Chapter 330: Laboring in Vain for Others

"Poisonous Fangs, where are you? Come out for your father!" Carol walked into the Serpent's Nest with a sinister laugh. Due to the previous Energy Bomb, more than half of this place had already been destroyed.

Whoosh!

The sound of something tearing through the air came from the shadows. Carol abruptly turned his head and caught a silver snake nail barehanded.

"Damn Poisonous Fangs, you're still so insidious." Carol sneered. However, the front end of that silver snake nail split open, and several imperceptible fine metal needles shot out.

The snake nail even exploded directly in his hand, kicking up dust and smoke. A purple barrier lit up on Carol's body, but it didn't block those silver metal needles.

An imperceptible stinging pain came from his chest. Carol frowned tightly, clutching his chest.

Subsequently... from somewhere in the shadows, Anthony's voice came: "Carol, you're still as stupid as ever. Tell me... where did you encounter that fleet."

"Fleet!?" Carol was momentarily confused, but then instantly realized: "You purposely lured me over!?"

"Answer my question, and only then will you have a hope of living." Anthony remained hidden in the dark, not giving Carol an opportunity.

Stanley and Olena, who were just about to leave, abruptly stopped their footsteps. They exchanged a glance, turned around in tacit understanding, and quietly continued listening.

"Pah!" Carol felt his head becoming somewhat dizzy, but he still forcefully held on and fiercely spat out a mouthful of saliva.

"Do you think your father is afraid of dying!?"

"I am giving you a chance..." Anthony's tone remained unchanged: "You might not be afraid of dying, but your subordinates should be afraid, right?"

"Heh..." Carol sneered: "You can be considered a local tyrant, how could you make such a low-level mistake? In the Ancient Starpath, do you think you can locate solely relying on coordinates?"

"Even if they gave you the coordinates, would you dare to go over?"

Artillery fire was booming outside, but here it had fallen into an eerie calm.

"Since that's the case, then you should have a good sleep." Anthony's voice still couldn't betray any emotion.

"Damn old geezer, which faction's needle are you placed here? The Ancient Starpath hasn't been peaceful recently; all sorts of monsters and demons are jumping out."

Carol was gnashing his teeth, muttering curses, but Anthony completely ignored him.

"This guy should know something..." Stanley and Olena discussed secretly.

"Usually, no fleets would appear in the Ancient Starpath. He should be of some value to the Lord."

Olena also nodded: "Then let's snatch him over. No matter how small the value is, we can't let it go."

Carol stumbled and fell to the ground. It seemed he was about to be unable to hold on any longer. His vision began to blur, and everything had double images.

From somewhere in the shadows, a leg wearing green suit pants stepped out. Carol's head swayed dizzily, as if he would faint at any moment.

"Damn... Poisonous Fangs!" He slurred his words; every detail showed that he was about to be unable to hold on.

That figure wearing the green suit squatted down. Carol could only see the eerie green vertical pupils, but this was enough.

"Go to hell for your father!"

He suddenly shouted loudly, his body erupting with blood-colored airwaves. Clenching his left hand into a fist, he fiercely smashed it against Anthony's protruding mouth.

Bang!

Accompanied by a muffled sound, Anthony directly flew backward, smashing through the metal ruins and falling to the ground, spitting out a few bizarre-looking teeth from the corners of his mouth.

"Ha... haha..." After unleashing this strike, Carol seemed completely spent, dizzyingly collapsing on the ground.

Anthony's tongue licked clean the blood around his mouth, and he glanced at the teeth on the ground. His green vertical pupils slowly fluctuated, as if brewing anger.

The next moment, the main gate exploded with a boom. Two B-Tier Lifeforms barged in. Seeing Carol lying on the ground, their expressions instantly drastically changed, and they hurriedly rushed forward.

After checking and finding that Carol had only fainted and was not in any life-threatening danger, they finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Poisonous Fangs, your target was actually Carol!?" One of them coldly glared at the Snakehead wearing the green suit.

Anthony seemed somewhat helpless, shaking his head and saying: "Take them down."

In an instant, four figures shot out from the shadows, heading straight for the two.

An ambush by four B-Tier Lifeforms made the two's expressions instantly change!

Bang! Bang!

Collision sounds constantly rang out as a great battle occurred here. Four against two, the two were clearly at a disadvantage. They were only regular B-Tier Lifeforms, and their combat power wasn't outstanding.

Suddenly, one of them took a round of heavy blows, abruptly spraying out a mouthful of blood mist. He was blasted flying by a strike, crashing through over a dozen layers of metal walls, flying far away.

