Chapter 383: We Come With Good Intentions

Rat-tat-tat-tat!

"Monsters! Monsters!"

"They won't die! These monsters just won't die!"

Kaluo Federation, Ground City, where the Kabu Main Manor is located.

This is a private residence that is more like a small city than a manor.

It is the place that every branch of the Kabu Family dreams of bringing their families to live in.

Yet no one expected that on this night, as the sunlight slowly faded away,

this Kabu Main Manor would instantly turn into a Shura hell.

For a moment, it seemed that monster attacks were happening everywhere, and the sound of gunfire was everywhere.

All around the Kabu Main Manor, drones and cameras were everywhere.

But they were just watching.

These three people practically dragged Lance Kabu into a small warehouse.

This gave Lance Kabu a feeling that he had been completely abandoned.

"Young Master Lance Kabu!"

Afterwards, they listened as the screams outside grew weaker and weaker.

Along with several of his lackeys.

After Lance Kabu was sent back to the manor by the old butler, he whipped the maid serving him because the black tea was too hot, just to vent his anger.

Lance Kabu discovered how insignificant his own strength was.

"Safe House?"

Unfortunately, this time, his grandfather, who loved him the most, did not answer no matter how many times he called.

When the people around you no longer care about your status, how fragile you actually are!

"As long as we hold out for a while, Grandfather will definitely send people to rescue us."

Suddenly, three people dressed as servants appeared at the corridor intersection, and upon seeing Lance Kabu, they all revealed expressions of joy.

"Good! Take me there quickly!"

This matter even made the news.

So much so that the limbs of the Shadow of the Abyss had only just crawled to the entrance of the corridor outside this warehouse.

"We know there is a Safe House here!"

"Right, Grandfather! Grandfather, hurry and answer my communication!"

Boom!

The door was opened.

After the screams rang out, Lance Kabu twisted his face and rushed out of the room holding a pistol in both hands.

Following that, he learned that one of his uncles, who also often helped him play games, was his confidant.

Later, before dinner was even delivered, Lance Kabu received shocking news.

Lance Kabu ran for his life, dialing his communication device as he fled toward the depths.

The strongest servant picked up Lance Kabu and slammed his head hard onto the carpet.

He kept muttering to himself that he knew the situation was not right, not right at all.

His mother had successfully divorced his father half an hour ago.

The result was either that the calls wouldn't go through, or they would hang up immediately after connecting.

Listening to the sounds outside now, he knew they were likely in grave danger as well.

Lance Kabu began dialing other communication devices.

Facing the pitch-black space outside the door.

"Come quickly! Young Master Lance Kabu!"

This time, they were actually invited in and arranged in a guest room.

At the same time, a kind of eerie, stifling pressure grew stronger and stronger.

"My Lord! We surrender!"

This time, no one went in to support the Kabu Family.

Just as Lance Kabu realized something was wrong and wanted to shout, he couldn't even open his mouth.

And inside the Kabu Family manor.

The few people in the warehouse could no longer hold on.

They swallowed their saliva one after another, only feeling the fear in their hearts growing greater.

Suddenly unable to cope, he tied himself to a tree and successfully committed suicide by firing eight shots into his own back.

Lance Kabu, who was already terrified and dazed, recognized that the three of them were acquaintances—servants born and raised in the family who had followed him on errands before—so he nodded hurriedly.

It was also at this moment.

"This is the culprit, Lance Kabu. It is this dog who caused the deaths of so many innocent Commoners for the sake of his own perverted desires."

As they spoke, the three servants knelt down.

However, they soon realized that surrendering or whatever was completely useless against the Shadow of the Abyss!

As the Shadow covered them.

The walls began to squirm, and tentacles emerged, grabbing a servant and dragging him into the wall.

The other two were shocked and stopped caring about Lance Kabu on the ground.

They immediately stood up, raised their pistols to fire, and screamed "Monster!"

They had only run a little over ten meters.

Their bodies were all bitten by the petal-like maws of the tentacles, then dragged into the ceiling.

Following that, amidst a series of increasingly faint screams, their entire bodies were swallowed into the Shadow of the Abyss ceiling.

After the devouring was complete, the corridor was quiet for a minute.

Lance Kabu trembled, then climbed up from the carpet with a hint of relief:

"Haha, hahaha, those damn people, they actually betrayed me."

"In the end, didn't they all die?"

"Only I survived!"

"I am a direct descendant of the Kabu Family, the future patriarch... I definitely won't die here."

"I..."

Lance Kabu's self-comforting muttering was suddenly interrupted.

