“Morningstar City”
Viewed from a high altitude, Morningstar City is a bustling and noisy large city. It has everything that an interstellar city should have. Buildings thousands of feet high rise from the ground, and various types of shuttles flow continuously between the cities. The high-speed pipeline lasts for a moment, with high technology and humanistic atmosphere perfectly integrated.
However, the tall and staggered buildings in the city with ferocious shapes, strange-looking alien visitors coming and going, and the smell of gunpowder smoke and blood filling the air have shrouded the entire city in chaos and darkness.
This is a fallen city, a place of chaos, a paradise for adventurers, and a paradise for criminals. It is also the most famous commercial city in the "Qiming" administrative star.
The thousand-foot-tall skyscraper is made entirely of silver alloy. The windows around it are constantly opening and closing, and flying shuttles are flying in and out of it, standing like a huge honeycomb on this land.
"Hive" is the largest black market trading place in Morningstar City and one of the largest black forces in the city. It has a profound background and is said to be backed by the Explorer Group.
When Alex stepped out of the flight shuttle, he suddenly felt a few cold and malicious attacks. His steps paused, and his cold eyes swept around, making the coveting and greedy eyes around him shrink.
This is not someone to mess with.
Most of the people who hang out here have some sharp eyesight, and they can tell at a glance who is easy to mess with and who is not. Although Alex looks fair and not strong, his fierce temperament is like a sword drawn out of its sheath. Blade, you can tell at a glance.
Alex moved his right wrist, and the silver-black metal handle fell from his sleeve into his palm. His black windbreaker flew up and he strode forward.
"Hive" 452nd floor, free exchange.
Enter it, no matter what you trade, alien slaves, genetically banned drugs, interstellar relics, precious materials, modified weapons, or even large interstellar battleships, this place has the most complete goods on the entire planet. As long as you have money, you can buy what you want. everything of.
In the vast hall, most of the various people have cold temperaments and ferocious faces. There are even aliens with octopus heads and green skin walking around. They are far apart from each other and are wary of each other.
Alex waited in the lobby outside for a moment, and after hearing his number being called, he came to a sealed trading room.
"Meow! Hello sir, Nicole Nana is at your service, meow." The person who received him was a white-haired cat girl sitting in a soft chair behind the spacious office, wearing a simple leather skirt, with a pair of cute cat ears and furry paws. .
"I'm here to pick up the ordered items." Although cats are relatively rare in urban areas, there are many foreign maids in Klein College. Alex has long been used to it and said calmly.
"Please show me the bill number, Meow." The white-haired cat girl clicked a few times on the tablet in her hand and Meow said.
Alex nodded and sent the bill number he had prepared to the other party.
After confirming the bill number, the tiger cat lady said again: "Please wait a moment, meow."
She pressed a golden button on her left hand side. After a while, there was a "beep" sound, and the alloy door behind the trading room opened, and a cylindrical robot slid in with a tray in both hands.
On the tray, a bright red crystal lay quietly on it.
"Interstellar relic, from the thirteenth large-scale ruins in the V78 star field, product number VB9527, please take a look."
Interstellar relics, a new industry with the advent of the interstellar era, interstellar explorers explore lost planets one after another, pursue the context of history, and search for precious heritage that bears witness to the imprint of civilization. These ancient relics left by the previous generation are called "relics" ".
Of course, most of these interstellar relics, which number as many as the stars in the sky, can only exist as works of art and antiques and have no value in themselves. However, there are also a very small number of relics that possess wonderful and unpredictable abilities.
I once heard a rumor that a collector paid a high price to buy an interstellar relic from an ancient civilization, and suddenly it was discovered that it had some kind of magical power. The value suddenly increased a thousand times, and there were also stories of people who became rich overnight. Quite a few.
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Alex picked up the crystal and felt the spiritual energy inside his body cheering and roaring, and he couldn't help but show a look of satisfaction.
"Yes, it's what I want. Let's trade it."
Seeing that a deal was concluded, the tiger cat girl's ears trembled with joy, and she said in a lively and lively tone: "Then, the guest, please pay the balance of 2.95 million universal coins, and Nicole Nana will complete the transaction for you... …”
A quarter of an hour later, Alex left the trading room. His palms unconsciously brushed against the crystal hidden in his chest. He felt special waves pouring into his body from it, slowly merging with the spiritual energy in his body in a perfectly coordinated trend. .
"Sure enough, it's that thing." Alex clenched his fists, his face seemed calm and indifferent, but there was a trace of uncontrollable excitement in his eyes.
Alex did not leave the "Hive" immediately after the transaction was completed, but rented a luxury room on the 100th floor.
