301: Chapter 301 Gear City

Chen Xi stood up and flicked his finger lightly.

Four [Miracle: High-Dimensional Race Disguise Cards] radiating a silver glow once again landed accurately on the foreheads of Su Xiaoxiao and the others.

"The usual rules. To avoid unnecessary trouble and to prevent the Star God Race's lackeys from recognizing us, everyone will use a disguise. From now on, we are once again the noble, mysterious, and extremely dangerous [Void Elf Royalty]."

Chen Xi's black hair instantly turned into a flowing silver-white imbued with starlight, and his crimson-gold eyes were replaced by the deep darkness of the void. He slightly raised his chin, naturally exuding a high-dimensional aura that looked down upon all living things.

"Remember, in this place, the more low-key you are, the faster you die. What we need to do is be arrogant—arrogant enough to make them think we're some untouchable hidden powerhouses!"

"Understood, Captain!"

Su Xiaoxiao and the others looked at each other and smiled, instantly getting into character. Lin Shan even increased his height to three meters, transforming into an Obsidian Titan covered in burning dark-gold demonic patterns, guarding Chen Xi's side like an insurmountable demon god.

"stardust, activate optical stealth and dock at the largest transit black market on Wasteland Star—[Gear City]!"

...

Gear City was located within the largest steel canyon on the equator of Wasteland Star.

The buildings here were a chaotic jumble of structures, with exposed cables, exhaust fans spewing toxic gas, and underground bars and black market stalls flickering with low-quality neon lights everywhere. The air was filled with the pungent smell of machine oil and the choking odor of alien tobacco.

When the stardust's streamlined, dark hull landed at an open-air parking lot on the edge of Gear City, it immediately caught the attention of a group of wandering 'Interstellar Scavengers' nearby.

"Hiss... look at that ship! No exhaust ports? A space-folding engine?! Which top-tier civilization's noble has come to our junkyard to experience life?"

"Shh! Keep it down! Didn't you see the ship's coating? Even my quantum scanner can't penetrate it. The people inside are definitely not simple!"

Under the gaze of hundreds of various alien eyes, the stardust's hatch slowly opened.

Chen Xi led his four team members down the beam ramp with an extremely arrogant, almost disdainful posture.

They had just landed and hadn't even had time to look around the chaotic city.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

A heavy and arrogant mechanical footstep sound came from the crowd ahead.

The onlookers scattered in terror to both sides as if they had encountered a plague, clearing a wide path.

A gang composed of a dozen or so half-human, half-mechanical cyborgs swaggered over.

The leader was fully two and a half meters tall. His entire right side had been modified with heavy alloy armor, and his right arm was a plasma hand cannon emitting a dangerous red light. In his only remaining biological eye, there was nothing but greed and tyranny.

[Target: 'Bloody Gear' Star Pirate Group Deputy Leader — Baka]

[Level: Lv.115 (Early-stage Demigod)]

[Characteristics: Extremely greedy, tyrannical]

"Yo ho ho ho... looks like my luck is pretty good today. I actually ran into a group of delicate high elves at the port?"

Baka stopped ten meters in front of Chen Xi and the others, letting out a piercing laugh with his synthesized mechanical voice. His one eye scanned Su Xiaoxiao, Li Murou, and Ye Fei without restraint, and he was practically drooling.

"Judging by your outfits, you must be some young master and noble ladies who ran away from home, right? Don't you know the rules of Gear City on Wasteland Star?"

Baka raised his plasma hand cannon and arrogantly aimed it at Chen Xi's head.

"Any foreign ship that lands must pay an [Entry Protection Fee]! I think this ship of yours is decent; it's just barely enough to cover your entry fees. As for these three top-tier babes..."

"Stay and have a few drinks with us. If you serve us well, maybe we'll leave you with an intact corpse!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the surrounding interstellar vagrants watching the scene showed looks of sympathy.

"These Void Elves are in trouble. They just got here and ran into 'Bloody Gear's' mad dog, Baka."

"Baka is a Lv.115 mechanical demigod! That mechanical arm of his is a forbidden weapon stolen from a high civilization! These elves look so delicate; they're definitely going to be eaten alive!"

Facing such blatant extortion and insult, the four members of the Nirvana Battle Team not only lacked any fear but instead looked at this mechanical monster as if he were an idiot.

"Seeking death." Su Xiaoxiao's eyes turned cold, and black void lightning began to condense in her hand.

But Chen Xi lightly raised his hand to stop her.

He took a step forward, hands in his trench coat pockets, a hint of extreme coldness and mockery flashing in his deep silver void eyes.

"Protection fee? You want us to drink with you?"

Chen Xi tilted his head slightly, looking at Baka, the corner of his mouth curling into an arc as if he had just heard the funniest joke in the universe.

"Do you really think that just because you've attached a metal pipe to your arm, you're some kind of interstellar overlord?"

"You death-seeking pretty boy! How dare you talk to me like that!!!"

Baka was furious. In all his years dominating Wasteland Star, he had never seen anyone dare to provoke him like this.

"I'll blast you into dust today!!!"

BOOM!!!

Baka pulled the trigger without hesitation, and the plasma hand cannon instantly erupted with a terrifying red light beam powerful enough to melt a small mountain, heading straight for Chen Xi's face!

The surrounding crowd shut their eyes in fear, seemingly already envisioning the tragic scene of Chen Xi being instantly vaporized.

However...

Thud!

An extremely muffled sound, like steel striking a giant rock, echoed out.

There was no explosion, and no flesh and blood flying.

The entire scene fell into a deathly silence!

Under the horrified gazes of everyone present...

Chen Xi still maintained his lazy posture with one hand in his pocket, not having moved his feet even half an inch.

And in front of him, the three-meter-tall Obsidian Titan—Lin Shan—had stepped forward at some point.

Lin Shan hadn't even raised his tower shield. He simply extended his left hand, which was burning with dark-gold divine runes, opened his fingers, and in an extremely domineering and brutal manner, caught that plasma beam—capable of one-shotting an ordinary demigod—with his bare hand!!!

Sizzle sizzle sizzle—!

The violent plasma energy raged wildly in Lin Shan's palm, yet it couldn't even singe a bit of his skin! Under the dual baptism of the Indestructible Blood Core and the True God Source, Lin Shan's physical body had long since transcended the limits of three-dimensional physics!