Apocalyptic Mechanist
Author: Not Jiuyou
Synopsis:
Jiang Xiao transmigrated into the Starry Sky Era.
The Interstellar Fleet rampaged unchecked, while Individual Might crossed the stars. Fortunately, he obtained Player Mode and became the only 'Fourth Calamity' in the universe!
Monster Drop, leveling up, item synthesis, Research Progress Bar, Intelligence Analysis...
Who said an Esper could only have one ability? Who said a mechanist couldn't fight a civilization alone?
Fusion Trait + Monster Drop → Endgame Esper
Starfield Broodmother + Research Progress Bar → Apocalyptic Mechanist
System Retrieval + Intelligence Analysis → Omniscient Informant
The Starry Sky Era? Just a power fantasy game!
"Wait, stop bragging for a moment. So... why were you sentenced to life imprisonment?"
"Jiang Xiao, Pan-Human, Ordinary Human, crew member of the Doran merchant ship, planet of birth unknown!"
"Charges: assisting in the smuggling of oxygen! Exposing his face in public!"
"Under Class Three of the Valan Federation Interstellar Trade Law and Class Two of the Criminal Law, you are hereby formally sentenced to life imprisonment!
"Your designated place of incarceration is the Interstellar Alliance's KL-21 Frontier Prison Star!"
"Does the defendant have any objections?!"
In the defendant's stand stood a young human man in a jumpsuit, his head covered by a crystalline mask. At these words, he paused.
Honestly, there were too many ridiculous points. He didn't know where to begin.
Looking up at the aliens on the tribunal, whose heads were larger than their bodies, Jiang Xiao asked in confusion, "Wasn't there also a charge of illegal entry?"
"..."
Silence fell over the tribunal. They clearly hadn't expected Jiang Xiao to ask that question.
After a moment of silence, the presiding judge said to the colleagues beside him, "It was only illegal entry. It wasn't even serious enough to warrant detention. Humans are truly strange. They actually think illegal entry can be listed alongside smuggling oxygen and exposing one's face."
"All right. Since there are no objections, depart for the Prison Star immediately."
"Wait, I have one last thing to say." Just as Jiang Xiao was about to step through the door, he suddenly turned around.
The judges, who were about to leave, exchanged glances. The leader said impatiently, "Speak."
"Please send my regards to your ancestors for eighteen generations!"
Since he'd been sentenced to life imprisonment, what else was there to worry about? He might as well enjoy himself verbally first.
The scene fell silent instantly. After a long while, one of the judges spoke.
"Although your crimes are outrageous enough to infuriate the Federation, your elegance has nonetheless earned my admiration. I will accept your blessings on behalf of my forebears and treat them as a farewell gift.
"Rest assured. There will be no Valan who deliberately targets you aboard the transport ship."
"..."
Jiang Xiao nearly choked on his own breath. In the end, he was taken away in silence. Only after he was escorted aboard an elliptical spacecraft over three hundred meters long did he sigh, as if finally accepting reality.
After looking around, he found that his cell was around forty square meters, with a waste-disposal room, smart appliances, and a bed suited for humans—all fully equipped.
Jiang Xiao lay down on the bed with a clear conscience—this was what he'd earned by sending his regards to the judges' ancestors!
Staring at the ceiling, he muttered, "What kind of situation is this?"
A dignified transmigrator had died for smuggling air and exposing his handsome face. Wasn't that a novel way to die?
That was right. Jiang Xiao was a transmigrator—and he had brought his entire body across.
As friends who often transmigrated knew, transmigrators usually received a Golden Finger. In fact, he had one too. It was just that the situation was difficult to describe.
Endless Starry Sky welcomes you
Game loading...
This thing had been loading for a year.
"As expected, I shouldn't have placed any expectations on a game with 'Starry Sky' in its name."
Actually, he wasn't unfamiliar with this game. Before transmigrating, when a truck had launched him onto the third floor and crushed him to death, he had happened to be playing it.
It was a large-scale comprehensive game with an extremely high degree of freedom. Its setting was the Starry Sky Era. Whether one wanted to build and farm, embark on RPG adventures and exploration, engage in commerce and political struggles, or even become a universal songstress, none of it was a problem!
How one played depended entirely on the player's wishes. The most basic option was undoubtedly fighting monsters and leveling up.
In short, it was a power fantasy game!
Jiang Xiao had Obsessive-compulsive disorder, however. Whenever the beginning wasn't perfect or something went wrong, he would immediately restart from his save file. Before adding another achievement to that truck's record, he hadn't played very deeply.
Moreover, the world he had transmigrated into seemed to be the setting world of Endless Starry Sky.
However, using that to predict the future was completely impossible. Endless Starry Sky had no so-called main storyline or character scripts. At most, there were a few Major Events that were roughly the same.
"Why did things end up like this?!!!" Jiang Xiao suddenly sat up.
It was supposed to be a power fantasy game set in the stars. What the hell was this life imprisonment?!
He then involuntarily reviewed the events of the year since his transmigration.
His starting point was a space station. No problem there—he'd opened his eyes to something new.
Afterward, he was treated as someone suffering from amnesia caused by a spatial jump. He received good food and drink. No problem there either. Having enough to eat and drink already put him ahead of most transmigrators.
Then he was attracted by the Interstellar Era and couldn't resist taking a look. Thus, he searched for a job as a crew member on an interstellar merchant ship. That wasn't a problem either. A hot-blooded young man this ambitious was one in a million!
