Chapter 146 Strategic Support Flow

This orbital bombardment cannon is called the "Eye of Divine Might", a space-based satellite weapon that can detach from the spacecraft and operate independently, deployed on the edge of outer space and the atmosphere, orbiting the planet.

The Eye of Divine Might is not a particle beam weapon like Dark Star's main cannon, but uses solid projectiles. The warhead is very large and can be equipped with different types of ammunition, giving it more tactical choices. It strikes the surface from outer space, and after propulsion acceleration and gravitational acceleration, it obtains stronger kinetic energy power. With his virtual technology algorithm support, the positioning of the strike coordinates is very accurate, with minimal error.

The production cost of this orbital bombardment cannon is quite high, second only to the Mad Ape mech, and that's not even counting the cost of each shot.

With so much money spent, the returns are naturally good. The attack power of the Eye of Divine Might is outstanding, like a giant turret deployed in outer space. There are only two limitations: the first is the slow rate of fire; the shell needs to fly for a while.

The second is that it cannot be used for interstellar combat; it can only be used for air-to-ground strikes, which is very suitable for mercenary work where drop pods kick down doors.

This weapon is the most destructive means in Han Xiao's hands, but there is only one for the time being. The strategic support flow is only a prototype, but Han Xiao has money in his pocket and can make more if he has time.

Once the strategic support flow is truly formed, dozens or hundreds of orbital bombardment cannons will fire at the same time, and it won't take too long to plow the surface of a small planet, fully demonstrating the principle that the Mechanic class is daddy if they have money.

Big is beautiful, and more is better. When other Supers are stuck in bottlenecks and standing still, only the Mechanic class can steadily improve their combat power by burning money.

"With this equipment, I can be considered to have the strength that the level deserves."

Han Xiao nodded secretly.

With a total cost of nearly one million Enas, after updating all the combat mechs, his destructiveness truly reached the level of a "calamity." He can summon nuclear bombs to wash the ground and destroy the ecology of the planet's surface in minutes.

Watcher's Pact, mechanical exoskeletons, short-range warp engine, Mechanical Legions No. 004 and No. 005, strong adhesion electromagnetic swamp, Eye of Divine Might space-based satellite… After roughly counting all the mechs, Han Xiao sorted out the compression orbs and wore them on his body, while the mechanical legions and space-based satellites, these large weapons, were placed in the ship's warehouse.

In addition to the combat mechs, Han Xiao also fused an interesting blueprint during this period for boarding battles of interstellar spaceships and built it along the way.

"Marauder" assault pod, a landing warfare device.

This is an externally mounted cabin, installed on the spaceship, with shock-absorbing equipment inside. It can carry a portion of the landing personnel. At the moment of breaking the enemy ship's shield, the assault pod is launched, biting onto the enemy's spaceship, inserting the embedding device of the assault pod into the enemy's outer armor, using a hot-melt cutting device to burn through the armor, and sending the landing personnel inside the enemy ship… Of course, if the situation is not good, the assault pod can also self-destruct.

In interstellar warfare, assault pods are often used. The landing personnel inside are naturally with no retreat, a do-or-die situation. They are basically suicide squads.

Han Xiao felt that this thing was very suitable for players, who are the real "dare-to-die" team.

Raising their hands and shouting "Urrah Urrah" or something, it's exciting just thinking about it.

Han Xiao has also been researching the Peregrine-class spacecraft recently, but he lacked some knowledge, and the process of reverse engineering the blueprint was stuck. In his previous life, advanced Mechanic class players could also manufacture spaceships, but it was basically teamwork, with each person specializing in different knowledge and assembling different parts.

Han Xiao didn't want to divide the work; he wanted to learn the overall manufacturing process of the spaceship.

Independently manufacturing a spaceship is a milestone-like special Legendary achievement, just like his uncompleted [Legendary Hunter] milestone.

However, he is still lacking a portion of knowledge, and he is currently short of Potential Points, which is a bit embarrassing.

After entering interstellar space, Han Xiao did not massively harvest experience; he mainly harvested wallets.

After all, after upgrading, he needs time to update his equipment, and he also spent a lot of experience upgrading blueprints and fusing blueprints.

So his current experience reserves are almost bottoming out.

"Find a time to harvest a wave of experience..."

Han Xiao pondered.

The equipment has been updated, and in addition to obtaining Potential Points, he also needs to continue to improve his hard power.

