Sky-cracking Rider

All the truly good stuff is picked out, and the rest is casually thrown into any empty cabin inside the airship, considered done.

The Global United Defense Committee and the bigwig Louis Landon will certainly go after those tycoons and may peel a layer of skin off them alive. With money, everyone spends it together, and not hitting the delivered windfall with a bang is really unfair to those enemy casualties and the ammunition consumption between both sides.

Whether the stuff hauled out from the storage magical device will be returned in the end is still uncertain, but preferably it could be split evenly—everyone wins.

After all, wanting to utilize the drifted-down Dreamworld Stone certainly requires a lot of silver; even if it were all liquidated, it might still be insufficient, given Chen Fei's current bank balance, heh, it's just a joke.

Though Chen Fei didn't state it outright, both the monk and the S-Class superpower user are fully aware.

This rare piece of alchemical material is definitely to be used, and for personal use, it absolutely wouldn't be traded away.

Otherwise, there wouldn't have been such an effort to acquire the rare alchemical artifact "Secluded Space Tower," as a refuge for family in emergencies.

The space in the "Secluded Space Tower," though not small, is ample enough for a family; yet if it's used as a long-term hiding place, it's still somewhat cramped. When ten thousand cubic meters are used for three-dimensional existence, it actually doesn't seem big at all.

None of the injured captives died in the end; after all, atop the giant battleship, there are not only experienced doctors and a complete medical setup, but also ample quantities of magic medicine and quite a number of Pure Light Sparrows.

The sparrow flocks cast light healing spells in bulk as if at no cost; unless there's a missing internal organ or a fatal head injury, it's genuinely tough to die.

Though they survived, those with worse luck couldn't avoid losing limbs, and those even worse off lost their reproductive organs; unless one can acquire rare magic medicine or a Heavenly Order Light System caster specializing in healing spells, there's likely no hope of regrowth in this lifetime.

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Seven days later, a medium-sized transport airship finally arrived without inquiry or urging, taking away all 675 independently confined captives—whether punished, imprisoned, or sent home sulking, it's no longer any concern of Chen Xiao'er.

Once the single confinement cabins were unlocked, these people could barely walk, taking quite a while to regain their strength and gradually restore mobility, hobbling onto the airship that came from afar without looking back once, never seeing Chen Fei face to face, nor knowing who defeated them.

The ring-type space system alchemy storage device was not taken away; the command center notified Chen Fei on behalf of the Global United Defense Committee to hand it over to an internally formed administrative management group by over four thousand passengers aboard the giant battleship, the Autonomous Governance Committee.

Chen Fei doesn't have much energy or capability to involve himself in various personnel management and associated administrative affairs within the ship, and most times he was just hands-off, too busy with his own matters and unable to bother with others.

Yet someone had to take on these duties, hence the emergence of the Autonomous Governance Committee.

Should luck turn unfavorable for Blue Star Civilization, then this Autonomous Governance Committee could become the embryo of the future human government.

Should luck also sour for the giant battleship, Chen Fei won't find solitude on the Road to the Netherworld.

The contest between civilizations, within a toppled nest, no egg remains unbroken.

After sending off all the captives and replenishing the consumed ammunition, there were no further developments.

As Chen Fei and others predicted, the items stored within the ring-type storage device are collectively of high value, but in the eyes of the Global United Defense Committee and the Blue Star Sovereignty, they're insignificant.

A pile of fake documents, food and drink supplies, small balloons, real estate rights papers, vehicles, small flying ships, alchemical artifacts, some alchemical materials—how could a bunch of playboys have anything valuable? No one was interested in these, so they were all thrown to Chen Fei for disposal, rendering previous maneuvers entirely futile.

In seven days, the Elemental Annihilation Weapon R&D Team manufactured a new elemental annihilation bomb, simulation and planning phases concluded, ready for the actual testing steps.

Chen Fei arranged the testing site, not on Blue Star.

Bigwig Louis Landon had told him, the entire team is absolutely trustworthy; their families are also aboard the airship, a sort of double insurance.

Thus, several more became privy about "Emerald Star," including team leader Mino Heaton.

Facing fifteen people, Chen Fei said, "Double-check the life support system, though we won't need to exit the cabin, just in case, the destination's atmospheric radiation level has reached its peak."

Miyoshi Monk was not among them, responsible for staying and keeping watch. In an emergency, he'd inform at the earliest.

S-Class superpower user Heseman Brown was indispensable, the other fourteen were core members of the Elemental Annihilation Weapon R&D Team, including leader Mino Heaton—all trustworthy.

If any trust issues existed, they wouldn't have been sent together.

Louis Industrial Company's tests in selecting personnel were no simpler than the sovereigns picking spies.

Everyone wore single soldier tactical armor, with isolating atmospheric radiation as a basic protective function.

The single soldier tactical armor was obtained from spoils of war, over a thousand sets were captured. Those originally damaged were swiftly repaired, auxiliary AI components wiped to be "Adam," simultaneously serving as a hidden trapdoor.

Whether the life support system operates correctly cannot be fully confirmed by AI alone; when sensors malfunction, false data can be sent, so it must depend on users' experience.

"Check complete!" ×15

No one dared to neglect matters regarding their own health and safety.

"Prepare... to depart!"

As soon as Chen Fei finished speaking, countless minute geometric shapes surged over each part of his body, rapidly assembling into various components of the tactical armor, with the "Dragon King" assault-type mobile armor quickly forming in a breath.

In the next second, the scenery around the sixteen changed instantly, transforming into a vast hall.

Outside the floor-to-ceiling curtain wall, artificial lights illuminated the view; gray snow was piled up at least two feet thick, akin to heavy ice cream covering the entire advance base.

Chen Fei casually said, "Welcome to Emerald Star."

The gravity slightly changed, adjusted automatically by the single soldier tactical armor; the armor's functionalities didn't just limit to isolating atmospheric radiation pollution.

A small flying ship had already awaited them for a long time.

"Here, dag, it feels like the 'Colonizing Jade Star' game."

Following Chen Fei towards the airport platform, Mino Heaton, the Elemental Annihilation Weapon R&D Team leader, gazed curiously at the scenery outside the window with others.

Walking at the forefront, Chen Fei spoke without turning back, "'Colonizing Emerald Star' is also developed based on reality, but some things are different."

The "Colonizing Emerald Star" MOD he had was closest to reality.

Over time, the official version by the game developer had failed to keep pace with the actual changes on Emerald Star.

If development continues, it's feared no trace of 'Colonizing Emerald Star' will be found.

"Which things?" Mino Heaton was a veteran player of "Colonizing Emerald Star," yet nowhere near Chen Fei, who literally colonizes Planet Emeral, rather than just a virtual play.

Chen Fei explained, "Atmospheric radiation—this setting doesn't exist within the game. A neutron emitter is deployed around the base to catalyze decay of radioactive pollutants and accelerate atomic fission reactions."

Even with a neutron emitter, the open environment inside the base can't sustain living organisms; various radioactive isotopes incessantly destroy DNA, causing cellular death. Radiation sickness's primary symptom is halted metabolism, bio matter decaying alive to death.

Outside the base, without a neutron emitter, radiation pollution is more severe. Emerald Star's "Seed Nests" and various biological combat weapons will face extreme challenges.