Chapter 1 The Guilds' Actions

After Han Xiao's fleet left Pangurid Star, the peripheral players of the various guilds stationed on the planet couldn't wait to take action.

The four major guilds pretended to stay out of it, secretly taking the lead in gathering the remaining members of other first-tier guilds, including Rainy Night Jianghu from the Storm Club, God's Forbidden Zone from the Madman Club, Spirit Immortal Pool from Heavenly Palace, Jiangcheng Guild from Jiangcheng, and so on.

These first-tier guilds each had around sixty or seventy members stationed on Pangurid Star, consisting of studio-type players. There were two types of peripheral guild members: ordinary players attracted by the guild's reputation and resources, who accounted for the vast majority, and various large and small studios that undertook the guild's various difficult and tiring tasks for a fee, making them more organized.

Several hundred guild players gathered to discuss.

"The Old Russian and Old Australian manpower is insufficient; each club has left less than twenty people here, with over a hundred on each side."

"However, they haven't scattered; the hundred-plus people are mining together."

Although the Old Russians and Old Australians colluded with the four major guilds, they took precautions in private. The Old Russians were led by the Strength and Glory Guild, and the Old Australians were led by the Kangaroo Boxing Guild. The guild players from each country gathered at two locations to mine. Each country had a total of over a hundred people, approaching the number of two Huaxia first-tier guilds, seemingly to make them feel safer and prevent attacks.

However, they didn't expect the Huaxia first-tier guilds to join forces against them.

After discussing for a while, the group finalized a plan. With their overwhelming manpower advantage, they decided to split into two groups to attack the resource points of the Old Russians and Old Australians. They quickly arranged the teams and set off separately.

...

At a certain mine excavation base, the Kangaroo Boxing Guild's resource point.

Dozens of Old Australian players wore worker bee armor, diligently mining in the mine, storing the resources in their armor, and transporting them back to the small guild warehouses on the ground in batches.

There were several warehouses, belonging to different Old Australian guilds. Studio players patrolled and guarded the warehouses. Although they acted collectively for safety, it didn't mean they shared resources. These warehouses were portable warehouses purchased by each guild from the legion with funds, and they were quite valuable, equivalent to their base at the resource point.

Just then, the patrolling players' expressions suddenly changed. They saw groups of well-equipped first-tier guild players appearing in their sight, rushing towards them from a distance, with thrusters dragging trails of afterflame.

"Quickly gather! Someone is attacking our resource point!"

These Old Australian club guilds hurriedly recalled the manpower excavating resources, but it was already too late. Two or three hundred first-tier guild players suddenly rushed into the resource point, crushing the warehouse player guards like a hot knife through butter.

The Old Australian players who rushed back from the mine immediately clashed with the first-tier guild players.

The group battle erupted with a bang, and the two sides immediately engaged in a melee!

Bang bang bang!

Martial artists charged to cut off the rear ranks, unleashing a series of head-on combos, qi flames spewing everywhere. Psychics used all sorts of strange abilities, and the field was filled with colorful energy. Mages constantly chanted, casting spells one after another. Psionicists frantically used mental attacks to deal AoE damage, and were also cut down as rear ranks...

Among them, the Mechanic class caused the most commotion, unleashing a barrage of weapons. Blue energy rays crisscrossed, hitting targets and causing rumbling energy explosions. The steel torrent of armor-piercing bullets swept back and forth, mud splashed, trees broke, and electromagnetic kinetic energy bullets left fine pinholes in various objects.

Version 3.0 happened to be a strong version where Mechanics shined, because at this time, Mechanics finally learned the skill that sublimated their combat style—compression orb technology.

Compression orbs unfolded in the field, turning into turrets, small mechanical combat soldiers, and mechanical traps, creating various mechanical equipment one after another, with a wide variety of crowd control methods.

Whether in terms of financial resources, combat power, or numbers, the first-tier guilds had an absolute advantage. They quickly blew up the remaining members of the Old Australians, sending people to block the resurrection point for a wild slaughter. On the other side, they began to attack the Old Australians' guild warehouses, quickly blowing them up, and the resources collected by the Old Australians during this period were snatched away by everyone as spoils of war.

The resource point became a mess. After killing off the Old Australian players' resurrection times for the day, the first-tier guilds immediately retreated with their spoils.

Hundreds of souls floating in the air above the resurrection point resentfully watched the group leave.

On the other side, the Old Russians' resource point enjoyed the same treatment and was looted.

