Chapter 184 Ludicrous

Kerton shrank back, trembling. "I mentioned it to him, and he thought it was interesting, so I brought him along..."

Han Xiao was increasingly bewildered. "What do you mean? Weren't you instructed by Godora to do this?"

Kerton paused, realizing that these people had misunderstood something. He hesitated, but remembering their lie detection methods, his face fell. He whispered, "No, this has nothing to do with Godora. This was my personal plan."

Hannes and Bennett, who were righteously indignant, suddenly froze.

"I have the authority to do this. My usual work is too boring. One day, looking at the situation of the Aquamarine Star civilization, I suddenly had the idea of treating Aquamarine Star as a sandbox, toying with this planet. After all, it's a primitive civilization, easy to fool, and there's no risk... Because the higher-ups don't interfere with low-level civilizations' internal wars. I wanted to provoke a war, watching you fight each other, I thought that would be interesting... I thought of it, so I did it."

"Angley cooperated with me. He later chose to stay on Aquamarine Star because he thought it was pointless to return to Godora. It was better to stay on a primitive planet and witness the impact he had made on the planet. He thought it was fascinating."

After Kerton finished speaking, the entire room fell silent. The lie detector did not sound an alarm, meaning everything was true.

Hannes and Bennett stared wide-eyed in disbelief.

This wasn't a Godoran plan?

Just because... it was interesting?

"Impossible!" Hannes lost his composure. "You're just an ordinary person. Without Godoran intervention, how could two ordinary people do something like this?!"

Kerton shrank back, whispering, "Actually, it was quite simple. No one suspected the envoy was fake... because we really are Godorans."

Hannes was stunned. He had preconceived that two ordinary people couldn't cause a war on Aquamarine Star, but now he was speechless.

Right, they were both Godorans.

That was enough...

Because the Godora civilization was advanced, Godorans were also "advanced". Who would suspect them?

Bennett's face was icy. He suddenly grabbed Kerton by the collar. Countless people on Aquamarine Star were ruined by the war, and the reason was simply because this Godoran found it amusing. But looking at Kerton's panicked but unrepentant eyes, Bennett swallowed the words of abuse that had reached his lips.

At that time, in the eyes of this Godoran, the Aquamarine Star civilization was probably like an ant nest... How could playing with ants be a sin...?

Han Xiao's expression was strange, and he only felt it was absurd.

He had thought that there were forces secretly scheming behind the internal strife on Aquamarine Star, but the truth was unexpected. There were no forces calculating the then-weak Aquamarine Star civilization. The real reason was just a daring outsider's whimsical, twisted amusement. No conspiracy, no trickery, it was that simple.

A small figure in Godora was bored and started a war for fun. After watching the show, he acted as if nothing had happened. Finally, due to the convenience of his position and Godora's lack of attention to Aquamarine Star, he concealed the matter for decades.

And failures like Angley, who couldn't survive in their own society, deliberately came to bully the weak, stir up trouble, and find a sense of superiority on a primitive planet.

What these two relied on was their golden skin.

The matter was so simple, incredibly absurd, yet realistically bleak.

Because of their weakness, they became toys.

This gave Han Xiao the feeling that a decent woman had been molested by a spoiled brat who relied on his family's power, and had no way to resist.

For Aquamarine Star, this was like an unexpected disaster, an undeserved calamity.

Although he had no special feelings for Aquamarine Star – he wasn't someone who would be bound by emotions – at this time, he was indeed a little annoyed, not at Godora. On this matter, the crime of the Godora civilization was perhaps that they were powerful enough, so powerful that their citizens were too superior.

"Truly... absurd." Han Xiao exhaled a breath of stale air, his mood complex.

Even when the panel popped up with the message that this hidden A-level mission was completed, he wasn't in the mood to check it immediately.

The Sky Ring mercenaries left. Kerton was left behind, knocked unconscious and locked in a cage. Han Xiao handed him over to Bennett to deal with.

Hannes and Bennett found it difficult to accept this fact. The decades of changes on Aquamarine Star, in the face of this absurd reason, all the suffering seemed to have become meaningless. A civilization was played with by two aliens, as ridiculous as a joke.

This planet could have been better...

"It's done, don't overthink it. If that's the truth, we have to believe it." Han Xiao shook his head.

Bennett lowered his head, thinking about something. He suddenly stood up and looked at Han Xiao seriously.

"During the negotiations between you and the six nations, I didn't interrupt, but I thought you had developed ambitions at that time. Although I didn't say anything, I did have a grudge... But I was wrong."

Bennett clenched his fists. "Now I understand your good intentions. Weakness is the original sin. You went to the universe not only to deal with the disaster, but also to fight for a future for Aquamarine Star... You are greater than me!"

Han Xiao's mouth twitched. Where did he get that idea?

Could it be that the higher the favorability, the stronger the overthinking?

"If it weren't for you, this planet would have been in the dark forever. I thank you on behalf of the entire Aquamarine Star." Bennett bowed deeply, remaining in that position for a long time. Hannes heard this and stood up, also bowing.

"Don't do this... You're making me feel like I'm about to become a good person." Han Xiao said helplessly. Everything he had done started from utilitarian purposes, but the actions that stemmed from interests had caused some good results.

But he never thought he was a good person. Like now, he had already begun to think about how to maximize Kerton's value.

…

At the same time, in the Black Phantom shelter.

Players came and went, still active on the front lines of disaster relief. In the arena not far from the square, the Black Star mercenary group launched a new round of selection. The sounds of fighting and shouting carried far away. Many refugees who had been injected with inhibitors had regained hope for life. Although it was a disaster, the shelter was filled with vitality.

In the sky, several Godora disaster relief team spaceships hovered. Nagokin looked through the porthole, watching the scene in the arena below, thinking about something.

His adjutant stood beside him, observing his expression and asked, "Lord Nagokin, what do you think of these Espers?"

"Very potential." Nagokin nodded slowly. Through these days of observation, he had deeply understood the potential of the players. From the initial slight attention, it had turned into intense interest.

With the pleasant surprise of the Espers, Nagokin felt that the goal of this trip was more than just disaster relief.

Although helping Aquamarine Star with disaster relief, it didn't mean that Godora cared much about a low-level civilization. It was just for public opinion and their status. In Nagokin's view, the Espers seemed to bring them greater benefits.

"There are many Espers, about millions on the entire Aquamarine Star. So many superhumans, and they still have the potential to grow, which is a force to be reckoned with wherever they are placed," the adjutant said.

"That's right, perhaps we should have in-depth communication with the Espers... They are worth wooing."

"What do you want to do?"

"...Let's issue a recruitment announcement to them. Like Black Star, our Godora should be more competitive than a mercenary group."

Nagokin made a decision. He respected Black Star's strength, but with such a large resource of superhumans in front of him, for the sake of the civilization's interests, he couldn't sit idly by and also wanted a piece of the pie.

Even if the Espers were Black Star's compatriots, they couldn't all be given to the other party.