Interstellar: Starting as a Cleaner
Chapter 21

Stealth +16!

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Stealth +16!

"Dynamic Vision +1!"

"Dynamic Vision +1!

Thermal Imaging Vision +1!

Flight +1!

A string of messages flashed through Yang Bo's mind, but he couldn't feel happy at all. After thinking it over calmly...

Yang Bo found it strange. He had scanned the burned area with radar—there shouldn't have been any friendlies there, right? As for whether it could have been an enemy target, Yang Bo didn't think so. This was right next to the base. The High-Energy Rays emitters, Laser Cannons, and high-energy particle beam emitters atop the base on the eight-hundred-meter mountain ridge—was an enemy target crazy? And the base's detection system could detect everything clearly, not just on the ground but even thousands of meters underground.

Just as Yang Bo was worrying, another message suddenly seemed to appear in his mind.

Stealth +16!

"Uh, could that shadow just now have been a B-Class Target?" Yang Bo was stunned, then immediately figured it out.

"Stealth?"

Yang Bo silently invoked the skill and found that it had indeed appeared: Stealth: Intermediate (16/100).

Yang Bo hurriedly opened the game. The game screen appeared...

Meanwhile, on a planet in the distant Starry Sky, the people at Base 16 were somewhat dumbfounded. They had just watched a mecha mowing down grass, then watched it set a fire? The next second, the entire base's defense system activated instantly. Laser Cannons and high-energy particle weapons came online at once.

"Alert! Alert! High-Threat Target detected."

"Defense system activated."

"Target eliminated!" Piercing alarms rang throughout the base, then vanished again in less than a second.

Only then did the base's management react.

They issued orders in an orderly fashion, and the wreckage struck by the Laser Cannons was quickly brought back.

Yang Bo's game screen had returned, but it was still black, displaying that the mecha had been damaged.

Using Battle Replay, Yang Bo carefully watched the footage. What had burst out of the fire was a mecha—also humanoid, but its material looked strange.

His mecha's blade had pierced the other mecha, followed by a blinding flash.

That was right. The mecha Yang Bo had been controlling had been blown apart by the base's defense system.

"Sir, in light of your discovery of a B-Class Infiltrator, the game's official team will provide you with a new Blade Mecha free of charge. Enjoy your game." With that one sentence, Yang Bo was dismissed.

Yang Bo wanted to ask more, but he didn't know how. Since they said it was a game, then it was a game.

The game screen returned him to the mecha. He opened the warehouse and found five hundred thousand Gold Coins, equivalent to five hundred thousand Credit Points.

There were three emails in his inbox. The first was a warning telling players not to start fires casually or damage the natural environment, or they would face heavy penalties.

The second was an apology. The base's Alarm System had blown up the player's mecha, and they now apologized to the player. If the player had any requests, they could contact customer service.

The third was a reward: five hundred thousand Gold Coins for discovering a B-Class Infiltrator.

Yang Bo first carefully reviewed the Battle Replay. He had not killed the other party. His mecha's blade had only injured it first, and then it had been blown apart by the Laser Cannon.

"Looks like as long as I injure the other party first, I can get a reward too." Yang Bo did not immediately contact customer service, because he wasn't sure what he needed yet.

The fire had also been extinguished, so Yang Bo checked the rewards he had obtained, silently invoking his skills.

Swimming: Advanced (125/1000) Flight: Master (1402/10000) Camouflage: Beginner (4/10) Sonar Positioning: Intermediate (18/100) Dynamic Vision: Master (4032/10000) Thermal Imaging Vision: Advanced (203/1000) Electrical Energy Control: Intermediate (12/100) Light Energy Control: Beginner (4/10) Mecha Piloting: Beginner (8/10) Stealth: Intermediate (16/100)

Yang Bo felt incredibly hungry, and his whole body felt taut. He stood up and stretched, his bones cracking loudly. When he went to the bathroom and took off his shirt, his perfect physique made it obvious that he possessed explosive strength.

He charged himself while drinking milk.

"My body has already evolved." Yang Bo looked at the 35% battery consumption. How much had he charged after getting off work?

"Two Master-level skills. I wonder what kind of effects they'll have on me?"

"I have money in the game now, so I'm not short on money for the time being."

"What should I do next in the game? What direction should my abilities develop in?"

"I should still focus on support abilities first. In a world with such advanced technology, no matter how strong my combat power is, it can't compare to Laser Cannons in space."

"Then what benefits should I ask the game's official team for? Even though I know this isn't a game?"

Wearing pajamas, Yang Bo came to the window and looked at the enormous spaceport outside. Bathed in starlight, it was forever brilliant. It was not only beautiful, but deadly as well. It carried all kinds of weapons and could easily destroy an entire city.

His mind was filled with questions. Since they had such advanced technology, why did the world in the game need mechas to deal with targets? Wouldn't it be enough to launch attacks from space?

What kind of organization had developed this game? The military? And what was the military doing it for? Gene Serum Material, or something else?

The countless doubts in his mind made Yang Bo feel that although the world he saw was so beautiful, beneath that beauty lay a bottomless abyss.

"I should improve my strength first. There's no rush to buy a house." Yang Bo had just felt an impulse to use his game Credit Points to buy a house.

Now that he had a direction, Yang Bo immediately took action and opened the game to contact customer service.

"Customer service?" Yang Bo contacted customer service directly through the game.

"Dear player, what do you need?" The customer service voice was mechanical.

"Being hit by the base's Laser Cannon caused me severe psychological trauma. I demand compensation for emotional damages." Yang Bo decided to bluff first.

"Sorry, player. When you entered the game, the official team already informed you that Mecha World is a highly free game. Players must face all kinds of possible events. If any harm is caused to players, our company expresses its regret." Customer service replied quickly.

Yang Bo was speechless. The meaning was obvious: play or don't play.

"Then I request an animal distribution map for the base's radiation range." Yang Bo wasn't afraid of embarrassing himself and quickly made his request.

"That is possible. However, given the player's level is too low, we can only provide a distribution map of organisms up to D-Class." Customer service agreed immediately.

When customer service agreed so readily, Yang Bo muttered to himself, Could this customer service representative be a real person, and one with a fairly high level of authority? Otherwise, they wouldn't have agreed so easily.

"I also need all kinds of ordinary animals, including small animals."

"That is possible, but animals move around. The data provided by the official team can only reflect the conditions at the time it was recorded."

"No problem." Yang Bo mainly didn't want to waste time searching the surrounding area with radar. The mecha's radar detection range wasn't very large.

Opening the map in his inbox, Yang Bo quickly found what he needed: Electric Eels, in a lake two hundred and eighty kilometers from the base in the direction of the Plain.

"Let's see if they sell bombs or anything like that?" Yang Bo carefully examined the lake's information. Although the mecha could fight underwater, was he supposed to fight honestly? "Or make some kind of deadly poison?" If setting fires was allowed, then poisoning should be allowed too, right? Although he had been warned for setting the fire this time, the gains had been enormous. Besides, the game's official team hadn't forbidden it.

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