This Ruby is unlike any gemstone Zhou Yi had previously encountered; it took a considerable amount of energy just to access the data, which was extremely voluminous.

Suddenly realizing, Zhou Yi found himself transformed into a gemstone body with interspersed blue and black hues.

Liquid methane flowed between the gemstones, some of which had solidified into methane ice.

The blue-black gemstone body kept repeating a message.

"Attack!"

"Attack!"

"Attack!"

It was enveloped in a flow of light, exploding outward in all directions.

Surrounded by liquid methane, numerous gemstones formed a splattering fluid, resembling a giant soft-bodied creature with numerous tentacles engaging in battle with a colossal celestial body.

The surface of this celestial body was marked with a striking giant red spot, visible up close as a swirling wild storm, with vast volumes of gas forming layered ring-like air currents outside, creating enormous whirlpools.

It was surrounded by a ring-shaped planetary belt.

Compared to the Heavenly People's gemstone body, this planet was much, much larger.

Relying on his bodily senses alone, Zhou Yi couldn't quantify the gap between them.

It was like a tiny meteorite falling onto Earth.

Yet, the gemstone body was the aggressor.

It plunged into the thick stormy atmosphere of the celestial body, piercing a black hole into it.

Breaking through the outer layer's air friction, the gemstones on its surface gleamed intensely due to the high temperatures, with vast amounts of methane turning into gas and ejecting outwards from behind.

It dove headfirst beneath the celestial body's atmospheric layer.

Below was a liquid environment filled with blue whirlpools.

The gemstone body forcefully struck at the blue whirlpools, attempting to pull and capture them.

Yet it was blocked by some force, unable to touch them, and was repelled outward by a force.

The blue-black gemstone body was like a bee attacking an elephant.

Zhou Yi experienced this battle of the Heavenly People from a first-person perspective, finding it increasingly bizarre.

The enemy in the eyes of the Heavenly People was actually a planet.

What was special about this planet?

So far, it could only be identified as a gaseous planet...

Oh.

Zhou Yi suddenly recalled, during the period when the Ring Solar Wall entered the Ruby phase, he had seen this gaseous planet while gazing outward through his consciousness.

It was Jupiter!

The Heavenly People were attacking Jupiter.

But... why?

Zhou Yi asked Xiao Fu, "What exactly is happening? Have the Heavenly People gone mad? What threat does Jupiter pose to them?"

"..."

After pondering for a while, the Reverse Flow replied, "The Heavenly People are at least a second-level civilization; they wouldn't launch a meaningless attack consuming vast amounts of energy. Keep watching."

The blue-black gemstone body launched assault after assault on Jupiter.

Numerous gemstones inside it were burned to depletion, with the liquid methane continuously evaporating and its body becoming dried up and shrinking.

Yet, it refused to give up, elongating its gemstone structure, turning into a droplet-shape to strike Jupiter's gaseous surface.

Jupiter's atmosphere bore numerous black pits from the impacts.

This process looked somewhat absurd to Zhou Yi.

The massive planet was cold and silent, with only the Heavenly People repeatedly striking and attacking vigorously.

It reminded him of Don Quixote charging at windmills.

Yet, this Heavenly People's mind was occupied with a single looping consciousness.

"Attack! Attack! Attack!"

Zhou Yi felt, this guy must be insane.

You attacking Earth, I can still understand.

But charging at Jupiter, what's the deal with that...

However, after round after round of charges, causing the Heavenly People to become severely damaged and their energy drastically depleted, they had no choice but to retreat back into the void.

The memory unfolded again, initiating another round of attacks.

This Heavenly People was obsessed with attacking Jupiter, having recorded their entire sequence of battles.

Zhou Yi began to take control and alter the sequence of this memory.

The Heavenly People possessed a special open-type recording system allowing the choice of different paths but leading to the same outcome.

He maneuvered the blue-black gemstone body to hover in a safe area, observing Jupiter's surface up close.

This largest planet of the Solar System had a large red whirlpool on its surface and ring-shaped air current belts, exuding a strange sense of order in its structure.

Nothing else special.

Zhou Yi controlled the gemstone body to slowly descend.

Below the dense atmospheric layer were storms and lightning constantly present, with flashes of electric light everywhere.

Below was a layer of murky, viscous ocean. According to past human conjectures, it was primarily composed of liquid hydrogen, but visually, it resembled stirred clay.

Each swirl was distinctly blue.

Zhou Yi discovered in this process that those vortexes were actually gemstone bodies composed of a large number of gemstones, just spinning at high speed.

Inside Jupiter's liquid hydrogen, hundreds of gemstone bodies floated. They functioned like some kind of artificial device, stirring and rotating in the liquid ocean.

These Heavenly People were attracted by Jupiter and became special tools.

Zhou Yi asked Xiao Fu somewhat uncertainly, "Is Jupiter a living planet? Has it captured some of the Heavenly People to use as its own organs of motion?"

Reverse Flow said, "Whether it is a living entity, I cannot judge, as there are too many forms of life in the universe. But one thing I can be sure of."

