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Li Yao extended his right index finger. The ring of mystic rays that he used to cut the wall of the tube was still on his finger. No? 32?? This time, the deep blue light triggered by the ring turned into an ever-growing 'icicle' that slowly extended toward Professor Luo De's eyeballs.
The 'growth' of the deep blue light was so slow that Professor Luo De could see every flicker of the flames clearly.
In the meantime, Li Yao stabbed a vivid, lifelike picture into Professor Luo De's brain. It was the whole process of a person's eyeball being pierced, dried, and fell off.
Professor Luo De's pupils suddenly dilated. It was the only movement that he could make right now. Other than that, he could not even shiver or break out in a cold sweat.
Professor Luo De said weakly, "I don't know. I don't know anything. You've got the wrong person."
"How can you not know?"
Li Yao smiled and pushed his finger forward. The deep blue light pierced into Professor Luo De's left eyeball instantly and turned into a helical drill. In the excruciating pain, it drilled into Professor Luo De's brain brutally!
"Wu!"
Professor Rhode wanted to scream, but what came out from the depths of his throat was only a faint moan. He instinctively blinked his left eye, but he found that although the pain was unbearable, his vision was still clear. The blue beam of light still stopped one millimeter in front of his pupil, slowly rotating.
The terrifying scene just now was just an illusion. It was Li Yao's mental attack that he launched at him.
"I've given you a chance. I hope that you will cherish it. Next time, it will definitely not be an illusion."
Li Yao stared at Professor Luo De's eyes carefully. His eyes were sharper than the deep blue light as they slowly slid to the professor's delicate and tender hands. "A person only has two eyeballs. So, you can give two wrong answers. If I still can't get an answer that satisfies me after I blow up your eyes, I will have to move your hands. I believe that, as a seasoned refiner and a specialist in the field of super-tiny engraving, your hands are more precious organs than your eyes. You have almost devoted all your blood and spiritual energy to nourish your perfect hands. You don't want to see them turn into meat paste one finger after another, do you? "
Professor Luo De's voice was still casual and old-fashioned, but the fear and desperation in his voice could be heard even by a deaf person. "What do you want to know exactly?"
"I want to know who you are working for. What benefits did they offer you to sell your students and craft the magical equipment that can kill your students?"
Li Yao said coldly. "Tang Xiaoxing was your most distinguished student. Also, you were very close to her. You were best known for your aloofness, aloofness, and aloofness on Firefly. In the past few decades, few people were able to enter your personal refining workshop. Tang Xiaoxing, on the other hand, was one of them. She was your assistant for three years. [Love ↑ Go △ Little ↑ Say △ w]
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"As for whether or not to join the Xing Yao Federation, although you never expressed your stance directly, you are a master of refining after all. You should be more inclined to the 'technical post', or rather, Captain Tang Dingyuan's side. I've never heard that you were very close to parliament before. On the contrary, you even berated some of the representatives in a meeting for being 'ignorant and incompetent', which was quite an embarrassment for them.
"Therefore, I am baffled. Why did you do that? Who asked you to craft the tracking and localization magical equipment? What benefits did they offer you? What reasons did they offer you?"
Professor Luo De's eyeballs were shivering quickly. "It — it was Cheng Xuansu who asked me to craft them!"
Li Yao slightly raised his eyebrow. "Speaker Cui Lingfeng's trusted subordinate and the head of the secret police of the Internal Affairs Division who is responsible for investigating and arresting Captain Tang?"
"Yes!"
Professor Luo De breathed heavily. "I don't know anything. I only crafted a batch of tracking and localization magical equipment for Cheng Xuansu!"
"But you knew at the time that the magical equipment could only be used on Tang Xiaoxing, didn't you?" Li Yao said casually.
Professor Luo De closed his eyes in pain. "… Yes."
"You do not seem to be the kind of person who listens to parliament and the secret police. Not only is Tang Xiaoxing your very close student, but her father is also the captain of Firefly. You should know the severity of the consequences of the incident."
Li Yao said, one word after another. "You know very well that Cheng Xuansu wanted to capture Tang Xiaoxing because Speaker Cui Lingfeng wanted to deal with Captain Tang Dingyuan. It was a life-and-death struggle between 'No. 1' and 'No. 2'. It was a major event that could have completely torn Firefly apart! For you personally, 'betraying your student' is a stain that you will never be able to erase! However, you accepted Cheng Xuansu's request to craft magical equipment for her student? "
"I — I didn't have a choice!"
Professor Luo De's eyes and lips were shivering at the same time. The wrinkles on his face seemed to be ten times deeper than before, making him look like a burnt tree. "Cheng Xuansu said that Captain Tang and the rest of them had committed … treason. For the future of Firefly, I had to cooperate with them and serve the country and the fate of the hundred and thirty million compatriots!"
