Chapter 3499: Welcome

The sky was gloomy, and viscous, dark green liquid gradually permeated the clouds. After staining the sky, it made a creepy corrosive sound. A huge face, as if from outside the sky, probed in. The next instant, this huge face rotted into dark green smoke, accompanied by the wailing and hissing within the dark green smoke, pouring down—a scene of doomsday.

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Su Xiao, lying on the boat, suddenly opened his eyes. He got up shirtless, gently rubbing his forehead with one hand. The dream just now was too real—real enough that he even remembered the details of that huge face and the smell of the dark green smoke.

That was not a smell that existed in the world, or rather, not a smell that would be in the world of the living—decay, filth, and emitting intense despair and resentment.

Su Xiao came to the window and pushed it open. The smell of grass and trees in the morning blew in with the morning breeze, making people feel refreshed. The filthy feeling brought by the dream just now was swept away.

Su Xiao didn't think this dream was a coincidence. This was a relatively common situation after reaching his level of strength. When perception ability reaches the extreme, it is precognition. It's just that he didn't specialize in the perception class and couldn't reach the level of precognition, but because his perception ability was strong, he would have dream premonitions or feel palpitations before a disaster arrived.

Today was the sixth day of entering this world. There were only four days left until the time limit Caesar said. The good news was that Zhila had promoted to Sovereign-level, and his Mother Nest had officially entered the troop-spawning mode. The bad news was that the Netherworld force was more powerful than imagined.

Logically speaking, the Sun Holy Nest had risen to such a degree in the south and had become the uncrowned king of the south, but the Empire side not only had no attitude, but even the fanatics sent by his side as messengers were only received politely, and then there was no follow-up.

In the past few days, the Priest who was stationed at the Empire's home planet would occasionally send back a message, and Su Xiao and the Undead Girl's side would also send messages to the Priest to maintain information sharing.

According to the Priest, the situation on the planet Okai was completely out of control. The Empire abandoned all branch cities, districts, etc., except for the "Direct-controlled Cities," and built isolation walls to shroud several "Direct-controlled Cities" in the central zone. As for the citizens further outside, the Empire's attitude now was to encourage citizens to spontaneously form defense teams.

Such an autocratic regime as the Empire actually encouraged the establishment of civilian armed organizations in places other than the "Direct-controlled Districts." Just this point alone could show how serious the situation on planet Okai was.

The Empire side now, except for the "Direct-controlled Districts" protected by isolation walls, all other cities, towns, districts, and other sizes of places were in a mess.

The invasion of the Netherworld force still appeared unclear until now. The changes in the Empire's citizens were the most serious. Now, except for the "Direct-controlled Districts," most of the Empire's citizens in other places had developed manic, irritable, bloodthirsty, and severe violent tendencies.

Some Empire citizens in remote areas even began to hunt each other. Firearms and other thermal weapons needed palm prints to unlock and fire. At this time, these weapons were uniformly locked by the Empire, and the internal chips were burned, but this couldn't stop the Empire's citizens from hunting each other. Some of them simply carried fire axes or simple incendiary bottles to find people to hunt on the streets.

The mutual hunting of citizens was still not the most serious problem. A few days ago, the concept of "death" no longer existed on planet Okai.

After citizens became corpses, as time passed, strands of dark green smoke would stand between heaven and earth. Each strand of dark green smoke represented an "undead." Like those weird existences, these "undead" were equally dangerous, just still in silence.

This phenomenon caused by the Netherworld invasion was called "Immortal Omen" by the cult organizations on the Empire's home planet. As for why the Empire didn't wipe out these cults, the Empire was too lazy to pay attention to them.

Now the Empire only wanted to complete one thing as soon as possible: abandon all colony planets, and even the home planet where they were located, and send all fleets and citizens whose minds had not yet been eroded to Pan Duola Star.

Last night, Empire Monarch Aldin did a few big things. First, Monarch Aldin, who was far away on the home planet, successfully dismissed General Sander, the supreme commander of the Third Fleet currently stationed on Pan Duola Star.

