ASER - Chapter 108
Chapter 108: Quick!
In the foggy region, the young bandit, having just escaped hell, flew a long, exhausting distance. He found a hidden cave for spaceships and piloted out one of their stronghold's vessels.
A crafty rabbit has three burrows, after all; this was quite normal.
But this young man was still panicking. He pushed the spaceship to maximum speed. Only after completely exiting the foggy region and confirming no one was following did he activate his optical computer and contact his accomplices in the Southern Sea Region.
Their Bandit Alliance was divided into two parts: one profited from air disasters in this region, while the other, hidden along the coastline, profited from war. With this two-pronged approach, wealth poured in.
But now, their contingent here had been completely wiped out. He could only seek refuge with others.
After activating his optical computer, he contacted 12 accounts. Upon reaching these superiors, he immediately reported the entire situation.
When these bandit leaders learned of it, they naturally all experienced emotional fluctuations.
Fear? Shock? Suspicion?
In any case, their Mental Power surged.
One of them, however, said, "This person destroyed everyone's Spirit Clusters, yet you managed to escape by a fluke?"
The young man knew he seemed suspicious, so he immediately said, "My lords, that's because my Spirit Cluster is naturally displaced. This person must have missed slightly when they struck. And I truly had a very hard time escaping. Of course, I also know I might still be exposed, so I don't plan to go find you all. I just want to lie low near the coast for a while. Besides, I've checked many times just now, and indeed no one is following me."
"It's good that you're so cautious. Hide for now. We'll meet you when we have time. By the way, did you manage to record that person's appearance?"
"It was originally recorded on my armor, but those bastards took all the armor, so it wasn't saved. I can draw it, though."
"Feasible. Contact us when you're done drawing."
After the communication ended, the young man breathed a sigh of relief. Actually, even if these people had asked him to join them now, he wouldn't dare. He was afraid of being silenced by murder. Hiding temporarily was the best option.
"When things were fine, they couldn't wait to fleece us of all our resources. But once trouble strikes, they think of silencing us by murder. These people..." The young man's eyes were cold, filled with resentment.
But he didn't know that in a corner of the spaceship, an invisible moth had already seen everything with the eyes on its spread wings.
Including the accounts of those 12 people.
Accounts weren't reliable; everyone might use fake accounts to contact each other. What A'Diao obtained was a list of their Mental Power signatures.
It might be useful later. This was A'Diao's main purpose for letting the young man go initially—to find other accomplices.
So, many pleasant surprises actually come from ulterior motives and careful planning.
But A'Diao's target now wasn't these people.
These people were probably just minor leaders; the real masterminds were at a higher level.
A'Diao predicted that someone among these 12 people would definitely pass this information to a higher superior.
Either A or B, one of them.
Just over ten seconds later.
From He Luo +253421!
...
After that, there was nothing more.
A'Diao guessed that Mysterious Person B should be named He Luo.
Because A's status was clearly higher than B's, and he was hidden deeper, while B directly controlled these bandit leaders and could directly contact the Bandit Alliance.
So, naturally, these leaders would report to B first.
Of course, even if it wasn't him, it didn't matter. It wouldn't be wrongly accusing someone. As long as this person was part of the Bandit Organization, A'Diao could trap them.
A'Diao looked up He Luo on the internet. Naturally, countless people across the country had this name, but A'Diao focused on the coastal region and soon clarified this person's identity.
"He Luo, a grassroots cultivator from Hanzhou, a righteous and courageous man leading the rise of disciples from humble backgrounds, who travels extensively to rally support against the oppression of powerful clans, and fights relentlessly against the Bandit Alliance, solely to protect the safety of cultivators from humble backgrounds, a role model admired by cultivators from all directions..."
A'Diao and Toilet: "???"
Had she found the wrong person, or had she found a master of deception with a saintly facade?
Calling him B was really not wrong. He was truly skilled at putting on an act.
A'Diao couldn't help but exclaim, "What a talent."
Incredible!
Next, A'Diao devoured all the information she could find on He Luo. Then, she took the screenshots she had just captured and the short video of Mysterious Person B talking with the big bird BOSS and sent them out using an ownerless account. The target was Xiao Yuanbao.
