Chapter 501: New Kryptonites: Change and Innovation

Soon.

Another three hunters ran to one side and raised their right hands to indicate that 'they' were in position.

Seeing this, the three who had been waiting in advance aimed at the still-slumbering giant bear, forcefully drew the bowstring with their right hands, silently counted a few seconds, then directly released the right-hand index and middle fingers that were holding the bowstring.

Whoosh~!!!

Six arrows emitted a piercing screech as they tore through the air, then stubbornly traced afterimage-like trajectories.

Pfft!!

The arrowheads easily pierced the skin and shot into the bear's body.

Roar!!!

The sudden attack, combined with the unbearable pain, startled the giant bear awake, and it let out a earth-shaking roar.

The giant bear violently struggled to rise, intending to fight the clueless fellows, but just as it was about to move, the six hunters had already drawn from their sheaths daggers that likewise emitted a faint green light, and, moving like blurs, they swiftly closed in on it……

Sizzle!

Pfft!

In the blink of an eye, the six hunters expertly used their daggers to sever arteries, pierce the heart, and slash the neck of the giant bear.

Thud!!

After the unknown-tonnage giant bear crashed heavily to the ground and completely lost vitality, it also failed to utter a dying wail.

Of course, the six hunters' easy success wasn't just due to their rich experience, strong strength and speed; mainly, the giant bear had been weakened by the six arrows, leaving it in a very feeble state.

If the hunters were to engage the bear head-on, who would live or die would still be an unknown.

After completing the kill, the six people retrieved the six arrows and then skillfully used their daggers to skin and debone the bear's corpse.

However, the stone arrowheads and daggers emitting a faint green light……

No professional instruments are needed for testing; one can actually guess it's kryptonite. Moreover, the superhuman physical qualities displayed by the animals and 'people' here also indicate that this is New Krypton.

Because the yellow dwarf star (a miniature sun) with a diameter of only forty kilometers in the sky shines and radiates, every creature on New Krypton possesses extraordinary qualities, plants included.

If it were a red dwarf star, all life on New Krypton would be 'normal,' not universally superhuman; that's also why the New Kryptonites need kryptonite to slay the giant bear.

Not long after.

The six hunters then cleaned the bear completely, even disassembling its bones and putting them into bags.

Immediately afterward, the laden 'they' hummed an unknown tune, communicating with each other in the language derived from their evolution and development, cheerfully leaving the cliff and heading down the mountain back into the forest.

Meanwhile, at an altitude of a kilometer above the cliff, three faint 'black dots' could be seen.

Look closely.

These three 'black dots' are precisely Sui Bian, the Red Empress, and the White Empress, hovering in place and having witnessed the entire process of the hunters capturing and killing the bear.

From the viewpoint of Sui Bian and his two companions looking downward, the deep mountains and forests lie below, but in the far north a medium-sized city-state can be faintly seen.

Howl~!!

At this very moment, while soaring and gliding in the sky, an eagle with a wingspan of up to ten meters let out a cry, folded its wings, and dove toward Sui Bian and his two companions.

Boom!! Moreover, the eagle's dash actually produced a sonic boom.

It is obvious that this eagle, with pure white feathers, black talons and beak, regarded Sui Bian and his two companions as prey, as food.

In an instant, the eagle spread its wings again, extended its talons to slice off the Red Empress's head, but after one second it could no longer move forward even a bit; its body seemed to have hit a pause button, falling into a strange stasis, with only its eyes able to move freely.

At this moment.

Sui Bian walked leisurely through the air to stand before the eagle and remarked, 'You've got guts, huh? Not scared even by this? Well… okay.'

As he spoke, his pupils emitted a faint golden light, and the eagle's originally arrogant and unruly demeanor, following the normalization of Sui Bian's gaze, gradually became gentle and obedient, appearing to have been instantly tamed.

After Sui Bian lifted the restraint and gave the eagle back its freedom, this giant bird was no longer extremely aggressive as before; instead, it circled around Sui Bian and his companions.

Howl~

Then the eagle let out another call, flapped its wings, and quickly flew away from Sui Bian and his companions.

At this time, the Red and White Empresses, using the anti-gravity devices implanted in their bodies, drifted to Sui Bian's side and gazed far toward the horizon and the northern city-state.

'Chairman…' watching the eagle's silhouette about to vanish, the White Empress couldn't help but sigh: 'All creatures on New Krypton, within the known universe and known species, are extremely threatening.'

