"It's not strange."
Boss Bai deduced with a smile, "First of all, the odds of accidents and even death for the researchers in the laboratories in the Land of Sins are very high. What they create and test are highly unstable new techniques, magical equipment, and drugs. Laboratories explode all the time, new magical equipment goes out of control, and the test subjects who are injected with the new drugs are mentally deranged and slaughtered. Also, there are a lot of intrigues and life-and-death conflicts among the researchers. What's the big deal if a few people die in order to compete for hundreds of millions of research funds? Many leaders of the disciplines died uncannily when they were about to produce results.
"Therefore, the crazy scholar that we talked about might've died in an accident a long time ago. Soon after that, the studies of the autonomous learning and the upgradable spiritual puppets in the Imperium suffered major setbacks. The laboratories in the Land of Sins suffered heavy losses too and could not operate anymore. It was not until a long time later when Wuying Lan came to clean up the mess that they were revived.
"So to speak, after the death of the crazy scholar, the whole thing was obliterated in the dust. Even Wuying Lan and Li Lingfeng did not know anything about it. It's very possible!"
A Boxing Champion hesitated. "However, it was such an important discovery after all. Wouldn't he have left some last words and traces even if he was dead?"
"Wrong. Our first impression is the most important. We were aware of the existence of the 'starship of the wizardly civilization' in advance. That's why the pieces were so important."
Boss Bai shook his head and said, "But for the crazy scholar, he probably did not crack the secrets of the pieces and did not know the existence of the wizardly civilization. He only thought that he had found a slightly weird piece and wanted to run a test on it.
"For him, this thing is very important, but it's not so important that he still cares about it when his life is in danger. Immortal Cultivators are all selfish people who don't care about the life and death of others. Even he is going to die soon. Is the fragment really important?"
A Boxing Champion still shook his head. "That's just your assumption. If I had really received a certain … gift from the wizardly civilization, I wouldn't have struggled to survive in the Land of Sins for so long. I would've unified the Land of Sins, marched to 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky', hacked the crystal processors and the Spiritual Nexus there, established my own fleet, and marched in the sea of stars! Why did we have to wait until today? In that case, the Big Bai Pirate Gang wouldn't even be a problem anymore! "
"Hahahaha. You are indeed ambitious. As expected of 'Mr. A Boxing Champion'. That's exactly what puzzles me, too. Your performance in the past half a year is too different from the past. If you had one tenth of your abilities in the past, it wouldn't have been a problem for you to turn the Martial Meritocrats Sector upside down at the very least. Then, are you pretending to be low-key because you are scared that you will be monitored by 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky', or is there really more to it?"
Boss Bai stepped forward and said, "I thought that you were a wolf in sheep's clothing, so I decided to talk to you frankly today. However, judging from your appearance, if your acting skills are not a hundred times better than mine and Li Yao's, you really don't know anything, do you? If that was the case, perhaps something deep inside your brain had been in a dormant, sealed, or budding state for the past hundred years. It was not until recently that it was unlocked by coincidence.
"Hey, A Boxing Champion, have you run into any weird incidents or people in the past year? Well, alright, there's no need to talk about it. You did run into an incredible space monster — Li Yao, and he saved you. "
"Not only did he save me, but he also helped me be reborn."
A Boxing Champion's dull voice gradually became clear. "When 'Great Iron City', an enormous body that I've been using for a long time, was completely destroyed, it was Li Yao who rescued the core unit of my mainframe crystal processor and helped me change into a brand-new body. As to what tricks he played in my head, I don't know."
"Ha!"
Fireworks were beaming out of Boss Bai's tiny eyes. "In that case, everything makes sense now!"
"I am … 'Gaoist — Man in the Shell'?"
A Boxing Champion stared at his hands that were reflecting metal colors in a daze and mumbled, "I don't know. I really don't know."
"It doesn't matter."
Boss Bai's colorful silk shirt was waving crazily in the wind, but his casual voice couldn't have been clearer in the middle of the tides. "I will help you find the answer."
He walked toward A Boxing Champion step by step. After his every step, the garbage that had been piled up like a hill in the forsaken port behind him would gradually break free from the restraint of artificial gravity and float into the sky.
A Boxing Champion's crystal eyes were glittering, and countless cracks were popping up on the ground where he was standing. He spoke faster and faster, "Boss Bai, do we have to fight each other? Even if I'm deeply connected to 'Gaoist — Man in the Shell', it's just some scraps of data at best. I don't know the first thing about the wizardly civilization. Also, didn't you say that the wizardly civilization was destroyed a long time ago? Why do we have to fight each other to the death?"
