Chapter 2726 - 18: Investigation Team!
In fact, that’s exactly the case. If Shi An hadn’t given them new life, they would just have lived the ordinary fate of stones, with no valuable minerals in them, drifting in interstellar space for hundreds of millions or even billions of years, right up to eternity.
But right now they’re different. Even though on the outside they’re still just ordinary huge stones, interstellar matter, inside them the imbalance of matter-antimatter Power has turned them into vessels of terrifying Explosive Power.
This is the self-defense weapon Jia Yan has given Adisa.
When that Stellar-level creature arrived earlier, Adisa used these stones to deliver a fatal blow.
In reality, if Jia Yan hadn’t been prescient and sensed there might be some twists, this Stellar-level assault would already have been a situation that was more than merely dangerous.
However, the truly dangerous part comes later. Even though that Stellar-level creature was killed by Adisa using the stones’ Explosive Power, the chain of problems he brought in his wake is still immense.
For example, when a Stellar-level creature dies, the faction or planet he belongs to will never just let it go; they will definitely come and investigate what exactly caused his death.
And now, many Outer Star Battleships and investigative tech ships are on their way to investigate this place.
Adisa is constantly covering up Jia Yan’s movements; it’s even silently throwing Adisa’s hull around in the region around the first layer of Subspace, directly stirring things up, so that when the outsiders investigate the Subspace Interior, the warped resistance makes them give up probing the deeper layers of Subspace.
But the death of a single Stellar-level creature is an enormous event for any faction, so even if they can’t investigate right now, they will eventually find some way to at least thoroughly probe the third and even the fourth layer of Subspace, or else if another Stellar-level arrives here in the future and gets killed again, that would be a serious problem.
Or rather, if the existence or celestial phenomenon that killed a Stellar-level creature is able to move around by itself, that’s an even bigger problem. It could lead to massive biological casualties, or the deaths of many Strong Ones. There is historical precedent for this sort of thing, so an investigation is very much necessary.
"Ah ah, don’t go over there, that’s where the explosion happened before. They’ll realize that’s the crime scene. Boo hoo, should I just kill them too?"
Adisa was at its wits’ end. It wanted to kill this group of investigators that had arrived, but didn’t dare, because killing them would be proof that something was wrong here—wrong enough to kill a Stellar-level creature. The next wave of investigators would very likely be stronger than Stellar-level.
And then it wouldn’t be able to handle them.
So if it can buy time, it buys time.
Adisa steeled itself.
The next moment, aboard an Investigation ship, inside the command room, a small Giant Mosquito Light and Shadow projection appeared before one creature’s eyes.
"Uh, what are you?!"
This creature, whose strength had reached the Respect Level, was startled to see a Light and Shadow body suddenly appear before him.
But after the initial shock, he realized that what he was seeing was just a Light and Shadow body.
"Oh, so it’s a technological construct. You’ve managed to break through our Battleship’s Defense and appear in my control room. That shows you must not have any hostile attack intent, and your tech isn’t bad—otherwise you couldn’t have pulled this off. So, tell me, what Civilization’s intelligence are you from?"
The Respect-Level creature saw through Adisa’s reality and immediately curled his lip with a contemptuous smile.
To them, technology is so advanced that existences like Adisa are a dime a dozen in their Civilization; even in this Gray Star Region, children play with virtual Light and Shadow toys like this.
Although this entity had breached their Battleship’s Defense, that didn’t necessarily mean it was anything impressive. It was just that it wasn’t carrying any attack signals, and this Battleship’s technology actually isn’t that high—after all, it’s a Gray Star Region Battleship, how advanced can its tech be?
So he wasn’t that surprised, merely watched this Light and shadow creatures with a slight, serious frown.
Because he knew that even if the tech isn’t very strong, the fact that it could enter their ship’s interior means it has a certain level of capability; and its appearance at this moment strongly suggests it is likely one of the factors behind the death of that Stellar-level Strong One.
And anything capable of annihilating a Stellar-level existence is pretty scary.
At the very least, he, as a Respect-Level Being, wouldn’t dare ignore it completely.
That’s why he spoke, instead of simply activating the Battleship’s electronic defense systems and shredding this little Light and Shadow creature.
"Hello. I’m an intelligent system from an Outer Star ship. You’re probably investigating clues about the Stellar-level individual who died earlier, right? I know the cause, but it’s classified. I want to talk with someone higher up in your chain of command."
Adisa floated in the command room. It knew that if it were attacked, with Adisa’s current intelligence Level it would probably die here, but it wasn’t afraid.
Because to it, serving Jia Yan is its supreme mission. Even dying for Jia Yan is something it would gladly do.
"You want to negotiate with our higher-ups, and you know the cause of that Stellar-level Senior’s death?"
The Respect-Level creature was instantly shocked.
The group of creatures around him were also taken aback.
In their eyes, this tiny Light and Shadow creature didn’t seem high-tech at all. Yet it claimed to know the answer to such a major question.
"That’s right. I won’t say any more details for now. Please bring in someone higher up—at least Stellar-level and above."
Adisa said calmly.
"This... all right, I’ll go discuss it with them."
"Oh, and one more thing: I don’t like too much noise. The machines around here are too loud and make me uncomfortable. If you want me to keep talking, you need to shut them down. Then I’ll tell you everything. If I stay silent, your noisy rummaging will be useless. You really think you can dig up any intelligence on something that can kill a Stellar-level, just by flailing around like this?"
Adisa deliberately put on a very arrogant air, which left the other side somewhat annoyed.
"You’ve got a point. We’ll stop searching for now. But we expect your information to be useful. Otherwise, we’ll make sure you regret it. From what we can see, your intelligence seems fairly advanced—you should understand what fear is, right?"
The other side was not to be outdone and shot back in kind.
"Mm, I know what fear is, so there’s no need to try and scare me with words. In any case, I’ll be waiting for your Stellar-level Strong One to arrive."
Adisa nodded lightly.
It didn’t say anything more.
And the demand to negotiate with a Stellar-level existence was precisely its way of buying time.
Among all these machines and Battleship operators, it hadn’t seen a single Stellar-level creature, so by requesting to meet one, even if the nearest one wasn’t far away, it would still take some time for them to get here.
That would help extend the time Jia Yan had to complete his mutation.
It had even thought through what to do once a Stellar-level showed up—for example, revealing one or two important pieces of information, but dangling more in front of them so they couldn’t proceed with deeper investigation. Then it would insist on meeting a Star River level existence before divulging anything further.
Getting an audience with a Star River Level Being is nowhere near as simple. From what Adisa knows, although Star River Level Beings are not rare in this Starfield, seeing one at will is almost impossible.
Even if some Star River Level Beings were willing to come, no one knows how far away they are. If it’s several light-years, should they travel using Acceleration at Superluminal Speed, or without Superluminal Speed methods? That’s an even bigger headache.