Chapter 1 After the Attack

After being attacked by scavengers, the Short Horn Star made no further stops and headed straight for the Juberly Hub.

Several days later, a steel fortress floating in space appeared outside the porthole. The Juberly Hub's technologically aesthetic design, set against the backdrop of countless distant starlight, exuded an air of grim majesty and mysterious remoteness.

Ships arrived and departed, their exhaust flames leaving colorful trails in space that lingered for a long time. From a distance, thousands of brilliant trajectories surrounded the space station, creating a vibrant and colorful spectacle. Although the vacuum was silent, it inexplicably generated a lively atmosphere, like fireworks blooming in the night sky.

This was the beauty of civilization.

Opening the local communication channel, countless local calls flooded in. Every ship was applying for procedures, with the hub's official dispatch, different languages, voices, and mechanical synthetic sounds mixed together into a unique symphony.

Busy and bustling, a stark contrast to the apparent silence.

The Short Horn Star slowed down, slowly approaching the Juberly Hub.

As they got closer, the space station gradually magnified in the porthole view, soon occupying all the space. Only then could they appreciate how huge this space fortress really was. The Short Horn Star, whose size was comparable to a small city, was like a soybean compared to a watermelon in comparison to the Juberly Hub.

The players who saw it for the first time were filled with astonishment and surprise, an unparalleled sense of shock striking their hearts. Before this space station, everyone deeply felt their own insignificance.

"So... so big!"

"It's like a planet."

"So this is the Sea of Stars."

Excitement quietly arose, followed by smiles on their faces, as if they were intoxicated.

The Sea of Stars was a curiosity deeply buried in the hearts of every star-gazing race, and the players were no exception. Rou Bao recorded all the scenes, unable to stop, wishing he could open a few more cameras.

Han Xiao was used to it, and was quite calm. He touched his chin, his eyes with a thoughtful look.

Entering the Juberly Hub was the first step in officially opening an interstellar journey. The Juberly Hub was a transfer station, as well as a huge exchange place. Many forces had offices here, and it was also a distribution center for intelligence information in the Colton Star Cluster. It could be regarded as a transportation hub city, with a wealth of functions, and even long-term rental and sale of rooms for people to live in.

In Han Xiao's plan, the Juberly Hub was an important place for the first phase of his actions. Many actions had to extend from the Juberly Hub. If he regarded his action plan in the Colton Star Cluster as a spider web, the Juberly Hub was the center of the web.

Han Xiao believed that the most important goal at present was to first make a new breakthrough in strength to ensure his own safety. Level 70 was not enough in the interstellar space. He had 2.7 billion astronomical experience points, and with the foundation, he had to find a channel to transform them into combat power. So, he had to first get the job advancement requirements, namely the secondary class and advanced knowledge.

And at the Juberly Hub, he could buy advanced knowledge at the exchange. The Inal he had saved could come in handy. Han Xiao now had two advanced knowledge skills, and the job advancement requirement was five. Although he didn't know the current market for advanced knowledge, according to Han Xiao's memory, his savings of more than 13,000 were probably not enough to spend. Knowledge was always expensive.

However, compared to Aquamarine Star, the process of obtaining advanced knowledge could be considered dozens of times simpler. As long as you had money, you didn't have to bother to build up faction relationships.

Making money was an important goal, and he had to increase his income.

At this time, the broadcast rang, and the captain's magnetic voice came out.

"We are about to enter Airport 273. Please all passengers go to the bridge area to wait for landing. Thank you for choosing the Short Horn Star travel group. Once again, we apologize for the unexpected accident on this voyage. Thank you for your ride."

The Short Horn Star entered a large bay, the bottom of the ship embedded in the track, stabilized. The metal door of the port opened, and the ship entered along the track. After the port closed, the external space was isolated. From a zero-gravity environment, it entered a gravity environment. The Short Horn Star suddenly sank, and the track fitting made a loud bang. The interior of the ship had a stable gravity internal circulation, but the passengers did not feel anything.