...

"Our resource point was destroyed?!"

On a transport ship in the fleet, Vodka, hearing the news from the stationed members, was shocked.

After learning that it was done by the Huaxia first-tier guilds, he immediately became angry and sent messages to the guild leaders of Changkong and Huangchao to question them.

"Why attack our resource point?!"

Bi Kong You You pretended to be puzzled, "What are you talking about? When did we do such a thing? You need to provide evidence for everything, or I'll sue you for defamation."

"Just now, the resource point we left on the planet was destroyed by people from your Huaxia guild. The stationed players were blocked at the resurrection point and killed until they ran out of resurrection times. They won't be able to resurrect for six days in the game. Why did those Huaxia guild people attack us?!"

"Go ask them, it wasn't us who did it," Bi Kong You You said, suppressing his laughter.

Vodka was furious, "We purchased equipment from you, and you promised to provide us with protection. You've broken your agreement!"

Bi Kong You You scoffed. He didn't know these foreign guilds' tricks? They bought some equipment through their channels on the surface, but secretly found other Huaxia players to cooperate with and enjoyed a full 10% discount, and secretly hid it from them.

Zhao Xue Mu Shuang chuckled, "We weren't aware of this matter beforehand. After all, those first-tier guilds have their own ideas and aren't our subordinates. We'll have to ask them about the situation. Don't worry, we'll try our best to persuade those guilds."

"That would be great," Vodka nodded.

Hanging up the communication, Vodka felt unhappy. He only felt that it was strange that these first-tier guilds joined forces to deal with them, which looked like it was related to the four major guilds, and might happen again in the future.

Thinking of this, he contacted the leader of the stationed members and instructed:

"After you resurrect, I'll transfer some funds to you. You can purchase some warning devices from the legion, such as automatic turrets, traps, and laser arrays, and place them next to the new resource point. Buy as much as possible, don't be afraid to spend money... Also, abandon your current location and find a more dangerous place to mine resources."

On the other side, Bi Kong You You and Zhao Xue Mu Shuang were also discussing.

"This attack will make them hesitant and spend more money on unnecessary defensive measures. Those first-tier guilds didn't intend to attack frequently in the first place. We can say that we persuaded those guilds and didn't break our promise. When these people establish a new resource point and recover for a period of time, we can organize another attack. By then, their resource point will have a new batch of inventory, which we can just take away. If we harass them like this, the income from their resource points will be very limited. As long as we force them to become angry, we can provoke a large-scale guild war and use our manpower advantage to defeat all of their guild leaders."

"You're as insidious as ever," Bi Kong You You gave a thumbs up.

Zhao Xue Mu Shuang shook his head, "It's a pity they didn't send their professional players over here. Otherwise, our guilds could have helped the club eliminate some opponents."

Professional players were the pillars of the club, so the club valued the safety of professional players and naturally dared not send the roles of professional players to other people's territory. The reason why the Huaxia clubs targeted foreign guilds was also to protect their own professional players. If they allowed foreign guilds to gain a foothold on their own territory, the possibility of secretly causing trouble for Huaxia professional players was not low.

Others could cross star fields, but they couldn't cross star fields. Huaxia guilds were actually somewhat passive, so they decided to join forces to compete with foreign guilds and protect their own interests.

...

Several days later, in another star cluster.

Qi Qi Jia's Great Universe Legion fleet was slowly heading towards the beacon. In addition to the main ship, which was tens of kilometers long, there were also thirty-odd escort warships. All the awakened warriors were training, numbering up to a million.

In the main ship, Qi Qi Jia rubbed his fists, looking excited. He liked to plunder and looked forward to the arrival of war.

"How long until we reach the beacon location?" Qi Qi Jia asked several times a day.

"Reporting, Great Chieftain, the beacon's location has been moving these past few days. I think this is the other party's trick to confuse our vision, so we are now heading towards the location where the beacon was first activated, which is not particularly far away." The operations team leader looked helpless, as he had to repeat the answer several times a day.

"The sooner the better, I can't wait," Qi Qi Jia said in a rough voice.

Just then, another operator exclaimed.

"Great Chieftain, there are three unknown targets approaching us!"

"Could it be meteorites?" Qi Qi Jia was stunned.

In his impression, few people could travel through space like them, so his first reaction was meteorites or comets.

"It doesn't look like meteorites. They're flying towards us! Great Chieftain, I request to enter alert status!"

