174: Chapter 174 Netherworld Star

Half a year later, Su Fan led a fleet of 100 spaceships to the southwestern region of the Fourth Ring of the Canglan Empire; this was his first time visiting the Fourth Ring region.

Not long after entering the Fourth Ring region, he discovered the differences between the Fourth Ring and the Fifth Ring regions.

The first was the density of stars; stars in the Fourth Ring were generally more densely packed than those in the Fifth Ring.

Furthermore, the types of stars were more diverse.

Red dwarfs, red giants, yellow dwarfs, blue giants, purple giants—all kinds of stars shone in the starry sky, and they were beautiful!

In addition to these stars, there were also some white dwarfs and a few stars that had already burned out.

"The Fourth Ring region has relatively more civilizations. To avoid exposure, we should try not to contact intelligent civilizations and instead look for resources on some wild or lifeless planets," Su Fan reminded them.

This time, the one following by his side was still Su Mingxia.

The Great Elder, Zhao Jianguo, and the others had each led teams to the Black Dragon Empire and other regions of the Canglan Empire.

"Dad, how about we just sneak into the capital of the Canglan Empire and blow up their Imperial Star!" Su Mingxia's eyes rolled as he chuckled.

"Good suggestion, except we can't do it for the time being," Su Fan shook his head.

"A Level 4 civilization that has existed for millions of years must have extremely deep foundations. Never mind the capital, Canglan Imperial Star—even just approaching the vicinity of the Canglan Imperial Star, our 100 spaceships would be shot full of holes."

"Besides, the planetary defense system of the Canglan Imperial Star will definitely be layered three times inside and three times outside. With just our 100 class-c spaceships, we really might not be able to break through," Su Fan said with a helpless tone.

"Let's just focus on mining some resources!"

"Wait another few decades or a century, and once we have the strength, we'll steamroll these three star systems!"

"Dad, I believe you'll do what you say!" Su Mingxia's gaze was firm, but he immediately revealed his true colors.

"Ever since the unification of Blue Star, I haven't seen a blonde, blue-eyed beauty in a long time."

Hearing this, Su Fan's eyes widened. "Su Mingxia, haven't you played enough yet!"

"No," Su Mingxia shook his head. "Life is like a dream. If I don't have some fun, how can I do justice to this magnificent life!"

"Spend more of your mind on cultivation. The Upper Realm might have fairies who are much better than the common beauties you're thinking of!" Su Fan said temptingly.

His eldest son had a typical playboy personality; if he didn't give him some bait, he didn't know how far the boy would degenerate.

Su Mingxia's eyes lit up. He had never thought of this point before. He wondered what the legendary fairies would feel like.

Seeing this, Su Fan patted his shoulder encouragingly: "Mingxia, your talent isn't inferior to your younger siblings at all, but you're too playful."

"If you cultivate properly, your achievements will definitely not be lower than your younger siblings!"

"Fine! Starting from today, I will immediately start cultivating hard. Goal: Upper Realm fairies!" Su Mingxia's tone was firm.

"Dad, I'm going offline to cultivate now. I'll leave things here to you!"

"Go on, go on!" Su Fan said with a smile. "Also, tell your mom to come online. I'll take her on a trip."

"Got it, got it. Are you just taking family on a private trip at public expense? I'm going to report you!" Su Mingxia muttered and immediately went offline.

"This kid!" Su Fan shook his head with a smile.

In a short while, Zhou Xiaoxiao came online. There was an Android of Zhou Xiaoxiao on this spaceship.

"Su Fan, I heard from the eldest that you missed me?" Zhou Xiaoxiao walked up to Su Fan with a smile, her eyes full of suspicion.

"Absolutely! Missed you so much!"

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A month later, Su Fan led the fleet to a special planet.

This was a pale and gloomy planet, filled with an eerie and terrifying aura.

Looking down from space above the planet, the entire world was shrouded in a pale atmosphere.

Even on the side directly hit by the star's light, the planet's interior was still filled with dark mist.

"Su Fan, this planet is so terrifying!" Zhou Xiaoxiao looked at the nearby planet with trepidation.

"It's not just this planet; this star is also strange." Su Fan looked toward the center of the star system, where there was a star with a peculiar color.

Normally, star colors range from crimson, orange-yellow, light blue to deep blue, and light purple to deep purple. If the temperature is high enough, some stars will even appear white.

But this star was light black!

"The environments of the other two planets are relatively normal." There were three planets in total in this star system. Planet One was the one emitting the eerie aura.

Planets Two and Three were more normal, both being ordinary barren rocky planets.

"A planet this gloomy... I always feel like there are unclean things inside," Zhou Xiaoxiao said cautiously.

"Let's just send some robots to investigate first."

Su Fan nodded with a smile and instructed Red Queen: "Red Queen, send some robots down to investigate."

"Yes! Master!"

Soon, a kunpeng no. 2 flew out from the cargo bay, carrying several robots straight toward Nether Planet.

Nether Planet—the name Su Fan had just given it.

On the large screen of the kongming, real-time detection scenes were playing.

As the kunpeng no. 2 entered the pale atmosphere, a pale world was reflected on the screen inside the kongming.

"Descend quickly!" Su Fan ordered.

The pale atmosphere was very thick, but at the speed of the kunpeng no. 2, it soon penetrated the thick atmosphere and landed on the surface of Nether Planet.

As soon as they landed, Su Fan saw a dark world, filled everywhere with gray-black mist.

What was most hair-raising was that near the landed spaceship, a large number of 'A-Piaos' began to appear!

"Ah? Ghosts?!" Zhou Xiaoxiao cried out, her body involuntarily shrinking into Su Fan's embrace.

Su Fan's pupils dilated with shock, but he said calmly, "Isn't this normal? The universe is so big, why can't there be A-Piaos?"

"Oh, alright! Even if it's normal, it's still pretty scary!" Zhou Xiaoxiao buried her head deep into Su Fan's chest, leaving only her eyes to watch the screen.

As a proper woman, even if she wasn't that scared now, she had to provide enough emotional value for her man's protective instincts.

On Nether Planet, a large number of pale A-Piaos drifted in mid-air, slowly approaching the kunpeng no. 2.

If one focused and zoomed in on a certain A-Piao, they would find they looked very strange.

They had no concrete form, like clumps of white clouds being randomly kneaded by a mischievous child.

But they also had one thing in common—all A-Piaos had a pair of eyes and a mouth.

If one didn't look at their eyes, one might think they were very cute, perhaps even unable to resist reaching out to squeeze them.

However, once someone saw those eyes—eyes like those of a big-eyed goldfish that had been dead for three days—they would definitely retract their hands immediately.

Too terrifying!

In addition, their mouths were relatively ordinary compared to their eyes, but they were also very frightening.

It was like a white plush toy had been randomly slashed open and then haphazardly stitched back together by someone with very poor sewing skills—extremely slapdash and ugly!

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