Chapter 325: Evacuation

Li Yu panted slightly. He stood in the spaceport torn apart by Oaks. Due to the leakage of air pressure, a large number of parts had drifted into space.

However, he stood on the spot like a boulder, absolutely motionless.

Right now, everyone's attention was focused on the spaceship that had somehow managed to warp away in the energy tide. Fundamentally no one paid attention to this dilapidated spaceport.

Massaging his brows, Li Yu breathed a long sigh of relief.

Blocking a large-scale energy tide was truly not a job for humans. He used the 【Energy Manipulation】 superpower along with the Force to barely protect that spaceship from being swallowed by the tyrannical energy.

But this also led to his mental power nearly exhausting. After all, that was the main cannon attack of nearly a thousand warships. Being able to block it for a moment was already extremely difficult.

Fortunately, combined with the time Oaks bought, that group of people ultimately successfully warped and escaped from here.

Since that group of people had already left, next it should be the turn of Li Yu's subordinates.

In the city, Theodore and Stanley were still locked in a stalemate battle.

Just at this moment, Olena's expression slightly changed, and the smart terminal lit up. She received a notification from Li Yu.

"Lord wants us to begin evacuating," she said in a low voice. They were currently helping Stanley suppress Theodore.

As an experienced A-Tier Lifeform, Theodore's strength was unquestionable.

"You guys evacuate first. I naturally have a way to leave!" Stanley's voice rang out in the channel.

He crossed his hands, forming a shield with silver nano-flow to block Theodore's attack.

"Okay!"

Since one of the nine people had awakened an emotion control superpower, it caused Theodore's anger to focus on Stanley, and instead, he didn't pay too much attention to them.

The nine people began to evacuate one after another, taking advantage of the fact that the large-scale defense forces hadn't shifted their gaze from space to the ground yet.

Without the combined suppression of the nine people, Stanley's advantage vanished completely. Bang!

With a muffled sound, he was hammered from the sky into the city by Theodore like a meteor.

Boom!

The metal ground cracked, and several nearby buildings collapsed as a result. Theodore didn't stop his movements. His powerful armored body smashed down from the sky like Mount Tai pressing down on the top, intending to smash Stanley into meat paste.

Rumble!

Even more violent roaring sounds rang out, and the destruction range instantly expanded by dozens of times. Metal structures twisted, and glass shattered; it was as if this place had suffered a major earthquake.

The bloodshot lines in his eyes gradually faded. Theodore panted heavily. Beneath his feet, there was only a trail of silver nano-flow gradually dissolving into the ground.

And Stanley's figure had already long disappeared without a trace.

In the shadows roughly hundreds of meters away from here, Stanley pushed down the hat on his head and blended into the crowd of interstellar travelers fleeing like a tide.

Beneath his feet, silver nano-flow gradually converged over.

On the other side, Saad, wearing the 【Titan Colonization Armor】's Splinter Deployment Armor, was fighting intensely with that esper.

A large number of air cannons shot over from all directions. This esper's superpower should be related to air and wasn't considered too strong.

Through the various traits of the Splinter Deployment Armor, although he couldn't gain the upper hand, he also firmly entangled the other party, making it impossible to free his hands to support other places.

In the armor's cockpit, Saad basically had no sense of participation; it was all the armor on his body taking him to fight.

"I didn't expect that before I die, I could still experience the thrill of fighting above my tier," Saad couldn't help but mock himself.

However, right at this moment, the body of that esper with a gloomy face abruptly stiffened.

An invisible force descended, firmly controlling him, making him unable to make any movements.

"What's going on!?" His expression looked somewhat terrified. Even when entangled by this B-Tier Lifeform, he was only angry.

But the current situation was completely beyond his control.

This invisible force that came from somewhere unknown made him feel his life was in danger.

However, beyond his expectation, in this excellent situation, the other party actually didn't launch an attack, and instead flew upwards, seemingly wanting to break away from the battle.

And right after the other party distanced themselves from here, that invisible force also instantly disappeared.

His expression fluctuated uncertainly. He subconsciously wanted to pursue, but rationality stopped him.

Star Coins were not enough for him to risk his life.

Theodore flew up from the ground and arrived beside him. The two exchanged a glance, both feeling an unspeakable complex emotion brewing in their hearts.

"Completely lock down the Tabli Star System. No one is allowed to leave here!" Theodore's eyes were sinister. This time, he had simply been slapped in the face by someone.

......

