San Tian Liang Jue
Chapter 1162 A Functional Team
“Because your helmet and bodysuit don’t look like the kind of thing that comes with high-tech or high-magic enhancements, and you’re not wearing any rings, belts, or capes that might have special functions. So, I guessed you were a hero who relies entirely on ‘natural abilities’ to fight,” Feng Bujue replied. “And usually, that type of hero falls into two categories: ‘enhanced physical abilities’ and ‘superpowers.’ Although I can’t be sure which one you are, analyzing your outfit… the former seems more likely.”
“Oh?” Green Meteor asked with interest, “And why is that?”
“Because heroes who use superpowers usually have costumes that are somewhat related to their abilities,” Feng Bujue said. “For example… the guy who shoots rays of light from his glasses would wear special glasses; the guy who can extend steel claws from between his fingers should wear gloves with holes in them.” As he spoke, he raised his head and gestured at the other man with his chin, “But look at your bodysuit. Besides being sturdy and durable, it doesn't have any obvious functional designs that suggest you can unleash superpowers. That makes it very likely that you’re a hero with enhanced physical abilities.”
“Oh… I see,” Green Meteor nodded. “Alright, you guessed right.” He admitted, “That’s right, my ability is ‘super speed’ in terms of physical attributes. My hero name is… ‘Green Meteor.’”
“Nice to meet you…” Feng Bujue said casually, then turned to the Banana Fiend and asked, “By the way, Banana Fiend, I still don’t know what your abilities are.”
“Heh…” The Banana Fiend loved to use his wise voice to make that unfathomable laughter, but what he actually said wasn’t anything special, “I guess my ability could be considered ‘super intelligence.’” As he spoke, he revealed a helpless expression. “Of course, this so-called ‘intelligence’ is relative… considering most ‘Kongqiu Star People’ can’t even speak properly and spend all day hugging tires and eating bananas like idiots; and the rest are basically NEETs who spend all day at home, fantasizing about turning into bread… in this kind of environment, a Kongqiu Star Person with my level of brainpower is undoubtedly a gorilla among monkeys.”
“Hmm…” Feng Bujue instinctively gave a deadpan look when he heard this setting. “But… you shouldn’t be purely a ‘super intelligence’ hero, right? I don’t think it’s appropriate to send a hero who relies purely on brainpower on field missions.”
“Ha! You don’t have to worry about that,” the Banana Fiend laughed. “The gravity on our Kongqiu Star’s homeworld is 17.5 times bungy, so to put it simply… we’re naturally a species with simple minds and well-developed limbs.” Saying this, he raised his hand and patted the armor on his body. “Plus… this mechanical battle armor, which I personally designed and manufactured, can further enhance my strength in battle.”
“I was just about to complain…” Feng Bujue interjected at this point. “So you guys also have this kind of seemingly normal-looking enhancement armor?” He mused thoughtfully, “I thought everyone was going the route of the Tin Foil Paper Hero…”
“Heh…” the Banana Fiend laughed again. “Unlike the Tin Foil Paper Hero, who pursues a lightweight weapon system, my set goes the ‘hard tech’ route.” As he said this, a hint of barely concealed pride was revealed between his eyebrows (don’t ask me how I interpreted the expression on a gorilla’s face). “From a technical point of view, his tin foil armor is indeed a little bit more technologically advanced than mine, but in terms of mass production, controllability, and practical combat ability… heh… in short, the technology I developed has been widely used in the armaments of many city-level heroes, which says a lot.”
“Oh? Really? So you’re also a scientist,” Feng Bujue raised an eyebrow. “Then if it’s convenient… how about you give me a few pieces of equipment you invented to play around with, and let this country bumpkin get a feel for the new technology?”
“Haha… Poker Hero, you’re too kind,” the Banana Fiend laughed even more happily when he was complimented by Jue-ge. “You’re already a planetary-level hero, do you still need those things?”
“He’s not planetary-level, he’s galaxy-level.”