For example, just in terms of that bear's physical strength and explosive power, my simple inspection and analysis already show it is no inferior to any Astartes.

Having said that, the White Empress looked around and continued: 'Furthermore, according to my scan, besides that bear and that eagle, New Krypton must harbor many more high-risk anomalous creatures.'

'Yes.' The Red Empress nodded in agreement beside her.

'Hehe.' Sui Bian chuckled indifferently, saying: 'No matter how dangerous, in my eyes they're just a bunch of clueless pets.'

As Sui Bian said, even New Krypton is his personal possession, let alone the flora and fauna living on it.

Take that eagle, for instance; Sui Bian merely had a thought and it became his pet.

However, he couldn't be bothered to personally raise it, so after taming the eagle he ordered it to leave this area and seek prey on its own.

A moment of silence passed.

Sui Bian proceeded to 'walk' downward, while his two secretaries silently followed at his sides; before long, the group steadily landed on the plain outside the forest.

Here there grew grass no higher than the ankle, and there was also a dirt road that pierced the forest's outskirts and ran straight north; the six New Krypton hunters, after leaving the forest, were indeed walking north along this road toward the city-state.

Next.

While Sui Bian and his two secretaries personally experienced and appreciated the scenery of New Krypton, they also traveled along the dirt road toward the northern city-state.

During this period, many New Kryptonites dressed in attire reminiscent of Earth's eighth and ninth centuries were encountered—some on foot, some riding 'horses,' some driving 'horse' carriages—crossing paths with Sui Bian and his companions.

Moreover, these New Kryptonites cast strange glances, given that Sui Bian stands over two meters tall and his attire, as well as that of his companions, differs greatly from the style of the indigenous inhabitants.

However, outside the city, the New Kryptonites merely looked puzzled; none would step forward to ask or strike up a conversation, at most deliberately keeping their distance or avoiding them.

Actually.

In fact, after learning that the expeditionary force led by Rog, Shengjilesi, and Sui Meng was systematically campaigning against the Tai Luo Insect Race, and that Tai Luo Ke Er and the Zero Three Galaxy Crisis had been resolved, Sui Bian, having finished his own tasks, devoted his leisure thoughts to building New Krypton.

Over ten years' time, New Krypton is no longer the primordial ocean‑and‑atmosphere‑just‑formed terrestrial planet where everything was barbaric.

Through Sui Bian's series of artificial accelerations and manipulations, New Krypton experienced six great explosions of life and five great extinctions, after which it finally cultivated the ancestors of mammals.

After another round of acceleration, along with his personal Spiritual Energy's 'guidance,' New Krypton finally gave rise to beings whose appearance resembled humans but were actually hardly different from the Kryptonians of Universe 07, a humanoid race.

Like human ancestors, the New Kryptonians existed in many different branches.

These Kryptonians, similar in appearance and build, began warring and slaughtering each other; eventually they merged and reproduced, leaving behind a group that could not be called the strongest, but was the most numerous and best adapted to the natural environment.

Afterward, the New Kryptonians went through the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and up to the present feudal or slave era; due to Sui Bian's influence, the entire historical development process practically replicated humanity's past.

2210/01/20

That is, today, after Sui Bian signed and approved the various documents and files uploaded by the Red and White Queens, he felt bored, so he opened a Spiritual Energy portal and, accompanied by his two secretaries, descended onto the northern hemisphere of the sunlit side of New Krypton.

Through some observation, Sui Bian discovered that, due to regional factors, the New Kryptonians had likewise developed different forms of civilization, and because seafaring had only just begun, these civilizations temporarily maintained friendly relations and were willing to engage in trade.

But Sui Bian's experience and knowledge told him that, within 'a few hundred years,' as the New Kryptonians' seafaring technology became ever more advanced, war and conflict would inevitably break out across the entire planet.

Moreover, every New Kryptonian's bodily defense and strength belonged to the 'super-soldier' category; once they unleashed planetary-scale war, the strike would be devastating to the entire planet's surface.

Merely as a spectator, or one described as a 'player,' Sui Bian simply would not consider those.

Another nearly half an hour passed.

Sui Bian and his two secretaries arrived at the outskirts of the city-state's walls; here, it was far more bustling than the dirt roads of the dense forest, with merchants, travelers, and idlers constantly flowing back and forth through the gate into the city-state.

