Chapter 1947 - 1537: Turmoil
At this moment, Green Ghost said to Icaroya in a low voice, "Lord Icaroya, the black hand hiding in the shadows threw out this video at this exact time, clearly to attack you. Since we can’t delete it, why don’t we temporarily shut down the Star Ring Forum?"
"Yes, yes, shut it down for now!"
Esron hurriedly chimed in.
Icaroya refused expressionlessly. "No need."
Green Ghost and Esron were both stunned; they hadn’t expected Icaroya to reject this proposal.
"Why, Lord Icaroya?"
"The primary purpose of the Star Ring Forum is for emergency use by the people below; it’s also our largest communications network. Shutting it down would be poking out our own eyes. Why would I shut it down?"
Icaroya replied coldly.
"But public opinion is almost out of control now. If we keep letting it ferment like this, something big is going to happen."
Green Ghost gritted his teeth and tried to explain to Icaroya.
"So what? That’s not something you should be worrying about. Green Ghost, notify all the national leaders and make sure they protect the Star Drill factories at all costs. I don’t want to hear any bad news. Otherwise, they’ll bear the consequences themselves!"
Icaroya said coldly.
"Yes!"
Green Ghost replied through clenched teeth.
Right after that, Icaroya turned his head to look at Esron.
"What are you still standing here for? Go back and figure out a proper way to deal with that post. That’s what you’re supposed to do."
"Yes..."
Esron answered in a panic.
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Ceres · Molten Lava Base.
The legendary Star Destroyer Immortal Blade and five Blue Whale-class starships were hovering over a gigantic volcano crater.
Inside the sunken crater lay the Molten Lava Base.
Right now, mecha doing loading work were moving piles of equipment and Divine Guard Mecha onto the Immortal Blade and the Blue Whale ships.
"Move it, pick up the pace, we’re about to pull out!"
Kendi urged over the comms while piloting his mecha in midair.
"Yes!"
Everyone responded one after another and sped up their loading.
Immortal Blade · Command Room.
Su Mo and Qian Chengxue stood quietly at the observation deck, watching the busy crew below as they moved cargo.
"The haul from the Molten Lava Base is richer than expected."
Qian Chengxue said with some emotion.
"Yeah, pretty good. This trip to Ceres has yielded far more than we estimated. It’s enough for us to digest for a long time. Calling it getting fat in one bite wouldn’t be an exaggeration."
Su Mo nodded slightly in response.
While the two were talking, Tilo and Long Ke walked over. Tilo spoke steadily to Su Mo in his report.
"Everything’s been moved to Hangar No. 1. All personnel have returned to the ship."
"Well done. Prepare to head for Zero Degree Land."
"Got it!"
Tilo nodded in reply.
At this moment, Long Ke spoke excitedly to Su Mo, "Boss, don’t you want to go take a look in the hangar at our spoils?"
"Let’s go, we’ll all go take a look. Let the AI handle the ship for now."
Su Mo nodded.
"On it!"
Long Ke was even happier than Su Mo.
A short while later, Su Mo and the others all arrived at Hangar No. 1, and the scene that greeted them was utterly breathtaking.
They saw twenty-one brand-new Fake VI Generation Pure Mechanical Mecha Divine’s Apostle standing in neat formation at the very front. Each mecha looked like a work of art, and their massive frames exuded a suffocating sense of oppression.
Behind them, rows of modified Divine Guard·Kai were neatly arranged, and in the very back, a vast square formation of Divine Guard mecha stretched out in ranks.
Long Ke spoke excitedly to Su Mo, "Not talking about anything else, just the mecha and weapons alone—this time we pulled in 21 Divine’s Apostles, 260 Divine Guard·Kai, and 2,710 Divine Guards in total!"
Su Mo couldn’t help sucking in a breath of cold air when he heard those numbers. That amount was really insane.
At this time, Sun Duoxiang rubbed his hands together and asked Su Mo with a grin.
"Boss, how are we going to distribute all these mecha?"
"What’s the rush? Look at how impatient you are. You’re definitely getting a share."
Su Mo cursed him jokingly, clearly in a very good mood.
"It’s not that I’m impatient, it’s just a waste to let all these weapons sit idle."
Sun Duoxiang replied with a grin.
Su Mo also felt Sun Duoxiang made a good point, so he spoke up. "Tilo, Yan Gang, Man Si, Long Ke—you’re all switching to Divine’s Apostle. In addition, allocate six Divine’s Apostles, 100 Divine Guard·Kai, and 1,000 Divine Guards to First Squad. You guys sort out the internal arrangement yourselves."
Su Mo directly allocated more than half of the weapons to First Squad. It wasn’t favoritism; mainly, First Squad had the strongest combat power and could make the best use of these weapons.
"Yes!"
Tilo responded steadily.
"Sun Duoxiang, go take six Divine Blood Gene Potions and hand them over to Tilo and the others."
Su Mo then said to Sun Duoxiang.
"Got it!"
Sun Duoxiang replied quickly.
Su Mo then continued the allocation.
"Five Divine’s Apostles, sixty Divine Guard·Kai, and six hundred Divine Guards to Xiao Wen’s Second Squad, plus three Divine Blood Gene Potions."
"Boss, what about me?"
Sun Duoxiang couldn’t wait and cut in.
"You get five Divine’s Apostles, sixty Divine Guard·Kai, six hundred Divine Guards, and another three Divine Blood Gene Potions."
Su Mo stopped stringing Sun Duoxiang along and answered directly.
"Nice!"
Sun Duoxiang replied excitedly.
"The last one Divine’s Apostle, twenty Divine Guard·Kai, three hundred ten Divine Guards, and one Divine Blood Gene Potion go to Fourth Squad—Mo Baoke and his team. The remaining twenty Divine Guard·Kai and two hundred Divine Guards go to Qian Chengxue; later you can use them to arm Sun Li and the others."
Su Mo roughly finished distributing the weapons.
"Okay."
Qian Chengxue nodded in agreement.
Su Mo then turned to Sun Duoxiang. "Take another three Divine Blood Gene Potions and give them to Qian Chengxue."
"No problem."
Sun Duoxiang replied quickly.
"Alright, we’ll keep it like this for now. If anything comes up later, we’ll adjust."
Su Mo nailed things down in a simple, decisive manner.
"Okay!"
Everyone responded one after another.
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In the pitch-black starry void, two brilliant streaks of light slashed across space at extreme speed.
Loren and Xia Weiya were piloting the Future Messenger in a rapid retreat. They had broken away from the fleet and were fleeing on their own.
At this time, Loren asked Xia Weiya, puzzled, "Why aren’t we fleeing toward Revalclus Base or Star Ring City?"
"We absolutely can’t flee in either of those directions. Since the enemy dared ambush us, they must have prepared everything. If we head toward those two routes, we’ll definitely be intercepted."
Xia Weiya analyzed in an extremely calm tone.
"These dogs are disgusting!"
Loren couldn’t help but curse.
The two kept accelerating as they fled forward, but Hemick and Hammett were also leading a massive force in relentless pursuit.
Just then, a large Eternal Sleep Clan force from the flank moved in to link up with Hemick and Hammett.
VI-type Emperor-level Spirit Toucher Brunan and VI-type Heroic Level Spirit Toucher Mogasi rapidly moved into position beside Hemick and Hammett.
"What the hell are you two doing? Weren’t you talking big before? Swearing up and down you’d get it done?"
Brunan asked in a deep voice.
"There was a change in the situation. Another Royal Order of Twelve Knights member suddenly popped up and snatched the target away while we were off guard! You really can’t pin this one on us!"
Hemick argued, his face burning with shame.