He saw the figure he already instinctively feared appear before him.

"It seems you have been deserted by your followers."

"Rest assured, I won't let them off just because they cut ties early."

Su Ping looked at the nearly mentally collapsing Lance Kabu and said with pleasure:

"Those people at the Spaceport, the same goes for them."

After speaking, Su Ping walked toward Lance Kabu.

Unexpectedly, Lance Kabu, who should have been so frightened that he lost all will to resist, suddenly had bloodshot eyes; with a twisted face, he raised his pistol and fired continuously at Su Ping.

Such a counterattack was naturally meaningless.

It only confirmed one thing for Su Ping: this Lance Kabu might truly have a severe mental illness, the kind with organic lesions.

Su Ping grabbed Lance Kabu, invaded his mind, and read his memories.

Su Ping saw scene after scene of memory.

There was a gathering in a sunny sky garden.

Lance Kabu shouted a few times about how boring it was and suggested they play a game.

There was also an Underground City, where Lance Kabu first disguised himself as a detective, and then, because he was too excited, killed the target and the target's family, feeling a complex mix of excitement and a little regret.

Su Ping saw Lance Kabu being discovered by the family, scolded by an Elder a few times, and then the matter was settled.

Among these, there was Lance Kabu attacking the relatives of Kalosis, seemingly feeling it wasn't enough.

After Kalosis headed to the Spaceport, this guy actually returned again, disguised himself as a doctor, and played the role of a murderous physician once.

This gave him the joy of playing a real-life version of a killer game.

Su Ping shook his head slightly.

He threw the now-idiotic Lance Kabu out.

Before Lance Kabu could even hit the ground, a Shadow of the Abyss maw opened and swallowed him in one bite.

"There is no sound from the Kabu Family main estate."

"The battle is over, or should I say, the massacre is over?"

"The one who acted should be that monster lurking in the shadows."

"What kind of monster is that? It's hard to explain with science."

"Who knows? Let the scientific research people have a headache over it. Our observation mission is complete, let's retreat."

The peripheral personnel, after confirming there was no sound from the estate, retreated by tacit agreement.

On the ground, in the Underground City's news broadcasts,

they reported the news that the Kabu Family main estate had suffered an accident and was listed as a restricted area.

However.

Those with a keen eye would notice.

The news about the most vicious Awakened in history, the monster, the madman Kalosis, which had been plastered everywhere for the past two days, was not absent.

But it had suddenly decreased significantly.

In the comment sections, there even appeared some comments taking a neutral stance.

Su Ping naturally saw these changes too.

But this did not affect his subsequent actions.

After the Kabu Family main estate.

Next was the Kahn Family.

The Kahn Family's main estate was built like a military base, and it was on a high mountain.

It is rumored that it was originally converted from a thousand-year-old fortress.

Unfortunately, no matter how sturdy a fortress is, it cannot stop an attack from the inside out.

The time it took for the Kahn Family's fortress to fall was not much longer than the other family strongholds.

Spaceport.

The seat of the Kaluo Federation Deep Council.

The old patriarch of the Kabu Family, the old patriarch of the Kahn Family, and the old patriarchs of seven or eight other major families.

They were all too old; their frailty forced them to lie in Life Support Pods, relying on the regular supply of blood containing Awakening Factor and various precious medicinal agents to prolong their lives.

Apart from using brainwave devices, they couldn't even move a finger.

However.

It was precisely this group of old men lurking in Life Support Pods.

They are the Lifelong Councilors who truly hold the supreme authority of the Kaluo Federation.

Thanks to technology, although these old people who have lived for a long time cannot move.

They can control their families through the many secrets they hold, and in turn, use their families to control more industries, thereby forming their own power bases.

At the same time, it must be said.

The fact that the Kaluo Federation has been able to persist for so long without falling into internal discord, or the Nobles tearing each other apart in civil war over interests.

Is also inseparable from these old people.

They may all have selfish motives.

But in terms of maintaining the Kaluo Federation to ensure their power is not challenged, they have also put in their efforts.

To this end, these old people on one hand unconditionally exchange their respective intelligence, and on the other hand, deliberately let their respective families harbor ill will and infiltrate each other.

Thereby ensuring the authenticity of the intelligence to the greatest extent possible.

"That madman doesn't care about our actions at all."

"He doesn't care about us."

"This was also anticipated in advance, wasn't it?"

"Let's look into the distance and wait for the Probe to bring us good news."

"Even if it's not that strong, as long as one true Awakened appears, even if there is only one..."