"Jupiter and the Heavenly People's gemstone bodies are highly compatible."

"Da Zhou, remember? I mentioned that the Heavenly People are an assembly life form with clear standards. Its subunits are the glass men, assembled from glass men to form the Heavenly People's gemstone bodies."

It explained, "Yet, the gemstone bodies highly match the internal structure of Jupiter."

"Normally, it should be like Earth. Even powerful beings like the Heavenly People, their bodies cannot adapt to the local environment, and material contact might lead to their own collapse. Due to their large and precise size, the Heavenly People are powerful but also susceptible to damage."

"However, many gemstone bodies rotate in Jupiter's liquid layer, maintaining a distance from each other, with different rotation speeds, sustaining the fluid motion in different areas. Surprisingly, these gemstone bodies do not show damage and display a pure blue color, indicating that they have received a substantial energy supply."

"A complex assembly life form coming into contact with a strange planet and then perfectly integrating with each other is unlikely to be a coincidence."

"I believe, they inherently have an internal connection."

"There are two possibilities."

Xiao Fu said, "The first possibility is that Jupiter is a higher form of the Heavenly People, where the gemstone bodies have become subunits, necessitating many gemstones to form Jupiter."

"But there's a contradiction."

"In Ruby's memory, these Heavenly People desperately attacked Jupiter. Subunits have no reason to attack a higher structure's assembly, as there's no conflict or contradiction, rather they form a symbiotic community of mutual benefit."

"So, I think this hypothesis is very unlikely."

"The second possibility is that Jupiter is a giant construct composed of Heavenly People units."

Zhou Yi's heart tightened, "Are you saying that Jupiter is an artificial celestial body built by another civilization?"

"Yes."

Reverse Flow calmly explained, "For Jupiter, the Heavenly People are like plankton to a Floating Heart. A large number of Heavenly People are needed to activate Jupiter's true form and function."

"This would explain why the Heavenly People attacked Jupiter. If they don't destroy this giant construct, they might be captured and become tools inside it, unable to escape a fate as mere cogs."

Zhou Yi felt a chill.

The power of the Heavenly People made the Warlord and others despair, and the electromechanical life immediately surrendered.

A civilization using the Heavenly People as screws... unimaginable.

"Da Zhou, don't worry."

Xiao Fu said lightly, "Such a giant construct, even for a high-level civilization, is a very precious strategic resource, each one of great significance."

"The Heavenly People dared to attack Jupiter without being punished, clearly because this high-level civilization has already vanished, they no longer have to fear that entity. Otherwise, they wouldn't have been able to rebel."

"Because for a civilization capable of using them as tool units, on their level, there is no confrontation, just unilateral crushing."

"So, this civilization is definitely destroyed."

"The Heavenly People only then dared to attempt an attack on Jupiter."

Zhou Yi's mind eased slightly: "I remember, the last time I used the Ruby cycle to observe. Jupiter was not damaged."

"Of course. Even if it's in a dormant or inert state, the construct still possesses the strength of the creator's civilization, not something ordinary units can touch or damage."

"The Heavenly People are powerless against such entities, the gap in power is already dimensionally different."

Xiao Fu explained, "So they eventually had to give up and instead did what they could. That is building the Ring Solar Wall to capture and collect the sun's energy."

"Their lack of subunits makes sense now."

"Because they are tool life created by a high-level civilization, without that civilization providing, the glass man as a subunit is no longer present, thus the Heavenly People can only be in a state of one-sided consumption."

"So the Heavenly People targeted Earth, seeking to cultivate new subunits."

After being articulated by Reverse Flow, Zhou Yi's image of the Heavenly People in his mind became a bit clearer.

The Heavenly People facing a high-level civilization could not resist, just like Earth's life facing the Heavenly People.

...

Zhou Yi slowly opened his eyes.

His mind still pondered the Heavenly People Gem Bodies spinning like motors in the oceans of Jupiter.

Apparently, an alien civilization left a huge footprint in the Solar System.

It's just that humans do not have the capability to enter inside and see those majestic scenes of gemstone bodies in motion.

Suddenly, a voice came to his ear.

"Mr. Zhou, we are approaching Flower Town below."

"We are about to land at the flight platform here, please be careful, there might be a bit of turbulence."

It was the steward Xin Yuan.

Zhou Yi came back to his senses, looking out the window.

Below was a vast expanse of green fields, streams winding, with many animals active and a multitude of flowers dotting the ground with colorful splendor.

[Sand Port 001] slowly docked on a tall tower, emitting a slight shake.

Sisters Xin Mu and Xin Yuan both stood with hands folded in front of their abdomens, giving Zhou Yi a gentle bow.

"Mr. Zhou, thank you for flying with us, we hope you have a pleasant time here, we'll wait for you here."

Zhou Yi nodded, giving each of them a tip of 10 Light Seeds.

"Thank you for the comfort and stability during this trip."

"Thank you, Mr. Zhou, it's all in a day's work for us."

The two Transforming Monster girls said cheerfully.

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