Chapter 2026

Inside the corridor, Su Xiao had a cigarette in his mouth. He had been waiting for a few minutes, but the enemy never charged in.

After waiting for another few minutes, Su Xiao took a tablet computer out of his storage space. The surrounding metal walls would block perception, so he could only observe the situation outside through mechanical bees.

Su Xiao left 17 metal bees all over the spaceship, and he first activated one outside the corridor.

The image appeared on the screen, and Su Xiao discovered that the contractors outside the corridor had actually all retreated.

As Su Xiao controlled the metal bee, he learned a piece of intelligence: all the contractors in the spaceship had retreated.

Discovering this, Su Xiao felt something was wrong. His first reaction was that this spaceship might self-destruct.

Dong, dong.

Su Xiao knocked on the door of the captain's quarters, and Amu walked out from inside, replacing Su Xiao to guard the corridor.

Su Xiao headed toward the outside of the corridor. When passing the corner, he stopped to observe for a while; there was no abnormality.

Arriving before the airlock door, Su Xiao pressed his hand on the identification device.

【Tick~, the contractor camp has been locked.】

The airlock door didn't open. Su Xiao's long blade thrust forward, stabbing into the gap in the center of the airlock door.

Click, click...

After a harsh sound of metal friction, Su Xiao forced the door open, which made his arms somewhat sore.

Looking outside the airlock door, the contractors were nowhere to be seen; there were blood-stained bandages on the ground, as well as pools of blood.

Su Xiao squatted between the airlock doors and began to ponder. After a few minutes of mental maneuvering with the air, he guessed a very ominous possibility: Apocalypse Paradise had let all the contractors in the spaceship retreat, and this was not a good thing.

To verify this conjecture, Su Xiao decided to take the risk of leaving the corridor.

Forcing open doors all the way, Su Xiao first arrived at the inner cabin; there was still no one there. After he violently opened three more steam doors, he finally saw a living person, but it wasn't a contractor—it was the chef girl from the outer cabin restaurant.

"You, you, you, no, don't, come, over."

The chef girl was scared into a repeater, still holding a long-handled soup ladle in her hand; looking at her, she was prepared to hit Su Xiao with this thing.

"Where are the people?"

Su Xiao's gaze swept around; he hadn't forgotten that he had 3 forced acquisition permissions.

"Left, left."

As soon as Su Xiao spoke, the chef girl surrendered instantly. As for her combat power, if too many contractors came to dine at the same time, she would be exhausted.

Su Xiao's guess was partially verified. He arrived before the airlock door of the outer cabin and continued to force the door open.

At this time, on the outside of the tail of the spaceship, more than two hundred contractors were gathered here. They hadn't left because they were waiting for the main mission to be reissued.

Crack~

A muffled sound came, and all the contractors looked toward the cabin door at the tail of the spaceship.

"How did he... come out!"

Kulong was stunned for a moment and couldn't help but shiver involuntarily. At this instant, the tail cabin door was opened a crack, and Su Xiao and Kulong looked at each other.

"Run!"

Don't know which contractor shouted, and after this shout, all the contractors turned and fled.

"Wait, don't run! He's out of the spaceship, he's not necessarily our opponent, we have many people!"

This shout made the contractors stop one after another.

"Seems... that's right."

"Then why are we running?"

"Cough, instinct."

A group of contractors returned, and a magical scene appeared: Su Xiao and more than two hundred contractors were deadlocked here, neither side making a move.

Su Xiao didn't make a move because he couldn't leave the spaceship; the temporary space coordinates were inside the spaceship, and leaving the spaceship at this time would cause the mission to fail.

And the group of Apocalypse Paradise contractors didn't charge into the spaceship, firstly because they didn't dare, and secondly because they would be forcibly executed.

"If, if you have the ability, come out."

The scar-faced man shouted, and the contractors close to him all took a few steps back.

"..."