The remaining person on the field suffered focused fire, and his injuries rapidly worsened. This group of thugs wasn't simple either. Seizing an opening, this person's arm was severed at the root by a thug, and blood spurted out.

This person's face turned pale, but he only let out a muffled groan, gritting his teeth and wanting to counterattack.

However, a resolute personality couldn't bring him any boost in combat power. His body continuously suffered heavy focused attacks.

As he moved at high altitudes, he splashed patches of fresh blood. His face became increasingly pale, and his aura rapidly declined.

Both of them suffered heavy casualties. Having lost the protection of experts, Carol had become a lamb waiting to be slaughtered, exposed to the sharp claws of the four enemies.

"Take him down!" The four were just about to join forces.

However, the next moment, an unexpected change occurred.

Beams of blazing light cannons suddenly descended from the sky, striking towards this place. The few B-Tier Lifeforms sensed the crisis and hastily scattered to dodge.

Rumble!

The light cannons blasted down in front of the few people. The earth shattered, and the soil was instantly crystallized by the high temperature.

Accompanied by the orbital bombardment, two figures descended, their entire bodies radiating tyrannical energy fluctuations, blocking the path of these four thugs.

"Who are you?!" One of them instantly felt things were not good; these two people in front of them were not in their intelligence reports.

They were not people from the Scavengers Union, and the oppressive feeling they gave off far exceeded the two they had just fought. They were definitely experts among B-Tier Lifeforms.

"This person is useful to my lord and needs to be taken away." Stanley's attitude was overbearing as he coldly scanned this group of thugs.

"Your lord?" The four looked at each other in dismay.

"It's you guys..." Anthony walked over from the rear. Naturally, he recognized these two people; they had just spent a huge price to buy information about the Ancient Starpath from him.

He didn't expect them to have also targeted Carol. With his suspicious mind, he didn't believe these two had acted on a sudden impulse.

Rather, they had targeted Carol from the very beginning, preparing to snatch the spoils at the last moment. What deep scheming!

"Where did they pop out from..." Anthony was uncertain. And who was this "Lord"?

However, looking at the other party's stance, it was unlikely this could end peacefully; they could only fight.

Although the other party's sudden appearance surprised him somewhat, it was five against two, the advantage was his!

Following Anthony's command, the four charged forward again, but this time it wasn't as simple as just now.

Stanley's entire body was covered in silver armor, and the Force surged out. The four people rushing towards him instantly felt as if they were bogged down in a quagmire.

Stanley swiftly grabbed a thug's neck, just like pinching a little chick.

This enemy couldn't break free. Under panic, he attacked madly, all bombarding Stanley's completely defenseless chest plate. However, he couldn't leave any marks on it.

"Useless..." Under the violent attacks, Stanley's figure remained entirely unmoving.

The next moment, a fierce glint flashed in his eyes. The force in his hand abruptly increased, crushing this enemy's cervical spine and throat bones.

Crack!

The thug's head instantly drooped down, his spine severed and nerves disordered.

This kind of injury wasn't fatal for a B-Tier Lifeform, but it was enough to temporarily make him lose the ability to resist.

Stanley wouldn't give him a chance to recover. He smashed him to the ground with a punch, and his mechanical fist pierced through his heart.

On the other side, Olena's movements weren't the slightest bit slow either, tearing an enemy into pieces of flesh and blood scattering the ground.

Both were Jedi Knights modified by Li Yu, and coupled with the Nano Battlesuit on their bodies, their combat power far exceeded ordinary B-Tier Lifeforms.

The moment they decided to intervene, the fate of this group of thugs was already sealed. Of the four enemies, not a single one survived.

Only Anthony, who was watching the show from afar, preserved his own life.

His vertical pupils dilated. He looked at this scene in front of him in disbelief. These B-Tier Lifeforms were dispatched in the blink of an eye; exactly who were these people!?

He wanted to flee, but just as he turned around, his body felt as if it weighed a thousand catties, as if firmly pressed down by something, making it difficult to resist.

Faint breathing sounds rang in his ears, which magnified the fear in his heart.

As a cold-blooded lifeform, his perception of the surrounding environment was second to none. Yet, he hadn't discovered when exactly the owner of the breathing sounds had arrived?

"Why be in such a hurry to leave? Sit down and chat."

Although the tone was plain, to Anthony's ears, it sounded like an exploding thunderclap.

He stiffly turned his head and only saw a metal mask that seemed to be crying yet not crying, smiling yet not smiling.

Anthony involuntarily flicked out his tongue. The bone-chilling coldness coming from the surrounding air let him know that this was a terrifying creature whose level in the food chain far exceeded his—an A-Tier Lifeform!

