The Legendary Mechanic (Transcendental Mechanic)

The metal bulkhead is full of scratches and holes, and the exposed energy lines have been damaged, constantly sputtering electric sparks. The cabin of this ship has experienced a fierce battle, the flames are crackling and burning, and the ground is full of crew members. Fragmented corpses.

A group of Space Marines in full-coverage armour, with blasters in hand, inspected the corpses and added another shot if they found any survivors.

The crew members who died in battle were all rock elves, a relatively ancient mammalian race, with yellow-brown rough skin, an average height of about three meters, and strong hair. Although they are flesh and blood, they are naturally rock-solid and good at finding rare ores. With metal resources, it is a relatively powerful galaxy-level civilization in the Protoss Sea.

And the uniforms of these crew members all have the logo of the civilization, which proves that the ship is a regular army belonging to the official civilization, but it was attacked and the entire army was wiped out.

At the end of this cabin is a huge metal warehouse door, which is a warehouse. At this moment, a guy who looks like the leader of the raiders stood in front of the closed warehouse door, and took out a special key to crack the key. The disc device was pressed on the operation panel of the warehouse door, and a high-frequency beep sounded.

hum! The next moment, the warehouse door slammed, unlocked and slowly opened.

The leader of the attackers strode in and saw hundreds of evolutionary totems neatly placed in the warehouse.

"The things are in hand, go check them out and move them back to our boat."

The leader of the attackers nodded in satisfaction, waved his hand, and ordered his subordinates to do things.

The rock elves purchased a batch of totem devices from the Black Star Legion, and the news leaked out that the group of attackers ambushed ahead of time, with the goal of snatching these evolutionary totems.

The accompanying escort fleet was wiped out by this group of attackers... A group that can plunder a regular army of a galaxy-level civilization is obviously not a small person.

This group of attackers are also interstellar mercenaries, but their nature is different. Mercenaries are roughly divided into three types. The stragglers registered with the Military Alliance, independent mercenaries without a business license; and the third type is the black market mercenaries who are active in the black market and are willing to take on black jobs.

"Black work" refers to the shady criminal work that violates the universal laws of the interstellar, and is generally posted on the black market network, such as looting, kidnapping, assassinating civilized officials, slaughtering planets, spying infiltration, provoking wars, etc. Black mercenaries are actually criminals... In fact, most of the people engaged in this industry are themselves wanted criminals.

And this group of attackers are black market mercenaries who specialize in taking on black jobs, and they come from one of the best black market mercenary forces in the universe - the blood gold organization.

The Blood Gold Organization is a black mercenary force that operates across star fields. Its main areas of activity are the Sea of ​​Protoss, the Ancient Star Desert, and the Old Star River. The whereabouts of its members, spaceships, and bases are all quite secretive. The specific size of the blood gold organization is a secret, but it is obviously a giant to be able to conduct business in three star fields.

At the same time, the blood gold organization is also one of the top executives of the interstellar black market.

Where there is trade control, there will be a black market, and the black market will continue to breed and gradually form a huge pattern.

The black market also has different levels, which are distinguished by region and business scope. From planets to galaxies, and then to star fields, as one level goes up, the black market becomes more and more formal. At the highest level, the business scope covers almost The interstellar black markets of all star fields rule all black markets in name.

And this most advanced black market force is well versed in the way to make money silently, and will not take it easy to give itself an independent name, called "Interstellar Black Market". People who don't know it think it's just a noun.

Of course, not all independent black markets obey the orders of the most advanced interstellar black market, just like some low-level gangsters who don't know the giants of the international community.

The interstellar black market is huge, and its business covers the entire universe. There are always some civilizations who want to obtain the technology blocked by advanced civilizations. The communication platform for criminals is a huge underground society.

Not all criminals exist to make trouble, a large part of criminals just seek profit, they also need order and credibility, and someone to make rules, so the managers of the interstellar black market came into being, from black market mercenaries, intelligence organizations, Various gray industries such as smuggling trade and contraband production are among the most powerful organizations.

The blood gold organization is one of the managers of the black market, which is equivalent to the overlord of the underground criminal world.

The Ark of the Fallen is not the manager of the black market. The managers of the black market are basically lawful and evil. They also don't like chaotic and evil gods. Although they are both criminal forces, the two sides are not the same. After the Ark of the Fallen fell apart, the blood gold organization took in a large number of criminals and helped them get laid off and re-employed.

