Chapter 147 Love Story

Inside the vehicle, Han Xiao, with a cigarette between his lips, was repairing his mechanical suit. He also opened the player forum, where the Germination player he had just eliminated had posted a thread.

"Mission objective spotted! Han Xiao's coordinates are..."

"Germination has released a new tracking mission. Looking for a team, missing two. Location: Ossenburg Outpost. Departing in twenty minutes."

Seeing this, Han Xiao chuckled.

Germination players were also participating in the tracking, because the mission only required them to discover his whereabouts, so it wouldn't lower their favorability, allowing the players to accept the mission without worry.

As the saying goes, hitting is affection, scolding is love, and loving someone deeply means kicking them. Although Han Xiao hadn't given Germination players any benefits yet, the players in the other three continents served as examples, and the Germination players still loved him…

Since Han Xiao's identity was exposed, the players had been very enthusiastic towards him, participating very actively in missions related to Han Xiao... but they didn't have much of a choice. Germination's current strategic focus was completely on him, and almost all missions revolved around chasing and killing Han Xiao.

Logically speaking, players who could revive should cause a lot of trouble as enemies, but Han Xiao was actually glad that players were participating in the pursuit.

In addition to tracking, Germination also estimated his location based on the tire tracks and set up ambushes in advance, but Han Xiao always broke through a weak point in the defense before the encirclement was complete, and this was not a coincidence.

The posts shared by Germination players on the forum were his source of information!

The players couldn't possibly know that an "NPC" could see their forum, and the Germination organization didn't know the existence of the player forum, so Han Xiao was in the middle ground.

He pieced together information about Germination's troop movements from the forum, thereby seeing through Germination's deployments, while Germination had no idea where the information was leaking from!

Germination had no idea that they were being tricked by their own "espers," and the leader was now convinced that Han Xiao had "precognitive" abilities…

Han Xiao wasn't worried that the Germination players wouldn't post. Recently, his popularity was extremely high, almost dominating the Sea Blue Star section of the forum. The players showed great enthusiasm for him.

His true face, compared to his original middle-aged, salted fish uncle face, was like the difference between heaven and hell. Han Xiao successfully reaped the first wave of fangirls. Underneath the hot posts revealing his identity, there was a pile of shocked replies like "Holy crap, who is this handsome guy?!" and "No comparison, no hurt!", and a pile of female players sending kisses and hearts.

A behind-the-scenes boss-like figure, whose true face was actually a fresh, youthful shota, this contrast was especially easy to win the hearts of female players. Han Xiao finally enjoyed the treatment of having female fans. When he was still Black Phantom, all his fans were a bunch of hairy-legged game nerds…

However, the enthusiasm of the players still exceeded his expectations. After the initial shock, the direction of the players' discussions gradually became strange.

Screenshots of him escaping were taken by Germination players and shared on the forum. When the players saw him with a combination of one older girl, one younger girl, one mature woman, and one loli, they instantly exploded.

——Why is he running away with two women? Need you even ask? It must be love!

So, some players with brains that broke through the sky concocted a love story:

"I was once a test subject, experiencing inhuman suffering, and in that darkness like an abyss, she was the only light. Every time I saw her tall figure, her cold face, the tortures inflicted on me seemed to no longer be painful. Although I was just a humble test subject, she never showed a smile, but her scolding and cold eyes made me feel the warmth of spring. Could this... be the feeling of love arriving? So I secretly vowed that if one day I could escape and become a big shot, I would stand in front of her in a dignified manner and tell her in the most affectionate tone that I love you..."

When he saw this post, Han Xiao spat the energy drink in his mouth all over Hela.

What the hell, which perverted masochist wrote this! What stone did you pop out of, you drama queen!

Don't let me see you outside! I'll kill you back to level zero!

This was just one version. There were also versions like Han Xiao and the red-haired mature woman falling in love at first sight, so the mature woman abandoned her faith and eloped with him, and even kidnapped a little loli!

