Just Like This Sin Capital (Please Follow for More)

"Oh, my god, Old Octopus, take a good look! Your precious masterpiece, the pinnacle of technology and ultimate weapon, has actually been dismantled and refitted into something even cooler!

I can't help wondering whether all those grease monkeys you raised are a bunch of good-for-nothings."

"Wait, you scum. Guess who the mechanist modifying the Electromagnetic Cannon is. That's right—it's our beloved Old Capital Killing God again!

I can't wait to see him destroy the central building of the Sin City Council, then viciously slap Old Octopus's stinking face with his shoe. Hahahahaha."

Many high-ranking members of the major gangs watched the livestream, their feelings incredibly complicated.

No one had expected that the Old Capital Killing God, once treated as a laughingstock in the Old Capital, would one day truly stand at the top of Sin Capital.

The process had even happened so quickly!

It had to be remembered that only a month had passed since the Old Capital Massacre...

Every time they thought about it, they wanted to curse the ancestors of the Star Harbor administrators. Why had such a dangerous person been put into a KL-grade Prison Star?

His strength aside, he now appeared to be a highly experienced mechanist as well.

Given enough time, he could completely establish a top-tier gang comparable to the Sin City Council or the Black Mech Gang!

Jiang Xiao was completely disdainful of these remarks.

Instead of thinking about escaping prison, they were thinking about fighting for influence on Prison Star. This bunch of criminals would never amount to anything more in their lives.

A moment later, the final Electromagnetic Cannon assembly was complete.

Thick cables connected to the battery pack. Then, the indicator lights on the Electromagnetic Cannon lit up simultaneously, and a clear hum came from its base.

"All right, no time to waste. Let's test it directly."

Jiang Xiao glanced at the aircraft in the sky, then looked toward the high-rise building closest to Wicked Soul Tower.

It was roughly seven hundred meters away in a straight line and about eighty meters tall. It had once belonged to the Blade Armor Gang.

To prevent any foreign race from using cover to sneak into Wicked Soul Tower, the surrounding low buildings had long since been demolished and leveled. Only this high-rise still stood.

Without wasting words, Jiang Xiao took control of the two Electromagnetic Cannons and immediately selected a target!

Countless electric arcs flashed between the electromagnetic acceleration rails, bright blue bolts twisting and flickering intensely.

More than half of the Tier 2 Peak criminals in Sin Capital watched the livestream with solemn expressions.

They wanted to know how strong the Old Capital Killing God's mechanist skills were. This would determine their future attitude toward the Pan-Human gang.

The deterrence brought by the Individual Might of a powerful Tier 2 Peak and that brought by a top mechanist who could make others powerful were on completely different levels!

The former could only intimidate low- and mid-level criminals, while the latter could deter Tier 2 Peak powerhouses!

Was the Black Mech Gang strong?

There was no doubt about it.

However, the Black Mech Gang had no Tier 2 Peak powerhouse in the open. Because of this, many ordinary criminals felt that the Black Mech Gang's military strength was not very impressive. As long as they did not charge into the gang's Main Base or directly controlled markets, even Tier 2 Regular Martial Artists could provoke them a little.

Only the various Tier 2 Peak criminals knew how terrifying the Black Mech Gang's military strength was.

The Black Mech Gang had dozens of mechanical soldiers capable of contending with Tier 2 Peaks!

Even several Tier 2 Elites publicly affiliated with the Black Mech Gang possessed actual killing power that could threaten Tier 2 Peaks. This was the power of mechanists. No one knew what trump cards they had hidden.

They were not afraid of fighting head-on, but risking their lives against cold machinery was not worth it.

The next moment, the Electromagnetic Cannon, which had charged for three seconds, fired.

Aside from dust billowing nearby and a sharp sonic boom, most of the criminals did not even see when the shell had been launched.

They only saw that, the instant the sonic boom rang out, a section in the middle of the high-rise hundreds of meters away collapsed and vanished with a thunderous crash!

That was right—collapsed!

As if it had been built from blocks, the middle of the high-rise instantly broke into countless fragments and flew apart. The upper half of the remaining structure hung in the air for a moment before slowly falling, blasting up a hundred-zhang cloud of dust!

Its remaining force had yet to dissipate.

The seemingly invisible projectile destroyed more than a dozen buildings in succession before finally being intercepted by a building over four thousand meters away, at the cost of bringing that structure down.

The high-ranking members of the major gangs fell silent as one.

They had seen the destructive power of the Sin City Council's Electromagnetic Tanks before. To put it bluntly, there was simply no comparison!

The Sin City Council had once claimed that the Electromagnetic Tanks were powerful weapons developed and modified over nearly ten years by all of the council's senior mechanists, powerful enough to contend with the Black Mech Gang's strongest armaments!

Yet now, a human mechanist had enhanced them in just over ten days?

No one shouted in excitement, nor did anyone react with disbelief and fury.

The Viper Gang's leader merely shut off the Holographic Screen in silence.

It knew that, from this day onward, Sin Capital had gained another forbidden zone it could not approach.

It said calmly, "Go ask the councilor whether the Old Capital Killing God is worth its attention now."

