Chapter 146 Survival
According to the team's rules, they certainly wouldn't argue with Fang Senyan over this, so no one had any objections. Nor did anyone bid to raise the price.

Next, the group continued to explore. Fortunately, they soon found a cave specifically used for storing sundries. It was quite large and was one of the few places that would not be flooded.

To put it bluntly, it was like a junkyard.

Here, Fang Senyan and his team didn't have much trouble finding several androids randomly discarded. Only three of Fang Senyan's androids remained, and only two of Aldaris's. Adding up the other odds and ends, there were only eight androids left. Fortunately, they all had minor injuries.

For androids, minor injuries were almost the same as ordinary people having a rip in their clothes.

When these androids saw Fang Senyan and his team, they weren't exactly teary-eyed and extremely excited, but joy and a boost in morale were inevitable. Even humble androids, androids who considered themselves to be dog shit, had their dreams! And even though dreams were ever-changing, they certainly weren't about slowly rotting to death in a cave on this damned planet.

As the saying goes, your position determines your actions. Since Fang Senyan was now the team leader, he had to consider issues from multiple perspectives. At this time, he could only concentrate the use of androids, but the condition was that everyone had to hand over the nutrient solution purchased for the androids.

Each surviving android received two units of nutrient solution as a reward. For them, this reward was a fortune that would take ten years of labor to earn. So, when Fang Senyan asked them to take care of the Alien and Berserker corpses, even though they seemed a little tired, they were still full of energy.

And Android 1, who originally belonged to Fang Senyan, told Fang Senyan good news. That was, there was a not-too-old field robot in this cave, with a hybrid four-legged walking and track system.

It seemed that after a spaceship crash-landed successfully, the crew must have all died. Leaving this field robot behind. This guy had no one to give it orders, so after wandering around, it came here. Then it was caught by the Berserkers but they realized it had no value, so they casually abandoned it here.

After inspection and evaluation by Android 1, it was found that only the circuitry of this field robot had been flooded. As long as the energy reactor inside was restarted, basically all the bulky items in the team could be handed over to it for transport.

Fang Senyan was too lazy to deal with these trivial matters, and directly let Android 1 take care of it. If he needed any parts, he could directly go to Paul. This guy's metal control ability was so powerful that he could even make a rapid-fire sniper rifle, let alone a few parts.

Probably because the pai mineral had the function of calming the mind, refreshing the brain, and strengthening recovery. So it had also become a favorite collectible of many creatures. Perhaps their powerful bodies looked down on that small beneficial effect, but it was well known that young creatures were always very fragile, and with the protection of pai mineral, their chances of dying young would also decrease.

Therefore, Fang Senyan and his team also found a large pile of pai mineral in the Alien hatchery. Because the team was now reduced in size, and the pulverization and extraction devices of the dead were also left behind, there was a surplus of pulverization and extraction devices.

But what was even more surprising was that during the search of the cave's bottom layer, they found a soul equipment. It looked like Aziza's highly strengthened deep blue quality shield. Next to the soul equipment, there was actually a huge seed!!

This huge seed was at least the size of a carriage, showing a deep blue color, with beautiful natural patterns on the surface, protected by heavy seed coats, looking as if it was wearing solid plate armor. More importantly, where this seed came into contact with the ground, it would actually grow countless roots, firmly embedded to absorb the life nutrients from the earth.

However, there were also clear and tragic wounds on the surface of the seed, obviously the work of the Berserkers and Aliens, but the seed's exterior was even stronger than it looked, and it could continue to heal, so you could still feel the surging and surging life inside.

Seeing this seed, everyone was stunned. Fang Senyan's eyes narrowed slightly. He stretched out his hand and pressed it against the surface of the huge seed. An indescribable suffocating feeling was immediately transmitted, like being strangled by twisted, cold, and crazy vines.

The blood vessels on the back of Fang Senyan's hand also began to swell. For some reason, those who saw it would always think of plant roots. When Fang Senyan's fingers hadn't even touched the seed, a few tiny roots stretched out and slightly entangled with the roots on the surface of the giant egg. The giant egg's roots immediately collapsed and fled back, allowing Fang Senyan to press his palm flatly on it.