Sander's nephew, the Empire's Hand, Rhine Gold, took his place, responsible for dispatching various units of the Third Fleet, as well as receiving other Empire fleets that were successively stationed on Pan Duola Star.

Although they hadn't met yet, Su Xiao was sure that Empire Monarch Aldin was a ruthless character. Su Xiao had guessed before that there was a traitor among the high-level officials of the Third Fleet. Kara's drastic change and the assassination of the Crimson Queen were both the work of the Third Fleet. In the current environment, doing these things was no different from digging one's own grave.

Originally, Kara was a common ally of the Empire, the Company, and the Sun Holy Nest, and was the person of destiny representing the will of the world. In the end, it was made into a giant monster eroded by Netherworld power by a traitor in the Third Fleet.

Although Su Xiao knew there was a problem with the Third Fleet before, he wasn't the Pacific police and wouldn't manage so broadly. Moreover, in his view, if a force of the Empire's size collapsed because there was a traitor among the high-level officials of the fleet under its command, then it would be better to collapse sooner. With this pressure-bearing capacity, when the Netherworld force came, it would likely be a pig teammate.

It seemed now that the Empire was not a pig teammate. Empire Monarch Aldin, who was far away on the home planet, arranged for General Sander across the planet.

Looking at the meaning of Empire Monarch Aldin, before tonight, the other party would come to Pan Duola Star to preside over the overall situation.

After learning this news, the Company donated 2.9 million units of life ore to Nova City overnight, as well as more than 700 kilograms of various monopolistic rare metals, plus compressed food from more than a dozen heavy transport spaceships.

The Company almost knelt directly to Empire Monarch Aldin to show that the Company was always the Empire's dog.

Empire Monarch Aldin just let out the wind that he was coming, and it scared the Company so much that they almost peed their pants. It could be seen to what extent Empire Monarch Aldin's prestige had reached when he was on the home planet before.

Su Xiao estimated that by tomorrow or the day after tomorrow at the latest, the migration of the Empire's citizens would be almost completed. It was said that this time the Empire spared no cost to move nearly 50 million people over, of which 30 million lived in Nova City, a super-large city, and the remaining 20 million went to the Company's Platinum Capital.

Don't think that the number of people moved over was large. The Empire's home planet, Okai, and 15 colony planets added up, the population had long exceeded 47 billion. The population of Okai alone was around 6.5 billion. Although the population of those colony planets was controlled, they were generally above 2.5 billion.

In other words, the Empire abandoned nearly 46.9 billion first-class and second-class citizens, and among the 6.5 billion first-class citizens, selected 50 million people to bring to Pan Duola Star.

A more intuitive metaphor is that in a branch jurisdiction of hundreds of people, only one family of three was picked to be taken away, and the rest were left on the home planet or colony planets. Their fate was already doomed.

There was one thing Su Xiao couldn't figure out. The home planet was already dangerous to that extent, but the Priest didn't have any intention of coming back. The other party said that since they were cooperating, they should show sincerity, but Su Xiao felt that this old guy, the Priest, most likely had a backup plan.

It wasn't that Su Xiao didn't trust the Priest. How many times had he met the Priest, and which time hadn't the Priest backstabbed his teammates? Even the Gray Gentleman was stabbed by him.

At the moment, Su Xiao felt that the Priest was about to take out the "exclusive treasure for teammates: Backstab Blade."

If others said they were defecting to the Netherworld force, Su Xiao would think they were committing suicide. But for the Priest, even if this old guy defected to the Netherworld force, it really wasn't certain that something would happen to him.

Fortunately, before negotiating with the Priest last time, Su Xiao had already left a backup. His Devourer wasn't so easy to collect.

Compared to the situation on the Empire's home planet, Su Xiao had to stabilize Pan Duola Star first. Eliminating the Brutal Fortress Kara was already imminent.

This important matter concerning the Empire, the Company, and the Sun Holy Nest, Su Xiao didn't intend to carry it all by himself. Even if he really carried it all, the Empire and the Company had to give enough benefits.

