Galactic Dark Net

by Stayrr

When the last prodigy level esper on Earth disappeared, Earth was in deep trouble of becoming another species’ colony. The ordinary Han, with his intelligence and hardworking character, was able to make a fortune after “accidentally” stepping into the world of dark net, later purchasing an esper power crystal that brought him the ultimate power that changed the fate of the universe

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Chapter 149: Executions

Away from the outskirts of the city, Han was taken to a dilapidated salvage boat by the two thugs, the ship quickly took off and flew into the dark space. And at that time, Han also finally got to meet these salvage workers' leaders in the warehouse.

They appeared to be just a bunch of very ordinary workers. Due to the perennial labor, their hands were full of calluses, and they are all in work clothes, boots, and there's even a middle-aged woman.

"Mr. Han, we are sorry to take you to outer space." The oldest leader ordered his men to give Han a chair, and then said in a deep voice, "On the ground there are Leader Forin's men everywhere, so being onboard is the only way to escape his eyes."

Han nodded and smiled, "I understand you guys, it's not easy to live under others' watch."

The old man nodded and sat down across from Han, "My name is Lynch, you can think of me as the spokesperson for our gang of salvage workers. I heard that you need a large amount of robots, can you let me know what specific amount you are looking for?"

Han said sincerely, "No matter how many you have, I want them all."

Hulala~

The workers behind Lynch began murmuring in doubt.

Lynch frowned and asked, "Are you being serious? All our full set robots, you want to buy them all?"

Han nodded, then said lightly, "Not only full sets, as long as it's robot-related, even it's a screw, I want it all. After all, robots will be damaged after long term use, so I will need the spare parts as well."

"But the cost will be an astronomical figure, you…"

Shua~

With finger gently slid across Lunar Mark, Han pulled out a blueprint and placed it in Lynch's hand and said, "This is the blueprint of Yankasasi-class frigate, you can easily sell it for 80 billion GC in any exchange center in the Milky Way Galaxy."

The price of blueprints are determined by its product price, and Yankasasi-class frigates are commonly sold for 1.5 billion GC each. If the shipyard has its blueprint, it can easily manufacture 2 or 3 every month, and within a month, the cost of the blueprint would be made back. So, Han was even being a little conservative when he said 80 billion GC. If they encounter a good buyer, it can be sold for twice or even thrice more.

The salvage workers were shocked! Lynch stood up and made a look to the people behind him, then politely said to Han, "Please wait a moment, this deal is very important so we will have to discuss."

"Go ahead." Han smiled and replied.

The workers quickly exited the room, only leaving behind a little servant girl that's about 12 or 13 years old. She poured a cup of tea for Han and also found some cheap-looking seal-packaged dessert.

Han slightly frowned, looked at the little girl's hand and said, "What's with the wound on your hand? It will leave a scar if not handled properly, and that won't be pretty anymore. This is a healing agent, spray twice every day on the wound, and you will see the effect."

The somewhat shy little girl took the healing agent and held it in her hands, and she suddenly grew closer to Han.

Outside, the leaders were talking loudly, it sounded like there was a disagreement and a heated argument.

"What are they arguing about?" Han asked in curiosity.

"Grandpa Lynch want to sell the robots we store in secret to you, but that would be against the law and Forin will look for trouble from us." The little girl isn't that cautious, feeling that Han's a good guy so she told Han.

"Law?" Han was puzzled, "There's still law in the galactic wilderness?"

"Yep, the law created by leader Forin. Us workers that do the salvaging can't sell robots on our own, not even a part of a robot. We have to sell through the dealers on the market, and after the dealers get the money they first have to pay taxes to Forin, and only what's left over is ours."

"Is the tax rate very high?"

"Yep, the dealer gets 5%, Leader Forin gets 80%."

Han suddenly hesitated, frowned, this tax rate is pretty cruel. The salvage workers work that hard and they only get 15% of the profit? That is, only 1500 GC for each robot set.

You must know that the salvaging process also comes with a cost, and the majority of products salvaged are robot parts, which require many women and children to put together to a full set before they can sell it. This little girl's wound on her hand probably came from being cut by some sharp robot parts.

So hardworking, only to earn this little money? Han felt moved by these workers' suffering.

Hoo~

Han let out a sigh. He's just a traveler, how can he control that much? The galactic wilderness is meant to be that unfair and lawless, so even if Han saw the whole situation, he still can't give the workers too much help.

Soon, Lynch came back to the room with the other worker leaders. They seemed to have come to an agreement, and from most of their nervous faces it's easy to see that they are taking great risk doing this deal with him.

"We have finished our discussion. We have a large storage of robots, very mixed, and the overwhelming majority are still just parts. There was no time to count them at all before, so we can't give you an exact number too. The only thing we can tell you is that this batch of products is no less than 200 thousand cubic meters." Lynch swallowed spittle and sternly said.

200 thousand cubic meters?!

Han was suddenly shocked. This is no doubt a big batch of products. If the parts of one robot takes up about 1 cubic meter, then there's at least potential to make 200 thousand robots?

And among them, beside normal engineering robots there are probably even more advanced combat robots and maintenance robots.

Nodded, Han said in a deep voice, "Very good, I will take them all. In addition, I want to find some logic chips. If you guys have any, I'm willing to pay top prices."

Lynch started smiling bitterly, "To be honest, we really don't have any logic chips. There was one year where a pre-historic civilization's transportation ship that shipwrecked here. Although it was carrying all robots, but when they transport robots they would take out all robots' logic chip first."

"Over the years, we only found a total of over 4 full complete logic chips and we handed them all to leader Forin. The robots that carried logic chip are all working robots on that transportation ship, the other robots are all just sitting obsolete."

Han felt a little pity.

"It's fine, being able to have this group of non-intelligent robots is already tons of help for me. Let's talk about the deal now." Han said with a little helplessness.

Lynch lowered his voice and said, "I will give you a coordinate. After you leave the Undercurrent Fortress, wait for us there. We will trade in space. Oh right, bring your transportation ship."

Han doesn't have transportation ship, but he's got an armed mining ship with a storage space of over 1 million cubic meters, which is plenty to hold those robot parts.

At the moment, the armed mining ship is floating in outer space under Yuan Yuan's command. Han told Yuan Yuan to input the coordinate to the mining ship to meet up at the destination.

Immediately after, Han went to the airport, grabbed No. Demon Claw and left Undercurrent Fortress.

Before departure the greedy tax collector charged another 20 thousand GC as tax. Han doesn't like leader Forin and his men's doing here, but since money isn't a problem to Han, he didn't say anything.

Shua~

After going through two hyperspace transitions, No. Demon Claw arrived at the scheduled pick-up location. After a few hours, Han's armed mining ship arrived too. One big one small, both ships floated in space waiting.

"How come they are still not here? Did something happen to them?" Han thought as he practiced the 46 Ensemble in the cockpit.

Suddenly~

Just when Han's impatiently waiting, a ragged space shuttle drilled out of the transition passage and hurriedly approached Han. From the traveling state of the space shuttle, it is undoubtedly piloted by a novice.

"Use Stagnation Beam! This boat is crazy, it will crash into us!"

Han immediately used the beam to slow down the shuttle and slowly dragged it to No. Demon Claw, and then opened the docking module.

"Han, please save grandpa Lynch and my dad!"

It wasn't Lynch that came, but the little girl Han met yesterday and an even younger boy. The shuttle was piloted by that little boy, so no wonder it was swirling around and almost hit Han's ship.

"Don't be nervous, first tell me what happened." Han brought the two kids into the cockpit and asked.

After a few minutes, Han finally understood the whole situation.

Due to the long term exploitation by leader Forin, in order to survive these salvage works would always hide half of their harvest. After a long time, they eventually saved up to 200 thousand cubic meters of robot parts.

Robots are a big taboo in the Milky Way Galaxy. Although some people will buy, but no one dares to buy in large quantity at once like Han. So although Lynch and the others saved up a great inventory, they couldn't get these products out of their hands for a long time.

This time coincidently Han came and said that he's buying up their entire stock, so Lynch took Han out for a meet in outer space. Han's sincerity was very tempting for them, although it's very risky, but they still decided to sell all the robot parts they stored over the years to Han all at once.

Just after the deal was negotiated, Lynch went back to look for men to prepare moving out the robot parts they had been hiding. After all it's a large load, he would be needing at least a hundred men.

But just as he returned to Undercurrent Fortress, Forin's army rushed in and arrested all the salvage worker leaders, and even placed all the salvage workers under close watch.

Because the little girl and his brother are still kids, they were just able to avoid Forin's soldiers and secretly pilot a space shuttle to meet Han. Among the people that were arrested there was their father, so under the urgent situation both kids started crying right after meeting Han.

Han listened, frowned, although his level and combat power makes it unnecessary for him to be afraid of Forin, but after all the galactic wilderness is not a battlefield he's familiar with, and Forin also has dozens of warships, including the largest one which is a Caracal-class missile frigate.

"Yuan Yuan, activate the radar array scan on maximum power to scan Undercurrent Fortress, I want to know where Lynch is kept and what Forin planned on doing to them."

Very soon, Yuan Yuan said in an indignant tone, "Master! Undercurrent Fortress already made an announcement, they are executing the 58 salvage worker leaders today at noon, by cannons!"

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Chapter 150: Nuclear Attack!

Undercurrent Fortress. It's high noon.

Forin arrived on time to the execution ground outside the city near the free market. The reason that the execution ground is chosen to be there, it's to send a warning to everyone. After all, trade is one of the main pillars of this place, and if everyone tries to avoid paying taxes like these salvage workers, then the wealth of Undercurrent Fortress will greatly shrink.

A 300mm howitzer cannon placed at the center of the execution ground, and 100 meters away from the muzzle are the 58 salvage worker representatives. They are all tied together, and their faces are all pale.

There are a lot of people crowding around, but they are already used to this unique method of execution here. After launching the artillery, the shells will directly hit the bound prisoners and turn them into freshly squeezed human jam. And what if someone gets lucky and survives?

Very simple, take another shot.

Forin is very proud of his execution method, he is convinced that in this lawless wilderness, only the cruelest punishments can make people yield.

Forin doesn't really have too many soldiers. Aside from the fleet, there are only about 2000 people on the ground security forces and they are all concentrated in the vicinity of the place of execution.

In the galactic wilderness, one still need to mainly rely on aerial fleet, and that's Forin's real elite force. As for the ground security, they basically play the role of a police and are lower tier than the Undercurrent Fortress fleet soldiers.

Forin is a skinny old man, sunken eyes, like a walking skeleton. It's said that he had been a 5-star esper but came to the Undercurrent Fortress after committing too many heinous crimes in the Milky Way.

He started off working for the previous generation owner as a thug, ultimately successfully in his position by putting a knife in the past owner's throat. There are no rules here, so such examples are very common.

Every base, every market, will go through a bloodbath every few years, with people stepping on the bodies of their predecessors onto the throne of the tyrant. Then, every few years later the positions of those people will be replaced by someone else.

Whatever goes around comes around, and whose fists are bigger then he's the king. The galactic wilderness had always followed the law of the jungle.

Sneered, Forin walked to those worker leaders, pointed at Lynch's nose and said, "Old Lynch, I think I was being very generous towards you guys, but I can't believe that you guys will do such thing behind my back."

"You are about to die. Any last words, worm?"

Lynch smiled bitterly and said, "What a generosity that's worth mentioning. The parts that us workers worked hard to salvage, you just have to move your lips to take away 80%. It's obviously us that are working day and night, but we can't even fill our stomach or send our kids to school."

"Such life, it's not worth living anyways!"

Forin laughed and said, "What a traitor, I charge taxes from you guys because I respect you guys! If I'm cruel enough I already turned you guys into my slaves! Today you guys can just wait for your death! I will let everyone see, the result of being a traitor!"

Lynch still wanted to curse some more but immediately got his mouth stuffed by Forin's man and also received a few slaps in the face.

Humph!

Forin proudly walked back, ready to walk back to his seat and announce the beginning of the execution.

Suddenly, they saw an obscure black dot flying near. It's a Vulture-class frigate, it did not enter the airport to dock but flew low above the ground towards the Undercurrent Fortress city.

Forin looked up in curiosity and muttered, "What a disrespectful pilot. When he docks, triple his tax!"

On the side a henchman recorded rightaway.

Just at that moment, they just saw the Vulture-class frigate taking a turn and it seemed to be heading towards the military airport now.

At the Undercurrent Fortress, Forin's fleet is not docked at the same place as other ships. After all, Forin has his own military so he has his own airport. There are 24 warships in total, and the largest model is the Caracal-class Guided Missile frigate, and they are considered a decently strong presence in the galactic wilderness.

They just saw the Vulture-class frigate speeding up its flight as it completely ignores the navigation tower's stern warning.

Whoosh~

When flying over the military airport, from the Vulture-class cabin dropped a medium sized bomb.

Rumbled~

The next second, the whole world was quiet.

Then everyone just saw rising plumes of fireworks in the direction of the military airport, which flew high enough into the sky for at least 10,000 meters.

Then immediately after the firework faded, a huge mushroom cloud soared into the sky.

Light travels faster than sounds, so when the mushroom cloud just appeared, the people at the execution ground and in the city just heard the deafening sound.

The noise was like a tide, roaring as it rushed over. Despite the fact that the military airport is at least 400 kilometers apart from the Undercurrent Fortress city and market, the strong airflow and current still blew people off balance, even shattering some windows of those high-rise buildings.

"It's a nuke!!!"

Even in a world with borderline magical powers and indescribably huge intergalactic warships, mentions of a nuclear weapon still send shivers down most men's spines.

Don't know who shouted, but all the people that originally came here to watch the execution all began to frantically flee.

It's a nuclear strike!

The king of weapon of mass destruction, the big killing machine that the Milky Way Alliance has banned a long time ago!

Who would've thought, such a small frigate actually dropped a nuclear bomb and sped away.

Just minutes after the nuclear explosion and the mushroom cloud didn't even reach its climax yet, Han's powered complex radar array began broadcasting live, filling all current communication channels, sending everyone a surprising message.

"You guys listen the f*ck up! This is just a warning!"

"If you smart the get out of my way! This is a war between me and Forin!"

"If he doesn't surrender, then I will just drop my greater tonnage hydrogen bomb and blow you all to kingdom come!"

The crowd began desperately fleeing, flocking to the airport. They don't even care about their products or money, life is more important!

Even fools know, the guy that's speaking is not joking. Who has ever seen someone that doesn't even declare war and directly drops a nuke in front of someone's front door?

Nope, they've never seen such a ruthless man!

Don't know how much this man hates Forin, he even putted nuclear weapons into use?!

The nuclear weapons changed quite a bit from the past. Originally, a nuke that's enough to destroy a city is already considered powerful, but now, weapons are condensed, a humble-looking hydrogen bomb can blow up half a planet!

But having said that, how can an old-fashioned Vulture-class frigate be carrying a nuclear bomb?

Sh*t, the owner of this ship must be a madman. This might even be just the vanguard troops and he might even got more reinforcements coming in!

Shua~

Shua~

Starships took off from the airport one after another, rushing straight into the outer space without even looking back. The shock that brought to the people by the nuclear bomb, only those that have witnessed can understand. Someone that dares to directly use nuclear weapon to start a fight, is usually a madman that people are afraid to offend!

"Where's my fleet?! Where's my fleet?!" Forin jumped up in rage and shouted at his men.

"The warships that were docked at our military airport are all destroyed. The remaining fleet is in space orbit and they have begun chasing!"

"Wreck this damn Vulture-class, I want it and its damned pilot cut into pieces!" Forin loudly ordered.

But who would've thought that just after he finished, at the not distant sky a bright sun has risen.

No, it's not a sun, but the light produced by detonating a nuke in space!

Another nuke?!

Everyone couldn't believe their eyes, what the f*ck is going on? Could there be a nuclear war breaking out?!

"Reporting! The damn enemy arranged a nuclear bomb on our fleet's pursuing route. When our fleet passed by we were ambushed!"

"The flagship has been hit hard! Suffering 75% of power. Destroyer Nightingale and Night Cat were completely destroyed due to being too close to the explosion! And also frigate Yeman, Yeli, and Yeshu, they are all finished!"

Plop~

The skinny Forin sat in his place, sweat raining down.

Instantly, the fleet that he worked so hard to manage, was three-quarters destroyed.

Nuclear attack? This is too crazy!

The opponent seems to not follow rules at all, doing whatever is most brutal and lethal!

"Our fleet has engaged in a fierce battle! Although the opponent only has a frigate, but that frigate's speed is extremely quick! Without the assistance of flagship, our fleet can't catch up to them at all, nor do we have long-range weapons!" When his underling reported the news, Forin is no longer surprised, because this Vulture-class has given him too many surprises today already.

"Leader, how about the execution today?"

Forin looked at the tied up workers in disgust, impatiently waved his hand and said, "Kill them! Kill them all! Tell the fleet, if they can't finish off that Vulture-class today, they don't need to come back anymore!"

"Yes!"

Immediately, a few of Forin's soldiers walked to the 300 mm howitzer in cold face.

Just when the executioner is about to reach the cannon and press the launch button.

Suddenly~

A white beam burst out!

It's a shoulder-fired laser cannon!

It landed on several soldiers, immediately burning off their upper body, leaving only a few legs still standing on the ground, emitting horrible smell and smoke.

Laser weapon?!

The ground soldiers were all scared senseless. Laser weapons are even more scarce than nuclear weapons, they are precious output from the Extinction Domain. There is no good way to counter laser weapons, one will need to be high enough level and have fast enough reflex, and these soldiers clearly haven't reached the level to be able to dodge laser weapons.

At last, the shoulder-fired laser cannon carrier Han appeared on the execution ground. There's a man in his hand, it's that Mr. Liu that was responsible for connecting Han and the worker leaders. He's about to become a dead fat man, already beaten into non-human-like, kneeling on the ground and shaking.

"It really wasn't me! Brother Han, I really didn't tell the secret!" Fat storekeeper Liu begged.

Kacha~

Han didn't say anything, but his blade went down and sliced that fat man's head off, said coldly, "Your words, I don't even believe in a punctuation mark."

Lynch and the others that are tied up all looked at Han in shock, it's actually him!

But isn't he a one-man-army? If he's here, then who's controlling No. Demon Claw?

Of course it's Yuan Yuan. Han just need to tell him what to do, and all strikes can be launched through remote control.

"Little brat, you dare to invade Undercurrent Fortress by yourself? I think you don't want to live anymore?! Even if you have laser weapon, you don't stand a chance against all of us!" Forin began shouting at Han.

It was just intended to motivate his men. Han has nukes and laser weapons, and those soldiers are just mercenaries that want money. When they really meet a strong enemy, it's hard to say whether they will really stay loyal to Forin.

Kakakaka~

They just saw Han smiling, with finger gently moved past Lunar Mark, and immediately 10 fusion beasts appeared on the execution ground, they are Armored Godly Beasts! The top tier fusion beasts so far in the Milky Way Galaxy!

Han went to the front of the 300mm cannon, gave a hard push, and actually pushed this monstrous cannon of over hundreds of tons 180 degrees, and the muzzle that pointed at the Lynch and the others to directly at Forin and his underlings.

"First of all, I'm never alone!"

"Second, my shoulder-fired laser cannon is certainly not powerful and prestigious enough, so I want to borrow your little mortar for a second!"

Kacha~

Han never do things sloppily, when his voice just faded, he slapped down onto the launch button of this giant howitzer.

Rumbled~

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Chapter 151: New Governor, New Risk

Rumbled~

The large-caliber howitzer's roar makes the world tremble, but in the hands of Han, this monster cannon doesn't seem to want to stop at all, but rather continues to releases its anger in flames.

Rumbled~

Rumbled~

Rumbled~

Han's right fist repeatedly slammed on the launch button. Every time it fires, due to the huge recoil, this hundreds of tons of cannon would violently shake, not to mention the target that's been bombarded. Under the smoke, everything all came to naught.

"Didn't you like cannon execution?"

"I will give it to you!"

"Ruining my deal, I'm going to kill you and your eight generations of your family!"

As Han crazily fires, he also cursed out loud.

Not to mention Forin and his men that's under fire, even those salvage worker leaders that were behind Han were shocked speechless. In comparison to Forin's cannon execution that was meant to display to the crowd, what Han did was the real cannon execution! As long as there's still shells inside, the attack will not stop!

After a while, the giant howitzer artillery's loaded ammunition was completely consumed clean, Han then moved his hand away from the launch button.

Full-on attack is Han's signature style, whether it's using hand weapons or giant cannons, Han would always see attacking as his own option and treat killing as his only goal.

After swiftly cutting the ropes that tied up the worker leaders, Han charged into the destroyed ruins with his beasts, continue to slash enemies that are still alive. Even if they had only a slight respite, Han will not hesitate to add another cut on their body.

Behind the pile of corpse, Han saw Forin. Although in the past he is a pretty decent 5-star esper, but he has aged, and his body had been hollowed out by countless nights of wine, meat and women. Against the aggressive Han, Forin felt a chill thoroughly inside, knowing that although he has higher level but is impossible to be a match for Han.

The Armored Godly Beasts and Demon Claw's performance is also crazy. 10 Armored Godly Beasts were enough to stomp a warlord's manor to the ground, not to mention the garbage army in these galactic wildernesses.

In the Milky Way Galaxy, all the high-profile outlaws all went to the Oblivion Realm, so all the people that came to the galactic wilderness are all people rejected by the Oblivion Realm, including Forin. So, this massacre for Han is unhindered, and there's no enemy strong enough to come out and stop him.

"You can't run! My fleet is on its way back!" Forin shouted at Han with a cold face, his figure is skinny and pressed down, like a cornered rat.

Slightly smiled, Han shook his head and said, "You are wrong. I can guarantee you that out of your ships, not even a single escape pod will return."

Forin suddenly hesitated, and then he gritted his teeth.

Han's not lying. Yuan Yuan continued to deliver the outer space battle's reports to Han; No. Demon Claw is a terrifying monster, as a frigate, it actually has the firepower of a battlecruiser. In the case of loss of the strongest flagship, Forin's fleet is being slowly eaten away by No. Demon Claw, and it's only a matter of time until the last ship is destroyed.

"I will fight you to death!" Forin roared, jumped up into the air and was about to pounce onto Han.

Maybe because he had been a tyrant for too long, just when Forin began to regain some of the elite fighter look he had in the past…

"To death? You? You aren't qualified!"

"Path of Heaven, Sky Break Strike!"

Rumbled~

No one really saw how Han shot down Forin in mid-air, all people at the scene saw was Han lowering his stance suddenly, then a white light was immediately followed. That's not laser for sure, it's Han's forbidden art!

Level really means nothing to warriors like Han!

As early as months after gaining his power, Han's already famous for slaying enemies stronger than him!

In this world, aside from the levels that can be seen, there are also levels that can't be seen!

Forbidden martial art! Anti-toxin! Power of Darkness! Void Domain! All these things are hidden, but they belong to Han's strength!

Forin's body fell to the ground, raise a cloud of dust, and his chest was ripped open.

Kacha~

Han walked over, and without a word he immediately cut off Forin's arm and took out the dimension ring on his hand.

The 4 pieces of logic chips, sure enough they are here.

Han let out a long breath, and a hint of excitement began to surface on his face.

But what Han did not expect is, after he finished Forin and want to leave Undercurrent Fortress, he was actually asked by that many people to stay.

For Undercurrent Fortress's permanent population, the overwhelming majority are salvage workers that relies on slaving robot parts from wreckage for a living, and the rest are traders and Forin's men.

Now among these people, Forin's men either ran or were pounded into dust, and the workers and traders used almost a pleading tone to request Han to stay.

Lynch said in a deep voice, "Han, if you are going, then there will be another figure like Forin taking over Undercurrent Fortress, and by then we might suffer even more than when Forin is here. This is the galactic wilderness, having tough fists is the only rule here."

"Since you've already taken down Undercurrent Fortress, why not be like others and self-claim the governor position instead of being insisted on leaving?"

I've taken down Undercurrent Fortress?

Han slightly hesitated. He was just really angry that Forin actually wanted to harm those salvage workers that are helping Han and stop Han from acquiring those important robots. Han just killed him out of rage, but as for taking down this place and become the governor, Han never considered it at all.

The representative of merchants, an elder with a goatee also advised Han, "In the galactic wilderness, the territory belongs to whoever that takes the governor down, and we are all very willing to work for you sir, and as for the tax rate you can keep it the same as when Forin was in power."

"After all we are businessmen. If you leave after taking down Undercurrent Fortress, when the nearby governors and lords know that this place has no leader, they will for sure fight for it, and an even bigger riot and war will breakout."

"So taking down but not accepting the leadership of Undercurrent Fortress, is equivalent to harming all the residents here."

Han suddenly hesitated again, of course Han gets the logic. What's most precious in the galactic wilderness are habitable planets. The moment Undercurrent Fortress becomes a place with no governor, all major forces will be for sure like flies driven to a carcass.

"Unless you have somewhere else more important to go?" The goatee elder asked tentatively.

Han gently sighed. Now that thinking about it, he really has no where else to go. He can't go back to Earth. And that Protector guy probably won't be happy with him doing robot stuff in the Oblivion Realm.

According to Han's original plan, he prepared to finish assembling the mobile shipyard and mining fleet, and then take the robots to mine everywhere in the galactic wilderness to produce the very important second generation starships.

"Originally I just want to rob this guy, but I ended up being the new governor, what just happened." Han muttered quietly to himself.

The most eccentric system in the Milky Way Galaxy, Oblivion Realm.

Planet 1, in the yard of a huge manor that belongs to the legendary Protector.

An elder is leading a group of students and looking at the wonders of the galaxy simulation that cannot be expressed in words.

Light is turned into endless stars, forming this hologram of the galaxy. The darkness that surrounds the Milky Way Galaxy is the galactic wilderness Han's at right now, and if continue to move forward, then one can arrive to the legendary realm of death, Turbid Star Field.

This blind elder, is the so-called Protector.

Although his white eyes can't see anything, but they are full of the light of wisdom. And that group of students of his, are also the galaxy's top researchers.

The protector is famous, in fact, is not because of his fighting power but his wisdom.

It has been estimated before, if you want to find the top 3 wise men in the Milky Way Galaxy, Protector will be able to occupy one of that spot for sure.

But also only a few people can understand, one of the most respected wise elder in the Milky Way Galaxy, why does he want to stay in the Oblivion Realm, be on the opposite side of the powerful Milky Way Alliance to shelter some of the most notorious criminals in the Milky Way Galaxy.

The complex data is constantly being calculated. The Protector sat at the center of the hall, while hundreds of top scholars, which are also the Protector's students, are rapidly calculating all sets of data.

Normal people will never understand, what kind of study the Protector and his students are really working on. If one wants to be able to comprehend his mysterious data model, one will need no less than 385 points in IQ and plus 30 years of hard learning.

The people that can sit here today to help the Protector do research and record data, no doubt all meet these criteria.

"Professor, the data model had significant movement, and the fluctuation originated from the galactic wilderness outside of the Milky Way, from a place named Undercurrent Fortress." The Protector's chief disciple Isaac frowned as he reported to the Protector.

Protector used a deep tone and asked, "Tell me what data are changed."

"Within 10 years, the probability of destruction of the Milky Way, it increased from 82% to 83%."

Hearing this number, even the most calm and wise man in the Milky Way Galaxy couldn't help but frowned slightly.

"So that means, in the galactic wilderness, a demon has been born?"

Isaac quickly replied, "Not completely. Although the probability of the Milky Way's destruction within 10 years increased 1%, but the probability of the Milky Way's destruction within a century actually decreased from 98% to 97%."

Ka~

The tea cup inside Protector's hand fell to the ground, making a sharp sound.

Even the wisest man is baffled by this strange change of data.

The chance of Milky Way being destroyed within a decade is increasing, but at the same time the chance of the galaxy being destroyed within a century is actually decreasing?

This doesn't seem to make sense!

There's something happening right now at the distant galactic wilderness, a figure is rising, and it's actually increasing both the probability of Milky Way being destroyed and saved?

"Calculate again." Protector ordered in a deep voice. Although he's clearly blind, but he raised his head and looked up at the sky.

The result of the second calculation remains the same.

"Perform the third recalculation."

The result of the third calculation still didn't change, both the probability of destruction and salvation increased, just like before.

Hoo~

Protector let out a long breath, asked Isaac in a deep voice, "Do you know why I kept the most notorious criminals of the Milky Way Galaxy in the Oblivion Realm?"

Isaac said, "Professor considered that the chance of destruction of the Milky Way Galaxy is rapidly increasing, so you want to protect any power that can help humans defend against the power of darkness, regardless of them being criminals or not."

Protector nodded, "I sheltered over tens of thousands of notorious high-profile criminals in the Milky Way Galaxy, but I was only able to lower the probability of destruction of Milky Way Galaxy by 1%. But all of a sudden, a change in the galactic wilderness actually also lowered the probability by the same amount, it makes me baffled."

"Sent our best men there, I want to know who's at Undercurrent Fortress, and what is he actually doing."

"On it."

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Chapter 152: 4 King Kongs

Undercurrent Fortress's training room is a legacy left behind by the Forin era, Han is unable to make any more improvements to the facility without tearing it down and rebuilding it since the one left behind by Forin is luxurious enough.

Han also found time to reassemble the star apes encountered earlier, using the fusion beast tools he brought with him, he reconstituted the beasts using the body parts of the slaughtered star apes horde. The result was only 30 or so fusion beasts, but in order to take most advantage of star apes' four powerful limbs, each fusion star apes all has 4 legs and 6 arms.

After Han's assessment, the fusion star apes' combat power is about one-third of Godly Armored Beasts. After all, Wuyun only made 130 Godly Armored Beasts in his lifetime, and he invested as much effort as possible for each one of them, so it will be very difficult for Han to produce fusion beasts at the same level of combat power.

But these 30 fusion star apes Han made are also not considered weak, although it does lack strong defense due to not having the scales of Godly Armored beasts that can't even be penetrated by laser. Han planned that if he finds better material later on, he will continue to strengthen these fusion star apes.

In short, Demon Claw and 2 fusion star apes will serve as the guards of the fortress. Han likes to hide the potential of his power, and the majority of fusion star apes were all hidden by him into his invisible Lunar Mark.

On the big screen in the training room, Pathless who usually does not laugh started laughing, "You want to rob the governor and you ended up becoming the governor. Han, you are the most hilarious outlaw I've seen."

Han pouted, "Can we not talk about this problem anymore? You guys have laughed at me for this for a month now, doesn't it get old?"

Pathless waved his head and said sincerely, "Not a chance. From now on whenever I remember this instance, I will laugh at you once. But that's good too, now you at least got your own territory in the galactic wilderness."

"The next path, Path of Mankind, splits sky and shatters earth. In comparison to the Path of Heaven and Path of Earth, the difficulty again increased several times. Of course, once you grasp the power, it's also very shocking."

"I have carefully observed your training, not bad. But there is still quite a gap to actually mastering. Let's continue to train using the original method, first is the moves, then go for the understanding. After you understand it, then this technique will become yours."

Han nodded. He can still connect to the Galactic Dark Net from wilderness, and that gave Han great convenience. Although not around, Han can ask Pathless remotely through internet about anything that comes up.

Thought for a second, Han said, "Right now what I worry about the most is source energy index. I've clearly reached the end of 5-star, but I just can't make that final step."

Pathless said as if it's not a big deal, "What's the hurry, you are just turning 18! When I was 18 I was still at, never mind, you don't need to know. In short, during the early stage you relied on the inheritance crystal's power and the Heart of Darkness to achieve flying speed of improvement."

"But now the promoting function of the crystal and heart has already passed, you began gradually returning to normal developing speed, and that's not to my surprise."

"Now you have two options. One is to seek stability, practice step by step to solidify the achievements you've made so far. The second option is to use the Genu of Darkness, but I won't be able to help you with that and pharmacology is Old Black's expertise."

Han sincerely replied, "This time I've decided to progress slow and steady. Within a short period of time, I won't use the Genu of Darkness. But in the meantime, I will also be discussing with Night Walker about the best ways to fully utilize the Genu of Darkness. I guess it's going to be a two-pronged approach, I won't stop practicing, but I also won't stop researching and studying about the Genu of Darkness.

