Silin and White Night departed immediately after they were done with the business at AF1. They didn't tell Genya about this because it would drag the Gen Family into this mess. Right now, Silin had no idea how many people were involved in this mess or how many higher-ups were involved in this mess. Silin didn't know how many higher-ups of the empire were involved in this mess at all.
It was as if a drop of ink had fallen into a pool of water and melted into it. Although the water didn't look much different from before, the drop of ink did exist in the water.
Although the star map inside the projector in Guan Feng's living room couldn't be duplicated and the projector had self-destructed on its own, everyone had a good memory. They were able to recreate a new star map after the projector had self-destructed.
"Is there really such a place?" Inside the spaceplane's control room, Sediya asked Cillin while staring at the partial star map projection in his hand.
"There should be. Even if there aren't any of those planets, there must be other planets in that place," Silin said.
"You're right. I never noticed this place on my previous star map. How mysterious it is." Sediya poked at the marked spot with his finger. "I wonder what's waiting for us there."
Chi Lafang twirled his sun hat with his finger. "Whatever it is, it's going to be troublesome. Oh right, I heard that Black Viper has a lot of robots. I wonder what level they're at right now. I'd be very disappointed if they're still the same as the scrap metal we ran into a while ago. "
Nikki, who was playing a game, shot him a sideways glance. "Even if you're a pile of scrap metal, a thousand of them will be able to turn you into a sieve with a single shot, not to mention that you're in Black Viper's headquarters. Write a will first, and when the time comes, divide up your remaining assets."
Chi Lafang paused in twirling his sun hat and chuckled. "I'm not willing to throw my life away for the unspent assets I haven't spent yet."
"Then be serious and don't screw up when the time comes. A man who can fall asleep in shooting class is seriously suspicious. Also, don't think I don't know that Armadillo was the one who completed most of the last mission. "
"Shooting class is so boring, it would be strange if I didn't fall asleep. Secondly, you can't deny the fruits of my labor! I've also fought robots before! "
Nikki ignored Chi Lafang's nonsense and continued playing her game. Armadillo wagged his tail. This wasn't the first time Chi Lafang had fallen asleep during a battle.
"Hey, where are those two?" Chi Lafang kicked Armadillo.
Armadillo pointed at the door with his tail. "They're patrolling their territory."
Ever since they boarded the aircraft, Huimao and Ruble, the two guys who loved to enclose territories, started to fight for territory. The spaceplane wouldn't allow them to spray their metabolites anywhere they wanted, so Wheeze habitually rubbed its own scent everywhere. Ruble the snow wolf did the same, and the two fellows immediately started fighting over territory the moment they boarded the spaceplane. They nearly broke into a fight. In the end, Huimao came out on top and seized more territory.
Ruble was afraid that the cat would cheat him, so every time Huimao went out to patrol his territory, Ruble would go out and supervise him to prevent the cat from taking over his territory.
As they were talking, Huimao walked in with his tail up, followed by Ruble, who had an ugly expression on his face.
"Yo, are you done patrolling?" Armadillo greeted them.
Ruble was annoyed at the mention of this. "If this cat wasn't a team member's pet, I would've bitten it to death!"
Huimao jumped onto Silin's shoulder and was licking his paws. When he heard Ruble's words, he raised his paw and pointed at Ruble. "You know how many times I've eaten trash like you when I was a kid!"
Silin smiled as he recalled the first time he met Huimao. This guy had indeed eaten a lot of wolves. He flicked Huimao's ear. "Alright, don't argue. We're all teammates this time."
Huimao snorted. "We're both canines, but this guy is annoying no matter how I look at him. Chifeng is better."
Ruble bared his teeth. If the cat said one more word, he would go over and bite off the cat's ear!
Just as Huimao was about to say something, an alarm interrupted him.
"What's wrong?" The sleepy Chi Lafang woke up with a start.
