When all the crew members dispersed, and the vice-captain returned to the cockpit obediently, Li Yao finally took a long breath in relief, his eyes half closed.
He knew that he had won the bet for now.
He was not worried that the vice-captain and the crew members would question his words. After all, his capability was much higher than theirs, and he seemed to be infuriated and ready to kill anyone at any moment.
Driven by their survival instincts, those people could only believe in his words and that he was a real Immortal Cultivator in order to have a chance of survival.
The only thing that Li Yao was worried about was whether or not there was a surveillance system in the warehouse that would send the pictures captured by the crystal cameras to the cockpit. If so, his lies would be exposed from the very beginning.
But the possibility was very slim.
The warehouse was the place where Huangpu Shiyi refined crystal bombs. Refining crystal bombs was one of his greatest techniques. Chances were that he would employ many secret methods during the refining process. The structure, formula, and ratio of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures of the crystal bombs were all top secrets.
As a refiner himself, Li Yao knew the taboos of refiners when they were refining magical equipment. They did not like to be watched by other people.
The Skyhill Sword Seminar was a competition between refiners below forty years old, but it was already one of the most advanced competitions of refining in the Flying Star Sector.
It was because the seasoned refiners who were more than forty years old, who had made a name for themselves and had a profound Cultivation, were unwilling to expose their greatest skills in public.
It was one thing for them to communicate with each other on the Spiritual Nexus, but even the most open-minded refiners might be hiding a few secrets in secret. It was only natural.
Besides, Huangpu Shiyi was not a Cultivator. He was a selfish Immortal Cultivator. How could he allow his top secrets to be exposed?
If somebody got hold of the picture of the crystal bombs and copied it to other refiners in the Temple of Immortals, it was very possible that they would be able to infer Huangpu Shiyi's top secret techniques!
Therefore, Li Yao made the assumption that … Even if there were indeed surveillance cameras in the warehouse, the picture would only be transmitted to Huangpu Shiyi's own crystal processor. Other people would never see it.
That was why he dared to lie without batting an eyelid.
At this moment, he finally confirmed his judgment. Li Yao couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Then, he let out a muffled groan, and a few faint wisps of black gas appeared on his face.
The witchcraft curse that the monkey-faced old man had condensed with his soul after his death was flowing all over Li Yao's body. Wanton destruction.
Li Yao clenched his teeth so hard that they creaked, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead. He felt as if the nine little black snakes were tearing apart his tendons and blood vessels one by one and swallowing them. It was extremely painful, as if ten thousand arrows were piercing through his heart.
Li Yao had purposely opened up his mind a few times, hoping to draw all nine witchcraft curses into his brain. Using Ou Yezi's enormous divine soul to deal with them.
Unexpectedly, these witchcraft curses seemed to have a life of their own. It was extremely sensitive to danger. After circling around his brain a few times, it had already sensed the threat. Without even turning its head, it returned to his limbs and bones, wreaking havoc in his internal organs.
Thankfully, Li Yao had received the heritage of 'Iron God' Yan Ba, a body fundamentalist. Also, after the training of the Thousand Tempering Hundred Refining technique forty thousand years ago, his body was as tough as iron. He could almost be called a body practitioner now. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to hold on and would've been rolling on the ground.
Black Spider Evil Soul. Curse after death. Impressive!
Li Yao clenched his fists and punched his chest and abdomen hard. His spiritual energy surged out, and he managed to suppress the witchcraft curses.
There was still a lot of work to be done. There was no time to tangle with the annoying witchcraft curses. He could only resist them with brute force!
After obtaining the detailed structural design of the carrier, Li Yao browsed through it while he examined it.
When he 'found' a crystal bomb that was set to explode in fifteen minutes from a tube gap in one of the cabins, the vice-captain and the crew were all soaked in cold sweat. They completely lowered their wariness and listened to Li Yao's every word.
Li Yao took the opportunity to take over the maintenance of the carrier. He assigned the few remaining refiners to the unimportant posts for maintenance.
Twenty minutes later, a slight explosion came from the top of the bridge.
It was the place where Li Yao had just checked, where he had found three powerful crystal bombs.
"Not good. The telepathic thought transmission room has exploded. Our telepathic thought transmission rune array group has been completely blown up. We can't send messages to the outside world anymore!"
The vice-captain frowned hard the moment he received the damage report.
Next to him, Li Yao, as the temporary supervisor of maintenance, received the same report, too. His face couldn't have looked more awful. He gnashed his teeth and said, "Damn Huangpu Shiyi. I didn't know that he was so cunning. One of his crystal bombs was so well-hidden that I missed it!"
This time, it was the vice-captain who comforted him. "Master Li Yao, you've found so many crystal bombs. It's inevitable that you missed one or two of them in your haste! Had it not been for Master Li Yao, I'm afraid that the entire bridge would've been blown up instead of a tiny telepathic thought transmission room. "
Li Yao sniffed and asked, "Then, what's the situation now? We can't send messages to the outside world anymore?"
