Chapter 452: Unexpected Joy

Li Yu still clearly remembered that the reason he was able to learn about this matter was because Hunter's former teammate asked him for help.

But according to subsequent analysis, the other party should have deliberately drawn him into the fray.

It's just that after such a long time, the person behind the scenes hadn't exposed themselves, so he didn't take it to heart for the time being.

However, as the Gensokyo incident was approaching its unveiling, Li Yu's frequency of thinking about this matter had also increased recently.

The probability of the three organizations - The Reformers, Abyss, and Old Ones - drawing him into the fray wasn't high.

Just looking at their plans, one could tell that The Reformers had mobilized unimaginable forces to weaken the Star Glory Empire.

The Abyss and Old Ones were not far behind either. In other words, with his current Identity and Status, it wasn't enough for these three parties to exhaust themselves scheming to draw him in.

"The probability is that it's some other faction wanting to borrow this incident to complete their own small goal." Li Yu shook his head, putting this matter aside for now, and opened the gene detection equipment.

His Gene Chain Development Progress had reached 67%. During this period, he hadn't slacked on Gene Chain development.

It would take at most five more months to reach 100%, which was already an extremely fast speed.

"I still feel it's a bit slow..." Li Yu muttered to himself. Of course he knew this speed was fast enough.

But thinking about his current enemies, who were at least at the A3-tier, or even A4-tier, it was indeed somewhat difficult to deal with them.

However, every single one of the lifeforms at those tiers had undergone a long period of tempering. Taking Horus as an example.

Nearly a thousand years had passed since the day he became an A4-tier lifeform, not to mention his age before that.

Li Yu's current age wasn't even a fraction of theirs, so quite a few high-level lifeforms felt a strange feeling when facing Li Yu.

Even their youngest great-grandchildren were older than Li Yu, yet this guy could already practically stand on equal footing with them.

Li Yu pondered for a moment. Right now, there weren't many methods to rapidly increase his Gene Chain Development Progress. He could only rely on grinding it out slowly for the time being.

"Commander, there is a Starry Sky Rift ahead, we can no longer advance. What direction should we take?"

The sudden report from a subordinate interrupted Li Yu's thoughts.

Generally speaking, such trivial matters wouldn't need to disturb him at all. There was a set procedure: if they encountered an obstructing Galactic Forbidden Zone or interstellar spectacle, they would just detour.

However, Li Yu had ordered that if they encountered a situation like changing directions, they must report to him, and the direction to proceed would be decided by him.

This was because he could [Peek into the Future] and completely choose a relatively safe direction, avoiding additional risks.

Arriving at the Command Center, Hunter was there, looking up at the Holographic Screen, which displayed a massive dark area covering several light-years.

Its overall shape was irregular, like a black area smeared on a piece of paper, deep and Withered.

This was a relatively common Galactic Forbidden Zone -- a Starry Sky Rift. The reason it was common was that this type of Galactic Forbidden Zone could be created through artificial means.

This was a forbidden zone caused by destructive tearing of space, resulting in its inability to repair itself, and continuously expanding with the passage of time.

To reach the level where space couldn't repair itself, the destructive Energy Level had to be at least over a hundred million.

Such combat power already stood at the pinnacle of the interstellar. But compared to Galactic Forbidden Zones with extremely harsh formation conditions like Cosmic Volcanos, Interstellar Glaciers, and Dim Star Rings...

A Starry Sky Rift was still relatively simple. For example, a Dim Star Ring required the combined collapse of over a hundred super-giant stars to form a super-large-scale Galactic Forbidden Zone resembling a Stellar Ring.

The prerequisites were so harsh it was difficult to form, not to mention needing a combined collapse.

"There are records regarding the formation of this Starry Sky Rift. It was formed by the battle between the 'Machine Emperor' and the 'Blade of Calamity' seventy thousand years ago," Hunter introduced:

"Afterwards, because no one dealt with it, it led to the rift continuously expanding."

Li Yu nodded, not caring too much about its cause. He casually called over a subordinate and ordered: "Using the Main Ship as a reference point, set the direction to the right side of the Starry Sky Rift."