The passengers on the ship went to the bridge area behind the cabin door to wait to disembark and collect their luggage. The players carried Han Xiao's material boxes, large and small, which was very eye-catching. The surrounding passengers knew that Han Xiao had protected the ship and cast kind eyes on them... Well, the premise was that they could distinguish the eye structure of different races to know that the seemingly murderous eyes were a kind expression in some racial standards. Anyway, the players felt uncomfortable, always feeling that they would be pounced on at any time.

"I'm free!" Kerlodd looked excited, opened his arms, as if to embrace the sky.

"Don't get excited, Andy Dufresne, you've been treated well, I haven't abused you." Han Xiao glanced at him, "You also earned 1,500 Inal because of me, I think you should thank me."

"If you return my equipment to me, I would indeed thank you."

"Wow, it's so noisy here, what did you just say?"

Kerlodd was helpless, wanting Han Xiao to spit out what he had eaten, unless the god Gore appeared. He shook his head and became serious.

"I'm going back to report and write a process report. I will carry out my promise and will not pursue you. Even if you doubt my integrity, according to the dangerousness of the Investigator profession, your behavior does not constitute a wanted standard, so you can rest assured that no one will trouble you."

"Sounds good." Han Xiao smiled and put down his gun.

Kerlodd said angrily: "I'm unlucky to meet you."

Han Xiao smiled brightly and was in a good mood, "I am very happy."

The ship shook and stopped. The cabin door slowly opened. Outside was a white platform, as huge as a square, brightly lit, and the dome was hundreds of meters high, magnificent. Such a large port could accommodate the Short Horn Star. At the end of the platform was the access door to enter the space station.

Han Xiao led the players off the ship with the crowd. He glanced at Railton. This guy was walking in a hurry, unwilling to delay for a minute or a second, and quickly led the wanted criminal towards the door, leading the way.

After the attack, Han Xiao and Railton had no second exchange along the way. The relationship stopped at acquaintances, but it was not a big problem.

"If I intervene in the Sunil Clan's plot, there should be a chance to meet again."

Walking through a long and tortuous passage, they finally arrived inside the Juberly Hub. It suddenly became clear. What was in front of them was a huge space. The official name was "Hub Hall", but called a hall, the area was the size of a city, tens of kilometers in size.

At one end of the Hub Hall was a huge curved floor-to-ceiling window that could overlook the outer space. Han Xiao and others came in from the entrance near the floor-to-ceiling window.

The dome of the Hub Hall was extremely high, the top was almost a thousand meters from the ground. In the center was a white tower connecting the dome. With this tower as the center, buildings hundreds of meters high rose from the ground, row upon row, extending out in circles. The buildings had different shapes, each covering a large area, and each floor was a platform, covered with various facilities and places. Bridges connected the buildings for pedestrians to pass through. The countless bridges in the air were high and low, intricate and complex, like a maze. Small public aircraft shuttled between the bridges.

The ground was also covered with low-rise large facilities, such as gymnasiums, theaters, open-air venues, etc., dotted among the buildings. Different races talked to each other, aircraft swept across the sky, extremely lively and noisy. The players felt that their eyes were not enough, this feeling can be described as a riot of colors, the wind blows the grass to see cattle and sheep, the apes on both sides of the strait can't stop crying, and a line of egrets go to the blue sky.

In short, they were so excited that they were incoherent.

"The Hub Hall has many functions and can be divided into more than a dozen areas. There are restaurants with various cultural characteristics, which are some strange foods, shops selling clothes and equipment, and leisure and entertainment venues, such as performance theaters, bars, racing activities, sports, gambling, and places for superhumans to exercise, gravity rooms, combat simulations, meditation rooms, mechanical modification workshops, offices that provide part-time and employment services, such as the authoritative organizations such as the Universe Mercenary Alliance, the Magician's Cooperative, and the consortia and forces that recruit people, the Star Cluster Regional Online Exchange, shipyards for ship repair and manufacturing, etc..." Han Xiao's memory flashed.

Basically, here can temporarily meet all his needs.

The Juberly Hub was also a long-term base in the plan.