After the old patriarch of the Kabu Family whispered this, he couldn't help but mutter to himself.

The others also closed their eyes and began to pray to their respective beliefs.

Yes, as long as there is even one true Awakened appearing from the Probe.

It would shatter the arrogant lies of that madman underground.

And thereby avoid having to face that most terrifying possibility.

After all, if there really were an alien civilization, and one with such powerful individuals at that, arriving.

Even if they inexplicably wanted to manage the Kalo Civilization.

There would be no need for these old fogies like them to help with anything.

They, or even the entire Noble class, would have lost their value of existence.

Ding-ding-ding!

It is unknown how much time had passed.

A ringing sound suddenly echoed in this conference room.

The lights turned on again, and one after another, phantom projections emerged once more.

"It's the Probe spaceship!"

"They have exited the Other-dimensional Space and returned!"

"Connect me to the captain immediately!"

An aged phantom shouted anxiously.

Soon, the captain, with two dark circles under his eyes and a face full of exhaustion, appeared as a projection in the conference room.

"This exploration mission involved a total of one thousand nine hundred people, two-thirds of whom are experiencing severe side effects."

"Among them, fifty people are in a coma."

The captain paused and said:

"We need to return to the Spaceport to know if there are any Awakened among these people that everyone is looking for."

"We understand this aspect."

"Captain, during this voyage, did you observe any anomalies?"

"Or any traces suspected to be from an alien civilization's spaceship?"

The captain frowned upon hearing this and said in a low voice:

"The Other-dimensional Space is full of anomalies; even though the observation equipment has been upgraded, it can only see a hundred kilometers away."

"However, based on the current observation data, no data significantly different from before has been found."

"As for alien civilizations, naturally, none have been observed either."

The captain did not know about the conversation between Su Ping and the big shots, and felt somewhat confused.

For the sake of Changsheng, have these big shots already started setting their goals on science fiction novels?

After hearing the captain's answer, several of the old people relaxed their expressions slightly.

Of course, it was only slightly better; alien civilizations were still potentially existent.

Perhaps they hadn't been observed.

Perhaps they were still on the way and would need some time before they were suddenly discovered by the backward observation equipment of their Kaluo Federation.

Being as cunning as they were, they naturally wouldn't deceive themselves so easily.

And as the Probe spaceship wobbled into the Spaceport.

Just as a large number of staff rushed up.

Suddenly, an unexpected situation occurred!

Among those in a coma, one person unexpectedly woke up ahead of time!

This process was exactly the same as that of Kalosis!

It immediately made the experts treat it like a Supreme Treasure!

The big shots were also ecstatic upon learning this.

But before they could emerge from their great joy.

They saw the awakened youth open his pitch-black eyes and look around.

Then, facing the staff members who were eyeing him covetously, he spread his hands and simply grinned.

A certain invisible ripple swept across the surroundings.

The entire Spaceport shook along with it.

Causing a distinct sense of weightlessness to appear in many places once again.

At the same time, despite there being no broadcast, everyone in the Spaceport.

Including those elderly people staying in Life Support Pods, were all able to hear a male voice full of mysterious charm resound in their minds:

"Sentient beings of the Kalo Civilization."

"Greetings."

"As the representative of the Water Blue Star Civilization, this Venerable, the Great Merciful and Great Compassionate Savior Heavenly Venerable, is very pleased to meet you."

"We come with goodwill, upholding the path of justice!"

"I hope you all will not lead yourselves astray!"

While this voice echoed in the Spaceport.

The personnel on duty widened their eyes, staring dumbfounded at the miracle appearing outside the Spaceport windows.

No one knew when it began.

In that empty expanse of starry sky.

Suddenly, ripples of Golden Light appeared one after another.

Then, as if slowly emerging from a Huijuan.

Immortal Boats, shimmering with Golden Light, emerged from the ripples of Golden Light and appeared beside the Spaceport.

They appeared in the vicinity of the Kalo Civilization's home planet!

Furthermore, what especially caused terror among countless people in the Spaceport and even on the home planet was.

Behind the large number of Immortal Boats, which looked like alien creations no matter how one viewed them.

A pale blue phantom, larger than all those Immortal Boats combined, had actually emerged.

Even though it was clearly just a frightening phantom, one only needed to glance at it.

To be intimidated by its mystery and majesty.

Thereby confirming in the depths of their souls that the phantom, which might be as large as a small fraction of a planet when standing up... must also be a real, special creation of an alien civilization!

A type of man-made energy war machine comparable to a god?