The metal bulkheads were scratched and holed, the exposed power lines were broken, and electric sparks were constantly splattering, and the ship's cabin had endured a fierce battle, the flames crackling and burning, and the ground lying on the ground with the shattered corpses of the crew.

A group of Space Marines in full-coverage armor carry blasters around examining corpses, and if they find survivors, they refill them.

The fallen crew members were all rock elves, a relatively ancient mammalian race, with yellow-brown rough skin, an average height of about three meters, vigorous hair, although flesh and blood, but born as strong as a rock, good at discovering rare ores and metal resources, is a relatively powerful galaxy-level civilization in the Sea of Star Spirits.

The uniforms of these crew members bear the emblem of the civilization, proving that the ship is a regular army under the official civilization department, but it was attacked and destroyed.

At the end of this cabin is a huge metal warehouse door, inside which is the warehouse, at this moment, a guy who looks like the leader of the attackers stands in front of the closed warehouse door, takes out a disc device specially used to crack the key, and presses it on the operation panel of the warehouse door, resounding a high-frequency ticking sound.

Airplanes! The next moment, the door of this warehouse banged, unlocked the mode, and slowly opened.

The leader of the attackers strode in, only to see that the warehouse was neatly arranged with evolutionary totems, and there were hundreds of them.

"Now that we've got it, go take stock and move it back to our ship."

The leader of the attackers nodded in satisfaction, beckoned, and ordered his men to do something.

The Rock Elves purchased a batch of totem devices from the Black Star Legion, and the news leaked that the attackers had set up an ambush in advance, with the goal of snatching these evolutionary totems.

The accompanying convoy was cleared by this group of attackers...... A gang capable of plundering the regular forces of a galaxy-level civilization is obviously not a small person.

This group of attackers is also interstellar mercenaries, but the nature is different, mercenaries are roughly divided into three types, the first is a regular practitioner who reports to the mercenary alliance, such as the Black Star Legion; the second type, stragglers who are not registered with the Interstellar Mercenary 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 work.

"Black work" refers to those criminal work that violates the general laws of the interstellar world, and is generally posted on the black market network, such as looting, kidnapping, assassinating civilization officials, slaughtering planets, espionage infiltration, provoking wars, etc., this kind of black mercenaries are actually criminals...... In fact, most of the people who work in this industry are wanted criminals themselves.

And this group of attackers is a black market mercenary who specializes in black work, 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 operating across the star domain, the main scope of activity is the Star Spirit Sea, the Ancient Star Desert, and the old galaxy, the whereabouts of the organization members, spaceships and bases are quite secret, and the style of action is low-key, the specific scale of the Blood Gold Organization is a secret, but it is obviously a behemoth to be able to operate in three star fields.

At the same time, the Blood Gold Organization is also one of the high-level leaders of the interstellar black market.

Where there are trade controls, there will be a black market, and the black market will continue to breed, gradually forming a huge pattern.

The black market also has a difference in levels, distinguished by region and business scope, from planets to galaxies, and then to star fields, with the first level upward, the black market is becoming more and more formal, and to the highest level, it is the interstellar black market whose business scope covers almost all star fields, nominally dominating all black markets.

And this highest-level black market force is well versed in the way of making a fortune in a muffled voice, and will not be idle to give himself an independent name, which is called "interstellar black market", and people who don't know it still think that this is just a noun.

Of course, not all independent black markets are at the mercy of the highest interstellar black market, just like some unscrupulous gangsters who don't know how to mingle with the international community.

The interstellar black market is extremely huge, the business covers the whole universe, there are always some civilizations who want to get the technology blocked by advanced civilizations, and there is also a demand for the black market, so they turn a blind eye and even act as a protective umbrella, on the other hand, the interstellar black market is also a communication platform for interstellar criminals, and it is a huge underground society.

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

The Blood Gold Organization is one of the black market managers, equivalent to the overlord of the underground criminal world.

Ark of the Fallen is not a black market manager, the black market manager is basically an orderly evil, and he also does not like the chaotic and evil gods, although they are both criminal forces, but the two sides are not all the way. After the fall apart of Ark of the Fallen, the Blood Gold Organization took in a large number of criminals and helped them off and re-employed.

