Chapter 130 Interesting

A few dozen seconds ago.

Han Xiao was dragged into a deep and mysterious wormhole by the Otherworldly God's Avatar. The moment he entered, countless indescribable twisted scenes assaulted his senses.

Inside the wormhole tunnel, it was more blue than black. After entering, the two were separated by spatial turbulence and could not see each other.

Without the Otherworldly God's Avatar controlling him, the spatial turbulence vortex dragged the two along with the current, turning Han Xiao's senses upside down. Sometimes he felt like he was moving forward, sometimes he felt like he was falling, and occasionally he felt like he was rising, giving him a strange feeling of being flushed down a toilet…

The armor's internal screen showed that the space-time coefficient had become undetectable, and the thrusters had also failed, making it impossible to move. His body was firmly sucked in, and the surrounding scenery changed rapidly, as if many images flashed by, but upon closer inspection, it turned into a chaos. At the end of the wormhole, he could see faint light, as if that was the exit.

At this moment, the cube-shaped mechanical beacon that Han Xiao had placed in the armor's groove began to operate. This was the wormhole probe beacon that Han Xiao had obtained from Herberholar before fighting the Otherworldly God's Avatar.

Herberholar had done a lot of research on wormholes. Because he needed to collect various parameters of wormholes, the observation station's collection troops occasionally needed to get close to the wormholes, and sometimes people would be accidentally sucked in. After experiments, Herberholar researched a device that could rescue people from wormholes. There were two prerequisites: first, they had to carry a wormhole probe beacon with them, and second, the wormhole they entered had been measured and had certain data.

Han Xiao was very clear about the strength of the Otherworldly Gods. Even the Avatar was very powerful. As soon as he saw the enemy, he knew that confronting them head-on was likely not an option. He never became arrogant; he always knew his limits.

So, after hearing about Herberholar's abilities, Han Xiao had a flash of inspiration and decided to use himself as bait to lure the Otherworldly God's Avatar into the wormhole, and then have Herberholar pull him out. The success rate of this method was obviously much higher than simply rushing in.

Although he couldn't necessarily trust Herberholar, he had to take a gamble. The worst-case scenario was nothing more than spending some quality time with the Otherworldly God's Avatar.

As a Mechanic, Han Xiao was well aware that researchers often worked wonders, even more so than Mechanics who specialized in combat.

…

The cause and effect flashed through his mind, and Han Xiao breathed a sigh of relief, understanding the enemy's plan.

The leader of DarkStar wanted to use the wormhole to exile him, and conversely, using this wormhole area as a battlefield could be considered his advantage.

He had actually exiled the Otherworldly God's Avatar!

"Fortunately, I had Herberholar, otherwise this would have been dangerous."

Han Xiao glanced at Herberholar next to him and muttered to himself.

At this moment, the distant, dumbfounded leader of DarkStar came back to his senses. Without saying a word, he turned and fled, his expression a mixture of shock and anger, his face twisted and ferocious.

He had just been immersed in the completion of the mission, fantasizing about the future. However, in less than a minute, the fantasy was ruthlessly shattered by reality. Black Star had actually escaped from the wormhole, but the Otherworldly God's Avatar had not returned, leaving him completely stunned.

The sense of frustration from the failure almost made him lose his mind, but in the next moment, boundless fear overwhelmed this emotion, causing his heart to tremble.

—Without the help of the Otherworldly God's Avatar, Black Star will kill me!

The leader of DarkStar dared not linger at all. He fled in panic, with only one belief left in his heart… I can't die yet, the Mixed-Blood Goth Federation needs me!

However, the dormant mechanical army once again fell into Han Xiao's control, following like a nightmare. Millions of mechanical soldiers were like a tide of steel. In the eyes of the leader of DarkStar, these emotionless mechanical dead objects seemed to have turned into ferocious and evil Pure-Blood Goth Federation people.

With the mechanical army enhanced by Esper Ability, besieging a Calamity Grade who was not good at group battles, there was no suspense in the battle. Han Xiao could easily capture him with just the mechanical army.

Having lost the Otherworldly God's Avatar, the leader of DarkStar no longer had any trump cards. In order not to alert the enemy, he only brought a small fleet with him. The other troops he had obtained from the Fallen Ark were stored in Klent's hands.

Two Oathkeepers escorted the dying leader of DarkStar to Han Xiao. The magic effects of Pain Shackles and other spells had long since been interrupted. Han Xiao was radiant and sized up the leader of DarkStar.

