Somewhere in the emerald star cluster, an exploration fleet of a small consortium is traveling in the universe. An organization like this is unable to occupy the resource planet and can only obtain some profits through normal exploration and employment, which is very common in today's Glittering World.
Exploration ships and transport ships are the main ship types of this fleet, and as an expeditionary fleet, in addition to the necessary crew of each ship, additional human resources are also configured, living in a travel ship specially designed to transport personnel. The interior is mainly based on living facilities, and the upper limit of the crew is far more than that of the exploration-type functional spacecraft. Most of the staff who do not serve as crew members usually live in it.
This long-distance travel ship is like a mobile space station. It is larger than the industrial transport ships in the team. It takes into account the responsibilities of personnel logistics and food supply, and is also equipped with a lot of entertainment facilities to meet the entertainment needs of the crew— Nowadays, the Glittering World industry is highly competitive. If there is no daily benefit and simply want to treat employees as coolies, it will be difficult to recruit people. As a business consortium, employees are not loyal, and living conditions are also an important factor in attracting employees.
The lobby of the space station is a multi-functional social entertainment place, full of entertainment facilities and various shops for crew consumption. The lobby is the ground floor and the vertical floor structure is a ring corridor, which means that the space above the lobby is a horizontal bridge. With the transparent material, you can see pedestrians walking by when you look up. The whole looks like a bustling commercial plaza with dense traffic.
One of the halls is the staff canteen, which is very lively and noisy. Here you can see employees of various types of work.
At this moment, in the corner of the cafeteria, Evans is sitting alone at a table, eating the staff meal one bite after another, his cheeks bulging as he chews, his eyes drooping, his eyes staring at the table, in a daze .
He still wore the yellow protective suit and opened his hood. He looked simple and unpretentious. He was the most ordinary ground staff. Ninety-nine percent of the people who did this work were ordinary people and belonged to the lowest-level employees of the consortium.
On the table around him, there were other ground staff sitting, chatting while eating, and laughter broke out from time to time. Occasionally, someone's eyes swept over the lonely Evans, but they didn't stop at all, treating him as air. Turn a blind eye.
Evans has long been accustomed to this. The ground crew members are basically ordinary people, and their work efficiency is not high. There are many people who like to grind foreign workers. In contrast, he is more diligent, never slack, and often overfulfills his tasks, so he is often punished. The public praise of the team leader also received a lot of bonuses.
Because of this style of work, some colleagues may be jealous, or they may find him an unpleasant ex-prisoner who has been released from prison.
Being excluded, Evans didn't care. He was too lazy to communicate with his colleagues. After spending many years in prison, he no longer cared about other people's opinions.
"Hey, Evans, are you sitting alone?"
At this moment, a familiar voice sounded next to him, Evans looked up, and an acquaintance stood beside him with a dinner plate, who was the supervisor of his local service team.
There are many teams in the ground department, and each team is divided into different teams. The team leader is just a low-level cadre with no status. It is the direct boss who favors Evans.
"Is there no one around? How about I join you at a table, don't you mind?" The team leader laughed.
"I don't mind." Evans motioned for a seat.
The team leader sat opposite, chatting with Evans while eating, and the surrounding ground staff couldn't ignore Evans' table and turned to say hello to their boss.
Evans was helpless and lowered his voice: "Director, you don't need to help me, I really don't care about being crowded out."
"That won't work. What if you are in a bad mood and slack off? Maybe our team's work targets will depend on you to complete it." The team leader shrugged.
Evans smiled wryly. This supervisor is also an ordinary person, a good man. Because of his outstanding work efficiency, he takes good care of him and is quite friendly.
After finishing the meal, Evans greeted the supervisor who was still eating, got up with the empty plate, went to the recycling window of the cafeteria, and threw the plate in.
At this moment, several people wearing mecha walked into the cafeteria, all of them were the most basic mercenaries, their faces were not quite right, they were full of excited flushing, they were walking in his direction, attracting his attention. look.
"Power user... It looks like he's taking some kind of psychoactive drug, hey."
Evans took a few more glances at the group of people, and was about to pass by and leave the cafeteria when he suddenly heard the volume of the conversation between these grassroots mercenaries suddenly increased, and one of them seemed to be very excited.
"Don't believe that I have developed a new usage of powers?! I'll show you!"
The voice fell, and the excited mercenary grabbed the palm of his hand, and the air whistled and gathered, forming an invisible wind ball, which slammed under his feet, and the wind ball exploded, turning into small wind blades and sputtering in all directions.
