Starting as a Mechanical Hunter

Chapter 959: Chapter 65: Annihilation Complete

The heavenly tribulation even carries a rock ’n’ roll vibe.

Accompanied by illusions of Yaksha, Devil, Rakshasa, it sounded like an intense beating of percussion instruments; the high pitch of an electric guitar made the power of the heavenly tribulation surge wave after wave, as if a celestial being clad in red underwear was frantically shaking its hips, with a cigarette dangling at the corner of its mouth, resembling random chaotic codes wandering about.

Without network signals, even the strongest virus could only fall into slumber, no matter how powerful the Punk Virus.

Compared to the barely active Gao Yuanyuan in the spaceship’s local network, her other personality ’Gox’ had been dormant ever since the entry into the interstellar era.

The junky local network couldn’t bear a virus of her caliber.

However, in the planetary network of the Mechanical Serpent Constellation, signals were top-notch.

For the Xie Family, who engaged in electronic house ascension, the Punk Virus Gox was precisely their nemesis.

As the clouds in the sky turned more red, wild viral data poured down like a torrential downpour, soaking the earth, with various ’records’ continuously refreshing on Gao Gong’s panel.

[You killed Xie Wang, experience +10 million, attribute points +4]

[You killed Xie Xiaofeng, experience +14 million, specialization points +5]

[You killed Planetary Governor Xie Tianxiao, experience +38 million, skill points +5, random one advanced blueprint]

...

Although the experience rewards were significantly reduced since Gao Gong didn’t personally kill them, the Xie Family members generally had very high levels, averaging over level 70, belonging to boss-level players even within Tier 3, especially those with ’prefixes’ who provided rewards no less than some faction monsters, not just due to level, but also the effects of faction bonuses.

Planetary Governor Xie Tianxiao, Guy Republic 117th Dominator Starship Captain Xie Kong, Dark Hand Xie%￥#@%.

The experience these three gave was not even less than that of several clan elders.

”Interstellar Family, Mechanical Aristocracy,” Gao Gong sighed.

Contrary to what outsiders imagined, among the four systems, the mechanical system, known for being the most cold-blooded and unfeeling, turning their backs on kin, was in fact the most likely to nurture clan, family, aristocracy, and other blood lineage organizations, and undoubtedly, the Xie Family could be considered an aristocracy, as the three prefixed Xie Family members destroyed by the Punk Virus were undoubtedly part of the upper echelons of various organizations, one even controlled a Dominator Level Starship of the Galen Republic.

And these Xie Family members, mingling within different forces, as long as one branch wasn’t destroyed, could cooperate with the power of the Xie Family Ancestral Hall to revive the family anytime, anywhere.

”Brother, now the Xie Family is going to be completely destroyed, right?” Gao Yuanyuan exclaimed with interest, this little girl was also coming to grips with things more under Gao Gong’s influence.

Gao Gong pondered for a moment:

”Uh, hard to say, after all, these days, who doesn’t have a personality dungeon, cellular-level repair device.”

He paused again,

”However, it’s 100% certain that even if the Xie Family members have various ways to save their lives, their main personalities can’t be saved.”

Sure enough, soon, the system delivered the message of task completion.

[Extermination Task, Destroy Family Shrine completed, reward: Tier 3 Mechanical Puzzle*5, random three Xie Family Ancestral Hall treasures]

[Your space pirate reputation +2000 (Holt Inner Star Spin)]

[Current space pirate reputation: Respect (Holt Inner Star Spin)]

Note: You are notorious in the space pirate circle, everyone knows, the 5th Stellar Vortex has a badass who eats, sleeps, beats space pirates

[Your success rate of recruiting famous space pirates +10%]

So, are space pirates all M, the harder you beat, the higher the recruitment rate?

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The impact of the Xie Family’s extermination was not limited to the 5th Stellar Vortex, on a colonial planet in the 3rd Stellar Vortex, atop a lavish planetary governor’s mansion, a mechanical giant over a hundred meters tall suddenly fell into downtime mode, shortly after, a massive explosion erupted from the governor’s mansion, with smoke and ash shooting straight into the sky.

Meanwhile, in a patrol fleet of the Galen Republic, a Dominator Level starship suddenly veered off course, diving headlong into a spatial rift at superluminal speed.

Similarly, in a special dimension in an interstellar black market, a dark tentacle obscuring the entire space, covered with dense suckers, had one of its tendrils, on which a twisted human figure suddenly collapsed, after a moment, the dispersed corpse oil reassembled, recondensing into the image of a Xie Family member, with green eyes, muttering.

”The Xie Family Ancestral Hall is destroyed? If not, why would the personality code disintegrate, well, in this case, the Tier 4 treasure of the Xie Family can also be reclaimed by me.”

When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes back at you.

The Xie Family, coveting the power of various major forces, naturally, the various major forces were also very interested in the power of the Xie Family Ancestral Hall.

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A day later——

”Have a better attitude, don’t just start cursing, dress appropriately, why aren’t you wearing any pants.”

”I’m wearing them, aren’t I.”

Gates looked down, only to see a layer of black metallic shell wrapped around his bug tail, while a suit of Mirta Federation aristocratic attire encased his upper body, a silver-white suit, with a row of stars hanging on the right chest area.

However, he quickly diverted his attention to the energy conduction wall around him, murmuring with fiery eyes:

”This level of energy transmission system, it’s really a Star-Destroying Cannon!”

Soon, the door opened, but it wasn’t Gao Gong who walked out, it was Qin Zhenzi, with a thick stack of documents in her hand.

What’s amazing is, in an era where interstellar civilizations have generally achieved digitalization and even virtualization of office work, most interstellar black markets have collectively adopted paper contracts, and the text on these contracts naturally has no legal effect, yet has all sorts of special constraints.

This kind of handwritten agreement can largely prevent the detection by civilization forces.

And influenced by ’paper contracts’, many interstellar black market forces would store information in paper format, though much of it was encrypted, making decryption still very troublesome.

”Minister Qin, does the boss have time now? This is my old brother Gates, the famous spaceship designer from the Mechanical Serpent Constellation, also the one the esteemed boss specifically asked to meet.”

Though Vervi’s strength far exceeded Qin Zhenzi’s, Qin Zhenzi was indeed a seasoned member of the Cybertron Corps, so this old star thief maintained enough respect for her.

”You mean the boss? Wait a while, he’s currently unavailable.”

”Alright,” Vervi glanced at the first page of the document contract, the dense special characters resembled mechanical symbols, and he asked somewhat uncertainly:

”Is this something from the Xie Family?”

”Yes, the boss salvaged it from the Xie Family’s old house, assigned me to find an expert within the group who can decrypt it.”

Even though the Level 2 Influence had upgraded to Level 3 Influence, and Du Gao Technology had also upgraded to the Cybertron Corps, some old-timers of Du Gao Technology still used the past terminology by habit.

”Is the boss planning to replace the Xie Family’s position, using their former smuggling channels?”

Vervi probed tentatively.

Qin Zhenzi chuckled, her red lips curving into a beautiful arc, yet she left without saying a word.

”Is the Xie Family really gone? Eliminated by your current boss?!” Gates was quite shocked, unexpected that the black market rumors were true.

That was the Mechanical Xie Family, one of the biggest black market channels of the Mechanical Serpent Constellation, yet wiped out just like that?

”Could it be a Star-Destroying Cannon, no, satellite 10 wasn’t damaged,” Gates muttered, unable to figure out how exactly the Xie Family was exterminated.

One must know, the Xie Family’s Immortality Technique was renowned in the 5th Stellar Vortex.