"Feelings can be nurtured slowly, and reasons can be found as we fight — as long as we want to fight."
Boss Bai licked his lips and looked at the Fist King passionately. He then raised his finger and tapped his temple, before he raised his eyebrow and said, "Ah, I've thought of a very good reason — to silence him."
"Silence you?"
A Boxing Champion said, "I don't know anything at all. Who do you want to kill? Why do you want to silence me?"
"It's not that I want to silence you, but that you want to silence me because I've revealed such a great secret of yours!"
Boss Bai grinned, baring his shark-like teeth. "In order to protect myself from being silenced by you, I can only take action first. Such a reason for a fight to the death is more or less acceptable, isn't it?"
A Boxing Champion was lost for words. He did not know how to respond even after searching his entire database.
"Besides, do you really 'know nothing'?"
Boss Bai's eyes suddenly turned sharp and gloomy. "My Master A Boxing Champion, you boasted such computational ability, got in touch with so many tutors of the Big Bai Pirate Gang at a close distance, and even visited my flagship. If you still can't guess who we are, I'll be … too disappointed in you.
After a brief silence, A Boxing Champion said, "I did guess who you are, but it's none of my business. After all, I'm not on the Immortal Cultivators' side. Your identity has nothing to do with me."
"Oh?"
Boss Bai smiled. "Tell me about it."
"You and Li Yao are obviously old acquaintances from a long time ago. Also, both of you are in the Divinity Transformation Stage. A force that can raise a Divinity Transformation Stage expert must be an enormous force whose name can shake the entire Imperium, not to mention that there are two of them and both of them have Colossi. It's impossible. It's absolutely impossible that such a force was unknown before! "
A Boxing Champion said, "Including your flagship. Although it can fool the general starship specialists after tremendous modifications and disguises, it cannot fool me. Its production style is utterly incompatible with the mainstream starship production technology of the Imperium.
"Also, as a ferocious, murderous space pirate, you sheltered the Cultivators of Starlight without any hesitation, even at the risk of going against the entire Immortal Cultivators of the Imperium. It doesn't make sense at all. At the very least, it is not something that can be explained by 'loyalty' and 'sympathy'.
"In conclusion, I conclude that you are probably from a certain powerful force beyond the Imperium. Of course, it is not the Alliance of the Holy Covenant but a country of vigorous Cultivators.
"As for why you came to the Imperium, it can't be anything more than spies, agents, or vanguards."
"That's a very accurate guess."
Boss Bai burst into laughter. "Look, look. Isn't the reason why we are fighting each other to the death because of 'silencing' each other is getting stronger and stronger?"
"Wait!"
A Boxing Champion said in a hurry, "Who are you exactly? It's none of my business at all. I only want to carry out my survival and strengthening strategy in peace. It never occurred to me that I would inform the authorities of the Imperium. Why do we have to fight at such a critical moment? Do you not know that the odds of survival for both of us will be significantly reduced if we die together? Isn't survival the most important thing? "
"You are such a nag."
Boss Bai extended his little finger and picked his ears. "A Boxing Champion, if you really want to be a human being, let me tell you something. For a human being, survival is never the most important thing. Never!"
Hardly had he concluded his sentence when Boss Bai laughed crazily and waved his hands. The flying garbage and the remnants of starships weighing dozens of tons were condensed into iron tides that surged at A Boxing Champion.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
BOOM! BOOM! The garbage hit where A Boxing Champion stood a moment ago like burning meteors, but A Boxing Champion had already turned into a streak of brilliance and jumped to the back of Boss Bai by stepping on the burning remnants.
"Boss Bai, you're crazy!"
A Boxing Champion's logical judgment mode could not capture and infer what Boss Bai was thinking at all.
"Wow!"
Boss Bai bulged his eyes. "Zuo Tianying and Li Wuji knew such an obvious fact a long time ago. You haven't learned it until now, have you, A Boxing Champion?"
With a casual hand chop, as the spiritual magnetic field surged out, countless tiny pieces were attached to Boss Bai's arm, turning into a sharp blade more than ten meters long that could be extended freely. Then, it split up nonstop while it spun and covered the critical parts all over the Fist King's body.
A Boxing Champion dashed and shifted in the storm of blades like a swallow that dodged every raindrop agilely in a storm. He even activated his Cosmos Ring unhurriedly in the middle of the flashes of the blades and retrieved almost thirty spiritual puppets from the Cosmos Ring!
When the storm of blades died down, it was already thirty identical spiritual puppets standing before Boss Bai. It was impossible to tell which one was the real A Boxing Champion, or rather, A Boxing Champion!
"Such a meaningless battle will only result in a lose-lose. I don't want to fight."
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