"Woof."

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang detached from the environment. Last night, it and Baha went to "Nova City" and "Platinum Capital" overnight to discuss with the two parties how to deal with Kara.

This time, the attitude of the two sides was relatively positive. On the Empire side, Empire Monarch Aldin personally took over this matter. That side was moving people on a large scale. If Kara went to attack "Nova City" now, the Empire side would be as sour and refreshing as it could be.

The Company's true person in charge also showed up. The other party's name was Aitaqi Fuke, the largest shareholder of the Company. Not to mention anything else, just looking at the Company's full name, "Aitaqi Biotechnology Pharmaceutical Company," one could see how much say Aitaqi Fuke had in the Company faction.

"Woof."

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang took out a tech bracelet from the team storage space, raised its head, and pushed the bracelet towards Su Xiao.

Su Xiao took the bracelet. This bracelet turned into liquid metal and became a ring, which he wore on his index finger.

Immediately, Su Xiao felt that this ring had a unique fluctuation. He wasn't particularly familiar with tech-side items. In his feeling, this was more like a mental projection device.

Su Xiao sat cross-legged on the ground, closed his eyes, and tried to inject mental power into it. Faint light in a radial shape gradually appeared in front of him, and then the surroundings became clear. His mental body was already in a conference room that wasn't luxurious but atmospheric and simple, and he was sitting in one of the three main seats at the conference table.

These three main seats were opposite each other around a circular conference table nearly seven meters in diameter, in a triangular trend. Between the three main seats, there were other seats.

The conference room was a bit noisy. Many people were whispering in groups of three or five, and some old scholars were arguing until their faces were red. These people were not mental bodies.

It seemed that because Su Xiao's mental body was projected, the conference room gradually became quiet. Most of them cast their eyes on him, but they didn't dare to look at him for a long time. After all, charm -12 points, and reputation -32,600 points—saying he was notorious was already a euphemism.

Su Xiao looked at the other two main seats. On one of them sat a smiling, slightly fat man. He wore a deep purple suit, and on his ten fingers, nine were wearing expensive rings, only the left ring finger was not wearing one. This person had a smiling, kind expression. He was the Company's largest shareholder, Aitaqi Fuke.

On the other main seat sat a thin man who was almost skin and bones. His skeleton was huge. Even if he was thin to this extent, he was still full of majesty. Unlike his morbidly thin figure, his eyes had a kind of spirit that made people feel palpitations.

Even though he knew he only had the physical quality of an ordinary person, and even because of years of hard work, his physical condition was not as good as a stronger ordinary person, when looking at him, people would subconsciously feel a sense of retreat. This was because his soul was powerful.

That's right, this person was Empire Monarch Aldin.

"Everyone is here. Everyone, be quiet."

Company largest shareholder Aitaqi Fuke spoke. Upon hearing this, everyone in the conference room didn't speak anymore.

"Calling everyone here today, let's skip the nonsense. You all know the situation. The invasion is getting closer and closer, so before that, we must all retreat to Pan Duola Star. This is our only chance."

After Aitaqi Fuke finished speaking, his eyes looked around. Everyone present was either a power faction of the Empire or a shareholder of the Company. At this juncture, if there was anything to say, just say it directly.

"Our primary problem is to ensure that Pan Duola Star has no hidden dangers. As far as I know, Zerg Mother Queen Kara mutated into a giant monster hundreds of meters high a few days ago. This is a huge threat to Nova City, Platinum Capital, or the Sun Holy Nest."

At the end, Aitaqi Fuke cast his eyes on Su Xiao. Until now, he and Monarch Aldin couldn't figure out the attitude of Su Xiao's side.

"I'll go clean up Kara."

Su Xiao spoke, which made everyone in the conference room concentrate their eyes on him with some astonishment.

"You guys pay for the resources afterwards."

Hearing Su Xiao's second half of the sentence, everyone present showed a smile with tacit understanding. This was normal. No one would deal with Kara for no reason.

