintaining a safe distance of ten kilometers.

Chickpea opens the door,

Upright Lotus and Purple Cicada guard.

Soon,

The door opened a crack.

Dragon Cypress’s soul-setting ability swept over, directly using spiritual power to inform Upright Lotus, "Safe!"

At the same time, the news is also conveyed to Ink Orchid, Kansui, and Giant Taro, the group activates teleport ability, quickly rushing into the treasury.

Neat and tidy, row after row, cabinet racks reaching to the dome.

On the racks, neatly displayed are metal cases of varying sizes and thicknesses, intricately crafted.

Lift a claw to grab one, a sweep of spiritual power reveals the structure inside, a thought triggers the metal case mechanism to open, inside are light and soft materials, imprinted with universal cosmic characters, page by page, totaling 152 pages.

Then look at the metal case cover "Notes on the Aolaqi Mountain Residence"

——A book!

Dragon Cypress recognized it at a glance.

Entirely forged from Level 3 metal materials.

Inside ’paper’ texture is unique, made from some highly durable, neither metal nor stone special materials.

Silver-white pages, blue-green characters, with faint, indistinct landscape paintings as background.

Dragon Cypress strenuously raised its head.

In front,

Large rows and rows of bookshelves over 200 meters high and over 800 meters wide.

Filled with books.

A vast sea of books!

"Dragon Cypress, is this also art?"

"Yes."

"Literary art?"

"Pretty much the idea. A top-level technological civilization preserved civilization information in the most primitive way."

"Oh——"

Ink Orchid also controlled a book, quickly flipping through, mumbled, "Having encountered so many profound and mysterious art pieces, I’m really evolving into an artist now."

"Ink Orchid has always been an artist."

Dragon Cypress casually replied, saying, "There seems to be something good ahead! Ink Orchid, let’s go check it out!"

As soon as the words were spoken, five elder spiders transformed into five streams of light and rushed out.

Dragon Cypress and Ink Orchid quickly followed.

At the end of the sea of books, left and right sides:

Left side, a circular high platform ascending in layers.

One, two, three layers of steps, corresponding to the civilizations’ Level 1, Level 2, Level 3.

Each layer is a complete set of 27 steps.

Corresponding to Origin Force Life in each large level, consisting of three major realms, each realm evolves 9 times in the age period.

Three layers of steps represent Level 3 civilization.

Above the three layers, there are 9 steps, indicating that this civilization has mastered many technologies that surpass Level 3 civilization. This completely matches Haimeng Ship’s scanning assumptions.

The top of the platform has a diameter of over a hundred meters, scattered with crystal round beads of various sizes! And there’s a sideways fallen... corpse? Wearing Grape Hydrangea armor.

However, all five elder spiders ran to the right side.

...

Right side,

A device that resembles a date pit, pointed at both ends, over 300 meters long.

Entirely light smoky cyan color, semi-transparent crystalline material, with colored scales-shaped original energy patterns densely distributed on the surface.

Elegantly slender, smooth curves.

Spirit power inspection.

The outer layer is neither metal nor stone, akin to a Technological Star Core material, spatial system material, with weak spatial primordial energy fluctuations.

——This thing looks extraordinary!

——Starship?

Dragon Cypress also hurriedly moved forward to check.

Carefully circled around, identified the front and rear.

Both ends sharp,

The densely distributed scale patterns end is clearly the head.

The colorful vertical striped end should be the tail.

This shape, very much resembles a highly technological starship.

So high-tech that no seam can be found, no entrance found.

Upright Lotus, Kansui, and Giant Taro are trying to communicate with spirit power, injecting spatial system origin force into it.

No response.

"Starship?"

Upright Lotus inquired.

"Undoubtedly a starship!"

Kansui confidently answered.

Giant Taro explained, "Kansui and I had the privilege of seeing Chairman Melde’s exclusive starship, similar design. Technological creations often have common similarities."

Then it must be!

This is a very impressive and high-end starship!

Giant Taro analyzed, saying, "This civilization is proficient in space technology, this starship should not have been designed with a cabin door. Entry and exit through spatial teleportation."

Upright Lotus immediately agreed, "Should be. I’ve also heard of human civilizations creating similar high-end starships, also doorless. With a fusion carapace teleport device, within a certain distance, a thought transports you back to the starship."

Kansui praised, "A flawless piece of art!"

——This shape.

——These lines.

——These patterns, colors.

——These materials.

The four elder spiders all agreed, dazzled.

Similar small-scale, lightweight Level 3 starships, low-end ones can cost over a thousand billion, such as the Haimeng Ship.

High-end ones can sell for over ten thousand billion, even higher astronomical prices, like the one before us.

The gap between high and low ends, in speed, energy consumption, maneuverability, stability, defense, etc., can be severalfold, dozens of times.

Upright Lotus glanced around, saying, "This starship should be the exclusive property of the highest leader of this technological civilization. Assembled the civilization’s most precious materials, using cutting-edge technology, meticulously crafted."

——Absolutely!

——It must be!

——Otherwise, why would it be placed in this position?

The spiders again show support.

Dragon Cypress raised a claw to ask, "So, can our Insect Clan crack and use it?"

——...

The spiders fell into silence.

Upright Lotus said, "Probably can!"

Upright Lotus explained, "Need to find elder spiders from the Flame Spider Tribe who are proficient in spatial ability and scientific technology."

"Perhaps, similar to the Technological Star Core, the control starship’s authentication system cannot be cracked. Forcibly cracking might lead to damage. However, other components of the starship will not follow in damage."

"Simply remove the authentication system, combining spatial ability with scientific technology, mimicking and creating one, installing it will suffice. Dawn Star System definitely has spiders proficient in such technology."

Dragon Cypress: "Then its value..."

Upright Lotus: "Belongs to the pinnacle creation of a technological civilization, if intact and usable, priced starting from ten trillion, specifics are hard to estimate. Of course, the corresponding cracking and repair costs, that would naturally also be astronomical."

"Understood..."

Dragon Cypress suddenly turned its head.

In unison, all spiders turned around, gazing at the left platform.

...

On the left platform,

Ink Orchid somehow manipulated a white spherical crystal with a diameter of forty to fifty centimeters, slowly floating up.

Surrounding it, crystals on the platform of varying diameters, from millimeters to centimeters, began to fly up, drifting and moving.

Suddenly,

Numerous crystal beads of different sizes lit up with white light.

The dark treasury was illuminated.

Light refracted between the crystal beads, bursting into dazzling countless colors.

"Wow~ oh!"

"An art piece?"

Ink Orchid exclaimed, shouting, "Dragon Cypress! Look at this! Isn’t this an art piece imitating the cosmic star systems?"