Do you believe me when I say I’m not a dragon?

Floating Islands No. [-], [-], and [-] were built during the [Catastrophe] period. At the beginning of the design, their function as aerial fortresses was also considered, so there were so many weapons.

But this is not the case for the rest of the floating islands. They were built in the subsequent time just to carry more people. Therefore, under such circumstances, it is impossible to have any spare energy to build those that seem to have already been built. Lots of spare weapons.

Because of this, he dared to come here alone without any preparation - even if he faced a floating island full of artillery, he would have the confidence to defeat it.

The huge wings cast shadows on every high-rise building. People noticed the sudden darkness, raised their heads, and their sights instantly froze.They opened their mouths, screamed, and ran away, but they could not change their fate.

boom!

Mercer's huge figure hit the street in front of the Sky Island Federation building, waving his wings, and the scale powder surrounded the entire building.

"Submit, or die!"

A low roar sounded in the minds of everyone in the building. They were trembling all over. When they looked out the window, they all felt fear in their hearts. Those with poor mental endurance even fainted and died on the ground.

Under the perception of the black mist, the faces of everyone in the building appeared in Mercer's mind.

"Information about the manager of Floating Island No. [-]? Well... Logically speaking, the manager cannot really control the internal affairs of the floating island at will, but - I know! I will say now that he is a blue He has a big beard with brown eyes and scars on his face, which were left when he was a hunter when he was young..."

——The information he had read flashed through his mind, and Mercer also found the target he was looking for. He stretched out his claws to break the building and caught the only scarred man among the fleeing crowd.

If he wasn't sitting on the chair at the head of the conference room, Mercer might have seen him as a bodyguard.

Holding the strong man in his hand, Mercer showed a fierce expression, looked around, roared to the sky and stared at him:

"Give me an order to everyone. From now on, this floating island belongs to me."

Chapter 327: Surrender or die

"Well--"

The strong man struggled with a distorted face, and soon recognized the gap in strength between the two. He closed his eyes and gasped to resist the suffocating feeling of being held tightly.

"I don't give you time to hesitate - now! Order them to surrender to me."

Mercer pulled him in front of him, staring at the strong man with his huge scarlet vertical pupils.

The latter slowly opened his eyes, took a deep breath to adjust his emotions, and met Mercer's gaze.

The resistance that appeared in his eyes at that moment was gone, and Mercer's black mist also smelled the pheromones from his body trying to maintain calmness.

"...What can we get?" Under such circumstances, he reluctantly started a conversation with Mercer.

"...Oh?" Hearing this, Mercer showed a hint of surprise, "Do you think you still have a choice?"

The strong man felt the strength of the paw holding him increase, and his face gradually turned red: "-No. We will either die or surrender to you, but in the meantime we still have time to escape... There are four ports on Sky Island. People will flee because of your cruelty, and you cannot stop them all..."

He struggled hard and gained a moment of breathing time, but what followed was an even stronger grip: "——Well... the only way is for us to surrender voluntarily, so... ..I can publicize to them the benefits of surrendering to you——"

As soon as he finished speaking, the strong man felt the force coming from his palm suddenly decrease, and the muscles all over his body that were tense to resist the force relaxed. The strong man, who was several times thicker than ordinary people, slumped in Mercer's palm. Panting heavily.

"Hmm... interesting." Mercer held the strong man and got closer to his face. "The idea is very unique. So, you are going to surrender to me?"

"With the weapons we currently have on the floating island, there is really no way to defeat you."

The strong man said this frankly and looked at Mercer with a straight face:

"But in addition to surrendering to you, there is death. Some people think that you are a symbol of evil and would rather die than surrender. Because in our understanding, the floating island is our shelter from the earth, and you have destroyed the shelter. It exists, so as long as you tell us what we can get by surrendering to you, we will be willing to obey you, which is much more efficient than conquering by force."

Hei Wu could still smell a hint of fear in the other party's emotions, but he still wanted to maintain the last bit of dignity while negotiating with Mercer.

In this case, then Mercer might as well help them:

"It makes sense. Then I will tell you the treatment you will receive after surrendering to me - my answer is, everything."

He raised his head and spoke through the spreading black mist: "Treat the floating island as a shelter? You are so stupid. What's the point of leaving the earth to escape wild beasts? Knowledge, food, freedom... life What the people in my territory have is a life that you have never imagined, and resources that you have been unable to obtain after working hard all your life! In my territory, only those who can can live, as long as you are still able to work, there will be enough food for you. Until you die!"

Mercer spread his wings and flew high into the sky, looking down at everyone from above:

"Living in my territory, you don't need to worry about your life safety being threatened. The only thing you need to do is serve me and obey my orders - and then enjoy everything you get from me with your own abilities! "

The strong man told Mercer a piece of news: this group of people believed that they could remain innocent as long as they died.In this case, Mercer doesn't mind tearing apart their illusions:

"——But if any of you dare to stand against me and destroy the behavior of those who surrender to me, I will make you bear the sin that death cannot eliminate, and your corpse will become food for the beasts tamed by me. Be my strength to conquer others!”

