While Li Yao was cruising in the vast world of starship maintenance manuals, the highest meeting room of the Exo Society on Gold Horn was filled with gloom. Even Lei Dalu's smile was somewhat rigid.
In front of him and Bai Kaixin were three remnants of the Crystal Suit, as well as some components that had been completely melted and solidified. Their purpose was unknown.
On his opposite side, Xiong Tao said emotionlessly, "When I saw the explosion of the bridge of Ghost Jail, I vaguely felt that something was wrong. Therefore, in the past few days, other than the maintenance of Gold Horn, I also spent some time in the critical parts of Ghost Jail and collected the debris of magical equipment.
"After I pieced them together, I made some shocking discoveries.
"First of all, the fragment of the Heart Protection Mirror made of Molten Titanium.
"Molten Titanium itself is a very rare, special metal with a very high value. The defense rune arrays left on the Heart Protection Mirror were carved in a unique way by 'Sinister Wind', an experienced Armadominus on Spider Den.
"Although Sinister Wind was a space pirate, his skills were well-acknowledged in the circle of refiners of the Flying Star Sector. He was a top-tier expert.
"His position on Spider Den was very high, and he would never do anything for small fries. Only the most ferocious space pirates were qualified to wear the Crystal Suit made of Sinister Wind.
"As far as I know, among the space pirates of Storm Prison that we were hunting, there was only one Crystal Suit equipped with the Heart Protection Mirror, which was Fengyu Ming's' Dark Fire Battlesuit '!"
Bai Kaixin said, "The Heart Protection Mirror is the most important piece of defensive magical equipment on the Crystal Suit. Finding the Heart Protection Mirror is the same as finding Fengyu Ming. Uncle Xiong, where did you find the fragment?"
Xiong Tao replied emotionlessly, "In the residue at the bottom of a crystal reactor."
Bai Kaixin was immediately dazed.
Lei Dalu's broom-like eyebrows were raised, too.
Xiong Tao continued, "I found something similar to the scraps of crystal suits in the debris. But most of them have been reduced to mud. Only a few of the heat-resistant materials are still in their basic form. Judging from the number of the scraps, there are quite a few. It's just enough to form a complete Dark Fire Battlesuit. "
Bai Kaixin frowned and mumbled, "Did Fengyu Ming throw his Crystal Suit into the crystal reactor and destroy it?"
Xiong Tao shook his head. "I also found the wall of a fuel pipe. There were very obvious signs of struggle on it, as well as some broken bones and a lot of blood."
Bai Kaixin thought for a moment. His eyes bulged wider and wider. "So, Fengyu Ming was stuffed into the fuel tubes and the crystal reactor while wearing the Dark Fire Battlesuit and burnt into ashes?"
Xiong Tao nodded. "This is the only possibility."
Bai Kaixin and Lei Dalu looked at each other. They saw the disbelief in each other's eyes.
Although Fengyu Ming was not a super expert, the 'Dark Fire Battlesuit' that he was wearing was indeed a powerful modified Crystal Suit. Who could sneak into Ghost Jail without alarming anyone and stuff him into the crystal reactor?
Xiong Tao said solemnly, "That's not all."
"As Fengyu Zhong's only son, Fengyu Ming must've brought a few Cosmos Rings with him in case of an emergency.
"The Cosmos Ring is a piece of magical equipment with extremely high hardness. The materials used to refine it are even harder than jade slips. Generally speaking, even if the temperature is close to ten thousand degrees, the Cosmos Ring will not be able to withstand it. Even if they were as high as 10,000 meters, they wouldn't have been completely destroyed.
"Also, Cosmos Rings must've been carried everywhere. Especially for a space pirate like Fengyu Ming who couldn't trust anyone, there was no way that he would've left his Cosmos Rings somewhere else. At the very least, he wouldn't have left none of them with him.
"However, I didn't find any Cosmos Rings among the debris.
"The only possibility is that the mysterious person who killed him took away his Interspatial Ring."
"Fengyu Ming was thrown into the crystal reactor while he was still alive. Therefore, his Cosmos Rings must've been looted before he died. At that time, there were still a lot of space pirates outside. The mysterious killer didn't have much time to interrogate Fengyu Ming. No more than ten minutes.
"Now that he was captured by the mysterious killer, Fengyu Ming should've been dead a long time ago. Then, here comes the question.
"If it were any of us, would we have the confidence to make a space pirate who knew that he was going to die hand over all his Cosmos Rings in ten minutes?"
Cold sweat was popping up on Bai Kaixin's and Lei Dalu's foreheads. They had both slain countless space pirates and knew the ferocious, cunning space pirates very well. They were very tricky to deal with.
It was easy to kill them, but it was even harder to make them hand over intelligence, magical equipment, and Cosmos Rings than to climb to the sky.
Cosmos Rings, in particular, were small, hard, and easy to hide. The experienced space pirates had ten thousand ways to hide them.
Besides, a lot of assets and even magical equipment could be stored inside a Cosmos Ring, which was the only hope for the space pirates to turn the tables. They would never hand over their Cosmos Rings unless they were tortured to the point that they wished they were dead.
How did the mysterious killer get the Cosmos Rings in only a few minutes?
Bai Kaixin and Lei Dalu both felt chills running down their spines. A picture seemed to have popped up in front of their eyes. Inside the creepy engine compartment, a ghostly shadow was torturing Fengyu Ming inhumanely in a way that they couldn't imagine. In only a few minutes, Fengyu Ming would be begging for death.
