Chapter 1 Judon Star System, Golden Gate Star

The Black Star base was under construction in full swing. The construction team Han Xiao contacted belonged to a professional construction company. In the interstellar era, building houses was very efficient. The equipment was almost fully automated. Time-consuming tasks such as laying foundations, applying cement, building walls, and laying cables could be completed quickly. As long as the raw materials were in place, the construction team could build the blueprint structure in a short time.

A dozen days flew by, and a steel base rose from the ground, standing on the surface. This base was large enough to accommodate about seventy to eighty thousand people, with a simple terrain. According to the blueprint, the base was divided into several functional areas, but it had not yet begun to be arranged. The base was just an empty shell.

More than 4.5 million funds were quite sufficient, and Han Xiao was no longer tight on money. He calculated the accounts. He wanted to build a military factory production line, equip the base with basic armaments, and build a mainframe to control the base. These equipment had to be manufactured by himself, mainly the materials cost money.

Then he had to solve the transportation problem. Buying a spaceship was too expensive, so he planned to cooperate with some interstellar travel groups and lease their spaceships for a long time. After deducting these expenses, he could probably have two to three million Enas left, which was very considerable.

The transportation problem was not urgent and would not be used until the players returned. Han Xiao first started to build the production line. The assembly line was a prerequisite for the legion stream, requiring a lot of advanced knowledge and corresponding high-end knowledge. Han Xiao had previously learned advanced knowledge in bits and pieces, and the huge funds allowed him to buy new high-end knowledge.

He directly spent hundreds of thousands of Enas to buy advanced knowledge of the Armed Branch, [Giant Complex Mechanical Technology]. This knowledge was one of the prerequisites for building super-large machinery such as battleships. According to the knowledge combination in his memory, he integrated the key blueprint skill [Automated Mass Production Assembly Plan], which was the production line blueprint. This was the core of the legion stream. As long as the raw materials were invested, the production line could automatically mass produce, saving time and effort... but not saving money.

The production line was a special type of blueprint, which could not be manufactured separately. If players used it, they would first trigger the production line blueprint to make it in an active state, and then use another mechanical blueprint skill, so it was to create the production line of the machine, similar to a fusion skill.

The assembly links of each machine's production line were different. For example, the production links of assembling Rangers and assembling Black Panther mechanical beasts were different, so the production lines of different machines must be built separately, and the raw materials varied depending on the composition of the target machine, which was enough to make any player's wallet feel desperate. That’s why the money-burning speed of the legion stream was unmatched, leading all professions and all genres.

Han Xiao's main combat system was now the swarm-style construction worker's three-hit combo, mainly low-cost. It was still far from the real legion stream, mainly because there was not much money to burn at that time, which made him feel suffocated. Now that he had ample funds at hand, he could finally put the plan to form a legion stream on the agenda.

After all, the combat effectiveness of the Mechanic class could be directly linked to money.

Han Xiao's sub-occupation [Armament Engineer]'s specialty [Armament Mass Production Experience] was to reduce the cost of the production line and improve product quality. He had a long-term vision.

In addition to the initial formation of a large-scale mechanical legion, another goal of the production line was to mass-produce equipment that players were willing to buy, and then sell it on a large scale, using money to make money, and interest rolling into interest...

Then open branches, one becomes two, two becomes four, four becomes eight, and after eight, list the company, raise funds, then speculate on stocks, and then spin off and list again, just collecting dividends is... ahem, that's the general idea. Just thinking about it, Technician Han's mood was like a clear sky, sunny and bright.

The more advanced the machinery, the more complex the production line. Even with Han Xiao's current assembly speed using mechanical force, it would take several days to complete a production line, so it was crucial to manufacture the production line of what machinery. After thinking about it, he decided to focus on low-level machinery, because he was too many levels higher than the players. What was "low-level machinery" to him was just right for players around level 60.

As for high-quality machinery, a production line was not yet needed. Han Xiao was now level 116. Because of the Nourious incident after the advancement, he did not have time to replace the core machinery on a large scale, and building the base was a long-term job, so he had plenty of time to upgrade.

Because of Anru's reward, the experience in the panel increased to more than 300 million. He first upgraded the [Automated Mass Production Assembly Plan] to the full level, greatly reducing costs, and then gambled out a large number of different types of low-level machinery, and chose suitable blueprints to build the production line—with his understanding of the Mechanic class and players, he could guarantee that the mass-produced machinery would be useful.

The production line was a large project. Before that, he built the mainframe for the base and let Phillip manage the base, and the first production line he built was the assistant robot production line. Letting Phillip, the artificial intelligence, control the assistant robots could be of great use, which was equivalent to starting the game with farmers.

