Chapter 179
Liukasao, the tenth floor.
The ceiling and walls displayed magnificent scenes of the ocean, with waves flowing, and schools of fish of all sizes with strange shapes and bright colors swimming among the gorgeous corals. A mermaid with flowing red hair shuttled through the sea water, singing a melodious song.
In this dreamlike scene, in the alley between the buildings, a middle-aged man was running wildly with a black package tightly in his arms, followed by seven or eight guards. The rapid breathing and footsteps of a group of people echoed in the empty street, and the clattering echoes were like the bell of death knocking on everyone's hearts.
The middle-aged man ran until his face turned red, his eyes bulged, and his breathing sounded like pulling an old bellows. Even so, he was still worried about handing the package to others, so the two guards had to hold his arms on the left and right and drag him forward quickly.
The leader of the guards panted and said, "Hold on a little longer! We're almost there! We'll see the car that's coming to pick us up after we cross...cross this street."
When everyone heard this, they were greatly encouraged. They mustered up their last bit of strength to speed up their steps and quickly ran across the street. However, before they could relax the expressions on their faces, they all froze.
The two hovercrafts had been treated cruelly, almost like two pieces of flattened paper. Red and black liquid was flowing out from the cracks in the wreckage of the vehicles, and it was needless to say what happened to the people inside.
A man in black clothes and black armor was standing silently in front of the car. There was a red crescent-shaped stripe on each side of the armor, which looked like the grinning eyes of the god of death under the light.
The middle-aged man was frightened so much that his face turned pale. He was like a small animal being stared at by a wild beast. He even forgot to run away. He just kept saying in a trembling voice: "The Supervision Department... The Supervision Department... The Supervision Department is here..."
The inspector seemed to have heard their voices and slowly turned around. Seeing the exoskeleton armor on his body and the weapon in his hand, the leader of the guards weighed the force comparison between the two sides and decisively said, "Let's go!"
As if they were suddenly awakened, the group of people hurriedly picked up the middle-aged man and chose another way to escape. The inspector from the Supervision Department, who had just turned around slowly at this time, looked at the people running away, but was not in a hurry to chase them. Instead, he put away the laser gun in his hand.
Under the goggles, his narrow eyes seemed to reveal a happy smile.
The panicked crowd ran for a while. The middle-aged man was being carried by the guards, so he didn't need to exert any effort. He even had time to look back to see if Si Jian had caught up with him.
But when he saw that the man was standing there motionless, watching them run away, he did not feel relaxed at all, but instead felt a greater fear.
"No, that's not right! Stop...this is not right..." the middle-aged man stammered.
But the people who were busy escaping had no time to pay attention to him, and no one stopped. Or, in other words, at this moment, the only goal in their minds was to escape, and everything else was blocked out.
But soon, the clattering footsteps had to stop, and everyone felt the same despair.
Another inspector from the Supervision Department appeared in front of them. He seemed to have been waiting for them for a long time. Although he was alone and looked a little thin, he looked like a mountain that was difficult to cross in the eyes of everyone.
The leader of the guards shouted in a low voice: "There are no survivors of the Supervisory Department! He is the only one! If you want to go back, fight him!"
Everyone's spirits lifted, knowing that this was the only way to survive now, so they shouted loudly, drew their swords for self-defense, and rushed forward together!
Swish!
A silver flash like moonlight streaked across the sky!
In the blink of an eye, the inspector from the Supervisory Department was already behind everyone. He swung the sword in his hand and put it back into the sheath with a clear low sound.
The group of people behind him continued to rush forward a few steps, and then a huge flower of blood spurted out, as if a bunch of blood-red roses suddenly bloomed in the night!
"pretty!"
Leslie walked up to Rong Yuan while praising him and said, "No matter how many times I see you, your swordplay is always amazing. Who did you learn swordplay from?"
"I used to have a friend in the adventure group who was very good at swordsmanship." Rong Yuan said lightly.
The friend he was talking about was Barabi. When they were bored during the journey, Barabi taught Rong Yuan all his sword skills. When he had nothing more to teach, Rong Yuan exchanged a high-level sword manual from the Merit Mall, so he later became Barabi's teacher.
Not only Balabi, but everyone in the Feiyan team used to have special skills. They were as close as family members and exchanged and learned from each other without reservation. But now...
Rong Yuan closed his eyes slightly, suppressed his thoughts and stopped thinking about it.
The more I think about it, the more my heart aches.
Seeing that he was unwilling to say more, Leslie smiled and considerately stopped asking. He walked to the bodies of the men, kicked away the two people who were blocking his way, leaned over and pulled the package out of the middle-aged man's arms, opened it and took a look.
Inside the package was a mass of something red like agate, with a luster as clear and shiny as crystal jade, and a texture like animal muscle tissue. It felt as smooth as jade, and was rising and falling slightly as if breathing.
Leslie sneered and said, "It is indeed a longevity jade. This guy is really good at choosing! It's a pity that his skills are too poor!"
As he spoke, he rubbed the middle-aged man's face with his foot a few times as if he was playing, and said to Rong Yuan happily as if he had found something interesting: "Ha, look at this guy's face! Isn't it funny!"
Rong Yuan frowned when he saw his actions and said, "He's already dead, so just show him some respect."
"...Okay." Leslie wiped the sole of his shoe on the man , and complained, "How come you are as old-fashioned as Ao Hengchuan?"
But he still valued his companions' opinions, and stopped destroying their bodies. He shook the package in his hand and became happy again: "Mission accomplished, we should go back."
"Where are these corpses?" Rong Yuan asked.
