Super Mechanic: The God of Superpowers!

Chapter 148 Ashes' Shock

Huijin had no intention of taking Ye Xiu's life. After all, capturing him alive was the priority. But this did not prevent him from making the other party suffer. All his attacks were precisely targeted at non-lethal areas.

Zheng!
The Night King's sword flashed with a cold light, deflecting all the incoming metal spikes. However, under Ashes' continued manipulation, the steel spikes poured down like a rainstorm.

Ye Xiu tried his best to block the attacks that could be defended, and for the attacks that could not be intercepted, he could only resist with his body and had no way to retreat.

He can only use a few superpowers, which has a great impact on his combat effectiveness.

The lightning leaping on the body's surface forms a protective barrier, and the flying thorns hitting it can only leave superficial wounds of varying depths.

Ashes manipulated his superpowers with ease, launching an unending attack like a tidal wave. He sneered, "A superpowered being trying to imitate the fighting style of a martial artist? You haven't practiced authentic martial arts, and you lack the martial artist's vast reserves of energy. How long can you maintain this presumptuous struggle?"

The impenetrable attack network forced the other DarkStar members to retreat to a safe distance, and everyone tacitly watched from the sidelines.

In the eyes of the team members, this duel had long lost its suspense, and Captain Ashes was completely capable of subduing this fangless trapped beast on his own.

The balance of victory and defeat has already tilted.

The defeat of the alien planet is only a matter of time, and this time limit is rapidly shortening.

Boom!

The ground suddenly cracked, and Ye Xiu suddenly gave up on defense. His strength surged as he charged towards the Dark Star warriors on the flank.

Even though the steel spike exploded in the protective lightning, the sword blade spun rapidly to form a spiral drill, and the entangled lightning snake burst out with dazzling light.

"Take my poisonous dragon drill!"

With a sharp shout, the longsword suddenly pierced through the hastily formed protective barrier of the Dark Star warrior, sending it flying.

"Looking for death!" The other team members were furious.

No one expected that under the suppression of Ashes, this person would dare to take a gamble and launch a surprise attack.

Although some damage was caused, the results gained by giving up defense were tantamount to drinking poison to quench thirst.

"Your unbending spirit is commendable." A flicker of admiration flashed across Ashes' eyes, but then he regained his composure. "Unfortunately, this trapped beast's struggle is a desperate sign, proving my patience has reached its limit."

Before he finished speaking, his attack mode suddenly changed with his hand gestures.

The DarkStar warriors, having received the order, once again formed a siege, their energy explosions and metallic roars interweaving into a symphony of destruction.

All that remained in Aroshia's vision was the dust and mist that filled the sky, and the various energy currents that flowed through it. Only the continuous explosions revealed the fierceness of the battle.

When Ashes suddenly raised his hand to signal a ceasefire, the battlefield was already covered in scorched earth.

"Prepare the restraints." He stared at the center of the smoke and dust. "It's time to end this farce."

boom!
Before Ashes could finish his words, spider web cracks suddenly appeared on the ground!

Ye Xiu's figure suddenly jumped out from the brown and yellow smoke, carrying a blast of air like a cannonball.

The energy in his body flickered, and the Night King's sword slashed down with a sound of breaking through the air!
Keng——!
The diamond arm collided violently with the sword edge, and the sparks raised by the shock wave illuminated Ashes' stunned face.

"This is impossible!" The onlookers collectively gasped.

Even a martial artist of the same level would lose his combat capability after enduring an attack of this magnitude, but the man in front of him was completely unharmed!
"Are you demonstrating your massage techniques?" A hoarse sneer came from the smoke and dust.

Ye Xiu raised his face full of playfulness, and crack-like supernatural lines flowed faintly under his skin.

Ashes' pupils contracted, and the carbon particles instantly condensed into the form of a giant python.

The long snake of energy slammed into Ye Xiu's chest, pushing him deep into the ruins and plowing a ten-meter gully in the ground.

"Come together!" Ashes shouted sternly.

As soon as he finished speaking, the four DarkStar warriors activated their special powers simultaneously, launching a second round of attacks like a torrential rain.

