"Old buddy, have you arrived yet?"

"Almost, almost."

A small spaceship was parked on the desolate, ash-gray ground. Xia Ye Fan Hua's group was beside the ship, some sitting, some standing, waiting for the proxy buyer to arrive.

Soon, another spaceship landed beside them. The proxy buyer stepped off the ship, glanced around, and greeted Xia Ye Fan Hua.

"The goods?" Xia Ye Fan Hua went to meet him.

"The money?" The proxy buyer looked wary.

"Didn't I transfer it a long time ago?" Xia Ye Fan Hua looked helpless.

"Ha, I was just setting the mood for a black market transaction. Don't you think it's cool?"

The proxy buyer chuckled a couple of times. Seeing Xia Ye Fan Hua's expressionless face, he sheepishly stopped smiling and led him into the ship to check the goods.

"Here, these are all the things you wanted. You count them to make sure I didn't cheat you."

Xia Ye Fan Hua glanced over the goods and mentally calculated that everything was correct. Only then did he say, "No need to check. I trust you."

At this moment, the proxy buyer rubbed his hands together with a slightly embarrassed look. He said, "You know, we've known each other for years. We're pretty close, right?"

Xia Ye Fan Hua was a little puzzled. "What do you want to say?"

"I'm just asking, aren't we little buddies who play together?"

"What's up?"

"Since we're friends, can you sacrifice yourselves a few times to let me get some bounties...?" the proxy buyer asked cautiously. "Anyway, you guys can't get the legion's wanted missions. I can split the bounty three-seven. Instead of letting others get it, why not let me, your brother, get a taste? Just consider it helping me with a need."

"Get lost." Xia Ye Fan Hua's forehead was covered in black lines.

Three-seven split? Your little bounty reward isn't even worth the experience lost from dying once.

Also, what do you mean by letting you "get a taste"? Do you think we're prostitutes?!

"Stop talking nonsense. The goods are fine. I'm taking them." Xia Ye Fan Hua said, reaching for the equipment.

At this moment, the proxy buyer suddenly held his hand and chuckled. "No, I think it's better for me to keep it for the time being?"

"What do you mean? You trying to cheat me?" Xia Ye Fan Hua instantly became angry. His companions' expressions turned unfriendly as they surrounded him, looking like they would kill for the goods at the slightest disagreement.

The proxy buyer didn't panic at all and said unhurriedly, "I'm doing this for your own good. If you take the new equipment, you might get robbed later."

Xia Ye Fan Hua suddenly had a bad feeling.

Just then, the sound of spaceships landing came from outside. One after another, small spaceships landed on the ground, and a large group of players excitedly poured out.

Xia Ye Fan Hua and the others' expressions changed drastically. He knew with his ass that these people were here for the bounty. He turned to glare at the proxy buyer with an incredulous look. "You actually betrayed me?!"

"See for yourself." The proxy buyer curled his lip, took out his communicator, and showed the legion's wanted list with the location of Xia Ye Fan Hua's group marked. Their coordinates were constantly being monitored. This transaction was no secret to the nearby players.

"How did I not know?!" Xia Ye Fan Hua was dumbfounded. Only then did he suddenly remember that his legion internal program had been automatically uninstalled. He felt a sharp pain in his balls.

The Philippus subprogram of these players had switched to background monitoring, constantly controlling their coordinates and sending them to nearby Black Star Army members, as if constantly reminding the army members, "The traitors are here, go play with them quickly." Xia Ye Fan Hua and the others were as conspicuous as sheep parading through a pack of wolves, but they were completely unaware.

Only nearby players received the coordinates. Xia Ye Fan Hua and the others had only recently arrived at the W-58 base. Only players from Lockdown Line 027 knew the coordinates and thought it was a mission reminder, so they were used to it. No one posted on the forum to discuss it, leaving Xia Ye Fan Hua and the others in the dark.

Suddenly, Xia Ye Fan Hua realized something and looked shocked. "Wait, you knew our coordinates were exposed a long time ago, but you didn't tell me, and you didn't cancel the transaction?!"

"...I'm sorry, I'm a cop."

"Speak human language!"

The proxy buyer smiled shyly. "Well, I gotta eat. Anyway, you're already here, might as well kill you. So I said, instead of letting others get the bounty, it's better for me to get it. I'll give you a three-seven split. Honest and fair."

Xia Ye Fan Hua's lips trembled as he pointed at him, unable to speak. He felt like he had just swallowed two pounds of hot shit and choked on it.

Good kid, you had ulterior motives from the start!

This is a damn trap!

I treated you like a friend, but you actually wanted to screw me over?

The world is going downhill, and people's hearts are not what they used to be. What about the most basic trust between people?!

