Tang Xiaoxing was rendered speechless.
She had never seen such a Cultivator before, on Firefly, in the Dragon Snake Space Zone, or the envoys from the Star Glory Federation who came to Firefly.
Of course, even among the Immortal Cultivators that she had met, there did not seem to be such a … unique being!
Li Yao picked up Tang Xiaoxing and injected another stream of spiritual energy into her body, allowing her to get rid of the influence of the stun grenade. The two of them rushed on the street.
In Fish Dragon City, although murder, robbery, and gang fights were nothing out of the ordinary, it was still rare to see such a big scene. Even the cannons on the starship had been used, and quite a few magnetic rails had been broken. It was no wonder that everybody on the street was running in panic. The two of them were not too eye-catching in the crowd.
Also, the route that Li Yao had calculated carefully just now had taken every angle into consideration. He was always running to the perfect position at the perfect time, blocking the enemy's vision perfectly.
In the dark night, the enemy was mainly locking onto Tang Xiaoxing's coordinates with the three pieces of localization magical equipment. Observation with the naked eye was only ancillary.
Li Yao led Tang Xiaoxing into a shabby alley.
They were safe for now.
He lowered his head to check the countdown displayed on the light beam. It was the time that he had analyzed that the attackers would enter the sewers under the guidance of the tracking chip.
Ten, nine, eight, seven …
"Cover your ears."
Li Yao tapped the light beam and said casually.
"Huh?"
Tang Xiaoxing still didn't know what was going on and reacted half a beat too slowly. The shock of the stun grenade was too strong. Even at this moment, her soft brain was still crashing inside her hard skull like tofu in a bumpy truck.
"Senior Lin, what are you talking about —"
Tang Xiaoxing asked in a daze. Hardly had she concluded her sentence when a series of deafening noises echoed behind them, as if an infuriated dragon had crawled out of the sewers. The raging flames ravaged more than half of the sky.
Several fully-armed Exos who had just crawled into the sewers were grabbed by the fiery dragon and swallowed by the fiery demon before they even had the chance to scream!
BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM!
Even the dozens of manhole covers in front of the two of them were blown into the sky by the super high-pressure air current, and dozens of white pillars of smoke rose like volcanic eruptions!
"Huala huala huala huala!"
The tempered glass windows of the skyscrapers and shuttles on both sides of the street were all shattered into pieces!
Tang Xiaoxing was so shocked that she almost tripped. She turned around, her face pale, and couldn't shut her mouth for a long time when she saw the soaring fiery dragon!
However, when she turned around again, she found that "Senior Lin" was still walking forward slowly with his hands in his beach pants. His slippers stepped on the glass shards on the floor, making a "sha sha" sound.
"Senior Lin!"
Tang Xiaoxing exclaimed, "It — it exploded! It seems to be in the sewers around where we fell!"
"I heard you."
Li Yao said. He bent over and continued walking.
Tang Xiaoxing found it hard to believe. "Are you not going to look back?"
Li Yao was silent for a moment, then said indifferently, "If I had to turn around for an explosion of this level, my neck would have been broken long ago. Let's go."
"What —"
Looking at Li Yao's slightly hunched back, Tang Xiaoxing struggled to shut her mouth after a long time and caught up with him.
There were ten thousand questions in her head that she couldn't figure out at all. However, what she was more eager to know than the attack on her own was —
Who was this old man named 'Lin Jiu' exactly?
Hardly had she set off when Li Yao stopped.
It was not far away from a tavern. Two shuttles that looked like shuttles were parked outside of the tavern.
Half a minute later, the two of them slowly ascended to another intact rail on the shuttle.
The fully-enclosed shell allowed them to communicate with each other in a calmer way.
