Li Xingkong had barely left the tavern when he was stopped by a group of mercenaries' airship.
While it's true that mindless mercenaries die quickly, the high level of danger in this industry is also due to the abundance of fools eager to make quick money.
Li Xingkong had only shown his face briefly when some fools came up to him, wanting to exchange Li Xingkong for some money.
Normally, they wouldn't even be able to smell Li Xingkong's exhaust fumes, but Li Xingkong clearly wasn't walking that fast.
In other words, based solely on the few words on the bounty poster, who knows if it's true or false? Not everyone will be afraid until they've witnessed Li Xingkong's actions.
What a joke! A few pieces of paper claim he can destroy stars, does that mean he really can? Obviously not.
These Snail People have probably learned to boast and flatter; the bounty they've come up with sounds like the Myth.
Whether it's a mule or a horse, you have to take it out for a spin to see what it's made of.
Similarly, Li Xingkong had the same idea. It was clear that these few bounties were not enough to scare everyone away. Li Xingkong needed an opportunity to prove himself.
Show them your skills briefly to scare them away as much as possible.
Li Xingkong still looked down on the meager resources surrounding him; he had originally thought that the Snail People's direct fleet would be the first to arrive.
Using a few unorthodox methods is hardly a way to show off; if you want to demonstrate your skills, you have to fight against the regular army.
However, although these flies posed no threat, it didn't mean Li Xingkong could let them buzz around in his ear.
"Kid, obediently come back with me, and maybe I'll spare your life after you collect the reward."
"Look at this guy, so fair-skinned and delicate. Before handing him over, how about we guys have some fun first?"
"They're aliens I've never seen before! Yay!"
The few dilapidated ships that surrounded Li Xingkong were clearly quite arrogant.
Li Xingkong glanced at them briefly and realized that calling them dilapidated ships was no exaggeration.
The ships looked like they had been patched up, with no complete paint job. They were patched up here and there, like a patchwork rag, looking very shabby.
Many of the weapons were clearly not compatible with the spaceship; they were simply forcibly welded onto it, giving it a somewhat greenish appearance.
These guys didn't say many polite things; even Li Xingkong found their mouths foul.
"Annoying."
Li Xingkong made a hand seal, and a beam of shimmering white light shot out from beside him.
It was the Taiyi Ice Soul Divine Light.
He had tested the powerful life-saving effect of this Divine Light, but Li Xingkong hadn't yet tried its actual effect of trapping enemies.
It'll be perfect to test my skills on these guys.
A flash of white light appeared, but there was no sense of threat whatsoever; not even the alarms on the spaceship sounded.
If this thing is highly lethal, it will inevitably be accompanied by a strong energy fluctuation, and as long as there is an energy fluctuation, it will basically be impossible to escape the detection of the spaceship's equipment.
This ball of white light didn't arrive quickly; judging from its speed, it was far from reaching the speed of light.
The spaceship didn't sound an alarm, so the mercenaries naturally didn't take the Divine Light seriously. However, after seeing Li Xingkong unleash such a Divine Light, they subconsciously retaliated with a few shots.
The retaliatory beam collided head-on with the Divine Light, but the expected explosion did not occur.
The Divine Light was like dough; after several beams of light intersected with it, they slowed down and then hovered within the Divine Light, like a work of art, having lost all its function as a weapon.
After swallowing the incoming beam of light, the Divine Light continued its unstoppable advance, gently sweeping over the several spaceships circling around Li Xingkong.
Before being swept by the Divine Light, they were quite active, and the mercenaries inside were shouting incessantly.
After the scan, the spaceships mysteriously came to a standstill.
The spaceship fell silent, even the mercenaries who had been cursing inside were quiet.
The spaceships were enveloped in a faint silver light, as if this light isolated them from the outside world.
Upon closer inspection, one would notice that the mercenaries inside these spaceships seemed to have frozen in place, remaining completely still in their original positions.
It was as if time itself had been frozen in their presence.
After freezing those annoying flies in place with his Divine Light, Li Xingkong finally dusted himself off and left.
After he left, the previously empty space suddenly became lively, as a bunch of guys who had been quietly observing from somewhere rushed over, wanting to see how these unlucky guys would receive their due.
"What is this? Time stop?"
The first to arrive were naturally the mercenaries who had met Li Xingkong in the tavern. When the spaceship arrived, its mechanical arm reached out to touch the unfortunate men who were frozen in place. However, upon contact, they discovered that although the ship appeared to be frozen in place with nothing around it, it seemed to have become one with the surrounding space. With just a slight tap of the mechanical arm, the ship floated away.
The ship's instruments also began testing, but they couldn't figure out anything.
Under the instrument's view, the space where these unfortunate souls' ships were located seemed to be fixed in place by something; the probe beams fired at them never returned.
Eventually, as more and more people came to observe, it was a spaceship from a certain chamber of commerce that finally managed to roughly understand the principle behind this move.
"All the molecules in the space around them were forcibly fixed in place. Even with external force, this constant stillness could not be broken. They could only recover once the beam of light dissipated naturally."
"For these guys who are restrained, time has been frozen."
The mercenaries clearly had a good relationship with the merchant guild. After learning the principle behind this trick, the mercenaries, who had originally planned to secretly make a quick buck, were all reassured.
Do you think they don't know their own skill level? They can't even understand the other person's attack methods, yet they're thinking of going up to grab someone? Isn't that just obviously suicide?
So, what are your thoughts?
A mercenary who was familiar with the ship that came to investigate from the Chamber of Commerce asked, "The Planet Exterminator gave us three days, which is obviously to make these aliens who are staying on the Snail People planet choose sides."
"What can we think? The Chamber of Commerce is having important guests coming in the next few days, and we need to personally greet them. I'm afraid the Chamber of Commerce can't help with this."
The Chamber of Commerce's investigators were clearly cunning; they were definitely going to run away, but they still managed to find a legitimate reason for themselves.
They've known this Snail People's temperament for so many years, they're not completely ignorant of it.
If they are too slow and these guys blockade the planet, using them as hostages to deal with the Planet Exterminator, that would be a real problem.
It's best to distance ourselves as soon as possible; it's just a base, and we can always find another one.