Chapter 699： Spend-more-than-earn

Freya opened her eyes and said with a smile: "An old man came from a distance. He gave me a golden seed. He also said that this is a seed with magical power and will grow everything I want... spring. At that time, I buried it in the soil, gave it tea made in mountain springs, and said what it liked to listen to, and then in autumn... guess what?"

"What?"

Xiao Nizi grabbed his neck, rubbed and rubbed his chin with her red face, and said excitedly: "I really have gained a lot of Tang Fang, and there are so many baskets..."

"..." Captain Tang was speechless for a while: "Are you sure it's not potatoes?"

She wrinkled her nose and said, "I hate potatoes."

Tang Fang didn't bother to talk nonsense with her, and brought Egg Stetman from the system space back to the laboratory.

The funny tech house was stunned by the scene before him, with an ugly expression like someone had robbed him of his puffs: "Oh, my God, look at what you guys have done... my laboratory!"

"Mistakes, mistakes..." Tang Fang was a little embarrassed.

It is an indisputable fact that his whim to destroy the technical house’s laboratory. Although most of the equipment can be repaired, it takes a certain amount of time, which will undoubtedly cause a lot of trouble for the technical house.

"My dear friend, think about'Cabrreto', think about the bustling and colorful nightlife of the royal capital, the suffering before me is so insignificant."

He said in a bewildering voice: "For a genius scientist like you, fixing them is just a trivial matter."

A triumphant expression appeared on Iger's face, remembering the days when he was on the Huberian, when Renault had praised him so much. The bully and hard-headed guy would only compliment the big men like Atanis and Zeratul. To be entangled with beauties like Kerrigan, Nova and Ariel, how can you compare with the new boss.

At least...at least Captain Tang did not hesitate to praise and affirm his achievements and value.

"Um... Iger, I will tell the logistics maintenance team to come over and see if there is anything we can help, and by the way, check if Bai Hao and others are injured. See you later."

"Come to the captain's room for a cup of tea..." Abandoning these words, he took Freya's little hand and ran out of the laboratory.

Teasing the technical house blinks, there is a feeling of being betrayed.

………………

Tang Fang first went to the lounge outside the medical laboratory to meet with Bai Hao and the others. Knowing that everyone was healthy, he relieved his mind and explained what had happened in the laboratory. And some guesses about the origin of the "fairy elegy" told Valentin several people, and then drove Freya back to the room, and finally had time to retrieve the new elements of the system space.

According to his guess, "Fairy Elegy" came from the Ypsilon civilization and should unlock the Protoss unit.

What could it be?

He selected the probe. After browsing the building items, there are no new units to unlock.

Then there are portals, mechanical stations, and star gates. There are also no new expansion units.

"Could it be... a hero unit?"

The cursor switched to the Protoss hub, and the mothership core was still locked, as were the Zeratul and Gan Cui lock, and no new elements were found.

"Not a Protoss unit?" He frowned, and then called Emma: "Analyze the system log to find the location of the change."

"Please wait, Commander."

A few breathing times. Emma sent a reply: "Commander, according to the memory address recorded in the system log, the new element should be located in the fourth base."

The fourth base? Sarnagar? Mixed body?

He remembers that there has been no movement since the fourth base appeared. Except for expanding the Void Seeker with Zeratul, there are no new things to unlock. Without the dark altar, it would be impossible to build the Hunyuan Obelisk, and naturally it would not be possible to build the Hunyuan Experimental Tube to produce Hunyuan.

There is no point in thinking about it, and he quickly sinks his consciousness into the fourth base.

The obelisk relay station of Hunyuan Temple is immersed in the gloom. It exudes a cold breath, and the complicated energy pattern is engraved and dimmed. Flash the waves of the previous Naaru projection.

He did not select it to see if there are new elements to unlock, because it is not used!

The new element is here. To be precise, it stands directly in front of the relay station of the Obelisk of Hunyuan Temple.

