153: Mysterious man Sun Hao

The words of the Li Huaishan had just fallen when a figure appeared outside the window of the safe house.

The figure wore a mask and was draped in a cloak that wrapped around its entire body, exuding an air of mystery.

"Hmm? Such sharp hearing, not bad at all!" the mysterious person exclaimed with some surprise after being discovered.

"Who are you? What are you doing here?" the Li Huaishan continued to ask.

"Who am I? Heh, I'd like to ask you the same thing. Where did you lot pop out from? Are you from a lab in Dongda, a lab in another country, or perhaps some accidental genetic mutation?" the mysterious person asked with a chuckle.

"Damn it, enough with the nonsense, get in here!" Seeing the mysterious person's arrogant attitude, the Fourth-level Death Warrior felt extremely annoyed. He cursed, took a step forward, grabbed the mysterious person's clothes with one hand, and with a forceful tug, dragged him into the safe house!

The moment he made contact with the Fourth-level Death Warrior, the mysterious person's expression changed drastically beneath his mask. He tried to resist, but he couldn't fight against the opponent's terrifying strength. He had only ever seen such strength in the elders of the base.

After being thrown into the room, the mysterious person sighed inwardly: Damn it, I've hit a snag. These guys didn't use their full strength during the day at all!

"Wait, wait, wait! Don't attack, let's talk this out properly. I have no ill intentions toward you!" Seeing the Fourth-level Death Warrior already picking up his giant blade, the mysterious person hurriedly raised his hands to reply.

"Can we talk properly now?" the Li Huaishan stopped the Fourth-level Death Warrior's movement and asked calmly, but the chill in his eyes made the mysterious person shiver, as if the other party might kill him in the next second.

The mysterious person quickly said: "Yes, yes, OK, boss, you ask, I will tell you everything I know, absolutely everything!"

"Take off your mask!"

"OK, I'll take it off right now." After replying, the mysterious person immediately removed the mask from his face, revealing the face of a young Asian man—and truth be told, he was quite handsome.

"What country are you from? What is your purpose here? Why are you dressed so mysteriously?" the Li Huaishan continued to ask.

"Boss, I'm from Dongda. I came to find you because I saw your battle today and intended to invite you to join our organization. There is truly no malice. As for dressing like this, uh, it's actually just to look cool. However, our organization doesn't usually contact strangers unless we're inviting them, so we have to maintain a bit of mystery." The mysterious person answered honestly as requested.

"What organization are you from? Also, since you were able to keep up with us, you must have some skills. Fourth-level Death Warrior, how much force did you use when he resisted just now?" the Li Huaishan asked.

"About thirty percent, I suppose. There was some resistance, roughly three times that of an ordinary person." the Fourth-level Death Warrior replied.

Hearing the words of the Fourth-level Death Warrior, the mysterious person's pupils constricted. He knew that the Li Huaishan and his group were not people he could handle, but he hadn't expected the gap to be so large. They had only used thirty percent of their strength, and he was already unable to resist. During the day, he had also thought that they had achieved such terrifying results relying on the power of their equipment, but now it seemed that wasn't the case at all.

"We're asking you a question! What are you spacing out for? Also, what's your name?" Qin Gang chimed in, seeing the mysterious person dazed.

"My name is Sun Hao, and I belong to the Blue Star Defense Department." Sun Hao hurriedly replied.

"Blue Star Defense Department? Why haven't we heard of it? Aren't you just playing tricks?" Qin Gang asked.

"I'm telling the truth. The Blue Star Defense Department has existed for a long time, about four thousand five hundred years, and it used to be called the Blue Star Night Watch Army." Sun Hao explained.

"Then what is the meaning of your existence? Why have we never heard of your existence on Blue Star?" the Li Huaishan asked.

"That is also the reason I came to find you today. The Blue Star Defense Department is an organization dedicated to guarding the safety of Blue Star. The organization has clear regulations: we must not interfere in conflicts between ordinary humans, and we must not use power that exceeds that of ordinary humans in front of them. The meaning of our existence is to defend against invaders from outside Blue Star. Seeing the strength you displayed today, I wanted to come over and invite you to join our organization." Sun Hao replied.