Pathless nodded approvingly and said, "Your mind is very firm. With a treasure that can allow you to make rapid advancement, you actually chose to resist the temptation to use it for a quick power surge. It's not something everyone can do."

"After using the Genu of Darkness, you are still you. But if you don't use it, it actually becomes a card in your hand. Unknowingly, you will have more and more cards in your sleeve, and that's very good! In this vast Milky Way, smart people will always save themselves a few cards in their sleeves."

After the practice ended, Han went to the free market again to look around.

The tax policies Han created is completely different from Forin's. He followed the usual rules of the galactic wilderness to charge 10% tax per transaction, but eliminated the airport parking charges, landing fee per headcount, departure fee, and a series of random taxes.

And for trades of products such as daily necessities, agricultural products, electrical appliances, building materials, etc. that are used for the livelihood and building of the planet, Han implemented preferential policies that reduced the transaction taxes to 5%.

The reason Han made these changes is due to his feelings for the impoverished workers slaving away in Undercurrent Fortress. A carton of milk is 10 times more expensive than those sold in the Milky Way Galaxy, parents are simple too reluctant to buy it for their kids, and things can't go on this way.

Compared to the prosperity of the arms trade, Han hope that commodity trading that can benefit the ordinary people can be flourished too, just like a well-functioning city. After all, people need to eat and wear clothes.

Schools, new airports, shopping malls, highways, step by step construction of a variety of programs are rolled out. Han's the governor here anyways, so he intended to run this place well.

There are only a few habitable planets in the galactic wilderness, and the poverty here at Undercurrent Fortress was entirely caused by endless wars which only gave little space for development. However, now with human diligence and wisdom, this planet will be more and more perfect.

Great patriot love for his home planet Earth, and that's the most commendable thing about Han's personality.

Now Earth is also developing rapidly, but unfortunately Han cannot go back and help with home building. So, he took his homesickness and placed it in Undercurrent Fortress, and seeing this place flourishing more day by day, Han really felt happy from the bottom of his heart.

All in all, Han basically let the people at Undercurrent Fortress manage themselves, he's just a nominal governor.

As Han loves his home planet and is willing to give up everything for it, Lynch and the others also love Undercurrent Fortress and are willing to work hard to make it a better place. Han let those people that love Undercurrent Fortress to manage and develop this place, nothing should go wrong.

After quietly doing one more lap around the market, Han then drove No. Demon Claw through three transition jumps to a nameless star system, where the workers referred to as shipwreck valley.

No. Demon Claw drilled out of the wormhole, and Han just saw countless floating wreckages hovering about this dauntingly deep ditch.

It was recorded that the prehistoric civilization's giant robot cargo ship that carried hundreds of millions of robots, were destroyed here. After the cargo ship blew up, the robots became wreckage, scattering throughout the galaxy.

Salvage ships are busy with work, using tractor beams to catch floating robot wreckage, loading the scrap and debris into the warehouse, then putting them through sorting and assembling processes for sale.

These work were used to belong to the salvage workers at Undercurrent Fortress, but now the robots have replaced them. The ones piloting the ships are robots, the ones responsible for sorting and reassembling are robots, and the ones guarding outside of the star system are also robots.

Where did all these robots come from? Other robots. Now that robots are responsible for assembling their own kind, the efficiency skyrocketed.

In addition to over hundreds of fishing boats, there are also two of the currently largest ships in the galaxy, Pyramid-class cargo ships anchoring at the distal end of the star system.

After the collected wreckage undergoes classification at the industrial ships, they are then sent to the two cargo ships. No. 1 collects all the good-to-go parts that are ready to be assembled, while No. 2 collects the damaged parts where it will have a small factory and repair robots doing some simple repairing. Failing that, the scrap is melted down and sent to No.1.

Han's No. Demon Claw is parked at No. 1 Cargo ship.

Walked into the enormous warehouse, Han saw the whole row of refurbished robots awaiting, looking straight ahead like a group of brave soldiers. There are tracked robots, floating high-speed robots, bionic multi-function robots, and the number and variety are simply amazing.

Han smiled, then went down to the lowest level of the warehouse, meeting the few robots that are already waiting there. Aside from Yuan Yuan, the other four are all robots with artificial intelligence that were newly recruited by Han. In their brain there is a logic chip installed in each. They are like Yuan Yuan, equipped with incredible wisdom.

Battle Robot: Raksha, Construction Robot: Burton, Vanguard Robot: Starmark, Research Robot: Source.

Han named these four new partners the Four King Kong.

Among the four King Kong, Raksha is the full-time fighting robot, and all the warships are under his command. Starmark is the vanguard robot, all scouting, remote exploring and spying tasks are all under his jurisdiction. Burton is the engineering robot, specialized in doing all the dry and dirty work, including robot assembling, ship modifying, system repairing, and even cleaning.

As for Source, he's the research robot. If Han wants to enhance the firepower of his cannon, he needs to find Source. If he wants to find a way to speed up the warp transition engine, he needs to find Source. Speaking of which, Source is the most powerful one among the four King Kong.

"Now we almost have a troop of million size, right?" Han smiled and asked.

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Chapter 153: The Deadly A-43 Relic

"Now we almost have a troop of million size, right?"

Yuan Yuan made the robot equivalent of a nasty face towards Han and said, "Master, how can it be that simple. The cargo ship's explosion was very violent, damaging vast majority of parts and components, and also through thousands of years salvaging in the past, intact parts have almost been all collected."

"We estimated, the most we can finish here are 500 to 600 thousand robots' assembly, if we managed to scuttle the whole thing, where the largest number are engineering robots, accounting for about 80%."

Han nodded, robots' structures are extremely sophisticated and complex, the circulation system and nerve micro reactor controller inside are all cutting-edge products that the current Milky Way Galaxy is unable to manufacture. In other words, even if a robot looks intact on the outside but the energy source and nerve system is damaged, it still cannot be put into use.

It seems that Han cannot obtain his giant robot army directly form the valley, and the most realistic outcome is acquiring only 600 thousand robots and large quantity of robot parts.

According to the standard Milky Way corps composition, it's equivalent to having 5 engineering corps plus one comprehensive battle corps.

Speaking solely about Han's most important task at the moment, which is to manufacture second-generation starships, 5 engineering corps plus one comprehensive battle corps is enough. After all, robots don't need to eat or rest, and they are very loyal, with an efficiency of about 8 to 10 times higher than humans. With the current corps Han has, it's equivalent to having a medium to high level professional shipyard.

"Follow the original plan, collect all debris in this star system as soon as possible, assemble as much as possible and store the rest as spare parts."

"After our mobile shipyard and armed mining ship receives the supplies, start manufacturing operations immediately, focus on producing 3 models of second-generation starships." Han ordered in a deep voice.

In the blink of an eye, half of a month passed, during which, the robot troops have finished salvaging all the debris inside the shipwreck valley. So, Han's troops began mining and repair operations, converting to mineral mining and ship manufacturing tasks.

The manufacturing process is as follows, the armed mining ship is responsible for the extraction of needed minerals from galactic wilderness and it will perform the refining process onboard on the spot, then sending the various refined alloys to the two mobile shipyards where the complete production lines are.

The large number of robots followed the blueprint to directly mine from the deep space while manufacturing the ships at the same time, building along the way. The 1st mobile shipyard is responsible for manufacturing banshee-class assault warship and Demon Eye-class recon ship, while the 2nd mobile shipyard is responsible for making Ghost-class heavy assault ship.

The days are a little boring, and if nothing goes wrong, then Han's governor career will continue. He really likes Undercurrent Fortress, the residents here are as poor as people originally were on Earth, but they don't lack the love for their home planet and the passion for the construction of a better future.

Han focused on the manufacture of second-generation warships, the research in drugs, the enhancement of fusion bases, the improvement of his forbidden martial art.

In short, in this piece of galactic wilderness far away from the Milky Way Galaxy, Han found the long-lost peace.

Unfortunately, to Han, tranquility will always be short-lived. Maybe it's because of the word "Lang" (TL: Han's full name is Han Lang, and Lang means wave or homeless), he is destined to be moving around, wandering.

It has only been 47 days since Han became the governor, and at the Milky Way Galaxy, something happened, something far-reaching to Han and any humans, and that is the activation of the newest extinction domain in the galaxy, A-43.

Qinshang, one of the oldest empires among the 12 permanent members of the Milky Way Galaxy, has always been low-key acting but is equipped with extraordinary power.

Within the border of Qinshang empire, Iron-cross constellation, last planet.

Above the prairie, patrol warships were constantly flying around, defending. The fixed settlement constructed with alloy structure on the endless grassland is already not enough, and the new-coming soldiers had no choice but to live inside the warships or even put up tents.

No one knows at this time, how many Qinshang soldiers are really gathered here at the Iron-cross constellation, because the activation of an A-class relic, even to a giant empire like Qinshang, is also an extremely dangerous task that must be taken seriously.

Of course, although Qinshang empire treats this A-class relic activation very seriously, They would never request reinforcements from other permanent management nations in the galaxy. If they did, it would be considered a sign of weakness.

The reason why a permanent member is recognized to be one in the first place, it's because they are equipped with a unique power to activate, explore, and manage the most dangerous A-class relic in the Milky Way.

In the center of the prairie surrounded by countless warships and soldiers, there is a formation of giant statues.

The A-19 relic that Han had been to, there were 4 Ares statues up to one hundred thousand meters in height, with a powerful and extraordinary look.

275,000 meters, that's the height of the statues that Qinshang empire precisely measured before. According to the known information, the Ares statues here at this A-class relic, is the highest among all known A-class relics in the galaxy.

No one knows who are these gods carved in stone, but if one stands on top of the circle of these statues and look down, the entrance to A-43 relic can be seen.

That's a huge metal disc, and its diameter 275,000 meters. It's covered in mysterious and complex patterns, and nobody could ever decipher the meaning of these patterns. All people know is that once its broken, the entrance to this relic will appear, and when jumped down, people can enter another world.

At the moment, there are a few people walking around on the giant metal disc. They are all relic experts of the Qinshang empire, performing some final assessments before activating the relic and using multi-frequency scanning machines to resolve the relic's internal area and number of buildings.

Until today, the Milky Way galaxy's research level towards these extinction domains are still very low, humans can only do rough estimates of the size of the relics and judge what level the site belongs based on its size.

This is the most common practice in the galaxy, but now, Qinshang empire encountered a problem they've never encountered before.

"Look, the digits changed again! It's increased by 63 million units since the last assessment!" After collecting the data, a professor that specializes in the study of extinction domains exclaimed.

"How many changes have there been?"

"11981 times!"

"Then how many times did we assess this relic in total?"

"Also 11981 times."

Everyone at the scene gasped, they suddenly realized, ever since the discovery of this A-class relic, every probe data is different. This strange relic is constantly changing.

"Could it be that our calculation machine or data model is wrong?"

"Impossible, we have brought over 1200 units of the same model estimation machine, and there were as many as 300 machines assessing this relic together and tried no less than 500 algorithms. All at the same time!"

"And the result?"

"The result confirmed that the constant change in data is not because of the data model but the relic itself."

"Does the operational headquarter know about the results?"

"Yes."

"And what's their decision?"

"The operation HQ felt that we've waited for too long. Unless we can present evidence convincing enough to prevent the relic from being activated, they will be officially opening this relic at midnight."

"That's a little risky."

"The operational HQ said, A-class relics all have a vertical entrance, the dark beasts inside the relic had never rushed out before. During the long course of human exploration of extinction domains, only many years ago, during the activation of A-1, the Dark King crisis happened. Aside from that they were all safe. So, they don't agree with our suggestion to not activate the extinction domain due to the constant change in data."

"It's still very risky. The Dark King crisis wiped out the strongest espers in the galaxy, and all armies we sent were almost all annihilated. Although there isn't a case of dark beasts escaping A-class relic, but we still can't forget about the harm that the Dark King once brought to humanity.

"It's useless. The people at the HQ said, with the galaxy's combat power today, even if there appears a second Dark King, the Alliance also has enough ability to annihilate the threat. For so many years, the Alliance has been preparing for this."

"Well, we will just obey then. How much longer until midnight?"

"Less than 6 hours."

Eventually, the research team could not present sufficient evidence to convince HQ to abandon this mission.

An empire obviously has the dignity of an empire, as early as a few months ago, Qinshang empire has informed the other permanent member nations that it will activate the A-class relic by itself, and the date was set.

Now, there's nothing that can stop this empire's army to destroy the giant alloy disc, break through the seal, and reveal the true face of A-43 relic.

When it was 1 hour until midnight, the research team evacuated.

A crow-class battleship carried a huge oscillator with alloy rope, placed the oscillator at the center of the metal disc and then sped away.

The dark quiet night is almost suffocating, everyone's waiting for the oscillator to destroy the metal disc, waiting for the commander to press the red button.

Time passed second by second, and when the time directly points toward midnight…

Ka~

A clear noise came from the darkness immediately after the red button was pressed. The oscillator issued a roar that's enough to pierce the sky, and within only a few seconds the giant alloy disc was shattered into hundreds of pieces, along with the high-power oscillator, falling into the abyss that leads to the relic.

"Listen, there seems to be noise coming from the relic." Some nervous young soldiers that were guarding at the entrance whispered to each other.

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Chapter 154: Operation Code Name – Hell Expedition

"Listen, there seems to be some kinda noise coming from the relic." Some nervous young soldiers that were guarding at the entrance whispered to each other.

"I heard, it's the sound of the broken seal falling."

"No, I mean a type of crying sound."

No one believed this young soldier, but soon enough, that kind of mournful howl reached the intense volume that everyone at scene can hear. It sounded akin to an infant wailing in agony.

The soldiers soon noticed that the warships in the sky began to mobilize their weapons, and the chiefs responsible for this activating task heard the noise in their headphones and their facial experiences became more and more serious.

"Ready! Defense corps all stand by! The first wave of dark beasts is about to arrive!"

When hearing the power-enhanced voice of the commander, all the soldiers knew right away, the thing that they had been afraid of the most is happening, the dark beasts inside the relic are about to rush out!

That's unthinkable before, all A-class relics all have vertical entrances with no exception, which means that the entrance of A-class relics is like an abyss into the ground. It's very difficult for dark beasts to climb out of the abyss, or maybe they just prefer to stay inside the relic and are unwilling to leave. What if they have wings???

Only a minute or so after the alert order was given, the first wave of dark beasts' attack began.

From the abyss of 27,500 meters in diameter, along the steep cliffs climbed out a large number of skinny dark beasts, they have sharp teeth like wolves, long arms like monkeys, and also incredible jumping ability like oversized bloated fleas.

The shoulder-fired laser weapons hidden in the backline didn't really have a very good effect on the attack, the dark beasts have strong neural response capability and easily weaved through the beams, rushing to the soldiers defending on the 4 sides. Immediately after, the close combat war began.

The battleships fired from the air towards the relic entrance, rapid-fire cannons with not so strong firepower were used. If giant cannons are used on these relics with vertical entrance, it's very possible to completely destroy the relic entrance. But inside the relic hides the technology and wealth that humans long desired. At least for now, Qinshang empire's fleet doesn't hope to seal the relic that they worked so hard to open.

After a few minutes, blood started running down the grassland. The soldiers surprisingly realized, what they are fighting are not really dark beasts but monsters that are even higher level than dark beasts.

They have powerful attacks and clever mind, knowing how to use humans as cover to attack other humans.

And their number is incredible as well, just after several minutes after the first attack, millions of them already climbed out of the relic and joined in on the battle against humans.

The HQ finally issued the full bombardment instruction, and the battleships in the sky finally started their main cannons.

The roar of cannons and explosions trembled the Earth, and after only a few rounds of bombardment, the abyss that leads to the underground was bombarded into ruins.

The soldiers guarding on the ground finally reclaimed control of the situation, with humans' unyielding character, they withstood the dark beasts' attack, gradually shrunk the sieging area, and wiped out the rest of the monsters.

Rumbled~

Suddenly, just when humans are about to fully gain control of the situation, an enormous force broke out of the originally sealed up relic entrance, just like a giant laser cannon shot from underground, directly pushed away the giant boulders that sealed the abyss and fired straight into the sky.

The soldiers looked up into space in surprise and fear, found that the channeled laser attack of over tens of thousands of meters in diameter directly striking the layers of battleship fleets in the sky over the relic. A Kunpeng-class battleship was the first to be destroyed, then the Crow-class battleship next to it, and the Chimera-class aircraft carrier that's flying farthest away, and also the Orcas-class dreadnought that's equipped with a super gun.

Rumbled

The warships in the sky were torn apart by the beam, the debris hurtled to the ground, kicking up dust and shrapnel.

Tens of thousands of soldiers sticking by the post were crushed or impaled by the ship wreckage, the grassland became a mess with soldiers' cry for help everywhere. They were crushed by the shipwreck, and then met by the followed explosion, turning into charcoal under the extreme heat!

Aoao~

Series of thrilling cries spread across the grassland. Not waiting for the reinforcement corps to join the battle, before the medical corps could save the wounded, the dark beasts launched another strong attack. This time, they seemed to have acquired some kind of magnetic ejection device, like a volcano eruption, they gushed out from the giant abyss!

Until this time, the headquarters finally realized that they made a terrible mistake.

The used the old way of thinking to predict the new extinction site, but this new relic is significantly stronger than any previous relics.

They remembered how humans enter these relics in the past, by directly jumping down into the abyss and when they approach the ground, there was a magnetic force that slows down their speed to ensure that they land safely.

Now everything is reversed, the magnetic device inside the relic is helping countless dark beasts get out of the abyss, like a humongous trampoline, sending them from the world of darkness to the human defenders.

The ground war soon fell into a disadvantage, Qinshang empire never considered that there would be such a large-scale rout.

They desperately launched nuclear attacks, releasing cruise missiles with nuclear warhead from the distance, hoping that these missiles can enter the abyss and reseal this damn relic entrance.

Shua~

Now that the battle progressed to this stage, it revealed an extremely cruel side of war. The moment nuclear strike began, it also meant that the soldiers on the ground that hadn't had the time to evacuate would be sacrificed in a cloud of pure fire.

But in order to close the relic entrance as soon as possible, the HQ cannot care that much anymore.

When the people onboard saw with hope that those missiles dove into the abyss under precise guidance, suddenly, the situation is reversed again to let Qinshang, the powerful empire to fall back into despair.

Those cruising missiles that just entered the abyss, under the control of a mysterious force, suddenly turned its head around and reflected back into the human warship fleet in the sky.

Rumbled~

The nuclear weapons exploded in the sky, right back into the warships in space. Countless ships came crashing down once more.

A crazy Hellfire-class battleship, its commander gave the order for the ship to charge into the relic entrance. Immediately after, the powerful gold warship summoned full power and started charging into the abyss.

Rumbled~

The Hellfire-class battleship has a drum-shaped hull, sharp ship bow, it's like a plug, inserting itself into the abyss and blocking the entrance with its body.

However, the effort that battleship's captain and its crew made at the cost of their lives, didn't really ease the situation at all.

After just a few minutes, a series of violent explosions occurred on the planet.

If watched from space, one can clearly see what's happening.

It was like volcano erupting from underground, and for every explosion, the planet would have a new entrance opened, a new abyss formed, and a new army of dark beasts climbing out from underground.

Very soon, the planet became a hive, with countless entrances, each one opening into that mysterious relic.

Dark beasts came out from every corner of that planet, and it didn't take long before they became the new master of this last planet in the Iron-cross star system. Not a single human survived from that disaster.

"Abort mission. Total failure." The last message from the HQ said.

Just a few hours after the disaster took place in Qinshang empire's Iron-cross star system a temporary meeting of the remaining members of the Alliance began.

"We should directly destroy that damn planet!"

"No! We all know that extinction domains aren't geographically located inside a planet, but rather a separate stable dimension. The consequence of destroying a stable dimension, no one really knows."

"Then we will send the most elite fighters deep inside the relic, and destroy the dark beast manufacturing plant from within!"

"No one would be willing to go because this is obviously a death mission. I doubt very much that our expedition team would be killed before even going into the relic."

"What are we afraid of? We have so many soldiers! They all have super powers! Find the espers in the Milky Way with the most special power, and espers with the most experience in dealing with relics! Send them! And it will be a success!"

"But."

"There's no but! Although we have been keeping the secret and not disclosing it to the public, but we all know, the number of extinction domains existing here at the Milky Way galaxy far exceeds the amount people know. If every relic undergoes a cataclysm like A-43, then we will never be able to make up for our loss! In short, we must find out why A-43 became like this! What the f*k really happened inside that relic!"

"I agree, let us choose the most special and experienced espers in the galaxy and form a team. Code name, Hell Expedition!"

"To be fair, we will decide on who joins the team with a ballot."

"agree!"

"agree!"

"Objection!"

"Abstention!"

"agree!"

"agree!"

"Seven votes in favor, three votes against and two abstentions. According to the agreement, the expedition team will be immediately formed. Since the accident occurred in the Qinshang Empire, I suggest that Qinshang Empire cover all costs of the operation."

"On behalf of Qinshang Empire I accept the proposal."

"Well, now we need to finalize a list. This list must contain top-level fighters, soldiers with special powers, and soldiers that have experience with destroying dark beast manufacturing plants."

After dozens of hours, the list of participants in this expedition was drawn out to a total of 13 people, and they are all top elites in the current Milky Way.

"Ahem, there's a little problem with the list."

"What problem?"

"Two of the participants are currently being wanted. Cerberus Arthur is currently in the Oblivion Realm, and the Tough Bone Han's whereabouts is unknown."

"Can we use other people to replace them?"

"I'm afraid not. Cerberus Arthur is the best known scout in the galaxy, and Tough Bone Han had singlehandedly destroyed the gene factory at relic A-19 before. We suspect that Han has some kind of hidden power, otherwise he wouldn't be the first one in the history to be able to destroy an A-class relic's gene factory by himself. His power and experience are both very important for us."

"Then we have no choice. Send someone to go ask for Arthur from the Protector of Oblivion Realm. As for Han, find him at all cost."

"What about their wanted status?"

"The wanted status can go f*k itself! This is war! If we can't figure out why A-43 turned out to be this way, we might lose the entire galaxy! You guys didn't forget the Protector's prophecy right? Even dead, I won't want his prophecy to become true!"

"agree!"

"agree!"

"agree"

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Chapter 155: The Strongest Expedition Team's Departure!

Two months, it has been two full months.

Han had been standing at the gate from 4-star to 5-star level.

This time he didn't rely on any external source of power, but by his own power, he wants to break that barrier and extend to a full new level!

Although Han experienced many thrilling and extreme battles, but as for leveling up, it had always been an unusually smooth journey. First he got the power crystal, then Heart of Darkness, and these powerful external source of power sent Han towards the pinnacle of level 4.

However, a man always has to learn how to grow up on his own. Han's goal is very simple, he wants to experience what ordinary soldiers go through to level up, and also battle against the bottlenecks they too experience when trying to level up, even though he's not ordinary at all.

As we all know, if ordinary espers want to break through the level bottleneck, the only thing they can do is to extremely increase their source power, until the source power destroys the gate that's hindering espers from advancing and expand the zero-degree brain region hidden deep inside the brain.

It's like Han's facing a wall right now, and what Han needed to do is to break down that wall! Whether it's concrete or metal, it needs to be completely leveled and destroyed, and that's when Han can advance to the next level and become a 5-star elite!

Undercurrent Fortress, Galactic Wilderness.

Han let out a beast-like roar.

People that know Han naturally aren't surprised, because Han had always been very crazy; and the people that don't know Han hear this sound, they would think that Han encountered a fierce opponent is on the verge of dying.

Unyielding, never admitting defeat!

Even if it's a path of leveling-up that should come naturally, Han would still treat it as an endless battle with death as the only way out!

Source energy began to desperately flare up within Han, and the data shows that Han's current source power index already exceeded a million. The source power went up, but the level barrier is still not broken.

What to do?

The only option is to improve further! Force out all the energy hidden inside the zero-degree brain region! Let the turbulent force of source power repeatedly wash over until it destroys the level barrier!

Pop~

The automatic drug kit popped open and Han took a golden guardian pill to protect his zero-degree brain region. The reason he can act so recklessly is also because he can count on something that others don't have. The super anti-toxin physique allows Han to touch large amounts of drugs that other people simply not dare to, and use those drugs to protect the fragile zero-degree brain region.

Faith will move mountains to open!

Han desperately tried to improve his source power index tries after tries, allowing all source energy rush outward in an extremely violent manner!

Finally, under such cruel pressure, the barrier between levels began to loosen, and Han who was inspired by it, directly used a more ferocious push to smash that barrier into pieces.

It's like rivers and dams. The normal practice is to chisel a few holes in the dam, and then followed by long years of time of repeated wash, the dam will eventually loosen.

But when Han discovered the dam, he went ahead and made waves of tsunami until the dam was pushed down!

Boom~

The source energy finally destroyed the barrier that was stopping Han from advancing, like raging river sweeping through his entire body, conducting a thorough cleaning and scrubbing.

After the refreshment, Han's body was incredibly enhanced, and expanding the zero-degree brain region, allowing him to fit the standards of a 5-star elite.

Until next time when Han braces himself to charge for quasi-warlord level, his physical strength and brain region won't undergo any more changes.

This is leveling up!

A supernatural phenomenon that allows espers to go through significant changes as if being reborn!

The originally vulnerable mankind, after being reborn time and time again, will eventually become extraordinary, being able to break stars with fist!

Flap flap~

The sound of applause came from Han's behind, Han looked back in amazement and saw an old man walking out from the shadow of the trees, pale face, no beard, even his eyebrows and hair were all scraped clean. He was dressed in a strange garb that can change color, and there's not a single scent of life coming from him, as if he's like a walking rock.

Felt strange, Han frowned and asked, "Who are you? How long have you been behind me? How come I didn't notice you at all?"

The hairless old man smile and said, "You sure have a lot of questions, but that's normal too. A lot of people also ask these questions when they first see me."

"I'm Arthur, you certainly won't notice me because that's what I do for a living. If anyone can just notice me, then I wouldn't be called the best scout in the galaxy."

"You see, I have no beard, no eyebrows, no hair, and you won't even be able to find the tiniest hair anywhere on my body. It's in order to facilitate cosmetic change and hide my scent."

"I have been here for 4 days, as long as you have been trying to break your level barrier. To be honest, I also learned a little. It's my first time seeing someone breaking through level barrier in that kind of rough manner."

Han puzzled and asked, "The best scout in the galaxy? Fine, your stealth ability is indeed really good, and it seems that you want something from me?"

Arthur nodded his head and said, "Ah, precisely, the Alliance found the Protector, and the Protector told me to come and get you."

"The Protector?" Han was shocked, "Isn't the Protector the legend that established the Oblivion Realm and the one that protects the most notorious outlaws in the galaxy? Why does he want to find me? What does the Alliance want from me too?"

Arthur calmly told Han the tragedy that took place at Qinshang Empire as well as the Alliance's reaction.

"I think you wouldn't want the Alliance's men to come find you here at Undercurrent Fortress right? In that case, your robot army would be exposed to the sight of the league." Arthur says.

Han frowned, his eyes became less friendly.

The robot army is his secret, and even the people at Undercurrent Fortress only know that Han took away all the robots, but they don't know what these robots are used for. However, Arthur clearly knows Han's actions.

Arthur calmly replied, "Both the Protector and I don't care about your robots, we are different from the Alliance on this case. But, you also don't have enough reason to reject the Alliance. The Alliance today had long been dominated by politicians blinded by self-interest. If you rebel against their will, they will use Earth to threaten you, and it won't be a result you like to see."

"If you have doubts for me, you can consult your three teachers."

Shua~

Han still decided to hit the road with Arthur. Arthur has a Storm-class battle cruiser, and Han's No. Demon Claw is parked right inside this Storm-class's warehouse while Han found Pathless and the others through the dark net.

"We don't know what the Protector's intention is, but we all believe him." Pathless, Wuyun, and Night Walker all said to Han.

Pathless said in a serious manner, "If you want to survive, you better follow warlord Arthur closely. He's the best scout in the Galaxy, equipped with surprisingly keen insights to dangers."

"Arthur is at warlord level?" Han hesitated for a second and asked.

"Of course, many years ago Cerberus Arthur has already received the warlord title, and he's one of the founders of the Oblivion Realm and a sincerely dedicated follower of the Protector. He must be trusted." Night Walker said very seriously.

With that been said, Han no longer has any reason to reject Arthur's offer. It's just that he was a bit puzzled, why would the legendary Protector secretly pay attention to him, and before the Alliance can find him, his follower Arthur already arrived.

With a stomachful of concerns, Han and Arthur began heading towards Qinshang Empire.

After a few days, the Storm-class battle cruiser passed star sector 57, and they specially stayed outside of Earth's orbit for a moment.

Han looked out towards the blue planet from the window, it's like a sapphire crystal embedded in the dark universe, as beautiful as before when Han was still there.

Cerberus Arthur stood beside Han and asked in curiosity, "Don't you want to go back and visit? We still have a few hours of spare time."

Han slightly shook his head, pointed at his heart and said, "No need, even when I don't see Earth, it will still be here."

Arthur hesitated for a second and then gently nodded his head.

After a long and boring journey, finally at the 19th day after the tragedy at Iron-Cross system, they arrived at Qinshang Empire's aerial space.

So far, the Milky Way Alliance has still kept this as a secret, and the majority of people in the galaxy still don't know what happened in the Iron-cross system.

Inside a temporary space station, through the large panoramic window Han saw the wreckage that was the planet, with abysses everywhere. The large fire caused by the destruction of human battleships already disappeared, and in the darkness there are countless dark beasts skulking about, eager for human's flesh and blood.

This planet is already surrounded by army reinforcements. Carriers, dreadnoughts, heavy battleships, all of their huge and dark muzzles are aligned after the fallen planet.

"We will give you 30 days of time! After 30 days, if you guys still didn't come back, then the Alliance will use its death laser to pound this planet into dust, alongside with whatever's in that treasure vault!" Inside the conference room, the operation commander in charge of this Hell Expedition operation, Qinshang's 5-star admiral Paz Diais barked at the 13 expedition team members in a hoarse voice, "If you guys don't come back in 30 days, then you will be treated to the best disco party of your life!"

No one spoke at the scene, Han curiously looked at the other 12 members that are on the team: Cerberus Arthur seemed to be indifferent with the downcast eyes, Storm Ma Jingkong were bored with a piece of paper wrapped around his index finger, Ghost Lesa is slowly drinking a glass of juice, freshly squeezed, rich in vitamins.

Without a question, this is the ultimate team, each member has a wealth of experience, super fighting strength, unique power and unusual calmness.

Except for Han, he has the lowest level on the team, and he's also the youngest and least experienced.

Logically speaking, there's no chance for Han to be included in such an unfathomable team, but the reality played a joke with him. Although he has the lowest level, but he's the only one in the human history to single-handedly destroy an A-class gene factory. So accidently, the insignificant figure Han actually had the opportunity to fight side by side by these legendary level espers in the galaxy.

"Dismissed. Depart after 3 hours!" Paz Diais ordered in a deep voice.

Until after the expedition team left, Paz Diais's left deputy handed him a final list and thoughtfully said, "I think they will succeed for sure this time, because they are all the top espers in the Milky Way Galaxy."

Paz Diais shook his head, placed the list on the table and whispered, "Just being the best was not enough to be chosen."

"Could there be another reason?"

"Yes, these people are not only top-tier espers, but they also have great love for the Milky Way."

After the sentence Paz Diais left the room, and the final list handed by his assistant was forgotten on the table.

The list is written as follows:

Storm Ma Jingkong, Warlord!

Ghost Lesa, Warlord!

Cerberus Arthur, Warlord!

Mad Lion Riley, Warlord!

Ice Lock Du Haiming, Quasi-warlord!

Sage Wood Carson, Quasi-warlord!

Sound Stream Ms. White, Quasi-warlord!

Phantom Liu Gongjin, Quasi-warlord!

Longbow Wuyong, Quasi-warlord!

Pyro Rock Dance Han Xiaofeng, Quasi-warlord!

Raider Terry, Quasi-warlord!

Earth Fairy Nie Tian, Quasi-warlord!

Tough Bone Han, 5-star elite!

