Chapter 1 A Peaceful, Prosperous Planet

Slou Star, located in the Southern Galaxy, has 1.9 times the gravity of Bungee, and a population of approximately 7 billion. Its volume is slightly smaller than Earth's, but the land area on the planet's surface is about 40% larger.

It is 170 million kilometers from its nearest star (the distance between Earth and the Sun is approximately 150 million kilometers), and its climate conditions are very similar to those of Earth.

There are only fifteen countries on this planet, and they have been in a federation for many years, with excellent coordination. Therefore, the population distribution and resource allocation on this planet are very even.

In short, this is a peaceful and prosperous planet.

Of course, the absence of war and famine does not mean that no one commits crimes...

Slou Star people are a highly intelligent life form very similar to Earthlings, and their physiological nature has determined their criminal motives, forms, and content.

The gap between rich and poor, the level of social status, and even the appearance of a spouse can all be factors that induce crime; driven by the primitive motive of "desire," it ultimately evolves into a criminal act.

Where there is crime, there are police...

The police of Slou Star are extremely outstanding. Whether it's the number of personnel, their quality, equipment, or efficiency... they are all top-notch. You will never see a Slou Star police officer sitting in a police car eating donuts, nor will you find any Slou Star police officer who is overweight or has a sub-par IQ.

Because there are no wars on this planet, and the federal system is very stable, 99% of the people can at least live a life of basic sustenance. In such an environment... words like "arms race, financial confrontation, racial discrimination"... simply do not exist in the Slou Star people's dictionary.

"Crime rate" is the top priority that the fifteen governments value most. "Public security" is the livelihood issue that every ordinary Slou Star resident cares about most.

Therefore, the police department has become the most powerful and vital institution in each country on this planet.

However... even on such a planet, "super criminals" emerge in endlessly.

It's hard to say if it’s a case of extremes meeting... with the crime-solving rate for general crimes approaching 100%, high-end criminals have stepped forward, forcibly pulling up the crime rate and lowering the overall crime-solving rate... and many of them don't even have a "motive."

Perverted murderers, robbery addicts, kidnapping and torture murderers who call themselves "judges," chuunibyou (middle-school 2nd year syndrome) late-stage "revolutionary" organizations, etc... a bunch of guys who are either too full or mentally ill, put on bizarre costumes and commit crimes everywhere. Among them are many highly intelligent talents with higher education, elite figures with professorial titles, or wealthy businessmen who dominate the business world...

For various reasons and purposes, this group of oddballs ultimately embarked on the "super criminal" path of no return, bringing great pressure to the Slou Star police.

Thus, another group emerged, namely "vigilantes."

To put it coolly, that is—superheroes.

Folk masters, chuunibyou police officers, bizarre inventors, super-powered people, chemical accident victims, etc... all kinds of people with unique skills also put on bizarre costumes and stepped onto the streets, on the edge of the law... to compete with those super criminals.

...

On this day, Slou Star, Sloulei Country, Eastern Fifteenth District.

A spaceship entered the "Slou Alliance (the planet's superhero alliance)" spaceport.

When the spaceship landed, the five resident heroes of the Slou Alliance were already waiting nearby. They were [Backflip Man], [Police Man], [Dr. Biubiu], [Temptation Girl], and [Disfigured Man].

There were two heroes who came down from the spaceship. They both came from the Cosmic Superhero Alliance and had arrived after receiving the Slou Alliance's support request.

One of these two was a planetary-level hero, [Tough Guy]. He was a Mudball Star person (of the same race as Tin Foil Man), wearing a gray trench coat, with a slicked-back hairstyle, and a striking x-shaped scar in the middle of his face. His main abilities were "thirty times Bungee's physical fitness" and "su~per tough style."

The other was the newly promoted city-level hero—[Poker Man].

"Sorry to keep you waiting." Tough Guy had met these five colleagues (the five city-level heroes of the Slou Alliance were all registered in the Cosmic Superhero Alliance, but they usually stayed on their own planet) a few times, but they were not very familiar with each other.

"It's okay, you've come at the right time." A man wearing a light blue police uniform (the real Slou Star police uniforms are all dark blue) and an eye mask replied, "We won't be starting the operation for another hour, so you can listen to the Doctor's deployment." Police Man said, raising his hand to signal to a person next to him wearing a white coat and a round metal headgear.

Dr. Biubiu responded, "Um... Tough Guy, long time no see." His muffled voice sounded from the headgear, as if he was having difficulty breathing, and there wasn't even a single hole in his headgear (at least, it didn't look like there was), so it was unknown how he could see. "By the way, I wonder who this is..." His metal head slowly turned a little bit, seemingly "looking" at Feng Bujue.

"Hello, I'm Poker Man..." Feng Bujue introduced himself in a humble manner, pausing for half a second before adding, "...city-level hero."

"Pleased to meet you."

