Every light beam was monitoring a certain area, a pathway, a warehouse, or a secret chamber in the underground fortress.
Most of the pathways, warehouses, and secret chambers were occupied by Immortal Cultivators and space pirates.
Two space pirates were captured in the picture, too. However, different from other space pirates who were looting openly, the two space pirates were sneaking into a very secret pathway one after the other in a zigzag way.
Then, they both retracted their Crystal Suit, making other people lose track of them and leave the main troop.
What dumbfounded Li Yao was the appearance of the two space pirates.
Li Yao knew them. They were two people who should never, and would never, show up in this place.
They were Lei Dalu, captain of the Great Horn Exo Society, and Bai Kaixin, advisor of the Great Horn Exo Society!
"Are — are you kidding me?"
"What's going on? Why are Lei Dalu and Bai Kaixin here, pretending to be space pirates?"
Judging from the picture, Bai Kaixin seemed to be surprised by Lei Dalu's sudden appearance. The two of them were confronting each other with weird expressions.
However, there was only picture and no sound. The two of them turned their backs to each other now and then. Li Yao did not know what they were talking about. He only saw that Bai Kaixin leaned against the wall of the pathway and slowly sat down.
Something even weirder happened!
Bai Xinghe was a Yuanying expert. His senses were hundreds of times keener than normal people's. Even when his aura was maximized, he was still monitoring the light beams closely.
Therefore, Bai Xinghe discovered Lei Dalu and Bai Kaixin immediately.
Then …
After being frozen for half a minute, Bai Xinghe suddenly collapsed like a balloon that had been punctured. His overwhelming aura was entirely gone. He had completely shriveled!
Li Yao even suspected that he would've fallen to the ground if it weren't for the support of the Crystal Suit!
"What — what kind of scheme and trap is this?" Li Yao blinked, completely confused.
Huala! Huala! Huala!
The 'Blood River Battlesuit' on Bai Xinghe's body. It exploded into pieces and splashed all over the ground.
Before the fight started, he gave up the advantage that he had worked so hard to gain and took off the Crystal Suit!
Without the protection of the Crystal Suit. The muscles all over Bai Xinghe's body were relaxed and dangling from his skeleton.
His eyes lost the dominance and sharpness of the Pirate Potentate, too. Instead, there was confusion and even panic that Li Yao could not see through!
"Give me the Dragon King Battlesuit."
"I'll put it on," Bai Xinghe said helplessly.
"Ah?"
Li Yao felt a little dizzy. He vaguely felt that Bai Xinghe's anomaly had something to do with the sudden appearance of Lei Dalu and Bai Kaixin.
It was not a trap. Their arrival was beyond Bai Xinghe's calculation and disrupted Bai Xinghe's carefully planned scheme!
Li Yao suddenly thought of something. "You said that you were indebted to me, and you said that I saved someone at the risk of my own life. I did save the Great Horn Exo Society at the edge of the Iron Plateau Space Zone at the risk of my own life. Is Lei Dalu or Bai Xinghe related to you?"
Bai Xinghe was silent.
The Pirate Potentate … The Yuanying Monster's hands were shivering.
Li Yao raised his voice. "Boss Bai, what is going on? With everything coming to this point, it's time for you to tell the truth, isn't it?
"If you really want me to cooperate with you wholeheartedly, you should at least tell me the cause and effect of everything that happened!"
Bai Xinghe's eyes suddenly turned cloudy. There was an expression of 'man proposes, God disposes' all over his face. In the most coarse voice, he said, "Alright. We don't have much time left. I'll tell you everything!
"However, promise me. After you know everything, we will go to the rescue together!
"I beg you, Li Yao!"
…
Deep inside the underground fortress, inside a secret pathway, the captain and the advisor of the Great Horn Exo Society … They were confronting each other in silence in the darkness.
Bai Kaixin, who had been wearing a gloomy face all day long, was even more gloomy than before. He said coldly, "You shouldn't have come."
Lei Dalu picked his ears and flicked his earwax to the side of the pathway. "Whether I should or shouldn't, I'm already here."
Bai Kaixin gnashed his teeth. "What are you doing here?"
Lei Dalu opened his hands. "A month ago, my best brother, the advisor of the Great Horn Exo Society, left a random letter casually, claiming that he was going to leave the Great Horn Exo Society. Then, he went missing mysteriously and fled to a faraway place.
"Of course, I tried my best to follow him and see if I could change his mind. But I didn't expect that I would discover a great secret. As it turned out, he found the life in the Great Horn Exo Society too boring and decided to devote himself to a promising career as a space pirate. Tsk, tsk, tsk. There are indeed a lot of good goods in this underground fortress. I'm told that the warehouse in the deepest part of the fortress is even filled with mountains of gold and silver. Even I am tempted to join the enemy!"
