"You — You —"
Li Wuji felt that the world was swirling. There was no telling whether he was infuriated or infuriated, but he finally couldn't help but slap his adjutant hard in the face. "A * shole. Somebody opened a 'backdoor' in the mainframe crystal processor of the flagship and even the war network of the entire fleet without a sound. Are you all dead people who have no reaction at all?
"Also, even if we were anchored, it would've taken a long time for them to break through our dozens of layers of defense. How could the enemy have done it?"
"Yes, you are right, my lord."
The adjutant said gloomily, "At that time, the Blue Sky Market had just been conquered by our army. Fires and explosions were happening now and then in the warehouses. Even the network system inside the market was not very stable. Intense disturbances would take place every few minutes. Occasionally, there would be chaotic pulses in the explosions, which would affect our starships. Those were all common phenomena when a new port was conquered. We did not pay much attention to them. Now that we think about it, the enemy must've snuck in under the cover of the disturbances and pulses.
"As for the time, well, we did not intend to stay in the Blue Sky Market for too long in the first place to give the enemy an opportunity. But later, my lord, my lord, my lord, you were invited to the celebration party by the guy surnamed Bai, and you were delayed for half a day. On your way back to the starship, you were pestered by the guy surnamed Bai for a long time again, such as acknowledging a god grandfather and beware of 'A Boxing Champion' Lei Zonglie. We wasted a lot of time again. Perhaps it was at that time …"
Li Wuji's eyes slowly bulged out from the depths of his eye sockets like eggs that had been squeezed out of the birth canal as he stared at the adjutant.
The adjutant had been talking along his own train of thought at first, helping his master analyze the current situation. It was not until this moment that he sensed his master's murderous eyes. His heart shivering, he hurried to shut his mouth and looked at his master pitifully.
"Get lost!"
Li Wuji bellowed and waved his hands to push the adjutant aside. He rushed out of the personal chamber and staggered to the cockpit.
"Whatever method you use, pack up all the remaining soldiers who can still move and retreat to the Blue Sky Market under the cover of the unreachable starships!
"Something must have happened in the Blue Sky Market. We have to go back and suppress Mr. Bai. Then, we can use the defense system outside the Blue Sky Market to fight against this mysterious enemy. This is the only way!
"If Boss Bai seizes the other half of our fleet in the Blue Sky Market and controls the entire defense system of the Blue Sky Market, we will be doomed forever!"
Li Wuji screamed as he ran. He did not even notice that one of his boots was blown away.
In front of him, the previously straight pathway had turned into a twisted dough twist. Shocking, thick gaps were everywhere on the cabin wall. Almost all the tubes and cables had been broken. They were either spurting out high-pressure air currents or raising sparks in spluttering noises. Now and then, the most horrible pictures could be seen. A lot of Immortal Cultivators were embedded into the cabin wall, melted into an inseparable whole with the cabin wall. The metal particles had invaded their internal organs, and they died the most miserable deaths.
It was the consequence of the failed space jump.
When the crew members and the cabin wall were dissected at the same time and were about to pass through the four-dimensional space, they were heavily wounded, as if a tornado had rolled the crew members and the cabin wall in the four-dimensional form before they were bounced back to the three-dimensional space.
It was also the first time that Li Wuji had seen such a horrible scene in person.
The scene was no different from torture for such an untainted noble as him.
Holding back his vomiting, he rushed all the way to the cockpit.
It was a pity that the cockpit of Eternal Spring was also on fire and a mess. The crystal processors and the seats of the crew members were all over the place, and small-scale explosions were popping up nonstop.
The leadership who were supposed to control the starship and command the fleet had put on Crystal Suits and were fighting the raging fireballs and balls of lightning with foam extinguishers.
Calming himself down, Li Wuji was about to talk to the captain.
He discovered that the captain was standing in front of the mainframe crystal processor in a daze, looking at the main operation menu on the light beam with a pale and haggard face.
Li Wuji followed the captain's shivering eyes, only to discover that the main operation menu of his flagship was empty. All the data and information had been shattered into glittering stars, which gradually condensed into an enormous swirl that was revolving slowly.
Very soon, from the depths of the swirl that seemed to be a black hole, a … fist made of iron rose up!
The iron fist was full of barbarism and magnificence. Rivets, nuts, and rust were all over the surface of the fist. Steam that looked like white dragons was spurting out of the joints, too. It seemed to be squeaking when it was filled with fury.
Then, from the top of the screen, a crown condensed from gears fell down and was placed on the fist, making a "bang" sound.
The iron fist wearing the crown of gears was silent and staring at the Immortal Cultivators who were in a mess coldly.
"A Boxing Champion!"
The adjutant lost his composure and shouted behind Li Wuji, "It's' A Boxing Champion 'Lei Zonglie!"
Li Wuji sank into the valley. His heart that had been falling all the time was finally grabbed by the iron fist.