A cadre came to the leader and couldn't help smiling when he saw his subordinates carrying the evolutionary totem.

"The price of the evolutionary totem on the black market is very high. As far as I know, many civilizations are secretly purchasing it. If we swallow this batch, how much do you think we can sell it for?"

"Don't think about it, this is what the employer wants. Our job is to bring the goods back. Do you dare to take it for yourself?" The leader shook his head.

After a year and a half of operation, the business of the evolutionary totem has basically stabilized. Some civilizations that have taken refuge in other glory and ethereal civilizations cannot have an affair with the empire, so they can only move their minds. action.

No one has forgotten the record of Black Star a year and a half ago. The operation difficulty of robbing the Black Star Legion is too high. These forces take the second best option and choose to rob the fleet that transports the evolutionary totem, eyeing every civilization that purchases.

Because this violated the general laws of Xinghai, the black market mercenaries represented by the blood gold organization came in handy. Now the evolutionary totem has a price but no market on the black market, and the supply exceeds demand.

After snatching the rock elf's evolutionary totem, the members of the blood gold organization returned to the spaceship, blew up all the wreckage of the spaceship, and turned around to leave.

In recent months, similar scenes have been staged many times in various corners of the universe.

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Broken Starlink, the headquarters of the Black Star Legion.

"Another user who bought an evolutionary totem was robbed halfway?"

In the Legion Chief's office, Han Xiao turned off the player forum, looked at Sylvia's remote projection, and frowned slightly.

"Yes, counting the rock elves, thirteen galaxy-level civilization customers have been plundered, and thousands of evolutionary totems have been left on the black market."

"Where was it robbed?"

"The sea of ​​protoss, the identity of the snatcher is unknown, and the preliminary judgment should be the same faction as the murderer who committed the previous crimes."

Han Xiao rubbed his chin, "Pay attention to the black market. If there is no evolutionary totem sold on the black market after a while, it should be done by black market mercenaries, and the things were handed over to their employers."

"Teacher, do we need to deal with this problem?"

"Don't worry, I'm not in charge of after-sales service. It doesn't matter to me if I can't protect myself after buying something... Of course, if they hire my mechanical troops, that's a different matter." Han Xiao waved his hand, "What about the rock elves?" explain?"

"They said they wanted the Legion to send them another batch."

"Send a batch? Not buy?"

"Yes, they said that they knew that the cost of the evolutionary totem was very low, and they were unwilling to buy it at a high price. They thought we should give them another set... You also know that the rock elves have a more straightforward character." Sylvia shrugged helplessly.

"Tell them, I don't open an insurance business, and I can buy it if I want it. Free compensation does not exist. This is a matter of principle."

Han Xiao shook his head. If he made such an opening, maybe there would be civilization playing the game of self-defense and self-stealing to compensate, so he would not do business at a loss.

However, this kind of thing is actually unavoidable. There may be a civilization that has reached an agreement with other forces in private, deliberately pretending to be stolen, and indirectly helping other civilizations that are not close to the empire to purchase the evolutionary totem.

However, Han Xiao doesn't mind if the sold Evolutionary Totems are robbed, the more he is robbed, the more he sells, the wider the market, and it can even help him share the pressure, anyway, the Evolutionary Totems can only be recharged If you use it, he won't lose anyway.

It is the empire that needs to worry about this problem, not him. As long as it doesn't directly grab the head of the Black Star Legion, he can accept it.

"Understood, then I'll tell them that."

Sylvia turned off the remote projection.

Han Xiao let out a breath, leaned back, leaned on the chair, and pondered.

In the past year and a half, the Black Star Legion has been operating steadily, gradually digesting the results of rapid expansion, consolidating various businesses, and developing well. His style of acting is finally like a mechanic—the body stays at home and concentrates on building machinery. Expand the size of the legion, and the mechanical troops are wandering around outside, and the number of random rewards for doing tasks is used to draw task settlement cards.

His experience reserves have also accumulated, and he took out a part of the upgrade blueprint skills to accumulate potential points, which were used to upgrade the level of ultimate knowledge. 】.

This knowledge is related to manufacturing machinery, which greatly improves manufacturing technology and production line power, and unlocks a large number of combinable blueprints, giving a specialty [Ultimate Maker] and a skill [Inspiration Creation].