Aroshia suddenly rushed to the battle circle, picked up the abandoned Gauss pistol and fired continuously.

Ding Ding Ding-!
The bullets sent sparks flying across Diamond's skin.

"Ant." Huijin snapped his fingers without even turning his head, and the girl was immediately pressed to her knees by the invisible force field.

He had confirmed as early as when he was making the plan that this mortal with no energy fluctuation was not worth paying attention to at all.

The fifteen-minute bombardment changed the terrain, and the crater where Ye Xiu was located was two meters deep.

"Okay."

Ashes panted and wiped the sweat from his forehead, his energy reserves were almost half consumed.

As the smoke and dust gradually dissipated, the sound of gravel rolling down was heard from the bottom of the pit.

Ashes' expression suddenly changed drastically—the dying energy source he sensed was actually rising crazily!
Under everyone's frozen gaze, the figure brushed off the dust and stood up leisurely, his joints cracking like firecrackers.

"Go on!" Ye Xiu stretched his muscles and bones, and all the injuries had disappeared without a trace.

"How is this possible!" The Dark Star warrior's voice began to tremble.

Ashes looked at the other man's rosy face, and then caught a glimpse of his subordinates' tired appearance. For the first time, the hand holding the sword hesitated - the one who was beating was tired, but the one being beaten was full of energy.

What's wrong with this?
"Since it's not over yet, I'll play with you for a while longer."

The clone is about to arrive, so he naturally feels calm.

Thanks to the super-fast recovery characteristics of Aurora's ability, and this as a special skill, there is no need to deliberately conceal it. However, abilities similar to Hela's need to be carefully hidden.

With his own strong defensive constitution, Ye Xiu was able to maneuver around with ease. Rather than delaying time, it was more accurate to say that even if these Dark Star warriors exhausted all their strength, they would still be unable to injure him fundamentally.

Huijin's pupils contracted violently, his facial muscles twitched slightly, and emotions such as horror, astonishment, shock, and solemnity flashed alternately in his eyes, eventually turning into deep vigilance.

His body sank slightly, and his originally ostentatious aura suddenly subsided. This was a unique fighting posture when encountering a strong enemy.

The contempt he had during their first confrontation had long since dissipated. When he discovered that Ye Xiu was immune to fatal attacks, Hui Jin had already adjusted himself to the state of fighting a strong enemy.

However, at this moment he realized that he had underestimated his opponent after all.

During the short battle, Ye Xiu's endless tricks had overturned his cognition for the second time.

"Who on earth are you?!" Ashes asked through his teeth.

Faced with the hesitant looks from his subordinates, the commander was caught in a dilemma: he was worried about exceeding the scheduled evacuation time limit, but it was difficult to estimate the limit of the enemy's regeneration ability.

Although they firmly believed that Ye Xiu must have a limit to what he could endure, their own physical exhaustion was already evident - the soldiers' rapid breathing and gradually slowing movements showed that the high-intensity offensive was unsustainable.

Just as he was hesitating, Ye Xiu suddenly looked towards the dome of the cage with a playful expression that made Ashes' alarm bells ring.

Before he could react, a violent explosion sounded from outside, and the alloy wall was instantly covered with spider-web cracks.

Boom!

The dome shattered, and dazzling searchlights poured in. The particle cannons of several hover fighters had locked onto it.

"Disarm immediately!" A stern shout from the clone "Fire King" came from the loudspeaker.

"How could the guards arrive so quickly?" a soldier exclaimed, "We clearly checked the surrounding area!"

"It's not a coincidence!" Hui Jin stared at the calm Ye Xiu, "These must be the reinforcements he deployed in advance!"

Looking at the formation that was beginning to disintegrate, Hui Jin squeezed out the order to retreat through gritted teeth: "I miscalculated this time. Alien Planet. See you later!"

As soon as the words fell, the black iron cage suddenly collapsed and turned into a black dust mist flying all over the sky, blocking the detection equipment and all vision.

Ashes quickly pulled out the metal tube and rotated both ends. The blue halo bursting out from the center instantly covered an area of ​​three meters.

