A Boxing Champion's crystal processor was beeping, and smoke was popping up from the joints of his metal skull. He said casually, "I don't understand what you mean, Boss Bai."
His hands behind his back, Boss Bai looked at the gantry crane that looked like a giant's corpse in the port and said, "When you came to me with the remnants of the Cultivators, you were just an unattractive spectral Cultivator with a combat ability of the Yuanying level at best, and you knew nothing about starship battles.
"However, as the incessant resources, especially the crystal processors, were supplied to you, you absorbed and swallowed all the knowledge crazily like a ravenous sponge, growing into a qualified fleet commander at an astonishing speed.
"Furthermore, after a few brand-new artificial bodies were produced, your combat ability even leaped from the Yuanying level to a certain weird level that was comparable to the Divinity Transformation Stage, which was something that even the monster Li Yao could not achieve.
"To this moment, the number of starships that you can control is even vaguely higher than mine. You are confident that you can swallow the messy starships of the twenty-eight pirate gangs, not to mention the weird crystal processor intrusion and the counterattack abilities. You have truly been reborn in the past half a year. You are beyond recognition now!
"Other people may not know your background and think that you have been like this since a long time ago, but I have observed you clearly from a short distance away. All your changes were completed in only half a year. Such an astonishing speed of upgrade reminds me of the thorny plants on the dry desert planets. When they are dry, they are nothing more than a cluster of withered and dead tentacles. However, after a downpour, after absorbing enough water, they will immediately split and collide, covering the entire planet!
"It is the same for the attack on Li Wuji's fleet. Your forbearance and your grasp of timing are truly amazing. Even if it were me, I wouldn't have done a better job than you. I can't help but wonder — if I were to lead a fleet in person and have a space battle with you, A Boxing Champion, who will win?"
While talking, Boss Bai stopped and turned around, staring at A Boxing Champion thoughtfully.
At this moment, the two of them had reached the deepest part of the forsaken port, far away from the busy docks and docks.
The place was blocked by the rusty scrap iron and the enormous magical equipment for moving and loading. There was nobody except for them.
After Boss Bai finished talking, the whole world fell quiet, as if an invisible glass cover had fallen and covered the two of them.
The rusted port was about to turn into a battlefield of life and death.
Boss Bai and the Fist King, the two "monsters" who boasted extremely weird "backgrounds" and unparalleled abilities, confronted each other in silence under the curtain of the garbage that had been piled up into a hill.
The harmonious atmosphere a moment ago was entirely gone. There was only mutual understanding and relieved fighting will. What was supposed to come had finally come.
"Finally, is it our turn now?"
A Boxing Champion's voice was as steady as a machine. He said calmly without the slightest shiver, "Boss Bai, you destroyed the impregnable defense of the Blue Sky Market with the strength of Li Wuji and the twenty-eight pirate gangs, and then you swallowed Li Wuji and the twenty-eight pirate gangs with the cooperation of the Cultivators' fleet. Now, you are finally going to swallow the fleet of the Cultivators?"
"A Boxing Champion, you are overthinking."
Boss Bai wandered around A Boxing Champion slowly, like a raptor looking for the weaknesses of its prey. "Believe it or not, I mean no harm to the Cultivators at all. Besides, swallowing the fleet of the Cultivators recklessly will make the Big Bai Pirate Gang even more bloated, which will damage my combat ability. Right now, I'm already suffering from indigestion. If I eat any more, I'll definitely die of overeating.
"Rest assured. I will not, and have never, ever wanted to, trouble the Cultivators.
"But the most important question is, A Boxing Champion, are you really a 'Cultivator'?"
The question that was as sharp as a saber pierced into A Boxing Champion's iron body deeply, casting the "perpetual self-upgrading battle puppet" into a long silence.
"If you're not a cultivator, then who are you?"
Boss Bai's eyes were sharper and sharper, and his voice was weirder and weirder. "More precisely speaking, what … are you exactly?"
A Boxing Champion asked, "Is the question important?"
"Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. I'm just curious."
Boss Bai chuckled and opened his hands. "The so-called space pirates are going to explore the unexplored lands, figure out all the unsolved mysteries in the universe, and collect all the bizarre and interesting things back to their nest. How can I tolerate such an enormous mystery wandering around me while I turn a blind eye to it? Isn't that right, Old Gao? "
This time, A Boxing Champion was truly stunned. "What … did you call me? Everybody knows that my surname is' Lei ', even if' Lei Zonglie 'is not necessarily my real name. Why do you think that my surname is' Gao '? "
"Maybe it's not a surname but a clan, or a very unique name —"
Observing his face, Boss Bai asked suspiciously, "'Gaoist clan'. Do you not know the name at all?"
