"Huff … Huff … Huff … Huff …"
"Hyena Squad has entered the No. 2 working surface of the garbage processing center. No anomalies have been found. Continue to search in a fan-shaped formation. Over."
"Hawkeye Squad One is in position. Ready to snipe at any time. Over."
"Hawkeye Squad Two is in position. Scanning all the workers within sight. No suspicious targets found. Over."
"Hawkeye Squad Three is in position. About to search through walls and scan all the buildings and obstacles in the No. 1 working surface. Over."
"Tunnel Rats are scanning all the pipes. Scanning progress: 15%. No foreign objects have been found in the pipes. Over."
"All squads, stay alert. Do not act rashly. The target is an extremely dangerous spy of the Imperium who is likely to be above the Core Formation Stage. The main force will arrive at the garbage processing center in one minute and thirty seconds. Do not even let a fly out in the next minute and thirty seconds. Over."
"Hyena understands."
"Hawkeye understands."
"Black Panther understands."
"Tunnel Rats … What is that?"
"Hyena, Hawkeye, Black Panther, Tunnel Rats! Report. What's going on? Are those cannons? What are the things that your crystal cameras have captured? What are they? "
"Report! Someone has just turned on the 'garbage cannon', but the garbage that was shot out was not super-compressed. It was a mess, and the dome above the garbage cannon was not turned on at all. All the garbage was bounced back, covering the entire garbage processing center … Crap … Crap!"
"What's going on? Stabilize your crystal cameras and scan the entire battlefield! "
"Someone has turned off the gravity control rune arrays here. We are in a state of weightlessness! All the garbage is in a state of weightlessness! The garbage is flying. The garbage mountain is flying! "
"It's an intruder! Enemy attack! Enemy attack! Enemy attack! "
BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM!
"Ah!"
"Oh!"
"Oh!"
"Hyena Squad! Black Panther Squad! Tunnel Rats! Hawkeye Squad One! Squad Two! Squad Three! Damn it! Damn it! Damn it! Close all the channels between the garbage processing center and the surrounding spherical towns. Close them now! "
…
An hour later.
Located at the center of hundreds of silver spherical space stations, the core town of Hundred Flowers City was bustling with people, traffic, and skyscrapers that looked like primitive jungles.
Because every downtown area was a sphere that grew inwards, there was no distinction between up and down, left and right. Tall buildings could extend along the slightly curved ground all the way to the "sky dome" and then hang upside down from the sky.
Naturally, in the eyes of the people living on the dome, they were standing on solid ground. The dome above their heads was the real dome.
Sometimes, two particularly tall skyscrapers could even cross each other. There were many rainbow-like translucent arc-shaped pipes between the skyscrapers, so that people could easily jump from one skyscraper to another.
The complicated gravity rune arrays distributed the gentle gravity on the surface of the ball-shaped town evenly, attracting the people living inside. That was why such an unbelievable view was created and why a hundred and fifty million people could be accommodated in the most economical space.
Li Yao and Long Yangjun, who were adept at stealth and camouflage, were like two leaves that did not belong to the forest that fell on the carpet of dry leaves deep inside the forest when they snuck into the downtown area of a metropolis that had a population of a hundred and fifty million. Unless the city was completely shut down and searched for half a month, it would be impossible to find them at all.
Li Yao's assault on the garbage processing center was not entirely in vain.
At the very least, he had obtained the distribution of the garbage pipes and the processing information of the entire Hundred Flowers City.
With the information, it was not difficult for him to find the most prosperous downtown area. The place where the most garbage was exported every day had to be the most densely populated downtown area!
Also, Li Yao had left a lot of traces when he searched on the mainframe crystal processor of the garbage processing center, which suggested that he was particularly interested in the 'Tinder Base' and had performed multiple detailed searches on the distribution of the pipes in the Tinder Base.
It was very likely that Professor Mo Xuan's judgment would be misled into thinking that the 'Tinder Base' was Li Yao's main target of attack. Then, most of the forces would be concentrated there and set up a dragnet for the intruders.
Therefore, in the past hour at least, they did not see many traces of the Union Army or the Secret Sword Agents on the road leading to the downtown area. As a result, they were able to sneak into the place without any trouble.
Li Yao and Long Yangjun at this moment were like two different people from an hour ago.
From the moment they arrived in the Dragon Snake Space Zone, with the help of Long Yangjun, the founder of the assassination organization 'Ghost Character', the twelve experts of the Ancient Sages Sector had all changed their appearances. They had been showing up with fake faces in the first place.
Li Yao had pretended to be a plain-looking middle-aged man at the beginning. That was why even the fox girl Ling Xiaole called him 'uncle'.
At this moment, he tore off his disguise, painted a few strokes on his face, and relaxed his facial muscles. With a shake of his body, he transformed into an ordinary young man.