"Treason?"
Li Yao frowned. "Is Captain Tang a traitor just because he supported joining the Xing Yao Federation?"
Professor Luo De's eyes suddenly turned very weird. "What Federation? It has nothing to do with joining the Xing Yao Federation or not. Cheng Xuansu said that Captain Tang had defected and degenerated into an Immortal Cultivator. He was trying to reach out to the Black Wind Fleet in private, hoping to send our coordinates to the expedition army of the Imperium so that the expedition army of the Imperium could jump over instantly!"
"What!"
Li Yao was dazed. Thousands of thoughts blossomed in his head like fireworks. Calming himself down, he asked, "Captain Tang is an Immortal Cultivator? How is it possible? How does Cheng Xuansu know that? What evidence does she have? "
"Of course, I'm not qualified to see the specific evidence," Professor Luo De said.
"However, according to Cheng Xuansu, the situation on Firefly right now is very perilous. Captain Tang lost the firm belief to revive the Star Ocean Republic a long time ago and slowly degenerated into a pessimist and a capitulationist. In order to survive, he was willing to surrender to anybody.
"If he had to choose a target to surrender to, of course, the stronger, the better. Although the Xing Yao Federation had some influence at the edge of the cosmos, how could it compare to the Imperium of True Human Beings? If Captain Tang wanted to settle the problem once and for all, surrendering to the Imperium was naturally the best choice!
"Therefore, Captain Tang's belief went through a metamorphosis a long time ago, and he turned from a Cultivator into an Immortal Cultivator. Not just that, he also secretly developed a large batch of Immortal Cultivators on Firefly, hoping to seize the super starship for the Imperium of True Human Beings when the time was ripe!
"Right. Cheng Xuansu also said that a lot of Immortal Cultivators were mixed in the 'Election Observation Delegation' that Captain Tang sent to the Xing Yao Federation. If their scheme worked out, it was very likely that the expedition army of the Imperium would show up in front of us instantly! Therefore, my cooperation would not only save Firefly but also save our ally, the Xing Yao Federation!
"It was exactly because she described the situation so seriously that I was willing to cooperate with her and help her craft a batch of super-tiny magical equipment."
Li Yao bulged his eyes and stared at every frown on Professor Luo De's face, trying to find a sign that the guy was lying, only to find nothing.
If Professor Luo De was not a more skillful actor than Li Yao, he was probably telling the truth.
But Li Yao was still confused by one thing. "You believe everything Cheng Xuansu said without any proof? Has it never occurred to you that it is very likely that parliament is framing Captain Tang Dingyuan? After all, your parliament and the technical management of the starship do not get along well with each other! "
"Of course, I don't believe Cheng Xuansu's words!"
"Everybody knows that she is Speaker Cui Lingfeng's lackey. People like us who focus on technology do not think highly of the secret police who are paranoid all the time."
"However, Cheng Xuansu did not come to me alone. She came with Chief Mate Ding. Chief Mate Ding vouched for everything she said."
"Chief Mate Ding?"
Li Yao thought for a moment. "Chief Mate Ding Zhengyang, the general commander of the deck floor of Firefly, Captain Tang's trusted subordinate, assistant, and first agent, and the third person on board other than Speaker Cui and Captain Tang?"
"Exactly!"
Professor Luo De said. "Everybody knows that Chief Mate Ding is Captain Tang's most loyal comrade. He has been helping Captain Tang against the parliament in the past decades. In the few conflicts between the bridge and parliament, he was always in the vanguard!
"After we discovered the Xing Yao Federation, Chief Mate Ding was one of the first people to advocate actively joining the Xing Yao Federation. He was even earlier and more determined than Captain Tang!
"Besides, Chief Mate Ding is a technician, too. He crawled to the general commander of the deck floor step by step from the bottom-level sailor in the engine compartment. He knows every corner of the entire Firefly like the back of his hand. He is a real specialist of starship command. In the eyes of the technologists like us, we all have a good impression of him!
"He told me in person that Captain Tang had defected and degenerated into an Immortal Cultivator!
"Although he dislikes the people in parliament, it does not matter whether or not he will join the Xing Yao Federation right now. What matters is to completely eliminate the Immortal Cultivators inside Firefly!
"I don't trust Cheng Xuansu, but I have to trust Chief Mate Ding. That's why I helped them craft the tracking and localization magical equipment!"
Li Yao took a deep breath. The brilliance inside his eyes was shining like mysterious stars. "Let me take a guess. Captain Tang Dingyuan has been captured by the special investigation team for secret interrogation, and it is impossible for the representatives of parliament to pilot the starship themselves. Therefore, it is this' Chief Mate Ding 'who is now taking over Captain Tang's position and power, right?"
"Yes."
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