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Chapter 156: Quasi-Warlord Carson, Dead!

When the time came, Han and other members on the expedition team boarded the ship.

To be accurate, it's not really a ship but a rocket, equipped with the bullet shape appearance and rear liquid-type propulsion mechanism.

Once started, the bullet-shaped rocket will finish accelerating in space, directly shooting into the abyss, arrive at the bottom of the abyss and leaving countless dark beasts on the surface far behind them.

Boom~

The capsule closed right away, everyone sat on their own seat and locked themselves with a strong safety ring.

Storm Ma Jingkong, a middle-aged man with a gloomy and long face said, "I am the commander of this expedition team. If I die, Ghost Lesa will take command. If Lesa dies, his brother Mad Lion Riley will take over. If Riley dies, Du Haiming, you will be up."

When Ma Jingkong said those words he didn't show any emotions, and Lesa and Riley the twin old men are also like that. Everyone knows, people will die eventually, especially on a suicide mission like this one.

Arthur is rather the special one. Although he has warlord-level power, but he's the scout for the team, so he won't be taking over the commanding responsibility of the expedition team.

Then, Ma Jingkong looked at Han, slightly frowned and said, "It was said that you have special ability on how to destroy gene factories, so your only mission is to stay with us and don't be left behind."

Perhaps this arrangement is because of Han being the youngest and lowest level among all members, so Han didn't oppose the command and gently nodded his head.

Boom~

After the countdown, the rocket fired out like a bullet. There's no window inside the rocket, it's just darkness with a few dark red lights. From the oppression of gravity felt, Han knew that the speed they were going at must be very crazy.

Within minutes, the sky rocket carrying the expedition team flew headlong into an abyss on the planet.

"Deceleration device active, be prepared!" The internal auxiliary system voice reminded everyone that they would soon be landed inside the relic.

The voice just fainted away, intense blue flame ejected out from the front of the rocket, forcing to reduce the speed to prevent the expedition team from crashing headfirst and meet their doom.

Kacha~

The ceiling began to fall off, and everyone on seat were all ejected out within 0.01 seconds as the rocket dove head first into the soil. The flame from engine were completely shut off, and Han and the others all landed in all sorts of strange ways.

Sure enough, this carefully chosen expedition team is full of elite members, under such high-speed ejection, no one was injured.

Han lowered down his posture among the team, and looked around with his dark vision. Due to the initial impact force from rocket landing, a huge storm of dust was raised around the landing spot and surrounded everyone.

"Eye of Darkness."

Just when Han was ready to use his eyes to scout like usual, suddenly, Storm Ma Jingkong shouted all of a sudden, "Follow me!"

Shua~

Then, the well-trained soldiers all followed closely behind him, moving quickly in the dust storm. Terry and Carson covered the rear, only Cerberus Arthur went missing, and Han wasn't even sure when he left, or if he'd come back.

Han's positioned in the center of the team, the sound of fierce fighting and Ma Jingkong's foul mouth already came from the front. This middle-aged man with a long face like a horse, seemed to also have a very rough character.

Soon after, the back also got into fights. After about a minute, Han and the others got out of the dust and were able to take a clear look at the relic, and Han almost couldn't believe his eyes.

This is a giant world with countless enemies, each more horrific than the last.

Ever since time, Han has never seen such strange looking dark beasts, they can walk upright, with teeth like wolves and arms like gibbons, and on the hands are claws of bears.

To some extent, they don't look like dark beasts, but more like that group of star apes Han met a few months ago, the black eyes gleam with light of cruelty and spite.

"Phantom world! Out!" Liu Gongjin whispered.

Suddenly, the magical illusion was born. Every explorer became identical to those monsters in appearance.

Mad Lion then gently touched his dimension ring, reached out a handful of white powder and threw them into the air. Then, it immediately covered everyone's scent, letting these dark beasts not able to distinguish. At the same time, Ms. White's voice came from Han's ear.

"Stay calm, don't use source energy, otherwise we will be exposed."

Although this expedition team is only temporarily formed, but that instant of seamless cooperation still gave Han a big surprise. No doubt, everyone on this team are all top tier espers.

Aoao~

Millions of strange dark beasts on two legs issued a harsh rattling roar, then all rushed towards the direction where the rocket landed, and what followed immediately was the sound of the rocket been torn into pieces.

The dark beasts charged past Han and the others but they were completely unaware of them, giving Han hope that the illusion had worked.

At that moment, Han again found that there's a strange emission arc directly facing towards the abyss, like a silver shield, pointing beyond the abyss.

Han recalled from the briefing during meeting, this relic is not only strange in its number of dark beasts, but also its technology.

The cruising missiles that were shot into the abyss were rebounded by a mysterious power to turn around and attack humans. There was even a terrifying laser shot from inside the ruins, destroying more than a dozen warships in the sky, large and small, including carriers and dreadnoughts.

Without a doubt, in order to stop human intrusion, the relic didn't hesitate to use the power of technology.

But how come this relic is equipped with the ability to fight back with high-tech weapons?

Han looked at the silver shield that's gradually becoming clearer, he became very puzzled.

A few minutes later, the rocket has been completely torn, and the expedition team relied on the illusion casted upon them to go deeper into the dark beast herd, trying their best to avoid colliding with the oncoming dark beasts.

This is undoubtedly dancing on blades. Once Liu Gongjing's illusion wears off, or Riley's powder can no longer cover up the human scent, the team will immediately fall into a hopeless siege!

Han observed everyone's face and noticed that they are all very calm, with a very determined look, so he finally felt a little at ease, but his heart is still beating faster than usual.

After approximately half an hour, the dark beasts became quiet. They separated into dozens or hundreds per herd, laid on the floor as if resting.

At that moment, Cerberus Arthur's voice came into everyone's ears.

"Don't worry, I am speaking directly into your minds, so there is no actual sound. I have found a way out of here, and it's approximately straight to the left of Ma Jingkong."

"But I must remind you guys, after 3 hours you guys will encounter a herd of dark beasts with a very keen sense of smell. They look like porcupines, or giant hedgehogs. I narrowly escaped death when going through their herd. As for you guys, pray."

Han was surprised at Cerberus Arthur's amazing ability to move. He did not rely on illusion, but he was actually able to leave that dark beast camp ground. He is indeed the best scout in the Milky Way Galaxy.

As for the group of dark beasts with a keen sense of smell, Ha don't know how his teammates will deal with them, but they all look pretty confident.

After nearly 3 hours, Han and the others had left the initial landing point for more than 120 kilometers of distance. At first their moving speed is really slow, but after the expedition team got used to moving through dark beasts, they began to pick up speed.

Han saw the sweat on Liu Gongjing's forehead, his hands are folded in a strange position in front of his chest, and the illusions he summoned is a kind that Han has never seen before, attached to everyone like a magnet no matter how they move.

Finally, they came to the key point to leaving this abyss. At the route pointed by Arthur in the distance, tall cliffs stand, where there is a narrow gap that can only accommodate up to two people side by side to go through at once.

And looked at behind the trail between the rocks is the bottom of the abyss, where countless strange dark beasts are resting.

And between them and the trail, there is really a large pack of hedgehog-like dark beast, their back is covered by spikes, with a shark-like sharp head and a mouth full of sharp teeth.

If they want to go through these dark beasts to get to the trail between the rocks, they would probably have to fly across them.

Shua~

Suddenly, Sage Wood Carson left the group and charged right towards those dark beasts.

"Let me do it! You guys go!" Carson shouted desperately, attracting all those dark beasts to look at him. When they realized that the one that's making human noise was actually one of their own kind, they curiously tilted their head.

Rumbled~

Sage Wood Carson activated his power right away, emerald green trees one after another drilled out of the soil and appeared in this dark suffocating world.

Gradually the trees became alive, Carson held his breath and murmured, and more and more miraculous tree beings appeared, raising their root-thick arms towards the dark beasts.

Aoao~

Upon discovering humans, all the dark beasts jumped up, including those "hedgehogs" that were blocking the trail.

And that's when Han finally realized, that sentence said by Carson, was actually a farewell!

He sacrificed his life, in order to create a chance for comrades to escape!

Gritted teeth, people quickly came to the narrow gap between the rocks, and before entering the dark trail everyone couldn't help but turn around for one last look.

They just saw that Carson has been completely surrounded, in the face of millions of dark beasts, only a group of sage wood beings were not enough to stop them. Those tree beings were nothing more than twigs to the beasts' sharp teeth, and were torn apart with a gruesome snap, and the dark beasts are like a dense mass of killer ants, surrounded their delicious prey and destroyed it layer by layer.

"Even if I die, I don't want to see the Protector's prophecy come true!"

"You guys hurry up and go, I will cover up the rear for you guys!"

"Humans will triumph!"

"Humans will triumph!"

"Humans will triumph!"

During the final stage of Carson's life, he crazily shouted.

And that's when Han suddenly realized, he finally understood that calm look on his teammates' face, it's the determination to sacrifice self for the greater good!

Protector's prophecy?

Looks like everyone but Han knew about the Protector's prophecy.

This isn't really a good start, it had only been 4 hours since the expedition team entered the relic, and they already encountered exotic dark beasts' siege.

Quasi-warlord Carson, dead!

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Chapter 157: The Prophecy and Second Layer of Extinction Domain

The expedition team gradually climbed along the narrow gap between the rocks, and after a few hours, they have completely gotten away from the large group of dark beasts they initially encountered after landing and came to the top of a towering mountain.

At the moment, there were still 11 members on the team, with Carson died in battle and the best scout Cerberus Arthur also disappeared without a trace. In the last few hours, the team didn't get any news from Arthur.

Standing at the top of the mountain, Han looked down.

He saw a large vacant field in the distance, and there lies countless number of dark beasts and also many silver arc large shields. The location of each shield is a separate entrance to the relic, and what can be sure is that shield is some kind of advanced technology Han and the others don't know about, and it's equipped with superconductivity and laser-firing abilities.

Nobody knows whether these huge shields have always existed, or were moved there after the relic was opened. In short, this strange A-43 relic is different from the relics humans explored in the past, and also riskier.

"It's like a barracks." Han mumbled to himself.

"What?" Mad Lion Riley frowned and asked him.

"I said, this is like the dark beasts' barracks, those giant shield-like weapons resemble human turrets preventing enemy entry, and the dark beasts inside the relic can add reinforcements, coming in from those helical channels over there." Han explained as he pointed his finger to the distance.

Not only Riley, almost everyone now noticed Han's right eye at the moment, it's a kind of pitch black color, Han used his Eye of Darkness and noticed the channels spiraling downward in the distance.

"The distance is over 300 kilometers. Rest 15 minutes and then let's enter the next layer of the relic." As the commander, Storm Ma Jingkong decided.

Han thought for a moment and said, "We are not waiting for Arthur anymore?"

Ma Jingkong pouted and said, "That old dog, even if we are all dead he will still be alive. That old dog is not only the best scout in the Milky Way, he's also the most antisocial one. He must be trying to find the gene factory alone, and when he does he will come back to let us know for sure."

Han nodded, and then asked, "About what Carson said as last words, what's the prophecy of the Protector?"

Every hesitated for a second, and then the atmosphere became gloomy.

Wuyong said, "The Protector had predicted, the Prehistoric Civilization will return to the galaxy, and at that moment the human race living here will extinct."

The diminutive Nie Tian immediately continued, "Originally, I didn't believe it, until recently, many relics began to undergo uproars like this one, and the difficulty of exploring relics increased about 40% in the past year, just like the Protector's Prophecy."

"First the dark beasts in the relic will proliferate, then these dark beasts will start spreading in the Milky Way and become vanguards in the massacre of mankind, and then the prehistoric civilization's vanguard army will arrive, cooperating with the merciless dark beasts to sack our civilizations. Finally, the prehistoric civilization's main army will arrive, crushing the human race like you do an insect. Wiping out our civilization and prosperity.

"Now that I think about it, this is the exact first phase of the Protector's Prophecy, Riot of the Dark Beasts."

Han could not believe his ears. If the Protector's Prophecy actually come true, then the humanity will lose the Milky Way, and the vast majority of human beings will die, with a few lucky survivors forced to leave their homes.

Would this be the fate of the Milky Way Galaxy? The fate of humans? The fate of Earth?

Ma Jingkong frowned and said in a deep voice, "Don't think too much for now. Prophecies are prophecies because they won't come true for sure! The Protector said himself, the probability of the galaxy being destroyed is 82%, we still have 18% of chance!"

"As for this trip, we are here to strangle doom in the bud with our own hands!"

"Although the Alliance isn't perfect, the politicians are always fighting for self-interest, but politicians are politicians, soldiers are soldiers! As soldiers with power, we can't just watch tragedy befall onto our home! We shoulder the responsibilities of soldiers!"

Everyone slightly nodded and didn't say anything else.

Through the observation of everyone, Han suddenly came to a realization.

Han used to hate Sally Empire's politicians to the bones, wished that he could strip off their skins and eat their flesh!

But other than the politicians, there are also soldiers in the galaxy. In comparison to politicians, soldiers' mind is rather simple. They don't know much, but when someone wants to occupy their home planet or harm their fellow comrades, they won't agree at all.

Han looked down from the mountain, Carson's body had been long gone, and the large crowd of dark beasts that took him down was dismissed a long time ago too.

Without question, Carson was a respected soldier. It was said that he came from an ancient clan in the galaxy with royal bloodline running in him. If he didn't have to come to the extinction domain, Carson could've been living in a luxury palace with endless wealth and honor.

But he died, like an exhausted homeless dog, alone, without dignity.

When Han looked at the place where Carson was killed, he couldn't help but remember Pang Zuolin, that man that changed Han's life who jumped down from the skyscraper holding the bronze bull.

They both died, one's purpose was to protect Earth, and the other one's will is to protect the galaxy.

"Time's up, let's go to the spiral entrance Han mentioned." Ma Jingkong stood up and said, "Arthur's not here, Nie Tian you be scout and Terry you are responsible for covering the rear."

After a few hours, the expedition team finally got through the endless dark beast herd and arrived at the spiraling passage that connects to the second layer of the relic,

Looking down from above, the passage seemed as if a staircase down to hell, it's pitch black below with dark beasts' roars coming from time to time.

Ma Jingkong nodded, and the team began moving down. At the same time, large number of dark beasts are also climbing up the passage from the second layer, so the team must be very careful and stick to the wall, and try to not crash into the beasts.

The dark beasts saw that there are actually their own kind coming down, but they didn't pay too much attention, just often curiously look at them. Unfortunately for the beasts, under the effect of illusion and powder, the expedition team both look and smell like dark beasts, so they roused no suspicion at all.

Another two hours passed, and everyone surprisingly noticed that the upright-walking dark beasts disappeared, which made the passage spiraling-down extra empty. But immediately after, a rumbling noise start coming from the lower layer, the ground began shaking with gravel falling off from time to time.

After another 10 minutes, the team finally realized why the ground was shaking: a large group of bison-like four-legged dark beasts charging up from the second layer of the relic!

They have sharp horns, much like mammoth ivory, located in the center of their head. Their opened mouth is like leopard's, body is as solid as wild bulls, with hard scales covering their whole back.

Rumbled~

The wild-bull like dark beasts are rapidly charging towards Han. Unlike the upright-walking dark beasts from before, the dark bison aren't intelligent, and they are also very bad-tempered, so fights broke out even between their own kinds.

Aoao~

Two dark bison directly charged at each other, and the slightly weaker one fell right into the abyss, with a roar lingering in the air before it fell to its death.

The team is faced with a difficult situation: if they continue to advance, then they are bound to clash with the beasts, and those beasts won't even hesitate to kill their own kind.

Kacha~

Just at that moment, the slightly smaller Nie Tian suddenly released the barb at the hands and feet position, and then climbed up the wall like a gecko. The others saw and all followed him, including Han.

High level battle suits can not only purify the air, gather water molecules, at the same time it has powerful additional features. The barbs on gloves and boots is just to help soldiers climb rocky walls, allowing soldiers to travel like geckos.

Shua~

11 people travelled closely to the wall, their speed not only didn't slow down but actually started accelerating.

After all, these are all quasi-warlord to warlord level, Han must make every effort in order to keep up with the speed of the team.

When they are about to reach the bottom, the surrounding actually became extremely bright, the cold white light shined the underground world to be very clear and visible.

And they just saw that the second layer of the relic is actually directly the gene factory itself!

Not hidden, not protected, the gene factories came into the sight of everyone!

Those jars filled with gene growth liquid that were perpetually spawning dark beasts, once cultivated successfully, the liquid inside the transparent jar will immediately fade, and the side door will open, pushing the dark beast out of the jar in a hideous mechanical birth!

Aoao~

And the just finished dark beasts will let out a shrill roar, discern direction, and then rush to the first layer of the relic where the large number of dark beasts and strange silver shield-like equipment are. Ready for battle.

Everyone became very excited, as long as they can destroy the gene factory, then they can destroy the dark beasts' production and prevent them from steadily appearing on the surface!

As long as the number of dark beasts is limited, then the powerful army formed by espers will be able to charge into the relic and kill off all the remaining dark beasts!

On the orbit of Iron-Cross system, from the 12 permanent management member nations, more than 30 of the strongest esper legions are on standby. That's an invincibly strong army!

"Let's go! Go bomb these genetic factories!" Everyone thought in their head.

But Han began to feel a little worried. As someone that destroyed gene factories with his own hands once, he still felt that making this discovery of gene factory seemed to be a bit too easy.

The gene factory can explain the existence of the dark beasts in the relic, but it can't explain those powerful silver shields. Who actually set them up and used them as a weapon to attack the humans?

These dark beasts?

Han doesn't believe it, the dark beasts aren't that intelligent, they are only a product of gene synthesis.

Han really want to tell others about his fear, but he doesn't know how to transmit messages through hidden voice, and the moment he opens his mouth the dark beasts will notice, so he had no choice but to keep his worries inside himself.

Meanwhile, Ma Jingkong became extremely excited, pointed his finger at his dimension ring, as if making some kind of hint, and others excitedly nodded.

Han saw what Ma Jingkong pulled out from the dimension ring, and he slightly hesitated, frowned.

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Chapter 158: A Bet with Life!

Han saw clear what's in Ma Jingkong's hand. It's a miniature hyper-frequency shockwave bomb, capable of releasing an extremely violent wave that can instantly destroy the internal circuits of a machine.

Since the gene factory for dark beasts is composed of many machines, then theoretically the hyper-frequency waves released by the bomb can destroy all the internal circuits inside the factory to stop it from working.

A few shockwave bombs were distributed down to the members, and Han even saw Ma Jingkong had prepared a small hydrogen bomb. Clearly, if these shockwave bombs cannot achieve the desired result, he would not hesitate to use this trump card.

These experienced expedition members moved quickly into this seemingly endless gene factory to place down the bombs in a rectangular formation. For most of the time, Han just followed the team as they advance; since he's the youngest and is also at the lowest level, no mission was assigned to Han and all he needed to do was to stay with the team.

Han had always been carefully observing the monsters that are being spawned in the glassware, and there is a row of far more sophisticated equipment that caught Han's attention.

This row is full of hundreds of silver alloy vessels, different from other genetic synthesis vessels. Unlike the ordinary glass vessels, these silver jars are completely opaque, meaning nobody has any idea of what's inside till it comes out…

Han pointed Ma Jingkong to these silver jars to have a look.

Ma Jingkong shook his head, signaled Han to not always be very suspicious. On the expedition team, Han's the youngest, and he's also the most skeptical one, which surprises Ma Jingkong, as if Han was born as a melancholic person and sees everything with doubt.

Or perhaps it's because he was born on a small planet and grew up surrounded by a lot of enemies, and that's why he feels very insecure.

Ma Jingkong thought, and he patted Han on the shoulder, waved his fist once, encouraging Han to not worry too much because they will win this war for sure!

Han don't know what else to say, he had no choice but to follow the team to go through this giant gene factory of over hundreds of kilometers in radius to keep planting bombs, in order to make sure that the coverage of shock wave is enough to destroy all instruments used to manufacture dark beasts.

After the 5 high-frequency shockwave bombs were placed, Ma Jingkong led the team to hide into an empty corner and took out a soft composite metal braid shield.

The shockwave bomb is a type of terrifying and vicious weapons that doesn't only destroy circuits. The bomb emits a tremendous amount of power, leading to water molecule agitation, blood vessels rupture, cerebral fluid boiling, and eyeballs exploding like firecrackers.

Overall, the effect is like a puppy being thrown into a powerful industrial microwave.

In the Milky Way Galaxy, these high-frequency shockwave bombs had long been banned, because of the electromagnetic waves could destroy critical electronics. As for today, since it's used against dark beasts instead of mankind, so there aren't too many laws involved now.

The countdown is on. Everyone seemed very nervous.

When there were only two more seconds until the explosion, Ma Jingkong quickly opened the shield and protected everyone from head to toe.

Om~

Om~

Om~

The high-frequency bombs finally activated, its sound isn't intense at all but was able to directly stimulate Han's brain waves, feeling as if someone had taken out Han's brain and then beat it with a hammer!

Every explosion, the high frequency filtered through the shield was still able to make Han feel dizzy to the extent of nearly fainting, and that clearly shows the incredible power of this vicious weapon.

After the 5th hum sound passed, Ma Jingkong raised the shield, and when Han and the others looked at the gene factory again, they saw countless bodies lying on the ground. Without exception, their head was thoroughly baked like a potato, and even the dark beasts still inside the vessels were affected, with their body popped open from the inside like a rotten egg.

Rivers of blood, fields of corpses, there's no exaggeration to describe the scene with these words.

Those instruments used to produce dark beasts, without exception, all stopped working, with plumes of blue smoke coming out from the inside of the machine.

"We did it!" Ma Jingkong shouted without caring anymore, and everyone were all encouraged by this result.

The cruel high frequency shockwave bombs have completely destroyed the gene factory!

Although there still are dark beasts, but after the factory stopped its production, their numbers won't grow anymore. Humans will have ways to kill the limited number of dark beasts, and regain control of this planet!

Han suddenly had a very evil thought, could it be that the reason the Alliance was reluctant to use powerful weapons to attack the planet and sends an expedition team to go instead, is because that they still didn't give up hope for the relic? After they clean up the dark beasts, they still want to occupy this relic?

Unable to think too much right now, everyone is lost in excitement. Sage Wood Carson did not die in vain! The expedition team really destroyed the gene factory!

Han thought about Arthur again, that hound from hell, the best scout in the galaxy.

When the explosion occurred, was he sacrificed too due to not being prepared for the shockwave bombs? It's been almost 20 hours since the last time they saw him, where did he go?

Suddenly, just when Ma Jingkong announced the completion of mission, and the team was prepared to retreat, Han pointed at that row of silver gene-synthesis vessels, "Look, these vessels were not affected, they are still working."

"Impossible! The high frequency shockwaves will destroy all the circuits inside machines, and machines cannot work without circuits!" Mad Lion Riley shook his blond head and said.

Han did not answer, but gently touched his right eye with his finger.

"Eye of Darkness, open!"

Shua~

When Han's right eye opened again, it became a terrifying black color, deep like the endless sky.

Han almost couldn't believe what his eye is seeing, what these silver vessels are cultivating are actually not dark beasts, but people! People just like Han!

Although the body is still very young, but they have two arms, two legs, one head.

Shua~

Han suddenly felt a mysterious force!

Perhaps felt that Han is using dark vision to spy on them, inside one of the vessels, a mysterious baby, suddenly opened his eyes!

Black eyes, no other color. The mysterious power as if suddenly pierced through the alloy vessel, pierced into Han's inside, and started chewing on Han's heart!

Ah!!!

Han let out a scream. As the famous tough bone in the Milky Way, no one has heard of such tragic scream from Han. When beaten, knifed, Han never admitted defeat. He considered screaming of pain as an act of a coward. So even if Han gets his teeth knocked out, he would quietly swallow the broken teeth and blood into the stomach.

But this time is different, really different!

Han felt as if he was spied on from hell, and a demon was using its teeth to feast on Han's soul!

Physical pain will always disappear, but the wound on the soul is the most terrible.

"How?!"

"What did you see?!"

More than one comrade shouted at Han.

"In there! There are people!" Han's face became pale and he said, "We must not let them out! We must smother them in the womb!!"

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Chapter 159: Dark Apostle!

Just as Han was activating his powers, the dark beasts suddenly roared in unison, and began to charge directly at them!

"Fly! Thunderbolt!" Han shouted, exhausted all effort and drew a perfect arc in the air.

Shua~

Han conjured over hundreds of explosive insects, which buried themselves into the beasts.

"Explode for me!"

Rumbled~

Han roared, using source energy's frequency to trigger those Thunderbolt insects' explosive power.

Suddenly, blue light bursts appeared!

That was only the first row of enemies that in front of Han. As for the second row of enemies, Han already prepared a forbidden technique for them!

"Path of Earth, Ground-shattering Godly Hammer!"

As Han leaped high into the air, his fist slammed into the ground, and suddenly a powerful force fell right from the sky, hit the ground, and spread to all sides, sending hundreds of dark beasts flying into the air!

The dark beast bodies were torn in the air, became distorted as they sent waves of screams!

Those quasi-warlord and warlord elites standing behind Han, were completely stunned by the dazzling series of attacks.

All this time, they felt like Han's a little brother and needs protection.

Until now they finally realized, Han doesn't need someone to protect him. Although he doesn't have quasi-warlord level, but he's at the same combat level as a quasi-warlord, or maybe even higher!

At for those surprising fusion beasts, explosive insects, as well as powerful forbidden techniques, even quasi-warlord elites don't have.

As someone that travelled to today on a devilish path, the means he uses to combat is full of demonic spirit and is not common at all, but very shocking!

Aoao~

Han let out a series of power strikes and blazed a trail of blood!

10 Armored Godly Beasts and 30 six-arm fusion apes all charged up, opening up a way for Han and combatting all the left over dark beasts.

At the same time, the comrades of the expedition team also caught up. Anymore hiding already lost its meaning, this hidden expeditionary operation already became a bloody and public battle.

After seeing how Han frantically wanted to attack that row of silver vessels, everyone realized that something sinister must be inside. Otherwise, how could they make Han that angry, to destroy those silver vessels and their contents at all cost?

Aoao~

Suddenly, the battle reached a fervent degree.

Han planted 3 plants that are even stronger than those bloodthirsty dark wind vines into his left arm: Bloodthirsty Sky Vines.

Those strange plants quickly grew up by absorbing Han's fresh blood, rolled up dark beast groups after groups and then threw them fiercely onto the ground.

Ever since A-19 Extinction Domain, Han had been deliberately trying to enhance the strength of his battle weapons. Since the Oblivion Realm is a place full of all sorts of notorious outlaws, before leaving to rescue Old Mo, Wuyun not only gave Han Godly Armored Beasts, but also some top tier and forbidden evil battle equipment.

Now these equipment are all playing their function.

"Ultimate! Thousand Lion Rage!"

Mad Lion Riley activated his beast form, turning from a human to a muscular lion, and he also activated his duo additional skills of speed and mirage.

Suddenly, as if over thousands of angry lions appeared on the battlefield, pushing the dark beasts into panic, not knowing which one is fake and which one is real.

And the Ghost Lesa's beast transformation is even more powerful than his twin brother, directly incarnating him into a devil. He became darkness instantly, pulled out a silver machete, as if a reaper from hell, quickly flashing around in the dark beast herd, and multiple beasts were killed during each flash.

After all, it's an extraordinary expedition team!

Everyone has their unique ability and strong sense of combat!

If at the moment there's someone else at the scene, they would be surprised to see that a small team composed of only 11 humans, are actually fighting at even ground against thousands of powerful dark beasts!

The human side has more powerful combat skills, but although the dark beasts' combat power is not as strong as these finest soldiers, but their number can be used to make up for that!

The battle progressed into anxiety, the human soldiers are only a few hundred meters away from those silver vessels, but they just can't reach them! What's coming at them are tens of thousands, or even millions of dark beasts giving all effort to join the battle. They are not afraid of death, and their only goal is to protect these silver gene vessels!

"Time is running out!" Han shouted.

During such stage of anxiety, every additional second will sink the team into a more disadvantageous position. Eleven men, even if they are all gods, it's still impossible for them to keep on battling that many dark beasts!

"Give me the nuke!" Han shouted at Ma Jingkong.

Ceng~

Everyone was suddenly shocked, they looked unbelievably at Han, saw his determined gaze and a growingly distorted face due to anger.

"I'm not kidding! Give me the f*cking bomb!" Han shouted at Ma Jingkong, "If the things inside these vessels don't die! None of us can f*cking survive! The entire universe, no one can survive! You don't understand! You don't know what's really hiding in there!"

Ma Jingkong hesitated at first, then started laughing as his eyes became determined.

"No, Han, I know!"

"When the Protector was leaving the galaxy, I originally thought about leaving with him because I never doubted his prophecy!"

"If these silver vessels can make you this crazy and make the dark beasts panic that much to protect at all cost!"

"Then I guess, inside these vessels, must be the prehistoric civilization's vanguards, the Dark Apostles!"

"I already guessed that they would be coming soon, just never thought that they would come to the galaxy this way!"

"Listen to my command, retreat immediately!"

Everyone hesitated.

Then they followed Ma Jingkong and started running towards the side. Returning to the first layer of the relic is impossible, because they already encountered countless dark beasts on the way down, and they should be all charging towards this location after noticing the explosion.

So, Han and the team has no choice but to run to the side and try to ran as far away as possible.

Han already retrieved the Godly Armored Beasts and six-arm fusion apes. After the fierce battle, 2 Godly Armored Beasts and 5 six-arm star apes were torn into pieces by the dark beasts.

The tenacious Demon Claw is still alive. He has such an uncanny ability to survive like a cockroach, and Han has seen it getting punched into the ground by dark beasts, but it would tenaciously climb out from the soil in the next second.

In the blink of an eye, Han and the team already withdrew hundreds of kilometers. They are all high-level fighters, so their travelling speed is as fast as flying.

And at the battlefield Han and the team just battled on, millions of dark beasts already surrounded the silver vessels with multiple layers to increase protection, while also sending about half of the group to go chase the human expedition team.

"Here!" Ma Jingkong shouted, stopped his footsteps as his fingers gently touched the dimension ring, pulled out the silver nuke. He held it tightly as he adjusted the time of detonation.

"113 kilometers, can you do it?" Mad Lion Riley asked.

Ma Jingkong laughed and said, "I'm not good at anything else, but I do have strength! You guys just wait and see!"

Ma Jingkong began his run-up and blue veins began being exposed on his arms.

Suddenly, he threw out the nuke in his hand in full strength!

Shua~

The nuclear bomb was torn out of his arm and shot out of the air like a cannonball. Fast like a silver light! Travelled straight ahead and drew a perfect arc in the air!

This is Ma Jingkong's power, godlike strength!

Strength descent is one of the most common powers in the Milky Way. According to statistics, more than 40% of the espers are strength descent, and that's a very stunning figure.

But strength descent is also not the most common power, because it's very hard to improve. The example of someone becoming a warlord level elite as a strength descent esper is very rare in the Galaxy, never more than 10 people.

And Ma Jingkong, is just one of them.

To what extent can a strength descent warlord achieve?

Obviously, it's a very frightening degree. Very easily, Ma Jingkong threw the hundreds of kilograms' heavy bomb to a target that's 110 kilometers away. It looked as easy as throwing a leaf out of his hand.

A strength descent elite like Ma Jingkong can literally sent an enemy into space with one punch!

Kakaka~

Seeing the bomb about to fall on the ground, everyone activated the goggle function of the battle suit to prevent their eyes from being damaged from light from explosion, and their heart is filled with endless malice intent towards these dark beasts and dark apostles.

"Bomb them! Kill them all!" Everyone hoped.

Suddenly, at this moment, the atmosphere suddenly changed!

Those silver vessels suddenly opened!

No, not opened, but exploded from the inside! A terrifyingly strong power instantly torn the silver alloy container.

Immediately followed by a man, precisely he's still an immature teenager, about 11 or 12 of age. He's still one of the bigger ones among the apostles.

He burst into the sky, grabbed the nuclear bomb that's one second away from exploding, opened his mouth, and swallowed it into the stomach!

Bang~

It was a dull sound, like a firecracker thrown into the water.