A cadre came to the leader's side, looked at his subordinates carrying the evolutionary totem, and couldn't help but smile.

"Now the price of the evolutionary totem on the black market is very high, as far as I know, many civilizations are secretly purchasing, if we swallow this batch of goods, how much do you think it can be sold?"

"Don't think about it, this is something that the employer wants, our job is to bring the goods back, do you dare to steal it privately?" The leader shook his head.

After a year and a half of operation, the business of the Evolver Totem has basically stabilized, and some civilizations that have taken refuge in other glorious and ethereal spirits cannot have an affair with the empire, so they can only move their minds, and some interstellar consortia have been watching for so long and have also begun to act.

No one has forgotten the achievements of the Black Star a year and a half ago, and the difficulty of robbing the Black Star Legion is too high, and these forces have retreated to the next best thing, choosing to snatch the fleet that transports the Evolver's Totem, staring at every civilization purchased.

Because this violates the general laws of the Star Sea, the black market mercenaries represented by the Blood Gold Organization come in handy, and now the Evolutionary Totem is priceless and in short supply on the black market.

Snatching the Rock Elves' Evolver Totem, the Bloodgold Organizing members returned to the ship, blew up all the ship's wreckage, and turned away.

In recent months, similar scenes have been played out many times in all corners of the universe.

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Shattered Star Ring, the headquarters of the Black Star Legion.

"Another user who bought the Evolver Totem was robbed halfway?"

In the legion commander's office, Han Xiao closed the player forum and looked at Sylvia's remote projection, frowning slightly.

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

"Where was it robbed?"

"Star Spirit Sea, the identity of the snatcher is unknown, and the preliminary judgment should be the same force as the murderer who committed the previous crimes."

Han Xiao touched his chin, "Pay attention to the black market, if the evolutionary totem is not sold on the black market for a while, it should still be done by the black market mercenaries, and the things are handed over to the employer by them." ”

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

"Don't care, I'm not responsible for after-sales, I can't protect myself when I buy something, it has nothing to do with me...... Of course, if they hire my mech, that's a different story. Han Xiao waved his hand, "What did the rock elves say?" ”

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

"Send a batch? Not to buy? ”

"Yes, they said that they knew that the cost of the Evolutionary Totem was very low, and they were not willing to pay a high price for it again, thinking that we should give them another set...... You also know that the rock elves have a more straightforward personality. Sylvia shrugged helplessly.

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

Han Xiao shook his head, if he opened this opening, maybe there would be a civilized trick of self-defense and self-theft to compensate, and he would not do it at a loss.

However, this kind of thing is actually unavoidable, and there may be civilizations that have privately reached agreements with other forces and deliberately pretended to be stolen, thus indirectly helping other civilizations that are not close to the empire to purchase the Evolver Totem.

However, Han Xiao didn't mind that the Evolutionary Totem he sold was snatched away, the more he was robbed, the more he sold, the market was larger, and he could even help him share the pressure, anyway, the Evolutionary Totem could only be used when it was charged, and he would not lose anything.

It is the empire that needs to have a headache with this problem, not him, as long as he does not directly grab the head of the Black Star Legion, he can accept it.

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

Sylvia turned off the remote projection.

Han Xiao exhaled, leaned back, leaned back in his chair, and pondered.

In the past year and a half, the Black Star Legion has been operating steadily, gradually digesting the fruits of rapid expansion, consolidating various businesses, and developing well, and his style of action is finally like a mechanic - the main body stays at home and concentrates on building machinery, expanding the scale of the legion, and the mechanical troops are wandering everywhere outside, doing tasks and hoarding random rewards to draw task settlement cards.

His experience reserves have also accumulated, and he has taken out a part of the upgrade blueprint skills to accumulate potential points, which are used to increase the level of ultimate knowledge, during which he exchanged 6,000 imperial contribution points for the fifth ultimate knowledge, the [Ultimate Mechanical Engineering] of the armed department.

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

The effect of [Ultimate Maker] is simple and practical, and the basic performance of the mechanical creations produced is increased by 25%~30%, and the production speed is increased by 300%~500%, which is obviously a specialty used for rioters.

