Li Jialing: "… Why is it that the more you talk, the more scared I feel, Brother Yao? Speaking of which, even if you are looking for Boss Bai's help, you don't have to dress so coquettishly while holding a glass of juice, do you? "
Li Jialing pointed at Li Yao's colorful clothes and blue and white slippers.
The guy had been talking more and more brazenly ever since he was backed by "Sister Long".
"What do you know? This is a battle robe of the same style as Boss Bai's!"
Li Yao said unconcernedly, "I learned this outfit from Boss Bai as a way of expressing my admiration for him. When he sees the battle robe of the same style, he will certainly remember the days when he fought side by side with me. How can he not help us?"
Li Jialing gritted his teeth hard and said, "I just feel that it is rather humiliating. Even when we were faced with Blackstar the Great a few days ago, we were not like this. Brother Yao, you are 'Vulture Li Yao', but you are so humble in front of a space pirate. Isn't it rather humiliating?"
"Humiliating? Are you very great? Is your face valuable? "
Li Yao sniffed and drank up the juice in the cup. His eyes glittering with determination, he said solemnly, "For the Cultivators of my generation, we can break our heads and bleed for the beliefs in our heart. We can even sacrifice our lives. What shame do we have?"
"Cough, cough. Cough, cough, cough."
Not far away, Long Yangjun coughed softly and moved away from Li Yao without alarming anyone. The further away, the better.
Xiao Wen and Ming Ming couldn't listen anymore. They rose and went to the cabins in the back to take care of the men who had just been rescued.
Blushing, Li Jialing was truly lost for words. After a long daze, he managed to squeeze out a sentence. "Brother Yao, I just don't understand. Although the Flying Rainbow Fleet has a hundred times more starships than us, it is still a weak fleet without a Colossus at best, isn't it? Our carrier does not have much combat ability, but with your and Sister Long's Colossi, wouldn't we be able to destroy the enemy's flagship easily?
"I don't believe that the fence-sitters at the edge of the Imperium are so determined to fight. It's impossible that they are still bold enough to fight the Colossi when their flagship has been 'decapitated'! Even the most elite fleets of the Imperium rarely chose to fight the enemy's Colossi head-on without a Colossus.
"So, why do we have to ask Boss Bai for help?"
Li Yao sighed. The brilliance in his eyes turned gentle. Licking the juice on his lips, he said, "The question is very simple. First of all, it is true that Long Yangjun and I can crush the battle formation of the Flying Rainbow Fleet with our Colossi. We can even destroy the enemy's flagship and a few main-force warships.
"However, it is impossible to stop the entire Flying Rainbow Fleet with only two Colossi. Those miscellaneous troops and local gangsters at the periphery of the Imperium are all experts at preserving their strength. They are not good at a head-on battle, but they are all adept at adapting to the situation and running away as fast as they can! Perhaps, when they detect the flames of spiritual energy from the two Colossi, they will run away without caring about their own lives. Even if Long Yangjun and I have three heads and six arms, how many starships can we catch?
"Once most of the starships of the Flying Rainbow Fleet launch a jump, the news that the two mysterious Colossi have appeared in this area will certainly be spread out. Very soon, all the forces will know where Long Yangjun and I are, including Blackstar the Great.
"Then, it will not be difficult for him to figure out our intentions and our relationship with Boss Bai. He will even infer that our next action must be related to the Seven Seas Grand Market, the nest of the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors.
"This is something that I do not want Blackstar the Great to know. In the game between us and Blackstar, our greatest advantage is that the enemy is in the light while we are in the dark. The more secretive, stealthy, and sordid our movements are, the better. It will be best if we disappear from Blackstar's eyes forever and crawl out from behind his ass at the most awkward moment for him!
"Secondly, and more importantly, we have to be careful.
"The reason why we attacked the Flying Rainbow Fleet at the risk of exposing ourselves was to save the ordinary people who had been dragged away by the Flying Rainbow Fleet as scapegoats and cannon fodder.
"If we hadn't taken action, the innocent miners, farmers, and peddlers struggling in the sea of stars would've been chained to the starships and forced by the wretched Immortal Cultivators of the Flying Rainbow Fleet to the center of the most dangerous battlefield. They would've been killed for nothing!
"But right now, we have only rescued part of the innocent people. More 'able-bodied men' are scattered on the various starships of the Flying Rainbow Fleet. It is impossible for us to rescue them with our strength alone. If Long Yangjun and I really destroy the flagship of the Flying Rainbow Fleet, the remaining starships will disperse and bring the able-bodied men back to their nest. Will we be able to chase them one planet after another?