Boom!

The young dark apostle landed firmly, hit a hiccup and a puff of smoke came out from his mouth.

Everyone almost could not believe their eyes; the bomb was actually eaten by the dark apostle! And apparently, he doesn't suffer even a little damage!

And it is also at that moment, they finally saw the dark apostles' eyes!

It's a pair of pitch black eyes, without any human color, only full of devilish coldness and murderous intent.

Everyone finally understood why Han just looked at them and became that angry.

No doubt, this is a real devil, even if all human blood in the galaxy is sacrificed to the master of that pair of eyes, he will still not be satisfied or feel even a little bit of mercy!

Hoo~

Everyone gasped at the same moment, and that young dark apostle stood on the ground, pointed at Han's location with a finger.

Aoao~

The dark beasts charged up, they obeyed the dark apostle's command and want to kill those human survivors!

"It seems like we won't be able to return this time." Mad Lion Riley said with a low hoarse voice, "I swear in the name of my mother, even if I die here today, I will not yield to darkness!"

Kacha~

A giant blade was carried out by Riley onto his shoulder, and so did his twin brother! Their eyes burst with endless murderous intentions!

Suddenly, just when Riley and Lesa are about to charge at the young dark apostles, Ma Jingkong pulled them back, pulled out another nuclear bomb from his dimension ring and tied it firmly onto his back.

"You guys get out of here." Ma Jingkong suppressed his voice and said.

"But."

"No but, you guys get out of here! Tell the Alliance about everything that happened here! Tell everyone in the galaxy! Let them know that it's time to stop the absurd internal conflicts! Because the real enemy of our mankind has come!"

"And killing these damn enemies, is my responsibility! Although I don't know if the nuclear bomb has enough power."

"But."

"No but! Get out of here! Try everything to run away from this damn place! If we all die, then the Alliance and all mankind won't know about the truth! And that would be what's most terrifying!"

"As a soldier, you have the responsibility to do so! If any of you can escape from here, remember to tell my newborn son! His father, is not a coward!"

With tears in their eyes, everyone watched Ma Jingkong charge towards the simply endless crowd of enemies!

They saw him take out the famous Daybreak Blade that weighs 108 tons!

That Blade is that sharp, and that heavy. Ma Jingkong must adjust his anti-gravity boots to the limit in order for him to not leave a pit in the ground every time he takes a step due to the heavy weapon.

"Mankind will win!"

He shouted, indomitably rushed back into the sea of dark beasts, waving that heavy bloodthirsty sword! Like a true warrior!

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Chapter 160: Endless Nightmare!

When the sound of violent explosion came, Han knew, it's the sign of Ma Jingkong's death. As the warlord of the generation, the leader of the expedition team, although Ma Jingkong's pretty rude with his words, but he remained a true warrior from beginning to end, fearless.

Han saw more than one teammate's eyes became red, trying to fight back the tears in their eyes.

As a result of the nuclear explosion, Han didn't dare to hold too much hope. Since that dark apostle was able to swallow a nuclear bomb, naturally they wouldn't be afraid of a nuclear explosion initiated beside them. At most it would only be interfering with their genetic synthesis progress, or kill a group of dark beasts or something.

The leader of the expedition team was handed from the late Ma Jingkong to Lesa and Riley, who are both beast transformation descent. This type of super power can also be called special enhancement descent, where Riley can transform into a reaper from Hell, specializing in agile and quick attacks, nicknamed ghost, and Riley's transformation is more violent, nicknamed mad lion.

Han glanced behind him and looked somewhat worried.

"What are you worried about?" The only female member on the team, the attentive Ms. White noticed Han's concern and asked in curiosity.

"It's been over 40 minutes since we heard the last dark beast roar." Han said sincerely.

Everyone already got used to Han's unique way of thinking. He's very young but full of a sense of fear. At any time he would be preparing for something strange, preparing for enemies that could come out from any corner.

"Isn't that a good thing? Perhaps Ma Jingkong successfully killed all the dark beasts." Nicknamed Longbow, the long range attacker Wuyong said.

Han shook his head, "I don't believe that a small nuclear bomb can kill all the dark beasts, nor do I believe that there's only one genetic factory in this gigantic relic."

Han's words got everyone started worrying, and Mad Lion Riley started encouraging everyone, "Stop overthinking! Ma Jingkong was very clear with his last words, our mission is to deliver the news about dark apostles to the Alliance!"

"Since there are still a lot of dark beasts, then killing them and destroying the factory is no longer our main mission. Now, our only goal is to live on and complete our new mission!"

Han no longer spoke. Somehow, he could still smell a scent of conspiracy.

But how would they leave this relic be no easy task. For the past few hours, the expedition team continued descending no matter what path they took, Han didn't know whether they are at the third or fourth level of the relic. But without question, they are travelling downward but the expected road leading to the planet's surface did not appear.

In the rugged rock formation, and in the endless darkness, the expedition team didn't hesitate to use more energy to escape with the fastest speed.

Han really wanted to tell everyone that we are going in the wrong direction!

But he couldn't get the words out of his mouth, and Han also believes these teammates with the most powerful combat experience in the galaxy also knew that they got the wrong direction.

Unfortunately, there's no other way. The road ahead has many choices, but no matter what path they choose, after a while they will find the angle of the path began slanting on a downward tilt again.

Han could see the anxiety on Ghost Lesa and Mad Lion Riley's face. If possible, they are even willing to give up their life to find out the correct path!

But, the harsh reality wouldn't give them many options, and every time they struggle to choose to right path, they would find out it's still wrong every time.

It's just like the dark world's forest, the solid rocks are like the shadow of towering soldiers, anyone that spends too much time in this kind of environment would become anxious.

Finally, Mad Lion Riley couldn't take it anymore. He shattered a giant rock with his fist and shouted, "F*ck! This route is wrong! I think we entered a maze!"

The team had no choice but to stop their flying footsteps, and Phantom Liu Gongjing still kept his hands up in a strange gesture, if necessary, he can immediately apply illusion on everyone to turn them into a rock or a dark beast.

But everyone knew in their heart, at this stage, illusion is no longer effective because the unimaginably powerful dark apostle has appeared, and no illusion can escape from his pitch black eyes.

Han looked around, he knew very well that it's easy to enter a relic but difficult to escape from one.

This is because the relic isn't actually inside the planet, but it is rather another independent space, a completely different world!

Their location and the ground level is actually very far apart, and they are also becoming more and more distant.

"Let's fight our way back." Ghost Lesa said, "This road seems to be endless, and if we go back we at least have hope!"

Everyone was thinking, moving forward is unknown and going back is a familiar road. If they give it their all, it's not without hope. Perhaps turning around here would be a good idea.

Suddenly, just before everyone made a decision, the dark beasts' fierce roar sounded again, and then the ground began trembling.

Earth Fairy Nie Tian suddenly umped out from a rock. He's an earth descent esper, capable of merging together with earth and rocks. Ever since Cerberus Arthur disappeared, Nie Tian became extremely busy, having to not only scout ahead but also go back from time to time to observe the situation at rear.

"A large group of dark beasts are being controlled by a dark apostle and they are coming our way!" Nie Tian wiped the sweat from his forehead and said.

"How many are there?" Ghost Lesa quickly asked.

"Countless, completely countless! Dense mass everywhere, we must run! The enemies are at most 10 minutes behind us!" Nie Tian anxiously asked.

Everyone took a deep breath, it turned out that these damn dark beasts didn't give up on chasing them, and there is a powerful dark apostle together with the dark beasts.

There is no doubt that Ma Jingkong's last-ditch effort to blow up the dark apostles with a nuclear bomb was useless, and they still don't know if the dark apostle that's chasing them is the one that swallowed the nuclear bomb earlier.

No one mentioned the plan of going back and kill, because that is simply not realistic now. Ma Jingkong said before his death that they must deliver the message about the dark apostle back to the alliance, and that's the most important mission at the moment.

Gritted teeth, everyone kept on running and moving forward.

The terrain became more and more complex, and those dark beasts' figures are getting closer. On several occasions, Han even saw some dark beasts a few hundred meters away on his side moving past the rocks.

"You guys run! Let me burn them to hell!" Pyro Rock Dance Xiao Hanfeng shouted.

Immediately then, he stopped his footsteps and left the formation.

"Xiao Hanfeng! Don't be stupid!" Longbow Wuyong who is very close to Xiao Hanfeng shouted.

"I'm not stupid! Someone must stand up to them. Carson's dead, Ma Jingkong's dead too! I never felt like my life is any more precious than theirs!"

"The reason I entered this relic, it wasn't to prove anything to anyone! The reason I'm here today, is the blood that's running inside my body! It's the blood of a proud warrior!"

"Come on! Come at me!"

"Believe me, I've never been this proud of myself than today! Pyro Rock is my undying pride!"

Boom~

At the corner of Han's eyes, he saw Xiao Hanfeng angrily roaring, the strange rocks surrounding him all became flame red, became extremely hot! He ignited the dark underground world!

The flaming rocks danced, they are becoming waves after waves, and those huge waves merged into rivers, and the rivers roared and became a red ocean!

Rock moves and flame dances, Xiao Hanfeng, fire-descent's top tier class, Lava style!

The temperature he produces is enough to melt rocks, and melt everything in this world!

The painful cries of dark beasts came as the rolling lava flowed not only the dark beasts, but also Xiao Hanfeng himself. This man with a fiery super power, is burning his own life to make this hellish lava storm!

The expedition team became abnormally silent. Everyone can feel the heat behind them, but no one looked back.

Remembering someone isn't about talking about them, but holding them close in their heart!

Han is sure, if someone can make it out of here alive, they will for sure set a monument for every single brother that was left behind in the relic, remembering them as true warriors!

In the blink of an eye, three days passed.

Hoo~

The dark world is still endless, the expedition team still haven't found the path back to surface, but everyone is already exhausted and had no choice but to take a break, breathing heavily from their mouth.

From the original size of 13, the team is down to only 7 members. After Han Xiaofeng sacrificed himself, Longbow Wuyong and Raider Terry also didn't make it out alive, being submerged by millions of dark beasts.

The team became very silent, although there's no sound of dark beasts chasing behind them at the moment, but no one wanted to talk at the moment.

They don't know when this endless nightmare will end.

All means failed. Potions, illusions, they were all seen through by the dark beasts. They are like a group of persistent ghosts chasing, no matter where the expedition team runs to, they just can't seem to get rid of these monsters with seemingly infinite energy.

Phantom Liu Gongjing smiled, and reached his hand out to Han, "Give me a pill you use."

Han hesitated, "That's the Nuclear Fission pill that's 100 times stronger than nuclear energy pill, you will die if you take it."

Liu Gongjing was unmoved and said, "That's even better. In a bit, you guys run. I will use my strongest illusion and plant a deceptive maze to buy you guys some time."

Han frowned, "They might not fall for it."

Liu Gongjing lowered his voice and said, "I know, but I can't run anymore. I was never a true soldier, just an illusionist. Although I know how to use illusion techniques to kill, but I'm no match to my grandpa. It would be nice if he's here. He might even be able to use illusion to kill that damn dark apostle."

The air became dense, and the scene is even more silent.

Mad Lion Riley stood up and quietly said, "We have rested enough and still need to continue moving forward. Even if there's one of us left, we still need to deliver the message about dark apostles back. That's our responsibility!"

He turned around and looked at Liu Gongjing, then turned back and pretended to be tough, "Han, if Gongjing wants to stay, then just let him stay. Give one of your pills to him, and also give everyone one as well."

Han hesitated, nodded silently, and handed down the nuclear fission pills to everyone.

When the pill was placed in Liu Gongjing's hand, Liu Gongjing handed Han a dimension ring and smiled bitterly, "It's no use for me anymore, you keep it."

Han became silent for a moment, took the ring, turned around, and whispered in his heart, "Although you only use illusions, but in my eyes you have always been a true warrior!"

"Thanks!" Liu Gongjing looked at the backs of everyone leaving, he whispered in the dark.

The determination to deliver the message out is stronger than all emotions. Han and the others left.

When the expedition team went on the road again, there's only 6 lonely figures.

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Chapter 161: The Spiral Leading to Death!

11 days have passed since the explorers have entered the relic.

Han helplessly witnessed the people around him getting plucked away like livestock. Seeing how the path taking them out of the relic is still nowhere in sight, he inevitably felt some sadness, but he did not give up.

Taking advantage of the break, Han used a little pebble and began to scratch calculations on the ground.

"What are you calculating?" Ms. White asked in curiosity.

"Calculating the paths we took and the angles."

Ms. White replied with a hint of surprise, "You noted down all the routes we took?"

Han hesitated for second, decided to not hide anymore, so he let out Yuan Yuan, the little robot, out of Lunar Mark.

"To be accurate, Yuan Yuan and I noted down everything. Now we are comparing our respective records to verify if my theory is right." Han said calmly.

Every so often, Han would quietly open Lunar Mark to let Yuan Yuan to record down the trip, and then close Lunar Mark. As for Han, he would remember all the paths and angles in his heart.

Ghost Lesa smiled and said, "A robot, and it's also artificial intelligent. Han, I must say that you are the most daring guy I know. If the Alliance finds out about this, then you will be in deep trouble."

"F*k the Alliance! When I'm in trouble, the Alliance never helped me!" Han muttered, and with Yuan Yuan the two began studying the simple diagram they drew on the ground as others watched in curiosity.

In fact, there aren't many people by Han's side anymore. Earth Fairy Nie Tian hasn't appeared in a long time, and soon after, Ice Lock Du Haiming who took over Nie Tian's job also went missing. Now, the expedition team only has 4 people left, and they are the Lesa Riley brothers, Han, and Ms. White.

"We took a right turn here, and it was because of an encounter with the dark beasts."

"Yes, master, and then at here, we were forced to take another turn, and the cause of was still the dark beasts. After taking two turns we started heading right again."

"And then over here, we encountered dark beasts again?"

"That's right, my system also recorded, that was a very fierce battle, the escape path was blocked and then a large number of dark beasts kept on charging towards us."

"So, that caused us to take another right turn?!" Han raised his voice a bit higher and asked.

"Initially it was a left turn, but we were forced to turn back due to the dark beasts." Yuan Yuan answered in detail.

"Oh, I see." Han let out a long breath and placed one hand on his chin.

Ms. White frowned and asked in curiosity, "What did you find?"

"The enemy's intention."

"Intention?"

"Yes, I was unable to determine in the beginning, but it had been a long time and we have encountered the dark beasts more than a hundred times. Look, every time we encounter the dark beasts, is always when we are getting off track."

"In simple terms, we spent 10 days on a downward spiraling path, and the reason was not that we wanted to take this path, but because the dark apostle controlled the dark beasts to force us down towards the bottom of the relic." Han gritted his teeth and said.

Now looking at the roadmap sketch pieced together by Han and Yuan Yuan, all the travelled routes in the past 10 days were all laid out in front of them. It's a spiraling path, and every encounter with the dark beasts were marked.

A mysterious conspiracy began surfacing, every time Han was about to deviate away from the path, dark beasts would charge out to force them back onto the track, and those battle locations were no doubt outside of the helical path. But every single time they encountered dark beasts, they would be driven around, and herded deeper into this endless cavern.

"But, why does the dark apostle want to control our escape route?" Ghost Lesa asked.

Han shook his head, "Don't know. But I do have a way to prove my theory, and that is to follow this path that the dark apostle wanted us to take. If we no longer encounter dark beasts on the way, then it means that I'm right."

Ghost Lesa nodded his head, smiled bitterly, "I agree, since we are already in a situation of despair."

With a cold face, Han continued, "Also, I want to set a minimum goal."

"What do you mean?" Mad Lion Riley asked.

"If we really can't get out of here, then we must do something with our power. If we are going to die, then I want to at least drag that dark apostle down with me! If we can't live, then he can't even think about leaving this place alive too!" Han said in a dead serious manner.

Everyone hesitated for a second, Han spoke the truth that nobody wanted to hear. Everyone here is doomed in this relic!

People always like to save a little feeling of luck, even Lesa and Riley held the last glimmer of hope of leaving this relic alive to deliver the message about dark apostles to the Alliance.

But, Han didn't. He was already prepared to cut off all means of retreat and calmly welcome death!

Minimum goal, is to kill the dark apostle?!

Lesa and Riley brothers looked at Han with surprise, feeling that his figure suddenly grew tall and big, becoming more like a true warrior than anyone else!

And Ms. White just feels a little pressure on her chest. Han's words made her short of breath and have a racing heart. This little boy that's a dozen years younger than her actually hides such a strong male hormone, although the timing and place is awful, but Ms. White's eyes still lit up for a moment as her heart started racing due to an inexplicable feeling of attraction.

"Nice!" Lesa who usually doesn't talk much suddenly said loudly, "Ever since entering this relic, this plan makes me most happy!"

Mad Lion Riley nodded, "Han, tell us what we should do now."

Han pointed at the spiraling path he drew on the ground, and said in a heavy voice, "Since the dark apostle really hope that we go all the way down to the bottom of this relic, then we will just do according to his wish."

"After all, we are surrounded by millions of dark beasts and don't really have any hopes of leaving here. We might as well be prepared to die and give it our all, and go check out what's really at the bottom of the relic that the dark apostle really wants us to go and see."

"However, we will save our energy to have our final battle there. My teacher told me, the strongest weapon a soldier has is not how many skills he has, but his life."

"We must be prepared to die! Put our life on the line! No matter what exists at the bottom floor of this relic, we have to try to destroy it!"

"Suppose we succeed, then our death will be purposeful!"

"Suppose we fail, then we will have no regrets!"

Shua~

Everyone's face became solemn, Han's words ignited the final frenzy inside everyone's heart.

Hope is sometimes a deadly existence. Because of the feeling of rescue, one will not take risks because of a fear of death.

But what Han is instilling in everyone is a readiness to die! He brutally shattered the last hope of survival for everyone!

Leaving the relic and deliver important message to the Alliance? Stop dreaming! None of us can get out! We might as well fight to the death!

Murderous intention began to spread, and the hot blood of warriors began to boil!

Soldiers that can embrace death, are the most fearsome soldiers in this world! Because they have no fear inside their heart, even if they are walking towards death in big steps, they wouldn't care!

At this time, Han started talking again, "In fact, I have some ideas, but I can't say it because I doubt that the dark apostle might be able to hear us."

"Then there's no need to say it." Ghost Lesa stood up, raised his head and said loudly, "I usually don't believe people that are too young, but you are an exception. Suppose I have a daughter, I'm even very willing to let her marry you, because you have proved yourself to be a true man."

Han was silent.

Demon Claw came out again, and also the six-arm star apes. Even arrogant warlord level elites like Lesa and Riley no longer resist being in these star apes' arms. They even comfortably closed their eyes in the arms of star apes and slept.

Because Han said, everyone's going to die here, and they must save up their last physical strength for the final battle.

The downright unpalatable energy bars were being chewed, but everyone noticed that the wax-like food is actually this delicious because eating these can bring them valuable energy.

Very soon, this valuable energy will be converted to the soldier's final anger, fully poured onto the enemies until death.

Han sat on Demon Claw, still whispering with Yuan Yuan as if calculating something.

Ms. White who has passed the age of 30 began having a girlish innocent smile emerging on her face, secretly watching Han and Yuan Yuan.

"A true warrior, readily embraces death, daring, and also with many tricks. Sigh, it would be nice if I get to meet him sooner." Ms. White laid in a star ape's arms and thought quietly.

Everything went as Han expected, a whole day and night, no dark beasts appeared.

The fact proved, as long as they advance along the correct route, even if they go a little slower, the dark apostle would not drive the dark beasts to attack them.

But the moment Han and his team slightly deviates from the predetermined path, the dark beasts' figure will appear again, issuing heavy breathing of terror.

Two days and two nights, Ms. White, Lesa and Riley were all resting, accumulating the last bit of energy.

Han was the only one being busy, he hasn't closed his eyes for two days and two nights doing some preparation with Yuan Yuan that no one can understand.

Ms. White would watch Han secretly when she's not tired, seeing him take out massive amount of explosive bugs Thunderbolt, and also a dark menacing crystal.

She saw Han take out two strange-looking bombs, Yuan Yuan shook his head consecutively and then Han putted them back unwillingly.

She also saw Han using a type of white string gently adjusting certain neurons inside those Armored Godly Beasts' brain while Yuan Yuan laid on Han's shoulder to provide UV lighting.

"He also has a lot of strange things." Ms. White silently thought.

It has been three days, and three days and nights of continuous work made Han's eyes fully bloodshot. But, he still look like in high spirits, and every once a while he would take some pills, and everyone knows, the pills Han took were in fact poisonous drugs.

The six-arm star apes finally stopped, because at the moment they really did arrive at the bottom of the relic. There's no more road ahead, but…

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Chapter 162: Triple Dimension Explosion

The six-arm star apes finally stopped their steps, because at the moment they really have reached the bottom of the relic. There's no more road in front of them, but a beautiful garden.

The darkness is no longer here, the world brightened up, at the dome lies many glowing stones, and they not only emit light like the sun but also exude a warming heat.

A green bamboo grove occupied the entrance to the last layer of the relic, and through the bamboo forest is the garden, full of large and small flowers of exotic color.

This garden is huge but quiet.

"Garden, it's actually a garden!" Mad Lion Riley couldn't help but exclaimed.

Han slightly nodded and said in a deep voice, "What do you guys think, how about we get buried here?"

Everyone hesitated for a second, and Ms. White with a reddish face broke the silence, "Well, I do like flowers."

"Who doesn't?" Han slightly sighed and said.

He used his dark vision and already confirmed that there's no other exit in this garden. Although the garden is huge and seemingly borderless, like the ocean, but its four sides are surrounded by solid rocks. The path Han and the others took to enter the garden is the only way back.

Han turned his eyes to the path they just came in from, continued watching with his eye of darkness.

"What are you waiting for?" Mad Lion Riley couldn't help but ask.

"Waiting for the dark apostle to come a little bit closer."

"And then?"

"Then I prepared a gift for him."

"Gift?"

"A gift that might bury us with him. If you guys are scared, you can step a little farther away from the entrance."

Mad Lion Riley began laughing, shaking his golden hair and said in a deep voice, "No, I already have no fear, just do it."

Han said calmly, "No hurry, I want to wait for him to get a little bit closer. He had been following us the whole way but yet maintained a fixed distance from us, and that's very suspicious."

"So you are going to use your own way to get rid of him?"

"No, I might get rid of him and all of us. Although I already did some calculation, but there is still a possibility that we are going to die with him."

The team no longer spoke, and they all waited for Han's so-called gift.

Just like that, Han kept watching the path using his dark right eye, no one knows how far his vision can reach, nor how Han planned on killing the dark apostle, but clearly these things don't matter anymore and all they need is to quietly wait like this."

Suddenly~

Han's touch of coldness flashed through his eyes and he whispered, "Are you guys ready? I'm going to detonate the gift I prepared for the dark apostle."

"Detonate? Is it a nuke?"

"Nope." Han shook his head and said, "Facts have proved that nuclear bomb can't kill dark apostle, so I prepared something more interesting for him."

"What is it?"

"A type of dimensional explosion."

"Dimensional explosion?"

"Yes! I want to tear away his body that's in this dimension. If he has a soul, then his soul would be twisted in this dimension as well! I don't just want him dead, I want this damn dark apostle and relic completely erased from this dimension!"

"If I don't do this, then the anger in my heart cannot be quelled."

"As long as I can eliminate him, any cost, I wouldn't care!"

Han's voice became stronger and stronger, the monstrous anger that erupted cannot be suppressed!

"Explode!"

They just saw Han suddenly bending down, injecting his source energy into the earth, allowing it to spread along the road they came from.

Rumbled~

Unimaginable explosion really began, the distance seemed quite far away, but everyone in the garden can feel the force of the explosion.

That's not an ordinary explosion, but a tear and twist of space, full of unbelievable oppressive feeling!

Qinshang Empire, Iron-Cross Galaxy, outside of A-43 relic.

Countless warships lined up in space. Battle cruisers, battleships, dreadnoughts, carriers, and even 4 large battlefield command stations.

This super fleet came from the strongest 12 permanent member nations of the Alliance, equipped with enough firepower to destroy a planet within 0.01 second!

At the moment, all warships have pointed their cannons to the planet where relic A-43 is located.

Cruising missile launchers, torpedo launchers, cannons, howitzers, rapid-fire guns, proton guns, particle guns, even fleet-grade laser weapons that was excavated from past relics.

The moment the HQ sends out a command, millions of cannons will fire at once, sending this planet that's covered with dark beasts straight to hell!

The HQ is located in the #1 Comprehensive Space Station.

The HQ is filled with commanders from the 12 permanent member nations of the Alliance. Through the large windows, everyone can see the dark planet full of dark beasts.

To these generals, the fallen planet is like an incurable tumor in their body, they all wish they could immediately remove it.

But it's not the moment yet that was agreed with the expedition team, and they still have to wait 16 more days patiently before they can order their men to fire at these damn dark beasts.

"Space oscillation signal!" The array radar operator suddenly shouted, "Emitted from inside A-43."

"Signal amplified! Already distorting space!"

"Detected space disruption signal! Joint radar array functioning at 100%! Beginning to predict space disruption level and corresponding incoming damage!"

"Black hole formation probability reached 50%!"

"Spatial rift continued to expand!"

"Dimensional explosion detected again! Inside the relic!"

"No! Twice! With 0.013 seconds interval!"

"Quantum computer offline due to information overload!"

"Unable to predict the probability of black hole formation!"

"Spatial rift reached maximum, energy level began falling!"

"Quantum computers back online!" The 3 dimensional explosions cancelled each other out! The spatial rift is healed! We are safe!"

Within only a minute, the command room's atmosphere reached a dramatic climax.

Such emotional rollercoaster ride, first is the spatial rift caused by the dimensional explosion which made everyone feel like death is coming, then the second and third explosions immediately occurred, and the three spatial energy field actually triggered a cancelling effect, and the commanders found themselves safe again!

A barbecue smell came from the command room, it's a general from Griffith Empire who caught the burning cigar in his hand in the excitement, and the cigarette already burned the palm of his hand but he was too excited to realize.

Everyone carried a sullen and pale face, and cold sweat continued to ooze out from their back and forehead.

The generals could not help but go to the large window to watch, and that general who burnt his palm shouted for a medic as he thrusted his hand into an ice bucket.

Everyone found out in surprise, not only did they escape death, the entire planet where A-43 was located also completely disappeared.

In the empty space, there's no trace of that planet, with only distant starlight still flashing.

"The relic is finished?"

"Maybe it is."

"So that means, our expedition team, is also gone?"

"Possibly."

"But why did dimensional explosions occur inside the relic? Three times?"

"How the f*ck would I know."

"The 3 dimensional explosions cancelled each other out? After the initial turmoil, we actually didn't die? Could this be someone's deliberate doing?"

"How the f*ck would I know."

In fact, when the three dimensional explosions occurred, Han and the others' feeling were much more intense than those generals that stood inside the space station, because when the explosion occurred, they were at the scene.

When the colorful spatial rift was about to be pushed into the bottom level of the relic, everyone felt like they were going to be torn to pieces. But, the ensuing second and third explosions cancelled out this spatial rift. No one died, but even one more person appeared at the bottom layer of the relic.

That's if the dark apostle can also be referred to as a person.

When the dimensional explosion occurred, a black light escaped right away, leaving all the dark beasts behind him, fleeing at a velocity that Han completely didn't expect. It was so fast that not only Han couldn't respond, even warlord elites like Lesa and Riley couldn't react to intercept him.

Until now, this survivor stood up, revealing a pair of dark eyes. Everyone just realized, it's the dark apostle that escaped the dimensional explosion at the last minute, that presence that chased them the whole way and murdered many of their comrades.

Lesa and Riley wanted to immediately kill this evil existence, but before they move, this dark apostle already began talking.

He did not appear to be wearing armor, or any clothing in general, just standing across from the four surviving expedition members naked, at a distance of about 2 or 3 thousand meters, watching them in dark eyes.

"This dimensional explosion, is it your doing?"

Han nodded, showing a touch of evil smile and said, "Yes, do you like it?"

"You guys are stronger than I expected. I don't like it. How did you guys do it?! What exactly did you guys do?!" The dark apostle said angrily.

Han pointed at the only dimension ring left on his finger and said, "Using this. Before our brothers died, they gave me their dimension ring. Each dimension rock is a stable space, and I made them unstable and ambushed it at 3 precisely calculated points along the way and then detonated them."

"Thus, according to the space string theory, spatial explosions tore up a bigger dimension, causing a dimension turmoil and ultimately forming spatial rift. But those three spatial rifts canceled each other out and then formed this stable dimension."

"As for those dark beasts outside of this stable dimension and those dark apostles left inside the vessel, they all went to chaos dimension. In accordance to string theory, if they are lucky, then after 13 million eras, your companions might be able to crawl out of the chaos dimension. As for what they might see, that I cannot guarantee."

Han's language is very vicious. When facing the enemy, Han wouldn't even go easy on them with words.

Lesa, Riley and Ms. White all suddenly hesitated, the news of Han killing those dark beasts and dark apostles made them feel ecstatic!

Avenge the death of their brothers! Han did it!

"But this way, you guys are trapped inside this stable dimension too, and ultimately die here." The dark apostle said coldly.

Hahahaha~

Han suddenly burst out laughing, pulled out a blade from Lunar Mark, the Star Pierce Moon Slaying Blade and said with a mocking tone, "Death? You think we still care?"

Shua~

Shua~

Shua~

Not only Han, every person that's still alive took out their weapon, the murderous atmosphere began spreading and blood flow began to accelerate!

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Chapter 163: The Most Resonant Syllable!

Hahahaha~

When Han and the others all brought out their weapons and are ready to get rid of the dark apostle, the dark apostle suddenly laughed!

Its whole body of pure muscle trembled, with a head of a mouth, nose, eyes, and hair. Must say, this dark apostle looks not much different from normal human beings, except for his dark eyes. Also, there's a small mark on his forehead, don't know if it's because of collision or dark magic.

"Pitiful mankind!" The dark apostle's cold eyes swept past Han and the others and he said in a devilish voice, "I admire your clever use of spatial laws. String theory? Soldiers also learn the top tier scientific theories, that's something I didn't really expect."

"But, it's too early for you guys to be happy! Look at me, widen your eyes and look at me! (TL: no small eye Chinese joke here) Isn't my body taller than it was a few days ago??"

"Surprised, right? You humans don't have the growth speed like I do, because my masters mastered technology that you guys can't even imagine! Under the power of genetic science, my body has completed the most important stage of transformation, and now I have gained full strength!"

"Suppose a few days ago when you guys first met me when I was still small and my companions were still inside the genetic cultivating vessels, you humans might have a chance to defeat me. But now, I can easily crush you as if you were ants!"

Eyes looked around the magical garden, the dark apostle said, "It's unfortunate for this garden. It was originally built to welcome our masters, and you guys would be my gift for them."

"But now that this dimension is closed and this garden is isolated from the normal Milky Way, even my powerful masters cannot reach all the way to this dimension."

"But it's okay, I still have companions. After your pitiful attempt on our silver vessels, those companions that are now awakened have already been transferred to a safe place. They will soon finish powering up, enter and destroy the Milky Way, and hand the galaxy over as a gift for our dear masters."

"Although this well-decorated garden can't be gifted to our masters, it can still be used as a cemetery for you. Burying your body here at the garden and let the flowers grow by absorbing your blood, is still a very happy thing to do for me!"

Han became silent and his teeth rattled as the monster began to cackle maniacally.

Han has had enough, using the space string theory and the dimension rocks left behind by teammates to trigger 3 spatial rifts. Although Han is now trapped inside this isolated dimension as well and will very likely die here, but he felt like the sacrifice is well worth!

Trading his life for the lives of all those dark apostles plus millions of dark beasts, it's worth it!

But the reality is so ruthless. Han did it, with limited conditions, he triggered a massive dimensional explosion.

But even this dimensional explosion couldn't kill those terrifying dark apostles!

Han clearly remembered, there were exactly 100 silver vessels. The dimensional explosion only forced one dark apostle into the garden and there are still 99 evil dark apostles outside. It's unimaginable what kind of destructive disaster they will bring to the galaxy!