"I am currently level 142. Although I have just entered Grade A, with the addition of my equipment, my combat power can be comparable to that of higher-level guys, and my Specialties are particularly resistant to beatings, giving me a huge advantage. If the opponent's abilities are too common, my win rate will be greatly improved..."

Han Xiao assessed his own combat power in his mind. Generally speaking, most Starfield characters enter Grade A between 150 and 160, depending on their Specialties, skills, and attributes. He entered Grade A at level 140, which is rare even among those awesome protagonist-type characters.

Upon reaching Grade A, each advancement every 20 levels or each main class transfer can be considered a watershed moment. Han Xiao is currently in the 140 to 160 level tier, and the experience required to level up is huge, almost starting at billions of experience.

In his previous life, in the version where the level cap was open to this level, quest experience already started at tens of millions, and even so, players needed to grind for a long time to level up.

Even if he can fleece players, it is still difficult to accumulate enough experience to directly upgrade to level 160. In the short term, advancement is out of the question, but there is another way to improve his strength, which is the main class transfer.

Han Xiao's [Virtual Mechanic] is currently level 17, and he can transfer after 3 more levels, which will probably cost 3 billion experience.

This time, Han Xiao does not plan to sell knowledge; that stuff is a one-time deal, limited in quantity, and not suitable for stuffing all at once to players.

He decided to teach blueprint skills, which is a more massive chain of interests.

Although the audience for blueprint skills is limited to Mechanic class players, and the profit is not as good as advancement knowledge, the advantage is that there are too many blueprints that can be fused from different knowledge combinations, almost inexhaustible. During version 1.0, Han Xiao pretended to be a Mechanic class instructor and fooled more players into transferring to the Mechanic class in order to expand the market for blueprint skills.

Moreover, he doesn't just sell low-level blueprints to players; he can also sell particularly high-level blueprints.

Players do not have enough knowledge and cannot use high-level blueprints for the time being. They can only watch them and feel happy, but they will still buy them… Because having a high-level blueprint that cannot be used temporarily is at least better than not having one. Just looking at it makes them look forward to it.

He never underestimates the hoarding desire of the Chinese players.

Thinking of the players… Han Xiao opened the forums and took a look. Every moment, the forums are as lively as ever.

The strategic equipment sold last time was used by players in new mercenary missions. Many people took screenshots and posted them to share. Among them, the Honeycomb Armor received particularly good reviews, allowing many lifestyle players to find a new way to make money—killing and fighting is not good; mining is more realistic!

The second most popular item was actually the Magnetic-Nuclear Powered Flight Backpack. The focus of the comments was not on the flight at all; it was all about how refreshing the explosion was…

This gave Han Xiao more confidence in the Marauder assault pod.

He knew that self-destruction and players are the best match!

After scanning a few pages of posts, in addition to sharing posts, chat posts, and water posts, there were also high-level players making guides, introducing new tactics, etc. Han Xiao watched for a while and suddenly found a post that became popular and quickly topped the list.

《Vienne Card Beginner's Guide·Third Edition》

After clicking on it and taking a look, the player who posted it was obviously fascinated by Vienne cards and spent all the money they earned to collect card sets…

Wow, salted fish!

Playing with these fancy things every day instead of properly killing monsters?!

"These players are still being contaminated by Vienne cards…"

The corners of Han Xiao's mouth twitched. Could it be that Vienne cards are his biggest business competitor?

After a cursory glance, he found that the Shattered Star Ring deck had been updated. This was also the focus of the post and was frantically commented on by players. Among the updated cards, the Black Star Army was impressively present.

——

Shattered Star Ring deck adjustment:

Mercenary card 【Black Star Mercenary Group】, changed to Mercenary card/Faction card 【Black Star Army】, card attributes enhanced, new special effects added.

Civilization card 【Godora】 card attributes enhanced.

Faction card 【Dragon Emperor Floating Island】 card attributes enhanced.

New powerhouse card 【"Black Star" Han Xiao】.

New history card 【Dark Star's Demise】.

Original Faction card 【Dark Star】 moved to the discard pile.

——

Han Xiao immediately understood why this post suddenly became popular.

Now, in the eyes of the players, the Black Star Army represents their camp. Seeing the camp appear in the card set, the players are very excited. The comments have exploded. In their opinion, the change in Vienne cards reflects their achievements in contributing to the growth of the camp.

