Chapter 3340

The convertible armored vehicle drives toward the edge of Free City. Su Xiao had only just entered the city and already had to rush to the east side. Fortunately, he had already greased the wheels beforehand. In a place like Free City, as long as one has active ore on their person and is not directly hostile to the "Sentry Tower," they won't attract trouble.

When the vehicle drove out of Free City, it was already 7:00 AM. The morning sun had risen high, and several birds he had never seen before flew across the sky.

Driving 5 kilometers to the east of the city, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang parked the car. At this time, only Su Xiao, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Baja, and Hunting Tide were in the vehicle.

Su Xiao needed a large-scale mine. The problem was that such mines were already occupied by the three major factions. Of course, there were exceptions; the "Borderlands" had two large mines that were currently unmined.

According to the decree issued by the Tribunal, all models of 【Cataclysm Solution】 are prohibited items, just like heavy artillery-grade weapons. However, the benefits of the former are too great, making them not as easy to prohibit as heavy artillery-grade weapons.

Mentioning the Tribunal immediately makes people feel trouble and difficulty. Initially, Su Xiao thought it was a force under the "Kin Alliance," but after a deeper understanding, he discovered that wasn't the case.

The three major Kin factions—the "Sentry Tower," the "Kin Alliance," and the "Aurora Council"—cannot directly govern the Tribunal. It was these three parties that simultaneously ceded law enforcement power to the Tribunal, making it a purely adjudicative and law enforcement department.

It has no armed forces, but if one defies its verdict, it is equivalent to simultaneously opposing the three Kin factions. The three Kin factions do have armed forces, so many that it is dizzying.

The parties check and balance each other, each taking their own benefits, which is why the Kin territory has its current appearance. In general, the "Kin Alliance" plays the bad cop; as long as one mines in Kin territory, they must pay 80% of the tax to the "Kin Alliance," and then the three factions split this 80% tax equally.

The "Aurora Council" plays the good cop, calling every year for giving Pig-headed Men the human rights they deserve, but the Pig-headed Man trafficking business over there hasn't stopped for even a second. According to the statistics of a certain youth who died in an accident, the number of Pig-headed Men imported and exported within the "Aurora Council" territory is the highest among the three Kin factions.

As for the final "Sentry Tower," it puts on the appearance of a nice guy, but the bits and pieces leaked from Free City show that this side isn't a good bird either.

Su Xiao can be certain of one thing: if he uses Pig-headed Men as his combat force and becomes a rising power in the "Border Region," hostility between his side and the Kin is an inevitable result. The conflict of interests is too sharp.

Fundamentally speaking, the prosperity the Kin enjoy today was achieved by stepping on the corpses of Pig-headed Men to reach their current height.

When it truly comes to hostility, among the three factions, the first to strike will inevitably be the "Kin Alliance," as it is the most radical and powerful. Once this side suffers a setback, the three Kin factions will quickly unite.

By that time, even if Su Xiao has active ore, he won't be able to buy Pig-headed Men in large quantities, and thus won't be able to replenish new combat power.

Precisely because of this, Su Xiao needs an independent, stable, and secret acquisition channel for Pig-headed Men. This channel cannot have any relationship with him; this is to ensure that in the event of a war between himself and the Kin, that channel can still continuously buy Pig-headed Men.

Su Xiao originally wanted Li Xiniwei to do this, but to be honest, he was a bit uneasy. If Li Xiniwei had a brain cramp and suddenly became willing to sacrifice his life for the Kin, stabbing him in the back, that stab would be particularly vicious.

Now, a turning point has arrived: the reinforcement authorization from Reincarnation Paradise. With this, Su Xiao summoned Caesar.

As a war event, unless Caesar is currently performing the duties of an adjudicator in another war world, he can definitely be summoned. The authorization level for war events is very high.

With Caesar's assistance, Su Xiao's major concern is resolved. Having the other party be responsible for constructing that channel for supplying Pig-headed Men is not only sufficiently secure, but there might even be unexpected gains. Of course, the delicious food paid to Caesar during this period cannot be lacking; cooperation is a win-win, otherwise, it's not called cooperation.

While Su Xiao was deep in thought, a muffled, thunder-like explosion came from the sky. Hunting Tide in the back seat looked up and saw a "fireball" falling from high altitude.

Where was that a fireball? It was an all-metal emergency landing pod. Due to the air friction caused by the excessive falling speed, the entire metal landing pod became glowing red, looking just like a large fireball.

Seeing this scene, Hunting Tide asked, "Is this another helper you found?"

"Yes."

"Very strong?"

Hearing Hunting Tide ask this, Baja on the side replied, "That guy... it's not as simple as strong or weak. He's the kind who can trample your worldview into the ground and grind it, and when your worldview is about to explode, he'll even spit a glob of phlegm on top of it."

"This..."

The word "phlegm" made Hunting Tide feel uncomfortable. In battle, even if she jumped into a puddle full of rotting corpses, she wouldn't blink an eye, but in normal times, if her hands touched any dirty things, her mild mysophobia would make her want to chop off the hand that touched the dirty thing.

Previously on the Alliance Star, several worms attached to her left hand, and afterward, she despised her own left hand for several days until she forgot about it.

"In other words, very strong."

As Hunting Tide spoke, the whistling sound in her ears grew a fraction stronger.

Boom!!