The effect of [Ultimate Maker] is simple and practical. The basic performance of the mechanical creations produced is increased by 25% to 30%, and the production speed is increased by 300% to 500%. Obviously, this is a specialty for violent soldiers.

And [Inspiration Creation] is an inactive skill. The activation condition is that [Ultimate Mechanical Engineering] reaches the full level of Lv5. The effect is to randomly combine an unlimited number of blueprints, and randomly synthesize one or more improved or fused new blueprints. You can also perform advanced settings, choose the tendency of synthetic blueprints (attack, defense, etc.), demand functions, etc., which is more stable than free creation and can be shipped.

What skills consume is experience... Massive experience.

For players who cannot change blueprints on their own, this skill is a magical skill, but Han Xiao can improve blueprints by himself, so this skill is not very useful... But it is not tasteless, and it also has an irreplaceable role:

——[Inspiration Creation] There is a slight chance to synthesize blueprints of Cosmic Treasure-level machinery, which is the only way for mechanics to independently create golden equipment!

Now that Han Xiao holds two Cosmic Treasures, he does not dislike having one more, but it is not so easy to synthesize Cosmic Treasure-level mechanical blueprints. This is not like gambling blueprints. There is no fixed combination. There is a high degree of randomness.

In the previous life, some players accidentally synthesized mechanical blueprints of Cosmic Treasure level, but there are two problems. One is that only the information of the blueprints is released, and no one discloses the combination. Second... Even if there are blueprints, there is no mechanical system in the previous life Players actually create gold level mechs.

The pre-conditions for blueprints are too harsh, there is basically no possibility of manufacturing below Transcendent A Grade, and players naturally cannot meet the conditions.

[Inspiration Creation] was left behind by Han Xiao for the time being. One is to reach the full level of [Ultimate Mechanical Engineering], which requires too many potential points. Drawings, but he lacks experience in other aspects. He has to leave a rich reserve for the version update period, so he dare not waste it-for him, as long as he does not gamble out the Cosmic Treasure-level blueprints, the experience invested in this skill is a waste.

In the past year and a half, the general situation of the Gulal Civil War has been determined, and it has been advancing step by step. There are no surprises in the process. The Pioneer Party is about to reap the fruits of victory. However, players are currently focusing on the upcoming third professional league.

Due to the surge in the number of players, the popularity of this year's professional league has also risen, attracting attention. The divisions are the same as the second year's nine competition areas, and the schedule has been fine-tuned.

For example, the secondary leagues and qualifiers started earlier than half a year ago, allowing more time for the qualifiers to fully mobilize the enthusiasm of more players to participate. At the same time, it is also in order to determine the number of wild cards before the official opening of the professional league. Regular season roster.

What Han Xiao just watched on the forum was the video of the qualifiers, admiring some players' coquettish operations, and reaping the joy of sand sculpture today.

In the official competition, in addition to the arena battle, group battle, individual battle and team survival battle, three new special battle forms will be added.

One is the capture the flag competition, where multiple teams participate in a melee, each player can be revived infinitely, and finally wins with points.

The second is the team dungeon competition, where multiple teams enter the same dungeon and compete to complete the mission goals set by the tournament party to earn points.

The third is the dungeon survival battle. As the name suggests, the competition is the life (suffering) survival (suffering) time of the two sides in the dungeon. In the previous life, it was also called a "pissing match" by players.

The battle format of this league is much richer. The goal of the tournament is to enhance the competitiveness and fun, adding two forms of dungeon battles to attract more PVE players.

The preseason match for the team's running-in has also been advanced. After the secondary league and qualifiers are finished, the regular season will be used as the opening of the league, followed by the regional regular season, the international star game, the regional finals, the international regular season, and the international finals , the gap between the international competition and the regional competition is as short as the previous one, and the schedule is tight.

The rules of this year's league are also many times more detailed than the previous two, and a "list of prohibited items" has also been added. As expected by Great Technician Han, [Black Star Legion Emblem·Evolution] directly ranked at the top of the list!

Legion players didn't feel much, because everyone can use it, so they don't think it's special, but other star field clubs are greatly relieved - this equipment is too strong, if each Broken Starlink player has one, they will directly admit defeat never mind!

However, Han Xiao thinks that the reason is more than that. I am afraid that it is too bloody and ugly after the distortion. It is easy to scare the flowers and plants, which is not in line with the original intention of the competition party to attract popularity...

It really is the truth to be ugly and have no human rights.

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(This is from yesterday, there are more tonight)

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