The space pirates were greatly reassured when they saw that Li Yao was able to stand on his own despite being hit by Bai Xinghe's attack, only his Crystal Suit was broken.
Right now, the outcome had been decided. It was the best opportunity to beat the enemy when he was down. Besides, they did not need to attack Bai Xinghe in person. As long as they found traces of Bai Xinghe and reported it to Fengyu Zhong through the battle network, the Yuanying would immediately come and finish Bai Xinghe.
Bai Xinghe's Cosmos Ring had fallen into Bai Wulei's hands. The space pirates felt that the gate of an underground treasury was slowly opening, and countless secret treasures of the Star Ocean Imperium were waiting for them to excavate. They all agreed and applauded loudly!
Bai Wulei raised Bai Xinghe's broken hand high and showed the Cosmos Ring on his ring finger to everyone. He announced, "Bai Xinghe has a lot of secret bases in Capital Nest. Some of them were told to me by him, but some of them were built in secret, thinking that I didn't know anything about them!
"Hehe. He doesn't know that I've been investigating in secret for a long time. All his secret bases have been investigated thoroughly!
"Time is of the essence. I'll send the coordinates of all Bai Xinghe's secret bases to your crystal processors. Search for them immediately. Don't give him any chance to catch his breath!"
The Yuanying could run more than ten kilometers per minute at full speed. It was indeed a race against time.
In the blink of an eye, Fengyu Zhong, Bai Wulei, the Black King, as well as the experts of Black Spider Tower and the Immortal Army, marched toward Bai Xinghe's secret bases as fast as lightning.
The other space pirates, stimulated by the treasures, rubbed their fists and dispersed, too.
The Crystal Suit Refining Center, which had been bustling a moment ago, suddenly fell into silence. Many furnaces and heavy equipment that had been established on high places finally could not hold on any longer because the frames below had been broken. They all broke apart in cracking noises and fell to the ground.
Li Yao slowly took off the broken Drunk Bat Battlesuit. In the end, he spat out a mouthful of blood that he had purposely forced out. Taking advantage of the moment when he lowered his head and coughed, he hid the flickering stars deep inside his eyes.
His adventure with Bai Xinghe just now. He had achieved three purposes.
Firstly, by releasing a lot of crystal bombs that could disrupt everybody's vision and telepathic thoughts, Bai Xinghe's odds of survival were slightly increased.
Second. Of all the crystal bombs, one of them contained a special drug named 'Ice Butterfly Powder'.
This kind of medicine was extracted from dozens of types of spirit insects. After refining, it was divided into two flavors, male and female.
Once the female drug exploded. It would adhere firmly to the human body, and it would be extremely difficult to remove using ordinary methods.
This medicine was colorless, tasteless, invisible and formless. It was neither painful nor itchy when attached to the body. If one did not deliberately perceive it, one would definitely not be able to detect it.
However, as long as one dripped the essence of the male medicine into their eyes, they would be able to faintly sense it in the air. The traces left behind by the Ice Butterfly's phosphorus powder.
It was like Li Yao had put a ball of string on Bai Xinghe, and one end of the ball of string was in his hands.
Wherever Bai Xinghe ran to, he would be able to track him down!
The production method of 'Ice Butterfly Powder' was an ancient formula that Li Yao had discovered in the Heavenly Refining Tower in Ou Yezi's memory pieces. Li Yao believed that even Bai Xinghe would not know it. Was there such a secret art in the world?
Third, Li Yao was planning to destroy the Drunk Bat Battlesuit with Bai Xinghe's help, too!
Before the battle, the Drunk Bat Battlesuit had been connected to Fengyu Zhong's battle network. Everybody shared the same vision and knew each other's coordinates.
For a commander such as Fengyu Zhong, he would also know the specifications of every Crystal Suit.
Li Yao could see other people's perspective through their crystal cameras. Naturally, other people could see a lot of things through the crystal cameras of the Drunk Bat Battlesuit, too.
In the search that followed … Li Yao did not want to be under Fengyu Zhong's surveillance all the time. He also did not want other people to see something that they were not supposed to see through Bai Xinghe's crystal cameras when he found him.
If he had changed into a Crystal Suit without a good reason, it would have raised the enemy's suspicion anyway.
Right now, the Drunk Bat Battlesuit was on the brink of destruction. He had changed into his backup Crystal Suit and was in a hurry to search for Bai Xinghe. Therefore, he did not have the time to connect to Fengyu Zhong's battle network.
"Shua!"
Li Yao tapped his forehead with the index finger and middle finger of his right hand. He retrieved the 'Dark Raven Battlesuit', which was very common on Spider Den, from his Cosmos Ring.
The Crystal Suit had been specially modified by Li Yao. It was not strengthened, but weakened. All the complicated components had been dismantled. Other than the basic power rune arrays, it was nothing but an empty shell.
Also, mini crystal bombs had been installed on all the joints of the suit, ensuring that all the crystal suits would explode as soon as he telepathically activated them.
The only purpose of such modifications was to make sure that the crystal suits would not be a hindrance when he was changing in midair so that he would be able to summon his real trump card, the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit, in the blink of an eye!