Rumbled~

Suddenly, with irrepressible anger Han began charging right at the dark apostle.

And the dark apostle that was just acting so menacingly, after seeing Han charging at him, his first reaction was actually backing off! In the blink of an eye he fled for 5 thousand meters away from Han and looked at him from a far.

"You backed off! You are scared!" Han raised his left hand, pointed at the dark apostle and said, "From the first day I met you, 13 days have passed."

"I noticed a very subtle detail. As a dark apostle that can swallow a nuclear bomb, you are equipped with powerful combat strength, but you had been avoiding contact with us!"

"So I've been thinking, what did your powerful combat strength really come from?"

"No man can suddenly become very strong with no reason. Although I don't know if you count as a man, but I think, your combat power isn't only built on the foundation of genetic synthesis. Talking big is useless, I've studied genetic science before! I studied very hard!"

"No matter how excellent is your genetic synthesis, it wouldn't give you the terrifying power to swallow a nuclear bomb. So I thought, maybe you are like us, have super power!"

"After you noticed how I can take away all power, you purposely hid yourself away in the dark and only commanded dark beasts to attack us."

"If the spatial rift didn't force you to come in and stand with me in such a small world, my hypothesis wouldn't be verified."

"And now, I already know, you are not invincible!"

The dark apostle suddenly hesitated and took 2 steps backward as his face became grim.

Lesa, Riley, and Ms. White were all overjoyed! Han's Void End can restrain the dark apostle's power? That's too awesome!

Shua~

They quickly moved in and came to Han's sides. Riley rolled up his sleeve and said, "Dark beasts are indeed terrifying, but you don't have any of that sh*t now!"

"Today will be the day he dies!" Ghost Lesa said to his twin brother, "Us brothers cooperate, let's give Han a hand!"

"Alright!"

Kaka~

Suddenly, Lesa and Riley both completed their transformation, one became a big golden lion and the other became a reaper from darkness. In this state, their speed would all be greatly improved.

"Tell me. How close do you have to be from this guy to use your power?" Lesa asked.

"1 kilometer! The moment I'm within 1 kilometer of him, I can take away his power!" Han seriously said.

Ghost Lesa sneered to his brother and said, "Remember the game we really liked playing when we were young? Those adult soldiers were all no match for us."

"Of course I remember!" Mad Lion Riley looked at the dark apostle and replied.

"Careful. If I guessed correctly, this guy's super power should be dimension-descent. His absolute speed is that quick because he made adjustments to space itself when he's in motion." Han whispered.

"Got it."

"Just watch!"

Shua~

Suddenly, Lesa and Riley brothers rushed up, one on the left and one on the right, and Han was in the middle.

Soldiers at this tier don't even need detailed tactic debriefing. Everyone's connected by heart and they all know what their missions are.

What they are using now is a double-team tactic, with Lesa and Riley holding the dark apostle down to give Han the opportunity to close in. Once Han's near, Void End would be able to take away the dark apostle's power, and that's when the dark apostle will meet his death!

Faced with Han's double team tactic, the dark apostle could only start to retreat.

Just as Han expected, when observing his moves in slow motion, one would notice that the dark apostle was able to move at light speed not because he has a speed descent power, but because he can adjust the spatial distance in the running.

As a result, his moves are very efficient. The dark apostle only need to make little effort and he can move a large distance.

But the garden at the bottom layer of the relic is still way too big, making it still uneasy to catch a dark apostle with dimension-altering capabilities in such a large environment.

But no one was discouraged, because they have finally reversed the situation!

After being chased by the dark beasts and the dark apostle for 14 days straight, Han and the remaining members of the expedition team finally began chasing the dark apostle!

The dark apostle frowned, it's definitely not a good new for him to know that Han saw through the fact that he's scared of Void End.

As he retreats, the dark apostle started drawing a non-existing cube in the air with his right hand.

After 2 seconds, when Lesa arrived at the location, his body became suddenly fixed, unable to move or make any action.

It seemed like this is also the dark apostle's ability. He solidified a small dimension and trapped Lesa.

"Extinction Domain, open!"

Han was just behind Lesa, and he activated his power right after entering within 1 kilometer of him. Immediately, Void End destroyed the trap made by the dark apostle. Lesa restored freedom, focused again and continued to chase the dark apostle.

It's like a game of eagle-chicken tag, it's just that the movement speed of the chicken is faster than the eagle, although Han and the others worked very hard, they still couldn't force the dark apostle into a dead corner.

Om~

Suddenly, the dark apostle felt a type of a shockwave from his side, as if tens of thousands of eagles flapping their wings!

That's Ms. White's sound descent super power. Although she doesn't have fast speed like the Lesa and Riley brothers, but she has the power of sound! A long-range area effect attack!

Taking advantage of when the dark apostle wasn't paying attention, Ms. White opened her mouth and released her famous scream sound!

Ka~

The dark apostle sneered, gently waved his right arm and immediately summoned a dimension wall.

Sound relies on air to travel, and since the dark apostle has the ability manipulate space, he obviously wouldn't fear this type of long range area attacks. All he need is a little trick and he can isolate the sound.

Time passed minute by minute, the dark apostle noticed, the dark apostle realized, these human survivors already saved up enough energy while on the move, and they also have endless fighting spirit.

No matter what, he just can't get rid of their chase.

What's more appalling is Ms. White. Although she moves slowly but very elusively, and her sound has precise positioning, even able to attack the dark apostle from very far away.

Three close range fighters plus a ranged!

The three sly humans are waiting for him to make a mistake! The moment the dark apostle makes a mistake and enter Han's void domain, he would immediately lose all power that he depends on for survival, and be quickly skewered alive.

Gritted his teeth, the dark apostle suddenly sped up and burst into the dense bamboo forest.

"Careful!" Han shouted, the dense plants would hinder everyone's sights, so Han immediately activated his dark vision to keep a close watch on Lesa and Riley. Those two must be within 1 kilometer of him at all time because when faced with such powerful enemy, singling out would be very dangerous.

Shua~

Han did not expect that just when he and the Lesa Riley brothers chased into the forest, the dark apostle already appeared directly beside Ms. White.

Although Ms. White is a woman, but she still has hundreds of battles of experience, immediately prepared to fire her stream sound towards the enemy.

Just when she's about to attack, she suddenly saw a face, a familiar face, the one that disappeared in the relic and is known as the best scout of the galaxy, Cerberus Arthur! He's not dead, he escaped the dimensional explosion and appeared at the bottom level of the relic!

Arthur is the most insidious old dog in the galaxy, and if he's still alive, then there's better hope to kill the dark apostle!

Ms. White widened her eyes and was about to shout the name of Arthur.

Suddenly, she felt a wave of coldness in her abdominal area, as Cerberus Arthur's hand inserted into Ms. White's body.

Oh god, the dark apostle could also disguise as other people, and his disguise was that realistic!

During that moment of hesitation, the dark apostle already murdered Ms. White.

At the last moment, Ms. White could feel her life disappearing fast, and her only thought was to give this news to Han and the brothers!

So, she opened her mouth, her thin lips were already blue and bloodless.

"He disguised as Arthur!" Ms. White used the last bit of life inside her and relayed this message to every corner of the bottom layer of relic.

And then, the sound became sharp and passionate.

The soldier's strongest combat power are not techniques, but life!

When a soldier is even ready to sacrifice his or her life, they can burst out the most explosive power in their life!

And that's what Ms. White is doing. When she's about to die, she didn't hesitate to tear apart her zero-degree brain region, grabbed onto the dark apostle and started burning her whole body.

The dark apostle's hand repeatedly inserted into Ms. White's body, but this "weak" and skinny woman just wouldn't let him go! Not a chance! She tightly seized him, opened her mouth and started releasing her strongest sound attack ever!

The strongest sound summoned with the final life force is absolutely terrifying, not even the dark apostle's ability to manipulate dimension can stop it, and black blood began slowly oozing out from the dark apostle's eyes, nose, ears.

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Chapter 164: Dark Apostle, Dead!

The battle progressed into its most critical and brutal moment.

The dark apostle never thought that such a powerful force could actually break out from Ms. White's fragile body. Black blood slowly oozed out from the dark apostle's eyes, ears, mouth, and nose.

He started panicking, wanting to break free from Ms. White's entanglement, but found her two thin white arms were like two alloy chains, firmly locking onto him.

Meanwhile, the powerful sound that Ms. White produced with her life, was breaking through the space barrier and directly traveling through the dark apostle's body.

If Ms. White was far away from the dark apostle, this kind of shockwave cannot hurt him.

But he made a fatal mistake, he thought that the female Ms. White was weak and could be easily bullied.

He never thought, although that Ms. White was a woman, but she was a true warrior!

And any human warrior couldn't be easily bullied!

At the last moments of life, Ms. White did not hesitate to ignite her zero-degree brain region, unleashing her strongest sonic wave through burning her own life!

With the distance being this close, Ms. White's sonic attacks achieved the strongest effect right off the bat, piercing through the dimension barrier and going straight for the dark apostle's life!

Gengci~

Gengci~

The dark apostle started using his hand to attack Ms. White's body like mad, leaving terrifying holes in her fragile body one after another.

The special dimension descent power made the dark apostle's attacks very effective. The dimension barrier directly covered his hands, and when he pulled his hands out from Ms. White's body, they weren't even covered in blood.

Blood was flowing, life was disappearing, but Ms. White, with her daredevil courage, continued seizing the dark apostle! Not letting go! Not letting go no matter what!

On the other side, Han and the brothers heard the sound and turned around right away at a feverish pace! Their eyes all became blood red!

Shua~

Ghost Lesa was indeed an experienced veteran warlord. His first reaction was to use all his effort to push Han's back, firing him like an artillery shell!

"Void domain, activate!" Han shouted with an aggravated voice.

Within 1 kilometer, all abilities, total deprivation!

Ms. White, who had lost the sound waves to continue attack dark apostle, collapsed with a faint smile on her face.

At the same time, the dark apostle also lost the ability to control his own dimension!

That was a fantastic opportunity, exchanged with Ms. White's life!

The dark apostle's face turned ashen, until he lost his power, he finally realized how big of a mistake he made. The result of underestimating a woman, was that he would soon be surrounded!

"I'm going to kill you!"

Han swallowed a nuclear fission pill and started using his signature forbidden techniques!

Demon Strike, a style of downright insane offensive martial art! Not stopping until death!

The dark apostle didn't want to duel Han. He wanted to run, but suddenly found that Lesa and Riley already occupied two clever angles behind him and were working in a double-team. He no longer had any escape routes.

3 on 1!

No one had super powers, everyone needed to rely on real melee skills!

Even without power, the dark apostle's combat power was still very strong. But unfortunately, he was not facing three men, but three demons with hearts full of anger!

The twin brothers seemed to be connected telepathically, the two came out charging from two sides at the same time as if to strike, but when the dark apostle crossed his arms to defend, Lesa and Riley suddenly swapped positions, one on each side, holding down the dark apostle's both arms like pincers.

Dark fist!

Han who charged straight at him leaped up, focusing his power of darkness to his right arm, containing boundless anger and landed a fatal blow!

Rumble~

This punch landed right on the dark apostle's head, and that human-like head was crushed like a watermelon, immediately bursted open by the twisted power of darkness!

The unreasonable power of Void End can be hardly described with words. For the past 14 days, the dark apostle had a big advantage over the expedition team, murdering elite human soldiers one after another.

But for the first time he fell within Han's void domain, killing him, would only take a second!

No one paid any more attention to the dark apostle. They all went to Ms. White's side, held her up, softly calling her name.

Unfortunately, Ms. White could no longer hear any sounds and her body gradually became cold.

The dark apostle died, and Han, with the brothers, were trapped at the bottom layer of the relic. After a series of dimension changes, this place had already become a separate dimension on its own, isolated from the Milky Way Galaxy.

Burying Ms. White's body, the three men sat in the garden. It was a garden prepared for the dark apostle's masters, exquisite, but at that moment, no one was in the mood to enjoy the landscape.

"The dark apostle is really terrifying; he could even mimic the looks of existing humans! When you killed him, that was clearly Cerberus Arthur's face!" Mad Lion Riley collected his memory and said, "Since the dark apostle can masquerade as Arthur, then Arthur is probably dead."

Ghost Lesa shook his head and said, "Not necessarily. That old dog Cerberus Arthur has a survival ability that we cannot imagine. If there's only going to be one survivor on this expedition team, then it must be him."

Mad Lion had to admit, from beginning to end, everyone exhausted all their efforts and some even paid with their life. Except from Arthur, this old dog had long disappeared in the ruins, which made Riley very angry.

Demon Claw dragged the dark apostle's body to Han, and Han cut open the apostle's corpse with a small knife, drained out the dark blood, and performed some treatment to the internal organs. Even little robot Yuan Yuan came out to help Han.

Lesa and Riley both sighed and Riley asked, "Han, what are you doing?"

Han did not look up, whispered, "Treating the corpse in preparation for genetic synthesis."

"You planned on making dark apostle into fusion beast?"

"Can't I?" Han asked back.

"Of course you can." Riley touched his head and said, "It's just that your means of battle surprises me. The martial arts you use are forbidden, and you also carry around that many terrifying fusion beasts. Even an intelligent robot which is strictly prohibited by the Alliance. It's like although you are a member of the Alliance, you never cared about the Alliance."

Han said very naturally, "I indeed don't really care about the rules set by the Alliance because these things can save my life. And did you just say that what I use is a type of forbidden martial art?"

"Absolutely."

Han didn't say anything. In fact, he was already faintly aware that the martial arts that Pathless taught him was not so simple. Of course, Han didn't care, because it didn't matter if it was forbidden or not as long as it could kill his enemies.

Lesa thought for a second and said, "Han, since you already learned spatial string theory, can you make another spatial rift and let us out?"

Han continued treating the corpse and said, "That would be very difficult because we have been completely isolated from the Milky Way. Even if I open another spatial rift, after we exit, I can't make any promise on which dimension we enter."

"That means, maybe we will enter other dimensions? Or other galaxies?"

"Both are possible." Han nodded and said, "Even if we can return to our galaxy, the coordinates would be off. We could appear in the galactic wilderness, or even somewhere further than the galactic wilderness. In short, to this point, staying here will be waiting for death. Forcefully leaving will be courting death."

"You guys wouldn't blame me for putting us all in such an awkward situation right?"

"Awkward?" Riley began laughing, "I say, this is the most satisfying battle I've fought in my entire life! Without you, the dark apostle would've killed us all."

"But now, he's the one that died, and we already avenged for everyone. Being able to achieve this much in such adversity, I have nothing to feel awkward about."

With a sudden change of tone, Lesa said seriously, "But having said that, in any case, we can stay here, but you must leave."

"Why?"

"Because your power to the Alliance, to the entire galaxy, is very important. Only you can take away those dark apostles' power. If possible, I would sacrifice my life in exchange for your safe return."

"And my life." Lesa said in a low voice, "Let's hurry and find a way out of here. I have a dimension ring here, 100 square meter, don't know if it's enough. Riley has one too. Plus Ms. White. As the Holy Sound White Clan's eldest daughter, her dimension ring's level shouldn't be bad."

Han hesitated for a second and nodded earnestly, "I will carefully study and try to find the most optimal solution. There are 99 dark apostles, and they can all mimic other humans. This news is too important. It must be passed on to the Alliance."

During the following days, Han would be in serious discussions with Yuan Yuan everyday, constantly revising the escape plan. Through the fission effect of dimension stone, the space can indeed be squeezed to form a spatial rift, but the key was that Han wasn't sure where would the rift lead to.

When tired, Han would practice the 46 Ensemble, look at the plants in the garden. There were many breeds of plants that Han had never seen before, but he had no time to study them right now, just briefly collecting some seeds during his walks and stored them in Lunar Mark.

In the blink of an eye after a week, Han gathered Lesa and Riley, placed the three modified dimension rings on the ground, and said in a deep voice, "After my modification, these are three bombs that can fracture space. My plan is very simple, all of us open up a separate spatial rift and leave through them, and whoever can get back to the Alliance can submit the important intelligence on the dark apostles to the Alliance."

Riley frowned and asked, "How much certainty do you have?"

Han shook his head and said frankly, "Absolutely none. The spatial rift can send us to anywhere we can or cannot imagine. Maybe it's the Milky Way, maybe not."

"But us three entering three different spatial rift can increase the chance of success. After all, we only need one person to get back to the Alliance and it will be a success!"

Riley and Lesa nodded together, "Got it. Then let's all write down things that each one of us want to do or take care of, and if anyone can make it back alive, he will have to complete the wishes of others."

Everyone wrote two letters and handed them to the others.

Next, the three of them appeared at three completely different locations in the dimension in a regular triangle arrangement.

The three dimension rings were all set to the same frequency.

Ka~

A dull sound went off, and all rings were detonated simultaneously, instantly fracturing space and formed three twisted spatial rifts.

Without any hesitation, Han, Lesa, Riley all rushed to the rift in front of them. No matter what corner of the universe this rift might throw them out to, they all had no choice because it's something they must do!

Whoosh~

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Chapter 165: Only Survivor

Entering the spatial rift felt as if you were falling through tens of thousands of meters through the sky.

Han felt his weightless body, multicolor lights fazed around him, and the process lasted a few minutes, as if a force was sucking all of his power out of him.

Shua~

The colorful light disappeared and Han found himself in the dark night sky surrounded by the dim, empty and cold starlight, just like a helpless man drowning in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The distance to even the closest planet was several light years away, which was a distance completely impossible to travel across by a man himself.

Han didn't know where he was located at the moment, and the Ares-class battle suit Elliptical Matrix began working right away. It opened up the mask to supply Han with oxygen while preserving his body heat from being sucked away by the cold universe.

With his finger slightly touching Lunar Mark, Han let out the little robot Yuan Yuan. The Elliptical Matrix has an internal communication system which could establish a link with Yuan Yuan easily.

"Search where we are, and see if we can ask for help from any Passing starships." It sounded like Han wasn't afraid that he might die in this cold and deadly space from how he just casually ordered Yuan Yuan.

"Oops! We are outside of the Milky Way Galaxy!" Yuan Yuan said with an excited voice, "It's almost at the end of the galactic wilderness here, almost into the turbid star region."

Han nodded. He almost went to the turbid star region? They are indeed pretty far away from the Milky Way, just like Han calculated, the result of randomly opening up a spatial rift was like being thrown to somewhere unpredictable.

But this result was already a lot better than Han expected, since he could at least see the Milky Way galaxy in the sky.

The magnificent Milky Way was like a swirl in the sea, trillions of stars made up the spiraling arms, and each arm extended out circle after circle, from the 1st star district, to the furthest 63rd star district, as well as a few independent small extragalactic regions like the Oblivion Realm.

"The Milky Way is really beautiful." Han couldn't help but said.

Yuan Yuan eagerly said, "Master, I don't have the mood to joke around. We are really too far away from the Milky Way, I can't even reach our own fleet's signal, and it's also difficult to imagine a starship passing by at this kind of desolate place."

Han didn't say anything. The 4 King Kongs with Raksha as the leader and a fleet of over 400 thousand robots loyal to him were carrying out operations right in the galactic wilderness, collecting minerals while producing three 2nd generation star ships in accordance with Han's requirements.

But now he obviously drifted too far away and already reached the outskirts of the galactic wilderness, almost entering the legendary death realm which was the turbid star region.

From such a far distance, Yuan Yuan couldn't get in contact with Raksha so he appeared to be really nervous.

"Worrying doesn't help." Han shrugged his shoulders and said, "Let's just continue contacting nearby starships."

In the galactic wilderness there was already an unwritten rule, that the passing merchant spaceships would refuse answering any distress signals.

That was because there were just way too many space pirates in the galactic wilderness, and they often disguise themselves as businessmen trapped in a desperate situation. The moment someone follows the distress signal to come help, they would step into the pirates' trap and become their prey.

Over time, there weren't anymore spaceships that would take notice of the distress signal, unless they recognize each other or have a secret agreement between them.

Han was very unfortunate, getting thrown out by the spatial rift into the desolate galactic wilderness, specifically the outskirt of the wilderness. There is almost a month worth of traveling to the Milky Way, and the odds of encountering a well-intentioned person to rescue him was very close to zero.

Han also worried about the brothers Lesa and Riley. No one knew where those two were thrown to. Could they be even further than him, or simply thrown into a different universe.

But Han heard, in the Milky Way there is a legend about warlords being immortal. It is said that even if warlords don't breathe or eat, they still won't die because their source energy and zero-degree brain region were strong enough so they could purely rely on mental strength to support the body.

That means, the Lesa and Riley brothers can actually live for a very long time in space. However, Han doesn't have a warlord level of cultivation, he was just a 5-star beginner, so the moment the battle suit stops supplying him with oxygen, he will die for sure.

Fortunately, Han had a positive and optimistic nature. After a short break, Han began practicing the 46 Ensemble in the state of weightlessness.

For Han, training in space was a brand new experience. There's no up and down here, all was nothingness. Practicing the 46 Ensemble under this condition allowed Han to receive an unprecedented wave of pleasure. He seemed to become aware of something, but he couldn't be sure.

Subsequently, he even tried to exercise the third ultimate ability of the 6 Paths of Void, which was the Path of Man, tearing Heaven and Earth.

Maybe it's because of changing to a new environment, Han began to have a different insight towards the Path of Man. He really wanted to attempt as many times as possible, but Yuan Yuan stopped him. In Yuan Yuan's eyes, training would only waste more oxygen, decreasing Han's chance of survival. He shouldn't be training at all, and staying motionless to minimize oxygen consumption would be the wise choice.

Han didn't want to see Yuan Yuan desperately trying to contact other spaceships and worrying about him, so he listened, quietly floated in the endless sky, feeling the vastness of the universe and the tininess of his presence.

"Tininess?"

"As a tiny human, what do we tear apart heaven and earth with?"

"With source energy?"

"With martial art?"

"With technology?"

"With faith?"

Although Han stopped training, but his brain was working more than before. He tried to comprehend the relationship between the vastness of the universe and the tiny presence of humans, perhaps this will help him reach important clues to the third Path.

"Master! Master! I detected a battleship driving towards us! They are only two galactic jumps away!" Yuan Yuan suddenly said very exciting to Han.

After 4 days of floating space, this was the first time they were close to encountering a ship.

A battleship?

Without answering the distress signal but directly drove towards them?

Han nodded, secretly wondering in his heart.

After two hours, a transition wormhole appeared at a place not far from Han's location. From the wormhole, a Crow-class missile battleship drove out, majestically looking, wandering in the sky like a giant bird.

Pop~

Ultra-intensive searchlight shined directly at Han across a very far distance, fully exposing him, and Yuan Yuan became a little scared and hid behind Han.

Immediately after, an attraction beam shot out from the battleship, retrieved Han like space waste and pulled him back into the warship's lander.

When approaching the battleship, Han seemly saw a mark of golden maple leaf on the warship.

"Ancient Maple Leaf? Ye Weiwei family's battleship? This can't be that much of a coincidence?" Han thought to himself.

Crow-class Battleship 3rd Lander.

When the gravity system was turned out, Han felt that his heart calmed down a lot when he rediscovered the feeling on standing on the ground. Looks like humans were still terrestrial animals, and Han was no exception.

Shua~

When the bright light turned on, a group of warriors dressed in a soldier uniform came in. There was a golden maple leaf mark on the chest of their battle suit, no doubt they were from the legendary family of Ancient Maple Leaf.

"Mr. Han Lang, right?" A soldier asked with a smile.

"Do you recognize me?"

"We just heard about you, but our captain had seen you before. He's waiting for you right now, please follow me."

Han felt like his good luck was overflowing, actually encountering the Ye Family's starship in such a desperate situation. The luck was really unexplainable!

He was led through the long hallway of the starship and took the elevator to arrive at the top floor. Han met the captain of this battleship in a lounge room, a very young soldier, with blond hair and a slightly serious face.

Han slightly smiled and immediately remembered.

"Mr. Han Lang, I am Ye Zhonghe!" The young captain stood up and said.

"I remember, one year ago at the Miracle Star System, before attending the Milky Way Meet, I've seen you before. At that time, you were one of Ye Weiwei's bodyguards, your facial expression was as serious as now." Han said.

"Your memory is really good!" Ye Zhonghe quickly asked Han to sit down, and then curiously asked, "I can't believe that today after a year, we would meet again in this kind of situation. I still don't know what happened, why were you floating in space?"

Speaking of his own experience, Han frowned and became serious, "We can catch up at a later date, but now I have something really important to report to the Alliance. Can you establish a communication channel with them?"

Ye Zhonghe nodded, "Yes. Our Ye Family has our own communication network covering all areas of the galactic wilderness and turbid star field, and 37% of the Bay Meteor Region. Please follow me to the command room."

Han slightly hesitated, got up and went with Ye Zhonghe to the command room. The Ye Family already extended their reach to the Bay Meteor Region that Han had never heard of before? Looks like it was just like what the outsiders said, the Ye Family had a huge influence outside of the galaxy.

On the way to the command room, Ye Zhonghe told Han about a galaxy gap which was 4 transition jumps away from where Han was saved, and that was where the Milky Way network ends. Now even with hyper space communication technology, that galaxy gap still can't be bridged, while the Ye Family used a dumb way, which was to install relay stations in the galaxy gap's gulf region. It was a difficult task that took the Ye Family generations of family member and over 200 years to complete.

Seeing how the Ye Family was so persistent in the development of extragalactic areas, Han's admiration towards the family grew more. The number one adventurous family in the Milky Way Galaxy, it was a family worthy of its title.

"This is Mr. Han Lang. Immediately set up a direct and confidential communication channel to the Alliance. May I ask, do you have someone you want to contact in the Alliance?" Ye Zhonghe asked Han.

"Qinshang Empire's 5-star Admiral Paz Diais is my direct supervisor." Han said.

Everyone in the command room, including captain Ye Zhonghe were all shocked. The name Paz Diais was very famous in the entire Milky Way, and Han actually directly reports to him? Could Han really be carrying out some top level secret mission for the Alliance?"

Last time they met Han, he was just a little unknown character and now he was already dealing with a character like five-star admiral Paz Diais? As members of the Ye Family, everyone had a special idea towards Han, so they were all very excited for him

The communication task didn't take long to complete, the operator responsible for contacting the Alliance mentioned Han's name, and the operator on the other end directly transferred the call to Paz Diais's office.

"General." Han sternly said.

"Han Lang! You are still alive!" Paz Diais were so excited that he stood up immediately.

But Paz Diais's excited expression made Han's heart sink as his fists clenched tightly. It seemed that Lesa, Riley and Arthur, all haven't contacted Paz Diais yet. It's very likely that he's the only survivor of the A-43 Extinction Domain.

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Chapter 166: Turbid Star Field

Han didn't exaggerate and told Paz Diais every detail.

The atmosphere in the command room became heavier and heavier, no one would even dare to breath aloud. Everyone just quietly listened to Han's blood tumbling report.

But on the other side of the screen, Paz Diais, who was located at the distant center of the Milky Way, hadn't moved a bit since Han started reporting. His eyes just grew bigger and bigger and he couldn't believe his ears.

Without question, this was a tragic battle that could be recorded in history. Although Han's description was plain, but people could still feel the suffocating expedition.

"Expedition member Ma Jingkong, Du Haiming, Carson, Ms. White, Liu Gongjin, Wuyong, Xiao Hanfeng, Nie Tian, Terry, killed in battle! Lesa, Riley, Arthur, missing in action!"

"Report complete!" Han said with a firm voice.

In the command room, a young female soldier couldn't hold back her tears and started crying, covering her mouth and trying to not make any sounds.

Hmm~

On the other end of the screen, Paz Diais let out a long breath and said with his eyes full of surprise, "Dark apostle? Came out of genetic cultivating vessels? Equipped with super powers? Can control dark beasts? Can disguise as anyone?"

Han deepened his voice and said, "That's all the abilities we confirmed. We are still not sure if the apostles have any other capabilities."

"I recommend the Alliance start preparing as fast as possible. I'm afraid that the prophesy of the Protector will be fulfilled. With reason to believe, the dark apostles' appearance is the precursor to the return of the prehistoric civilization, and the prehistoric civilization is clearly hostile towards humans."

"No! That's impossible!" Paz Diais shouted, "The prehistoric civilization already went extinct! They already disappeared from the Milky Way Galaxy 25000 years ago! The Protector, that man's damn prophesy, I don't believe it a single bit!"

Han showed a little sympathy towards Paz Diais's anger. The mankind civilization was built on the foundation of the prehistoric civilization, and if they really come back like the prophecy says, back to the Milky Way Galaxy, it would be a huge disaster to all mankind.

Han already saw the dark apostle, accepted the Protector's prophecy, whereas Paz Diais just woke up from his peaceful dream and didn't want to accept the cruel reality.

Han calmly said, "Whether it's the prehistoric civilization, or another civilization, all we need to do is one thing, and that is to assemble all of our power to fight the enemy to the end! Not to give up easily!"

"Maybe it's also time to look at the world outside of the Milky Way. The universe is very big, even without the prehistoric civilization, we can't guarantee that we will not encounter any other enemies in the future. To survive in this cruel universe, war is our only choice."

Paz Diais was a little surprised, such firm and philosophical words came out from Han's mouth.

He didn't respond directly, but coldly said, "Where are you right now?"

"I am located at a junction point between the galactic wilderness and the turbid star field, almost a month of travel away from the Milky Way."

"Understand, keep in touch. I need to report this to the 12 Permanent Management Nations, maybe I will need you to come back to the Alliance and do a report in person."

"But I already reported everything I know."

Paz Diais shook his head and said with a hint of sadness, "I can understand you, and I also believe you because we are all soldiers! But you must know, the Alliance isn't a world controlled by soldiers after all, but by politicians. Maybe I need you to help me and persuade the heads of those major nations personally. After all, you are the only survivor of A-43, there will be people that listen to your words."

Han lowered his voice, "Understood. If you need to report personally, no matter how far the journey, I will do everything possible to get back. But I'm not doing this for some politician, but for everyone that lives in the Milky Way Galaxy."

Pop~

When the communication ended, Han felt a large hand landed on his shoulder.

Looking back, it was Ye Zhonghan. With red eyes he said, "So you have done so much for the Alliance, and even a warlord like Ma Jingkong was murdered."

Han shook his head and said, "No, Ma Jingkong was not murdered, he sacrificed himself in battle like all heroes! There's a difference!"

"You are right. They are the real heroes!"

When Han looked out of the window again the scenery changed, red nebulas began appearing so Han curiously asked, "Where are we?"

Ye Zhonghe answered, "When you were reporting to the Alliance, we didn't stop our steps. Now we already left the galactic wilderness and headed into the turbid star field."

"Oh." Han slightly frowned.

Ye Zhonghe thought for a second and said, "If you are not in a rush to go back to the Alliance, come back with me to our base at the turbid star field. Our lady is there too."

"To be honest, our head of family believes in the Protector's prophecy. If you see our master, maybe you can get a lot of useful information."

Han hesitated for a second, "You mean Ye Guhong? He knows about the dark apostles too?"

Ye Zhonghe whispered, "You should know, a year ago our young lady was forced to return home under the master's command. Master seemed to know that a riot would be happening inside the relic. And before that, he had been exploring towards the depth of the universe, and the expedition fleet travelled back and forth for 7 full years."

"When he returned, there was only Master, driving an Assassin-class full of scars. From then, Master's personality changed dramatically. He took us and left the Milky Way immediately, moving our base to the turbid star field. Even now, he felt like the turbid star field is still not far enough and wanted to go some place even further."

"There must be some kind of association. Although our master didn't tell us, but us subordinates could feel it. And, with your relationship to the young lady, I believe that Master would be very willing to tell you the secret."

Han suddenly hesitated. He of course remembered a year ago about Ye Weiwei's strange departure and the subsequent tragedy that took place in A-19.

Since Ye Guhong wasn't too far form here, might as well first meet this legendary explorer family's head and hear what he says.

Ye Zhonghe comforted Han and said, "Don't worry. After leaving the Milky Way, it would be like entering our Ancient Maple Leaf Family's back garden. If you want to return to the Alliance, we could use a secret passage that only the Ye Family know about and send you back in the shortest time possible."