"Nothing, I just received a message." Nikki put down the game console and converted the received signal into characters. After decoding it, it was a message: If you want to find Black Viper, come here first, or you'll regret it.
The people in the control room looked at the message in silence.
Nikki continued to decode the message. Along with the message was a simple star map with a planet indicated on it. It wasn't the area that had disappeared, but a place slightly further away from that area. However, the similarity between all of them was that they hadn't forgotten about that planet. Even though everyone could find that planet on their star maps, no one paid attention to it. Moreover, there was very little information about that planet. In short, it could be summed up in one word — poor.
After a while, Silin asked White Night, "Has our whereabouts been leaked?"
White Night shook his head. "No one knows where we're going except for the few of us."
If it wasn't Black Viper, and no information had been leaked, then who had sent this encrypted message?
There was no doubt that the person who had sent this message was very familiar with Silin's group's whereabouts and goals. However, none of them could think of anyone who would do such a thing.
"What do we do? Are we going? "Sediya looked at everyone.
"Same old rules, let's vote." Nikki moved her finger, and a screen appeared in front of everyone. There were three choices on it: "Go", "No", and "Forfeit".
The final choice was "Go".
"Looks like we all have the same idea. That's a good thing." Sediya smiled.
Since they had decided to go, they adjusted their flight path and flew toward that planet.
Everyone had been searching for information about that planet before they arrived, but the strange thing was that the results were all the same. However, the information was also quite limited, which made it even stranger.
Even with their capabilities, they could only find so little information, and they weren't even sure if this information was real or not.
"Even the poorest planet, even if it's so barren that it can't support itself, the database should have records about it. However, there's just too little information. It's as if someone has erased all the other information," Nikki said. Her young face, which looked like she was seven or eight years old, was filled with a serious and contradictory expression. If Silin didn't already know that she was in her thirties, he would've thought that she had the same special experience as Tang Qiuqiu.
"No matter what, we need to be careful."
"Bring your equipment."
While everyone was discussing a strategy, Rubu and Armadillo also joined in the discussion with serious expressions on their faces. Huimao was the most relaxed in the control room. It didn't care about the strangeness of that planet at all. To it, this was just a hunting game. Not only was it not nervous, but it was also looking forward to it. It would be best if there was some fresh food to satisfy its hungry stomach. Silin and Blueskin had already divided up all the sea beast eggs they had collected, and now they were very hungry.
Silin and the others found their destination planet based on the coordinates given by the message. The planet wasn't big, and the environment wasn't good. Although humans could survive on the planet, it definitely wasn't a good life.
According to the scanning area of the probe, this was indeed a relatively barren planet. There weren't even any surveillance satellites or defense networks on the planet's periphery. It was obvious that the development of this planet wasn't good.
"What's the situation on the planet?" Armadillo asked.
"Very poor. He was as poor as a doornail. Apart from the metal content in the city areas, the other places have pitifully little metal content. The soil is gray, and gray soil is lacking in many elements. There are very few plants that can survive in this kind of soil. There are less than a hundred species of plants that have evolved to adapt to the soil, but each of them is very strong. It's survival of the fittest, "Nikki explained.
Looking at the planet from space, most of it was gray, and it looked very depressed and lifeless.
From the image shown on the monitor, they could see what was happening on the bright side of the planet. The reason why almost all the metals on the planet were concentrated in the cities was that they were almost metal cities made of steel. Rather than calling them cities, it was better to call them large fortresses, as if they were guarding against something.
Finally, they saw what the cities were guarding against.
Not far from the cities, there were many black shadows moving very quickly. They were the animals that had adapted to the planet. They were about three meters tall and had long claws that could dig through the gray soil to find small animals hiding underground. They could also use their sharp claws to attack humans. Humans were also part of their diet.
There were many places on the planet that had these black monsters moving very quickly.
"Say, what do you think that mysterious person wants us to do here? Help clear out the monsters? "Chi Lafang said as he lay on the chair with his arms crossed, looking at the image on the screen.
