A Scroll of Infinite Glory

Chapter 538 StarNet, the Emerging Three Giants

Beep!Beep!Beep!

Guan Luoyang walked slowly toward the captain's cabin of the pirate warship. Everywhere he went, the lights were turned on, and the entire corridor was brightly lit.

The one-armed bear was burly, and his captain's cabin was very spacious and luxurious, with unique landscapes from various planets decorating every corner of the room like potted plants.

The head of some kind of wild beast hung on the wall, its brownish-yellow fur spread out, covering most of the wall.

The white, unidentified creature's sharp teeth, crafted like wind chimes, hang in the corner of the wall.

Guan Luoyang put the teddy bear he was holding on the table and sat down on the brown-red sofa.

The warship's original design was full of high-tech sophistication, precise and austere, without any redundancy. However, the interior layout, which suited the pirates' personal preferences, added a more barbaric and rugged flavor to this precise and hard style.

And now this little plush toy adds a precious touch of warmth to the whole room.

Of course, the one-armed bear himself didn't find this heartwarming at all; he felt as if he were experiencing a terrifying nightmare.

His consciousness was trapped inside this small doll, but it seemed that his senses of sight, hearing, and touch were still intact.

So he could clearly feel how terrifying the room he had decorated, every place he was proud of in the past, looked from the perspective of a little doll; it was simply an abnormal aesthetic everywhere.

The "Milan Deer Head" hanging on the wall, with its lifeless eyes after death, looked so disgusting, with its eye sockets filled with a nauseating white.

The fur of the "Kayeru sheep" was originally so smooth to the touch, with exquisite textures covering the skin.

However, those so-called textures, apart from the naturally growing skin folds, are mostly caused by stretching the fur in a specific direction during the peeling process while the skin is still fresh. This results in more cracks on the skin while keeping it intact.

These traces of blood, originally called the crimson clouds hidden beneath the hair, were a great gimmick for merchants.

But in the eyes of the one-armed bear today, each crack appears crooked and twisted, filled with a tearing pain.

Not just these, not just these, there's also the bonsai in the southeast corner of the room, the relief on his usual ivory water glass, the two bone balls he usually plays with, and souvenirs from the last large-scale slave hunt...

The room was filled with things that would evoke terrifying associations for the one-armed bear doll.

Of course, all of this terror pales in comparison to the "person sitting on the sofa."

It was because of that person's presence that everything in this room became even more profound and dark.

Even though the room's light source was enough to illuminate every tiny corner, the one-armed bear clearly felt that the light source was far away from him, so far that even the speed of light seemed insignificant.

He felt that everything between himself and the light source was stretched out, the colorless air was stretched into a hazy color, and the existing physical scenery became indescribable.

He discovered that every hue around him had become a floating, faint phantom, and that when he observed those colors, there were countless bizarre possibilities stirring within them.

"Spare me, spare my life! Spare me!!!"

The one-armed bear let out a silent howl. If he could still control his body, he would have already knelt down and kowtowed frantically, begging for mercy with tears streaming down his face.

He never imagined that he would give in so easily one day.

However, he simply could not bear this torment.

When everything ordinary is stretched to its limit, it becomes an indistinguishable array of colors, overflowing and fluctuating wildly, like a boiling, colorful universe. It is clearly boiling and chaotic to the extreme, yet the process seems so long and sluggish.

Everything one has experienced in one's life, everything one has inflicted on others, can be seen in these overflowing colors. There are also a hundred or a thousand lives that one has never experienced, which wander in these rich, colorful graffiti, sometimes alive, sometimes dead.

There are many more painful experiences that are simply indescribable.

Guan Luoyang only glanced at the doll.

A thin flame flickered on the doll's forehead, as red as blood and as alluring as a flower.

This is the Red Lotus Karmic Fire!

Those who commit grave sins, once tainted by the karmic fire of the red lotus, are as if they have fallen into the Avici Hell.

The Buddha said: One who suffers endless suffering and never dies is said to live a long life, which is the greatest calamity in the Avici Hell.