The update of Vienne cards represents the trends in all regions of the Starfield to a certain extent. It actually added a powerhouse card exclusively for him, and the card attributes are not bad…

This proves that his deeds have spread far and wide and that he has become a famous figure.

Han Xiao's heart stirred slightly. He suddenly realized that Vienne cards seem to be a potential list, showing a person's fame and status in the interstellar world.

…

After watching the forums for a while and extracting some potions from Sleek and a group of secret prisoners, Han Xiao closed the door and left the mech modification room.

After delaying for nearly two months to build mechs, Han Xiao did not forget the mission to send Hela and Aurora to Dragon Emperor.

Now that the Black Star Army has grown in size, players and normal mercenaries share a large number of missions. It seems that he has not received any high-difficulty missions that he must personally handle, so Han Xiao decided to complete Ames' entrustment first.

Hela is usually in the combat training room, and Aurora should be there too.

On the way, he met Sylvia, who looked flustered as if she was avoiding something. She hurriedly greeted him and then ran away. Han Xiao didn't take it to heart. After walking for a while, he found Leonard looking around at the intersection, so he went up and encouraged him a few words. Seeing that Leonard had a tendency to take out a small notebook, Han Xiao hurriedly shut his mouth and walked away.

Arriving at the combat training room, sure enough, Hela was here to conduct combat training, and Aurora was also forced to join.

Due to her past experiences, Hela has a strong desire for power. Since entering the interstellar world and seeing so many powerhouses, her sense of crisis has become more and more serious. She can't wait to not sleep every day and use all her time to train.

The effect is also significant. The training room in the interstellar era can simulate real combat effects and force out the combat potential of Supers. Hela's talent has always been good, and with diligent training, her strength has increased a lot recently. A few days ago, Han Xiao sparred with Hela and found that Hela had leveled up several times.

Han Xiao opened the door, and the virtual battle scene suddenly disappeared.

Hela stopped and wiped the sweat from her forehead with the back of her hand, frowning and said, "What are you doing here? Do you want to spar?"

She was wearing a black combat suit at this time, very tight, looking like a layer of black skin, outlining her hot figure, with prominent curves, extremely hot.

Han Xiao glanced at it, shook his head helplessly, and couldn't help but say, "Can you change into a more useful combat suit? Don't I have armor for you to choose from?"

"Too bulky."

Hela showed a disgusted look.

"What's bulky? That's called safety. Aren't you just嫌嫌嫌不好看吗, you know shit about aesthetics."

Han Xiao rolled his eyes, tsk, woman.

While the two of them were arguing, Aurora, who was beside them, was holding her knees with both hands, bending over and gasping for breath, unable to say a word.

She was forced to participate in special training and couldn't keep up with Hela's intensity, so she was so tired that her body was about to fall apart.

However, Aurora had no reluctance at all. She had experienced hard times and knew the importance of strength. She did not perfunctorily attend the special training, so she was so tired. After all, virtual combat does not cause real damage. If she slacked off, she would not be so exhausted.

Han Xiao took out a high-energy nutrition bar, threw it to Aurora casually, and then said, "Alright, stop training. Pack up, and I'll take you to Dragon Emperor."

Hearing this, Aurora hurriedly stopped tearing the packaging of the nutrition bar and said in surprise, "Can I finally see Ames big sister?!"

Hela's eyes lit up slightly, and the corners of her lips also raised in an arc. After entering the interstellar world, she thoroughly understood Ames' prestige in the universe and had been looking forward to formally following her for training for a long time.

Beep beep beep——

Han Xiao was about to say a few more words when the communicator suddenly rang. He took it out and saw that it was Ames' communication application, saying that the Dragon Seat had arrived.

"Ames?"

"Yeah, Black Star, when are you sending my students over?" Ames' projection appeared, with a half-smile on her face, and a pair of white python-like long legs came into view.

"I was dealing with some things before, so I delayed for a while. I will send them to Dragon Emperor in a few days," Han Xiao nodded.

"Okay." Ames pondered for a moment and suddenly said, "It's best to come over as soon as possible. When you arrive, I want you to accompany me to a place."

"Where to?"

"War Domain."

Ames' tone was indifferent, and it was impossible to hear her emotions.

Han Xiao's eyebrows jumped fiercely. He had an ominous premonition for some reason, feeling that his leisure time seemed to be disappearing again.

"Can I not go?"

"Hmph, no."

Ames hung up the communication.