Li Yao refocused his attention on the 'ghost catching operation' before him.
If the road ahead was a mess, at the very least, Lu Qingchen, the Puppet King, was the only thread that he could see clearly. If he grasped the thread first, he would be able to figure out the truth step by step. Shua!
Shua! Shua! Shua!
Tremendous data was transmitted to the yakshas through the mainframe crystal processor of the spider tank.
Li Yao seemed to see that the few super remote communication bases at the edge of the Well in the Sector that were used to communicate with the outside world had all been shut down. A lot of interferential warships were on standby, too. Should anything go wrong, they would be able to cast an overwhelming net and block, interfere with, and suppress the Puppet King.
Li Yao also saw that on the bridge of Eternal Light, a lot of crystal processor specialists were scanning the mainframe crystal processor and the internal network solemnly, trying to eliminate all the viruses and logic traps as quickly as possible.
In the meantime, inside Light Ming City, nine capture squads were lunging at the target at the same time.
Although Light Ming City had a population of almost a million, making it an enormous metropolis by the standards of the vacuum of space, the Puppet King did not have many choices of hiding places.
Most importantly of all, he needed a super crystal processor with a high performance, or even an array of crystal processors that occupied a large area and consumed a lot of energy, so that he could invade every nerve ending in the Holy League.
Such a super crystal processor could not have been born out of thin air, nor could it have been hidden.
Therefore, the Puppet King could only make use of the facilities that existed in Light Ming City in the first place.
Judging from the computational ability of his virus scourge, there could be no more than ten facilities in Light Ming City that boasted such computational ability.
Among them, the most suspicious one was naturally the set of coordinates that Li Yao had locked onto half a day ago.
After translation, the address that the set of coordinates represented was the center of crystal processors in 'Sail Academy'.
'Sail Academy' was a place in Light Ming City where starship commanders and planetary modification specialists were trained. Or rather, it was a place where the residents' thought 'that they were training starship commanders and planetary modification specialists.
The Puppet King should've been there a couple of hours ago.
Li Yao and Guan Qixing, on the other hand, had retrieved the video files of all the suspicious people who had entered and left Sail Academy in the past few hours.
Because today was the 'Rainbow Celebration', everyone, including the teachers and students of Yangfan Academy, was either on the streets or in the air to have cake fights. Yangfan Academy, on the other hand, was unusually empty and deserted. For the past few hours, no suspicious characters had entered or exited the academy.
Therefore, this was still the hiding place of the most suspicious target, and the yaksha team was personally responsible for it.
By the time Li Yao, Chu Zhixiao and the rest arrived at the outskirts of Sail School, braving the rain of flowers and cakes, the rest of the capture teams were already in position.
Three minutes later, they would launch an assault at the same time. It was believed that many of the nine facilities with super crystal processors and high computational ability must be the strongholds of the Divine Heart Society. Even if there were no traces of the Puppet King, a lot of members of the Divine Heart Society and the evidence of their crimes would be found.
"Red Pig, report the situation of the blockage outside and the progress of the other eight capture teams one last time."
Chu Zhixiao extended one of his fingers and fixed a strand of hair on the corner of his eye. Staring at the empty campus in front of him, he said coldly, "I'm going to seal every inch of space and every cable. Even a virtual mosquito won't be able to fly out!"
Li Yao was calculating in his heart, but on the surface, he transmitted the tremendous data to the tactical crystal processors of Chu Zhixiao, Yuan Kou, Yun Haixin, and Guan Qixing obediently.
At this moment, he suddenly discovered that 'Black Dream' Yun Haixin seemed to be in a trance. His chest was rising and falling at a rather irregular frequency, as if he were very nervous.
Odd. Isn't Yun Haixin a Meditation Healer adept at mental arts and a seasoned fighter?
Li Yao was secretly surprised. If he is willing to surrender to the Holy League alive, what is there for him to be nervous about? He was not like this when he hunted the Puppet King in the Channeling Temple just now.
"Something seemed wrong with him since he entered Eternal Light," the mental devil said.
The mental devil said, "Although he has covered it very well, I can still vaguely sense that tides are surging crazily inside his brain. The guy's mind is on the verge of collapse, and he may lose control at any moment. You must be careful!"
"But why?"
Li Yao could not figure it out at all. "It doesn't make sense!"
"Last minute. Be prepared, all teams!"
Chu Zhixiao gnashed his teeth and issued an order in the tactical network. "In fifty-nine seconds, all teams will 'catch the ghost' at the same time!"
"Perhaps, it has something to do with Lu Qingchen, the Puppet King," the mental devil said.
The mental devil said, "Don't forget our suspicions just now. The Puppet King probably sensed the existence of the yaksha squad. Or rather, he intentionally set up a trap and attracted the pursuers including the yaksha squad to this place!"
