Chapter 1 After One Day

A day later, Black Star Army territory, Mechanical Life civilization, Apostle Star.

Han Xiao and Aurora walked into the interstellar research institute and stopped in front of swy-001, looking up at the huge machine.

"Are you sure you want to wake this big guy up today?"

Aurora turned to look at Han Xiao.

"Yeah." Han Xiao nodded.

Aurora was curious: "Why did you suddenly change your mind?"

"I've finished researching it. There's nothing else of value on it. It's time to wake it up and see if we can communicate."

Han Xiao casually made up a reason.

"Alright, whatever makes you happy." Aurora rubbed her hands, eager to try. "Then I'll start now?"

Han Xiao responded, snapped his fingers, and mechanical force flowed out. Mechanical soldiers emerged, raised their weapons and stood ready, while various devices imprisoning swy-001 were also operating at full power.

Seeing this, Aurora turned her palm upward, and clusters of life energy emerged, all pouring into swy-001. In her perception, the nearly dormant life activity of swy-001 began to increase rapidly.

Although Han Xiao didn't have the sensory ability of life energy, he also felt a powerful energy fluctuation was gradually awakening. In his vision, swy-001's cells began to generate mechanical force, and many mechanical modules in the body, which were almost paralyzed, slowly began to operate.

The damaged machine recovered at a speed visible to the naked eye. The mechanical devices Han Xiao used to imprison it showed signs of disintegration, as if they were about to be broken down into raw materials and turned into materials for swy-001 to repair its mechanical structure.

Crack, crack—

A series of dense mechanical noises came from inside swy-001, the core reactor hummed to life, and the vocal cords vibrated to emit a heavy, eerie moan, like the groan of a beast waking up.

Aurora cautiously retreated a distance. Han Xiao took a few steps forward, stood in front of her, and stared closely at the changes in various parameters of the swy-001 machine during the awakening process.

Suddenly, a fierce mechanical force burst out from the machine, instantly flowing through the whole body. swy-001's eyelids twitched, and slowly opened its eyes. There was no expression in its eyes, as if it had been asleep for too long and its consciousness was blurred, recalling its identity.

After stiffening for a long time, it seemed to recalibrate its consciousness and began to move its body. swy-001 looked around the environment blankly, then lowered its head and looked at Han Xiao, who was also exuding great power. It opened its mouth and emitted a deafening sonic wave, containing many strange syllables, as if it were speaking.

"What is he saying?" Aurora didn't understand, and poked Han Xiao's lower back.

"This is the common language of his civilization. He's asking who we are and where this is."

Han Xiao didn't turn his head back and explained casually. He obtained a lot of information from swy-001's memory files, including various languages ​​of the Karma Republic Alliance.

In this regard, Han Xiao was also relieved. Fortunately, swy-001's consciousness had not dissipated, otherwise he would have only gotten a shell. The wake-up service wouldn't be able to continue, and he might only be able to go to the Sanctuary to salvage people.

He was about to speak and communicate with swy-001 when suddenly an unexpected event occurred.

Bang!

A strong mechanical force broke out, and the imprisonment device disintegrated in an instant and was swallowed by swy-001. Then, its body twisted, and the huge machine rushed away like a giant beast, crashing through the walls of the research institute and retreating away. At the same time, broken parts quickly turned into various weapon modules, clinging to the surface of its body, and firing rumblingly at Han Xiao.

Beams of light shot out, but Han Xiao didn't move. The mechanical troops around him spontaneously summoned shields to block the attack.

"Oh, he's running away."

"It's a normal stress response after waking up, and he can't escape anyway."

Han Xiao said casually.

swy-001's last memory was fixed on being defeated by the World Tree civilization. Now it probably hadn't figured out the situation and still thought it had been captured by the World Tree.

Having foreseen this possibility, Han Xiao had already dismantled swy-001's extra weapon modules and summoned the mechanical life civilization's troops to deploy heavy forces around it.

The two flew into the universe along the hole made by swy-001 and saw at a glance that the boundless mechanical civilization's troops surrounded the area. swy-001 was surrounded in the middle, about to break through.

At this moment, dozens of Apostle Weapons suddenly emerged from the troops. Han Xiao's mechanical force crossed a distance and landed on them. This group of Apostle Weapons met swy-001 and fought fiercely, quickly gaining the upper hand.

After fighting with the three major civilizations, Han Xiao had the Dimensional Factory repair the damaged war machines day and night. The Apostle Weapons that had been crippled were given priority for repair, and now the Apostle Weapons had basically recovered.

Han Xiao's muscles bulged, and blood energy spurted out, weaving into strands of flesh and blood. The mechanical soldiers around him surged over, and the advanced form of the Mechanical God immediately descended.

He didn't hold back, and rushed forward, pressing swy-001 and beating it violently, like two mechanical beasts fighting in space.

