The Fog had only sent three assassins, or at least only three of them were known to the public. Moreover, all three of them had caused a lot of damage to the A Squad.
But what about now?
First it was Radon, then Tyers, and now the Blue Succubus that was being held by the robot. Stanley had to admit that he had made a mistake this time.
Ji Feng had told him not to underestimate Silin too much before he came here. Stanley didn't pay much attention to it at the time, though. After this incident, he realized that Ji Feng might have underestimated Silin and the small squad behind Silin.
"What the hell happened to this place?!" Huimao looked very unhappy when he saw the state of the training ground. Although he would still demand compensation from the A Squad later, no one would be happy to see their turf destroyed like this.
"I'm so happy to see you again, Lord Cat!" Mogas ran up to Huimao and explained what happened just now to him.
Everyone in the A Team turned to Mogas in unison when he called out "Lord Cat". Their eyes were filled with curiosity.
Huimao's nose twitched a little before he jumped off Silin's shoulder and ran up to the deformed metal door. Then, he sniffed it, moved his ears, and lifted the thick metal door with his paw. It was so thick that it could easily crush a person to death.
The A Squad members couldn't help but feel their faces twitch when they saw this. Mogas wasn't lying. They knew that the cat was a little special, but they didn't think it would be this special.
Huimao didn't care what the others thought of him. He was after the thing under the metal door.
After the thick metal door was lifted, everyone saw a person who was crushed to a bloody pulp under the door. However, Huimao's target wasn't the navigator, but the thing in the man's hand.
Huimao picked up the deformed instrument with his paw and tossed it to Silin. "This thing is a little special," he said.
Czedow looked at the seriously damaged device. He hadn't paid attention to it before, and the device itself had lost all of its functions due to damage. That was why he hadn't paid attention to it when he was cleaning up the training ground. He didn't expect Huimao to be the first one to find it.
"What is this?" Silin asked.
"I don't know." Huimao shook its paws to get rid of the blood and debris on its paws. "It feels a little special."
"That's the device the navigator used to seal the starship's control system," said Stanley, who finally found a chance.
Silin shot Stanley a glance before passing the device to Czedow. "Keep it for now. We'll show it to Xi Mu later."
"Alright." Czedow accepted the device. There were some things he needed to ask Huimao later. Czedow was inferior to Huimao in judging things without relying on machine language and signal response, so he needed to improve himself in this area.
Czedow had already taken care of a lot of things in the training ground and on the starship, so Silin didn't need to worry about them anymore.
"Vice commander Stanley, I think we need to have a good talk after this incident is over," said Silin while looking at Stanley.
"I think so too." Stanley didn't know how he should treat Silin right now, but it was true that they needed to have a talk. There were too many things he didn't understand about the Eleventh Squad, and how Vanguard should treat the Eleventh Squad from now on was a headache.
Of course, now wasn't the time for a talk. The war between the two Hunter regiments wasn't over just yet.
Stanley needed to ask about the A Squad's current situation, but he didn't know how the other higher-ups were doing right now.
While Stanley was contacting the frontline, Silin went to talk to the Mogas' quintet, especially Pango. Pango was on the Mist's assassination list. While Silin was talking to Pango, Pango told Silin about his background.
It was true that Pango was Ji Feng's son, but his mother wasn't a member of Vanguard. She was a member of "Wushe". Back then, "Wushe" obtained two star map fragments of Spell. Ji Feng had one, and the other was hidden somewhere else. Pango's mother betrayed "Wushe" after she found the last star map fragment and found Spell with Ji Feng's help.
Spell, like Tear of God, was a kind of potion. However, Spell contained a whole set of genes, and this set of genes would give a person a special ability.
After Pango's mother drank the gene medicine, her strength skyrocketed. Later on, during a mission, they encountered an accident. The spaceship entered a star area with an abnormal magnetic field. Coupled with the sudden outburst of stellar activity in that area, the ion storm and all sorts of other unexpected events gathered together. In order to save Ji Feng and a few of Vanguard's higher-ups, Pango's mother did her best to protect them. However, she was already seven months pregnant at that time, and her body was greatly affected.
After that crisis, Pango arrived early, but his mother couldn't open her eyes again. Saving Pango had exhausted the last of her strength. At the time, many people thought that a premature baby who cried out under such circumstances wouldn't survive even in the best nursery. However, the baby's vitality was so strong that the entire nursery exploded when he cried.
Later, Ji Feng and the others discovered that the Spell gene originally found in Pango's mother was successfully duplicated in Pango's body. Not only did Pango inherit his mother's and father's high-level genes, but he also had the Spell gene. Pango had two sets of genes at the same time, and as he grew up, he also slowly fused the two sets of genes in his body. Unlike his mother, Pango was born with two sets of genes. Compared to his mother, he had a bigger advantage. The two sets of genes in his body were much more compatible. His mother didn't fuse the two sets of genes before she died. She only fused one-third of the genes, but Pango managed to fuse one-third of the genes when he was ten.