"The warship gun just now …"
While driving the shuttle, Li Yao recalled carefully for ten seconds. "It should've adopted seven rails in the shape of a lotus, which formed a triple helix ejection channel of magnetic energy. The diameter of the projectile that was launched was between five hundred millimeters and five hundred and fifty millimeters, and its speed was between seven thousand meters and seven thousand three hundred meters per second over a distance of five kilometers. Also, there were hexagonal aftershocks of spiritual energy at the muzzle when it was launched, which boasted both damage and shock modes. The aftershocks of the damage mode were bright purple, and the aftershocks of the shock mode were blue. Do you recognize such a warship gun?"
Tang Xiaoxing took a deep breath for a long time and finally regained the clarity of a refiner. Her eyes bulged wider and wider. "It — it's the 'earthquake level' rapid attack gun on Firefly!"
"Oh?"
Li Yao raised his eyebrow. "Are you sure?"
"I should be!"
Tang Xiaoxing struggled to catch her breath. "Senior Lin, you must know that 'Firefly', the flagship of the rightful government of the Star Ocean Republic, is not one starship but several starships that docked and resupplied in various Sectors after escaping from the Imperium. After the resistance warriors of countless Sectors joined us, hundreds of starships were connected to the mothership during the thousand years of sailing, forming a super enormous, integrated warship cluster!
"It means that the cannons on our warship are of various kinds from different Sectors. Some of the cannons boasted strong local features and were unique!
"The 'earthquake level' rapid attack gun was one of them!
"The destruction mode of such a cannon is nothing special. It's very common, but its' shock mode 'is very special. Instead of launching metal bullets, it launches' ice crystal bullets' that are condensed from a certain special liquid. Under the spirit magnetic force and the super high speed, the ice crystal bullets will instantly vaporize and expand abruptly, generating a powerful impact. It is specially designed to shock or injure the enemy in a sealed space through thick armor. If it is adjusted properly, it can even disrupt the spirit energy of the enemy behind the thick defense and temporarily cripple them!"
"So impressive?"
Li Yao clicked his tongue. "Have you ever seen similar effects on other cannons?"
"No." Tang Xiaoxing shook her head.
"Such a cannon is very rare even on Firefly. As for the Xing Yao Federation … I'm told that they are experimenting with a new piece of magical equipment named 'black hole bomb', which can disrupt all the spiritual energy activities of both the enemy and our own indiscriminately. However, it is still in the experimental phase, and its effect is not quite the same as the 'earthquake bomb'."
Li Yao nodded. "Then, has the 'earthquake level rapid attack gun' been dismantled and sold to the Dragon Snake Space Zone or the Xing Yao Federation?"
"Certainly not!"
Tang Xiaoxing shook her head hard. "Although we do have some technical exchanges with the federation, such cannons are rare in the first place, and the technology to produce them has been lost a long time ago. One broken cannon means one less. We will not export such cannons!"
"What about this?"
Li Yao took out the super-thin crystal threads that had been embedded in the clay.
Tang Xiaoxing's face turned even more awful after she looked at them. "This seems to be a crystal thread made of 'Delicate Jade' and 'Venomous Spider Ghost Silk'. It is a new material in the mustard-seed materials laboratory on our starship. It is still in the experimental phase and will not be leaked."
Li Yao nodded and retreated the super-thin crystal threads. He said calmly, "Then, the answer is obvious. It was the big shots on Firefly who were qualified to mobilize the 'earthquake level rapid attack gun' and the new crystal threads that attacked you.
"Also, both the earthquake level rapid attack gun and the new crystal threads are magical equipment and materials with distinctive features. Since the enemy was bold enough to use them blatantly, they were certainly not scared of leaving any traces behind.
"Although the enemy's team was large, they used stun grenades instead of anti-personnel grenades. They were not trying to kill you; they were trying to capture you alive. It is obvious that you are of great value to them.
"I'll give you ten seconds to guess who the real culprit behind the curtain is and tell me what happened in the simplest language. I'll figure out how to help you."
Tang Xiaoxing was at a loss. Listening to the explosions around her, she was caught in a panic. After hesitating for a long time, she gritted her teeth and told Li Yao her speculation!