The Ye Family was really a very special existence to Han. Here, everyone looked at him with a strange look. This look was obviously friendly, and maybe it's just because the Ye Family was being too friendly to Han and that was what was making Han a bit uncomfortable.

In fact, Han didn't really have too many encounters with the Ye Family. He just went shopping with Ye Weiwei once where she got to hug small animals and go to the club. Although he also got into a fight with someone for Ye Weiwei, but all these things seemed insignificant to Han. Therefore, it was unnecessary for him to receive all these special treatments.

However, that's not what the Ye Family thought. They have their own problems to solve. Although storm lady Ye Weiwei was still young, she would have to marry someone sooner or later. With Ye Weiwei's thunder storm power becoming stronger, no matter how big the Milky Way was, there are still only a few people that could marry Ye Weiwei. Han, just happened to be one of the few choices, or even maybe the only one.

With the help of Ye Family's communication channel, Yuan Yuan made contact with the 4 King Kong.

The robot fleet was the most reassuring presence for Han. No matter if Han was there or not, they would always be working hard to gather minerals and manufacture starships everyday, moving from one planet to another. Wherever there were suitable minerals, that's where they will move the mobile production line to.

As a precaution, Han decided to let the main force continue their production and only ordered the vanguard robot Starmark to meet up with him at the turbid star field with 3 squadrons.

And he also specially asked research robot Source to modify several of the starships according to his preference. No. Demon Claw was still in the center of the Milky Way, he didn't have any starships at hand, and he had long wanted to try those second-generation starships.

In addition, Han also contacted Earth. Now on Earth, beside vigorously producing starships, there were no other arrangements. Long Chuan naturally had the ability to handle the affairs on Earth so there was nothing for Han to worry about. Next month, the third Ghost Axe-class carrier would be off the production line, and including that Dragon-class carrier that was won from the galactic meet, Earth will have 4 carriers.

And that was just the beginning. With the improvement of the production line and the workers becoming more skilled, the manufacturing speed will continue to increase.

As for the three teachers in the Oblivion Realm, after hearing Han's experience, in addition to surprise they also felt very fortunate. The life at the Oblivion Realm remained the same, although they are very concerned about Han, but when beyond reach, they could only remind him to be careful.

All in all, 3 days after entering the turbid star field, Han finally got near to the base Ye Family built in the turbid star field.

In the command room, Ye Zhonghe pointed at the large sea of nebulas outside of the window and said, "Look, this is the characteristic of the turbid star field, a large nebula attached to a larger one, completely different from the dusty cloud looking ones you see in the Milky Way."

Han nodded, "It's indeed magnificent, don't know what kind of people live in the turbid star field."

Ye Zhonghe answered, "In addition to us Ye Family, there are also some adventurous businessmen, and of course, most are still natives."

"Most of the natives here are fairly easy to deal with. We bring in advanced goods from the galaxy in exchange for some precious natural resources, which we would ship back to the Milky Way and sell to make enormous amount of profit."

"Of course, there are still groups that are hard to deal with. Some even acquired some strength from the prehistoric civilization from the relic. When facing these natives, we would need to use war to force them into submission."

Han hesitated for a second and asked in curiosity, "There are relics here too?"

Ye Zhonghe said, "Of course, although most of the prehistoric civilization lived at the Milky Way, there were still some ethnic groups that established bases in the galactic wilderness, turbid star field, and even further."

"Those bases became today's relics. Although the quantity is a lot fewer than in Milky Way, but there's also an advantage, and that is there usually aren't dark beasts inside these relics which makes them pretty safe."

"Some smart natives would take over the bases left behind the prehistoric civilization, drive out those starships inside the relic, and arm themselves with those training methods and battle equipment, ultimately becoming tyrannical forces in the turbid star field."

Han said nothing. In fact, the more powerful the prehistoric civilization, the more serious his concerns grow.

If such a tyrannical civilization returns to the Milky Way, how could humans be a match for them.

"Look, we are here!" The battleship came out of the wormhole, Ye Zhonghe pointed at a space station and said, "This is our Base #1."

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Chapter 167: Destination – Headhunter Star System

This space station of the Ye Family's belonged to the third generation galaxy expedition model, designed specifically as a frontline command post far away from the center of human civilization. The four large space array scanners were the most typical features of this type of space station, allowing the commander in the space station to monitor the entire battlefield situation from afar.

After the Crow-class battleship docked at the station, Han and Ye Zhonghe walked off the warship side by side, into the huge translucent porthole.

Ye Zhonghe smiled, "I didn't notify the Miss, wanting to give her a surprise. You wouldn't mind right?"

"Nope." Han said plainly.

On the way to the central control room, Ye Zhonghe saw the heavily guarded hallway and couldn't help but frown and speed up his pace.

"Miss is in a meeting and all the commanders are present. No need to inform, please enter quickly." The soldier guarding the door quickly performed a military salute to Ye Zhonghe and said hastily. The Ancient Maple Leaf utilized a militarized management system, and the whole family itself was a huge expedition army.

Han followed Ye Zhonghe and walked into the central control room from the back. There were already dozens of people in there, and they were all high ranking commanders of the Ye Family.

Ye Weiwei sat in the center of the meeting room. Her face was still as pretty as before, but was a little more sullen.

Beside her was the old housekeeper Ye Hua, that hale and hearty old man, and there were also some more familiar faces that Han recognized. Back then they were all Ye Weiwei's personal bodyguards, and now they all serve important positions in the family.

Ye Zhonghe very naturally went to stand together with his brothers, and everyone suddenly stopped talking when they saw Han. The creases on old man Ye Hua's face immediately smoothed out. He gently waved at Han, and Ye Weiwei suddenly hesitated, face became flushed, eyes full of surprise and not knowing what to do.

"You guys continue; I will sit down first." Han smiled and apologized for interrupting the conversation.

He found a chair in the corner and sat down, quietly listening to their discussion.

"It has been 72 hours, I recommend that we immediately send the fleet into the Headhunter Star System and put pressure on them!"

"Not good, not good. Master said before, we can only be nice to the aliens at the Headhunter Star System, we can't force them. After all, those aliens have a lot of integrity. If we pressure them with force, the result can be counterproductive."

"Counterproductive? We haven't had news of our Master for 72 hours! Maybe Master already got controlled by those aliens, or maybe even killed!"

"That's just your inference. Besides, with Master's power, how could he be killed by a group of aliens?"

"Then how do you explain why there's no news of Master in the last 72 hours?"

"The Headhunter Star System already had a wireless blocking system, and that's a high grade signal blocking system left behind by the prehistoric civilization which our radar array cannot penetrate. If Master would like to contact us, he would have to command the ship to leave the Headhunter Star System first before he can reach us. Maybe Master felt that there's no need, that's why he hadn't contacted us."

"Your explanation is very far-stretched! It's because the Headhunter Star System's aliens possess powerful combat forces, that's why we should worry about Master's safety more!"

"Master is an experienced veteran, he commanded us before to not enter Headhunter Star Field."

"Well! The commander is out; we must be flexible with our actions based on the situation!"

Han listened for awhile and understood what they are arguing about.

The aliens at the Headhunter Star System were those tenacious diehards in the turbid star field that Ye Zhonghe talked about. They got possession of some of the science and technology left behind by the prehistoric civilization and became an independent kingdom.

To demonstrate sincerity and goodwill, Ye Guhong traveled alone towards the Headhunter Star System to negotiate with the alien leader there. Until now, it had been 72 hours since Ye Guhong entered the Headhunter Star System, all contact and signals between them and this base were lost so his men began to worry that these aliens are up to no good.

Some people felt the need to blaze their way into the Headhunter Galaxy and rescue Ye Guhong, and there were also people believing that with Ye Guhong's power, he would be fine and staying still was the best strategy.

Han looked at Ye Weiwei. Now she was facing enormous pressure. As Ye Guhong's only granddaughter, it was time for her to make a decision, which was clearly something she was not very good at.

Suddenly~

Han felt that Ye Weiwei's situation was very pitiful, and some words that had been brewing in his head for a long time now, Han couldn't help but blurt them out.

"We don't need to go in the name of Ancient Maple Leaf at all."

Although it was not loud, immediately everyone stopped talking and looked at Han who was in the corner.

Ye Hua smiled and said, "Mr. Han, I wonder if you have any suggestions?"

Ye Hua seemed to have deliberately said Han's name, which caused the people in the room that didn't know Han to seriously look at him. Even if they couldn't recognize Han, his name must have been heard before, and in their minds, Han was a very special presence in the galaxy since the last Milky Way Meet.

Han had no choice but to smile and say, "I listened for awhile, it seems that on the matter of going and checking to see the Master is safe, there is no objection. It's just that the master of the house gave orders not to charge in recklessly into the Headhunter Star System, going into the star system would be going against his wishes and it's also very possible to trigger conflicts with the local aliens. That's the main reason why you guys are hesitating."

"On the way here, I heard from Ye Zhonghe that although the turbid star field is quite remote, but there are still businessmen selling goods to those indigenous aliens and also purchasing local specialties from them."

"In the turbid star field, businessmen are welcomed by the locals. If you guys are worried about the master of Ye family, just find someone to disguise as a businessman and go to the Headhunter Star System. That way, you won't be violating the master's command and the conflicts with native aliens at the star system can also be avoided."

"But what if our man gets caught when disguising as a businessman?" A commander of the Ancient Maple Leaf asked.

"Very simple, just don't admit that the businessman is related to the Ancient Maple Leaf, then the two sides will not have any conflict." Han said plainly, "If you guys are still worrying, you can let me go."

The commanders all nodded, feeling that Han's idea was really good. Spying in the name of trading was much more reliable than pressuring with their army.

At this moment, Han heard Ye Hua gently coughed.

Ye Weiwei hesitated for a second and then hastily announced, "Well, we will do according to Han's idea. Ye Jincheng, immediately prepare a small cargo ship for commercial purpose, select the smartest crew members."

"After everything's ready, report to me."

"Understand!" The commander named Ye Jincheng responded loudly.

"Very well, if there's nothing else, the meeting is dismissed." Ye Weiwei looked up to the ceiling and said.

Shua~

The commanders exited the hall successively, and those that have seen Han before even rushed to him for hugs. It seemed that they are all very glad that Han was still alive.

Han heard that the second Ye Zhonghe stepped out of the door, he already began trumpeting the expedition journey Han went on for the Alliance, and the shock brought to the commanders were absolutely amazing. It should be known, just a year ago, Han took the champion spot at the Milky Way Meet.

And going on two A-class relic expeditions within one year?

At an age less than 20, Han already achieved so much that even this group of commanders couldn't help but admire him.

Then, Ye Zhonghe started talking about warlord Ma Jingkong's death outside of the door, and talked about how those expedition heroes died on the battlefield one by one, and everyone became silent.

The last one to walk out was Ye Hua. He lightly tapped Han on the shoulder, with an meaningful smile, he closed the door on his way out.

At that moment, there was only Ye Weiwei and Han left in the conference room. Ye Weiwei had a look like an awkward little girl in love. Han smiled and said, "I think you still look better in a dress. Although the black leather suit is sexy, but it's also too mature."

"Then I will go and change?" Ye Weiwei tentatively asked Han.

"Go, but don't get further than 1 kilometer from me." Han whispered.

"1 kilometer?! Within 1 kilometer I can do anything I want?!" Ye Weiwei's serious face was forced on by the meeting, but at this moment her face became one of an excited little girl.

Han nodded. Perhaps Ye Weiwei was too excited, she actually ran over to hug Han and gave him a kiss, then blushed and ran to the back of the conference room into her office, as if afraid that Han would peek, and locked up the door.

After a bit, Ye Weiwei came out in a slightly sexy purple dress and appeared in the conference room, constantly checking herself against the reflective light of the large window.

Even the atmosphere became a lot more lightened. When Ye Weiwei took off her specially processed black leather suit, slipped off her gloves and finally exposed her white flawless skin, she achieved her long-awaited feeling of freedom.

Han quietly observed all of this. Ye Weiwei's smile had also put Han's mind and body at ease.

Sometimes people were like this, Ye Weiwei was that easy to be satisfied. Han could allow her to wear a dress and she would happily giggle with a bright face, and this satisfaction also influenced Han's mood.

Bringing out a few bottles from the Ye family's valuable wine collection, the two drank a few glasses, ate some snacks, and began chatting in soft voices. For a few hours, Ye Weiwei and Han just did these things which other people would see to be very common.

About what happened in the A-43, Han didn't say anything because he felt that the bringing up a heavy topic at a moment like this was too unpleasant.

Ye Weiwei's was different from other girls. This was her rare free time, so he wanted to let her continue to be free and hope that there were no worries to disturb her.

Unfortunately, Ye Hua still untimely knocked on the door. Ye Weiwei opened the door a little shyly, and then very excitedly showcased her cute dress-wearing little girl image to Ye Hua.

After praising Ye Weiwei with a few words, he said. "Ye Jincheng has finished preparing as requested."

Han placed down the glass, stood up and said in a deep voice, "Let me go with them too, I will disguise as a businessman as well."

"You are going too?" Ye Weiwei pouted and said reluctantly.

"Yep, I have a very important reason and I must see your grandfather, that's why I want to personally go to the Headhunter Star System." Han said seriously.

Unlike Ye Weiwei, Ye Hua didn't have any objections.

He already heard a lot about Han from Ye Zhonghe, and unlike Ye Weiwei's little girl feelings, Ye Hua was very clear that Han must see Ye Guhong because of the dark apostles, an existence that threatened all mankind in the galaxy.

This was a serious matter so Han would need to have a serious meeting with Ye Guhong.

Although the Ye Family had left the Milky Way Galaxy, but that didn't mean that Ye Hua didn't care about his compatriots still living in the galaxy.

So Ye Hua fully supported Han's decision. After all, he was a man, occasionally accompanying Ye Weiwei and relaxing is excellent, but he had more important things to do.

"Miss, since Mr. Han has something important to see the old man, let's just let him go. Very soon, Mr. Han will be back." Ye Hua said.

Ye Weiwei, somewhat upset, returned to her office, put back on that sick and specially processed black leather suit, slipped on the black gloves and black boots.

When she returned to the conference room, she found Han was already at the door.

Looked at Ye Weiwei, Han smiled and said, "Goodbye."

Peng~

He and Ye Hua gently shut the door, left, and went to the space station's docking module.

Ye Weiwei then uttered a long sigh, looked outside of the floor-to-ceiling window into the endless night sky.

Why were there dresses, shorts, a row of elaborately decorate small shoes and even a pair of high-heels?

Not even Ye Weiwei had the answer to this question, but she still kept these things that she couldn't normally wear anywhere she often visited, like her bedroom, office, and her personal starship.

Perhaps she was secretly looking forward to something, or someone.

Shua~

Outside of the window, a golden Beetle-class transport ship left the space station and advanced towards the Headhunter Star System.

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Chapter 168: The Headhunter Race with Ripped Off Facial Skin (Part One)

The star map was one of the important tools for space travel, and following the marks on the star map, the ship could avoid terrible electromagnetic storms and bypass hidden black holes.

Han noticed, the star map used by the Ancient Maple Leaf family was quite different from the Alliance version. It could find the shortest route between points, thus speeding up the travelling progress. It hadn't been even one day since Han embarked on the transport ship, and they had already entered the Headhunter Star System's periphery. If the route was calculated in accordance with the Alliance's version of the star map, then the voyage would take at least two days.

The Ye Family that had been operating long term outside of the Milky Way clearly understood this wild space better than anyone. Han asked Ye Jincheng for the Ye family's version of the star map, and Ye Jincheng had casually given this precious data to Han because in his eyes, how could Han be considered an outsider.

It was also because of the long-term operation in the extragalactic turf that the Ye family was very familiar with the rules in business, so they were able to quickly established contact with the aliens of the Headhunter Star System with the salesmen identity. Then, they were led by a small convoy and berthed at an airport specifically for greeting visitors.

Due to the extragalactic turf being extremely far away from the Milky Way and also how the Milky Way galaxy rejected alien races, people living here could not directly trade with the Milky Way. However, they still really liked all sorts of luxury goods, delicious ingredients, arts and crafts, and so this travelling business was born.

All travel businessmen would bear enormous risk, travel all the way here to bring aliens their favorite merchandise in exchange for valuable local high-grade minerals, and they were welcomed by the aliens living in the extragalactic turfs outside of the Milky Way.

In fact, the Ancient Maple Leaf was running the largest travelling business in the extragalactic turfs, and the enormous family wealth was accumulated by trafficking goods for generations.

As the growing prosperity of the family, the Ancient Maple Leaf had their own armies and fleets, and under the protection of a powerful force, the Ye Family began extending their reach deeper into the universe. It was reported that some ultra long-range business fleets under the Ancient Maple Leaf would set sail for years of voyage at a time, and some maybe even for a dozen years.

After the cargo ship docked, Han and Ye Jincheng got off the ship, and Ye Jincheng whispered in Han's ears, "The alien race living here call themselves the Headhunter clan. Their ancestors would chop off their enemies' heads and hang them in the living room as a merit. That's where the name came from."

"In the turbid star field, the Headhunter Clan is the strongest alien race equipped with the most advanced technology, so we must be very careful at all times when interacting with them."

"My men will deal with them first by trading them, and us two will take the opportunity to sneak in and go investigate near the Headhunter clan leader Fran's house."

Han nodded and didn't say anything.

Very soon, a few Land Speeders rushed to the transport ship, and a group of aliens in battle suits jumped off. They had black skin and huge nostrils, and with a greater lung capacity, the headhunter's breathing sounds and voices were also a lot louder.

The Land Speeder directly came from the remnants of the prehistoric civilization, and so were the battle suits. The Land Speeders currently produced inside the Milky Way Galaxy could only be counted as the replicated version of the prehistoric civilization's invention. To some extent, the Headhunter clan's equipment was more advanced than humans because what they used were all original versions.

Although the Headhunter clan were aliens, they were very smart. They not only learned how to use the advanced machinery left behind by the prehistoric civilization, but even learned how to repair them. It's just that the accessories and parts still needed to be purchased from the Milky Way Galaxy.

The laser cannon equipped on the Land Speeder was identical to the one Han had in his Lunar Mark. An original shoulder-firing laser weapon could be easily exchanged for billions of star coins. But here, it's installed onto transportation tools like the Land Speeder.

When dealing with aliens, bribery was a very effective pass. These alien soldiers accepted the gifts sent by Ye Jincheng. With some glittering and exquisite decorations and a few boxes of high degree alcohol, they immediately gave them trading permits.

They hung some chains made of animals bones onto Han and the others' necks, and after seeing this, there wouldn't be any soldiers examining these businessmen. Thus, Han and the group would be able to freely trade goods on this planet.

"Do you guys belong to the Ye Family?" A tall alien fighter seemed to have suddenly remembered something, and he asked.

"No, we are a free travelling business group from the 35th star sector of the Milky Way."

"Oh, as long as you guys aren't related to the Ye Family." The soldiers very easily believed Ye Jincheng's words.

"If I may ask, doesn't the Ye Family do business here as well? They are the largest commercial legion in the turbid star field." Ye Jincheng cautiously asked.

The tall soldier waved, and said very angrily, "The Ye Clan is not good! They pressure us with warships! If we don't trade with them, they will start a war! We don't like them."

Ye Jincheng nodded and didn't say anything else.

The Headhunter clan's soldiers were pretty nice, they immediately left behind four cargo-type Land Speeders and told them that once the goods are loaded, they can just go to somewhere crowded to trade. As for them, they just took the bribes and laughed their way back to town. They couldn't care less about how Han was going to trade and what they were going to trade.

"That's it?" Han asked with a little disbelief, "No need to pay taxes and they also don't care what we are trading?"

Ye Jingchen said, "This alien race is all like this. They took the valuable things and must have went for drinks and woman. If you really trade with them, you will find out how ridiculous these guys are. Trading with them, not to mention how you make money from them, they will also make the women in the village sleep with you. In comparison to trading in the Milky Way Galaxy, I prefer trading in this wild sky, there's more profit and freedom."

"What's with the battleships that the Headhunter clan talked about?" Han asked again.

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Chapter 168: The Headhunter Race with Ripped Off Facial Skin (Part Two)

"That was many years ago, the previous generation's house master had a little conflict with the Headhunter clan. These guys have been very vengeful, refusing our entry ever since."

"Sigh, aliens are after all aliens. When they are good with you, they could give you their wife and children. But the moment the relationship goes sour, they will cut off your head anytime." Ye Jincheng muttered.

Sitting on the Land Speeder, Han thought about the aliens the whole way. Not long after, the Land Speeder stopped. Han and Ye Jincheng got off the car and plunged into the dense forest. Ye Jincheng's men needed to play a good role as businessmen, and he and Han would have to go and look for the whereabouts of Ye Guhong.

Finger pointing at one of the mountains, Ye Jincheng said, "Look, that's their current clan leader Fran's house, at the top of the mountain. It was said that Fran is the strongest warrior in the Headhunter clan, with a somewhat eccentric personality. He didn't like to live in the city so he is living with his family alone in the mountains."

"Earlier, I saw Master's battleship at the airport, and that means he hasn't left yet. I guess his meeting with Fran would most likely be held in Fran's house. If they are meeting in the city, it's okay too, my men will let us know using a special signal."

Han nodded and started moving towards that mountain.

Undulating mountains, the big mountain that Fran lived on was the tallest, with one side being a jungle and the other side being a cliff.

"The Headhunters are best at hiding themselves in the forest. Let's go up from the cliff side." Ye Jincheng said.

So, the two cautiously moved to the feet of the cliff, and at that moment the sun on the Headhunter Star System was already setting to the west. After a quarter of an hour, darkness will fall, and Han and Ye Jincheng could take advantage of the night to climb up.

Suddenly, Han noticed a familiar scent, blood!

"Demon Claw!"

Han gently touched Lunar Mark and released Demon Claw.

Shua~

The strange monster with 9 big claws immediately disappeared into the forest, and soon came back dragging a corpse.

The corpse clearly belongs to a Headhunter clan member, but there was no face. The skin on the face were accurately peeled down by someone using a scalpel or something.

Han and Ye Jincheng suddenly hesitated. They followed the Demon Claw and moved forward for another few hundred meters, before finding more bodies in a dense forest. All these bodies didn't have a face, and they were all dropped down from the high ground because some of the bodies were even pierced through on tree branches.

"Don't touch them!" Han immediately stopped Ye Jincheng who was about to touch the corpse and said, "These bodies have been wiped by Vatican Wood Solution which is detested by vultures. The murderer was probably scared that too many vultures would come to feast on the bodies and attract attention."

"You also know pharmacology?" Ye Jincheng hesitated and asked in surprise.

Normal soldiers in the galaxy all just specialized in one field, and warriors just needed to focus on martial arts. However, Han was able to distinguish this very rarely used anti-vulture agent in one glance, that really left Ye Jincheng surprised.

"I learned a little before."

"Why were their faces stripped off?"

Han's eyes became cold and he whispered, "Vatican Wood Solution, stripped facial skin. This reminds me of another alien group, the Witch clan."

"Witch clan!" Ye Jincheng's voice couldn't help but began trembling.

In the Milky Way Galaxy, the Witch Clan was a synonym for all kinds of viciousness. This clan had always been famous for its mysterious and brutal techniques, and many large families and clans would hire some Witch clan soldiers to specifically carry out shady dealings for them.

The Witch clan appeared on the Headhunter Clan's territory, and it was also near the clan leader Fran's house?

Han and Ye Jincheng suddenly had a bad feeling, and it was also at this moment that the sun went down and the forest completely darkened.

"Lets go up the mountain immediately to check things out." Ye Jincheng pinched his fingers and said.

"Agreed." Han whispered, "Demon Claw! Take us up!"

Shua~

Immediately, the Demon Claw's 9 giant claws began moving quickly and they began climbing up the cliff at a speed even faster than elevators. And Han just grabbed onto Demo Claw with one hand and grabbed Ye Jincheng with another.

Thousands of meters high, they scaled the mountain almost instantly! The quick speed could not even be imagined by Ye Jincheng.

Han, Ye Jincheng, and the Demon Claw all lurked in the darkness, and saw that there was a very simple courtyard at the top of the mountain. It had a fence made of wood, house made out of wood, and there were also some vegetables planted in the front yard.

Fran, this leader of the Headhunter clan, was more low-key than any previous generation leader, enjoying a simple life style. He could not hold onto the palace in the city but chose to live in the wilderness, focusing all energy on training.

At the moment there was light inside the cabin, and one could clearly see Headhunter soldiers patrolling outside, looking very alert.

"These people don't belong to the Headhunter clan." Han whispered, "Headhunter soldiers are somewhat undisciplined, but these guys' vigilance is so high, they are clearly seriously defending something."

"Damn the Witch clan, wandering around here wearing the Headhunter clan's facial skin. Let's work together and kill them all." Ye Jincheng became a bit tempted.

"No, the Witch clan is best with poison. It was said that even their bodies are painted with venom." Han said.

"Then what do we do?"

"Quite simple. We don't do anything, let my men do it!"

"Your men?"

Ye Jincheng was just wondering that Han only has a monster-looking Earth Claw on him, how could he kill more than 50 enemies here from the Witch clan.

Suddenly, Han gently touched lunar mark. On the top of the mountain, under the rising moon, an army suddenly appeared!

An army of Armored Godly Beasts and six-arm star apes.

"Just leave one, kill the rest!" Han ordered in the dark with a cold tone.

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Chapter 169: Prehistoric Research Institute

The A-43 relic expedition tragedy had almost depleted all of Han's resources, and there were only 5 of the most powerful Godly Armored Beasts left. There are also 12 six-armed star apes left, less than 50 Thunderbolt explosive bugs, and bloodthirsty sky vines were completely exhausted.

Nevertheless, when dealing with mediocre level Witch Clan soldiers, 5 Godly Armored Beasts, 12 six-arm star apes plus Demon Claw were enough!

Boom~

Han's fusion beast army rushed straight into the enemy and encountered the Witch clan counterattack. They ejected a white powder onto the terrifying fusion beasts and produced a sound that could incapacitate any regular soldiers.

But the fusion beasts weren't afraid of poison nor sound. They were originally products of dead star beasts being reactivated, it was not excessive to call them undead fusion beasts.

Kacha~

A Witch clan soldier that was shooting white poison at a Godly Armored Beast had his head cut off right away. It seemed that the fusion beasts could also get stronger. They managed to survive the nasty hell of the A-43 relic. Now that they were faced with these Witch clan soldiers, the fusion beast army was harvesting the lives of enemies like slicing melons and cutting vegetables.

The sinister Demon Claw hid under the ground, dug below an enemy with incredible speed then emerged, leaving a few bloody holes in the enemy with its sharp claws and then hid back into the soil and moved onto the next target.

The battle went unusually smoothly. The reason being that the Witch clan enjoyed an infamous reputation. It was not because the clan was known for strong fighters with powerful capabilities but because of the abundance of tricks, especially sinister skills like poison and illusions which struck fear in the hearts of their enemies.

But once they encountered fusion beasts which weren't afraid of these tricks, the Witch Clan's vulnerability was immediately exposed. When fighting with weapons and martial arts, they were completely no match for these powerful fusion beasts.

The sounds of fighting gradually disappeared. A few Witch clan soldiers that fled were also killed by the Demon Claw and the six-arm star apes in the darkness. The six-arm star apes and Demon Claw, although they weren't as tough as the Godly Armored Beasts, they were really good at mobile offense.

In the forest environment, the six-arm star apes could hang themselves among the tree branches and move like the wind, jumping directly onto the enemy, whereas the Godly Armored Beasts were rolling over the Witch clan soldiers like tanks.

Finally, the last Witch clan survivor was lifted up into the air by a Godly Armored Beast. If it made any slight movements, the Godly Armored Beast would tear him apart into pieces.

Gengci~

Han walked straight towards him and ripped off the alien skin mask off of that head, exposing a green old face.

The Witch Clan were experts in poison, but they would be compromised by the poison themselves, that's why they all had ugly green faces, both men and women.

"Why are you guys here?" Han asked in a deep voice.

The Witch clan soldier's eye turned and there was a slight hesitation in answering the question, and Han already gently waved his arm.

Gengci~

The Godly Armored Beast immediately pulled off the left arm of the Witch Clan soldier and threw it to the side. Han just calmly took out a bottle of anesthesia and some hemostasis powder and sprinkled them onto the wound.

The painful scream sounded like a pig getting butchered, and Han showed no mercy, "Now I'm going to ask you question, you have to immediately answer without thinking. Otherwise, I will rip off your other arm."

The Witch clan soldier was scared stiff. He immediately nodded like a chicken pecking rice.

"Who are you?"

"We are the Witch clan King Mandala's men!"

"We heard that the Headhunter clan possessed many magical goods from the Prehistoric Civilization, so King Mandala led us here to snatch them!"

"Have you seen Ye Guhong?"

"We didn't know Ye Guhong was here too! He and King Fran were determined to fight back until death, and it took us a lot of effort to control them!"

"And then?"

"Then King Mandala took them to the relic, leaving us here, disguised as Headhunters!"

"Where's the relic?"

"There's a secret passage leading to the ruins beside that cabin."

"How long have they gone for? How many people?"

"23 in total!"

Sure enough, this Witch clan soldier did not dare to lie anymore. Han asked a question and he would answer a question.

Gengci~

After the captive pointed to Han where the secret passage to the extinction domain is, Han immediately waved his knife, sliced the throat of the prisoner and said in a deep voice, "Very well, that's all my questions."

Ye Jincheng had an anxious look. He was very concerned for Ye Guhong's safety and wanted to go down the secret passage right away. Han thought for a second and said, "Of course we have to go in, but we also need to signal other people."

"How do we signal? All wireless communications cannot be used here." Ye Jincheng said.

"Very easy, use this." Han said as he pulled out an explosive bug Thunderbolt.

With a large bang at the top of the mountain and the ensuing wildfire, Han and Ye Jincheng already dug into the secret passage near the little cabin.

The passage was very narrow and could only accommodate one person at a time. The Headhunter clan's leader Fran probably used this secret passage for all these years, secretly visiting the relic. The so-called going hermit mode in the forest, was perhaps just a deception Fran gave to his clan members.

The Witch clan leader Mandala who could simultaneously keep both Ye Guhong and Fran under control, must be a complicated character. As one of the three Witch clan kings, Mandala, Fantasy Neptune, Sha Emperor, they were all totem-class characters in the Witch clan.

Amongst them, Mandala was famous for his poison techniques, Fantasy Neptune specialized in magic, and Sha emperor was a master at puppet techniques.

Drugs, magic, puppet techniques, these were three of the wonder techniques of the Witch clan, and these three kings were the top experts in their respective fields.

While Han advanced along the narrow underground passage, he thought about possible encounters. Against an enemy who was a master of poison, careful thinking was needed.

After all, Han had already experienced how terrifying poisons could be from Night Walker. Even warlord level espers that claim to be immortal, Night Walker could still permanently disable them using poison and make them suffer more than just dying right away.

Now that he thought about it, since Mandala was the Witch clan's poison king, his mastery in poison was probably not below Night Walker.

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Chapter 169: Prehistoric Research Institute (Part Tw0)

Just with a little thought, Han already thought of a few deadly problems. But at the moment he didn't have much time to prepare and could only act according to circumstances. But, no matter what, it was very important that Ye Guhong survived. As one of the few people in the Milky Way that actually knew about the prehistoric civilization, even if he was not Ye Weiwei's grandpa, Han must still save him.

As for Ye Jincheng, this 5-star elite esper lacked adequate understanding of poison and all he had was loyalty and hot blood. Against the Witch Clan's King of Poison, he didn't hesitate to follow after Han and Demon Claw, with an urgent expression.

Shua~

After walking along the passage for a few kilometers, the front suddenly opened up, and Han and Ye Jincheng entered the relic.

"What the hell is this place?" Ye Jincheng suddenly hesitated and said.

Han asked in curiosity, "Is there a problem?"

"There's a big problem!" Ye Jincheng anxiously said, "According to our intel, the Headhunter's relic was like a prehistoric civilization's warehouse, and that's why they could obtain so many pieces of equipment left behind by the prehistoric civilization."

"But look here, it's not a warehouse at all, but a prehistoric civilization's research institute!"