Gently pressed it.

For some reason, when everyone looked at this action, they always felt a strange sense of conquest in their hearts.

The tendrils of the Stairway to the Sun quickly spread to all parts of the seed, and trembling information was immediately transmitted from inside the seed. In an instant, Fang Senyan detected the situation inside the seed, his expression remained unchanged, but his heart was stirred by a monstrous wave. It turned out that people in desperate situations could do anything cruel in order to survive!!!

This plant seed also belonged to plants, so in front of the Stairway to the Sun, it was almost like encountering a natural enemy, with no resistance. Suddenly, a voice, or rather a thought, was transmitted to Fang Senyan, it was the botanist D'Artagnan!

"You actually attacked in, great!! Who are you? Are you a sailor?"

Fang Senyan said lightly:

"That's right."

"What is this power in your body? How can it be so powerful, so full of pressure!!" D'Artagnan also felt the existence of the Stairway to the Sun in the first moment. That surprise was almost boiling over!! But Fang Senyan didn't answer his question, but said seriously:

"I think you should first explain what exactly happened to you."

D'Artagnan said very calmly:

"I just did what everyone would do when facing death. After realizing that the situation was irreversible, I implanted the Trembling Seed into my body. This was obtained from the Lord of the Rings world. You should know that many high-level elves were hatched from the seeds of the World Tree, right? The Trembling Seed is the fruit of the World Tree that has been contaminated by evil aura. Then, I relied on its power to live to this day, waiting for your rescue."

Fang Senyan said coldly:

"Then can you explain what the use of these corpses inside the seed is?"

It turned out that in this huge seed, D'Artagnan was curled up like an infant in the core of the seed, his front, back, left, and right were almost filled with corpses!! These corpses included those of Berserkers, but also those of humans. Fang Senyan saw the corpses of Hedi Curry, Vasily, and William... These three guys were covered with tentacle-like roots, and they had rotted and broken down beyond recognition, even rotten flesh and skin were constantly falling off, dissolving in the amniotic fluid inside the seed, looking very hideous and terrifying!!

D'Artagnan choked, and said in a low voice:

"The growth of the seed requires a lot of nutrients. Without these corpses, the seed would not be able to develop quickly."

Fang Senyan said lightly:

"I'll share the picture with them to see if your explanation can convince the others?"

"No, no, don't!!" D'Artagnan finally softened: "Okay, what do you need?"

Fang Senyan was silent for a while, and suddenly sneered:

"You think I want to blackmail you? What a joke. How about this, as long as you always support me in the team, then I'll pretend I didn't see anything today."

D'Artagnan didn't expect such a good thing, and naturally agreed immediately. Fang Senyan asked him to clean up the mess himself, to deal with the corpses and everything, and D'Artagnan naturally agreed immediately.

After the two finished communicating, Fang Senyan told the team that D'Artagnan had survived. Everyone in the team was quite gratified. After all, in this ghostly place, having one more companion meant that the risk factor was shared by one more person.

The next task was naturally handed over to the androids. After waiting for two hours, a series of statistical results were displayed.

The organs and materials cut from the bodies of the Berserkers and Aliens could be roughly converted into 500,000 Universal Points.

Dark Crystal x1

Tear Stone x1

The pai element extracted from all the pai minerals was 137 grams.

Captured elemental creature: Stone Blade Razer x1

Because Fang Senyan used the priority selection right and took the Tear Stone, which was useless to the others, he symbolically distributed 20,000 Universal Points to each person. Bo Kan, who should have been the MVP, also gave up the right for Stone Blade Razer, so the privileged class could be excluded. Then, the rest of the people would divide the spoils together.

Fang Senyan, Ronnie, Paul, and Aldaris first evenly divided 500,000 Universal Points, and then the pai element was also divided into four equal parts and taken away by them.

The appearance of the Dark Crystal clearly entered the stage of bloody competition. The bidding undoubtedly unfolded between Paul and Aldaris. Fang Senyan estimated that Aldaris should be determined to win and then give it to Zi, but in the end, the winner was Paul... He directly crushed his opponent with Universal Points!