In the sight of everyone, Mercer opened his forelimbs and opened his mouth with fangs: "So choose, surrender to me, or die here?"

Looking up at the black dragon in the sky, the strong man took a deep breath and looked at the people escaping behind him. They were all high-level officials of the floating island: "We have no choice."

It is unimaginable that they were discussing the black dragon before that, and they were also involved in a heated discussion because they discovered the black descendant. But now, there is only one choice in front of them.

"..."

Looking at the appearance of the black dragon, everyone showed tangled and painful expressions, and then nodded slowly.

They are not idiots. They know better than anyone else that their status is not unique. Even if they die, they are not worthy of the black dragon's attention, because they can quickly find a replacement.

It is precisely because of this that their fear of death is even more profound.If everything is as Black Dragon said, then there is nothing wrong with surrendering alive. Even if you have to bear the infamy, it will be borne by everyone.

——Therefore, under Mercer's coercion and temptation, a floating island surrendered to Mercer's hands without any effort.

Although there are still many people who hate his existence and even plan to leave, most of them have been intercepted by Mercer.

Even if some people still manage to escape, he can't worry about it. After all, the more people there are, the harder it is to discipline them. This is the limit of what he can do.

But Mercer didn't have to worry about this method - the lack of a dozen or twenty people was not a loss. Mercer checked the identities of the people who left afterward and found that there were no people with outstanding abilities among them, they were all close to the sky. Just ordinary people on the island.

Secondly, the luckiest thing about their departure may be that they were discovered by a spacecraft from elsewhere, thus leaking the current situation of the floating island. This level was still within Mercer's acceptance range.

What he has to do now is to stabilize the people on this floating island without any support for a period of time.

He does not intend to infect some people into black descent. This will make those people think that everything Mercer said is a lie, and the barely maintained order will collapse again. At that time, I am afraid it will take another bloody storm to suppress them. .

And what he should do is very simple. Since he can't infect humans and turn into black people to do things for him, then let humans help him guard the port.

So Mercer issued an order, and those who guarded the port to prevent others from leaving would receive a large sum of money.

As for his view on money, Mercer just threw a large amount of money on the side of the road, filling the whole street.Being disconnected from human beings for too long, some things are inevitably forgotten.

Chapter 328: Nutrient

——At this point, after another period of time, Mercer met everyone who had arrived belatedly. After adding another layer of security to the already stable floating island, he successfully returned to Ice Vein Snow. Yuanai.

Time flies, and another month has passed. Rachel and others finally finished arranging the No. [-] floating island and docked it near the No. [-] floating island.

"Lord God, knowledge, talents, resources, etc. have been recorded, and the accuracy of the information has been confirmed." Rachel said.

"Yes." Mercer lay on the ground a little bored and looked at Rachel with half-open eyes: "It depends on you what role they can play and how to integrate them with the ice-veined snowfield."

Mercer knew very well that just because they came here did not mean that they were members of the Ice Vein Snowfield. After all, their identities were just enslaved members of Floating Island No. [-] and No. [-]. He wanted to make so many people truly To play its role, it is to eliminate redundant and complicated hierarchies, and the hierarchical status in the two floating islands and the ice veins and snow fields are unified - to put it bluntly, they are integrated with each other.

He rarely interferes in matters such as management. Anyway, there are more suitable talents in his own territory, and he only needs to be the one who issues orders.

Of course, this does not mean that he truly leaves the fate of his territory to the control of others. After all, the important factor that truly allows the floating island to come to the ground is the cooperation of the beasts on the ground.Although most of them have been tamed and even become domestic animals that can be slaughtered by others, as long as Mercer gives an order, even the most harmless creatures will desperately kill any betrayer.

——After hearing Mercer's order, Rachel nodded and said, "On this point, Mr. Hammy actually has a special proposal for this."

"...Hami? What did he say?" The original betrayer who joined Mercer for power is still merging the floating island with the ice-veined snowfield.

"He hopes that by demolishing the buildings on the floating island, he can save the material consumption of the ice and snow fields. In this way, the people who have been demolished will have no home to live in, and they will live in the ice and snow fields whether they want to or not." She said slowly.

"...It seems to be a feasible method." After pondering for a moment, Mercer replied.

"Yes, according to what he said, there is no harm except being dissatisfied by some people, but the strength of our Ice Vein Snowfield is enough to suppress them - and because the floating island flies at high altitudes, the foundation of the building will It is relatively deep. Generally speaking, the materials required to dismantle ten buildings on the floating island can be used to build three to four more identical buildings on the ground."

"Then do it." Mercer agreed without too much hesitation. After hearing this, Rachel was a little surprised. She raised her head and asked, "Don't you need to think about it for a while? After all, it is A floating island..."

"Wouldn't it be better to turn a floating island into our nourishment?" Mercer said flatly.

He actually had plans for this idea - the floating island's energy could be placed on the ground to resist the influence of the reversed energy on the mountaintop; all buildings and people would be placed on the ice-veined snowfield, and there would even be room for it.

"......I understand."

Seeing that Mercer had already sat down and made his decision, Rachel no longer objected. She nodded in agreement and turned around to execute the decision.