"Hello."

The five members of the Slou Alliance also greeted Jue-ge one after another.

Several seconds later, Tough Guy said to them again, "Although the support request you submitted this time is to deal with a C-level crisis (a crisis that is enough to destroy a planet, and under normal circumstances, the alliance will dispatch at least one planetary-level hero or above to lead the team), considering that the 'Slou Alliance' itself also has relatively strong combat power, the alliance only sent the two of us here. I hope you don't mind."

"It's okay, we submitted the request just to be on the safe side." A guy with a hoarse voice, with bandages wrapped all over his face and body, looking like a mummy (yes, he was Disfigured Man) immediately replied, "The Doctor's plan is already foolproof, and the main purpose of requesting a planetary-level hero to come here is just in case."

Hearing this, Feng Bujue couldn't help but think to himself, "Tch... so I'm redundant after all... Oh well, I can get credit for just doing nothing, so why not?"

"That's good." Tough Guy replied, "Then... Doctor, should we go somewhere else and talk about the plan?"

"Um..." Dr. Biubiu responded, raising his arm, "You two, this way please..."

In this way, after a brief exchange, Feng Bujue followed the other heroes to the Slou Alliance's command center.

...

At the same moment, Eastern Twentieth District, in a certain underground base.

A tall figure was standing with his hands behind his back, in front of a huge screen, observing the operations of the base.

He was the creator of this Slou Star C-level crisis—General Quake.

Quake had a body shape that was significantly different from other Slou Star people (Slou Star people are similar in build to humans, with light purple skin, and facial features that are longer and more protruding than those of humans). His height was more than twice that of an average person, his body was wide and thick, his weight was astonishing, and his body strength was difficult to estimate. Moreover... he also had superpowers.

Quake can be said to be one of the most powerful super criminals on this planet.

"General, the probe shows that a spaceship from the Cosmic Superhero Alliance has just landed at the Slou Alliance's base." At this time, such a sentence rang out from the intercom on the console.

"Hmph... so they've come after all..." Quake snorted coldly, and replied in passing, "Pass down the order, bring 'that guy's' confinement device to the ground, and prepare the 'awakening procedure'."

"Yes." His subordinate replied loudly, and ended the communication.

After a moment of silence, Quake laughed coldly, "Heh... Those guys in the alliance think that by finding support from the Cosmic Superhero Alliance, they can stop me..." He moved his eyes slightly, looking at a corner of the screen in front of him, "How would you know that I still have this trump card..."

...

Fifteen minutes later, Slou Alliance Command Center.

"The above is the general situation of this crisis." Dr. Biubiu had already explained the main content of the crisis to Jue-ge and the others.

Feng Bujue stared at the group of people in front of him with a pained expression, and said in a deep voice, "Um... let me sort out the whole thing..." He subconsciously pressed his right index finger against his temple to relieve the pain of his logic being violated, "That guy who calls himself 'General Quake' comes from a rich family, is handsome, has received higher education, married a movie star, and has two healthy children, living a happy and fulfilling life.

As a result, one day, he didn't know if he was too full or too full or too full... he suddenly felt that 'this kind of life is completely meaningless,' so he abandoned his wife and children, scattered his wealth, and wandered into the universe alone, and happened to find a mysterious lost spaceship—the 'Dark.' And on that spaceship, he encountered some kind of bizarre ideological 'proselytizing' and physical transformation.

Then, he returned to Slou Star, formed the 'Quake Army,' and attempted to conquer the entire planet and enslave its people."

Feng Bujue said this in one breath, looking at Dr. Biubiu and saying, "So far, my summary is correct, right?"

"Uh... other than some strangely ambiguous wording, it's all correct." Dr. Biubiu replied.

"Okay..." Jue-ge continued, "Let's not talk about how Quake, after returning to his hometown, re-accumulated the huge funds needed for terrorist activities, and let's not talk about why so many well-fed people are willing to follow him in doing those desperate things... let's just talk about this C-level crisis..." He paused for a moment before saying, "This guy directly threatened the federal government, claiming that 'he has mastered the force sufficient to destroy the entire planet,' and demanded that they recognize the 'Quake Army' as the only legitimate government of Slou Star within forty-eight cosmic weeks, or else he would use that force to destroy each country one by one..." He roughly repeated what he had heard, and then asked, "Don't you think... there's something... wrong with this matter?"

Upon hearing this, everyone looked at each other, but no one answered. Although most of them were wearing masks (except for "Tough Guy" and "Temptation Girl," the other four were masked), Feng Bujue could still see... that these few people were all showing puzzled expressions.

"Sigh... let me ask it this way..." Feng Bujue sighed and continued, "Does Quake know about the existence of the Slou Alliance?"

"He knows." Dr. Biubiu replied.

"Does he know where your base is?" Jue-ge asked again.