As the DarkStar warriors charged into the light curtain, the device twisted once more, and the shrinking blue light engulfed everyone, transforming them into starlight and dissipating.

Ye Xiu waved away the graphite dust that obscured his vision, wiped the ashes off his cheeks, and squatted down to investigate where the ashes had disappeared.

His fingertips brushed away the dust, revealing precise circular patterns. "A directional short-range teleportation trigger, a combination of space magic and quantum technology. Tracking traces are almost non-existent." He shook his head and sighed. Dark Star's technology was clearly superior.

Turning around and walking towards Aroshia who was leaning against the ruins, Ye Xiu reached out and helped this special being up.

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At the same time, the DarkStar team appeared in a corner of Longtan, their faces filled with frustration.

This ambush seemed too hasty. They acted rashly with only a superficial understanding of the alien planet. They thought they had absolute advantages in strength and technology, and thus underestimated their opponents.

Arrogance is the root cause of their failure.

Ashes' face was as red as iron. This was the first time he failed when facing a target that was weaker than him. This defeat left an indelible mark in his heart and made him feel extremely unhappy.

He turned on the communicator, suppressed his unhappiness, and repeated the failure in a stiff manner.

DarkStar's top brass were shocked by this, and their surprise and disappointment dealt another blow to Huijin's pride.

His record has always been impeccable, but this time it left a stain.

"Sarota has intercepted all the criminals, but there's no clue. Now the only one left is the mercenary. There's an 80% chance that the secret bead is in the mercenary's hands."

"Then I will continue to look for opportunities to deal with the aliens?"

"You've failed once. Don't take risks again. Evacuate." The senior executive sighed.

The veins on the back of Huijin's hand bulged.

"……Yes!"

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On the other side, Aroshia looked at Ye Xiu and suddenly asked, "Why do you want to take me away?"

Ye Xiu was speechless for a moment, thought for a moment, and replied: "I am very curious about you."

"Curious?" Aroshia murmured, "What does that feel like?"

Ye Xiu explained: "Curiosity is the desire for knowledge. For example, if ordinary people lose their memory, they want to know who they were before. This is a kind of desire."

"Desire... I don't seem to have such a thing. Is this special?" Aroshia shook her head.

"Well, generally speaking, those without desires are mostly artificial intelligence, and not needing to eat or excrete is a characteristic of energy life." Ye Xiu looked Aroshia up and down. "But you are neither. You just lack the most basic material needs, not necessarily all desires. Don't you have anything you want?"

Aroshia thought about it carefully and said, "It seems not."

"Are you sure? Since you're asking me, it's because you're curious about what 'desire' is." Ye Xiu said, "Without desire, there's no life. Desire is the sense of experiencing existence, and it can be any motivation that drives life's actions. That's why your life form seems very strange."

Aroshia tilted her head and thought for a moment before saying, "You want to teach me how to harness the energy within me out of your own desires?"

Ye Xiu said frankly: "I want you to become stronger and become my fighting force."

He knew some ways to deal with Aroshia. There was no need to hide anything, just state his intentions directly.

Aroshia remained indifferent. "I won't die, so why should I become stronger? Being strong or weak is meaningless... well, I should say that existence itself is meaningless."

Ye Xiu thought for a moment and said, "But if you die, your memory will be reset again. You will forget this short-term memory, and the reborn you may not be the same 'you' as you are now."

“Once you’re reborn, you have to start all over again, repeating the same thinking and wasting the same amount of time to get the results you have now.”

"Becoming stronger can prevent you from being reborn and from being killed by others or disasters."

Ye Xiu paused for a moment, then slowly spoke: "Regarding the meaning you mentioned... Since you don't rely on eating or excretion to maintain your life, it is difficult for you to truly understand the essence of survival."

"To you, daydreaming for a day is no different from daydreaming for a year. Time is but a fleeting moment in your eyes. So, why not take the initiative to explore something and give your existence some meaning?"

"Is that so..." Aroshia whispered softly. After a brief moment of contemplation, she nodded slightly. "Thank you. It's a pleasure to talk to you. I've never had anyone talk to me so wholeheartedly before."

In the past three years, the outside world's knowledge of her was limited to two things: one was a wonder in the universe, and the other was her inescapable slave status.

