His vision changed rapidly. When he came back to his senses, Han Xiao found that he was already floating in the outer space of a giant planet, looking down at the planet under his feet.
Looking down from the starry sky, the planet was vast and green in color. Brightly lit city areas covered the surface of the planet, and it seemed to be a flourishing civilization.
Through the technology of the orbiting satellite, Han Xiao could roughly judge that this civilization was at the surface stage. It had both science and magic systems and was trying to develop into an interstellar civilization.
The lights on the surface flickered as if someone had pressed the fast forward button. Everything in front of him was like a fleeting moment, condensed into an unknown number of days and nights. In Han Xiao's perception, it seemed that only three seconds had passed. At this moment, it seemed to have reached some kind of node, and time suddenly returned to normal.
The next moment, the planet under his feet changed. He saw that in a city area, the ground shook violently. Then, a huge seven-fingered palm broke out of the ground.
A titan like giant used its broad back to break free from the ground that covered the top of its head. It rose from the ground like a pillar that supported the sky, bringing along large pieces of land. It was like a person lifting a tablecloth from the middle. The buildings on the ground were like dishes on the tablecloth, collapsing and shattering together with it.
Climbing out of the ground, this grayish-white giant showed a body that was thousands of meters tall. Just the aftermath of breaking out of the ground destroyed more than half of the city.
He walked toward the mountains, and every step he took could cause a chain earthquake. Countless rocks seemed to be attracted by some kind of force, climbing up his body along his legs, compressing and condensing into layers of dark brown protective shells, as if he was wearing a suit of armor.
Soon, the civilization's fighter jets arrived at the scene and fired wildly at the giant. Countless flames exploded on the giant's body, but the damage was minimal. The giant waved his hand and compressed the air, causing a surging shockwave to sweep across. The fighter jets were crushed into pieces of scrap metal in mid-air and exploded into fireworks in mid-air.
At the same time, Han Xiao saw similar situations in more than a dozen places. Huge life forms walked out of the ground one after another. Each of them had a different appearance. There were giants, behemoths, and some indescribable life forms. Some were in the mountains and forests, some were in the yellow desert, and some were in the deep trenches. It was as if they were collectively waking up.
"A disaster like the awakening of the ancient gods?"
Han Xiaoxin stirred.
This was a rare type of disaster. The so-called "Ancient God" was a general term that generally referred to powerful individuals. They did not necessarily have to be living beings. Even mechanical bodies could be counted as such. To put it simply, some powerful individuals were sleeping on a planet. After spending countless years in hibernation, they woke up again for some reason and dealt a devastating blow to the civilization that was born on the planet.
There were two main reasons for this. One was that in ancient times, the "Ancient Gods" descended from outer space and fell into a deep slumber. They were guests from outer space. The other was that the "Ancient Gods" were native life forms of the planet. The latter would basically have some kind of connection with the religious system of the planet.
If he buried an Apostle Weapon of the size of Giant King Kong on a planet and set it to wake up after a few hundred thousand years, if the planet gave birth to a civilization, this situation could also be considered as "the awakening of the ancient gods".
While Han Xiao was thinking, the images did not stop. Time accelerated again. The civilization used all kinds of modern weapons, but the results were minimal. Even mushrooms could not kill these "Ancient Gods".
They seemed to have different powers. Other than counterattacking, they would not deliberately attack the civilization's troops. Instead, they constantly used their power to change the planet's environment. There were volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, continental plate drift, magnetic field changes, global temperature rise, and other disasters. They seemed to want to rebuild a planet that was suitable for their own survival. And these drastic environmental changes were fatal to the civilization's races. Therefore, they could not coexist. They could only use war weapons to attack again and again in an attempt to stop the actions of the "Ancient Gods".
During this period, more "Ancient Gods" woke up. They seemed to be the ancient masters of this planet. The civilization's population decreased sharply. They gave up city after city and retreated to the last continent where the "Ancient Gods" were the rarest. It was called the "Final Land".
However, at this moment, a turn for the better appeared.