Ji Feng valued this child very much, so he didn't expose him. Just like Wushe said, Ji Feng had many children in the open, so he didn't pay too much attention to them. However, he couldn't afford to lose Pango. The higher-ups who were saved by Pango's mother also helped to keep this secret. If nothing went wrong, this child would replace Ji Feng as the next leader of Vanguard, and he would be even stronger than Ji Feng.
Pan Ge was the one who made most of his decisions. Even though he appeared to be a very easygoing person, Ji Feng had never been able to persuade Pan Ge to change his mind even once after Pan Ge had grown up. Back then, when Vanguard sent a large number of members to the other teams, Pan Ge had chosen to join the Eleventh Squadron. At the time, Ji Feng didn't want to, but he let him be. At the same time, he secretly arranged Mao, Kong Lujia, and the rest of the stronger members to join the Eleventh Squad. However, Ji Feng didn't expect that other than Pango, only four people would remain in the Eleventh Squad.
Mao and the rest didn't know about Pango at first, but when Ji Feng secretly contacted them, they were already prepared, so when Silin talked to them, they didn't show any signs of abnormality.
Silin didn't care whose son Pango was, whether he was the future leader of Vanguard, or whether he was the bearer of Spell. The only thing he cared about was the Eleventh Squad.
Silin gave the five of them two choices. One was to leave the Eleventh Squad and forget about this incident. They would still be members of the same Hunter Corps from now on, but they wouldn't be as close to each other as before. After all, being in the same team was like being a family.
The second choice was to stay in the Eleventh Squad. However, the Eleventh Squad had its own rules, and they knew this from the moment they joined. Silin was the leader of the Eleventh Squad, and Silin was the one who made all the decisions. When Silin wasn't around, there was still the vice-captain. They could talk to the captain, the vice-captain, or any other member they trusted. They couldn't skip the Eleventh Squad and accept orders from someone outside the squad, not even Ji Feng.
It wasn't that Silin was being too dictatorial, but the Eleventh Squad had too many things that no one else had, including some huge secrets. If the Eleventh Squad didn't work together as a team, they would run into all kinds of trouble in the future. This was also why Silin didn't tell the five of them about the Eleventh Squad's secrets.
All five of them chose the second option. Pango might not be able to stay in the Eleventh Squad forever. Ji Feng would definitely transfer him back to the Eleventh Squad after he successfully fused the two genes together. Even if Pango didn't want to, Ji Feng would have to step down sooner or later. Silin understood that Pango had a responsibility he couldn't escape from.
However, Pango showed great sincerity. After his time in the Eleventh Squad, Pango didn't want to join any other squad ever again. The Eleventh Squad was a very special one, and he was very happy here. He was able to learn a lot of Hunter and non-Hunter knowledge. Moreover, every member of the Eleventh Squad was very strong. Even their pets were several Sectors ahead of the average Hunter.
The five of them chose to stay, but they were sent back to the "probation period". Mogas was confident that he would be able to regain his teammates' trust.
After talking to Pango and the others, Silin walked out of the room and saw Stanley walking toward him with a very ugly expression on his face.
Stanley had contacted the A Squad just now and learned that things weren't going well at the frontline. Two of the higher-ups were dead, and five were seriously injured. One of the injured was Bart, whom Silin was familiar with. Songba Leruo managed to escape death this time. Of course, he wasn't sure if he was on the assassination list or not.
"The commander is also injured, so I'm going to head over there right now. As for this matter, we'll talk about it after the war is over," Stanley told Cillin.
"Sure. However, I hope you can keep your subordinates' mouths shut. There are some things that are better left unsaid. "
"I know that. Oh right, that device doesn't look like something a Navigator could've made. " Stanley had a feeling that someone was adding fuel to the fire. At the same time, he tactfully told Silin to let him know if he discovered anything.
Stanley quickly led his men to the frontline's central battlefield. He wasn't worried about Pango's safety, and he didn't want to get involved after seeing the Eleventh Squad's freaks. It was better to talk to the commander about the Eleventh Squad after the war was over.
After Stanley left, Silin recalled everyone from the Eleventh Squad, including the spaceplane that Xi Kai and the others were on.
Silin didn't send any robots to participate in the war this time. First of all, there was a limit to the number of robots that could participate in the war. Some of them were still in the process of upgrading, and it wouldn't do them any good if they were forced to participate in the war. For example, the robots that fought against the Navigators were stopped halfway through upgrading, so they weren't as domineering as they were against the Robert Family's robots.