At the city gate checkpoint.

More than ten soldiers, wielding metal-crafted spears and wearing armor and helmets, were stationed there.

Regarding exiting the city, the soldiers were relatively lax, but for entering convoys and pedestrians, they conducted strict searches to prevent hostile forces with ill intent from sneaking in.

More importantly, these soldiers were quite respectful toward people wearing splendid clothing, but they aggressively pressed plain-clothed commoners, especially the six hunters who had slain a giant bear, openly demanding an 'entry fee' to get into the city.

At a glance, it was clear that the New Kryptonians under feudalism were basically following humanity's 'old path' in every respect, and the lower-class masses could never 'hold their heads high.'

Now, among those queuing to enter the city, Sui Bian and his two companions had additionally attracted many strange glances and become the subject of gossip.

Sui Bian and the Red Queen were fine, but the White Queen intensely disliked having these 'people' in her presence, muttering under her breath, especially since those standing nearby were not actually people at all.

「Aidiomali!! (Raise hands!!)」

However, once the soldiers realized that Sui Bian and his group were absolute aliens to them, they immediately sent five 'people' forward at a quick pace, brandishing their spears to surround and continually close in, attempting to make Sui Bian and his companions raise their hands and surrender.

「Really asking for death…】 Seeing this, the already-irritated White Queen instantly flashed an angry expression, raised her left hand and aimed it at one of the soldiers, then requested of Sui Bian: 'Chairman, please approve my use of force!'

「Mado! Mado! (Attack! Attack!)」

Without waiting for Sui Bian's reply, the five soldiers stepped forward again, waving their spears; it was clear they were preparing to adopt a hardline stance.

「Approved. » Sui Bian still wore a faint smile, and, in passing, reminded the Red Queen beside him: 'Teach these clueless aliens a lesson together with your sister; this time I won't intervene.'

「All right! » the White Queen exclaimed, already impatient.

「Yes. » the Red Queen replied, nodding lightly.

The five clueless soldiers would never think these foreign visitors had any ability; at most they'd consider Sui Bian, who stood over two meters tall, somewhat difficult to handle.

But as they drew near, they saw the White Queen's left arm held flat; its skin began to flow like silvery liquid, revealing the built-in Mechanical exoskeleton, and the left arm had just finished transforming into a 'weapon' form.

Not only the White Queen, but the Red Queen, as the 'older sister,' also transformed her right arm into a 'weapon'.

???

The soldiers who witnessed the whole process, as well as all the New Kryptonians outside the city gate, were frightened by the White and Red Queens' 'eerie' actions.

But these two approved artificial intelligences, at this moment, had no inclination to analyze the feelings of non-human aliens.

「Ri~——whoosh! » A light ball emitting cyan-blue light shot instantly from the prosthetic weapons of the Red and White Queens.

「Ah! —Ah! 」

The two soldiers struck by the light ball instantly emitted a shrill struggle scream, and their bodies collapsed from outside to inside, vanishing without a trace in the blink of an eye.

Without needing Kryptonite, the prosthetic weapons implanted in the White and Red Queens' bodies could fire a Administrator Civilization‑level disintegration stance; only those OriginalBodies that had likewise adopted Administrator Civilization technology, undergone cultivation and secondary surgery, could ignore such disintegration attacks.

Of course, as the master of humanity, Sui Bian had long transcended all such comparative categories.

!!!

All the soldiers present fell directly into a state of shock.

The death of comrades was secondary; mainly, the instantaneous killing ability displayed by the two artificial intelligences was truly beyond their comprehension.

「Ahhh (ah)!! 」

The observing New Kryptonian civilians, however, reacted before the soldiers did, screaming as they fled the scene.

On the contrary, those six New Kryptonian hunters looked at Sui Bian, the Red Queen, and the White Queen with grateful gazes and demeanor, and, taking the opportunity, followed the 'human' crowd into the city.

Noticing the hunters' emotions, Sui Bian merely smiled toward the city gate, then continued watching his two secretaries, using their prosthetic weapons to keep disintegrating the remaining soldiers.

After the Red and White Queens had completely dealt with all the soldiers before the city gate and returned to stand on either side of their boss, Sui Bian involuntarily muttered to himself:

「Running into a ferry while crossing the river—just perfect; this is the moment to bring about change and renewal. »

(End of chapter)