Not far away from the capital planet, in the chaotic asteroid belt, a mobile secret communication base was dashing here and there like a clumsy turtle, trying to avoid the hunters behind it with the help of the fast-revolving meteoroids.
However, the hunters from the ace fleets of the four families were obviously multiple times faster and more agile than the secret communication base. Very soon, they bit its tail and gnawed its spiritual shield like piranhas. Very soon, the spiritual shield was swallowed up.
The highly-explosive bombs that carried tremendous marrow crystals fell on the secret communication base like raindrops, blowing the entire base into pieces. It was a complete mess as it was enshrouded in scorching fireballs and gradually split apart.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty —"
In the secret command center deep inside the royal palace on the capital planet, Lei Chenghu's hologram seemed to have something to say to Wuying Qi. However, as the communication base in space collapsed, the Grand Illusionary Land that connected the two Sectors turned into highly unstable streaks of brilliance. He extended his hand to Wuying Qi, only to turn into a frozen statue. Very soon, the statue turned into sand made of countless numbers and dispersed on the ground.
Holding his forehead softly, Wuying Qi pondered for a long time in the empty darkness.
Then, his hands danced as agilely as a demon, drawing hundreds of black threads and retrieving tremendous data from the mainframe crystal processor.
There was one thing that Lei Chenghu shouldn't have known.
Wuying Qi had more than one intelligence channel in the Seven Seas Space Zone that was Lei Chenghu.
In the Seven Seas Space Zone, in the Thunder Fleet, and even on "Iron Torrent", Lei Chenghu's flagship, Wuying Qi had planted a lot of spies.
The battle had been getting fiercer and fiercer in recent days, and the interferences of the Spiritual Nexus in both the capital and the Seven Seas Space Zone were quite intense, blocking almost all the information communication.
However, a few days ago, when the interferences of the Spiritual Nexus were not so intense, and he was still controlling a few remote communication bases, he bypassed Lei Chenghu and received tremendous intelligence and the primitive data of the command chain from the Seven Seas Space Zone.
Earlier than Lei Chenghu, he had a head-on battle with Li Yao in the central district of the Seven Seas Grand Market. His understanding of Li Yao was a hundred times deeper than Lei Chenghu's.
Wuying Qi browsed through the waterfall-like data expressionlessly and checked the battlefield information that Lei Chenghu sent to him today with the primitive data from a few days ago.
After checking for a long time, Wuying Qi reached a conclusion that Lei Chenghu did not lie to him and that the data were all real.
Unless Lei Chenghu boasted a super crystal processor that was more advanced than the one in the capital, it was impossible for him to have the computational ability to fabricate the complicated data that included the entire battle of Seven Seas.
Besides, with the strength of the Thunder Fleet and the garrison fleet of the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors, it was already their best to take down Yun Xuefeng's fleet quickly. It was impossible for them to finish the old fox Song Yushi's fleet so quickly.
Compared to Yun Xuefeng who was a proud warrior, Song Yushi, as an experienced general on the battlefield, might not have a high combat ability, but the ability to preserve his strength had been deeply rooted into his bones and turned into his instincts.
Therefore, Lei Chenghu was still confronting Song Yushi. It would take at least half a month, or even longer, for the two seasoned generals to come to an end.
In the meantime, Lei Chenghu's intelligence about Li Yao shouldn't have been a problem. If he hadn't been truly loyal to him, Lei Chenghu wouldn't have told him the matter at all, nor would he have reminded him that Li Yao had probably snuck into the capital or even into the underground world.
Lei Chenghu did not betray him. There was only one problem, which was Li Yao, the Cultivator.
"Li Yao, Li Yao, Li Yao!"
Wuying Qi turned off all the data and closed his eyes, rubbing his nose neither too heavily nor too lightly. "You are such a cockroach. Why can't you die? I detonated the brain of a super Meditation Healer, and you were not heavily wounded at all? What kind of human being are you exactly? "
He landed on the ground and paced back and forth. Suddenly, he clapped his hands.
In the darkness, two officers in the most primitive uniforms of the Imperium immediately appeared. Their temples and eyebrows were bulging high, as if they had grown three horns. Their eyes were as dark as ink, and there was barely any white in their eyes or any human feelings. The only emotion that was revealed was their fanatical reverence and admiration for Wuying Qi.
"Double the defense of the Gold Crystal Pyramid. Move the Blood Swallow Legion and the Abyss Wolves there and monitor every inch of space around the Gold Crystal Pyramid closely. There's only one day left. The future of the Imperium, no, the civilization of mankind is about to turn on a new page. I don't want anything to go wrong at this moment!"
Wuying Qi said coldly, "Especially those annoying flies and cockroaches. They must not be allowed to crawl into the Gold Crystal Pyramid!"