"Therefore, if we want to rescue all the innocent people in a row, we cannot act recklessly. We can only pretend to be weak to the Flying Rainbow Fleet first and lure them to Boss Bai's territory. Then, we will surround them with the Big Bai Pirate Gang and maybe the fleets of the Cultivators, trying not to let go of any starships or leak anything.
"After the last route of retreat of the Flying Rainbow Fleet is blocked, it will be the time for the 'Arsonist' and the 'invincible Heavenly Crystal II' to show up. Hehe. My purpose is not as simple as crushing the Flying Rainbow Fleet. I'm going to swallow them whole. Not even a nut can escape from the palm of 'Vulture Li Yao'!"
"That explains a lot!"
Li Jialing was also a smart man with remarkable computational abilities. After being pointed out by Li Yao so quickly, he was greatly enlightened. His fury and confusion a moment ago turned into admiration for Li Yao again.
Thinking for a moment, he glanced at Long Yangjun not far away and said in a low voice, "However, Brother Yao, you should stop calling Sister Long's Colossus' invincible Heavenly Crystal II '. She seems to be very displeased by the name."
"What's wrong with the name? It's very awesome and dominating. It sounds much better than simply 'Heavenly Crystal'! "
Li Yao frowned and said, "Her Colossus has been reborn and is not the same as the original 'Heavenly Crystal'. Besides, only such an awesome and dominating name is qualified to team up with my 'Arsonist', isn't it?"
"…"
After a brief silence, Li Jialing quickly changed the topic. "Right, there's something that I don't understand. How did Brother Yao know that the Blue Sky Space Zone is now Boss Bai's world? His Big Bai Pirate Gang couldn't have expanded so fast, and it was unlikely that they could swallow the entire Blue Sky Market, right? Also, Xiao Wen and Ming Ming hacked into the mainframe crystal processor of the Flying Rainbow Fleet and intercepted the secret communication of the four families. According to them, Boss Bai had surrendered to the four families and joined Li Wuji, Marquess Yongchun. Even if the Blue Sky Market is not under the control of the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors and the reformists, Li Wuji should still be the leader of the four families. Boss Bai, on the other hand, might be hindering the twenty or so pirate gangs. It's impossible for him to help us even if he wants to.
"Then, wouldn't we be walking into a trap by jumping here?
"So, my question is, why do you think that the new master of the Blue Sky Market is Boss Bai, and even 'A Boxing Champion' Lei Zonglie and the fleet of the Cultivators are here?"
"Because he is Boss Bai!"
Li Yao smiled and put his legs on the table. Looking at his toes that were wriggling in the blue and white slippers, he said with a smile, "From the moment Xiao Wen and Ming Ming intercepted the intelligence that Boss Bai had surrendered to the four families and joined the damn Marquess Yongchun Li Wuji, I knew that there had to be a scheme.
"Boss Bai is a man who pursues absolute freedom. Since the moment he … broke free of the old restraints, nobody was qualified to be his master. Even if all the deities unleashed their greatest strength and condensed it into a supreme crown, it was impossible for him to bend his head and give orders to him!
"The four families? Marquis Yongchun Li Wuji? Hehe, those useless people are not even qualified to command a single strand of Boss Bai's leg hair!
"Therefore, I'm very certain that Boss Bai must've dug a huge trap for Li Wuji to jump into when he joined Li Wuji. Perhaps not just Li Wuji, but the dozens of pirate gangs that gathered in the Blue Sky Market at the same time would jump into the trap together.
"Considering Boss Bai's ambitions and the fact that the 'battle of Seven Seas' is about to take place at the edge of the Imperium, it is obvious what Boss Bai is up to exactly. He is going to make the most dangerous jump so that the Big Bai Pirate Gang will rise at the edge of the Imperium and become a superpower that is qualified to shake the power structure of the Imperium!
"Such a scheme can hardly be accomplished by the Big Bai Pirate Gang alone. But didn't we learn a lot of intelligence a few days ago that 'A Boxing Champion' Lei Zonglie's fleet of Cultivators was rising unstoppably at the edge of the Imperium? Also, what a coincidence that the Cultivators' fleet and the Big Bai Pirate Gang's range of activities overlapped and were almost inseparable.
"Although it is said that the Cultivators' fleet and the Big Bai Pirate Gang have conflicts, Jialing, you spent time in the Martial Meritocrats Sector too. Naturally, you know what happened to A Boxing Champion and the rest of them. They must've joined Boss Bai a long time ago because I introduced them to him. Otherwise, they wouldn't have developed so fast. Now that they are working together to trap Li Wuji and the space pirates, how can it not be a piece of cake?
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