Legend has it that those cast into the Avici Hell experience countless births and deaths in a single day and night, and cannot even find a moment of respite.

From the beginning of the year until the end of the kalpa, suffering continued without interruption, hence the name "uninterrupted suffering".

This Red Lotus Karmic Fire is a profound Dharma that Guan Luoyang comprehended from the Thousand-Petaled Lotus Earth Treasury Golden Bowl.

However, he has not yet truly mastered the great supernatural power of the Red Lotus Karmic Fire, and cannot create Avici Hell or the Infernal Purgatory simply by igniting the karmic fire and causing the red lotus to bloom.

It was merely to create a wisp of aura resembling the Red Lotus Karmic Fire, just to give these space pirates a taste.

At the same time, it is also to facilitate the reading of many hidden messages in the one-armed bear's memory.

Although this vicious bear was powerless against Guan Luoyang, it actually possessed a six-star level of power. Reading its deep memories would not be an easy task.

What's even more subtle is that many areas in his memory were subjected to meticulous mental blockade, which should be a method set up by a person with a strength of seven stars.

If it were Guan Luoyang, who had just entered the seven-star realm, even with his unwavering Dao heart, he would have been helpless against such methods and could only kill the bear without obtaining any further useful information.

But things are different now. Under the burning aura of the Red Lotus Karmic Fire, all the memory locks in the One-Armed Bear's brain are like steel locks that have been softened by the heat, subjected to an all-pervasive yet unpredictable impact.

Guan Luoyang looked at it for a moment, then flicked his finger. A ray of starlight flew by and entered the doll's body, instantly breaking through the memory locks and reading the hidden messages.

"So it was the commander of the Black Flag Alliance's Seventh Fleet who set up this secrecy mechanism in the memories of the fleet members..."

Guan Luoyang's eyes were filled with interwoven data and shifting light and shadow. As he carefully browsed through them, he discovered that most of these hidden memories contained important intelligence about the Black Flag Alliance.

For example, the specific coordinates of several large slave markets controlled by the Seventh Fleet, the access passes to these large markets, the factions within the Interstellar Alliance that cooperate with them, and the recent movements of the Seventh Fleet command, etc.

It is worth mentioning that the One-Armed Bear's StarNet account and password were also placed in these hidden memories, protected by the memory locks from before.

StarNet accounts are really worthless. Once any civilization becomes a formal member of the Interstellar Alliance, at least tens of billions of people within that civilization can obtain StarNet accounts.

As long as you can receive the StarNet signal, you can simply submit your identity information and register.

However, for members of organizations like the Black Flagship Team, their StarNet accounts are extremely valuable.

It's not as simple as just using a fake identity to register an account.

The accounts used by these space pirates over a long period of time have been involved in countless illegal activities.

The technicians who help them verify these accounts must ensure that none of the illegal activities of the account are detected or identified by StarNet in order to be considered qualified.

At the same time, their own account passwords and so on also need to be kept extremely confidential. Otherwise, once their accounts are leaked, and the Interstellar Alliance follows the trail, it is unknown how many websites specifically set up for criminals like them could be uncovered.

It can be said that for a pirate of One-Armed Bear's caliber, the most valuable things he owns are not his crew, his collection, or his warship.

It wasn't even the hidden information in his mind.

And it was this StarNet account that he had been using all along.

After all, important information involving the Black Flag Alliance's Seventh Fleet could become outdated.

This StarNet account, however, signifies an identity that has already been verified as a high-end user on various illegal websites, and also implies a vast number of constantly updated information channels.

Guan Luoyang tapped the armrest of the sofa, and the square table in front of him received the command, projecting a screen directly into the air.

The upper right corner of the screen displays the strength of the StarNet signal, which is divided into five levels. It is currently showing the third level.

In the dark expanse of space, where there are no bustling star regions nearby, it's quite remarkable that the StarNet signal can reach the third level.

The Interstellar Alliance's network, covering the entire interstellar society, relies on quantum communication base stations built in various star sectors.