As a large-scale comprehensive place that integrates trading, entertainment, residence, and catering functions, "The Hive" also provides visitors with a private place to relax and adjust.
Likewise, any legal or illegal transactions can be conducted here, and it is guaranteed that no eavesdropping or surveillance equipment will be installed in the room.
Of course, corresponding to this is its high cost. The cost of accommodation for 24 hours is as high as 10,000 currency.
Alex paid half a month's deposit in one go and then dove into his room.
Sitting cross-legged on the mat, Alex extended his right palm.
"Psychic Scan"
I saw waves of faint blue emanating from the center of his trust, like water waves slowly flowing through the entire room.
After checking that there was no problem, Alex took out the crystal and studied it carefully.
The crystal is crystal clear. It is a cylinder, the whole body is red, and the red light inside flickers. You can vaguely see the red light as hot as the sun inside.
"What exactly is this thing?"
Alex looks calm on the outside, but is actually agitated inside and has a lot of thoughts.
Although twenty years have passed, everything that happened that day is still vivid in my mind.
Or rather, another memory of Alex.
In his memory, Alex lived on a water-blue planet called "Earth" in his last life. The technology there was far inferior to here. There was no federal government, no starships, and no alien visitors...living on the earth. The people have not yet gotten rid of their dependence on their home planet.
And he is a member of the general public, living a peaceful and peaceful life.
As for how he came to this world, he still has no clue.
He only remembered that he was on his way to get off work the day before the crossing, and suddenly he heard a scream from the pedestrians around him. Then he felt a sharp pain all over his body and completely lost consciousness.
The only impression he had was that the moment before he fell into coma, he faintly saw a jet-black crystal that seemed to wrap around the entire universe flying towards him.
"It's like...the vast galaxy universe." This was Alex's last thought in the previous life.
When he opened his eyes again, Alex had become a baby adopted by a federal welfare institution, an ordinary human in the interstellar era.
According to the nanny robot who picked him up, he was indeed holding a dark crystal relic in his hand when he was just a baby. However, for unknown reasons, the crystal disappeared mysteriously.
With the thoughts and self-discipline of an adult, Alex, who came back to the world, knew how to cherish this life. With talent and perseverance, he finally passed the Klein Academy, the highest school on his planet, when he became an adult. In this star where many geniuses are born. Times take their place.
"I hope this second crystal can bring me a special 'opportunity'." Putting away his memories, Alex picked up the crystal and pointed its sharp end towards his chest.
The next moment, stab hard!
The crystal penetrated the chest, and the sharp tip instantly pierced the skin and muscles, and blood spurted out.
Surprisingly, the sprayed blood did not fall to the ground, but solidified in the air, gathering like blood-red crystal clusters near the wound.
The crystal and flesh merged, and wonderful changes occurred!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
His heart was beating violently, his blood was surging, and his body almost swelled. The spiritual energy pouring into his body from the red crystal was like rivers and lakes, flowing into the sea in a mighty way. However, the human body's capacity has its limit after all, and this power almost killed him. Completely exploded from the inside.
Alex meditated quietly, shutting out all outside distractions.
Inside the body, the spiritual energy that had already been "unbearably hungry" collided head-on with this force. As if taking a huge tonic, the spiritual energy in the body grew at an alarming rate.
Absorb, devour, transform, store.
According to a certain established procedure, Alex in meditation used his powerful mental power to restrain the psychic transformation project, washing his body over and over again, and causing some wonderful changes in it.
From the outside world, Alex at this time has turned into a red crystal man, with crystal clear skin on the surface. From the outside, you can see the internal organs, blood vessels and bones of the body, and between the bones, flesh and organs, slowly flowing It is as powerful as the red sun.
At this moment, trillions of cells in Alex's body happily devoured this source of life evolution, evolving independently toward the most perfect and ultimate direction.
In the human body's most important central brain, the mental intensity soars at a terrifying speed. The high-speed friction of the cells causes another extraordinary ability hidden in Alex's body to awaken and break through!
Three hundred thousand volts... four hundred thousand... four hundred and fifty thousand... half a million...
The energy level of electric current manipulation surged forward, and a large amount of electric light burst out from various parts of the body, forming a series of golden electric current light shields, instantly destroying the cushions under his feet.
Just when this force was about to touch the wall, quantitative changes finally led to qualitative changes, and the overflowing powerful voltage suddenly retracted back into the heart.
boom!
Like a supernova explosion, the electric current compressed to the extreme suddenly emits a burst of dazzling light, eventually forming an invisible energy field!
Advance! The power of magnetic field rotation!