Chapter 1 The Space Federation

Space Federation, Celestial Bridge.

This is the connecting area between the asteroid and the Supreme Council's meeting hall. Standing on this bridge, you can see the vast starry sky in its entirety (most of the Space Federation's living areas are located inside the planet, where only artificial sky views are visible).

"What are you looking at?" A man dressed in a full suit of tinfoil armor strolled over and said to the other man in front of him.

"The latest set of data refreshed in the testing area shows..." Toad Man said, without turning his head, as he looked at the miniature display on his forearm, "that Poker Hero has reached the standard of a planetary-level hero in the physical fitness test."

"Oh? Not bad." Tinfoil Hero said, "It seems that this Earthling from a parallel universe really has something."

"Do you know what this means?" Toad Man continued in a deep voice.

"What?" Tinfoil Hero wasn't incapable of figuring out the answer, he just couldn't be bothered to think about it.

"If he breaks through to the fifteenth level in the written test… or rather, answers more than a hundred questions, then…" Toad Man finally turned his head and looked at his old friend, "even if he does nothing in the 'special ability test', he can still join the ranks of the 'galaxy-level'."

"So what?" Tinfoil Hero shrugged, "High-IQ heroes... aren't they exactly what we're looking for?" He paused, "Old friend, you know better than I do... these days, smart people go to become 'villains'."

"That's right." Toad Man replied, "That's why I saw at a glance that that Poker Hero… no, I should say… that Feng Bujue, is definitely not a 'hero'." His tone was decisive, "In his eyes, I can't see a trace of the motivation to sacrifice or fight 'for justice'. On the contrary, what I see is 'doing his own thing, being crazy and unpredictable'... I know this kind of person too well, he reminds me of an old opponent..."

Speaking of this, Toad Man was silent for two seconds before continuing, "To achieve his goals, he can be unscrupulous and stop at nothing. In the face of the moral concepts generally accepted by people, he seems to have no principles; but in the face of a set of self-proclaimed reasonable and inexplicable theories, he will stick to his principles and rather die than yield." His tone became more and more intense, "In the eyes of people like him, there is no right or wrong, black and white, he only does what he wants to do, and uses a subjective idealist philosophy to decide everything..." He stared at Tinfoil Hero, "Kertas, you should understand the consequences of letting such an extremely dangerous person obtain the qualifications of a galaxy-level hero... Can you imagine how terrible it would be to have such a person mixed in to interfere when dealing with 'B-level' or even 'A-level' crises in the future?"

"Hmm..." Tinfoil Hero heard the words, and did not speak for a long time. After a moment, his expression changed slightly, and he continued, "Enwei... Maybe everything you said is right, but..." He shook his head, "At this stage, Feng Bujue hasn't shown us any hostility. On the contrary, he helped Breakdancing Hero and Tap-dancing Weirdo solve the crisis of Scum Scum Scum Scum Star together, and clearly expressed his willingness to join the alliance."

Tinfoil Hero's personality was much more cheerful and tactful than Toad Man's, and the starting point of his consideration was also different from the latter's: "Let's not say he hasn't done anything yet, even if he's secretly plotting something, you can't just put him on the opposite side based on your own feelings and prejudices... without evidence, right?"

"Humph..." Toad Man snorted unhappily, "Of course I know this, and I don't intend to push him to our opposite side."

"Oh? Then what do you mean?" Tinfoil Hero asked.

"If he really wants to be a 'hero', then I am sincerely gratified." Toad Man said, "But it may be difficult to see his 'true heart' if he is granted very high authority from the beginning..."

"Oh~" Tinfoil Hero immediately understood, "So that's what you mean..."

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On the other side, the written test venue.

"This... This is too much..." Feng Bujue was holding a pen, looking at a question on the metal platform with a constipated expression.

His state at the moment was exactly the same as when he couldn't do a problem in an exam when he was a child.

"Draw a DNA structure analysis diagram of any native life form on Planet Mahat..." After repeatedly reviewing the question, Jue-ge gave up, "How could an Earthling know this question?"

Let alone Earthlings, even if you find a Mahat person, they may not know. Only biological practitioners on Planet Mahat or some cosmic biologists from other planets... might be able to draw it.

"Well... if I can't answer this question either..." Feng Bujue then muttered, "Including the two questions just now, there are already three questions in this stage of seven that I can't do..."

In the previous hour or so, he had already answered ninety-eight questions in fourteen levels, and in this fifteenth level, he had already reached the fifth question, with two wrong and two correct answers in the previous four questions. In other words... he had barely broken the hundred-question mark.

