1030. The final clue
The modified cargo ship almost fell and landed on the ice in Jubal planet. There was a settlement built on the ice, a simple camp.
After the group of ice diggers driving the spaceship landed, they wanted to call on their companions on the ground to come up and kill Darth-Malthael, but how is this possible? Das-Malthael didn't even make a move. After a terrifying burst of ghostly cries and wolf howls, the mental shock from the wraith scared those people to the point of collapse, and they all fell to their knees and trembled all over.
After careful questioning, Das-Malthael learned the origin of this group of people - they were indeed a group of ice diggers. There were probably more than 400 groups of ice diggers who had been digging ice in Jubal planet for a long time, with a total number of about several thousand people. However, they would not always be in Jubal planet.
It's so cold here that unless a large-scale residential area with stable energy is built, it's impossible to live there permanently. Therefore, most of these ice diggers will set up such simple temporary camps. After concentrated mining for a few months, they will abandon the camp and go to other places.
And because of the extremely cold environment here, the abandoned campsites are well preserved and can be reactivated at any time as long as energy is plugged in.
Now they are here to mine the ice in this area, because according to scanning, the ice 10 meters underground here contains a rare element that can be used as a catalyst for Hypermatter reaction.
"Why is the ice here black?" Das-Malthael asked.
"I don't know. Legend has it that it was like this thousands of years ago..." The ice diggers shook their heads in confusion.
"What's the difference between this black ice and ordinary ice?" Das-Malthael asked again.
"It's not edible. Eating the water from the melted black ice will cause diarrhea. It's very severe. I heard that someone in Dross's group even died of diarrhea. There's nothing else. It melts just by roasting it over a fire, and there's no smell." said an ice digger.
"You are quite lucky." Das-Malthael said coldly.
You must know that these black substances contain the remains of Rakghoul plague. God knows whether there are active viruses in these remains.
Of course, it now appears that this virus is very fragile under the high temperature of Orbital Bombardment. Just like the situation of Taris, all viruses close to the surface have been killed, without a trace remaining.
Fortunately, otherwise, these ice diggers would have spread Rakghoul plague long ago by digging out the ice and refining it.
"Sir... Sir, you see, we are just a group of ice diggers, just living hand to mouth. Look at you and your spaceship..." An ice digger carefully looked at Das-Malthael and the spaceship with a round shape that far surpassed modern technology at a glance. "You are a big shot, and you don't look down on us like us... Just do it and treat us like nothings..."
"Did you dig anything out of the ice when you dug it?" Das-Malthael ignored him and just continued to ask.
"Some fragments are excavated from time to time. They look like fragments of buildings, but they are worthless. They are piled up in a pile near our refinery, like a hill." An ice digger answered.
"It's not this kind of garbage, it's something that looks more valuable."
The dozens of ice diggers looked at each other and shook their heads in confusion.
At this time, an ice digger suddenly said, "Are you looking for a 'safe'?"
"What did you say? 'Safe'?" Darth-Malthael glanced at him, and his terrifying gaze made the ice digger shudder.
The ice digger did not dare to hide it and quickly said, "It is the 'Jabble box' (Jabble box), which is a legend in the black market of our ice digger industry. More than a thousand years ago, when the ice here was not so strong, an ice digger fished out an object from the bottom of the sea. The object should be a container, but it is very strong and cannot be scanned with any instrument, so many people think it is a Jedi Knight treasure..."
He continued, "Many people have imagined that they can open this treasure, but no one has ever done it. The safe will then be sold at a high price to the next buyer with fantasy, and the price will get higher and higher."
"Who has this thing in hand now?" Das-Malthael asked.
The ice digger exchanged glances with the others, and then said carefully, "Sir, are you Jedi Knight? Is there really Jedi Knight's treasure in this safe?"
"You shouldn't ask, don't ask. Tell me the whereabouts of the safe, and I will reward you." Das-Malthael raised his hand and threw out a bag full of credit ingots.
"If we tell you the news, will you let us go?" The ice digger confirmed again.
Das-Malthael nodded, "Your lives are worthless to me. All I care about is this...Jabble box."
The ice digger just thought he agreed, so he said, "In the hands of Aridus planet (Aridus)... a group of Kubbit smugglers, their leader is called Kuruuru."
Das-Malthael nodded, thinking deeply.
Seeing that he stopped talking, the group of ice diggers asked cautiously, "Sir... we have told you everything we know. Then... can we... can we go?"
Das-Malthael raised his head and looked at them coldly.
His aura was so terrifying that the group of ice diggers didn't dare to stay for a second. When one person couldn't bear it anymore and started to run away, everyone seemed to press a switch, turning around and running away at the same time!
However, every one of them fell down before they ran 10 steps. Before they even hit the ground, they were already turned into corpses!
"I don't want people to know that I've been here." Das-Malthael dropped these words coldly and turned towards Protoss transport ship.
Returning to the spaceship, he found that Zerakas and Protoss were not here. After connecting to the communication, Zerakas told him that after scanning, they did find something in the ice, which should be a building.
Jubal planet experienced Orbital Bombardment, and then the global ice completely melted, and the entire planet turned into a vast ocean, and then froze again.
A building that can maintain its basic shape under such circumstances is definitely not an ordinary thing and should be very valuable.
So Zerakas is taking the group of Protoss warrior to dig. They have sent a letter to Geth from Drai II to bring a professional mining spacecraft to help.
"In that case, let me use your spaceship first. I'll go to Aridus planet." Das-Malthael said.
"Have you found a clue?" Zerakas asked.
"I think it should be very close." After Das-Malthael finished speaking, he turned to the unmanned console of the spacecraft and said, "Go to Aridus planet!"
"*&^&^$%^$" The spacecraft console flashed continuously, emitted a burst of machine language that ordinary people could not understand, and then started the engine and flew straight towards the horizon.
Protoss transport ship left hyperspace and came to Aridus planet.
This is a very remote desert planet located in the expansion area of Outer Rim of the galaxy. Compared with Tatooine, a desert planet that was destroyed by war, Aridus planet has a better environment, with many primitive jungles.
The aboriginal people here are Kubbit, a group of intelligent creatures that evolved from lizard-like reptiles.
This planet clearly supports Galactic Republic in the current war, but because it is too barren, Confederacy of Independent Systems has no interest in it.
Like many remote planets in Outer Rim regions, Aridus planet is also a planet where crime, slavery and smuggling are rampant, and gang wars here almost never stop.
Das-Malthael came to a city named Kubbit and began to inquire about the whereabouts of Kuruuru.
This was not difficult. He quickly got the information - Kuruuru was killed in a gang melee half a year ago.