"Lord Bai Ye, how much do you plan to charge for the price?"

Aitaqi Fuke revealed the true appearance of a businessman. Now both the Empire and the Company didn't want to deal with Kara. The former was stabilizing the aftermath of the traitor, and the latter was particularly willing to spend money to avoid disaster.

"How much reward to give, you two sides can decide at will."

Su Xiao still didn't quote a price, smiling kindly.

"This..."

Aitaqi Fuke showed a somewhat embarrassed expression. He continued to ask: "Lord Bai Ye, if the reward is given too little, you won't be angry, right?"

Upon hearing this, the kind smile on Su Xiao's face gradually disappeared. He stared at Aitaqi Fuke for more than ten seconds without saying a word, and then the mental projection gradually disappeared, letting Aitaqi Fuke experience for himself what would happen if the reward was given too little.

Inside the second floor of the wooden building, Su Xiao opened his eyes. He took off the mental transmission ring from his index finger. With this thing, subsequent negotiations with the Empire and the Company would be much more convenient.

After breakfast, Su Xiao went out of the wooden building and came to the Mother Nest, heading straight for the egg-hatching tissue.

The soul of Barbatos, which was dormant in the Mother Nest, had woken up. Now only the dragon body was missing, and Barbatos could assist Su Xiao in battle.

Regarding this dragon body, Su Xiao didn't intend to add Sun energy to it. The reason was that Barbatos was of the Demon-class, and its soul characteristics were also. Since the soul already had this tendency, adding Sun energy at this time would inevitably appear a bit mottled.

Since he wasn't adding Sun energy, let Barbatos get closer to the Demon-class more thoroughly. Cultivate it with the Source Demon Power. This thing, among his Zerg, only Zhila had enjoyed it.

Su Xiao let Zhila directly interfere with the Mother Nest's egg-hatching tissue, and at the cost of 500,000 points of biological energy, cultivated an exceptionally powerful flame dragon egg. After that, Su Xiao invested the remaining 70% of Source Demon Power into this flame dragon egg.

Investing such a huge amount of money, Su Xiao began to wait. If this failed, the loss of biological energy was fine, but the loss of Source Demon Power was more critical. This was a resource that couldn't be obtained in this world.

Outside the Mother Nest, Su Xiao waited for nearly three hours before the Incubation Nest behind had any movement. Only then did the top of the Incubation Nest, which occupied a large area, begin to wriggle. After that, the top of the Incubation Nest unfolded like a flower with a "pop," and a black dragon with translucent mucus all over its body probed its upper body and wings, roaring at the sky.

"Roar!"

The Leader-level Demon Flame Dragon Barbatos roared, sending out layers of air waves. A large number of Sun Flame Dragons around flew away, circling around.

With a "whoosh," a huge black shadow swept over Su Xiao, dived behind him, and then there was the sound of flesh being torn. The Sun Flame Dragon that Su Xiao had used as a mount was torn to pieces by Barbatos in a few bites, and most of its flesh and blood were swallowed by it.

If Leader-level Mantis Armor Bru was "loyalty," then Leader-level Demon Beast Abaddon was "anger" and "slaughter." The last Leader-level Demon Flame Dragon Barbatos was "arrogance" and "greed," just like the arrogance of a dragon, and also like the greed of a black dragon.

The reason for this was not to replicate the Seven Deadly Sins, but an independent soul could not be born for no reason. Zhila used one of her own emotions as a basis, replicated the soul fluctuation representing this emotion, and then created the independent soul of the Leader-level unit.

Barbatos was behind Su Xiao. Its dark gold vertical pupils looked at the Sun Flame Dragons circling in the sky. After watching for a while, it turned its head and spread one dragon wing, faintly protecting Su Xiao inside, and began to wait for Su Xiao to issue orders.

"Barbatos, there is a very important task for you."

Hearing Su Xiao say this, Barbatos's dragon pupils contracted. It had heard Su Xiao say similar things, and that time it almost died. However, it was not afraid of death.

