The Might of Fierce Star

Climbing atop the wall, the commander quickly spotted a hulking infected standing a full ten meters tall amid the infected horde flooding the streets!

Its exaggerated muscles and dense blood vessels glowing purple all revealed the sheer strength it possessed.

"Sniper!"

The commander shouted, and a muffled gunshot rang out the next moment.

The aberration shuddered. The flesh on its chest exploded, but its vital areas remained unharmed.

Several more shots rang out. This time, the aberration had been prepared. It leaped several meters into the air and charged madly toward the wall with a roar.

The sniper hurriedly tried to stop it, but amid the surging mass of infected, he could never get a clear shot.

Boom!

The half-meter-thick wall shook violently, instantly spiderwebbing with dense cracks. Under the aberration's impact, they became increasingly obvious, as though the wall could be breached at any moment.

Just as the wall was about to collapse, the giant infected's massive head suddenly exploded!

The barrel of the tank guarding an armored vehicle gave off a faint wisp of smoke. A young man stepped out of the armored vehicle and nodded at the commander.

"Thank you, Mr. Wang Hao."

The commander immediately breathed a sigh of relief. He had been about to mobilize the tanks stationed at the four corners to intercept it.

Roar! Roar roar!

Before anyone could relax, several more aberrations roared. Yet Wang Hao, who had walked to the commander's side, remained calm.

No mortal danger...

Watching the aberrations charging toward the wall, Wang Hao silently thought to himself.

"Multiple aberrations and an infected horde are enough to tear me and this elite unit apart, so why can't I sense any danger?"

Wang Hao frowned.

The next moment, he learned the reason.

Several explosions suddenly erupted amid the infected horde. Wild flames ravaged the area, instantly reducing countless infected to ashes.

Everyone was shaken.

Then, ten warriors in high-tech armor descended from the sky, carrying out a one-sided slaughter of the infected in the commander's stunned gaze!

Feng Xiao aboard the transport aircraft paid no attention to the war machines. Those aberrations had energy levels equivalent to at most lv10 individuals, while these war machines were premium goods, comparable to lv15!

Instead, Wang Hao had caught his interest.

"Danger perception is a good ability. His temperament seems normal too."

[Heart of Dawn (Repair: 5%)

Scan: Target not selected (Expand)

Lock: Anchor not selected

Analysis: Talent selection in progress]

Feng Xiao immediately grinned. "Heart of Dawn can do that too? Expand!"

[Wang Hao (Ability User)

Age: 21 Height: 190

Personality prediction: Cheerful (suppressed)

Race: Human

Ability: Psychic Perception (20%)

Current ability: Danger Prediction

Potential: Epic

Recommendation: Matrix Controller / First Officer]

"I have to recruit him!"

Seeing the data, Feng Xiao's initial interest instantly turned into firm resolve.

As long as he remained the captain, positions aboard the ship confirmed according to the rules could not betray him. Otherwise, the rules would strictly impose punishment in accordance with the crew agreement.

Therefore, when recruiting ship crew, talent came first. Loyalty was guaranteed by the starship core itself.

By then, the war machines had already finished the battle.

Against energy weapons from the interstellar age, as long as the number of ordinary infected was not absurdly large, however many came would die.

After the infected had been completely wiped out, the ten war machines spread apart. Feng Xiao, dressed in a combat suit, leaped down from the transport aircraft.

The quick-reacting commander hurriedly came forward and said respectfully, "Hello, I'm Li Ming, the major commanding this unit."

After all, such powerful warriors could only be found in those super bases. He could not afford to neglect one.

"My surname is Feng."

Feng Xiao replied indifferently, casting an inconspicuous glance at Wang Hao.

"Mr. Feng, might we have the honor of inviting you to visit our base?"

Li Ming smiled broadly.

"We've finally arrived. That's our safe base."

Looking at the towering concrete walls appearing at the end of the horizon, Feng Xiao found it somewhat novel.

The atmosphere of the apocalypse era, huh. He had to admit, it felt rather unique.

As the convoy gradually approached, survivors began to appear.

Watching modified pickup trucks pass by from time to time and armed survivors gathering in groups, Feng Xiao frowned. The number of infected nearby did not seem like something these survivors could handle.

Seeing Feng Xiao's confusion, Wang Hao, who had become somewhat familiar with him, took the initiative to explain, "Originally, the infected around the safe base had been cleared out on a large scale by the base troops, so there was no problem.