"Too many loopholes were left behind, we can't stay here for long. If the other party reacts, I'm afraid it won't be easy to escape."

In another spaceport, Li Yu pondered. Taking advantage of the unstable situation right now, with everyone's attention focused on that escaped spaceship, getting away from here as soon as possible was the right way.

Not too much time had passed. Stanley and the crowd arrived one after another, as well as Saad who was inside the Splinter Deployment Armor.

The first moment Stanley arrived here, he made a suggestion to Li Yu.

"Lord, we need to evacuate as soon as possible. Too many traces were left behind. If the other party initiates an intelligent screening, they will quickly discover our tracks."

Li Yu nodded and didn't hesitate. He casually picked a spaceship and prepared to escape from here amidst the chaos.

This spaceport was far away from the previous one. There weren't too many warships nearby, only a few on routine patrol.

Their spaceship was discovered immediately, but before it could even issue a warning, it was directly crushed by Li Yu across space.

"Lord Commander, three warships v-56, v-67, and v-89 have been destroyed!"

The supreme commander of the Guard Fleet was still ordering his subordinates to carefully analyze the situation just now.

He truly couldn't figure out why that spaceship could still warp and leave here.

Upon hearing this report, his expression instantly changed. "What happened?"

The subordinate reported: "According to the video transmitted before the warships were destroyed, there should be a spaceship trying to forcefully leave here. They wanted to intercept and were then destroyed."

"And now? Has that spaceship left?" he pressed on.

"It has already warped away..."

The subordinate's words made him furrow his brows tightly. Was it someone fishing in troubled waters, or... someone who played a crucial role in this incident.

The other party could easily destroy warships, I'm afraid their strength wasn't low.

Various complex clues gathered together, yet there wasn't a single line that could connect them, making him feel inexplicably irritable.

"Lord Theodore sent a message, questioning why we didn't block the other party?"

He was currently feeling frustrated. Hearing this message, he instantly seemed like a lit powder keg, immediately saying furiously:

"I haven't even asked him yet! What is he doing? And that Jino, the Commercial Alliance spent such a huge price to hire them, was it to have them watch a show?"

F*ck, trying to shift blame? It won't be that easy!

………

Saad crouched in the corner of the spaceship, his eyes carrying confusion and vigilance, staring at this group of people in front of him.

"They are the ones who helped block that A-Tier Lifeform, even the armor on my body belongs to them..."

"It should be led by that guy wearing a mask. The others joining together can even stop an A-Tier Lifeform. Inferring from this, that guy's strength is probably even stronger."

"..."

Numerous thoughts swept through his mind. As for whether the other party was a friend or foe, it couldn't be determined right now.

Stanley appeared somewhat excited at the scene, because he had just confronted and blocked an A-Tier Lifeform head-on.

Although it was a combination of various factors that allowed him to do so.

But that was a lofty A-Tier Lifeform after all, enough to make the usually calm him excited.

And all of this was brought by this lord in front of him.

Olena coughed lightly, gesturing for her captain not to look so excited.

Stanley suddenly came back to his senses, and then quickly suppressed the excitement in his heart, pondering carefully: "Lord, how should we track that group of Reformers next? Through him?"

From beginning to end, he knew that this lord in front of him had his own goals.

Although he didn't know what it was, it was absolutely not for the simple sake of helping the Reformers.

But now the other party had already left here, how to track the other party became a difficult problem.

He looked at Saad in the corner. "Hand him over to me. Within three days, I'll make him confess what color underwear he wore when he was three years old."

Hearing this, Saad was startled in his heart. F*ck... this group of people really were foes, not friends. He snorted coldly: "Why need three days? I can tell you right now, I didn't wear underwear when I was three years old."

Stanley's eyes narrowed slightly, ignoring Saad, simply waiting quietly for Li Yu's orders.

Li Yu shook his head somewhat speechlessly. "No need to interrogate him, I naturally have my ways."

In fact, even Saad himself didn't know the rendezvous point. Only Oaks himself knew. Even if they interrogated him, it would be useless.

There was some regret in Stanley's eyes. He still wanted to express himself more to show his value.

Hearing this, Saad felt a chilling shock in his heart. The other party actually had a way to track them?

What way? Placed a tracker? Impossible. His teammates were all experts in anti-tracking and wouldn't fail to discover it.

Even the spaceship they used when escaping was chosen at random, there was no possibility of a tracker being placed.

