The surveillance picture on the light beam was rewound to half a minute ago. After it was magnified ten times, the picture was rather blurry.
It could be vaguely seen that behind Red Lightning, four interweaved exhaust flames in the shape of spirals had appeared.
It was a carrier that was two thirds smaller than Red Lightning in size.
At first, the two starships seemed to be carrying out a normal docking operation. The carrier decelerated uniformly and kept the same speed as Red Lightning.
But very soon, something seemed to have gone wrong with the deceleration system of the carrier. The exhaust flames were ten times brighter than before, and the carrier accelerated again!
Red Lightning soon noticed the anomaly. Tremendous rays of light flowed out of the carrier and launched a storm of attacks at the carrier.
But it missed the best attack distance. The carrier had already cut into its defense circle.
At such a distance, most of the turrets were in the blind spots of the carrier. The few weapons that could be used to attack were not enough to trigger the highest damage, either.
The spiritual shield around the carrier blocked all the attacks. The few that escaped were not enough to cause fatal damage to the carrier, either.
After fifteen soul-stirring seconds, the carrier accelerated to the highest speed and crashed into Red Lightning brutally!
The place where it crashed happened to be the engine compartment at the rear of Red Lightning.
Supposedly, crystal warships all boasted perfect damage management systems. Even if there were collisions, few crystal warships would explode.
But this carrier seemed to have been manipulated. It exploded and disintegrated from the rear to the front. The spiritual energy generated by the explosion condensed into a fiery spike and pierced into the engine compartment of Red Lightning brutally, triggering a serial explosion of the crystal fuel inside the engine compartment!
Judging from the scale of the explosion, even if Red Lightning was not completely sunk, the middle and rear parts of the engine compartment must have been blown up. It would be impossible for the carrier to resume its sailing ability without major maintenance.
Red Lightning lost all its impetus and turned into an iron coffin floating in the sea of stars!
"It was not an accident."
Bai Kaixin concluded. He continued replaying the video and focused all the computational ability of the crystal processor on the surveillance picture. The quality of the picture was enhanced nonstop.
Finally, when he rewound to more than ten minutes ago, he discovered the traces of the carrier in the deep sea of stars. In the meantime. He also discovered that two tiny light spots had snuck out of the carrier stealthily.
Lei Dalu bulged his eyes and stared at the two light spots. He smacked his lips and said, "I have a familiar feeling. I've seen such a scene before. It reminds me of someone … "
Bai Kaixin smiled, which was rare for him. "I know who you are thinking about, but I am more curious about Fengyu Zhong's expression right now."
…
On the bridge of Blood Rain, the light beam turned pale under the illumination of the bursting light balls, which was exactly the same as Fengyu Zhong's face.
The unparalleled brutal man, who had dominated dozens of people in the sea of stars, watched the replay emotionlessly. Even his eyebrows did not shake at all.
The veins on the back of his tightly clenched fists bulged and twisted. However, it revealed the incomparably violent rage in his heart!
"It's my fault."
Fengyu Zhong narrowed his eyes and squeezed out a cold voice from the gaps of his teeth. "I guessed that there might be enemies lurking on Hippo 19, but I didn't expect that they would be so ruthless!"
"I originally thought that the enemy's goal was to use Hippopotamus-19 to sneak onto my flagship and wait for an opportunity to destroy or assassinate it, so I played along. Let the enemy have a glimmer of hope and wait until we reach the Red Lightning before we slowly deal with him! "
"Who would have thought that this enemy would be so insane and decisive?! It can't hit my flagship. It would've been better if one of my arms was blown up! "
The advisor was sweating hard. He said, "Thankfully, General Feng did not let the enemy approach the flagship. Otherwise, the battle would've been completely different if the flagship had been heavily damaged! The enemy is too brutal. How could he have turned a common carrier into such a terrifying giant bomb? "
"General Feng. We just detected that two escape capsules escaped in advance before Hippopotamus-19 self-detonated and ran away in different directions!
"They must be the culprits of the explosion. Should we send someone to hunt them down?"
Fengyu Zhong soon recovered from the shock of Red Lightning's explosion and calmed down. He studied the surveillance picture and the star map carefully and calculated the parameters quickly. Half a minute later, he shook his head and said, "That will be unnecessary!
"Think about it. Experts such as Huangpu Shiyi and Su Jiuzhen were on Hippopotamus-19. How dreadful must the enemy be to kill them without a sound, control the carrier, and know the secret code? The enemy should be at least at the peak of the Building Foundation Stage, right? It is even possible that there are one or several Core Formation Stage Cultivators.
"How many people do we need to deal with one or several Core Formation Stage Cultivators?
"If we don't have enough people, even if we catch up with them after all the trouble, we will turn from hunters into prey and be killed by them if we are not careful!
"Therefore, to capture the two escape capsules, we will need at least one crystal warship. Since they are running away in different directions, we will need two crystal warships!
"It is a taboo to divide the troops and add fuel to the enemy. We only have four crystal warships in total. How can we annihilate the Great Horn Exo Society if we divide two crystal warships?
"I believe that this is the enemy's purpose. The detonation of Red Lightning was to infuriate me on purpose, hoping that I would make the wrong decision and change the direction of our attack!
"Hehe. The Iron Plateau Space Zone is a chaotic place with stone belts everywhere. Even if several crystal warships are mobilized, we might not be able to capture one escape capsule. The enemy seems to be a reckless desperado, but he is in fact extremely meticulous. He has taken everything into consideration!