"Defend against invaders from outside Blue Star? You mean there are aliens?" the Li Huaishan's pupils constricted slightly, and he asked with half-closed eyes.

"That is only natural. As early as thousands of years ago, Blue Star had already been visited by aliens. Otherwise, how do you think the pyramids were built? And how could the Hanging Gardens of Ancient Babylon be suspended in the sky during an era of backward technology? In fact, these were all the masterpieces of aliens. The real truth is that after the aliens descended at that time, they enslaved the humans of Blue Star, and with their advanced technology, built those things that have puzzled humans for thousands of years.

During this period, there was a historical gap of nearly a hundred years on Blue Star, which was actually caused by the pioneers of the Defense Department fighting against the aliens. In the end, the pioneers used their own wisdom and courage to defeat the aliens, regained control of Blue Star, and then established the Blue Star Night Watch Army, traveling all over the world to eliminate these aliens who were eyeing Blue Star."

Listening to Sun Hao's explanation, the three of them—the Li Huaishan and the others—looked at each other and realized that the water on Blue Star was very deep, just as Qin Yang had learned from the system prompts, and they finally understood where the real problem lay.

Then Qin Gang asked again: "Since there are external enemies, what are you hiding? Now that technology is advanced and weapons are powerful, if the governments of various countries knew about this, they would definitely help with all their might, after all, Blue Star is the home of all humanity."

"Sigh, boss, if thermal weapons were useful against them, that would be great. These aliens possess a phantom energy field and have strong defenses against all thermal weapons. Even missiles cause negligible damage to them. Unless nuclear power is used, the phantom energy field on them cannot be disintegrated at the source. But once nuclear power is used, Blue Star will also enter a process of chronic self-destruction. We are resisting the aliens in order to survive; how could we rashly use nuclear power? Furthermore, it wouldn't cure the root cause." Sun Hao explained further.

"Then how do you fight against the aliens? And are these aliens of many species, or just one race?"

"Isn't there a meme on the internet called 'using magic to defeat magic'? The aliens invading Blue Star are of the same race, but the aliens are also divided into levels. The higher the level, the stronger the combat power, and the harder they are to kill.

We have named all the aliens 'Great Lizard' based on their physical characteristics. Their true forms are very similar to lizards, but they can walk upright and possess super-high intelligence.

We also use 'Great Lizard' to refer to the lowest-level aliens. Their combat power is decent, and the Defense Department usually needs to dispatch a team to kill one.

Then there is the second-level Great Lizard, which we call the Great Lizard Leader, also known as Iron Head, because a protrusion grows on the skull of the leader-level Great Lizard. Their combat power is very fierce. To deal with an Iron Head, we need to dispatch a squad to have a chance of killing it.

Next is the third-level Great Lizard, which we officially call the Great Lizard Chief, also known as Long Tail. On top of the Iron Head's characteristics, the Great Lizard Chief's tail grows about two meters longer. This level of Great Lizard requires a general-level warrior from the Defense Department to personally lead a legion to fight against it, and even then, it's not guaranteed that they can kill it, which shows how powerful its combat capability is.

Then there is the fourth-level Great Lizard, which we officially call the Great Lizard King, also known as Silver Horn. At this level, the protrusion on the skull of the Great Lizard grows into a silver horn, hence the name. Whenever a Silver Horn descends, it is a disaster for Blue Star. It requires the intervention of elder-level warriors to resist. That's right, I said resist, because in a one-on-one fight, we really can't win. We can only use a war of attrition, constantly adding to the opponent's injuries to make it retreat on its own.

Finally, there is another type of Great Lizard called the Great Lizard Emperor, also known as Golden Horn, which transforms from a Silver Horn. In that battle thousands of years ago, the first Commander-in-Chief of the Defense Department, also known as the God of War, Ying Huang, fought against it and, at the cost of his life, heavily wounded it, forcing it to leave Blue Star.

And our way of fighting against the Great Lizard is to use the phantom energy stones left behind when the Great Lizard retreats to strengthen our bodies, and use the wreckage of abandoned fleets to make weapons, which is the only way to break the Great Lizard's phantom energy field until we kill it."