"Making a fuss over nothing," Qi Qi Jia muttered, waving his hand, "Then be alert."

The fleet quickly activated various weapons and stood ready.

Before long, the three spaceships carrying You Zu and others appeared, slowly stopping and confronting Qi Qi Jia and others from afar.

"Are those really spaceships?" Qi Qi Jia asked in surprise.

The operator hurriedly said, "As expected, they can track our beacon, their technology level is very high, and they can also navigate in space."

Qi Qi Jia sized up the three spaceships for a while, then suddenly burst out laughing.

"What's there to be afraid of! Look at those three spaceships, they're so small, how much combat power can they have?"

Indeed, You Zu and others' spaceships looked very small compared to Qi Qi Jia's main ship, which was tens of kilometers long.

In Qi Qi Jia's worldview, the size of a spaceship = combat power.

"And look, they only have three spaceships, less than one-tenth of ours. We can easily kill them. What's there to panic about? You're really embarrassing me," Qi Qi Jia clicked his tongue and shook his head.

Upon hearing this, everyone suddenly felt that it made sense and felt a lot more at ease.

"Great Chieftain, what should we do now?"

Qi Qi Jia said carelessly, "Looking at their spaceships, it's clear that they're just a small civilization that has just begun to explore space travel. They don't know what awe is, so they dare to recklessly track our signal. Hmph, as seniors, we have to teach them a lesson and let them understand the taste of fear."

Just then, another operator next to him laughed and said, "Great Chieftain, they sent us a message, wanting to communicate with us."

Upon hearing this, everyone laughed, feeling that Qi Qi Jia had guessed correctly. Only civilizations that had just begun to explore the universe would be so naive, thinking that they could have good communication in the universe?

"What did they say?"

"Let me see... They said that they are troops from the Black Star Army, and they want us to immediately put down our weapons and surrender..." Before the person could finish speaking, he burst out laughing.

As if infected by him, almost everyone in the cockpit couldn't help but laugh. Laughter rose and fell, and the room was immediately filled with a lively atmosphere.

"Gagagaga..." Qi Qi Jia laughed so hard that he leaned forward and backward, "Quick, reply to the message for me."

"Reply with what?"

"Ask them if they've heard of our Great Universe Legion, hahaha..." Qi Qi Jia laughed so hard that tears were about to flow out.

Black Star Army? What the hell is that? Never even heard of it. Do they think they're very famous?

Don't they know that their Great Universe Legion is the overlord of this universe? They even want them to surrender... He had never heard such a funny joke.

Qi Qi Jia almost choked from laughing. After panting for a while, he calmed down and couldn't help but say, "These arrogant natives are truly a source of joy, they always make me happy..." Before he could finish speaking, he wanted to laugh again.

"Great Chieftain, should we attack?"

"Yes, kill them... No, don't kill them, capture them and send them to the Great Emperor. The Great Emperor will definitely be amused by these guys too," Qi Qi Jia laughed.

Just as everyone was laughing non-stop, the operations team leader suddenly trembled in his heart, realizing a terrifying blind spot:

When contacting natives in the past, they couldn't communicate with each other at all because they didn't speak the same language.

But these natives, clearly meeting them for the first time... But why do they understand our language? Why can they communicate with us?!

His whole body trembled, and he was about to report this abnormal situation, but just then, those three spaceships suddenly showed an anomaly.

The hulls of the three spaceships opened, and a dark mass of machinery poured out. Suddenly, blue-gold lightning descended from the sky, striking every machine and erupting with dazzling light.

"What are these things?"

Qi Qi Jia and the others' smiles disappeared, and they stared at this scene with suspicion and uncertainty.

The next moment, a silver beam of light shot out, instantly piercing through the main ship's shields, piercing through the main ship's tens of kilometers-long hull, leaving a hole that went straight through!

The "tough" spaceship armor was like paper in front of this energy beam!

Everyone looked stunned, and before they could react, a violent shaking knocked the unprepared people to the ground.

A piercing alarm sounded suddenly, and the lights inside the spaceship turned bright red.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh—

"Alarm alarm! Shields are broken, hull damage is increasing, 7.8%... 8.6%... 10.3%... Please take measures as soon as possible! Please take measures as soon as possible!!"

With one strike, the main ship's defenses were broken!

Qi Qi Jia didn't get up, but sat blankly on the ground, his eyes filled with confusion and disbelief, his expression terrified. Where was the ease he had just had?

Just now... what happened?!