"--Wait a moment."

As soon as Rachel finished speaking, Mercer stopped her:

"One more thing, you send some people out to spread some rumors."

"Please tell me?"

"Any kind of rumors can be used against the floating islands." The images of the floating islands appeared in Mercer's mind: "For example, which floating island has been conquered by the black dragon, and the floating island No. [-] is still fine. The floating island is floating in the air, and although there is no serious problem on the surface, it has actually become a black dragon's den."

Listening to Mercer's words, Rachel quickly realized his plan: "Are you going to disrupt the operations of other floating islands?"

"Yes." Mercer nodded, agreeing with her idea, "They are like stray birds, but we are united. So it is easy for us who have the truth to destroy their trust."

Now all the floating islands are in chaos. Since there is no fast and stable communication method, the information they receive from the outside world will be full of uncertainty.

And most importantly, Mercer understood what it would be like to unite this group of people, and they would never be so easy to deal with.Only by defeating them one by one can the losses be minimized.

"I see, let's do it."

.......

"You said that the No. [-] floating island also fell."

Standing on the edge of the spaceship, Hai Xin frowned and asked a dilapidated spaceship ahead.

"probably."

The two spaceships were very close to each other, and the one talking to Hai Xin was a very old captain with a sallow face and tired eyes.

"After all, I heard this news from others. It was a few weeks ago. Later, they were forced to land on the ground due to lack of food, and because we still had some supplies left, we planned to fly for a while and find the floating island. ”

"But in addition to this news, I have also heard words such as that all the floating islands have been conquered by black dragons, but there are still a few floating islands floating in the air pretending to be normal and devouring passers-by... I can’t confirm whether it’s true or false.”

Hearing this, Hai Xin frowned: "Is that so..." She looked up at the holes in the boat again, and couldn't help but ask: "Then what's going on with these on your boat? Why don't you lower your head?" Was the altitude attacked by a flying dragon? But this mark really doesn’t look like it was caused by a flying dragon.”

"These?" The old captain looked at the damage on the ship and showed a bitter smile: "Shortly after parting with the spaceship that landed on the ground due to lack of food, we met another spaceship. Several of them were hunters. , as we were approaching them... they robbed us."

"What..." Hearing this, Hai Xin was shocked: "How is that possible?"

"It's no longer a minority, because the loss of the floating island means that the guild knights who control the behavior of hunters can no longer control them, so in order to replenish resources, they will attack our spaceships that have no hunters or too few hunters. Fortunately, they didn't dare to do anything too cruel, so we were able to come back alive."

After hearing the old captain's words, Hai Xin was silent for a while and then said: "...I will give you one-tenth of the supplies and a map to go to the forest I marked. We replenished supplies there not long ago, so it’s fairly safe.”

"Thank you, kind hunter." The old captain expressed his sincere gratitude.

Chapter 329: Strange Power

Xiyin looked at Hai Xin who came back with a sullen expression, watching her direct everyone to get closer and distribute resources to them.

As for what they just said, she naturally heard everything.

She came to Hai Xin and asked in a low voice: "Instructor, are these really done by hunters?"

"They just took the title of hunter." Hai Xin suppressed his anger and said: "Their behavior is undoubtedly that of bandits, but they are just bastards wearing a set of hunter armor!"

"Well..." Hearing this, Xiyin looked at Hai Xin who was about to curse but didn't, so she silently closed her mouth.

She looked at the miserable state of the spaceship, unbearable flashing across her face, but she still lowered her eyes.Neither the instructor nor Sister Kulu revealed the location of Floating Island No. [-] to others.She naturally understood the reason, and could only hope in her heart that they would have better luck and be able to successfully find the location of the floating island.

——The old captain silently tidied up the house given by Hai Xin with others. He glanced at the direction of Hai Xin and the bow of their ship and paused slightly.

"...Speaking of which, where are you going?"

"Just like you, I'm just looking for the floating island." Hai Xin said this without changing his expression, making the old man frown slightly.

"...No matter what you plan to do, we met them in the direction you were going. If you want to avoid a dispute, it is best to take the long way around."

Staring at the old captain, Hai Xin was silent for a while, then nodded: "I understand, thank you for the reminder."

After receiving the supplies, the old captain looked at them: "Then, we will say goodbye."

"Walk slowly."

......

Watching the dilapidated spaceship go away, Hai Xin frowned and leaned on the railing, seeming to be thinking about something.

"Instructor..." Upon seeing this, Xiyin walked up and whispered, but was immediately interrupted by her waving her hand: "I'm sorry, I'm thinking about something. You go to Kulu first." , let her supervise you to complete today’s training.”

"Hmmmmm."

Seeing Hai Xin frowning and deep in thought, she was too embarrassed to disturb him and left by herself.

Hai Xin's eyes swept over the spaceship flying alongside him not far away, and he thought about what the old captain said to him.

Hunter...Although most people enter this industry to make money and provide better treatment for themselves and their families, the Hunter Guild has also added many nice titles to them, such as "the fearless one who explores the earth" ", "The brave man who hunts giant beasts", etc... There are many people attracted by these reputations, and young Hai Xin is one of them.