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This was special technology possessed by the Evolutionary Civilization that had been lost for a long time. EsGod, who possessed information of this civilization, was the only one that could build this device!
Without this device, stealing the Evolution Cube would be an almost impossible mission.
Colin raised up the silver cube and activated it.
Ding!
The silver cube suddenly emitted a gentle light.
The enormous Evolution Cube seemed to have sensed something. It suddenly shook, and the next moment, a black beam suddenly shot out from the side that was facing them, like it was a pipe.
The Evolution Cube started to turn itself into pure energy. Through this pipe, it slowly ‘squeezed’ itself into the silver cube, as if it had finally found a home.
The Evolution Cube in the outside world started to shrink. It was as if the silver cube was slowly drinking the Evolution Cube from a straw.
Seeing that the device worked, Colin felt relieved. “The process should take a few minutes. We have more than enough time.”
As soon as his sentence ended, a ton of pale white light clusters appeared in their peripheral vision and quickly headed toward them. If not because they were all Supers, they would not have even noticed these inconspicuous ligM among all this blinding light.
“What are those?” Colin’s expression changed drastically, and he was instantly alarmed.
“As expected,” the EsGod doppelganger said, “Psyker has a backup plan. These clusters are all his psychic energy. Every one of them is equivalent to one Beyond Grade A psychic attack. This is to protect the Evolution Cube and will attack all intruders. You guys focus on the Evolution Cube; I will stop these things!”
Every one of these psychic energy clusters had strength equal to the one-time psychic weapon that had been used on Han Xiao. At this moment, more and more energy clusters appeared continuously and swamped toward them.
The EsGod doppelganger opened an invisible psychic shield that shrouded everyone.
Boom boom boom!
The psychic energy clusters landed on the shield one after another like pouring rain landing on a lake, causing countless ripples on the surface of the psychic shield.
The EsGod doppelganger’s red dot core dimmed at a visible rate. His energy was being consumed extremely quickly while enduring so many Beyond Grade A psychic attacks.
“Quickly…quickly…”
Everyone was anxious as they stared at the silver cube slowly absorbing the Evolution Cube.
They knew that once the EsGod doppelganger was destroyed, they would certainly die.
Seconds felt like years while they waited. Fortunately, although the Evolution Cube’s physical state was weird. It was still a whole object. When the silver cube absorbed a large enough portion of the Evolution Cube, it started absorbing the rest at a much quicker rate.
Finally, the last bit of the Evolution Cube turned into energy and entered the silver cube. The absorption was complete, and the cube turned from silver to black.
This was the Evolution Cube in its complete form!
“It’s done!” Colin hastily shouted.
“Go!” The EsGod doppelganger could not hold on anymore. Using the last bits of his energy, he sent everyone else back to the spaceship and immediately cut off the teleportation gate.
The next moment, this doppelganger could no longer maintain the shield and was devoured by the energy clusters, disappearing instantly.
Nonetheless, he had completed his mission of protecting his subordinates till they stole the Evolution Cube.
Doppelgangers had limited energy. Only those subordinates of his could cross the desolate universe belt and take the item back to the Fallen Ark. EsGod’s original did not dare leave the Central Galaxy casually. The three Universal Civilizations had their eyes on him at all times. If his original made a move, he would not have been able to hide this mission, and things would have been much more difficult.
With a flash before their eyes, Colin and the others were teleported back to the spaceships. Before they could speak, their attention was attracted by the loud alarm inside the spaceship.
“Sh*t, our spaceships have been discovered. The Star Pupil Holy Race has sent a fleet to attack us!”
The expression on their faces became worse instantly.
Three ‘Light Fox’ spaceships were surrounded by a large number of Star Pupil Holy Race battleships. Their shields were swamped with attacks.
When they were stealing the Evolution Cube, Psyker had sensed it. He had quickly ordered the military stationed on his mother planet to do a thorough search of the universe space around. When the EsGod doppelganger was eliminated, the three spaceships lost their stealth barrier and were finally discovered by the Star Pupil Holy Race. They were instantly besieged by the fleet.
