<strong>Chapter 1105 Conspiracy?</strong>
The Western Sword Guild’s spaceship slowly flew through cosmic space. Inside the cabin, Depressed Prince and the other guild members stood around the 3D star map and analyzed the route.
“We’re now here...”
Depressed Prince pointed on the star map and drew an illuminated path. It extended around a deste universe belt at the edge of the Star Field in an arc, all the way to outside the Star Field. He then said, “In order to leave the Star Field, the only way is through the deste universe belt. The encirclement the three Universal Civilizations had set up at the borders will definitely have ws. Although we have their defense map and patrolling route, we still need some luck...”
Hearing the president exin the n, the guild members nodded.
After epting the anonymous hiring with a five million reward, Depressed Prince had thought of some ns in order to sessfully transport the virus out. Among which, making use of the ws in the encirclement of the three Universal Civilizations and smuggling it out was one of those more likely to seed.
In order to not be located by the three Universal Civilizations, the Western Sword guild had already cut off theirwork and kept their spaceship in stealth mode.
Technically, they would not be able to receive any information from the outside world this way. However, Depressed Prince used the fact that he was a yer, logged into the forums, and secretly hired other yers to private message him on the forums to provide intelligence. This was how he obtained the defense map and patrol route of the three Universal Civilizations. Even though they had cut off their quantumwork connection, they still had a source of information. This way, not only could they avoid getting located by the three Universal Civilizations through thework, but they would also still be able to receive messages from the outside world. Compared to normal people, the yers had arge advantage. No wonder the Kepel Financial Group specifically hired Immortals. “President,” a yer said, “the closer we are to the border, the denser the surveince buoys will be. If we fail and are discovered, our spaceship will definitely be seized. We only have one chance.”
“That’s why we have a n B.”
With a confident expression, Depressed Prince smiled and said, “Once we’re discovered by the buoys or the patrolling guards, we’ll carry out the infiltration tactic. We’ll leave a few people on the spaceship while the rest of us log out together. When the spaceship is locked up at the warehouse, the people who did not log out can then notify us toe online in the carrier and sneak into the enemy base. This way, we can bring in the virus-infectedmunicator.”
The others nodded. This also reliedpletely on the yers’ specialty. This tactic was extremely suitable for infiltration, ambush, and smuggling missions.
There was also a n if they turned out to be exposed after that. They would give up the spaceship, battle to their death, and then revive in their stronghold revival point. They could still think of other ways toplete the mission, and they had a veryrge margin for error. The reward was a total of five million anyway; as long as they couldplete the mission, buying another spaceship was nothing
With so many advantages, the Western Sword guild members present were totally confident aboutpleting the mission. They could almost see the five million Enas waving at them.
As for the possibility that they might be wanted criminals afterward, they did not care about it at all. They had always wandered in the gray area of thew, so they never even nned to bepletely legit. In fact, turning into wanted criminals would even trigger a Milestone Mission, which gave them rewards as their bounty increased.
As for the damage that the virus leak would cause to ordinary people, they did not give a damn. Instead, they were even excited about the fact that they were ying a big part in the direction the world was going to take. Most yers who currently supported the disaster’s spread had the same thought.
Depressed Prince was confident. He smiled and said, “Alright, since no one has any objections, let’s act ording to this n. As we can’t use the stargates, we’ll spend quite some time on the way there. The estimated time of arrival at the deste universe belt is in seven days. Now...”
At this time, before he finished speaking, the spaceship rm suddenly rang.
“Beep! Alert! Alert! The spacetime of this area has been stabilized. Hyperdrive is impossible. Exiting hyperdrive mode!”
The spaceship suddenly shook. The people inside had yet to react to it, so they all fell onto the ground, picking themselves up with shock.
“What’s going on? There are spacetime stabilization anchors here? Whose trap did we fall into?”
Shocked, Depressed Prince hastily looked at the radar.
This time, light dots were appearing around them on the radar and surrounded his spaceship in the middle.
The people quickly came to the porthole and looked outside. Their expression changed drastically.
They were surrounded by dynasty battleships. All the barrels were aimed at their spaceship. “The Crimson Dynasty? Are they here to capture us?” Depressed Prince and the other guild members panicked.