Xiao Yuanbao was in the storage space. This message naturally couldn't penetrate the spatial barrier to reach it, but it was indeed sent out. And so...
It was intercepted—intercepted by the incredibly wealthy Li family, who had amazing equipment.
The Li siblings first saw the screenshots and the short video. Their expressions at the time were... puzzled and contemplative. But soon they saw the two lines of text below.
—"These two still think they're so smart. Young Master Zhao Guang, I have already spied on the secret. Please plan cautiously. You must be the real fisherman who profits while others fight. Let the idiot Li siblings, that idiot big bird, and this idiot duo fight it out."
In mathematics, if you factor out the "idiot" attribute, then in parentheses, for example, "idiot (Li siblings + big bird + duo) = big idiots."
This equation holds true, right?
Anyway, the expressions on Li Yuankai and Li Zhaowu's faces were very ugly.
Li Zhaowu touched her exquisite eyeshadow and said lightly, "They all say the Yue Clan produces many talents. It's indeed true. Brother, what do you think?"
Li Yuankai sneered, "Since there are so many clever hunters, let them have their wish."
Li Zhaowu: "Are you planning to wait and see, and not make a move?"
Li Yuankai: "No. Since that person will arrive in half an hour, our people will at least arrive first. Regardless of whether it's a conspiracy or not, the first to strike gains the advantage. But the prerequisite is that we can't let the hunters lie in wait and pick up the spoils. We need to get them all moving."
"Go investigate Zhao Guang. They must be nearby too, waiting for us to make the first move."
He paused, his expression profound. "Doesn't that Sea Martial Falcon BOSS have a phone in its hand? Since it already knows how to use it, then send it some information—but we must grasp the timing."
Obviously, Li Yuankai planned to use this information to throw these self-righteous hunters into disarray.
Toilet didn't fully understand A'Diao's move. "Are you trying to make them all act as fishermen, holding back and not moving, so it's convenient for you to act?"
A'Diao: "How could that be? If they don't move, I can't deal with that idiot big bird and He Luo."
As she was speaking, A'Diao sent out another message. Li Yuankai naturally intercepted two more messages.
—"Young Master, something has changed! I saw that person's appearance, it seems to be He Luo. I didn't expect it to be He Luo! This person is deeply scheming and shameless. I saw him seemingly ambushing, as if to steal some treasure that the big bird is sitting on. It seems his accomplices are arriving soon, in less than half an hour."
—"Young Master, I intend to strike first. With my spatial escape ability, the probability of success is extremely high. Please be ready to coordinate."
As for He Luo, A'Diao had never seen him. She hadn't even played with sand on the coast. But the Li family could definitely investigate him.
Anyway, this was to make the situation change suddenly, to stimulate Li Yuankai's nerves. And Li Yuankai and his group definitely knew who He Luo was.
"He Luo? It's actually him!!"
The Li siblings and others were indeed shocked and also passed the news to Chen Hua.
So-called information is a mix of truth and falsehood.
Chen Hua's feedback was: "Since this He Luo is so scheming, he is naturally extremely cunning. Facing such a person, Young Masters, you must not delay. Otherwise, it will be very difficult to succeed."
Real people, real events, false information. But when it falls into the hands of some clever and arrogant people, along with their own way of thinking, the more intricate, the better. Because they tend to disregard simplistic or one-sided information. What seems absolutely impossible, they instead find credible.
"No wonder when He Luo usually leads people to fight bandits, he always succeeds. His prestige grows higher and higher. But once he's not around, certain people and certain matters are always massacred by bandits. For example, those who opposed him... basically all died at the hands of bandits. And several large hauls by wilderness cultivator teams were intercepted by bandits."
Li Zhaowu suddenly understood many things, as if she had a sudden epiphany. And many people came to the same realization as her.
But what they thought was precisely correct, because He Luo was indeed on the bandits' side.
Regardless of whether he was B or not.
So, this line of reasoning would only seem more and more correct the more they thought about it, and they would also feel increasingly shocked.
The bait A'Diao offered wasn't the name He Luo, but the deceitful human heart.
Cunning people have many tricks. Time was of the essence. There was absolutely no room for delay.
This sudden change directly disrupted the original plan, but Li Yuankai quickly made a decision.
Because the scouting report had just arrived.