Numerous operators began to issue commands, while Li Yu started to peek into its future.

Mhm... for a very long time in the future, it was calm and tranquil, nothing special. This Navigation Route should be very safe.

Although he had calculated a quite safe path right from the start, Li Yu didn't make a decision, but ordered again: "Using the Main Ship as a reference point, set the direction to the left side of the Starry Sky Rift."

There was too much uncertainty in the future. Li Yu could only use this method to eliminate most of the uncertainty.

He even hoped to learn some news through this method that couldn't be learned through normal means.

Mhm, also very calm. This area already belonged to the edge of the No Man's Land, with very few lifeforms active.

Subsequently, Li Yu tried other directions, which were all also very calm.

Most of the soldiers in the Command Center, including Hunter, seemed very calm about this.

Because such scenes had already appeared for a period of time previously, it was just the first time in the recent month.

Just when Li Yu chose downward of the Starry Sky Rift as the advancing direction.

The peeked future finally had a slight change. He saw a battle, and in the battle, he saw an acquaintance.

God of Flesh and Blood -- Rohan!

In the future he peeked into, Rohan was holding the Nightmare Shield, protected by the phantom of the Nightmare Knight, resisting Horus. Although he could only struggle to cope, there was no life-threatening danger in the short term.

And he himself was reduced to Buying Soy Sauce, occasionally using the [Infinity Gauntlet] to launch sneak attacks.

"I actually ran into Rohan. The people from the Council really haven't evacuated." Li Yu left the future perspective, revealing a thoughtful look.

Previously, he and Horus had speculated that although the Council pretended to evacuate, they probably hadn't truly left the No Man's Land, just like Returning Star.

The future he just peeked into proved this point. Moreover, the three factions of the Council seemed to have parted ways. Rohan should be acting alone.

In the scenes Li Yu saw, Solar Councilor and Neutral Deity didn't appear.

"Rohan is hiding in this direction, and he's alone. In that case..." Li Yu's eyes flickered. He hadn't forgotten that his [Symbiotic Bio-Armor] seemed very interested in Rohan's flesh and blood.

It's just that in the scenes he saw, Codri wasn't there. He seemed to not have much interest in besieging Rohan.

Relying solely on Li Yu and Horus to deal with the Nightmare Knight's projection and the Nightmare Shield seemed a bit difficult.

Codri's goal was Gensokyo, which was created by Li Yu Conning Salvation Ark through The Overlord.

Otherwise, Salvation Ark's desire for Gensokyo truly wasn't that great.

Their main target was still him.

Without any purpose, making him besiege Rohan and become enemies with the Nightmare Knight was obviously not quite possible.

"Looks like I have to Con him again..." Li Yu pondered. He currently held the initiative. No one knew they would run into Rohan, so he could probably use this to stir up some trouble.

.........

"Lord, the Black Pupil Fleet shared a message, they changed direction again." A subordinate reported to Codri, causing Codri's face to be covered in black lines, unable to help saying:

"In just a short ten-plus minutes, he has already changed direction 4 times, is there something wrong with him? Is he playing with us?"

Encountering a Starry Sky Rift was no problem, changing direction was also fine.

But the key was that he repeatedly changed direction, making Codri even think if Li Yu was playing with him.

"Wait... why does this look so much like a method to converge certainty and eliminate uncertainty..." Codri suddenly paused.

As a High Echelon of Salvation Ark, he knew that The Overlord used a similar method when calculating the future.

Salvation Ark would input enough external data to eliminate more uncertainties, ultimately locking onto the highest possibility within an extremely small range.

But he immediately shook his head, denying this thought. Peeking into the future wasn't a simple method.

It was only because The Overlord was extremely special that it could use this method. But even so, Salvation Ark had to pay an extremely great price.

Even if the Dimensional Camp had this method, they couldn't possibly use it casually just for choosing a direction.

Because such uncertainty was still too great. If it were the Ark doing it, they would at least have to collect data on the overall scale of the fleet, the high-tier combat power.

