When Xue Jing returned to the plane, he was holding an air pirate in his hand.
He looked so casual, as if he had just come back from shopping for groceries, carrying a basket of pork.
However, everyone on the plane witnessed his overwhelming top-level combat power with their own eyes. At this moment, he was wrapped all over his body with thunder feather belts, like a god. In this case, even if he was really carrying a basket of pork, it would be like a god carrying pigs, which is extraordinary.
"Master Jing!"
"Thank you for your hard work, Master Jing!"
"Sorry for the trouble!"
The staff in the cabin spoke respectfully.
"Brother Xue, you're awesome!" Ning Yuantai walked forward, his eyes revealing admiration that was close to faith.
After a long time, he witnessed the pair of silver-white eyes of God again with his own eyes. For some reason, he felt his whole body trembling and he had an unstoppable excitement.
Xue Jing threw the pirate with broken limbs to the ground. Since his right arm was a foreign implant, Xue Jing didn't know much about it, so he simply tore it off and removed it.
"I leave it to you."
Xue Jing sat on the soft chair, stroked the cat that jumped onto his lap, and said to Ning Yuantai.
"Don't worry." Ning Yuantai nodded respectfully.
Then he turned his gaze to the sky pirate on the ground, squatted down, and said lightly:
"Tell me, who sent you here?"
"You should be able to understand the difference between handing you over to the Public Security Bureau and handing you over to the 'Kuroshio Security', right?"
"It all depends on whether what you say next can satisfy me... and most importantly, whether it can satisfy this Lord."
Ning Yuantai reached back and pointed at Xue Jing who was playing with the cat.
As his limbs were either torn off or crushed into pieces, the sky pirate was in extreme pain but dared not scream. He nodded quickly and said with a pale face: "Understood, I will tell you everything."
"But I don't know much..."
"Half a month ago, someone commissioned us through the 'Supernet', gave us money and sent us weapons, asking us to intercept any flying objects that entered the inner ring..."
Ning Yuantai frowned slightly: "Supernet... As expected."
He turned to look at Xue Jing and said, "Brother Xue, I guess there's nothing more you can ask."
Xue Jing gently stroked the cat's back and said slowly: "What is the super network?"
"People from the outer ring?" The sky pirate realized a fact and looked at Xue Jing suddenly with an incredible expression on his face.
Such a powerful man, who wiped them out like chopping melons and vegetables, with all kinds of sparks and lightning special effects on his body, turned out to be a country bumpkin from the outer ring
He found it a little hard to accept.
No one paid attention to his reaction. Ning Yuantai explained: "The super network, commonly known as the 'supernet', is another network isolated from the existing Internet... You can think of it as a special 'local area network' of an extremely large scale."
"No one knows how it appeared, and no one knows what form it took. It's just that at some point, suddenly many people were using it."
"The method of logging in is very simple. All you need to do is install a 'supernet connector' on your internet-connected device... But this thing is only sold in the inner ring, and the civilian connector will become ineffective once it leaves the inner ring."
"'Supernet' has unlimited transmission speed... At least no one has measured its upper limit yet. As long as the equipment itself is strong enough, it can easily transmit 100 terabytes per second. That's why it's called 'supernet'."
Xue Jing nodded and roughly understood the concept of this thing.
"There are no IP addresses or anything like that in the Supernet. Anyone who logs into the Supernet cannot have their browsing history traced. Hacker tactics are not feasible in the Supernet. Any attempt to investigate or attack other people's networks will be counterattacked by the 'Supernet' and instantly overwhelmed by the unlimited data volume."
Ning Yuantai went on to explain.
"At least so far, no computer equipment in the world can withstand even one second of SuperNet data impact. Therefore, all personal information on SuperNet is absolutely confidential."
Xue Jing tilted his head: "So it means there is no way to know who commissioned them? This super network is too convenient."
Ning Yuantai nodded and said, "That's right... Its existence is one of the reasons why many people desperately want to enter the inner ring."
Xue Jing sighed secretly, no wonder the people in the inner ring feel so superior to the people in the outer ring...
Just with this supernet, Xue Jing could easily think of many convenient uses. Apart from other things, all kinds of black transactions that he would never come into contact with in daily life could be easily done through the supernet.