"Tsk..." Seeing that he couldn't answer any more, Feng Bujue muttered quite unhappily, "You're just using the method of drilling into knowledge blind spots to increase the difficulty, that's all... If I could live for hundreds of years like you, and my brain capacity didn't decline, these questions would be child's play."

That's right, Jue-ge... also has times when he "throws a little tantrum". He never regrets important things in life. But on some less important things, he especially likes to find excuses for failure. For example, "The guys who say my handwriting is ugly don't understand the soul in my handwriting", "Passers-by don't dare to look me in the eye because I'm too handsome", "I have bad luck because God is jealous of my talent", "What's wrong with a man being chuuni!" and so on.

Getting back to the main topic...

Since he couldn't continue to answer the questions, Feng Bujue simply gave up, drew a middle finger in the answer section of the one hundred and third question, and clicked submit.

[Incorrect answer. You have answered three questions incorrectly in this stage, and the written test has been terminated.]

A voice prompt and text appeared at the same time, announcing the end of Jue-ge's written test.

[Please go to the next test location through the security channel. Please see the following figure for the location of the channel. If you need help, please communicate with the uniformed staff nearby.]

Then, a mini-map of the written test venue quickly appeared on the metal platform, showing Jue-ge's current location and the place he should go, and even marked the shortest route.

Feng Bujue glanced at it, then stood up and went along that route.

After this hour of rest, his physical strength had recovered a lot, and his steps were a little lighter. However, the fatigue and soreness accumulated from the previous aerobic and anaerobic exercises had not been alleviated. On the contrary... there was a feeling of gradually spreading out, and it was unknown whether it would have an adverse effect on the next test.

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Five minutes later, Feng Bujue arrived at the special ability testing area.

This time, the staff member who came to contact him was a... or rather "a" zombie.

"Poker Hero, right?" Zombie Bro was also wearing a staff uniform and holding a tablet (this was their standard equipment). "The results of the first two tests are good, it looks like planetary-level is a sure thing."

Hearing him say this, Feng Bujue breathed a sigh of relief. "Planetary-level" was the lowest value Jue-ge expected. If he didn't even reach this level, then there was no need for him to train to level 50 before coming to test.

"Uh..." Jue-ge then said, "This handsome guy..." Looking at the zombie man with pale skin and half of his face rotten, he could still call him "handsome" without changing his expression, which shows how strong his nerves and how thick his skin were, "...I don't know what to call you?"

"No problem~" Zombie Bro replied, "My name is [Front Wheel Doesn't Turn Back Wheel Turns Eats Brains Extremely Fast Forgot to Bring a Spoon Awkward Spicy Chicken Silk. Hanlin You Weren't Saying That Last Night in Bed and Added a Lot of Special Effects Life is So Short Why Bother With Love Love Love Emotion Emotional Moving Animal Physics Science Student ABBA Can Revive Hiss Hiss Hiss Hiss Hiss Brain Eating Man]"

Ten seconds...

It took Zombie Bro a full ten seconds to say his name.

And it felt like... this was already fast.

"Holy crap..." Ten thousand alpacas instantly ran through Feng Bujue's mind. He thought to himself, "Your name is quite sensational... witty remarks, personality traits, ancient memes, lyrics, word chain, and the resurrection cheat code of *Ikari Warriors* are all in there! Not counting the English, there are eighty-seven characters! What's with the 'hiss hiss hiss' at the end! Did Musashi Koganei give you this name!"

"Heh... heh heh..." The corners of Feng Bujue's mouth twitched twice, and he responded with a dry laugh, "That's a good name."

"Everyone who has heard it says that~" Zombie Bro said with a smile, "I have to thank my parents for this... On our 'Environmental Protection Star', a short, powerful, and catchy name like mine is indeed rare."

"Your school on that planet can dismiss class after roll call every day..." Feng Bujue complained again in his heart.

"Ah~ Speaking of parents... my girlfriend has agreed to go home with me to see my parents in the next cosmic era (just treat it as the New Year), I'm a little excited when I think about it~" Zombie Bro showed a self-intoxicated happy expression, and took out a photo from his pocket. "Look, isn't my girlfriend beautiful?"

What Feng Bujue saw in the photo... was a cactus...

He seemed to understand something...

"I wish you two a son soon..." Two seconds later, Jue-ge replied with a deadpan expression.

"Hahaha, thank you, thank you." Zombie Bro laughed happily, then his expression changed, "Oops! My old problem has happened again. I accidentally talked about myself and started showing off my girlfriend. I'm sorry."

"It's okay... I don't mind." Feng Bujue replied woodenly.