“Did our whereabouts get exposed? But we did not bump into any buoys on the way! And how did they know we were nning to smuggle the virus out?”
After being stunned for a few seconds, Depressed Prince quickly regained focus and yelled hastily, “Stop daydreaming. Everyone, log out now. Don’t get...”
Before he finished, a calm voice appeared behind them.
“Don’t get what?” Everyone’s body became stiff. They turned their heads slowly and looked at the middle of the cabin.
A tall, ck silhouette had appeared in the spaceship. His lightning-filled eyes were coldly scanning them.
This face was way too familiar to the yers!
“Bl-ck Star!”
Depressed Prince was in despair.
Everyone there waspletely horrified. They originally thought that even if someone were toe to capture them, it would just be regr fleets and regr Supers. No one ever expected that someone as powerful and important as ck Star would personally act!
While shocked, Depressed Prince felt ttered for some reason.
The next moment, the lightning in Han Xiao’s eyes shed, and an electric shockwave exploded from his body.
Boom!
The energy shockwave mmed everyone into the wall.
Han Xiao controlled the damage so this shockwave was not powerful. Its main purpose was to force the yers into Combat Status so that they could not log off any time they liked.
“I won’t give up!” Depressed Prince clenched his teeth, made up his mind, and drew a long silver alloy sword. He then stabbed toward Han Xiao’s throat.
The yers were not afraid of death, so they dared to fight anyone. No matter how strong the opponent was, they would never stop resisting. In fact, Depressed Prince would rather get killed by ck Star. He would be able to revive somewhere else then and would not be captured. However, this mindset was transparent in front of Han Xiao, who knew how the yers thought.
He casually pinched the sword with his fingers, easily splitting it in half. He then grabbed onto Depressed Prince’s head and mmed it onto the ground, giving him a Stunned debuff.
Han Xiao carefully controlled his strength, worried he might identally kill him. Although the yers were much stronger than before, they were still as fragile as paper in front of him.
Han Xiao did not let the others go either. There was no need to use any machinery; he could easily beat these yers into a pulp with his fists and legs. He took out an electromaic restraining chain and tied them all up. The dynasty spaceships then approached and seized the spaceship. The dynasty soldiers boarded and searched it.
A ton of mechanical items piled up like a mountain. Han Xiao checked through and found a fewmunicators infected with the virus. He looked at the truly depressed Depressed Prince and the others and slowly said, “You’re suspected of smuggling the Virtual Mutiny Virus, risking the public’s safety and the universe’sws. You’re now under arrest. Anything you’d like to say?”.
“No, I’m sinful. People like me don’t deserve to live in this world. I plead for the death penalty!” Depressed Prince said with a righteous tone.
Han Xiao rolled his eyes secretly.
This time, he suddenly paused, smiled, and said, “Are you guys very curious about how the dynasty found out you epted the hire and set up a trap here?”
The Western Sword guild’s people finally realized something. This was a hire from the ck market and should have been very secretive. How did it get leaked?
“You have always been monitoring ourmunications?” Depressed Prince asked carefully.
“Nope.” Han Xiao shook his head.
“Then... someone betrayed us?”
“Not that.”
“What then?” Depressed Prince wondered.
Han Xiao smiled and looked at them. “That’s because... the dynasty is the entity that hired you.”
Like a streak of lightning, Depressed Prince and the others shivered. Their chins almost fell onto the ground, and their eyes opened so wide they were going to pop out. “What?” Depressed Prince almost jumped up. He could not believe it.
“Our anonymous employer is the three Universal Civilizations? Impossible! What reason do you have to do that?”
Han Xiao chuckled and casually lied.
“What do you think? The three Universal Civilizations knew all long there’d be people who ignore the big picture and try to hide and smuggle the virus. Therefore, the three Universal Civilizations also sent people to put up missions in the ck market so that capturing those who took the hire is much easier. Do you really think that in such a crucial time like this, the three Universal Civilizations would just let the ck market be?”
Depressed Prince was stunned. Complicated emotions such as frustration from being toyed with, rage from being tricked, and regret from falling for it rushed into his head. At this point of time, he just wanted to roar.
This was a conspiracy all along! Looking at how furious they were, Han Xiao smiled even more.
