Chapter 182 The Lucky One

“Hidden mission…” Han Xiao was slightly stunned, then saw the mission rewards, his expression changed, and a look of pleasant surprise appeared.

The second [Bold Explorer] skill fragment?!

Han Xiao suddenly turned his head to look at Fording, who was focused on watching the Asir civilization video beside him. Taking advantage of his inattention, he went up and pressed his shoulders, shaking him repeatedly.

“W-what are you doing?” Fording looked astonished, staring blankly at Han Xiao, whose face was full of joy.

“You’re awesome!”

Han Xiao was extremely happy. In his eyes, Fording at this moment seemed to be glowing all over.

Ah, this blinding aura of an Emperor of Europe! (lucky person)

Hidden missions had a small chance of producing [Bold Explorer] skill fragments. Over the past four months, players had discovered many hidden missions and shared them with him, but he had never triggered this reward. The goddess of luck still disliked him as always.

But now that he had personally taken a trip with Fording, the goddess of luck, that little flirt, was probably actively lifting her skirt to show Fording the holy light.

Han Xiao couldn't help but sigh. Charmingly explosive, extremely lucky, with a big wife who could be communicated with spiritually, and a goddess of luck willing to be a mistress behind him, Fording was probably the biggest winner in life in the Black Star Army.

Although Nero also had a high-level lucky aura, and could also make the goddess of luck, this snobbish little girl, pose in one hundred and eight positions…

But… he wasn't handsome!

Compared to Fording, Nero was just a little brother!

“You’re the most reliable.” Han Xiao patted Fording's shoulder vigorously, looking gratified.

Fording had a black… white person question mark face.

Seeing everyone staring at him with puzzled expressions, Han Xiao put a layer of calm Buff on himself, coughed dryly, and casually explained:

“This civilization used their holy object to create this special amber. No one except us has set foot on this planet, so this holy object is ours. I estimate that this is another cosmic treasure.”

The others didn't know that Han Xiao had a clear goal in coming to this planet beforehand, nodded, and didn't suspect anything else.

Han Xiao let the mechanical troops search, found the database, and Phillip copied all the information in it, finally deciphering the Asir civilization's language.

After updating the translator's language pack, everyone returned to the black disc and watched the Asir civilization's video again, this time finally understanding the content.

“I am the leader of the Asir people, the lucky visitor. When you see this image, we may have already perished. No matter what your identity is, please watch this video…”

The panel's mission introduction had already explained the general situation. Han Xiao listened to it again to refine the details.

The video introduced the situation of the Asir civilization, which was all expected. At the end of the video, the Asir people requested the visitor to complete two things. One was to unlock the effect of the Space-Time Amber, and for this purpose, they explained in detail their research on the Space-Time Amber, but for this extraterrestrial object that transcended understanding, the Asir civilization's research results were not many.

The second thing was that if the Asir people were extinct, they requested the visitor to preserve the data of the Asir civilization and leave traces of their existence.

Everyone had been in the universe for many years and had long been accustomed to the demise of civilizations. The universe was like this. New species were born every moment, and old species died out. If they were touched by every one, they wouldn't have to do anything else every day.

But every civilization was a miracle of life, and existence was dignity. For a civilization's last wish, they would still respect it.

But before that, they needed to do the main thing first.

With the translation, the location of the Space-Time Amber was clear. Han Xiao asked the mechanical troops to bring out all the amber from each relic site, and gathered at the location of the Space-Time Amber.

…

The speed of the crowd's flight was very fast, and it didn't take long before they landed at the relic site where the Space-Time Amber was located.

According to the instructions in the video, Han Xiao came to an empty room in the central shelter of this relic site. A huge mural wall came into view, about eight meters high and thirty meters long, with pictures of the Asir people's history on it.

One of the pictures was of a meteorite-like black block falling from the clouds, with a group of small people looking up at it. Han Xiao controlled his Mechanical Force, floated up, came to this picture, and reached out to touch the meteorite on the painting.

His palm stuck to the wall, and his strength blew away the thick accumulation of dust.

Whoosh—

The dust was swept away and scattered.

Han Xiao exerted strength in his five fingers and suddenly broke through the meteorite image, causing soil and stones to rustle down.

Click!

He pulled out a pale white, dim crystal from behind the wall, which was exactly the same shape as the meteorite image.

Looking at the white crystal in his hand, Han Xiao's eyes flashed.

This seemingly ordinary mineral crystal was the core of the Space-Time Amber, hidden by the Asir people in this mural, which could also be found by using a three-dimensional scan of the mechanical troops, but it would obviously take more time.