"Don't be disturbed by the enemy. Our purpose is to annihilate the Great Horn Exo Society. We are about to achieve our goal. We must not fail at the last moment!
"Most of the Exos on Red Lightning have been released to fight in space. The destruction of Red Lightning will not have much influence on our overall combat ability. It is still possible that we can finish the battle in one and a half days!
"The enemy is indeed detestable, but we must not be blinded by hatred. Let them go!
"After the Great Horn Exo Society is annihilated and we return to Spider Den, we will ask Black Spider Tower to investigate them and find out who they are. It won't be too late to settle the score later!"
The advisor was full of admiration. "General Feng is truly wise! However smart the enemy is, they can never foresee that General Feng's mind is as tough as iron and is not affected by anything at all! In that case … However many schemes the enemy had, there was nothing they could do. They could only watch us blow up the Great Horn Exo Society and avenge Red Lightning! "
Fengyu Zhong smiled casually. He glanced at the two disappearing escape capsules in the deep sea of stars and said, "It's been a long time since I last met such an unexpected opponent. I have a feeling. I'm sure that I will encounter the enemy again in the sea of stars in the future!
"I can't wait to see how frustrated he will be when he realizes that I didn't take the bait. Hahahaha!"
In the deep, boundless sea of stars, Li Yao was driving an escape capsule that had been crazily modified. He was like a dry leaf in a vast ocean, insignificant.
But he was not alone.
The video that he had watched countless times was triggered from his crystal processor. Ding Ling Dong's 3D image accompanied him and glared at him. She was waving her fists, as if she were going to punch his chest.
"Li Yao, I believe in you. You can do it!"
"Of course I can!"
Li Yao fiercely punched his chest, trying his best to suppress the intense pain caused by the curse. He forcefully swallowed a mouthful of black blood back into his stomach. He only felt that his entire throat was burning, as if ten thousand ants were biting him.
But the excruciating pain made his soul burn more intensely, and his brain was clearer than ever.
He tried to cheer himself up. He condensed his telepathic thoughts and compiled a long paragraph of information, describing everything that had happened since he came to the Skyhill Domain and the Temple of Immortals. He entered the information into a special jade chip.
Then, he released the jade chip into the sea of stars.
The jade chip was a piece of very special magical equipment that boasted the function of automatically searching the Spiritual Nexus. Once it floated to a place where there was a signal, it would automatically send the information to a secret address on the Spiritual Nexus.
It was one of the more than ten secret contact points between him and Sparkle.
He had to inform the Cultivators of the Heaven's Origin Sector on Sparkle of the arrival of the Immortal Cultivators so that they could make preparations as soon as possible.
Then … Li Yao adjusted the sailing route slightly and continued fleeing into the depths of the Iron Plateau Space Zone.
Blood Rain didn't catch up with him. It was not strange. How could an old dog like Fengyu Zhong be infuriated so easily?
With a cruel smile, Li Yao sent a clear message to Blood Rain.
In order to attract the attention of the rescuers, the escape capsules had been installed with very powerful magical equipment that could send and receive telepathic thoughts. Therefore, it took only several minutes for the message to be received by the mainframe crystal processor of Blood Rain.
On the bridge of Blood Rain …
"General Feng, one of the escape capsules has sent a clear message!"
The advisor said with a weird expression while he displayed the message on the main light beam of the bridge.
The message was very simple. There were only four words: 'Come and catch me!'
Fengyu Zhong was dazed for a long time. He was amused and shook his head. "I thought that he was a strong enemy. I didn't know that he was so naïve! He didn't think that such a trick would make me lose my mind and chase after him regardless of the big picture, did he? "
The advisor was amused. "Even such a naïve trick has been proposed. It is obvious that the enemy is truly at his wit's end!"
Five minutes later, the second message was sent over.
"It's not too late to chase after me now. Otherwise, I'll run into the stone belts. Really. Come and catch me now, or you'll regret it."
The advisor was dazed. "What — what's wrong with the guy's head? Once was not enough, and he's doing it again?"
Fengyu Zhong chuckled. "Just ignore him. Let everybody take a rest in the last moment. Ask the maintenance workshop to repair the Crystal Suit. When the capability of the Crystal Suit is restored to sixty percent, we will launch a new round of attacks and exhaust Great Horn!"
Another five minutes later, the third message was sent over.
"I've given you a chance, but you didn't cherish it. In another five minutes, you will burst into fury and be rolling on the ground, Fengyu Zhong!"
The advisor didn't know what to say.
He had never seen such an unscrupulous enemy before.
Fengyu Zhong, on the other hand, stared at the paragraph with a thoughtful expression.
The advisor was dazed. "General Feng, you're not really going to mobilize the entire army to chase after a tiny escape capsule, are you? Let me see. The enemy is already at the edge of the stone belts. It's too late to turn around and chase after him now. The odds of catching up with him are not high … "
Fengyu Zhong replied resolutely, "Of course I won't do such a stupid thing! I just don't know why the enemy is so naïve! Ask everybody to be prepared. We will launch a full-scale assault in half an hour! "
Five minutes later, the fourth message was sent over.
"General Feng, the enemy has sent us another message. But it is not a text message, but … a very long video!"
The advisor said with a weird expression.
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