“Quickly, leave!”
Colin had no time to observe the Evolution Cube and quickly piloted the spaceship to dodge the attacks.
The three spaceships parted ways, and one spaceship was soon destroyed.
Relying on the spaceships’ powerful engines, the two remaining spaceships entered high-speed hyperdrive and escaped. The armor of the spaceships was covered in damages.
Colin gasped for air. When they entered hyperdrive, his tense body finally relaxed.
“We escaped. With our speed, the enemies won’t be able to catch up,” Colin said with a low voice. “Activate spaceship diagnostics, calculate damages.”
The artificial intelligence of the spaceship replied with stutter, “Tsss… self-diagnosing… Ship body damage at sixty- three percent. Shield generator close to broken. Energy furnace damaged moderately. Power output decreased by forty-two percent… Tsss… Thruster damage at thirty-eight percent. Engines No.4 and No.6 are close to broken. Selfrepair device malfunctioning… Immediate repair of the spaceship is suggested. With the current state of the spaceship, it can’t stay in hyperdrive much longer.”
Orozen grinned and said, “Stealing something from a Beyond Grade A was so exciting.”
“No matter what, we have what we came for.” Colin glanced at the Evolution Cube that was now palm sized. “The spaceship can’t travel across Star Fields in its current state. We just have to find a safe place to repair the spaceship, and we will be able to return.”
“Hmm, I know a planet that can repair spaceships and is not controlled by any civilization,” Orozen said. “It’s very safe and is located at the edge of the Shattered Star Ring. We just have to fix our spaceship there, then we can leave this Star Field. I escaped from the Shattered Star Ring from there sixty years ago.”
Hearing the name of that planet, Colin checked the star map and nodded.
“Okay. It’s very far from the Star Pupil Holy Race. We can use our speed to earn enough buffer time for us to repair the spaceships.”
They would only dare travel across Star Fields after they fixed their spaceships. Otherwise, if the spaceships malfunctioned in the middle of a desolate universe belt, they could be stuck there forever.
The ‘Light Fox’ spaceships immediately changed direction, turned into a stream of light, and disappeared.
On Planet Avitan, the last EsGod doppelganger was destroyed, turning into a cluster of black fog and dissipated.
Psyker patted away the dust on his clothes and looked up at the sky with a grave expression.
The Evolution Cube has really been stolen. I didn’t expect EsGod to have the detailed information on the Evolution Cube. This was a miscalculation…”
Three EsGod doppelgangers were equivalent to three Beyond Grade As. They were working together while he was alone, so EsGod succeeding was not completely illogical. Psyker felt resigned.
This was also why EsGod was very difficult to deal with.
However, Psyker was still calm and did not panic. He narrowed his eyes and murmured, “You did succeed, but don’t ever think you’ll take the Evolution Cube away from me this easily.”
Although Psyker did no
t have the instruction manual of the Evolution Cube, after having the Evolution Cube for so long, he had gained some knowledge of it. Like how Austin owned the Palace of Hidden Spells, after Psyker had the Evolution Cube in his hands for so many years, he had almost made the Evolution Cube his own treasure.
He had built a spiritual connection with the Evolution Cube. Even if the Evolution Cube was not beside him, he could still remotely use the Evolution Cube to improve his psychic abilities.
At the same time, he had left a mark on the Evolution Cube. No matter where it was, he could sense the location of the Evolution Cube.
He could sense the coordinates of the Evolution Cube moving extremely quickly, marking where Colin and the rest were.
Fleeing right after you stole from me?
It won’t be so easy!
Psyker pressed a finger on his forehead and communicated with his subordinates through his psychic abilities. “Prepare the fastest spaceship for me. I’m going after those thieves!”
Chapter 750. Unexpected Invitation |
Planet Macipher, the Cornerstone Summit Corporation.