The consortium has regulations that prohibit the use of extraordinary powers in public places. The lighter ones will be fined, and the severe ones will be dismissed. However, this group of D-rank mercenaries who have just used psychoactive drugs are in a state of excitement, completely lost their minds, and just forget about this. rules.
The surroundings fell into chaos in an instant, and the ground was covered with cutting marks, and the surrounding employees were suddenly hit by a disaster and hurriedly avoided.
Because of the limited power of the wind ball, the others were not injured, but Evans was the closest, and was knocked out by the wind pressure, and the protective suit was cut to tatters.
A bright red appeared in everyone's eyes.
"There are people injured!"
Many people immediately gathered around to watch the fun, and the employees of the ground crew squeezed in. Seeing that Evans was injured, he suddenly stopped and hesitated to step forward to help them. Just when they were struggling, the team leader was already fast. He walked up and anxiously helped Evans to check his wound.
"Where is the injury, let me see."
"It's just a small injury, I'm fine, hiss..."
Evans tensed his face, but the twitching of the corners of his eyes showed that the wound was quite painful. The wind blade had cut more than a dozen cuts on his body. His skin was ripped open, and he was bleeding. He soon dyed the protective suit scarlet.
At this time, several patrolling guards heard the movement and ran in.
"What's going on here?!"
The squad leader pointed angrily at these mercenaries, "They violated the rules and used their abilities in public, causing accidental injuries."
The guard frowned and glanced at the scene, and found that Evans was injured, then looked at several mercenaries, and asked in a deep voice, "Is it true?"
After this accident, these people woke up a little, and the mercenary who threw the typhoon coughed, "I did it accidentally, it was just an accident, I will go to collect the penalty later."
"Well, fortunately, only one person was injured. At most, a salary penalty is fine. It's nothing." Seeing this, the guard comforted the mercenary a few words, turned to look at Evans, and lingered on the clothes of the ground staff on him. After a while, he said casually:
"Your name is Evans, right? It's just some flesh wounds. Just go to the medical room and bandage it. You won't die."
"This is the end?" the team leader was dissatisfied, "Isn't there even an apology?"
"This is my negligence, sorry." The mercenary who committed the crime glanced at Evans, and casually said a sentence, showing a disapproving arrogance, not sincere at all.
"What kind of attitude do you have!" The team leader was annoyed.
At this time, the guard interjected impatiently, "Okay, he has already apologized, and he will be fined his salary later, so don't let it go."
Although the guard looks like a businessman, there is a difference in attitude. He is also a power user. Seeing that the mercenary just accidentally injured an ordinary ground staff, he felt that it was no big deal. In his opinion, although this mercenary committed a crime, as long as he admits punishment, it is best to appease him properly, which is more important than an ordinary person.
And the mercenary also seemed to take it for granted. Seeing that Evans could not die, he didn't bother to look anymore, and turned his head and chatted with his companions.
This scene fell in the eyes of the people around, and many ordinary people showed mixed colors on their faces.
Most power users don't care much about the impact on ordinary people, and ordinary people are very aware of this. Even though the other party obediently apologized and accepted the punishment, his attitude was still indifferent. Seeing this scene, many people's hearts were a little angry.
It is the default rule of the whole universe that power users have privileges, and they are divided into two classes with ordinary people, which is a chronic disease of class opposition.
At this time, Evans tugged at the team leader, stood up on his knees, blood dripped on the ground, splashed into blood flowers, and endured the pain: "It's okay, I'm unlucky, accompany me. Medical room."
The team leader glared at the opposite side, gave up the idea of arguing, turned to help Evans, and walked out of the crowd silently.
"It's all right, it's all gone." The guard also waved his hand.
However, at this moment, the mutation suddenly occurred!
boom! !
The spaceship shook suddenly, as if it stopped in an instant. Even the internal shock absorption system failed to eliminate the huge inertia. Everyone present stumbled and fell to the ground, panicking.
"what happened?"
"It seems that the spaceship was forced to stop!"
"Did you meet a star thief?!"
Just as everyone panicked and was about to rush out of the cafeteria to take refuge, the broadcast inside the spaceship suddenly rang, echoing the whole ship, so that everyone could hear it.
"This is the Black Star Legion, your spaceship has been temporarily stopped by us, don't panic, our goal is just to find someone, his name is Evans, one of your ground maintenance members..."
The voice fell, and all eyes in the field were focused on Evans.
brush!
In an instant, there was a blank space around Evans, and everyone avoided, like a snake and a scorpion, with a look of surprise.
