"Elder Song, the situation on the battlefield is so chaotic right now. Countless starships from a hundred Sectors have been mixed together. It is possible that the spies of the reformists have been infiltrated by the rebels. So, it is not entirely impossible that a misunderstanding did happen. All in all, I will certainly investigate the matter and give justice to Marquess Hushan as well as an explanation to Elder Song!"
Yun Xuefeng said with utmost sincerity, "Elder Song, please consider the big picture and remember the principle of loyalty and unity to serve the Imperium. Do not do anything that will make your enemies happy."
"You'd better investigate the matter and give me an explanation. Otherwise, I will ask your family leader for an explanation directly!"
Song Yushi sniffed and said, "You know the principle of loyalty and unity too. Then, don't let it happen! I'll give you half a day. If it is found out that you are really behind it, the Song family will withdraw from the war and ask the Li family and the Dongfang family to withdraw too. The Yun family can fight on its own! "
"Well —"
Yun Xuefeng cursed in his heart for a long time, not knowing whether he should curse Song Yushi, Li Wuji, Boss Bai, or himself. His face tightened, he said in a hurry, "Rest assured, Elder Song. I will certainly investigate the matter clearly. Clearly —"
Before he finished, Song Yushi had already cut off the communication, leaving him with nothing but a cold, black light beam.
Then, his subordinates reported that most of the warships of the Song family in the command chain had left together with the loose soldiers that they had gathered. All the communication with the flagship had been cut off, and there was no telling where they went!
Stunned for a long time, Yun Xuefeng finally couldn't help but punch the control panel before him and howl, "Song Yushi, just you wait! Just you wait!"
He rose abruptly and paced back and forth. His every step was like a hammer that weighed ten thousand kilograms hitting the ground brutally. After only half a minute, hundreds of white hairs had burst out of his head, and his face was filled with wrinkles that were deep to the bones. He couldn't have looked more hideous.
He was about to ask his subordinates to search for the traces of Li Wuji's fleet and the National Protection Army when his subordinates reported to him that "Alloy Virus", the flagship of the National Protection Army, had been connected to the command chain and reached out to "Landslide"!
"Connect it now!"
Yun Xuefeng shrieked and lunged at the communication console.
He had a bellyful of dog blood that he was going to vomit at Boss Bai and Li Wuji, but he was greatly shocked when he saw the two of them on the light beam. All the curses and roars were stuck in his throat.
The bridge of Alloy Virus, however, was filled with smoke and rain. Including Boss Bai, most of the crew members were wearing strengthening bandages and medical gels, but some of them were still trying to extinguish the fire in the corner with foam spray cans in their hands despite the bleeding.
Boss Bai seemed to have just been dug out of a small coal mine. Except for his white teeth, his whole body was black like an orangutan. There was red in the black, and black in the red, which were large pieces of dried blood.
Li Wuji's situation, however, was a hundred times more miserable than Boss Bai's. His entire body was blackened and full of scabs that were leaking blood and tissue fluids. He was soaked in a medical cabin and floating in the dark green nutrition liquids. The curves that represented his biophysical parameters were fluctuating, indicating that his life was as unpredictable as a candle in the wind.
"Commander Yun, I've finally reached out to you. This is not good. You must avenge me and Marquess Yongchun!"
Boss Bai said, as if he was about to cry, "The moment my 'Alloy Virus' jumped to the Seven Seas Space Zone, I searched for your coordinates and tried to approach you actively according to your instructions.
"As it turned out, thanks to Commander Yun, although we did not find you, we found Marquess Yongchun's fleet first. We gathered together and were about to continue the search for the general flagship.
"Little did we know that we would run into Song Changlie's fleet on our way. His command permissions in the 'Flying Lightning Super Command Chain' were lower than ours, and he should've obeyed our orders. We also tried our best to persuade him. He and Marquess Yongchun were both marquesses of the Imperium after all, and it was not a big deal if he was unwilling to listen to our command. Why don't the two fleets cooperate and protect each other while we search for 'Landslide' together and report to you, Commander Yun?
"However, out of our expectations, Song Changlie was so domineering that he did not respect Commander Yun at all. He said something like 'Your Commander Yun is just an immature brat, and you call yourself one of the two geniuses of the expedition army? Damn you. He is not even qualified to clean Lei Chenghu '!
"Exactly. That was exactly what he said at that time. He also said that the Song family's fleet would never obey Commander Yun's orders and that he was going to search for Song Yushi's fleet at the edge of the space zone. He also said that Song Yushi was the real commander of the Song family's fleet, and he wanted them to be killed together with Commander Yun? Not a chance! "
"Enough!"
Hearing that, Yun Xuefeng's face turned as red as a pig's liver. He bellowed, "What happened later?"