If the angry gazes of the Klent players beside him could turn into knives, they would have cut Xia Ye Fan Hua into a thousand pieces.

Looking at the rapidly approaching players, Xia Ye Fan Hua looked sad and indignant. He suddenly raised his hand. The proxy buyer thought he was going to fight out of anger and quickly jumped back a few meters. However, he saw Xia Ye Fan Hua standing there, holding up four fingers.

"Six-four split!"

The proxy buyer's eyes lit up like a butcher sharpening his knife for a pig. He kindly reminded, "Remember to choose the faction's respawn point when you revive, or you'll get killed again."

"I really fucking thank you!" Xia Ye Fan Hua's gritted teeth sounded like metal grinding on steel, his grief and indignation filled with helplessness, his helplessness filled with heartache, his heartache filled with compromise, and filled with accusations against this society.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—

A familiar white light flashed.

Xia Ye Fan Hua's eyes blurred, and he had already returned to the W-58 base, his face miserable, his heart even more miserable, and tears welling up in his eyes.

I'm so tired. I knew I shouldn't have come to Klent...

Xia Ye Fan Hua had this thought, but he quickly dismissed it, took a few deep breaths to calm down, and convinced himself to firmly believe in his own prediction.

Although the road is tortuous, he still believes that the future of the Klent faction is bright.

"The losses I'm suffering now will definitely be earned back in the future." Xia Ye Fan Hua secretly cheered himself up, and then moved away from the respawn point. He didn't want to become a little white rabbit that a black bear used to wipe its ass, and be taken by other respawning companions to vent their anger.

At this moment, a friend request suddenly popped up on the panel. The proxy buyer sent a message.

"Your goods are temporarily stored with me. Let's find another time to meet. We'll make another appointment next time."

Xia Ye Fan Hua's nose was almost twisted in anger.

Appointment your ass! This is entrapment! You want to trick me again?!

"Get lost! Refund the money!!"

...

Han Xiao also saw this small player disturbance on the forum. A player posted bragging about the first kill of a traitor. He thought it was worthy of praise, and transferred a lot of experience and Enas over through the faction panel.

The analysis post that Xia Ye Fan Hua had posted was pushed up again, and many people were teasing and mocking him below. Xia Ye Fan Hua stubbornly argued, saying that being killed was nothing, just a normal faction struggle, and the subsequent plot would prove that he was right. This behavior was very much like Kong Yiji.

Watching the forum to pass the time, a day later, Rexon gathered his troops and launched a large-scale attack on the W-58 base.

With Han Xiao's current experience, he was already accustomed to this kind of small-scale interstellar battle at a single base. The two sides' fleets probed, fired at each other, made contact, and fought. He didn't need to observe the battlefield to know that this was the standard procedure.

The fleets fought fiercely. Han Xiao stayed in the flagship to observe, without intervening, and without letting Hela and Fording, two Calamity Grades beside him, participate in the battle. Seeing countless casualties on both sides, he then looked at Hela beside him.

"Try out the effect of absorbing souls on the battlefield."

Hela nodded, her eyes slightly closed, a streak of red light flashed, and then a rich black-red energy spread throughout her body, as if her figure had grown twenty centimeters out of thin air, and her aura was like hundreds of meters high, cold, vast, and solemn, like an ancient god.

In the vast interstellar battlefield, countless gray auras emerged from the floating wreckage of spaceships, forming countless gray long snakes, spanning thousands of kilometers, and converging into Hela's hands, like a whale swallowing a rainbow.

The residual spiritual power of all the warriors who died in the entire battlefield was absorbed by her.

Hela spat out a breath like an arrow, looking radiant. She clenched her fist and said, "The ability intensity and range have both increased. It's at least equivalent to half a year of ability development for me."

"It's good as long as it works." Han Xiao was delighted. This was good news. The faster Hela developed, the sooner she could help him hold the line. Some unimportant enemies could be dealt with by Hela.

He decided to call Hela's exclusive crash course method "picking up gray souls". Its nature was like the Beiming Divine Art, draining others and accumulating internal energy. It was also a cheat.

At this moment, an abnormal energy suddenly erupted in the middle of the battlefield. From the fleet of the W-58 base, three Calamity Grades flew out. The intervention of high-level combat power suddenly broke the balance of combat power and became a point that Rexon's troops could not handle. They were originally at a slight disadvantage, but at this time, they were defeated steadily.

"How are there three Calamity Grades! The information clearly only showed Manudo!" In the flagship, the adjutant looked horrified.

However, Rexon was not flustered at all, and even smiled.