Next, he encountered a thousand-meter-long merchant ship called the Doran. Its crew were all Ordinary Humans, and the bearded captain readily accepted him, constantly spouting nonsense like, 'We're all Ordinary Humans,' 'Ordinary Humans don't deceive Ordinary Humans,' and 'I guarantee you'll eat well and drink well from now on.'
That actually wasn't a problem either. The only issue was that the man's business consisted entirely of illegal smuggling!
He said that anything forbidden by the laws of various civilizations was bound to make money. Once they sold it and ran, who could catch them?
Who could have known that the second job after joining the merchant ship would be transporting oxygen to the Valan Federation? That's right—oxygen!
To the organisms of the Valan Federation, oxygen was like opium. It was highly harmful and intensely addictive. It could even slash the lifespan of the Valan in half, leaving them able to live only two hundred years!
At the time, he hadn't known. The captain, who was full of nonsense, had said they were transporting oxygen to some humans mining on a mining planet. He hadn't expected it to be this kind of business.
The most fatal part was that he didn't understand the Universal Values of the Valan Federation. Exposing one's face was as serious as running naked in the country of gratitude from his previous life...
If he hadn't joined the Doran less than a year ago and surrendered in time, he would probably have met the same fate as the others—being blasted into even prettier particles by beautiful light spears.
Sigh! At this point, someone would surely ask—hey! Other transmigrators were so cautious at the beginning. You joined a merchant ship without even looking into it. Wasn't it normal for something like this to happen?
Could the space station really have supported him for the rest of his life?
Besides, he was completely undocumented. If the space station discovered that he wasn't a tourist, who knew whether they would turn him into a biological battery to pay for the supplies he'd consumed during those days?
With only the Doran willing to take an Ordinary Human like him, what choice did he have? There were so many races and so many talented people in the Interstellar Era. Who would want an Ordinary Human?
Was he supposed to become someone's pet?
In any case, his approach had absolutely nothing wrong with it!
After spacing out for a while, Jiang Xiao got up and walked to the smart computer. He began searching for information about the Interstellar Alliance's KL-21 Frontier Prison Star.
The Interstellar Alliance was an organization jointly established by the Advanced Civilizations in this part of the galaxy. Its purpose was to reduce conflicts among Advanced Civilizations and cultivate a diversified galactic society that could stand united against external threats. It had now reached Alliance Era 7801.
Moreover, the internal wars restricted by the Alliance referred to wars between Mid-to-High Level Civilizations capable of throwing the galaxy into turmoil. As long as no Mid-to-High Level Civilization intervened, the Alliance wouldn't care even if Low-Level Civilizations fought until their brains were battered out.
As he browsed the information on KL-21 Frontier Prison Star, Jiang Xiao considered what to do next.
Suddenly, Jiang Xiao's expression turned grave. His hand scrolling through the Holographic Screen grew slower and slower, while his face grew paler and paler.
The Frontier Prison Star wasn't the strictly managed prison he had imagined. It was an extremely free planet. Nothing restricted anyone's freedom inside—not even something like a city!
As long as no one broke through low orbit, the guard fleet outside the Prison Star wouldn't intervene regardless of what happened within.
That was the biggest problem!
Those imprisoned on the Frontier Prison Star were seasoned criminals from various civilizations. Aside from a tiny number who had been wrongfully convicted, they were basically all heinous criminals!
As long as they didn't leave the planet, those people had no restrictions whatsoever.
What was this, a Darwinian socialist experiment site?
The information even said that the Frontier Prison Star contained quite a few Source Energy martial artists and Espers!
Both were renowned extraordinary power systems of the Interstellar Alliance. It was said that when the former cultivated to a sufficiently high level, one could forge a Neutron Body and shatter stars with one's body!
The latter was even more outrageous. Not necessarily would even a densely populated planet give birth to a single one. Their abilities were bizarre and varied, and some even possessed innate Rule-level Power.
Their lower limit far exceeded that of Source Energy martial artists!
After joining the Doran, Jiang Xiao had tested his own aptitude. After all, who didn't want to become a powerhouse capable of crossing the universe with their physical body? Unfortunately, he had no Source Energy talent whatsoever, let alone an Esper ability.
Although the strongest force in this galaxy was the cutting-edge technology and legions held by Advanced Civilizations, giving them the right to disregard peak individuals—
that was Advanced Civilizations!
At least in terms of individual combat power, nothing could compare to Source Energy martial artists and Espers.
"No wonder those Valan big-headed dolls were so easygoing. Sending me to the Frontier Prison Star was no different from sending me to my death!" Jiang Xiao grew agitated.
Even without Source Energy martial artists or Espers, his chances of surviving were already extremely slim considering the Frontier Prison Star's system alone.
No matter what, the Frontier Prison Star was still a prison. Disorder was the mainstream there. Order couldn't possibly exist, and the prison guard fleet couldn't possibly stand by and watch the Prison Star develop order!
Unable to hold back, he stood up and rushed to the door. "How long until we reach the Frontier Prison Star?"
"Estimated arrival: ten days," the mechanical combat soldier standing guard outside answered.
Jiang Xiao's expression shifted.
Ten days...
Several hours later, Jiang Xiao tossed and turned in bed, unable to sleep. His mind was filled with screenshots and reports from the internet about the Frontier Prison Star.
Armed shootouts, rampant gangs, monsters slaughtering intelligent life for amusement...
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