Han helped Long Chuan up. No one made any sounds at the scene, except for the never-resting wind on the plateau.

  Ula~

  A few seconds later the soldiers finally reacted. Loud cheering bursted out of the crowd, and everyone tightly surrounded Han and Long Chuan.

  You will never be the strongest man on the planet?

  What did Han mean by that?

  That was no doubt the declaration of a winner. After Ke Lake and Long Chuan, the only other man that stood at the pinnacle of Earth’s fighting strength was not Heinrich, but Han!

  The signature unconventional way of fighting, the unique power of void end, and the incredible force of the dark fist! Han no longer had any rivals on Earth!

  Han, everyone already knew. He was that Tough Boned guy, the one that single-handedly protected the South Pole relic, the soldier that killed Boss Lucas of the Thorn Birds gang, and the only one on Earth that made it to the Milky Way Meet finals.

  But what was Han’s rank on Earth in terms of combat strength? It had been a controversial topic. In general, most people tended to believe that Han was the leader in the younger generation, but looking at the entire planet, Talin, Long Chuan, or even Li Yu, should all be slightly stronger than Han.

  But today, Han displayed his remarkable fighting power, killing Heinrich in one punch. There was no longer doubt, the Han right now was the strongest fighter on the planet! ……

  In the infirmary, Han visited Long Chuan who got his wounds taken care of. His face was paler now, and he was whispering something to Li Yu.

  Han finally felt relieved. Long Chuan cannot die because he was a symbol of the Earth Federation army, someone admired by all soldiers. Even after losing his strength, Long Chuan’s status in the army remained unshakable.

  Li Yu’s face wasn’t looking good, he slightly nodded at Han and said, “You did well! Now, the Milky Way Meet will be all in your hands, but I just got the news……”

  Li Yu didn’t finish and Long Chuan gently kicked him. Li Yu couldn’t help by shake his head with a bitter smile and said to Han, “In short, you can prepare for the Milky Way Meet in peace. The military will specifically prepare a frigate for you, send you and the Federation prime minister Pan Yulin together to where the Meet is hosted. You don’t need to worry about other things.”

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  Han nodded, and said in a deep voice, “I will take care of my stuff, but you guys don’t have to hide it from me because of how developed information technology is now. I already knew that there have been 3 cases similar to the Heinrich events that occurred on Earth in a row.”

  Li Yu hesitated, then he let out a long sigh and said, “It’s quite unfortunate for Heinrich. He had always been one of leaders among the espers of Earth, yet he still embarked on the wrong path.”

  “As for the other two riot espers, they have always been scum so they deserved to die.”

  Han said, “I agree that they should die, but I smell something fishy here. I just finished doing a simple analysis on Heinrich’s blood and found a large number of biologically active molecules in his blood that shouldn’t be there. Obviously, Heinrich took some forbidden drugs which led to his mutation. While his power source index improved significantly, the mutation also affected his brain and thinking, resulting in a riot.”

  Long Chuan’s eyes lit up and said, “Almost forgot, you know a bit of pharmacology, and my life was saved by you before.”

  “In fact, you didn’t have to tell me that. We have already guessed who’s behind all this. It’s no one other than those countries that want to colonize Earth. Our intelligence department have long found Heinrich exhibiting abnormal behavior. It’s just that we were his old friends so we couldn’t make the final move to execute him. Looks like our hesitation actually leaded us to the worst result.”

  Han said, “As long as you guys have an idea then I won’t say more. Looks like enemies have arranged many eyes on Earth. I feel like the quantity of harassment against Earth will just increase more and more after I leave Earth.”

  Long Chuan smiled. He dragged Han to his side, patted him on the shoulder and said. “Everyone has their own division of responsibility. You got us old bones taking care of our home, you just have to focus on your Milky Way Meet.”

  “Riot of esper soldiers, although it will bring casualties, but it still cannot shake the foundation of the Earth. My real fear is that enemies will play dirty again against you during the Meet, and if they do that, then none of us could help you.”

  Han replied lightly, “I understand.”

  Long Chuan nodded and said, “Before you go, is there anything you want us to take care of? Or do you have anyone you want to say goodbye to?”