Han slightly hesitated. Ye Jincheng was right, it was indeed a prehistoric civilization's research institute here, a huge quantum computer, training room separation tools, these things have already verified the property of this relic.

And that meant, there were actually two relics in the hands of the Headhunter clan, one was a warehouse and the other one was a research institute?

"Demon Claw! Find out where they went." Han deepened his voice and ordered.

Han came to the front of the quantum computer, and saw that it had been wiped spotless. There was a worn spot on the chair, which meant that King Fran had regularly been here in the past to view the data inside this computer.

Thinking about that, Han quickly let Yuan Yuan out of the Lunar Mark.

"Yuan Yuan, try to unlock this quantum computer, then copy all the files from the database that could be useful to us." Han ordered.

Yuan Yuan immediately began trying to crack the encryption defense on the computer. Han looked around the lab and fond out that this was a research institute for plants, which was a huge difference from the gene factory that manufactured dark beasts. Instead of gene cultivating vessels, it had square plant breeding boxes instead.

There were many seedlings growing in the boxes, perhaps King Fran did it. This number one warrior of the Headhunter's clan, perhaps was also a botanist.

Plant?

King Mandala?

Han was suddenly shocked and began to understand why the Witch Clan's poison king would come all the way to the turbid star field. Maybe it was because King Mandala needed certain types of plants since toxicology and botany had inseparable and complicated connections.

"Han, the Demon Claw found them!" Ye Jincheng shouted.

Shua~

Immediately, Han and Ye Jincheng followed the Demon Claw and arrived into another downward tunnel.

This tunnel was clearly bigger than the one they just passed. The solid foundation was built with concrete, it was conceivable that in the distant past, Land Speeders often carried prehistoric scientists in and out of this research institute.

But the passage that came from King Fran's cabin was probably one he dug himself for his convenience.

Not long after, sealed doors began appearing on both sides of the passage, just like prison cells. Some sealed doors were open and inside those rooms were plant laboratories that were already dilapidated.

The reason why these laboratories were sealed should be to simulate different growth environments. After all, plants have different habitats, some liked humid environments but some loved cold and dry places.

When Han and Ye Jincheng came to the end of the passage, they were all shocked. They saw the ruins of a concrete building, the damaged edges were still fresh, apparently having just been broken down.

That means, before the Witch clan enemies came, this passage was sealed?

This concrete was the same material as the one used to construct the floor, looks like the prehistoric civilization had intentionally sealed this road before they left. Why would they do that? Could there be a special existence down in the depth of this passage?

Han passed through the broken concrete layers with doubt, the layer was actually tens of meters thick with heavy tritanium strips in the middle. King Mandala and his men probably had to work very work to break through this wall.

The path was restored, but there were no longer laboratories on the two sides of the street, just a road.

After running hundreds of kilometers nonstop and going through countless turning points, Han and Ye Jincheng finally came to the end of the pathway. Along the way, there were more than one concrete layers blocking their way, and they were all broken down by Han one after another.

This sight actually scared Han a little. Clearly, the prehistoric civilization was extremely reluctant to let someone go this deep into the research institute, or maybe they were afraid of some type of existence deep inside the institute and that's why they patiently assembled layers of walls to completely block off the passage.

Now in front of them sat a huge sealed door, constructed by the very tough black crystal tritanium material, up to several hundred meters tall and more than 200 meters in width.

"It was this deep inside of this institute, just exactly what is in there?" Han looked at the door and felt puzzled.

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Chapter 170: Star-Strangling Boa!

Han tried pushing the sealed alloy door, and after a snapping sound, the door was actually pushed open.

Han nodded towards Ye Jincheng, and then they both rushed inside.

In the blink of an eye, they had already charged a hundred meters into the room but didn't find any enemies. At that moment, another loud noise came from the door. Ye Jincheng turned back to try pulling the door, then frowned, "Sh*t, the door's locked from the outside."

Han used his vision to scout around and said, "What a strange place. Let's find Ye Guhong first. I believe the Demon Claw won't point us in the wrong direction. Since he felt that Ye Guhong is here, then he must be here."

"Okay." Ye Jincheng nodded.

The Demon Claw was summoned again and played the role of a scout while Han and Ye Jincheng checked out the surroundings.

The reason Han said that this place was strange was because it was really huge, infinitely larger than the other laboratories they've seen on the way, as if it was an underground world.

Looking ahead, the place was full of white ice mountains, and the atmosphere was extremely chilly.

Below their feet seemed to be a subterranean lake sealed by ice, and the ice layer was extremely thick which made it impossible to see what was below them.

This was a very strange type of chill, capable of piercing through battle suit. Since Han had already gone through extreme arctic training, he didn't mind the cold feeling, but Ye Jincheng was already shivering.

"This bloody hell." Ye Jincheng muttered, "Why would the Witch Clan's Mandala King take our house master to this place."

Han didn't answer because he didn't know as well.

Before long, the Demon Claw came back and motioned Han and Ye Jincheng to follow him.

So, under the Demon Claw's guidance, they entered this world of ice, but they didn't really notice. The sealed alloy door they used to get in was slowly getting frozen by ice and snow, gradually blending into this cold world.

Han and Ye Jincheng ran in this ice world. After about a few hours, the ice mountains disappeared. The front became open and flat, the ice layer of incredible thickness was like a smooth mirror, clearly displaying Han and Ye Jincheng's reflections.

On the mirror-like ice layers, Han began to see frozen corpses. They belonged to the Witch clan. Beside Ye Guhong and King Fran, there were also 20 elite soldiers from the Witch clan that followed King Mandala here.

Now they were all dead, and there were 20 bodies left behind, no more no less. The time of death was probably not long after Han and Ye Jincheng entered here, and they were all killed by aggressive slashes.

"It's Hong Meng!" Ye Jincheng shouted, "It's an unique martial art that only our Master can use."

Han suddenly hesitated. Some of the Witch clan soldiers were killed by Ye Guhong, but some weren't. That means, Ye Guhong and King Fran fought together against the Witch clan.

But among the bodies there isn't one that belongs to King Mandala. If he was not dead, Ye Guhong and King Fran would still be in danger. After all King Mandala was a master of poison.

"Let's go!" Han shouted to Ye Jincheng.

The two and Demon Claw hit the road again, run like flying on the mirror-like ice layer. The battle boots would automatically pop out tiny hooks to prevent slipping on ice.

Another hour passed, and Han saw three strange figures in the distance, all standing there on the ice motionlessly in a triangular formation, like three sculptures.

"Master!" Ye Jincheng shouted.

When they got closer, Han realized that they were actually Ye Guhong, King Fran and King Mandala.

The Witch clan's characteristics were very obvious, Han only took one glance to recognize the black and green face of King Mandala. He had a crooked nose and sharp eyes, with messy long black hair scattered across his visage.

That muscular middle-aged man must be the Headhunter Clan's leader King Fran, and Ye Guhong was that mighty elder with white hair. His body presented the temperament of a pioneering explorer, remaining calm in the face of fear and danger.

"I'm going to kill you!" Ye Jincheng took out a knife and was about to cut King Mandala, but he was stopped by Han's grab.

"Don't stop me! This damn guy dared to kidnap our Master, I'm going to take his life!" Ye Jincheng shouted.

"Something's fishy, hold on a minute." Han said to Ye Jincheng.

At the same time, Ye Guhong also opened his mouth, "Jincheng, you can't kill him."

"Why?"

"Because if you kill him, the thing under this ice lake will come out and we will all die." Ye Guhong said with a little hoarse voice, "You see, we are maintaining a balance source energy field, and the moment you kill Mandala, the energy field will become ineffective.

Han and Ye Jincheng were both shocked for a second and took a careful look. Sure enough, the three figures' hands were all emitting a white light in a semicircular shape, suppressing whatever was under this glacial lake. But, the ice layer already had small gaps appearing, there was clearly something ready to break out of the ice.

Ye Jincheng gasped and was glad that Han stopped him. King Mandala just sneered, as if he was afraid to consume too much source energy, he didn't want to explain anything.

"Who are you?" Ye Guhong looked at Han in curiosity and asked.

"Han, Master, he is that Han Lang!" Ye Jincheng hastily explained.

Yu Guhong looked up and down at Han and didn't say anything else.

Han frowned, walked around those three for a lap, and said in surprise, "You two aren't poisoned."

Like a savage, King Fran pursed his huge nose and said, "Of course not. But we are under his puppet technique. If it wasn't to keep this thing under the ice still, the puppet technique can't control me, and I can still kill him easily."

King Mandala once again sneered and whispered, "You can get rid of my puppet technique, but you can at most kill my stupid underlings. Don't say that you can kill me easily, because if it wasn't for the thing under the ice, I have a thousand ways to poison you to death."

"Shameless." King Fran shouted, and all his muscles tensed up.

"I advise you to relax your muscles. If that thing comes out, none of us can survive." King Mandala insidiously said.

King Fran was so pissed that his chest started pumping up and down as he breathed heavily gasping for air. But, he could not get distracted while outputting source energy into the field. Espers have keen perception. He could of course feel that the thing inside the lake posed a bigger threat than Mandala.

What was really under the lake?

"Eye of Darkness, open."

Darkness immediately covered his eye, and when he was able to see the situation under that thick layer of ice, he was shocked.

"So, this is a quartet balance energy field. In addition to the three of you, there's also a stationary energy shield left behind by the prehistoric civilization under the ice layer. If any party withdraws, it will cause this strong energy to collapse and lead to disastrous consequences."

"I don't get it; how did you get into such dangerous situation? I only see a water plant under that energy shield, and I didn't see anything else strange."

Mandala sneered, "That water plant is one of the legendary extinction-level weapons developed by the prehistoric civilization via gene synthesis technology, called the Star-Strangling Python. Don't underestimate it."

Han slightly frowned and said to Mandala, "I don't like the tone of your voice. The reason why you are still alive is just for the balance and stability of this energy shield, don't think that I don't dare to kill you."

Disdain emerged on Mandala's ugly face again as he whispered, "I think, you just don't dare to kill me."

Gengci~

Right after Mandala finished, Han directly sliced off a layer of Mandala's scalp.

He really did it.

The Star Pierce Moon Slaying Blade drew a precise arc across the air, swept closely over Mandala's head, taking off his hair and a layer of his scalp.

Blood suddenly ran out from Mandala's head and got all over his face and body.

Mandala didn't expect Han to actually make a move, and was completely shocked. His whole body trembled. Fortunately, his slow reaction helped him keep the energy field under control.

When he finally realized that Han sliced off a piece of his scalp, a vicious look appeared and he gazed at Han in hatred.

Han readily threw some powder to help Mandala stop the bleeding and he said coldly, "My knife is a little poisonous, but since you are the king of poison in the Witch clan, you are probably not scared of it."

"In short, just remember. I don't care what kind of king you are, if you want to talk then talk properly. Otherwise, next time you won't be that lucky."

Everyone looked at Han in surprise, especially Ye Guhong. The way he looked at Han became very complicated.

Hahahaha~

Headhunter clan's King Fran began laughing and he shouted, "That cut was manly and enjoyable enough, young man! From now on, you are my friend!"

The alien race was all straight tempered. Fran saw Han actually sliced something off of Mandala, he immediately felt pleased the more he looked at Han.

Han deepened his voice and said, "Going on like this isn't a way out. You guys are all at the warlord level. Try to battle the energy field below the lake with your source energy, otherwise you all can't get out of this situation. The moment you stop outputting energy, the four forces of energy will become chaotic and then cause an explosion, and the result cannot be imagined."

"But, keep going on like this isn't a way out either. Sooner or later, you guys will collapse from running out of energy, and the result will still be an explosion."

"So the key to this problem still lies on this Star-Strangling Boa, why is it protected by such a strong energy field, and what will happen if the energy field can't be suppressed?"

Han stared at Mandala, and Mandala cleared his throat and said in a deep voice, "Star-Strangling Boa is an extinction-level weapon left behind by the prehistoric civilization, that I already said. According to the information I gathered, it has a growing power that we can't imagine, and it belongs to the devouring category of plants, and it will absorb all energy possible and achieve crazy growth."

"According to the prehistoric civilization's design, Star-Strangling Boa should be thrown to a planet they hope to destroy, and that way, the Star-Strangling Boa can immediately start absorbing that planet's energy, causing the planet core to lose heat, the soil to lose nutrients, and all the trees would die, not even the people on the planet could survive."

"The Star-Strangling Boa would grow bigger and bigger, just like a giant snake with tens of thousands of heads. They are its tentacles, and those tentacles would penetrate into people or animals' body, mummifying people and sucking the energy out from all animals."

"In simple terms, a planet, if thrown a Star-Strangling Boa, will become a dead planet, with all life going extinct."

"The prehistoric civilization succeeded in making such a terrifying plant, but it's very unstable and must be installed in an anti-energy field."

"Now the situation is, when the prehistoric civilization left this base, they adjusted the setting to self-activating mode which activates the moment someone comes in here."

"If we can't suppress down this anti-energy field, then it won't be as simple as an explosion. Even if the bomb can't kill us, the Star-Strangling Boa will suck the life out of all of us along with the planet, making all life going extinct and not an inch of grass left on this planet."

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Chapter 171: Four Elites Vs. Star-Strangling Boa

After listening to King Mandala, Han couldn't help but gasp.

When the prehistoric civilization left this base, they not only constructed walls and walls of concrete to prevent other people from entering the laboratory that kept the Star-Strangling Boa sealed, they even installed a ban, if anyone came close and tried to acquire the Boa, the reverse protective cover would activate and completely destroy this planet.

No one knew that the prehistoric civilization set a trap, so when they got close, the reverse protective field activated. King Mandala and the other two had no choice but to use their source energy to suppress this protective shield to stop it from activating, otherwise they, along with the entire planet, would be sucked clean to death by this crazy plant.

According to King Mandala's few clues, Han knew that the Star-Strangling Boa was a kind of planet-destroying weapon that engulfed and devoured until the planet no longer had any energy or life, and that was when its goal would be reached.

It must be said, the prehistoric civilization not only had advanced technology, they were also very vicious.

Suppose this kind of weapon was thrown onto Earth, Earth will shortly become a dead planet and fall apart, and 15 billion people on Earth will all perish.

"Let's just fight it!" Headhunter clan's leader Fran yelled, "If this continues, our energy will sooner or later be depleted. In that case, we might as well give it a shot! Let's see if all of us worked together, can we kill this evil plant!"

Han shook his head and said, "I have a concern. Since this Star-Strangling Boa is so powerful, why didn't the prehistoric civilization take it with them when they were leaving?"

"We know that this reverse energy shield can stop this plant from growing. That means, if they want to take this plant with them, they completely can store this plant and the shield together into their ship."

"Even so, why did the prehistoric civilization choose to leave behind this plant? I think, maybe this plant has a flaw, a fatal flaw! And that's why the prehistoric civilization didn't take it with them, but they were not willing to have other people possess this plant. That's why they set numerous traps, and when necessary, they would rather have this plant destroy this entire planet instead of letting the secret of this plant fall into other people's hands!"

Ye Guhong frowned, "Then based on what you said, isn't this Star-Strangling Boa big trouble?"

"Of course." Han seriously said, "But I have a way to stop this plant from destroying the entire planet."

"What way?" Fran eagerly asked.

"Since the reverse energy shield can control the Star-Strangling Boa's growth, we can make a larger reverse energy shield, one large enough to completely seal off this laboratory! That way, even if the plant is released, its extent of growth will be limited to this laboratory, and it won't be able to get out." Han scratched his chin and said.

"I object!" Mandala who hadn't talked for a long time suddenly yelled, "Recreating a bigger reverse energy field? Doesn't that mean we will be trapped inside as well? What's the point then?!"

"You shut up! It's all because of you that we are in this situation!" Fran shouted with a grim face, "His method can at least save my people! If we are going to die, I'm going to kill you first!"

Han said in a lower voice, "The key issue is not about protecting your people, but after the establishment of a larger reverse energy shield, although we will face the Boa's attack, but we can still bet once more!"

"If we win the bet, then the Boa will die and we are saved. If we lose, the Boa will also be trapped in here and won't get out to harm other people. This is called battle of life and death."

Everyone's eyes again fell upon Han. He was right, a larger reverse energy shield, although wasn't enough to save everyone, gave them a chance to battle the Star-Strangling Boa at least.

"I agree!" Fran was the first to declare his position.

Ye Guhong eyed Han a few glances with suspicion, nodded and said, "I couldn't think of a better way, let's do it."

It was Mandala's turn. Although he didn't like this kind of gambling, due to the pressure, he nodded and agreed as well.

Han said, "So, I will begin preparing the second set of the reverse energy device. Ye Jincheng, I need you to leave this place and send the message to all the Headhunter clan members, tell them to stay still or it's going to be a disaster."

"No, I want to stay, and live or die with Master!" Ye Jincheng obviously didn't agree to escape alone.

"Delivering useful information is many times more important than tying your life together with your master! Don't you get it?!" Han remembered what happened in the A-43. He couldn't help but become angry in his heart and shouted at Ye Jincheng.

That many teammates died to deliver a damn message to the Alliance!

Suddenly thinking about Ma Jingkong, Ms. White and the others, he felt a sharp pain in his heart.

Kill in battle, die on the battlefield, this was probably the fate as a soldier.

Seeing how Ye Jincheng's face got all red from being shouted by him, Han felt a bit sorry for the loyal Ye Jincheng and whispered, "You staying won't be able to help me because you don't know the theory of reflected energy, nor how to manufacture a reverse energy field, so it's best if you go out to deliver the message to other people."

"I will have the Demon Claw send you out as soon as possible. As for other things, just leave it to me."

Ye Jincheng had a grief face on him, looked at Ye Guhong, but Ye Guhong had a wry smile and let out a long breath, said to him, "Jincheng, this is an important mission, if the family doesn't have my news it will get chaotic. Now this important mission is given to you."

"Take my necklace back. When my people see it, they will trust you." Fran also said.

Shua~

Ye Jincheng trembled anxiously, then fiercely stamped at the ground, and was taken by the Demon Claw towards the laboratory entrance with the fastest speed.

Han stayed, sat on the mirror-like ice layer, and quickly fiddled around a few machines others have never seen before.

"This is a vacuum shield system used when making fusion beasts. It uses mini fusion reactors as its energy source. I will increase its output power and reverse its position and convert it into a position repeater. It will connect the reverse energy field under the lake and acquire the dual energy to extend the range of the field. Let's hope this design works." Han didn't look up and just muttered.

Everyone here were all soldiers; no one could understand Han's words.

Ye Guhong do know a little about some related theories, he was surprised, "A position repeater? Has it been done before?"

Han laughed and said, "Of course not, because no one before has encountered this kind of f*cked up situation."

Hahaha~

King Fran began laughing again. He didn't know Han before, but he felt that Han's temper was very much like his. F*cked up situation? Fran who had a blunt and rude character really liked Han's choice of words. Now at the awkward dilemma, they were really f*cked.

After about 2 hours, Han finally finished his position repeater. He gently held the disc-shaped repeater in his hand, and placed it in the center of the triangular formation of Ye Guhong and the others.

Shua~

The energy position repeater gradually merged into the original reverse energy field and started floating up into the thin air, lighting up a green LED light.

Whew~

Han let out a long breath, it seemed that his design succeeded.

This device was originally used during the making of fusion beasts to filter air and remove micro-organisms, equivalent to having a sterile chamber. After being modified by Han, it turned into an energy position repeater, performing an arc-like reflection of the high energy emitted by the reverse energy field.

As a result, a field emission device and a field reflecting device formed an opposition, stabilizing the field again to stop it from unlimited expansion.

"That's it?" Fran didn't even dare to gasp and asked Han. After all, the Headhunter Star System was home to him and his people, this alien king really loved his home and didn't want his home to be destroyed.

"Should be." Han nodded, squatted and said seriously, "My power is Void End, I will activate my power and take away all your power, and that's the signal to stop your source energy output. Then, the field will immediately lose balance and start expanding."

"According to my calculations, the field repeater I designed, which is also a reflective system, will reach a balance with the field emission device within 2 seconds, forming a brand new energy field of at least 15000 meters in diameters."

"Of course we will be trapped here, but the Star-Strangling Boa won't be able to get out as well. At that moment, that evil plant will begin attacking us, and if we can win, alive. Lose, die! Everything is that simple."

Fran, Ye Guhong and Mandala all heavily nodded.

Han paused and said, "Generally speaking, the most important part of a plant is its root, and mutated plants shouldn't be an exception. So, we need to strike the root of this plant as much as possible, with our respective strongest attacks!"

"Whatever forbidden techniques, and weapons, bring it all out! This is a war for survival, either win or die!"

His eyes moving to Mandala, Han deepened his voice and said, "As for you, the situation right now is all caused by you! I suggest you work together with us to fight this Star-Strangling Boa. If you don't give up and try to sneak attack us with poison or your puppet technique, I will kill you first!"

"Remember, Night Walker is one of my teachers, so poison techniques, I know a lot too! You won't be able to hide from my eyes!"

Mandala had clearly heard of the Poison Addict Night Walker, he suddenly hesitated and then reluctantly nodded.

Ye Guhong's look became even more strange. Of course he had heard of Han before, but he only knew that Han's power coincidently could restrain Ye Weiwei's Thunder Guardian. Today was the first time he saw Han, and Han's passion, skills, and background, all left Ye Guhong in a great surprise.

Ye Hua told Ye Guhong before that Han was just a normal soldier from a small country. But clearly, Han was not normal at all.

"I'm starting the countdown from 10!"

"At the end of the countdown, the void domain will open."

"You are all elites; you should know what to do."

"Ten!"

"Nine!"

"Eight!"

"One!"

"Void Domain, open!"

The countdown ended, Han shouted and activated his Void Domain.

Witch Clan's King of Poison Mandala, Headhunter Clan's strongest fighter Fran, Ancient Maple Leaf's Master Ye Guhong, plus Han, they were about to fight the prehistoric civilization's extinction-level weapon, Star Strangling Boa!

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Chapter 172: A Battle of Life and Speed (Part One)

"Void Domain, open!"

Han shouted and activated his power.

To soldiers, sound was not reliable because of the propagation of sound in the air is much slower than the neural response rate of an esper. So, with Void Domain as a battle signal is more intuitive, once summoned, everyone will feel their power disappearing, and then they can follow this sensation and leap up releasing their suppression on the reverse energy field.

Shua~

When everyone let go at the same time, the field's force became unstoppable and started expanding outward crazily, while the position repeater that Han manufactured also started operating and started reflecting the energy back.

Just as Han expected, after 2 seconds, the double energy field finally stabilized, and an energy field of 20,000 meters in diameter appeared, which was slightly bigger than the one Han originally calculated.

At this moment, the Star-Strangling Boa hadn't been activated yet and Han channeled the power from his Heart of Darkness and smashed his fist against the ice layer.

Kakaka~

The thick ice layer was immediately shattered by the twisted power of darkness and Han shouted, "Now! Attack the root of the plant!"

Plop~

Plop~

All four of them successively jumped into the icy water, and started swimming towards the underwater weed-looking plant.

But less than a second after Han and the others shattered the ice and jumped into the water, the atmosphere suddenly changed!

That green plant suddenly swelled thousands of times bigger! Lake, ice, all of their surroundings completely disappeared. Han and the others were suddenly thrown into the air. This drastic change caught them all off guard.

Bang~

When Han and the others successively landed, they realized that the supposedly muddy lake bottom already turned into dry land.

"Such a powerful creature! It already turned the water and ice into the growth energy it needs! Now it has become a giant plant that's no less than 2000 meters in length!" Ye Guhong shouted.

"Who cares! Cut off its roots and kill it!"

Fran shouted and started charging ahead again.

"Careful! If you get absorbed by the monster, it will become stronger!" Han shouted at Fran's back.

Han's observation was very keen, the Star-Strangling Boa stopped growing after it became over 2000 meters tall. That meant its accessible energy source for growth had already been depleted, and if anyone accidently became this Boa's food, this big guy will be further strengthened.

The method to defeat the Star-Strangling Boa was not only about cutting off its roots, but also to prevent it from acquiring the energy needed for growth.

Fran was eager to save his home, so he refused to listen to Han's words and insisted on charging forward.

The Star-Strangling Boa waved its cylindrical leaves and started attacking Fran. The reason it was called the Star-Strangling Boa was because its leaves weren't flat, but were soft round tubes with oval tips. If you didn't look carefully, it really did look like a boa with 9 heads!

The Star-Strangling Boa had 9 cylindrical leaves and, when waved, the wind whistled.

Shua~

Fran was indeed an elite, as the Boa's leaves swept past. He already leaped into the air, and as the leaves started charging towards the sky, he uttered a shriek in the air, two golden long blade took form in his hand, and he fiercely slashed down on the leaves.

Kacha~

The blades in Fran's hands were very sharp and it cut off one of the Star-Strangling Boa's leaves right away. But at the same time, he seemed to have lost his power, the duo blades that were produced by his metal descent power quickly disappeared and he started falling towards the ground.

"Fran's out of power!"

"Hurry and save him!"

Han and Ye Guhong shouted at the same time, and Mandala knew that Fran's death wouldn't benefit him so he followed the charge as well.

"Poison arrow rain!"

When the distance was close, Mandala suddenly bent down to a strange stance and shot out thousands of arrows from his cloak. The arrows had a cyan fluorescent body; they were obviously extremely toxic!

Gengci Gengci~

Thousands of poison arrows were all fully embedded into the Star-Strangling Boa's body, causing the stem of the magical plant to begin turning black and moving slower.

Han and Ye Guhong took advantage of this opportunity and charged in, one with the Star Pierce Moon Slaying blade, and one with a hook, cutting away the Star-Strangling Boa's leaves, immediately bringing Fran up and dragging him to safety.

"This damn plant, it absorbed my power!" Fran angrily shouted.

Han said, "That's because your weapon isn't actually metallic but was your power taking form. It seemed like your blade was the one making contact with the plant, but it was actually your own body, stupid! You knew this thing could suck energy!"

Fran pouted, although he had a bad temper, he was still reasonable. When Han called him stupid, he wasn't very angry.

"Then what happens if you cut it with metal?" Fran asked Han.

"This will happen."

Han showed his Star Pierce Moon Slaying Blade to Fran, and there were little holes on the blade's body, as if it was corroded by some acidic substance.

Han swallowed a mouthful of spittle and said, "Although it will still be absorbed, but it won't be as intense as making direct contact with your own power. I also felt my energy being sucked away."

Ye Guhong nodded on the side, agreeing with Han. This damn Star-Strangling Boa, the moment contact is made, it will devour some energy no matter what, just like a monster!

"Sh*t! It's absorbing its own broken leaf, and it also absorbed my toxins!" Mandala shouted.

Everyone took a closer look. They saw the leaf that Han and the group was finally able to cut had started withering, and the energy was returning back to the plant's body and new leaves grew back quickly.

The sharp arrows forged with metal became dust, and the black color caused by the toxins slowly converted to energy and returned back to the Star-Strangling Boa.

The first round of attack finished, not only wasn't the monster killed, it even absorbed the espers' attacks and grew to 3000 meters in length.

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Chapter 172: A Battle of Life and Speed (Part Two)

This was really unfortunate, the reverse energy field was only 20,000 meters in diameter, so if this kind of attack continued, the Star-Strangling Boa will sooner or later fill up the entire field. By then, no one would be able to escape.

Everyone was trapped in a dilemma, and chose to hide far away from this magical plant and didn't dare to fight again.

"What happens if we run out of the reverse energy shield?" Mandala asked Han.

"With your strength, it's obviously no problem to get out of the field. But it was just stabilized, if you damage it briefly to get out, the Star-Strangling Boa will soon be released out of the cage. With its power, it can grow to the size of this planet in a matter of minutes. By then, you will be so dead that you won't even have a scrap left!" Han harshly glared at Mandala.

Mandala said indignantly, "Then what can we do? This monster can even absorb my poison! We can't kill it at all!"

The scene became very silent. To deal with an absorption-type monster was really a headache. Attack it and it will become bigger. Don't attack it and one could only wait for death!

Although Han used the limited equipment in his hand and crafted a field repeater, as to how long this machine could sustain, Han didn't have any idea.

If they continued to delay and the field repeater collapses, then everyone was going to die!

On the opposite side, the Star-Strangling Boa was still clamoring and wildly waving its leaves, but Han and the others had no solution.

"It seems that's the only way." Han gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice.

"What way?"

"While we still have enough energy, let's fight with this thing. As long as the speed of us killing it is faster than its absorbing speed, perhaps there's still a chance of survival."

"Kill it faster than it can absorb? Are you crazy?"

"I'm not crazy! We can first use our weapons to attack! It's still not very strong at the moment and its speed of absorbing metal is relatively slow. All we have to do is try to avoid contact with our own body as much as possible and fight it with speed! Let's see if he can suck us empty first or we kill it first!"

"In that case, before we can even reach the root of the plant, we would all become mummies."

"I didn't say attack alone, but attack both from above and underground! You three divert its attention and attacks from above ground, I will go from below and try to destroy its roots!"

"How are you going to go below?"

"With the Demon Claw! He's a pro at digging underground! The Demon Claw will dig an underground passage for me!" Han pointed at the Demon Claw that was just quietly sitting there after coming back.

Whew~

Ye Guhong and the others let out a long breath at the same time, Han's tactic sounded reasonable but its risk was too high. Battling to see if the monster absorbs faster or they can kill faster? That's completely a suicidal strategy!

"If you guys don't have any better plans, then just do what I say!" Han said in a deep voice, "Other than the Demon Claw, I also have Godly Armored Beasts. Aside from that, I also have six-arm star apes! If that's still not enough, I can give up this life of mine too!"

"Brother, you are tough enough! You have my support! We might as well just go all out against this monster!" Fran firmly patted Han on the shoulder and addressed Han as his brother.

Shua~

Ye Guhong sneered, raised his hook and cut off his hair. He threw the clump of silver onto the ground and said in a deepened voice, "Do or die, I, Ye Guhong will also be giving my all today!"

Sigh!

The Witch clan's King Mandala slapped his leg and reluctantly nodded.

To be in a situation like this, it was actually all because of Mandala's greed, but Han and the others couldn't really do anything to him right now because they were up against such a monster. All their power must be united even if no one liked Mandala.

The murderous atmosphere became stronger and stronger, Han was always full of passion and had a strong survival belief, and his passion was helping to drive everyone else to fully throw themselves into this difficult battle.

Boom~

Just when everyone was accumulating source energy and were ready to fight the monster to the death, the atmosphere suddenly changed!

The Star-Strangling Boa suddenly went berserk and started attacking the force field around it!

"Now! This guy is not only getting stronger, but also smarter! He knows that the reverse energy field can't hold him for long!" Han's face became pale and he shouted.

There's really no way out! The moment the Star-Strangling Boa destroyed this reverse energy field everyone's death will even be worse!

"Demon Claw!"

Han slammed the ground, the Demon Claw that received an order jumped right up and started digging.

Pa~

Han began taking drugs. Fission pills will increase his source energy index and enhance his combat power!

The soil that lost its nutrients became as hard as stone, but the Demon Claw's 9 giant claws started waving again and the excavating speed did not slow. An underground passage that could allow Han to bend down and pass through was created in the blink of an eye, and Han could see the Star-Strangling Boa's roots, grey, just like withered vines.

Bang Bang~

Finally, all the Godly Armored Beasts and six-arm star apes were released, they charged in front of Han, snapping and ripping apart the Boa's roots! Although doing this would cause the fusion beasts to die too from energy depletion, but at a moment of life and death like this, Han couldn't think too much about that anymore.

Gengci~

Gengci~

On the ground, Ye Guhong, Fran and Mandala were desperately attacking anything they see.

Underground, Han led the Demon Claw and the other fusion beasts to also desperately destroy the root of all evil.

This is a battle of life and death which was going to be decided on speed.

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Chapter 173: Creature inside Egg vs. Star-Strangling Boa

Without any time to hesitate and think, this battle of life and death had already reached its brutal climax in just a few seconds! The humans and aliens had gone berserk in order to survive.

Han could hear Fran's tear-like howl, Ye Guhong's heavy breath, and Mandala's pained shout after being injured.

Although a few hours ago they were still enemies that wanted to take the other's life, at the moment, everyone was giving their all and desperately cutting the Star-Strangling Boa under the risk of being sucked empty into a mummy at any time.