Han Xiao's various performances occupied the advantage, and swy-001's modules were dismantled into pieces, its state was far from its peak, and it was completely suppressed, with basically no power to fight back.

Compared to the combat power during the battle against the direct descendants of the three major civilizations not long ago, Han Xiao had already settled the challenge mission at that time, receiving 520 billion experience rewards, eight character cards, and drawing six new abilities.

Two were ordinary talents, two were advanced talents, one was a rare skill, and one was a template talent. The template talent came from Ulnaos and was named \[Divinity Enhancement], which enhanced a certain ability intensity and greatly strengthened the bonus effect of each level of divinity transformation. It also strengthened the bonus of faith-based talents, and the \[Mechanical Church Key] was applicable to this.

These missions also brought him three universe legend tags: \[Number One Super-A Grade], \[Creator of the First Record in History], and \[Source of Fear for the Three Major Civilizations].

In addition, he forced back the troops of the three major civilizations and completed Maynard's request mission. He drew one of the other party's abilities. Fording's luck seemed to be concentrated on this one hand. He also obtained one of Old Maynard's exclusive talents, named \[Mechanical Force Mysteries·Maynard], which strengthened the mechanical force itself, greatly increased mechanical affinity and mechanical force intensity, and greatly strengthened mechanical force attributes and increased force limit.

Although the talent was good, he had collected three of Maynard's exclusive talents so far, and he felt that he was becoming more and more like the Mechanical Nation. Maybe one day he would replace this nickname.

These abilities increased the energy level by a total of 2740 Ounass. At his current level, he could still improve such a considerable value at one time, and the bonus to combat power was significant. Compared with the confrontation, his strength was more than a little stronger, and the three major civilizations' wheel battles had turned into nourishment for his growth.

Han Xiao in his peak state, against the incomplete swy-001, the battle was not suspenseful. The best means of persuasion was always fists. After a period of reasoning with force, swy-001 was finally forced to be calm.

While subduing swy-001, Han Xiao sent a private message, explaining the current situation.

"Don't resist, this is not the World Tree civilization. We are another advanced civilization. You fell into our territory through a wormhole and were picked up by me..."

After explaining it again and again, coupled with the deterrent power of his fists, swy-001 finally stopped struggling and began to communicate in disbelief.

In the quantum network vision, the data exchange between the two was completed in the blink of an eye. swy-001 knew that Han Xiao had checked his memory components and also saw some information about the interstellar society, basically believing his words, but then became anxious.

"I can't stay here, my civilization is still waiting for me..."

His data voice was like the sound of countless people overlapping, sounding with a strange ethereal feeling. His memory was still stuck when he was defeated and fell into a coma, and he didn't see the moment when the Karma Republic Alliance was completely destroyed.

Han Xiao shook his head, "I've tested your age. You've been drifting in the universe for a long time. According to our time calendar, that was more than 600 years ago. I'm afraid your civilization has already been destroyed."

swy-001 suddenly stiffened, as if lost in confusion.

To protect the civilization at all costs was the primary logic written into him at the beginning of his birth, and it was also the meaning of his existence in this form.

"I need confirmation," swy-001 responded in a hum.

"If you are willing to provide universe coordinates, we can help you detect...but, we also need your help, equivalent exchange."

"Help?"

"We are also experiencing the same threat. You are the only survivor we know, so we need your assistance... Your civilization was destroyed. If you want revenge, you can't do it alone. We can join forces..."

Han Xiao explained it again.

"...If the situation is true, I promise you."

swy-001 analyzed it for a while and finally nodded. After all, he couldn't beat him, and there wasn't much room for choice.

Moreover, in the pre-set underlying logic, there was a revenge rule - if the civilization was destroyed, he would find a way to avenge the World Tree while preserving himself. If his civilization was really destroyed, he would have nowhere to go, and joining forces with the civilization here to fight against the World Tree would also meet his goals.

"Then I will arrange for you to meet with the rulers of this territory in a while. I need you to convince them of some things and help them recognize the danger of the World Tree civilization."

As he said that, Han Xiao paused and added:

"I gave you a number, but I guess you don't like it. You are an aggregate consciousness. What do you want me to call you?"

"...Just call me Hyperion, it's the name of my Super-A Grade main body."

The communication between the two was very fast and efficient. Hyperion no longer resisted and allowed many Apostle Weapons to take him down. There was still a lot of interstellar society information he needed to understand, but he would not be allowed to freely access the network. Han Xiao had already taken precautions with virtual technology and blocked the networking function.

Seeing this, Han Xiao then released his Mechanical God state and relaxed his body.

"Smoother than I thought...well, I guess the fists still deserve the credit."

If he couldn't control the other party, Hyperion would definitely run away and collect information and look for answers on his own. If it were someone else, it wouldn't be so easy to handle. But with strong combat power, this kind of problem could be solved easily. The means were simple, crude, but effective. If he couldn't beat him, he wouldn't be so easily persuaded.