Could there be an internal traitor? A chill suddenly rose in Saad, but he immediately denied it, it was also unlikely.

Based on the previous situation, everyone had suicidal intent and didn't fear sacrifice. It was hard to imagine there would be an internal traitor among such people.

"Hmph..." he sneered: "Truly delusional, are you guys trying to fish information out of me? I don't believe you guys have a way to track us."

"Put away your clumsy tricks." Stanley saw at a glance that Saad was merely probing.

Li Yu ignored him even more, casually setting the course on the spaceship.

………

On the other side, in the bizarre jump channel, the diamond-shaped spaceship was traveling. The atmosphere on the spaceship was somewhat silent.

The scene of Oaks transforming into the Wind Bone Bird and blocking in front of the crowd was vividly remembered.

Ronis took out a Space Compression Device resembling a wristband, and extracted an electronic module from it. Recorded on it was a coordinate, which was exactly the rendezvous point.

"Ancient Starpath..." Ronis raised his eyebrows slightly, then set the spaceship's jump coordinates, heading to the Ancient Starpath.

That was a starpath abandoned due to various bizarre reasons, and now it was a paradise for interstellar scavengers, filled with a massive amount of spaceship wreckage.

Even a fully-staffed fleet had once inexplicably met its demise there.

No one could explain exactly what the reason was. This Ancient Starpath originated in the Star Glory Empire and passed through the territories of over a hundred civilizations, large and small, such as the Amethyst Civilization and the Barot Civilization.

Many civilizations had explored the reasons within, but all gained nothing.

"We are still a long time away from the Ancient Starpath here. The logistics on the ship probably won't be able to sustain it." Ronis glanced at the spaceship's energy and various supplies.

It was at a normal level, but definitely couldn't sustain them arriving at the Ancient Starpath.

At the time they selected the spaceship, time was too short, and it was impossible to check the various indicators in detail.

"In six days, we will pass through a star system. We will briefly resupply there." Ronis stated the rough plan.

The crowd silently nodded. All of them were battlefield veterans who had experienced several life-and-death crises, and they quickly adjusted their emotions.

"This operation was truly treacherous and full of twists and turns. Who exactly was it making a move to protect us at the end?" someone discussed in a low voice.

"I have no interest in knowing who that was. Could it be some passing nameless hero?" someone shook their head.

"What do you guys think the mission item was this time, that even Lord Oaks was willing to sacrifice himself," someone leaning against the porthole suddenly spoke up.

This caused the somewhat eased atmosphere to turn solemn again.

Ronis frowned and said: "Our mission is to bring the item to the rendezvous point and hand it over to the organization's high echelon. As for what exactly it is, that's not something we should be concerned about."

The rest of the people also cast appraising glances at him, making him smile somewhat awkwardly: "I was just asking casually."

No one continued this topic. They each took out their spiritual sustenance, either a broken dog tag or a mottled photo, murmuring something in their native language.

"Ah, after a tense battle, the most important thing is to reward oneself. Mermaid Princess... here I come..." Someone also wretchedly opened a room.

Ronis couldn't help but shake his head. Sitting on the metal chair, he silently pondered life.

They weren't old teammates, just temporarily gathered together; there weren't that many things to say.

………

Six days later, the Ish Star System... This star system wasn't prosperous, and had even just been visited by marauders. The planetary self-defense force was directly beaten to a pulp, and a massive amount of precious items were looted completely.

However, Ronis's group didn't need those things either. They only needed the most basic compressed energy blocks and ordinary supplies.

Because they had just been looted by marauders, the planet's defense force was extremely weak, and the inspection procedures were also practically non-existent.

Most of the spaceports in the Ish Star System had been destroyed. They could only temporarily park the spaceship on the planet and then walk into the city to procure, which increased the time consumed.

"This Amethyst is truly plagued with disasters. The shop owner just now thought we were marauders and almost let us take whatever we wanted..."

"The games of the big shots always result in the people at the bottom suffering..."

"..."

The crowd walked over while discussing in low voices. They didn't carry anything obvious on their bodies; everything was placed in compressed space.

Ronis led the way at the very front. As he walked, his footsteps suddenly paused. His entire person stiffened on the spot, as if struck by thunder, looking not far away with a gaze full of horror.

"What's wrong?" someone behind him asked in confusion. Following Ronis's gaze, they instantly also widened their eyes.

They saw that in front of the previously empty spaceship when they left, there were now a few more people.

(End of this chapter)