Not to mention those awesome Internet giants, who knows what they can come up with in the supernet.
It is no wonder that there are very few people from the inner ring who communicate with people from the outer ring on the Internet, which leads to many people knowing almost nothing about the inner ring. That is because they even use the "special version" of the Internet...
Ning Yuantai slapped the pirate's red cockscomb on the head and cursed, "You came here just because I told you to, are you an idiot?"
The Sky Pirate's mouth twitched, but he didn't reply.
Ning Yuantai also knew that these air pirates were living in a desperate situation and would not consider so many things. For the sake of money, as long as the offer was not too obvious, they would basically take it. There was no point in saying these things to them.
"Brother Xue, how do you want to deal with him?"
Ning Yuantai asked.
Xue Jing thought about it and asked curiously, "What will happen to him if we send him to Black Tide Security?"
When the Sky Pirate heard this, his face turned pale, and the cockscomb on his head drooped. He said miserably: "Then you'd better kill me now, thank you."
Ning Yuantai smiled and explained, "Among all the major security giants, Black Tide Security has a very bad reputation... In addition to the commissions they receive from law enforcement, they also sell the captured 'criminals' to pharmaceutical companies, breeding companies, etc., which also have a very bad reputation... And these people who are sold to them have no human rights, and their status is no higher than that of guinea pigs. You can imagine what they will encounter."
"Of course, these are just 'rumors' and there is no real evidence." Ning Yuantai shrugged.
"I see." Xue Jing nodded.
He did not say what the specific punishment would be, but just waved his hand and said, "Take him away and lock him up."
The White Crow member next to him immediately said respectfully, "Yes."
Then he grabbed the sky pirate who was lying limp on the ground by his hair and dragged him to the rear of the cabin.
"… Please give me a definite answer, brother!"
The sky pirate shouted hurriedly.
“Kill me, kill me!”
"Hurry up, please!"
The voice gradually faded away. Xue Jing looked at Ning Yuantai and asked:
"How long will it take to reach Yuancheng?"
Ning Yuantai thought for a moment and said, "It took some time to deal with the Sky Pirates. It should take about three hours."
"Yeah." Xue Jing nodded, stood up holding the drowsy cat, and walked towards the small compartment in the front of the cabin.
"Let me know when you're almost there."
Ning Yuantai said respectfully: "Yes."
The rest of the people present looked at Xue Jing's back with admiration. After he entered the small compartment, they began to whisper excitedly and discuss the battle that had just taken place.
…
In the following time, there were no more battles and it was peaceful all the way.
It’s not that we didn’t encounter other sky pirates. In fact, we encountered several waves of them.
But it seemed that the deeper the air pirates went into the inner circle, the more discerning they were. After recognizing the plane as a 'Dragon Core Fighter' from a distance, they wisely left.
Xue Jing was also happy to have some peace and quiet. Now his main conventional skills had almost reached the upper limit of Lv10 and were waiting to be upgraded. He was not as eager for skill experience as before and did not need frequent actual combat.
Three hours later.
"Brother Xue, look."
Xue Jing was conducting some martial arts experiments in his consciousness space when he suddenly heard Ning Yuantai's call.
He exited the consciousness space, opened his eyes, and looked out the porthole following Ning Yuantai's finger.
In the distance, a city covering an extremely large area came into his sight—but soon, his attention was attracted by things farther away.
It was a building... or should I call it a tree
It truly penetrates the sky and reaches deep into the clouds, just like the 'Jianmu' in mythology that connects the human world with the sky. Even Xue Jing cannot see the huge black cylindrical building on top of it.
Xue Jing looked at the 'pillar' in shock and said, "This is... the skyscraper center?"
A skyscraper is a building built in the center of an urban area - or in other words, the so-called urban area is divided around the skyscraper.
And its predecessor was called the Sun Pillar!
"It's shocking, right?" Ning Yuantai said with inexplicable pride.
"I was born in the outer ring, but I also lived in the inner ring for a long time when I was a child. But even now, I still feel shocked when I see the skyscraper center."
"This is Zhuxia... no, it is a miracle in human architectural history. To this day, we still don't know how people did it more than 200 years ago."