A piece of debris is suspended above the newly-emerged ring platform, slowly rotating among the cylindrical light curtains, and occasionally bounces cyan light arcs.

Looking at the blue-black fragment, Tang Fang's face was strange.

You don’t need to click, you know what it is called.

He is not unfamiliar with this thing at all, very familiar, and even said that he has long admired his name.

The key prop throughout the entire Wings of Freedom campaign can purify the Queen of Blade's fetish - yes, it is the Sarnagar artifact, which is called the keystone by Zeratul.

Whether it is StarCraft 1 or StarCraft 2, it is an existence that cannot be ignored.

"It's actually this thing!" Tang Fang was speechless. He never thought that "Fairy Elegy" would unlock the keystone, which also proved the extraordinary of "Fairy Elegy" from the side.

Keystone has many functions in StarCraft, such as imprisoning, weakening, purifying, and even destroying Zergs and Protoss units, absorbing void energy, creating shock waves, etc., fully worthy of the name "artifact".

But in this world, what does it do? Can it purify the phagosome?

"Fairy Elegy" has the effect of suppressing the activity of phagosome cells. According to the logic of Sister Logic, there is a certain degree of correlation between the information carrier and the unlocking item. Perhaps the reason why "Fairy Elegy" can unlock the keystone is precisely because Both have similar abilities and can suppress phagosomes.

Regrettably, the keystone in front of you is not a complete keystone, but a fragmented state in the Wings of Freedom campaign. There is only one, and there are only four pieces short of it to be combined into a real keystone, gaining unparalleled abilities.

He switched the focus to the ring platform, and it turned out to be "Salnagar Keystone Fragment". There is an option to "Compose a complete Sarnagar Keystone" in the menu bar on the right. It is currently locked, and the cursor moves past and there is a red highlight note : "The keystone is incomplete. The current number of fragments is 1/5."

In other words, in order to completely unlock the Sarnagar Keystone, another 4 fragments are needed.

He could hardly complain. He has to repeat what Renault has done before - collecting artifact fragments.

The key is how to collect the remaining 4 pieces? Is it possible that, like this time, another "fairy elegy" is needed?

In fact, Linglong and Yingluo still have 2 small pieces, but he will not joke about the lives of the two girls, and he does not think that such a small spar will unlock the keystone fragments.

"It seems...the most reasonable way to continue unlocking the keystone fragments is to unearth the secrets of God's arms."

Whether it is a "fairy elegy" or a mechanical brain. They are all things he values.

He even wondered where God armed those guys got them.

"Khanos... Anthem... Humph..."

After examining the unlock items of the Sarnagar base, he was about to withdraw his consciousness from the system space, when suddenly a mysterious force from nothingness forced him to imprison him.

"Emma, ​​what's the situation?"

There was no answer, and even Divine Mind was squeezed out of the Sarnagar base and came to the selection interface of the four race base.

"Emma... Emma... what the **** is going on?"

Still no answer. Deadly silent. Not only that, even the emblems of the four races turned from bright to dark, and the interstellar system slowly went offline.

"Sister Logic, come out for me!"

He was not overly flustered, whether it was the expansion of the Protoss base for the first generation of buildings. Or "Intelligent" unlocks the classic human units, the interplanetary system will restart offline, refresh the database, and unlock new elements. It's like before a game is updated, it must be closed before data upgrades, and then new plots, new props, or new characters can be obtained.

In fact, the "Extra-Dimensional Vientiane Sphere System" that supports the operation of the interstellar system has never been suspended. It is the logical sister of Tang Fang. Just like the above analogy, if the interstellar system is a game, the extra-dimensional universal ball system is the computer itself.

It turns out. His yelling like this is meaningless.

His consciousness was kicked out again, and he entered a very unfamiliar space through the interstellar system interface. He was sure...he had never been here before.