Li Yao listened and nodded. Three minutes later, he concluded, "Got it.
"You are the daughter of Tang Dingyuan, the captain of Firefly. Right now, Firefly is divided into two parties. A lot of technicians, led by your father Tang Dingyuan, want to join the Xing Yao Federation, but the bureaucrats, led by Cui Lingfeng, the Speaker of the parliament of the Star Ocean Republic, or rather, the parliament of the Star Ocean Republic, do not agree. They are waiting for a better offer and even trying to swallow an elephant!
"For hundreds of years, the technicians on Firefly and the bureaucrats in the parliament of stars have never been on good terms. A thousand years ago, when they just escaped from the Imperium, naturally, the bureaucrats had the upper hand because they were carrying a lot of officials from the previous government. But as the space voyage went on, more and more technical problems were faced in reality, and the importance of the technicians grew day by day. By the time your father became the captain of Firefly's generation, he was finally able to compete with the bureaucrats in the parliament of stars and even vaguely surpass them!
"The disagreement this time is both an extension of your conflicts in the past and an outbreak of the conflicts that have lasted hundreds of years because of the fuse that is the Xing Yao Federation!
"All in all, the situation is at an impasse right now. Your father, Captain Tang Dingyuan, believes that the expedition army of the Imperium is coming soon and that we cannot hesitate anymore. We have to make quick decisions and fully integrate the forces of the two parties as soon as possible.
"Therefore, on one hand, he sent out the 'election inspection team' that you participated in and asked the technicians of the 'joining parties' to get in touch with the leadership of the Xing Yao Federation under the pretext of inspecting the election of the Federation. On the other hand, he has been actively planning to propose a 'joining motion' in the parliament of stars. By then, even if it is not passed, it will still raise a tide on Firefly. As long as most of the technicians and the bottom-level sailors agree to it, the useless representatives will not be able to stop it at all!
"Therefore, you suspect that Cui Lingfeng, the Speaker of the parliament of stars, received the message in advance and took action to deal with the 'joining parties'!
"That is to say, when you were attacked, it was very likely that a storm was raised on Firefly, and your father was in great danger, right?"
"Exactly!"
Tang Xiaoxing was greatly relieved. She did not expect that 'Senior Lin' would have such a clear mind. He had sorted out her incoherent and confusing words immediately.
In her eyes right now, Li Yao was basically a great savior who had arrived from the sky. The enemy had come aggressively and caught them unprepared. It was possible that they would all be annihilated. She could only count on this' Senior Lin 'now!
Her eyes were immediately filled with tears as she looked at Li Yao pitifully. "Senior Lin, now that you have learned the whole story, what should we do now?"
"It's just a minor storm. It's fine. Let me think for a moment."
Li Yao smiled and comforted the girl. Thinking quickly, he snapped his fingers a moment later. "I've got it!"
Tang Xiaoxing was overjoyed. She almost found it hard to believe her ears. "So fast. What have you thought of, Senior Lin?"
"The crisis that Firefly is faced with right now is indeed very complicated, dangerous, and chaotic!"
Li Yao pondered for a moment and said, "However, it suddenly occurred to me that it's none of my business at all. I'm only going to buy materials with you. We don't know each other very well. Why do you feel that I'm going to save the world?"
"Let's do it here."
Li Yao landed the shuttle in a sparsely populated slum. He climbed out quickly and waved his hands at the shuttle. "My young friend Tang, I'll leave the shuttle here. It's more or less a token of my appreciation. Let's meet again someday!"
He ran off quickly.
Half a second later, he was gone.
Tang Xiaoxing was left alone in the shuttle, dumbfounded. It never occurred to her that a man in slippers could run so fast.
Looking at the dark slum, she slowly held her arms, feeling goosebumps all over her body.
Malicious barks of dogs were echoing everywhere. The cold night wind was blowing from her back.
-----
The fourth update is for you!
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
