Apocalyptic Mechanist Section 10

With just two thousand more experience points, he'd break through to Tier 2!

Jiang Xiao felt a surge of excitement.

He also took a glance at the research tab.

[Research Tab (1/1): FT Alloy Shuriken Bullet, Research Progress: 5.34% (Seven Days)]

Seven days, that's acceptable.

Jiang Xiao decided that after breaking through to Tier 2, he would leave the Old Capital Ruins and find a way to reach Sin City.

For the Mechanist class to develop, it required vast resources and knowledge. After much thought, only Sin City offered a chance to obtain them. For instance, the Black Mech Gang clearly had connections to machinery.

His gaze swept over the Viper Race corpses. A bracelet caught his attention.

It was a Tier 1 Source Energy equipment, capable of slightly enhancing the Source Energy's reinforcement effect on physical strength. It was better than nothing, but not as effective as the sharpness enhancement from the Source Energy Battle Blades.

Jiang Xiao left the building, finished looting the other Viper Race warrior's corpse, browsed the Sin City Battle Royale live stream for a while, and then got back into the jeep to leave.

Without stopping, he drove straight towards the next target area!

He'd lock onto a general vicinity through Sin City's online programs, then use drones for aerial reconnaissance, followed by long-range sniping.

This entire process would leave even a Tier 2 warrior bewildered for a moment.

Sin City inexplicably fell silent.

As they watched Jiang Xiao drive away on the holographic big screen, many Sin City prisoners stopped their schadenfreude or clamoring and fell silent.

A master who could easily kill two peak Tier 1 warriors, who seemed to enjoy hunting, and was from the Pan-Human race, one of the most disliked races in Sin City...

If he were to enter Sin City, the most endangered wouldn't be the high-ranking criminals.

Large Bar.

"Hmph! A bunch of cowards. Sin City isn't exactly short of scum who take pleasure in slaughter, what are you afraid of?"

"But this god of death seems to specialize in large-scale and rapid slaughter. The last time such a god of death appeared, it was also a Pan-Human. That hunter who disappeared for two months, rumored to be an Esper, once set a record of killing over a thousand people in a month, and they were all from the management of various gangs..."

"..."

Silence fell again.

They inexplicably felt a chill down their spines.

Outside Sin City, underground space.

Smoke swirled.

The middle-aged man took a drag from his cigarette, then suddenly slammed his fist on the table: "A Tier 2 warrior. We can't pass up this opportunity. Determine his views on his own kind as much as possible. If he's not a heinous butcher, spare no expense to invite him to join the gang!

If he is a heinous individual, then pay our gang's best resources to hire him.

Xi Guang doesn't want us to risk ourselves to save her, so let's find someone capable to try!"

"Understood!"

"That's great, there's hope!"

As the words fell, the people present showed joy.

The middle-aged man exhaled a long plume of smoke and abruptly said:

"My rebellion failed, and I implicated Guang and you all in being sent to Prison Star because I was too incompetent. If we can truly rescue Xi Guang, then choose a new leader. I'm tired."

A Ling, who had been silent the entire time, immediately stood up: "Uncle Li..."

Uncle Li waved his hand and looked at the television.

Time passed, and seven days flew by.

Standing on a rooftop, Jiang Xiao gazed into the distance with a helpless expression.

He wondered if he had used up all his luck that night. In seven days, he had only hunted one peak Tier 1, one elite Tier 1, and several ordinary warriors, barely pushing his Source Energy intensity to 49 points.

He was still more than four hundred experience points away from Tier 2.

During this time, he had encountered some prisoners who were not warriors. Who knew that after killing them, the experience points gained dropped to single digits!

He figured that as his strength increased, killing weaker enemies wouldn't yield experience points.

"I wonder if quantity works. Dropping Big Ivan onto an alien life planet should yield a lot of experience points?"

Jiang Xiao muttered to himself, his eyes fixed on his personal panel.

[Research Tab (1/1): FT Alloy Shuriken Bullet, Research Progress: 99.9% (10 Seconds)]
[Research Project Completed]

Jiang Xiao's eyes lit up. Just as he was about to examine it closely, his movements paused slightly.

The moment the research project notification popped up, a vast amount of knowledge, as if appearing out of thin air, surged into his mind at lightning speed!

FT alloy smelting technology, related mineral property data, shuriken bullet shaping techniques...

"So that's how research works? It directly provides the complete knowledge?!"

Chapter 11: Preparing to Leave the Old Capital

What Jiang Xiao thought was "reading" research meant research that directly provided production blueprints upon completion.

