Preparing to Leave the Old Capital

All he needed now was another two thousand experience points to break through to Tier 2!

Jiang Xiao was exhilarated.

He glanced at the Research Slot.

Research Slot (1/1): FT Alloy Shuriken Bullet, Research Progress: 5.34% (7 days)

Seven days. Not bad.

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

To develop the Mechanist profession, he needed a massive amount of resources and knowledge. After thinking it over, he figured that only Sin Capital might have what he needed. Take the Black Mech Gang, for example—it was clearly related to machinery.

His gaze swept over the Viper Clan corpse, and a wristband caught his attention.

It was a Tier 1 Source Energy Equipment item. It could slightly enhance Source Energy's reinforcement of physical strength, but that was better than nothing. It was inferior to the sharpness enhancement of the Source Energy Battle Blades.

Jiang Xiao left the building, searched the other Viper Clan Martial Artist's corpse, watched the Sin City Battle Royale livestream for a while, then boarded the jeep and left again.

Without stopping, he charged straight toward the next target area!

He first used Sin City Network programs to lock onto a rough area, then used drones for aerial reconnaissance before carrying out long-range sniping.

After going through this whole routine, even Tier 2 Martial artists would be dumbfounded for a while.

Sin Capital fell into an inexplicable silence.

As they watched Jiang Xiao drive along the road on the holographic giant screen, many Sin Capital prisoners no longer gloated or shouted. One after another, they fell silent.

A powerhouse who could easily kill two Tier 1 Peak Martial artists—and who seemed to take pleasure in hunting—was also a Pan-Human, a member of one of the least welcomed races in Sin Capital...

If he entered Sin Capital, the most dangerous people certainly would not be those high-and-mighty major criminals.

A large bar.

"Hmph! There are plenty of scum in Sin Capital who enjoy torturing and killing people. What are you afraid of?"

"But this killing god seems to focus on large-scale slaughter and rapid kills. The last time a killing god like this appeared, he was also a Pan-Human. That hunter who vanished for two months and was suspected to be an Esper once set a record of killing more than a thousand people in a month—and he killed members of various gangs' management..."

"..."

The scene fell silent again.

They inexplicably felt a chill down their spines.

The outskirts of Sin Capital, an underground space.

Smoke billowed through the air.

The middle-aged man smoked, then suddenly slammed his hand on the table. "A Tier 2 Martial artist. We can't pass up this opportunity. Find out as much as possible about his attitude toward his fellow humans. If he isn't some vicious butcher, invite him to join the gang at any cost!

"If he is truly vicious, offer him the gang's best resources in exchange for his help.

"Since Xiguang won't let us risk ourselves to rescue her, we'll find someone capable and give it a try!"

"Understood!"

"That's great! There's hope!"

After he spoke, everyone present wore joyful expressions.

The middle-aged man slowly exhaled a long stream of smoke, then abruptly said:

"My failed uprising dragged Guang and all of you into being sent to the Prison Star. I was useless and lacked the ability. If we can truly rescue Xiguang, choose another leader. I'm tired too."

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

Uncle Li waved his hand and looked toward the television.

Time passed, and seven days flashed by.

Standing atop a building, Jiang Xiao gazed into the distance with an exasperated expression.

He didn't know whether he had used up all his luck that night, but over seven days, he had only hunted one Tier 1 Peak, one Tier 1 Elite, and several ordinary Martial artists, barely raising his Source Energy Intensity to 49 points.

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

During that period, he had encountered some prisoners who were not Martial artists. Who would have thought that the experience points gained from killing them had dropped to single digits!

It seemed that as his strength increased, killing enemies who were too weak no longer granted experience points.

"I wonder if quantity would work. Would dropping a Big Ivan on an alien Life Planet give me quite a lot of experience points?"

Jiang Xiao muttered to himself, his eyes fixed on the Personal Panel.

Research Slot (1/1): FT Alloy Shuriken Bullet, Research Progress: 99.9% (10 seconds)

Research project completed

Jiang Xiao's eyes lit up. He was about to take a closer look when his movements suddenly paused.

The instant the Research project completion prompt appeared, a massive amount of knowledge seemed to materialize from thin air and rapidly surged into his mind!

FT Alloy smelting technology, related mineral properties, Shuttle Bullet molding technology...

"So that's how the research works? It directly provides the entire set of knowledge?!"

Chapter 11: Preparing to Leave the Old Capital

What Jiang Xiao had assumed to be research with a progress bar meant that completing the research would directly provide production blueprints.