Zhao Guang's spaceship was indeed nearby, and indeed lying in wait, as if waiting for something.
And the other party definitely had a Forbidden Master with them. But on their side, Chen Hua had already arrived.
So...
"Time waits for no one. Once they make a move, enter the cavern immediately!"
On the other side, Zhao Guang had no idea that Li Yuankai's side thought they had intercepted the most awesome intelligence. The so-called "I've predicted your prediction..."
"If the enemy doesn't move, I don't move. I will definitely be the final oriole!"
Inside the spaceship, the Yue Clan's Forbidden Master and Zhao Guang were naturally unaware of all this. But to say the Yue Clan's equipment was inferior to the Li family's, that wouldn't be true. So their information department also detected that some information had been intercepted by the Li family first.
But their first reaction wasn't to intercept it themselves, but that the Li family had hidden spies ambushing below in the cavern.
"The Li family is indeed formidable. To actually have people hidden there in advance, and even gather intelligence. If we want to intercept, it probably won't be easy. It all depends on the timing."
The old man's voice was hoarse. And beside him, the slender youth had an exceptionally handsome face. His skin was as white as pale snow. When his eyes were slightly lowered, if he even smiled faintly, it would be as stunning as shimmering bright light.
Unfortunately, he didn't smile. He was only pondering. Then he said lightly, "We'll make our move when there's some activity below. I'll have to trouble Mr. Zhao with everything."
Elder Zhao waved his hand, not minding. And just then, his brow suddenly twitched.
"Young Master, it seems there's movement below. Cold air is rising. It must be that the Li family's hidden spies below did something and angered that BOSS."
"It seems they succeeded. This person is fleeing, and the BOSS must be chasing them."
"Move!"
The old man moved. On the other side, Chen Hua naturally also moved. The two groups flew down from their spaceships almost simultaneously, one after the other, and entered the cavern.
And the others followed closely behind... A large number of people entered the cavern!
A chaotic battle erupted!
One minute earlier, A'Diao knew that relying solely on information transmission would only stir up these people's emotions. To really make them move, there had to be an absolute enticement of benefits.
So she took out a metallic-textured talisman.
Level-five talisman: Soldier Armor Talisman.
Level-five was too difficult to make. The materials alone for one talisman cost over a million star coins. Of course, if sold at market price, one would fetch nine million.
Was this exorbitant profit? Of course, it was. But in reality, the creator wouldn't make a net profit of eight million. Because aside from the investment of time and Spiritual Power, as well as their own knowledge and intellectual property, there would also be failures and losses during production. It might take three or four attempts to succeed with one. The profit would be around four to five million.
Compared to some industries, it was naturally a huge profit. But how could it compare to the prospects of a profession like being a bandit?
However, it was true that it didn't lack sales channels. It was a seller's market; you simply couldn't buy them. Unless you were a high-level VIP of Huayao Bank. They had internal channels, channels that Huayao Bank opened to curry favor with influential figures.
Previously, Qu Jiangnan had said that people with talent for talismans wouldn't lack money. In principle, that was correct. However, A'Diao was too busy. She simply didn't have that much time to make talismans, and all her funds were invested in medicinal ingredients. As a result, she hadn't earned a single dime from it.
Uh, I've digressed. Anyway, she had been busy lately. Right now, she only had a total of ten level-five talismans on hand. One of them was the Soldier Armor Talisman, and it was a speed-type Soldier Armor Talisman that A'Diao had specially made. It didn't have much combat power, but it was extremely fast.
The so-called dispatching soldiers and deploying armor, piercing clouds and breaking through miasma, was naturally to act as a substitute for the main body to do inconvenient things.
At this moment, A'Diao held a Soldier Armor Talisman between her fingertips. She burned it. With a flick, the talisman landed and became a masked black shadow. A'Diao controlled it out of the spatial Spirit Plant Body and had it sneakily approach the lair...
First, the first wave had to dodge that eerie blue cold air, but it had to leave a small flaw to make it come back for a second sweep.
The second wave... Oh no! It's been discovered!
The Soldier Armor feigned a sneaky appearance of having been discovered and immediately turned to flee. But at this time, the Sea Martial Falcon BOSS had already sensed it.
"Someone came in! And they're very close!"
