Starting as a Mechanical Hunter

Chapter 1049: Chapter 155: Exchange 3

”Such rumors can’t be considered intelligence,” Mechanical Turtle Jes said bluntly.

”It’s not a rumor, I saw it with my own eyes. Kun’s Child smashed Old Walter with a single punch, completely erasing his gene code.”

Kun’s Child is the Leviathan Giant. However, outside, people prefer to call them Leviathan Giant, while ’Kun’ refers to a very powerful individual in the history of Leviathan.

”Erased the gene code, meaning the other party can’t even transfer consciousness.”

Jes was very surprised; he had heard of powerful ’Carbon-Based Creatures’ having this tactic, directly wiping the opponent from the genetic level, making all their resurrection methods unable to activate.

’Tier 4 Carbon Fusion.’

Gao Gong silently elevated the threat level of that ’Kun’s Child.’

Only those who mastered this level of carbon fusion could perform what’s known to players as ’Auntie’s Slash.’

For players, ordinary death merely results in dropping one level, plus a three-day offline penalty.

But for this notoriously infamous ’Auntie’s Slash,’ it wipes out one’s biological layer, with the death penalty rising from dropping one level to dropping five levels, and the online time being postponed to seven days.

That wasn’t even the most cruel.

Above ’Auntie’s Slash,’ aka ’Microscopic Slash,’ was ’Rule Slash.’

Once one was slashed by a rule weapon, dropping ten levels would happen immediately.

Many players tortured by such settings felt life or death were both unbearable, saying even wandering the soul wasn’t so painful.

Still, they clearly underestimated the malice of ”Cyber Realm,” after all, who could have thought that NPCs in the game also have the trick of capturing people offline.

This news was indeed explosive enough.

”So now, the Walter Group is in a leaderless state?” Jes murmured.

Although Old Walter might have backups like ’Consciousness Transfer Machine’ or ’Cloned Body.’

But after ’Microscopic Slash,’ all these backups were in a non-activated state.

Moreover, he was quite sure that once such a leaderless situation occurs among the Star Thief profession, nine times out of ten there would be infighting, many high-ranking officers would think they are the most suitable to become the leader Walter.

This is extremely valuable intelligence!

The three turned their attention to Gao Gong.

Gao Gong scratched his face; could he still get free information, besides he had just arrived, where would he have any fresh intelligence. ℴℴ𝘮

He thought for a while and decided to reveal a piece of news —

”I have news that soon, a numerously massive and powerful interstellar fleet is going to try to conquer this resource planet.”

To enhance credibility, Gao Gong paused and added a sentence:

”I am hired by this force.”

”A numerously massive fleet, how large?” Jes asked somewhat suspiciously.

”At least a thousand Tier 3 Battleships!”

”Hiss~”

Although in previous wars, numerous interstellar battleships had been blasted, these were all Tier 2 Starships. According to a very rough calculation.

One Tier 3 Starship is equivalent to 20 Tier 2 Starships.

So, a thousand Tier 3 Battleships equal twenty thousand Tier 2 Starships.

This is indeed a very powerful fleet.

”Whose fleet is this, which Interstellar Governor’s? Or a coalition from the Black Market?”

Jes was very curious; if it was from a specific faction, only an Interstellar Governor could leverage such power.

And if it was a coalition, based on his understanding, it shouldn’t be gathered in such a short time.

Fern, Son of Leviathan, was also very interested in this point.

”Sorry, I signed a confidentiality agreement.”

Gao Gong smiled slightly, exchanging one piece of information for another. I don’t want to get information for free anymore; do you still want information for free?

”Tsk, no wonder you, a Level 5 Mercenary, have come to the frontline. No doubt the pay must be high,” Turtle said enviously.

”It’s decent, it’s decent.”

Gao Gong chuckled.

In the following days, with the help of detection from DK51, he attracted several more ’Frontline Intelligence Officers’ and exchanged intelligence.

But the intelligence disclosed by these intelligence officers wasn’t as explosive as the first, at most involving certain factions withdrawing, certain factions attempting to join, and what rewards related to this planet were available in different Stellar Vortex Black Markets.

It was thus that intelligence about the Walter Clan was being hyped increasingly higher in the Black Market.

Even several ’Governor Rewards’ appeared.

Governor Rewards should be the highest level of Black Market tasks, aside from Civilization Rewards.

Generally speaking, even if a task issued by a civilization appeared, it mostly involved some staff from a civilization in the Black Market actively inviting powerful factions and underground strongmen for private task auctions, not so publicly.

After all, in civilized society, reputation still needs consideration.

But Interstellar Governor differed, also known as Pioneer Governor or Colonial Governor, it’s a unit of force divided by a civilization after completing certain interstellar expeditions.

Level 2 Civilizations can have Interstellar Governors, Level 3 Civilizations too, the latter’s status is definitely higher than the former, and opportunities are rarer.

After all, the stronger the technology, the less external force is needed, like in this Star Zone, neither the Mirta Federation nor the Galen Republic has assigned any Governor out.

These all have ideas about the Long-horned Whale Alpha Constellation.

Besides, another point Gao Gong is quite concerned with.

That is the Level 4 Mercenary ’Qi People’ rescued by Turtle Jes early on; his gaseous body has recovered mostly, but his consciousness has yet to awaken.

This shouldn’t be the case.

But after several people checked, they found a part of his consciousness seemed not to be in this body.

Connecting it to the attack from that ’giant face,’ they suspected that ’Old Walter’ mastered a method of consciousness separation.

That’s another very valuable piece of intelligence.

While other ’Intelligence Officers’ were active elsewhere, Gao Gong also seized the opportunity when others weren’t paying attention to appear on the space battlefield before the corpse of the ’Leviathan Giant Beast.’

”Space Giant Beast’s bloodline is really quite nice.”

As Gao Gong continuously upgrades his levels, the effects brought by the radiation bloodline constantly decrease; even the S-Level Beast King Bloodline gradually falls behind the version.

What’s more frustrating is that the radiation bloodline has its ’rejection enhancement effect,’ after all, going through the radiation mutation route – evolve and easily deviate.

However, Gao Gong’s fusion mode, by contrast, burns out a lot of ’rejection.’

That’s why, even though fusion mode is strong, Gao Gong has hardly used it.

But the ’Space Giant Beast’ bloodline is different. As an interstellar giant beast whose maturity phase is already satellite-level species, the gene structure of this level of organism is incredibly stable, plus exposed to cosmic ray radiation for years, likely has a suppressive rejection effect.

This can serve as an upper bloodline replacing radiation bloodline.

’The space beast funeral ritual is quite famous, basically every dying space giant beast will voluntarily fly towards a fixed star, melting itself, even those dying on battlefields will reclaim their corpses, performing space funeral rituals by their clansmen to ensure the gene pool of their species doesn’t leak.’

Gao Gong placed his hand upon the corpse.

”Unless, like now, they’ve suffered a huge defeat, unable even to retrieve the corpse in time.”

A large mouth grew from Gao Gong’s palm, countless tongues plunged into the corpse.