Black Star Legion named this guy? !
How did he provoke the Black Star Legion and let the other party go so far as to find someone? Could it be that he has another origin? !
At this moment, Evans' ordinary appearance suddenly became mysterious in the eyes of everyone around him.
"Black Star Legion?" Evans was also stunned.
Isn't this a high-level force that I can't get in touch with, what are you doing to me... It must be the wrong person.
He turned his head to look at the team director, who had long since thrown his hand away, hiding far away, with a terrified expression on his face.
Evans was about to say something when he suddenly found that the guards and mercenaries came up and surrounded him faintly.
"What are you doing?"
"Prevent you from escaping, since Black Star Legion wants to see you, you just wait here obediently." The guard said coldly.
Evans clenched his fists suddenly, his chest heaved up and down a few times, and after a while, his fists were released weakly again, and he said helplessly: "Don't worry, I won't run, I also want to find out what's going on."
Everyone waited here for a while, and suddenly there were footsteps outside, and a group of people walked in. At this time, the high-level cadres who were usually arrogant were all humbly accompanied by a group of Black Star Legion soldiers, and the leader of the soldier captain exuded powerful energy fluctuations all over his body. , is a B-level power user, which is already a great figure for these low-level employees.
The scene became audible, and no one dared to gasp for breath.
The group walked up to Evans, and the fleet commander raised his hand, "He's the person you're looking for."
"Yeah." The B-level soldier of the Black Star Legion looked blankly at him, "Are you Evans?"
Evans took a deep breath, "This is indeed my name, but I don't have any intersection with Black Star Legion. I think you may have mistaken someone."
Hearing this, the B-rank captain took out a resume and showed it, "This is your resume."
Taking a closer look, Evans was startled and nodded, his face full of doubts and confusion.
Is it really me that the Black Star Legion is looking for
"That's right, you're the one I'm looking for, come with me." The b-rank captain nodded.
"Wait a minute, I want to know, why on earth are you looking for me?" Evans couldn't help asking.
Everyone present was invigorated, their ears pricked up and waited quietly for the following.
They also want to know the reason for this problem, which made the Black Star Legion not hesitate to recruit an ordinary person.
Hearing this, the B-level captain suddenly burst into a smile, stretched out his hand, and said enthusiastically:
"You are the talent that Black Star Your Distinguished Self has designated to recruit, brother, welcome to join the Black Star Legion."
The voice fell, and the audience was silent for a moment.
boom!
Then, as if a bomb exploded, the uproar suddenly broke out!
"what!!"
The team leader shuddered and was stunned, and the guards and mercenaries who were just now froze in place, horrified.
Everyone present was shocked, and some even thought that they had hallucinated, and countless unbelievable eyes gathered on Evans.
Did we hear it right
That famous Transcendent A Grade black star actually named an ordinary person? !
Could it be that he is a talent that even Transcendent A Grade is tempted? !
Usually can't see it, he must be deliberately hiding his talent.
Humans are unbelievable!
Everyone's eyes showed awe, and they were amazed.
Especially the colleague who usually excluded Evans, hurriedly shrank his head and lowered his head, sweating profusely, for fear of being noticed by Evans, and his heart was full of regrets.
"To recruit... me?"
Evans was stunned.
At this moment, he fell into deep self-doubt.
How can I, how can I, there is actually a Transcendent A Grade interested in me
Is it really like what I imagined when I was a child...
—Is the power of the evil and maddening cosmic overlord, the lord of destruction, and the Dark Lord sealed in my body? !
…
At the same time, in the distant ancient star desert, in a mysterious base, several figures were discussing the news of the birth of Chaos Secret Energy in a private conference room.
"Another primitive power body has appeared."
"It turned out to be the secret energy of chaos, find a way to bring it over."
"It fell into the hands of Black Star. Black Star is a new Transcendent A Grade that has risen in the past few decades. The growth rate is extremely amazing, and it is difficult to deal with."
"Black Star can live for a long time, we don't have so much time to wait, the original power body is the key to open the third sanctuary, and we cannot afford to lose it... Use the products we have developed over the years, the secret energy of chaos is an important material for synthesis, it must be Take it back."
"Unfortunately, the body of Ability God fell into the hands of the Scarlet Empire, otherwise, his ability could become the best tool."
"Speaking of which, Wanying is almost mature. After a while, it should be ready to harvest."
"Before the agreed date, we must prepare for the awakening ceremony."
"May the glory of Prime never wither."