No one has ever treated her as an independent individual and communicated with her as an equal.

"You're welcome, just chatting casually." Ye Xiu responded calmly, but his eyes flickered secretly and he began to look forward to it.

Time passed quietly, the last minute also passed quietly, and changes came silently.

Aroshia was still standing outside the door and had not returned to the cell.

She took a few steps back, looked down at her body, and found that everything was normal. Then she backed away further and further.

[Mission [Distant Visitor] Completed]
[Congratulations on getting 180 million experience points]
"It works." Ye Xiu was delighted, his eyebrows almost raised to the sky. He then checked the panel and found that a new task was indeed triggered.

[Congratulations! You have successfully triggered the A-level secret serial mission [Restart]]
[Mission Summary: Aroshia is no ordinary being. She harbors unfathomable secrets. Keep her by your side, and one day, these secrets will reveal themselves to you.]
[Task Tip: This is a multi-stage chain task. You must complete the current stage to unlock subsequent content.]
[Phase 1 Goal: Guide Aroshia, help her awaken her potential, control her energy, and raise her strength to B-rank.]
[Mission Reward: 520 million experience points, 1 random rare reward, Ruisida's trust +5]
[Failure Condition: Aroshia's Life Ends]
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"I think I can leave now." Aroshia asked with a hint of doubt, "What did you do to me?"

"Nothing, congratulations." Ye Xiu smiled and said nothing more. Then he thought to himself, "We'll be coming into contact with the Tool Nation later in this mission. I guess I need to check in with Han Xiao in advance."

Two days later.

The top representatives of the three major mercenary groups finally arrived at Longtan. Jenny met with them, accepted their apology, and then released the teams of Goya, Pert, and Fathereney who had been detained for many days.

As soon as these people were freed, they immediately surrounded him and praised Ye Xiu highly.

The top leaders of the three legions also took the initiative to contact Ye Xiu with a very friendly attitude.

All mercenaries noticed the importance that the top leaders attached to Ye Xiu. In this operation, Ye Xiu not only demonstrated the strength of the team, but also gained the support of Longtan. Even the three major legions did not dare to underestimate him.

After regaining their freedom, everyone immediately prepared to leave Longtan, return to complete the task, and return the Silver Spirit to their employer who had been impatient for a long time.

Ye Xiu had waited until now just to board their spaceship.

On the day of departure, Jenny, Wisander and Haier came to see him off together.

The entire dock was shaken, and the thugs from all over were confused and looked at Ye Xiu who was greeting the three people, secretly inquiring about the name of the alien mercenary group.

The fact that the three managers of Longtan personally saw him off was enough to prove that Ye Xiu had an extraordinary status here.

The mercenaries who knew about this were even more surprised. Ye Xiu had only joined Longtan for half a month, but he had already established a firm foothold here. He even had three managers personally see him off. This was a huge honor.

In comparison, the top leaders of the three legions only met Jenny.

"Your Excellency Dragon Throne has allowed you to become a member of the field force. You are now the field commander. Your forces will represent Longtan's armed forces abroad. I hope you can grow rapidly."

Jenny said solemnly as she handed Ye Xiu a specially made communicator. "This communicator can directly contact Ames, but I remind you that if it's not something extremely important, it's best not to disturb her."

Can it contact Ames directly? This little gadget is like a nuclear launcher!

Ye Xiu put it away carefully.

"Brother Ye Xiu, you must come back to see me soon." Aurora walked over, hugged Ye Xiu, and said reluctantly.

"Okay." Ye Xiu nodded, then turned his gaze to Hela.

Hela said nothing, but just turned her head to the side silently.

Ye Xiu smiled, knowing that the other party was probably reluctant to do so.

He thought about it, walked over and gently hugged the other person, then led his clone back to the main force.

Whoosh—air jetted out, and the spacecraft slowly rose into the air.

The Longtan Floating Island gradually disappeared from sight.

There are pros and cons to joining the Dragon Throne camp, but for now, the pros far outweigh the cons.

Not only did he make new breakthroughs in his own expertise, but he also gained secret beads.

(End of this chapter)