Barbatos, who was entrusted with an important task, was ready to die, but it never expected that it would be brought to a giant golden array. Before it could react to what was going on, a golden thunder was drawn down and crashed onto it.

"Roar!!"

Barbatos, who was receiving electrotherapy all over its body, spread its wings and roared.

A moment later, Barbatos was carried by thousands of worker scorpions to the "earth nest" specially customized for it. Barbatos never expected that it had been dormant for so long, and the first thing it had to do when it woke up was to be struck by lightning.

The roar of thunder continued. The reason Su Xiao did this was very simple: to improve Barbatos's world thunder resistance in a physical way.

In this regard, Su Xiao had a lot of experience. His own, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's, Amu's, Baha's, and even Benny's world thunder resistance were all improved this way, which led to Benny feeling a cat's paw go soft whenever she saw Su Xiao constructing a golden array.

After Su Xiao observed Barbatos's lightning adaptation process for a while, he let Baha increase the intensity, and then jumped onto the wooden building to meditate. However, people make mistakes, and horses stumble. He had just meditated when a world thunder struck his head.

In the distance, behind a small dirt slope, Hao Mei, wearing a shielding device, watched with binoculars. Seeing Su Xiao suddenly struck by world thunder, she couldn't help but laugh, laughing very happily.

"You're still laughing."

Moon Apostle spoke. Upon hearing this, Hao Mei held back her laughter. Thinking that Morey was caught to save herself before, Hao Mei felt a burst of self-blame in her heart.

Hao Mei had never seen Morey near the Sun Holy Nest. She guessed blindly that Morey was locked in a dungeon. That dungeon was damp, cold, claustrophobic, and dark. Thinking of these, Hao Mei felt even more self-blame. She muttered: "Morey, you have suffered. Bear with it a little longer; I will come to rescue you soon."

At the same time, on the first floor of the wooden building next to the Sun Holy Nest, in the bedroom.

Morey, lying on the bed, had a rather indecent sleeping posture. Not knowing what she was dreaming about, she laughed like a silly girl. She reached into her pajamas and scratched vaguely, then continued to sleep.

At 1:00 PM that day, in front of his Mother Nest, countless demon beasts were crawling on the fungus carpet. After successive troop spawning, the number of elite demon beasts officially exceeded 100,000.

At the moment, his side's combat Zerg count was:

Elite Demon Beast: 107,697.

Sun Flame Dragon: 1,318.

Besides these, there was the Leader-level Demon Flame Dragon Barbatos. The remaining ordinary demon beasts or demon flame dragons had all been decomposed by the fungus carpet.

Su Xiao jumped onto Barbatos. As Barbatos spread its wings and flew up, a total of 1,000 Sun Flame Dragons and 100,000 demon beasts all set off, with the rest guarding the base camp.

On the dragon's back, the sound of wind whistled past Su Xiao's ears. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, wearing pilot glasses, squatted beside his leg. Looking at that little expression, if you didn't know, you would think it was the dragon rider, the Dragon Rider of Woof.

The scene below flashed past quickly. Soon, a valley came into Su Xiao's eyes. The front part of this valley was a narrow-pass terrain, and the inside was an open-air cave. The ground of the cave was level with the surface, and there was shallow water that didn't reach the ankles inside.

As Barbatos lowered its height, Su Xiao jumped off the dragon's back. As he fell into the open-air cave with a slightly closed feeling, Su Xiao landed, and the water splashed under his feet.

Looking around, the area here was about a few hundred square meters. There were many vines on the surrounding rock walls, and the rocks above faintly had a trend of gathering.

Su Xiao squatted on the ground, touched the wet rock at the bottom of the shallow water with one hand, and a mental fluctuation spread. The demon beasts and Sun Flame Dragons waiting around all retreated, and Barbatos also flew away.

This place was a good place for a one-on-one. Su Xiao took out the 【Sacred Oak】 and activated the mark on it.

Hum!

A fluctuation revealing the golden green of plants spread out. First, it scanned a very large range around, and after confirming no abnormality, the mark on the 【Sacred Oak】 began to expand.