[You have obtained [Space-Time Amber]]

[Space-Time Amber: A cosmic spectacle item of unknown origin, capable of freezing space-time to form an amber-like entity, used to encapsulate various objects. Energy consumption varies according to the size of the amber. Current energy value: 0]

“Got it.” Han Xiao was overjoyed.

This could be considered the easiest cosmic treasure to obtain, after all, no other forces besides himself knew of its existence for the time being.

This was the benefit of information advantage… Han Xiao smiled secretly.

He landed on the ground, and everyone immediately surrounded him, curiously looking at the Space-Time Amber.

“Is this the holy object that can create that amber that isolates all attacks?” Hela looked at the Space-Time Amber and asked doubtfully, “Why isn't there any energy reaction at all?”

“This thing needs to be charged to be used.”

Han Xiao explained, then manipulated his cells to spray out surging Mechanical Force, pouring it into the Space-Time Amber in his hand.

Boom—

An invisible shock wave exploded from Han Xiao's body out of thin air, like a hurricane. This was the aura that erupted when Han Xiao released his energy with all his strength, and dust rose in the room.

Lightning-flashing Mechanical Force poured into the Space-Time Amber, and the dim Space-Time Amber gradually brightened.

In the past four months, Han Xiao had completed the [Heber Star Furnace Forging Method], consuming 3.9 billion experience, and his Mechanical Force limit had permanently increased by more than 17,000, which was very cost-effective for him.

The Space-Time Amber was like a bottomless pit, able to devour as much energy as it could, and the energy value slowly rose. The conversion method of the Space-Time Amber's energy value was independent.

Using the Space-Time Amber required a lot of energy, but for a Mechanic who mastered psionic energy, there was as much energy as he needed.

Han Xiao thought for a while, stopped using his own Mechanical Force, took out a few psionic reactors as power banks, connected them to the Space-Time Amber with energy transmission pipelines, and continuously charged it. The Space-Time Amber seemed to have no limit to the amount of energy it could accumulate, and it wasn't afraid of exploding.

After charging, the Space-Time Amber immediately had an energy reaction.

Han Xiao held the Space-Time Amber in his hand and could feel the energy inside. The method of using the Space-Time Amber was very simple, just activating the energy inside.

The Asir civilization's usage method was relatively crude and didn't have much reference value. Han Xiao remembered that the owners of the Space-Time Amber in his previous life had better usage methods. They could create a specific excitation device that resonated with the frequency of the Space-Time Amber and wrap it up, then use a neural link to control the excitation device, so that they could indirectly control the Space-Time Amber with their thoughts and consciousness, and the control response would be more sensitive and delicate.

Han Xiao's current mechanical level could easily create an excitation device, but of course not now. He wasn't in a hurry to test the Space-Time Amber's abilities, and just happened to complete the hidden mission first.

The group walked out of the central shelter of the relic site. All of the Asir people's amber had been moved to this relic site by the mechanical troops, in large numbers, stretching as far as the eye could see.

Han Xiao came to an Asir person's amber, took the Space-Time Amber's main body and swiped it, and the main body effortlessly cut open the transparent amber that was immune to all attacks.

The Space-Time Amber's main body could freely penetrate the amber it created and wouldn't be affected by the frozen space-time.

Pop~

Being cut open by the main body, the amber dissipated into the air like a bubble, and the Asir person inside left the amber and immediately collapsed to the ground.

Aurora hurriedly helped him up and said in surprise, “There's a life reaction, he's still alive.”

“His soul has already dissipated. Although his body is still alive, he's already a living dead person.” Hela shook her head.

Unlike Aurora, she could sense the souls of lives, and although this Asir person's body was alive, it was an empty shell.

Han Xiao scanned him. Due to the characteristics of the Space-Time Amber, this Asir person's body was maintained in the state before it was frozen. Although the brain had stopped functioning, there were no signs of decay, and it was as fresh as the body, which meant that the brain was also frozen… But if the brain was also frozen, then it shouldn't produce any mental activity.

He speculated that since the body didn't consume energy in the Space-Time Amber, perhaps it passively consumed soul energy to support mental activity? So the reason for the demise of consciousness was that the soul energy was exhausted? The stronger the individual, the more abundant the soul energy, so it could last longer?

“It's not impossible to say that.” Thinking of the Space-Time Amber's origin, Han Xiao didn't find this phenomenon strange.

The role of the Space-Time Amber came from the ability of an Initial One, which was on the list of ultra-high-risk abilities: “Freeze Space-Time”.

Most of the abilities on the ultra-high-risk ability list had instances of existence, and this Initial One was the first Esper discovered to be able to freeze space-time.

Abilities like *Za Warudo* (Japanese onomatopoeia for stopping time) were rare, and were extremely difficult to master high-level forbidden techniques in the magic system.