…
At the same time, no, five minutes earlier, in the Blue Sky Market …
Neither the space pirates nor the half fleet that Li Wuji left to supervise the troops could have foreseen the massacre that was about to unfold among the broken stars in five minutes.
Li Wuji's departure was actually a relief for the uncouth and disobedient space pirates. Like the employees after a strict boss left, everybody revealed their true colors and roared crazily, pushing the carnival atmosphere to the climax.
Even the seasoned bandits who had roamed the sea of stars for a hundred years had never looted such a famous, prosperous city at the edge of the Imperium as the Blue Sky Market.
Whenever they came here for supplies and rest, they had to obey the management of the members of the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors dutifully. They had to behave themselves even when they were visiting a brothel!
Today, after breaking into the Blue Sky Market, the marvelous treasures in the warehouses were truly eye-openers for them, making them forget where they were.
As a colonel or major general in the regular army of the Imperium, they were even bolder and bolder than before. They even had the illusion that nobody was bold enough to mess with them now that the four Kurfürst families were behind them.
It was needless to mention the leaders of the smaller pirate gangs. After drinking three barrels of hard liquor, both the alcohol and the drugs took effect at the same time. They had long forgotten their wariness and wariness.
Also, although Boss Bai was not good-looking and had only been a space pirate for a short time, he seemed to have been a space pirate since he was in his mother's womb. He knew the mentality and preferences of the space pirates very well. Not only did his words reach everybody's heart, but the programs that he arranged were also splendid. Including his mediation and persuasion, the grudges of quite a few pirate gangs were resolved during the toasts, winning the applause of the audience and slightly changing the many space pirates' impression of him.
"If Boss Bai sincerely wants to be the commander of this so-called National Protection Army, just let him do whatever he wants. After all, it won't do us any harm."
"I'm now a member of the four Kurfürst families. Who is bold enough to fight me here?"
"Even if they want to fight, look, half of Marquess Yongchun's fleet is stationed here under the command of 'Li Yuanzhen', the lord's trusted general. Even a lunatic would not choose to fight another lunatic at such a moment."
"Then, let's indulge ourselves for half a day. We must congratulate them for turning from space pirates into a regular army!"
Thinking in such a way, the space pirates did not turn down the wine that Boss Bai's subordinates brought over. They simply sipped the wine that was brewed by dozens of fresh fruits. It was soft and did not taste of alcohol at all but more like cold juice. It was very delicious. Boss Bai said that the wine had a low alcohol content and would not make anyone drunk. Instead, it had the amazing effect of "sobering up" when it was used to soothe the stomachs that had been burnt by the hard liquor just now.
Amidst the laughter, no one was picky about whether he was right or not. Needless to say, after drinking the ice-cold fruit wine, the dizziness from before had subsided a lot. Unexpectedly, they had become a little greedy for more wine!
The leaders of the pirate gangs held a celebration party in the central square. Naturally, their subordinates were not idle either. Accompanied by the warriors of the Big Bai Pirate Gang, they gambled and drank crazily at the edge of the square and served delicious food.
The leaders gradually lowered their defenses, and the subordinates were not vigilant at all. After all, in the battle to conquer the Blue Sky Market, almost all the pirate gangs, including the starships of Li Wuji's fleet, had been riddled with holes. After paying a huge price, they were all docked and waiting for maintenance in the docks.
Space pirates without starships were tigers without claws and teeth. Now that they had nothing better to do, what could they do except eat, drink, and have fun?
Boss Bai also intended to unite the pirate gangs with the celebration party. Under his instruction, the warriors of the Big Bai Pirate Gang gathered the subordinates of the other pirate gangs under the pretext of celebration and drinking, before they were separated again and brought to the corners deep inside the market.
As a result, the subordinates of the pirate gangs made a lot of new friends, but their old buddies who were in the same gang as them were nowhere to be found!
As time went by, the celebration party became more and more lively, and it was falling more and more out of control.
Even the low-level officers and ordinary soldiers of Li Wuji's fleet that were left in the Blue Sky Market were moved by the atmosphere and served comfortably by the subordinates of the Big Bai Pirate Gang.
Naturally, they would not party with the space pirates because of their identity, but they did not turn down the delicious food and wine that Boss Bai offered.
Perhaps, only one person in the Blue Sky Market was still basically sober at this moment.
It was Li Yuanzhen, the commander of half of Li Wuji's fleet and a major general of the Imperium.
Li Yuanzhen was Li Wuji's cousin and his trusted subordinate. Now that he had been left to supervise the battle, he was naturally a steady and loyal man.
Although all the enemies had been suppressed and caged, and there was no force that could threaten them in the millions of kilometers nearby, such an unrestrained and unrestrained scene still made the well-trained regular soldier feel instinctively disgusted and wary.
"Commander Bai, it's about time."
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