In that very second, the spaceship pilot's sharp voice rang out again over the broadcast, stating “Poker Hero’s” exact level.
“What?” Green Meteor was shocked at that moment.
“Huh?” The Banana Fiend also widened his eyes and opened his mouth slightly, his overall expression looking extremely comical.
“Galaxy-level?” Even the Horse Head Brother was slightly less surprised.
“Ah, yes, that’s the current level, I suppose,” Feng Bujue was naturally still calm. Listening to his tone, it seemed like he still had a lot of room for improvement…
“Poker Hero, that’s not very fair of you,” Green Meteor came back to his senses after a few seconds and said, “Why didn’t you say earlier that you were galaxy-level?”
The Banana Fiend also chimed in, “That’s right, according to the rankings, you should have been the leader of this mission from the start.”
“I wasn’t deliberately hiding it,” Feng Bujue pouted. “It’s just that you guys never asked.”
Everyone looked at each other when they heard this… Indeed, Jue-ge had never said what his level was; it was just that the mission required the participation of “five or more planetary-level heroes,” and Feng Bujue happened to be an unfamiliar “newbie,” so the three of them had naturally assumed that he was a planetary-level hero like themselves.
After all… the number of “galaxy-level” heroes wasn’t that high, and almost every one of them was a well-known figure in the Universe Super League; if Jue-ge had been directly recognized as “galaxy-level” through the hero level test, the news would have spread relatively quickly. But… Jue-ge had taken the “black box operation” route, so there weren’t many people in the Universe Super League who knew about this “galaxy-level newbie.”
“Heh… now that you mention it, it seems we were just talking amongst ourselves…” the Banana Fiend replied with a smile, but at this moment, his smile had a bit of awkwardness to it.
“Ah… don’t worry about that kind of thing,” Feng Bujue’s attitude hadn’t changed from beginning to end, but hearing it now… his attitude was no longer “arrogant,” but rather “normal.” “Let’s continue playing the guessing game.”
“Is that… still necessary?” the Horse Head Brother questioned. “According to the regulations of the Universe Super League, the operation should be the responsibility of the higher-level hero unless there is a special reason.”
“That’s easy… if I can’t guess correctly, then just consider it my ‘delegation’ to you guys,” Feng Bujue shrugged. “As for the reason… ‘I’m a newbie and don’t have experience in commanding operations’… that’s enough, right?”
“Hmph…” This was the first time the Horse Head Brother had shown a smile (don’t ask me how a horse smiles). “Alright, let’s continue then… four chances, as long as you guess my hero name or ability, that counts as guessing more than half correctly—you win.”
“Hmm…” Feng Bujue pondered for a few seconds, looked the other man up and down, and replied, “Sheriff Horse?”
The Horse Head Brother shook his head.
“Superhorse?”
“Not even close,” the Horse Head Brother denied.
“Okay, okay…” Feng Bujue continued to guess, “Is your ability… running very fast?”
“That depends on who you’re comparing me to,” the Horse Head Brother glanced at Green Meteor and the Banana Fiend as he answered this question. “If you follow the principle of ‘horizontal comparison within the same race,’ then my speed can’t be considered a ‘superpower,’ at most it’s ‘top athlete level’; but if you have me race with races born in environments below five times bungy, then I’m definitely unbelievably fast.”
“Understood,” Feng Bujue nodded. “In other words, I guessed wrong.”
“You have one more chance,” the Horse Head Brother replied.
“Then…” Jue-ge observed for a while longer, then said, “Is your marksmanship particularly accurate?”
After he said this, the Horse Head Brother hesitated for a moment, then replied, “You could say that… that’s not wrong.”
Feng Bujue saw that the other man’s expression was a bit troubled, so he said, “Why don’t you tell me the answer, and then we’ll determine whether I guessed correctly or not.”
The Horse Head Brother replied, “My name is Serra Jiong, and my ability is to turn into a gun.”