Li Yao was an expert of 'midair changing' in the first place. He could change his suit at a surprisingly high speed.
With such a design, he was not 'changing his suit' at all. He was simply putting on a Crystal Suit.
Therefore, when he put on the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit, he would certainly be faster than the enemy's expectation!
As long as he was one second faster than the enemy's expectation, it was very likely that he would take the initiative in the battle!
Swoosh!
Li Yao turned into a streak of blackness and disappeared into the depths of Capital Nest after a few leaps and bounds.
After zigzagging for a while, Li Yao found a corner of a mining pit. He stopped and dripped two clusters of translucent drugs that looked like blue ice cream into his eyes.
When he appeared above the Crystal Suit Refining Center again, Li Yao was quite confident. His eyes glittering, he observed the scene, trying to find traces.
Then, something strange happened!
In the northeast corner of the Crystal Suit Refining Center, a vague blue trace was floating, as if countless blue butterflies were dancing.
It was the trace left by the friction between the 'Ice Butterfly Powder' and the air, which was also Bai Xinghe's route of escape.
However, this blue mark didn't drag out for long before it disappeared.
Li Yao dashed over while sticking close to the wall of the mining pit. When he examined it carefully, he discovered that it was a collapsed ruin. Among the debris of the super large furnaces, countless narrow gaps were interconnected.
Deep inside the gaps, the blue trace was clearly visible.
Could it be …
Li Yao's heart was pounding as he thought of a possibility.
Bai Xinghe was truly bold. Everybody thought that he would run away because of his heavy wounds. But as it turned out, he had come back and seemed to be running away, but in fact, he was hiding in the depths of the Crystal Suit Refining Center right under the nose of Fengyu Zhong, Bai Wulei, and the Black King!
Li Yao couldn't help but applaud the Pirate Potentate in his heart. He blinked and dashed into the ruins.
In the pitch-black darkness, the traces of the Ice Butterfly Powder left by Li Yao were clearly visible. Li Yao followed his escape route and zigzagged downward.
Passing through two ventilation tubes, he crawled into a forsaken material transmission tube. After wriggling for almost ten minutes without a sound, he jumped down through a gap. Below him was a stinky sewage treatment tank.
What was being treated in the Crystal Suit Refining Center was not regular sewage but the cooling liquids left after the refining operations and the residual liquids after the extraction of the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.
A lot of the sewage was highly toxic and corrosive.
Inside the treatment tank, almost a hundred kinds of sewage in various colors were mixed together, making it look like a giant dye tank. Bubbles were popping up nonstop.
Despite the filtration of the Crystal Suit, Li Yao still felt that two burning iron rods had been stabbed into his nose. He was in excruciating pain.
Next to the sewage treatment tank, there were several dark corridors leading in all directions. No one knew where they led to.
However, there was no trace of the Ice Butterfly Powder in any of the pathways.
On the other hand, on the surface of the colorful sewage, there was a glimmer of the powder.
Li Yao sneered in his heart. He raised his wariness and jumped into the sewage.
He had been prepared for the possibility that Bai Xinghe was lurking inside the sewage treatment tank.
But as it turned out, there was something else inside the sewage treatment tank. There was also a long pipe down below that led to an unknown destination.
Li Yao secretly frowned. The Ice Butterfly Powder was not scared of common liquids, but the sewage here, which had been mixed with the residues and waste liquids of countless Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, had washed away more than half of the powder.
He could only vaguely sense the starry light ahead of him.
Li Yao swam forward hard. After swimming in the dark sewage for more than ten minutes, a vague brightness suddenly appeared above his head.
He reached out his hand and found that a hole more than one meter in diameter had been cut open at the top of the pipe. The edge of the hole was quite rough, and it was large enough for a man in a Crystal Suit to crawl through.
"This is the place!"
Li Yao thought of something. He suddenly raised his hands and threw out a flare that contained super dazzling rune arrays first. Then, he threw out a crystal bomb!
As he expected, the moment the crystal bomb exploded, a strong wind swept across the top of the pipe!
Li Yao took the opportunity to jump up. Before the enemy realized what was going on, he threw out another two dazzling bombs and two interference bombs. A shriek burst out in the narrow space, which was then enshrouded in a black fog!
The moment Li Yao dashed out of the pipe, he slid to the edge of the space on all fours like a giant spider.
He was surrounded by smoke. Under the interference of all kinds of dazzling lights, noises, and telepathic thoughts, it was impossible for the heavily wounded Bai Xinghe to locate his specific location. But Li Yao could lock onto Bai Xinghe's trace with the last trace of the Ice Butterfly Powder!
Bai Xinghe glanced around and realized that he had missed the target. He calmed down immediately and lurked on the diagonal of Li Yao like a wounded tiger.
In the instant before the dazzling array glyphs gradually extinguished, Li Yao scanned his surroundings and discovered that he was in a secret room with a radius of no more than five meters. The walls around him were covered in moss, and in the dark, there were cockroaches and rats fleeing in panic.
Then, he faced the most dreadful man on Spider Den in the darkness where he could not even see his own fingers.
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