The capital city of the Xing Yao Federation had not completely recovered from the unexpected beast tide outbreak a hundred days ago. Deep claw marks and dents were left on the façades of many skyscrapers in the city center.
The place where the Heavenly Sword Plaza, the landmark of the capital city, used to be standing, was completely bare. It was particularly eye-catching in the empty sky.
Although the streets and alleys were crowded with people, the atmosphere was not cheerful at all. Instead, there was a sense of solemnity and depression. The main color of the square of the Federation was white. Many citizens who had come spontaneously were wearing a white flower on their chests, too.
White was the color of grief for the Xing Yao Federation.
The entire capital city, from the ordinary people to the soldiers to the Cultivators, was like a half-frozen volcano, which reminded Li Yao of two words.
An army of indignant soldiers always wins!
Traffic control had been implemented in the sky of the capital city. Except for the armed shuttles of the military and the Secret Sword Bureau, there was not a single civil shuttle. But countless enormous light beams were floating in the sky.
The picture on every light beam was the grand occasion when the citizens of the major cities of the Federation gathered spontaneously and prayed for their compatriots who had died in the disaster.
Some of the light beams were displaying the bloody battles between the Union Army and the Cultivators, as well as the recent political news.
Li Yao stared at the political news without blinking.
According to the news this morning, the parliament of the Federation held another special meeting the previous day, but the proposal of an expedition to the Blood Demon Sector was not passed.
Other than Speaker Jiang Hailiu's firm attitude, the alliance of the Flying Star Sector was cautious, too.
Luoxingzi, leader of the Cultivators of the Flying Star Sector, stated in the parliament of the Federation that Burning Prairie and the two hundred thousand Grand Illusionary Soldiers were sent to the Tian Yuan Realm to help the compatriots consolidate the defense line and protect their homeland. They would not consider participating in the expedition to the Blood Demon Sector for now.
If an expedition was necessary, they would need to collect more files about the Blood Demon Sector and make a decision after determining the real situation of the Blood Demon Sector.
That was the situation right now. Iron Commander Zhou Hengdao and Director Lu Zui, as well as two thirds of the representatives of the Federation, were on the 'expedition' side.
Speaker Jiang Hailiu and the alliance of the Flying Star Sector that controlled the super warships, on the other hand, were on the 'prudent' side.
Both sides were evenly matched and were still in the midst of a tug-of-war.
This news made Li Yao heave a sigh of relief.
The Speaker was indeed the Speaker. He was too clear-headed. After Lucien handed in all the evidence, the "expeditionary faction" would naturally give up.
Li Yao secretly raised his guard. He blended into the crowd and slowly moved forward.
He didn't expect to enter the Federation Square, because the security there must be very tight.
As long as he was one to two kilometers away from the square, he would be able to shoot a super powerful mystic ray above the leadership of the Federation and the thousands of citizens of the Federation.
At the same time, he had also made two preparations.
Once a large batch of Secret Sword Agents showed up, they would shoot the mystic rays into the sky without caring about anything.
Right now, there was only half an hour left before the memorial ceremony began. The leaders of the Xing Yao Federation had arrived at the square one after another. It would be very difficult for the Children of the Nether World and Abyss to do anything to him!
Right then, Li Yao heard exclamations from the crowd. Then, he sensed an immense pressure descending from the sky.
He raised his head, only to discover that in the blue, cloudless sky, a giant silver sword had passed through the atmosphere and was approaching slowly.
It was Burning Prairie, the most powerful warship of the Heaven's Origin Sector, the Blood Demon Sector, and the Flying Star Sector!
…
On a tall building next to the Federation Square, Guo Chunfeng looked down at the square with a gloomy face through the floor-to-ceiling window.
This was the command center of the Demon Execution Division of the Secret Sword Bureau.
Behind him, countless light beams were glittering in midair, displaying thousands of pictures of the crowd near the Federation Square.
At this moment, at least millions of people had gathered in the ten square kilometers nearby.
Millions of densely packed heads were a complete disaster for an intelligence agent.
"Where is he exactly?"
After only a few days, Guo Chunfeng had lost dozens of kilograms of weight. His eyes were hollowed, and his body was withered. His hair was dry and yellow as if it had been burnt.
He paced back and forth like a zombie and passed through the complicated light beams, mumbling to himself.
"He must be here. He must be. I can feel that he is right under my nose!
"However, instead of the three fake identities, he has changed to … the seventh one!
"Loophole. Loophole. There must be a loophole. There must be!"
Suddenly, Guo Chunfeng came to an abrupt halt. Terrifying brilliance beamed out of his eyes like searchlights. "Mosquito, come here! I've got it!
"Didn't the third division prepare almost a hundred specialists of crystal processors and the Spiritual Nexus and try their best to capture the signals that Li Yao sent out?
"Wrong. Wrong. That's a completely wrong idea!
"Li Yao is very prudent. There is no way that he will release the signals of the Spiritual Nexus at the critical moment!
"That's right!