"..."

Wicked Soul Tower.

After a brief silence, enthusiastic cheers suddenly erupted.

Chapter 53: Just Like This Sin Capital (Please Follow for More)

In the distance, the building slowly collapsed amid thunderous rumbling. The enormous trench carved out by the Electromagnetic Cannon cut through the entire stretch of low-rise buildings.

The Spark Warriors gazed at the scene with tears in their eyes.

For more than twenty years after arriving on Prison Star, humiliation and helplessness had constantly clung to them.

When they encountered foreign races, they avoided fighting whenever possible. Faced with those damned races' provocations, they could only swallow their anger and respond with silence for the sake of the people in the camp!

Because anything they did could potentially cause the entire camp to be wiped out!

Most of Starfire Camp consisted of the families of Rebel Army members who had sacrificed themselves. A small portion were also their relatives and lovers!

For supplies and safety, the Spark Gang had never dared to make any major moves.

The oppression born of their powerlessness had weighed on the hearts of the Spark Warriors for more than twenty years.

Before coming to Prison Star, let alone mere Tier 2 Peaks and twenty million foreign races—even two million foreign-race regular troops and Tier 3 Peak Martial Artists had once been their fallen enemies!

The contrast only made their pent-up frustration worse.

Therefore, when they saw Jiang Xiao slaughtering large numbers of foreign races in public and making the criminals throughout Sin Capital fall silent, the Spark Warriors were tremendously invigorated!

Until today.

The instant the Electromagnetic Cannon thundered, they seemed to return, in a daze, to the most glorious moment of their lives.

The roar of the Plasma Tank legion, their comrades' cheers, and the thunder of elite mecha laser barrages sweeping across the earth seemed to still echo in their ears!

Twenty years of resentment was released in full at this moment.

"Mr. Jiang!! We love you, ya!!"

"Woohoo!!"

"Hahahaha, I really want to see the expressions of those scum who betrayed us!"

"Mr. Jiang! Mr. Jiang!!"

Li Yuan ran his hand over the Electromagnetic Cannon, which had already entered intelligent operating mode. A smile and a look of emotion appeared on his face, filled with reminiscence.

Then he asked, "Mr. Jiang, what do you think of these warriors?"

Jiang Xiao, who was pondering a piece of technology, looked at the cheering Spark Warriors below and answered sincerely, "Not bad. They're all Tier 1 Elites or Peaks. There isn't a single Tier 1 Ordinary Martial Artist. In terms of the quality and quantity of Tier 1 Martial Artists alone, the Spark Gang could rank near the top among the major gangs."

"Yes. If they hadn't come to Prison Star, given their talents, they would probably have broken through to Tier 2 long ago..."

"Speaking of which, Mr. Jiang, what is your ideal?" Li Yuan suddenly changed the subject.

Jiang Xiao paused slightly.

Aside from the period immediately after he had crossed over, Jiang Xiao had rarely felt lost. From the moment he decided to work hard to find a job that could take him into the stars, an ideal and goal had taken root in his heart.

To explore the magnificent starry sky.

Later, during his journey aboard the Doran, Jiang Xiao naturally came to understand the status of most humans throughout the universe. He also personally witnessed many stirring stories and figures.

There was the scholar who gave up everything to study alone in a foreign land, only to abandon his future and return home after hearing that his homeland had been invaded. Though he knew his country was certain to lose, he still chose to share the pain of its collapse with his frail body.

There was also the person who, after witnessing his parents die at the hands of space pirates while protecting him as a child, chose to spend his entire fortune hunting those pirates down. He burned with vengeance for more than 370 years, crossing over thirty thousand light-years alone in a solitary vessel, using iron and fire to fulfill a child's vow of revenge.

There were so many more.

They were all stories Jiang Xiao had personally witnessed or heard the captain recount. As his experiences grew, his ideal became ever firmer.

Compared with the starry sky, the countless human compatriots beneath it—their noble, radiant spirits and stories—were even more dazzling. These people and events endowed the stars with an indescribable charm.

Once, when he had no power, Jiang Xiao had wanted only to witness and pursue them. But now...

Regardless of whether the system was an external force, and regardless of whether it harbored some conspiracy, Jiang Xiao would use this power to pursue the ambition he had once buried deep aboard the Doran.

"My ideal..."

"The voices of the foreign races in this starry sky are too noisy."

Jiang Xiao rarely put away the smile he usually wore. Gazing at the unusually quiet Sin Capital today, he spoke calmly.

"They're so noisy that they dim the charm of the stars. So noisy that the stories that should have been beautiful and radiant become blurred and fragmented. In the past, all I could do was think of ways to pursue those radiant stories with everything I had amid the noise. But now...

"I want to make this starry sky a little quieter, so it can hold more stories."

Li Yuan understood.

"Just like this Sin Capital?"

"Just like this Sin Capital."

Silence. Wordlessness. Then came a sigh.

"I'm old. I'm old."

Jiang Xiao shook his head and laughed. He naturally understood Li Yuan's deeper meaning, but he had yet to decide how to achieve this seemingly impossible ideal.

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