"Yes," the vice-captain replied. "We can only receive the telepathic thoughts from Storm Prison, but we cannot send detailed telepathic thoughts to them over such a long distance by eliminating the interferences in space."
"However, there's no need to worry, Master Li Yao. We can still open an enormous light beam around the carrier and send some simple messages by blinking mystic rays of different colors and intervals.
"This will be called 'flag signals'.
"Through the special super large crystal cameras, as long as they lock onto our location, they will be able to see our flag signals even if we are tens of thousands of kilometers away.
"However, the flag signals are very simple. They can only describe dozens of specific states."
Li Yao nodded and asked, "What's the situation on Fengyu Zhong's side right now?"
The vice-captain replied, "We are receiving messages from Storm Prison nonstop. According to the battle half an hour ago, Storm Prison had five warships in total, including 'Bloody Rain', the flagship of the pirate gang commanded by Fengyu Zhong in person. They are biting Gold Horn of the Great Horn Exo Society tightly!
"The Gold Horn is not fighting alone. For some reason, the two warships of two Cultivation sects did not return to defend themselves. They formed a small fleet and are resisting stubbornly.
"However, we are well-prepared. One of the enemy warships has basically been crippled after the assault. The other two starships have been heavily damaged, too. Their engine systems have been greatly affected. It is impossible for them to perform a space jump, and they cannot increase their speed, either. There is no way for them to escape.
"According to our detection, they have sent out intense telepathic thoughts in all directions. They must be distress signals.
"However, the Cultivators who were lying in ambush around them have been disoriented by our series of strikes. They have all returned to their mother ports and the headquarters of their respective sects. Running for their lives, they have consumed a lot of spiritual energy and fuel on their way back.
"Even if the Cultivators return right now, they will have to refill their spiritual energy and fuel. It will take at least three to five days for the first batch of reinforcements to arrive.
"In comparison, it will only take us two days to swallow them all!
"The Great Horn Exo Society is desperate. Their desperate attacks are quite fierce, too. Storm Prison has suffered heavy losses. They hoped that we could join them as soon as possible partly because of Huangpu Shiyi's refining techniques. They were repairing the damaged crystal suits so that they could recover their combat ability as soon as possible and finish the enemy as soon as possible. On the other hand, they were sneaking into the enemy's starships without alarming anyone with Elder Su Jiuzhen's stealth and assassination techniques and assassinating the important persons. We could sabotage the critical parts and break the enemy's defense from the inside!
"However, right now …"
The vice-captain laughed awkwardly.
Li Yao took a deep breath. He closed his eyes and rolled his eyeballs. He nodded and said, "Got it. Although Huangpu Shiyi has been crippled, he still has me, doesn't he? I know how to repair the Crystal Suit, too. This is the time for me to show my skills! How long will it take for us to join Fengyu Zhong? "
"Soon. In about ten hours, we will be in contact with each other.
"In fact, from the distance, we can vaguely detect feeble spiritual waves from the picture fed back by the super large crystal cameras. Please take a look, Master Li Yao!"
The vice-captain led Li Yao to the control panel and pointed at a giant light beam.
Perhaps because of the special filtering of the crystal cameras, the universe displayed on the light beam was slightly red, as if it were a bleeding galaxy.
Feeble light spots were bursting out from the depths of the sea of stars now and then. They were bouncing stubbornly like countless sparks.
"Is that the battlefield?" Countless light spots were blinking inside Li Yao's eyes, which were as dark as ink.
"Yes. That is where the Great Horn Exo Society was buried!" The vice-captain grinned hideously.
In the next six hours, Li Yao was even busier than before.
He wandered around every corner of the carrier and searched for the crystal bombs that Huangpu Shiyi might have left behind.
He paid special attention to the important parts of the carrier, such as the engine compartment, the storage compartment of crystals, the arsenal, and so on.
Many times, he even asked everybody working in the cabins to leave, claiming that he was going to perform a thorough examination with secret arts and that nobody should peep in.
He had just slain the captain with one slash, and the killing intent around him hadn't dispersed yet. The common crew members, who were at most in the Refinement Stage, did not dare to ask him any questions even if they had any.
The result of their secret discussion was that, since Storm Prison was right in front of them, everything would be left to Fengyu Zhong after they joined Jin Dan and Fengyu Zhong. What was the point of worrying about the small fries?
Six hours later, however, Li Yao locked himself in Huangpu Shiyi's refining workshop.
He smashed the ant nest model and the monkey specimen on Huangpu Shiyi's desk into pieces and swept the pieces to the ground. Then, he began his own refining.
Nine and a half hours later, the long-distance carrier finally broke into the bleeding stars and appeared at the edge of the battlefield!
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After three days of exploding, he couldn't do it anymore. He had to take a rest and figure out what he was going to do next.
Besides, he was very busy in his unit, and he had to do his job well. After all, he had to feed his family with his salary, didn't he?
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