Super Spender

There have been many changes in less than three months. Upon his return, Finn received countless information. He had Olivia filter out the unimportant ones, leaving only the relevant ones. Kay Lee had no issue with this as Olivia continued to aid with the processing, as well as kept Kay informed of Finn’s other ventures.

There are indeed more events happening in other nations. However, the Hustle Spot has always been mysterious and unapproachable. No one could really say anything about it. Much to Finn’s surprise, he was notified by Olivia that he had been contacted several times by the two individuals that awaited him.

They were the muscular man and another skinny man from earlier, Dunn Monty and Thomas Calvin respectively. They were unexpectedly quick to make contact with the spaceship. Finn left this matter into hands of Olivia notifying them that he’ll meet them soon. Then, Finn started handling his second affair.

It is all about the development of the Insect Species by Keller. By now, the Insect Species have set up a preliminary base on Mars and have begun to develop their technology swiftly. Due to the super storms on Mars, their initial development naturally began underground, making it easy to avoid the opponent’s reconnaissance.

In particular, the surveillances conducted by people like Dunn Monty should be Finn’s focus since these aliens could pose a threat to the whole Earth. They had the power to wipe out the Insect Species. Acy still, Finn had no idea how many spores of the Insect Species had been projected into space from Mars and Venus.

Though the conditions on Mars might be rougher than those on Earth, the Insect Species could completely adapt to it without any issue. However, it was a bit trickier on Venus. The adaptability of the Insect Species significantly surpassed Finn’s anticipations, even on the surface of Venus where oxygen was severely lacking.

But the surface temperature of Venus was as high as 500 degrees Celsius, with an atmospheric pressure more than 90 times higher than Earth’s. Acid rain frequently poured, wreaking corrosion everywhere. Still, they found places to live underground and in the north of Venus.

Venus could be considered the only planet in the Solar System without a magnetic field, or the magnetic field was so small that it was negligible. Due to slow rotation, Venus experienced one year equivalent to 200 Earth days in just one day. Venus’s day was longer than its year.

The time it takes Venus to rotate once is longer than it takes the planet to orbit around the Sun. Also, the terrain of Venus is even steeper. But these were not issues for the Insect Species, although they also couldn’t stand the temperature as high as 500 degrees Celsius for long periods.

However, they could dig holes, and the Insect Species didn’t need water or food. Their energy came from the energy food secreted by the kingworm. As long as there was an energy supplement, they could continue to propagate. Most importantly, this energy could be absorbed and stored in the form of sky-blue pure-energy crystals in a host nest.

These energy crystals were highly stable, and each contained an immensely large volume of energy. Once stored, these energy crystals could be transported by the Insect Species unit to other planets for initial expansion. Even under the standards of Zero, these energy crystals were highly commendable! Although maybe its energy density couldn’t compare to higher-grade energy densities under Zero’s parameters.

However, according to Zero, its energy density had already surpassed the energy contained inside the highest-density energy blocks of the Galactic Federation.

And there were enough minerals on Venus for the Insect Species unit to extract, absorb, then store as energy. Unlike Venus, Mars was more like a resource base, which was more likely to play host to a sizeable host nest.

A calculated estimate by Keller suggests that this could potentially become the planet where the first Leviathan of Finn’s would be incubated, so this base certainly needed good management. But whether to incubate it into a Leviathan or not was ultimately up to Finn. After all, a Leviathan was awesomely powerful, comparable, if not, more superior, to a super galactic battleship.

Because it was entirely alive! And it could automatically absorb any radiation from the universe, rays, etc., to serve as its power reserve. This kind of lifeform is wholly natural, pollution-free, doesn’t consume any energy, and has no logistical pressure; in short, once owned, one would want for no more.

Regrettably, there was still a long way to go before Finn could possess it. But Keller was already preparing to incubate and research the first batch of small space flying units, jet flying bugs. This is a kind of small space flying unit that flies at an exceedingly high speed and is capable of jetting ion streams for acceleration.

It could reach up to one-tenth of the speed of light, which is an extreme speed of 30,000 kilometers per second. Although this speed is not substantial in the vast universe, it’s quite enough as a start. It’s at least sufficient within the Solar System. Since Mars is only an average of 70 million kilometers away from Earth, the 30,000 kilometers per second speed equates to roughly 41 minutes.

Even taking acceleration time into account, this speed is plenty fast. However, it’s small in size. It can serve as a transportation unit for the Insect Species, but it can only transport limited goods. Thus, it can only transport precious items like energy blocks from Venus to Mars in the short term.

Upon his return, Finn had a strange feeling, as if he could sense something connected to him by blood on another planet millions of kilometers away. He felt as if he could perceive the things there. That sense of dense connection, if he wished, Finn could make contact with anyone there.

This kind of strong connection… gave Finn an indescribable feeling, as it was much stronger than any other means of communication. Perhaps this was the only aspect where the Insect Species were unmatched in other technology areas. Anyway, according to Olivia’s calculation, this was more advanced and faster than quantum entanglement teleportation communication.

Most importantly, if Finn were willing, his will could be delivered to each Insect Species unit. There would be no chance of execution errors.