Han Xiao had been working here for more than twenty days. His name had already spread widely among the Senior Engineers. The entire corporation knew that a highly skilled Mechanic had joined them and that he had completed more than ten times the workload of a normal Senior Engineer in less than a month.
As the boss behind them had already spoken, the upper echelons of the corporation did not worry about the confidentiality of the blueprint anymore and daringly used Barne. They gave him extra quotas to hit, which led to Han Xiao getting more and more parts of the Eternal Light blueprint.
The [Engineer] mission was already completed, and he had obtained the [Proficient Technician] talent. Its effect was a slight increase in the attributes of the machinery he built of eight to fourteen percent, twenty-two percent quicker building speed, and six percent reduced cost. This scaled well given how much machinery he would be building, so it was quite a good talent.
As Han Xiao obtained the talent, he had only had one goal left in the Cornerstone Summit Corporation—to steal… no, learn the blueprint of Eternal Light.
Due to how many responsibilities were given to him, Han Xiao learned quite a lot of the blueprints. As for the blueprints given to the other Senior Engineers, he used Virtual Technology to hack into the artificial intelligence assistants of those Grade B Mechanics and monitored them in various ways. When the Senior Engineers looked at their blueprints, Phillip would then capture the image and duplicate the blueprint.
As for some blueprints that he was unable to see with this method, Han Xiao just visited those Senior Engineers with various excuses. All he had to do was look at the blueprint for a short while, and he would be able to obtain the blueprint through the interface.
Sadly, after a past Race Evolution, he had lost the Observer’s Mark ability, otherwise secretly learning the blueprint would be much easier.
In more than half a month, Han Xiao was able to obtain the majority of the Eternal Light’s blueprint. All that was left were the core blueprints. These were all tightly stored by the core engineers of the corporation, and Han Xiao had no chance to see them. He had been pondering how to obtain these blueprints for quite some time.
During this time, as players were learning more Knowledges from the faction store, his Experience increased once again.
Inside the workshop, Han Xiao was doing his job while looking at the Experience he had on his interface, calculating.
With the current amount of Experience I have, I should be able to reach about level 238 or 239. I’m just one step away from Lv240, which will be filled up in three or four more days…
Han Xiao was secretly excited. Beyond Grade As were on a completely different level to Calamity Grades. They were important people throughout the entire Galaxy, and even Universal Civilizations had to take them seriously.
Once he succeeded, he would get a seat on the highest table of the Star Field, and the Black Star Army would become a real Beyond Grade A organization.
After looking forward to it for a while, Han Xiao looked at the time. It was time for his lunch break. He stopped working, retracted all the building assistants, and planned to go for lunch.
As soon as he walked out of the workshop, Han Xiao noticed that Luke was standing outside the door.
“Bame, I was looking for you.”
“What is it? You want to have lunch with me?” Han Xiao stopped and looked at this old gentleman curiously.
Luke smiled and shook his head. “I’d be glad to do so, but this is not why I’ve come. The real owner of the corporation wants to see you.”
The real owner? Han Xiao raised his brows. “Sure, lead the way then.”
Luke gestured for Han Xiao to follow him and led him to the core area of the corporation.
After walking for more than ten minutes, the two of them arrived at the top floor of a tall building and entered a wide office.
In the room, a person sat in a chair with the chair’s back facing the door. Han Xiao could only see the back of his head. Luke stepped back and closed the door, leaving Han Xiao and this so-called ‘real owner of the corporation’ in the room. This time, this person spoke with his back still facing Han Xiao.
“Bame, this isn’t your real name, right?”
Then, this person turned around to face Han Xiao.
Seeing his appearance, Han Xiao was stunned for a moment before understanding.
It was Sardeem. Of course, that made sense. As the owner of Planet Macipher, Sardeem controlled many of its industries. The Cornerstone Summit Corporation belonging to him was not much of a surprise.