Han Xiao opened the panel and glanced at it. The \[Distant Visitor] mission showed that it had been completed. The evaluation standard was the degree of machine repair, which reached a very high level. Although a lot of mechanical structure was disassembled, Aurora's healing power effect was amazing, raising the evaluation.

The reward for this mission itself was not high. The most useful thing was just a Hyperion character card. The unknown impact of waking up Hyperion on the situation was the focus of the mission remarks.

While Han Xiao was settling the rewards, Aurora slowly flew to his side, her face full of curiosity. She didn't know the content of Han Xiao's conversation with Hyperion, nor did she know the other party's origin.

"What did you say to him just now? What's going on with this big guy?"

"He's from a lost civilization, a wanderer who has lost his home. The specifics are temporarily confidential. I have other arrangements for him."

"Tch, if you don't want to say it, then don't."

Aurora heard that Han Xiao didn't want her to investigate further, and couldn't help but curl her lips and snorted unhappily.

After a pause, Aurora said again:

"By the way, what should I do with those Netherworld Heroic Spirits that I resurrected? They are still on standby. Should I release their entities?"

"No need to release them. Keep them all as a secret mobile unit. They will always come in handy."

"Is it to guard against the three major civilizations?" Aurora probed. Now the outside world doesn't know what's going on between the association and the three major civilizations.

"There is this factor, but it's not the main point." Han Xiao shook his head, "I've already talked with the leaders of the three major civilizations. If nothing unexpected happens, the two sides should temporarily cease fighting and make peace."

Aurora was surprised, "What agreement did you reach? The three major civilizations are willing to give in!"

"The reason is temporarily confidential and cannot be told to you... But I will explain the specific terms at a routine meeting in a while, and you will know at that time."

...

Time flew by quickly for more than half a month. Under the high attention of the interstellar society, the three major civilizations and the Super-A Grade Association seemed to have really stopped friction, and the two sides kept to themselves.

Just when various speculations were becoming more and more rampant, the three major civilizations, who had been mute for more than half a month, finally issued a joint statement, which suddenly caused an earthquake in the entire interstellar society.

The three major civilizations claimed that when the situation was about to become uncontrollable, they took the initiative to make concessions. On the one hand, they considered the safety of the interstellar society. After much consideration, they finally chose to let the matter rest and avoid the interstellar society from falling into war.

On the other hand, they said that they had reached a consensus with the association and had a reasonable way to deal with the virus technology... As for what the method was, they didn't say a word about the details.

The Super-A Grade Association also gave face and didn't expose the statement of the three major civilizations, saying that this was the case and there were no conspiracy theories.

At least on the surface, the surface reason for the large-scale military operation of the three major civilizations this time was the virtual rebellion virus technology. As long as this problem was "resolved", it was justifiable to withdraw the troops. Even if the statement was ambiguous, it could be used as a reason for confidentiality, and the interstellar citizens couldn't do anything about it.

But what caused an uproar among the interstellar people was the second half of the statement of the three major civilizations, which stated that the blockade ban on the association was suspended and the previous sanctions were lifted!

All the major forces were shocked. It was clear that they were in a Cold War mode not long ago. Now they were turning their heads to reconcile? What happened?!

Did the three major civilizations give up on solving the problem of the imbalance of individual power? What agreement did the two sides reach, or were the three major civilizations so afraid that they didn't dare to take action?

Many people subconsciously associated the scene of Black Star overwhelming all the powerhouses of the three major civilizations alone during the confrontation. Although they knew that the three major civilizations were unlikely to withdraw because of Black Star's individual power, they couldn't stop speculating and fantasizing in this direction... Could it be that the three major civilizations were really afraid?

Watching the three major civilizations and the Super-A Grade Association quickly change from being confrontational to being at peace with each other, countless bystanders felt mixed emotions, and felt a little lost, feeling that their voices were unimportant.

Rulers and powerhouses change the times, whether good or bad, they seem to only have the share of accepting it.

However, although the two sides said that they would cease fighting and make peace, after all, the three major civilizations were aggressive at the beginning. This result undoubtedly made people feel that the Super-A Grade Association had won this struggle.

This was one of the few events in which non-governmental organizations forced the three major civilizations to make concessions. The reputation of the Super-A Grade Association, which had been suppressed, suddenly rebounded. For a time, it became the most popular kid in the interstellar society, and the topic exploded.

The voices scolding the superhuman class had not disappeared, but they were also drowned in the ocean of rainbow farts. Many people were slapped in the face by this result and did not dare to go against the current mainstream opinion, so they all shut up and silently went underwater.

On the other hand, the most confused was the Super Star Cluster Alliance.

They're reconciled? They're not breaking up anymore?

If you don't quarrel, how can we get close to the association!

Are we, this third party, going to be abandoned again?

This kind of feeling of being a spare tire...it's so bitter!