Chapter 465 Interstellar Rebellion 4
Buck hesitated for a moment before saying, "It's a key material for starships and mechs. There are many things we can do with it."
"I want it to build a starship," Buck finally revealed his true purpose.
"With a starship, you can apply for a route and go to the central star or other planets on your own."
Zhou Jue raised an eyebrow upon hearing this. She had originally planned to take an "official flight" to Central Star after obtaining her identity, but it seemed there was a second way.
"Do you have any information about the power core?" Zhou Jue asked.
Upon hearing this, Buck's face lit up with joy: "Sir, that thing... is in the hands of the 'Vulture Gang'."
“‘Acid Fog Sea’ is their territory; our people can’t get in at all.”
How many of them are there? What kind of equipment do they have?
“About two hundred people, all outlaws,” Buck recalled. “The leader was called ‘Blood Falcon,’ a modification fanatic. It’s said that seventy percent of his body was replaced with machinery. As for weapons… they had a modified light gunboat with very strong firepower.”
"Location."
Buck immediately pulled up a map on the data terminal, marking the locations of the "Acid Mist Sea" and the "Vulture Gang's" camps.
"Sir, you...you don't mean to go alone, do you?" Buck asked cautiously.
“It’s dangerous there. The ‘Vulture Gang’ doesn’t follow any rules.”
Zhou Jue looked at the red dot marked on Buck's map but did not immediately agree.
"I'll go take a look, but I can't guarantee I'll get it back."
"grown ups!"
Buck couldn't hide the joy on his face, and the excruciating pain in his hand seemed to have lessened.
"Your willingness to go is already an immense favor!"
He quickly added, "Whether it succeeds or not, I will definitely hand over the promised reward! You can come and collect it anytime!"
"good."
Zhou Jue stood up, preparing to leave.
She walked to the door, then stopped and glanced back at the two people in the office.
One of them was a thin man still lying on the ground, looking at her with an expression as if he were looking at a god.
The other was a scarred local bully with a perpetually smiling face and a constant bowing and scraping.
Two almost invisible beams of light flashed from Zhou Jue's fingertips and disappeared, entering the bodies of the two people respectively. They were not powerful talismans, but they were meant to make them forget about her when they wanted to tell her to a third person.
"You two."
Her voice sent a shiver down the spines of both Buck and the skinny man.
"If you tell my story to the wrong people..." Zhou Jue snorted coldly, and the two immediately promised that they would never say anything!
After saying that, she didn't linger and disappeared through the doorway.
The office fell into a deathly silence.
The thin man on the ground clutched the terminal that represented his "free citizen" identity tightly in his hand, his body still trembling uncontrollably.
He stared at the empty doorway, then stole a glance at Buck, his heart pounding in his chest.
He was afraid that Buck would settle scores with him later.
However, Buck just stood there, staring blankly at his right hand, without moving.
A long time passed.
"Get up."
Buck's voice came through, hoarse, dry, and trembling slightly.
The thin man was stunned; he thought he had misheard.
Buck ignored him and walked to the liquor cabinet, took out a bottle of the strongest liquor, and poured it directly onto the wound.
"Sizzle—"
The intense pain contorted Buck's face instantly, but he gritted his teeth and didn't utter a sound.
The thin man struggled to get up from the ground, his limbs weak, and tried to slip away.
"stop."
Buck's voice froze him in place.
"She...that person."
Buck turned around and looked at him with an unprecedentedly serious expression.
"Who exactly is this person? How do you know them?"
“Tell me everything you know from beginning to end.”
"Not a single word can be omitted!"
The skinny man dared not hide anything and stammered out everything that had happened in the bar.
From how Zhou Jue found him, how he took out a bottle of pure water, all the way to the end, how he turned that discarded energy block into a brand new military-grade energy block.
He spoke while gesturing.
"That's how it happened. She took that piece of junk, put her hand under the table for a moment, then took it out again, and... and it turned into this!"
He pointed to the A+ grade energy block on the table, his tone filled with incomprehensible shock and awe.
"It's as simple as... as turning stone into gold!"
Buck listened quietly.
His expression shifted from serious to shocked, and then to lingering fear.
The gun that melted him was beyond his comprehension.
But by instantly refining and reconstructing a piece of scrap energy into a brand new military-grade energy block...
This is no longer a skill, nor is it a superpower.
This is mental power! At least S-level mental power! But in the Federation, S-level mental power is something only the most gifted people can achieve. How could it be here? Is it some kind of family training?
His forehead was covered in a thick layer of cold sweat, and the back of his clothes was instantly soaked.
fortunately……
Fortunately, I slid down quickly and immediately gave in.
If it were a family training exercise, and I were to make a move, I'd probably get my base destroyed!
He looked at the energy block on the table that emitted a pure blue light, and then at the identity terminal in the thin man's hand.
This woman doesn't care about these things at all; she can create wealth a thousand times more precious than this with ease.
She wants an identity, probably as a form of training!
"I see."
Buck let out a long breath, as if expelling all the fear in his heart.
He walked up to the skinny man, who shrank back in fright.
Buck pulled out several large credits from his pocket and stuffed them into his hand.
"Take the money, get your genetic testing done, then buy a ticket and leave this hellhole."
The skinny man was completely dumbfounded.
"Boss, you..."
"From now on, you are no longer mine; you are a free man."
Buck patted his shoulder, not with much force, but it felt like a ton of weight to the skinny man.
"If we meet again on another planet in the future, don't say you know me, just start a new life together."
A resolute glint flashed in Buck's eyes.
He didn't know if he had made the right bet.
This woman named Zhou Jue might be his opportunity to grow and expand; he must seize it, by any means necessary.
...
Zhou Jue left the bar without a moment's delay.
His divine sense had already locked onto the direction of the "Sea of Acid Mist" on the map, and he flew there invisibly.
The further west you go, the stronger the corrosive smell in the air becomes.
The ground was no longer soft black dust, but hardened into chunks after being eroded by acidic substances.
Occasionally, you can see some rudimentary tools left behind by scavengers, which have long been corroded and left only as small remnants.
This is a forbidden zone for life.
Half an hour later.
Zhou Jue stopped and stood atop a small hill made of the engines of a decommissioned starship.
Before her appeared a "sea".
A sea of thick, yellow fog, churning and surging, emitting a pungent odor.
The thick fog covered everything in sight, making it impossible to see what was inside.
The mist rolled along the ground, and wherever it passed, even the hardest alloy remnants hissed softly, with white smoke slowly rising from their surfaces.
This is the "acid fog sea".
It is a graveyard for warships, and also a death trap for life.
Zhou Jue's consciousness pierced into the thick fog without hesitation.
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