At this moment, if he could express his mood with an action, he would cover his crotch and roll on the ground.

"That's good." Zombie Bro then continued, "Then... come with me. After completing this final round of testing, you can go to the rest area to wait for the assessment results."

"Mm..." Feng Bujue responded and followed the other party forward.

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Special ability testing is undoubtedly a rather dangerous test, so each person's testing environment is completely closed.

Before conducting this test, heroes need to fill out a form themselves, listing their special abilities on it.

The Space Federation does not force heroes to write down all their abilities in detail, but usually... the more abilities you display, the higher the rating will naturally be. If you want to hide your strength, you have to be prepared to be underestimated.

Of course... there are exceptions, such as the [Black Hole Queen] in the Supreme Council, who only showed one of her many abilities and was rated as cosmic-level. Another example is another member of the Supreme Council, the [Monkey Hunter], who didn't show anything in the special ability test, because his abilities were basically demonstrated through physical fitness, and he also monopolized the best records in almost all physical fitness test items. In the written test, he successfully lowered the average score of the entire alliance... Even so, he is still a solid cosmic-level hero.

Feng Bujue knew that among the players in Thriller Paradise, he was considered quite strong, but in this superhero universe, there were plenty of existences who could kill him in seconds in terms of force. If he wanted to obtain the "galaxy-level" status he wanted, he couldn't hold back.

So, Jue-ge filled out a lot of messy things on the ability declaration form... He almost described the effects of all his equipment and skills as his "abilities", and incidentally wrote things like "can memorize the last few hundred digits of pi", "can not sleep or go to the toilet for a long time (a unique advantage of players)", and "can pass any lie detector test without any props" to make up the numbers.

When Zombie Bro took his form, his expression was very awkward, because many of the contents had no value or necessity to be tested. But considering that he had a pleasant conversation with Jue-ge before, Zombie Bro was too embarrassed to say it directly... He could only smile and enter the form into the computer, and selected some "meaningful" abilities to formulate the test process.

What happened next was relatively simple. Feng Bujue only needed to follow the other party into one test room after another and show the abilities he had filled out one by one. Some abilities that had already been shown in the physical fitness test, such as "walking in the air" and "ultra-high-speed movement", did not need to be tested again.

More than forty minutes later, Jue-ge completed the process. Then, he said goodbye to Zombie Bro and came to the "rest area".

The rest area was not as finely divided as the testing area. Except for a few non-physical creatures who could not stop, the physical creatures were basically mixed together.

Whether it was a "small and medium-sized physical creature" like Jue-ge, or some little guys less than fifty centimeters tall, or giant life forms as tall as twenty meters... they all gathered together when they arrived at the rest area.

A very conspicuous line of large characters was marked on the wall here: [Please be careful of your feet and avoid trampling accidents.]

Thinking about it carefully, this sentence is really meaningful...

In the half hour of waiting in the rest area, Feng Bujue observed the heroes around him with great interest, and he also tried to chat with many other testers.

Although Jue-ge is not a very social person, he is unwilling to let go of this opportunity to collect information. Being able to communicate with these advanced life forms from different planets and different races and learn about the strange interstellar cultures made Feng Bujue extremely happy. If there wasn't a rule that you couldn't stay in the rest area for more than thirty-five minutes, Jue-ge would really stay here for three or four hours.

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Finally, after a full four cosmic weeks.

Feng Bujue passed through the exit channel and came to the card collection office to collect his "graded and certified" hero ID card.

But before collecting the card, he had one more thing to do... that was to pay a ten-second tribute to a statue in front of the exit.

The image of this statue looks unremarkable. He has a round head, features similar to humans, and his figure does not look very tall.

He was one of the original founders of the Space Federation. In the last and only 'S-level' crisis in this universe, he almost single-handedly turned the tide and saved the entire universe.

And he himself paid the price of his life.

He is known as the greatest hero in history, but for some reason, his name is unknown, said to be "erased from this world by God."

However, people still remember his image.

Every hero of the Universe Super Hero Alliance must come to this statue and let this "predecessor" take a look before officially embarking on the road of heroes.

This is a tradition passed down from generation to generation among heroes.

The last time he came to this universe, Tinfoil Hero and Eternal Doctor had seriously told Feng Bujue about this tradition, so Jue-ge naturally wouldn't forget it.

"Well... I always feel like I've seen this guy somewhere." Feng Bujue complained in front of the statue, stood there disrespectfully for ten seconds, and then went to collect the card.

After being identified by another "checkpoint" device, Jue-ge took out his hero ID card from the card slot.

But... when he saw the level on the card, he was instantly stunned.