More importantly, he has no way to control the departure of consciousness at all, and is still imprisoned by a certain mysterious force.

In line with the idea of ​​peace with what he has come, he carefully looked at his surroundings.

Matter like a cloud of dust is permeating distant places. There are stars dotted with it, making this space look like a reduced version of the universe.

Right below consciousness. It is a fast-spinning spherical system with countless semi-annular light belts of different sizes in different orbits. Rotate around the central core in different directions and speeds.

If you observe carefully, you can see that there are silver-white brilliance flowing on the semi-annular light belt. These brilliance are like the semi-annular light belt orbiting the central core, flowing on the surface of the semi-annular light belt, and it is mysterious from a distance. With the taste of science fiction.

"Looking" continued downward, and through the gap that finally appeared between the semi-annular light belts, he finally saw the tip of the iceberg in the central core.

It is very bright, brighter than the semi-circular light belt outside.

Until the "eyesight" was maximized, I finally saw a huge ball of light in the silver storm that was enough to drown all colors.

Unlike a black hole that can swallow even light, it is very bright, brighter than a blazing star, and endless rays of light project outward from the surface of the photosphere, thus evolving a light storm that illuminates everything.

Fortunately, it was only his consciousness, not himself, that came here, otherwise... and no matter whether his life could be saved, at least a pair of eyes could not be saved.

Fortunately, those semi-annular light belts can absorb the light emitted by the light ball to the maximum, turning them into silver brilliance flowing on the surface, which reminds him of a word Emma once said to him, which is also an interstellar unit. The full name of the summoning system is the super-dimensional Vientiane Ball system based on Bai Dao.

I'm afraid that the light ball that never stops radiating energy out is the so-called white road, and the semi-annular light belts that revolve around it are the extra-dimensional Vientiane Ball system.

He didn't have any concept of the whole system before, but now he finally has some understanding, although it is only superficial.

He knew that this must be because Sister Logic transformed the system that was originally in a higher dimension into a three-dimensional model and projected it onto his sea of ​​consciousness in order to let him understand the system more intuitively.

But... why did "she" do this?

At this moment, the sudden change explained Sister Logic's motivation for doing so.

The central core wrapped by many semi-annular light belts ejects seven-colored rays of light outward, which are like gorgeous aurora, drifting upward in the silver-white ocean. It turns into a rainbow silk yarn, rotating all the way, and merges into the outer semi-annular light belt.

The silver light flowing on the surface of the light band began to be replaced by neon, and the super-dimensional Vientiane Sphere system radiated brilliance. A voice rang in my mind.

"The available energy source is detected and the conversion process starts..."

"The system core level 1 has been detected, the target has been located, the loop matrix has been opened, and the charging has begun..."

"The integration process starts..."

"The integration progress is 12%...22%...50%...99%..."

"Integration is complete..."

"The data core has woken up."

"The system core level 2 is detected, optimize the resource ratio. Update system information..."

"The StarCraft module has responded, the content is loading, please wait..."

"The system is back online."

He hadn't heard Sister Logic's emotionless metallic tone for a long time, and he had a long-lost feeling.

This emotion did not last long, and the consciousness was pulled back to the selection interface of the Interstellar System 4 family base.

"Congratulations, Commander. The core of the system has been upgraded, and it is currently at level 2."

Emma's greeting made him feel kind, but what is more exciting is that the core of the system has been upgraded from level 1 to level 2.

He still remembers what Emma said to him after Behemoth was unlocked. Because the core level of the system was too low, the interstellar system was limited to one unit of poetry and history. Now the core level of the system is upgraded to 2. Naturally means that you can unlock more poetry units.

For mobile military fortresses like Behemoth, the "Mubarak" offensive and defensive warfare has proved its powerful effect, if there are more. It is conceivable how much it will bring to the military strength of "Morning Star Casting".

Now that Baiyue has merged with Zagara's memory, he can command Behemoth like Izsha, and it is time for him to use the energy that the swarm leader should have.