In his previous life, the players only knew that a talent would be rewarded if they worked in the Cornerstone Summit Corporation, and any Mechanics could do this mission. However, with the strength of the players at that stage, they did not come into contact with the corporation’s core. In the players’ eyes, the Cornerstone Summit Corporation was just a small unimportant side mission. Therefore, the players did not know that the owner of this shipyard turned out to be Sardeem. Nonetheless, this was not difficult to guess.
This means that the Eternal Light blueprint belongs to Sardeem… Why did he suddenly call me here? Did he find out who I am?
Han Xiao’s mind was racing.
Of course, he was not afraid at all. Although Sardeem was a Grade A+ Mechanic as well, he would be no match for him. However, he just wanted to secretly learn the Eternal Light blueprint. If his identity was exposed, he would have no choice but to snatch it… Still, Han Xiao did not like making enemies.
Seeing that Han Xiao did not speak, Sardeem gave a knowing smile.
“I’ve been observing you for quite some time. You’ve actually been hiding your strength. You’re not a Grade B+ Mechanic but a Calamity Grade Mechanic, am I right?”
Without waiting for Han Xiao to reply, Sardeem sized Han Xiao up and continued.
“A Calamity Grade willing to work in my company as a normal engineer makes me doubt your true intentions. Through my observations, you seem to be interested in the Eternal Light blueprint, right?”
After hearing what Sardeem said, Han Xiao felt relieved instead.
Whew, luckily, this guy only noticed that I’m Grade A and did not find out my real identity. He just thinks I’m a normal Calamity Grade Mechanic.
Seeing how confident Sardeem looked, Han Xiao could guess that Sardeem was certain that he had the upper hand.
Indeed, Sardeem was Grade A+ and had the entire planet as his base. This was his territory, so normal Calamity Grades were indeed no match for him in this situation.
Figuring out Sardeem’s confidence, Han Xiao calmed down. Without correcting Sardeem’s misunderstanding, he acted alert as if he really was a normal Calamity Grade.
“What do you want?”
Seeing this, Sardeem smiled with satisfaction. ‘Barne’ becoming nervous was exactly what he wanted to see.
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nbsp; “I don’t know where you got the information about Eternal Light from, nor do I know which organization you belong to. But don’t worry, I did not call you here today to hold you accountable. Instead, I’m giving you an invitation.”
“Invitation?” Han Xiao raised his brow.
Sardeem stood up, smiled, and said, “Become my subordinate. I can guarantee that this will be the wisest decision you ever make.”
“You’re recruiting me?” Han Xiao said with a strange tone.
Isn’t that too careless? You don’t even know my identity.
Is this because you’re absolutely confident I won’t be a problem for you?
Pal, that’s a little arrogant of you. Even someone as outstanding as me is not this arrogant!
“I have a lot of companies and a lot of troops, but I’m short of a capable assistant. You have the ability to be one. Us together will be an amazing combo,” Sardeem said in a calm tone.
Han Xiao shook his head with resignation. “I’m not inter…”
This time, Sardeem shook his hand and interrupted Han Xiao. “If you’re willing to become my subordinate, not just Eternal Light, I can let you learn all the blueprints I know.”
“Hmm, I will have to consider…” Han Xiao immediately changed what he was about to say. As the leader of a faction, of course, he was not going to be a subordinate of a Calamity Grade. However, scamming some blueprints from him seemed to be quite tempting.
After all, whatever Barne does has nothing to do with Black Star… ahem.
Han Xiao suddenly asked, “Are you forcing me? If I don’t join you, will you use force on me?”
Sardeem shook his head and laughed.
“Don’t worry, I don’t like making enemies. If I was hostile toward everyone like you that visited Planet Macipher, I wouldn’t have been able to last till now. You can reject me, and I won’t chase you away. I won’t even force you to reveal your true identity. You can still stay in the Cornerstone Summit Corporation as ‘Bame’. I have no need to reject a Grade A Mechanic from working in my company. However, I will always keep an eye on you, and I won’t let you take part in any important projects.”
