Chapter 147 No Money

In mid-air, the lunar lander collided with the silver stream of light, like a purplish-blue meteorite plummeting onto a beam of light rising from the sky.

The essence of the silver stream of light was micro solid dust accelerated by electromagnetism. Although it appeared to be an energy beam, it was actually an attack with solid ammunition. Even if the armor was strong enough to withstand its destructive force, it would be difficult to resist the impact it contained.

Just like being blasted out of the near-lunar orbit command module, the lunar lander, smaller in size and lower in weight, faced a silver stream of light even stronger than the previous attack. Even if it blocked it, it could very well be blown away by the impact it contained, or even completely knocked out of lunar orbit.

But with Su Zhou's power boost, everything was different.

Because, the impact force contained in the lunar lander at this time was far greater than the seemingly grand silver beam of light.

The sharp tip structure of the lunar lander directly dispersed the stream of light the moment it came into contact with it. The thick, high-energy dust impact had to split into dozens of tributaries in the face of a force far stronger than itself, diverging and scattering in front of the lunar lander, turning into glowing micro dust slowly falling and drifting in the sky.

In just one breath, the lunar lander rapidly descended towards the ground at a speed imperceptible to the human eye, and then crashed towards the silver armored humanoid that launched the attack.

The Deepspace Caller wasn't blind. Noticing that his attack was completely ineffective and that the enemy was pouncing over with the momentum of a meteorite hitting the moon, he naturally turned around and fled without hesitation—in just an instant, he dodged hundreds of meters away.

And the lunar lander had already landed.

Staring at the uneven surface of the moon rapidly approaching him, Bai Jingtao laughed instead of being alarmed. As the pilot, he even forcefully pulled down the control stick, accelerating the lunar lander again. Gu Yaoluo, on the other hand, was pale, muttering something about 'Rockets are fine, but I clearly didn't design the lunar lander, so why do I have to suffer this?!'

But before he could finish saying that, the lunar lander crashed onto the ground at an attitude its designers had never considered.

*Boom!* At the moment of landing, the solid lunar rock on the moon's surface instantly shattered, exploding with a cloud of dust and rock fragments. A huge shock also occurred inside the lunar lander. Its shuttle-shaped smooth exterior allowed it to skim across the surface like a skipping stone. The moment it hit the lunar surface, it bounced high again, and then fell again.

Along the way, there were huge and broken impact craters, and spider web-like cracks spread rapidly. A large amount of rock fragments and dust rose on the lunar surface, scattering towards space.

Until the end, this excessively huge impact force was suppressed by Su Zhou, who was fully controlling it. But at this time, the lunar lander also skipped forward for more than ten kilometers in the previous 'skipping' slide, and in the last few seconds, it plowed out a deep straight gully behind it.

Inside the lunar lander, although it was extremely bumpy, because the personnel inside were all extraordinary cultivators, and Su Zhou stabilized all the components inside and outside the entire lunar lander with his spiritual power, everyone was safe—if it were ordinary people, they would have turned into bloody mud during the first impact, and Su Zhou would have been unable to save them.

"That guy is not weak and might have some backup plans. We're leaving the lunar lander."

Without any delay, Su Zhou stimulated Bai Jingtao and Gu Yaoluo, who were still a little dizzy, with his spiritual power. He took the lead in opening the shuttle door and looked into the distance with a serious expression.

Ten kilometers away, on a ring mountain, the Deepspace Caller also looked remotely at the location of the lunar lander.

The two sides looked at each other across the long distance, and the silver armored humanoid controlled his facial expression, revealing a provocative smile, and then turned around, jumped into the ring mountain, and ended this confrontation.

Soon, Bai Jingtao and Gu Yaoluo, wearing full spacesuits like Su Zhou, came out with a large number of intelligent machines and left the lunar lander.

At this time, Gu Yaoluo showed excellent professional qualities. He also noticed the Deepspace Caller who was confronting Su Zhou and directly controlled several lunar exploration vehicles beside him, ordering them to float and fly towards the ring mountain at high speed.

The lunar exploration vehicle is equipped with a small spiritual power engine, using spiritual power crystals as energy, and can use anti-gravity and electromagnetic levitation engines for floating movement. It is one of the lunar surface exploration machines designed by the Aviation Administration after the revival of spiritual energy.

"Do you need to pursue? I have locked onto the spiritual power aura."

In his professional field, Gu Yaoluo seemed much more confident. His eyes flickered with light purple spiritual light, and his vision was obviously connected to the exploration vehicle, and he was searching for relevant clues about the enemy in real time.

"We can't catch up."

Su Zhou was also sensing the location of the Deepspace Caller, but the result was very vague—his sense showed that the Deepspace Caller existed in a large area, and not only here, but also in the distance.

Su Zhou encountered this strange situation for the first time. He frowned slightly, then looked at the satellite map built into the spacesuit screen, and then issued an order: "Our purpose is threefold: to investigate the situation of the unknown signal emission source and shut it down. Explore the specific information of the alien spacecraft and bring some samples back to Earth. Kill or capture the 'New Dawn Society leader', John Harrison, the Deepspace Caller."