"I thought you had already left the Shattered Star Ring. I didn't expect you to dare to come back. You escaped a few years ago. I finally caught you this time."

Han Xiao tilted his head. The armor on his left shoulder slid open, revealing a ring-shaped device emitting blue light. It vibrated slightly and released a circle of air, like a bubble. The gas did not dissipate, but enveloped the three of them, allowing them to speak directly.

“……”

The leader of DarkStar was silent, his face ashen, and his eyes had lost all their brilliance, leaving only grayness and despair.

Mountain Ape's helmet folded up, retracted into the ring-shaped armor on his neck, revealing Han Xiao's face, and he looked at the leader of DarkStar with interest.

"You can actually summon the Otherworldly God's Avatar. It seems you've gotten involved with the Fallen Ark. It should have been in the past few years of your escape. Let me think… you were able to attack me today, which means you have a very powerful intelligence channel that can lock onto my whereabouts. And this time, I'm operating in secret, without stopping at other planets along the way. This proves that the intelligence channel behind you was already monitoring me before I left Colton, and even knew that I would come to this wormhole observation station. It seems you know me very well…"

Han Xiao scratched his forehead. "Well, the only ones who like to stalk me so much are probably the people from Klent. They're the instigators of this operation, right?"

The leader of DarkStar was still silent, his eyes blank, as if immersed in his own world, as if he didn't hear Han Xiao's words at all.

Han Xiao pushed the leader of DarkStar's head, but the other party didn't react. He didn't even look at him, as if he had no focus, his eyes unmoving.

"Why aren't you talking? Do you think I won't mess with you if you act like an ostrich?"

Hearing this from the side, Herberholar couldn't help but cough and said in a low voice, "Do I need to avoid suspicion?"

"No, you can be a witness for me."

Answering casually, Han Xiao turned back to look at the leader of DarkStar and frowned secretly.

Strange, I just beat him up, I didn't do anything else. Why does it seem like I broke him…

Han Xiao didn't know that the leader of DarkStar had already lost all hope. Falling into the hands of Black Star, he felt that everything was over. He didn't want to say anything and let himself be manipulated.

"No way, you've already collapsed?" Han Xiao stared at the leader of DarkStar's eyes and curled his lips. "Your psychological quality is too poor, isn't it? You're the leader of an interstellar terrorist organization? Even the local leader of a rebel organization in my hometown has more backbone than you. You're so weak."

Han Xiao thought for a while, summoned two Phantoms, nano-transformed them into heavy seals, and locked the leader of DarkStar. Then, he took out a juicer and extracted a dozen tubes of genetic medicine.

When he saw the Supergene Extractor, the leader of DarkStar's eyes finally flickered. "The Secret Words Orb really did fall into your hands."

"Yeah." Han Xiao remembered that the first time he intersected with DarkStar was because of the Secret Words Orb mission. "By the way, where's Ashes?"

"…He's dead." The leader of DarkStar lowered his head.

"Oh, good that he's dead." Han Xiao raised an eyebrow, seemingly confirming that the results of the Card of Fate were correct.

He was not interested in how Ashes died. In fact, when he saw the Otherworldly God's Avatar, he roughly knew what was going on.

Capturing the leader of DarkStar was an unexpected surprise on this trip, and Han Xiao felt that he had gained a lot. Klent was probably the backer behind DarkStar, and they even had a relationship with the Otherworldly Gods, which made him feel that he needed to be more cautious in his actions.

The leader of DarkStar was not only useful for juicing, but he could also hand this war criminal over to the Goth Federation, which should trigger Legend Points and dungeon generation rights, representing the complete destruction of the DarkStar organization.

The Goth Federation would definitely publicize this, which might also help with the [Bloodline] mission.

However, Han Xiao was not satisfied with the benefits of a galactic civilization. With his current level, cluster civilizations were more suitable partners. Since he had discovered the connection between DarkStar and Klent, he felt that he could make a fuss about it. The Purple Crystal Civilization would definitely be willing to publicize this inside story.

The use was also obvious. Klent had a precedent of funding terrorist organizations to disrupt galactic civilizations, which was enough to make the civilizations of the Western Wind, Kaya, and Chaidar star systems raise their guard against Klent. This could indirectly restore the Purple Crystal Civilization's regional control in these three border star systems and reduce the effectiveness of their work in the war domain.

Moreover, the Lord of the Fallen Ark was notorious throughout the universe and was an extremely hated thug of the three great civilizations. Once Klent's relationship with the Otherworldly Gods was exposed, political pressure would come from all directions, and even the Crimson Empire might be dissatisfied with Klent, their newly acquired little brother.