"It's none of our business. The fighting department will handle it." Leslie said nonchalantly.
Rong Yuan looked down at the corpses at his feet and ignored them. The two left together.
During this period, Todd assigned Rong Yuan only this kind of missions - either human traffickers, criminals who steal and rob, or officials who embezzled, accepted bribes, or embezzled money, all of whom deserved death. There might be missions that would challenge his worldview, but Rong Yuan had never encountered any of them.
For example, the longevity jade this time. Longevity jade is a relatively common item found near the Pillar of Creation. When diluted into ordinary purified water at a ratio of 1:10,000, it can enhance physical fitness, improve genes, and even prolong life. It is called the water of longevity. However, if taken directly without dilution, it will cause the cells in the whole body to collapse and die suddenly.
The immortality water is a specialty of Liukasao. A small bottle the size of a finger is sold on the Star Network for 500 star coins, which is a very profitable business. Driven by the huge profits, it is not surprising that these people would take risks.
This piece of longevity jade was found by an adventure group near the nebula some time ago. Just this one piece can make all of them rich . They can then buy a farm on a habitable planet, or start a company and live a stable and wealthy life without having to risk their lives for the rest of their lives.
This is the charm of the Eagle Nebula. If you are lucky enough, you may come here for three or five days and walk around the nebula, and you may pick up something extremely precious and gain a fortune of sky-high price. There are many such lucky people.
The adventure group brought the Blood Soul Jade to Liukasao because they were afraid of trouble and sold it at an auction nearby. Although the auction price would be lower and most of the buyers would be from Liukasao, the safety performance would be better guaranteed.
The adventure groups were not worried that Liukasao would use its power to force people to buy and sell, because this spaceship was doing business with all the adventure groups nearby, and it had handled countless good things, so it would not ruin its reputation for a piece of longevity jade. In fact, things that were hundreds of times more precious than longevity jade appeared in Liukasao in the past, and they were still taken away safely. Liukasao has a good reputation in this regard.
The reason why this longevity jade ended up here was that a small number of people in the adventure group were greedy for profit. They assassinated others including the leader and then secretly contacted a major force in the alliance, hoping to use this longevity jade to exchange for status and money, but they were robbed by the gang. After several rounds of transfer, it fell into the hands of a middle-aged man, and was intercepted by the Supervision Department.
No matter how much Liukasao valued his credibility, since the real owners of the longevity jade were all dead at this time, Liukasao naturally accepted it without hesitation.
It’s not that there are no people who don’t follow the rules on this spaceship, but it would be fine if everyone could follow the rules. But once someone breaks the rules in private, it is often Liukasao who benefits in the end.
Because here, the official forces of Liukasao must have the largest number of people, the greatest power, and the strongest military force. When other forces and adventurers enter Liukasao, for the safety of their own spacecraft, their own spacecraft must stay within a designated range, and the mechas, powerful weapons, and high-performance exoskeleton armor they carry are not allowed to be brought into Liukasao. Ordinary people are only allowed to carry cold weapons for self-defense. Some big figures with prominent positions in the interstellar alliance can let their entourage bring some gunpowder weapons, but there are strict regulations on the quantity and type.
Although this rule has attracted many dissatisfactions, as a monopoly industry, Liukasao still resolutely implemented this rule. In fact, most people can understand this rule, because after all, this is a spacecraft flying in space. If some lunatics break the outer armor of the spacecraft, it will inevitably cause extremely heavy casualties.
It is also because of this that Todd's previous assassination attempt was more intriguing - the mecha, powerful firepower, and the laser gun used by the assassin are all things that can only be equipped by the official forces of Liukasao, and each of them should be found somewhere, strictly managed, and always under the supervision and positioning of the central intelligent computer Ochi, and ordinary people can't get them at all.
But to this day, there has been no follow-up to the investigation into the assassination, and only a large number of lower-level civilians and a few lower-level officials were executed.
Shortly after Rong Yuan and the other two left, a group of security guards from the Armed Forces arrived at the scene . They silently cleaned up the wreckage of the vehicle and the bodies. Even though some people had doubts in their eyes, they knew they couldn't say anything more about it.
Until one of them found the body of the middle-aged man and exclaimed: "Isn't this Doctor Shan Antai? How could he be here?"
When everyone heard this, they all gathered around and asked, "Doctor Shan Antai? The famous interstellar doctor?"
"Dr. Shan Antai is a man of high moral character. He is always the first to rush to the scene to rescue people no matter where a serious illness occurs. What bad things could a man like him do? I am the first one who doesn't believe it!"
"The doctor came to our Liukas'ao this time because a group of adventurers were exposed to radiation and developed a new disease that had never been seen before. Doctor Shan Antai knew that they had no money, so he didn't even charge them a penny and paid the medical expenses himself to help them with their treatment. But now... he actually died here! Why? What explanation does the Supervision Department have for this?"
One of them contacted the Supervisory Department to inquire, but after just a few words, he got so angry that he kicked the wall!
He gritted his teeth and said angrily: "They said... we are not qualified to ask, and they don't need to explain to us!"
Everyone angrily said: "The Supervisory Department is too arrogant!"
"Yeah, they are so lawless, isn't there anyone in charge of them?"
"Captain, report this to the General Manager! We can't let the Supervisory Department run rampant like this!"
The captain had always respected Dr. Shan Antai, and was very angry at this moment. He calmed the team members down according to his duty, asked them to finish the work first, and then contacted the chief of the fighting department, Yinmu.
"Sir, something happened here, and I think I need to report it to you..."