Of course, the employer of these yers was not the three Universal Civilizations, but he deliberately said that so the yers would get the wrong idea.
As long as these people made posts on the forums and spread it, the chaotic evil yers would calm down. After all, no one could tell for sure whether the hire they received on the ck market was real or the three Universal Civilizations’ trap.
Capturing these people would set an example and make things much easier.
In fact, the Great Mechanic Han was not lying just for that. He really wanted to do something simr.
However, in order to do that, he first had to control the ck market. Otherwise, in order to protect their own name, the ck market would definitely not cooperate with this n.
All kinds of thoughts shed past. Han Xiao took out the Spacetime Amber and smiled kindly at them.
“Since the evidence is sufficient... you guys can now start serving your sentences.”
Depressed Prince was instantly horrified and started struggling with everything he had.
“No, no, no... I beg you, please don’t use the Spacetime Amber. I beg for the death penalty. Please let me die! D-don’t!”
However, Depressed Prince’s struggle was useless. Watched by the rest, his expression was fixed, and he was locked in the Spacetime Amber.
Using the same method, Han Xiao sealed all of the Western Sword guild members who were begging to die, wiping out the entire guild.
That’ll do. More than enough to intimidate the other yers.
He had already tested the effects of the Spacetime Amber on the yers. Of course, the yers’ consciousness would still be able to log in and out, but their body would not disappear like usual. Instead, it would be sealed inside the Spacetime Amber. This meant that they could not change the location to log in to, and no matter how many times the yers logged in and out, they would only ever return to their body that was sealed inside the Spacetime Amber.
This meant that as long as they were sealed by the Spacetime Amber, the yers could not use their own specialties to escape by logging in and out. It would be like their ounts were frozen due to them using cheats; they would never be able to escape.
One reason these yers were still confident despite knowing the consequences of being captured was that they could revive somewhere else after dying, so the chance of them getting captured was very low. The other reason was they all thought they would be lucky enough, till disaster really arrived.
Han Xiao was not surprised about this. Just like some people who still used cheats despite knowing their ounts would be banned, they basically asked for it.
He did not n to release the Western Sword guild easily. This was how he wanted to intimidate the other yers. He wanted to show the others that their ount could effectively be banned, so he could ease the tilted mindset of the yers on the forums. This was like applying insecticide to his leek field so that his good leeks would not be spoiled.
He was not worried about these yers making posts on the forums. After all, what else could they do?
Furthermore, given the characteristics of the yers, these people would most likely take revenge. As long as they believed what they said, the only way they could take revenge would be to expose the so-called conspiracy and mess with the three Universal Civilizations’ n.
The situation was all within his control.
Han Xiao shook his head and smiled. He summoned Phillip to hack into the artificial intelligence of this spaceship and flipped through all themunication records.
The true identity of this anonymous employer was also a target he was going to go after. Phillip was very efficient. Through the quantumwork, he quickly found a clue leading to the anonymous employer. “Master, hum... I’ve found it. This hire was published under a broker organization as the intermediate guarantor. This broker organization is one of the ck market’s managers. It has both a good name and reputation. It’s trusted by countless ck market mercenaries and employers. Basically, it’s the Mercenary Alliance of the ck market. Therefore, they should have information on this employer. However, this broker organization has been the ck market manager for many years. As a very old intermediate guarantor, they won’t leak their employers’ names, hum...”
Han Xiao nodded. He had also heard about the name of this broker organization. Many hires on the ck market came from them. It could be said that although this kind of organization called themselves neutral, without their approval, those anonymous hires regarding the virus would never have appeared on the ck market.
They were undoubtedly responsible for this.
Looks like I’ll have to start with this ck market manager...
Han Xiao’s eyes sparkled. He turned and tapped on the captain’s shoulders.
“Depart. Destination, the headquarters of this broker organization in the Ancient Star Desert.”
As the dynasty fleet was heading toward the next destination, filled with rage, Depressed Prince, who was sealed inside the Spacetime Amber, logged on to the forums and started making a post.
Just as Han Xiao expected, with the tone of a victim and the intention of warning the others as well as taking revenge on the three Universal Civilizations, Depressed Prince exposed the three Universal Civilizations’ ‘conspiracy’...