According to the blueprints he left, Phillip directed more and more assistant robots to improve the layout of different areas of the base, adding furniture, access doors, equipment and other miscellaneous things, so Han Xiao didn't have to stare at it himself.

The 2.0 preparation plan required everyone to stay in the base for a long time. Merlot had no objection. He believed that Han Xiao had a plan. Others had no objection. Like the Volga brothers and Sylvia, they would do whatever Han Xiao did. Fording would not leave until he completely suppressed the Morning Star, and Risda was very patient. He had waited for so many years, so he didn't care about this time, and didn't mind letting Han Xiao use his body.

Wysander returned to Longtan. The troops active outside were only Han Xiao's group.

Han Xiao knew very well that Longtan must have learned about his actions to build the base, but Ames never asked, so he understood that Ames acquiesced to his expansion of armed forces, which made him feel quite gratified.

Because of the need to build the base, Han Xiao's core team suspended accepting employment, and only the Sunil team was still active. News spread quickly in the interstellar space. Han Xiao's intelligence of building the base made many forces interpret different meanings. They felt this was a signal:

—Could it be that Dragon Emperor is finally starting to expand his armed forces like the other three Beyond Grade A powerhouses?!

All along, Han Xiao's "Longtan Outing Force" was more symbolic than practical. This move immediately made many organizations and big figures of power feel awe-inspiring and pay close attention.

The construction of the base progressed step by step, and time passed, stars shifted, sun rose and set.

As time fermented, the sleeping cataclysm also finally slowly awakened on all the planets that DarkStar had quietly投放异化原体 (tou fang yi hua yuan ti,投放：release, 异化：mutate, 原体: primogenitor/original body).

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"...That's how it is. Within two days, there were more than 2,700 riot incidents worldwide, involving more than 100,000 people. This is just what we have monitored. The intelligence department investigated the identities of all rioters. The rioters included all walks of life, distributed in different cities. There was no warning before the incident, and there was no pattern to follow. Currently, most of the rioters have been detained by the law enforcement agencies of the six countries and are investigating the cause."

An agent from the dark web was reading the report. Bennett sat on the chair, frowning. He was a little older than two years ago.

After Han Xiao left, the social environment of Aquamarine Star finally became peaceful. The six countries recuperated and ceased hostilities with each other, and refugees had a place to belong.

However, in the past two days, riots suddenly broke out in many areas of Aquamarine Star. The number of cases was large, which immediately aroused the attention of the six countries and Bennett.

"Sir, we have sorted out the process of all riot incidents and found the only common point..." The agent swallowed, his tone with obvious fear.

"Speak." Bennett said in a deep voice.

"All riot incidents can be divided into three batches. The occurrence time of each batch is almost exactly the same, which means that within an interval of less than ten seconds, hundreds of different locations around the world rioted at the same time, as if they had made an appointment... However, we checked the network records, and these people did not contact each other privately..."

Bennett's eyes narrowed, this situation was too unusual!

The agent's palms were sweating, and he continued with difficulty: "Moreover, the incident locations also include several of our shelters, and many of the refugees we have taken in have also rioted."

"What is the physical condition of those refugees?"

"The refugees we detained are feverish and sleeping soundly. The doctor's examination results show that their brains are abnormally active, which leads to the production of hormones in the body far exceeding normal levels. According to the information from our informants, the rioters detained by the six countries are also in this situation."

Bennett was shocked and angry, "Everyone is unconscious? Is this infected with the same infectious disease?"

"Not everyone. A small number of the detained refugees have woken up. They clearly remember the whole process. Their confessions are surprisingly consistent. They all said that they suddenly felt a strong anger and wanted to destroy something from the bottom of their hearts to vent it. Our doctors examined the bodies of these sober people, but did not detect any abnormalities. All physiological indicators were normal, and even the fever symptoms during the coma disappeared, and everything became normal. We couldn't find out what was going on, so we have isolated these people, and there have been no riots for eighteen hours so far."

"Is isolation really useful... The groups of the three large-scale riots are completely different, and there is no warning. If this is really an undetectable unknown virus, I'm afraid the number of infected people..."

Thinking of this, Bennett couldn't help but gasp, his face looked ugly, he had a strong premonition that this matter would not be so simple.

"The war is over, and the world has finally ushered in peace, why is this happening..."

Suddenly, he suddenly remembered Han Xiao, and the cataclysm prophecy that Han Xiao left before leaving that made him skeptical. The current situation was very similar to Han Xiao's description!

Could it be that Black Spectre was telling the truth?!

Thump!

Bennett stood up suddenly, knocking over the chair, put on his coat, and hurried out of the room.

"Prepare the plane, I'm going to the Black Spectre Third Shelter!"