"As you command, Your Majesty!"
The two officers responded stiffly and turned around like machines.
"Wait —"
Right when they were about to step out of the secret command center, Wuying Qi stopped them rather uneasily. "I'll go in person. I'm really looking forward to seeing the cockroach's face when it sees me!"
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"Hey, what do you think the old fart Wuying Qi will look like when he sees us out of nowhere?"
At the same time, in the craggy crevices near the underground hollow below the capital planet, Li Yao was really like a hybrid of a cockroach and a groundhog. While he tried to move forward, he asked the two people behind him with a smile, "I believe that his face will be even more splendid than if he were to eat sh * t, right?"
Behind Li Yao, Li Jialing was silent. He simply gritted his teeth and performed the bone shrinking technique to the maximum, almost squeezing himself into a thin piece of paper before he squeezed through the gap.
Long Yangjun, however, bulged her eyes and said, "Yes, the expression on his face will indeed be splendid. After the splendid expression, he will burst into fury and kill all of us! What's wrong with your head that you want to break into Wuying Qi's most important secret weapon base with the three of us? What's wrong with my head that I agreed to take such a risk with you? "
"Don't say that. Wuying Qi is tough, but he's restrained by the ace fleets of the four families after all. Didn't we see the overwhelming troops of the four families when we jumped over stealthily? Wow, I'm drooling just thinking about the splendid lineups of those fleets. Even I have the urge to disarm and surrender. "
Li Yao swallowed and said, "Judging from the movement of the ace fleets of the four families, they'll probably launch a general attack on the capital planet in a couple of days. We're taking advantage of Wuying Qi's weakness when he's most overwhelmed. How can we be so unlucky as to run into him head-on? Chances are that the mission this time will be very easy, and his great scheme will be revealed quickly. What if the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind? "
"When have I ever teamed up with an unlucky guy like you?" Long Yangjun grumbled.
Long Yangjun mumbled, but her swollen chest was almost suffocated by the sharp rocks. She shouted angrily, "How did you lead the way? Only earthworms and cockroaches can crawl through such a narrow tunnel. What kind of shortcut is this?"
"It's not my fault. The underground of the capital planet is your territory. It's clearly the map that you drew last time!"
Li Yao said innocently, "This tunnel is the route of our retreat after we explored the underground cave last time. At that time, it was very spacious and could at least accommodate two people walking side by side. Who knew that it would become like this after only a couple of months? This place is already very close to the underground cave. I was scared that Wuying Qi might've set up some alarm magical equipment that could sense feeble quakes, and I did not dare shatter the rocks with the drill of mystic rays. So, I could only squeeze forward slowly. "
"How odd."
Long Yangjun said, "By logic, such drastic geological changes shouldn't have happened in only a couple of months. What's going on exactly?"
Hardly had she concluded her sentence when intense quakes suddenly took place. The rocks above their heads and below their feet pressed closer to them, as if the walls on the two sides were about to close and squash them.
Li Yao, Long Yangjun, and Li Jialing were all greatly shocked. They were about to summon the Crystal Suit and the drill of mystic rays to dig a way out, when the rocks came to an abrupt halt.
The three of them looked at each other in bewilderment and saw the surprise in each other's eyes.
"Somebody seems to have planted tremendous crystal bombs at the faults of the crust and detonated them in a very regular pattern."
As a bomb expert, Li Yao thought for a moment and patted his head that was full of dust. He said, "They're trying to change the structure of the crust or even tear apart a part of the land to create an artificial giant canyon."
"It must've been Wuying Qi's doing, but what is he up to exactly?"
Long Yangjun pondered for a moment and said, "Wait. Changing the structure of the crust with crystal bombs, releasing the enormous energy below the ground, tearing apart a part of the land, and creating an enormous artificial canyon? It sounds similar to what the Supreme Emperor and the Blood God did ten thousand years ago. Is there any clandestine purpose?"
"Well …"
Li Yao scratched his chin hard, unable to figure it out for a moment.
"I … have an idea."
Li Jialing suddenly said, "Brother Yao and Sister Long both said that Wuying Qi had a certain powerful secret weapon deep inside the capital, but the enemy he was going to deal with was the ace fleets of the four families in space.
"I assume that however powerful the secret weapon deep below the ground was, it was impossible to directly annihilate the enemies in space, right?
"Therefore, the first thing that Wuying Qi had to do, and the first thing that the Supreme Emperor or the Blood God had to do ten thousand years ago, was to find a way to tear the earth apart and raise the secret weapon to the ground again."
"Exactly!"
Li Yao slapped his forehead. "That should be it. Jialing, I didn't know that you would grow so fast. In only one year, your wisdom is almost half of mine!"
"Changing the structure of the crust, tearing apart the ground, and making the secret weapon rise to the surface?"
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