"Three are useless. With Black Star here, let alone three Calamity Grades, even thirty..." Rexon paused. Although he had a lot of confidence in Han Xiao, he didn't dare to lick too much. He coughed and changed his words. "Even thirteen, His Excellency Black Star will kill them without fail. Coming here will only help us expand our battle results."

At this moment, the view window of the flagship zoomed in on Manudo.

He saw Manudo making a provocative gesture towards the flagship, and then the flagship received Manudo's video message. A pale face, a forehead full of cold sweat, and an awkward arrogant expression appeared on the screen.

"Black Star! I know you're in there. Don't hide. I'm not afraid of you. The three of us Grade A Supers are challenging you at the same time. Do you dare to accept it? Ha, ha, ha!"

At the end, Manudo laughed stiffly three times, and the cold sweat on his face rolled down. If you looked closely, you could see his face constantly twitching, as if he was about to cry, as if it was very difficult to maintain a fierce expression.

The people in the flagship command room looked strange.

Although the enemy was talking harshly, why did they feel like they didn't have any confidence...

Han Xiao rubbed his forehead. You're using such clumsy acting to provoke me? Are you serious?

Rexon turned to look at Han Xiao and said respectfully, "Your Excellency Black Star, we can't deal with Calamity Grade powerhouses. Please help us."

In his opinion, Han Xiao could easily kill three ordinary Calamity Grade Supers.

However, Han Xiao shook his head and patted Hela's slender waist. "These three are yours."

Facing three opponents of the same level, Hela did not show any embarrassment. She turned her head and prepared to fight. She was not a person who feared difficulties. She liked to meet difficulties head-on. Since Han Xiao could deal with multiple opponents of the same level, Hela took it as her goal and had high demands and strict standards for herself.

Moreover, she also wanted to fight a life-and-death battle with strong enemies under enough pressure to test her actual combat power at the Calamity Grade level.

Manudo and the other two were attacking the warship while waiting for Han Xiao to fight. For Manudo, every second was a torment, as if he had already stepped onto the execution ground and was waiting for the guillotine to fall. If it wasn't for Jod's order, he would have turned around and ran away now.

Jod was also observing the battle situation through remote video, watching intently, waiting for Han Xiao to take action.

At this moment, a dark red meteor appeared in everyone's field of vision. It was very fast and crashed over without saying a word. A Grade A Mechanic teammate of Manudo's fired from a distance, and a high-energy particle beam bombarded the dark red meteor, slowly reducing its speed.

However, at the next moment, the dark red meteor suddenly exploded, releasing thousands of red energy beams, as if covering half of the battlefield. The energy level was extremely thick and rich, like thousands of giant pythons, crashing into the war zone fleet, shaking its thousands of heads like it had taken an ecstasy pill, implementing AoE attacks like a whip.

Manudo and the other two were also swept by dozens of almost solidified red energy beams. In addition to carrying conventional energy attacks such as heat and explosion, Hela's energy beams also impacted and vibrated the three people's minds, causing them to feel a palpitation. They hurriedly retreated, shocked and uncertain.

"This energy is so strange."

"Just now, this energy beam was like a suction cup hand, trying to suck away my spiritual body."

The release of the red energy like a tsunami ended, revealing Hela's figure. The black-red armor on her body was mainly lightweight and amplified the release of energy. There was no helmet, but a transparent energy film covered her head, providing an internal life support system and a wide field of vision.

Manudo looked surprised. He thought it was Black Star who had taken action. Who is this woman?

"Does the Black Star Army have this person?"

"The information doesn't show it. Could it be a new cadre who recently joined?"

"She's very strong. I feel a threat from her."

The three of them talked in the communication channel, all feeling the pressure.

Jod, who was watching remotely, was also confused. He carefully looked at Hela. He had never seen this person before. Black Star actually sent her to face three Calamity Grades alone. Did he believe in her strength?

"The Black Star Army really has a lot of talent."

Jod gritted his teeth. Seeing that Black Star didn't move, he had no clues, so he signaled Manudo and the others to fight Hela to find out her bottom line.

At the same time, other people on the battlefield also noticed the confrontation between the high-level combat forces.

The Black Star Army players participating in the battle were shocked when they saw Hela's appearance clearly.

"Hey, this beauty looks familiar."

"I remember, isn't this Hela who appeared in 1.0 and 2.0? An acquaintance."

"Yes, it's her. I thought she was dead in 3.0. She's actually still alive, and she seems to have become very strong."

"She disappeared in the mid-late stage of version 2.0. When did she join our army?"

"If I remember correctly, Black Star went deep into the Germinal Organization in version 1.0 to save her? She seems to be the leader's old flame?"

"Oh~"

Many players suddenly realized and made meaningful sounds, silently turning on the recording function.