Plug and play.

He had not expected it to directly analyze everything into knowledge and pour it into him. It contained more than just production materials—even comprehensive principles, theories, and data had all been stuffed into his mind at once!

What delighted Jiang Xiao most was that he could quickly understand the relevant knowledge!

That was right—understand it!

It wasn't the kind of forced bestowal by the system. Instead, while recalling the knowledge, he instinctively understood why things were done that way, how to use them, and so on.

Now that he thought about it,

the strongest enhancement in the Profession System was actually that line—

Your understanding of machinery has improved, and your Learning Ability has increased.

"I wonder if the Prison Star has the raw materials for FT Alloy. Substitutes will work too." Jiang Xiao thought to himself. The sniper rifle was quite useful, especially after being enhanced by Origin Data.

It was already this powerful with a normal enhancement. What would happen if he pushed it into destructive overclocking?

According to Jiang Xiao's reasoning, since Origin Data could enhance mechanical technology items, there was no reason it couldn't enhance them through overclocking!

Pouring a massive amount of Origin Data into an item to complete the overclocking should not be difficult.

After thinking for a moment, Jiang Xiao looked toward the distant blue-and-yellow sky.

Perhaps it was time to leave the Old Capital.

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

After all, no urban scenery from the Frontier Prison Star had circulated online. At most, there were some settlement areas or speculative images.

However, after Jiang Xiao studied the Sin City Network Terminal, he discovered that the entire Frontier Prison Star had only one city: Sin Capital.

And it was not a settlement like he had imagined. It was truly a massive cyberpunk metropolis, gathering more than twenty million prisoners of various races!

Jiang Xiao found this quite astonishing. The KL-21 Frontier Prison Star had only a little over five million prisoners in total, but according to Sin Capital's records, the Prison Star had a population of at least fifty million.

Most of them were descendants of actual prisoners.

To be honest, Jiang Xiao understood the purpose of the Frontier Prison Star less and less.

In interstellar society, being sentenced to the Frontier Prison Star was a crime on par with capital punishment and the death penalty. Yet from what he understood now, for some capable criminals, how was this any different from retirement?

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

He did whatever came to mind. Jiang Xiao did not hesitate in the slightest and turned to leave.

A few minutes later, an Armored Jeep sped out, heading straight toward the outskirts of the Old Capital.

Jiang Xiao drove with one hand while taking out the Network Terminal to browse.

If he was about to encounter a Hunter, the discussion forums would definitely be lively. This was about the only entertainment on the Prison Star.

#Damn, is this killing god leaving the Old Capital? Don't! Don't come to Sin Capital!#

#Fuck, the trash from the Black Mech Gang and Viper Gang couldn't stop this two-legged beast. Great, now Sin Capital is going to get hot again...#

#Why did you stop talking, brothers?#

#...#

Jiang Xiao casually tossed the terminal aside, increased the vehicle's speed, and drove faster.

The Old Capital Ruins were completely cut off by a ring of broken walls. The walls were about a hundred meters high. To get out, one either had to fly or leave through one of the eight sloping roads built by Sin Capital. He was heading toward the northern slope, which led straight to Sin Capital.

About an hour later, Jiang Xiao faintly saw the broken walls in the distance and picked up the Network Terminal to take another look.

His gaze suddenly sharpened.

#Hahaha, this killing god is finally going to get screwed. The Viper Gang has gathered most of the Martial artists it sent into the Old Capital!#

#One Tier 2, four Tier 1 Peaks, and more than a dozen Tier 1 Elites and ordinary Martial artists, all equipped. Is there anyone among the new prisoners who can survive?#

#The Viper Gang is really going all out. No wonder—the vice gang leader's twin sons both died. Anyone would go crazy!#

#Heh, his son died while getting a little polish. What bad luck!#

#Holy shit, don't splash blood on me!#

#What's there to fear? Does my Black Mech Gang fear a large gang?#

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

He had not expected that blocking all the signal transmitters would still result in an ambush. It seemed the other side could browse the Sin City Network too.

After shutting off the Network Terminal, Jiang Xiao narrowed his eyes. He had come up with a plan.

Over the past seven days, besides hunting alien prisoners, he had not neglected his research into Origin Data. After studying it in depth, he had actually discovered several minor functions. The most useful one was wrapping Origin Data around himself to interfere with Source Energy and life-signal detection!

The exact interference strength was unclear, but dealing with the terminal equipment on the Prison Star should not be difficult.

It was perfect for guerrilla warfare.