"Right now, there might be millions of people in the ten square kilometers around the Federal Square, but ninety-nine percent of them are carrying their portable crystal processors and connecting their crystal processors to the Spiritual Nexus in the wireless state!
"As long as they are connected to the Spiritual Nexus, they will receive and send feeble signals of spiritual waves even if they are not doing anything. They will become tiny 'hotspots'!
"Li Yao is the only one who doesn't!
"Then, let's look for the people in the crowd who are neither sending nor receiving signals of spiritual waves!
"They are like lifeless' black holes' in a dense cluster of hot spots. They are very easy to be discovered!"
"Hurry up. Inform the specialists of the third division of the idea and ask them to investigate it immediately!"
…
At 9: 55 a.m., the hundred-day memorial ceremony was about to begin. The number of people around the Federation Square had set a new record. The entire city had turned into an ocean of whiteness!
The Speaker of the Xing Yao Federation, the Chief of the General Staff of the Union Army, the director of the Secret Sword Bureau, the leadership of the major sects, the friends from the Flying Star Sector … All of them were gathered in the Federation Square!
The splendid Burning Prairie, on the other hand, flew to the top of the capital city like a continuous silver floating mountain, raising exclamations and clicking sounds of selfies.
Around Burning Prairie, light beams were floating. They were the live broadcasts of thousands of media outlets.
The cameras glanced at the faces of Speaker Jiang Hailiu and the other leaders of the Federation Square.
Li Yao saw Ding Ling Dong, Professor Mo Xuan, and his disciples Wu Mayan and Xie Anan in the corner of one of the pictures.
Below the cold mask, he smiled and narrowed his eyes, calculating the distance between himself and Burning Prairie precisely and figuring out how to make the mystic rays visible to more people.
Very soon, he would be able to reunite with his friends.
With everything coming to this point, nobody could stop him anymore!
…
At ten o 'clock sharp, the memorial ceremony for the victims of the beast tide a hundred days ago officially began.
First, the national anthem of the Xing Yao Federation was played and the flag of the Rising Dragon of the Nine Stars was raised.
The vast capital city, and even the thousands of towns on the land of the Federation, were all silent. All the citizens of the Federation were saluting in the passionate national anthem.
Thunderous roars echoed in the command center of the Demon Execution Division of the Secret Sword Bureau!
"He's been locked onto!"
"It's a spectral Cultivator. He's disguised himself as a spectral Cultivator!"
"Attention, all the Secret Sword Agents of the operation team. Move to the Weiguo Road on the east side of the square and prepare to arrest him!"
Guo Chunfeng jumped to his feet. He turned from a haggard zombie into a magnificent god. Gnashing his teeth, he waved his fists brutally. "I'll lead the team in person. He must not get away!"
…
At 10: 05 in the morning, the flag-raising ceremony was over. Speaker Jiang Hailiu of the Federation Square walked to the rostrum.
In every light screen in the sky, his thin figure in plain white could be seen.
"Citizens, compatriots, friends from different worlds, today, we are gathered here to commemorate … the 3,444 innocent victims!"
Jiang Hailiu began to speak. Behind him were Iron Commander Zhou Hengdao and Director Lu Zui. The three big shots of the Xing Yao Federation had all arrived!
In the VIP seats not far away, Ding Ling Dong, Professor Mo Xuan, Luoxingzi, and other important Cultivators were seated.
Li Yao had no time to bother with his disguise.
In a vigorous posture that did not match his appearance, he squeezed forward in the impenetrable crowd, trying to get a better angle and a closer distance.
He could clearly sense that there were at least hundreds of fierce auras roaring towards him from all directions!
He had been discovered by Guo Chunfeng. The fastest few Secret Sword Agents would surround him in half a minute.
But so what?
The game was over. He had won!
"… I know that many compatriots are enshrouded in fury and can't wait to march to the Blood Demon Sector and destroy the Pantheon of Demons!"
Speaker Jiang Hailiu's sad but calm voice echoed in the entire capital city and was transmitted to the billions of citizens of the Xing Yao Federation through the broadcast rune arrays of thousands of media outlets. "All compatriots are my brothers and sisters. Right now, my heart is as heavy, as painful, and as infuriated as yours!"
Li Yao took a deep breath and glanced at Burning Prairie in midair to determine the final angle.
His spiritual energy surged out and created a space of one square meter around him by brute force, making it easier for him to retrieve the spotlights.
Li Yao planned to fly into the sky and enter the range of fire of Burning Prairie immediately after shooting out the words. Were the Children of the Nether World and Abyss bold enough to come to Burning Prairie's Heavenly Might Cannon to catch him?
Abyss, you are doomed!
Li Yao sneered in his heart.
"However, don't be corrupted by pain, don't be drowned by fury, and don't be swallowed by violent hot blood, because that is exactly what our enemy wants us to do!"
Faced with the millions of people in the capital city and the billions of citizens of the Heaven's Origin Sector behind thousands of media outlets, Speaker Jiang Hailiu shouted, "Compatriots …"
It was the last word that he uttered.
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