He was wearing the sportswear that he had just stolen, and a series of red pimples had burst out on his cheeks on purpose. He staggered as he walked, shaking his hips. At first glance, he looked like a vigorous college student who was not satisfied with his desires.
Long Yangjun's disguise was even simpler. She had resumed the appearance of 'Lead Eunuch Wang Xi'. Judging from her appearance, she was a gentle middle-aged man who was as gentle as jade. It was a pure natural disguise that did not contain any additives. Even the most advanced examination magical equipment would not be able to find any loopholes.
Their targets were a man and a woman, but there were two men right now. The camouflage was enough to provide them with an hour or two of rest so that they could summon all their computational and deduction abilities and find Professor Mo Xuan's real nest!
While the road from the periphery of Hundred Flowers City to the Tinder Base was tense and tense, Li Yao and Long Yangjun were crammed in an inconspicuous noodle shop in the downtown area of Hundred Flowers City.
It was noon at this moment. The white-collar workers who were working in the office buildings nearby had all crowded into the restaurants and noodle shops on the street. It was the busiest, most noisy, and most disorderly time of the day.
Li Yao and Long Yangjun were each holding a bowl of hot soup noodles. They pretended that they did not know each other, but they had to eat at a cramped table. While watching the news on a light beam in a corner of the noodle shop, they communicated with each other through private talk.
"Your analysis does have a point," Long Yangjun said. "The 'Tinder Plan' has been open and aboveboard since the very beginning. The military, the Secret Sword Bureau, the relevant research agencies of the government, and the researchers of various universities are involved in it together. It is somewhat half-official. It is unlikely that Professor Mo Xuan can deceive everybody. It is too dangerous and unnecessary to establish a secret nest in the Tinder Base.
"If it were me, it would only be natural that I establish a secret base somewhere else that is completely under my control as the Tinder Base on the surface!
"However, Hundred Flowers City is so large that it is made of hundreds of ball-shaped space towns. Every ball-shaped space is as complicated as a maze. How can we know where Professor Mo Xuan's secret nest is in half a day?"
Li Yao sipped the soup delicately and pretended that he was smacking his lips nonstop. In fact, he said through private talk, "I've thought about it carefully on my way here. If my professor does have a secret nest, the following conditions must be met.
"Firstly, the place must be spacious enough, and it must be equipped with a lot of super crystal processors. Even if they are not of the 'Gai' level, they must at least be of the 'Jing' level!
"Both the Spiriters' Realm and the Spiriters' Spiritual Clan seem to be unpredictable, but they can't do without the support of material foundations. For the Spiriters, crystal processors and spiritual energy are as indispensable as the land, air, and water for the ordinary people.
"Secondly, it is impossible for my professor to accomplish such an enormous plan on his own. Therefore, he must've had a batch of highly-skilled researchers. Those researchers might not know my professor's real scheme, and they might not know it yet. But they must be specialists of crystal processors, the Spiritual Nexus, the Meditation Healers, and the soul training!
"Such a spacious space, so many powerful crystal processors, astronomical spiritual energy that must be consumed every day, and so many specialists must've been gathered together … It is impossible to keep it a secret from the authorities. Therefore, the secret nest must have an ostensible identity, like a certain research institution.
"But whatever the identity is, the institution must be privately owned. The owner can build, modify, and hide certain things in the institution freely!
"Thirdly, the owner of the institution naturally cannot be Professor Mo Xuan himself, but he must be deeply connected to Professor Mo Xuan.
"They might not be in a good relationship on the surface, but a long time ago, decades ago, when my professor first started the 'Tinder Plan', they must've been in touch!
"As long as we find a place that meets the three conditions, it is very likely to be my professor's real nest! Let's search the distribution map of all the 'Jing' -level super crystal processors in Hundred Flowers City through the public files first. Then, we will filter them one by one through elimination! "
Long Yangjun picked up a piece of red beef and put it next to her mouth, but she did not eat it. Deep in thought for a long time, she said, "Perhaps it is unnecessary to go through so much trouble. The three conditions that you mentioned reminded me of someone, Lei Yuqin."
"Lei Yuqin?"
Li Yao was slightly dazed. He immediately remembered who she was. "My professor's mistress? His mistress?"
"I'm not sure if she is your professor's mistress or mistress, but I'm certain that she is not as simple as an algorithm specialist in the data processing center of the grand-unified Spiritual Nexus," Long Yangjun said.
Long Yangjun said, "When you mentioned the woman at the beginning, I vaguely buried a thorn in my heart. After you and Professor Mo Xuan entered the Spiriters' Realm together, I searched for the woman's files while chatting with Wei Qingqing when I had nothing to do. I discovered that there was indeed a lot of news about her on the Nexus.
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