Because they knew that the "Ancient Gods" had awakened from underground, the civilization spared no effort to dig the earth all over the world in an attempt to capture the sleeping individuals. In the end, they actually found an individual tens of thousands of meters underground in the Final Land. However, this individual was long dead, and only the body did not rot and shrink.
The civilization was overjoyed and organized a research team to find the weakness of the "Ancient Gods". However, the more they researched, the more despair they felt. All kinds of evidence showed that with their current weapons, there was no way they could kill the "Ancient Gods".
In Han Xiao's eyes, these "Ancient Gods" were at the Calamity Grade. They seemed to be a rare race of life in the universe. Because of their extraordinary racial talents and enormous vitality, they were stronger than ordinary Calamity Grades, mainly because they were very tanky. It was not difficult for a Calamity Grade Super to wipe out a surface civilization. To this civilization, so many special Calamity Grade life forms were far beyond their ability to deal with.
In despair, someone suddenly had an idea and made a suggestion. Since the existing weapons were not enough, could they think of a way to modify the corpse of this "Ancient God" and use it as a weapon to fight other "Ancient Gods"?
In a situation where there was nothing they could do, the civilization naturally did not have many objections. They could only treat it as a last resort. However, there were differences in the control method. Normal remote control could not adapt to high-intensity battles, and the neural connection could not bear the load on the nerves of the huge body. It would take at least tens of thousands of people to barely qualify, which would definitely drag down the flexibility. The artificial intelligence technology had not developed to the level of actual combat.
In the end, this civilization decided to carry out many plans together. One of them was to develop a soul transfer device to let their souls leave their weak bodies and enter the corpse of this "Ancient God" to control it. This way, they would be able to maximize the combat strength of the "Ancient God" when he was alive. Furthermore, there was a chance that he would retain the "Authority" that everyone coveted.
"This déjà vu … Ultraman?!"
The corner of Han Xiao's mouth twitched.
At this moment, his vision suddenly zoomed in, and he came to a huge laboratory. He saw that the corpse of the "Ancient God" was raised high, and layers of scaffolding were suspended in various parts to be modified and implanted with all kinds of mechanical weapons.
On the ground, there were teams of death warriors in white. A mechanical socket was implanted in the back of their heads, and cables extended out. They were all connected to a large device in midair.
This large device was suspended in front of the head of the "Ancient God" corpse, and the launch port was a black crystal mirror aimed at the glabella of the corpse.
Kacha!
Han Xiao saw the experimenter in the control panel push a wrench. The next moment, there was the sound of people falling to the ground. All the death warriors in white fell to the ground, and dark light entered the device through the cables. Then, a strange black light shot out of the crystal mirror and entered the glabella of the "Ancient God" corpse.
Time passed, but there was no reaction from the "Ancient God" corpse. Many of the experimenters looked depressed.
But at this time, the whole underground laboratory suddenly shook, and cracks spread on the walls. More than a dozen huge tentacles smashed the walls, and in the rolling soil, a huge figure came out from the ground. It was one of the "ancient gods." It had a half-plant body, like an enlarged combination of a man-eating flower and an octopus, and it used the ground as its swimming pool.
However, at this moment, the "Ancient God" corpse suddenly opened its eyes.
At this moment, Han Xiao's vision blurred, and he returned to the office of the spaceship. The illusion brought by (Bold Explorer) came to an abrupt end.
He recalled and thought to himself.
"It feels like there's a lot of information this time …"
If he was not wrong, the large device in the illusion was the prototype of the Soul Swapper, and the crystal mirror that acted as the launch port was the Soul Swapper in his hands. He did not know what happened to it over the long years, but it finally became a Space Wonder.
Recalling the appearance of the civilization in the illusion, Han Xiao searched the database, but there was no matching record. Even the database of the Spacetime Research Institute, which focused on collecting information about lost civilizations, did not have any records.
"Looks like this is an undiscovered civilization. It might be in the unexplored universe, or it might be an even older lost civilization. Could it be from the same era as the civilization that created the Domino Virus … I wonder what happened to this civilization later on."
