137: Recycling Center

One week later.

"A total of 449 high-value planets, including 277 life-bearing planets and 172 resource planets."

"A total of 10.22 million units of rare metal reserves, and 21.82 million units of conventional resource reserves."

"3 billion cubic meters of high-quality energy stones..."

Warehouse after warehouse, both public and hidden, were uncovered one by one.

As one of the wealthiest star systems in the northern region, the Kulha Star System, while smaller in area than the Peaceful Passage, possessed resources that exceeded the Peaceful Passage by more than tenfold, even without counting the resources Elo had squandered on building defense systems.

This greatly alleviated the resource pressure from the multi-front offensive during this period.

More importantly, for Zhang Huaiyuan, the most valuable thing about the Kulha Star System was not these resources, but the fact that one of the Star Alliance's three waste recycling and processing factories was located here.

At this moment, he was arriving at the factory entrance aboard a legend generation ii command ship.

It was a space covering approximately 6.4 billion square kilometers, surrounded by a thick electromagnetic isolation belt.

Viewed from the outside, there was only an endless expanse of gray-black.

"Sir."

Seeing Zhang Huaiyuan step off the starship, a squad responsible for guarding the area hurriedly approached.

"You've worked hard, everyone."

Zhang Huaiyuan smiled and nodded in acknowledgment.

"It's not hard work, this is our duty... It's not hard work, sir."

Seemingly not expecting a response, several soldiers were suddenly too excited to speak coherently.

Five days ago, they had already received notification from the Statue of Liberty that this star system was now led by Mr. Zhang Huaiyuan, the Chief Researcher of the Free Star Alliance, the hero who solved The Great Millstone Disaster Zone, and the successor with the highest approval rating.

Although they hadn't heard of these titles, for most ordinary civilians and soldiers, many might never see high-level officials outside of their own star system in their entire lives.

Most of the information and notifications they received were conveyed through the Statue of Liberty.

Naturally, they felt that her instructions represented official endorsement.

Since the Statue of Liberty said so, then this gentleman's leadership was legitimate and lawful.

This made Zhang Huaiyuan's takeover of the conquered territory exceptionally smooth.

He only needed to deal with the die-hard loyalists to securely control the vast star system.

"I need to go inside to take care of some business; instruct them to pause the recycling and processing for now."

Zhang Huaiyuan smiled gently.

He himself had come from the very bottom, living hand-to-mouth, so naturally, he wouldn't put on an arrogant front.

"Ah... very well, sir. Do you need me to send someone to guide you?"

A soldier who appeared to be the captain said respectfully.

"No need, I'll just walk around on my own."

Bidding farewell to the excited soldiers, Zhang Huaiyuan returned to the starship and slowly sailed into the factory.

Square formations, neatly compressed, floated in the void.

Rifts in the void were visible everywhere, continuously pouring out large amounts of debris, metal, or unknown substances.

Countless transport robots were moving back and forth, transporting these things to designated locations.

"As expected, although it's called a waste recycling and processing factory, at least the things being recycled are valuable; it's not just ordinary household trash."

Zhang Huaiyuan scanned his surroundings and discovered that the most common items were scrapped weapons, mechas, or metal debris.

No wonder the Yalik Family was so wealthy; this was simply an inexhaustible gold mine.

"This place gathers various recycled items from within a one-million-light-year space in the Northern Region of the Star Alliance. There should be quite a few items from ruins hidden here, or undiscovered things containing knowledge of high-level rules."

A flash of fervor crossed Zhang Huaiyuan's eyes.

His new profession, "Mechanical Armament Master," could only increase in progress by learning level 2 or higher knowledge. If he could gain something here, that would be perfect.

"Statue of Liberty, can you scan these areas for me and filter out the substances you cannot analyze?"

Zhang Huaiyuan said softly to his right wrist.

This place contained an astronomical number of items, and all of them were unrecorded. Relying on his own True Sight to search would likely take hundreds of years to finish.

"Of course, sir."

The light screen lit up, and the Statue of Liberty responded happily.

All machinery in the factory equipped with scanning devices suddenly paused as their control was taken over.

Beams of light swept across the mountainous formations.

178,000 super Quantum Servers operated at overspeed simultaneously, processing the vast sea of information.

Just two days later.

The items in this factory, covering 6.4 billion square kilometers, had all been scanned and analyzed.

"Sir, there are a total of 3,796 items containing substances that exceed my analytical capabilities."

As the voice fell, hundreds of transport robots loaded with items flew over quickly and placed them one by one in front of him.

"You've worked hard."

A sharp glint flashed in Zhang Huaiyuan's eyes as he activated his ability, sweeping over these items that even the Statue of Liberty could not fully analyze.

"Useless..."

"Useless..."

His gaze swept past quickly.

Many items, while not belonging to this world, had no research value.

"Huh, this is..."

His gaze lingered on a pitch-black gun barrel, and a stream of information flowed into his mind.

【Phase Disintegration Cannon Fragment】

Knowledge Rule Level: 2.

Residual Researchable Knowledge: Research on directional failure of atomic/molecular bonds of matter, application of phase theory (partial)...

Current Analysis Progress: 1%... 2%...

"It's actually a weapon fragment, and a level 2 one at that. Great!"

Zhang Huaiyuan's eyes showed a hint of joy.

This was one of the types he needed most right now.

The most advanced conventional weapons in the current world were basically dominated by energy weapons and gravity weapons, and the legend generation ii series was the same.

It was only because they incorporated "super-pressure gravity shells" constructed from SSS-Rank Star River Beast blood crystals that they possessed power comparable to top-tier level 8 starships.

But the cost of this special shell was too high. If he could use this to research level 2 knowledge weapons, the legend generation ii series would undergo a qualitative change.

One must know that for the truly top-tier existences in this world, such as SSS-Rank Star River Beasts and Transcendents, the reason they were powerful was that they contained the power of certain level 2 rules.

This caused conventional level 1 weapons to have their damage to them greatly reduced, while they, conversely, had an overwhelming damage bonus against items with level 1 rules.

If all starships could be equipped with level 2 rule weapons, then the myth that a top-tier Transcendent could rival a legion would be completely shattered.

The disaster of the Galaxy Beast in the Cataclysm-level Disaster Zone would also no longer be a problem.

"However, although it is a level 2 rule, phase theory seems to be a brand-new concept. There is very little knowledge in the current world that can be borrowed from. It is too difficult to have a breakthrough with just this one."

Zhang Huaiyuan quietly studied the knowledge in his mind. After he broke through to S-Class, his Transcendent ability to analyze such level 2 rule items increased significantly, and it was completed in a moment.

"Let's see if I can find some similar items to learn from."

After studying for a moment with no results, Zhang Huaiyuan moved his gaze back to the items displayed before him.

"Continue."