Chapter 141 What?!

"This...this is impossible!"

The sound of the headless corpse hitting the ground seemed to strike their hearts. All the prisoners present suddenly changed color!

This burned and disfigured guy was a notorious tough guy, a ruthless killer. His powerful strength made the other prisoners treat him with respect along the way. He was a top third-tier powerhouse on Aquamarine Star—yet in the blink of an eye, he was killed without resistance?!

Everyone looked at Han Xiao in horror, a huge wave crashing in their hearts.

How could there be such a strong person in the world?!

Seeing this scene, Han Xiao frowned, disappointed, and said, "Seriously? None of you bald guys know my name?"

Your name... Black Phantom?

A group of prisoners looked at each other. They had been locked up in prison for a long time and had never heard the name. The guards wouldn't reveal any outside information to them. Only a few prisoners who had been imprisoned in recent years, who had experienced the destruction of Germination, knew Han Xiao's nickname.

"Black Phantom, real name Han Xiao, a traitor to the Germination Organization, also a key factor in the destruction of Germination. The most well-known instigator of war in the past five years, he also created the peaceful situation of the Six Nations ceasefire. Not only that, but your personal strength has also surpassed all known powerhouses, standing at the pinnacle of Aquamarine Star, adding a fourth level represented by you above the traditional three levels!"

Taine stepped forward, his tone solemn. He knew Han Xiao, but only the information from before Han Xiao left the planet.

"There are still people who know their stuff..." Han Xiao looked over, but before he could speak, a scream suddenly rang out.

"What, Germination is dead?!"

Shi Jieke looked incredulous.

He was a high-level Germination executive who had been imprisoned for eleven years, one of the former leader's right-hand men. Before being caught, Germination was at its peak. He always believed that the leader would eventually lead Germination to complete its goals, but he didn't expect to be released after more than ten years, only to learn the news of Germination's demise, and he was completely stunned.

It wasn't just him; many other prisoners were also moved, surprised and uncertain.

Good heavens, what changes have happened in the world while we were locked up?!

"Looks like someone recognizes me, so I don't need to waste my breath." Han Xiao was quite pleased, his eyes sweeping over the prisoners in front of him, recognizing many familiar faces.

Shi Jieke, after escaping in the previous life, returned to the Germination Organization (Germination was not nuked in the previous life) and caused trouble during the Alienization Disaster. In order to resist the Six Nations that leaned toward Godora, he was bewitched by the lies of DarkStar and stood on DarkStar's side.

The destruction of the Germination Organization not only changed the 1.0 plot but also affected the 2.0 version. Originally, Germination faction players also had channels to reach interstellar forces, but Han Xiao cut them off. There was no longer a Germination faction, and DarkStar also lost the cannon fodder it should have had.

Taine, one of the important figures in the 2.0 Alienization Disaster, the first person in the previous life's plot to discover the main body of the Alienization Progenitor. He was possessed by the main body and became a host. Because he shared the Alienization Progenitor's strong thirst for energy, he could not control himself, absorbing energy everywhere, accelerating the growth of the Alienization Progenitor, thereby accelerating the progress of the disaster. He was a major enemy of the players, a major villain.

The Alienization Progenitor craved energy. It could move on its own, but its movement speed was too slow, so it would gain a "vehicle" by possessing someone. Although the Alienization Progenitor used hormones and dopamine to guide the actions of the infected, it could not tamper with the thoughts of the infected at the spiritual level, so it could not make the infected do complex actions such as "collecting energy and transporting it over" on a large scale.

In addition to these two, the other prisoners also had various events, causing trouble on Aquamarine Star, surrounded and wiped out by the wolves, becoming new characters that players came into contact with.

Han Xiao came to Death Knell Island in advance to eliminate these unexpected factors and ensure that his plan was not affected. Recruiting talents was just a matter of convenience. The strength of Aquamarine Star's superhumans could no longer keep up with his level. Only some prisoners with special talents were valuable to him, just like Yi Ye Qing.

Based on his understanding of the prisoners on Death Knell Island, these people were all unruly. He didn't expect to convince them with reason. After arriving, Han Xiao scanned the area with a large life detection radar and found that there were many life signals moving underground, so he waited at the exit to catch them all in one fell swoop. The anti-detection equipment set up by the Six Nations was useless in front of his machinery, full of flaws, like fragile wet paper towels, easily poked through.

