"It — it's really the Speaker!"
"Who is he? He is so intimidating. He feels like a starship is charging at us slowly!"
"We — all a hundred of us will be killed by him!"
Li Yao's somewhat abrupt order, under the pressure of the intimidating Yuanying Cultivator, seemed to be perfectly reasonable. Most of the Exos swallowed hard and turned their eyes to the few commanders.
The few commanders looked at Cui Lingfeng and then at Li Yao. In the end, they looked at each other in bewilderment. Cold sweat was popping up all over their bodies that were hidden inside their Crystal Suits.
The leading commander made up his mind and shrieked, "Don't — don't be fooled! He is not the Speaker; he is an Immortal Cultivator in disguise. The real Speaker is already dead! "
Hardly had he concluded his sentence when the commander raised his hand and shot at Cui Lingfeng!
However, the explosive spiritual waves that were rushing out were frozen in midair again, just like the bullets that Cheng Xuansu shot out not long ago. After only half a second of stalemate, they retreated, turned, and landed inch by inch. As if controlled by an invisible force, they slowly fell into Li Yao's palm!
The flames of spiritual energy that boasted immense damage jumped and danced obediently inside Li Yao's palm like a docile cat, releasing dazzling fireworks unhurriedly.
The fireworks, in the eyes of the few Immortal Cultivator Exos, were no less hideous than the grins of the ghosts from hell.
The moment the commander opened fire, they should've joined hands to attack Li Yao.
However, at that moment, the center of their eyebrows, necks, hearts, and abdomens seemed to have been pressed against by invisible blades. Should they make any abnormal movement, they would be riddled with holes!
Including the commander, nobody dared to move at all.
They all had the illusion that Li Yao was standing right in front of them and behind them at the same time, staring at the depths of their brains from both the front and the back!
Playing with the flames of spiritual energy that had spurted out of the muzzle, Li Yao slowly walked to the commander who had shot just now and looked down at him. Then, he looked over his shoulder and observed the other seven Exos who had abnormal breathing, heartbeat, and blood flow just now. They were more "scared" than "shocked".
"Come out."
Li Yao took the storm bolter from the hands of the commander who looked like an idol. He then curled his finger at the other seven Exos and said casually, "Fellow Cultivators, in the name of 'Team Red Lotus', the Speaker's personal guards, you have been arrested for 'treason'!"
At the same time, on the other side of Firefly, inside Black Stone Prison, which had been modified from a heavy carrier …
The predecessor of Black Stone Prison was a heavy cargo starship that was designed to transport dangerous goods in the first place. The thickness of the shell and the defense rune arrays deployed inside the cabins were all of the highest level.
As an advanced prison where the most dangerous criminals on Firefly were locked, Black Stone Prison had been strengthened and modified countless times in the past hundreds of years. It had long been built into an impenetrable iron fortress that no water could enter and no insects could fly out.
After Ding Zhengyang and Cheng Xuansu planned to seize the control of Firefly, they had infiltrated and strengthened the place. After secretly capturing a lot of people who were loyal to Captain Tang Dingyuan and the representatives who might be a hindrance in the key posts and locking them in the place, not only had the alert of Black Stone Prison been raised to the 'quasi-war state', but two battalions of strengthened Exos of the Republic Guards had also been summoned. The two tough, elite troops were the key targets for infiltration and conversion. Their commanders were all Immortal Cultivators who only obeyed the orders of Ding Zhengyang and Cheng Xuansu.
Therefore, when the two battalions of strengthened Exos deployed around Black Stone Prison saw three 'ordinary people' who were not wearing any Crystal Suit walking close unhurriedly from the end of the pathway as if they were on a picnic, it was not hard to imagine how shocked they were.
"How — how is it possible?"
"This is a forbidden military zone. Isn't the area ahead blocked? The connection to the main area of Firefly has been cut off, too! Where did these three guys come from exactly? "
"Black Arrow Squad, hurry up. How did three strangers break through your defense line? Who are they? Black Arrow Squad? Black Arrow Squad! "
"Not good. We are in big trouble!"
Huala! Huala!
Devastating alarms echoed in the enormous cabin where Black Stone Prison was located. The entire cabin was soaked in panicked redness. Dazzling electric arcs were popping up from the defense rune arrays. Countless barrels of railguns, crystal cannons, and Samadhi True Fire Launchers were aimed at the pathway. Starry brilliance was being emitted from the dark barrels. Flames of light were entangled on the rails, and all kinds of destructive rune arrays were humming!
"They are the Immortal Cultivators! The Immortal Cultivators have just assassinated the Speaker and are sabotaging Firefly on a rampage. Right now, they are trying to attack Black Stone Prison and rescue their accomplices! "
The commanders of the Immortal Cultivators hiding in the battalions of Exos were instigating the ordinary soldiers who did not know what was going on.