"Although it's not public to the people..." Police Man replied, "The governments of all the federal countries know the location of the base, after all, we need the government to grant us the right to negotiate in outer space."

"So... with Quake's intelligence capabilities, he must also know." Dr. Biubiu added.

"Isn't that the end of it?" Feng Bujue said.

"What's the end of it?" Tough Guy looked at Feng Bujue in confusion, "What are you trying to say? Poker Man."

"If I were Quake..." Feng Bujue stood up and pointed to the electronic map on the conference table, "I would pick a sunny afternoon, or a dark and windy night, or a morning after eating and drinking my fill, or any time that I feel convenient... and directly use my 'force sufficient to destroy the entire planet' to destroy your base. I'd kill as many heroes in the base as I could, and if I couldn't kill them all, I wouldn't lose anything."

When Jue-ge said this, the heroes at the table were all stunned. It seemed that... they really hadn't thought of this.

"After taking care of these, I'd~" Feng Bujue deliberately lengthened the sound of the word "then," "~go and threaten the governments of various countries, saying, 'You've all seen what happened to the heroes. Learn from their mistakes, and you'd better be smart'… and so on, blablabla... Wouldn't that be more effective?"

"Now that you mention it..." At this time, Disfigured Man opened his mouth and replied, "That's really the case..."

"Um..." Dr. Biubiu also replied in a tone that revealed lingering fear, "Fortunately, Quake didn't think of that."

"Yeah, yeah." Backflip Man and other heroes also replied one after another.

"Holy crap..." Feng Bujue thought to himself, "Is there really something wrong with these guys' IQs?"

Obviously, the "problem" that Jue-ge was talking about was not what they understood. Jue-ge meant that Quake probably didn't have the kind of force he claimed, otherwise he would have done it long ago. How could the other party not have thought of such an obvious thing?

Unfortunately... Feng Bujue was really overthinking it this time, because Quake really hadn't thought of it.

In this multiverse of superheroes, there are many alien races that are "not good at planning and have very shallow minds." It's not that there's something wrong with their IQs. On the contrary, many aliens have larger relative brain capacities and stronger brainpower than Earthlings, but... when it comes to the ability to scheme and plot, Earthlings are just too strong.

"Scheming" has nothing to do with the level of technological civilization. Those ancient military strategists may not have known as much about physics and chemistry as modern middle school students, but the strategies they came up with in their time and place were definitely beyond the reach of middle school students (the vast majority). Similarly, strategies that seem very simple to us Earthlings may be something that Slou Star people can't figure out even after racking their brains.

"Poker Man's reminder is very true. In this case... we need to act even faster." After a moment, Dr. Biubiu said again, "If Quake thinks of this and launches a surprise attack on us, the consequences would be disastrous."

"Doctor." Tough Guy replied, "Tell us about your attack plan."

"Alright." Dr. Biubiu also stood up, manipulating the electronic map on the table, pointing out several coordinates on it, and unfolding a three-dimensional image, "Everyone, please take a look, this... is Quake's base."

"What the..." Feng Bujue was shocked, "So you guys also know where Quake's base is?"

Jue-ge's subtext was—can you explain why the other party's base hasn't been reduced to ashes yet?

"We only just detected the location of that base four hours ago." Biubiu replied.

"Oh..." Jue-ge nodded, thinking to himself, "Okay, that's still acceptable."

He wasn't very clear about the Slou Star people's style of doing things. Anyway... if Quake's situation were placed on Earth, as soon as his location was exposed, it would be carpet-bombed by missiles from dozens of countries within minutes. Not to mention four hours... whether he could survive for four minutes would be a problem.

"Our Slou Alliance has a total of sixty-five vigilantes from all over the world (Slou Star), but only the five of us here have obtained Cosmic Superhero Alliance registration qualifications." Dr. Biubiu continued from what he was saying earlier, "Considering that... those sixty people are scattered in various cities and most of them don't have superpowers, I only gathered the five strongest members of the alliance for this operation." He looked at Tough Guy and said, "To be on the safe side, we also requested support from the Cosmic Superhero Alliance."

"Simply put, it's a 'elite team assault' strategy." Police Man added, "Of course... from the actual situation, this is also the only viable option we have. Because after Quake's 'announcement,' there has been a surge in crime rates around the world, and the heroes and police in various places are now extremely busy. Summoning them here... would have limited effect, but the negative impact could be greater."

"I say..." Feng Bujue couldn't help but interject once again, "Is this really the only strategy..." He leaned back in his chair, staring with dead fish eyes, "Think again... really... think again..."

His tone was as if a tutor had met the ultimate academic trash, with a feeling of "I really want to give you the answer because you can't answer it, but I can't."

"Poker Man." At this time, Tough Guy, who was sitting next to Jue-ge, turned his head and said, "Time is limited, just say what you want to say."

"Sigh... alright." Feng Bujue replied, "My plan is like this..."