Han Xiao was quite curious, but it was a pity that (Bold Explorer) had a cooldown time of fourteen days. The next time he could use it would be half a month later.
According to the illusion, the plan to use the Soul Swapper to control the "Ancient God" corpse seemed to have succeeded. The souls of the death warriors should have fused into one, and although the corpse did not decay, the souls had already dissipated. Therefore, there was not much resistance, and the body successfully accommodated the new souls …
"Hmm?"
At that moment, an idea exploded in Han Xiao's mind like lightning piercing through the darkness.
Hella had interrogated the souls of the Soul Swap Twins, and with Fu Ding's recent tests, he had a preliminary understanding of the Soul Swapper's effect. He knew that this thing could transfer souls and ignore the rejection of the body to a large extent. As long as the target was a body that was still alive but without a soul, it could easily 'revive' it.
In that case …
Han Xiao flipped his hand and took out the Spacetime Amber. His eyes gradually lit up.
He suddenly realized that the functions of these two things seemed to be a perfect match!
The Soul Swapper seemed to have a special use in his hands!
"Black Star, what are you laughing at? Why are you laughing so …"
Fu Ding, who was sitting across the table, wanted to say something but stopped. He was too embarrassed to say the word "perverted" out loud for fear of being grilled.
"Ahem!" Han Xiao hurriedly stopped his imagination, coughed, and said, "I thought of something happy."
"What is it?"
"My wife gave birth … Pfft, it's none of your business." Han Xiao almost blurted out, but he came back to his senses and waved the Soul Swapper in his hand. "I'll take this for my experiments first. I'll give it back to you when I'm done."
"I'm fine with that." Fu Ding hesitated and said, "Actually, I have something that I need your help with. You know that although Psychics can transfer souls, the risk is extremely high. That's why Chen Xing has always been in my body. However, with this Universal Treasure, there's no danger anymore. I plan to get her out."
"What for? Isn't it good to have sex?"
"You make it sound like you've tried it before." Fu Ding was speechless.
Han Xiao scratched his nose and changed the topic. "So, you want me to find a body for Chen Xing, right?"
"Not just that …" Fu Ding was a little embarrassed. "She said that she doesn't want to use someone's second-hand goods, so she wants to customize a body. She wants to choose the body and appearance."
"There's nothing I can do." Han Xiao waved his hand and rejected. "I'm just an ordinary Mechanic. I can make machines, but forget about making humans. Do you think I'm the creator?"
"Can't you use biochemical muscles, nano-nerves, and so on to create a bionic human?"
"You can, but that requires the use of a chip. The consciousness you insert is in a virtual intelligence format, which is not compatible with the souls of Psychics like you."
"Can't you simulate the structure of the brain without the chip?"
"It can, but I can't guarantee what the side effects will be."
"Then what should I do?" Fu Ding was a little troubled. "I can't possibly kill a young and beautiful female creature just to find a body for her."
"In my opinion, you can find a pet first and transfer your wife into it temporarily. Wouldn't that be perfect …"
"She's saying that you're becoming more and more perverted." Fu Ding narrowed his eyes. "I think so too."
"… What's in your heads?"
Han Xiao rolled his eyes. You're the only one in the entire army who has no right to talk about me like that.
Fu Ding shook his head and said with a serious expression, "Let's talk about something serious. I used the Soul Swapper to separate the parasitic soul from Aesop's body. He has recovered."
"Oh, then get him to come see me. I want to see how he's doing."
"He's already outside the door."
Fu Ding greeted, and the door was pushed open. Aesop walked in, and when he saw Han Xiao, he could not help but smile bitterly.
Han Xiao sized Aesop up and said, "Old man, are there any side effects?"
"No, I'm very normal now."
Aesop sat down with a complicated expression. In the end, he sighed and said, "Black Star, thank you for this time. If not for you, Ames would definitely have been implicated by me."
"Don't say that. If not for me, you wouldn't have been plotted against." Han Xiao shook his head.
