Chapter 51
Everything happened in an instant.
How fast is the speed of light?
——Three hundred thousand kilometers per second.
How far is Rong Yuan from the girl?
——Less than thirty centimeters.
A beam of light shot out from the muzzle of the gun in the girl 's hand. As the beam shot out, the girl's arm was blown to pieces, revealing broken parts and burnt wires inside. Several flying metal fragments pierced the girl's body, and blood flowed, but she seemed to feel no pain, just staring at Rong Yuan.
The beam of light penetrated Rong Yuan without any surprise.
However, the girl was surprised to see that in the eyes that were always staring at her, there was no surprise, fear, resentment or anger, but only a hint of compassion and tolerance.
Those eyes seemed to say, "This is not your fault. I forgive you."
The girl was stunned and opened her mouth to say something.
However, the next moment, the cage made of light suddenly shrank inwards, and the white light was blinding, as if there was a small sun there! In an instant, the white light shrank and disappeared, and a round, flawless spherical black hole suddenly expanded. When it spread to more than half a person's height, it suddenly disappeared. There was only an arc-shaped shallow pit left on the ground, and the girl and Rong Yuan disappeared.
The whole process only takes two or three seconds.
Suddenly a gust of wind blew in from all directions, blowing up a small vortex of wind, which disappeared after wandering on the ground for a while.
"Rolling..."
A cloud fruit that had somehow avoided being strangled by the light and swallowed by the black hole rolled a few times on the ground under the breeze and rolled to the feet of a passerby.
He raised his foot, crushed the cloud fruit, pulled out a small button-like object from his collar, put it to his mouth and said, "The target has been strangled, please give instructions! ... Yes... Understood!"
He raised his eyes, nodded to the others, and made a gesture. Most of them turned around and left immediately. Several vendors pulled out square boxes from under their stalls, stirred the contents, and then carefully filled the shallow pits on the ground, as well as the web-like burn marks left on the ground when the light cage shrank. In less than a minute, there was no trace of the ambush at the original site. Several people quickly collected their things and left. From beginning to end, there was no exchange of even glances.
If someone could look down at Baiqi Star from above, they would find that there were seven main roads and twenty-four branch roads around the landing point of Rongyuan's spacecraft. On all the roads - in no particular order - many vendors and passers-by left secretly and quickly. In less than three minutes, all these people disappeared from people's sight and surveillance, and their whereabouts were unknown.
Not only that, the same scene also occurred near the other three space ports of Baiqi Star. Thousands of people appeared silently on Baiqi Star, and then disappeared without attracting anyone's attention, just like water vapor melting into the clouds and mist, leaving no trace.
Zeruo put away his cloak, picked a clean branch and sat down. In front of him was a rolling sea of clouds. The rolling clouds blocked the view of the city below and also blocked any possible eyes that might be watching him. Above his head was an empty sky. The blazing white sunlight covered the stars on the sky. The thin air made him feel drunk. He took a deep breath, lay down with his hands as a pillow, and felt a rare freedom and relaxation.
He didn't know who the man he was asked to approach was, nor did he know what he had done to make the organization want to kill him, and he didn't know what kind of terrible ability he had that made their all-powerful organization feel threatened. He only knew that in order to successfully approach the target, their people designed a plane crash on all the routes in this area, and then continuously sent out distress signals and waited for them. After he was rescued by the target spacecraft, other escape pods were also rescued by the spacecraft arranged by the organization. But there were also three or five escape pods that either deviated from the route and could not determine the coordinates like them, or were involved in some kind of cosmic disaster. In the end, they disappeared completely without waiting for rescue.
Zeruo did not receive any orders to participate in the operation on Baiqi Star. Whether in private or on the Star Network, the organization strictly prohibited them from discussing this matter. But Zeruo and his companions had their own way of communicating secretly. In addition, he was always trusted by his companions. Afterwards, several people passed him bits and pieces of information. After piecing together, he knew the general process.
Although I haven't seen it with my own eyes, just by imagining it, I can get a glimpse of how fast and terrifying that lightning-fast action is.
This was a decisive kill.
Zeruo was certain that no one could survive such a design.
The organization arranged this assassination only in the period between when he left the information on the star network and when the spacecraft arrived at Baiqi Star, which was only three and a half days in total. The organization not only sent thousands of people to Baiqi Star silently, arranged legal identities for them and reasonable reasons for their presence in this place, but also investigated the geographical and cultural environment of the entire Baiqi Star, set traps at all nodes, and urgently transported a large number of banned weapons with amazing lethality. Then, after everything was over, all traces were wiped out.
What kind of terrible energy is this?
Zeruo once again confirmed that those targeted by the organization had no chance of survival. His awe of the organization deepened.