More importantly, poetry and history units like Behemoth can expand the population of the corresponding race! This is its most powerful function.

Tang Fang immediately invested his consciousness in the Zerg base, selected the main nest, and saw that Behemoth's option had changed from gray to highlight.

He moved the cursor over. 1000w crystal, 1000w gas. The cost of the population occupying 16 made him unable to help but shook his head, and then looked at the number of system resources. The gas is 226,435. This is still the income from absorbing the 200 tons of zero element in Behemoth's body. The crystal resources are sufficient, more than 24 million.

I thought that I had just discussed a big deal with His Majesty the King, and that 20 million gas would be in the account. I thought that life would be better in the future, but I didn’t think of an Abathur, a Behemoth, and the use of resources. net.

Everyone thinks that he is a "Morning Star Casting" head of the family, rich and rich, only he knows how difficult it is to live. There is a group of old people who are blinded by lard who have to calculate him at all times. There is a big stomach king in his head. Drinking veggie is the same as tm drinking water, and they don't even have the opportunity to bargain.

"Hey, the landlord's house has no more food!"

He sighed and whispered that when he complained that his life was too bad, Emma interrupted his cranky thinking aloud: "Commander, the system core level upgrade is not just to expand the capacity of Behemoth. In fact, the system can now be The number of poems and history units that can be accommodated is 3, and the number of hero units is 9, which is 3 times that of the system core level 1."

He stayed for a while, a wry smile appeared at the corners of his mouth, and he said: Okay, 2 Behemoths + 1 Abathur, that's 30 million crystals and 30 million gas, and the 20,000 tons of zero element in the praise of Will. Children are not enough for him to splurge.

Why is my life so bitter...Well, do you want to get close to Henrietta and get some more from the old man?

Zerg units are different from humans and gods in that their individual soldiers are of low quality. Their most powerful location is their large number. The size of the insect swarm can be hundreds of millions, relying on the vast sea of ​​insects to spread across the entire Koplu star area.

Among the three clans under Tang Fang, the fastest unlocking progress was the Zerg, then the Human, and finally the Protoss. As the scale of "Morning Star Casting" is getting bigger and bigger, the enemies it faces are getting stronger and stronger. Now that the Star Alliance is fighting against the Sulu Empire and the Monya Empire, he, as the core figure instigating this storm, naturally cannot stay out of the matter.

Facing the regiment-level battle sequence of Monya and Sulu, as well as regional battles that are different from fixed-point battles, the previous combat methods have been unable to keep up with developments. In order to survive the next storm of war, he must It is necessary to further expand the scale of controllable forces in hand.

The upgrade of the core of the system can be said to be a help in the snow. If two Behemoths can be added again, the upper limit of the Zerg population will be increased to 4000, which will greatly increase his military strength.

"Zero element...Zero element..."

From "Georgia" back to "Aradel He once dispatched Bai Hao to drive the "Moncry" to the two gas giants of the star system, "Carkatier" and "Bonatia". The planetary survey for the existence of zero-prime mineral deposits was disappointing. Only zero-prime fluctuations were detected in "Carkatiere", and the quantity was extremely rare and scattered. After refining, 70 tons can be left.

70 tons of zero prime = 7w gas.

On the one hand, the stock is too small, and on the other hand, it takes too much time. Considering the current situation, he can only focus his energy on the political storm in the Turanx United Kingdom.

"It would be great if there was a gas giant planet composed entirely of zero elements."

He shook his head, waved away this unrealistic thought, and remembered what Emma had said just now-system core level 2 compared to system core level 1, the system capacity of hero units and epic units has increased. 3 times.

That is to say, before that, the 3 heroes of Izsha + Zagara + Aeg Stetman have reached the upper limit of hero units. If the core of the system is not upgraded, even if the resources are sufficient, the fourth hero unit cannot be generated. . (To be continued)