"My Lord!" Stanley and Olena spoke reverently.

This was their so-called Lord? Anthony couldn't help swallowing a mouthful of saliva. Although the faction behind him didn't lack lifeforms of this tier, it was impossible for one to appear here.

The two B-Tier Lifeforms from the Scavengers Union staggered back here.

They looked at each other in dismay, yet didn't dare to leave easily. They had seen Stanley and Olena's combat power clearly just now and fundamentally didn't dare to harbor any other thoughts.

Li Yu used the Force to awaken Carol. He was only confused for a moment before springing up, adopting a combat stance and vigilantly staring around.

However, the surrounding situation was completely different from what he had imagined. Anthony, whom he hated to the point of gnashing his teeth, was trembling while standing in front of a Masked Man.

His two good elder brothers were constantly winking, seemingly wanting to convey something.

He had thought he would fall into Anthony's hands. Now, this situation left him somewhat dumbfounded.

"Tell me about the fleet you mentioned..." Li Yu spoke. Through the nano-armor on Stanley, he was well aware of the entire combat situation.

Since he was idle in the inn anyway, he directly rushed over.

The Ancient Starpath was a place that was useless to eat but a pity to discard. Under normal circumstances, no large-scale fleets would enter it; the risks were simply too great.

And a fleet appearing at this point in time must be extraordinary.

"This..." Carol hesitated, his expression flickering.

"The Lord is asking you a question." Murderous intent flickered in Stanley's eyes.

Through Carol's emotions, Li Yu guessed it. This guy clearly wanted to evaluate the price.

This group of people who licked blood from the edge of a knife didn't take their own lives seriously at all.

If you dared to back down, they would dare to push for more. They didn't care if you were some A-Tier Lifeform; at worst, it was just death, who was afraid of whom.

Li Yu also didn't plan to deal with him through normal means. Peculiar and eerie syllables popped out of his mouth.

Carol instantly became muddle-headed, telling everything he knew without holding back.

According to his words, Carol was leading his subordinates to explore a rare ancient ruin in the Ancient Starpath at the time.

Ancient ruins were a major feature of the Ancient Starpath. No one could clearly say their origins, but as long as one's luck was good enough, they could obtain sufficient benefits.

Carol's luck was also overflowing; he found such an ancient ruin, and it wasn't overly dangerous, allowing him to fish out quite a few good things.

However, after finishing the exploration, just as they were leaving, they encountered a massive fleet. Just a rough estimate put it at several thousand ships.

Carol wasn't an idiot either; a fleet of this scale was impossible to usually appear in the Ancient Starpath.

If it weren't for a sudden Psionic Tide interfering with the other party's detection, Carol wouldn't have been able to escape either.

And precisely because of that Psionic Tide, Carol even luckily captured a few spaceships. This was a secret, a secret not even Anthony knew.

Looking at the dumbstruck Carol, the fear in Anthony and the two from the Scavengers Union reached a higher level.

Exactly what kind of method was this to make Carol speak out his deepest hidden secrets.

Li Yu pondered for a moment in his heart and could roughly guess it. The other party was probably coming for the Heart of the Titan, but their style of doing things was secretive, making it impossible to pry into their origins.

Those few captives should be the key, but now he had developed another interest.

"Take out the things you obtained from the ancient ruin." Li Yu ordered again.

Carol naturally obeyed the order, opening his Compressed Space, and dumped out a large pile of things with a clatter.

Most of them were also some technological creations, but their style was relatively peculiar, mostly decorated with abstract patterns. It was obvious they were not manufactured by current mainstream civilizations.

"This Lord, these should be relics from the Suster Civilization..." Anthony probed tentatively. Seeing Li Yu look over, he felt a bit of joy in his heart and boldly said: "The Suster Civilization is a large civilization that has been destroyed for over 100,000 years."

"Their Psionic Technology was extremely cutting-edge, even attracting multiple visits from the Radiant Council. However, due to some special reason, the entire civilization was destroyed."

"It is said that when it was destroyed, all the citizens of Suster turned into madmen."

Li Yu nodded with interest. Then his gaze suddenly focused. The Spider-Sense, which had been dormant for a long time, made him highly concentrated.

Ever since his strength had grown stronger and stronger, he hadn't been reminded by the Spider-Sense for a long time, yet now he had this feeling.

Li Yu cast his gaze towards an insignificant item among the massive amount of junk.

That was a dilapidated Music Box with a grayish-black surface, looking very inconspicuous.

(End of this chapter)