And [Inspiration Creation] is an inactive skill, the activation condition is [Ultimate Mechanical Engineering] to reach the full level of Lv5, the effect is any combination of an unlimited number of drawings, randomly synthesized one or more improved or fused new drawings, you can also make advanced settings, choose the tendency of the synthetic drawings (attack, defense, etc.), demand functions, etc., more stable than free creation, and it will inevitably be shipped.

Skills cost experience...... Tons of experience.

For players who can't change the blueprints on their own, this skill is a magic skill, but Han Xiao can improve the blueprints by himself, and this skill is not very useful...... However, it is not a chicken rib, and it also has an irreplaceable role:

- [Inspiration] There is a slight chance of synthesizing the blueprints of the cosmic treasure-level machinery, which is the only way for mechanics to create golden equipment on their own!

Now that Han Xiao has two cosmic treasures in his hands, he doesn't dislike one more, but it is not so easy to synthesize cosmic treasure-level mechanical drawings, this is not like betting on drawings, there is no fixed combination of combinations, even if the combination is the same, the synthesized drawings still have a high degree of randomness.

In the previous life, there were players who happened to synthesize a cosmic treasure-level mechanical drawing, but there were two problems, one was that only the information of the drawings was released, and no one publicly combined and matched, and secondly, ...... Even with the blueprints, no mechanical player in the previous life actually made a gold-level machine.

The preconditions for the drawings are too harsh, and there is basically no possibility of manufacturing below the super A level, and players naturally can't meet the conditions.

[Inspiration Creation] was temporarily left behind by Han Xiao, firstly, to point the [Ultimate Mechanical Engineering] to the full level, there were too many potential points required, and secondly, although he had a lot of experience to try to synthesize cosmic treasure-level drawings, but he was even more inexperienced in other aspects, and he had to leave a rich reserve for the version update, so he didn't dare to waste it - for him, as long as he didn't gamble on the cosmic treasure-level blueprints, the experience invested in this skill would be a waste.

After a year and a half, the overall situation of the Gural civil war has been decided, step by step, and there are no surprises in the process, and the Pioneer Party is about to reap the fruits of victory, but for now the attention of players is focused on the upcoming third edition of the Pro League.

Because the number of players has skyrocketed, the popularity of this year's professional league has also increased, and it has attracted much attention, and the divisions are the same as the second one, and the schedule has been fine-tuned.

For example, the minor leagues and qualifiers start early, starting half a year ago, so that the qualifiers have more time to fully mobilize the enthusiasm of more players to focus on participation, and at the same time, in order to decide the wild card spots and regular season rosters before the official opening of the professional league.

Han Xiao just watched the video of the qualifiers on the forum, enjoyed the operation of some players, and reaped the happiness of today's sand sculpture.

In addition to the Ring Battle, Team Battle, Individual Battle, and Team Survival Battle, three new forms of special battle will be added during the official competition.

The first is the Capture the Flag Grab Tournament, where multiple teams participate in a big melee, and each player can be resurrected infinitely, and finally win with points.

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

The third is the dungeon survival battle, as the name suggests, the competition is the life (suffering) time of both sides in the dungeon, and the previous life is also called the "urine holding game" by players.

This year's league has a lot of different battle formats, and the goal of the tournament is to enhance the competitiveness and fun, adding two dungeon battle formats to attract more PVE players.

The pre-season for the team to run in has also been advanced, and when the minor league and qualifiers are played, the regular season will be directly 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 rules of this tournament are also many times more detailed than the previous two editions, and the "List of Prohibited Items" has also been added, and as expected by Han University Technician, [Black Star Legion Badge Evolution] is directly at the top of the list!

Legion players don't feel anything, because everyone can use it, so they don't think it's special, but the clubs in other star fields are greatly relieved - this equipment is too strong, if each player has one Shattered Star Ring, they will directly admit defeat!

However, Han Xiao thinks that the reason is not only that, I am afraid that it is also because it is too bloody and ugly after the aberration, which is easy to scare the flowers and plants, which is not in line with the original intention of the event party to attract popularity......

Being ugly has no human rights, and it is indeed the truth.

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(This is yesterday's, and there will be in the evening)

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