Xue Jing did not reply, but just stared at the skyscraper that connected the sky and the earth. For the first time since he obtained the skill panel after traveling through time, he felt as small as an ant.
About two hundred years ago, after the death of "God" and the beginning of a new era, the world had just settled down from turmoil. The new regimes in various countries gradually stabilized, and people all over the world were trying to adapt to the new era and entered a period of peaceful development.
At that time, for some unknown reason, all the countries in the world predicted through some undisclosed method that there would be a huge disaster in the future that would be enough to cause the extinction of mankind.
In order to cope with this world-destroying disaster, countries around the world united and helped each other as never before. With the power of the whole world, it took a full twenty years to build a building called the "Sun Pillar" on the territories of various countries.
This is an extremely large heating device, like the sun, which can illuminate a large area and bring warmth to the area.
In addition to building the Sun Pillar, all administrative regions of the country were also replanned to form "urban circles" with the Sun Pillar as the center.
After humans were ready, disaster struck.
It was the first creature in history to have a danger level exceeding level 10 and was dubbed a "super creature".
At the same time, it is also the strongest creature known to humans so far, without a doubt.
The original and strongest super creature was named Eternal Night.
Its true form is a dark sky of flesh and blood that is so huge that it covers the entire earth.
The moment it descended, just like its code name, it brought eternal night to the entire earth.
The transmission of sunlight was completely blocked, and humans could no longer receive even a trace of sunlight. The temperature of the entire planet began to drop madly at an extremely terrifying rate.
Eternal Night has no other actions, it just exists - it just stays there, doing nothing. Its existence itself is a disaster that is enough to exterminate mankind.
Solar pillars around the world are activated, shining upon the remaining land of humanity, bringing warmth to humanity to preserve hope.
But this is just a drop in the bucket... The closer you are to the sun pillar, the higher the temperature you can enjoy. The humans in the outer ring are still in a harsh environment with extremely low temperatures and can only barely survive.
The race against time for the Eternal Night War has officially begun, and countries around the world are desperately seeking a solution to the 'Eternal Night'.
But that dark mass of flesh and blood was so terrifying that it was difficult for human weapons to just touch it, let alone cause damage to it. Even after humans tried their best to dig out large pieces of its flesh and blood, they discovered in despair that it recovered its flesh and blood at a speed faster than the injury.
Historical records are vague about how humans ultimately resolved the eternal night.
People today only know that the "Eternal Night War" lasted for three years, killing about three-fifths of the Earth's population and causing immeasurable damage to the Earth's environment. Most areas were turned into uninhabitable "bad lands", and the number of extinct plants and animals is simply incalculable. There is still no statistical result until now.
Relying on the achievements made in various border areas, more than 150 years later, mankind finally recovered and regained prosperity.
Although greening work has been ongoing, most areas outside the urban circle are still "bad land". According to rough estimates, it will take at least nearly three hundred years to restore the earth to its appearance before the Eternal Night War.
After the Eternal Night War ended, these sun pillars that had been built with great effort from mankind were transformed into "skyscraper centers".
Currently, among the nine major metropolitan areas in Zhuxia, the nine skyscrapers have their own different functions.
For example, the Fifth Metropolitan Circle Skyscraper that Xue Jing saw at this moment was the most comprehensive of all skyscrapers. Many floors were rented and sold for various purposes. The headquarters of many super giant companies were located on some of them.
The housing prices in this place are surprisingly not very expensive... because there are so many floors that they can’t be sold out.
Of course, to say it is not expensive is only relative to its historical significance. It is still very expensive for ordinary people, and is similar to the average housing price in first-tier cities.
Xue Jing withdrew his gaze and turned to the neon-lit city that was getting closer and closer to him.
"Origin City..."
He whispered to himself.
…
(This book has now officially stepped out of the novice village, and it has also left my personal comfort zone. I hope I can write well next time. I am a little nervous.)
Chapter 214: Ning Fengwan's defense was breached by [Proof of Love], and the Black Tide Security's sudden machine inspection (4K)
As the plane got closer and closer to Yuancheng, Xue Jing suddenly noticed that above the huge city, there was a layer of transparent light blue film, covering the entire city.
The color of this layer of light film was extremely light. With Xue Jing's eyesight, he could only discover it after getting close and observing it carefully.
"What is that?"