Su Xiao flicked his long blade, and it slowly returned to its sheath. The resource plundering mission was basically completed, and he had already guessed what the next link of the mission was. If he completed the next mission, Apocalypse Paradise would suffer huge losses, which was also the reason why Apocalypse Paradise let the contractors retreat from the spaceship.

After confirming the conjecture in his heart, Su Xiao turned and walked toward the inside of the spaceship. A bullet suddenly flew over, attacking his back.

The "Banishment" at Su Xiao's cuff detached, forming a hiltless thorn sword shape, clanging against the bullet.

Banishment transformed into a fragmented blade shape and re-attached to Su Xiao's cuff. Su Xiao didn't turn around at all, and didn't even stop his steps.

"You, lead the way."

Su Xiao's gaze looked at the girl chef. The chef looked left and right, and after confirming there was no one else, she had to accept her fate.

"Where, where are you going?"

"The treasure vault, or a similar place."

"Alright."

The girl chef led the way in front. Five minutes later, she arrived before a thick metal door and raised her hand to press it.

"Identification successful, welcome, rule-breaker Nora."

An electronic sound came, and Su Xiao looked at the girl chef, who was the rule-breaker Nora, with slight surprise.

Without a doubt, this was the weakest and most cowardly rule-breaker Su Xiao had ever seen.

"Actually, I once killed without blinking."

Nora sighed, looking as if the past was unbearable to look back on. In fact, when she was Tier 1, she was a cute miner. Once, while mining, she accidentally knocked a teammate to death with kinetic minerals. That teammate didn't even know until death why Nora suddenly dug him.

If it were just this, she wouldn't be enough to become a rule-breaker, but after this somewhat silly girl knocked another teammate to death, she was judged as a rule-breaker, and the one with the lowest threat level. Finally, she was forcibly stripped of her contractor status and assigned to the contractor camp to be responsible for catering work.

Nora actually had her own difficulties. With 1000-degree myopia, she just wanted to earn more Paradise points to restore her vision, but before her vision was restored, she got an "epic-grade" job transfer and became a chef + rule-breaker.

The thick metal door opened, and a cold air rushed out.

"..."

Su Xiao looked at the dazzling array of frozen meat in the freezer. A moment later, he looked at Nora.

"These are very valuable!"

Nora's answer was exceptionally firm. Su Xiao turned and left. Clearly, he had found the wrong person. As for cleaning up rule-breakers, this was an Apocalypse Paradise rule-breaker, and it had nothing to do with him.

Su Xiao began to search in the spaceship. The main location was the inner cabin. Most of the doors here were difficult to open, but there was nothing good inside.

Su Xiao had already tried all the doors that could be opened. Let alone rare materials, he didn't even find a piece of equipment.

【Hint: Temporary space coordinates are about to form.】

Receiving this hint, Su Xiao hurried to the captain's quarters. As soon as he returned to the captain's quarters, he saw a layer of blood-colored light film appearing near the temporary space coordinates. Bubu Wang and Baham were observing nearby.

【Remaining time for temporary space coordinates to form: five seconds.】

【Five, four, three...】

The countdown ended, and a blood-colored shockwave, starting from the temporary space coordinates, spread to the surroundings and soon wrapped the entire spaceship.

Before the temporary space coordinates, Su Xiao looked up at the top, where a blood-colored vortex was surging.

With a bang, the metal wall on the right side of the captain's quarters cracked, and a layer of blue light film sealed the gap, but it only blocked it for a moment before shattering.

Pieces of ore of various colors flew out from the hole, forming a colorful "long dragon" that rushed into the blood-colored vortex.

Not only ore, but Su Xiao also saw hundreds of soul crystals, as well as a granular condensate.

Su Xiao now knew what the "item forced acquisition permission" was for. There were no high-value items in other parts of the spaceship. Now was the opportunity to choose rewards.

Various items entered the blood-colored vortex. Su Xiao hadn't seen most of them. Whether he could choose good things depended on his eyesight. There were only three opportunities.