When he heard this answer, what Feng Bujue thought was—“Why aren’t you called Megatron? Also… why does the name Serra Jiong sound a bit familiar?”
In that instant, Jue-ge immediately rummaged through the attic of his memory, and as a result, he found another similar name—Serra Jiong (don’t ask me how Jue-ge could distinguish between Jiong and Jiong based on pronunciation alone).
In fact, this name should be considered a product of a translation accident, but many similar mistakes have become a characteristic after the passage of time.
The character Serra Jiong… is a horse, a horse that can transform into a human; at the same time, it is also a gun, or rather… a small cannon called a gun.
In short, it is the mount, weapon, and partner of the famous Bravestarr, a wise, brave, just, and selfless sheriff living on the planet Dextsas (what? you’ve never heard of Dextsas? Never mind, I’d never heard of Kongqiu Star before today either)…
We won’t talk about its story with the sheriff for now, although those stories are very educational and filled with homoeroticism, but there’s no time to explain now, everyone get in the car… oh no… get on the horse quickly.
Let’s still talk about the “Serra Jiong” in front of us.
In fact, this Serra Jiong is a direct descendant of Serra Jiong, but he has never stayed on Dextsas, but has been drifting in interstellar space since he was a child. After the age of fifteen, he settled on a planet very similar to Dextsas—"Arizona Star", and became a sheriff.
Many years later, due to Serra Jiong’s outstanding performance, the bad guys on Arizona Star were all brought to justice and transformed into consumable ammunition.
Based on this great achievement, Serra Jiong was awarded the title of "Sheriff for Life" by the local government, and then… he was swept out of the star…
In short, after that, he came to the Universe Super League to work hard, and after many years, he became a planetary-level hero. Because he had always been active under his real name when he was a sheriff, his hero name also directly used “Serra Jiong”.
“Uh…” After thinking for a full half minute, Feng Bujue finally opened his mouth and said, “I think… I should have guessed wrong.” He pointed to the gun holster on Serra Jiong’s waist. “I guessed that your marksmanship was accurate because I saw this holster, but I don’t think that has anything to do with your real ‘special ability.’” He spread his hands. “Alright, I’ll admit defeat. The leader of this operation should still be chosen from among you.”
“Then there’s no need to choose.” In that second, that sharp voice rang out again in the broadcast. “Before you got on the ship, I was the only choice for captain.”
“Hmm?” Feng Bujue had wanted to ask for a long time. “May I ask…” He knew that the other party could hear his voice, so he raised his head and said, “…Who is this hero?”
“I’m Flea-Man.” This mysterious pilot finally announced his hero name.
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Twenty minutes later, the Huarongdao successfully arrived at its destination—Park Star.
Although the name "Park Star" sounds like a relaxing place, in reality… it is a well-known "dangerous place" in the universe.
Although Park Star is smaller than Earth in volume, its gravity is five times that of Earth.
Park Star itself has no original inhabitants, it is a purely colonized star.
Here, there are colonists from several star systems and dozens of planets nearby. According to interstellar law… they can indeed colonize planets with no intelligent life, and they have equal rights to develop and use the planet.
However, due to the different living habits, cultures, and hobbies of these aliens, many irreconcilable contradictions have gradually appeared when sharing this planet.
To be honest… if these guys really broke out into “war,” that would be easy, and the Interstellar Alliance could deal with them according to the laws and regulations related to war.
Unfortunately… what happened on this planet has nothing to do with the government—it’s all civil conflict.
General civil conflicts are not a big deal, but the races involved in the conflicts are all species with strong combat power, mainly the "Brat Star People", "Square Dance Star People" and "Beggar Star People," and there are also dozens of species from other star systems joining in the fun here.
It can be said… this mission is very difficult.
This can also be seen from the lineup sent by the Universe Super League this time… “Five planetary-level and above” is just the basic requirement, the key is—these five are all the “very capable” type.
And the mastermind behind this lineup… is the Toad-Man.