Bai didn't answer. Instead, he turned to Nikki and asked, "Is there anything else besides that message and the star map?"
Nikki shook her head. "Nothing else. That's what I'm curious about."
Just then, the receiver received another message, and Nikki quickly decoded it.
"Welcome to this place." Sediya read out the decoded message and looked at Nikki in confusion. "And then?"
"There's nothing else." Nikki was also very helpless. Was the other party messing with them with just this bit of information?
Nikki rubbed her ears. She liked to rub her ears whenever she was annoyed. She continued, "Since that person has the technology to send us this message, the situation on this planet shouldn't be like this."
"Indeed. The backwardness of this planet is too far away from the technology that person possesses."
"Can't find the source of the message?" Bai Ye asked Nikki.
"No. That person is very cunning. Almost every city on this planet has traces of his signal."
"So he's an expert. Is he really not from the Black Viper? "Chi Lafang said as he rubbed his chin. His eyes were so narrow that it was impossible to see the expression in them.
They didn't say anything, and neither did they immediately land on the planet. Instead, they waited outside the planet.
Silin looked at Huimao on his shoulder. Even though the cat was trying its best to act as if nothing had happened, Silin could tell from the frequency at which its whiskers were twitching and the curve of its tail that it was wagging.
What was it proud of? There was only one answer.
"You know where the source is?" Silin pinched Huimao's ears.
Huimao's ears twitched and flicked Silin's hand away, but it didn't say anything. Did that mean it was tacit agreement?
Everyone in the control room and the animals looked at Huimao. This time, Huimao couldn't keep up his act any longer, and his mouth opened uncontrollably.
"How did it know?" Rub was very reluctant to believe it.
White Night unfurled the scanned map of the planet and placed it in front of Huimao. "You know where he is?"
Huimao raised a paw and pointed at one of the cities proudly. "I only know that he's in this city, but I don't know which corner of the city he's in. But if he emits one more time, I'll be able to find him and catch this hidden 'rat'."
White Night looked at Cillin, and Cillin nodded, indicating that he was trustworthy.
"Go to that city," White Night said to Nikki.
"Okay." Nikki piloted the aircraft and flew in that direction.
Rub's eyes widened. You believe it just like that? You believe this cat?!
There was a metal electric fence in the sky above the city to prevent dangerous birds from entering. There were also people who would keep an eye on them.
From time to time, a few simple flying cars would fly out. These cars were very cumbersome, but they were very practical in this kind of environment. Although they weren't very agile, they had good defense and could withstand the attacks of some flying birds.
There were also a few teams of people who drove armored land vehicles out to hunt. There was a lack of meat in the city.
Man and beast, this was a two-way process of hunting. Both sides were on the other's menu.
The people in the metal cities were generally stronger. Be it men or women, or even children, they all had a murderous look in their eyes. Different places nurtured different people. Their living environment shaped these people's personalities.
Just like Tang Qiuqiu, these children had been armed with guns and knives since they were young. They learned how to fight against monsters from their elders, and it was a necessary lesson for them in life.
Silin's group didn't want to be too high-profile. They didn't want to expose too much before they figured out the situation. However, every metal city was an independent entity, and they all rejected outsiders.
In the end, they didn't go straight into the city. Instead, they found a place to settle down and figure out the situation on this planet. Otherwise, they would be caught like turtles in a jar if they recklessly entered the city.
At night, the aircraft quietly landed at the predetermined location. The place was covered by a hill, and the aircraft landed in stealth mode, so no one noticed them.
Although no one noticed them, the monsters were unusually perceptive.
"Those guys outside are pretty fast," Sediya said as he looked at the scene on the screen.
"I'm going to look for food!" Huimao jumped off Silin's shoulder and ran out.
"I'm going too." Rub didn't want to be left behind and ran out.
"Uh, I'm going out too. I'm hungry." Armadillo wagged his tail and followed.
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