"Let's put Fengyu Ming aside for now. Let's take a look at the three Crystal Suit."
Xiong Tao turned to the debris of the other three Crystal Suit and pointed at the damage on them. "The breastplate of the Iron Tiger Battlesuit was the most solid one. There were two launch nests for tiny flying swords on the chest. But they were torn apart by a piece of claw-type magical equipment that avoided all the solid structures. The heart of the Exo inside was completely destroyed.
"The Gold Condor Battlesuit was cut open from the left shoulder all the way to the right rib. The joints of the entire Crystal Suit were all cut open. Even the plate armor on the back was chopped off. Of course, the Exo inside couldn't have been more dead, too.
"The helmet of the Phantom Spider Battlesuit was almost blown into a beehive. We found half of an incomplete warhead. After analysis, we couldn't figure out the material inside!
"Look at the clean and neat incisions. I feel that this was not a battle at all. It was not even a massacre but an autopsy!
"Yes. An autopsy. The ferocious space pirates were like corpses on a dissection table before a sharp scalpel when they were faced with the mysterious killer!
"My conclusion is …
"First of all, the mysterious killer was very good at melee combat. Maybe he wasn't in the Core Formation Stage yet. But he was very experienced in real battles, and his attacks were brutal, too.
"Besides, he had a deeper understanding of the Crystal Suit than common Exos. Or rather, it was a natural-born talent. He was like a shark that could sense the smell of blood hundreds of kilometers away. He could perceive the gaps and weaknesses of every Crystal Suit precisely!
"That alone was not enough to cause such perfect wounds.
"He should have a few other pieces of unparalleled magical equipment. He might even have a super Crystal Suit made of such magical equipment. The Crystal Suit was made of certain materials that we couldn't analyze. Even I can't evaluate its level.
"If I have to give a comprehensive evaluation, the man is … extremely dangerous!"
Bai Kaixin took a long breath. "Anything else?"
"Yes!"
Xiong Tao nodded. He retrieved three light beams from his mini crystal processor and displayed dozens of 3D images quickly. "This is the scene of the explosion inside Ghost Jail that I took. I've found thirty-three locations of the explosion."
"It's not easy to blow up a starship, even if it's from the inside. Starships have a certain degree of defense against explosions. They can also spray and fill foam to suppress the explosion quickly.
"The detonation points were definitely not randomly distributed. Instead, they were placed in the most critical locations after careful calculation so that they could cause the greatest damage with the least number of crystal bombs. They even took advantage of the orientation of the crystal wires to achieve the purpose of killing the greatest number of enemies!
"Professional! He is definitely a professional explosion expert! "
Bai Kaixin's white eyebrows were moving without wind. He extended three fingers and said calmly, "Therefore. There was an interrogator, an expert in melee combat with a super Crystal Suit, and an explosion expert before we arrived. He killed Fengyu Ming and crippled Ghost Jail before we arrived? "
Lei Dalu curled his lips and said with a faint smile, "Not necessarily three. Maybe one! The mainframe crystal processor of Ghost Jail should have the surveillance videos of the entire starship. Even if they were destroyed by the explosion, Uncle Xiong should be able to recover a lot of information with his expertise. We should be able to find some traces of the man. "
Xiong Tao narrowed his eyes and said coldly, "This is exactly what I'm going to say."
The image of the debris of the mainframe crystal processor of Ghost Jail popped up on the light beam. It had been cleaned up, but there was a shocking hole in the middle of the mainframe crystal processor.
Xiong Tao pointed at the hole and said, "Look. The information storage chips of the mainframe crystal processor of Ghost Jail should've been here. But right now, the place has been messed up, as if somebody had stuck their hands in there and pulled out the entire information storage chip by force."
Lei Dalu's eyebrows were raised. He was even in the mood to whistle.
Xiong Tao sighed. "This is still not the most surprising part.
"What shocked me the most was that there were nineteen groups of alarm rune arrays installed in the mainframe crystal processor of Ghost Jail. Sixteen of them were in the open, and three of them were very inconspicuous.
"Those alarm rune arrays were in hibernation mode. When somebody tried to sabotage the mainframe crystal processor by brute force, they would be automatically activated and erase all the critical data.
"But right now, the information storage chip has been pulled out brutally, and none of those rune arrays were triggered.
"Do you understand? It's like a burly man who seems to be crazy is slashing you a hundred and eighty times with a rusty saber in his hand, but every single slash of his avoided the fatal parts, and he failed to hit any of your veins!"
"This is a real expert of magical equipment. He knows the structure of magical equipment very well. Very impressive. Truly impressive."
Lei Dalu grinned. "Is he better than you, Uncle Xiong?"
Xiong Tao shook his head. "You can't make such a comparison.
"The world of magical equipment is full of immeasurable Daos. Even the best refiner can't be adept at every type of magical equipment.
"My research direction is super large magical equipment. My main focus is starships. Of course, I'm confident that I'm as good as anybody in the refinement, maintenance, and modification of starships.
"The mysterious expert must've focused on individual magical equipment. He must've studied flying swords, sabers, guns, and Crystal Suit. He must've been an expert in Crystal Suit.
"In the Great Horn Exo Society, Old Jie and Little Mai were both experts in Crystal Suit. But they were both killed in the last explosion.
"As for me, I'm not confident that I can beat the guy in the field of Crystal Suit."
Lei Dalu and Bai Kaixin were both shocked.
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