Chapter 2113 - 1621: Incitement (Second Update)
After a long while, Icaroya finished explaining everything, then waved her hand.
Soldiers came in one after another, handing everyone a bowl of strong liquor.
Green Ghost also respectfully brought a bowl of liquor over to Icaroya at this moment.
Icaroya took the liquor, looked at everyone present, and coldly declared, "At this moment of history, I am proud of you. Everyone, drain this bowl!"
When Icaroya finished speaking, she took the lead and downed it in one gulp, then smashed the porcelain bowl hard onto the ground.
Crack~
The whole bowl shattered to pieces!
The NCOs present said nothing, all emptied their bowls, then slammed them down hard on the floor, shouting in unison.
"We will not fail Lord Icaroya’s great trust!"
"Move out!"
Icaroya announced grimly and killing-cold.
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Several days later, Type VI Planet Fortress Level · God Restricted Zone.
Su Mo stood in the middle of the empty Heroic Spirit Hall while Kendi and the others were rummaging everywhere.
"Search carefully!"
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"Boss, nothing! It’s empty over here, there’s nothing at all."
Sun Duoxiang ran to Su Mo’s side and said.
"How many places haven’t been searched yet?"
Su Mo asked, his brows tightly knitted.
Sun Duoxiang tapped his electronic bracelet, opened the shared map, and replied with a furrowed brow.
"Boss, we’ve searched all the areas assigned to us, and at least three times each. We haven’t found anything."
Hearing Sun Duoxiang’s words, Su Mo felt it getting more and more tricky, so he called out.
"Xiao Shi."
At that moment Xiao Shi’s virtual projection appeared in front of Su Mo.
"What is it?"
"Have Coret and the others found anything?"
"No. I’ve been monitoring them the whole time, they’ve also come up empty. Right now they’re heading one after another to the central control room to look for the old man."
The creator · Swallower said to Su Mo.
"Alright, got it."
After hearing this, Su Mo turned his head and said to Sun Duoxiang.
"Have Ma Ke and the others keep searching, we’ll head back to the central control room."
"Okay, I’ll arrange it right away."
Sun Duoxiang responded quickly.
Not long after, Su Mo led Sun Duoxiang and a few others back to the central control room, where Coret, Attic, Kathuler and the rest were already present.
They ignored Su Mo and instead surrounded the old man, asking.
"Sir, what exactly are you looking for? We’ve practically turned the entire God Restricted Zone upside down and still haven’t seen anything!"
"Yeah! Sir, what is it we’re supposed to find? You have to at least tell us so we know what we’re looking for. What if that thing is small or inconspicuous and we just overlook it?"
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"No need to say more, that thing is very obvious. As soon as you see it, you’ll know right away."
The old man replied without leaving room for doubt.
Hearing that, Kathuler forced himself to speak, "Sir, is it possible you’re mistaken, that what you’re looking for isn’t here?"
"Impossible, it’s definitely here."
The old man answered with absolute certainty.
"But we really have searched everywhere. Could your intel be wrong?"
Attic was feeling a headache too.
"Sir, how did you come by this information?"
A glint flashed in Coret’s eyes as he asked.
"You don’t need to know that. It’s not something you should be asking about. What you need to do is keep searching. If you haven’t found it, then keep turning things over until you do."
The old man rasped to everyone, his attitude extremely tough and stubborn.
𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢
"Yes!"
After a few seconds of silence, they responded.
Then Coret and the others began filing out. As they passed by Su Mo, they each flicked him a glance.
Their eyes were full of disdain.
Soon, only Su Mo and his people were left in the central control room.
Before Su Mo could speak, the old man rasped, "You want to question me too?"
"No. I’ll go look right away."
Su Mo didn’t say anything more, turned, and left with his people.
In the vast command room, only the old man remained, sitting alone in his wheelchair. The light in his cloudy eyes flickered, and his face, like withered wood, twitched faintly.
He was convinced that thing had to be inside this Fortress, because the information was secretly left in a Stone Tablet by his forebears. There was no way it was wrong.
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Negative God Star.
On the God of Na Vessel, in various sections.
Fallen God Sect believers gathered in groups, speaking in low voices as they discussed.
"We’ve barely been on Negative God Star any time at all, and so many people are already dead."
"What can we do? Negative God Star is dangerous in itself."
"I just don’t get it. Why does the Sect Hierarch insist on entering Negative God Star? Isn’t this obviously sending us to our deaths?"
"I feel the same. Keep going like this and we’re all screwed, but we’ve got no choice."
"I don’t think we can just sit here waiting to die."
"Got any good ideas?"
"Let me tell you, since we’re dead either way, we might as well rebel against the Sect Hierarch together and put pressure on him!"
"Will that even work? You’re not afraid the Sect Hierarch will settle accounts afterward?"
"We’re almost out of time anyway, why care about that? We’ll take one step at a time."
"You’re right. But it doesn’t seem like just us will be enough?"
"What do you mean just us? Plenty of people are extremely dissatisfied in their hearts."
"Alright, then let’s do it."
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Just around the bend in the distance, Xiao Jie pressed himself against the wall, listening to these believers plotting, the corner of his mouth slightly raised.
Lord Enlock’s move really was classic.
Let these stupid fools clash with Kavise. As soon as things get chaotic, they can seize the chance to escape in the confusion.
Xiao Jie then turned and left.
Inside the God of Na Vessel’s command room.
Bai Li was respectfully reporting the situation to Kavise.
"Right now we still have one Star Destroyer, seven level-5 Battleships..."
Kavise sat in the command chair, listening to Bai Li’s report while sinking into thought. Ever since entering Negative God Star, nothing had gone smoothly.
At that moment, Bai Li’s report suddenly cut off.
Next, a large number of believers wearing Mechanical Armor barged straight into the command room.
"What do you think you’re doing?"
Morrick shouted when he saw this scene.
Among the believers who had rushed in, two leaders stepped forward and spoke bluntly.
"Not much. We’re here to talk with the Sect Hierarch."
"Oken, Yafu, have you both lost your minds? What makes you think you’re qualified to talk with the Sect Hierarch?"
Morrick glared at the two leading believers and cursed.
Oken and Yafu raised the Beam Guns in their hands and said viciously, "This does."
"Interesting. Fine, I’ll talk to you. What do you want to talk about?"
Kavise looked at these believers, a brilliantly bright smile spreading across his face.
Seeing that smile, Bai Li and Morrick couldn’t help shivering. Given how well they knew Kavise, he was truly angry.
"Sect Hierarch, we’ve followed you for so many years. Even if we don’t have great merit, we at least have hard work, right? And you? You knew perfectly well how dangerous Negative God Star is, but still brought us in. Coming in is one thing, but knowing it’s a dead end and still insisting on charging straight into the darkness—if you don’t want to live, we still do."
Yafu laid it all out without any courtesy. You have to know, they’re all desperadoes—there’s nothing they’re not capable of doing.