"But recently, for some reason, the infected began gathering, and their numbers rapidly increased.

"It just so happened that several nearby small bases had recently been breached, so the number of survivors exceeded capacity..."

So that was it.

Feng Xiao understood, without the slightest trace of pity.

He still remembered a medal belonging to his father that he had found by accident as a child.

Blood Sergeant!

Slaughtered enemy military planets, annihilated one billion enemies!

The interstellar battlefield was far more terrifying than the apocalypse.

As the convoy neared the walls, dozens of soldiers guarding the gate immediately stood at attention, while the nearby survivors hurriedly moved aside.

[Captain, a level-two Star Beast and a large number of infected are approaching this base.]

"What level is a level-two Star Beast? Can we handle it?"

[Equivalent to a top-tier giant beast. The main cannon can kill it with a single strike.]

Feng Xiao relaxed, a smile appearing at the corner of his mouth.

"Perfect. Let's see if I can use this opportunity to recruit Wang Hao."

If not for Wang Hao, he absolutely would not have wasted so much time following the natives around.

After dismissing the enthusiastic base higher-ups, Feng Xiao found a clean room and instantly connected his consciousness to the control core of the Star Origin.

The giant beast still had some time before it attacked the safe base. He would take this chance to complete a task.

The Star Origin swiftly passed through the electromagnetic pulse layer capable of destroying most creations of first-level civilizations and entered planetary orbit.

Its built-in radar system began scanning all of Earth Star. Although it was less effective than a Star Weapon, it was more than sufficient for a mere first-level civilization!

[Level-one beast detected...]

[Level-one Star Beast detected...]

[Level-two Star Beast detected...]

[Level-one Star Beast detected...]

[...]

Apart from the level-two Star Beast near the safe base, there were no fewer than twenty level-two Star Beasts scattered across Earth Star!

There were even as many as a hundred level-one Star Beasts!

Mechanical components surged with an intense metallic feel, and a massive ship cannon emerged as violent energy fluctuations began gathering wildly!

One thousand points of attack sounded insignificant, but this was the starship's calculation system!

Even one point of attack was enough to instantly wipe out a hundred-man unit!

What was more, as the points increased, the ship cannon's power did not rise through simple addition, but skyrocketed geometrically.

Even an initial starship was still a starship.

[Target locked — fire?]

On the screen was a hideous, terrifying giant beast standing two hundred meters tall within the vast mountain range.

Feng Xiao controlled Fierce Star and fired directly.

Earth Star's largest mountain range—the Sila Mountains.

"According to legend, it's the strongest overlord of the Sila Mountains, one of the known top-tier giant beasts.

"Remember, our mission this time is only to collect the scales it sheds. We absolutely cannot alarm it!"

Tens of thousands of meters away, more than a dozen armored warriors from the Eastern top-tier safe base looked reverently at the super giant beast in the distance, its body covered in red scales and resembling Godzilla.

"Understood!"

"Good, prepare to mo... What is that?"

The captain was counting down when he caught a flash of light from the corner of his eye. He looked up and cried out.

A crimson streak of light effortlessly pierced through the invisible electromagnetic pulse layer and howled toward the giant beast!

The red-scaled beast seemed to sense the threat as well. It raised its head and roared furiously.

Lines of red patterns lit up one after another. Terrifying energy burst from the beast's body, and the resulting energy storm swept up snow accumulated over ten thousand meters.

In an instant, a blinding crimson beam surged from the beast's mouth. The energy shockwave nearly sent the dumbfounded armored soldiers ten thousand meters away flying.

The red beam collided violently with the two streaks of light. An explosion comparable to a nuclear blast engulfed a vast stretch of sky, and one streak of light burst through!

The beam dimmed.

But its power remained formidable!

The air instantly fell silent. The next moment, a massive pillar of energy shot into the sky, completely shredding the giant beast and everything within ten thousand meters around it in a raging, terrifying energy storm!

Even their molecular structures were blasted apart!

Its destructive radius was not as large as that of a nuclear weapon, but the crystallized crater four to five thousand meters in diameter and several hundred meters deep clearly showed—

Its single-target destructive power far surpassed that of a standard-yield nuclear weapon!

A pile of rocks tens of thousands of meters away shifted, and more than a dozen armored soldiers struggled out. They removed their sparking armor, their faces filled with bewilderment.

"What... was that?"