Han couldn't relax. His mission was actually more difficult and he was trying to destroy the plant's roots from underground.

The credit didn't all go to Han, but also the Demon Claw.

After Han's modification, the Demon Claw acquired a terrifying level of vitality. Right after it sent Ye Jincheng to the entrance, it turned around and without a moment of rest, it accompanied Han into the difficult battle.

The Demon Claw didn't talk, it just worked hard to try to complete any difficult tasks Han gave to it, to create an underground tunnel and expose the roots of this plant so that Han and his fusion beasts could follow-up and destroy it.

The Demon Claw quickly dug with his 9 claws, and was even faster and more ferocious than the best excavator.

But unfortunately, every time it touched the Star-Strangling Boa's roots, its vitality would weaken and its digging speed became slower and slower.

A grim monster, as fast as the wind, had now turned into an old-man-like creature.

Han felt that the Demon Claw might be approaching the end of its life. It seemed like a dying old man, its claws were no longer agile and powerful, but it was still relying on its determination to keep on digging.

Perseverance, it was no longer just Han's characteristic but also everything around him. Whether it was the Demon claws, Godly Armored Beasts or six-arm star apes, they were all affected by his personality, never giving up and exposing the roots of this Star-Strangling Boa from the soil! Use knives to cut it! Use claws to shred it! If all else fails, use teeth to bite it!

In a matter of moments, Han lost all fusion beasts, whether it was the precious Armored Beasts, or his whimsically created six-arm star apes, they all withered away like autumn leaves, as their energy got completely sucked out from them.

After the muscle tissues atrophied, it was the neurons. The fusion beasts all gradually collapsed, and became air-dried mummies, with no more signs of life. However, they had all expired in an aggressive posture.

Even the Demon Claw which had the strongest vitality was also on the verge of dying. It was originally as agile like the wind, but now, it was using its arms to slowly crawl forward, using its energy-depleted claws and digging little by little.

Han suddenly felt a feeling of sorrow. It was a feeling that had accumulated in his heart for the past few months.

In the relic, Han witnessed his teammates get killed in battle one by one, and in the Headhunter Star System, he witnessed how his loyal and voiceless fusion beasts died for their master.

The tragic scenes kept on crossing by Han's mind, and triggered Han's anger!

Even though he was very tired, and whenever Han touched the roots of the Star-Strangling Boa, it felt like he was getting struck by thunder, he didn't stop.

Pa~

The entire automatic drug kit's pills were swallowed by Han! A fatal dose!

The Star-Strangling Boa was the most terrifying and unreasonable weapon designed by the prehistoric civilization!

The more you attacked it, the stronger it got, what kind of rule was this?!

The Star-Strangling Boa was actually immortal?!

"No one is immortal! Even this universe, one day it will perish!"

In the desperate situation, Han's eyes broke out with a strong desire to survive, and his two eyes became bloodshot.

It took energy to continue, and Han must replenish his energy faster than the Star-Strangling Boa absorbed.

If that's the case, then just use this!

Shua~

Han gently touched the Lunar Mark and a crystal appeared in Han's hand. It looked like a person's knee, but was actually a crystal that possessed the powerful energy of darkness.

Genu of Darkness!

Gengci!

Han drew a cut on his right arm with a small knife, and he held the dark crystal closer.

Blood Merging Surgery!

It was the most effective but also most dangerous method discussed by Han and Night Walker.

Now, Han didn't care about anything else anymore. He melted the Genu of Darkness in his blood, just so that he could defeat this damn Star-Strangling Boa!

Shua~

The color of the Genu of Darkness quickly faded, and when Han channeled his dark energy, his black right arm was like a powerful sponge. No matter how much power and energy was contained inside the Genu of Darkness, it would always be absorbed by Han with the fastest speed.

The reason for this effect, was also due to the Heart of Darkness. The Heart of Darkness and the 6 other treasures that contained the power of darkness were originally one entity, they were all created after the Dark King passed away.

There was already the power of Heart of Darkness inside Han's body, so when the second energy form of the same property approached, the Heart of Darkness began working, crazily pulling the Genu of Darkness's power towards Han's body so that the two powerful energy forms of the same source could become one.

Han and Night Walker did many tests and found this property, but as to what kind of consequence this effect could bring, both Han and Night Walker weren't too sure.

The powerful energy of darkness filled Han's entire body, making his muscles expand and his joints crack, as if his whole body was about to burst due to the abundance of energy.

"Now!'

Just at that moment, the Star-Strangling Boa's absorbing speed was far behind how fast Han was replenishing his energy from the Genu of Darkness, and that gave Han the opportunity to strike back!

Dark Fist!

Han waved his already pitch black arm, and even his inactive right eye and his shoulder became black at that moment.

Boom~

He delivered a right straight punch, overwhelming!

The twisting power of darkness struck the place where the soil and roots were mixed and the effect was incredible.

The ground suddenly trembled, the ruptured roots and soil collapsed together, as if someone buried a nuke underground and then detonated it.

The soil was blown away, together with the roots of the Star-Strangling Boa.

Han's punch consumed a huge amount of energy, but also had a remarkable effect.

The punch was like a missile, piercing through the soil and directly blowing apart the thickest root of the Star-Strangling Boa.

Han surprisingly found, after that huge grey root was cracked, a strange handle was actually expose. A silver color, a bit like a handle of a blade, and the edge of the blade seemed to be inserted into the body of the Star-Strangling Boa.

Shua~

Charge forward!

The power of the Genu of Darkness filled Han's entire body, leaving his whole body in pain. This feeling was difficult to be explained. On one hand it was because of too much energy being injected into Han's body, and on the other hand it's because of too much energy being sucked out at the same time.

The outcome was obvious, once the Genu of Darkness no longer injected energy into Han's body, within a few seconds he will have been sucked dry by the Star-Strangling Boa and become mummified.

Taking advantage of how there are still remaining energy left in the Genu of Darkness, only a few seconds was left to Han!

Now the only thing he could think of is to grab that silver handle. No matter what it is, since it's inserted into the center of the Star-Strangling Boa's body, it must be an important object.

Han took a stride and rushed to catch that silver handle at the Star-Strangling Boa's bottom and forcefully pulled! He wanted to pull this strange thing out!

Suddenly~

Han felt like he was struck by lightning, his body was rapidly losing energy, skin was becoming dry, and his soul was being extracted out of him.

Maybe he was too close to the Star-Strangling Boa's body, the silver handle was inserted inside its body had a devouring force multiple times stronger than the one he felt from before. Originally, Han guessed that the Genu of Darkness could still support him for a few more seconds, but now, Han might not even be able to hold for one more second!

What now?!

What now?!

In the desperate situation, Han suddenly thought of something he has, someone that was as powerful and crazy as the Star-Strangling Boa! It was that black egg, the thing that Han brought back from A-19 relic.

Shua~

Han's finger gently slid across the Lunar Mark, he took out that strange egg and placed it in his hand. That action already depleted the last little bit of strength Han had left. It was very clear that Han's muscles were withering away, his eyes were losing light and his blood vessels were becoming dry.

At that moment, the atmosphere changed immediately!

That strange, black egg in Han's hand suddenly uttered a sharp tweet!

A powerful strength gushed out of the inside of the egg, through Han's arm and body and entered the Star-Strangling Boa's world.

And this noise, it was issued by the long-awaited monster inside the egg. It had been hibernating, but at the moment it suddenly felt threatened, feeling that someone was trying to absorb its energy!

Who the f*ck dares!

As a result, the monster woke up!

The sharp noise Han heard was issued by him. Of course, it wasn't some noise, but a spiritual consciousness.

When in A-19 relic, Han was once forced to feed the monster inside this black egg with his energy of darkness, so these two on the spiritual level, had some unexplained magical link.

Han obviously felt that this creature inside the egg had awakened, and it was furious!

Shua~

The powerful creature inside the egg didn't hold back, and it started to absorb the Star-Strangling Boa's energy!

"You want to absorb me? I want to absorb you too!"

Oh god!

Han could not believe that he would encounter such a thing. The two unspeakably powerful monsters were actually competing for each other's energy, and Han's body actually became the focus of this competition?!

No matter if it was the Star-Strangling Boa wanting to absorb the creature in the black egg's energy, or vice versa, both had to go through Han's body!

This crazy contest, was at the moment taking place with Han's body as the battlefield!

With the last bit of remaining consciousness Han wanted to let go of the silver handle, but he couldn't, it just got stuck onto his hand like a magnet.

He wanted to throw away the egg on his hand, but he couldn't, the mysterious egg seemed to have glued itself onto Han's hand or something!

The two crazy power both used Han as a channel, the two evil forces began constantly impacting, struggling and entangling with each other inside Han's body!

Han felt like his old will soon collapse!

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Chapter 174: Birth of Ares-Class!

The situation became more and more difficult and when Han was trapped between two powerful forces, the people above ground weren't having an easy time either.

The poisonous king of the Witch Clan was already lying lifelessly on the ground, as a mummy.

As someone who only knew how to use poison, facing an opponent that was immune and needed real swords and guns to fight, Mandala was naturally the first one to die.

Although Ye Guhong and Fran were still alive, they looked as if they were 10 years older, the massive loss of source energy made them struggle to make any moves and they almost couldn't hold it anymore.

At that moment, the Star-Strangling Boa suddenly stopped its attacks towards those two and became unusually quiet.

Plop~

Fran and Ye Guhong already depleted their power and fainted.

Han's situation was indeed very difficult. Among the 4 of them, Mandala died, Fran and Ye Guhong fainted, no one could give him a helping hand, and even the loyal Demon Claw with tenacious vitality was lying powerlessly on the ground. Its big claws gently trembled, even if it was not dead, it was pretty close to being dead.

Han was very clear that even if the Demon Claw was energetic at the moment, it still wouldn't be able to provide any help for him.

He stuck in a fight between sages. Whether it was the creature inside the egg or the Star-Strangling Boa, both were way stronger than Han.

The feeling that his body was going to split put Han in a lot of pain, but suddenly, he felt an incredible change taking place inside his body.

What was affected by the two strong powers wasn't just Han, but also the Heart of Darkness and Genu of Darkness, both from the power of Darkness.

Now the situation was that Han was about to be torn apart, and the power of darkness was also trying to flee!

Han felt that the dark energy was actually going into his zero-degree brain region! And started tangling up with his source energy!

In the past, the dark energy only temporarily inhabited in Han's body but didn't really count as his own; it was only a type of power he can channel when he needs to.

Now the dark energy went into his zero-degree brain region, and the place where the source energy is generated and stored!

This was equivalent to a type of fusion!

In the narrow zero-degree brain region, the dark energy and source energy became very mixed and were no longer two separate entities. This chaos directly triggered a mutation in Han's body!

Han felt much more powerful than before! Even the power of the Dark King was truly absorbed by him, and his source energy was no longer the same as other espers. It now had a dark temperament added!

This was like pouring two bottles of ink into a water tank. Now the tank of clear water changed color and can no longer be drunk, but also became threatening!

Boom~

Han's body trembled!

His zero-degree brain region became dark and wide!

The two forces that were originally tearing Han's body apart, after the dark energy and Han truly integrated, could no longer hurt Han, and Han could even take those two energy forces and absorb them into his zero-degree brain region!

A series of coincidences finally led to unexpected results, and now the situation was that Han, who had fully integrated with the dark force, began absorbing the life inside the black egg and the energy from Star-Strangling Boa!

Come!

Bring it on!

Han's zero-degree brain region turned into a black whirlpool, constantly absorbing the two forces that were battling inside of him.

No one knew how Han became like this, but they all knew that the current Han was very deadly!

Kacha~

Unexpectedly, Han whose energy was suddenly strengthened directly pulled out the silver handle that was inserted inside the Star-Strangling Boa.

It turned out to be a blade!

Silver Edge Iron-Tower Blade!

Just at the moment Han pulled out the edge, the Star-Strangling Boa suddenly lost its power and started crumbling. Han felt that he can use this blade to cut it down easily!

Just at that moment, the Star-Strangling Boa's roots and leaves quickly went into that strange blade in Han's hand, as if this Silver Edge Iron-Tower Blade could imprison demons. It captured this monster Star-Strangling Boa.

And a few seconds later, there was not even a trace of the Star-Strangling Boa left! The huge and horrifying plant disappeared out of thin air, leaving only Han and the Silver Edge Iron-Tower Blade! The blade's body emits and devilish silver light, and the blade seemed to be even sharper than before!

But near Han, that black egg was still desperately struggling.

"Do you want to live or die?" Han placed that strange blade above the black egg and shouted, as if he was going to kill the egg and the creature inside.

Aoao~~

Aoao~~

After struggling for a few seconds, the egg stopped howling and started whimpering, as if it had already surrendered and was begging Han to let him go.

Han frowned and thought for a long time.

Finally, he gently flicked his wrist and placed the egg back into the dimensional ring.

"Since he already conceded defeat, I will just spare him." Han thought.

This war could be described as a series of twists and turns. Just when Han was on the verge of death, the dark energy actually completed its integration with the zero-degree brain region, and this fusion brought Han some type of magical power, allowing him to reverse the losing battle and take down both monsters!

Han did not dare to be pleased. He closed his eyes to see his zero-degree brain region.

The zero-degree brain region was a very small point located at the bottom of the brain, and now Han's zero-degree brain region was more than twice as large as before, full of source energy while mingling with the dark forces. He could also sense the power that he absorbed from the black egg and the Star-Strangling Boa.

These four full forces reached an equilibrium inside his brain, slowly flowing like a whirlpool. Han's body didn't feel abnormal, as if his body had already accepted the zero-degree brain region's change.

"Could this be the legendary genetic mutation?" Han thought, "Due to some special reasons, my zero-degree brain region mutated and that's why it could accommodate all these completely different forces?"

Shaking his head, Han picked up his Silver Edge Iron-Tower Blade and observed.

Such unparalleled work was clearly a top-tier product left behind by the prehistoric civilization, and there were words inscribed on the silver handle, "Extinction-Tier Ares-Class, Star-Strangling Boa!"

Ares-Class!!!

Han's whole body was shocked, so this Star-Strangling Boa wasn't some plant, but an Ares-class weapon!

When Han pulled out the blade, he probably triggered certain program, and that raging monster was then received into the blade!

Shaking the weapon a few times, Han still couldn't feel the presence of that huge plant inside the blade, but that large sh*t going into that blade was something he saw with his own eyes. There was not the slightest doubt about it.

"Ares-class! Ares-class! This is an Ares-class weapon!"

Han shouted in excitement, forcefully waving the Silver Edge Iron-Tower Blade upward!

Kacha~

The earth above them immediately shattered, a huge arc of blade light soared into the sky!

The birth of the Ares-class!

Both Heaven and Earth are broken!

The murderous atmosphere spread to all sides!

When Ye Guhong and Fran regained consciousness, Han already stashed away that smile of ecstasy on his face from gaining an Ares-class weapon and went back to his normal.

"Don't move, take these pills, it can help you restore energy." Han handed some black and smelly drugs to them and whispered.

Fran looked around, the Star-Strangling Boa had long been missing, even the reverse energy shields disappeared and he asked in surprise, "What happened? What happened to that monster? Where did it run to?!"

Han obviously wouldn't tell him that the Star-Strangling Boa was actually just the Ares-class weapon in his hand right now, so he told a lie and said that the Star-Strangling Boa had been killed under everyone's cooperation.

"I also participated?" Fran pointed at himself in disbelief and said, "How come I don't remember?"

Ye Guhong also scratched his head and was confused.

"You two are indeed gods of war descended onto earth! The battle above ground with that brutal Star-Strangling Boa was so intense. That's why I had the opportunity to cut off the roots of this monster! Just as I guessed, this monster's weakness was its roots. When the roots were destroyed, it thumped a few times and collapsed, turning into a handful of loess." Han wasn't meritorious and told the other two that he only could kill the Star-Strangling Boa because of them.

"Is that true?" Fran was puzzled and asked.

Han had to do quite a bit of explanation to finally convince them that they contributed a lot in killing the Star-Strangling Boa.

"That's strange, you were underground, how did you know about how we fought?" Ye Guhong wasn't as simple minded as that alien and was still a little skeptical.

So Han just said that Demon Claw told him about the whole battle. Speaking of the Demon Claw, it was really tough like a cockroach. Han thought it already died and was about to bury it, but this thing actually shook off the dirt and stood up again.

Although the Demon Claw walked like it was drunk right now and didn't have any strength, it was still alive. Its vitality was so strong that it left Han puzzled.

Speaking of the death of Mandala, Ye Guhong and Fran were somewhat saddened. Although they were enemies, when Mandala died in battle, he still had a bit of grace of a true warrior and could be considered an enemy worthy of remembering.

When speaking about that pill Han fed to them, Han told them that it came from Mandala's dimension ring, and that almost scared Ye Guhong and Fran to the point where they almost spit it out on the spot.

Han patted his chest and promised, "You guys don't believe in him but at least you believe me right? From the pharmacological point of view, poison and tonics are just a little but different in property."

"Oh right, since we fought a life and death battle together, I won't see you guys as outsiders. The dimension ring left behind by Mandala has a lot of good stuff in it, now it's all mine, you guys wouldn't know much about poison anyways."

Just as Han finished, chaos was heard in the distant. Ye Jincheng, Yuan Yuan, and the Headhunter clan's soldiers all rushed over, shouting their names.

Hahahaha~

Fran laughed loudly, stood up and put his arms around Han's shoulder. He said, "My life was saved by you, the entire Headhunter clan was also saved by you! Not to mention a dimension ring. From now on, everything here at the Headhunter clan is all yours!"

Pa~

Fran also held onto Ye Guhong's shoulder and laughed, "And you! From now on your Ye family and us Headhunter clan are all good brothers!"

Friendship between soldiers often came from battles, and Fran's excitement could be understood. That's how the alien race had always been, when they are being nice to someone, they even want to give away their lives.

Han didn't say anything, and his finger gently touched Lunar Mark.

There was no longer evil a Star-Strangling Boa, and only a generational Ares-class weapon!

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Chapter 175: The Alliance's Resolution and the Power of Ares-Class

The Milky Way Alliance.

The secret meeting of the permanent management member nations' officials had been going on for 4 days.

Because of Han's important report, the schedule that was originally planned to be 3-days had to be extended. However, the focus of what all these political leaders were arguing, was far beyond what Han had expected.

The rotating chairperson of the meeting this time, the prime minister Owen of the Republic of Griffith, frowned and said, "Please be sure to remember that, so far, we have only received the report from Han and haven't received further information from the others, so please be careful when making a decision."

"After all, the strength of our twelve permanent member nations is very strong and significant. If we are to make arrangements for the dark apostles, other Alliance members will notice for sure, likely causing great panic in the galaxy. For the stability of this galaxy, I ask everyone to think carefully before casting your vote."

"We also have the Protector's prophecy, he said before that the prehistoric civilization would return to the Milky Way within 10 years, and the dark apostles are their vanguards. I've read Han's report, it's very objective, and the act of the expedition team sacrificing lives just to report back to the Alliance was especially touching for me."

"If we have the news on the dark apostles but are not going to do anything with it, isn't it a little unfit? Then didn't Ma Jingkong and the others died in vain?" The 5-star general Paz Diais who represented the Qinshang Empire said.

Humph!

Ganges Republic's Prime Minister Mode who had always hated Han said disapprovingly, "Han said the dark apostles would cause chaos, but have you guys heard of anywhere that's in trouble? As for why the dark beasts are more aggressive than before, what's the big deal? The dark beasts are originally aggressive!"

"What I want to say is, the moment we identify dealing with dark apostles and stopping prehistoric civilization's invasion as our goal, that's the same as slapping our own face!"

"How did the Protector get kicked out of the Milky Way in the first place? He was kicked out by us together! And the reason was that the Protector was spreading messages that could cause widespread panic throughout our galaxy!"

"If we completely negate our previous judgement just because of one person's report, then isn't that the same as admitting that the Protector was right and we were wrong? Even if you are shameless, I will still feel the burn on my own face!"

"All in all, in my opinion, this case can be investigated in secret, but it must not be made public! Unless I see dark apostles actually wreaking havoc in the Milky Way, I will not believe Han's bullsh*t! Him alone? A little figure that came from a small country where birds don't even take a sh*t, does he even know what's politics? Does he understand what's the Milky Way Galaxy's politics?!"

Although Mode's words were a bit fierce, he did receive the support of many people on the scene. After all, they were politicians, and their thoughts were significantly different than soldiers like Han.

Han was hot-blooded and full of passion, but these crafty politicians just wanted stability. In their eyes, nothing was more important than the stability of the universe.

In the past, a top figure of this galaxy, the Protector, predicted the destruction of the Milky Way, and what happened? He was driven out of the Galaxy.

Not to mention a small figure like Han. Even though he reported everything that happened in the relic in detail, and even brought out the dead body of the dark apostle.

But even if the politicians believed what Han said, they were still reluctant to do what Han hoped, which was to form a coalition from the powers of the Milky Way to prepare for the final battle a few years down the road, doing that will put the whole galaxy in panic.

The voting ended, 11 to 1, the high-level officials of the permanent member nations overwhelmingly decided to prohibit all dissemination of news related to the dark apostles to maintain the current stability.

Owen nodded, "Since that's the result of the vote, everyone should strictly discipline your men to keep this confidential. Also, Paz Diais, you are Han's direct supervisor, you are responsible for informing him about keeping this confidential. If he goes around and leaks the information, then it counts as a violation of the constitution of the Alliance."

Paz Diais sighed, that one objection vote was casted by him. Unfortunately, the Alliance's decision was not something he could change. Now that the decision was already made, he couldn't do anything about it now.

Thinking for a moment, Paz Diais said, "Han is currently in the turbid star field, I want to inform him to return as soon as possible and personally report on the high-level meeting next month, perhaps we should listen to the words of this sole survivor."

"Okay, if he can get here on time. But you still have to remind him, any news related to the Dark Apostle have now been listed as confidential so he has to keep his mouth shut." Owen nodded and said.

This was politics, the important information that was exchanged with soldiers' blood and lives didn't seem important at all in the eyes of politicians.

Turbid star field, Headhunter Stay System.

The Headhunter clan's grand celebration began, these simple-minded aliens, how could their celebration events lack alcohol and women. The dance was also very lively, but Han already left very early and went to the suburbs by himself testing the Ares-class Star Strangling Boa he had just acquired.

Yuan Yuan said, "Master, when the prehistoric civilization left, they destroyed the majority of the information in their database. I tried and restored some, and about Star Strangling Boa, all I found was that it was a part of the prehistoric civilization's Ares-Extinction Operation."

"During that time the prehistoric civilization seemed to feel some sort of threat and they started testing different Extinction-level Ares-class weapons in multiple labs. But, the prehistoric civilization's requirement for Extinction-level Ares-class weapons were very demanding. It was only qualified if it could reach the extent of one-weapon-one-star."

"One-weapon-one-star?"

"Yes, this is the requirement. One soldier with an Extinction-Level Ares-class weapon must be able to quickly destroy a planet."

"The Ares-Extinction operation started at the same time, Metal Ares-class, Magnetic Ares-class, Lightning Ares-class, different laboratories experimented with different Ares-class projects, and the Star Strangling Boa's base was also one of their laboratories for carrying on Ares-Extinction operation."

"The Star Strangling Boa's codename is Z019, according to the limited information I gathered, the attack stats of Star Strangling Boa reach the requirement, but the only problem was stability. Soldier don't have a way control it, and before it could destroy a planet, the soldier would die first."

"So this laboratory was working on many improvements to this weapon and modified it so that it now has two modes, one is attack mode, and the other one is destruction mode."

"Under attack mode, the Silver Edge Iron-Tower Blade would produce an additional attack called the reflection arc, and the destruction mode will unleash the genetically modified plant that's hidden inside the blade."

Han nodded, when he first tried to wave the Silver Edge Iron-Tower Blade, an arc-shaped attack did come out from the edge of the blade, but he just didn't know really how powerful that additional attack was.

As for the destruction mode Han did not want to try. If he brought out that crazy plant, he will probably be screwed too.

Han waved the Ares-class Silver Edge Iron-Tower Blade upward, making a very standard upward attack.

He saw the blade cutting into the mountain at breakneck speed, and then dispersing upwards in a dazzling arc.

Kacha~

After a large noise, the mountain cracked open! Split down the middle into two!

Han exposed a somewhat surprised look, and felt the weigh of the weapon in his hand.

The effect of using an Ares-class weapon was really extraordinary, one strike was enough to break mountain!

Suppose Han applied the Six Paths of the Void that he was famous for onto the Silver Edge Iron-Tower Blade, the mountain would probably not even exist anymore!

"Ares-class is indeed Ares-class." Han's finger gently brushed on the Silver Edge Iron-Tower Blade's edge as he whispered, "That arc-shaped attack that rushed out of the blade just now, that's the reflection arc? It like unleashing energy, allowing my attack to directly go to a higher level."

Yuan Yuan nodded, "Yep, that's a weapon enhancement technology called the reflection arc, and if Master's level continues to increase, the attack of the reflection arc will continue to become stronger."

Han flashed a smile while storing the Star-Strangling Boa. With this Ares-class weapon, it was finally a worthwhile trip.

Ending the experiment, Han took Yuan Yuan and returned to the city and he saw Ye Jincheng waiting for him at the entrance, saying that Paz Diais was looking for him.

Now Fran already started treating Han and Ye Guhong as brothers, the communication restrictions of the Headhunter star system was lifted long ago for them, and now they could freely contact the outside world.

In the battleship's communication room, Han saw the stern-faced Paz Diais. He seemed to have something on his mind and said to Han, "I have reported what you told me to the seniors at the Alliance, but it's best for you to come back to the Alliance once for the next meeting and personally explain to the officials."

Han slightly frowned and said, "Next meeting? How much time do I still have?"

"3 weeks, will you make it?" Paz Diais asked.

Han thought for a second, if it was before, then he definitely wouldn't be able to return to the Alliance in such a short amount time. After all he was not in the galactic wilderness at the moment, but the turbid star field which was even further.

But now that there's the accurate star maps given by the Ancient Maple leaf family, although 3 weeks was a bit tight but it should be fine.

"Got it, I will set sail right now and return back to the Alliance within the agreed time." Han deepened his voice and said, "Ma Jingkong and the others handed me this responsibility, I have the obligation to completely fulfill their last wishes."

Upon hearing this, Paz Diais bit his lip. Han still didn't know that the Alliance already made up their decision to keep the dark apostle matter confidential, and Paz Diais just hoped that Han could get to the headquarter as soon as possible to try and change the Alliance's resolution.

It's just that Paz Diais was very clear, to rely on Han's one mouth to change the decisions of those politicians, the hope was really slim.

Han had the dark apostle's dead body, and maybe after hearing about Han's thrilling battle experience from his own mouth and then see the body of the dark apostle, the executives of the Alliance might reconsider their decision.

Thought of this, Paz Diais lowered his voice and said, "Well, the safety of the galaxy is at stake, in any case you have to return to the Alliance within 3 weeks of time! During this period, you must not mention anything about the relic and dark apostle to anyone."

"Understand!" Han promised.

Turning around, Han told Ye Jincheng to send him away immediately to converge with his robot fleets, and then set sail back to the Alliance.

"What about the young lady?" Ye Jincheng heard and slightly frowned.

"There's no time, it's more important to return to the Alliance as soon as possible." Han said without hesitation.

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Chapter 176: Back to the Alliance (Part One)

Although Fran strongly preferred Han to stay, Han said goodbye to everyone within an hour, took the Ye Family's warship and left the Headhunter Star System.

Fran shouted, "What's so good about the Alliance? Politicians everywhere, deceiving every day. If you ever get tired of the Alliance, come to my place! The Headhunter Star System will always open its doors to you and welcome you anytime, my brother!"

Han was also quite touched by this. These aliens were all very straight forward, hanging out with them was indeed quite easy. Sing and drink when you're happy, and just fight when you aren't happy, and after the fight everything will be forgotten.

"Alright, if someday I can't dwell in the Milky Way anymore, I will come seek refuge with you!" Han teased back.

Ye Guhong handed a data dish to Han and whispered, "Jincheng already told me why you must see me. Inside the drive is everything I know, originally I wanted to tell you myself and also invite you to come live with us for a while at our base."

"But since you have to leave and still have important things to take care of, I won't keep you. You can see the information yourself."

Han nodded, solemnly took over the disk and asked, "Will the Ye Family continue to move forward?"

"Yes." Ye Guhong deepened his voice and said, "Our vanguard fleet already entered the Gulf Stream Star Field (TL: an area even further than Turbid Star Field) and it will soon enter the even further Silent Star Field. Next time if you want to see Weiwei, I'm afraid that you will have to at least chase us into the Gulf Stream Star Field."

"But although our main fleet will keep on moving forward, we will still leave behind trade fleets wherever we travel. As long as you want to find us, you will always be able to find Weiwei and I."

These words obviously had another layer of meaning and Han picked it up, but he was more concerned about the ideas in Ye Guhong's mind.

Smiling, Han said, "Can you give me a rough idea, just how far will you go before you stop?"

"Stop?" Ye Guhong shook his head and said, "We, the Ye Family, are the oldest expedition family in the Milky Way, we will never stop travelling forward, my grandfather's grandfather even launched a century-long super expedition and travelled to those places no one in the Milky Way had ever heard of, and we aren't nowhere close to that far yet."

With a sudden change in tone, Ye Guhong said seriously, "But all the past expeditions we had, no matter how far we go, we would always return back to the Milky Way. But this time, we are not planning to come back anymore."

"Why?"

"The reason is in the disc I gave you. To be honest, I personally don't like the Alliance. It has been too corrupted, like an old machine. Although it can still barely maintain normal operations, but once the Alliance encounters powerful enemies and needs to fight back, this old machine will collapse." Ye Guhong did not hide his pessimistic view of the future and said with a worried look.

Shua~

Under Ye Jincheng's escort, Han left the Headhunter galaxy and started heading back at the fastest speed. It was very urgent, Han must travel non-stop back in order to be on time for the next regular meeting.

Locking himself inside a room, Han and Yuan Yuan started watching the data disc Ye Guhong gave him together.

Yuan Yuan had a holographic projections device installed on him so he projected the contents inside the data disc onto the wall so Han could watch easily.

The data was a record of Ye Guhong's 8 years long expedition not long ago, and it also included the events after he got back from that voyage when he made the important decision to have the whole family move out of the Milky Way galaxy.

The screen started off with the fleet setting sail from the Milky Way, and since it was an ultra-long distance expedition, Ye Guhong and his men were riding on a specially modified expeditionary cruiser, the Assassin Class.

The Assassin-class expeditionary cruisers emphasized mobility, assuming there were no unexpected risks, it could move at high speeds. At the same time, it was equipped with high-power radar arrays, ultra-long-distance communication relay, and more efficient and more powerful fusion reactors and so on.

This fleet consisted of 7 Assassin-class cruisers, with Ye Guhong on one himself and his men divided onto the remaining 6.

Han surprisingly found out that Ye Guhong went even further than he imagined, and from time to time, his fleet will go through a natural wormhole.

Natural wormholes were a super-space channel between two points, and as the oldest and most powerful explorers, the Ye Family possessed a lot of secret information about wormholes.

The present transition engines, depending on the model, could artificially create wormholes of 10-30 light years in distance, but the diameter of the Milky Way was up to 120,000 light years.

Even the fastest spaceship right now, if it wanted to complete a trip across the Milky Way, still needed 166 days which was more than 5 months.

But with the natural wormholes, there was no distance limit. It might take you and cross only a few light years of distance, but it might also help you directly cross the huge galaxy.

So it is very important to understand the coordinates of these natural wormholes in the universe, and normally if a family learned about the location, they certainly wouldn't share it with the others.

Ye Guhong and that fleet of his also relied on those natural wormholes to reach a distance that was far beyond Han's imagination. That journey that took 8 years, if someone else did it, it might take even more than 30 years.

Suddenly, the screen flashed, and a war-ravaged sky appeared.

In space, numerous warship wreckages were floating around, and all the habitable planets had been turned into ruins. Even the star system that the Ye Family's ancestors once visited had now been completely erased from the universe!

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