Mysterious Person B frowned. "Unlikely. Neither the Li family nor the Yue Clan have such a person on the coast. It should be that mysterious expert who is fighting bandits."
"I'll go up and chase! You guard this place!"
Because they were very close, Mysterious Person B rushed up first. But he quickly sent a message back: "No good, he's too fast. It'll take me a while to catch up. He might send a message out. You come up!"
The Sea Martial Falcon BOSS initially didn't move. Seeing the situation, it couldn't stay either. But it was cautious. It spat out a large mouthful of eerie blue cold air around its lair. If there was the slightest disturbance, it would immediately fly back.
However, its speed was indeed fast. With a flap of its wings, it shot up several hundred meters and quickly approached the Soldier Armor.
It was also at this time that the change in the cold air attracted the attention of Elder Zhao and others outside. The people from the Li family and Yue Clan dived in... They were cunning. They originally wanted to avoid the Sea Martial Falcon BOSS's area and bypass it to go straight for the lair to steal the crystal, which was the Great Spirit Gate, and incidentally snatch those bird eggs worth billions. But... the Soldier Armor was controlled by A'Diao. This person was cunning. She deliberately manipulated the Soldier Armor to run towards them. Then, halfway, it deliberately escaped into the wall. A'Diao snapped her fingers, and the Soldier Armor self-destructed inside the earthen wall. Its aura mixed with the most chaotic earth, disappearing without a trace. But the aura that the Sea Martial Falcon and B captured was that of a large number of human experts above, including two Forbidden Masters.
That's not right! How did they come down!
The person and the bird were surprised, but both sides inevitably met in the middle section of the vertical mountain cavern.
When Li Yuankai saw the masked Mysterious Person B, he sneered: "Heh, He Luo! You really are ambushing us!"
When Zhao Guang and Elder Zhao saw the person and the bird, they were stunned for a moment. Then they also reacted: A conspiracy?
The big bird BOSS (thought): Why did they suddenly come down, and he didn't warn me? Didn't he say the information was meticulous? Could it be he's deliberately ambushing me? Never mind, kill them first! It's better than letting them force their way to the lair.
Instantly, heavenly thunder ignited earthly fire!
Fight!
Outside the lair, A'Diao, having lured away all obstacles, looked at the ubiquitous eerie blue cold air not far away. She didn't have much time to think about how to avoid it.
She had already calculated this situation before making her move. So, after the Sea Martial Falcon BOSS and Mysterious Person B had moved a certain distance away, she controlled the spatial Spirit Plant Body to use earth escape and move to the ceiling above the lair. It was still seventy to eighty meters above the ground below. When it was in the same vertical alignment as the Great Spirit Gate and the Xun Spirit Pupil, A'Diao achieved the highest level of invisibility. Then she lowered the Spirit Plant Body...
When she was a hair's breadth away from the eerie blue cold air, A'Diao equipped herself with all her armaments from head to toe. Then she stuck a level-five defensive talisman on herself, and the Heavenly Round Shield protected her entire body!
Toilet: "Even a tortoise doesn't have this many shells. She's possessed by the spirit of an ultra-defensive turtle!"
But Toilet soon realized its teasing was too mild, because she then controlled the spatial Spirit Plant Body to become a spatial shield.
Just these many maneuvers, the Spiritual Power consumption was massive... But she just did it. After finishing, she instantly flashed.
Swoosh!
She appeared and then triggered the eerie blue cold air. The eerie blue cold air howled, simultaneously transmitting a message to the Sea Martial Falcon BOSS.
The Sea Martial Falcon BOSS was shocked and let out a terrifying, ear-piercing shriek.
"Damn it, the crystal in the lair is being stolen!"
As the sound pierced through space, the eerie blue mist had already begun to explode with crackling sounds. But before it exploded, A'Diao's left hand touched the Xun Spirit Pupil. Her right hand swept out, she formed a hand seal, and a wind swept up. All the eggs on the ground flew up...
Into the storage space in one second.
But the explosion also arrived, rumbling as it completely enveloped her. In this terrifying explosion, it could almost kill a lower-grade Transcendent Forbidden Master. However, they were Forbidden Masters. But A'Diao, she was an old turtle plus an old tortoise...
Amidst the explosion, her two hands had already touched the Great Spirit Gate.
Load, load, quick!!!!,,,.
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