The metal landing pod slammed into the ground like a meteorite, creating a huge crater. The mud and sand layer inside the crater became vitrified due to the instantaneous high temperature, which dissipated in the next instant.

Pfft—

Large amounts of steam sprayed from the four corners of the metal landing pod, and the cabin door opened with a click. Amidst the thick steam, Hunting Tide saw a pair of eyes faintly revealing a yellow glow.

Hunting Tide tried to sense the aura of the person coming, but she sensed nothing, as if this person didn't exist. The other party was clearly right there, yet didn't have a shred of aura, which made Hunting Tide's expression gradually become solemn, as if facing a formidable enemy.

Tap, tap, tap...

The sound of footsteps on the metal cabin floor came. The figure inside the metal cabin gradually walked out of the thick steam. Hunting Tide's eyes widened a fraction, staring at the person coming, but in the next second, Hunting Tide's expression became a bit confused.

Because she saw a small, thin old man, less than 1.5 meters tall, walking out of the thick steam as if he were drunk, which made Hunting Tide a bit unable to process it.

What surprised Hunting Tide even more was that the little old man tripped over his own feet while walking and immediately fell to the ground.

"Ugh—"

Caesar vomited miserably. Actually, this couldn't be blamed on him; being thrown from outside the atmosphere, while breaking through layers of blockade, Caesar felt like he was in a washing machine on the spin-dry cycle.

The signs on both sides of the street were hung in a messy way; some looked full of technology, while others were dilapidated wooden boards.

"My dear friend, you have to compensate Caesar for his dinner."

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak and lit a cigarette.

Caesar didn't say anything more. After getting into the car, he started sizing up Hunting Tide; he had never seen Hunting Tide before.

Seeing this, Baja introduced, "This is Hunting Tide, of the Tianba tribe."

"Ms. Hunting Tide, hello, I am Caesar."

"Y-you, hello."

Hunting Tide's expression was a bit off. Some of Caesar's behaviors increased Hunting Tide's mysophobia symptoms, but out of politeness, she tried her best not to show it.

The convertible armored vehicle sped along. After Baja and Caesar explained the current situation, Caesar's eyes lit up, and he rubbed his hands with a sly smile, looking as if his wallet was already impatient.

"My dear friend, let's test our recent fortune."

"Hmm?"

Su Xiao looked at Caesar with slight confusion; he really didn't know before that Caesar could test fortune.

Caesar spat a bit of saliva into his palm, then reached his hand into his clothes, rubbing and rubbing, scrubbing his chest and back. Those who didn't know would think he was scrubbing himself in a bath.

A moment later, Caesar had a black mud ball the size of a marble in his hand. Seeing this thing, Hunting Tide moved to the side, her body pressed tightly against the car door. She was terrified at that moment, fearing that due to the vehicle's bumping, the mud ball would fly toward her.

Actually, this wasn't Caesar's intention. Caesar was famously afraid of death, pain, and bleeding. The technique he used to pry into fortune required using his own blood as a medium.

What kind of person is Caesar? He didn't care about the coolness of biting his thumb to produce blood; he cared about whether it hurt.

For this reason, he didn't even want to pluck his hair, as that also hurt a bit. Since it was a medium, could skin work? Skin could work, so what about skin fragments from metabolism? The answer is, through Caesar's ability amplification, skin fragments could also work.

Don't think this operation is very showy; there were even more flamboyant ones before. Once, Caesar obtained an evil object. That evil object had a characteristic: it could only be used once, and when used, it required sacrificing an organ from one's body, and it was a permanent sacrifice that couldn't be restored through Reincarnation Paradise's conventional recovery functions. Only super-rare recovery authorization might be effective for this situation.

The average person's idea would be to sacrifice their appendix, but Caesar was different; he sacrificed the hemorrhoids that wouldn't heal because he was afraid of pain.

That's right, after Caesar's flamboyant operation, his hemorrhoids were defaulted as one of the organs on his body. Perhaps when the Evil God received those hemorrhoids, it would be very confused; after all, it had never seen this thing before.

It is worth mentioning that because that "organ" was permanently sacrificed, Caesar's hemorrhoids were cured.

In the car, Caesar pinched the mud ball in his hand, muttering something mystical for a while, then took out a circular stone slab. An Ouroboros was coiled around the edge of the slab, and more importantly, nearly half of this slab was covered by a half-wet sock of unknown original color.

"Ugh—"

Hunting Tide jumped out of the car on the spot. Actually, it couldn't be blamed on her; after this sock appeared, a dark yellow smoke began to spread. Because the convertible armored vehicle was moving, the dark yellow smoke trailed behind, and wherever it passed, grass and trees withered, and insects curled their legs and died on the spot.

"Caesar, this smell is too damn pungent."

Baja, wearing a gas mask, spoke. The thing mostly covered by the sock was the Ouroboros Slab. Its surface was covered with fine cracks, and its texture was grayish-white as if weathered. When held in Caesar's hand, it made a clattering, shaking sound, as if struggling desperately.

Caesar pulled the sock off the Ouroboros Slab and put it away, then pressed the mud ball between his fingers onto the slab. The slab immediately began to clatter and shake again, feeling as if it were shouting: "Don't come over here!!"

Suddenly, the Ouroboros Slab stopped shaking because it sensed Su Xiao's aura. A line of text immediately appeared on the slab, reading:

"My great Law-Breaker master, I miss you so much, save me quickly!"