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Licks of vibrant flames shot out of the ship’s main gun. The antimatter charges landed on the building one after another, filling the air with the sounds of explosion.

The Tomahawk was only equipped with two medium-size blasters. Its main method of offence was not through cannonfire but rather the countless drones it had on board. Once released, they would be akin to a large swarm of venomous wasps, out to destroy their enemies.

However, for fear that the dust in the supergravity zone might damage these valuable drones, Xia Fei chose not to use them, only attacking with the ship’s two blasters.

“What are you trying to do?” questioned Phantom.

He could not fathom why Xia Fei was bombarding these ancient cubic structures. One antimatter charge cost thirty thousand star coins, and both blasters shot 180 charges in a minute combined; this meant that it would cost five million per minute just in the charges. Xia Fei had always been thrifty, and doing this was no different from being wasteful.

Xia Fei had his eyebrows knitted tightly, with no intentions of stopping the fire. “I suspect that these things aren’t even buildings.”

“Not buildings? Then, what are they?”

Xia Fei, who usually thought with logic, had initially agreed with Phantom that these rectangular objects were buildings. It was impossible for such precise cubic structures in a natural environment, except if they were man made, but his thoughts changed when he actually touched one of them. They did not have doors or windows, and Xia Fei could not understand why anyone would make such weird buildings. He started doubting if these buildings were just solid concrete mass rather than buildings.

Xia Fei nodded, commanding in a deep voice, “Start recharging the warp engine; head toward the second destination.”

…

The second purple location was not far from where he was, only requiring one warp to arrive. Because there was not a huge difference in the gravity, the warp this time around was not as insufferable as the previous one.

From the starmap, this was beyond the Black Abyss Star Region and into undiscovered territory. Moreover, this area was larger. There was an asteroid belt around its perimeter and four planets within each, all of them requiring investigation.

The signal from the radar was still jumbled, so all Xia Fei could do was rely on visual inspection and the unclear video signals to look for traces of Old Porter.

First was investigating each of these planets. They were largely similar to the smaller planets that were a dime a dozen in the universe and had nothing special to them. Xia Fei pouted, before steering Tomahawk into the asteroid belt.

Since there was nothing on these planets, naturally Xia Fei did not have much hope for the asteroid belt, either, but with a hopeful attitude, the Tomahawk slowly moved through the countless rubble in the asteroid belt.

“This asteroid belt is incredibly long; it’s probably going to take a few months to look through everything,” Phantom said as he looked far at the endless asteroids.

Xia Fei knitted his eyebrows, commanding in a deep voice, “Start the metal detector at full capacity and scan the asteroid belt in all directions.”

Even without the strong gravity, it was an incredibly difficult task to search through an expansive asteroid belt, for the large numbers of rubble strongly disrupted any signal transmission. this was the supergravity zone no less—a difficulty that was so immense it was hard to imagine.

“Use fuzzy scanning; only scan objects close to or larger than the frigate.”

The metal detector was operating at full capacity. These rubbles had varying quantities of metal, so it was necessary to filter out the smaller ones or ones that did not contain enough metal.

Xia Fei did not have much hope for the metal detector. Because of the disruptions that the supergravity zone provided, almost none of the electronics worked, but what was most surprising was that the metal detector actually detected a strong signal.

The signal was tens of thousands of kilometers away from the Tomahawk. Judging from the signal strength, it was a large object, exceedingly large even.

There were no words that could describe Xia Fei’s shock. According to the signal, this metal object was at least 1.5 billion cubic meters.

What even was that?

It was basically a metal city, enough to accommodate tens of thousands of people.

Such a large amount of metal, with the purity beyond high-strength metal, what could it be?

“Full speed ahead,” Xia Fei commanded in a deep voice.

The Tomahawk suddenly accelerated towards the destination.

“Why is there such a huge metal object here? Could it be a small planet made completely of metal?” asked Phantom.

Xia Fei shook his head. “Impossible, the metal detector showed that its purity is beyond high-strength metal. That means it’s a man-made object.”

Most metals in space existed in ores. Although there were many different types and were in large quantities, they were not pure at all. According to the metal detector, the huge object was made of many different types of purified metals, so it was impossible for that to just be pieces of ore drifting in space.

“It’s even weirder that it’s man-made. The capital ships in the Alliance are around five hundred million cubic meters in volume. That’s the limit of the ship building capabilities of humans, and no larger warship has ever existed, yet its volume is thrice the size of a supercarrier; how is that possible?” Phantom was completely stunned, his voice even turning hoarse.

“Is it possible that the detector made a mistake from the disruptions?” Phantom questioned. A massive 1.5-billion-cubic-meter, man-made object had greatly surpassed Phantom’s imagination, which was why he was so confused.

Xia Fei said in a deep voice, “There is a possibility. It’s true that gravity can affect the signal, but there’s an even greater possibility that this thing is bigger than 1.5 billion cubic meters.”