  Han shook his head and said, “No that’s fine, I’m just going to the Milky Way Meet, it’s not like I’m dying or something. We will go according to the original plan. I will leave right after my package arrives.” ……

  Three days passed in a blink of an eye and Han finally received his package. It contained items that Pathless told Han to bring with him, for the reason that it would be beneficial for exploring extinction domains.

  Travelling with Han was the Prime Minister Pan Yulin and a few other personnel around him. The Milky Way Meet had 3 main projects, the first one was exploring the Extinction domain, then a meeting between the representatives of 13000 member countries in Milky Way will take place, Lastly, there was an award ceremony recognizing some contributions that countries made to Milky Way Alliance in the past decade.

  Shua~

  A Falcon class frigate carrying Han and Pan Yulin quickly left Earth’s orbit. Han didn’t say goodbye to anyone, because he doesn’t like the atmosphere when saying farewell. In addition, as the only qualified soldier from Earth attending the Milky Way Meet, the amount of pressure on him could only be imagined.

  Although Han didn’t inform anyone when he was leaving, but when the ship was taking off, Han still saw his brothers at the camp gathering at the square and waving at him. ……

  At the same time, the Centaurus, Sally Empire.

  Sally Empire’s Star-class battleship were all ready to go. Compared to the lonely atmosphere when Han left Earth, it felt much more celebratory when their prime minister and soldiers were leaving for the Meet. Not only did hundreds of officials come to say farewell, just the soldiers that got qualified reached 36 people, which was the most among all countries in the 57th Sector.

  Pan Yulin and Hans mission was to do everything possible to keep Earth independent and not be colonized, but Levi’s mission was the completely opposite.

  Overall, Han went to the Milky Way Meet for the survival of Earth, but Levi was going for the benefits.

  Shortly after their ship left Centaurus, Levi summoned all the qualified soldiers to his room and arranged a secret mission.

  His eyes quickly scanned this group of young soldiers that represented the future of the empire. He smiled and said, “Only a few hours away from the Empire is a country called Earth, do you guys know?”

  All the soldiers nodded.

  Levi then said with sinister eyes, “Then you guys should also know that someone placed a one billion bounty on the only soldier from Earth that’s participating in this Meet?”

  All the soldiers nodded again.

  “Good, I want to say, if nothing goes wrong, then after this Milky Way Meet, we will colonize Earth. If anyone among you guys can kill that man from Earth called Han, not only will you get the one billion GC high reward, but also a ten thousand square kilometers territory on Earth, plus a noble title.”

  All these young soldiers were shocked. Although the GC are tempting, but the title and territory was even more attractive!

  After all, in the Sally empire, having that title meant they will become a noble in the future and enjoy rights that could even be passed down to future generations. It will be a giant leap, from a soldier to privileged class of an empire.

  “Rest assured, this man from Earth won’t get out alive from A-19.”

  “He’s dead this time!”

  Motivated by the huge bounty and reward, all the young soldiers were fired up for the mission.

  Unlike the virtual environment pressure exam, people could really die in the A-19.

  Far from home, dangerous prehistoric relics and countless enemies wanted his head. Han’s journey has only just begun, but his path was already covered by thorns.

  Chapter 78: Predicament and the People that Returned from the Distant

  The place where the A-19 was located was called the Miracle Star System. It was also where the Milky Way Meet was to be held.

  One week later, Han and Pan Yulin reached the periphery of the Miracle Star System. Observing from the deck window, the star had a yellow dirt colored ring around it. Countless ships of different sizes were coming from all corners of the Milky Way, and they were being guided to enter the system.

  After all, the Milky Way had 13 thousand human countries. They were all gathered here for a meeting. Large or small, there were still over 100 thousand ships here. On the periphery of the star, there was an ever greater number of defense fleets.

  The A-19 was located on planet 3 of the system, and planet 4 was where the representatives from all the countries will be meeting. Han needed to first land on planet 4 and wait till the relic exploration event was activated, and then he will head towards planet 3.

  The Falcon class frigate successfully landed and Han followed Pan Yulin to the hotel reserved by Earth Federation, which had an appearance of a gray concrete suburban building.