"Sigh, I've lived for so long. It doesn't matter whether I die or not. I just don't want my death to involve Ames. I understand her temper. In a fit of anger, she will definitely do something that she will regret for the rest of her life."
You really guessed right …
Han Xiao thought to himself.
"What do you plan to do now? Although this is someone else's scheme, Ames will be on guard in the future. Even if you want to leave, you won't be able to do so easily. "
"What else can I do? I can only continue to stay here."
Aesop smiled bitterly. He had originally agreed with Black Star that after this matter was over, he would continue to wander the world and seek death everywhere. However, the plan could not keep up with the changes.
If Black Star had not informed Ames, he would not be in such a terrible situation. However, Black Star had saved him, so he naturally had no reason to blame Black Star.
Han Xiao rubbed his chin and suddenly said, "Actually, I have a perfect solution."
"Oh?" Aesop's eyes lit up, and he could not wait. "Tell me."
"Actually, it's very simple. Now that the Soul Swapper is in my hands, I can transfer your soul into the body of an expert. Then, you can follow others and go on adventures. Although you won't be able to control your body, it's better than staying at home and rotting. Also, your safety is guaranteed."
Aesop's eyes lit up. He was a little tempted.
"That's a good idea … but what about my body?"
"Simple. I can use the Spacetime Amber to seal it … but I suggest that you contribute it and let others use it temporarily. I happen to have a candidate here."
"What candidate?"
Han Xiao pointed at Fu Ding and chuckled. "You enter Fu Ding's body, and Chen Xing uses your body. Isn't that the perfect plan?"
Hearing this, the two of them shuddered at the same time.
When Fu Ding thought of his cute wife turning into an old man, he wanted to poke his eyes out.
When Aesop thought of Fu Ding's habit of having sex, he subconsciously clamped his legs together in fear.
"I'd rather die!"
The two of them said at the same time.
…
Planet Finn, Beyond Grade A Association headquarters.
Today was the day of the regular meeting. Many Beyond Grade A remote projections arrived at the venue and waited outside the conference room for the meeting to begin. They formed a circle in twos and threes, chatting with each other.
"Have you heard? Black Star fought with the Mecha Empire again not long ago. This time, he actually won," Sun Hunter said as he floated in midair.
"We're not uninformed. Of course, we know." Kant crossed his arms and sighed. "Do you still remember the battle we watched a few months ago? At that time, Black Star could only fight to a draw with the Mecha Empire at most. How long has it been since then? He can actually defeat Manison head-on. How scary."
"Hehe, Manison suffered a huge loss this time. I feel good." A neutral Mechanic laughed happily.
Kasuyi shook his head. "I know the strength of the Mecha Empire very well. He used so many trump cards, but he still lost in the end. It's unbelievable. I watched the recording. Black Star seems to have learned some new method that countered the Mecha Empire."
Sierron snorted. "He's just lucky."
"I disagree with your evaluation of his luck. You're questioning my professionalism." Secret Master was expressionless.
Sierron was speechless, and his expression turned ugly. I'm just being stubborn. Don't expose me!
"Speaking of which, I don't know if I'm wrong. The three beyond Grade A weapons that the Mecha Empire took out in the recording, are they the three guys we know?" Milizaus asked hesitantly.
As soon as this was said, the entire place fell silent. Everyone's expression was a little strange.
As veteran beyond Grade As, they naturally knew who the Mecha Empire's defeated opponents were. Some of them were even friends with them.
Now that they saw their old acquaintances being modified alive by the Mecha Empire, many of them did not feel good.
Although living modification was not a taboo, it was somewhat inappropriate in the circle of Beyond Grade As because everyone had great strength. Once someone who used living modification appeared, all the Beyond Grade As would more or less be wary of this person, afraid that they would be treated as prey.
"I saw that Black Star captured two people in the recording. When he comes later, we can ask him." Kant shrugged.
At this moment, another projection descended not far away. Everyone turned their heads to look at it.
"Yo, speaking of Black Star, Black Star is here. That guy is here."
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