Not to mention the external pressure on Klent, they also had a chance of internal strife—their ally, the Overlord Heber, might not like to share a husband with the Otherworldly Gods.

Of course, it was also possible that he was wrong and Klent was not the mastermind behind DarkStar…

But it didn't matter.

With the leader of DarkStar in hand, if I say you're the mastermind, then you're the mastermind!

Han Xiao was determined to send a welfare package to Klent—another one!

Putting away all the medicine, Han Xiao flipped his palm, and a compressed ball popped out of the armor's pipes. With a little Esper Ability stimulation, the compressed ball unfolded layer by layer, quickly transforming into a single-person aircraft, about ten meters long and very small.

The small standard spacecraft they were originally riding in had been blown up. Although he could leave using Mountain Ape's flight mode, it was inconvenient to carry prisoners, so he had to take out a single-person aircraft to leave the wormhole area first.

"Professor Herberholar, I'll take you to the nearest planet first."

"Alright."

Han Xiao put away the mechanical army, took the two onto the spacecraft, and asked Herberholar to help guard the leader of DarkStar, while he took the driver's seat.

At this moment, Han Xiao seemed to have thought of something and asked.

"By the way, where does the wormhole I just fell into lead to? The Otherworldly God's Avatar didn't escape. Where will he be teleported to?"

Herberholar shook his head. "The other end of that wormhole is not fixed. We measured the data. The other end of this wormhole is changing every moment. I don't know where that guy will fall… But according to the probability, it's more likely that he'll fall into the unexplored universe. After all, that wormhole is very large and the energy fluctuations are very violent."

"Is that so…" Han Xiao touched the back of his head.

The Otherworldly God's Avatar had energy limitations and would dissipate on its own after a while. As long as he didn't fall into a prosperous place, he would be safe.

The spacecraft's tail sprayed a faint blue trail of flames, slowly accelerating, gradually turning into a stream of light, and disappearing into this wormhole area.

…

Unexplored universe, somewhere.

A wormhole rotated quietly. Suddenly, a figure flew out of the wormhole, surrounded by black mist. It was the Otherworldly God's Avatar.

Steadying himself, the Otherworldly God's Avatar guarded the entrance of the wormhole, waiting for a long time, but didn't see his little partner Black Star come to meet him.

The red light spot on the Otherworldly God's Avatar's face shone brightly, vaguely emitting the resentment of being ditched.

There was a psychic connection between the Avatar and the main body. The main body could see the actions of the Avatar. It could control the Avatar or be a bystander. The Otherworldly God had always liked to be a bystander, letting the Avatar play on its own and watching the Avatar make its own choices. To him, it was like watching a first-person movie.

Because he had this ability, he liked to play in wormholes, leaving the Avatar's fate to destiny.

This time, when attacking Black Star, the Otherworldly God's main body was still watching, letting the Avatar play on its own. He wasn't really concerned about Klent's request. Seeing that Black Star didn't seem to have fallen for it, the Otherworldly God was a little curious. He remembered this person and then threw the mission to the back of his mind, seeing where the wormhole had thrown the Avatar this time.

The Otherworldly God's Avatar looked around and randomly chose a direction, beginning to teleport continuously over long distances.

Teleportation consumed very little energy, but it lasted for a long time. The energy in the Avatar's body was greatly depleted, and the red light spot became dim. At this time, the Otherworldly God's Avatar saw a planet.

A strange planet.

Looking from afar, the planet's surface was a vibrant green, full of life, as if there were no traces of artificial modification, but the Otherworldly God's Avatar's detection ability sensed countless highly intelligent lifeforms living on the surface.

The most special thing was that the planet's surface was covered with thick vines and roots that extended outwards into the atmosphere and into outer space. The ends of these roots were connected to stable wormholes.

The Otherworldly God's Avatar stared intently and suddenly realized that he seemed to have seen it backwards.

It wasn't that the planet had grown towering roots, but that these roots extended from the wormholes in the planet's outer space and connected to the planet's surface, meaning that these roots didn't grow from the ground, but from the wormholes. The surface was the end of these roots.

Various colors of light were born from the ends of the roots on the surface and poured into the wormholes along the roots, as if these roots were nutrient pipes, absorbing the planet's energy.

Seeing this scene through the Avatar, in the distant Fallen Ark's palace, the hooded Otherworldly God's main body on the throne opened his eyes.

"Interesting."