  From the living environment of the delegates of each country, you could see their position in the galaxy. Like the giants of the 12 permanent management member countries, they will be renting the most luxurious hotel on planet 4, or simply building a temporary luxury mansion.

  But Earth and some other Observer member countries in the Milky Way Alliance lived in very cheap ordinary hotels in the city suburbs.

  Han observed some delegates from other countries that were living in their hotel. They all had that same worried look. In the Milky Way, there was a hidden jungle rule that applied. After each Milky Way Meet, there were always some small weak countries that will be merged with other powers or be colonized. Presumably, their situation was no better than the Earth Federation.

  Han wasn’t very picky of the living environment. After settling down in the cheap hotel, he kept on discussing with Pathless Origin about the extinction domain or combat techniques, while Pan Yulin didn’t rest for a moment and took his team to visit some countries that have some relationships with Earth in an attempt to get their support.

  It was a silent night, morning soon arrived. Han had source energy protecting his body so he doesn’t need much sleep. He left the hotel a little before dawn. He wanted first to check out the functioning of a foreign society, and secondly he had already promised Ye Weiwei to find her after he got here.

  In the lobby, Han coincidently met Pan Yulin’s team on their way back. They went out yesterday afternoon and were out all night, right now they looked really tired, eyes dulled, and in a depressed mood.

  Seeing Han, Pan Yulin tried his best to gather some energy and have a casual chat with him. Knowing that Han wanted to go take a look at the city, Pan Yulin didn’t say anything.

  After Pan Yulin got onto the elevator, Han grabbed Pan’s secretary Rhodes, frowned and asked, “How’s the situation?”

  Rhodes first looked around and saw no one. He then sighed and whispered, “Very bad. All night, we visited a few delegations that were quite familiar with Earth, but they either decline nicely or respond perfunctorily. And the Iberian Republic that had a pretty good relationship with us in the past even kicked us out.”

  “The grapevine says that the Sally Empire had bribed the permanent member country, Ganges, and after the start of the Milky Way Conference, the Ganges Republic will fully support the notion of the Sally Empire colonizing Earth. With our strength, we are already powerless when dealing with a Sally Empire, how can we be the opponent of Ganges.”

  Han in fact already had a feeling long ago, that the Earth Federation will encounter unexpected difficulties in the Milky Way Meet. But even one of the 12 permanent members Ganges supported the Sally Empire, which still surprised Han a little. After all, the Ganges republic was too powerful, strong enough to influence the Alliance’s decision.

  Rhodes could see Han’s worry. He still tried to smile and said, “You don’t have to worry about politics. We already came prepared to pretend to be a grandson and beg the grandparents.”

  “Prime Minister Pan Yulin doesn’t give up easily as well. If these people don’t work, we can still try to find others. In short, you just need to take care of the competition and don’t let other things bother you. Politics have always been very dark and retarded.”

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  Han nodded and said goodbye to Rhodes. He then took a taxi to town.

  The Miracle Star system belonged to the Mang Republic, also one of the permanent managing members of the Alliance. In fact, the 38 A-class extinction domains in the hands of the Alliance, were all under the control of permanent members like the Ganges and Mang Republic, and that’s why they were giants in the Milky Way.

  For the humans inhabiting the Milky Way, the presence of high level relics had extraordinary meanings. These advanced relics contained enormous amounts of benefits. If you find a battleship blueprint from the relic left behind by the pre-historic civilization, how much money would that be? If you find a few Ares-class equipment, how much would that be? If you get a genetic science book that could boost the level of all the soldiers in the country, how much was that worth again?

  In simple terms, relics from the pre-historic civilization was science, was strength, and, most importantly, was also money!

  The 12 permanent members of the Milky Way Alliance each controlled at least 3 A-class relics, and those 128 non-permanent management member countries each controlled at least 3 B-class relics. The Sally Empire really wanted to colonize Earth because of the B-class relic. With that relic and its generated output, the Sally Empire will very likely be promoted to be a non-permanent management member of the Milky Way Alliance.

  Since the Miracle System was Mang Republic’s territory, then the science and technology levels, as well as the degree of prosperity was incomparable to Earth. Even the Taxi that Han took was a half-afloat electromagnet suspension model. It didn’t have wheels, and its body floated half a meter from the ground, producing very little noise or vibration when driving.

