Interstellar: Starting as a Cleaner
Chapter 48

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Yang Bo felt like he was about to hit his limit. With so many cows, would the increase in his physique make him explode? The cattle gradually gathered together. Looking closely into the sinkhole, the plants below were still fairly tall, while the grass on the surface had clearly been eaten clean.

"They should be moving somewhere else. Could these cattle be one of the Mutants' food sources?" Yang Bo guessed.

There were now more than twenty Mutants carrying Mecha parts. The components each of them carried were far from light; even the lightest weighed several tons.

Yang Bo wasn't afraid of the Mutants. These Mutants were only fit to skulk underground. Let one of them dare show its face and see what happened. Seeing part of the herd entering a massive passage on the other side of the sinkhole, Yang Bo could no longer hold back.

He set the Mecha button aside and prepared to gamble. Last time, he had recovered with electricity. This time, he would use the Homologous Energy Stone in the Mecha Space button. One stroke led to heaven, the other to hell! The situation in reality wasn't looking very good, and he likely wouldn't get another opportunity like this.

People like Yang Bo still had the mentality of a nobody. Important people were generally very calm and rarely took risks.

When a nobody got carried away, there was nothing they wouldn't dare do. They had no other choice. Nobodies had nothing but their lives to gamble with!

The Rocket Pack suddenly erupted, and Yang Bo's Mecha shot out from halfway up the mountain. Without Dynamic Vision, no ordinary person could have clearly seen the scenery ahead at that explosive speed.

The thunderous blast of the Rocket Pack alerted the Mutants. When they turned around, they saw four hydrogen bombs flying toward them.

"Roar!" One three-meter-tall Mutant directly swung a Mecha arm at the hydrogen bombs. The others also threw the Mecha components in their hands.

Boom! The first hydrogen bomb exploded the instant it struck the Mecha arm.

A tremendous Energy Shock wave erupted instantly, blowing more than a dozen Mutants that had just leapt into the air backward.

By then, the other three hydrogen bombs had already fallen among the herd.

Boom! Boom! Boom! The Mutants had misjudged him. Yang Bo's target was the cattle in the sinkhole.

Charge +1! Charge +1!...

Yang Bo gripped the Mecha Space button tightly in his right hand. The violent energy of the Energy Stone rapidly surged into his body, making him feel as though his blood were boiling.

He shoved the control lever forward with his left hand and flew straight into the sky, shouting provocatively as he did, "Idiots, you bunch of bastards."

"Roar!" Because some animal genes manifested in the Mutants' bodies, they hated being called bastards more than anything. The group of Mutants all leapt into the air.

However, the Mutants had overlooked one thing: the powerful shockwaves from the four Micro Hydrogen Bombs had blasted the mist in the sinkhole into the sky.

The Energy Shock from the Micro Hydrogen Bomb explosions was detected by an Orbital Cannon tens of thousands of kilometers above. Once the Mutants took flight—

The Orbital Cannon fired one blinding beam after another. Yang Bo clung tightly to the stone wall of the sinkhole, watching bucket-thick lasers streak past him. A shiver ran through his entire body. He had been blown up by Orbital Cannons twice before, but this was the first time he had truly seen what one looked like.

"Awesome." The High-Frequency Laser Guns Yang Bo had seen at the Dome Concert had such tiny laser beams. This thing's beams were as thick as buckets.

The Mutants were blasted directly into ashes.

In reality, Yang Bo was drenched in sweat. The violent energy inside his body had rendered him unable to move just now, though it had only lasted a very short time.

Now, Yang Bo felt as though there were a volcano within him, containing terrifying power.

Mecha Repair +16! Mecha Repair +16! Mecha Repair +32! Mecha Repair +8! ...

Yang Bo was dumbfounded. The hell? These Mutants could repair Mechas? "Could it be that I can't use the Mutants' superpowers? Like the Red Earl's Faction members I killed at the Dome Concert—there was no way those guys didn't have superpowers, yet what I received was Battleship Repair and Battleship Piloting. In other words, there are individual factors involved when it comes to superpowers?" After thinking it over carefully, Yang Bo formed a rough guess, though he couldn't say whether it was true. After all, his own ability was rather bizarre.

"Roar!"

"Roar!" Many Mutants were still in the caves across the sinkhole, roaring at Yang Bo, but none dared come out.

Just then, several Air-to-Ground Fighters came screaming in, firing missile after missile at the Mutants that had been roaring moments ago. The Mutants were so frightened that they hurriedly fled.

Seeing the Air-to-Ground Fighters arrive, Yang Bo breathed a sigh of relief and quickly went down to collect the loot.

The Mutants had dismantled the Mechas. Those parts weren't worth much, but the Mechas' melee weapons were probably valuable. Unfortunately, some had been hit by Laser Cannons.

The officers of Base 16 were speechless. That Blade Mecha caused trouble every time it went out. This time, the Orbital Cannon had killed more than thirty Mutants, including one suspected leader, since it had lasted 0.5 seconds beneath the Orbital Laser Cannon. The missiles had also struck and destroyed one of the Mutants' Underground Passages.

Tracking +8! Tracking +4! Camouflage +1! Camouflage +1! Sonic Wave Control +1! ...

Yang Bo watched as the Air-to-Ground Fighters continuously fired missiles into the Underground Passage where the Mutants had been yelling. Some missiles penetrated deep into the underground space before exploding, and the passage kept collapsing.

"How is this being counted toward me? Could it be that the shockwaves from the hydrogen bombs dealt the first wave of damage?" Carrying several Mecha weapons, Yang Bo flew out of the sinkhole. Only then did he realize it was over two thousand meters deep. It had gone undiscovered because it was normally shrouded in clouds and mist.

He let the Mecha return to the base on its own while he watched. The Mecha could travel by itself, provided there was no interference.

Somewhere underground, Tiger-Face King shuddered as he felt the tremors from the surface.

"Could this bastard be the Calamity Star people spoke of in ancient times?"

"Dog bastard, someone..." Tiger-Face King was about to withdraw the bounty when an idea suddenly struck him. Since this was a Calamity Star, perhaps he could use it to bring disaster upon those annoying bastards next door.

"Someone, issue a bounty order. Whoever kills this bastard will be rewarded by me, Tiger-Face King, with a Fire Energy Stone Mine. Anyone." Tiger-Face King issued the order. This Calamity Star had cost him two War Generals, so it certainly had something extraordinary about it. Some people had long coveted his Energy Stone Mine... Heh heh.

"What? Mecha weapons aren't worth anything?" Yang Bo had thought he had scored a bargain, only to find out the things were worthless.

"Yes, dear player. Every Mecha's weapons are a complete set. Unless you use these weapons to build a Custom Mecha." The answer left Yang Bo speechless.

"What about ranged weapons?"

"Those won't work either. The weapons activated by each Mecha can only be used by that Mecha itself. Other Mechas cannot use them."

"How embarrassing!" Yang Bo felt that the people on the forum might just give him another nickname.

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