However, such persuasion and instigation were not persuasive at all in front of the three strangers who were walking close slowly.
It was because the three of them looked too weird!
The one on the left was filthy, sloppy, and had a plaster stuck to his forehead. He was basically a dirty and smelly beggar.
The one on the right was even more unbelievable. He was a dwarf without a head or eyebrows, and his entire head looked like a big, bald melon. He was a dwarf!
The woman in the middle was the only one who looked relatively normal, but she was also plain and did not look like an expert at all.
At first glance, the weapons on the three 'ordinary people', namely, the sword that was no larger than a toothpick in the dwarf's arms, was not a chainsword, not a high-temperature saber, not even a piece of 'magical equipment'. It was just a common short sword!
Were the three of them Immortal Cultivators? Had they come to Black Stone Prison, which was heavily guarded by at least a thousand Exos, to break out of prison?
The Immortal Cultivators hiding among the prison guards had prepared almost a hundred different battle plans to deal with almost all possible changes.
But never could they have foreseen that three weird-looking fellows would pass through the defense lines at the periphery without alarming anyone and appear in front of them almost out of the sky.
"Stop moving forward. This is a restricted military area. Identify yourselves!"
The commander of the prison guards roared at the top of his voice. It was not his responsibility to shout at the strangers, but he could not have been more uneasy. Everything seemed to be slipping to the edge of out of control!
One second later, his worries turned into reality.
The strangers slowly raised their wrists and tapped on their crystal processors softly. After beep beep beep beep beep, the identification rune arrays of the prison guards scanned the strangers' identities.
They — they were their allies, and they were troops whose authority was far higher than theirs and who were under the direct command of the Speaker!
"Team Red Lotus is here to take over Black Stone Prison by the order of the Speaker."
The unarmed, seemingly harmless woman in the middle stepped forward and said with a smile, "Commanders of the Black Stone Prison Guards and the prison guards, please hand over your authority immediately and accept our command."
"You …"
The commander of the prison who was faced with the woman's smile was immediately soaked in sweat, just like the commander who was faced with Li Yao. He turned into a drowned rat locked in an iron box.
He gnashed his teeth at his companions in the secret communication channel. "Turn off the defense rune arrays and the identification rune arrays of all the magical equipment. Activate the full manual control mode and fire at will!"
The woman on his opposite side should not have been able to hear what he said in the secret channel.
But she seemed to have read the commander's mind. She sighed gloomily, and her harmless smile turned into surprise and confusion, as if she were wondering why those guys were still resisting pointlessly after hearing the name 'Team Red Lotus'.
Long Yangjun glanced at the crystal cannons, railguns, and cannons behind the defense rune arrays, as well as the hundreds of fully-armed, shivering Exos, before she said to Yan Liren and Ba Xiaoyu casually, "Take them down!"
Almost at the same time, earthshaking explosions echoed deep inside Black Stone Prison. Intense black smoke immediately consumed the entire heavy carrier of dangerous goods.
In the 931 years since the starship was produced, the twelve most fatal 'dangerous goods' had all been activated!
In front of the mainframe crystal processor that was as enormous as a hill on the bridge of Firefly …
Thousands of flashing and changing light beams congregated into a vague ocean of light that completely drowned Ding Zhengyang, the acting captain.
Half an hour ago, the ocean of light had still seemed peaceful. Every picture displayed on every light beam had been under his high control and precise control.
Although Speaker Cui Lingfeng seemed to have discovered some loopholes and was determined to get to the bottom of it, the backup plan that they had activated promptly blocked the loopholes very soon.
However, after only half an hour, the peaceful ocean of light had turned into surging torrents and surging tides. The unpredictable swirls of light and shadow grabbed his heart brutally and dragged him into the abyss that he had lost control of!
Ding Zhengyang was more than two meters tall, with a muscular back, thick eyebrows, and big eyes. He was best known for his calmness and composure when he commanded on the deck floor. Many sailors and starship operators called him the 'pillar of stability'. Even the most severe malfunction could not make him move his eyebrows at all.
However, at this moment, looking at the subtle changes of the situation on every light beam, Ding Zhengyang's previously red face turned paler than a dead man's.
"Cheng Xuansu, what's wrong with this woman? Why did she fail to kill a Speaker who is too weak to fight?"
"Team Red Lotus? What — what's that? I've never heard of such a troop of Exos on Firefly before! "
"The Speaker is still alive. He — he — he's really still alive!"
"Black Stone Prison has been breached! Is this … "
Ding Zhengyang looked at the light beam in a daze. The fire named 'Red Lotus' was burning, savaging, and raging, completely throwing him into confusion. (To be continued.)
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