"Don't worry about that guy for the time being. We are still far from our goal. He will definitely attack us on the way. At that time, we can wait for him, defend and counterattack."

Su Zhou's decision was very decisive and realistic. After all, the moon was too vast, and the Deepspace Caller was also a Ruling Grade cultivator, and his strength was not weak. If he just played cat and mouse or guerrilla raids with Su Zhou and the others from time to time, then Su Zhou himself would be fine, but these two teammates next to him would probably die miserably.

Bai Jingtao and Gu Yaoluo nodded in agreement, and then the team left the lunar lander. Gu Yaoluo took a large number of parts from the lunar lander, and then used his 'Divine Craftsman' ability to assemble a tracked lunar vehicle on the spot.

Every cultivator of the Divine Craftsman lineage is a high-precision processing and assembly factory in human form. It is said that when Zheng Nation began to industrialize in the past, the Artisan Saint of that generation led many of the highest-level workers to personally build the first industrial machine tool in Zheng Nation.

Naturally, Gu Yaoluo did not have that extremely terrifying precision even now, but assembling a car that was already modularly designed was still easy for him.

Riding in the lunar vehicle, the three began to approach the source of the unknown signal at high speed.

During the rush, Su Zhou, who was sitting in the passenger seat, narrowed his eyes and looked into the distance.

From his perspective, he could see that there was a huge spiritual power beam, like a beacon, shooting straight into the depths of the universe—it was impossible to confirm when in Earth orbit, but now, Su Zhou could be 100% sure that the electromagnetic signal that disturbed the entire Earth's electronic channels was a byproduct of the birth of this spiritual power beacon.

As for the beacon itself, there was no doubt that it was manufactured by the alien spacecraft on the far side of the moon. There was a high probability that the Deepspace Caller awakened a certain alien spacecraft and caused it to release this message.

"What information is transmitted in this beacon? Warning? Seeking help? A last will or a declaration of revenge?"

Su Zhou knew very well that the immortals and gods must have had their reasons for shooting down these alien spacecraft back then—for example, this is the cosmic territory of Earth's civilization, and repeated warnings were ignored? Anyway, he wouldn't care about things from hundreds of thousands of years ago, nor would he think that the immortals, gods, or aliens were innocent. But it was obvious that if an alien spacecraft sent out a distress signal, then Earth would now face the risk of an alien invasion.

Since the beacon adopted spiritual power transmission, this meant that, in a sense, aliens also possessed spiritual power technology—this was natural, after all, spiritual power was an inherent attribute of this universe. At the same time, this also meant that the information could be cracked and decrypted by powerful transcendents.

Even at a very long distance, Su Zhou still interpreted some scattered and unformed information from the spiritual power overflowing from the distant beacon, which meant that if he arrived at the emission source, then it would be possible to completely crack the content of the beacon.

"The Deepspace Caller came to the moon on purpose and inexplicably activated the spiritual power beacon of the alien spacecraft... Could this guy be planning to be an alien traitor?"

Su Zhou knew that he didn't understand the enemy—why did the Deepspace Caller become the leader of a mysterious organization that threatened humanity? What were his reasons and motives for opposing the American Federation and destroying his hometown? Why did he carry out killings all over the world, and finally raid the Antarctic research camp, kill many scientists, and then go to the moon to activate the spaceship?

What exactly were the Deepspace Caller's true abilities? Apart from summoning alien monsters, what other cards did he have? Su Zhou was not very clear about all of this.

But that's how battles are. No one will easily expose their trump cards and other information. Before each battle, both sides of the battle may think they understand each other very well, but in reality, once the real battle begins, everything is unknown.

The lunar vehicle sped across the lunar surface, and unknown enemies lurked in the sunlit far side of the moon.

Above Earth, in the American Federation, the vice president of the NW Foundation was under serious pressure from the joint international delegation during a network conference.

"Our team has already encountered an ambush by the Deepspace Caller on the far side of the moon."

The representative of Zheng Nation, the electronic entity of the Yan Saint, was the leader of this delegation. His tone was very calm: "According to the report of astronaut Meng Jin, we can confirm that the Deepspace Caller has demonstrated attacks with high-energy solid impact that were not mentioned in the American Federation's data. We suspect that you are still hiding some relevant information about the Deepspace Caller."

"We have told everyone all the information that can be confirmed without reservation."

The vice president of the NW Foundation was a middle-aged woman with flaxen hair. She had no name and was code-named 'Theta' in the Foundation: "As for the remaining information, we are all just speculations. Informing everyone rashly may only mislead everyone."

Although she said so, Theta also knew very well that the time had come when she had to speak. In the end, she just reminded her: "We can provide relevant information, but we must ensure that all news about the 'Deepspace Caller' is completely blocked, and his information cannot be spread."

"We have always done this."

Yan Sheng said calmly: "What's more, apart from those vague descriptions, we originally knew almost nothing about him."

The representatives of the Europa Union and the Rose Nation also agreed to this matter.

"We can't be sure either."