  As for the city Han was in right now, it had 12 billion residents in its population, so the millions of guests from all over the galaxy occupying here for the duration of the Meet had little impact on a city this size. There were gardens that were built in the sky, skyscrapers that soared through the clouds, easily accessible electromagnetic powered public transport systems, and much more maintaining the operation of a large city this size.

  After Han learned about the Earth delegation team’s situation, he no longer had the mood to tour around the city anymore, so he had the taxi take him directly to find Ye Weiwei.

  It was not that Han was desperate for Ye Weiwei’s beauty, but he had promised to accompany her for a day, and a man must be true to his words.

  Ye Weiwei’s place was on the other side of the city, also in the suburbs. The taxi carried Han through the city, and he rested his head on the car window, losing his mind in contemplation for the whole way.

  When the taxi stopped, Han found himself facing a palatial estate with a black alloy door lock. There was a large red maple leaf flag above. Through the door, he could see the main road paved by white marble and the surrounding forest.

  “So Ye Weiwei’s family is quite rich.” Han silently though.

  He was just about to ring the doorbell when suddenly, the door opened and a group of excited soldiers appeared. They were all dressed well, and their eyes lit up after seeing Han.

  “Mr. Han, come inside please!” A large dark-faced soldier immediately gestured and said respectfully.

  Han slightly frowned, and he wondered how these people knew him. Could it be that Ye Weiwei notified them in advance?

  Nodding, Han came in under everyone’s watch, and walked a little uncomfortably into the manor.

  “Look, it’s Han!”

  “Oh, so that’s Han!”

  “So handsome and you can tell he’s talented!”

  “What a virtuous and talented person!”

  “He seems a little skinny though.”

  Shua~

  All the colleagues glared at the soldier that complained about Han being a bit too thin, and he quickly drew his head back in fear.

  This scenario was all too weird. Suddenly so many people came out, there was all kinds of people, from guards to aunts that were sweeping floors. They were all looking at Han, and continued to secretly mutter to each other. Han felt like a monkey in a zoo…… ……

  The Milky Way periphery, inaccessible wilderness star sector.

  A beaten high-level assassin class expedition cruiser finally left the transition channel.

  Advanced expedition battleships were designed for distant galaxy exploration. It was equipped with a durable structure forged by lightweight metal, four sets of transition engines, a hibernation system, a vegetable growing system, complex multi-track radar system, and a series of top-level equipment designed for distant exploration.

  At the moment, this extremely expensive ship looked a bit embarrassing. The energy protection device was broken. Even the armor plating was opened by some attack, and the warship’s final protection layer structure was exposed in many places.

  Without a doubt, this ship suffered a large scale siege, and it was able to barely escape with one last breath. After a long journey of unimaginable danger, the ship was already crumbling and began to fall apart.

  In the Assassin class expedition ship’s cockpit, there was only an old man, with a long beard that hasn’t been shaved. He hasn’t bathed for a long time, exuding an unpleasant odor.

  Gengci~

  The old man used a red injection on himself, and his eyes glowed with renewed life. Looking around the cockpit, there were a lot of red maple leaf marks. It seemed like the exact same one as the symbol in front of Ye Weiwei’s house.

  The old man stood up, and pressed buttons nonstop to set up the next flight destination. He then became tired and lied down on the chair.

  Whirring~

  The old man breathed heavily before he pulled out a holographic picture from his pocket. There was a very fine, very beautiful girl, dressed in black leather with a lovely smile. Wasn’t that Ye Weiwei?

  The Ye Weiwei in that photo was from a few years ago when she was just a little girl, and now she was a teenage girl that had just discovered love.

  The old man’s cold face suddenly became soft after seeing Ye Weiwei. Then, his eyes resumed the previous perseverance.

  “I can’t die here.”

  “I must get back before the Milky Way Meet, or else it will all be too late!” The old man continued muttering.

  Sorry guys, I have a very drunk gf to take care of. I’m also recovering from yesterday’s crazy translating experience. I will just keep my mellow pace of 1-2 chaps per day for the next few days so you guys can donate if you want. I will take a good break, and next week I will be ready for another challenge of “one day rush”