Plug and play.

He hadn't expected it to directly analyze and implant knowledge into him, not only including production data but also stuffing comprehensive principles, theories, and data into his mind!

What surprised Jiang Xiao the most was his ability to quickly understand the related knowledge!

That's right, understand!

It wasn't the kind of forced bestowal from the system, but rather, as he recalled the knowledge, he subconsciously understood why it worked, how to use it, and so on.

Looking at it now.

The strongest buff in the professional system was actually that line—

[Your understanding and learning ability regarding machinery have been enhanced.]

"I wonder if the Prison Star has the raw materials for FT alloy, or if substitutes would work," Jiang Xiao mused. The sniper rifle was quite effective, especially after being strengthened by Origin Data.

If the normal amplification was this strong, how incredible would it be with destructive overclocking?

According to Jiang Xiao's thinking, since Origin Data could strengthen mechanical technology items, there was no reason it couldn't be used for overclocking reinforcement!

Pouring a large amount of Origin Data flow into an item should make overclocking not difficult.

After a moment of thought, Jiang Xiao looked at the blue and yellow sky in the distance.

Perhaps it was time to leave the Old Capital.

At first, he thought the so-called cities on the Frontier Prison Star were basically small towns of tens of thousands or a hundred thousand people, scattered across the prison star like wasteland settlements.

After all, there were no urban landscapes of the Frontier Prison Star circulating online, at most some gathered areas or speculative images.

However, after Jiang Xiao researched the Sin City network terminal, he discovered that the entire Frontier Prison Star had only one city, Sin City.

And it wasn't a settlement as he imagined, but a true metropolis, a cyberpunk city gathering over twenty million prisoners from various races!

Jiang Xiao was quite surprised. The total number of prisoners on KL-21 Frontier Prison Star was only a little over five million, but according to Sin City's data, the prison star had a population of at least fifty million.

The majority of these were descendants of the original prisoners.

To be honest, Jiang Xiao was increasingly confused about the purpose of the Frontier Prison Star.

Being sentenced to the Frontier Prison Star in interstellar society was a crime equivalent to capital punishment or death, yet based on what he understood now, for some capable criminals, it was no different from retirement?

"Forget it, gaining experience points in Sin City will definitely be more convenient than in the Old Capital Ruins. It's time to leave."

He acted on his thoughts without any hesitation, turning and leaving.

A few minutes later, an armored jeep sped out, heading in a straight line towards the outskirts of the Old Capital.

Jiang Xiao drove with one hand, taking out his network terminal to browse.

If he was about to encounter a hunter, the discussion forum would be lively. That was the only entertainment on the prison star.

#This damned God of Slaughter is leaving the Old Capital? What a tonic! Come to Sin City!#

#Damn it, the trash from the Black Mech Gang and Viper Gang couldn't stop this bipedal beast. Now Sin City is going to be hot again...#

#Why did you stop talking, brother#

#...#

Jiang Xiao casually tossed the terminal aside and increased his speed, driving faster.

The Old Capital Ruins were entirely blocked by a broken wall, about a hundred meters high. To get out, one either had to fly or use one of the eight ramp roads built by Sin City. The direction he was heading was the northern ramp, leading directly to Sin City.

About an hour later, Jiang Xiao vaguely saw the broken wall in the distance and picked up his network terminal again to glance at it.

His eyes suddenly narrowed.

#Hahaha, this God of Slaughter is finally going to fall. The Viper Gang has gathered most of their warriors who were sent into the Old Capital#

#One second-tier, four peak first-tier, and over a dozen elite and regular first-tier warriors, all equipped. No newcomer should be able to survive this!#

#The Viper Gang is really going all out. It's no wonder, their vice-leader's twin sons both died. Anyone would go crazy#

#Heh heh, unlucky to die while getting their sons gilded#

#Holy crap, don't splash blood on me#

#Scared of what? Does our Black Mech Gang fear a large gang?#

Sigh, I knew it wouldn't be that easy.

I didn't expect them to intercept me even after I blocked all the signal transmitters. It seems they can also browse the Sin City network.

Closing the network terminal, Jiang Xiao narrowed his eyes, an idea forming in his mind.

In the past seven days, besides hunting alien prisoners, he hadn't slacked off on his research into Origin Data. After in-depth research, he had indeed discovered some minor functions. The most useful function was to wrap himself in Origin Data, interfering with Source Energy and life signal detection!

The specific interference strength was unknown, but it should be enough to deal with the terminal equipment on the prison star.

Guerrilla warfare was perfectly suited for this.