"What is your purpose?"

The prisoners posed defensively.

"Enough with the small talk. A disaster is sweeping Aquamarine Star, and every talent is precious. I learned the location of you prisoners from the Six Nations, so I came to give you a chance to redeem yourselves, to let you serve the people and give you positions to shine."

"Impossible, the Six Nations would never reveal the location of this secret prison to anyone!" someone shouted.

Han Xiao raised an eyebrow. "Oh, the Six Nations now listen to me."

Everyone was speechless.

How could the Six Nations listen to one person's command? This guy must be deliberately scaring people. He's bragging without any basis. Does he think they're all fools?

"I don't care who you are, I'm not interested, I refuse!"

"I'm not asking you." Han Xiao moved his shoulders, his face expressionless. "Given your destructive power, in order to prevent the possibility of the situation deteriorating, I won't let those who refuse leave alive, so disobedience means death."

"Hehehe... what big words, what a scary threat, but I'm not afraid of you."

At this time, a man with a spider tattoo on his face stepped forward, looking fearless and wantonly arrogant. "If you have the ability, kill me, otherwise you're my grandson."

The other prisoners' eyes lit up. This guy was Black Spider, known for being difficult to deal with. He possessed a clone ability. Once killed, he would revive in a clone hidden somewhere.

Black Spider always believed that he was immortal, so he was very arrogant and unafraid of any danger.

"So it's you." Han Xiao nodded. He had an intersection with Black Spider a long time ago. This guy was captured and imprisoned on Death Knell Island because of him.

Before Black Spider could continue babbling, Han Xiao directly used the Hela character card and immediately launched three Mental Impacts without saying a word.

Black Spider's body shook, blood overflowing from his mouth and nose. He fell to the ground with a thud, struggling to raise his head, grinning and saying, "Hehe, I'm immortal. You wait, I'll come back to you sooner or later. I will be the nightmare that haunts you forever!"

The next moment, his breath ceased, and he died on the spot, with a grin still on his face.

Black Spider was not afraid of physical death. His survival form had become a mental energy, and mental damage was his nemesis. In the previous life, he died at the hands of Hela, and now he also died under Hela's ability. Han Xiao didn't mind letting him repeat his mistake.

Black Spider didn't know that this time he was really dead.

He still thought he would wake up before he died, but he didn't know that his consciousness had been plunged into darkness forever, never to open his eyes again.

"This is the first time I've heard such a request. I destroyed his soul, he won't be resurrected." Han Xiao shrugged.

Whoosh—

Before the prisoners could react, Han Xiao suddenly ejected several compression balls, which flew to the top of their heads and unfolded, turning into huge mechanical components that combined to form a silver mechanical palm about seven or eight meters in size.

[Type G75 Mechanical Claw], one of the mechanic's exclusive blueprints. This kind of large mechanical limb is a common tool for the mechanic class. It is controlled through neural links, just like an extended limb, with many models and different configurations. Under the mechanic's Mech Force amplification, its performance and power are very considerable. Not only can it be used as a conventional combat method, but it can also be an auxiliary tool for large-scale operations. For example, to build a large warship, relying solely on hands would naturally be inefficient, so you need assistant robots or this kind of tool.

In the past year, Han Xiao had enough manufacturing time to greatly enrich his mechanical equipment.

The Mechanical Claw sprayed propulsion flames from its bottom, flew straight out for hundreds of meters, and slammed into an open space, like a palm technique falling from the sky.

Boom!!

The earth shook, dust spewed out, and a palm-shaped pit was smashed into the ground, covered with spider web-like cracks.

The mechanical fingers closed, digging up a large piece of soil and throwing it in front of the prisoners. Besides the sound of碎裂碎裂 falling, there was also the sound of heavy objects landing. The pungent smell of blood quickly spread. Although the prisoners couldn't see anything other than the soil, their faces changed drastically.

Because they knew that there was an invisible guy in the team, the Invisible Demon!

"Even invisibility can't hide from my eyes." Han Xiao manipulated the Mechanical Claw to hover above his head and said, "So don't be deluded."

