Chapter 42

"This... Miss Miss Xueyi is not clear on that, but I imagine the Alliance or the IPC should have records," Miss Miss Xueyi replied.

Lin Qi was not surprised by this answer.

After all, she was previously only a judge of the Ten-Lords Commission, not someone who worked in the Sky-Faring Commission or the Seat of Divine Foresight.

Otherwise, she would have been able to access more information.

But this was enough.

At the very least, he had figured out the Wingweaver's goal and their "Achilles' heel."

After a moment of thought, Lin Qi opened his phone and sent a message to Topaz.

【Lin's Oddity: You there?】

【Topaz: No.】

【Lin's Oddity: It's not about that stuff. This is urgent, help me out, Director Topaz.】

【Topaz: Go ahead, then.】

【Lin's Oddity: Help me find the coordinates for the Wingweavers' homeland, Qiongsang. I have a major use for them.】

【Topaz: Wingweavers? How did you provoke them? Oh, wait, it seems they're provoking you now. But why are you looking for Qiongsang's coordinates? You aren't planning to attack them, are you? I advise you not to do that; even the Luofu Luofu Xianzhou Alliance hasn't gone that far.】

【Lin's Oddity: Relax, I'm not that stupid. It's the holidays, isn't it? I'm just thinking of sending them a small gift.】

【Topaz: Do I look stupid to you?】

Topaz replied while searching for the coordinates Lin Qi needed.

The IPC usually marked such important information, so she found it quickly.

【Lin's Oddity: Thanks. When we meet again, I'll treat you to a meal.】

【Topaz: A boxed lunch, right? Thanks a lot.】

【Lin's Oddity: Talk later. Oh, and help me send an evacuation notice to any unrelated personnel still near Qiongsang. Actually, send it a few times so they don't ignore it.】

【Topaz: ???】

Pier Point.

Topaz stopped working and stared blankly at her phone.

But the person she was chatting with had stopped replying.

What made Topaz freeze wasn't Lin Qi's silence, but the final message he had sent.

Evacuation?

Under what circumstances would one need to evacuate? Topaz could only think of disasters and war.

So...

Was Lin Qi planning to wage war on the Wingweavers?

But did Lin Qi even have an army?

Although Topaz didn't know everything about Lin Qi, she knew quite a bit.

She couldn't be sure of everything else, but she was certain Lin Qi had no army.

After all, an army couldn't be hidden; the moment one started forming, there would be traces.

If there were no traces, it could only mean the scale was too small.

And that wouldn't be enough to participate in interstellar warfare.

"Seriously, would it kill you to explain a little more?"

Topaz grumbled.

Nevertheless, she followed Lin Qi's instructions and sent an emergency evacuation notice to the unrelated personnel—explorers, research teams, and the like—near the Qiongsang coordinates.

And she did so in the name of the IPC.

Then, Topaz looked out the porthole at the cosmos and muttered to herself.

"That's all I can do."

"Lin Qi..."

"Don't you dare die."

Luofu Luofu Xianzhou Alliance.

Yaoqing.

A report sent from Yuque was urgently delivered to the office of the Yaoqing's Arbiter-General.

"General, a surveillance report has arrived from the Yuque starship."

"Bring it here, let me see."

The speaker was a foxian woman with a heroic face and stunning beauty.

But at a glance, the first thing one would notice was not her appearance, but the terrifying power contained within her body.

This was the Yaoqing's Arbiter-General, nicknamed the "General of Great Victories."

Throughout the year, she was either out suppressing abominations or on her way to do so.

It was no exaggeration to say that she was the sharpest arrow among the Hunt's shafts.

However, at this moment.

This Arbiter-General's brows were slightly furrowed.

"Wingweavers gathering abnormally and heading toward unknown star sectors? Suspected major movement? Tsk, who wrote this report? Submitting it without a proper investigation?"

Feixiao grumbled, then continued to ask her subordinate.

"Has anything major happened recently?"

"Major... I don't think so."

The subordinate tried hard to recall, but truly couldn't think of anything that could be called major.

"Nothing? Then the Wingweavers' movements are very suspicious," Feixiao mused.

"Could they have found a Stellaron?" the subordinate guessed.

"Unlikely."

Feixiao shook her head and continued, "If it were just a Stellaron, they wouldn't need to mobilize so many troops. A rough estimate suggests this is nearly half of the Wingweavers' military strength. There must be something else that has them so concerned."

At this moment, a foxian physician with squinting eyes suddenly spoke up.

"General, do you remember what happened on the Luofu a few months ago?"

"Oh~"

Feixiao was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter. "Hahaha, I remember! The Luofu really lost face that time; thousands of Cloud Knights and judges couldn't even take down one little Diviner. Next time I see Jing Yuan, I'll have to mock him for it."

"That's not the point; the point is what that Diviner possessed," the foxian physician Jiaoqiu added.

"I know, the Door of Anywhere," Feixiao nodded. "Are you saying the Wingweavers are after this curios?"

Jiaoqiu opened his eyes slightly and gave his conclusion.

"Yes, to be precise, they are after the creator of this curios, Lin Qi."

Feixiao was silent for a moment, then asked in confusion, "As far as I know, the Door of Anywhere is extremely convenient for teleportation, and many people within the Alliance are interested in it. The Door of Anywhere in Dr. Lin Qi's hands is even more powerful than that little Diviner's. How can the Wingweavers be so confident they can catch him?"

"Perhaps... it has to do with the properties of Qiongsang?" Jiaoqiu guessed. "The General should know that the branches of Qiongsang can perform jumps and even pin down prey. Although the mother tree of Qiongsang is damaged, weapons forged from it might still have similar effects. Perhaps they can restrict the use of the Door of Anywhere?"

"I see."

Feixiao was lost in thought.

Although Jiaoqiu was only guessing, no one could guarantee that the Wingweavers didn't have such capabilities.

If they did, whether the besieged Lin Qi could escape again.

That was an unknown.

At that point.

The Door of Anywhere, and even the technology to manufacture it, could fall into the hands of the Wingweavers.

The threat that would pose to the Alliance would be hard to assess.

"General, should we support him?" Jiaoqiu asked.

"In terms of sentiment, we have no connection to him, but considering the worst-case scenario, we cannot afford not to support him," Feixiao judged.

The two had a consensus: the Door of Anywhere must never fall into the hands of the Abundance.

But...

"How is the preparation of the Cloud Knights going?"

"The previous campaign hasn't been over for long, and the soldiers are still resting."

"Understood." ===== CHAPTER 51 =====