"Later —"
Boss Bai coughed hard and vomited a mouthful of thick black blood. He said, "If that was all Song Changlie said, there was nothing we could do about him. After all, he was Marquess Hushan of the Imperium, and the Song family was best known for its arrogance.
"However, not only was the guy running away on his own, he also instigated the starships that Marquess Yongchun and I had just gathered to join him and run away together with him!"
"What!"
Bulging his eyes, Yun Xuefeng bellowed, "That's outrageous!"
"Commander Yun, you should know that if it were Marquis Yongchun's and my own fleet, we would have inculcated Commander Yun's great kindness and loyalty to the country in them all day long. They would never have flinched in a battle."
With a bitter face, Boss Bai said, "But right now, we were only commanding a few of our own elites. Most of them were troops of the warlords at the edge of the space zone.
"The private troops of those warlords were not very determined in the first place. Many of them were secretly communicating with the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors, hoping to preserve their strength and reap the benefits later. Marquess Yongchun and I went through a lot of trouble to regroup them. In fact, they were just a bunch of unorganized mobsters who could not stand the instigation and temptation at all.
"Song Changlie said to those starships through the public channel that if they continued to follow me and Marquess Yongchun and found Commander Yun, they would certainly attack the Seven Seas Grand Market and fight the desperate, rabid dogs of the reformists. Commander Yun, on the other hand, in order to reduce the losses of his own troops, would certainly place the starships of the miscellaneous troops and the local tyrants at the forefront. In that case, they would probably be dead for sure.
"Therefore, they might as well go with Song Changlie and lay low at the edge of the space zone for now. It won't be too late for them to figure out what to do when the other idiots are exhausted after the battle and see the situation clearly.
"After hearing what he said, most of the commanders of the starships under Marquess Yongchun's and my command were more or less convinced to go with him. How could Marquess Yongchun and I help Commander Yun's cause if we were left alone?
"It never occurred to me that the almighty Marquess Hushan could be so shameless. Even a space pirate like me who had realized that defending the Imperium was defending my own interests. How could the Immortal Cultivators of the Song family be so selfish and short-sighted? Aya, how shameless! How shameless! I couldn't hold back my anger, so I … "
"So you swallowed Song Changlie's fleet and killed him himself?"
Yun Xuefeng narrowed his eyes and asked coldly.
"Huh? How did you know that, Commander Yun?"
Stunned, Boss Bai lost his composure.
"Huh …"
Frowning, Yun Xuefeng was deep in thought. "Bai Xingjian, tell me honestly. Who attacked first? Was it your 'Alloy Virus' or Song Changlie's' Tiger Roar '?"
"Well …"
Boss Bai lowered his head in embarrassment and said, "If we're talking about attacks, perhaps it was me who attacked first. But my original intention was only to scare Marquess Hushan and force him to retreat. Then, we would've gone our separate ways. I was not bold enough to really offend the experts of the Song family. Wouldn't that have been asking to be killed? Therefore, his subordinates did not aim their attacks directly at the Tiger Roar, but at the void.
"But as it turned out, Marquess Hushan was so brutal that Tiger Roar's first salvo hit my Alloy Virus precisely."
Yun Xuefeng was unmoved. "Is there any proof?"
Looking at the bridge that was a mess, Boss Bai smiled bitterly. "Our mainframe crystal processors have all been hit. The data is a mess and cannot be retrieved for now. However, as long as Commander Yun supports me and Marquess Yongchun, the proof will be 'found' in less than half a day."
Naturally, Yun Xuefeng understood what Boss Bai meant. Thinking for a moment, he said again, "Then, why don't you explain to me dutifully how you sank 'Tiger Roar'? How was it possible with your combat ability?"
"That's probably why Commander Yun is so lucky that both Marquess Yongchun and I benefited from it."
Boss Bai said solemnly, "Before, my 'Alloy Virus' was just a ragged, rapid warship that was absolutely no match for 'Tiger Roar'. However, during the shooting of the two parties, one of my attacks hit the arsenal of 'Tiger Roar' precisely. There was no telling whether it was the fuel cabin or not. The serial explosions raised gave me and Marquess Yongchun a glimmer of hope.
"Please don't blame us for our brutality, Commander Yun. At that time, most of the unaffiliated starships were wavering and vaguely joined Marquess Hushan's side. If we hadn't killed all of them and completely sunk 'Tiger Roar', Marquess Yongchun and I would've been killed when those starships joined us.
"In order to bring more troops to Commander Yun, we had no choice but to set an example and sink Tiger Roar when it had a series of explosions. Of course, Tiger Roar's counterattack before its death was quite fierce too. Marquess Yongchun's flagship was on the verge of being scrapped, and my Alloy Virus was reduced to such a state too.
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