After receiving everyone's assurances, Theta did not play tricks. She described briefly: "According to speculation, the Deepspace Caller's true ability can simply be called 'God'."

At the same time, on the moon.

Due to the Deepspace Caller's attack, Su Zhou's group did not go to the lunar far side base located on the edge of the Sea of ​​Storms, but this was also within the lunar landing team's consideration. Apart from the lack of long-term supplies, it did not have much impact on their actions.

But just as Bai Jingtao was following the guidance of the satellite map, driving the lunar vehicle towards the signal emission source, a huge vibration came from the ground.

There was no sound in the vacuum. For humans, it was equivalent to having a part of their perception disabled, but the vibration could still be transmitted through the medium of the lunar surface. Su Zhou immediately looked in the direction of the vibration in the distance. The gray lunar soil in the distance was churning, like viscous sea waves, as if something extremely huge was wriggling beneath it.

Three seconds later, a giant silver monster, shaped like a wriggling, irregular slime, about 40 meters high and over 100 meters long and wide, broke through the earth and climbed out from the bottom of the lunar surface.

The Deepspace Caller's old partner, the 'Amorphous Walker'.

Not only here, but the earth was humming, and violent vibrations were coming from all directions. For a time, a total of seven almost equally huge silver monsters appeared around the lunar vehicle. Their bodies were in the form of a golden colloid, and inside them were light gold, prototype solid structures like eyeballs releasing light—that light was an extremely dazzling spiritual power radiation light. It released a cold, inorganic aura, and was more like some kind of strange tool machine than a living thing.

Without any prompting or waiting, after the appearance of the silver amorphous creatures, the golden eyeballs on the inner sides of their bodies began to vibrate the surrounding spiritual energy environment. The huge spiritual power on the lunar surface, originating from cosmic radiation and sunlight, was transformed into pure 'telekinesis', and then, large chunks of surface rock were lifted by this vast power. Then, these huge moon rocks, the smallest of which were tens of meters long and wide, were accelerated to several times the speed of sound by telekinesis, like baseballs. They were thrown towards the small lunar vehicle like electromagnetic cannons.

In an instant, all the sunlight was blocked by the dense lunar rocks, and the lunar vehicle was instantly shrouded in shadow, about to be buried and smashed into meat patties.

Su Zhou did not attack, but Bai Jingtao in the driver's seat jumped out of the driver's seat with a loud laugh. He unfastened his spacesuit, and then transformed into a huge white tiger with a body length of more than 20 meters in mid-air.

It could be seen that there were some obviously brighter hairs with more metallic luster floating on the white tiger's neck and back. They broke off and then floated around him. A sharp white-golden light flashed in the white tiger's eyes that Bai Jingtao transformed into, and a huge metallic spiritual power gathered on the hairs around him, turning them into huge spiritual power flying swords.

Accompanied by layers of extremely sharp wujin qi (metal energy), as if it could tear through all obstacles, more than twenty golden flying swords shot out towards the moon rocks constantly bombarding from above.

Using the essence of his hair to condense Geng metal qi (metal energy), if this technique of hair-launched swords hits its target, it would be enough to easily penetrate several aircraft carriers and penetrate the armor layer of underground nuclear bunkers. The white tiger true form that Bai Jingtao transformed into at the Transcendent Peak even added eight points of power to this secret technique out of thin air.

In an instant, those huge moon rocks were cut and torn into scattered fragments by countless nimble and swift golden flying swords before they fell, falling like rain. It seemed that if an armored group army faced such an attack, there would be absolutely no difference. This was the best manifestation of the power of the Transcendent Peak that surpassed the mortal world.

After cutting all the incoming moon rocks, the white tiger's sword-launching momentum did not diminish, and it continued to fly towards the nearest 'Amorphous Walker'. For a time, the golden sword light streaked across the lunar surface like a shooting star.

However, it was firmly blocked.

Just as the golden flying sword was about to hit the amorphous creature, the silver colloid wriggled and churned, and a layer of translucent standard honeycomb shield appeared on its body surface. It was like an indestructible wall, firmly blocking the golden flying sword's raid.

Soon, as Bai Jingtao's spiritual power was exhausted, all the golden flying swords returned to the white tiger's fur, shattered in mid-air, and turned into ashes.

At this time, Gu Yaoluo, who was sitting in the back of the lunar vehicle, stared at the instrument panel in front of him, rapidly calculating something. Through Bai Jingtao's brief offense and defense with the Deepspace Caller, he quickly grasped the law of the rise and fall of the surrounding spiritual power outbreak.

"Captain, here!"

Gu Yaoluo said loudly, and transmitted all the detected information to the young man who had been waiting.

Countless data floated on the screen of the spacesuit, and a phased red sign appeared on the map.

"Okay." Su Zhou, who had been waiting, finally smiled.

In the next instant, as the lunar vehicle shook violently, the young man who was originally in his seat suddenly disappeared.

Thousands of meters away, a humanoid figure wrapped in a purplish-blue light group raised his right fist high, like a rocket, and slammed it towards an unremarkable 'moon rock'!

===No Money===

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