Or that Han Xiao and the red-haired mature woman were actually lovers long ago, and the little loli was actually their illegitimate child!

Or that the mature woman and the loli were originally Han Xiao's women, but were taken over by the evil Germination leader. In order to win back his women, Han Xiao embarked on a long road of revenge, so the truth of the war was actually a love story…

In short, the power of the people's imagination is infinite!

"Ohohoho, I didn't expect you to be this kind of Black Phantom~"

"So you're a fellow traveler, a fellow traveler~"

"Oh—loli are supreme!"

"Pah, mature women are the truth!"

While the players were using their imaginations, the extremely troubled Han Xiao discovered that the players had given him two new nicknames:

Running away with girls, Black Phantom!

Showing compassion for women, Technician Han!

Han Xiao's mood was complicated.

Although it wasn't his intention, his popularity had become even higher because of it, because a "character" with memes is the easiest to be spread by players.

"Although the image is skewed, at least I achieved my goal, becoming more and more famous..."

Han Xiao could only remain optimistic. These memes were mostly jokes, and also indirectly proved that his fame had grown, so people would specifically create parodies.

The legendary story of his true identity increased his popularity among the player community, but the legend rating on the panel still hadn't appeared. He probably still needed to wait.

Suddenly, Han Xiao saw a new post.

"Everyone, I received a new mission. This time it's a large-scale encirclement. Looking for a team, please carry me…"

A Germination player posted, the location was a large base on Han Xiao's escape route, attached with screenshots. The pictures showed a large-scale force waiting for orders, far exceeding any search team, like a huge encirclement.

Looking at the post, Han Xiao's expression gradually became serious.

"This is not good."

…

"The encirclement of the New Stone Wasteland has been fully deployed. According to calculations, Han Xiao's current location is south of the New Stone Wasteland, and he is expected to encounter the encirclement in sixteen hours."

The leader said in a deep voice, "How many people are there specifically?"

"Reporting to the leader, there are a total of eighty Executors, six hundred Super Soldiers, thousands of armed forces, more than three hundred various tanks and armored vehicles, and thirty armed helicopters. I apologize, leader, this is all the strength we can mobilize in the short term. The six nations are putting pressure on the frontal battlefield, tying up too much of our combat power!"

Bang!

The leader slammed the table hard and roared, "If the six nations hadn't interfered, the encirclement would have been completed long ago. Zero must have reached a secret deal with them. I locked onto him four times, and all four long-range missiles were intercepted and detonated by the six nations' high-altitude defenses!

Humph, now that the encirclement has been completed, if the six nations want to stop us, they'll have to move their troops into my territory! Narrow the encirclement and force Han Xiao out. If they want to escape, they can only rely on breaking through. This time, even if he has precognitive abilities, he can only fight my forces head-on!"

The leader spared no expense to encircle and suppress Han Xiao, using sheer numbers in an orthodox manner. He had tried several encirclements, but Han Xiao had escaped each time. This time, the encirclement in the New Stone Wasteland was a pre-planned encirclement based on his estimation of Han Xiao's escape route. He had finally successfully surrounded Han Xiao, leaving no gaps for escape!

The leader felt that even if Han Xiao could foresee all of this, he wouldn't be able to prevent the encirclement from forming. He had the pursuers force Han Xiao to change his route and enter the trap.

The encirclement of the New Stone Wasteland was the leader's fatal blow.

"Zero is very strong, only veteran Executors can restrain him. How many people went?" the leader asked.

"Five. These are their profiles," the assistant handed over the intelligence.

The leader glanced at it and nodded. Veteran Executors were the organization's high-end combat power. Even he couldn't easily defeat them. They were all strong at the same level. Only this level could defeat Han Xiao.

Five of them together, even the leader himself felt it was tricky.

This time, the leader felt confident in eliminating Han Xiao, and a fierce glint appeared in his eyes.