And this Initial One was serving in an advanced civilization at the time and died in battle. Another Initial One whose ability was to rewrite the properties of objects was his partner at the time and turned his remains into crystals that would not rot, burying them in the universe in a wandering way. But the crystals, in countless years of wandering, did not know whether they absorbed some strange cosmic radiation, not only retained the ability to freeze space-time, but also the ability mutated and became a cosmic spectacle, which was the origin of the Space-Time Amber, which players only learned about in the later versions of his previous life.

Putting away his thoughts, Han Xiao used the Space-Time Amber to lift all the Asir people's seals.

After checking, none of the souls were still alive.

“Alas, they're all dead.” Fording shook his head and sighed.

Han Xiao had originally held a little hope, thinking that there might be some protagonist-type characters among the Asir people who could survive, but unfortunately there was none. Perhaps in the face of time, no one could escape the result of demise.

Looking at this scene, although everyone was accustomed to the demise of civilizations, they had no intention of talking at this time and were all silent.

[You have lifted the Space-Time Amber effect on all the Asir people!]

[[Traces of Existence] has been completed!]

[You have gained 1.5 billion experience, 780 Exploration Points]

[You have gained Random Reward x1]

[You have gained 1 point of Legend]

[Planet Legend (Asir People) – [The Last Witness]: You have personally witnessed the last moment of the Asir people. A civilization has lost its last trace of vitality in your eyes. Maybe everything will eventually dissipate with time, but at least they once existed and sculpted a period of time]

Han Xiao sighed, “Phillip, move these remains onto the ship and burn them and bury them in the universe.”

Fording looked over, “Don't you want to use the Space-Time Amber to leave specimens?”

“Their souls dissipated with the civilization, let their bodies be freed together.”

Han Xiao shook his head. The Asir people's body data had already been scanned and there was nothing special about it, and the Space-Time Amber had not yet appeared in the world. He was going to use this as a trump card and didn't want to leave any clues.

He still remembered that he had the identity of a member of the Space-Time Research Society. This association preserved the data of every extinct civilization, popularized and exhibited it to outsiders, allowing more people to understand the civilizations that had once existed in this universe.

Handing over the data to the Space-Time Research Society should be a better home for this civilization.

“Master, would you like me to upload the Asir civilization's data to the Space-Time Research Society's database?”

“Upload it.”

Han Xiao nodded, temporarily concealing the Space-Time Amber's data.

With the Space-Time Amber in hand, the group returned to the fleet and set off to return.

In different spaceships, the remains of the Asir people were sent into the crematorium and scattered into the universe. The fleet left behind a trail of embers, like a tail flame dragging starlight.

…

The fleet entered warp mode. Han Xiao temporarily rejected Hadaway's wrestling invitation and locked himself in the mechanical modification room, preparing to create a convenient use device for the Space-Time Amber first.

One instrument after another was connected to the Space-Time Amber, which was being tested for its parameters. Han Xiao stood aside, staring down at the Space-Time Amber, which was emitting a halo at all times.

“This is the second cosmic treasure I've obtained, equivalent to a new trump card. The Evolution Cube has the effect of genetic evolution, while the Space-Time Amber can freeze space-time…”

Han Xiao thought to himself.

The Evolution Cube could be used for deals, the Space-Time Amber… maybe it could be used for deterrence?

At this moment, Han Xiao suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

Since the Space-Time Amber could isolate the conduction of energy, if he wrapped the Evolution Cube up… wouldn't Sysko be unable to sense it?

“It feels like there's something to it. Anyway, I don't usually use the Evolution Cube, and it's the same to remove it when I need to use it. I just don't know if this can cut off Sysko's thoughts… but the Void Spiritual Church probably won't give up either.” Han Xiao rolled his eyes and pondered.

He was going to install a convenient and practical device on the Space-Time Amber first, and then test the feasibility of this idea, anyway, it wouldn't take him a few minutes to create a small device.

Temporarily putting this matter aside, Han Xiao opened the panel and looked at the skill list.

The two skill fragments of [Bold Explorer] had been obtained. This skill had been activated and could gain inspiration when exploring the unknown and appraising items, forcibly obtaining some information.

“Cooldown time of seven days, the side effect is to reduce luck for 14 days, tch, I don't have any luck to reduce.”

All side effects about luck are bullshit to me!

Han Xiao smiled proudly.

…Wait, there doesn't seem to be anything to be proud of!

Turning his head to look, Han Xiao's eyes fixed.

Why not try the effect of this skill on the Space-Time Amber.

He knew the origin of the Space-Time Amber and could use it to test the accuracy of this skill.