Secondly, the Vanguard Hunters might not want these Metal Men to join the battle. Unlike the Freedom Army, the Hunters had their own way of thinking. They believed that their prey should be hunted by themselves, not to mention that the Vanguard Hunters were in an advantageous position right now. A large number of robots joining the fray at a time like this would definitely upset the Hunters. Moreover, they didn't trust robots. They were willing to use robots as cannon fodder, but they weren't willing to fight alongside robots. That was why Silin didn't want to bring trouble to himself.
"Ah — how did my combat room collapse?!" Cary roared from the other side of the room.
"My shooting target is paralyzed too," Tang Qiuqiu said with a cold expression.
"Thank goodness my indoor orchard wasn't trampled," Sigma said in relief.
Silin clapped his hands to silence everyone. "Everyone, clean up your turf after the war and make a list. I'll ask for compensation from the A Squadron when the time comes."
"Will the A Squadron pay?" Xiao Shang wasn't sure.
"I made an agreement with Stanley when I handed over the management rights," Silin said.
"Oh —"
"Let's take care of the battlefield first. Get to your positions and prepare the starship for combat. Xi Mu, I've placed the device in your workshop. Take care of it first … "
After everything was settled, Silin walked into his own lounge. The area was well-sealed, so it wasn't affected by the war.
He turned on his communicator and saw an encrypted message. It was from Cain Wushe.
After reading the message, Cillin informed Czedow, who was currently in control of the starship, that the starship's protective shield would be deactivated for two seconds. Two seconds later, the shield would rise again.
Two seconds after the protective barrier was gone, Wheeze, who was huddled together with Moon and the others at the training ground and discussing about the penalty list, suddenly twitched its ears and looked around. Seeing that Czedow had gestured to it that it was fine, it flicked its ears and went back to work.
Not long after, Silin opened the lounge door and let a person in.
"Your starship's protective measures are pretty good, I see."
The person didn't think of himself as a guest at all. He dragged a chair over, crossed his legs, and started examining Silin's lounge.
"You sure aren't polite at all," Silin said while looking at Cain Wushe, who was rummaging through the food in his locker.
The person sitting in the lounge was none other than the current leader of "Wushe", Cain Wushe. He didn't look like a leader of an assassin organization at all. Everything about him looked very ordinary.
"You're asking for trouble." Cain Wushe took out two bags of jerky and a couple of boxes of sweet sauce. "You have a lot of good stuff here. Being close to the Food King sure is enviable."
Silin didn't answer. Instead, he looked at the white animal in Cain Wushe's arms. Until now, he had only communicated with Cain Wushe through the communicator. Now that he was seeing it with his own eyes, it felt even more different.
"Is it also a cyborg?" Silin asked as he looked at the little guy in Cain Wushe's arms. It was using its claws to chew on a piece of jerky dipped in sweet sauce that Cain Wushe had handed over to it.
"Yes, it's called Ice Cream. Its nickname is Lil Bing. It's cute, isn't it? Hehe." Cain Wushe was like a parent showing off his child.
Ice cream …
"Lil Bing likes to eat ice cream, so I gave it this name. It likes it very much too." Cain Wushe patted the head of the little guy in his arms. Ice Cream, who was chewing on the jerky, squinted its eyes.
No wonder Uncle Cain always had a box of ice cream to eat every time he saw him. Silin didn't have any opinion on the name. He was now thinking about how Huimao would react if he saw these two guys eating the jerky in Silin's locker.
"I heard that Commander Ji Feng is injured." Silin said. There weren't many people who could injure or even seriously injure Ji Feng. Even if they used other tools, Ji Feng wouldn't let them get away with it easily given his experience.
"He won't die." Cain Wushe replied in an indifferent tone. Then, he asked, "I heard that the three assassins Nebela sent to this place are all dead?"
"How did you know?"
"Actually, there should've been three more people who came to their aid, but we stopped them." Cain Wushe didn't answer Silin's question directly.
It made sense. Blue Charm and the others couldn't send a message after Czedow regained control of the starship, so the Fog probably had a backup plan. However, it turned out that Wushe's men were the ones who stopped Silin.
After thinking for a moment, Silin asked, "You know about Pango, don't you?"
"What do you want to know?"
"Did you allow her to steal the Incantation and the star map fragment on purpose?" The "she" he was referring to was Pango's mother.
"Yes." Wushe didn't deny it. "I gave it to her because she wanted it. To be honest, I don't really care about that kind of thing. I just wanted to see if she had really decided to betray us."
In the end, Pango's mother really did choose to betray them.
"No matter how strong a person is, they can't fight against the universe. She chose the path she chose, and she must bear the consequences, including death, "Cain Wushe said calmly.
Suddenly, Little Ice Cream froze in Cain Wushe's arms and stopped chewing. She tilted her head and looked at the door.
Not long after, the door to the lounge opened, and a cat poked its head inside. Huimao, who was happy because of the ticket, immediately exploded when he saw the situation inside the lounge.
Silin covered his face. It looks like we're in trouble.
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