Fortunately, Zeruo saw the light this time, and he was able to go from light to darkness, and from now on he will continue to live in the Landia Empire as "Zeruo". Although there are still tasks waiting for him, but... who wants to be a "ghost" when they can be human?
The spacecraft from Baiqi Star to Didu Star is not available every day, and the nearest one will not depart for three days. Mu Xiaohu was lucky enough to grab the last ticket. He saw that he still had quite a lot of money in his hand, and he was so happy that he jumped up and down as he walked.
But considering that he still had to pay off his debts, and that he would have to buy a boat ticket to the First Military Academy after arriving at the Imperial Capital Star, and he didn't know how much it would cost on the way, so he didn't dare to squander the money. Mu Xiaohu decided that he would just find a thicker cloud to lie on at night these days. Anyway, lying on the clouds here is like sleeping on cotton, so comfortable that people don't want to get up again, but if you sleep for too long, your clothes will get wet orz...
As for food, Mu Xiaohu carefully divided the food that the fat owner of the cake shop gave him into three days' worth. He was very hungry before, so he ate half of the bread and biscuits in one go. He had to use the remaining half to last for three days. But this was much better than before. In the past few days, he didn't dare to eat anything except drinking some water when he couldn't help it...
Mu Xiaohu paused as he was counting the cookies. He frowned in confusion and suddenly felt that something was wrong.
He squatted on the ground and thought for a long time. Suddenly, an idea flashed in his mind and he shouted, "Ah, I remember! How did he know that I haven't eaten for a few days?"
Mu Xiaohu thought of the particularly generous and magnanimous guest. Because their tone was so casual when they spoke, Mu Xiaohu didn't think there was anything wrong at all. Only when he thought about it now did he realize the problem.
Although his stomach was growling very loudly at that time, but... most people would just think that he missed one or two meals on time, right? The order of magnitude suddenly jumped to the unit of days. This is what people who know the inside story would do, right?
There was only one person who knew that he hadn't eaten for several days and had never met him.
He clenched his left fist and slammed his right palm hard, muttering to himself, "So the customer is my savior! He saved me and let me buy on credit. This time, he has helped me three times! We finally met, I should thank him in person!"
He raised his head and looked around, muttering, "Is the benefactor going in this direction?"
Mu Xiaohu ran in the direction Rong Yuan left, and looked back and forth on several forked roads several times but still didn't see anyone. He had to admit that Rong Yuan might have gone somewhere else while he was buying the ticket - thinking back - and looking for the way, so he walked back dejectedly.
Then he saw the gray-black thing on the ground.
He sniffed and smelled a familiar scent.
"This is..." Mu Xiaohu squatted down, picked up a few small pieces and twisted them between his fingers. Although it had been crushed and covered with mud, he still recognized the prototype of this thing: "... Cloud Fruit?"
Mu Xiaohu remembered the bag of gifts that Rong Yuan was holding when he left the cake shop.
In fact, Yunguo is not a rare snack in Baiqi Star, but for some reason, perhaps because Mu Xiaohu has been thinking about Rong Yuan for the past half day, he intuitively feels that these fragments are related to Rong Yuan. And... that person doesn't seem like the kind of guy who would throw food on the ground and step on it.
Intellectually, he knew that this might be a fruit dropped by someone else, or one that Rong Yuan accidentally dropped when he took it out of the bag, or he might have given the bag of cloud fruit to someone else... There are many reasonable possibilities for a dessert to appear on the ground and be crushed, and there is not necessarily anything wrong with it.
But Mu Xiaohu felt an inexplicable sense of anxiety in his heart. He couldn't explain clearly what he was doubting at the moment, but he couldn't help but look around, carefully examining everything he saw.
Suddenly, his eyes fixed, then he squatted in another place, looked for a while with his head tilted, and suddenly knelt down again, with his face almost touching the ground, and his fingers brushed across the ground gently and delicately, as if he was stroking the delicate skin of a baby.
——Something is wrong.
He thought to himself.
On the surface, the ground seemed normal, but when he squatted down and looked from the side, the reflected light stung his eyes for a moment. Then he realized that the absorption and refraction of light in different places on the ground were slightly different, and it seemed to form some kind of pattern. After a careful inspection, he confirmed that some parts of this road surface were brand new.
Even if they look exactly the same, places where people often walk will inevitably become smoother and smoother due to constant friction between the soles of their shoes and the road surface; whereas places that have just been paved will feel completely different and granular to the touch.
These new roads formed a network with increasingly dense spacing, and in the middle of the network was a perfect circle.
Here, just a short while ago, when he was cheering for those commissions, what on earth was happening in this place across the street?