And even collect news data in the No Man's Land for the past ten days or longer, and input it into The Overlord before calculating.

Like the "Star Gazer" Li Yu encountered before, he belonged to the most simple and crude kind of peeking into the future. He couldn't eliminate uncertainty, and the results obtained were also hard to believe.

The Overlord was more high-end, and the results obtained were more credible.

As for Li Yu, he was rather special, caught in between the two.

Just as various speculations surfaced in Codri's mind, a subordinate suddenly reported: "Lord, Li Yu is here."

"Him?" Codri's expression moved slightly. He sorted out his emotions and said calmly: "Let him in."

Before long, the Blast Door opened, and Li Yu walked in with a smile: "Your Excellency Codri, I've been too busy recently and couldn't find the time to host you."

"No matter." Codri shook his head, but cursed inwardly: Busy my a, I see you lying on that broken device all day, what's there to be busy about.

Li Yu exchanged a few pleasantries, then sighed: "Your Excellency Codri, I'm afraid the Cooperation between us has to be declared over."

Codri's expression flickered, and a thought surfaced in his mind instantly: What kind of Unexpected Trouble is this guy pulling again?

According to the psychological model Salvation Ark created for Li Yu, every step this guy took must have a purpose.

He basically wouldn't do something for no reason. Of course, during his growth process, there were also a few behaviors that couldn't be analyzed.

"What's wrong?" Codri frowned and asked: "What he values is not Li Yu, but the Dimensional Camp behind him."

If he could communicate directly with the Dimensional Camp, he would have thrown Li Yu away long ago.

"The Camp believes I am in danger and should retreat from the No Man's Land as soon as possible," Li Yu explained: "The Camp's energy has been tied up by a certain matter recently, and they cannot invest high-end power here."

"If you evacuate, wouldn't that mean directly giving up on Gensokyo?" Codri's eyes flickered, asking.

But what he cared about internally was another matter. The Dimensional Camp's energy was tied up by a certain matter?

There definitely weren't many events that could tie up the energy of a behemoth like the Dimensional Camp.

If Codri had to guess, he could only think of Returning Star.

Li Yu had joined Returning Star long ago. Perhaps Returning Star used Li Yu as a bridge to secretly reach some kind of agreement with the Dimensional Camp.

If that was the case, the High Echelon's decision seemed to need to change a bit.

Li Yu also sighed: "Yes, but the Camp values my safety very much. As for Gensokyo, so be it if we don't get it."

He still didn't know that his previous sentence had caused Codri to have more associations.

"This is simple..." Codri somewhat realized what was going on. This guy Li Yu coming here seemed to want him to be a Bodyguard.

Whatever about leaving and being unable to cooperate were all just excuses. This guy's intentions couldn't be more obvious.

However, being Li Yu's Bodyguard wasn't impossible either. In Codri's view, as long as the Dimensional Camp saw Salvation Ark's sincerity, the other party naturally wouldn't ignore it.

Salvation Ark was also a behemoth In interstellar space. No matter how unfathomable the Dimensional Camp was, they couldn't possibly ignore Salvation Ark.

It was a pity that the Leader of the unfathomable Dimensional Camp in his eyes was currently standing in front of him, looking at him with a smile.

Codri figured this out, and then said: "Since we have already reached a cooperative tendency, I naturally have the obligation to protect your safety. If any problems occur afterwards, I will take action to help you."

"If that's the case, then that couldn't be better." Li Yu revealed a look of joy and smiled: "Salvation Ark is truly a rare good organization. It seems I've always misunderstood you guys before."

Hearing Li Yu's words, Codri's expression was somewhat strange, and he could only force a nod.

Last time at Amethyst, we almost beat each other's brains out.

Seeing Li Yu off, Codri pondered for a moment, thoughts swirling in his mind. He opened his Smart Terminal, edited an encrypted message, and sent it back to Headquarters.

If Returning Star received the help of the Dimensional Camp, then the Ark seemed to also be able to increase its investment in Returning Star.

In this way, Returning Star's strength would be enhanced by a few points. Perhaps the harvest from this investment would far exceed imagination.

(End of this chapter)