The signal coverage of this type of communication base station is measured in light-years, but the cost is extremely high. Many interstellar civilizations rule more than one planet, but they only build one quantum communication base station of this level on their main planet.

The Kingdom of Karen is a relatively powerful civilization, and Beya Star receives preferential treatment from the Kingdom of Karen.

Even so, the Kingdom of Karen simply relocated an old quantum communication base station from their home planet to Beya.

The base station on Beya Star has now been dismantled by these pirates and stored in a warehouse.

However, as a well-known interstellar pirate organization, each of the seven fleets' squadrons is equipped with the latest quantum communication base stations.

Space pirates are known as one of the easiest professions to get rich in. Their speed of plundering capital ranks third among all professions, and they certainly live up to their reputation.

It is said that all the major civilizations combined have a combined population of tens of billions every year, flocking to this industry. This glimpse into the bigger picture shows the allure of "getting rich through piracy."

Guan Luoyang logged into the One-Armed Bear's account, browsed for a while, and then checked if there had been any large-scale abnormal events recently.

Even the smallest fragment of a ten-star reincarnator's Dao Fruit, if it truly exists and falls into this universe, will definitely cause large-scale anomalies.

However, when he checked the recent large-scale abnormal events, the first thing that popped up was all reports about the "emerging three giants".

The so-called emerging triumvirate refers to three organizations that gained prominence about ten years ago.

The City Beyond, the First Core, the Supreme Dao Sect.

These three organizations all possess highly advanced technologies and have quickly risen to the top in their respective fields.

Their core strengths, most notably their telepathic technology and miniature quantum teleportation technology, are the most well-known.

The conveyor devices they sell may weigh no more than 500 grams and can be molded into various different appearances, such as glasses, jewelry, flowers, etc.

It's hard to imagine that such a small, portable device, once activated, could enable point-to-point teleportation across galaxies.

When this device was first listed on the sales website, it caused a buying frenzy that swept across the entire interstellar space.

Unfortunately, although interstellar society appears incredibly prosperous, its very prosperity makes even those with a little wealth feel insecure.

The products launched by First Core can truly be called escape artifacts. They start up very quickly, can take you far enough, are not too expensive, and can even be used repeatedly.

However, the shortcomings of these products soon became apparent.

While this small quantum teleportation device can transport living objects very quickly, it may cause malfunctions in some precision instruments during the transmission process.

Furthermore, there are rumors that if this small quantum teleportation device is used multiple times in a short period of time, one's personality will undergo some strange changes.

The teleportation technology introduced by Beyond City is exactly the opposite.

Their large artificial wormholes are so expensive that many small and medium-sized civilizations cannot afford them, or are unwilling to buy them.

But once it's built, let alone teleporting living people, even if you were to send a floating city over, you could guarantee that no instrument inside the city would malfunction due to the teleportation.

In addition, the City Beyond has also achieved great success in biological gene manipulation. It has cooperated with some interstellar civilizations to solve those genetic diseases that were difficult to eradicate in their own races.

The products of Beyond City and First Core have some overlap in the technology field.

However, the Supreme Dao Sect seems to be on a completely different track.

The Supreme Dao Sect excels at ecosystem transformation technology and pollution-free energy purification technology.

Their products are not excessively expensive, but they are generally not affordable for individual business owners.

However, for those organizations with enough strength to include planetary ecological transformation in their plans, the products of the Supreme Dao Sect can truly be described as high quality and low price.

Although the Supreme Dao Sect may not be as successful as the other two in terms of performance, the network of connections they have built is by no means inferior to the other two.

In short, all three organizations became official members of the Interstellar Alliance government at a speed that can only be described as legendary.

"Supreme... Dao Sect?"

Guan Luoyang clicked on the detailed introduction of the Supreme Dao Sect out of curiosity.

The first thing that catches the eye is a high-definition 3D projection video.

A truck sped through space, then suddenly transformed into a giant robot, clad in a Taoist robe and wielding a massive alloy Ruyi scepter, emitting a deep, resonant sound that shook the cosmos.

"Homage to... Primordial Heavenly Venerable!!!"

(End of this chapter)