He had already discovered the Invisible Demon's traces. He didn't expect this guy to be imprisoned on Death Knell Island as well. The Invisible Demon had fought Han Xiao before and was extremely fearful. He wanted to sneak away while Han Xiao's attention was focused on the prisoners, but he was slapped into paste by the mechanical giant hand and died without a sound.

With Han Xiao's current strength, killing the Invisible Demon was as easy as swatting a mosquito.

He could sweep the entire Aquamarine Star with one person's power!

These powerful prisoners in the eyes of outsiders were not even as good as a group of third-rate interstellar wanderers in his eyes.

"Alright, alright, hurry up and give me an answer, my time is very valuable."

Han Xiao snapped his fingers, and the floating turret halo array spread out and surrounded the prisoners. The fingers of the Mechanical Claw opened and turned into five ultra-large-caliber light cannons, ready to fire. The constantly rising energy fluctuations made everyone present tremble with fear.

The prisoners' faces were filled with anger and unwillingness. They had finally escaped, but they encountered someone so powerful that they were desperate. They had just left the wolf's den and entered the tiger's mouth. The Black Phantom had crushing combat power. Even if everyone attacked together, they would probably be completely wiped out.

The situation was stronger than people, so the prisoners had to endure their anger and compromise, lowering their heads one after another, but they did not give up in their hearts, secretly calculating.

'Let's pretend to agree to him for now, and escape when we have the chance.' Many prisoners had the same idea.

Han Xiao counted the number of people and said, "Fewer people died than I expected. You're quite sensible. Come with me to the shelter, get on the ship."

Get on the ship? What ship? Shouldn't we be getting on a plane?

Everyone was stunned.

Buzz—

A large area of space in the sky suddenly twisted, and a huge spaceship suddenly appeared in the clear blue sky. Han Xiao had arrived here in one of his subordinate spaceships, which had been kept in stealth mode until now, so the prisoners could see this huge spaceship, like a fortress suspended in the air.

All the prisoners immediately opened their mouths in an O shape, their eyes dull, their faces blank.

Damn it, the "ship" you're talking about is a spaceship?!

Although they knew that Han Xiao was very strong, due to their lack of information and preconceived notions, Han Xiao was still a member of Aquamarine Star in their eyes, and they had never thought of him as an alien. The appearance of the giant spaceship shattered their worldview and exceeded their imagination!

They didn't believe the claim that the Six Nations had surrendered to Han Xiao, but seeing this scene, they couldn't help but waver.

A group of prisoners completely dispelled the small calculation of escaping, with bitter faces, obediently lined up to board the spaceship, the ferocious thugs became docile sheep in front of Han Xiao.

The last prisoner passed by Han Xiao, suddenly stopped in front of the gangway, turned to look at Han Xiao, and hesitated, "Do you still remember me?"

Han Xiao paused and carefully looked at the prisoner, suddenly stunned, "You are... Hannes?!"

"It's me." Hannes smiled bitterly.

"How could you be here? Bennett and I thought you were missing!" Han Xiao looked surprised. There was a hidden quest issued by Hannes in his panel, called [New Era—Origin], digging out the secrets hidden behind the history of Aquamarine Star.

Before Han Xiao left Aquamarine Star, the quest had been completed to the third stage, but since Hannes suddenly disappeared, there were no further prompts, but the quest had not failed, so he thought Hannes should still be alive.

Hannes being imprisoned on Death Knell Island greatly exceeded Han Xiao's expectations.

"It's a long story." Hannes shook his head helplessly. "I discovered an amazing secret, this secret brought danger to us, everyone else died, only I survived."

Han Xiao frowned and guessed, "You were imprisoned on Death Knell Island, so this was done by the Six Nations? You discovered secrets they wanted to hide?"

"No." Hannes shook his head. "Although the Six Nations caught me, I was on the verge of death at that time, and they saved my life instead."

"...Then why were you arrested?"

Hannes smiled bitterly. "Maybe because there was a dead Godoran lying next to me at that time."

"What?!"

Han Xiao was shocked. "How did you encounter a Godoran?"

"Alas, let's go on board and talk slowly... you even have a spaceship now, you're not what you used to be, maybe only you can use the clues I found..."

Hannes clenched his fists, his tone suppressing anger.

"My guess was right, there is indeed a mastermind behind Aquamarine Star becoming the devastated state it is today, Godora is the source of the war!"