The giant space turtle moved its limbs, gliding and soaring through the Chaotic Star Sea, letting out a howl as it swallowed the myriad stars into its belly, chewed slightly, and then spat out a large amount of milky white liquid from its turtle... mouth, accumulating a massive pool of murky substance in the vacuum, resembling a muddied... swamp left on the scroll of the Milky Way.
At this moment, soldiers operating worker mechas appeared one after another like ants drawn to a sweet scent, wielding gravity tractors akin to heavy machine guns, shooting out traction beams to scoop up the white muddy liquid in the vacuum, dividing it under gravitational control into plump spherical blobs, which were then loaded into cargo ships and filled into vats.
Emperor’s fluid, Meteorite Star Marrow, Divine Gang Jade Liquid, Nine Heavens Xuanzhi, the Dan Book Daoist Collection calls this substance various names, while the legion and the company refer to this intermediate product as metallurgical raw slurry.
Indeed, this artificial turtle is grafted with skin onto a company mining drone, capable of autonomously devouring asteroids for processing, while internally pre-treating metal minerals through chemical liquid in its multiple stomachs, such as using a sulfur-sulfuric acid method to produce sulfuric fluid from ice and sulfides in meteorites, dissolving ilmenite ores to extract titanium, iron, silicon, nickel, and numerous other minerals, simultaneously digesting unwanted impurities from minerals as its nourishment.
At this time, the milky white slurry expelled from the turtle’s mouth is a pre-treated mixed solution containing high concentrations of titanium ion particles. Since Titan-type vessels, like Jizhou, are equipped with solvent extraction systems for chemical separation and purification, pouring these metallurgical slurries directly into the Jizhou’s extraction channels allows the purification and separation of needed metal ions using the solution’s subtle flow differences, while also replenishing water.
Through channel filtration and purification, these pure metal ions are funneled into the deepest furnace, where the electrodeposition method reduces metal ions to high-purity metal powder, melting into form under space microgravity without buoyancy convection disruptions, with atomic arrangements being exceptionally orderly, creating specialized alloys difficult to produce on Earth, eventually printed into various mecha battleship weaponry like giving birth.
As production revs up here, Xianwei also roams flesh seas, sprawling ghost-like, intertwining around the head, burrowing into the eyes, completing Body Seizing on the space turtle. Transforms this enormous mining drone into an additional living Corpse Puppet. Thus, even if the company detects something amiss with remote control, they could no longer shut down the turtle drone.
From a distant view of the Chaotic Star Sea, one sees the giant turtle devouring breathlessly, frantically spewing, refining ore into raw slurry, meanwhile wrapped entirely in ribbon-like, floating cloud-like, wind-less moving white threads, resembling the mythological Black Tortoise with linked turtle and snake.
The Jizhou also continuously produces numerous repair drones, densely resembling a swarm of silver metal flies, crawling all over the ship for automated repairs, and as drones are sufficiently supplied, no mecha manual transport is needed, allowing the turtle head to directly spray slurry onto Titan, coating the whole ship body, with the silver fly swarm crawling chaotically in the slurry, refining the slurry into Tri-titanium Alloy to repair and strengthen the Renaissance-class Titan Jizhou hull, like enhancing a slim stick into a plump thigh, adorned in silver-white sleek metallic wedding dress.
Tie Dan’s evaluation of this scene is:
"It’s too disgusting..."
"It’s excellent, excellent! Our production capacity has increased by 3000 points! Productivity is combat power! Legion’s revival is imminent!"
Not only did Spider Xi whisper joy beside him, but even greater cheers swept through like waves, resounding from the cosmic vacuum into Tie Dan’s Divine Court, expressing the legion’s collective joy, inspired and optimistic spirit.
However, Tie Dan wasn’t optimistic at all; he realized the legion would never let go of him.
Because his value was indeed too high, he was like a free meal ticket, an infinite wishing machine, a casually swiped credit card.
Not only could it activate the entire Solar System’s company assets, providing the legion with unlimited supplies, but in himself, he was also a peak combat power, easily tearing apart even space beasts, a more reliable ace than any Mechanical Thunder Spear.
Moreover, he held the Child of the Stars’ ID card, priceless to these hiding rebels, a legitimate citizen’s value was indeed infinite. Would you easily let a rare treasure like him slip away?
Impossible.
The legion won’t let him go, the Jizhou won’t let him go, Spider Xi won’t let him go.
The only way to break the situation is to kill all these guys...
"Fellow Daoist, think thrice before acting, that little spider is quite formidable."
Upon hearing Xianwei’s whisper, Tie Dan coldly replied,
"I know, I’m bound hand and foot, unable to harbor murderous intent against it, presumably this is the Taihao Clan’s specialty."
Indeed, not unwilling, but unable.
Spider Xi’s manipulation is silent yet thoroughly complete. You can’t see any coercive methods, yet you subconsciously obey its commands without resistance. Not just Tie Dan, even Xianwei was also tricked, solely from the Primordial Spirit Technique’s dimension, it was a dimensional downcasting. If every Taihao Spider possesses this level of ability, it’s no wonder they faced extermination.