"But —" Li Yao said.
"Half a minute left!"
His thoughts were interrupted by Chu Zhixiao's intimidating voice. The Heavenly Goddess of Slaughter drew a blue dagger from her military boots that were embedded with iron plates and held it in her hand. The sawtooth on the edge of the dagger reflected broken brilliance, as if she were about to kill someone.
At this moment, the celebration in the City of Light had reached the climax.
BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM!
BAM! BAM! BAM!
BAM! BAM! BAM! Ten thousand virtual fireworks exploded in the sky at the same time, raising indescribably brilliant flowers and glamorous swirls.
All the residents flew to the sky and collided with the strangers like balloons. Everybody was enjoying the wine and the cake before they hugged and laughed like a bunch of heartless children.
"Ten seconds!"
Chu Zhixiao's face was gloomy. There was no telling whether it was because she hated the Puppet King or because she could not stand the illusionary atmosphere here. She tore off the 'biochemical muscles' that were stuck to her body one after another and regained the agility of a cheetah. "Nine, eight, seven …"
"I have a vague feeling that something bad is going to happen."
Li Yao mumbled, "Things can't be so simple. It seems that … it's been a long time since I ran into an accident."
Hardly had he concluded his sentence when an earth-shattering explosion came from the direction of the bridge far away from the City of Light.
The explosion was so powerful that even the picture of the candy-colored sky and clouds on the cabin wall was spreading out twisted ripples and turning into clumsy color spots.
Large iron plates that were embedded to the cabin wall fell from the sky. Thankfully, the artificial gravity field was still working. Those iron plates did not hit anybody but simply flew in midair together with the people.
However, this "fortunately" only lasted for a short second.
One second later, the artificial gravity field in part of the area completely disappeared. Everything, including the mess on the ground, was floating in midair.
In other places, the artificial gravity was three to five times higher than that of the high-density planets. A lot of local residents who were floating in midair fell down brutally. Some of them had their bones broken, and some of them had their heads blown out.
Before people had time to panic, all the lights went out at the same time.
Including the 3D light curtain on the surrounding cabin walls, the dazzling sun and candy-colored clouds, the glass curtain wall on the skyscrapers that had just reflected a smile, and the "street lamps" that were floating in midair and blooming magnificently, all of them were extinguished.
The entire city was plunged into darkness. Only the remnants of the virtual fireworks in midair made people's dumbfounded faces even more confused.
"What — what's going on?"
"Where's the light? Where's the gravity?"
"Ah! Ah! "
"Repair it quickly. Hey, hey, hey. Is anyone there? Repair it quickly!"
The residents of Light City had been immersed in the swamp of safety for too long that they had lost the ability to deal with crises. Even the ability to express their fear was close to zero. They had never been cut off on such a large scale before. For a moment, other than the screams of the people who were falling from midair and whose bones were broken, most of them did not even have any 'panicked' reactions. They simply stood, sat, or crouched in a daze, looking at the sky with their mouths half open, as if somebody would show up and restore the energy supply and the beautiful order as long as they complained loudly enough.
But Li Yao knew that the hope of those innocent wretches was probably going to be dashed.
It was because the moment the illumination and the energy supply of the entire Light City was cut off, a black tide that was even more powerful and overwhelming swept over from all directions on the Spiritual Nexus and data level, cutting off the yaksha squad's connection with the outside world immediately.
Their tactical network was seriously disrupted. Li Yao could only get in touch with chaotic swirls on the data level. He could not even reach out to the few capture squads that were right next to him, much less the bridge of Eternal Light and the warships of the Holy League further away.
In the world of data, they had become an island in only half a second.
The Puppet King's trap had indeed been activated!
Li Yao condensed his soul into an unstoppable blade in a moment and expanded his senses to the maximum, searching for every wave in the air that carried the features of Lu Qingchen's soul.
And such ripples … covered the sky and covered the earth. They were everywhere.
Shua! Shua! Shua! Shua! Shua! Shua!
While people were complaining in the darkness at a loss, the glass walls of many skyscrapers glittered again, and the same person appeared in all the pictures.
That was … a fatty with flawless skin.
Li Yao knew that it was weird to describe a person as flawless, but that was his first impression when he saw the fatty.
Almost all the residents of Light City were fat, but this fatty looked particularly … round, as if he were made of balls large and small.
His eyes were round, his nose was round, and his mouth was round.
Above the two round eyes, between the eyebrows, there was a black spot that was constantly twisting and changing. Sometimes it turned into an exclamation mark, sometimes it turned into a question mark, and then it turned into a slowly blooming lotus.
"The game is over."
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