Chapter 1031 The final clue
1030. The final clue
The modified cargo ship almost fell to the ice on the planet Jabur. There is a castle built on the ice. A settlement, a simple camp.
After landing, the group of ice diggers driving the spaceship wanted to call on their companions on the ground to come up and kill Darth Malthael, but how is this possible? Darth Malthael didn't even make a move. After a period of terrifying ghostly cries and wolf howls, the mental impact from the vengeful spirit almost frightened those people to the point of collapse, and they fell to their knees one by one, trembling all over.
After careful questioning, Darth Malthael learned the origins of this group of people - they were indeed a group of ice diggers. The ice diggers who had been digging ice on the planet Jabour for a long time were probably There are more than 400 groups of people, and the total number is about a few thousand, but they will not always be on the Jabr planet.
It's so cold here that unless a large-scale residential area with stable energy is built, it's impossible to live there permanently. Therefore, most of these ice diggers will set up such simple temporary camps. After concentrated mining for a few months, they will abandon the camp and go to other places.
And because of the extremely cold environment here, the abandoned campsites are well preserved and can be reactivated at any time as long as energy is plugged in.
Now they are here to mine the ice in this area, because according to scans, the ice 10 meters underground here contains a rare element that can be used as a catalyst for super-matter reactions.
"Why is the ice here black?" Darth Malthael asked.
“I don’t know, legend has it that it was like this thousands of years ago…” The ice diggers shook their heads in confusion.
"What's the difference between this black ice and ordinary ice?" Darth Malthael asked again.
“It’s not edible. Eating the melted water from black ice will cause diarrhea. The diarrhea is severe. I heard that someone in Dros’ group even died of diarrhea. There’s nothing else, just take it. It melts when it's heated by fire, and there's no smell," said an ice digger.
"You are quite lucky." Darth Malthael said coldly.
You must know that these black substances contain the remains of the Rak Ghoul virus. God knows whether there are active viruses in these remains.
Of course, it now seems that this virus is very fragile under the high temperature of orbital bombardment. Just like the situation on the planet Talis, all the viruses close to the surface have been killed, without a trace remaining.
Fortunately, otherwise, these ice diggers would have spread the Rak Ghoul virus long ago by digging out the ice and refining it.
"Sir...Sir, you see, we are just a group of ice diggers, living hand to mouth. Look at you and your spaceship..." An ice digger looked at it carefully. Darth Malthael and the spacecraft with a sleek shape that far surpassed modern technology at first glance, "You are a big shot, and you can't look down on people like us... Just do it and treat us like we're nothing." Come on..."
"When you dug the ice, did you dig out anything from the ice?" Darth Malthael ignored him and just continued to ask.
"Some fragments are excavated from time to time. They look like fragments of buildings, but they are worthless. They are piled up in a pile near our refinery, like a hill." An ice digger answered.
“It’s not this kind of garbage, it’s something that looks more valuable.”
The dozens of ice diggers looked at each other and shook their heads in confusion.
At this time, an ice digger suddenly said: "Are you looking for a 'safe'?"
"What did you say? 'Safe'?" Das-Ma Thaiel glanced at him, his terrifying gaze making the ice digger shudder.
The ice digger did not dare to hide it and said quickly: "It is the 'Jabblebox' (Jabblebox). It is a legend in the black market of our ice digger profession. More than a thousand years ago, here When the ice was not so solid, an ice digging ship fished out an object from the bottom of the sea. The object should be a container, but it was very solid and could not be scanned with any instrument, so many people thought it was a container. A Jedi treasure..."
He continued: "Many people have imagined that they can open this treasure, but no one has ever done it, and then the safe will be sold to the next person at a high price. Buyers with illusions, and prices are getting higher and higher.”
"Whose hands is this thing now?" Darth Malthael asked.
The ice digger exchanged glances with the others, and then said carefully: "Sir, are you a Jedi Knight? Is there really a Jedi Knight's treasure in this safe?"
"You shouldn't ask, don't ask. Tell me the whereabouts of the safe, and I will reward you." Darth Malthael raised his hand and threw out a bag full of credit ingots.
"If we tell you the news, will you let us go?" The ice digger confirmed again. Darth Malthael nodded, "Your lives are worthless to me. All I care about is this... Jabr's safe."
The ice digger just thought he agreed, so he said: "On the planet Aridus...in the hands of a group of Cubit smugglers, their leader is called Kurulu."
Da S-Mathail nodded, thinking deeply.
Seeing that he stopped talking, the group of ice diggers asked cautiously: "Sir... we have told you everything we know. Then... can we... can we go?"
Darth Malthael raised his head and looked at them coldly.
His aura was so terrifying that the group of ice diggers did not dare to stay for a second. When one person couldn't bear it anymore and started to run away, everyone turned around at the same time as if a switch had been pressed. Just run away!
However, every one of them fell down before they ran 10 steps. Before they even hit the ground, they were already turned into corpses!
“I don’t want people to know that I have been here.” Darth Malthael dropped these words coldly and turned towards the Protoss transport ship.
Back on the spaceship, he found that Zelakas and his group of protoss were not here. After the communication was connected, Zelakas told him that after scanning, they did find something in the ice. It should be a building.
The planet Jabr experienced orbital bombardment, and then the global ice completely melted, turning the entire planet into a vast ocean, which later froze again.
A building that can maintain its basic shape under such circumstances is definitely not an ordinary thing and should be very valuable.
So Zelakas is taking the group of protoss warriors to dig. They have sent a letter to the geth on the Dere II satellite to bring a professional mining spacecraft to help.
"In that case, let me use your spaceship first. I will go to the planet Aridus." Darth Malthael said.
"Have you found a clue?" Zelakas asked.
"I think it should be very close." After Darth Malthael finished speaking, he turned to the unmanned console of the spacecraft and said, "Go to the planet Alidus!"
"*&^&^$%^$" The spacecraft console flashed continuously, emitted a burst of machine language that ordinary people could not understand, and then started the engine and flew straight towards the horizon.
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The Protoss transport plane left hyperspace and arrived at the planet Aridus.
This is a very remote desert planet located in the expansion area of the outer ring of the Milky Way. Compared to Tatooine, a desert planet that was destroyed by war, the environment of Alidus is better, with many primitive jungles.
The indigenous people here are the Cubits, a group of intelligent creatures that evolved from lizard-like reptiles.
This planet clearly supports the Galactic Republic in the current war, but because it is too barren, the Federation of Independent Systems has little interest in it.
Like many remote planets in the Outer Rim, Alidus is also a planet where crime, slavery and smuggling are rampant, and gang wars here almost never stop.
Darth Malthael came to a Cubit city and began to inquire about Kururu's whereabouts.
This was not difficult. He quickly got the information-Kululu was killed in a gang melee half a year ago.
(End of this chapter)