Although the Ancient God Saint Oak was very angry, it didn't lose its mind. After confirming that there was no ambush around and Su Xiao's strength, it descended.

After this fluctuation, the metal shackles under Su Xiao's right arm clothing lit up with faint light, avoiding being probed by the Ancient God Saint Oak for his own strength.

A large number of branches swarmed out from the huge mark in front, and formed an existence over 12 meters tall, resembling a tree and a person. It was like a giant formed by branches, tree roots, and vines, except it had three arms and a pile of heads crowded together, faintly forming a face.

"Mortal, it is you, who dares, to defy..."

The voice of the Ancient God Saint Oak was like a bell. Just at this time, the sound of breaking air came, and Barbatos crashed and shattered most of the cave, swooping behind Su Xiao.

Is the Ancient God Saint Oak strong? Of course it's strong. Without strong strength, how could it take the initiative to come to the door?

However, the Ancient God Saint Oak obviously hadn't encountered an alchemist before, and it was still an alchemist who had developed the legion style.

At the same time as Barbatos swooped in, a metal beam of light struck from top to bottom, shrouding a range of 3 kilometers around, including Su Xiao and Barbatos.

Alchemical runes appeared on Su Xiao and Barbatos, allowing them to move freely within the range of this beam for more than ten seconds. Su Xiao jumped onto Barbatos's back, and Barbatos exploded with flight speed, rushing out of the coverage range of the beam.

Inside the golden beam, although the Ancient God Saint Oak was secretly surprised, it was a god, and it had seen all kinds of scenes. This small scene in front of it naturally couldn't suppress it.

However, before the golden beam dissipated, more than a dozen overlapping alchemical arrays appeared in the sky. No one stipulated that alchemical arrays could only be set up on the ground.

These alchemical arrays set up in the high altitude had successfully avoided the sensing of the Ancient God Saint Oak before, and now they were the things that wanted its life.

Facing the "guest" who came from afar, since the other party was a God-class existence, Su Xiao prepared to let the other party follow the local customs, first praise the sun, and then say other things.

Only then did all the alchemical arrays activate to the maximum. What was more terrifying was that the energy hub of these alchemical arrays was the "Sun Ring" temporarily removed from the Mother Nest core, and the faith power "Sun" inside was directly used to drive the arrays.

When more than a dozen interconnected arrays closed, a beam-like barrier shrouded the Ancient God Saint Oak. Everything happened too fast, and the connection of various arrays was almost perfect. Fishing for evil gods was something that practice makes perfect.

Inside the barrier, the Ancient God Saint Oak had already found that the situation was not good. It had only arrived in this world for less than 2 seconds and encountered such a sudden situation. Saying it wasn't surprised was a lie.

Inside the barrier, the branches all over the Ancient God Saint Oak grew wildly, intending to break through the barrier. Just at this time, the Sun Ring in the sky was illuminated by the sun to be exceptionally bright, and a dazzling golden sun flame gathered at the top of the barrier and then poured down.

Sensing these dazzling golden sun flames, the Ancient God Saint Oak finally couldn't remain calm. Astonishment and disbelief appeared in its eyes, and it once recalled the fear of being dominated by the Sun God Clan.

"No!!!"

Boom!

The dazzling golden sun flame fell, and it crackled inside the barrier. The Ancient God Saint Oak, which had just despised all living beings and was arrogant, was now burned to run around in the cylindrical barrier, roaring endlessly.

A total of 1,000 Sun Flame Dragons flew over. They surrounded the barrier, and after accumulating dragon flame in their chests and abdomens, they sprayed sun flames outside the cylindrical barrier, making the temperature inside the barrier even more terrifying, with sun flames burning both inside and outside.

On Barbatos's back, Su Xiao opened the cover of the pocket watch in his hand and glanced at the time. When stewing such evil gods and evil spirits, one must pay attention to the heat. If it was scorched, the benefits would be greatly reduced. ===== CHAPTER 3500 =====