Squelch!
After piercing the last unidentified alien beast with his Psionic Blade, the day's hunt came to an end.
Five days had passed since the first Crystal Tower warp-in. Every day, Shen Jun led two hundred Protoss into the jungle to hunt alien beasts and collect Biological Essence.
They were highly efficient, killing over a thousand alien beasts a day. After five days, there was scarcely any trace of alien beasts within dozens of kilometers.
Naturally, the harvest was substantial as well. Their Biological Essence had directly surpassed 150,000.
This immediately left Shen Jun with ample resources: Crystal Mineral: 15055, Vespene Gas: 15255.
"But this can't go on forever. I can't just kill every living creature on this planet, can I? That wouldn't be a good thing."
Shen Jun pondered for a long while before reaching a conclusion. They couldn't keep this up. They needed sustainable development.
Rohana could directly scan the entire planet's data, but doing so required a massive amount of energy—one thousand Crystal Mineral and one thousand Vespene Gas each. That was why he had not asked Rohana to conduct a scan from the very beginning.
Now that they had stockpiled a fair amount of resources, it was time to find a mine and develop it in earnest.
"Rohana, begin scanning all data on this planet."
"As you command, Commander. Scanning..."
"Scan complete."
In roughly ten seconds, Rohana had analyzed the planet's entire resource distribution, geological structure, and life forms. Her tremendous computing power was plain to see. Even humanity's most advanced supercomputers were not worth mentioning before her.
This planet was slightly larger than Earth, though its oceanic area was considerably smaller. Its land-to-sea ratio was six to four. The entire planet consisted mostly of jungles and mountains, with an overall humid climate and a wide variety of species. Its environment was very similar to Aiur, the Protoss homeworld.
"Commander, three Crystal Mineral vein signals and one Gas Geyser signal have been detected. The nearest mineral vein is fifty kilometers away and can only be reached by crossing a lake."
"Warning. Multiple high-energy signals have been detected. A high-level civilization likely exists on this planet, and its numbers are substantial."
"..."
Shen Jun propped his chin on his hand. It was hardly strange for such a large Life Star to give birth to an intelligent civilization. But if the Protoss wanted to reproduce, they needed a planet of their own. This planet already had an owner—wouldn't that make him an invader?
No, no. One had to have martial virtue. How could he launch a sneak attack on a friendly alien civilization?
Think about it. Relying on his ability to warp in, shamelessly launching a surprise attack from their own territory—was that right?
It was not.
They had to value peace. They could not seize someone else's home through force.
Thus, Shen Jun decided to find another planet to serve as their base.
Still, as visitors from another world, invited or not, guests were guests. It wasn't excessive to mine a little ore and replenish their resources before leaving, was it?
There was something else he had nearly forgotten.
"Rohana, can you provide information on that civilization now? Do they know we exist?"
"Commander, they appear to possess powerful data-screening technology. I cannot access their database, but I can detect some of their general movements. At present, no large number of biological signals are approaching us. There is a high probability that they have not discovered us."
"The signal with the strongest energy response is located deep beneath the ocean. The interference signal there is also the most pronounced, so no useful intelligence can be analyzed. I can display a projection of the ocean surface. Would you like to view it?"
"Show me."
Shen Jun perked up. Even if he could not obtain information about them, seeing what they looked like would still be useful. Maybe they were something he recognized.
A projection screen appeared before Shen Jun. Displayed upon it was a stretch of ocean, and at its center lay a deep vortex. Black creatures flew out from it one after another.
These creatures were enormous. They resembled Manta Rays, shaped like inverted triangles. Their heads bore three large nostrils—one large and two small—that covered most of their faces. They hovered above the ocean's surface and possessed the ability to fly.
While playing the projection, Rohana offered her own conjectures and assessments. Yet the moment Shen Jun saw the creature's full appearance, he could no longer hear a single word she said.
Trigonians!
They looked far too similar. Shen Jun swore that the Manta Rays before him were Trigonians!
Were those bizarre alien beasts Beast Bodies?
"So that means the universe I transmigrated into is Super God Academy..."
At that moment, a monstrous wave surged through Shen Jun's heart, only to turn into wild delight. What resource was most plentiful in Super God Academy?
Beautiful women!
Angel He Xi, my favorite!
And Keisha, Liang Bing, Yan, Qiang Wei, Leina...
Shen Jun was practically drooling. But he had been the leader of the Protoss for several days now, so he still needed to maintain some dignity. He quickly pulled himself free from his fantasies.
Although Shen Jun's attention had mostly been focused on beautiful women when he watched Super God Academy back then, he still knew of the six god-making civilizations of the Known Universe.
The strongest yet extinct God River Civilization; the Angel Civilization, which succeeded it as the strongest; the Demon Civilization, hostile to the angels; the neutral Lieyang Civilization; the armament-obsessed Deno Civilization; and the most mysterious Dark Civilization.
Shen Jun did not know what era this was, but the Trigonians had been active twenty thousand years before the main storyline began. At that time, neither the Demon Civilization nor the Dark Civilization had yet been established, and it was the eve of the Second Form War.
Still, it was also possible that this was the period after the Form War, when the Trigonians had gone into hiding.
Wait...
Shen Jun suddenly thought of the most important concept in Super God Academy: Ultimate Fear. And the representative of Ultimate Fear was... the Void.
And in StarCraft, the Xel'naga that represented the Void was Amon!
Though these were two different universes, if even the Protoss could travel between universes, there was no reason the more powerful Amon could not do the same. Shen Jun had a theory: Kerrigan had not killed Amon back then. Instead, she had allowed him to escape into the Super God Universe, where he had somehow obtained the power of the Ultimate Void and perhaps even replaced it...
A sense of crisis—an unprecedented sense of crisis—washed over him. Amon could descend upon the Super God Universe at any moment. Shen Jun did not have much time to develop.
Judging from the plot of Super God Academy, if this was indeed the eve of the Form War, then he should have at least twenty thousand years. Protoss technology developed incredibly quickly, and surpassing its original level would be easy. But a new problem had emerged.
Lifespan.
The Protoss only lived for around a thousand years, far inferior to the Super Gene of the Super God Universe. Second-generation super soldiers could easily live for ten thousand years after unlocking their Gene Lock, while Third Generation God Bodies had transcended the flesh and could live forever as long as they had sufficient energy.
The High Templars' combat power generally surpassed that of second-generation super soldiers, and several of the strongest heroes could even rival God Bodies. Yet in the end, they could not live nearly as long.
Shen Jun's situation was even more awkward. He was merely human. Living seventy or eighty years would already be good, and even if psionic power slowed his aging, he would not live beyond three hundred.
Therefore...
Shen Jun had to obtain the Super Gene Code!
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