The word 'space pirate' seemed to have touched Bai Kaixin's nerves. His eyes were burning red as he blurted out, "I am not a space pirate!"
The five words buzzed in the secret tunnel.
Lei Dalu grinned and looked at him in silence.
Bai Kaixin seemed to have lost all his strength. He leaned against the wall and slowly sat down. He said gloomily, "You shouldn't have come. This place is dangerous. Truly dangerous. You may be killed at any moment!"
"Okay."
Lei Dalu scratched his nose and said, "Then, at the very least, let me know the reason before I die."
Bai Kaixin was silent for a long time. His eyes suddenly became hollow, and his voice seemed to be echoing from a very, very deep cave. Finally, he confessed everything. "A long time ago, there was a young man whose parents were both Cultivators.
"For as long as he could remember, he had been living with his mother. His mother was a gentle and wise woman. Although she was busy with her work, she never forgot to teach him with the strictest ideals of the Cultivators.
"When he was little, his mother told him a lot of stories about the Cultivators who helped the weak, punished the wicked, and protected the ordinary people. He swore in his heart that he would become a Cultivator like his mother told him.
"His father was always on the move outside and seldom came home. When he came back, he was solemn and seldom asked about his son.
"However, the relationship between his parents was quite harmonious. On the rare days when his father showed up, he would spend most of his time with his mother. The two of them talked and laughed. They seemed to love each other very much.
"It was the same for many families. The young man didn't think much of it.
"However, as the young man grew up, he realized that the environment he was living in was somewhat weird.
"The young man and his mother lived in a secret chamber below the ground. Although all the facilities were available, including virtual magical equipment that could simulate the sunlight and the natural environment, the young man didn't have any contact with the outside world.
"However, the young man rarely interacted with outsiders. Other than seeing his mother every day, the only thing he saw were some dumb puppet beasts."
"When he reached the age where he could surf the Internet, his mother did allow the young man to surf the Internet. However, all the information was obviously filtered, as if she was worried that the young man might discover something.
"I forgot to mention that the young man's mother was an awesome crystal processor specialist. Her main job every day was to crack a batch of crystal processors left from the ancient times.
"As the young man grew up, he became more and more suspicious. He felt that he was living in a carefully constructed greenhouse.
"One day, the young man escaped from his mother's house when she was unprepared. It was the first time that he saw the world that he lived in!
"What a dreadful world it was!
"The putrid ditches are filled with corpses, and the people on the streets are like beasts in human skin. They're full of debauchery, grotesque, demonic, and demonic!"
"The young man was even tricked and almost kidnapped to be a slave. Thankfully, his father's subordinates arrived in time.
"His father's subordinates slaughtered mercilessly. Not only did they kill all the people who tricked the young man, they also killed a lot of innocent people in the most brutal ways!
"The young man was deeply shocked by the scene.
"The young man finally knew that the world he lived in was the most dreadful place in the entire Flying Star Sector — Spider Den!
"His father was not the Cultivator described in his mother's story at all, either. He was an inhumane space pirate!
"The most dreadful thing was that he realized that the love between his parents was probably an illusion. His mother was not willing to be with his father at all!
"His mother was only a captive left in a space pirate hunt. Because of her fierce resistance, his father should have killed her without any hesitation!
"However, his father found a batch of crystal processors left from the ancient times that he couldn't crack himself. Therefore, after learning that his mother was an expert in crystal processors, he spared his mother's life!
"In fact, even his birth might be based on an extremely cruel reason!"
"His father wanted his mother to stay below the ground and crack the crystal processors for him willingly, but he was scared that his mother might sabotage him in secret. Therefore, his father occupied his mother in sordid ways and gave birth to him.
"It's to make him a tool, a tool that can threaten his mother!"
"Hehe. The young man finally realized that everything in his life was fake and a scam.
"He finally understood the origin of his name, too.
"The young man's name was … Bai Wuxin!
"His father was a bloodless, tearless, heartless, and inhumane animal in the first place!
"The young man was unable to accept all of this. He completely collapsed. In a muddle-headed state, he lived for several years, until something happened that caused him to feel complete despair."
"Not long after the super crystal processor was completely cracked, Bai Wuxin's mother died!
"All the evidence suggested that it was his father who killed her!
"It did make sense. Now that the super crystal processors had been cracked, his mother was of no value to him anymore. If anything, she might reveal the secrets of the underground world. Of course, he killed her without any hesitation!
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