Nuclear Warhead Cooked in Wine

At the opening ceremony of Sea Blue Star Basic Military Academy, as the representative of the incoming freshmen, Guding proclaimed his grand ambition in front of all the teachers and students: 
"I'm Guding! I'm gonna become the Man with the Highest Bounty in the entire Cosmic Sea!"
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It is an era of artificial superintelligences, interstellar travel, gene medicine, and virtual reality worlds. 
Far into Earth's future, 15-year-old Gu Ding is a student of Cerulean Military Academy by day, and tavern waiter by night. 
His ambition: Become the space pirate with the highest bounty offered by the Universal Federation Government. 
With the help of Neptune, a neonate super-intelligence, Guding finds himself thrust into a galaxy of shadowy organizations, political under dealings, and otherworldly forces that lie beyond human comprehension…

The Highest Bounty

For everyone, this news was like a bolt from the blue, since for the vast majority, hunting Insect Beasts to earn Points was already challenging enough. With increased difficulty, many feared they wouldn't even be able to earn Merit Points.


Upon hearing the elder mentioning someone had earned over ten billion Merit Points, many people's initial reaction was that someone must have cheated, including Sta, who thought the same.


However, the old man didn't pay attention to people's thoughts and continued, "Everyone has a three-day adjustment period. After three days, the difficulty of this ruin will be upgraded from One Star to One-and-a-Half Star, with the following changes."


"First, the exploration rate will increase from 5% to 10%, which means the number of Insect Beasts will double."


"Second, all Insect Beasts within the opened areas of the Insect Nests will awaken and will no longer be in a dormant state."


Chapter 329: The Guding Team's Collective Retreat