"The Gaoist clan? A very unique clan with the surname Gao? "
The Fist King was even more confused. His computational ability did not help at all. He shook his head and said, "Boss Bai, if you are determined to be my enemy, there's nothing I can say. We can only fight each other. However, I really don't know the first thing about this so-called 'Gaoist Clan'. I don't have the slightest clue."
Narrowing his eyes, Boss Bai stared at A Boxing Champion for a long time and sensed the shivering of the super-tiny chips and the change of temperature inside A Boxing Champion's body carefully. Unable to detect any sign of camouflage, Boss Bai thought for a long time and finally took out an item the size of a fingernail from his Cosmos Ring. He tossed it over and said, "Take a look at this."
"This is —"
A Boxing Champion grabbed it and scanned it quickly with the interconnected mystic rays from the nine crystal cameras on his metal mask, only to discover that it was a chip that Boss Bai tossed over.
To be more exact, it was a chip that had been melted in the extremely high temperature and was almost completely ruined.
However, even though almost 100% of the surface of the chip had been melted, it was still obvious that the chip was produced in a style that was very different from the traditional methods of the Cultivators.
The twisted patterns looked like some sort of complicated and complicated language. The way the language was organized and expressed was very different from the runes of the Cultivators. It naturally carried a certain weird rhythm.
A Boxing Champion searched his entire database but failed to find any information about the language. It was quite strange. The language did not even belong to the Pangu, Nuwa, or any other primeval species in the primeval era.
A Boxing Champion touched the language on the chip with his metal fingertip, as if he heard a distant, vast, familiar, and strange voice from the chip that was almost completely melted.
"I've never seen anything like it before …"
A Boxing Champion held the chip in his iron palm and studied it for a long time. Then he said dutifully, "The structure of a hundred metal sheets that are pressed together, the weird language system carved on it, and even the mechanism of energy shuttling between the language and the metal layers are vastly different from the training systems that I've been in touch with before. It doesn't even look like a product of our world.
"Boss Bai, where did you get this thing? What does this weird chip have to do with … the Gaoists? Or rather, what does it have to do with me?
"Why are you so certain that I know what it is and even think that I'm a member of the Gaoists?"
"It seems that you really know nothing about it. Then, it will be very interesting."
Boss Bai had been observing the Fist King's movement carefully. Raising his eyebrows, he grinned and said, "You were right about one thing. The weird chip is indeed not a product of this world. To be more exact, it is not a product of the civilization of the Pangu human beings in the three thousand Sectors. It must've come from a very distant place, or even a world of human beings on the other side of the grand universe in a broad sense."
"What do you mean?"
As long as A Boxing Champion was willing, he could cancel the process of his "surprise" at any time. Despite hearing such shocking news, he remained extremely calm and even turned on the cooling rune arrays of his mainframe crystal processor in time to maintain the high-speed computation ability. "Another world of human beings? What's that?"
"If you really know nothing about it, I can tell you everything from the beginning."
Pondering for a long time, Boss Bai said, "Perhaps you don't know this, but before my Big Bai Pirate Gang rose in the peripheral worlds of the Imperium, we jumped to the Martial Meritocrats Sector, too. It was the first stop where we distinguished ourselves.
"However, at that time, we did not go to the Land of Sins where you were at like Li Yao did later, because there were too many of us and we were too eye-catching targets. It was impossible for us to sneak into the Martial Meritocrats Sector right under the nose of Wuying Lan and Li Lingfeng.
"We were merely wandering in the peripheral space zones of the Martial Meritocrats Sector, trying to collect intelligence and assets and see if there was an opportunity to ambush one or two carriers of the Imperium.
"We were truly lucky. After wandering at the periphery of the Martial Meritocrats Sector for a short while, we accidentally ran into a cluster of debris with the outbreak of a cosmic storm. A cluster of debris … that seemed to be the debris of a starship."
"What do you mean by 'seemed to be the debris of a starship'?" A Boxing Champion asked. "Can't you tell what kind of debris it was exactly with your keen eyes, Boss Bai?"
Boss Bai laughed and said, "If it were a starship of the Cultivators, no matter how bizarre it looked, its structure and operation mechanism were generally similar. Then, I would've recognized it even if it was reduced to ashes.
"However, the debris probably drifted here or crossed over from somewhere on the other side of the grand universe beyond the three thousand Sectors. It was seriously damaged during the crossing. Not only was it curled into a cluster, it was also so fragile that it would've crumbled into smithereens the moment you touched it.
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